12-47 Yuan Shaoshuai

Outside Nanjing, 20,000 troops marched south with their helmets and armor, and the mighty army stretched for several miles, which was the elite division transferred by the emperor from the Gyeonggi garrison and made a special trip to Shanghai to quell the rebellion.

Yuan Chengzhi rode a war horse with more than a dozen tooth generals, standing on a small dirt slope and watching the progress of the team, he was wearing gold armor, covered with azure blue robes, with a trace of elegance in his might, quite a father's style, at this time Yuan Chengzhi's heart was fierce and surging.

"This is my army." The young marshal held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand and saw the team from beginning to end and from tail to end, and could not help but feel a lot of emotion.

Yuan Chengzhi is the son of the general, although the body is not very strong, but familiar with the military book and war strategy, since childhood quite strategic, but born at the wrong time, when he just finished his studies, Liu Ziguang was born, a person to the Ming Dynasty all the battles to give the round, and this guy is young and handsome, for a time became the idol of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, under such a brilliance, how can Yuan Chengzhi show his chance, he is extremely high-minded, unwilling to be an official under his father, so he has been studying at home until one day, Zhu Youxiao formed the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan before Yuan Chengzhi was excavated from obscurity.

The first battle in the capital, although the thief Liu Ziguang was not corrected, but it can also be regarded as a success, Yuan Chengzhi's ability has been confirmed, and he has won the trust of the emperor.

The heavy equipment of the army had been transported from the railway, but Yuan Chengzhi had to hold a military parade, so he asked his subordinates to put on a full set of armor, pass in front of him with spears and halberds, and then get on the car and board the ship and march to the sea.

In recent years, firearms have been exhibiting rapidly, and no matter how thick the armor is, it is also scum in front of the firearms, so the red-shirted army basically does not wear armor much except for iron helmets, but Yuan Shaoshuai does not recognize this, and he has to ask his subordinates to wear forty-five pounds of standard armor and walk to him against the sun.

The people on the outskirts of the capital looked at this army in fear, and the previous Northern Expedition to the West is different, the direction of this army is southeast, everyone knows that a few days ago the Shanghai Road was not very peaceful, I didn't expect it to be this part, and thousands of troops were needed to quell the rebellion, what happened to the Ming Dynasty?

The transportation in the south of the Yangtze River is convenient, and within two days, the army arrived in Shanghai, and Yuan Chengzhi first took over the command of the original 50,000 horses, and then beheaded four or five generals, and the general who was cowardly and afraid of war at the level of a thousand households, and the atmosphere in the army was shocked.

"Just a Shanghai city, thousands of rabble of rebels, with my 100,000 tigers, the rebellion is only in the day, from now on, the generals and soldiers of the three armies must do their duty, and must take this city within three days."

In the handsome account, Yuan Chengzhi's horsewhip pointed at Shanghai on the map.

"Qi Yu Dashuai, the rebels have built several layers of defense line, the firepower is intensive, it is really difficult to break through, I waited for the attack the day before yesterday, and it took seven or eight hundred brothers to take a small frontier village, and when I went in, the rebels only killed more than a dozen people, and if it goes on like this, I am afraid that it will take hundreds of thousands of lives to fill in Shanghai, and please think twice." One of the generals said.

"Ridiculous! It took seven or eight hundred losses to take a peripheral village, and you also have the face to mention that you have no way to use your troops, and it depends on how the commander commands. ”

Yuan Chengzhi personally went to the battlefield and observed the opponent's front with a clairvoyant mirror, Shanghai was very large, only a small part of the city wall was built, and the rest were cotton fields, paddy fields, small towns, and villages, and the rebels set up positions in these villages, dug trenches one after another, and the soldiers lay down in them to shoot, and the bullets and bows and arrows fired from the opposite side did not hurt them at all, but the attacking side suffered great losses in the wilderness.

In the past, the war was fought either by relying on the city wall to defend or in the wilderness, so lying in the ditch to fight a positional defensive battle was unprecedented, Yuan Chengzhi in his heart will see the Bingpiao astronomy area is not suitable at all, not to mention that the opponent is composed of technical workers who are proficient in firearms tactics and mechanical principles, the huge size of the chariot and the huge roar have no deterrent power for them at all, but they caught the weak point, and used the bazooka to attack the track part, and after fighting for a long time, the officers and soldiers still did not advance an inch.

Yuan Chengzhi felt very faceless, when he went on the expedition, he boasted about Haikou in front of the emperor, and took Shanghai within three days, otherwise he would come to see him, and he didn't even gnaw a small village in the last half a day.

Death is a trivial matter, but losing the face of the old Yuan family is a big thing, Yuan Chengzhi was anxious, and dropped a sentence: "This marshal wants you to take this village within an hour, otherwise all military law will be engaged!" Then he walked away angrily, leaving a group of officers and soldiers looking at each other.

