Chapter 833
"This Wu Sangui, it seems that he really wants to destroy Zhang Xi. After three days of death under Zhangxi City, I heard that no less than 10,000 people had been killed. Li Hu looked at the battle report sent back by Zhang Xi, and glanced at Li Xiao who was drinking wine.
"Let him knock it, it's better if he's all dead. Dog-bit-dog hair-eater! Li Xiao didn't even read the battle report, and continued to look at the sea and sip wine.
"The people of Zhangxi can't hold it anymore, the news that Wang Dalong sent back said. Even the elderly and children went to the battlefield, and it has become common for people to jump under the city wall with explosives bags. I think they've reached their limit! ”
"Isn't it good to throw the explosives directly after the brain is broken, and then the explosives bag is lit? There were no cannons, and we used trebuchets to defend the city before. Don't use your brain! Speaking of the tragedy of Zhangxi people, Li Xiao was extremely disdainful.
"But, big brother!"
"No, but, you have to wait until Li Dingguo is in place before you can attack. Now Wu Sangui's subordinates are a flock of sheep, and Ao Ye can break him up with a breath. Where will the rout flee?
Li Dingguo must be interspersed in place, and the road of the retreat of the card owner Wu Sangui must be interspersed. Only in this way will we be able to accomplish the task of completely annihilating Wu Sangui's vital forces. The next step is to attack Mumbai, so that there will be no more casualties.
In urban street fighting, one more enemy may cause us ten casualties. In short, I want Bombay to have as few people who can fight as possible, and as few supplies as possible to fight.
Wu Sangui's men and materials, one more casualties under Zhangxi City, when we attack Mumbai, there will be a lot less bloodshed.
Toilet! You go out and look at the soldiers, the young faces. They all have mothers and children, and some have wives and children. Come out with us to fight, not to burn their lives as firewood.
One day, when I returned to Daming, the gray-haired mother asked you for a son, and the young widow asked for a husband. Only knee-high kids, grab your pants tube and ask you for daddy, what do you do?
I shudder at the thought of these scenes. Those are all the descendants of my Chinese Miao Han family, not those pigs and dogs in Zhangxi.
A general is not capable of conquering a city, but he can not only conquer a city but also bring back his brother with all beards and shadows, this is the general's ability. After Li Xiao finished speaking, he drank the wine slowly. Years of battlefield experience have given him the calmness to change everywhere.
Li Hu has nothing to say, this is the truth. The Zhangxi people are dead, and they are not as important as the Ming people. In other words, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, it seems reasonable to sacrifice the interests of other nations. Who let today's Ming occupy a dominant position!
This world is like this, the strong can eat the whole world, and no one can pity the interests of the weak. The law of the jungle is also applicable to human society. Regardless of a country? Or is it a nation? Or maybe it's a person. As long as it is not strong, it is difficult to avoid the doom of being eliminated after all.
Li Xiao is drinking wine leisurely? Admire the beautiful scenery of the Indian Ocean.
Don't say it? The sky was indeed blue, and the clouds were white. A sun-drenched mess? If there are a few exotic cuties, that's even better.
Li Xiao decided not to lie down anymore? Do a sport he's been enjoying lately? Fishing!
Just do it! waved his hand at the straight, and the straight, who had evolved into the roundworm in Li Xiao's stomach, made a fishing rod like a trick. Then the two of them went to the foredeck with their buckets, ready to start the day.
Suddenly it's dark? There was another annoying noise in my head. How can this airship be improved? The loud noise is still so noisy that people's brains hurt.
The airship threw down the letter barrel and flew away, and after a while, Li Hu came with a shout.
"Big brother! Eldest brother! The second brother came with news that Li Dingguo's department had successfully landed and had successfully arrived at the interspersed position today. We're ready to do it! ”
Li Xiao reluctantly took the battle report, and nodded after reading it hastily. "Give Ao Ye an order? It's time to start attacking. Just remember one, and the captives will be handed over to the Zhangxi people. ”
"Big brother? Captives have always been sold by those who caught them. If you do this, will Ao Ye ......! ”
When the Liao army was fighting? A captive counts as a capture. The troops who captured the captives would sell the captives directly to the household department. And then it will be transferred and sold by the household department? It was used as a labor force in Daming.
