South Gate of Xuzhou.

Chongzhen took Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong's little brothers, and stood solemnly on the head of the city surrounded by Wang Chengen, Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and other internal servants, as well as civil and military generals such as Du Yinxi and Jin Xuan.

To say that Chongzhen is not nervous, it must be false.

But to say how nervous Chongzhen is, that's not enough.

After experiencing the battle of Xiazhen, Chongzhen has enough confidence in the Huanghuai defense line he built.

Because the facts of Xiazhen's great victory have fully proved that the combination of Zeng Zhen's strategy of "hardening the village and fighting a dumb battle" and the tactics of the Western fortress is effective, and the effect is very good.

To be honest, how long Xuzhou can hold out, Chongzhen is not sure.

But one thing is certain, it is impossible for Jiannu to capture Xuzhou in a short time!

However, it is already the beginning of February, and as long as it drags on for about two more months, the weather will warm, and the Yellow River will thaw, and Zheng Hongkui will be able to go straight from the Yellow River to Yunlong Lake.

The sailor is the real trump card of the Ming army!

At that time, the situation in Xuzhou will be greatly eased.

Because the north and east of Xuzhou are the Yellow River, the south is Yunlong Lake and Yunlong Mountain, and Yunlong Mountain is sandwiched between Yunlong Lake and the Yellow River, and the Ming army can provide support to the defenders on Yunlong Mountain from the left and right sides, so at that time, Jiannu will only have one breakthrough in the west!

And even this breakthrough in the west has troubles.

Because the straight-line distance between Yunlong Lake and the Yellow River is only six or seven miles, if Jiannu really attacks the west gate of Xuzhou from this narrow passage with a width of only six or seven miles, he will be accidentally shelled by the Ming army's naval divisions from the two directions of Yunlong Lake and the Yellow River, so the difficulty of attacking the city will also be greatly increased.

In short, Chongzhen has the confidence to hold Xuzhou.

Zhu Cijiong put his hand on the awning and looked at it, but found that he couldn't see anything.

If you want to borrow it from Chongzhen, you can't borrow it, and the three-section telescope has been given to Zheng Sen in the sky.

At that moment, Zhu Cijiong began to complain: "Father, why can't we build a telescope in the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Chongzhen smiled and turned his gaze to Fang Yizhi, who happened to be there: "Fang Zhi, don't you want to say a few words?" ”

Fang Yizhi said with some embarrassment: "Holy Lord, and His Royal Highness King Ding, the main accessory of the telescope is a glass lens, we can burn glass, and there is no shortage of craftsmen who polish it, mainly because they have never tried it before, but if they try, I believe it is easy to make it." ”

Zhu Cijiong asked, "When did Gewuke start trying?" ”

By the way, Fang Yizhi has now been appointed as the head of the Gewu Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Fang Yizhi hurriedly said: "Your Highness, rest assured, when the battle in Xuzhou is over, Gewuke will immediately start trial production." ”

"Then hold on." Zhu Cijiong scratched his ears and cheeks and said, "There are no telescopes in this war, it's really not good, if you are a little farther away, you can't see clearly, where is this?" ”

While he was talking, the alarm bell of Kong Ming's lantern was suddenly sounded.

Chongzhen looked up sharply and saw Zheng Sen lying on the guardrail of the hanging basket and rushing down to sign language.

Chongzhen had learned sign language systematically, but what he taught Zheng Sen and Qin Wang Shizi was a simplified version of sign language, which could convey some of the simplest information.

"C13 Gun Stand Lost?!"

Zhu Cijiong also saw it and exclaimed in surprise.

Chongzhen's heart was also sluggish, C13 was lost so quickly?

From the time Jiannu launched the attack to the present, it has only been two quarters of an hour, right?

However, as soon as Zhu Cijiong's voice fell, Zheng Sen continued to sign as if he was crazy.

"C14, C17, C16, and C15 have also been lost!" At this time, even Zhu Cihong exclaimed, and Chongzhen's heart instantly swelled with inexplicable unease.

No way? No way!

No way!

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……

Although Chongzhen and the others stood on the five-zhang high city wall, they still couldn't see seven or eight miles away.

However, Zheng Sen was in the air at a height of five zhang and ten zhang, a total of fifteen zhang high, so he could see very far away, and Jiannu's attack on the first five heavy platforms in Area C could be seen very clearly.

When I was still studying in Guozijian before, I often heard people talk about the fierceness of Jiannu.

Almost all the students in the entire Guozijian knew that Jiannu was fierce by nature, but they lacked a clear idea of how fierce Jiannu was.

But now, Zheng Sen has the most intuitive understanding of Jiannu's ferocity.

Entering the mother thief, Jiannu is really fierce, before they were also considered elite in the eyes of these Qinwang scholars, the Ming border army was under the impact of Jiannu, and it was about to collapse!

It's a one-touch-and-collapse, not a non-touch-and-collapse!

In other words, the Ming army still resisted with the help of the platform, but it couldn't resist it at all!

Jiannu's attack was like a monstrous hurricane, and the resistance of the Ming army was like a made of sand.

What made Zheng Sen even more unbelievable was that the Jiannu who launched the attack were only a few hundred people, which was slightly more than the Ming army in the five Gongtai, and the Ming army in the five Gongtai combined had 450 elite border army soldiers.

How can it be? Zheng Sen is about to go crazy.

……

Build a slave camp.

