After all, Yu Guozhen is not Zhuge Liang who has no last resort, he doesn't know that Dezhou City, which is clearly equipped with 10,000 militias, has become a city with empty garrisons in the eyes of Wu Sangui and Jianyu. He also thought that Wu Sangui would take into account the combat strength of these militiamen, so calculating his own defense line, Yu Guozhen suspected that Wu Sangui might attack Linqing.

If this is the case, Wu Sangui's troops should have a cavalry that is conducive to long-distance attacks!

"This is impossible, Wu Sangui's cavalry has been guarding Tianjin, and the news from the front line is like this. The force he used to attack Cangzhou was supposed to be stationed in Wuqing...... Wait a minute, could it be that this army is actually a serial plan, they slaughtered all the way south, not for fear that they would leak the news, but to cover the cavalry? ”

Song Xiance clapped his hands suddenly, revealing a look of sudden realization, and his words also reminded Yu Guozhen: "Jianyu! Only the Jianyu cavalry would make it look like this...... Jianyu can still divide the troops, it seems that Tian Boguang and Gu Jiaming in front of them don't put enough pressure on them. ”

"If it's not enough, there's no way, there's only so much strength in their hands." Song Xiance frowned, "If it's Jianyu...... If they were captives, would they attack Texas? ”

"Can Wu Sangui'an not tell Jianyu about the reality of our army in Texas?" Yu Guozhen shook his head: "I think ......"

At this moment, suddenly there was a report outside, and then an officer of the Huaxia Army walked in: "Commander, Chief of Staff, the enemy outside Cangzhou City seems to have moved." ”

"What's the change?"

Yu Guozhen's brows moved slightly, they were thinking about the enemy, and the other party immediately moved, this kind of coincidence made him very unhappy.

"Someone seems to have been sent...... I don't know why. ”

"Send someone...... Missing. Yu Guozhen didn't think about it, so he made a decision.

He had 20,000 men in his hands. And with a marching cannon. At first, he didn't launch a general attack, he just didn't want to make a senseless sacrifice, and now the other party's abnormal movements made him uncomfortable. It's like a half-asleep person who hears a mosquito buzzing and doesn't want to pay attention to it. But if it dares to bite someone, then turn on the lights and shoot them to death.

Therefore, Yu Guozhen made up his mind: "Boguang and Jiaming's side are not strong enough to put more pressure on Wu Sangui, but we can." Order, the whole army is mobilized, ready for a decisive battle! ”

"Huh?" Song Xiance was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Not bad, not bad." No matter how clever the enemy is, I can only break it with my strength, under absolute power. All cunning is in vain. Haha, hahaha......"

I can't help but laugh. Song Xiance served as a staff officer under Yu Guozhen, and spent a long time studying the history of Liukou and Jianlu. Not to mention, in fact, until the twelfth year of Chongzhen, he was mainly chased and beaten by officers and soldiers. But Jianyu is different, Jianyu not only repeatedly staged a good show of winning more with less, but also played the myth that "Jurchen is dissatisfied and invincible".

But by now, this myth has not only been shattered, but the Huaxia Army to which he belongs has also written a new myth.

Wu Sangui's army sent envoys at this time, of course, not to seek peace, but to disturb people's hearts. Yu Guozhen didn't see him at all, and no matter how many tricks he had on the tip of his tongue, he couldn't do it.

On September 10, the 19th year of Chongzhen, at the same time that Ao Bai was killed under the city of Dezhou, Yu Guozhen issued an order to defeat Wu Sangui's troops under the city of Cangzhou.

A force of 20,000 people means that there is a configuration of one hundred and eight field guns, and when these one hundred and eight guns start to bombard at the same time, the whole world loses its color. Just like a volcanic eruption, countless flames poured on the battlefield, and the billowing gunpowder smoke completely blocked Wu Sangui's sight.

No fortification could be held out for a long time under the artillery bombardment of such a regular pattern, and solid bullets and flowering bullets came in turn, ploughing the courtyard and sweeping the fortifications outside the battalion excavated by Wu Sangui's department. Although Wu Sangui's troops also fired back, their poor more than ten cannons, even their gunners couldn't hear the sound of their firing.

Thirty minutes later, when the artillery of the Huaxia Army stopped bombarding, the infantry of the Huaxia Army had already rushed to the front of the trench. They shot skillfully, jumping into the trenches for cover, which had been used to stop their advance, but now became their bunkers.

Although there were no instructors in Wu Sangui's army, the officers also told them that if they fell into the hands of Yu Guozhen alive, they would either be tortured and killed or imprisoned in the coal mine to serve hard labor in secret. Therefore, their fighting spirit was quite tenacious, and they even organized several counterattacks to fight for the trenches with the Huaxia army.

If you don't fight, you can't do it, they have already tasted the power of the artillery of the Huaxia Army, and this is not directly bombarded among them. If the trench was lost, the Huaxia army could push the artillery position to the edge of the trench, and their large battalion could not resist the bombardment of the scale of the fangcai.

