Lord of Ming Dynasty

Soon, the enemy's artillery was already in place. There were 28 cannons, including the Qing Army's 2000-jin General Cannon, the Ming Army's [-]-jin imitation Franc cannon, and the Qing Army's imitation of the Huaxia Army's previous ten guns. Pound guns, nine-pounder guns, six-pounder guns, four-pounder guns, three-pounder guns, and even small tiger squat guns made by the Ming and Qing armies themselves.

Solid bullets are flying all over the sky. The purpose of these cannons is to hit the Musketeers of the Huaxia Army. The Musketeers of the Huaxia Army have leaped to a distance of 300 meters. 28 solid bullets flew out from the city wall. Some hit 500 meters, some hit 1000 meters, some hit 900 meters, some hit 800 meters, some hit 30 meters, some hit more than 100 meters, each distance Several enemy shells fell on the ground.

This time, even the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Guards, who were very careful, were injured. Several soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were unable to dodge were quickly seriously injured, either with broken legs or arms. This time, the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Guards felt the enemy The pressure given to them, shells kept falling around them, and those who couldn't dodge were either seriously injured or killed. The soldiers carried the wounded to the distance, called the medical soldiers to come up to deal with the wounded, and called the stretcher team of the peasants to come and carry the wounded to the rear.

Soon the artillery of the Huaxia Army found its position, and the 500-pound gun entered a distance of [-] meters and joined the bombardment of the enemy.

Twelve-pound guns can actually fire at the enemy at a distance of 500 meters. Their longest distance is three kilometers, but they can suppress the enemy at a distance of [-] meters.

Four eighteen-pound guns, six twelve-pound guns, and the twelve-pound guns fired solid bullets, because their targets were the city gates and walls. Open the gates, and the Musketeers could rush into the city to attack the enemy.

Just when the [-]-pound gun had just fired a round, the [-]-pound gun finally made a contribution. Four flowering bullets destroyed two enemy general guns, and by the way, an old two-thousand-pound general gun of the Qing army next to the enemy's gun position was destroyed. The cannon was also blown up, and at the same time there were nearly a hundred enemy soldiers, either dead or injured.

Those who operate these artillery are the enemy's green battalion soldiers. The green battalion soldiers are not well-trained soldiers of the new army's firearms suppression unit. Their literacy and tactical skills are really limited, so they can only waste shells.

After being hit again and again, the morale of the enemy dropped. Many soldiers looked left and right, thinking about how to escape down the city wall. Shells from twelve-pound guns hit the city wall from time to time, causing the city wall to shake. Everyone was pale and flustered. I don't have the mind to fight anymore.

The Green Battalion soldiers of the Qing army near the city gate were quickly affected. The [-]-pound artillery shells swept across the city wall, blowing up the parapet, the battlements, and then swept all the way down the city wall. Five or six Qing soldiers could not dodge and were hit by the shells , Even the corpse and the weapon were swept under the city wall, and hit the other green battalion soldiers waiting for support under the city wall, causing the city wall to rush into chaos.

At 1000 meters, the nine-pound gun was in place, and the fierce artillery fire quickly destroyed the enemy's artillery positions. The Qing army's artillery was destroyed one by one. The city wall was already a Shura hell, crying, begging, and screaming , The officer's yelling, the whipping sound, and the sound of driving the soldiers to continue to operate the artillery to fight back are intertwined, and even the soldiers of the Guards who have jumped to a distance of 200 meters to suppress the enemy can hear it.

But what Ma Deli saw was blood, broken limbs and arms, flustered green battalion soldiers running like headless flies. Many people jumped directly from the city wall, regardless of their care, and saw that the enemy had jumped to 150 meters away , Ma Deli had no time to take care of them, and repeatedly ordered the surviving cannons to fire at the enemy, but those cannons weighing several thousand catties could not hit the enemy, so they could only suppress the artillery behind the enemy and carry the stretcher The civilian husband who transferred the wounded.

But in the rear, Zhang Qiang shook his head. The Guards Group no longer had the pioneering spirit and the charging spirit that was not afraid of death. It became a well-regulated siege battle, but it made him feel helpless. It seemed that the Guards Brigade had wasted their efforts.

