On the earthen Dagukou fort, dozens of artillery pieces are scattered around. Zhou Qingfeng stood in front of one of the particularly old and rusty guns, staring, and identified a line of words from the imprint left by the cannon body when it was cast—Daming Hongwu Ding Si ....... The words on the back are blurred and can't be seen.

"The cannon made during Zhu Yuanzhang's period has been left in the wind and rain until now? What kind of battery is this, it's clearly an artillery garbage dump. "Zhou Qingfeng made a simple calculation, this cannon is an old antique made more than 200 years ago." Wen Tian Wu Huan, this Ming Dynasty is really speechless. ”

Zhou Qingfeng led the army to land in Tianjin, and Ye Na led people to attack Dagukou. The Ming army stationed on the fort still felt inexplicably strange - how could such a ghost woman dare to bring someone to us to mess around?

waited for Ye Na to cut down a few small officers of the Ming army, and the soldiers below knew that the thieves were coming. They wanted to disperse in a hurry, but some more people died before they became honest.

Since the mouth of Dagu guards the mouth of the Haihe River, the geographical location is extremely important, Zhou Qingfeng simply set up his headquarters on the fort temporarily. The sappers in the army happened to use the captured Ming army as the basic labor force.

The staff officers of the unit made clear the policy to the prisoners, clearly stated that they would be provided with three meals, and that wages would be paid according to the number of days and workload. On the first day of forced labor, when the Ming soldiers found out that he really had food, drink and money, the next day he asked his family to come to work with a shy face.

Zhou Qingfeng went to the fort to inspect around, and saw a pile of old antiques on the fort. The Ming army officer who was rebelled by the Ministry of Security explained with a smile on his face: "Dashuai, this is a bowl." The one in the back is a hundred cannons. These are old things. The sharpest thing on this fort is the big Buddha Lang machine gun, which was made during the Jiajing period, and it is very powerful. ”

Handsome? My name has changed again?

Zhou Qingfeng turned his head, first frowning slightly at his title of 'from small to big', but when he heard the Ming army boasting about the Franc machine gun, he couldn't help laughing. He counted how long ago the Jiajing period was, and couldn't help but say sarcastically: "It's also scrap iron almost a hundred years ago." It's ridiculous that this thing is still a treasure. ”

The most powerful thing on this turret are several Franc cannons weighing more than 100 kilograms, full of rust and meaningless garbage. Zhou Qingfeng wanted to send these scrap iron to steelmaking in one go, and it was not easy to suppress the impulse to destroy - these cannons had no enmity with him, and they were cultural relics anyway. The military museum was opened that day, and these were exhibits.

The main force of nearly 2,000 people was organized into the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front'. After Zhou Qingfeng took control of the Dagukou Fort, he immediately ordered the troops to clean up the perimeter of the fort. He demanded that the military situation be unimpeded within 5 kilometers, that any hostile forces be cleared within 20 kilometers, and that there be clear feedback within a distance of 50 kilometers.

The main force in charge of intelligence investigation was a large number of spies deployed by the Ministry of Security and the Commerce and Trade Section when they were operating in Tianjin. After the landing of the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front', these spies were activated one by one.

These local spies numbered six or seven hundred people, and were responsible for the main work of guiding, espionage, and propaganda, and were a powerful hidden force of the front army. With the guidance of these local guides, the front's cavalry and infantry could keep attacking and destroying any local forces that dared to resist.

The ships transporting the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front' not only brought soldiers and horses, but also a large number of means of transport. After a winter of technical PR, wooden bearings finally began to be available openly. When the weather warmed up, the timber processing factories of the 'Revolutionary Army' began to mass-produce horse-drawn carriages.

Due to widespread malnutrition, it was difficult for adult men in ancient times to carry more than twenty kilograms of supplies on their backs for long journeys. Even the soldiers of the 'Revolutionary Army' Guards have only been conditioned for about half a year and a year, so they are not very strong. Their weight-bearing capacity is mediocre.

The folk wheelbarrow does not have good bearings, and at most the load capacity is lifted to 100 kilograms, which is too heavy and the car is easy to fall apart. The trolley can double the load again. The four-wheeled carriage can pull more than one ton of load with two horses, and the transportation efficiency is extremely high.

Only five four-wheeled carriages can carry all the personnel and equipment of an infantry platoon, operating continuously for two or three days within a radius of twenty kilometers. As the wagons rumbled along the road, many people living in the area came out to watch.

The Ming army marched either lazily or plundered. Zhou Qingfeng's guards changed the inherent concept of the army in the hearts of the common people in the past, and the majestic momentum spread in all directions. The arrival of the 'revolutionary army' is no longer a casual news, but a real change in the world.

