If there is Mianshan in front of him, Zhu Pingjin will definitely learn from Jin Wengong's heavy ears, put a big fire, and roast all the creatures on the mountain.

It's a pity that this is the land of Shu with beautiful mountains and rivers. To set fire to a mountain in the spring rainy season, it would not have been possible without 9,981 tons of napalm oil bombs.

Facing the blackened mountain with high mountains and dense forests, Zhu Pingjin used his new-style large telescope to look dizzy, and he didn't come up with a trick to kill in seconds. In the end, he had to adopt the strategy offered by two veterans of the battlefield, Jia Denglian and Gan Liangchen.

Jadenlian's strategy is "dong dong dong": in short, it is ecological destruction and large-scale tree cutting.

Jia Deng Liandao, this trick is often used in Guizhou when pacifying Luxury, and it is very easy to use.

Cutting down trees can make enemies who are good at fighting in mountains and jungles have nowhere to hide; Cutting down trees can make the enemy on the hill besiege by dense branches and deer. On our side, we can deploy troops in the air of the felled forest to form an encirclement; Cutting down trees can also obtain a large amount of useful wood, building shield cars, erecting wooden fences, sharpening wooden tips, paving bridges, and even nailing wooden ladders, repairing plank roads, and roasting chicken wings.

No matter how criticized it is, the efficiency of an authoritarian system is high. Zhu Pingjin was determined to adopt Jia Denglian's strategy, and his men quickly took action.

Axes and saws were certainly not enough, broadswords, pickaxes, shovels, hoes, and even gunpowder, all the tools that could be used were put into battle. It is assessed according to the indicator of one tree per person per day. In the past few days, tens of thousands of large and small trees have been cut down at the foot of the surrounding mountains, and a forest belt several zhang wide has been cut out alive.

The 54th and 56th battalions of the Jaden Union were deployed on the east and west flanks of this forest belt, like a thick noose, forming a tight internal encirclement of the Bolt Mountain.

The enemy could not go down the mountain to harass, and the rugged and narrow mountain road below the mountain was immediately cleared. A large amount of material resources were continuously transported to Wenchang Town, ensuring the military needs of the two regiments.

Gan Liangchen's strategy is also "dong dong dong": in short, it is a tired strategy.

Day or night, the drums are beaten several times a day, so that the enemies on the mountain will not be able to eat well and sleep well.

Gan Liangchen also borrowed from the tradition of the Protector Army, the body horn, shouting at the mountain. The official made a wish, and the black gauze hat didn't need money. In order to divide and disintegrate the enemy, Gan Liangchen also shouted to the mountain, and was willing to go up the mountain to negotiate in person as the chief soldier.

Zhu Pingjin was upset by the sound of drums at night, and was discharged from the hospital for a walk, just in time to meet Li Changxiang, who also had insomnia. Li Changxiang is a native of Dazhou, and he angrily exposed Gan Liangchen's old background. It turned out that Gan Liangchen had already used the trick of recruiting an enemy to disrupt the enemy.

A few years ago, Gan Liangchen personally went to the lair of the local tyrant to recruit An, which was already a great success, but was sold by Shao Jiechun and Liao Daheng, who were the governor of Sichuan at the time. Shao Liao and the others said that the local tyrant was physically and mentally cunning and could never be trusted, so they publicly beheaded the local tyrant messenger who came to Chengdu to spread the book. The bad news was transmitted back to Bashan, and Gan Liangchen, who was trapped in the bandits' nest and waiting for the news, made wax. The local thugs kidnapped Gan Liangchen for several months, and it was not until Mo Chongwen led his troops to fight that Gan Liangchen escaped from danger in the chaos.

Gan Liangchen hated Shao Jiechun and Liao Daheng for doing bad things, but he couldn't explain to the organization how he got out of danger and came back, so he had to secretly resent, but he didn't trigger it. The old fox Liao Daheng knew that Gan Liangchen was his vendetta, so he wanted to strike first and replace him with Liu Zhenfan.

When Zhu Pingjin heard about such officialdom secrets, he just laughed out loud and went to bed, waiting for the next drum beat to wake up.

Zhu Pingjin also has a plan of his own, or "dong dong dong": in short, it is a cannon to bombard his mother.

The newly formed second artillery battalion was equipped with a new seven-and-a-half-pound head gun that his wife had sent to Boryeong. This kind of cannon is the same caliber as the old gun, the gun carriage ammunition is shared, and the weight of the gun body is almost the same, but the barrel is three inches long, and the front and rear are almost the same thickness.

