'Click~~~' A dense burst of gunfire rang out, and several defender soldiers holding cluster grenades were knocked to the ground by Thompson's submachine guns. The place where they fell was less than forty meters away from the nearest tank. Thomson in the hands of the armored infantry showed great power in this cramped environment.

The tank unit of the Ming Dynasty was incarnated as a demolition. Relocated and began to destroy all the buildings in a frenzy. Even if it is already in ruins, if the armorers sense danger, they will stop the vehicle and fire it. Structures made of civil or concrete steel cannot withstand 75 mm high-explosive shells.

Many of the defenders hidden in the various buildings were either killed or buried alive. The defenders, who were forced to rush out, were quickly knocked to the ground by machine guns and armored infantry. After changing tactics, the advance of the Ming army became smoother.

As the railway station with the greatest losses before, it was taken care of at the time of the shelling. A large number of large-caliber shells completely destroyed the buildings here. The rails have become twisted twists and entangled, and the wide platforms and waiting halls have completely collapsed into piles of rubble. From time to time, the ruins saw the stumps of the defenders with severed arms or the wounded howling in despair. Their journey is over.

'Squeak squeak ~~~' In the sound of the tracks crushing the ruins of various debris, the powerful armored force rushed over again.

This time it was the armored infantry who jumped from the tracked armored vehicles. These well-trained soldiers hunched their bodies ran around the battlefield at high speed, using the cover of various ruins to clear obstacles in the tank's path. Most of the defenders who were hidden everywhere were killed by them.

In the face of such an all-round attack, the defenders, who had no anti-tank guns and no RPGs, could not continue to hold out on to courage alone. After more than twenty minutes, most of the defenders were killed or captured in despair, and only a few were able to escape their positions and escape back into the town. The battle at the train station was just a microcosm of the battle in the entire town of Ladysmith, when the Ming army got serious. The defenders, who were completely different in strength, could not resist the advance of the Ming armored forces at all.

After more than an hour of fighting, most of the defenders were wiped out in the city. The few defenders who had fled were also wiped out by the ensuing pursuit of the armored forces. How could a two-legged man outrun an armored vehicle in such an open area?

"General." Lu Zhiyuan, who still had the color of gunpowder on his face, came to the headquarters and shouted loudly with a happy face, "We have taken the town of Ladysmith!" ”

It's no wonder that Lu Zhiyuan is so happy. In the first operational plan of the Army Command, it was foreseen that the capture of this important location would require the mobilization of at least one division of troops, and that it would take at least five days with artillery support. And they took it in just a few hours, and the losses were not significant. As a front-line commander. The great feats of the edge of the road are real. Any young officer aspires to make a name for himself and make a name for himself.

"You're doing a great job." Zhang Cheng curled the corners of his mouth and sketched a faint smile: "Now clean up the battlefield and rest the troops." We're going to Dundee tomorrow and wipe out the main force of the Boers on this side. As long as we defeat them, then we can drive straight to Pretoria and establish immortal feats. ”

The busiest people in this part of South Africa at the moment are not the Boers who fled to Dundee in a panic, nor the Ming army that cleaned up the battlefield and rearmed. It's the journalists of all countries who risk their lives on the battlefield.

In the current economic situation, journalists are not having a good time. In order not to lose their jobs, they have to risk great danger to chase shocking news on the battlefield. At least a dozen or more journalists were killed in today's fierce battle in the town of Ladysmith.

As the fighting gradually subsided. After the gunfire that raged for a day dissipated. A large number of journalists began to compile the day's news and quickly sent it to the port of Durban, where it was disseminated to the world through the telegraph office.

In the morning, all the reporters thought that the unprecedented 100-plane air battle would become a classic scene that attracted attention. But when night fell, all the reporters focused their main stories on the mighty armored forces.

Ever since the invention of trench tactics, warfare has entered a slow pace of mutual attrition. The all-destroying artillery bombardment coupled with the infantry man-sea tactics, the cavalry pursuit was everything on the battlefield. Originally, everyone thought that the war between the Ming and the Boers would also be in this pattern, and the Ming succeeded in dragging the Boers to death after paying huge casualties. But the armored forces that came out of nowhere stimulated everyone!

It took several hours to quickly assault tens of kilometers away, and quickly crushed the resistance of the defenders. This rhythm of war has never been seen before.

Although there are also reasons such as the carelessness of the defenders, the failure to build defensive positions, and so on. However, the actual result was that a Ming division took only a few hours to defeat the main force of the Boers. and successfully captured the town of Redsmith. This enormous power is sure to attract everyone's attention. Even if it's just a journalist, they can feel it. The old tactics that have been going on for years are about to be destroyed. A whole new era has arrived.

The performance of the Ming army in the sky is also wonderful!

