Dominate the Country

ps: I won't say anything more, please collect it. Three updates today!

In the Qing army camp. Wu Shixiong summoned his officers and the leaders of the militias to gather together. He told the number of scouts lost in the past two days without hiding anything. None of the people sitting in this tent were fools, of course they knew the meaning behind this matter.

"Many of the Chen family's bandits are local mountain people who are familiar with the terrain and are good at climbing mountains and crossing ridges. It is understandable that the officers and soldiers' scouts are no match for them. Therefore, in the days to come, the government troops may become blind and not be able to detect the enemy's situation on the opposite side. But don't worry, in less than a month, our two reinforcements will arrive at the front line with the general cannon.

Although the bandits' fortress is strong and can withstand the bombardment of the general cannon, how powerful is the general cannon? How can a group of mountain bandits resist it?

You must be calm and calm. Guard the camp. Resolutely block Tumenji."

Wu Shixiong, who did not seek merit but no fault, made everyone believe that he really had no intention of competing for merit and the high position of the general. Otherwise, how could he have this attitude? ? ?

After the reconnaissance team drove away the Qing army's scouts, soon, the general layout of the Qing army's left and right camps appeared on Chen Ming's desk. The Qing army camp in the middle is in a special position, and the scouts can't observe it in detail even with a telescope. The two layout maps in front of them are so detailed that they can only draw them with the help of telescopes.

There are three camps, two on the north bank and one on the south bank.

The north bank is undoubtedly the main force. Just looking at the dress, there are not only nearly 2,000 Nanyang garrison soldiers, but also a similar number of militia. There are only about 1,000 people in the south bank camp. Except for a small number of Nanyang garrison soldiers, most of them are dressed as militia. But the scout's report to Chen Ming mentioned a problem that is not a problem-the 700 to 800 militia in the south bank camp seem to be too well-trained.

Moreover, the camp looks unremarkable from the outside, but there are secrets inside. Not to mention the deer horn breastwork and trenches, there are also two Weiyuan General Cannons inside. There are only four Qing army guns in front of this thing. Except for the one that appeared at the beginning, the four Weiyuan General Cannons were placed in the Qing army camp on the north bank.

Is it that Chen Guang's reconnaissance is wrong? The Qing army had six Weiyuan general cannons instead of four? Or were two of the four on the north bank fake?

In addition, the space inside the Qing army camp on the south bank was divided into small grids by layers of thick fences. According to the scouts' report, the logs used for the fences were thicker than the wood used outside the camp.

"This is a pit, this is a trap!" Chen Erbao's eyes widened. He had always regarded the south bank camp as a weakness of the Qing army, and advocated a fierce attack on the south bank to avoid the Qing army camp on the north bank with strong troops.

Chen Ming was 80% sure that the thousands of people on the south bank were all Nanyang garrison soldiers, and the seven or eight hundred militias were pretending to be Green Camp soldiers. In this way, half of the four general cannons in the Qing army camp were probably fake.

"Then let's use their tricks against them!" They pretended to attack the Qing army camp, but actually attacked the Qing army camp on the south bank. In fact, they attacked the Qing army camp and pretended to attack the Qing army camp on the south bank. They would definitely catch the Qing army off guard!

However, this pretense had to be done in a proper manner, otherwise it would be counter-attack instead of pretending.

On the same day, Wu Shixiong received a report from the south bank that the number of Chen's army scouts opposite them suddenly increased a lot. Then, the Qing army discovered that the number of Chen's army scouts around the two military camps on the north bank also increased a lot.

Wu Shixiong knew that the Chen army was going to take action.

However, under this situation, with such a little information, he could not judge whether the main attack direction of the Chen army was in the south or the north.

Two days later, the Chen army lined up hundreds of shield carts on the north bank, and the three or four hundred Green Camp soldiers who continued to build roads behind Fenghuangtai after building the Tumenji Fort were pulled to the battle. At that time, they would be responsible for pushing the carts. Chen Ming promised that after this battle, the treatment of these prisoners who pushed the carts would be raised by one level. Well, I will become a prisoner of war who only needs to work in the mines like the militia prisoners. Unlike now, I still need to be cannon fodder.

The shield cart will be hit by bullets. After a shot, the cannonballs of the Weiyuan General Cannon certainly cannot destroy the entire shield cart, but the huge force can make all the Green Camp soldiers who push the cart vomit blood, or even be directly shocked to death.

Wu Shixiong is not troubled by these shield carts in front of him. What he is worried about is the real main attack direction of the Chen family army. Could it be that Chen Ming is so bold that he will ignore the weakness of the south bank and directly confront the "main force" of the Qing army on the north bank?

"Bang bang..."

The Weiyuan General Cannon of the Qing army fired, only twice. Chen Ming can also see through the telescope that the Qing army moved the two Weiyuan General Cannons to the back. But can this makeup dare to be more professional? Is the speed too fast?

Hundreds of shield carts were divided into three groups, front and back. Three or four hundred Green Camp prisoners of war took about an hour to push the shield carts to a stop about 50 to 60 meters from the Qing army camp.

There was a dirt ditch in front, not deep or wide, but it was not something that the heavy shield carts could directly cross. The Qing army, which had been taught many lessons by Chen's army's grenade rain, learned to keep safe distances. Use the dirt ditch to separate a safe distance. It was about 20 feet long!

Guns and arrows flew, you come and I go!

Chen's army hid behind the shield carts and the Qing army hid behind the wooden fences and breastworks, and fought lively for the rest of the day. Wu Shixiong calmed down. Chen Ming was feinting and bluffing. His backup must be on the south bank!

Then at night, Wu Shixiong ordered the Qing army on the south bank to counterattack, targeting the scouts of the Chen family army, and then sent out his own scouts to the west to investigate. As a result, the Qing army on the south bank worked hard for most of the night, but only killed an unlucky Chen family scout. They were chased and surrounded, and 20 to 30 of them were killed by the scouts of the Chen family army.

At the same time, only two of the ten Qing army scouts sent to investigate to the west came back. They didn't have a pair of infrared eyes, and they didn't see the real thing in hiding and fear. They just saw a camp with tents in the distance. That's enough!

Wu Shixiong had already made up his mind, and he was just looking for evidence to support it. The news reported by the two scouts was enough for Wu Shixiong to "believe" in his judgment.

——Chen Ming was feinting on the north bank and actually attacking the south bank.

In order to make it realistic, Chen Ming prepared for the feint attack on the north bank for three days. In three days, Chen Hui led a troop and the remaining ten teams of the recruit camp to the front line; in three days, all the recruits of the Chen family army were equipped with breastplates. The musketeers took off their breastplates and rattan armors and put on a light armor that combined the two into one - rattan armor as the base and large steel plates inlaid on the outside. Of course, the defense is not as good as the breastplate. Even if the rattan armor is hung with steel plates, the overall weight is half of that of the breastplate.

At the same time, Chen Ming also brought the last killer of the Chen family army to the battle, which is - the flying thunder cannon!