Just when the rebels were worried about Yang Dudu's rebellion, his descendants were also worried about this issue......

Xuyi.

"The enemy is coming!"

On the fort of Xiangshan Fort, Wu Feng, the instructor of the Third Brigade of the Second Army of the Jingnan Army, held a telescope and said.

On the mighty Huai River in front of him, the sails of countless boats appeared......

"The lord is still too benevolent and righteous, according to me, why bother to demarcate any battlefield with the imperial court, just fight, our 100,000 army goes north along the canal, what Yangzhou Huai'an is just a drum down, those officers and regiments are useless no matter how they defend, as soon as the local tyrants divide the fields, the people in these places will solve it for us, but now we have to engage in a gentleman's war, originally we had the advantage but we had to let ourselves fall into a disadvantage."

Brigade Commander Qin Kai also held the telescope and said dissatisfiedly.

This is from Huai'an.

This is the Liaodong infantry to which Sun Yuanhua belongs.

The purpose is to capture the opposite city of Sizhou. But the city on the other side of the river, which can be seen without a telescope, is already an empty city.

It's not just Sizhou City.

The entire demarcated belligerent sector was emptied.

Previously, the scope of the battlefield between the two sides had been demarcated.

According to the previous negotiations between Yang Xin and Lu Xiangsheng, the battlefield limited by the two sides was to take Xuzhou and Fengyang as the two places, starting from Hongze Lake and the Yellow River in the east and reaching the Whirlpool River in the west, a rough parallelogram, 500 li long from east to west, and 300 li long from south, but they were not allowed to attack Bozhou at the northwest point and Huai'an at the southeast point.

And the population of this area has been emptied.

There weren't many of them.

After the initial period of taming the river has passed. The riverbed of the Yellow River was re-silted, and the Yellow River burst more than 30 times in the Wanli and Tianqi dynasties, almost every time it flooded this area, and the land was seriously desertified under the sweep of this repeated flood.

Those who can go are gone early.

Including Sizhou

Previously, Pan Jitao's river control caused the water level of Hongze Lake to be higher than that of Sizhou during the flood season, and the city of Sizhou was already below the surface of Hongze Lake from its altitude.

Of course, it ended up underwater.

Who likes to live in such an environment?

After the last flood, tens of thousands were moved away by Yang Xin, and then many people went south to join him one after another, and the remaining population was finally completely cleared by Yang Xin on the grounds of the war zone, and all of them moved south, and some of them were sent to the surroundings of Chaohu Lake to continue reclamation. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. Some of them went south and settled in militia areas all over the south of the Yangtze River, and some of them were even sent directly to Taiwan, as for the landlords who were unwilling to leave......

That's whatever.

They love to wait for a natural disaster to strike!

Anyway, this area was the worst disaster in history, and it was basically empty.

So far, the population of Sizhou, Lingbi, Hongxian, Suzhou, Suining, Wuhe and other six prefectures and counties has been emptied, and nearly 20,000 square kilometers have become a no-man's land, and at the same time, it has also become a demilitarized zone, Yang Xin's subordinates are not allowed to cross the Huai River, and Lu Xiangsheng's subordinates are not allowed to enter this area in advance. So after the war between the two sides, Yang Xin had to cross the Huai River first, fortunately this was not a problem for him, because there was a pontoon bridge in Linhuai Pass, just walk over it, but Lu Xiangsheng also had to control Sizhou.

Because he had to seize the Bianhe water.

He didn't have the hundreds of thousands of former militiamen like Yang Xin who used small carts to transport grain. …,

He had to go by water.

The easiest way to do this is to take control of Sizhou and transport supplies from Huai'an, across Hongze Lake, to Suzhou via the Bianhe River, or if possible, to continue westward along the Huaihe River and turn into the Huhe River at Wuhe.

But......

No matter how he chooses, he has to pass the Xuyi level first.

Xuyi and Sizhou are separated by a Huai River, and it is really separated by a Huai River, outside the city of Sizhou is the Huai River pontoon, and the east end of the Huai River pontoon bridge is Xuyi City, there was originally a city wall, and along the Huai is a brick wall, but it was demolished by Zhu Di. It is said that he fought too hard, in order to avoid trouble when he moved the capital to Nanjing, he simply demolished this fortress that was vital to Nanjing, so Xuyi has a city without walls. But this is not worth mentioning for the current war technology, Xuyi, Tianchang and other militias built a fortress in Xiangshan in two months. Then the eighteen-pound cannon was mounted to Xiangshan Fort.

"Don't say that, everything we have is given by the lord, the lord can do whatever he wants, all we have to do is to believe in the lord.

After all, the lord can't be wrong! ”

Wu Feng said.

"I'm just worthless for the lord, I obviously have the strength to dominate the world, why do I have to continue to provide for the son of the Zhu family? Even if the two have a good relationship, it's a big deal to treat him well in the future, give him a king and continue to make him prosperous and rich! ”

Qin Kai said indignantly.

"The lord can't be wrong!"

Wu Feng patted him on the shoulder and said.

Both of them are Fengyang Zhuanghu, in fact, the vast majority of the officers above the Jingnan military camp are Zhuanghu in Fengyang or Tianjin, and then there are some Zhaoyi militias, and the Dangkou military system is only specially promoted by Yang Dudu. But the core is still the Yang family. Both of them are from shantytowns, the situation is similar to Luo Hui, they are absolutely loyal to Yang Xin, Yang Xin let them die without hesitation, but they are also not loyal to the Ming Emperor at all.

When needed, they will shoot at the apocalypse, and they will not hesitate.

"Raise the hot air balloon calibration!"