A smile already tugged at the corner of Hauge's mouth.

The soldiers of the Blue Banner gave him a long face this time, maybe this time, Duoduo would steal chickens instead of a handful of rice, originally wanting to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of their Blue Banner, but it turned out to give him a great achievement!

If the Bayala soldiers of the Blue Banner can win the first battle, they will not be able to run away from the great merit of the Battle of Xuzhou.

Even Dolgon, who is the regent of the imperial father, cannot hack the blue flag.

Duoduo couldn't see any expression on his face, but said in a surging voice: "Prince Su, your Baya soldiers of the Blue Banner are doing well, but this is only the first heavy platform, and then there are the second heavy platforms and Yunlong Mountain, especially the back attack on Yunlong Mountain is a test of the physical strength of the Blue Banner warriors." ”

Hauge's face fell, and his gaze turned to the battlefield.

Don't let me down, Kurshan!

……

Kurshan is the Baga Lajangjing of the Blue Banner, and he is the commander of the Protector Army.

Kuer is Chinese New Year's Eve years old today, it is the strongest age in his life, he grows tall, and strong, the amount of food is extraordinarily large, and the strength is also extremely amazing.

If Ao Bai is the first warrior of Manchukuo, Kurshan is the first strong man!

At this time, Kursian pushed a cart nailed with iron sheets and raw cowhides, and walked in the retreat passage between the first and second platforms.

The retreat passage was one foot deep, and the ground could not be seen.

Beside and behind Kuryan were more than twenty other white-armored soldiers.

Jiannu's car weighed thousands of catties, and more than 20 people had to push it at the same time.

But one car can also provide strong cover for dozens of people at the same time.

The 300 white-armored soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner were divided into two roads, pushing six chariots along the two retreat channels and slowly advancing forward, and the Ming army's guns rained down on the front baffle of the chariots.

However, all this is useless.

Whether it's a shotgun fired by a bird gun or a tiger squat cannon,

For Jiannu's chariot, it's just an itch.

Only the closing shells fired by the Franc cannon or the Tiger Squat cannon could threaten the car.

However, the outer guns were not equipped with Franc cannons, and although there were many Tiger Squat cannons, their accuracy was extremely poor, so they were not enough to stop the advance of the car.

Soon, the wagon was advanced to the edge of the trench.

Further ahead was a two-zhang high ridge, but the Jiannu white-armored soldiers did not pause at all.

When the center of gravity of the cart crossed the edge of the ridge, the six carts overturned one by one and smashed to the bottom of the ditch with a bang.

Immediately, more than 100 white-armored soldiers jumped down the two-zhang deep trench like dumplings, and together they straightened the cart that had fallen to the bottom of the trench and continued to advance along the bottom of the trench.

I have to admit that Jiannu is really good at summarizing.

At the time of the last Xiazhen War, Jiannu did not have this method of warfare.

At that time, Jiannu was forced to stop after pushing the cart to the edge of the slope protection.

But in this Xuzhou War, Jiannu summed up the tactics of crossing the trench with a chariot.

This tactic is simple and crude, but effective, that is, directly push the cart down the trench, anyway, the cart is strong and thick, and it will be fine if you fall twice, and you can even use the weight of the cart to smooth the antler wood thorns at the bottom of the ditch.

Just now when attacking the first heavy platform on the periphery, Jiannu used this set of tactics.

With more than a hundred white armors, Kurtan pushed six carts from the bottom of the trench and continued to advance.

Countless guns were still raining down, and now that Jiannu was at the bottom of the trench, the chariot could no longer provide shelter, so they all fell on Jiannu.

However, it was still not enough to cause fatal damage.

Because these Jiannu white-armored soldiers are all wearing triple armor.

Only the occasional hit can inflict damage.

"Hugh!" With a scream that tore through the air,

A 30-tael cloak hits a white-armored soldier.

[Note: 1 tael = 37.3 grams in the Ming Dynasty, 30 taels = 1.119 kg]

[Note: The 1.119 kg closing bullet is a stone ball with a diameter of nearly 10cm]

Immediately there was a loud bang of "Peng", and the chest of the white-armored soldier was instantly smashed into a dent.

Due to the open design, the tiger squat cannon has insufficient air tightness, so the muzzle velocity of the projectile is not high, and the kinetic energy of its warhead is far less than that of the flat-firing guns of later generations.

But even then, it was enough to inflict fatal damage.

It is indeed impossible for a stone lump of more than a kilogram to continuously penetrate the iron armor, cotton armor and chain mail, but it is enough to smash the triple armor stomach into a depression and transmit huge kinetic energy to Jiannu's body.

"Poof!" The white-armored soldier of Jiannu who was hit opened his mouth and spat out a large clot of blood.

Then the whole person quickly shriveled to the ground, and there was no movement after falling to the ground.

However, Kurchen and the other white-armored soldiers didn't even blink an eye.

These battle-hardened Jiannu white-armored soldiers have already seen too much life and death.

None of the white-armored soldiers were affected, and the white-armored soldiers who followed up even pulled out their bows one after another, and shot a heavy arrow three feet long at the Ming army on the platform.

Supposedly, firearms such as bird guns should be more lethal than bows and arrows.

But in this local battlefield, Jiannu's bow and arrow achieved a crushing advantage.

The Ming musketeers guarding behind the guardrail of the platform were shot one after another, and after nearly half of them were killed, the remaining Ming musketeers were too frightened to show their heads.