Cao Bianjiao's capture of Jinzhou, although it was expected, but he broke the city in one fell swoop in that way that it exploded, which really amazed all the Liaodong generals, coupled with Zhu Cijiong's deliberate propaganda, the people of the Ming Dynasty were all happy, and the morale of the 600,000 troops in Liaodong was greatly boosted.

Just when almost all the generals in Liaodong were excited, there was one general who couldn't be happy, he was another deputy general of the Guanning Army, the chief soldier Zhao Shujiao. He is not jealous of Cao Bianjiao for stealing his limelight, but he is afraid that the emperor will be angry, you must know that Fuzhou is much closer to Gaizhou than Jinzhou, he arrived nearly half a day earlier than Cao Bianjiao, and now everyone has captured Jinzhou, you still have no movement at all, what do people think?

Zhao Shujiao is not a wine bag and rice bag, on the contrary, he is one of the generals that Sun Chengzong values the most. In the nineteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1591 AD), he was selected as a Wujin scholar and served as the commander of Ganzhou. In the first year of the Apocalypse (1621 AD), he was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief and participated in the battle for Liaodong between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin, but the general trend was that he had to retreat again and again, until he retreated to the Ningjin defense line. Later, he responded to Sun Chengzong's call, focused on repairing the fortress, recruiting displaced people, vigorously tuntian, and rescued 50,000 or 60,000 people in Liaodong, and was promoted to the general army in the fourth year of the Apocalypse. Unfortunately, during the Chongzhen Dynasty, Huang Taiji attacked the capital, and he led his army to Qinwang, but was ambushed by Huang Taiji between Zunhua and Santun Camp, and died in battle.

Of course, that was the matter of the Chongzhen Dynasty, Chongzheng Dynasty not only did not die, but was also promoted to the deputy general of the Guanning Army, such a veteran of a hundred battles, naturally it will not be a wine bag and rice bag, the reason why he has not started to attack the city is to make more siege equipment to minimize the casualties of his soldiers.

Now, the rising star Cao Bianjiao has conquered Jinzhou, and he does not dare to delay any longer, and early on the morning of the third day, he launched an attack on Fuzhou.

As a veteran, his command can be described as leaky, the distance between the siege vehicle and the front and rear of the well is just right, the first wave of arrow rain of the archers on the well has just fallen, and the sword and shield soldiers under the siege vehicle just erect a ladder and start to enter the city; As soon as the first wave of siege soldiers showed fatigue, the second wave of 5,000 men had already come under the city walls to continue the attack, and they did not stop for a moment.

He prepared four waves of attacks, but the Houjin army in Fuzhou City was only more than 2,000 people, and it was not the elite of the Eight Banners, and it was impossible to withstand the second wave of attacks, and Zhao Shujiao easily took Fuzhou City. But in the face of nearly 3,000 casualties, he was still distressed, if he was given two more days, this number would definitely be reduced by half, but time was running out, Cao Bianjiao had captured Jinzhou, he really didn't dare to wait any longer.

Anyway, Fuzhou was finally won, and when the news reached Haizhou, Zhu Cijiong was naturally overjoyed, and called Chen Yutai to give him some pointers, and asked him to write a "Da Ming Lian is still heroic". Chen Yutai's entanglement, can it not be so vulgar, this topic makes him want to vomit on the new science list, but he is the emperor, he doesn't dare to vomit.

Zhu Cijiong naturally doesn't know Chen Yutai's inner world, and he can't think of elegant topics, these articles are mainly for the people of the Ming Dynasty, what are you doing with such elegant topics, just to be vulgar, everyone is interested, how many of you can understand what you mean!

This Jinzhou and Fuzhou were taken, the Tianxiong army also came, and Zhu Cijiong was not far behind, he decided to launch an attack on Haizhou tomorrow.

