Chapter Ninety-Seven: Cannon Fodder

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On the cruiser Invincible, Gao Huai, chief of staff of the Northern Expeditionary Army, said to Yang Feng with excitement.

The latter was sitting on a recliner at this time and was drowsy by the sun, and he was kneeling next to him to serve, of course, it was mainly to solve the physiological needs of Yang Dashuai, and now this woman who is still said to be the Yehenara clan has completely accepted her status as a handsome Xing slave, and she lies down under this big devil every night......

It seems to be quite happy.

"So fast? Didn't you say more than fifty battleships? ”

Yang Feng said.

"The navy's bombardment is too ruthless, basically one cannon at a time, most of the Tartar battleships were blown to pieces by this thing, even Lan Li and his flagship did not escape, now there are only twelve relatively small warships left in the Yangtze River Naval Division to escape to Jinshanwei, because our ship draft is too deep so we can't chase in, and now Luo Zhang and the fleet are blocked outside."

Gao Huai said.

"Then let them continue to block, pull out those seven cruisers, and follow our fleet north."

Yang Feng said.

Zhenhai and other battleships have a very deep draft, which is a common problem of European warships, calming the draft of the two ships is more than five meters, and even approaching six meters when fully loaded, and the draft of the other four ships is also about five meters, and the water depth of the Haihe estuary is only seven meters even when the tide is full, such a water depth is difficult to allow the battleship to move freely, and the cruiser with a draft of about four meters is already the limit, so he can't realize the idea of bombarding the Dagu Battery.

Fortunately, this problem is not difficult to solve.

He's got even more terrifying rocket launchers!

The new order was immediately sent to Jinshanwei by a cruiser, and the huge fleet led by Yang Feng continued to go north according to the original route, and soon crossed the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then went north to the Shandong Peninsula, where there was Kang Mazi's only combat force at sea, that is, the naval division battalion under the Dengzhou General Army based in Penglai, with that bit of strength, a random cruiser could crush it, so it was directly negligible......

Well, this one can already be directly labeled as garbage.

And just when he was drowsy in the rising and falling waves, basking in the late autumn sun, the Yangtze River Naval Division was almost wiped out, and the news that Admiral Lan Li was blown to the ground was also sent to Beijing by Suzhou's fast horse with an expedited 800 li.

Of course, it doesn't matter, it's how to deal with the current situation.

Just when the messengers were desperately whipping their horses and galloping on the ancient post road, there was no need to wait for the order from Beijing to be sent back, and Yabu, who presided over the war in the south of the Yangtze River, did not hesitate to give the order to attack on the whole front.

But Jab pushed them all back with a word.

"Which of you can guarantee it?"

Prince Jane shouted with blood-red eyes.

Who can guarantee it?

Who knows what that madman is trying to do? You never thought that he would attack Beijing, but now that his army is already marching towards Dagu at a rate of hundreds of miles a day, who among you can guarantee that he will not land there? He has only one brigade, but so far, we have lost more than 100,000 troops, and the Ming army killed and wounded adds up to one brigade?

Well, this one really doesn't.

So who of you can guarantee that he has such strong combat effectiveness and will not risk landing in Dagukou? Once he landed in Dagukou, the Qing Dynasty, the prosperous era of Kangxi, and the Holy Lord Mingjun all became jokes, and the same love for the Xinjueluo family, and the legitimacy of the Qing Dynasty's entry into the Central Plains, all became jokes.

So there is no other choice.

Whether he is bluffing or really crazy, he can only follow his pi shares now, and now he can only fight for a breakthrough with a full-front attack to force him to fall back.

"Attack, attack on all fronts, don't care about the casualty figures, isn't it just a few who died as soldiers? There is no shortage of people in the Qing Dynasty, what is it to die more than 100,000 people, you can pull out 100,000 strong men if you find a mansion, and you can be a soldier with a spear, they are just cannon fodder, what do you care, is their rotten life important or the country of the Qing Dynasty important? Everyone climb out of your fortress, Aixin Jueluo's family has raised you until now, it's time to show loyalty, Fenghua, Xikou, Sanjie, Lizhu, Puyang, Hangzhou, all the fortresses held by the Ming army must be beaten to me, and don't give me any other mess, I will fight, I will put pressure on them, whether it is fought or not, it must be fought, and the Ming army must feel the pressure and feel the pressure of fear......

Then, bring back their mad commander! ”

His Royal Highness was like a wounded beast, staring at blood-red eyes, waving his arms and roaring.

In a helpless obedience, the bloodiest battle began.

