Bao Ping'an set the official time of the attack at three o'clock in the afternoon, that is, when the Qing army was most sleepy and the defense was the most lax.

"General, the hour has come, and it's time for you to give orders." Look at the time has come, Li Hongzhang reminded.

"Come on, beat the drums and gather the generals!" Bao Ping'an's expression froze, and he said in a loud voice.

In less than a moment, the sound of drums sounded in the army.

The three-way drum is over, and the crowd will gather.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I won't say anything superfluous, now, I order, the artillery of the firearms battalion will attack first, once the artillery fire completely covers the city, the archers brigade will continue to attack, covering the ordinary infantry to storm the city tower from the front, the hoplites carrying the city carts, directly attacking the city gate and covering the ordinary infantry from the flanks, the hoplites are ambushed on the left side of the city gate, and the light cavalry is ambushed on the right side of the city gate, waiting for the last attack signal, the officers and men of the engineer battalion and the logistics support brigade must ensure that all the equipment and materials are complete, and there is no mistake, Did you hear me?" Bao Ping An announced the plan discussed with Li Hongzhang in advance.

"Yes." The generals were solemnly ordered.

"Everyone, please remember that this battle is very important, please be cautious, if there is any passive neglect, disobey the military order, will be engaged in military law." After keeping the peace, he put a cruel word.

"Yes! Obey the general's orders." The generals will not dare not take it seriously.

With a wave of the Baoping army's big hand, the generals immediately turned around and left in a hurry, preparing to lead their troops to attack the city.

Bao Ping'an took Li Hongzhang to supervise the battle in the rear.

According to the deployment, the firearms battalion was the first to move, and the firearms battalion was equipped with three main types of equipment, cannons, muskets, and thunderbolts. With the exception of the Thunderbolt, which was produced by the Taiping Army, the cannons and muskets were purchased from Europa through the Dream Business Empire.

Although Huang Xu had already allocated these heavy weapons to the army, the Taiping army did not really use them much, on the one hand, because it was not yet time to really use these things, and on the other hand, because the generals of the Taiping army believed in themselves and their soldiers far more than they believed in these firearms, so these firearms have been unknown and sleeping in the army.

As the saying goes, gold always shines, and this time, it's time for it to show its majesty.

The war drums roared, the trumpets sounded loudly, and the ten cannons belonging to the firearms battalion were lined up, the muzzles of the cannons were directly facing the head of Suncheon City, the red hijab on the top of the cannons had been removed, and the black muzzles were like the bloody mouths of fierce beasts, ready to swallow everything in front of them at any time.

The gunners were in place, loaded the ammunition, and then as the red flag in the hands of the starter was raised and put down, the ignited artillery let out a loud roar, and the huge cannon spit out a cannonball, whistling and flying through the sky, mercilessly smashing on the city tower defended by the Qing army, only to hear a burst of boom, boom, boom huge sonic boom sound sounded on the city tower, one after another, and then the fire rushed to the sky, black smoke straight out, and with the artillery fire falling from the sky, the Qing army on the city head has become a pot of porridge.

At this time, it was noon, most of the Qing troops were not in a state, their spirits were sluggish, and even some people showed a dizzy look, they did not guard against the attack of the Taiping army at all, as a result, a burst of artillery fire, they immediately blew up.

Cui Min, the deputy general of the Taiping Army who commanded the siege in front of the battle, saw this scene and understood that the fire was almost over, so he pointed a spear in his hand, and the archers came out, and then, the arrows in the sky rained down on the tower of the Qing army again, and the Qing army, which was already hit by artillery fire, knocked down a large area, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties.

After a round of fierce shooting, Cui Min estimated that the old defense system of the Qing army had been broken, the new defensive steps had not yet been re-established, and the time for siege had come, so he waved his gun and pointed forward, ordinary infantry carried siege equipment, and hoplites pushed the city carts, rushing towards the set target like a tide.

As Cui Min expected, the impact of artillery fire and bows and arrows made the Qing army defending the city lose their defensive instinct, and when they were shocked to see the black Taiping army rushing towards the city tower, their only reaction was to look stupidly.

It wasn't until the Taiping army rushed to the city wall, erected a ladder, and then began to climb up, that the Qing army seemed to wake up like a dream, and then heard a terrible scream suddenly sounded on the head of the city, the enemy army attacked the city, on alert! Alert!

It's a little late to be on guard now, maybe.

Bao Ping'an stood behind the formation, holding a telescope captured from the Qing army, observing the chaos on the head of the Qing army with great interest, he felt a little interesting.

"With a few artillery bombardments, the Qing army will be in chaos without a fight, and it seems that we have won the battle." Bao Ping'an handed the telescope to Li Hongzhang beside him, and said boringly.

Before this battle started, the Qing army was already crushed, and it was too boring.

"I didn't expect the power of the cannon to be so powerful, it's really surprising." Li Hongzhang held up the telescope in his hand and sighed while inspecting the enemy's situation.

They attacked all the way, the momentum was like a rainbow, and they didn't use the artillery provided to them by the logistics support team, or rather, Bao Ping'an didn't look down on this thing at all, he didn't think this thing had any big effect at all, compared with his heroic soldiers, this was simply a pile of scrap iron, burden, if it wasn't for worrying about Huang Xu's scolding, he would have ordered someone to throw this thing away.

