Chapter 359: A Thousand Cannons Roar, Destroying the Heavens and the Earth!

The Potala Palace in May is a pleasant time when it is neither hot nor cold. The perennial snow on the high mountains in the distance, and the green flowers blooming in spring at the foot of the mountains, present a rare green and white beautiful scenery in the Central Plains.

Sweet snow water slowly flows down from the mountains, and patches of cattle and sheep are leisurely flicking their tails and gnawing on the sweet green grass.

This beautiful scenery and suitable climate are a good time to visit the city, if you invite two or three friends, drink tea, paint, and chant poetry, it will be excellent.

It's a pity that the bursts of murderous aura in the air have completely disturbed this beautiful scene. Let this beautiful mountain and river be covered by bursts of killing energy, and the beautiful picture scroll is also dyed with bursts of blood red.

At the beginning of May of the fourth year of Hongxi, at the invitation of the Great Treasure Venerable King, the other two Dharma kings and the five great sect kings led their respective guardian armies and retinue troops to the Potala Palace.

As for the question of the right to lead the troops, the Great Treasure Dharma King did not compete with them, and relinquished the command of his own army.

Anyway, no matter how this battle is fought, it will be lost, and being a first-of-its-kind bird for a while will not only not be beneficial, but will leave a bad reputation afterwards, it is better to simply give up power and let those bastards fight to the death by themselves.

In the end, after a battle between the open and the dark, the Mahayana King gained command and took over the defensive arrangement of the entire Potala Palace.

According to the information sent by the Great Treasure Venerable King, a total of 120,000 troops were gathered on the plateau, and there were 80,000 serf troops, plus miscellaneous auxiliary troops, and the plateau strength was about 230,000.

Such a large army is rare on the entire plateau, and it is estimated that only the Songtsan cadres of the Tang Dynasty can show such a strong strength.

When he traveled to the Central Plains, he read Sun Tzu's Art of War and 36 Strategies in the Central Plains, and declared more than once that the entire plateau was the second in terms of the art of war, and no one dared to call it the first.

Although this guy has an element of bragging, he still has his own strength. The arrangements for the armies and the stationing of the defensive sites were well arranged.

I know that Daming's artillery is powerful, and I have also heard that Daming has something that can throw cannonballs in the sky.

The Mahayana King then asked the army, relying on the defensive points, to dig out big holes one after another. Tell the soldiers that if the Ming opens fire or something strange flies in the sky and throws bombs, they will burrow into the hole to avoid the bombardment of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to this, he also built countless defensive walls, dug countless trenches, and laid countless traps throughout the Potala Palace area.

When everything was ready, the Mahayana King proudly announced to everyone that the defense of the entire Potala Palace could be called impregnable.

However, the Great Treasure Dharma King, who repaired all kinds of trap defensive walls on his front feet and walked around every day to recite scriptures and pray for the blessings of his soldiers, sent the defense map he secretly drew to Zhu Zhangui.

"Your Highness, the vanguard attack corps has arrived at the offensive position, and the other troops are ready to be ready to join as soon as the forward position is breached, and expand the results." Three miles away from the defensive position of the Potala Palace, Jiang Huai, the commander of the Second Army Corps and also the deputy commander of the army, strode in front of Zhu Zhangui, who was looking at the artillery position, and saluted and reported.

Zhu Zhangui, who was looking at the thousands of artillery pieces, nodded slightly. This time to attack the plateau, Da Ming can be said to have taken out his hole cards, and almost all the heavy weapons that can be pulled over have been pulled over.

This is not because of the pain of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no place to shoot the shells, but to give the plateau a deterrent.

The plateau is different from other regions, the environment here is harsh, and ordinary people with poor health come here, and they can't bear it at all.

In the future, if this is recovered, there will not be too many troops stationed here. So in order to prevent these plateau guys from becoming moths in the future, Daming has to give them a profound lesson.

What lessons are memorable? In Zhu Zhangui's view, only an explosion as dense as a torrential rain that makes the heavens and the earth tremble, can make these plateau people deeply imprint fear in their bones.

Whenever they have rebellious thoughts, they think of this nightmare day. In order to pull these thousands of artillery pieces to the Potala Palace area, Daming tried his best.

In addition to shoulder-carrying people, Daming's existing airships fly in the sky every day, transporting artillery pieces and shells.

After a month of preparation, a few days ago, thousands of artillery pieces and supporting shells were all delivered to the front line.

In addition, Daming also prepared 15 rocket artillery vehicles and nearly 2,000 rockets. Anyway, it is to bombard to the death, and strive to destroy all the opponent's defensive positions before the infantry attacks.

"Your Highness, this is the first time we have fought so richly since we had artillery!"

"Obediently thousands of artillery, my Lao Jiang has fought for so many years, and it is the first time I have seen so many artillery pieces gathered together." Looking at the cannon with its muzzle raised to the sky, Jiang Huai secretly swallowed his saliva.