Chapter 629 This is how war should be fought

The advantage of a well-regulated battle is that the army can complete the task step by step without too much danger. The guard regiment is actually very good, and the casualties of the fight so far are less than a hundred. This is only more than 3000 for an army. There are only twenty or thirty guns, and it doesn't matter how advanced the enemy's artillery is. In terms of generational difference, the artillery of the Huaxia Army and the artillery of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are almost in the same generation.

Everyone is a front-mounted smoothbore black powder cast iron artillery. Although the Huaxia Army made these artillery very concise and convenient, it improved the quality of the artillery and reduced the weight. In addition to the carriage that can be dragged by war horses, the carriage also undertakes the transportation of part of the gunpowder and artillery personnel. It can be said that it has a lot of advanced features compared to the artillery of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but after all, everyone is in the same generation.

There was no revolutionary change, not to mention that the Qing army also imitated the Huaxia Army's artillery, which was too heavy for them to imitate. For example, the imitated [-]-pound artillery was heavier and larger than the Huaxia Army's [-]-pound artillery. Not good, artillery weighing three to four thousand catties can only be used to defend the city, and the imitation of eighteen-pound artillery weighs four to five thousand pounds. The smart Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan quickly gave up imitating the Chinese army's artillery weighing more than twelve pounds , and turned to stealing the artillery of the Huaxia Army by various means through fighting, not to mention letting them steal a lot of [-]-pound and [-]-pound artillery of the Huaxia Army, but these are all in Yangzhou Mansion waiting for Hong Chengchou. There are guards in the place.

The elite troops who did not dare to be deployed below were released to attack the Huaxia Army and fight field battles with the Huaxia Army's troops.

So they could only imitate the ten-pounder, nine-pounder, six-pounder, four-pounder, and three-pounder of the Huaxia Army. The artillery of the army is infinitely close, but the artillery equipped for the current Ma Deli, and even the artillery of the new army led by Ma Bao are all early imitations. Slow, and they are all artillery that fire solid bullets.

Compared with the artillery of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the mobility of these artillery has been greatly improved. Some are also equipped with simple gun mounts, which can quickly switch in all directions to suppress the enemy. The six-pound guns are also equipped with carriages. , pull the action, the six-pound cannon of the Huaxia Army can be disassembled, and four or five soldiers can carry a part of it, and the shells can also be carried on their backs. In almost a squad, twelve soldiers can take care of all the actions of a cannon And action, at least can support a battle of 5000 people for a day.

In an emergency, three people can carry a six-pound cannon on the battlefield, but the Qing army can’t do it. The cannon weighing more than 1000 catties has to be pulled by a carriage, and a dozen people can push the cannon. It needs 36 people to take care of it, which is three times more than the Huaxia Army.

These imitation artillery are destined not to be the opponents of the artillery of the Huaxia Army. They also have a lot of artillery. A guard regiment of the Huaxia Army may have fewer artillery. This is not because the Guards cannot be equipped with more artillery, but because the Huaxia Army The army has always followed the route of elite soldiers. Otherwise, the current population of the Huaxia Army is 8000 million. It is to calculate the population of the areas that have been digested. The population of the occupied and conquered areas has never been calculated. Even where there are many immigrants, it used to be the population of the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army only counts those people who have obeyed the leadership of the Huaxia Army from the bottom of their hearts, or on the surface, and support the local people of the Huaxia Army. This area does not even include Guangdong, Guangxi, and the conquered states that have been conquered for more than two years. Yunnan prefecture that has been conquered for more than a year, Yunnan and Guizhou that have just been conquered for a few months, and those that have been completely controlled by the Chinese army and have been ruled by the Chinese army for half a year. Areas, even the population of Hubei Province, which has been conquered for more than three years, are not counted, and Henan Province has not stabilized now, nor is it counted, as long as the population of areas with a large number of militias stationed is not counted as the population of the Huaxia Army.

However, Anhui is barely counted, because most of the population of the state here has actually experienced seven or eight years of rule by the Huaxia Army, and has already returned to the Huaxia Army. Most of the population of Suzhou is counted, and Jinling has also been ruled for five or six years. Forget it, although the garrisons in these areas are always at war with the enemy, and the militias are also very strong, but they have ruled for seven or eight years, they can live a good life, and the people support the Huaxia Army, so they are counted .