In the coal mines that eat people and don't spit out bones in the Ming Dynasty and the various mines in the barren mountains and mountains? There are many prisoners of war who are captured on the battlefield. This is also a benefit of the Liao army? Because most of the money from the sale of prisoners of war had to be distributed to the officers and soldiers participating in the war. A small part is added to the fund for the support of disabled officers and soldiers. It is operated by the household department, and a sum of money is paid to the disabled officers and soldiers every year, although it is not much, it can be regarded as a little bit of gratitude from the comrades-in-arms.
So on the battlefield, the Liao army still treats prisoners preferentially. In general, there are no large-scale massacres of prisoners. Now Li Xiao wants to hand over the captives to the Zhangxi people, which means that the money is gone. Whether there will be a massacre of prisoners, it's hard to say.
"Now that the fight has reached this point, the eyes of both sides are already red. Give the captives to the Zhangxi people, and guess what the Zhangxi people will do? ”
"They will slaughter the prisoners of war to vent their anger!"
"That's it, just spread the matter of the Zhangxi people's massacre of prisoners of war. Bombay and Jangsi, India's two largest states, will become eternal enemies.
Even if we don't have to care, the Zhangxi people will work hard to help us suppress the Mumbai. Even if the Zhangxi people want to rebel in the future, we have a very good helper who can provide a lot of cannon fodder.
You! At the point where we buddies, we have to think about it for future generations. ”
"Got it, big brother!" Li Hu nodded, what the eldest brother said made sense, hatred is always more memorable than kindness.
Li Xiao looked at the airship in the distance and did not speak, his wish may soon be fulfilled. Mumbai will definitely become a port city under the control of the Ming Dynasty.
Just occupy Mumbai, plus a few small islands such as Diego Garcia and Ceylon. The Ming fleet would control all the waterways from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean, and if they controlled the waterways, they would control trade.
Mahan's theory of sea power is very good, whoever controls world trade controls the whole world.
The current Ming Dynasty has touched the threshold of industrialization. It is the process of completing the accumulation of primitive capital, a process that leaves a lot of bones. The most famous is the British sheep eating man!
In Daming, now sheep don't eat people, but coal eats people, and mines eat people.
In order to complete the primitive accumulation, these hard jobs were all done by foreign prisoners of war. The corpses of aliens created a cheap energy supply for the Ming Dynasty, which needed to dig out coal as high as Mount Tai from the ground every year. What a huge amount of manpower is required, but Daming's coal has not risen significantly for five years.
You know, this is an era of completely primitive coal mining. Those modern machines in later generations did not even have a shadow at all.
Complementing this is the mining industry, and the mines of the Ming Dynasty are also cemeteries for aliens.
Daming will import more than 200,000 strong laborers every year, but after so many years of importing, it seems that the gap is still not filled. So much so that the Ming had to import Egyptians from distant Egypt to fill the vacancy.
It's not that Li Xiao hasn't thought about managing coal mines and mines, where a dead person is no different from a dead cat or a dog. But after calculating with Sun Chengzong, Li Xiao had to give up this idea.
If mines and coal mines are regulated, the result will be a skyrocketing price of energy products. This kind of skyrocketing will trigger a sharp rise in the price of downstream products, and Daming will have to pay a very large price under the chain reaction.
Da Ming is not ready to pay the price! At least at this stage, Daming can't afford to pay this price. Besides, Li Xiao is not allowed to slow down the pace of development of the Ming Dynasty because of the lives of foreigners.
Let Da Ming march on the corpses of countless aliens, anyway, every civilization that walks in front of him does this.
After receiving Li Xiao's order, Ao Canghai immediately ordered an attack. He had been marching for three days, and for three days the airship had been constantly bringing battle reports from the front.
To be honest, Ao Ye even admired the Zhangxi people a little. The strength of 28,000 people was able to withstand Wu Sangui's 150,000 army. And it was carried for three days, so that Wu Sangui's army lost troops under Zhangxi City.
After receiving Li Xiao's order, Ao Ye immediately ordered the troops to march overnight. Since Zhang Xiren is so capable of fighting, Ao Ye can't help but help the field.
Early in the morning, Wu Sangui touched the dew on his face. He also didn't understand why there was dew this season. But it doesn't matter, if the judgment is correct, he will be able to sleep in Zhangxi City tonight. I hope that the Zhangxi Palace has not been damaged, and the rocket is not accurate. Many times, the person who launched it did not know where to fly for himself.