The new guns had a higher muzzle velocity, a longer range, and more valuable gunpowder. In addition to the improvement of the casting technology, the main technical secret of the new cannon was the tapered closure of the chamber. Gunpowder explodes and burns in a smaller space, which can effectively increase the bore pressure of the gun, so that the shell can gain more energy in a very short barrel, which is of great significance to the breech gun with a short barrel.

However, the improvement of the artillery itself is nothing compared to the improvement of the artillery.

The Firearms Agency has successfully developed thin-shelled flowering shells using the lost-wax method. The spherical body has a concave pine butt at the back, which is screwed on. The body of the bomb was filled with gunpowder, and the tip was screwed into a conical wooden tube. Although the measured power is not as expected, and the time fuse is not accurate, it is no problem to kill a few people by the explosion of the flowering shell, and the psychological impact on the enemy is greater.

As a result, the eighteen new-style head cannons of the Second Artillery Battalion fired a few rounds at a large elevation angle to the mountain every day, making the prince in front of the telescope happy.

However, the prince Zhu Pingjin was still not satisfied with such a child's playful shelling. He called He Chengjun, who was also the commander of the first and second artillery battalions, and asked him face to face why he didn't try to advance the firing position and let the "cannon be bayonet"?

……

In the midst of the banging and banging, time flew by, and the scheduled time for the general attack was soon up.

During this period, Bolt Village organized more than 100 thieves to carry out a night attack, which made Yang Weidong pick up a big bargain.

The 54th Battalion of the newly organized National Army led by Yang Weidong was in the wooded area at the foot of the mountain on the west side of the Bolt Mountain. At the foot of the mountain, there is a valley that flows north-south, and it happens to be used as a frontier barrier for the forest and air defense circle.

Yang Weidong's troops used the experience of the officers and troops fighting in Guizhou, and every night, they set off a bonfire every 100 steps. There are mobile sentry posts between the campfires to prevent enemy attacks. However, this system of open sentinels is only a trick, and the sporadic distribution of dark sentinels and the brigades lurking behind them are real.

The most dangerous place is the most dangerous place, the bandits who ventured across the valley to infiltrate were caught by Yang Weidong, leaving dozens of corpses, and the rest fled back in panic. But the biggest gain of this battle was not those corpses, but the capture of a living mouth, so that the Protector finally roughly grasped the enemy situation on the mountain.

On the night of 13 March, Zhu Pingjin, who had been deployed, bathed and changed his clothes, went to bed early, and recuperated his spirit for the general offensive that began tomorrow.

The night before the war was the quietest, and the reviving spring insects lost no time in seizing this rare time of tranquility, bathing the whole valley in the chirping.

However, the good times are always too short, and at four o'clock, Zhu Pingjian, who was still sleeping soundly in the darkness before dawn, was woken up by several important military information that broke in.

The first is the turmoil caused by a huge peachy news.

Shortly after Liu Zhibo, the governor of Sichuan, arrived in Chongqing Mansion, a young girl suddenly escaped from an inn near Tongchuan Gate one evening. The woman was disheveled, naked, and had only half of her torn trousers hanging from her lower body.

The woman denounced the patrol on the street, Lord Liu, who deceived the people to the inn in the name of asking about the case and making a private visit, with the intention of raping. Hundreds of gentry and people happened to be outside the inn, so they besieged the inn with their own eyes. But the initiator, Liu Zhibo, has already jumped out of the window of the inn and escaped. Afterwards, more than 100 students from Chongqing Prefecture sounded the drums of grievances in front of the yamen at the prefectural and county levels, and Wang Xi, the magistrate of Ba County, issued a summons to Shangguan Liu Zhibo, asking him to go to the court to confront him and make it clear.

Liu Zhibo shouted at Zhu Pingjian, saying that it was an out-and-out trap.

King Neijiang and Song Zhenzong reported that in order to avoid the deterioration of the situation, in addition to forcibly protecting Liu Zhibo, they had ordered the 11th Battalion of the Protector Army stationed in Chongqing Prefecture and Futuguan to be placed under martial law. Considering that Chongqing is a big mansion, and there are many thugs in the gentry's homes in the city, the two also used Zhu Pingjian's sword as a command to mobilize the first unit of the Western Henan Guardian Brigade to be stationed in Chongqing. At present, the Chongqing government has locked down the city, the situation in the city has been brought under control, and as many as 1,000 thugs have been disarmed and imprisoned.

