Lu Ming

Soon, Azig's own decree and Huang Taiji's imperial decree were sent to Yangguli's military tent on the eastern front: Spring Thunder Fort cannot be won in a short time, so I will meet you first.

It is different from generals like Yanguli who do not need to be responsible for the overall strategy.Huang Taiji and Azig, who had a strategic vision, immediately realized the danger of Chunlei Fort: this pass is located between the entrances of Tangshan and Yanshan corridors, and it is firmly stuck in the throat of the Qing army going south on the eastern front.

As the only pass that can play a blocking role, if the Qing army can't take it, then once a large army rushes from the direction of Tianjin in the south, the bare North China Plain will have no danger to defend, and the Qing army on the east side of the corridor will be driven back to the third place. Tun camp.

What is even more frightening is that by then, the main force of the Qing army on the western front will not be able to retreat in time, and will be completely blocked in the Yanshan Corridor.

Yang Guli can bet that the main force of the Cao family is still in Alaska, and that they will not be able to return to Daming even in winter.But Huang Taiji and Azig couldn't bet like this.They carry the fate of the country on their shoulders and cannot afford to gamble.

Those who came with Azig's order were the people of the Ming Dynasty looted from the western front.

Accompanied by the imperial decree of Emperor Chongde, Huang Taiji, the emperor, his mother and younger brother, Prince Yu Duoduo, and the last two thousand cavalry from Shengjing... The imperial decree is clearly written: If Yang Guli is not good in battle, Duoduo can be defeated. Behead his head at any time and take over the Eastern Front soldiers and horses.

The intentions of the two strategic leaders are extremely unified: Even if Chunleibao is super weak, even if there is no Ming person on the East China Plain, even if countless bannermen are to be killed, Yang Guli must win Chunleibao as soon as possible.

From this day on, Yang Guli, who had no way out, and his eyes were bloodshot, no longer cared about any casualties, nor the life of Banner Ding, and started the day and night storm tactics.

The Chunlei camp is ready.

Armed with the military ideology of the era of hot weapons, the well-equipped soldiers of the Chunlei Camp faced the barbarians howling under the city wall with high fighting spirit and full of fighting spirit.

The offensive and defensive battle has entered a climax from the very beginning.A large number of Ming cannon fodder were first driven to fill the trench.Along the way, the cannon fodder first encountered anti-personnel mines, and then artillery shells and rifle bullets.

An offensive and defensive battle of this scale cannot be tolerated.No matter who came to attack the city, whether it was the enemy carrying earth bags or pushing a small cart, the artillery fire at the top of the city was non-stop.

Facts have proved that the strategy of strengthening the wall and clearing the wilderness in the North China Plain is quite effective.Unable to get replenishment locally, Yanguli exhausted the cannon fodder of the Ming Dynasty brought from the direction of the capital in only two days.

Next, it was Qi Ding's own flesh and blood to fill the millstone.

Hundreds, 500, 2000, [-]... trench-filling tactics of various sizes were used by Yangool in turn.

However, those two peach-leaf-like protrusions and the array of turrets on them, with an incredible rate of fire, seemed to never have to cool down the barrels, every time Qi Ding paid a price of tons of flesh and blood.

Coupled with the bullets fired from the side and rear walls, the morale of the siege party collapsed instantly every time... Every time the dense siege formation was shot through by shells, one shot was a bloody alley.

Later, Qi Ding finally summed up the most effective way to fill the trench: the first few charges every day, people and earth bags together.In the last few times, just charge empty-handed, and then carry the corpse or earth bag halfway, grab all the solids that can fill the trench, and charge forward until you fall down.

Ten days later, faced with the monstrous evil castle, the perverted ratio of casualties, and the newly filled trench, Yang Guli almost went crazy.

He tries to attack multiple points.However, the defenders still deployed sufficient artillery on the other two protrusions.After a simple experiment for a day, Yang Guli was horrified when he calculated the casualty ratio in the evening: with the strength of his troops, if he continued to attack with more points for another ten days, he could return home alone.

