Chapter 24 BBQ Wild Boar (1)
Just when Zhang Yong got his wish and was about to become a castrated dog, ready to become a success and harm the upright Donglin people and civil gentry groups, his good brother who was dedicated to supporting the Donglin Party happily played barbecue games in the jungle outside the pass.
In the battle of Huifa City, the Ming army lost three brothers, leaving only seventy-seven Ming soldiers. With Gao Shixin and Man Gui, there were only eighty-nine people left, but twenty-four Haixi Jurchen soldiers joined, and the number of this small team increased to one hundred and three.
"Collect rosin and make rockets," said Kau Shixin.
The soldiers cut pieces of clotted pine resin from the pine trees, then put the pine resin into the iron bucket, opened the tin oil tank, poured the tung oil into the iron bucket, and then placed the iron bucket on the boiling water pot and heated it with water. After the rosin melted and mixed with the tung oil, it turned into a kind of viscous oil. Then put the cotton yarn in the viscous oil and soaked it, and took it out and wrapped it around the head of the arrow. After it cooled, the cotton yarn of the arrow was like a large fire candle that could burn violently.
"Sir, there is a village in Jiannu in front of me, and there is about a Jiannu soldier from Niulu! There are about two thousand Baoyi Aha, most of whom are Han people and some Koreans." A Haixi Jurchen soldier named Xiketeng came back to report.
Xiketeng is the Jurchen soldier who was captured by Gao Shixin and others before. He was originally the Jurchens of the Huifa tribe in Haixi. Huifa tribe was destroyed by wild boar skins, so they had to join the Later Jin army. Now the Ming army has attacked Huifa town, killed the Jianzhou Jurchens, and captured the Huifa tribe Jurchens who surrendered to the Jianzhou Jurchens. Xiketeng also surrendered to the Ming army and also handed a letter of surrender to Gao Shixin: the head of the Jianzhou Jurchen Niu Luezhen Shuordai was cut down by Xiketeng.
After cutting off Scholdai's head, Sikteng knew very well that he could not go back to the Jianzhou Jurchens. He could only have a future if he devoted himself to doing things for the Ming army.
Just now, Xikteng took two Haixi Jurchen soldiers to spy on the enemy's situation. With their Jurchen outfits and their fluent Jurchen language, the people in the village did not doubt their identity at all.
Gao Shixin asked Fan Xin to be the translator, asked Xiketeng to sit down, and draw the floor plan of the Jianzhou Jurchen village with branches on the ground. Judging from the floor plan, the village is a big village, but there is no city defense, only four observation depots. The center of the village is the Jianzhou Jurchen people, and the outer circle lives in the outer circle, all of whom are Baoyi who does farm work for them, but they are actually slaves.
Through Fan Xin's translation, Gao Shixin understood what the map was like.
"Brother Man, when it gets dark, I will take Sikteng and twenty-four Jurchens into the hike, shoot rockets to burn their house. When the fire breaks out, you will take your brothers to ride in! Whether it is Jiannu or Baoyi, as long as you see someone shaved with braids, you will be killed!" Gao Shixin pointed to the map and said.
Of course, many of the Han slaves were forced to shave their hair and braids, but Gao Shixin and others did not come to save people, but mainly to destroy the grain production of the Jianzhou Jurchens, set fire to the forest, and destroy the ecological environment in which they survive. What they needed at this time was not to be merciful, but to be decisive.
In fact, Mao Wenlong's guerrilla warfare was mainly to destroy the production of Jiannu. They killed much more Baoyi than the Jurchens. Because most of Baoyi were Han people, and some were Koreans. That's why Yuandudu slandered Mao Shuai for killing Liang and taking credit for his crimes, and regarded it as one of Mao Wenlong's charges.
Gao Shixin believed that Mao Wenlong did something wrong. Since the Jisi Incident, several times of the Later Jin invasion and robbery, the people responsible for the transportation of baggage were all Baoyi slaves. In the later Han Eight Banners Army, most of the Han Eight Banners soldiers were also promoted by Baoyi slaves. Even if they took a step back, let’s not talk about whether those Baoyi slaves were innocent. They produced food for Jiannu. Even if they were forced, they also played a role in helping Jiannu.
In his previous life, Gao Shixin was obsessed with the Empire for a while. When he first started learning about the Empire, his opponent always came to kill his peasants. In the Empire era, killing his peasants was to destroy the opponent's economy and was the key to victory.
Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town, the harassment of the Later Jin Dynasty caused far more damage to the Later Jin economy and grain production than Yuandudu's so-called Ningyuan victory. When Mao Wenlong was there, Huang Taiji did not dare to invade and plunder because he was worried that Mao Wenlong would plunder his old nest. Even if he did not kill a few real slaves, kill a group of coats, destroy a group of villages, and destroy a group of farmland, it would be unbearable for the Later Jin Dynasty. It was precisely because Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuandudu that Huang Taiji had no worries that he could let go of his hands and plunder.
Therefore, the meaning of Dongjiang Town's existence is like a nail piercing the weakness of the Later Jin Dynasty, which is always a big concern for the Later Jin Dynasty. Yuandudu killed Mao Wenlong, which was a great help to the Later Jin Dynasty.
That night, the strongest archer Gao Shixin brought twenty-four Haixi Jurchen soldiers with outstanding archery skills to quietly approach the village of the Jurchens in Jianzhou with the help of the cover of the night. Although the Haixi Jurchen soldiers did not have the eyesight of Gao Shixin, they were born in the mountains and forests since childhood and made a living by fishing and hunting. Their strength at night was much better than that of ordinary Ming army.
Xiketeng and twenty-three Haixi Jurchen soldiers followed Gao Shixin and quietly approached the village.
The Later Jin soldiers on the four observation decks obviously did not find the uninvited guests coming from the darkness. They just sat listlessly on the tower, one of them sat on the floor and drank, and the two dozed off, and only one Later Jin soldier was more alert.
Gao Shixin, who had feline vision, was one-way transparent at night. He saw the Later Jin soldier standing on the observation deck and watching everywhere.
A long arrow was pulled out of the quiver and rewarded the bowstring. Gao Shixin aimed at the Jurchen soldier, relaxed his thumb, and the heavy arrow shot out with the sound of the wind.
Before the Jurchen soldier on the tower could react, he was stabbed into his throat by a feather arrow. He reached out to grab the arrow shaft, pulled it hard, struggled for a few times, and then fell weakly on the tower.
The four towers were divided into four corners of the village, with three hundred steps apart between each two towers. After Gao Shixin shot and killed the Later Jin soldiers on the first observation deck, he ran away. Within a minute, he ran away. When he was about to arrive, the bow had been pulled open and an arrow hit the bowstring. When he was still one hundred steps away from the tower, Gao Shixin loosened his fingers and another arrow flew out. The Later Jin soldiers who were sitting on the floor of the observation deck were shot through the back of the neck by an arrow, and fell on the floor.
In a blink of an eye, all the Later Jin soldiers on the last two observation decks were shot to death by Gao Shixin.
After succeeding in the first blow, he immediately took out the torch soaked in tung oil and rosin, lit it on the torch inserted under the tower, and then lit a pile of haystacks in the village.
"The brave man Gao inside succeeded, we are ready to shoot arrows!" Seeing the flames, Sikteng knew that Gao Shixin had succeeded, and immediately opened the fire pot hanging on his chest and lit the torch.
"Shoot up and prepare to shoot rockets!" Sikten shouted.
After saying that, he held up a torch and rushed to the village with twenty-three Haixi Jurchen soldiers, and soon rushed to the entrance of the village.
Twenty-three Haixi Jurchen soldiers pulled their bows and put the rockets on the bowstrings. Sikteng picked up the torch and ignited the rockets one by one. The Haixi Jurchen soldiers then let go of their fingers, and rockets shot out with breathing sounds, landing on the roof thirty to fifty steps away.
The range of rockets wrapped in cotton yarn is much closer than that of light arrows. Xikten and the Haixi Jurchen soldiers can easily shoot light arrows out of 150 steps, but if they can shoot rockets, they can shoot fifty steps at most. But the distance of fifty steps is enough. Rockets that have filled tung oil and rosin with cotton yarn fell on the roof and immediately ignited a raging fire.
The houses in these Jianzhou Jurchen villages were all made of wood structures, and the walls were made of wooden boards. The roof of the houses where the coated houses were built of thatch and burned immediately when they encountered fire; the roof of the houses where the Jurchens lived was also nailed up by wooden boards, and several rockets fell and stuck on the wooden boards on the roof. The burnt pine resin tung oil flowed to the wooden boards, which immediately ignited the house.
After shooting a round of rockets, Sikten and his Haixi Jurchen soldiers took out their bows and arrows and prepared to shoot and kill the escaped Jianzhou Jurchens.
Chapter completed!