The trio jointly played: immediately implement the "Grand View Garden" plan.

The second is He Youyi's war report.

He Youyi said, according to the order, he led the army to assemble in the pass town in the middle reaches of the Chishui River. In order not to be detected by the rebels, the past merchants, even including the caravans of the Shu Palace, were all seized and sent to the canyon to live temporarily.

After waiting for a few days, he finally intercepted a distress letter sent to Chengdu. Wang Zuosheng, a native of Nanzhi Changzhou, Zunyi Zhi County, who was in charge of the affairs of Zunyi, ordered his son Wang Ke (KE) to report to the yamen of the provincial capital of Ertai and Sansi, saying that the situation in Zunyi was dangerous, and asked for reinforcements to be sent quickly.

After learning that the Protector Army Brigade had been ordered to come to quell the rebellion, Wang Ke, who was overjoyed, immediately requested that the Protector Army be stationed in Zunyi Mansion. Wang Ke said, Miao Shuai Wu Shangxian and Long Zhengguo led tens of thousands of rebels outside the city to attack the city at any time. He Youyi asked for instructions on the next step.

The third was Zhu Pingjin's expected defeat.

Wang Qiaonian, the right attendant of the military department and the governor of Shaanxi, was defeated in Xiangcheng and lost tens of thousands of Qin soldiers.

A total of five commanders accompanied the Governor into the battle: He Renlong, Zheng Jiadong, Niu Chenghu, Zhang Yinggui, and Zhang Guoqin.

He Renlong, Zheng Jiadong, and Niu Chenghu repeated their old tricks and ran away; Zhang Yinggui and Zhang Guoqin didn't run away and died. The city of Xiangcheng was broken, Wang Qiaonian was captured, and Li Zicheng personally interrogated him and executed him.

It is said that when Donglin boss Wang Qiaonian saw Li Zicheng, his face did not change, and he scolded angrily. Li Zicheng was annoyed and angry, and he was so angry that he cut off Wang Qiaonian's tongue first, then hit his teeth, and stomped into minced meat after death.

……

All three military newspapers need to be dealt with in a timely manner.

Liu Zhibo's reckless nature still caused trouble for himself.

Jiang Ding Town is in Chongqing Mansion, and he was caught holding a silver box; Liu Zhibo was even worse, he was stained with the escort girl, and almost fell into the yellow mud in the crotch of his pants - not but.

However, the silver and women have been used, and Wang Yingxiong's party's next three indiscriminate tricks are just like that.

Zhu Pingjin saw the opponent's hole cards clearly, and asked Zhang Wei to tell the King of Neijiang, Liu Zhibo and Song Zhenzong: In front of the fire cannon, all the conspiracies and tricks are small tricks of carving insects!

Zhu Pingjin also ordered Xu Hanqing to lead the 7th Regiment of the Protector Army, which was waiting in Beibei Town, to immediately enter Chongqing Mansion as a military backing. The Tusi soldiers were particularly good at robbery, and they didn't want to take it out again when they entered their purses, so it was specifically specified in the decree that the task of raiding the Grand View Garden was to be carried out by the 25th Battalion, which was reorganized from the only battalion.

Zunyi Mansion is bordered by Da Lou Mountain in the north, Guiyang in the south, and controls the Loushan Pass, which is the gateway of Sichuan into Guizhou. Wang Zuosheng didn't know about Zhu Pingjin, but he only knew that he had ambushed his troops at the pass in August last year and killed the rebels Guo Shiqi and Wu Shangcai in one fell swoop, and he was a brave and knowledgeable local official. Since Wang Zuosheng strongly invited He Youyi to lead his troops into the city, he must have been in a state of fire. And the reason why He Youyi came to the enemy to ask for instructions must be because he had other intentions.

Zhu Pingjin guessed that He Youyi was afraid that he would expose his strength in advance, scare off the besieging Miao people, and lose a fighter plane that completely annihilated the enemy.

In terms of military science, He Youyi's approach is good. Miao Min took the initiative to go out of the mountain and besieged the Zunyi Mansion on Pingba, exposing his back to He Youyi. If the Miao people are allowed to flee back to the mountains, they will pay a tenfold price if they want to annihilate them again.

Zhu Pingjin decided to give He Youyi instructions to "move with the camera" and let him "make a decision on the spot" and not interfere with his command.

