Xu Wenjue, the eldest son of Xu Hongji, Duke of Wei, is a man in his thirties.

He is the commander of the Jiangnan army.

Originally, as the commander of an army of nearly 200,000, it was undoubtedly an extremely beautiful thing and the pinnacle of life.

Xu Wenjue also felt his father's cultivation and trust in him, so he secretly made up his mind that he must make some achievements, never disappoint his father, re-establish the prestige of Wei Guogong, and make glorious achievements no less than those of his ancestor Xu Da.

As long as the Xujiazhuang that is blocking the front is destroyed, as long as the manors are destroyed one by one, the Jiangnan tumor of Xujiazhuang will be destroyed in the end.

He will be able to shine through the ages and become the savior of saving Jiangnan Tiantian, and he will surely win the trust and support of all the noble gentry!

Therefore, after sending troops to destroy Xujiazhuang, even if the court blames it, even if the emperor of the Zhu family wants to condemn the Xu family, or even kill heroes and lackeys.

Hehe, at that time, his Xu family will not be killed, and he will continue to be a loyal minister of his Zhu family, and it is not impossible to start a new business in Jiangnan.

Because he has an army of 200,000 men, which can be called a strong soldier, and there is enough money and food, there is no problem in fighting for three or five years.

And Chongzhen, the poor ratio, was so despondent that he asked Xujiazhuang to borrow money, and lost all the face of Huanghuang Daming, which was extremely disgraceful.

This just proves that the Zhu dynasty's qi is about to run out, and the time to change the dynasty is coming, after all, in the history of China for more than 2,000 years, there is no great unified dynasty that can last for 300 years, and the ancients have long known the law of rise and fall.

So taking advantage of the opportunity of the incomparable unity of the Jiangnan gentry, he first destroyed the Xujiazhuang that was in front of him! Win the support of all the gentry.

Next, hehe, the Xu family entered the competition for the real dragon, and it may not be impossible to have the last laugh.

As for the small Xu Jiazhuang, it is just a stepping stone on the way forward for the Xu family, and it has not been taken into account by Xu Wenjue at all, because of the thunderous blow of the combination of Jiangnan Xungui and the gentry, no force in this world can withstand it, and it will definitely turn into powder!

However, after the war began.

Like snapping two big-eared scrapers, Xu Wenjue's dream woke up in an instant and returned to the most cruel reality.

"Defeated, Ben Shuai has an army of 200,000, how can he be defeated?"

"Chong, order someone to rush to Ben Shuai again! A small manor, if you can't take it with 20,000 dead, then you can take it with 50,000 dead, 100,000 dead, even if you use the dead man's pile, you can take it for him! ”

"Go on, don't retreat, those who retreat will be killed, whoever dares to retreat will be killed!"

Xu Wenjue drew his sword, his eyes were red, and he ordered to kill all the deserters, and swung his sword like a madman.

But real war is not a game, with a click of the mouse, the death rate is 100%, and this situation is almost impossible in reality.

In the real war, the casualties of more than one percent are not collapsed, the casualties are more than three percent of the strong army, and the casualties are more than fifty percent, and the casualties are definitely invincible.

Xu Wenjue, who was taught a lesson by the cruel reality, had no mind to fight for the dragon, so he could only return to pragmatism and study how to defeat Xu Jiajun.

Then sent 30,000 firearms soldiers, firearms to firearms, to eliminate the firearms advantage of the Xu Jiajun, and ended in a fiasco, and found that in terms of firearms, they lagged behind Xujiazhuang too much, thousands of casualties on their side, Zheng Zhihu, who commanded the Zheng Jiajun, was shot, although Xu Jiajun's side was also obviously shot, but only shook and did not fall, and the casualties were zero.

Despair.

Xu Jiazhuang's firearms were too sharp, so sharp that they made Xu Wenjue feel desperate, and produced the invincible fear of Xu Jiajun.

Just when he wanted to withdraw his troops and sue for peace and an end to the war.

Zheng Cai, the deputy general of Zheng Jiajun, gave him an idea: buy artillery, find the Franc machine people to buy Hongyi cannons, and their Zheng family can help contact, and in the port outside Nanjing, there are two merchant ships anchored by Franc people, buy all the artillery on their ships, transport them to Yangzhou, and then use the Hongyi cannon to deal with Xu Jiajun, it will definitely work! Because the Xu Jiajun was not equipped with artillery, and no matter how sharp their guns were, they could not be the opponent of the Hongyi cannon.