In the past three days, Wu Sangui has filled in more than 20,000 people. The walls of Zhangxi City were full of broken corpses, and the smell of fishy smell was two miles away. So much so that the attacking soldiers had to cover their noses with cloth in order to continue the attack.
Last night, Wu Sangui felt that the people of Zhangxi were already at the end of their crossbows. Their resistance grew weaker and weaker, and on several occasions there were even old men jumping down from the walls with explosive bags in their arms.
Wu Sangui's feeling was right, Zhang Xicheng had run out of ammunition.
Today, Wu Sangui is preparing to launch the last and most ferocious attack. As soon as it was dawn, breakfast began to be cooked in the Indian military camp. The soldiers had a full meal, and for many, it would be the last meal of their lives.
As soon as the sun rose, the whistle sounded. Five thousand Indian soldiers were assembled, ready to attack the city wall after the artillery behind them fired shells to suppress the fire.
Today's artillery fire was particularly intense, and last night the convoy brought in a large number of shells. The cannon was pushed into the mortar position, and the wall was bombarded with precision.
The mortar came out of the position of the heavy machine gun, and the closer the shell was, the more accurate the shot. As for the heavy machine guns, they could only be deployed at a distance of only five hundred meters from the enemy.
To be honest, this distance is somewhat risky. Enemy mortars could easily destroy these heavy machine guns, but the Zhangsi did not have mortars. Even, these guys with a single brain can't even make trebuchets.
Wu Sangui's army advanced in a compact formation, this was not a ragtag army a few days ago, but a real ace Gurkha soldier. These guys wore steel helmets on their heads, yellow uniforms, and each of them carried their unique blade, the Gurkha scimitar, around their waists.
The resistance on the city wall was still fierce, but Wu Sangui's attack was even more fierce. The cannon will be staring at the battlements on the city walls, and many times the shells will blast the battlements into slag along with the people behind them.
Advancing the distance, the mortars really hit more accurately. The smoke of gunpowder on the head of the city has never dispersed, and the key offensive areas have even been beaten into a sea of fire.
Heavy machine guns were constantly firing at the city, not to mention probes. It's not safe to hide inside a sturdy arrow tower! God knows which bullet with no eyes will fly in through the shooting hole of the arrow tower.
Under the cover of this extreme firepower, the Indian soldiers began to climb towards the city. There were no living people on the part of the wall they had climbed, so they just had to climb it.
Wu Sangui watched through the binoculars, and when he saw his military flag planted on the head of Zhangxi City, he breathed a long sigh of relief. It's been three days, and it's finally in. The reason why the people of Zhangxi were able to fight against themselves was entirely because of this hard volcanic rock wall.
It is said that this wall belonged to their ancestors, and it took more than 100 years to build it, and it is said to be impregnable. Indeed, Zhangxi City has never been captured since recorded history.
Today Wu Sangui is going to be this conqueror, Wu Sangui swears. After taking Zhangxi City, you must completely blow up this damn city wall.
Losing the city walls, the Zhangxi people's defenses collapsed at once. The Gurkha soldiers, "whoa" and "whoop" shouted and rushed forward, and they rushed into the streets of Zhangxi. But it was beaten into a sieve by the Maxim heavy machine gun roaring in the street!
Soon, mortars were hoisted at the head of the city. There was a wild bombardment at the position of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and the Makqin heavy machine gun immediately fell silent.
A large explosive bag was thrown into the hole in the city gate, and there was a muffled sound. The stinking corpses were blown apart and flew out of the gates, the barbed wire as fragile as cotton ropes in the face of the massive explosives.
A large number of Gurkha soldiers rushed in through the city gates. With the help of mortars on the city, the Gurkha soldiers frantically attacked the city. They kicked the houses facing the street and threw a grenade into them without looking.
There was an explosion of "boom", mixed with the screams of women and children.
The Gurkha soldiers didn't care, they had rifles in their hands and shot at everything that moved. As long as it is a Zhangxi person, take a shot first. They are all well-trained veterans, and they are close to each other. It's normal to be killed, but it's a fluke if you can't be killed.
Zhang Xicheng fell into a huge chaos in an instant.