Many of the generals and officers of the Green Banner are no strangers to the Shanghai Business Zone, and are even familiar with it. Most of these people came from Jianghuai and even the Ming army in Jiangnan, and since the opening of the Shanghai Business Zone, they have envied the prosperity here, singing and dancing, and coveting the vigorous business opportunities here. Brothers walked around together and turned all kinds of goods into hard silver dollars, or silver into more valuable jewels, and into more popular refined salt, muslin, grain, gunpowder, and so on. When I really didn't have any money at hand, it was a big deal to let my brothers break down a few villages at random under the banner of suppressing bandits, saying that these peasants who were digging in the soil were bandits, and their wives and children were bandits.

Anyway, these people are suffering and suffering from life, so let's sell them here with kindness, so that they can find a place to eat, and we can also fill our pockets. This kind of accumulation of virtue and good deeds, the Ming army has done a lot. (A certain armed force, which has inherited the essence of traditional Chinese culture, has done more.) ）

In their impression, the prosperity and cleanliness of the business district are something they have never seen before. There is almost no garbage in the wide streets, and the usual scenes of sewage flowing sideways and urine everywhere are extinct here. In stark contrast to the prosperity of the area, the defenses here are so rudimentary.

In addition to a wall separating the business area, here can not see the battlements of the cities in the Ming Dynasty, arrow towers, urn cities, horse noodles, once more than one person in the business area when touring the streets, looking at the prosperous scene of gold and silver everywhere, such a thought came to mind: "Such a prosperous and rich place, if you bring children to grab a handful, wouldn't it be a few lifetimes of wealth and wealth?" There's only one wall here! ”

Therefore, when Luck Dehun convened the generals before the battle and asked who was willing to head the enemy, almost all the Green Banner generals rushed to stand up and ask for battle, willing to level this trade area for the general, the regent for the Qing Dynasty, and drive the southern barbarians down the surging East China Sea.

In fact, everyone knows that this business district is like a child walking in the market with gold in hand, and whoever makes the first move will grab the gold. Even if the gold has to be handed in, it is very easy for which of our battalions to rush in first, and get some jade silk for their children casually!

Who can stand in the way of that wall?

So, today, Luck Dehun was very generous and put out fifty or sixty thousand people at one time, and handed them over to the commander of Bei Zigong Adai, and he must fight to conquer the trade area. Yue Le, on the other hand, was still very aggrieved to hold down his position in the rear team, acting as the task of the general reserve and the peripheral battlefield vigilance.

With a strong army and almost no decent defense facilities on the opposite side, Gong Adai put 40,000 horses into the battlefield at one time. On the banks of the Huangpu River, a gray front was opened.

"Kill!"

"Kill the Nanban!"

"Break into the trade area, and move the silver dollar casually!"

"Enter the business area, the little lady will let you sleep!"

The flags of the generals, the flags of the battalions, and the various accents, accompanied by the sound of drums and shouts of killing, almost overwhelmed the sound of the waves of the Huangpu River.

"Boom!"

The cannonballs fired from the river shattered people's dreams of making a fortune, and people realized that it was not so easy to enter the golden mountain in front of them.

If these Green Flag generals in front of them, including their commander Bei Zigong Adai, and Pingnan General Le Kedehun had studied the formations of the military books of the past dynasties on weekdays, or if there were tools such as drones and observation balloons that could monitor the battlefield situation in real time, they would immediately exclaim, "But the moon array!" ”

That's right! What Li Huabao put out for Luck Dehun today is the Moon Formation.

It's just that Liu Yu's Moon Formation uses Lou boats as two wings to escort them, using pole trebuchets and bows and crossbows as long-range strike forces, while Li Huabao lists gunboats on the Huangpu River, and the density of firepower and lethality are incomparable.

Moreover, the gunners of the gunboats were pleasantly surprised to find that the entire trade zone was completely within the optimal range of the gunboats' guns, that is, the Green Flag soldiers who tried to outflank the trade zone were completely within the range of the gunboats' fire.