How much he thought in his heart, after this war is over, leave all these artillery pieces behind. But he didn't dare to move.

The commander of the legion to which these artillery pieces belong is not a vegetarian, if he dares to leave these artillery pieces behind, even if the prince comes forward, those anxious-eyed bastards will dare to rush up and chop him alive with knives.

In these years, artillery is the confidence of a legion, and the commanders of each legion are very strict, not to mention that they don't have it, and it will take several days to break it.

Although these artillery pieces may not be able to stay, the dozen or so rocket artillery vehicles, he Jianghuai is going to decide, and it is useless for anyone to come.

Zhu Zhangui smiled slightly, returned to the resting place next to him, sat down and said, "Yes, our entire Ming Dynasty, I'm afraid only the group of losers in the navy have fought such a rich battle." Jiang Huai nodded in agreement when he heard this.

To be honest, if he had known that the navy would develop into what it is today, he would have to change with Li Hu.

Although he is now doing the work of the army, in fact, he is a sailor, if it weren't for the later worship of Zhang Fu as a teacher and learning the skills of land warfare, not necessarily, he is just an ordinary army now, and it is because of Zhu Zhangui's henchmen that he became a soldier.

Picking up the teacup on the table and sipping it, Zhu Zhangui frowned, spit out the tea leaves in his mouth, and ordered Jiang Huai: "Next, the artillery side will carry out artillery bombardment for half an hour, and after the shelling is over, order the forward corps to immediately launch an attack on the enemy's position." ”

"Tell the brothers, tonight, I want to celebrate everyone in the Potala Palace, and if you want to eat roast whole beef, you can work harder!"

"Oh, by the way, tell the insiders on the other side of us, hide, it's going to rain later." Speaking of insiders, Zhu Zhangui pondered for a while and explained in a low voice: "Don't rely on the other party's intelligence, we can't confirm this situation, sometimes not only does it not work, but it will also have the opposite effect, so you must tell the officers on the front line to fight according to your own judgment." ”

"Yes!" Jiang Huai nodded with a serious expression, raised his hand and saluted, turned around and ran to the front line.

For selfish reasons, when arranging the attacking troops, he, the deputy commander, used some small powers to arrange his second army corps to the forefront.

To tell the truth, the entire regiment went up to Jianghuai down to ordinary soldiers, and did not take the soldiers of the plateau in their eyes at all.

It's not that they despise each other's combat effectiveness, but that the gap in the military strength of the two sides is too great. The troops that went to the plateau this time, the ten corps, all of which were national defense corps equipped with third-generation rifles.

Coupled with the internal heavy machine guns, small-caliber artillery, and the configuration of new light machine guns, it is almost no worse than the troops of the World War I and World War II periods.

As for the plateau people on the other side, all of them are cold weapons and equipment, there is no artillery at all, and the heavy equipment is still very old trebuchets and siege crossbows.

In addition, many soldiers on the plateau did not even have armor, and some even did not have weapons, and still held bone spears tied with wood in their hands.

Moreover, the other side does not have professional training at all, and many soldiers themselves farm part-time, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are militiamen.

A unit with poor weapons, backward equipment, backward training, and weak will is not challenging at all for the most elite legion of the Ming Dynasty.

That is, the plateau is a special environment, and if it is replaced by a plain battlefield, it is unknown whether the other party can withstand the impact of the Ming army.

A moment before the hour, the artillery group, which had already placed its artillery, quietly waited for the order to begin.

Hu Yu, who returned to Zhu Zhangui and served as the captain of the guard again, walked next to the commander-in-chief of the artillery with a small red flag in his hand.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order!" The commander-in-chief of the artillery stood upright, and Hu Yu handed the small red flag to the other party to convey Zhu Zhangui's order,

"Flares fly, fire immediately!"

"Yes!" The commander-in-chief responded to the order, raised his hand and saluted, ran quickly to the command position, and raised the small red flag in his hand.

"All guns listen to orders, prepare!" The rest of the commanders also raised the flags in their hands and shouted loudly.

"Wow!" The artillery on standby moved one after another, and the ammunition man took out the shells from the boxes next to them, quickly came to the flat artillery, and stuffed the shells into it under the command of the gun commander.

"Click!" The gun cabin was closed, the gun commander shouted the ruler in his mouth, and the rest of the artillery shook the direction handle vigorously, and the flat gun muzzle was slowly raised, pointing to the plateau position in the distance.

"Ready, ready..." The voice of preparation kept sounding, and the gun commander, who was holding the gun rope in his hand, looked at the commander holding the red flag beside him.

The noisy position was quiet, except for the gun commander who stood up and pulled the artillery god, the other artillerymen all squatted on the ground, quietly waiting for the next busy.

"Okay, I see, let's hide!" In the Potala Palace, the Great Treasure Dharma King, who knew that he was going to fight today, hid in the house early in the morning.