Yanguly also attempted a night attack.

Then, the men and horses operating at night were hit with precision in the first place.The defenders on the top of the city seemed to be guided by gods and Buddhas, and it was very easy to gather a group of elites for night operations under the city. The artillery fire here passed through the night sky and hit the assembly point.

Yang Guli was heartbroken.

However, life is like killing a pig, you get used to it when you die.

Half a month later, facing the city wall that was only half filled, and facing the horrific number of casualties far exceeding ten thousand, he finally lay flat.

The generals of the seventeenth century, whose genes were forced to mutate, finally had a Verdun-style awareness: limit the attack to eight rounds per day, and don't report casualties to Lao Tzu.He didn't care about the rest of the things, he would do whatever he wanted, even if he cut off Lao Tzu's head.

It's a pity that from the beginning to the end, the head of the forehead was firmly on the neck... Doduo, who was still eager to try and prepare to seize the power, had already been scared by the fantastic exchange of casualties... He could not have done better by himself.

Now there is only one obsession left for Prince Yang: he just wants to climb to the top of that high fort, take a look around, take a look at the scenery, and then have a conversation with that general Li Cuo that he has never heard of before. , and then cut this person into pieces, and then boiled this person's heart and liver to drink.

Finally, a month later, the forehead's dream was in sight: the corpses of more than 2 people, carts, planks, and overlaid soil finally filled the bottom city wall into a large gentle slope.

With this gentle slope, the fort positions on the protrusions on both sides are not safe.As a result, the artillery in the salient evacuated in time according to the plan, and easily blew up the city wall connecting the salient with the rest of the area.

In this way, under the threat of artillery fire on the second floor, the salient abandoned by the defenders has no effect on the Qing soldiers.But this situation is already a huge victory for the attacking side. Now unless they attack below the second-story city wall, the attacking side will not be bombarded from the side and rear.

As for the protruding part of the second-story city wall, due to insufficient internal space, the artillery positions that can be placed are limited.Facilities including trenches are also shrunk, so from now on, the siege party finally sees the light.

This day is September 23rd.

The next day, in the early morning of the 24th, the brave bannermen rushed up the gentle slope according to the plan, crossed the first-level city defenses, and launched a wave-like attack on the second-level trenches and city wall fortifications.

As of ten o'clock in the morning, Banner Ding launched two rounds of attacks, with remarkable results, and the trench in front of the second-story city wall has been filled.

At this moment, General Li, who climbed to the top of the general building, saw the shock waves gathering outside the city with his binoculars.Raising the camera slightly, Li Jichun saw a figure wearing a full set of armor under the banner of the Zhenghuang Banner... Forehead, we meet.

Seeing this, Li Jichun put down the binoculars and stretched out his arms.On the side, his own nephew, Jin Sheng, hastily handed the silver gun used by the general, "Give me the armor."

After a while, General Li, who had finished his preparations, came to the gate on the second floor from the general building, and joined his heavy armored infantry battalion.The young men in stamped armor were sitting at the base of the wall to rest, when they saw the general coming, they all lined up to salute: "My lord!"

"Okay, okay, look healthy! Good!"

Li Canjun knocked on the breastplates of the young men one by one, but didn't say anything bold.Years of scientific training, sufficient supplies, and an advanced staff system have integrated him and his troops into one.

Now, he himself is standing here, without saying a word, he is the strongest mobilization model.

After inspecting the heavy infantry battalion with a total of 500 people, Li Jichun came to the special forces at the end of the team.This force is small in number, only 50 in total.Their equipment is also very simple. Apart from leather armor and short knives, the most important thing is the canvas bags on the front and back.

This is an experimental unit, the designation is the third grenadier company directly under the general staff.

The Yongping Li Jichun Department is the first army on this plane to use grenades in actual combat on a large scale.