"At the beginning, the lord wanted to build the business area along the river into a long and narrow one, but at that time, we didn't know what was going on, and we didn't think so. Now it seems that the Lord is really a man of God! I have long expected that there will be such a day, and we will defend the river with artillery fire! ”

"The old people have long said that the lord is the one chosen by the gods, so what do you say, the man of destiny, the son of destiny! Therefore, the old people said that what the lord said, those who understand must be implemented, and those who do not understand must be implemented. When you're done, you'll be enjoying the benefits! ”

Unconsciously, Li Shouhan's prestige climbed to a new peak in the hearts of these young gunners, sailors, and soldiers. Afterwards, after Li Peilin learned about this incident, he added fuel to the fire, making these young people the most active and fanatical supporters.

The fierce artillery fire from the river on both flanks caused the green flag soldiers on both flanks to gradually shrink to the front, and the troops on the front continued to thicken. Dozens of flags of general soldiers, deputy generals, and staff generals are quite conspicuous. However, in front of Gong Adai's weaving golden dragon, he was extremely deferential.

"Zhang Qingfeng, Xu Zixian, you two lead the people first!" Gong Adai nodded and summoned the two lieutenant generals and ordered them to attack first.

The soldiers and horses of these two people combined, but more than 5,000 people, in the more than 100,000 Qing army is not even a dime, let the two of them lead the troops first, Gong Adai has only one purpose, fire reconnaissance, first figure out Li Huabao's force and firepower configuration. As for casualties, it doesn't matter if all the 5,000 people died.

These two lieutenants are stationed in Jiangyin, Nantong and other places, and they are very familiar with the business zone. In their opinion, this is General Gong Adai picking them to make meritorious service! 5,000 men and horses, 40,000 soldiers and horses behind them, and nearly 100,000 horses and horses behind. I'm afraid that with this charge, we will be able to rush into the streets of the business district! Zhang Xu and the others had already planned which street they were going to rush to!

Five thousand men marched a long line of attack, braving the cannon fire on both flanks and rushing towards the trade area. In front of them, there was a smooth road, no trenches, no deer, no artillery fire. People ran faster and faster, and were stimulated by the desire to get rich and promoted, loot, burn, kill, plunder, and commit adultery, and they wanted to use their two legs as four legs.

"Li Ermanzi is afraid that he has been beaten! Otherwise, they were about to rush to his door, and there was no movement at all! The Green Flag generals who watched the battle from behind were both envious and remorseful. Contains extreme jealousy! Why didn't such a great opportunity fall to me!? It must be that the location of the ancestral tomb is wrong, and when I go back, I will split the body of that feng shui gentleman with five horses!

But is it really that smooth? A devil's law tells you that when you think everything is going well, maybe there's a big hole waiting for you ahead.

There was no pit in front of the Green Banner soldiers, there was a deep ditch.

This ditch is very insidious, about ten centimeters below the ground level, that is, you will never find this deep ditch if you don't reach the edge of the ditch. However, when thousands of people are running wildly together, the person who rushes to the forefront finds that there is a ditch in front of him and wants to stop, can he stop? Even if he can barely stop, the hundreds of people behind him will squeeze him down!

"Poof! Poof! "People keep falling and squeezing down deep ditches, screaming and calling for help, but often the first sound is shouted, and the second sound is too late to be smashed.

"Fire!" Not far away, in the bunker disguised as a burial bag, a cold order was issued.

Thousands of firebolts emitted fiery projectiles in an instant, and the gray-white smoke condensed into a faint barrier in mid-air, and was blown away by the wind in an instant.

The Green Flag soldiers on the edge of the deep ditch were already panicked and huddled together, some buried their heads in front of each other, some turned backwards and tried to retreat, and they were in chaos, and they were suddenly taken care of by such a dense firecracker, and they were immediately killed and wounded, and countless people were pierced through the body by the projectile that was almost fired through a ditch, and the impact of the projectile pushed them around, fell to the ground, and fell into the deep ditch.

The distance of more than thirty paces is equivalent to firing at the head of the Green Flag soldier with a fire gun.

After two rounds of firing, the two lieutenants' men and horses were left with less than a thousand men, and the rest were either swallowed up by the deep ditch or smashed into pieces by projectiles.

