The advantage of a decent battle is that the army can complete the task step by step, and there will not be much danger, the Guards Regiment is actually very good, and the casualties are only 100 people in the battle so far, which is only more than 3,000 people, and the artillery is only twenty or thirty, and there is no need for the enemy's artillery to be much advanced.

Everyone is a front-loading smoothbore black powder cast iron artillery, although the Huaxia army made these artillery very concise and convenient, improved the quality of the artillery, reduced the weight, and also on the kind of adjustable gun carriage of the later European artillery, plus the carriage that can be dragged by war horses, the carriage also undertakes a part of the gunpowder and artillery personnel transportation work, it can be said that the artillery of the Ming and Qing dynasties has a lot of advancedness, but after all, everyone is in the generation.

There was no revolutionary change, not to mention that the Qing army also copied the artillery of the Huaxia Army, they couldn't imitate it if it was too heavy, for example, the twelve-pound artillery was imitated heavier than the eighteen-pound artillery of the Huaxia Army, and it was large, and the quality was not good, the artillery weighing three or four thousand pounds could only be used to defend the city, and the eighteen-pound artillery was also four or five thousand pounds, and the smart Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan quickly gave up copying the twelve-pound artillery of the Huaxia Army, and turned to steal the artillery of the Huaxia Army through combat and various means, Not to mention that they really stole a lot of 12-pound and 18-pound artillery of the Huaxia Army, but these were placed in Yangzhou Mansion and other important places of the Qing army to defend the city.

They did not dare to deploy the elite troops below to attack the Huaxia Army and fight field battles with the troops of the Huaxia Army.

So they can only imitate the Chinese army's ten-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, six-pounder guns, four-pounder guns, three-pounder guns, these they imitate well, with the extension of time, seven or eight years of hard work, they have been infinitely close to the artillery of the Huaxia army, but equipped with the current Ma Deli artillery, and even the artillery of the new army led by Ma Bao is still an early imitation, one of the shortcomings of these imitations is that they are bulky, not high quality, slow firing speed, and they are all guns that fire solid shells.

These artillery in the mobility performance compared with the Ming and Qing dynasties artillery is a great improvement, some are also equipped with a simple gun mount, can quickly switch in all directions, suppress the enemy, more than six pounds are also equipped with carriages, pull action, the six pounds of the Chinese army can be disassembled by four or five soldiers each carry a part of the walk, the shells can also be carried on their backs, almost a squad, twelve soldiers can handle all the actions and actions of an artillery, at least can support a battle of 5,000 people to fight for a day.

At the moment of emergency, three people carrying a six-pounder cannon can move on the battlefield, but the Qing army's is not good, more than 1,000 pounds of artillery, must be pulled by a carriage, more than a dozen people push the cannon to move, a cannon needs 36 people to take care of, a full three times more manpower than the Huaxia army.

These imitation artillery pieces are not destined to be the opponent of the Chinese army's artillery, they also have a lot of artillery, and a guard regiment of the Chinese army may have less artillery, not because the guards regiment cannot be equipped with more artillery, but because the Chinese army has always taken the elite route, otherwise the current population of the Chinese army is 80 million, which does not count the population of those areas that have just been conquered, and the population of the Chinese army that immigrated to those areas, the population algorithm of the Chinese army has always calculated the population of those areas that have been digested, The population of the occupied and conquered areas has not been counted, even if there are many immigrants there, they were once the population of the Huaxia Army.

This region does not even include Guangdong Prefecture and Guangxi Prefecture, which have been conquered for more than two years, as well as Yunnan Prefecture, which has been conquered for more than a year, Yunnan Guizhou Prefecture, which has just been conquered for a few months, and those areas adjacent to Yunnan Prefecture, which has been completely controlled by the Huaxia Army and ruled by the Huaxia Army for half a year, adjacent to the northeast of Burma, the north and south of Annam, and the entire territory of Laos. Even the population of Hubei Prefecture, which has been conquered for more than three years, is not counted, and Henan Prefecture has not stabilized now, nor does it count, as long as the population of the area with a large number of militias stationed is not counted as the population of the Huaxia Army.

However, Anhui Prefecture is barely counted, because the population of most of the states here has actually experienced seven or eight years of Chinese army rule, and has returned to the Chinese army, the population of most of Suzhou is also counted, and Jinling has also been ruled for five or six years, although the garrisons in these areas are at war with the enemy at any time, and the militia is also very strong, but how to say that they have ruled for seven or eight years, they can live a good life, and the people also support the Chinese army, so they are also counted.

There is only one Baozhong Province population on Baodao Island, and the population of other places is not counted, because the population of many places comes from all over the world, and there are even many mountain people who have been pulled out of the mountains, as well as the descendants of the Han people who immigrated to Annam, Laos, and Burma who had earlier returned to the Huaxia Army, as well as the failed Tusi Tou tribes from the mountains of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Yunnan, as well as the Han people under the rule of those diehards of the Hakka and Tujia.

Their only purpose here is to open up wasteland, the environment of the treasure island is very bad, use these people to open up wasteland, and then immigrate over to fill the population that has been lost because of wasteland reclamation This is Zhang Qiang's vicious heart is making trouble, aren't those people stubborn?

Let the militia and garrison battalions drive them to open up the wasteland, endure the harsh environment of the wasteland, all kinds of fevers, poisonous insects are their natural enemies, and when they finish clearing the wasteland, the environment here is good, and then the immigrants come to their own hearts, at least half of these people have died at that time, and they can rule normally. Therefore, these people who have not been counted into the population are actually not Huaxia.