Qin Kai roared.

A tethered balloon slowly rises in the back.

In fact, they are already condescending, Xuyi City is composed of a bunch of hills, and in the past, these hills were also surrounded by city walls, and Xiangshan Mountain is the northernmost point of Xuyi City.

So any attacker would have a headache when facing the city when it was walled.

Duhuai is a condescending city wall.

Inside the walls is a more condescending mountain. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. Even if you break through the city wall, you have to climb the mountain, otherwise you still can't really destroy the defenders.

There are no walls now.

But it turned into a fortress and a cannon, and it was going up the Huai River one after another, and it slowly sailed into the muzzle of the eighteen-pound cannon......

"Fire!"

Qin Kai's roar rang out.

The sixteen cannons of Fort Xiangshan spewed flames at the same time.

At the same time, on the Huai River, four miles away from him......

"Attack ashore!"

Sun Yuanhua, who was holding a telescope, said.

In his telescope view, the Xiangshan Fort was quickly shrouded in gunsmoke, and in the forefront, two boats were sinking rapidly in the impact of cannonballs, but this was originally a tentative one, and the follow-up boats stopped and lowered their sails, and then drifted backwards under the impetus of the river. …,

"The world is impermanent, I can't imagine that I will have an open war with Yingguo!"

Mao Yuanyi, who was beside him, sighed.

"He's not the same person with us after all!"

Sun Yuanhua said.

"But who is right and wrong?"

Mao Yuanyi said.

"No matter who is right or wrong, standing in our position can only do what we should do, and the rest depends on who is strong and who is weak, I really want to see if Yingguo Gong is really invincible."

Sun Yuanhua patted him on the shoulder and said with pride.

"Luckily, we're also strong!"

Mao Yuanyi said.

They were indeed a strong man, they had a full six infantry corps.

It's not Morrisian, though.

The real Morris-style tactics are only the two armies newly formed by the Apocalypse, Sun Yuanhua brought back from Liaodong is the Sun Yuanhua style, and the Liaodong infantry has not played the Morris phalanx from beginning to end, they have always been Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, Mao Yuanyi and Sun Yuanhua, these elites made a new car battalion.

It's just more normalized.

The battle is surrounded by chariots. A large number of two-pound guns were mixed in the middle, and the same gun carriage was used, this kind of artillery can really be said to be loved by everyone, their barrels are even shorter, the weight is reduced to two hundred pounds, and they can be used for maneuvering in a chariot. On the battlefield, the line of infantry fighting vehicles that used turtledoves to form a shield wall was defeated by this tactic, after all, it was impossible for their shield vehicles to withstand the bombardment of three-pounder guns......

Even if this three-pounder gun is a short barrel.

Besides, even if you can withstand the shelling, it is useless to advance to the distance where the bow and arrow can attack.

Because the shield cart at close range still can't stop the turtledove.

The Liaodong Army Turtledove is not a weight loss, it is actually an early version of the heavy one, because their turtledove is generally put on the car, this is actually a genuine Spanish heavy arquebus, and the modern test muzzle kinetic energy is as high as 6,000 joules, which is something that the shield car can block.

Of course, the Ming army chariots could not stop it.

But fortunately, Jiannu did not have turtledoves, they only had Korean birds, and there were also iron cannons bought from the Wa Kingdom.

This thing doesn't work.

It's only a few hundred joules.

This is the infantry vehicle battalion of the Sun Yuanhua type.

To put it simply, it is a combat vehicle with turtledoves and short-barreled three-pounder guns as the core. The old Furlong machine was discarded, and as for the heavy artillery, he was heavier, and the heavy artillery of the Che battalion was six catties, that is, nine pounds, because the terrain in Liaodong was solid enough, and they also had enough horses. The nine-pounder cannon was used as a heavy artillery to suppress the formation, the three-pounder cannon and the turtledove gun used the shield wall of the chariot as a barrier to bombard the target, and behind it were cold weapons, spears and Miao knives, and some axe guns that learned from Yang Xin.

This set of tactics has obvious advantages, that is, heavy firepower, no matter how thick the armor you wear, no matter how strong your shield car is, all of them are scum when you hit this!

Not to mention the shield cart pushed by people, it is useless to temporarily erect a row of log walls.

But the disadvantages are also obvious.

Poor maneuverability, leaving water transport almost does not have long-range mobility.

As for the other flaw, which is the high cost, this kind of thing is not worth mentioning. Mu Yunfeng remembered to read the collection of this site, the update here is really fast. In Sun Ge Lao's place, as long as it is something that can be solved by silver, it is not a problem, a two-pound cannon is nothing more than two hundred catties of iron, and a good Jiantie in the Wanli period has been cheap to one minute and six centimeters and one catty, and two hundred catties are only three taels of silver.

At this time, because of the soaring steel production, they were already running for a penny of silver.

With the addition of labor, a two-pound short cannon is less than ten taels.

As for the consumption of gunpowder, it is not worth mentioning.

Because nitrate is easier to obtain, the production of gunpowder is something that European countries look up to, but the poor British have forcibly stipulated the places to pee in order to get some nitrate, and the Japanese are similar. But the Ming Dynasty's nitrate is boiled in the nitrate hole, according to the missionaries, at this time, the fireworks set off in a city of Daming during the festival are estimated to be enough to fight a medium-scale war in Europe.

The Ming Dynasty is not Europe.

It is very amazing that the European monarchs will dispatch dozens of cannons in a war, and Sun Yuanhua will have hundreds of cannons in one army, otherwise the Jiannu who has been bombarded over the years will cry without tears......

Rich!

Wayward!

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