Although Yan Zhongyu was a little arrogant, he was not as rebellious as Wang Fuzhi. In terms of qualifications and military achievements, he could not be compared with Wang Fuzhi, let alone Wang Fuzhi's command now. Yan Zhongyu, who was born in the Royal Military Academy, had no discount on discipline at all, so he had to go into the mountain and did whatever he should do. Yan Zhongyu left behind the 1,000 soldiers and horses that Wang Fuzhi wanted, and then led five thousand subordinates to take action separately to occupy Laotie Mountain and various nearby highlands.

However, for the Ming army, it was not easy to conquer Lao Tieshan, surrounded by mountains and steep mountains. Fortunately, the special forces of Tongmeishan had received mountain combat training, especially in mountain guerrilla warfare. Originally, some of the special forces were prepared to deal with the wild men in the forest on Sakhalin Island.

Fortunately, the turret built by the Qing army on the top of the general's main peak of Laotie Mountain has not been completed. The mountain is steep and the cannons cannot be pulled up for a while, so they only sent 100 Qing army guards. That night, Tong Meishan led thirty special forces members to touch the foot of the main peak of Laotie Mountain overnight. Under the guidance of the Jinyiwei Guide of Gaoyi Pe, Gao, he took advantage of the night to climb up from the east side of the main peak. The side where they climbed was rarely visited, the mountain was steep, and there was no way to go at the most dangerous place. The special forces team climbed up with their iron claws and bayonets. After going through hardships and dangers, they finally climbed up to the top of the general in the early morning.

The Qing army above the general was still sleeping and had no response. The special forces cleanly eliminated the hundred Qing army. When they found that these Qing troops were only equipped with cold weapons, they thought that such an important commanding height was so relaxed in defense, and they shouted that they were lucky.

In addition to the general's main peak, the Qing army did not defend other commanding heights at Laotie Mountain. No wonder the Qing army was good at riding and shooting, and was good at plain fighting, so they did not pay enough attention to mountain combat. Even Takuo Nishimura reminded that the Qing army only occupied the highlands on the north and east of Houshi Mountain and set up defenses on it. For the huge Laotie Mountain, the mountains overlapped, some of the mountains were towering trees, vines and weeds, and some of the mountains were cliffs and poisonous snakes. The Qing army was not planning to fight mountain wars with the Ming army on the mountain.

Gaoyi Pei knew very well about the terrain of Lushun. Under his guidance and with the cooperation of Tongmei Mountain, Yan Zhongyu sent out five thousand soldiers and occupied various highlands in Laotie Mountain.

It is worth mentioning that Tong Meishan has quite a few talents. Generally speaking, erroneous talents are also a kind of talents. Mo Liangping is a special forces member who was born in a bandit. After inspecting the situation of Lao Tieshan, Mo Liangping praised Lao Tieshan. In his eyes, although Lao Tieshan is not high, it is surrounded by mountains and steep. As long as it is used well, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is really the best place to gather in the mountains and forests to rebel. Originally, Lao Tieshan was surrounded by the sea on three sides, and it was extremely unwise to build a mountain-to-mountain that was defended by the mountains, because it was not only possible to attack on land, but also to land from the sea. However, when the sea control power was firmly controlled by the Ming army, he was not afraid of the Qing army launching an attack from the sea. In this way, Lao Tieshan with overlapping mountains was the best place to build a mountain-to-mountain building in Mo Liangping.

It is said that he has specialized in his skills. After Mo Liangping confirmed that Lao Tieshan was a good place for the village, he put forward professional opinions to the commander. Yan Zhongyu was certainly not here to be the mountain king. Besides, there is Wang Fuzhi above, even if he is the mountain king, he can only be the second. Of course, even if he does not consider occupying the mountain as the king, it does not prevent him from learning from the experience of occupying the mountain as the king to manage the village. Just imagine, the bandits rely on the mountain to occupy the mountain as the king, and even if it is encircled and suppressed by the army, it is often difficult to break through the carefully built villages by the bandits. Therefore, Mo Liangping's professional skills in the village are worth carrying forward.

Of course, in addition to the bandits' counterfeit tactics to be carried forward, they also have to mix the trench warfare tactics of large-scale excavation. It can be imagined that after the two are combined, it is not difficult to add icing on the cake and achieve the goal of stable defense. After the design of a group of people, the defense level of the Ming army of Lao Tieshan has been raised to a new level. According to the new plan, Lao Tieshan is a bit impregnable. If the battle in Monkey Stone Mountain is unfavorable, the Ming army can retreat to Lao Tieshan. If the Qing army does not have 50,000 troops, it will only be able to look at the mountain and sigh.

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Seeing that five or six thousand Ming troops had reinforced, Yu'er took the bait. Mandahai made a quick decision and began to arrange a net-closing operation. He immediately ordered an attack on the landing ground of the Ming army. Mandahai decided to cut off the reinforcements of the Ming army and swallowed up the ten thousand Ming troops who had landed in one go.

In the early morning of the second day of March, the Qing army began to attack. The breakthrough point of the attack was the junction of the Ming army landing field and the Ming army's position in the Houshishan Mountain. In order to maintain traffic with the landing field, the Ming army built a trench defense line. This line of defense has now become the key attack area for the Qing army. If the Qing army conquered this line, it could encircle the Ming army landing field on three sides. In this way, the supply channel of the Ming army in the Houshishan area was cut off. The Ming army in the encirclement circle would collapse sooner or later. Mandahai certainly hoped to spend the smallest cost to clean up the Ming army, and trap the Ming army to death was of course the first choice. So the first one was to cut off its supply and return route.

As the sound of artillery from the Qing army rumbling, bursts of explosions rose in front of the Ming army's trenches, and for a moment, gun smoke filled the entire battlefield. Before the gun smoke dissipated, the Qing army's cavalry rushed forward and rushed to the Ming army's positions.

