Lord of Ming Dynasty

This kind of veteran regular army guard brigade is the least, because the guard brigade is the most elite, and what is needed is some veterans in their 20s and 30s who are young and have rich combat experience, so veterans in their 50s are not needed. The field brigade Secondly, the field brigade needs to chase the enemy in the wild and fight the enemy many times, so there are more veterans than the guard brigade, and the most in the garrison regiment, because these veterans have been promoted to logistics, civilian, and high-ranking soldiers. There are also more garrison battalions, but since the garrison battalion is an elite supplement to the militia and has a high turnover of personnel, there are fewer veterans.

There are fewer militia elite troops, and more ordinary troops, because they are here for veterans to retire. They need to train recruits, lead recruits to familiarize themselves with the army, and impart experience. At the same time, they don’t need to fight fiercely. Exercise in the garrison camp, there will always be wars in the garrison camp, either to suppress bandits, or to fight with the army and garrison the city.

The reason why so many veterans are retired is that the Huaxia Army has not completely broken away from the scope of the old army. The enemies of the Huaxia Army are still dominated by cold weapons, and they still need some veterans from the cold weapon era, as well as veterans from the firearms era. Stand guard and help them get familiar with the battlefield and the characteristics of the enemy. Otherwise, when the enemy ambushes you, young people with firearms generally don’t know how to deal with the enemy, because when the musket is fighting with the enemy’s cold weapon, the musketeer is still In bad situation.

However, as the Huaxia Army entered the age of firearms, the enemy also learned to enter the age of firearms. This situation is gradually improving. The veterans of the cold weapon era will gradually die out, and the new Huaxia Army is gradually transforming into a new type of army.

But the old-style army still has a market, such as the small Southeast Asian country occupied by the Chinese army. These gradually retreated troops who used cold weapons, later used firecrackers, and then later used matchlock guns will gradually be used in those directions, where the cold Weapons and arms are still useful, and those places still need a large number of troops to guard and sort out, until the generation in their area dies, is wiped out, and assimilated, the Huaxia Army has a firm foothold in the local area, and the local area is occupied by the Han people. Attached to the Han court.

After the reconciliation of the three armies, troops were stationed on the east bank of Yangzhou Mansion, and all the troops surrounded Yangzhou Mansion tightly. The end of Lu State finally came.

Chapter 651 Breakthrough

Ma Bao woke up from the dream, and when the cold wind blew, he realized that he still had business to do, so he immediately led his troops to the city wall to check.

Five miles outside the city, flags were unfurled, and teams of Huaxia Army soldiers were constantly flowing, carrying all kinds of supplies, advancing in formation, and after reaching the defense line outside the city, they set up artillery positions, and the shells hit the first line outside the city like hail. defensive line.

On the first line of defense, the Lu army still has nearly [-] troops defending. The Lu army has not waited in vain for more than ten years. It has built this area like an iron bucket, and used the Huaxia army to defend them, causing them to fail. Learn it all, and change a lot, which is more conducive to defense.

There are many fortresses. This is a tactic extended from the era of cold weapons. The trenches are winding and garrisoned in the trenches and the artillery holes. Transshipment, support trenches, this is the tactic of combining the Huaxia Army's defense against the Qing Army in the cold weapon era. After that, all three lines of defense are like this. This is learned from the Thai and Western people, and the Thai and Western people learned it from the Huaxia Army.

The cannons are deployed at various key nodes to fight against the Huaxia Army. New cannons, old cannons, bright cannons, clear cannons, the Lu army imitated the Huaxia army's cannons, and the Lu army's own developed cannons. There are thousands of them, all of which are professional artillery In terms of management, the Huaxia Army is not as good in this respect. Even though the Huaxia Army has more than 20 soldiers and horses besieging the city, the artillery of the Huaxia Army is scattered among the armies. A brigade has no more than a dozen heavy guns, and ten brigades have no more than [-] heavy guns, all of which are [-]-pounder guns, lighter guns, [-]-pounder guns, [-] guns, the next nine-pounder guns, and six-pounder guns There are many, but the nine-pound gun cannot play a role in front of the Lu army's nearly [-] defensive heavy artillery because of the range.

The [-] heavy artillery cannons are at a slight disadvantage when fighting against the enemy's thousand cannons, because when they are divided into three sides, each side is much less than the enemy's cannons, nearly half of the number.

