Beiyang new warlord

As for Shi Kefa in Yangzhou, he also desperately wanted to raise money to strengthen Jiangbei's defense. Unfortunately, Zuo Liangyu didn't want to move at all on Ma Shiying's side. Now he regards Huguang as his own territory. At the end of last year, Mao Jue drove Li Zicheng away After entering Huguang, compared to history, Li Zicheng's power is also weaker by many points, and Zuo Liangyu is gearing up to fight to the death with the remnants of the Peng army.

On Shi Kefa's side, the tide of losing masters has not yet passed, even the salt merchants are a little bit battered, and Mao Jue has a good reputation among merchants, and few are enthusiastic about defending Yangzhou City. In the south of the Yangtze River, it's just a drop in the bucket.

These two can be regarded as the only two in the Hongguang Dynasty who took action. Zhu Yousong himself is worse than a cup in his hand, and his life is in charge! Facing Mao Jue's aggressive war signal, Ying Tian even fought harder. There was no response at all. They just continued to send envoys to the north to question Mao Jue's fake emperor in the first month of the new year. In private, these honest gentlemen who shouted to protect Daming to the death were similar to Ma Shiying. Negotiable.

As for the more than 40 troops in the three towns of Jiangbei, which were regarded as an impregnable wall by the Southern Ming court, they were not even the slightest bit prepared for war.

Even Xuzhou Liu Liangzuo was still complacent. He stood at the head of Xuzhou city early in the morning, while drinking, humming cheerfully to his generals.

"This barbarian really has so much money and no place to spend it, 100 million taels of silver, and so much high-quality steel, what's the use of making these two iron chopsticks, haha!"

"It's easy to put 100 million taels into his pocket, and he has earned tens of thousands of catties of fine iron for nothing. How many knives, guns and war tools can be made! Once this barbarian is approaching the city, let's dismantle his broken iron chopsticks and use them. He made arrows out of iron and shot them on Mao Manzi's head."

"I don't know how wonderful his face will be then, haha!"

Laughing, he took a sip of wine and poured it into his stomach, and the generals and lieutenants who followed him immediately slapped him like a wave of flattery.

"What the military master said is very true!"

"It's still wise for our Marquis! That hairy barbarian just lost his wife and lost his army!"

Liu Liangzuo's confidant sergeant muttered worriedly, "Dong Weng! Liaodong, where this Mao Manzi is located, is particularly good at witchcraft. The Qing Tartars before were victorious in every battle, but they just jumped behind. The method of the great god is invulnerable to swords and guns, could these iron chopsticks be a curse set by Mao Manzi to break our Xuzhou Fengshui?"

"Bird! I have been born and died for half my life, but I have never seen any spells! If you have the ability, let his surname Mao invite me to have a look at the heavenly soldiers and generals!"

Coincidentally, just as Liu Liangzuo picked up the flagon again in disdain, a shocking heavy vibration came from the north again, accompanied by roars.

"What the hell is this?"

Half drunk, Liu Liangzuo poked his head out of the city wall in astonishment. In the same morning mist, the same huge red eye popped out. Immediately afterwards, a heavy iron thing appeared in Liu Liangzuo's unbelievable eyes. Huang's bloodshot eyes.

"Woo~~~"

Chapter 613. Divine Weapon + Heavy Artillery

Even later generations rarely have such scenes of war, driving a train directly to your door to fuck you!

Although he had embezzled thousands of rails provided by Mao Jue, under the temptation of money, Liu Liangzuo's railway repairs were still standard. In his unbelievable eyes, the Dongjiang train drove to the city of Xuzhou right under his nose.

Liu Liangzuo is not bragging about having fought all his life. At Xuzhou Station next to the railway, he has set up a large camp with more than 3000 archers and infantry just to guard against Mao Jue. Unfortunately, when the war comes Only then did they know what is not a level.

Full of fear, the infantry with their spears was driven onto the railway formation, forming a standard horse repelling formation. The two or three meter long spears and spears moved forward tremblingly. On both wings, thousands of archers also had their hands He rounded the carved bow tremblingly, aiming tremblingly, and as the whistling siren got closer, everyone's legs were trembling together.