Just as Li Jichun was reviewing the troops, the sound of guns and guns rang out one after another from above his head and on the walls on both sides.Not long after, the shocking shouts of killing had already spread beyond the wall.

Without a sound, the leader of the Chunlei Battalion, Li Jichun, pulled off the visor on his helmet, and was the first to stand on the center line behind the city gate.

The remaining [-] soldiers lined up one by one, forming a five-man wide and ten-row heavy infantry phalanx.

Amidst the sound of armor scraping, Li Shen raised his silver spear and drew three circles.Immediately, a desolate bugle sounded from the top of the building.

Immediately afterwards, the wire pulley above the city wall rolled rapidly, and the suspension bridge on the second city wall fell down with a bang.

The next moment, the city gate opened.

The bannerman who would cross the ditch and rushed to the door was stabbed with a spear instantly, and his heart was chilled.

The response of the Qing army was not unpleasant.

The first time he heard the horn, Yang Guli, who was lazily riding on the horse watching the battle, suddenly became excited, stood upright on the horseback instantly, looked across the slope, and carefully watched the front.

This was the first time Yanguli had heard the defender's special bugle in a month.

Sure enough, the next moment, he saw the smashed suspension bridge and bright silver soldiers pouring out of the city gate.

"Show your teeth, no matter white or red, step forward!"

In the era of Huang Taiji, the Manchus drew one hundred armors per ox, ten of them were Baibaya soldiers, that is, white armor soldiers, and four of them were Hongbaiya soldiers.

The number of elite heavy armored warriors is extremely rare, there are only more than [-] white armored soldiers in the Zhenghuang and Xianghuang banners.

This time, Yang Guli's subordinates gathered all the 100 white armors of the Zhenghuang Banner left by Azig, and more than 400 red armors of various banners that were mobilized successively afterwards.These [-] people are the core strike force present.

Now, seeing the enemy come out of the hole, Yang Guli bet all his capital immediately.

Somewhere, he had a premonition: Today is the day to decide the outcome.If life and death are not decided, these white armors will be useless.

Yang Guli dispatched troops to take the lead, and the bannermen who rushed into the fort were being massacred by guns.Due to the inertia of the past few days, these bannermen who were used as cannon fodder did not even have a weapon on them.When encountering a hedgehog-like gun formation, those who ran slower were all stabbed into skewers.

At this time, due to fear of accidental injury, the sound of guns above the city also stopped.The distance between the inner fort was only a few tens of meters, and the only sound left was the puffing sound of gun blades piercing the flesh, and Qi Ding's screams before he died.

Heavy infantry is extremely slow.Just when the gun formation reached the middle of the two city walls, there was no one in front of them.Looking up, the back of the last bannerman just disappeared behind the slope.

He raised his silver gun and paused three times vertically.Following Li Jichun's order, the gun battle came to an abrupt end.All the soldiers formed a team immediately, and after adjusting their formation, they began to move to the top of the slope again.

Li Jichun was not kept waiting.The moment he set foot on the top of the slope, the sound of bugles representing extreme danger came from the commanding heights.And when the gun formation will step up to the top of the slope, tens of meters away, the white armor formation with various cold weapons also rushed over.

Hundreds of the most elite Manchu warriors, all in armor, rushed towards the top of the slope roaring.Although this round of white armor soldiers gave up their geographical advantages, they also successfully used the gun array to separate the shells from the commanding heights.

Unexpectedly, after a sharp whistle sounded, a black... stone appeared above the heads of the white-armored soldiers?

After a while, rumbling explosions sounded in the formation.Shrapnel from the wooden-handled grenade flew horizontally, and many white armors were killed on the spot.

After the first round of bombing, the white armored soldiers were still 30 meters away from the gun array.At this distance, even a bitch can throw a grenade at their heads.As a result, with a short charge distance of 30 meters, the white armored soldiers were baptized by two rounds of grenade rain, and the number of people suddenly dropped by more than half.