The Ming army also saw a lot of attacks on the Qing army. When they saw the Qing cavalry charge, the platoon leader Lu Jixiang curled his lips and laughed: "The cavalry of the Tartars is here to die again. Brothers, please be at ease and fight again."

The Qing army's cavalry rushed forward quickly. As they were getting closer and closer, the horses were getting bigger and bigger, and they were about to hit the barbed wire. The Ming army finally started shooting. A row of guns rang out, and the Qing cavalry rushing in front were overturned by people and horses. The cavalry that did not fall continued to rush forward. A grenade flew out of the Ming army's position, rumbling and rumbling, and many cavalry and horses were blown over.

The cavalry that had not been blown up still sacrificed their lives to rush forward until they rushed onto the barbed wire until the horse's legs were hung on the barbed wire. The huge inertia pulled out a piece of the fixed barbed wire stake and bent it to one side. However, the barbed wire was more powerful than the tripping horse rope, and the cavalry rushed up could not rush over. The war horses were on the ground, and the Qing soldiers on the horse's back were thrown high and landed in front of the Ming army's trenches. After the Ming army took a closer look, it turned out that this was just a straw man. However, the Qing army's war horses continued, and with the subsequent war horses continuing to impact, the barbed wire was finally destroyed under the impact of the war horses.

The Qing army's move was amazing, but after the Qing army fought with the Ming army, they realized that it was too unprofitable to use human lives to break through the wire mesh and fill trenches, and they had no good plans for a while. Fortunately, the Qing army had many war horses, so they wanted to use the war horse attack. Using war horses as scapegoats was unanimously agreed by the Qing army. This move was so simple that they had to stab the horses on the war horses and took advantage of the smoke of gunpowders to stab the horses on the butt. The war horses were in pain and ran wildly, rushing straight to the Ming army's trenches. With one attack, the barbed wire mesh in front of the Ming army formation was broken.

The next bloody battle proved that the Qing army was still very straitor. After the first wave of the impact made the war horses a scapegoat, the Qing army's infantry began to charge. Because the Ming army dug out trenches with intertwined teeth, the cavalry could not rush up speed when they hit the trenches. Instead, because the target was too large, they would easily be hit by the Ming army's bullets or grenades. Therefore, the Qing army dropped their horses and attacked with infantry. The Qing army's infantry weapons included grenades and scimitars, and some held shotguns. Speaking of which, the Qing army learned to fight on the battlefield, and gradually adapted to hot weapons combat. In addition, their vitality was fighting, they ignored casualties at all. While throwing grenades, they rushed forward. The Ming army in the trench kept harvesting the lives of the Qing army with bullets and grenades. The Qing army kept falling down, and those who did not fall continued to rush.

Under the continuous impact of the Qing army, hand-to-hand combat inevitably started in front of the Ming army's positions. The Ming army used bayonets to deal with the Qing army's scimitar. It is impossible not to say that the Qing army did have a proud capital in cold weapons combat. Although the Ming army's bayonets could also kill some Qing army, overall, the Qing army gained the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat. The final victory of the hand-to-hand combat belonged to the Qing army, and the Ming army's first line of defense was lost.

However, the Qing army was not happy for a long time. As soon as the Qing army occupied the first trench, the Ming army's artillery began to bombard. In fact, the Ming army's artillery had already been calibrated to shoot the yuan, and the target was the first trench. Before the Qing army could react, the Qing army was blown up by the Ming army's artillery fire. The artillery shells fired by the Ming army included both blasting shells and shrapnel shells installed with time fuses. The shrapnel shells were blasting in the air, and the high-speed iron balls were covered with wider coverage, and it could even kill the Qing army in the trench. In this round of artillery, the Qing army in the first trench was killed and injured, and the majority of them died under shrapnel shells.

Then the Ming army launched a counter-charge, and with one charge, it regained the first trench.

In this way, the Ming army adopted elastic defense tactics to deal with the Qing army. Moreover, the Qing army only had blasting bullets and solid bullets, and of course there were grape bullets. However, the Ming army's shrapnel bullets were obviously more powerful. The Qing army's grape bullet range was pitiful, and the iron ball initial speed was even more pitiful. It was not the same order of magnitude as shrapnel bullets. In trench artillery battles, the Ming army took a lot of advantage. Therefore, the Qing army's offensive was always difficult to work.

The offense and defense in front of the formation continued, and the Ming army adopted a rotational defense method to fight a round-robin battle with the Qing army. For a moment, the Qing army could not do anything. The Qing army's offensive was setback for three consecutive days, with more than two thousand casualties killed or injured, so they had to rest and fight again.

The front line was fighting, and the construction of the Ming army's bastion did not stop for a moment. The underground bastion under the general's head has now taken shape. This is actually an underground tunnel, and of course there are also above ground buildings. Exaggeratedly, the above ground buildings are made of cement, barbed wire cement concrete buildings, and the above ground buildings built can be called fortresses.

At the same time, a hot spring was found in the defense zone. This hot spring is not only sweet and delicious, but also a natural spring for bathing. Mo Liangping has been engaged in the great cause of bandits for many years and has never seen any copycat or hot spring. Unexpectedly, there are hot springs here. This level is more than a little higher. Wang Fuzhi and Yan Zhongyu felt that it was indescribable to say something.

When Wang Fuzhi and Yan Zhongyu stood at the southernmost end of Laotie Mountain, observing the dividing line between the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, the yellow sea water on the left and blue sea water on the right, which was clearly divided and the heart was in great excitement. The sea and sky were the same in the distance, and the country was like a painting, but they fell into the hands of the Qing army. The two sighed, but they didn't know when they could take back Liaodong.

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