As for the disposal of Wang Qiaonian's defeat in Xiangcheng, Zhu Pingjin thought twice.

Wang Qiaonian is a student of Qian Qianyi, an authentic Donglin descendant, and a political enemy of Liao Daheng and other local parties. However, the heroism of his righteousness is rare among the high-ranking officials at the provincial and ministerial levels who have died in recent years. In Shudi, a high-profile commemoration of Wang Qiaonian and a group of righteous court officials can not only praise loyalty and establish correct values, but also can be regarded as shouting to people with lofty ideals all over the world with a loudspeaker: Loyal ministers and righteous people are here, and the rebels and thieves are rolling away!

The high-profile commemoration of Wang Qiaonian has an additional benefit, that is, to show goodwill to the political forces in Donglin, which are entrenched in the southeastern half of the country, and to clear the obstacles of public opinion in advance for Zhu Pingjin to go down the river in the future.

However, "the great man of the country is worshipping and fighting".

Sacrifice has always been the preserve of the state. Without the emperor's decree, theoretically all sacrifices were private sacrifices. Once Wang Qiaonian was commemorated in a high-profile manner, it was a public irritation to Chongzhen and the imperial court, and even regarded as a rebellion against the emperor and the imperial court.

The sky was bright. Trumpets and drums rumbled, and the army was about to march to the land of death of blood and fire.

Zhu Pingjin calmed down his ups and downs, and while he was wearing armor, he instructed his secretaries Cheng Xiangfeng, Li Changxiang, and eunuch Zhang Wei to temporarily block the news of the defeat of Xiangcheng to the whole army.

However, the ceremonies for the public memorial to Fu Zonglong, Wang Qiaonian, and the fallen officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army should be prepared in advance, and newspapers and other public opinion propaganda should be launched in advance. In addition to continuing to criticize the "traitorous ministers and misleading the country", the propaganda caliber should also bring the "warlord style" that is common among the generals of the Ming army, such as the negative typical He Renlong.

……

In the golden light of the spring sun, Zhu Pingjin, the son of Shu, wore a golden helmet and rode a war horse on a golden armor to appear in the army that was about to go out, making the cheers of the small Wenchang Town one after another.

Amid the cheers, Zhu Pingjin took his Panlong Shu character pennant to inspect today's main attack troops one by one:

The guard battalion, the 5th, 15th and 14th battalions of the 3rd Regiment, the 53rd and 55th battalions of the 14th Regiment, the 2nd Artillery Battalion and the 1st Battalion and 1st Company, the 1st Engineer Battalion, the Baggage Battalion Combat Company, and the Field Task Force Medical Company of the General Hospital of the National Protector Army.

The commanders of the 54th and 56th Battalions of the 14th Regiment, which were scheduled to send small units to assist on both flanks, Yang Weidong and Zhong Qiming, were unwilling to give up the opportunity to meet the prince and took the initiative to stand by the side of Jia Denglian, Tan Desheng and Zhou Changzhong.

Among the men who went out on the expedition, the medical company of the female group was naturally the most eye-catching place in the whole army.

Zhu Pingjin caught a glimpse of his cousin, the county lord of Taiping, in the ranks of the twittering female soldiers.

The county lord of Taiping was wrapped in a silver-black waist-length iron plate armor, with a big stride bag on his back, two muttering ambulance bags diagonally on his shoulders, and an eight-petal helmet diagonally on his forehead, eager to cover his face completely. It's a pity that the eight-petal helmet can't stop the two little maids beside her. Under the hot gaze of hundreds of men, the two girls each held a pair of foldable bamboo stretchers, proudly and reservedly puffed up their bulging breasts.

"Why don't the female soldiers of the medical company be issued short knives? Why is there still someone who doesn't have armor? Zhu Pingjin called Wu Tai, the commander-in-chief of field logistics, and asked sternly.

"The short knives and armor are all haired, but these female soldiers are too heavy......"

"Weapons are a soldier's second life!" Zhu Pingjin undoubtedly interrupted Wu Tai's defense, "Spread the decree, regardless of men and women, the whole army will wear swords and armor." Remember, there is a bloody battle today! ”

Without waiting for Wu Tai to agree, Zhu Pingjian's second command followed, but he had to whisper a lot:

"Find a baggage squad to help them carry the stretcher, and the squad leader must be reliable!"

"I understand! Obey the order! ”