This kind of treatment is indeed a little unfair to these, but for the stability of the Huaxia Army and the future development, Zhang Qiang vigorously implemented, whether it was Zhou Congee's dissuasion, or Zhu Yujian's indignation, and Zhu Dadian's unstoppable persuasion, it could not change Zhang Qiang's determination, because he knew that in the future, when the so-called freedom of Westerners, Ming Lords and other ideas poured in, these guys who did not complete the sinicization would be the hidden dangers of the Huaxia Army, and he didn't want future generations to be fooled by the so-called national self-determination of the United States, and later people did not have such a far-sighted view of him. The British Empire is strong, and the colonies all over the world have not been weakened by the so-called American robbers composed of thieves, robbers, bandits, and even women?

Therefore, Zhang Qiang must eliminate ethnic differences in all the people on the land of China in his lifetime, and make them all a unified Chinese, Han nationality, there are no dozens of ethnic groups coexisting, there is no Buddhism, there is no Buddhism, there are not so many sects of Buddhism, different beliefs will also make many regions have differences, contradictions, and what Cantonese, Chinese, Hokkien, all can't, regional differences, can not be reflected in these places, all are Mandarin, occasionally because of different regional accents, But we can't make any language like a foreign language that we don't understand, and the traditional thinking of Confucianism tells us that we must be unified and obey the royal way.

Turning his eyes back to the battlefield, the three regiments of the Guards Regiment were advancing at different levels, attacking rapidly, and the artillery fire was also progressive, advancing at high speed, suppressing step by step, and the enemy army was making a mess at the head of the city, but for Zhang Qiang, he was a little conservative, and he quickly intervened in the command of the commander of the third regiment of the Guards Regiment and ordered all the heavy artillery to reach a distance of two thousand meters.

Eighteen-pounder guns, twelve-pounder guns, fired together, replaced with flowering shells, a total of ten guns fired at a place together, and soon the fierce artillery fire caused the enemy casualties on this section of the city wall, and the musketeers who had reached a distance of one hundred and fifty meters below the city wall lined up in a horizontal line, fired in rows, suppressed the enemy, followed up with six-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, these were more, a total of twenty-four guns, divided into three groups, to strike at the walls of the enemy in various sections.

Under artillery fire, no one could even stand on the walls of the Qing army, let alone artillery fire, artillery and artillery, and even bed crossbows were blown up into scrap iron and waste firewood.

Ma Deli felt very angry, but very powerless, he sent his personal guards, Jia Ding, the family general led a 2,000-person battle control group to supervise the battle, urging those green battalion soldiers to go up to defend, but no one responded to his call, the war supervision group killed hundreds of green battalion soldiers, no one went up, but aroused the anger of those green camp soldiers, the green camp soldiers turned around and aimed their weapons at the war supervision group, and exchanged fire with the war supervision group for half an hour, successfully defeated the war supervision group, the war supervision group killed and injured more than 100 people, and ran back in disgrace.

Ma Deli had to send the Mongol cavalry and the Han army banner troops to suppress it, killing more than a thousand people to stabilize the situation, but still no one dared to go up, the city walls were covered with countless bullets, covered by flowering bullets, and almost even ants could not survive.

Ma Deli had to retreat to the next best, redeploy the army, put the green battalion soldiers at the city gate to prepare for battle, build fortifications, and put the village bravery, the people's bravery, regimental training, etc. in the streets and alleys, put the Mongolian cavalry at important intersections, and put the Han army flag in the county government and military barracks to build fortifications, preparing to fight street battles with the Huaxia army.

The soldiers on the other three walls were not withdrawn, ready to fill the vacancies at any time, waiting for the Huaxia army to go up to the city wall to attack the Huaxia army.

There are more than 20,000 troops in the city, and he believes that there are only more than 3,000 troops, and even the whole army of the Guards Brigade is only more than 10,000 troops.

"Boom ——," Ma Deli just arranged the troops, returned to the county office, climbed the highest three-story archway of the county office, and heard the sound of the city gate being blown up by the heavy artillery of the Huaxia Army in the distance, his body shook a little, and the guards next to him hurriedly supported him, he angrily pushed away the guards, and took the copper monoculars to check.

I saw that in the smoke of the city gate, a group of soldiers of the Huaxia Army poured in, and the green battalion soldiers who had built the barricades fired a volley of arquebuses, and a group of 20 soldiers of the Guards Brigade rushed in, more than a dozen of them were hit, and they fell to the ground one after another, they must have died, and there were seven or eight people left, who hurriedly retreated and hid in the smoke and dust that did not disperse.

In less than a quarter of an hour, heavy artillery fire rang out from behind the city gates, and the green battalion soldiers, who had just cheered victory, were covered with artillery fire.

Ma Deli closed his eyes, turned his head and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, it was fifty or sixty green battalion soldiers of a general banner, and now the green battalion soldiers are already the main force in Hong Chengchou's Qing army, after Hong Chengchou rebelled in the Qing Dynasty, he focused on cultivating Han soldiers, and the green battalion soldiers were the main body of the Han people, of course, his first choice.

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Zhang Qiang stood on the building car two hundred meters away from the city, looking at the city with binoculars, the building car was twice as high as the four-meter-high city wall, eight meters high, it was a kind of detachable command vehicle of the Huaxia Army, which could allow the generals to observe the entire battlefield on it, this is not an advanced weapon, since ancient times, the commanders and generals on both sides of the war will make such a building car that can be pushed forward, although the Huaxia Army has advanced weapons, but it will also absorb some of the previous essence for its own use.

Zhang Qiang smiled and said to the commander of the third regiment beside him: "See, the war should be fought like this, the attack should be fierce, and we must give full play to the firepower advantage of our army. ”

(End of chapter)