Of course, this Haizhou is not Fuzhou, nor Jinzhou, just look at the dense heads on the city wall, Haizhou's defenders have at least more than 100,000 troops, like Jinzhou and Fuzhou to rush up and cut down, it is estimated that at least 200,000 Ming soldiers will fall under the city of Haizhou, in that case, this battle will not have to be fought, at most take down the left guard of Dingliao behind Haizhou, and the Ming Dynasty should collect the troops, and Shengjing in the back doesn't have to think about it.

Of course, the battle can't be fought like this, if it is fought like this, how can the Ming Dynasty have so many troops to fill in.

In fact, the current Ming army should be regarded as entering the era of thermal weapons warfare, and Zhao Shujiao's Fuzhou siege battle can be regarded as the last cold weapon battle of the Ming Dynasty, if it weren't for the time being too hasty, Zhu Cijiong would definitely equip all the legions with flintlock pistols and artillery, in that case, taking Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Dingliao right guard can almost effortlessly, and it will lose so many men.

Of course, the small fights in the early stage have passed, and now is the real showdown, the battle of millions of people, and now it can be regarded as the official prelude.

In order to reduce the loss of troops, Zhu Cijiong decided to give full play to the advantages of gunpowder weapons as much as possible, it doesn't matter if he fights slowly, he must preserve his strength as much as possible, and strive to take Liaodong in one fell swoop.

What are the advantages of gunpowder weapons? First of all, of course, is the advantage in attack distance, so early on the morning of the fourth day, Zhu Cijiong directly asked Sun Chengzong to line up a strange formation.

At the front are two hundred 618 howitzers, about 650 steps away from the city wall, lined up, behind are 50,000 gunners in Beijing, densely lined up in 50 rows, and then 317 howitzers, 417 howitzers, 518 howitzers are 200 each, lined up in three neat rows, and then there is a high platform, a little higher than the opposite city wall, Zhu Cijiong sat in the middle, and on both sides stood Zheng Chenggong, Cao Huachun, Qin Mingyue, Sun Chengzong, Sun Yuanhua, Qin Yiming, Qin Gongming, Shi Weila......, this place is not a little famous, in short, it is spectacular and majestic.

As for the Tianxiong Army and the Qin Army, they were arranged to protect the wings on the left and right, under the command of Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting respectively.

You said that you didn't see any siege equipment for three days, and you wasted half a day's energy, and you put on a formation that couldn't be a siege at all, why? It's scary! Do you want to scare me out of the city and surrender? Is it possible?

Zhu Cijiong didn't want to scare him this time, and the siege was not something that could be captured by scare, today he mainly wanted to test the barrage attack, because this is the best way to protect the siege soldiers.

Barrage is a modern term, of course Zhu Cijiong can't directly attack the barrage, then the people below are dumbfounded, he ordered in detail: "Deliver the decree, the front row of 618 howitzers aim at the arrow stacks above the city wall, attack three rounds, one round of live ammunition, one round of scattered bullets, one round of flowering bullets, don't stop in the middle, the faster the better." The Type 317 howitzers, Type 417 howitzers, and Type 518 howitzers in the back are ready to be loaded with scattered shells to prevent the Jiannu cavalry from sneaking attacks. ”

The Jinyi guard who gave the order just ran down with the Ling Qi, Zheng Chenggong, who was standing on the side, hurriedly raised the telescope and looked forward, he had never seen the artillery fire, the freshness, he trembled with excitement.

Not far away, Schvera also rubbed his hands excitedly, finally about to start, the Great War, there were more than 100,000 rebels defending the city alone, more than their Portuguese heyday. The Ming army besieging the city has 300,000, and this is only half of the men, I heard that they also launched attacks in two other places at the same time, and these 600,000 horses alone can sweep through any country, whether it is Spain or the Netherlands, whether it is Britain or France, whether it is Germany or the Holy Roman Empire!

At this time, the heralds of the Jinyi Guard had already conveyed Zhu Cijiong's will to the guerrilla generals of the First Regiment of the Praetorian Guards commanded in the front row.