However, after seeing the power of the cannon, he secretly rejoiced, fortunately, he didn't have the mood to throw this thing away, if he really threw it away, it would really make him regret it.

"Yes, I knew that the cannon was so easy to use, and we had to spend so much effort to kill so many brothers to fight, and directly use this cannon to blast these Qing army kings into slag, don't you have it." The peace croaked and screamed, and the excitement was overflowing.

There are good things that don't need to be used, it's a tyrannical thing, it's a pity.

"Although the power of the cannon is huge, it can only play some auxiliary role, and the most difficult siege of the city is still dependent on our heroic Taiping soldiers." Li Hongzhang was still holding the telescope in his hand, and he didn't look back.

"No, didn't you see the scene of the man on the city tower turning over on his back just now, let's him a few more times, won't it be over?" The cannon left such an impression on Bao Ping that he almost subconsciously felt that the cannon could solve all his problems for him.

"General, you think about the United States, I heard the people of the logistics support brigade say, this thing, but treasure, the whole army adds up, there are only forty guns, we can get ten here, it is already snickering, and the price of this thing is super expensive, the money to buy a cannon is enough for us to feed a small army, and the shells are not cheap, just those shells that we just yelled out of, if they are exchanged for silver, they can be used by the people of heaven for a while, and the cannon is money!" Li Hongzhang listened to Bao Ping'an's words, shook his head with a smile, and calculated the details with him.

"Good boy, so expensive?" Bao Ping'an looked stunned, a little disbelieving.

"Of course, otherwise, how could the entire firearms battalion only be equipped with forty cannons, doesn't the Joint Operations Command know the power of these cannons?" Li Hongzhang said.

"yes, you have a point...... However, what kind of dream business empire is very large, why didn't the marshal let them support a little, if they asked for a little more, wouldn't the problem of money be solved?" Bao Ping'an's brain is very fast, he knows that there is such a God of Wealth in the Heavenly Realm.

"General, do you think the marshal doesn't want to, you don't know the price of firewood and rice, yes, you're right, the dream business empire is very rich, but it can't use all its wealth to subsidize our army." Li Hongzhang said.

"I didn't ask for a lot of money, just enough to buy a cannon, and this bit of broken silver is not a penny for that behemoth?" I don't think it's a big deal.

"General, you don't understand this, let me tell you, for the allocation of resources in the hands of the dream business empire, the upper echelons of the kingdom of heaven must have a budget, and I don't know what the specific situation is, but according to my own analysis, there are several expenditures, and they must be done." Li Hongzhang thought for a while and said.

"Strategist, you still know a lot, hurry up and say it." The interest in keeping peace was also raised.

"First of all, the business empire must keep a part of its own funds for circulation, secondly, it must support the empire's treasury, and secondly, it needs to pay money in many invisible places of the empire, and the army must also ask it for money... Wait, this east one, the west one, that expenditure is all money, although the dream business empire is very big and rich, but there are too many negative items, it can't bear it." Li Hongzhang also knows a lot about the situation of the Dream Empire.

"According to what you say, doesn't the Kingdom of Heaven have no financial revenue, and all of it has to rely on this dream business empire?" It was very strange to keep Ping'an, he thought it was impossible.

"Yes, in fact, the finances of the Kingdom of Heaven are all maintained by the Dream Business Empire, as we lay more and more ground, we need to feed more and more people, and the more and more money needs to be invested in construction, so that if you calculate it one by one, where can the Kingdom of Heaven eat, without the support of the Dream Business Empire, the Kingdom of Heaven will be struggling." Li Hongzhang nodded again.

"Oh, I see." Bao Ping An kind of understood.

"A penny is difficult for a hero, how to do things without money, and the marshal also has the difficulties of the marshal." Li Hongzhang is Huang Xu's confidant.

"I see, then from next month, we don't want all our money, all the losses are used to buy cannons, and then bombard the Qing army." Bao Ping'an patted his chest and said in a grand manner.

"Ha, ha, general, what can you do with your little money?" Li Hongzhang said with a smile.

"Then call on the whole army to donate a little, add up a lot, let's build one more cannon, we can sacrifice a little less life of the Taiping Army, so ah, donate this money, it's also worth it." Bao Ping'an's words are very emotional, and the accounts are very fine.

Li Hongzhang was also very moved when he heard Bao Ping'an's words, and he blurted out: "General Bao, count me in on donating money."

"Okay, Strategist, you must be indispensable." Bao Ping'an stretched out his fist, lightly slapped it on Li Hongzhang's chest, and said with a smile.

Li Hongzhang looked at Bao Ping'an's sincere face, touched his chest, and smiled.

After a while, Li Hongzhang said again: "However, general, although the power of this cannon is huge, it cannot replace the heroic Taiping soldiers, I have already said, it can only play an auxiliary role, so that we can kill fewer people and kill more enemies when attacking, and it has not been able to replace us to completely destroy the enemy and occupy their territory."

"Cheng, Cheng, I know the way, anyway, if you can die less, then everyone will be happy." The excitement of Bao Ping'an has not subsided, and he didn't listen to Li Hongzhang's words at all.

Seeing that Bao Ping An was like this, Li Hongzhang could only shake his head helplessly. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (biquge.info) to vote for recommendation and monthly pass. Your support is my biggest motivation ......)