Chapter 682: Capture Jiangnan (2)

In the face of the Han army's combination of muskets and grenades, the 50,000 Qing troops in Raozhou even splashed out and were directly annihilated in the sea of people.

Tens of thousands of Han troops rushed into the city, and each tun was able to form a small combat team and sweep it street by street.

The Qing soldiers in Raozhou only heard the sound of guns and cannons all over the city, and in less than half an hour, the entire Qing soldiers lost most of their efforts.

Aksu, the adjutant general of the Qing army, was originally sitting on the southern city wall, but when he saw this situation in the city, he wanted to escape from the east with his 2,000 soldiers and horses.

However, not far from the eastern gate, a roar of cavalry roared.

"Kill the thief!"

The 2,000 Han cavalry, which had already been ambushed in the east, roared wildly and rode up.

Just 100 paces away from the Qing army, these Han soldiers took out their new-style cavalry guns and fired a few loud shots with "bang" and "bang", directly stunned the entire Qing army.

Before the Qing army could react, the Han cavalry directly crossed an arc and began to move around the Qing soldiers and shoot.

"We surrender!"

Aksu shouted loudly with trembling hands.

"Bang"

A bullet came straight into his mouth as if no one was around, knocking him in the head on the spot.

The cavalry general of the Han army looked contemptuous, "The king of Han has an order that no one will be left behind who enters my Huaxia." ”

"None of them will be left!"

The cavalry officers and men of the Han army cheered.

The battle of Raozhou City was simply an appetizer for the Han army.

It took only one day for the army led by Zheng Jingcai to defeat Raozhou City, and all the five thousand True Tartars in the city were executed without exception.

Only more than 20,000 surrendered Green Battalion soldiers remained, trembling.

Zheng Jingcai strode into the prisoner camp, looking at these traitor lackeys in front of him and gritting his teeth.

"A bunch of dog thieves, your fate is good, fortunately, my Han Xinli, allowed the traitors who surrendered to Jianyu to reform their ways, come to someone, engrave words on their faces, and turn around and send all of them to labor reform, and the Venerable Master who is still used in the Tianjing City."

"Whoa!"

The attitude of the Han people towards traitors is very clear, although because the number of people is too large, they can't kill all of them.

But Liu Ximing still decided that he must not let these traitors curry favor.

From history, it can be known that the reason why the Qing army was able to conquer the world so easily had a lot to do with these traitors.

Except for the time of entering the customs, in other battles, the Qing army really played a role in the Han Army's Eight Banners.

When the army set out on the expedition, Liu Ximing specially said: "Anyone who surrenders and becomes a traitor can be exempted from the death penalty, and the living crime cannot be escaped, and the whole nation must be kept in mind this lesson, so that the people of the world will not dare to be traitors." ”

Liu Ximing's words were so decided that the fate of nearly a million traitors was decided.

For decades to come, these traitors will pay the price for their actions.

Nearly one million traitors were forced to participate in the national labor reform work, and in the process of building the Han regime, the bones of the traitors were buried in many places.

What's even worse is that after the death of these traitors, the Han army also built a memorial hall on their cemetery to indicate the specific identity of these traitors and serve as a base for patriotic education in later generations.

The army led by Liu Ximing marched east by land and water, but Zheng Jingcai's movements were faster.

As the governor of the Eastern Route Army, he commanded tens of thousands of troops to recover the entire territory of Jiangxi directly before Liu Xi's arrival.

It was not until July 29 that Liu Ximing's army arrived in Jiujiang Prefecture.

Before this, Duoduo from Jiangnan had already led a large army to the Chizhou Mansion east of the Jiujiang River.

The Qing army, which had suffered a heavy loss of the Han army's artillery, camped far away from the Han army, and directly built a very strong camp with a lot of building materials.

The armies of both sides were deployed along the river, stretching for dozens of miles.

The Han-Qing War was on the verge of breaking out.

In order to prevent the Han army from shelling his own positions, Duoduo had already released tens of thousands of cavalry under his command to target the Han artillery positions.

On the 30th of July, before they had woken up from the fatigue of rushing to the road, the Han army began to call for battle directly to the Qing army led by Duoduo.

Outside Jiande County, Chizhou Prefecture, a group of strange things ushered in outside the camp of more than 300,000 Qing troops.

