Almost every day, the artillerymen of the Ming army and the intruders gathered together for a meeting. Both sides took turns to speak. After you sang, our side came on the stage. No one had the slightest intention of giving in.

The fields shrouded in the setting sun were full of bombed soil, as well as large and small craters. The sunset dyed the sky red, and even the woods showed a hint of red. Only a few dark clouds floated in the western sky.

Cover up part of the red sunset.

When Zhang Xiaoding, who was in the trench, looked at the sunset, the guns suddenly roared. Even in the trench, he could imagine them shaking on the ground. Those artillery sprayed out flames and made a deafening howl.

The moment the shell fell, it was like a ghost rushing from the ground to the ground, spitting out billowing smoke and dust, and then swallowing up all the nearby creatures.

The air was filled with violent explosions, accompanied by whistling sounds passing overhead. Zhang Xiaoding raised his head and looked into the air, only to see some black spots seeming to pass by in the air, and those shells roared towards the intruders' trenches.

Fly away.

During the bombardment, twilight slowly fell, the sky became darker and darker, and finally the earth was completely shrouded in darkness. But even so, the trenches still seemed very lively, and there were scoldings everywhere in the shadows, and...

The chatter of the officials.

It was at this time that the baggage soldiers sent a large amount of supplies. Of course, batches of new soldiers were also added to each army. In the past ten days, although the army's offensive has made some progress, it has also made great efforts.

There were relatively heavy casualties. The small ditch that was previously filled with muddy water was filled with all kinds of corpses and broken body parts. They rotted in the sun and then emitted a pungent stench, even if they were stuffed with cotton.

Even if my nostrils are closed, I can still smell the stench.

Although the air was filled with this stench, Zhang Xiaoding, like others, used a knife to open the iron sheet of the canned meat, and then ate the canned whale meat. Thanks to the application of the iron plate rolling mill, Dalian Iron Works not only batches

It produces steel plates used to make breastplates, and also produces hot-dip galvanized tinplate in large quantities. This thin iron sheet makes it possible to produce cans, and the raw materials for producing cans come from whales at sea. A huge whale provides as much meat as

Dozens of cattle, the most important thing is, it does not need to be bred.

Because of this, cheap whale meat has become an important raw material for the production of canned meat. For Zhang Xiaoding and others, these canned meats from Dalian are undoubtedly the best food they have ever eaten in their lives. Even until now, he

I remember the first time I ate canned meat in Wuchang.

The meat is delicious.

One can per person weighs more than half a kilogram, with large pieces of fat and large pieces of lean meat. It tastes delicious in your mouth. For soldiers on the front line, perhaps this is what they enjoy most.

When the time comes, they will use tree branches to raise a small fire to heat the can, then eat it with the soup and meat while it is hot, and finally use steamed buns to scrape the remaining soup in the can.

Life like this couldn't be better. Of course, if there was no stench in the air and no threat of death, Zhang Xiaoding would even rather live in the trenches for the rest of his life, as long as he could eat white-flour steamed buns and canned meat every day.

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For ordinary warriors, delicious meat, white flour steamed buns or white rice are enough to keep them entertained for a night, but for the superiors, they pursue more. The progress of the war will be delivered as soon as possible every day

In front of Zhu Guoqiang, as the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, the de facto prince, or emperor, who directly commanded this battle, he would stand in front of the sand table and think about it every time he had free time.

This will be the last battle of the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the bandits!

As long as Li Zicheng's army is completely wiped out, whether it is Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, or the so-called generals and uncles in Henan and Shaanxi, they are just scabies that are not worth mentioning. Even in his opinion,

Except for Li Zicheng, everyone including Li Guo can be surrendered. After all, in another time and space, they may have been bandits, but they have never suffered any loss in the face of national justice. Based on this alone, Zhu Guoqiang

I think they can recruit people.

In the future, they will be placed in Nanyang, and they will take root and settle down in Nanyang. Of course, this is only for some people to see.

However, everything must be based on one thing. Li Zicheng must die! As the successor of the Ming Dynasty, there must be someone responsible for Chongzhen's death no matter what. This is related to the legitimacy of Zhu Guoqiang's rule!

This is also the reason why Zhu Guoqiang fought this battle. The reason why Li Zicheng was surrounded in Baoding was for him to solve the problem here. Although Li Zicheng gave up the mobile warfare that the bandits are best at and chose positional warfare, while Zhu Guoqiang chose the iron barrel encirclement.

But the current stalemate was beyond his expectation.

This matter is difficult to handle!

Staring at the Shun Army's defense line on the sand table, Zhu Guoqiang frowned. War is a classroom. Both the enemy and ourselves learn from the war and make progress in the war. However, he never thought of Li Zicheng or Manchu.

The progress of the Qing Dynasty was so rapid.

"This is trench warfare!"

While talking to himself, Zhu Guoqiang's eyebrows became a little cold.

"It's all Donglu's fault!"

The pirates join forces!

When he got this information from there, Zhu Guoqiang even doubted it for a while, but this is an ironclad fact. Even now, there are hundreds of Jiannu in Baoding City helping Li Zicheng. Jiannu not only sells artillery and muskets

He gave it to Li Zicheng and even taught him how to resist artillery and the Ming army's attack. This was also the reason why the war fell into a stalemate.

"This is iron-clad evidence of a crime. This reason can be written down in history books in the future..."

Isn't this the reason why those bandits were written down in the history books? With this reason, it can at least prove to future generations how correct the decision to eliminate the bandits was. The bandits did not become bandits because they were forced to make a living. They were simply

They are a group of bandits who coerce the people and plunder their property. They do all kinds of evil. So it is natural for the officials to annihilate them.

As for the so-called justice for heaven, it is just a slogan they use to confuse the ignorant people. There are no ordinary people in their eyes. Otherwise, how could they collude with the Tatars? With this reason, why bother to deliberately record it in the history books?

vilify them.

But the most important thing right now is to completely wipe them out. Only in this way can we write the history of the Ming Dynasty!

Staring at those trenches, and then thinking for a while, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly said to himself.
Chapter completed!