The Lu Army has studied the Huaxia Army for so many years, and it can be said that it is almost equal to the Huaxia Army. If the muskets are not several generations behind the Huaxia Army's muskets, maybe they can fight the Huaxia Army in the field. If the army is superior in strength, then it is really hard for the Huaxia Army to win, but it will not fail, and it can escape safely. However, although the enemy's cannons are not superior in quality and mobility, they can be used for defense. On stable positions, on walls and camps that are a few meters higher than the enemy, these cannons that cannot be dragged in the wild are still much more powerful than the [-]-pound guns of the Huaxia Army in terms of range and power.

Of course, the Huaxia Army is not unprepared. The Golden Qi Corps is the main combat unit. They can dismantle 24-pound cannons or even 32-pound cannons from warships at any time to forcibly demolish enemy fortifications.

However, the Huaxia Army still has special cannons for bombarding the enemy. The 24-pound field cannon is not used at ordinary times. Ten gates, but these sixty gates can overwhelm the enemy's camps and walls.

Standing on the watchtower, Zhang Qiang watched the artillery fighting the enemy and the infantry advancing in formation.

Eighteen-pound guns, twelve-pound guns, and nine-pound guns violently bombarded the enemy's trenches five miles away. The enemy's trenches were crowded with people, and enemies were killed by solid shells from time to time. Can't hurt his bones, the trenches have taken a lot of damage, the role of the artillery is just to suppress that's all, and the soldiers of the Huaxia Army who are advancing are hit by the enemy's artillery, so they have to evacuate their formation and advance quickly.

Two field brigades were attacking, and behind them were hand-to-hand soldiers from a militia brigade. When the firepower of the field brigade suppressed the enemy, they rushed into the trenches to fight hand-to-hand.

The fast-advancing field brigade with six-pound guns and three-pound guns is close to the enemy. It will establish an artillery position 600 meters in front of the enemy's position to attack the enemy's trenches, and the firepower will suppress the enemy's infantry's bows and muskets. The army has rarely fought such a battle against the Qing army, because the combat modes of the two sides are different. Generally, the Huaxia army suppresses the opponent and easily crushes the enemy.

The other three sides of Yangzhou Mansion are feigned attacks. They only use artillery to suppress them, and send a regiment of soldiers to attack. On the other side, there are nearly [-] enemy troops defending. Where is the warship of the First Fleet to suppress artillery fire? The heavy artillery was fired to bombard the enemy, and then the warships of the Yangtze River Guard Navy, with their small hull and fast speed, advanced to the shore to attack the enemy, and at the same time opened the gap to lay down infantry to attack the enemy.

Surrounding the city on all sides, Zhang Qiang never thought of letting the enemy break out of the siege. For more than ten years, he wanted to completely destroy the Lu army and eliminate his worries.

The [-]-pound gun may not be able to shoot at the enemy's cannons weighing several thousand kilograms to suppress the enemy, but the enemy's heavy guns are not as good as the field guns of the Huaxia Army due to their disadvantages in the rate of fire, and the firepower brought by the rapid firing However, the enemy was still harassed. At least the artillery on the camp was destroyed one by one. The occasional casualties in the trenches caused the enemy's morale to drop. The high morale of the army soldiers eager to fight and eager to do meritorious service is on par.

As a result, one side's morale was low, and even if one side suffered a little setback, they had to make meritorious service and be injured to reimburse the country. This put the Lu army at a disadvantage in an all-round way. Casualties intensified. When the three-pound gun reached the 100-meter position, the enemy suddenly popped up and shot arrows. When shooting, each bombardment of the three-pound gun could kill a large number of enemies, not to mention Huaxia who was holding an arquebus The volley of guns fired by the soldiers of the field brigade made the enemy unable to face the enemy with peace of mind. When the militia brigade rushed up, the trenches immediately fell into bloody battles. More and more militiamen jumped into the trenches and captured the enemy's trenches.

At the end of the day, the trenches of the enemy's first line of defense were occupied and the barracks were destroyed. The Huaxia Army gained a firm foothold on the enemy's first line of defense and continued to push against the enemy's second line of defense and the artillery fire from the top of the city.

Then the 24-pound siege guns arrived.

Ma Bao watched from a distance with a telescope, and the enemy had approached for more than three miles and was attacking the second trench. The camps and forts behind the second trench were facing the threat of 24-pound siege guns.

Sixty siege cannons lined up six miles away were divided into three groups, a group of solid ammunition, a group of flowering ammunition, and a group specially named for large camps. Twenty cannons were fired together, and there were always one or two groups. The cannon hit the wall of the camp.

The walls of the camps outside were very thin. One shot had a hole, and two shots collapsed. After three shots, the camps were basically defenseless, and the soldiers fled.