"Damn Nikan! Barbarians! It's so vicious! Gong Adai saw clearly in the back, and he was also afraid for a while. Secretly screaming for luck! If he hadn't temporarily arranged for Zhang Xu and the two of them to lead the team first, I was afraid that there would be more than these thousands of people in front of him!

"Didn't you say there were no fortifications in the trade zone? How did you lose so many people in one battle?! Gong Adai had a dark face, and pointed at the generals around him who claimed to be familiar with the trade zone with the iron and steel treasure knife in his hand, and the hundreds of Bayala soldiers around him each pulled out their weapons and surrounded these dozens of people with fierce eyes.

"General Gong Adai! We are indeed familiar with the business area, we are familiar with the streets and houses there, and we also drew a map and handed it to the general, no one could have imagined that this Li Erman dug such a ditch overnight! ”

This ditch was not dug by Li Huabao overnight. This is just one of the sewer pipes in the business zone. Everyone in the world knows that both the Shanghai Business District and the Hangzhou Business District are extremely clean and tidy, and the streets and houses are neat, but they don't know what is behind the neatness. At the beginning of the planning of the business zone, Li Shouhan repeatedly emphasized the construction of sewage and sanitary pipelines. "Domestic sewage and rainwater from typhoons are discharged through these culverts and discharged into the river." At the same time, it is used as a construction principle to closely integrate the construction of urban defense systems in Ha Tinh, Hue and other places with daily housing construction.

Today, the Qing army is facing such a defense system, on the surface there is no urn city, no arrow tower, no horse face, but there are covered ditches, bunkers, artillery emplacements, there are firing positions set on the roof, dense firepower points, constituting a three-layer strike force of high, medium and low, and the firepower network is densely covered without dead ends.

The original sewage ditch lifted the cover plate made of ash and became an impassable Jincheng soup pool. The cover was transferred to build a bunker, and the open drainage ditch became a nightmare for the Green Bannermen.

However, this is only where their nightmare begins.

"Up! Again! Battalion by battalion rushed up! Town-by-town rush! I don't believe it, they are iron! Gong Adai looked at the tragic situation of Zhang Xu's two lieutenants, his face was pale, and he gritted his teeth. This should be the most tragic and wretched battle he has fought since entering the customs. In one shot, the opponent killed more than 3,000 soldiers and horses.

He gave a series of orders to attack, and the rousing war drums sounded again. At the same time, the shells of the rear artillery team also smashed into the business area, splashing smoke and blood mist in the streets of the city. An overwhelming shout rang out, and the tide of soldiers swooped down on the ladders, planks, straw bags, and everything else they could find to climb over the wide and deep ditch.

They rushed like a tidal wave, and the telescopes of the officers of the Hongwu Army were full of black banners, armor, weapons, and straw bags filled with dirt that were constantly being thrown into deep ditches, and they tried to carve a passage with the ladder planks.

"Strange! In the past, the artillery fire of the Southern Barbarians was sharp and abnormal, and as soon as the war began, it cracked the mountains and rocks, shocking the earth. Why is it so sparse now? ”

Wang Yuele of Anjun, who was watching the battle from a distance, stared at the counterattack artillery fire in the trade area with the telescope in his hand. He didn't believe that the firepower of his artillery team would be sharper and more fierce than that of the second young marshal of the Hongwu Army.

The artillery strength of the Qing army and the Hongwu army can be regarded as their own strength. If it is heavier and has a longer range than a single piece of artillery, then the Qing army's 24-pounder cannon can be proud of the whole field. However, if you compare the number of artillery, mobility, ammunition performance, and the technical level of artillery, then the Hongwu Army is a complete Qing army.

They were mainly composed of artillery weighing less than 12 pounds, which was very suitable for a water network area like Shanghai, whether it was the mobility of transfer, or the speed of building gun emplacements, as well as the medicine bags made of coarse silk spinning, as well as the almost inexhaustible shells and the gunpowder that could never be consumed, all of which the Qing army did not dare to match.