"Good! used artillery to bombard the Xu family manor! ”

Xu Wenjue accepted Zheng Cai's proposal and immediately sent someone to Nanjing to buy guns, although the Francophone offered a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of silver, Xu Wenjue also placed an order to buy it without blinking, as long as he could win, not to mention the money, he was willing to pay any price!

……

June 20.

Outside the city of Yangzhou.

Dragged by countless people and strong cattle, 50 Hongyi cannons weighing more than 5,000 pounds slowly moved westward, leaving deep rut marks along the way.

The more than 300 Western gunners who were in charge of controlling these guns followed alongside, from time to time using unskilled Chinese, directing the people how to march.

Claude, a native of the Netherlands, is now Chinese New Year's Eve three years old, is not only a professional artillery officer, but also a businessman, has a very keen sense of business, the news of the outbreak of a major war in the Jiangnan area, he knew more than two months ago, so he prepared a batch of Hongyi cannons and other military supplies in advance, loaded on the Galen ship and transported to the port of Nanjing, ready to make a fortune.

Facts have proved that his foresight in exchange for a very rich return, full of two ships of military supplies were all sold, Hongyi cannon powerful, but the price is too expensive, not a single one was sold, I thought it was all smashed in my hands, but with the development of the war, after two consecutive defeats, there was no way to Jiangnan army, with the help of Zheng Cai's introduction, finally bought his cannons, and hired them to operate these cannons with a high salary, bombarding the Xu family manor.

"Claude, the Ming is too big, too rich, there are too many high-quality slaves who can be enslaved here, you look at these Ming people who pull cannons, they work hard, they don't snort, they are the most diligent slaves I have ever seen, at least three times more efficient than the blacks, oh, God, why is my motherland, still fighting that stupid battlefield in Europa, if we could send 500,000 troops, no, 300,000 troops to come over and conquer the Ming, we would have already obtained ten, a hundred times the wealth and land."

Adjutant Año, a typical Spaniard, looked at everything in this land with extremely greedy eyes, and hated to take it all for himself, just like the other colonies occupied by Spain, and the Ming was definitely the fattest, richest and most valuable, and he drooled greedily.

"Año, what you say is a good idea, but there are too few of us, Daming is too big, too far from our homeland, and it is impossible to turn this place into a God-blessed place unless all the countries of Europa unite."

Claude shook his head, agreeing with Adjutant Agnio's words, but disbelieving that it was unrealistic.

"Then let's send more priests over so that more people can believe in the glory of the Lord; In addition, recruit more mercenaries to help the Ming people fight, we have powerful and accurate artillery, there are well-trained soldiers, and those cowardly Ming nobles, like the Roman nobles, are completely inseparable from us mercenaries, it is time for them to kneel at our feet as slaves, tsk, I really want to see those Ming nobles and beautiful wives, stripped naked and serving me......"

Año said indignantly, he once fell in love with a beautiful wife who was wise and noble, and couldn't help but talk to each other to have a romantic encounter, and wanted to carry out a deep integration of Eastern and Western cultures, but was rejected miserably, and was taken down and beaten fifty boards, and his life was almost lost, so he is still haunted by it, so for the land and population of the Ming Dynasty, his heart is full of greedy desire, and there is endless resentment that cannot be born because of demand.

"Let's fight this battle first."

Claude said, he looked at the fortress in front of him that had appeared in his sight, and his brows couldn't help frowning, Daming also appeared here in the fortress? This is a bit difficult to do, the sloping earthen walls of the fortress are a wonderful design to weaken the lethality of spherical iron bullets, and it is much more difficult to fight than ordinary castles.

This Xujiazhuang should not be underestimated, the owner of the village, who claims to be an overseas wealthy businessman, must have stolen a lot of advanced technology from their West.

"Move the artillery forward two more miles, and we will directly bombard the internal facilities of the fortress!"

Claude ordered that the maximum range of the Hongyi cannon was five li (2,500 meters), but in order to take the fort in front, he ordered the fifty cannons to be moved forward to only three miles away from the fort, and then began to build an artillery position, took out paper and pen, and personally calculated the angle of fire and the amount of charge.

And this distance, which is outside the effective lethal range of the Xu family's armaments, no matter how they shoot, it cannot affect the construction of artillery positions.

The more than 50,000 Jiangnan troops in Xu Wenjue's hands were also arranged around the artillery position, piling up multiple earthen walls for defense, preventing the Xu family army from taking the initiative to attack and ending their artillery positions.