Which group of the explosive bombs bombarded the new soldiers with arquebus guns in the trenches on the second line of defense, and multiple explosions exploded at the same time. When the Huaxia Army advances to a distance of 200 meters with torches, there is no need to aim. Once a salvo is fired, they lie on the ground immediately and continue to reload. The second row stands up and takes turns shooting. As if electrified, they threw away the guns in their hands, trembled, and fell limply to the ground.

Before midnight, the Huaxia Army conquered the two frontal defense lines in a row, and the Lu army collapsed and fled to the third line of defense. The trench was 300 meters below the city wall, and the moat was 100 meters behind the city wall. Some defeated soldiers jumped directly into the moat. Yes, some of them used the suspension bridge to slap the city gate, but how dare they open the city gate now, so many people were shot to death by the soldiers on the top of the city with arrows, and the others returned to the third line of defense in fright to stop the enemy .

The 24-pound siege guns soon began to clear the enemy's cannons one by one. The bombs exploded one by one on the top of the city, and the cannons weighing several thousand kilograms were overturned. As it got closer, the Lu troops on the other three sides fled one after another, and many of them retreated into the city.

At dawn, the first line of defense fell, and Ma Bao no longer cared about the war. As the 24-pound artillery bombarded the city wall, the city wall collapsed, and the Huaxia army rushed in, and the killing began.

Chapter 652 Unexpectedly Recalcitrant

"The Huaxia army has come in—," the cry exploded in Yangzhou Fucheng like a thunderbolt from the blue sky.

Then there was a shout like thunder: "Surrender without killing, surrender without killing, throw away your weapons, squat on the side of the street, don't raise your head, don't move," the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Field Brigade who destroyed the city wall poured in like a tide The soldiers of the elite militia brigade yelled, and shot and killed those Lu soldiers who were stubbornly resisting, as well as those soldiers and people whose faces looked like Mongols and Manchu Jin people.

The main attack is the Golden Qi Corps. These soldiers who have been stationed on the defense line for more than ten years, three or four years, have a very deep hatred at this time. Looking across the river, if Xuanyuan Longfei hadn't sent Geng Quanli to lead the Fifth Field Brigade into Shandong Province, if Tian Bin and the others hadn't returned, they might have waited for many years, the oldest of them would have been waiting for their hair to turn gray, I have become an old man in his 50s, and the old man in his 50s is waiting to go home and live a lonely life.

"My lord, my lord, I'm not from the Qing Dynasty, I'm from the Ming Dynasty, from the Han Dynasty." The owner of a shop nodded and bowed, accompanied by a smiley face to the soldiers of the Huaxia Army Field Brigade who were forcing him with guns. A soldier with a sword and a spear in his back stared at him viciously.

The soldier didn't care what he said, and reprimanded him viciously: "No matter who you are, step aside, squat down, put your head in your hands, and don't raise your head, that's it." Before he finished speaking, he ran out of an alley a team of people.

This team has long robes with ponytails and bald foreheads. They are carrying spears and big knives. The stick-shaped three-eyed blunderbuss was aimed at the few of them. The team leader swung the braids behind his neck. The braids were wrapped around his neck a few times, and they were all coiled around his neck. He bit his teeth skillfully and rushed up crazily. .

Someone nearby shouted: "Kill the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, the rebellious bandits of the Huaxia Army, the official said that each person will be rewarded five taels."

The soldiers of the Huaxia Army were stunned. What's the situation? These people obviously have faces with Han characteristics, but why do they hate the Han people, Daming, and the Huaxia Army more than the soldiers with the banner of the Han Army squatting next to them?

It doesn't matter, anyway, if they dare to resist, they will kill them. He aimed his gun at the fastest man and blew on the matchlock on the bridle. When he saw sparks emerging, he narrowed his eyes and quickly Pull the trigger, fire, "bang-," after a sound, the whole person is shrouded in a puff of green smoke, already accustomed to the smell of gunpowder smoke. A bullet escaped, quickly bit the seal, poured the gunpowder into the medicine pool, and then poured the bullet inside into the bullet slot at the back, quickly closed the fire cap, aimed the gun again, and was ready to fire.

While he was loading ammunition, several militiamen around him rushed towards the enemy wielding broadswords and spears, and even Jin Kai 1 matchlock guns. After firing a shot, they quickly fought hand-to-hand with the enemy.