Zou Yiyong, the commander of the 115th Division of the Han Army, excitedly walked out of his camp tent and went to assemble his troops outside the camp.

In a short time, in front of him, a small team of 8 people had been assembled.

And just behind Zou Yiyong and the others, there was a behemoth made of steel.

Tracks, steel armor, long barrels and a protruding cockpit, and a large chimney on its ass.

This thing turned out to be the most primitive steam-powered tank.

After so many years of technical breakthroughs in the Ministry of Industry of Luzon, it has not been in vain.

Under Liu Ximing's guidance, the Ministry of Industry directly skipped the invention of the original steam engine and began to develop a steam engine that could be used in the mining and transportation industries.

Finally, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ministry of Industry of Luzon developed the first small steam engine that could be used for separate equipment.

The Arsenal Department of the Governor's Office of the Luzon Armed Forces immediately took over the project from the Ministry of Industry and began to develop weapons that could be used on the battlefield.

After two years of research and development, I finally researched the violent beauty in front of me.

Liu Ximing personally named it a tank, codenamed Heavenly Punishment Yishi.

The Damnation carries a four-inch gun with four shooting holes.

At present, the machine gun has not yet been developed, and the artillery metal shell is still in the process of development, and the combat effectiveness of the entire tank depends more on unparalleled impact power and grenades and other means.

Looking at Zou Yiyong's team, each of the remaining seven people is at least a sergeant major.

According to the latest military rank system established by the Great Han Kingdom, the commander corresponds to the regiment commander, the military marquis corresponds to the commander of Qu, and the sergeant major corresponds to the tun commander.

In other words, the lowest rank in this squad is equivalent to a commander, which is amazing.

At the same time as Zou Yiyong and others were forming a team, Liu Ximing excitedly took Shao Derong and other military generals to inspect his treasure team.

In the camp of the Han army, nearly 50 Tianyi tanks were parked at this time.

Looking at the rows of steel giants in front of him, Liu Ximing's eyes were full of stars.

"This is the cavalry on the battlefield in the next stage, the tank unit will be the vanguard of the entire army, playing the role of overcoming the enemy position and breaking through the defensive line, and every general must learn and understand the use of tanks."

Shao Derong followed Liu Ximing all the way, looking at the steel bumps in front of him, and the light of distrust appeared in his eyes.

Can these things be used as cavalry?

But the data given to it by the Ministry of Arsenal is that these tanks are only marching at a speed of 3 miles per hour, and they can't fucking be infantrymen.

And it is said that the failure rate is surprisingly high.

However, looking at Liu Ximing's excited expression, Shao Derong wisely swallowed these words into his stomach.

He immediately snapped and saluted:

"Don't worry, the king, I will organize the whole army to study the spirit of the king's speech when we wait later, and we must let everyone thoroughly implement it in thought and action."

Liu Ximing nodded with satisfaction.

It's bureaucratic, but it's quite comfortable.

Seeing that the generals led by King Han were about to walk to the front of his queue, Zou Yiyong immediately yelled excitedly.

"Comrades, this is the first appearance of our tank troops, remember the king's entrustment to us, the slogan of the tank troops is ......"

"Forward, forward, Ula!"

This shout immediately attracted Liu Ximing's attention, and when he walked in front of Zou Yiyong, he also reached out and shook hands with Zou Yiyong.

"What is your name, little comrade?"

Zou Yiyong snapped a military salute, his face full of excitement that could not be concealed.

"Zou Yiyong, the commander of the 115th Division, see the King of Han."

Liu Ximing nodded with a reluctant smile on his face, and reached out to pat him on the shoulder.

"Do a good job and strive to be the first hero to break the formation."

"Whoa!"

After inspecting the entire tank unit, Liu Ximing led a group of generals to the front of the tank unit and gave a military salute to the tank units.

"The widow's order, Operation Damnation, begins now."

As soon as Liu Ximing's voice fell, Zou Yiyong put the round leather hat in his hand on his head, and led his team to rush towards the tank.

The whole tank unit roared into action.

Then, there was the long wait.

Wait for the steam engine in the tank to boil the water.

Shao Derong and the others stood in place with embarrassed expressions, and they lost their affection for this Rausch thing even more in their hearts.

Dare you say that you will replace the cavalry in the future?

"Knock Knock"

After waiting for nearly twenty minutes, the sound of the engines of fifty damnation tanks rang out.