The steam train clanged past the railway, and a long steam roared above the black locomotive. On the carriage behind the train, a cannon showed a hideous muzzle. And the train's passenger depot was stuffed with soldiers.

The steam train was slow, stop-and-go, and flanked by a large number of marching soldiers. Ren Di was on this train, and Ren Di, who was still drilling a ravine half a year ago and walking on his feet, is now leading a heavily armed army towards Jianghuai. The steel was sonorous, the steam was roaring, and Ren Di felt as if he had returned to the era of the first novice mission. Unlike Miana, Ren Di is only a small soldier under the plot character, and the army commanded is no more than two or three thousand.

And now Ren Di is going south with five divisions, 50,000 men and 240 artillery pieces. And carried a large number of heavy machine guns. As well as ammunition. A few months ago, Ren Di solved the opponent with the sports battle of the turtle, which does not mean that Ren Di will only use the mushroom war. There is really a heavy firepower army in front of Ren Di, and of course Ren Di is also preferred. The ammunition needed for such an army could not be transported by pack horses alone. Ren Di now has self-knowledge, and the Huaihai Campaign often mobilized four or five million people to organize the same logistics and transportation. It is impossible to have a base area in the red zone now. Then it is necessary to rely on the railway to supply transportation logistics.

After the rural area was completed, the railway of the Red Republican Army would certainly not be as entangled as Sun Ze had at the beginning, and the main artery of the railway was safe under the care of the local militia. The Fuyang Industrial Base, which started construction, began to supply ammunition.

The 50,000-strong army moved along the railway, of course, it couldn't hide the Ming Dynasty's eyeline between the Jianghuai River. However, the combat effectiveness of this army was tested two days later.

"The wind direction is easterly three, and the weather is good today, which is suitable for straw burning," Ren Di said, looking at the cloudless breeze and stable wind direction. Everyone fights and shouts: "Rise, charge and kill him" and then the morale of the army is bursting, and one charge takes the enemy's position, which is the current war that celebrates the heroic artists of their own side. When Ren Di was training to evolve battlefield bayonets, he was deeply affected by Zhao Weiguo's conscription legion. As a soldier, you should obey and fight bravely. As a commander-in-chief, you should use your brain, see more and think more. Try more cautiously.

Dozens of wind vane poles are erected at intervals of five kilometers from each other, and at a height of ten meters from the wind vane poles, a rotating wind cup measures the wind speed, and a swinging pointer measures the wind direction. The climate of Jianghuai is familiar with Ren Di because of his work, and the wind prevails all year round. It's early spring and the wind is northeasterly all year round. So Ren Di put the army in the northeast.

The discipline of meteorology was born because of military needs, and meteorology in the Rendi plane was born because a landing in Europe was ruined by a storm, so it was required to establish a weather station to collect data. So an observatory is needed.

Now the Red Republican Army needs to attack Hefei. This place in Jianghuai is an alluvial great plain. Of course, the terrain is relatively flat. In addition, Daming has good environmental protection and good visibility, and Ren Di has taken a look at several high-rise buildings near Hefei, which is likely to provide convenience for the other party's observation. As the saying goes, stand tall and see far.

Of course, as a person from later generations, Ren Di understands that no matter how there is no industry in Jianghuai, no matter how green travel is, there will always be a few days when the weather phenomenon must be recorded as a smoke screen. Strong, my peasant uncle burns straw.

The early spring morning of this plane was slightly chilly, the grass on the ground, and the dead leaves were covered with half-frost and half-dew crystals, reflecting a colorful luster under the illumination of the morning sun, and a thin layer of mist stuck to the earth, just wanted to spread a thin veil on the earth, but at this time, the pollution demon Ren Di was online.

To the east of the city, Ren Di collected a large amount of haystacks and poured fuel oil. The yellow and dirty haystack was lit by Peng, and a little bit of fire jumped. Then a little blue, yellowish, thick white smoke rose from the haystack. There is a lot of water in the haystack, which causes the incomplete combustion of the haystack. Rows of haystacks are ignited and then mixed into the clear watery air like thick, low-quality paint. Under the action of the wind, a large smoke screen was formed. The momentum was raging, spreading with the wind, and surging towards the city of Hefei ten kilometers away.

Ren Di estimated that the visibility on the opposite side would be reduced to less than two kilometers, which is the standard for heavy pollution. Smoke doesn't kill people, but it's best to be indoors, otherwise your eyes will hurt after a few minutes.

Hefei and the surrounding Lujiang Chaohu Shucheng generation of cities, in Ren Di's plane, the first feeling is a second-tier small city, and the second feeling is that the place is very poor. But it must be worth noting. The distance between Hefei and Nandu is only 188 kilometers in a straight line. This 188 kilometers is not a mountain road in the southwest. To the south of Hefei is the horseshoe-shaped Chaohu Lake, and to the east of Hefei and Nanjing is a flat plain. Later, the highway was repaired, and it took an hour and a half to get there with one foot on the accelerator. As for the EMU, on this terrain can soar up to 300 kilometers per hour without slowing down.