Starting from the Ming army Shangtian fortress south of Fenghua, it went north to Xikou Fortress, the Three Realms Fortress south of Shangyu, the Lizhu Fortress west of Shaoxing, the Puyang Fortress south of Xiaoshan, and all the way to Hangzhou, the northernmost point of this direction. On the opposite side, more than 200,000 Eight Banners, Green Battalions and even the brave battalions of local regiments were driven out of fortresses, barracks, and trenches by their generals, and worked hard to cut down the thorn bushes that were originally designed to block the Ming army, and filled the trenches that they had also worked so hard to dig. Then carrying muskets, bows and arrows, broadswords and spears, pushing heavy cast-iron cannons, with dazed and panicked, launched an attack on the artillery, rocket artillery, rifles, grenades, burning pings, gasoline-spraying fire dragons, and, of course, barbed wire, and the mines that were recently beginning to be used.

As for the results......

"It's not a war, I feel like I'm a pure executioner now."

Sun Sheng, the commander of the Lizhu Fortress and the deputy commander of the Fifth Infantry Brigade, looked at the Qing troops swarming on the opposite side with some helplessness, and said to another officer beside him.

Not far from them, several Ming soldiers were enthusiastically holding a huge bamboo water gun, aiming at the Qing soldiers who were stepping on the dead bodies of their comrades and rushing across the barbed wire fence to the moat. A strong soldier pushed the back push rod, shouted and pushed hard, and the gasoline filled in it instantly opened the plug, and suddenly hit nearly ten zhang away, pouring it on the heads of the Qing army like rain. The Qing soldiers, who already knew the ferocity of this thing, screamed, especially those who had not been doused and ran back like crazy, but then a volunteer who helped defend the city used all his strength to smash a grenade with a fuse and a burning pinge tied together.

The next moment, the Qing army in the midst of the fire demon raging suddenly scattered.

At the same time, those unscrupulous soldiers threw away their oil guns as quickly as they could, picked up their respective rifles and aimed at the backs of the Qing soldiers and began to shoot targets.

And not far from them, two soldiers were forming a group, guarding a whole basket of grenades next to them, one igniting the other and throwing it under the city wall, and the Qing army below them, under the pressure of the warlords behind, finally stepped on the corpses covered with barbed wire and rushed to the city wall.

And inside this city wall, in front of a row of twenty rocket launchers, those experienced veterans were adjusting the height of the tripod according to the distance of the Qing army brigade reported on the city wall, and after the final adjustment, the shooter with the torch quickly ignited the fire. Immediately afterwards, twenty terrifying heavy rockets soared into the sky, and after reaching the highest point, they quickly fell down, like a meteorite falling from the sky, and smashed into the middle of the Qing army, and the terrifying power of eighty catties of black powder was released like magma from a volcanic eruption, and there was a blank area within a radius of more than ten zhang around.

Immediately after the gantry crane was pushed forward, a horse-drawn cart with rockets also stepped forward, and the soldier in charge of loading the ammunition hoisted a heavy rocket with an inverted chain, and then carefully cooperated with each other to insert the launch canister, and then pulled the ignition fuse from underneath, readjusted the height of the tripod, and attacked the next unlucky target.

Of course, the real workhorses were still the rifles and cannons, rifled guns and two cannons of different calibers densely packed on the city walls, using bullets, flowering bullets, solid bullets, grenades, and even the latest incendiary bombs filled with gunpowder and white phosphorus, to create a death zone up to three miles away. Those poor Qing soldiers had to face death at any moment almost from the moment they saw the city walls. The dense corpses also started from the place where the Ming army could see them, and spread out under their feet, and at the foot of the city wall, it completely turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and even the barbed wire fence as wide as 20 zhang was paved by the dead corpses in many places.

"Look, what's the difference between such a battle and a tu-kill?"

Sun Sheng said helplessly.

"There is no difference, there is no difference with tu killing."

Four miles away from him, Zhao Hongcan, who was accustomed to failure, sat slumped on the Taishi chair, smoking a magical tobacco called immortal drunkenness, and said to Yue Zhongqi helplessly, he didn't have the courage to face the battlefield now, so he could only hide here and anesthetize himself in this way.

"But will these Prince Jane see it? Does he need to see these? ”

Then he added.

Yue Zhongqi silently lowered his head.

"Virtuous nephew, please tell Ling Zun, we just take care of ourselves, don't take care of the rest, in their eyes, those who are soldiers are cannon fodder, aren't we cannon fodder, the Qing Dynasty is the Aixin Jueluo family, and our lives are our own!"

Zhao Hongcan said faintly. (To be continued.) )