Baodao also only counts the population of Baozhong Prefecture, and the population of other places is not counted, because the population of many places comes from all over the world, and there are even many wild people from the mountains who were pulled out of the mountains, as well as immigrants from Annan and Laos. , the descendants of the Han ethnicity in Myanmar who had previously surrendered to the Huaxia Army, as well as the tribes of the chieftains who failed from the mountains of Yunnan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and the Han people under the rule of the diehards of the Hakka and Tujia.

Their only purpose here is to open up wasteland. The environment in Baodao is very harsh. Using these people to open up wasteland and then immigrating to fill up the population lost due to the opening up is Zhang Qiang’s vicious heart. Those people are not stubborn ?

Let the militiamen and the garrison battalion drive them to open up wasteland, endure the harsh environment for opening up wasteland, all kinds of fevers, and poisonous insects are their natural enemies. At least half of the people are dead, and they can rule normally.Therefore, these common people who were not included in the population are not actually Chinese.

This kind of treatment is indeed somewhat unfair to these people, but for the stability of the Huaxia Army and its future development, Zhang Qiang strongly promoted it. No matter it was Zhou Porridge's dissuasion, Zhu Yujian's indignation, or Zhu Dadian's constant persuasion, Zhang Qiang could not be changed. His determination, because he knows that when the so-called freedom of the Westerners, Mingzhu and other ideas flood in, these guys who have not completed Sinicization will be hidden dangers for the Chinese army. Lame, later generations don’t have such far-sighted views as him. The British Empire is powerful, and the colonies all over the world are not weakened by the so-called American robbers composed of thieves, robbers, bandits, and even female branches. ?

Therefore, Zhang Qiang must eliminate ethnic differences in all the people on the land that China should have in his lifetime, and make them into a unified Chinese, Han, there are no dozens of ethnic groups coexisting, there is no Buddhism, and there is no way to let Buddhism With so many sects, different beliefs will lead to differences and conflicts in many regions. There are Cantonese, Chinese, and Hokkien, all of which are not good. Regional differences cannot be reflected in these places. They are all Mandarin, and occasionally due to different regional accents. It's okay to be different, but we can't create a language that is like a foreign language that we don't understand. The traditional Confucian thought tells us that we must be unified and obey the kingly way.

Turning my eyes back to the battlefield, the three regiments of the guards are advancing in layers and attacking quickly. The artillery fire is also advancing in layers, advancing at high speed and suppressing steadily. The enemy troops are chaotic on the top of the city. Conservative, he quickly intervened in the command of the head of the third regiment of the Guards, ordering all heavy artillery to reach a distance of 2000 meters.

Eighteen-pound guns, twelve-pound guns, fired together, and switched to flowering bombs. A total of ten guns fired at one place together. The rapid and violent artillery fire caused all the casualties of the enemy on this section of the wall. The Musketeers at a distance of 150 meters lined up one after another, firing guns, suppressing the enemy, followed by six-pound guns, nine-pound guns, and more. A total of 24 artillery pieces were divided into three groups to attack the enemy's city walls in various sections. strike.

Under the artillery fire, people could not even stand on the walls of the Qing army, let alone the artillery fired. The artillery, artillery, and even bed crossbows were blown into scrap iron and scrap wood.

Ma Deli felt very angry, but very powerless. He dispatched his personal guards, servants, and family generals to lead a 2000-strong supervisory team to supervise the battle, and urged the green battalion soldiers to go up to defend, but no one responded to his call. The supervisory team killed Hundreds of green battalion soldiers, none of them went up, but it aroused the anger of those green battalion soldiers. The green battalion soldiers turned around and pointed their weapons at the supervising group. They exchanged fire with the supervising group for half an hour, and successfully defeated the supervising group. The supervising group suffered 100 casualties. Many people ran back in desperation.

Ma Deli had to send Mongolian cavalry and Han army banner troops to suppress and killed more than 1000 people before stabilizing the situation, but still no one dared to go up, the city wall was covered by countless bullets, covered by flowering bullets, almost even ants could not Survive.

Ma Deli had to retreat to the next best thing, redeploy the army, put the green battalion soldiers at the gate of the city to prepare for battle, build fortifications, and put the village bravery, civilian bravery, regiment training, etc. on the streets and alleys, and put the Mongolian cavalry at important intersections. The flag of the Han army was placed in the county government and the barracks to build fortifications, preparing to fight street battles with the Huaxia army.

