Chapter 159: An enemy comes from the sea

Black clouds floated over, covering all the stars.

The world quickly became dark and the hands were unable to see their five fingers.

Suddenly, nowhere, another strange light came, slowly emerging all the scenery in front of me. Perhaps, it was the firelight from Fushan City. Today's Fushan City is destined to be all night long and no one can fall asleep.

The two pig-bearded boats obviously did not notice any abnormality. They seemed to be ghosts sailing on the sea, slowly approaching the coast of Maojiatun. There was no light on the boat, and it was pitch black. I didn't know what the Tartars would do next. If they had not received any information before, they would definitely not attract attention. Even July has not passed, and it is very likely that they were treated like ghost ships by the ignorant people.

The water on the shore is shallow, and the big boat cannot dock. It must be transferred to the deck to reach the shore. After the pig-bearing boat stopped, the Tartars on the boat began to get busy. At this time, some shouts could be heard. In the darkness, the sampan was slowly put down. The sampan fell on the water, and the water splashed, splashing slight splashes.

Zhang Zhun counted and found that there were five sampans in total. According to the calculation that each sampan carries for forty people, five sampans are 200 people. In other words, the first wave of attacks of the Tartars would not exceed 200 people, and it should be only half of the number of Tartars. There were still half of the Tartars, and they had to wait for the sampans to return to pick them up before they could get ashore.

This brought a test to Zhang Zhun. What should I do when facing these 200 people?

By fighting, you can basically annihilate these 200 people and let them all fall on the beach. However, other Tartars may run away.

If you don’t fight, you may be discovered by the Tartars. The Tartars are not fools. If they find that the people in Maojiatun have moved away, they will definitely realize that something is wrong. If the Tartars are so scared that they retreat immediately, the battle will be in vain.

The warships led by Yang Guohua, Zhou Zhengyu and others had not arrived yet. If they arrived early, the Tartars would have discovered something wrong earlier. To eliminate these two Tartar pig-bearing boats, they had to wait for the Tartars to land and were entangled by the guards. They could not retreat. Yang Guohua and others could only appear. By that time, even if the Tartars pig-bearing boats wanted to escape, they would not be able to escape.

Attack halfway?

Catch it all in one go?

Yang Zhiyuan, Hao Linyong and Yang Zixuan were all waiting for Zhang Zhun's order.

Do you want to fight?

If you hit, how to hit?

"The Third Association stays behind, and the others will all withdraw."

Zhang Zhun thought for a moment and said decisively.

Jerry Yang and Hau Linyong immediately sent an order.

The soldiers of the First Association and the Second Association retreated quickly.

Only the soldiers from the Third Association continued to stay in Maojiatun.

These are several pre-developed response plans, and it is naturally not difficult to implement them. After the soldiers retreated to the second line of defense, they waited quietly there. Peng Bo and others, who were responsible for manipulating landmines, also retreated to the back line of defense.

The sound of boatmen paddling kept coming, and the five sampans slowly docked. The Tartars on the sampans were disembarking one after another. The Tartars obviously did not notice the abnormality in Maojiatun. After getting off the boat, they separated and sneaked towards Maojiatun.

It was indeed about 200 Tartars.

In the darkness, you can only see the shadows of people, and you cannot see the expression on the Tartars' faces clearly. As for which are real Tartars, which are the second Tartars, and which are traitors who agree with Tartars, there is even more no way to distinguish them. However, one thing is certain, the people who came down from the pig's belly boat tonight, whether they were Tartars or not, would all die.

"Open fire!"

Zhang Zhun shouted without hesitation.

"Bang bang bang!"

Yang Zixuan and others immediately started shooting.

In the darkness, the muzzle of the Hu Ben Gun continued to burst out with flames.

The gunshots continued, instantly breaking the silence of midnight.

Minnie shot at the beach roaring.

The Tartars, who had just arrived ashore, had no cover on the spacious and flat beach, and were exactly the best target for the Hu Ben gun shooting.

"Puff puff puff!"

More than a dozen Tartars were caught off guard and were shot and fell down on the spot.

In the darkness, there is no blood flowing, only someone can fall down.

"I ambushed!"

The gunshots sounded, and all the Tartars were shocked.

There are actually people waiting for them in Maojiatun!

Too unexpected!

They were originally planning to attack Fushan City, but they didn't expect that they would hit the defenders' pockets! Any Tartar could think of the consequences of hitting the enemy's pockets with his heels!

"quack!"

Muketa hurriedly asked his subordinates to deal with it carefully.

The little Tartar leader who led the lead was Mukata, and he was Niulu Zhangjing, an Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty. He was extremely fierce and had outstanding military achievements. In the past, Amin brought him with him in all directions. Whether he attacked the Jinning front, expedition to Korea in the east, or entered the frontier for the first time, he had his share. Therefore, he had a rich battlefield experience.

This time, Muketa took the initiative to lead the team from Shublu. Although Shublu was interested in Fushan City, he would not send all his troops to Fushan City. He was also worried about Sun Zhixie and the others. Therefore, Shublu sent Muketa to attack Fushan City, and he continued to sit in Tianheng Island to prevent accidents.

When Mukata heard the gunshots, he was shocked. What is a sneak attack? Of course, it was unexpected and unpredictable. If his actions were already noticed by the enemy, what was the sneak attack? What's more terrible is that they seemed to have fallen into the ambush of the defenders.

"Swoosh swish swish!"

The archers of the Tartars kept shooting arrows in the direction of the fire.

Those firelights are the light that burst out when the musket is fired, which is particularly conspicuous in the darkness. The Tartar archers, squinted, can shoot arrows at the light.

