The strategic decision has been made, and then the army is ready to go out.

After more than a year of "careful" preparations, Dalian has been prepared for the war. After more than a year of integration, Zhu Guoqiang now has more than 120,000 troops in his hands, not including the navy.

As the first clan to take charge of military power after becoming an ancestor, including the position of "General Pinglu", they are all temporary. As for other positions... none of them.

Also, the Pinglu Army does not yet have a court establishment. It is still a rural soldier. Just like the regiment training in the late Qing Dynasty, it is a temporary worker without an "establishment". However, this "temporary worker" has an actual army of hundreds of thousands.

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And such temporary workers are led by General Pinglu. He is not a regular army, but he defends the country and guards the borders like a regular army. Similar things may be found by looking through Chinese history, but in the Ming Dynasty it was Scorpion

A single serving of daddy.

Although the Pinglu Army was a temporary worker without a "establishment", it was the only army in this era that practiced day and night. But even so, it still took half a month from mobilization to expedition.

Complete preparation.

On the ninth day of June in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, when the five towns of Pinglu, Pingdi, Zhenglu, Huben, and Yingyang plus the troops directly under the General's Mansion, a 60,000-strong army attacked Gaizhou, Mei Chun, as the vanguard, led Huwei Town

Nearly 12,000 officers and soldiers have arrived in Gaizhou.

Although there were less than 5,000 Qing garrison guards in Gaizhou City, the Gaizhou City at this time was not the Chinese-style city of the old days, but a bastion-style city. The heavy bastion fortifications protected the fortress.

ized city.

"This city wall is really thick..."

Looking through the telescope at the changed appearance of Gaizhou City, Meichun said to himself.

Although he seemed calm on the surface, he was actually muttering in his heart. After all, this was his first battle in the Pinglu Army.

In the past, he was the commander of Xiaoling Guard, but now he is the commander-in-chief of Huwei Town. As one of the nine-town commanders, he is extremely eager to prove himself through a battle. After all, to the outside world, he, the commander-in-chief,

The only credit he deserves is the "dedicating the city" to Nanjing.

And now is your chance to prove yourself.

It’s just this city in front of me…

This is the most important stronghold of Jiannu on the front line of the confrontation between the two armies. How can we capture it?

"Thickness is not the key."

Staring at Gaizhou City, Li Yunkun said seriously.

"According to the intelligence we collected before the war, Jiannu deliberately learned from the experience of shelling Sifang Mountain City. In addition to thickening the city wall and building buffer slopes to withstand solid shell shelling, he also built a fort behind the city wall. The forts are all

It is built with a large log with thick legs, covered with a thick layer of soil up to one foot thick. There is an earth slope in front of the door to resist fragments. Unless the cannonball directly penetrates into the door opening less than three feet wide, otherwise the cannonball will not reach the city even if it hits the city.

It won’t cause any harm to the Jian slaves, otherwise, we will have to hit the city directly!”

Jianu's response was very quick!

No matter Huang Taiji or Dorgon, when faced with powerful high-explosive grenades, Jiannu's reaction was extremely fast, even beyond the imagination of the world.

In fact, in terms of the reaction after being beaten, the reaction of the slaves was indeed very rapid. Even after the Opium War ended more than two hundred years later, when the Dagu Fort was built, in view of the damage caused by British grenades, they deliberately built the barracks into

Semi-circular, so that when the grenade hits the barracks, it will roll to the ground, and the barracks are also separated by a few feet. Even if the shell rolls to the side of the barracks and explodes, it is impossible to collapse two barracks at once. Moreover,

The two-foot-thick earth wall itself is enough to withstand the shock wave when a black powder grenade explodes.

Now, they simply turned the barracks into fortifications. Such a reaction speed made Zhu Guoqiang astonished after learning about it. How many people who can leave a great name in history are easy to get along with?

"Is it possible that we have to use human lives to attack hard?"

When Meichun said this with a worried look on his face, in Gaizhou City, Hunta standing on the city wall stared at the Ming army outside the city and said proudly.

"These Ming troops, if they want to seize the city, they have to sacrifice their lives. There are five thousand defenders in my city. If they want to go down, they have to let the Ming troops die."

As the son of Tong Jia Hu Erhan, the so-called "King Minister" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Hunta is not as outstanding as his father, although in terms of seniority, because his father was adopted by Nurha as his adopted son, he was given the surname Jueluo.

He can be regarded as half a relative of the emperor, but the Huerhan family has declined in the end. Now Dorgon uses him to guard Gaizhou, and he will never surrender to the Ming army.

At this time, Hunta seemed confident. He believed that he could defend Gaizhou. Of course, like many Manchu generals, he no longer frequently referred to the Ming army as "Ming dog". In fact, this was probably

It is a change in mentality. Just like when Nurhahe rebelled, they always called them "official troops". Later, when they gained the upper hand, they changed their name to "Ming army". After the Battle of Sarhu, they became contemptuous.

They called the Ming Army "Ming Dog". Now, after being beaten one after another, they changed their name to "Ming Army" again.

In fact, even they themselves were not aware of the change in their tone, and even the person involved could not understand this change.

"Sir, the Ming army is outside the city now. Although our Gaizhou city has strong walls, we can't just defend it blindly. We still have to ask the prince to send troops over immediately!"

Listening to Zhao Andong's report, Hunta just laughed loudly.

"The letter to the prince has been sent a long time ago, but the reinforcements will definitely not be able to get through for a while. Let's just defend and let the Ming army attack. I want to see whether it is their artillery that is fierce or our city's strength!"

Just as he finished speaking, the sound of cannons suddenly rang out!

Standing on the top of the city, they could see clouds of white smoke puffing out from the ditch in front of the city from a distance. In the thick smoke, they could only see dozens of black dots flying through the air, whistling over.

As in the past, the first round was an 18-pound mortar. Compared with the straight trajectory of field artillery, its curved trajectory is more suitable for siege, and its rate of fire is fast. However, the biggest problem is that its accuracy is poor, but

This does not prevent it from being the favorite cannon of the Ming army besides the nine-pound mountain howitzer. After all, it is light in weight, has a fast rate of fire, and is extremely deadly when launching grenades.

Whether it was under Nanjing City or on the Jinzhou defense line, it proved its ability time and time again - blowing up the Jiannu camp to pieces again and again, turning every living life into pieces.

minced meat.

Now, it roars once again, trying to prove its power once again.

The moment it roared to the ground, the heavy iron ball in the universal fuze rolled directly and squeezed the firing pin below to fire the flash cap. The 18-pound shell instantly exploded into bursts of flames, but it only took a moment.

, Gaizhou City was shrouded in fierce shells. Some shells fell directly on the city wall, some fell behind the city wall, and some fell into the city. However, even so, the Ming army was not worried about it.

Cause casualties to civilians - there are no Han Chinese in this city.

The Han people, except for a few servants who were trusted by their masters, were not even qualified to stay in the city!
Chapter completed!