Lu Xiangsheng answered: "Uncle Loyalty's words are serious, the emperor has no such intentions, otherwise he would not have sent us here." ”

Wang Yue nodded and said: "Liaodong Jiannu has been a disaster for our dynasty for decades, and the imperial court should indeed show its sincerity in support, and the other Ben Bo dare not have extravagant hopes, and only hope that the imperial court can provide necessary assistance in food, which should not be difficult, right?" ”

The food reserves in the starting point city were sufficient, especially since a large amount of grain was salvaged from Japan. However, Liaodong has a vast area, and after the war, a large number of Han people have to be relocated to fill the gap, and there is not too much food.

Xie Baoqing said with a smile: "Sihua, don't worry, I will immediately convey your request to the imperial court with a song." ”

After seven consecutive days of air raids, the area around Shiban Mountain, Chimney Mountain, and Wutai Mountain on the Gaizhou defense line has been repeatedly plowed several times by the Tiance Air Force, and the Qing army has been making emergency repairs against the bombs that continue to fall in the air, and it is difficult to restore the defense line to its original state.

Beginning in the early morning of 6 June, the Tiance Army temporarily suspended its air raids on the Gaizhou defensive line, and there was a brief silence in front of the two armies. There will be a moment of calm before the storm, and the Qing army of the entire Gaizhou defense line does not dare to take it lightly, and the 160,000 Qing army is ready to guard against the thunderous blow launched by the Tiance army.

Li Zixiong, chief of staff of the Tiance Army, made a report to Wang Yue on the dynamics of the whole army: "Report to the commander, at 6:20 a.m. today, the Second Division has landed at Lagu Post at the mouth of the Hunjiang River via the Yalu River, and the whole division has begun to move towards the north of Shengjing (Shenyang).

The 4th and 5th Divisions were already close to the waters near Songshan by sea and could launch a campaign against Jiannu in the areas near Jinzhou, Songshan, and Tashan at any time.

The main fleet of the Navy has arrived in the designated sea area near Gaizhou and is ready to cooperate with our army's land offensive at any time, and the Marine Corps is also ready to go.

The 1st, 3rd, and 6th divisions on the front of the Gaizhou defense line have arrived at their designated positions and are waiting for further instructions from the commander. ”

The Tiance Army's battle against the Qing Dynasty mobilized all the main forces of the whole army, with a total of 54,000 troops. The 3rd Division has been fully equipped with the addition of the A Brigade of the Security Army, and the size of the Marine Corps is now three battalions with a total of one regiment. There were also more than 1,200 troops of the special operations brigade that participated in this battle to destroy the Qing Dynasty, so the total number of troops used by the Tiance Army in this battle was about 57,000, not counting the 10,000 troops dispatched by the navy.

The Qing army was characterized by a large number of cavalry, and Liaodong was also vast and sparsely populated.

The Manchu Qing was a semi-slave and semi-feudal society, basically a nomadic and fishing and hunting people, although after many blows by the Tiance army, the Manchu Qing at this stage was still in the heyday of the rising stage, and high-level elites such as Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Zilharang, and Duoduo were all there. If they can't be beaten to death with a stick, it is very likely that they will die without stiffening, and once these people escape, it will be a destabilizing factor in Liaodong in the future.

In view of this characteristic, Wang Yue's aim was to strike a blow with all his strength, launch a lightning operation, and completely destroy the living force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with lightning speed.

Wang Yue looked at his watch, the time was 7:15 in the morning, and said: "Order the whole army to launch a general attack at 7:30, the code name of this operation is 'Operation Lightning'!" ”

"Yes!" Li Zixuan saluted, turned around and went down to give combat orders to the various departments.

Wang Yue smiled at Xie Baoqing and Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Two adults, a good show is about to appear." ”

Lu Xiangsheng pretended to be calm and said, "That official will wait and see." ”

In fact, his heart was shocked, it had been two days since he came to the front line of Gaizhou, and after his observation, the current Tiance Army had already changed from what it used to be in terms of strength and equipment.

At that time, the 100,000 Ming army fought against more than 6,000 Tiance troops, and the whole army was still annihilated, and now the Tiance army alone has exceeded 50,000 people, and the so-called security army has also exceeded 120,000 people.

In recent years, the imperial court has not only not narrowed the gap with the Tiance army militarily, but has expanded.

On the 6th, at 7:30 in the morning, with the order of the front command of the Tiance Army, the battle to destroy the Qing Dynasty began.

The first to speak was all the artillery deployed on the front line, and unlike before, this time the artillery fire was more intense and dense than ever before, to the point of overwhelming it.

In addition to the more than 500 artillery pieces of various types, the most striking thing in this shelling was the new type weapons that made their debut.

This new weapon is the Type 81 107mm 12-barrel rocket launcher copied by the Military Factory in the starting point, with a total of 600 pieces, and each division will be assigned a rocket artillery battalion.

This type of rocket artillery is improved from the Type 63 rocket artillery, with 12 barrels, each rocket artillery group of four people, a firing range of up to 8.5 kilometers, and a salvo can be completed every seven to nine seconds, and the firepower is very fierce.

The 107 rocket launcher has been active in large and small battlefields around the world and is known as the "AK-47" in the rocket artillery industry. Because of its low cost, simple structure, most of the parts on the gun body can be removed only by hand, the maximum weight of the parts is less than 20 kilograms, easy to carry by manpower, the standard rocket weighs 18.8 kilograms, and one person can carry one, so it can be seen in local wars around the world, and is known as a guerrilla warfare weapon.

The principle of rocket artillery is very simple, the requirements for the barrel are not high, it is not difficult to take the current level of technology in the starting point city, the difficulty is in the propellant, the starting point city can only produce some primary chemicals in the chemical factory, so the propellant is provided by Wang Yue, and the explosives are produced by the starting point city.

Wang Yue has always advocated the localization of various types of weapons, and rocket artillery with a simple structure is one of them.

After all, it is a copycat, and although the range is about the same, the power is slightly lower than that of the original. However, there is almost one thing in common with the original, that is, the accuracy of long-range strikes is low, but under large targets such as positional warfare, the power of rocket artillery has been best released.

Wang Yue personally went to the front line to observe the first time the rocket artillery was put into actual combat, and from the scene, the effect was very good.

After the shelling began, more than 500 artillery pieces of various types dropped more than 500 shells on the Qing positions in the first round, while 600 rocket launchers flashed orange tail flames, and 7,200 rockets were dropped after continuous firing.

Under the first round of shelling, the Qing army's position in front was immediately densely populated, and the sound of explosions was dense like rain, and gunpowder smoke was everywhere.

Witnessing such a massive artillery bombardment, Xuanda, the governor with the title of secretary of the Ministry of War, and Lu Xiangsheng, the deputy envoy of Liaodong Xuan, were already speechless and dumbfounded.