The soldiers on the other three walls were not withdrawn, ready to fill in the gaps at any time, waiting for the Huaxia Army to attack the Huaxia Army on the city wall.

There are more than 2 troops in the city. He believes that there are only more than 3000 troops. Even if the whole guard brigade comes to attack, it will only have more than 1 troops. He is confident that the Huaxia Army will be defeated. , It also caused the enemy to pay heavier casualties in street fighting.

"Boom——" Ma Deli had just arranged his troops, returned to the county government office, and climbed up to the highest three-story archway of the county government office. The guard quickly supported him, he pushed the guard away angrily, and took a look through the copper binoculars.

Amidst the gunpowder smoke at the city gate, a group of soldiers from the Huaxia Army poured in. The Green Battalion soldiers Yong Jin Kai 1 who had already built the barricades fired a volley of matchlock guns. A group of 20 soldiers from the Guards Brigade rushed in. After being hit, they fell to the ground one after another, they must be dead, and the remaining seven or eight people retreated quickly and hid in the smoke and dust that did not disperse.

In less than a quarter of an hour, fierce artillery fire rang out from behind the city gate, and the Green Battalion soldiers, who were still cheering for victory just now, were covered by artillery fire even with the barricades.

Ma Deli closed his eyes, turned his head and couldn't bear to look again, there were fifty or sixty green battalion soldiers of a general banner, and now the green battalion soldiers are the main force in Hong Chengchou's Qing army. After Hong Chengchou rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, he focused on training Han soldiers, The green battalion is the main body of the Han people, and of course it is his first choice.

When the smoke cleared, Zhang Qiang stood on a building car 200 meters away from the city and looked at the city with binoculars. The building car was twice as high as the four-meter-high city wall, and it was eight meters high. The detachable command car allows generals to observe the entire battlefield from above. This is not an advanced weapon. Since ancient times, commanders and generals on both sides of the war have built such a building car that can be pushed forward. Although the Huaxia Army has advanced weapons, But it will also absorb some of the previous essence for its own use.

Zhang Qiang smiled and said to the head of the third regiment beside him: "See, war should be fought like this, the attack must be fierce, and our army's firepower advantage must be fully utilized. Next, you will command the mere street fighting. The Guards won't be overwhelmed by the enemy, will they?"

6 Chapter Thirty

If it is a commander with a brain, he will quickly evacuate the soldiers outside the city, and then retreat quickly or find a place outside the city to establish a defense line, but Ma Deli is not that kind of person, maybe he has fought with the Huaxia Army before, maybe He has a lot of combat experience, and he has also participated in the battles between the Nanming Kingdom, the Huaxia Army and the Thai-Western Allied Forces, but he can't turn the corner now, he is already enraged, and failure is unacceptable to him.

He mobilized the remaining thousands of troops of the Qing army defeated by the first and second regiments of the Guards into the city, mobilized all the soldiers from several towns and villages on the rear line of defense, and concentrated all the troops in the area. He wanted to fight street battles with the Huaxia Army. He was very keen on street fighting. He believed that even if the Qing army was invincible in street battles, it would cause heavy casualties to the Huaxia Army.

This kind of casualty is not something that the Huaxia Army can bear. This is his understanding of the Huaxia Army, especially when he learned that the Huaxia Army is fighting against him on the opposite side of the Huaxia Army. , this kind of vanity became even more powerful, and it hit his heart day by day, getting stronger and stronger.

Ma Deli clenched his fists in the hall of the county government office, turning around, "What if I defeat the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade, even if I cause heavy casualties to the enemy? Then even if I fail, I am in the Qing army, no, yes Hong Chengchou's status in the Lu army will be improved a lot, now he is just a general, maybe he can be a general in the future, a general like Ma Bao who has been defeated repeatedly can be a general, so what about him?"

I have to say that there are so many strange things in the world, and there are all kinds of people. Once a person is swayed by a certain idea, even the most shrewd person will become confused. So Ma Bao looked at the line of defense he had set up very strangely. He was withdrawn from within, and there was no force in front of him to stop the Huaxia Army. Ma Deli pulled all the combatants, including young and strong men from the village, town, and nearby counties, into Ningyang County.

