In May of the first year of Chongzhen, the early spring season has quietly passed, and the people in Daming also pay more attention to the dynamics of the articles in the "Daming Monthly", because Zhu Youzhen... It's moving!

finally succeeded in transferring Huang Taiji's attention to North Korea, and such an opportunity was already an extremely rare favor for Zhu Youzhen.

As a result, Zhu Youzhen, who waved his hand, ordered the full launch of the war against Jin.

As the front-line commander of this war, Bi Zisu and Meng Tu worked together to be responsible for the command of the front line of the offensive.

After all, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the main reason why the Ming army was often the losing side in the face of the soldiers of the Houjin Eight Banners was because there were many mistakes in the command of the troops.

This kind of mistake was not because the Ming army was afraid of death and did not dare to fight against the Houjin, but when the scale of the battle continued to increase, the requirements for the commander's command ability were quite strict.

Of course, hundreds of people are fine, but when a large-scale battle of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people begins, once it starts, the slightest mistake will be infinitely magnified.

This is exactly the so-called incompetence of one general, killing the three armies.

Zhu Youzhen did not dare to take risks, although the separation of powers was a taboo in the army.

But he had to choose this way at this time.

The sun of May has been high, and the ice and snow in Liaodong have melted completely.

And Da Ming also started to act completely.

The first to start moving was not actually the Tianhu Army deployed in Liaodong, but Mao Wenlong from Phi Dao, after Mao Wenlong learned the news that Zhu Youzhen was about to move.

Immediately landed from the coast to surround Lushun, but he did not run directly to Lushun.

Instead, just after landing, he secretly led a large army to assemble and build siege equipment in the forest.

After all, Lushun is an important place in Houjing, and its city walls can be regarded as heavy, and if there are no siege equipment, it is bound to suffer.

The speed at which tens of thousands of troops built siege equipment together was very fast, and it took only two days to basically complete the construction, and Mao Wenlong led the troops to advance at full speed.

By the time the army arrived outside the city of Arthur, it was already slightly dark.

The Houjin army on the city walls was completely unaware that danger was already coming.

Even Huang Taiji would not have expected Mao Wenlong to come to attack at such a time, and most of the Mongols were concentrated on the border near the Guanning Pass.

After all, in Huang Taiji's view, Mao Wenlong would not act against Houjin before the Ming Dynasty's army.

It will not directly attack Lushun.

However, the arrival of Mao Wenlong's army still startled the Houjin army stationed in Lushun City.

However, Mao Wenlong was not in a hurry, but put the siege equipment aside and camped quietly, buried the pot to cook, and went to sleep after eating, without any action.

This made the Houjin army stationed in Lushun very puzzled.

But at the same time, he suddenly realized, could it be that Mao Wenlong just came to go through the motions?

And there will be no real attack on Lushun.

The Houjin general, who defended the city, recalled that Mao Wenlong harassed the Houjin several times, mostly for simple guerrilla warfare.

When the Houjin reinforcements came, they ran away when they heard the wind.

People can't help but hate it a lot while they have no way to do it.

Thinking of this, the Houjin generals stationed in Lushun stood on the city wall, and when they saw that night was coming, they didn't even notice a large number of soldiers hiding in the woods for a while.

It was only Mao Wenlong who came to take the opportunity to attack again, and for a while he wanted to rely on the towering city wall of Lushun to resist Mao Wenlong's attack, instead of hurriedly asking for help from behind.

But he would never have thought that this time the Phi Dao soldiers were very different from before.

"Brother Tianhu Army, your artillery looks really majestic... General Mao is going to attack the city early tomorrow morning, and he won't be able to open the gate of Lushun at that time."

"How is it possible, Sensei said that the fragile gate of Arthur City, even the city wall can easily be blasted through it! That is, you think that the wall is unattainable, but you don't know how powerful my new artillery is. ”

"But I also heard that Huang Taiji has put a lot of red-clothed cannons on the city wall to resist attacks..."

"The red-clad cannon? What kind of stuff is that, it's all antique, wait for me to rest all night, and I'll let you see who is the son and who is the father tomorrow morning! ”

Mao Wenlong, who was wandering around the camp to inspect, heard the conversation between the soldiers of Phi Dao and the soldiers of the First Artillery Division of the Great Tomorrow Tiger Army, and also walked out from the side.

With a smile on his face, he patted the shoulder of the Tianhu Army soldier: "Tomorrow will be all up to you, when the city wall falls, this Arthur City will be like a bag to get something, and I will apply for the first merit for you when the time comes!" ”

"The Heavenly Tiger Army will live up to its mission!"

Yes...

Zhu Youzhen transferred an artillery regiment to the command of Mao Wenlong on Phi Dao as a baby bump of the First Artillery Division of the Ming Royal Tiger Army.

According to the planning of the Ming artillery unit, an artillery battalion has nine new Armstrong guns of the Ming Dynasty, and an artillery regiment has 27 guns, plus three guns as a reserve.

Early tomorrow morning, the gift that Mao Wenlong prepared for Lushun City will be given to the Houjin Eight Banners garrisoned in Lushun City.

...

Early the next morning, the sky was still only slightly bright, and the Houjin soldiers on the city wall were highly nervous in the first half of the night because of the arrival of Mao Wenlong, and they held on for a long time and did not wait for the arrival of the attack of the Phi Dao army.

So I recalled what my own lord said, and remembered what the soldiers of Phi Dao had done in the past.

In the second half of the night, except for a few Houjin soldiers who were left as sentry posts, everyone else fell asleep on the city wall with their weapons.

But before they woke up, they didn't even have time to rub their eyes and wake up.

The Phi Dao army in the distance of the city wall came out of the woods, and thirty Armstrong guns were lined up, aiming at the city gate and the city wall south of Lushun.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang!"

As a gun hundreds of years ahead of its time, the Armstrong gun not only has the advantages of high accuracy and great power, but more importantly, it protects the artillery from attack with the advantage of its breech gun loading.

So this time, Mao Wenlong placed the artillery under the city wall with a swagger.

Although the Houjin soldiers in charge of the sentry on duty discovered the anomaly at the first time and shouted early, they couldn't stand the traditional difference between the Armstrong artillery and the traditional artillery.

It is equipped with huge iron wheels on both sides, which can make it have a relatively good forward ability within a certain range, and there are many soldiers on Phi Dao.

So the speed of the attack can be described as thunderous!