The next moment, there was a bang, and the scattered white-armored elite collided with the hedgehog-like spear array.

The first Bai Jia to charge into the battle is the famous warrior Yintu in the Zhenghuang Banner.It's a pity that when he was approaching the front of the spear formation, his internal organs, which had just been injured by the blast of the grenade, suddenly twitched, causing his movements to freeze a little.

At that very moment, a silver spear tip pierced into the armor collar between his throat like a poisonous snake, avoiding the real thing and then using the gun to the throat, killing Yintu.

The rest of the fighters didn't have as good spear skills as General Li, so they put a lot of white armor in.Those who can become white armor soldiers in the cruel living environment are all warriors with honed skills.

These white armors who rushed to the front of the formation were not afraid of the dense spear points at all, showing their flexible skills and trying their best to rush into the formation.

In terms of breaking the formation, the white armor soldiers have a psychological advantage.Back then, Da Ming had set up a spear formation many times stronger than the warriors, but the warriors rushed into the formation, slashed and killed them wantonly, and without exception, the formation collapsed.

Today, even if they encountered the unheard-of "thunder in the palm", the white armor soldiers suffered heavy losses and everyone was injured.But the rest of the warriors believed that the 100 or so people at the moment could completely kill the mere 500 Ming army.

In an instant, the white-armored soldiers who broke into the formation began to slash and kill the spearmen and armored soldiers in front of them.However, the spearmen who were approached by them not only did not scatter in fear to disturb their own formation, but instead looked forward, as if the white armor beside them did not exist.The tight formation of the gun formation was maintained at all times.

As for the cut sword... no matter where it landed on the opponent's body, it would end up either being bounced off or sliding away.

The next moment, the white-armored soldier who had only had a chance was used up, and was pierced into a hedgehog by the spear points stabbed from all directions.

After being pierced through the chest, Bai Jia was picked up in the air, and when he vomited blood, he finally realized a truth: "This... this group of people is not the Ming army!"

What a painful realization.

The most intense confrontation lasted only a few minutes, and the invulnerable heavy infantry's gun formation pierced the remaining white armor with heavy casualties, and they couldn't help retreating.

"Hey...hey! One, two, one, two!"

The excited young man unconsciously yelled the usual training chant.At this moment, the adrenaline-fuelled young soldier didn't feel tired at all, and just kept stabbing the spear blade in his hand at the terrified Tartars on the opposite side.

Lost, lost.

After half a stick of incense, except for more than [-] white armors who had heard Mingjin escaped with their lives, the rest of the core forces of the Houjin East Front, which totaled [-], were all wiped out under Chunlei Fort.

At this moment, General Li, who was in blood-stained armor, and the young people around him excitedly knocked on the barrel of their guns, and roared triumphantly at the enemy facing him.At the same time, the entire Chunlei Fort was filled with the sounds of knocking on lunch boxes, whistles and shouts.

The provocative drumming noise of thousands of defenders made Fuer Yangguli lose his mind, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops.

At the same moment, Li Jichun, who was still panting heavily, immediately ordered: "Quick, God,...Tianjin sends a report...the enemy, the enemy's power has fallen!"

……

Ten minutes later, the secret message of the chief military officer of the Chunlei Camp was placed on the desktop of the office of the battalion officer of the Tianjin Feihu Camp.

However, the person sitting behind the table was not Zhang Zhongqi, the battalion officer, but Han Xiaobo, the northern governor with a higher rank: "Look, look, what's this called? It's called a tacit understanding!"

Cheerful Han Xiaobo, what was placed in front of him at the moment was not only Li Jichun's telegram, but also another secret telegram from Chang'an: This morning, Li Zicheng's troops besieged Chang'an from all directions.At around [-] o'clock, three gates of Changle, Yongning, and Anding were blasted with explosives.In addition, the Wenchang Gate was opened by the defeated frontier army, and Li Zicheng's troops were able to enter the city from four directions. Governor Sun Chuanting and Shaanxi General Soldier He Renlong were all captured.