The small county with a radius of only five kilometers and ten miles is filled with 5 troops, of which there are only [-] regular troops, Qing army green battalions, Han army banner troops, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry, [-] Manchu soldiers, and others. The soldiers were either killed, captured, or escaped. The soldiers who were forcibly pulled here were the Qing army who fled and was defeated nearby. There were thousands of regular troops, more than [-] village braves, regiment training, young and strong , Zhuang Ding, these honest farmers a few days ago were quickly put on a set of Qing army's military uniforms, and threw them a big knife or a bamboo spear, and then they were forcibly incorporated into the team and scattered in the city. Wait for the Huaxia Army's attack and fight with the Huaxia Army.

However, because of insufficient food and weapons, Ma Degong drove all the people out of the city, and there was a Qing soldier standing in every inch of the city.

After successfully opening the city gate of Ningyang County, the Third Guards Regiment has captured a playground-sized foothold near the city gate, and dispatched a battalion of infantry to defend it. Nearly 300 soldiers were killed or injured during the capture The price, but it is worth it. Up to now, the third regiment of the Huaxia Army has only lost a thousand shells, hundreds of thousands of bullets, and 90 casualties, of which only more than 60 soldiers died and more than [-] soldiers were seriously injured. The others were all minor injuries. Although they lost their combat effectiveness and were transferred to the Hushan Town brigade headquarters in the rear, there were still [-] soldiers remaining, which did not affect the combat effectiveness of the third regiment.

In the next few days, the third regiment of the Huaxia Army continued to expand the defensive positions at the city gate, mainly outside the city. Some clever scout soldiers were sent to the city wall to defend and guard the other three walls of the enemy, while the third regiment Soldiers from the two battalions of the army were separated on both sides, occupying a position 600 meters outside the city, built fortifications, dug trenches, and prepared to defend for a long time.

The artillery put down the heavy artillery 600 meters outside the city, and the other six-pound guns and three-pounder guns went up the city wall, established artillery positions, bombarded the walls on both sides with artillery, and started an artillery battle with the enemy. At the same time, the battalion in the city was also established. The artillery positions were set up, and the nine-pounder and six-pounder guns were deployed in the open space at the gate of the city to bombard other positions of the enemy in the city.

As time went by, after the first and second regiments also left their defensive forces, they led the other two battalions to advance to the outskirts of Ningyang County, established a position 2000 meters outside the city wall, and repeatedly used heavy artillery to bombard the enemy. The city wall made Ma Deli's plan to attack the soldiers on the wall of the Huaxia Army from both sides of the city wall and the troops entering the city aborted.

The Qing troops on the city walls on both sides couldn't take care of themselves. How could they have the energy to attack the soldiers on the city walls and help the soldiers in the city.100 meters from the city wall occupied by the Huaxia army, at the corner, the Qing army could not gain a foothold at all. The scout cavalry who moved around on the city wall from time to time gave them a headache and had to retreat to the side, sneaking around. He fought coldly with the Huaxia Army, coldly.

But what's ridiculous is that in the past few days, the total result of the Qing army's cold guns and cold guns against the scout cavalry of the Third Guards Regiment was 1. This result is that their more flexible artillery seized the opportunity to fire such a gun , so that a scout cavalryman of the Huaxia Army who was shooting was killed, but the Huaxia Army killed nearly a hundred Qing soldiers in the past few days. Well, it should be said that Lu soldiers, Hong Chengchou had formally separated from the Qing Dynasty a few days ago After clearing the boundaries, the Lu State that was destroyed by him was restored, and he declared himself the king of the Lu State.

Now Hong Chengchou's Qing army has been renamed the Lu army.

The shelling of the first and second regiments of the Huaxia Army made it impossible for the Lu soldiers on the city wall to gain a foothold. They had to retreat below the city wall and hold on. A section of the city wall that was not surrounded by the Huaxia Army.

A day later, the infantry of the 100st and 600nd Guards joined forces to replace the infantry of the [-]rd Guards, occupied the city wall, and opened the gates. They followed the example of the [-]rd Regiment and established a position outside the city, and used The city gate was used as a cover, and the Lu soldiers in the city fired at each other, and quickly captured a [-]-meter foothold, dispatched a platoon of infantry to defend, set up an artillery position on the gate tower, and bombarded [-] meters in the city with artillery. Lu Jun in Minai.