It was the first time that this guerrilla general had commanded so many artillery attacks alone in front of the emperor, and although he had already commanded countless artillery shots under the guidance of Sun Yuanhua during the exercise, he was still a little nervous this time. He took a deep breath and shouted, "Get on the arquebus." ”

The small artillery flags on both sides immediately repeated: "On the fire rope." ”

Immediately, an artilleryman quickly opened a sealed tin can, took out a fire rope, carefully inserted it into the ignition of the gun, and then returned to its original position and covered the tin can.

The small flag next to it repeated the command, and continued to the left and right, and in a short time it reached the very edge, and all the guns began to be loaded with arquebuses.

Here we want to introduce the configuration of artillery, each gun is equipped with ten artillerymen, and one holding the command flag is the commander of the squad, called Xiaoqi.

There is also one for the arquebus, two for gunpowder, three for shells, one for ignition, and two for adjusting the distance and direction of fire. They have a clear division of labor, and each movement has been rigorously trained, and basically nothing will go wrong.

The guerrilla general, waiting for the two guns in front of him to be loaded, continued to order: "Load the gunpowder." ”

The artillery flags on both sides immediately repeated: "Load gunpowder." ”

Immediately one of the artillerymen opened a sealed iron barrel, and the other used a standard spoon to scoop a full scoop of gunpowder and carefully poured it into the barrel.

The small flag next to it immediately repeated the command, extending to the left and right, and after a while it reached the very edge, and all the guns began to be loaded with gunpowder one after another.

The guerrilla general continued to order: "Reload solid shells. ”

The small flag next to him began to repeat the instructions, an artilleryman quickly took out a solid bullet from a wooden box, and stuffed it into the muzzle, and the other artilleryman held a wooden stick to gently push the shell inward, and after he finished pushing, another artilleryman took a ruler and stretched it in and measured it carefully, feeling that it was no problem, and then the commanding flag nodded. The small flag immediately raised the command flag in his hand, pointed forward, and said loudly: "Report, the first team has been loaded." ”

When all the small flags were raised horizontally, the guerrilla general ordered in a loud voice: "Prepare to adjust." ”

After that, he raised a special telescope to look at the opposite wall, which required a lot of experience, he first had to find a reference, then compare the reference object with the scale on the telescope, estimate the approximate distance, and finally come up with the parameters of the adjustment.

The reference that this guerrilla general was looking for was the arrow stack, which generally has a standard height, and he carefully compared it, and then decisively ordered: "The direction is forward, and the angle is forty-nine." ”

At this time, the two artillerymen in charge of adjustment were already in position, and the clamps of the cannons on both sides were loosened.

The small flag next to him began to repeat the command again, and the artilleryman who adjusted the rear of the gun checked the scale, he adjusted the direction, and the front actually didn't need to be adjusted, he just needed to check it. The artilleryman in front of the gun is responsible for adjusting the angle, he checked the angle, and then began to rotate a turntable under the barrel, this turntable is connected to a screw rod, the screw rod is connected to the fixed stand under the barrel, and the rotating turntable holder will move back and forth, and there are scales on both sides of the fixing frame, just look at the scale while turning. As the artilleryman's adjustment barrel tilted up slightly, he checked the scales on both sides again, and then nodded to the artilleryman in the rear, and the two began to tighten the hoops of the cannon ears on the left and right, and after tightening, they stood up straight at the same time, and said in unison: "Report, the adjustment is complete." ”

The little flag immediately raised the command flag in his hand diagonally upward, and at the same time said loudly: "Report, the first team has completed the adjustment." ”

When all the small flags were hoisted diagonally, the guerrilla general gave another loud order: "Prepare to open fire." ”

The small flag in front of him immediately raised the command flag in his hand and repeated his command, which extended to both sides.

The artilleryman, who was specially responsible for ignition, immediately took out a fire fold, opened it, blew the fire, and then held the fire fold in one hand and pinched the fire rope in the other, and waited for the order with full attention.

It's finally time to fire.,What is the effect of a salvo of two hundred cannons?,And see the next chapter breakdown.。