Finally, with a roar, the heavy big guy suddenly appeared in front of the eyes, and the rain of arrows on both sides flew out crackling, and the heavy arrows crackled on the black locomotive iron armor, and then fell down with crackling sparks. , in front of the front of the car, the Xuzhou officer shouted loudly and tried his best to hold steady! Resist the horse! The trembling spearhead is also moving forward eeriely, but what they are facing is the triangle that Mao Jue installed to adapt to the icy and snowy subway tracks in Liaodong. Train armor.

Boom~

As if playing bowling, with a bang, the thick team was hollowed out from the center, broken spears and human bodies flew out in mid-air, and then crushed under the wheels of the rolling train, like a roller of flesh and blood in hell , The scarlet color dragged hundreds of meters away, and Liu Jun's infantry completely collapsed. Thousands of people cried and threw away their weapons and fled to both sides.

Not only is the forward-looking front of the car outputting, but under the carriages with fine barbed wire installed at the back, the flintlock array that Liaozhen relies on to fight the world is also crackling, and Liu Jun, who is drawing a bow and shooting arrows, is caught off guard one by one. Falling off the roof of the station, following the infantry, the archers also collapsed.

The shocking force of this iron guy even frightened the gatekeepers on the other side of the river. The defeated soldiers outside the city gate and the people were terrified and wanted to rush into the gate. Stepping over the suspension bridge, the gate creaked and pushed up. The poor soldiers and civilians on the bridge fell into the moat like dumplings.

After rushing for more than 200 meters, the rampant train finally stopped with its siren on. In front of tens of thousands of defenders in Xuzhou, two hundred Liao soldiers in one carriage, and a mere 3000 soldiers jumped down from each carriage swaggeringly. Formed a formation outside Xuzhou City.

The best way at this time is to spend a lot of money, send troops to defeat them, and then simply dismantle the two iron chopsticks. Unfortunately, at this time, Liu Liangzuo was also frightened by this divine beast, and he was almost sober from the wine. Lying on the tall ancient city wall of Xuzhou City, he couldn't stop muttering to himself, shaking his head and sighing.

"Don't you say that the war will start in March? It's only mid-February, why doesn't the regent's words count?"

"Dong Weng, now is not the time to worry about this, the most important thing is to defend Xuzhou City!"

At this time, the master is actually more awake, when a group of generals clamoring to be fearless and fearless are in a mess, he hurriedly yelled with his fists in the back.

"Please Dongweng ask Yangzhou for help immediately!"

Only then did he regain his senses, and Liu Liangzuo finally showed some blood, looking back at the generals in a mess, he threw several cups over his head and face, and cursed loudly.

"I'm still a young lady, I'm beating the drums, I'm going to the city!"

The sound of drums like muffled thunder rumbled. After all, it was relying on the south of the Yangtze River, and the equipment was not lacking. Amidst the rattling sound of the iron leaf armor, densely packed armored soldiers appeared on the top of the city, and bird guns were vigilantly placed on the battlements. Looking outside, there were actually a few cannons in red clothes showing their faces. Liu Liangzuo was slightly relieved by these family backgrounds, and a dozen cavalrymen with red feathers hurriedly ran southward along the west city.

But at this time, the Liaozhen troops below are like a military factory. On this train, when the soldiers get off, a firework bomb is released in the air, and the train returns northward along the turn. On the other end, there is another one The train is coming.

Even if it is a steam train, the terrifying efficiency of this thing still crushes the traditional transportation. The 6 horse soldiers were transported from Jinan to the city of Xuzhou by Mao Jue. In one morning, the foot of Xushan was already The army formation is dense, the armor is soaring to the sky, and in the formation, the heavy Dongjiang red cannons crouch in front of the formation like ancient giant beasts. The number is more than ten times that of Xuzhou City. Ma Liuna's heart was pounding, and he kept yelling and cursing as he knocked on the bricks of the wall.

"Damn it, Kun is spitting people in his stomach, and Kun is still carrying a cannon on his back! This barbarian is tender and evil! How can we fight this battle?"

Listening to his coach's yelling and staring straight at the opponent's three-meter-long red-clothed cannon, a group of Xuzhou defenders also nodded their heads with sympathy.

Before the war, the army no longer has the will to win.

However, the Liaozhen soldiers did not attack immediately. Instead, they sent cavalry first and marched around Xuzhou City with white flags. There were many families living next to the city walls. All the city residents were driven back by the soldiers and gathered in the other section at the foot of Xushan Mountain. Liao Town even handed out canned food to one person, which was shocking.

