Chapter 140: The Remnant Sun Is Like Blood
When Sun Chuanting received these firearms, he knew that Lao Zhu was urging him.
Of course, Lao Zhu didn't say it explicitly, nor did he give him a death order, so he just revealed to him what he meant, and let him decide when he really launched the offensive.
It's just that he heard the number and specifications of the firearms that Lao Zhu sent him, and he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
"2,000 artillery pieces, 10,000 guns with a range of more than 500 meters."
Sun Chuanting muttered, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong.
2,000 artillery pieces are good to say, it is said that His Majesty the Emperor killed a lot of people in the capital, and also copied a few relatively wealthy vassal kings, and now the imperial treasury is very rich, and it is normal to have money to build artillery.
But what the hell is this fire gun with a range of more than 500 meters? Can this thing hit so far?
After repeatedly confirming that this thing was correct, Sun Chuanting began to doubt his life a little.
It seems that he has only been away from the capital for more than seven months, what happened in the capital in these seven months?
Even if so many important ministers were cut down, they could still get a musket gun with a range of five or six hundred meters.
With such a terrifying range, there is a ghost on the other side.
With so many muskets, if you use the three-stage attack that Da Ming is best at, I am afraid that the enemy will be killed before he even comes to him.
You must know that at a distance of 500 meters, even if an adult sprints with all his might, it is estimated that it will take at least about a minute.
On the battlefield, those soldiers not only had to hold weapons, but also wore armor, so fully armed, it would take at least ten minutes to rush through the distance of 500 meters.
But the problem is that although the penetration of this kind of fire gun is a little weaker, within 500 meters, it is not a problem to break through the armor and stomach of ordinary soldiers.
Ten minutes of exposure to the muzzle of the musket pistol, how many lives would have to be filled to cross the ten minute distance.
And this is still theoretical time, in fact, because of the terrain and the fall of the front row of soldiers, if you want to cross the distance of 500 meters, I am afraid that ten minutes may not be possible.
So this distance can be called a death distance, even if it is brave in the future, it is not easy to make it.
"Da Ming, how can there be such a terrifying firearm?"
Sun Chuanting couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, fortunately, this fire gun was in Daming, if it was the enemy's side, then this battle would simply be impossible to fight.
He sighed in his heart, and asked the quartermaster to send all these firearms down and change the clothes of his soldiers.
As for the 2,000 guns, he also specially asked craftsmen to continue to build the frame and make it into a gun carriage to use.
Originally, after training for more than seven months, he already had a lot of confidence in his heart about destroying Li Zicheng.
Now that the emperor has sent him so many firearms, as long as the soldiers under his command get used to the new firearms, then Li Zicheng can completely wash his neck and wait for death.
"This kind of firearm has a feeling of bullying people."
Sun Chuanting shook his head, and did not rush to make a move on Li Zicheng, but waited for more than half a month, until the soldiers under his command were completely familiar with these new firearms, and then he launched an attack on Li Zicheng.
At this time, there is still more than half a month before the end of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen Chongzhen.
Therefore, Sun Chuanting's plan is to try to kill Li Zicheng before the New Year, so that the emperor in the capital can have a good year.
And Sun Chuanting does not move, and if he moves, he is like thunder.
He directly ordered Zuo Liangyu to march from Xiangyang, Shi Kefa to march from Fengyang, Wang Yongji to march from Nanchang, Yang Jin to march from Baoding, and he himself as the main force, leading an army of 100,000 from Tongguan.
A total of five people marched to Henan from five directions, directly blocking all of Li Zicheng's retreat routes, and forcing him to fight to the death.
Because now that the imperial court has regained its prestige, after the imperial court issued a strict order to obey Sun Chuanting's dispatch, none of these general soldiers dared to slack off on Sun Chuanting's orders.
After receiving the military order, the four men and horses directly pulled out the camp and marched, like an impenetrable net, slowly forcing towards Li Zicheng.
However, because Sun Chuanting's army is the main force, compared with the marching speed of Sun Chuanting's army, the marching speed of the rest of the four-way army is slightly slower, and the main task of the four-way army is to block Li Zicheng's retreat after his defeat, so as not to give him a chance to escape.
After receiving the news of Sun Chuanting's large-scale march, Li Zicheng, who had been very uncomfortable by the policies of the imperial court during this time, directly left all his worries behind.
In the final analysis, the world is still fought, not calculated by stratagem.
Originally, after the expansion of the army, Li Zicheng still wanted to attack Sun Chuanting, but he didn't expect Sun Chuanting to take the initiative to send it to the door.
"Assemble the army and prepare for war!"
Li Zicheng's previous rectification of military discipline was not useless, and now there are 100,000 elite soldiers in the 600,000 army under his command.
And the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the sum of the five roads is only more than 200,000, and among the more than 200,000 troops, the real elite is very few.
Therefore, he felt that with a difference of nearly three to one troops, he would not be able to lose this battle no matter how he fought.
And Li Zicheng became a preventer from the Ming army copying his back road, so he also divided his soldiers and horses into five roads.
Among them, Luo Rucai occupied two roads and led his subordinates to the south to resist Zuo Liangyu and Shi Kefa.
After the remnants of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution were replenished, they were also divided into two routes, and went north to resist Wang Yongji and Yang Jin.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
And he himself took more than 300,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters and marched directly to the west to meet Sun Chuanting.
Originally, according to Li Zicheng's meaning, this battle must be pressed by the whole army, and if it is not won, it will die, and there is no way to retreat at all.
But under Li Yan's persuasion, Li Zicheng still left 5,000 soldiers and horses, and let Gu Kecheng, one of the eighteen horsemen who fled with him, stay with Li Yan to guard the town.
When he left the city, Li Zicheng was full of confidence, and with a difference of nearly three to one troops, he didn't believe that Sun Chuanting could still win him.
At the beginning, Sun Chuanting almost killed himself, and he beat himself to eighteen horses and fled, and he has always remembered this blood debt.
This time, with the strong against the weak, he is bound to be ashamed!
Above the city, Li Yan looked at Li Zicheng's army in the distance, and his expression was a little dark.
Unlike Li Zicheng, who is full of self-confidence, Li Yan knows that Li Zicheng has no chance of winning this battle at all.
"Two thousand guns, a fire gun with a range of 500 meters......"
Li Yan thought about the top-secret information he had obtained from the Ming Army, and couldn't help but shake his head silently.
The profound Da Ming, the power that erupted after the rectification was enough to make everyone despair.
Don't say that the Ming Dynasty now has those new muskets, even if there are only those 2,000 artillery, or even those artillery, in the current situation that the Ming Dynasty is suitable for the monarch and the minister, Li Zicheng has no chance of winning at all.
"King Chuang, there is no need for me to save this world."
"In that case, why should we wait for these people to continue to leave a calamity to the whole world."
Li Yan did not disclose the news to Li Zicheng, because he knew that Li Zicheng was no longer the king who relied on his enthusiasm to do things back then, and he would never give up the power in his hands no matter what he said.
Since this is the case, let him be buried in Chongzhen for fifteen years with the decaying Ming Dynasty in the past.
Thinking of this, Li Yan showed an expression on his face that seemed to be crying but not crying, there was a little guilt in his expression, but it was more of relief.
Li Yan, who was alone above the city, looked extremely sad under the illumination of the blood-colored remnant sun.