It was here that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom besieged Tianjing and fought a series of battles against the Qing Dynasty. As for the Ming regime in the southern capital, of course, it is not a fool, and this point can definitely be seen on the strategic map. When the southern capital found that it was impossible to mobilize troops to exterminate the base areas in northern Anhui in a short period of time, it decided to mobilize heavy troops to encircle and suppress, transfer troops from the north, and organize troops from the south to oppress.

Of course, the plan is the plan, and the reality is the reality. The 80,000 troops of the North needed a lot of material preparation to move south. There was a shortage of defensive forces in the south. The Imperial Army was drawn by foreign mercenaries active in Southeast Asia. There is nothing to say about the combat quality of these people, but how to say the feelings of the local military and civilians, these foreign mercenaries saw beautiful mushrooms in the village during the occupation of the Southeast Asian theater of operations, and directly called friends to go in, and then messed around in the earthen houses.

As for the mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty, some of them came from the retired soldiers of the Imperial Army, and some of them came from the island countries of Northeast Asia. Some of them are civilians from the slums of Shanghai who are trying to get rich overnight. These people are rich and prosperous with their own lives. The combat quality is first-class, but the cold-blooded madness is also outrageous.

This combat habit was placed on the Southeast Asian Peninsula and caused a great shock to the enemy with poor psychological quality, but now it is placed on the land of Jianghuai. But he completely discovered what it means to offend the locals. People have a wall-to-wall character, and if they are not good for themselves but can't resist, they may bear it. But now the Red Republican Army is here, and compared to the mercenaries who were ordered to defend it, they don't take a stitch and a thread, and help the locals with a gang of farm work and find livestock.

Lower your posture to the level of the people's children and take the initiative to help the local people. This is the direction of Ren Di's military ideological guidance. As for the local people, Ren Di, as a small common man, of course understands that ordinary people will hold grudges. You scold a beggar at the door of your house, and if the beggar feels uncomfortable, Bacheng will use all-purpose glue to block your door lockhole. As for the illusion that the Chinese people are keeping to themselves, it is that the people have no channel to retaliate. As long as there is a channel, when you suffer to a certain extent, then you will definitely know what it means to be careful. Ren Di remembers that the Letters and Visits Bureau in the plane before he crossed over was a very lively place.

The plan in the Southern Capital Plan to block the Red Republican Army in the south is to destroy the Diao people defined by the princes of the imperial court. The essence of the army of the empire #ism is to offend the locals. The Imperial #ism army thinks like this in your heart: "Lao Tzu went to the army as a soldier and worked hard to be a grandson to the commander." Why do you have to be a grandson to the people in the war zone when you go to the countryside. Lao Tzu has a fighting spirit, no, he has a gun, and he can be a dragon arrogant. Why care about untouchables. ”

Ren Di knows his positioning, he is a small citizen, not a politician, and he can't play with politicians, but we are so clear about what Xiaomin thinks. Xiaomin's idea is to live a peaceful life, and then his wife and children will be on the kang. However, this is what is ignored by politicians who are high up and do not eat the fireworks of the world and extraordinary people who are full of war exploits and money. The small people can be ignored, but the resistance of hundreds of millions of small people is gathered together, which is incomprehensible to politicians and soldiers. can only bark like a dog barking at this power, shouting at the people, crazy poor ghosts and the like.

When the Red Republican Army entered the south of the Huai River, the people of this place were wary of the outsiders in Huaibei, and after the land reform, they only took the benefits to their homes, and kicked the landlords to follow the tide at all. A month later, however, the locals began to report to the Red Republican Army, informing them that there were evil Ming troops in the area. This kind of whistleblowing is secretly secret. The motive for the whistleblower may have been that the Imperial soldiers who had gone to the countryside had slaughtered a large animal in the informant's home, or that they had slept with their own daughter, or that they had simply been robbed of a chicken.

These trivial grievances and grievances, the imperial army that does big things doesn't care at all. "If you do it, you can't help me. Moreover, our army was ordered to suppress bandits, and I will leave after the bandits are defeated. Even if you offend the locals, it's fine. "This is the idea of the Imperial Army

However, this war was not as simple as the Imperial Army imagined, under the secret intelligence of the local people, more than a dozen Imperial troops who came out to patrol the countryside were annihilated, and the Imperial Army officers stationed in the big cities of Jianghuai were very annoyed and angry. It was decided to go to the countryside to investigate the cause. Of course, the whistleblower will not admit that he is the whistleblower.

However, the generals of the Imperial Army were very "smart", and at a glance they could see that the locals were stealing the little cleverness of the Yin Imperial Army. Therefore, after arriving at the place of annihilation, some young adults were directly selected in the nearby villages and killed with bayonets. Threatened the locals with such brutal means. This is a technique that these Imperial mercenaries who fought overseas were very skillful. Of course, it is also very effective, in the thinking of this group of mercenaries: "The local people are cheap bones, and they are not honest if they don't kill." "And yet they did it wrong.