Since the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front' is here, it will not wait for the Ming army to fight. Zhou Qingfeng advocated offense and would not let the troops sit idle in a daze. Before the headquarters at Dagukou could be repaired, he asked the staff officers to carry out the battle plan that had been drawn up.

At present, the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front' actually has personnel from three different organizations: the Guards, the Security Department, and the Commerce and Trade Section. In order to coordinate operations, the command headquarters dispatched staff officers to conduct on-site liaison.

After Qiao Xuenian completed the coordination of the port landing, he soon took on a new task, responsible for cleaning up a 'local diehard'. As a communications staff officer, he led an infantry company, more than a dozen local guides from the Ministry of Security, and more than 200 local migrant workers integrated from the Commerce and Trade Section into a combat group.

The entire battle group consisted of 400 people, and the civilian workers dragged behind and maneuvered on foot. Qiao Xuenian was moving quickly with the troops, and he would sit on the frame of the carriage and turn his head to look at a middle-aged man sitting beside him.

The man was dressed in tatters, his skin was dark, and his hair was tied with a straw rope. As the carriage progressed, he kept clasping his hands, gritting his teeth and weeping.

"In front, just go around the pond. The large area of Zhuangzi in front of him was all in charge of that Xiao, and my children were sunk in that lotus pond by him. The middle-aged man, a local guide sent by the Ministry of Security, pointed to a rustic mansion a few hundred meters away and shouted. I have finally waited for this day to avenge my child. ”

Qiao Xuenian had read the report on the social situation before the enemy sent by the Ministry of Security. The grievances of the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty are too great, and they are boiling over. It's like a pile of dry firewood, which can burn without a single spark. Wang Kunpeng's method of developing local spies is super simple, just ask who has been bullied by the gentry miserably. The Department of Security has almost no cost to develop a local guide, and it is accurate to find one.

Tianjin is a prosperous place, and the Ming Dynasty has set up many yamen here. For example, Tianjin Bingbei Road, Tianjin Governor Yamen, Tianjin Wei Command Envoy Yamen, Salt Transportation Division, Caoyun Yamen, and so on.

Many court officials bought land in Tianjin, built a large number of buildings, and made a fortune. As a result, the local gentry here are extremely powerful, and they can't figure out the intertwined ties at all. Zhou Qingfeng was too lazy to curry favor with these countries, and it was impossible to wait for them to organize a militia to fight against them, so he simply struck first - first killed a group of Liwei with great public grievances.

Qiao Xuenian's target this time is the head of the branch of the Ming Household Department in Tianjin. This Xiao chief official position is inconspicuous, but he has the responsibility of supervising and collecting taxes in Tianjin. Tianjin's transportation is related to the survival of the entire northern Ming Dynasty, this position is too important, and it is too easy to make oil and water.

Qiao Xuenian's battle group quickly rushed for thirty miles and arrived at Beitang Town, west of Dagukou. Director Xiao has a big grange outside the town. However, the 'Beijing-Tianjin Front' was fast, and Xiao, who was the head of the land, reacted faster, and he didn't know where he got the news. When Qiao Xuenian and the others arrived, the other party was unexpectedly prepared.

Hundreds of young men armed with knives and guns stood guard on the courtyard wall of Zhuangzi's mansion on escalators. The seventy-eighty-year-old Xiao chief even took his children into battle in person, wearing official robes given by the imperial court, holding several talismans in his hands, constantly encouraging the morale of the domestic servants.

Qiao Xuenian frowned at this and looked at the female officer leading the team in the other carriage.

That's right, this time it was a company of female firearms soldiers who attacked. More than a dozen wagons of this company stopped at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy, and nearly 100 female soldiers with arquebuses on their backs got out of the carriages and lined up. Before the battle, Qiao Xuenian was a little nervous. But those female soldiers did not look out of the slightest except for their tense faces.

The battle was about to begin, and the people in the Grange Mansion were all on the wall. The surrounding villagers did not run, but stood a hundred meters away to watch the excitement. Seeing that it was a group of female soldiers, everyone felt that they had opened their eyes - women were soldiers, which was unprecedented in Daming. No one is left to look at it.

The female company commander was very sharp, and constantly ordered to check the equipment when they were in line. The arquebus, soaked in potassium nitrate, was lit at one end, and the unlit one was clamped to the snake shaft of the bolt, and the first ammunition was quickly loaded. All the female soldiers had serious faces and walked forward neatly under the orders of their respective squad leaders.

Qiao Xuenian really hadn't experienced this kind of fighting, he only knew that the target this time was a relatively powerful enemy nearby. That Xiao master's family has hundreds of hectares of fertile land and thousands of tenants, and there are hundreds of children in this house and Ding Qingzhuang, the family who guards the courtyard. Although he was confident in the combat effectiveness of his own guards, he was still a little suspicious of these female soldiers.