Now there is a shortage of people in the whole of the north. Mining needs manpower, factories need manpower, shipbuilding needs manpower, and order is restored. Too much loss in vain.

It took an afternoon to evacuate the refugees from the battlefield. On this first day, Liao Township did not directly launch an attack. In the evening, Liu Liangzuo sent a messenger to Liaozhen Town, trying to use money to buy Liao Township to retreat. Unfortunately, this was just Liu Liangzuo's It's just a wild idea, not everyone is greedy for money like him, just like trying to destroy a country by false means, and lured wolves to their door for nothing.

No longer in the mood to drink, his heart was full of apprehension, Liu Liangzuo stayed on the city wall for a full night until three or four o'clock in the morning of the next day, and then he barely fell asleep in the city gate building, but he didn't sleep much. After a while, he was awakened by the nightmarish siren again.

Hurriedly running outside, Liu Liangzuo's eyes instantly widened like toads, widening in disbelief.

After catching the night train all night, a lot of Liaozhen soldiers gathered again, the total strength is estimated to have reached [-], and the foot of Xushan Mountain in the distance has been occupied by a stretch of military camps.

At this time, Mao Jue had already arrived at the front line.

The troops attacking Nanming this time were not as large as when they were fighting against Li Zicheng. After all, the three Jiangbei towns that Nanming relied on as the main defensive force had only 40 million people. Suppression, so Mao Jue only led twelve corps in Shenyang, Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Acheng, Hegang, etc., and pulled Hong Chengchou's newly established ten corps in the capital and ten new corps in Shandong to the battlefield, with a total force of about 13 .

With the railway transportation line, such a large corps was transported from Jinan to Xuzhou by him in just one day and one night, and the Dongjiang Fleet that set off at the same time was still floating on the sea!

And this time it's not just as simple as sending troops, Mao Jue also brought in a lot of new gadgets, which are now parked on the railroad tracks at Xuzhou Station.

Train Cannon!

It was even thicker than the head of state cannon on the train that frightened Wu Sangui in front of Ningyuan City. There were ten cannons in total, each with a barrel length of seven meters, which just occupied a section of the trailer compartment, and the bottom was also made of thick steel. The cannon mount was being deployed by the Dongjiang artillery at this time, and it was firmly grasped on the ground to prevent it from being overturned by the huge recoil.

To be honest, the strategic significance of this thing is not too great. After all, the ten-ton steel behemoth can only rely on rail trains to move forward. The railway that fooled Liu Liangzuo was laid to Xuzhou, and it cost a few 10 taels of silver. The first battle in Xuzhou came in handy, but Mao Jue was willing to make trouble. Who made him rich now?

The only shortcoming is that the research and development of Dongjiang yellow gunpowder is still in the experimental stage, and there is no way to make a new round of improvements to the propellant and shells. This majestic train gun is still a breech gun.

The gunpowder was poured in barrel by barrel, and then hammered inward by the artillery with a long mallet, and then the round conical shell with a diameter of more than half a meter was lifted by a small human-powered hoist. Rumbling into the carrot-shaped barrel, Mao Jue and Liu Liangzuo raised the binoculars together, but the moods of the two were completely different. Mao Jue was full of excitement, just like a child who got a novelty toy Amidst the excited orders, the artillerymen who had been tossing for more than half an hour suddenly stabbed the red-hot iron stick into the buttocks of the artillery.

It is said that the cannons sounded like thunder, but these ten cannons were probably able to suppress even the dull thunder. Even the Liao town soldiers who were close to each other stuffed their ears with cotton, and their ears were still buzzing after being shaken. I couldn't wake up for a long time. Even if the heavy train trailer firmly grasped the unfolded gun mount on the ground, it was still hummed by the recoil just like the engineering vehicles of later generations.

This is still the case for the side that fired the cannon, let alone the side that received the cannon. The entire city wall seemed to be shaken violently. Liu Jun, who was leaning on the crenel, even fell into the moat with a thump. Many people, Liu Liangzuo himself was also one of the shaken Staggering, he quickly put his head on his stomach and looked to the right.

Not far from the city gate, ten pointed shells pierced into the city wall to a depth of almost one meter. Several holes like honeycombs were frighteningly exposed, and the thick bricks outside had been smashed to pieces.

However, seeing this scene, Liu Liangzuo couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.