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When Zhang Bao heard that six thousand pairs of armor had been shipped, he sighed and said, "I didn't expect to go back more and more, and now I use cold weapons!" Good! Go out and see how about the armor made in Guangdong! ”

Zhang Bao took people out of the division headquarters and came to the logistics office, where he saw a courtyard full of new-style armor.

Zhang Bao also thought that these armors were the inventory of the former Ming Dynasty shipped from Nanjing, but he didn't expect them to be brand new armor shipped from Guangdong.

Zhang Bao's eyes lit up and said: "Looking at the armor, it's not bad, at least it's stronger than those cotton armors of the Qing army!" ”

At this time, a group of people from the logistics department were experimenting with new armor, and when they saw Zhang Bao coming, they hurriedly saluted and said: "The chief is here, we are trying to see if this armor can prevent the bows and arrows of the Qing army!" ”

Zhang Bao nodded and asked, "What bow do you use?" ”

The man with the bow said, "Sir, we have a stone bow!" "A stone bow is to hang a hundred catties of weight on the bowstring, and then the bowstring can be pulled away, this is a stone bow, those who can use a stone bow are already generals or strong men in the army, and ordinary soldiers can only use seven bucket bows.

Zhang Bao waved his hand to signal the soldier to start shooting, and the soldier opened his bow five meters from the armor and fired an arrow, which was bounced off the armor and did not pierce. (The bow and arrow shoot is not far away, there is no power at 30 meters away, the range of the bow and arrow competition in the Olympics is only 50 meters, and there are photos of bow and arrow practice shooting in the Qing Dynasty, and the distance is only five or six meters, you can look for it.) ）

Zhang Bao led people to watch the results, the armor was worthy of being made of stainless steel, and only a small pit was shot at a distance of five meters, and it was not shot through at all.

Zhang Bao touched the shiny armor and praised: "This armor is much stronger than the previous Ming army cotton armor!" "Zhu Hongsan used a cold weapon when he first started, but the weapon is easy to get, the armor does not dare to be manufactured indiscriminately, in Wuchang, the Ming Dynasty still has control over the place, you can get some knives and guns in a clan, and you still want to make armor, what do you want to do? It was not until Feng Ziyong became the magistrate of the county in the later period that Zhu Hongsan dared to use the name of the Ma family to sneak some armor, and the protective ability was similar to the cotton armor of the Ming army. Later, when he came to Guangdong, he made a hydraulic press, and this kind of plate armor with light and thin protective power was manufactured.

Zhang Bao was very satisfied with the protection of the armor, and said to the people in the logistics department: "Let each battalion come to receive equipment, we are cold weapons, and if we can't get it, we will be the first to play!" ”

These guys in the logistics department ran up one by one and slapped Zhang Bao's ass, saying that the general would go out and make a top move, and the general would wear this armor and the Qing army would surrender collectively when he saw it, etc.

Zhu Jiang was just sixteen years old, and he was the kind of angry young man who couldn't look down on the faces of these guys in the logistics department, so he said a word to Zhang Bao and went back to the camp.

Zhu Jiang returned to the barracks and asked the company commander to take people to fetch equipment, and lay on the bed and looked at the sky.

The commander of the first company was born in the Praetorian Guard Division, of course he knew Zhu Jiang's identity, and when he saw Zhu Jiang coming back today, he was in a bad mood, so he stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Sir, what's wrong?" ”

The commander of the first company is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, much older than Zhu Jiang, and Zhu Jiang knows that this first company commander must also have the important responsibility of protecting himself, so he respects the first company commander very much.

"Company Commander Wu, just now I heard the division commander say that we may be the first to attack the city, you said that our subordinates are all new soldiers, although they are prisoners of the Qing army, but they have just entered the camp, and they will go to attack the city before the queue is ready, isn't this sending them to death?"

The commander of the first company is called Wu Gui, and when he heard Zhu Jiang say this, he smiled and said in a low voice: "Lord Wang, of course it's good that you love your soldiers, but you don't think so at the top, these captives are a bunch of unstable factors in the eyes of some senior officials at the top, and it's best to die in battle!" ”

Zhu Jiang turned over and sat up when he heard Wu Gui say this, and asked, "Impossible!" That's more than 5,000 people! Just because they have been soldiers in the Qing army for a few years? "These newly recruited soldiers were all soldiers who captured the Manchus in the Battle of Nanjing, but they were not the main force, but the patrol departments of the provinces around Nanjing, the government officials, and the soldiers of the four towns of Jiangbei in the past. These people are not much evil, they are just full of food for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they have not killed or injured the Ming army on the battlefield, so after capturing tens of thousands of prisoners, Zhu Hongsan eliminated these people from being weak and strong, and picked out five or six thousand young men and women to send them to the Yangzhou battlefield, and the others were sent home.

Zhu Hongsan has a good calculation, these people are all in the prime of life, and they are good soldiers if they practice. However, some high-ranking generals in the army do not think so, and now factions have been formed in the army, the teaching regiment faction and the rogue faction, and the teaching regiment is mainly from the first and second batch of teaching regiments such as Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong. The Liukou faction is full of the Liukou recruited in Henan that year, and the representative of these people is Wang Jinbao. The two factions in the army are similar to the civilian officials, and they are fighting happily. Qian Yong, Zhao Guodong and other members of the teaching regiment are old and have a dominant position in the army, but Wang Jinbao of the third division is from a rogue and walks very closely with the gang of water bandits in the navy, and his power is not small. And the more than 5,000 people who came from the new division were not born in the teaching group system, but they had a lot of connections with the Liukou faction, especially the people from Henan and Shandong who were captive, and they were Wang Jinbao's hometowns, how could this kind of person stay in the second division system dominated by the teaching group faction.