But their counterattack, under the charge of the Huaxia army, seemed so weak and powerless.

The Huaxia Army is the purest firearms army in this era, and it is also the purest regular soldier in this era. Even Gustav and Wallenstein, who fought bloodied on the European continent a few years ago, did not have such a pure army under their rule. They are proficient in musket shooting, and the rapid-fire advantage of the rear-loading flintlock pistol is undoubtedly displayed in their hands, and three shots per minute can only be said to be of an average level! Moreover, they have the courage to meet the red with bayonets, and when the other side charges, they are happy to engage the other side in close combat after pouring out their ammunition. It can be said that musketeers, pikemen, they have both.

From the Huaxia army breaking into the trench to completely seizing the trench, the whole process was only an hour, and on the front that stretched for more than ten miles, Wu Sangui's army had already lost its own outer barrier. And the artillery was not idle, they had already filled in a flat ground at the trench where the Huaxia Army took the lead in completing the breakthrough, and began to push the artillery here. The Huaxia army stopped the assault, and the artillery began to roar again, this time the artillery exploded directly into the camp of Wu Sangui's army, and the damage and casualties caused were even more tragic.

"Commander, it seems that there is no need for infantry." Song Xiance looked at the other party's camp from the telescope and said with emotion: "In the future, artillery will be the king of war." ”

"Yes, so we can't stop at the development of artillery. Now some people are already suggesting that I should tilt the cost of research towards things like steam engines...... Well? ”

Yu Guozhen was about to complain, but he saw a strange thing in his field of vision, a group of cavalry rushed out of a camp of Wu Sangui's department, about 300 horsemen. The cavalry was very fierce, rushing in the face of a hail of bullets, and although one by one was shot and fell, not a single one of them turned and fled.

"This should be the last Guanning Iron Cavalry, but unfortunately, they did not die in the battle with the aliens, but at our hands." Song Xiance also saw the last brilliance of this cavalry, and he sighed with emotion.

"There's no pity, like them, they have no military discipline and no sense of the country, so they will die. Layman's ...... in Foreign Wars It is no longer the Guanning army commanded by Qi Gong. ”

"The commander continued to complain, let's talk about artillery development." Song Xiance smiled, although he didn't quite agree with Yu Guozhen's point of view in his heart, but over the years, Yu Guozhen's power has become more and more powerful, and Song Xiance's old literati habits made him begin to pay attention to restraining the expression of his dissenting opinions.

Yu Guozhen did not continue to complain. With the establishment of the framework of the Huaxia Military Strategy Committee, the people on both the military and the political sides under him are competing for resources, and no matter how rich he is, the resources that can be taken out within a certain period of time are always limited, just like the competition between the navy and the army for resources, which also happens in the military system and the civil affairs system. Many people think that the current strength of the Huaxia Army is enough to sweep the world, and their weapons are no longer something that Jianyu or any other enemy can catch up with in a short period of time, so the development of new weapons can be temporarily delayed and resources can be used for such things as improving the efficiency of the steam engine. For example, Jiang Youzhong, a researcher trained by Yu Guozhen, now enjoys extremely high treatment in Xinxiang, and he also competes for his great contributions to the improvement of trains and ships. But at the same time, he also began to have his own ideas, feeling that if he could devote more resources to the field research he wanted to conduct, he could better improve the lives of the Chinese people.

In his words, "the cost of studying a new armored steam gunboat can solve the problem of miniaturized application of steam boiler camel engines".

This is the difference between a scientist and a politician, a scientist thinks more directly, while a politician thinks about a problem much more complex. Yu Guozhen also admitted that he does not need to invest so much in military scientific research at present, and can use his precious funds to improve production and livelihood. However, he still hoped in his heart that he could establish as much advantage as possible in the army's equipment, so that in the future war with foreign enemies, he could lose less soldiers' lives.

Just like in the previous battle, he used 20,000 men, and the other side had about 60,000 people, and if it weren't for his superiority in weapons, even if he won, his own casualties would not be less. However, under the dual superiority of weapons and tactics, he defeated Wu Sangui's troops outside Cangzhou, and his own losses were almost insignificant.

Although Wu Sangui was deceived into believing that surrender would either be tortured and killed or tortured to death in the coal mines, when this fear was replaced by greater fear, collapse and mass surrender were inevitable. Of the 60,000 troops, 10,000 were killed, and the Huaxia army would bandage the wounded of the other side in the spirit of benevolence and righteousness, but because of the slaughter of Wu Sangui's troops when they went south, all the seriously wounded were executed, and the lightly wounded were not treated. More than 20,000 surrendered, and less than 20,000 escaped in the subsequent pursuit.

While cleaning up the battlefield, Yu Guozhen finally got confirmation from the captives that there were 20,000 Jianyu cavalry mixed in Wu Sangui's army and headed south, but before approaching Cangzhou, they had already broken away!