When it comes to war, men are always more reliable.

Zhou Qingfeng took Dagukou, and the rumor spread immediately. Director Xiao is in charge of Cao Yun and is very well-informed. He immediately organized his own family - whether it was to deal with the anti-thieves who came ashore or to deal with the Ming army that was attacking, he needed to be prepared. After all, this year the bandits are a family.

Director Xiao was fighting at the main gate of his mansion, and when he saw a group of women in gray military uniforms coming from afar, he couldn't help laughing and shouted to his disciples: "There is no one in Zhou, and he actually encouraged a group of big-footed women to fight." It's ridiculous, it's ridiculous, the princes of the court were frightened by such anti-thieves. Let's see how this official breaks the thief to repay the king's kindness! ”

Director Xiao was white-haired, and the servants around him were also relieved. Everyone knew that the Zhou rebels were in chaos in Liaodong and slaughtered the gentry mercilessly, but they didn't expect that the rebels would send a team of women to fight. In their view, a woman is a life that works, suffers, is reprimanded, and is humiliated, and the greatest use is to have children.

Fighting with women is obviously something that can't be fought with eight poles.

The sons of Chief Xiao suddenly had high morale, and the younger son took the initiative to ask for a fight: "Dad, let me take some domestic servants out to fight." As long as I take a few dozen people with me, those women will have to escape. ”

"Don't worry, those foolish women can't escape. When they came up and found that they couldn't attack our house, their morale naturally plummeted. If you take someone out over the wall again, you can break it in one drum. "Director Xiao is still a little calculating, quite a bit of 'lupine scarf, talking and laughing, the canopy is in ashes'.

The female soldiers lined up in three rows, holding the light arquebuses in their hands, and walked at a steady pace to the enemy's courtyard wall thirty meters away. This distance was already within the killing range of the bow and arrow, and there were some servants on the wall who couldn't bear it and pulled their bows and shot arrows at them. It's just that this ordinary person uses an ordinary soft bow, and the arrows shot are fluttering, and the arrows are flying wildly.

The commander of the female soldier company in command estimated the distance to the enemy, and shouted 'Stand' with a cold face, and the squad and platoon commander below immediately stopped and responded. She shouted in the ranks: "Sisters, this is the first battle of our female guards. You have to win, and you have to win beautifully. We are going to give an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and all the suffering we have suffered in the past to those maggots. ”

The female soldiers echoed loudly, and Qiao Xuenian, who was standing on the side, was also very uncomfortable with this. He wore a bright silver breastplate, much more powerful than the female soldiers who did not wear armor. The enemies on the other side all felt that he was the thief chief who was attacking this time. But in the current situation, he only has the share of watching the play.

"Gunpowder." The female soldier company commander gave the order loudly.

"Light the rope." Since the gunpowder explodes when firing will blow out the arquebus, the arquebuses are lit at both ends. Use the burning end to ignite the other end before firing.

"Aim at the gun." Three formations, each in a line of three. The female soldiers in the front row lined up in a dense line, and raised their guns at the enemy on the 30-meter perimeter wall.

At this moment, the chief Xiao on the wall laughed even more, "This musket is useless, it is only one shot in battle, and it will explode when it ignites, and everyone knows about it, but this thief doesn't know it." It is ridiculous that he dares to come to show off in front of his own officials who don't know soldiers or ordnance. The sons and daughters hid a little, watching them bring shame on themselves. ”

Director Xiao was not stupid, and he leaned behind the wall of his own courtyard. The servants around him did the same, at most a few of them dared to poke their heads out from behind the wall, just to see how the women on the other side could fight?

The female soldier company commander raised her saber high and swung it down, "Fire!" ”

Bang bang bang......

Accompanied by a puff of white smoke, gunshots rang out like popping beans.

Director Xiao behind the wall was instructing his sons how to rush out later, "This fire gun is useless, it looks powerful, but no one in the army likes it." If you listen to the women strike once, the firebolt will become a waste like a burning stick. We rushed out immediately, and the battle was ....... ”

The sons laughed, but after the gunshot, the wall was hit by lead, and several screams rang out. Several domestic servants who had come out to see the bustle had been hit in the face by the splattering shards of masonry. There was even a person who was directly shot in the head by lead, and a bloody watermelon exploded with a snap. The corpse fell from the ladder against the wall, and the people behind the wall suddenly screamed in fright.

Outside the wall, as soon as the gunshots rang out, two female soldiers with explosives bags rushed out of the arquebus queue and rushed forward resolutely and fearlessly. In the absence of artillery, the musket is only responsible for suppression, and the explosive bag is king.