In this way, the militia was organized locally, and the Workers' and Peasants' Party's organizational capacity to organize the retreat in the local area was enhanced. The second delivery of information is not a moment of resentment on the part of the locals, but an organized surveillance of the enemy and the transmission of information.

The 10,000 Red Republican Army, which had jumped over the Huai River, grew to 20,000 in two months. With a campaign of movement, six thousand enemies were eliminated in two months. People who threaten others with death are actually very afraid of death. When patrolling out of the city turned into a final journey that could lead to outright death, the Imperial army hiding in the city began to fear.

In order to bribe the locals and let the locals breathe a sigh of relief, Ren Di ordered Li Youran, who was in charge of the Jianghuai Movement, to go directly to the local public trial, and shot him directly for the most heinous crimes. Then the list after the public trial and the body after the shooting were put directly under the city. The power of the people's war is shown by the deadly actions of a stupid adversary.

When Ren Di led a field force of 50,000 people to the south, he found that his army had a fairly good mass base in the local area. Is this Li Youran's ability? Or is the other side too stupid? Ren Di certainly won't undermine the foundation of such a victory. The commissars met every day to emphasize discipline and brainwash the emphasis on fighting for the people.

Ren Di rented a large number of mules, horses and wheelbarrow transports in the area. Now in the early spring of February 1704, the Red Republican Army is approaching the city. It completely broke the strategic plan of the southern capital to encircle the north and the south. Pointing to the Hefei defensive positions where a large number of blue were gathered on the strategic map, Ren Di said to Li Youran: "They don't go out of the city, we take the initiative to find them." ”

Under the cover of smoke screens, the infantry of the Republican Army protected the artillery advance. If it was in good visibility, such an advance would have been spotted by the Imperial troops standing on a high place, and the current artillery range was mostly six or seven kilometers. The Imperial Army has the advantage of view. And yet now.

A large number of republican artillery positions quickly advanced to a radius of four kilometers, scattered, some hiding under the dirt slopes, others hiding in the woods and began to hide. In the afternoon of the same day, the Red Republican Army formed a scattered line and launched a tentative attack on the Imperial Army in Hefei, which had urgently deployed defenses. Reaching the defensive position of the barbed wire trench dug by the Imperial Army, five hundred meters away, the excavation began.

Shi Tianming, who was in Hefei City, saw such a move of the Republican Army, and seemed to be reminded of his memories, and immediately suggested the constitution of the generals who organized the defense. The charter did not have any disdain for Shi Tianming, the general of the defeated army. Since the Third Army could be completely annihilated, the charter did not despise the Red Republican Army. Soon shelling from the direction of Hefei began.

Seeing that the # cannon was fired on the opposite side, Ren Di and a group of officers in the command center laughed. Ren Di looked at his artillery position map and said, "The thirteenth group of artillery fired back. "Artillery crews, who had been ordered to hide in the bushes or dirt pits at a height of one metre, opened fire on the exposed gun emplacements of the Imperial Army under radio command. The Imperial Army's priority artillery was about twenty guns, most of which were repulsion. The tube is not for nothing. However, the price offered by the Hai Song arms dealer is a bit dark.

The Red Republican Army has no retreat artillery here, and everything that can be transformed, Ren Di used his talent to process materials to make it a tube retreat cannon. Here thirty guns of the Red Republican Army opened fire. Perhaps the range is not comparable with Hai Song due to the cannon steel. But this distance is not the time to fight for range. It's the time to fight for firepower.

The ammunition was arranged in a row and stuffed in a semicircle in the magazine, which was stuffed into the barrel of the gun with a click. Then the parameters are adjusted and the fire is fired, and with each firing pull, a shell retreats and spits out, and then shells again. The tube retreated and stretched and contracted, like the tongue of fire spit out like the lead of a poisonous snake. Steadily throws out bombs in a fixed azimuth angle. Ren Di's telegram order was to hit half a base, 105 howitzers were forty shells for one base, and 75 field guns were sixty rounds.

Half a base is as pleasant as peeing, and the frame retreat gun has to be repositioned every time it fires, and the firing speed cannot be compared with the barrel retreat at all. The exposed Imperial artillery was quickly destroyed in the overwhelming shelling. Under the cover of high-explosive shells, there is no chance that any steel machinery will survive.

Then the artillery fire quickly extended to what Ren Di considered to be an important target. The high-explosive bombs exploded in unison, kicking up a cloud of dust on the positions of the Imperial Army. The barbed wire was blown off by a violent air blast.

The heavy shelling ended, and the bricks and tiles on the city walls were in shambles, and a large number of wounded soldiers who had been baptized by artillery fire were wailing. The sluggish charter turned his head to Shi Tianming, who was also in a daze with his mouth wide open, and asked, "Is it this kind of firepower that defeated you?" Shi Tianming said incoherently: "No, last time, last time, there was no such thing last time." ”