However, the Tartars' arrows fell unwillingly as soon as they flew halfway from the flames. The distance between the Tartars was at least seventy or eighty feet. The Tartars' archers did not have such a range.

"Shots so far..."

Mukata angrily judged the situation on the battlefield.

At the beginning, he did think he had fallen into the trap of the defenders. However, he quickly realized that the defenders were too far away from them, and it didn't look like a trap at all. Mukata judged according to his own experience that the effective range of the Ming army's muskets should be within twenty feet. Obviously, within twenty feet, the existence of the Ming army was not found. In other words, the Ming army was most likely to fire outside the range of the firearm.

Speaking of which, this is also a major feature of the Ming army. Every time the Tartars and the Ming army fought with the muskets, they were never afraid. The reason was that the Ming army always fired randomly outside the range. If the Ming army could hold on until the Tartars entered within twenty feet and then fired volleys, the Tartars' casualties would definitely be very heavy. After all, the power of the muskets was quite considerable, and the Tartars' leather armor could not stop the shooting of the projectiles. Unfortunately, the Ming army never had the courage to do this.

At the same time, Mukata also felt that the gunfire of the defenders was a little weak. Judging from the gunfire, the number of Ming troops should not be large. At most, it was about 200 people. Mukata had never missed it in his eyes when facing the 200 Ming troops. According to his experience, only 200 Jin Jin troops could deal with 200 Ming troops. His current number of Jin Jin troops was more than 20 to 30.

“Mukata!”

"Don't hesitate! Let's get on!"

"There are not many Han dogs, we can break through their defense in one go!"

At this time, another Tartar leader, Danrending, shouted to Mukata.

Danrending and Mukata were both Niulu Zhangjing of the Later Jin Dynasty. After fleeing Liaodong, they lost their original subordinates and livestock and became wandering "Jianlu". The two of them were actually very jealous of this. They always thought that they could accumulate enough power in other places, and then kill back to Shenyang to rescue their original master Amin. At the same time, they restored their identity as Niulu Zhangjing.

As for the battle with the Han people, both of them never took it seriously. The reason is very simple. The combat effectiveness of the Han people was too weak. Among the entire Ming army, the only one who had the courage to fight against the Tartars was the only one who had the courage to fight in the field. However, after Yuan Chonghuan's death, the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry was not as good as before. The Ming army in the mainland was even more vulnerable.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the Tartars entered the barrier. Mukata and Danrending led their troops from Da'ankou (now the northern border of Zunhua County, Hebei) to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. Except for being resisted by Zhao Shujiao, the general of the Ming Dynasty, in Zunhua City, they were completely unmanned in other places. The Ming army was invincible and did not dare to fight with the Jin army at all. After they arrived at the boundary of Shandong, they found that the Ming army in Shandong was weaker than those in the northern Zhili. Every time they went ashore to loot, they never encountered decent resistance.

Therefore, the two felt that the Fushan City in front of them must be the same.

These Ming troops would flee in all directions if they fired a firearm at most.

What they have to do is actually chase ducks.

As for whether to kill these ducks or not, it depends on their mood.

Mukata nodded and shouted: "Kill! Go ahead!"

The Tartars flocked to the top.

Mukata thought for a while and shouted to Danrending: "Take a few white armors and see if the Hangou has cannons! If so, grab their cannons!"

Dan Rending agreed to go.

The only thing the Tatars feared about the firearms of the Ming army was artillery. Ordinary muskets were not taken seriously. Ordinary muskets only had lethality within twenty feet, but the Ming army often fired guns from thirty or forty or even fifty or sixty feet away. Such shooting hit rate was similar to shooting the moon in the sky. As for someone falling in the dark, it must be an accident.

"There are not many people in Hangou!"

"Kill it!"

Mukata rushed to the front and shouted loudly to his subordinates.

Dan Rending's judgment made Mukata believe that this was not an ambush from the Ming army, but a coincidence of an encounter with the Ming army. The opponent should be the Ming army stationed in Maojiatun. There were not many numbers, the firepower was not strong, and there was no courage to fight at close range. Otherwise, they would not have fired at such a long distance.

"What we encountered was Hangou's small army!"

"Kill them up and disperse them!"

Mukata roared fiercely again.

As long as it was not an ambush from the defenders, Mukata would not take it seriously at all.

In the encounter, who will the Dajin Power League be afraid of?

Even if they encounter Guanning Iron Cavalry, they will not shrink at all.

Sure enough, under the roar of Mukata, the Tartars quickly gathered their formation and continued to advance into the depths of Maojiatun. In the eyes of the Tartars, the sporadic gunfire was completely a salute to welcome their arrival.

At the same time, the five sampan boats also sailed towards the pig's belly boat and continued to transport the Tartars.

When they heard the gunshots from the shore, the Tartars on the pig's belly boat were already impatient. They were surrounded by the edge of the deck, waiting to go ashore to join the battle. Some Tartars even jumped into the water and swam to the shore. Their water quality was obviously not very good, and they swam very slowly. It can only be said that their courage is commendable, but the method is wrong.

Well, it must be admitted that once the Tartars enter the state of combat, they are indeed quite brave. If it were the Ming army, they would most likely choose to retreat in such an unknown environment. However, the Tartars would choose to continue moving forward. If most of the Ming army were a group of sheep, then most of the Tartars would be a group of starving wild wolves.

"Bang bang bang!"

The gunshots of the Hu Ben gun continued.

Amid the gunfire, the Tartars fell intermittently.
To be continued...