……

At this moment, on the walls of the fortress of Manor No. 72.

About three miles away, I saw that the muzzles of the fifty black holes were adjusting the angle of fire, and one door was pointing to this side.

The 120 soldiers of the first artillery company of the Xu Jiajun also quickly adjusted the firing angle of the 20 80mm mortars and aimed at the enemy artillery position three miles away.

"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"

"Company commander, all the mortars are adjusted, can you open fire?" A soldier asked the company commander Wang Chenglong.

"Calibrate the test firing of two rounds first, and then cover it with a salvo of twenty guns!" Wang Chenglong said.

"Yes!"

Mortar VS Hongyi Cannon?

You must know that the full weight of an 80mm caliber mortar, just about 30 kilograms, can be carried by a soldier; The shells weigh only four or five pounds, and a soldier can carry more than a dozen.

What about the Hongyi cannon, the weight of one is more than 5,000 catties, the muzzle diameter is more than 100 mm, the weight of a solid iron bullet can reach 30 catties, and one is equivalent to six or seven mortar shells.

But in this PK of small cannon against cannon, the winning side must be a light and small mortar!

Because the propellant in the mortar shell uses smokeless gunpowder based on nitrocellulose, the detonation rate is several times that of traditional black powder.

In terms of range, the maximum range of the mortar can reach 5 kilometers, which is twice the range of the Hongyi cannon.

In terms of rate of fire, mortars can fire one shell every two or three seconds, and can fire 20 rounds per minute, while the Hongyi cannon can fire once every two or three minutes, and the rate of fire is dozens of times worse.

In terms of the power of the shell, the lethality of a mortar shell with a charge of more than 300 grams in the warhead after explosion is far greater than that of a solid iron projectile that uses collision killing.

Even in terms of manufacturing costs, lightweight and compact mortars are much cheaper than Hongyi cannons, and shells are cheaper to use - of course, this is based on having a modern industrial system.

Rumble!

Rumble!

Two school-fired shells did not hit the opposite artillery position, but fell into the crowd in the rear, killing at least twenty or thirty civilians and soldiers.

"The muzzle of the cannon is raised to five secret positions, all artillery, concentrate fire!" Wang Chenglong roared.

"Yes!"

Bang bang!

The muffled hum sounded intensively, and twenty small black dots, with a special whistling sound caused by friction with the air, covered the Hongyi cannon position three miles away very accurately.

Boom Boom Boom!

A fierce explosion rang out.

The fifty Hongyi cannons didn't suffer much damage, and they didn't move at all, at most there were some abrasions and scratches.

But Claude, an artillery officer who was still calculating the angle of fire, first subconsciously looked overhead, a fire lit up beside him, and he disappeared in place, among the pieces of flesh and blood scattered nearby, only through the broken charcoal pen on the ground and the notebook with many mathematical formulas written on it, can the identity of a few pieces of flesh and blood be identified.

Adjutant Año was clever, and immediately lay on the ground and hid behind a pile of powder kegs, but a high-temperature iron piece splashed out of nowhere pierced a powder keg, igniting the gunpowder inside, and then triggering a chain reaction, and after two or three seconds, all the powder kegs turned into dazzling fire.

"NoNoNo, God it's not fair!" Seeing this scene, Aneo shouted in surprise, and was then engulfed in flames.

The large-scale explosion of the powder keg brought the result of annihilation to the more than 300 Western artillerymen who had already suffered heavy casualties, and countless dreams of making a fortune came to an end.

After firing the first round of mortar shells.

Wang Chenglong did not stop attacking, but fired another twenty rounds in a row, firing more than 400 shells.

Not only covered the artillery positions on the opposite side.

It also covered the surrounding Jiangnan army, so that every shell on average, at least more than ten results were harvested.

After the end of the shelling.

The 5,000 Xujia troops in the fortress, armed with alloy knives, rode bicycles, divided into multiple teams and rushed out, and launched a charge of 'not surrendering or dying' against the remnants of the Jiangnan army, and pursued and killed until dark, and also invaded the city of Yangzhou, arrested more than 800 officials and gentry who opposed Xujiazhuang, and prepared for a public trial, and then imposed severe sanctions on them.

Xu Wenjue hurriedly changed into a woman's clothes and tried to escape in vain, but he was also intercepted and captured by the Xu family's army, and he became a prisoner in despair.

And the capture of the commander Xu Wenjue marked the annihilation of the nearly 200,000 Jiangnan army, and the Jiangnan nobles and gentry got another complete defeat!