Outside the city, the Ming army did not stop its intense but continuous attacks after the sky brightened on September 29. The previous night's engagement seemed to indicate that after months of training, the defenders had become organized and combat-ready to fight. Even if you break through with elite organizations everywhere, it doesn't seem to be as easy as it used to be. However, this made many Ming generals outside the city begin to understand why they organized an attack when the defenders' food stocks were not exhausted. Obviously, if we wait until a year later, then the entire ordinary contingent of more than 100,000 people in the capital may become a battleworthy army that is not much inferior to the average line of the Liaodong Army, and those brigades and teaching brigades of the Brave Guards and Guards that are already quite effective in combat may generally reach the level of the previous teaching brigades. If so, what if the defenders run out of ammunition and food stocks? It is very likely that the defenders, who are not far from the total strength of the Ming army in the north, will fundamentally change their forces, and it is not impossible to suffer a major defeat.

If it is an ordinary change of dynasty or a struggle for hegemony by the superior, it may just be that each is its own master, and the surrender of the judge may not be impossible. However, in the two years since Chongzhen, many deviant claims and even various frightening behaviors of the Son of Heaven, who is determined to rebel, have begun to make many people realize: Such a Son of Heaven, if he really dominates the world, then he is really "dying in a foreign race, and he can still survive; If you die in a certain force, you will not be able to get it, even if you are willing to be a slave", which also made the various divisions of the wheel war more and more active.

During the whole day until after noon, when the northeast attack near the dirt slope high ground had been carried out for fourteen rounds, it seemed that the defenders could finally not squander the gunpowder and ammunition as before, and although the day was conducive to deterring the enemy troops who participated in the subsequent battle, because they could effectively avoid the falling rocks in the air, the lethality was much lower than before.

The face-to-face confrontation between heavy shields, light artillery, firearms, and even strong bows soon began again on the dirt slopes. In the face of the Liaodong Army's elite forces once again engaged in combat, and the coordination with the artillery group has become more and more skillful, the teaching brigade, which had recovered a little in the previous months, had to take turns to draw elite troops to participate in the battle, and cooperate with the Guards and Yongwei brigades to carry out defensive operations.

The battle continued again throughout the afternoon, and until nightfall, the attacking side did not seem to have made much breakthrough, but the Ming army outside the city again launched a fierce attack at any cost with the assistance of heavy blasting after the night of the 29th, and almost completely broke through the defense line in the northeast direction, which also made the main force of the Teaching Brigade and even at least two brigades of the Guards and Yongwei Army with relatively strong combat effectiveness have been pinned down to organize defenses in the area between Dongzhimen and Andingmen.

At this time, the Ming army in all directions once again began a full-scale offensive on multiple roads. Although because of the improvement of the defenders' combat experience and training, it seems that the battlefield meeting is no longer as dangerous as before. But Zhou Yuji, who was still somewhat savvy, felt more and more uneasy.

"Is the Holy One still in the volunteer camp?" Seeing the urgency of the war, Zhou Yuji also had to ask at this time.

In this regard, Zhou Dayong seems to be very abnormal and has no intention of concealing it. In the past few days, the First Company of the Volunteer Battalion has been conducting training for the expansion of the army with the outstanding soldiers who have been added to the volunteer battalion. After adding some recruits and sharpshooters, the strength of the entire volunteer battalion has also reached more than 500 people, as well as a similar number of auxiliaries.

Based on Zhou Yuji and others' understanding of Xiao Xuan, of course, they believe that this volunteer battalion that has just been established must be a team with considerable combat effectiveness that is not inferior to the teaching brigade, but the total number of people is not more than 1,000, and the strength of more than 500 decent regular formations seems to be a little too thin, and no one knows whether the west of the city can be foolproof by relying only on the volunteer battalion and the militia team.

At this time, a continuous huge explosion suddenly sounded within a range of several miles from north to south outside Xizhimen, and Zhou Yuji and even Zhou Dayong and others, who were far away in the east of the city, could clearly realize that the real assault might have begun.

I heard a statement that in the 50s, 1 Soviet armament division was fully equipped with ammunition for 15 million rubles, and if you compare the price of similar American or domestic equipment, it should be converted to 400 to 5 million dollars, at that time. The conversion should now be around $40 million. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the entire family base of the 60 armies should be converted into 60 Soviet armament divisions (estimated at the number of military vehicles owned at that time) about 2 billion to 3 billion US dollars.

A rough estimate of the value of arms and equipment in the contemporary Chinese army:

Air Force main: 900 ordinary models of the third generation, calculated at 40 million US dollars, 36 billion; 150 to 200 advanced combat aircraft (three-and-a-half or four-generation) 20 billion; Hundreds of late second generations, tens of billions;

The main estimate is $60-70 billion;

Army Main: 2000-2500 vehicles 96 or new light tanks 3 billion dollars? 700 to 800 vehicles for $9,92 billion? About 7,000 various types of infantry and armored vehicles, which are generally not very advanced, about one-third of the infantry combat, priced in millions, 7 billion; Around 1100-1200 helicopters, about 15 billion? 7,000 cannons of various types (one-third of the self-propelled guns)

Navy mains: 16 advanced destroyers, estimated at about $20 billion (analogous to French or British regional air defense ships of similar tonnage); about 30 advanced frigates (about 10 billion), 2 second-class aircraft carriers (counting air force or aviation forces), 20-30 advanced permanent submarines (039, Kilo) 10 billion; Semi-advanced nuclear submarines are estimated at about 10 billion.

a total of $50 billion in major equipment;

The main combat equipment of the army, navy and air force is about $170 billion, and the total value of air defense, second artillery, logistics equipment, and light weapons is about $250 billion to $300 billion.

The main equipment of the US armed forces is reasonably priced and roughly estimated

Aviation: about 1,000 advanced models of the third and fourth generations (the performance is different, but the price is about the same) is about 120 billion US dollars, about 2000 general models of the third generation of 80 billion US dollars; about 100 advanced bombers, about 100 backward bombers, tens of billions of dollars;

Wuzhi: about 1,000 advanced Wuzhi, thousands of ordinary helicopters, about 60 billion US dollars; About 1,000 advanced tanks and thousands of infantry and armored vehicles, about 15 billion US dollars. Artillery: The scale and advanced degree of the mainland have their own merits, or slightly less, estimated at about 20 billion; The reasonable price of major equipment is 100 billion US dollars;

Navy: aircraft carriers, regional air defense ships, nuclear submarine fleets of about one million tons each, 3 million tons of main battle warships at least 300 billion dollars?

The main combat equipment is between $600 billion and $700 billion, with an estimated trillion dollar arms value.

(End of chapter)