Therefore, as soon as these captives arrived in Yangzhou, Zhao Guodong sent them all the officers from top to bottom, just to prevent these people from turning over. Now that the siege is imminent, the 10th Division is still equipped with cold weapons, and the top brass of the army has a reason to let them go to death first.

However, these things are not known to Wu Gui, a company commander, he received the news that all officers served as the supervising team during the siege of the city, and those who did not fight bravely to kill the enemy would be beheaded immediately!

Zhu Jiang sighed when he heard Wu Gui say this, he didn't expect that there were also gangs and factions in the army that he thought was pure, so it seems that those ministers in the DPRK and China are even more so!

Wu Gui saw that Zhu Jiang was lying down and didn't speak, so he had to come out and take people to the logistics office to get equipment, and then organize people to train, although the high-level wanted to let these cannon fodder prisoners go to death, but it was too embarrassing to collapse before rushing in front of the enemy, and basic training was still required.

On the fourth day of the first month of the second year of Shenwu, after three days of non-stop shelling, the section of the city wall of Xu Ningmen was finally about to collapse. However, the heavy artillery position was not having a good time, and the bombardment continued for three days, without stopping in the middle of the night, and eleven of the fifty naval heavy guns had been blown up, and a few cracks were found to be unusable, and now only thirty-two guns remained. And the intensity of the artillery bombardment is far from catching up with the previous few days, the navy brought in a thousand gunners, because more than 40 people were killed in the bore, and hundreds of people were burned by the barrels of the artillery, and now half of the gunners are seconded from the army.

Because of the high-intensity shelling, the temperature on the entire artillery position was several degrees higher than that in other places, and the heat generated by firing the first charge made the temperature on the position several degrees higher than that in other places, and the ice and snow on the ground all melted, and stagnant water was formed in the low-lying places. Some of the batteries were shaken out of the cracks, and the swaying was dangerous, and in order to ensure the strength of the reinforcement with some bluestone, the naval gunners and seconded army soldiers continued to shoot at this position in this kind of muddy water for three days.

Zhang Liang and several officers have been on the battlefield for the past three days, and he has lost the heroic posture he had when he first came, and his white navy uniform has been stained with mud and water, which is similar to the gray training uniform of the army.

Zhang Liang picked up the monoculars, saw that the city wall was crumbling, and shouted to the herald behind him: "You go and report to the governor, the navy is fortunate to be not dishonored, the city wall of Yangzhou is about to be breached, please prepare the brothers of the army!" "It's no wonder that Zhang Liang shouted and spoke, whoever listened to the sound of heavy artillery fire in the position for three days would do the same.

After receiving Zhang Liang's message, Ma Jiyuan said happily: "Okay! That's great! I didn't expect this Zhang Shuiyu to be quite powerful! ”

"Admiral Zhao, it's up to you to see your army, are you ready?"

Zhao Guodong clenched his fists and said, "Please rest assured, the last general is ready!" Just wait for this moment! ”

"Tell me what you're going to do?"

"Lord Governor, the first step is to send ten divisions and five thousand men wearing heavy armor to attack the city, and then the next three regiments will expand the results of the battle in the city!"

Ma Jiyuan nodded and asked, "Are there any people left at the other city gates?" Don't let the Qing generals escape! ”

This is a bit difficult, Zhao Guodong has a total of less than 40,000 people, the south gate here as the main attack direction will use 30,000 people, and the other five or six thousand people to defend the eleven city gates of Yangzhou are really insufficient.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it is really that the last general's troops are insufficient, and your Excellency also knows that there are twelve city gates in Yangzhou, and there are less than 40,000 people in the hands of the last general, so you really have more than enough strength but not enough strength!"

Ma Ji is far from being the kind of unreasonable person, and there is no way to hear Zhao Guodong say this, but fortunately, the emperor only needs Yangzhou City, and the other Qing generals did not say that they must be caught.

"Alright! This governor also knows the difficulties of Admiral Zhao, try your best, if you can catch one, it is one! ”

After Ma Jiyuan finished speaking, he and some army generals such as Zhao Guodong came to Xu Ningmen, where 15,000 people had been concentrated, and the front was the hand-to-hand combat troops led by Zhang Bao's 10th Division. The armor transported from Guangdong is very good-looking, and 5,000 people wear it very well. Behind were three regiments of musketeers, after the Jiangyin Lane Battle, the new army had a very good set of street fighting, and the 10,000 people had been divided into groups according to the company platoon, a group of 40 to 50 people, to protect one or two artillery, and the kind of eight-pounder cannon of the army in the street battle after entering the street battle had a place to use.

Seeing the hand-to-hand combat troops standing in front, Ma Jiyuan asked hesitantly: "Admiral Zhao, King Qin... Although Ma Jiyuan doesn't like this grandson, after all, it is his own blood and blood, and it is impossible not to worry.

Zhao Guodong heard Ma Jiyuan's question, and hurriedly whispered: "Don't worry, my lord, King Qin has a capable person sent by the last general by his side, as well as His Majesty's Dongchang guard, don't worry, Lord Ma, originally the last general arranged for King Qin not to go to the battlefield, but King Qin didn't listen, so he had to go." ”

Ma Jiyuan waved his hand to interrupt Zhao Guodong's explanation, this grandson he knows that he is very stubborn, similar to himself, it is going to rain and his mother wants to marry, let him go!