Almost every day, the artillery of the Ming army and the thieves seemed to gather together for a meeting, and the two sides took turns to speak.

The sunset fields were littered with bombed dirt and craters, and the sunset stained the sky red, even the woods. Only a few clouds floated in the western sky, obscuring part of the red sunset.

When Zhang Xiaoding, who was in the trenches, looked at the scenery of the setting sun, the guns suddenly roared angrily, and even in the trenches, he could imagine them shaking on the ground. The cannons spewed flames and let out a deafening howl, and when the shells fell, they spewed billowing smoke and dust like ghosts rushed from the ground to the ground, and then swallowed up all the creatures nearby.

The air was filled with the sound of violent explosions, accompanied by the whistling sound that swept overhead. Zhang Xiaoding looked up at the air, only to see that there seemed to be some black spots in the air, and those shells were whistling towards the thieves' trenches.

In the midst of the bombardment, twilight slowly fell, and the sky grew darker and darker, and at last the earth was completely covered in darkness, but even so, the trenches were still very lively, and in the shadows there were reprimands and chattering words of the officials.

It was at this time that the baggage soldiers sent a large amount of supplies, of course, there were batches of new recruits to replenish the various units, in the past ten days, although the offensive of the troops has made some progress, but also paid a relatively heavy casualties, the previously muddy ditch, filled with all kinds of corpses and broken limbs, they rotted in the sun, and then emitted a pungent stench, even if the nostrils were plugged with cotton, the stench could still be smelled.

Although the air was filled with this foul smell, Zhang Xiaoding, like everyone else, used a knife to open the iron sheet of the canned meat, and then ate the canned whale meat in a big gulp. Thanks to the application of the iron plate rolling mill, Dalian Iron Works not only mass-produced steel plates for the manufacture of cuirasses, but also mass-produced hot-dip galvanized tinplate, which made it possible to produce canned food, and the raw material for the production of canned food came from whales at sea, and a huge whale provided meat equal to dozens of cattle, and most importantly, it did not need to be farmed.

Because of this, cheap whale meat has become an important raw material for the production of canned meat, these canned meat from Dalian, for Zhang Xiaoding, is undoubtedly the best food they have eaten in their lives, and even until now, he remembers the appearance of the first time he ate canned meat in Wuchang.

The meat is fragrant.

One can per person, more than half a catty, there are large pieces of fatty meat, there are also large pieces of lean meat, it is a fragrance in the mouth, for the soldiers on the front line, perhaps, this is the moment they enjoy the most. They would heat the cans with a small fire from a twig, eat the soup with the meat while it was hot, and finally scrape the remaining soup from the cans with steamed buns.

Of course, if there is no stench in the air and no threat of death, Zhang Xiaoding would even prefer to live in the trenches like this for the rest of his life, as long as he can eat white flour steamed buns and canned meat every day.

……

For the average warrior, a delicious meat, white flour steamed bun or white rice is enough to keep them entertained all night, but for the higher-ups, they seek more. The progress of the war will be sent to Zhu Guoqiang as soon as possible every day, as the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, the actual prince, or the emperor, who directly commands the battle, every time he is free, he will stand in front of the sand table and think.

This will be the last battle of the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the Liukou!

As long as Li Zicheng's army is completely annihilated, whether it is Li Guo, Liu Fangliang, or those so-called generals and uncles in Henan and Shaanxi, they are just ringworm scabies that is not worth mentioning, and even in his opinion, except for Li Zicheng, everyone including Li Guo can be recruited, after all, in another time and space, they may have been thieves, but they have never lost in the face of national righteousness, and based on this alone, Zhu Guoqiang feels that they can recruit An.

In the future, they will be placed in Nanyang, and they will take root and settle in Nanyang. Of course, this is just for some people.

However, everything must be premised on one thing - Li Zicheng must die! As the successor of the Ming Dynasty, no matter what, someone must be responsible for Chongzhen's death, which is related to the legitimacy of Zhu Guoqiang's rule!

This is also the reason why Zhu Guoqiang fought this battle, the reason why Li Zicheng was surrounded in Baoding was to solve it here, although Li Zicheng gave up the thief who was the best at mobile warfare and chose positional warfare, while Zhu Guoqiang chose to encircle the iron bucket.

But the current stalemate was beyond his expectations.

It's not easy to do!

Staring at the defense line of the Shun army on the sand table, Zhu Guoqiang's brows furrowed. War is a classroom, both the enemy and the enemy are learning in the war and making progress in the war, but in any case, he did not expect that Li Zicheng, or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, would make such rapid progress.

"This is trench warfare!"

While talking to himself, Zhu Guoqiang's eyebrows became a little cold.

"It's all the fault of the East Captives!"

Confluence!

When he got this information from there, Zhu Guoqiang even suspected it for a while, but this is an ironclad fact, and even now, there are hundreds of Jiannu in Baoding City to help Li Zicheng, Jiannu not only sold artillery and muskets to Li Zicheng, but even taught him how to resist artillery and resist the attack of the Ming army, which is also the reason why the war is in a stalemate.

"This is the ironclad evidence of the crime, and the reason why it can be written about in the history books in the future is ......"

Isn't that the reason for writing those rogues in the history books? With this reason, we can at least prove to future generations how correct the decision to exterminate the rogues was, and that the rogues were not forced to make a living before they became gangsters. They are simply a gang of bandits, they coerce the people to loot their property, they do all kinds of evil. Therefore, it is natural for the official uniform to exterminate them.

As for the so-called way for heaven, it is just a slogan they use to bewitch the ignorant people, and there are no ordinary people in their eyes, otherwise how could they collude with the Tartars? With this reason, why deliberately scandalize them in the history books.

But the most important thing for now is to completely exterminate them. Only in this way can we compile the history books of the Ming Dynasty!

Staring at those trenches, and then thinking for a while, Zhu Guoqiang suddenly said to himself.

"I think it can be ...... like this"