From Nanjing all the way to the Shanghai Trade Zone, Li Huabao concentrated almost all the artillery of the Hongwu Army in the south of the Yangtze River, waiting for such an opportunity. On the defensive line of the Shanghai Trade Zone, if Luck Dehun, Yue Le, and Gong Adai could see it, they would find that in the short front of more than ten zhang, four artillery pieces were placed in a staggered row! The firing boundaries between the guns are intertwined and overlapped, and there are no dead ends!

As the trenches filled with dirt straw bags served as stakes and door panels and ladders were erected, the improvised passages were completed. The second wave of more than 10,000 Qing troops swarmed up, and hedgehogs formed groups around these passages again.

"Not good!" Yue Le instinctively shouted. He knew that the more people gathered, the better the opportunity for the opponent's artillery to exert its firepower.

At this moment, on the opposite position, a loud copper whistle pierced the noise on the battlefield. Hundreds of hidden cannons roared from their respective gun emplacements. Close-range shooting, double shotguns. Almost the muzzle of the cannon was fired at the chest of the Qing soldiers, and anyone with sharp eyes could see the smoke and brief flames from the muzzle of the gun emplacement from the firing port.

The intertwined network of artillery fire emitted an earth-shattering roar that made the ground tremble under his feet.

In the deafening salvo of artillery, the six-pounder, eight-pounder, Big Franc, and twelve-pounder guns opened fire in unison according to their pre-calibrated firing ranges.

A large stream of gray-white heavy smoke rose from the gun emplacement, with a pungent smell of gunsmoke, and the entire Shanghai Trade Zone was almost shrouded in smoke, in the eyes of the Qing soldiers in the distance, this layer of smoke was like a mysterious substance shrouded in the sky above the Shanghai Trade Zone, similar to the circle drawn by the gods, and the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Cover and the like were unbreakable and never disappear.

Countless projectiles roared and crashed towards the Qing soldiers gathered in front of the trench, no matter who they were, what armor they were wearing, and what weapons they held in their hands, in front of the shells and projectiles, they were treated equally, and all beings were equal.

In front of Haogou, those Qing troops fell like a rice field blown by a typhoon. Their flesh and blood were blurred, covered with dense blood holes.

Countless people were hit by the cannons and plunged headlong into the trench, where blood, minced meat, corpses, internal organs, and sewage from the gutter mixed together, emitting a disgusting and strange smell.

As a six-pounder gun equipped as standard for the first-class troops of the Hongwu Barracks, the range of the shotgun is more than 200 steps, the range of the eight-pounder gun and the Big Buddha Lang machine gun is slightly longer, and the 12-pounder gun can reach about 500 steps at the most. It was used to bombard the Qing army that was swarming in the trench more than ten paces wide, and the effect could not have been better.

These guns were aimed at the ground at close range, and the cannon was enough to penetrate the entire formation of the Green Banner. Those Qing soldiers came intensively, from this end to that end, no one could dodge, directly from beginning to end, and were opened up one by one flesh alley!

As soon as the sound of the artillery had thinned out, the guns began to be brushed and loaded, and the big franc machine was the artillery on duty, when the sound of firearms like popping beans mixed with the explosion of grenades sounded.

Artillery, grenades, firearms, the loud noises, fires, and smells caused by these firearms and explosives, as well as the killings caused among the people, the screams of the wounded, and the groans of the dying people, all had a huge psychological impact on the Green Flag soldiers.

Rumble! When another round of shells came head-on, the Qing soldiers collapsed. They turned and fled like a tide, and some of them were blinded, screaming and not knowing where to run, or to find something to cover. Some of them slipped and tripped and fell to the ground, and then countless pairs of large feet stepped over them. The trampled people screamed loudly and struggled to get up, but countless pairs of big feet kept stepping on them, until they were speechless, and their heads, faces and bodies were trampled to pieces.

"Shoot the arrows!" Thousands of archers in front of Gong Adai's formation shot a wave of arrows at the defeated soldiers who rushed towards the wolf, making these defeated soldiers whose minds were full of flames and smoke and the huge impact on them calm down a little, knowing that they could not attack their own formation, otherwise there would only be one capital crime.