"How about it, Lao Li is in place in the west, and it seems that Yang's son-in-law in the north can't do it anymore, can we move?"

"I said earlier, don't earn the last copper coin, it's easy to crash." Hearing Han Xiaobo's inquiry, Wang Xiaohui, the deputy chief of staff of the expeditionary force who was playing Plants vs. Zombies on his mobile phone, finally raised his head: "You Now that the strings are so tight, if the main force doesn't move, what's the point of nesting?"

"Um……"

After listening to Wang Xiaohui's opinion, Han Xiaobo nodded, then turned his head away: "What does Lao Zhang mean?"

The original owner of the office, the battalion officer of Feihu Battalion and the deputy commander of the Northern Expedition, Comrade Zhang Zhongqi, is lying on the sofa and dozing off.Hearing this, he just waved his hands and chrysalised on the sofa: "I have no objection. Just don't let the tartar escape."

He has no opinion on his lips, but he has actually hinted at his own opinion.

After listening to these two, Han Xiaobo thought for a while, then rang the bell, called the communications staff, and ordered him to send a telegram to Dengzhou.

After exchanging telegrams and agreeing with Wei Yuan, the chief of staff over there, Han Xiaobo stood up, facing the large-scale national map on the wall, and made a final deduction.

After a long time, Han Xiaobo turned around and gave an order to the communication staff: "Send a report to the line, the cabinet, the headquarters of all services and arms, as well as Dengzhou, and the General Intelligence Bureau: I have decided to send the main force northward and act immediately."

Following Han Xiaobo's voice, 10 minutes later, Dengzhou Prefecture, located on the other side of the Bohai Bay, boiled like a pot.All over the military camps inside and outside the prefecture city, the sound of assembly horns sounded one after another.

All kinds of ships that have already docked at the dock have also started to start the boilers and pressurize the water according to the plan.

The most powerful army of this era is finally about to embark on the battlefield of the Northern Expedition.

Chapter 725 Relay

The yellow sun falls into the sea, and the waves and tides are born.Bohai Bay at dusk, in a lazy atmosphere, is about to fall into a deep sleep.

Leaning on a broken porch pillar, Jiang Hu, with an unshaven beard and a bunt, was also lying lazily, with a straw in his mouth.

Jiang Hu is a native of Tianjin. He was a ranger in his early years, and he also joined the caravan.After Lord Chongzhen came to power, things got worse and worse, and Jiang Hu did not stop doing business that violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Then, suddenly one day, the fleet from the south filled the port, and the novelty goods from the south filled the warehouse.

Today, Tianjin Wei has already become the largest freight distribution center in North China.All the people in Hecheng, young and old, have become Cao Dashuai's employees either actively or passively.

This city was named Cao a few years ago.

Jiang Hu did not escape this rule either.Since it is easy to find work in the city, there is no need for him to go outside to live a hard life.After coming and going, relying on the advantages of the old local household, Jiang Hu hired security guards at Master Mei's Jinlilai Firm.In the past few years, the middle-aged Jiang Hu in the human world has lived a stable life.

Today he was sent out as a "lookout".

In other words, since the Tartars entered the customs again, Tianjin has been shocked three times a day.Today, all trade routes leading to the west and north have been stopped.

As time went on, the atmosphere became more and more tense.Every day, the latest battle report was uploaded from the official bulletin of the Port Authority: more than ten days after entering the customs, the Tartars had captured more than ten cities around the capital, captured more than [-] people, and countless goods.

Wearing shoes is the worst kind of trouble with bare feet.Nowadays, the number of the rich and the middle class in Tianjin is increasing exponentially. There are many goods and goods everywhere, and the wealth can rival the country. Isn’t it the city of fat sheep that the Tartars like to grab?