"Bolo, do you really think that this king is acting rashly to vent his personal anger?"

Bolo was silent and didn't answer, and said secretly in his heart, isn't it?

Duoduo sighed: "It's easy to occupy a city, but it's hard to win people's hearts. The Ming army won successive victories, and its morale was at its peak. This king knows that what you just said is right, but if you break through one or two city gates, will the Ming army still surrender after entering the city? ”

Bolo's heart was shocked.

Duoduo continued: "Compared with the Ming army, our army has the advantage of knowing better about field warfare, especially winning with cavalry, and this time this time the king's army has a group of Wuzhen Chaoha heavy army (artillery), and it is more secure to storm a city gate than to scatter the attack. But this is not the most important thing, the important thing is to crush the Southern Barbarian Army with absolute strength and completely crush the will of the Southern Barbarians to resist. In this way, our army can really occupy the city of Hangzhou and march into Shaoxing Mansion by taking advantage of the situation. ”

Bolo understood what Duoduo meant, and Duoduo wanted to finish the battle and defeat the Ming army in Hangzhou City, break the morale of the Ming army, and prepare for the attack on Shaoxing Mansion.

It has to be said that Bolo was indeed persuaded by Duoduo.

Duoduo was right, Wu Zheng's Lian Jie boosted the morale of the Ming army, even if the first or two city gates were broken, the Ming army could still fight with the Qing army in the streets, and the cover of the building greatly offset the gap in the combat skills of the individual soldiers of the two armies, and the resulting casualties were difficult to estimate.

If the morale of the Ming army is completely crushed in the battle of attacking and defending the city wall, then the Ming army will either surrender or flee, which will be a great blow to the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty across the river, and may be able to surrender without a fight.

But what really made Bolo no longer object was the Uzhen Chaoha Heavy Army (Artillery) mentioned by Dord.

Speaking of Tartar artillery, it has to start with the Battle of Ningyuan.

The first major defeat in the military career of the Qing Emperor Nurhachi was the Battle of Ningyuan (1626).

Yuan Chonghuan organized the army and the people to clear the wilderness, with the fortified city with cannons, with fire attack, the Eight Banners army suddenly covered the sky with flesh and blood, corpses everywhere, Houjin's siege action in the Ming army's fierce artillery attack, the success of the failure.

Of course, Mao Wenlong's sneak attack on the enemy's rear also contributed a lot.

After the battle killed and wounded, the Jin army suffered 17,000 men.

In the following year (1627), Huang Taiji besieged Jinzhou, an important town in western Liaoxi, but was also repelled by Ming artillery.

After learning from the pain, Jin began to use the brains of artillery.

The so-called opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared, and this is not true at all.

In 1631, Hou Jin used the captured craftsman Liu Han in Shenyang to successfully imitate the Western cannon, and named it the Great General of Tianyou.

It was also in this year that Kong Youde, a subordinate of Mao Wenlong of the Ming army, launched a rebellion due to the arrears of wages and the lack of food and straw in the imperial court, and occupied Dengzhou City by fraudulent surrender.

Dengzhou, which was the base for the Ming army to manufacture new artillery and train artillery, had nearly 100 Portuguese and other foreign gunners and craftsmen, as well as a large number of trained artillerymen.

In the end, when the imperial court sent a counterinsurgency army to kill them, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, together with thousands of war horses, more than 20 red-coated cannons, hundreds of Western cannons, and countless firearms, gold and silver, surrendered to the Manchus.

Huang Taiji was overjoyed and personally went out of the city gate for thirty miles to greet him, which can be described as extremely favorable.

It was precisely because of this that the balance of artillery power between the Ming and Qing dynasties began to tilt.

Importantly, in the following time, the Qing army invested huge manpower and material resources to cast new artillery, but the Ming Dynasty slowed down or even stopped the development of artillery due to financial difficulties and infighting.

Under the rise of one and the other, the strength of the two sides quickly reversed.

In 1639, the Qing army already had more than 60 red-coated cannons, and the number of Western cannons reached 1,000.

This was a nightmare for the Ming army outside the gates.

In an instant, the Ming army found that the artillery it relied on could no longer suppress the Qing army, but its head was covered by the Qing army's artillery fire.

In fact, at this time, the number of artillery of the Qing army was not higher than that of the Ming army.

However, the Ming army had too many pass defense areas, and the artillery was too scattered.

Coupled with the fact that a strategic defensive posture has always been adopted, the artillery is almost always fixed in the passes, unable to maneuver.

But the Qing army was different, they always took the offensive, and they could use the maximum number of artillery and concentrate it in one place.

This creates an overwhelming tactical advantage in the local area.

Can the Ming army be undefeated?

After entering the customs, the Ming Dynasty perished, and most of the Ming artillery fell into the hands of the Tartars.

This strengthened the strength of the Qing army, but the artillery in the hands of the Ming army became less and less, and with the defeat of battles and the fall again and again, the artillery in the hands of the Ming army began to disappear.

Therefore, when Bolo heard Duoduo mention artillery, he no longer dissuaded Duoduo, because he was almost certain that there was no artillery in Hangzhou, and perhaps there was gunpowder in the storehouse, but for long-range weapons, gunpowder was a pile of fireworks that could be set off.

Concentrating firepower to bombard one gate and then attacking it with superior forces is not wrong in terms of strategic intent and tactical arrangement.

So, the Qing army began to pull out the camp, the target, the city of Hangzhou.

……。

The war did not come suddenly, but in a hurry.

After camping near Hejiadai for a day, the Tartars suddenly approached the city of Hangzhou.

At this time, Li Ruhai, who was in charge of the heavy recruitment, had only just started a day.

Notices were posted all over the city, in the streets and alleys.

Wu Zheng paid a lot of money.

Fifty taels per person, twenty taels are paid in advance, and when the war is over, whether they are dead or alive, thirty taels will be sent to the family members designated by the deceased according to the address left in the registration.

That's a lot of money.

An ordinary house in Hangzhou City, the main house plus the east and west wings, this standard configuration, at this time is only about 30 taels.

In other words, if you join a death squad, you can buy a house with the money you get, and there is enough surplus for a family of three or four to live for two or three years.

The applicants were very enthusiastic, and the lives of people in troubled times were as cheap as dogs.

Especially after the city of Hangzhou has been occupied by the Qing army once, more than sixty percent of the ordinary people have been sacked once.

On the contrary, those who were wealthy in their families, and after the Qing army entered the city, they surrendered to the Qing army, and the losses were small or none, and they even took some light, and their social status was greatly improved.

It's like the flow of Mo obsession.

Of course, after Wu Zheng "blackmailed" the Mo family, this group of people in the city was also looted by Wu Zheng once, which was even more ruthless and thorough than the Qing army's ransacking of ordinary people.

But Wu Zheng also knows that this kind of thing can be one or two, and it can't be repeated.

If you do it once, it can also be said to be to eliminate adultery and punish you, and if you do too much, your reputation will stink.

Therefore, Wu Zheng declared extremely magnanimously that as long as these traitors pay enough fines, even if they are cleared of their crimes, they will not be held accountable in the past, and they will only look at their actions in the future.

The people of Hangzhou City call Wu Zheng's move called spending money to launder it, and the evaluation of Wu Zheng in the market is quite complicated, and it is called a wonderful one when they are put together.