Gain air superiority against the weak, with an incredible battle loss ratio. Powerful ground attack aircraft nearly disintegrated the Boer army. The powerful artillery that the Boers had been given with the support of various countries was wiped out almost without a chance to use it. The Ming Army almost single-handedly defeated the Boer faith in resistance. This is evident from the rout of the Boer army, which fled without any organization to speak of.

"New fighters in the sky, armored troops on the ground." Qi Bing, the chief military reporter of the Times, had a half-burning cigarette in his mouth and a pen in his hand, hurriedly writing in his manuscript book: "The brand-new, high-speed, mobile, and all-round offensive tactics are bound to change the world's military trend." It is time for the trench tactics, which have been shackled by the world's military revolution for many years, to withdraw. ”

"Xu Mu's telegram." Wang Yan, dressed in military uniform, pushed open the door of the command car and walked in. shook the telegram in his hand and handed it to Zhang Cheng, "The Zhang family is relieved." ”

"Hmm." Zhang Cheng raised his eyebrows, smiled and took the telegram and read it carefully. Sure enough, the Zhang family of Songjiang Mansion, which was suffering from internal and external troubles, finally relented.

The core industry of Zhangjia in Songjiang Prefecture is the largest shipyard in Daming and the largest in the world, Jiangnan Shipyard.

After years of investment and construction by the Zhang family, this shipyard is very large. The shipyard set up on Chongming Island covers an area of more than 30,000 acres. There are more than 30,000 workers of all kinds. It has three huge docks that can build 50,000-ton large warships and three large warships that can build 30,000-ton large warships.

Jiangnan Shipyard has numerous large gantry cranes, cranes, various new electrification equipment, and even has its own special armored steel plant. With more than 100,000 employees, the interconnected downstream plant is truly the world's number one shipyard.

The reason for the rapid rise of the Zhang family is that the previous head of the Zhang family seized the opportunity of the second industrial revolution to invest heavily in this shipyard. As a result, this shipyard has become the core industry of the entire Zhang family. Not to mention the contract with the Navy, the shipyard alone makes enough money from the construction of civilian ships to keep it afloat. It's a super business in the air.

It's just that now this core enterprise has to be sold by the new patriarch of the Zhang family.

The infighting of the Zhang family has already divided the winners and losers, and the master of Zhang Moyang, who has dealt with Zhang Cheng, has successfully occupied that position. It's just that the price paid is too great. The infighting led to a great loss of the strength of the Zhang family, and the other families all saw the benefits, and pounced on them and tore them to the wounds of the Zhang family.

Before the Zhang family gritted their teeth and survived, the terrifying Great Depression that swept the world came. The Zhang family, which was already suffering from internal and external troubles, could no longer support it.

Not to mention the losses in the stock market, the depression of the real economy alone has put the Zhang family in an unsustainable situation. The huge industry needs working capital to sustain it, and where does the Zhang family go to get money at such a time? Not to mention that there are so many tigers and wolves around, ready to eat the Zhang family.

The Zhang family invests a lot of money in the equipment procurement and maintenance of Jiangnan Shipyard every year. Although this makes the equipment of Jiangnan Shipyard advanced and exquisite. However, it also greatly consumed the reserve funds of the Zhang family. When encountering internal and external troubles. The Zhang family could no longer continue to maintain.

After struggling to support it for a period of time, the Zhang family couldn't stand it anymore. After the mediation of Lord Shoufu, the Zhang family finally decided to transfer the Jiangnan Shipyard, the core industry of the family, to Zhang Cheng.

Although they lost their core industries, the Zhang family threw off the heavy burden in this era of the Great Depression and received a large amount of much-needed funds from Zhang Cheng, so that they had the capital to make a comeback. Anyway, it's better than the shipyard being snatched up by those business alliance bastards.

"The current economic situation is not optimistic, and you will be burdened with a huge amount of burden when you take this shipyard. Don't say anything else. The salaries of those tens of thousands of people alone are not a small amount. What do you do if you can't place an order? Not to mention the folk. The Navy does not have any orders now. Wang Yan frowned and looked at Zhang Cheng with some concern.

"It's okay." Zhang Cheng got up with a smile and came to the side of the wine cabinet, opened the wine cabinet, took out a bottle of whiskey and poured two glasses. After handing Wang Yan a glass of whiskey, Zhang Cheng sat back in his chair, "As long as there is gold here, Lord Shoufu's new economic policy can be implemented." At that time, the shipyard will be a hen that lays golden eggs. That's right. Zhang Cheng raised his hand and took a sip of wine, "How is the matter with Pfizer?" ”

"It's hard." Wang Yan shook his head, "The Zhang family values this source of wealth very much, and after getting the money you bought the shipyard, there is no problem for them to maintain it." It's hard for you to get Pfizer back. ”

Zhang Cheng narrowed his eyes. There was a flash of sharpness in his eyes. He took a sip of the wine glass in his hand and didn't say a word.

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