More and more people like this came out from the alley next to them. Seeing that the people squatting next to the street were also pampered, the soldiers felt that it was not good, and quickly put the bamboo whistle hanging around their necks on the ground. He blew vigorously on his mouth, and after a while, bamboo whistles sounded one after another. Just a few minutes after the soldiers entered the battle, Chinese soldiers and militiamen from all directions came to fight fiercely with the enemy, repelled the enemy, and then formed a small group to advance. The militiamen followed behind to cover them, imitating the Musketeers being hurt by the enemy's sudden jump.

When Zhang Qiang led Jin Qi and Xiao Fei into the city, the whole city was already in chaos, Jin Qi squinted his eyes and looked at the burning city, and said to the guards beside him: "Go and check, what's going on? Why is it so chaotic, which part of the enemy is stubbornly resisting?"

This battle was specially prepared for the meritorious service of the Golden Qi Corps. They have been sitting quietly along the Yangtze River for more than ten years. In fact, more than ten years of meritorious service were wasted. This is a disaster for the army. The army is a tool, a tool for fighting. If a soldier does not fight, he is not a real soldier, but a security guard.

If the security guards can shoulder the responsibility of defending the country, then the soldiers should not be alive, or they should not be derived, and use the security guards to defend the country directly. Maybe for the people in the rear or the rich, the army is a pile of shit. People who have nothing to do to waste their youth, their role is similar to that of security guards, but for soldiers, if they cannot prove themselves on the battlefield, then they are incomplete soldiers, disabled soldiers.

A hand may be missing a few fingers, but it can still be called a hand, and an army can still be called an army without fighting, but it is always incomplete. War and peace are a pair of brothers that appear in teams. If there is no war, then there will be peace. , If there is no decoration of war, peace is just a mirror image, so the Golden Qi Corps is actually full of anger, insisting on a vigorous battle to prove itself, not a security guard.

Jin Qi cherishes this battle very much, and is also very grateful to Xiao Fei and Zhang Qiang. Xiao Fei brought the whole army to accompany him to make contributions, but the main credit is given to himself. If he sees that his army is vulnerable , or if you don't fight well, and you can't completely defeat the enemy, what face do you have to face others, and you will be ridiculed by others in the army in the future.

What's more, there is also the guard regiment, accompanied by the army commanded by Zhang Qiang himself.

After a while, the soldiers ran over, "General, General, Admiral, there are people attacking us everywhere in the city, and we can't tell which one is the Han Chinese and which one is the enemy. The soldiers can only tighten their formation, line up guns, and march forward as a whole. , The militia brigade has not enough people to enter the city, I really don’t know what’s wrong? We are here to rescue them, this should be a city of Han people, but they hate us Han troops so much…”

He looked up at Jin Qi carefully.

Jin Qi nodded coercively, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, a trace of determination appeared on his wind-sculpted face.

This has something to do with the decisive killing and the cruel environment he trained on the Mongolian grassland. The Mongols are very arrogant, arrogant, and arrogant. The glory of their ancestors made them look down on the Han and other ethnic groups. Genghis Khan, he fought all over The whole world has a profound impact. So far, Europeans are afraid when they hear the Mongols, but in modern times, the Mongols have declined and lost their blood, but the peasant-style cunning is still there, and they always want to annex other young people. The tribe's affairs are constantly unfolding, very cruel and bloody, but in private, they are very friendly, hospitable, and forthright to the guests. This kind of contradictory character makes Jin Qi learn from them to be cruel on the battlefield and gentle and affectionate underneath. Bold and uninhibited, the environment affects people.

This kind of influence made him return to the Huaxia Army without changing it. The guards of Baozhong Mansion and Jinling did not wear away his character, but made him more dual-faced, and fixed the character he developed among the Mongols. in his blood.

He glanced at Zhang Qiang, Zhang Qiang smiled slightly: "This is your business, you can solve it yourself, we will not interfere, as long as the court results, this place will be peaceful and stable, and I will send officials to take over here after the war, and this kind of situation cannot happen again here. Things, they have to transition peacefully like other places, and become the core area of ​​the Huaxia Army without pollution."

Chapter 653 These Are Not Han People

Faced with such an answer, Jin Qi knew that if he did not come up with some means, then he would not be able to explain to the governor, nor to the actual king of the Huaxia Army, nor would he be able to take credit for the corps. If so, his corps After he grows back, he is likely to sit on the bench and someone else will replace him. As far as he knows, there are many people who want to be the commander of a corps.

Brother Zhu, Zhao Hu, Hu Kui, Bagyalu, Tian Bin, and other up-and-comers, as well as Su Zhiqing from Nanming Kingdom, and many generals from Nanming Kingdom who came here and were left idle, many of them I want to replace them, the guys who have become the commanders of the corps, from officials to admirals.