In fact, there are reasons for the hard fighting, these forbidden troops stationed in Shanghai are originally locals, and it is indeed not easy for them to fire at the villagers.

The Jiuting Town in front of him is the core position of the Songjiang defense line, Xia Wanchun and they have a lot of superior troops here, so the officers and soldiers rushed several times in a row, and many people were killed and injured and still had no achievements, the paddy fields in front of the town were full of dead bodies and the wreckage of chariots, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and ** burning filled the air, and the former prosperous Jiangnan town became a miserable purgatory on earth.

In the evening, Yuan Dashuai came to inspect, and when he saw that the town had not yet been taken, he was furious on the spot, and ordered the military law team to take down all the battalions responsible for the main attack, and the officers of more than 100 households were beheaded, and the soldiers lined up in a row, and one out of every ten people was chopped.

Looking at the patches of blood red in front of him, Yuan Chengzhi was unmoved, continued to throw out an arrow, and said in a cold voice: "General Han, this time it's your battalion's turn, you can't take Jiuting Town at dawn tomorrow, and General Chen will be your example." ”

General Han was so frightened that he didn't dare to take orders, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense, and when he raised his head, Yuan Dashuai had already led the horses away. This battle really can't be fought, both horizontal and vertical are a death, it's better to rebel, anyway, his wife and children are in Shanghai, and he can't hold back his mind when he moves, so he sent someone to contact the other side that night, and when Yuan Chengzhi came to inspect again the next morning, the battalion of General Han was gone.

Yuan Chengzhi was so angry, he realized that the forbidden army of the original sea guard was unusable, and he still had to let these people brought by the capital go up, and when he was dispatching troops, a staff member said: "Dashuai, since the Nine Pavilions are impregnable, why not just destroy them?" ”

Yuan Chengzhi said: "There are countless workshops and factories in Jiuting Town, and there are even more people in Limin. ”

The staff said: "I'm afraid these people are all thieves, and they are no longer the people of the Ming Dynasty, so why should the marshal worry about it." ”

Yuan Chengzhi lowered his head and thought about it, and felt that the words of the staff were quite reasonable, and immediately ordered the artillery to move forward and destroy Jiuting Town.

The roar of hundreds of heavy artillery resounded in the sky, and in an instant, Jiuting Town was reduced to nothing, and this famous cotton spinning base in Songjiang has since become history, hundreds of thousands of cotton cloths were destroyed in the sea of fire, thousands of people were killed by artillery fire, and the defending army was also killed and wounded, and was forced to evacuate.

In the afternoon, the official army finally drove into Jiuting Town, looking at the ruined town and the corpses burned into black charcoal, many soldiers couldn't help but vomit, but Yuan Dashuai was unmoved, he just sighed lightly: "Why don't you be a thief." Then he straightened his waist and said to the flag: "Urgent report to Nanjing, the army has broken through to the periphery of Shanghai, the enemy is not counted, and the whole city will be overcome in the near future, please wait for the good news." Recruit the general, Yuan. ”

Yuan Chengzhi finally found the magic weapon to defeat the enemy, that is, the indiscriminate attack of heavy artillery clusters, covering the target with a sea of fire, no matter how strong his defenders were, it would not help, as for smashing and crippling Shanghai, it was not something he considered.

In the city of Shanghai, the Governor's Yamen. The loss of the Songjiang outer front made everyone a little frightened, the officers and soldiers actually used heavy artillery to destroy the entire town, which was unexpected by everyone, there were ship-based giant cannons in the Jiangnan shipyard, but the volume and weight were too large, it was impossible to use them in the 6 battles, besides, the use of naval guns to bombard the 6 ground, it was simply a devastating blow, the officers and soldiers could get this ruthless hand, they couldn't get down.

"I'll take a hundred brothers and blow up the heavy artillery of the officers and soldiers at night!" A good man from the Heaven and Earth Society roared angrily.

"It's not proper, Yuan Chengzhi is quite disciplined in his use of troops, and the camp is very firm, I'm afraid you will be shot by random arrows before you get close." Chief of Staff Liang Shiyi immediately vetoed it.

"Let's also push the cannon up, bombard them, and everyone will die together!" A cadet officer shouted.

"Yes, if you want to die, everyone will die together, who is afraid of whom!" The crowd agreed.

"It is understandable that a soldier died on the battlefield, but it is a little too shameless to pull millions of people in Shanghai to accompany him, Yuan Chengzhi can do it, I can't do it." Liang Shiyi's face was grim and rejected everyone's proposal.

"The surname is Liang, you are too bad, how can Grandpa Guo teach you to be such a coward!" The one who spoke was still the bold man of the Heaven and Earth Society.

"Wrong! Don't fight with officers and soldiers, this is what Grandpa Guo means. There was a shout at the door, and the commander Xia Wanchun had a telegram in his hand, obviously just arrived.