Of course, in order to prevent outsiders from saying that he was cowardly, he claimed that he was reciting sutras in the house and praying for blessings for the soldiers who were fighting.

I don't know if I really pray for blessings to outsiders, anyway, the sound of chanting scriptures has been coming from his house.

As time passed, His Holiness was tormented. On the one hand, there is guilt for betraying one's own person, and on the other hand, there is fear for life.

The sword has no eyes, and he doesn't dare to guarantee whether he will survive the bombardment later. This time, Da Ming showed no mercy, in order to give the enemy the biggest blow, the Potala Palace, an important building, Da Ming didn't care, and directly locked in the shooting.

In Zhu Zhangui's words, the lives of our soldiers are more precious than some broken stones and woods that have no value.

In this way, His Holiness was suffering from the torment of his heart while waiting for that moment to come.

Finally, when he was about to be unable to bear the inner torment, the thing that Daming handed over to him was not working, and the thing called the walkie-talkie was finally reliable, and a voice came out.

The other side told him that Da Ming was ready to attack, let him find a safe place to hide, come out to gather the army's heart when necessary, and persuade the soldiers to put down their weapons and surrender.

After putting away this magical thing that could speak, the Great Treasure got down from the meditation bed, picked up the soft that had been packed up a long time ago, and prepared to go to the hiding place that had been found a long time ago.

"Knock knock, Dharma King Dabao, Dharma King Mahayana is looking for you." The Great Treasure Venerable King had just prepared here, and before he could take a step, there was a sudden knock at the door.

Looking at the figure outside the door and looking at the package in his hand, the Great Treasure King frowned and sighed slightly, hid the package again, and coughed lightly,

"Ahem, here it is." Walked towards the door. The door opened, and a monk appeared in front of him.

This Great Treasure Dharma King knows that he is the personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King.

"Is there anything the Mahayana King looking for me, I'm still chanting sutras here, if there's nothing important, don't bother me." The personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King secretly glanced at the room behind the Mahayana Dharma King, and after seeing that there was nothing unusual, he replied with a smile: "The Mahayana Dharma King heard that you have also traveled in the Central Plains for a long time, so I would like to invite you to go over and observe the defensive position to see if there is anything missing. The Great Treasure King frowned and shook his head slightly,

"It's... Although I have traveled in the Central Plains, I have not been in contact with the military formation, and I don't know much about it, so I ask him to ask him to be smart! After that, the Great Treasure King was about to close the door.

Seeing that the other party was about to close the door, the personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King stepped forward and blocked the door, reached out and grabbed the hand of the Dharma King, and said with a smile.

"Your Holiness, please don't embarrass the poor monks!"

"Let go!" A cold glint flashed in the eyes of the Great Treasure Venerable King, and he clenched the prayer chakra with his other hand, and let out a low cry in his mouth.

"The Dharma King is offended!" The personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King, not only did not let go, but sneered, waved his hand, and two monks walked up with swords in hand, and one left and one right framed the Great Treasure Dharma King.

At this time, the Mahayana Dharma King is not untargeted to deal with the Great Treasure Dharma King, who has no rights.

But he had already grasped a piece of information that the Great Treasure Dharma King had betrayed the plateau and thrown himself into the arms of the Great Ming.

At first, he didn't believe it, thinking that with the other party's status, he wouldn't do such a thing. But the human and physical evidence is in front of him, so he can't believe it.

But in the end, he still wanted to test it to prevent mistakes, after all, the other party's identity is extraordinary, and his prestige among the people is still relatively heavy, and once he makes a mistake, then he will lose his reputation and status.

So when he set up a defensive position, he deliberately asked the other party to come over to take a look, and then sent someone to keep an eye on it.

Sure enough, one night, the people he sent found out that the Great Treasure King was secretly drawing his defense map.

After getting full evidence, the Mahayana King did not act immediately, but continued to let the other party go, wandering around his own position during the day.

He hoped that the other party would convey the wrong information to Da Ming's side, so that Da Ming would suffer heavy losses in his defensive position.

In order to make the Ming suffer heavy losses, he ordered the serfs and soldiers to work overtime at night to transform the position.

Just this morning, the Ming side set up an offensive posture, and the Mahayana King understood that it was time to close the net.

After his own soldiers entered the position and formed a perfect defensive network, the Mahayana King sent his personal living Buddha to arrest them.

He wanted to use the head of the Great Treasure Dharma King to sacrifice his military flag, wishing the plateau troops success in defending their positions and striking a severe blow to the Ming army.

"What do you want to do, I am the Great Treasure Dharma King, if you move me, the Buddha will not forgive you!" Held down by two monks, the Great Treasure King struggled and shouted loudly, hoping to attract his few loyal soldiers to him.

"Dabao Dharma King, you don't need to shout, your minions have been arrested, and now you are calling the heavens and the earth to be spiritual."

"Also, why we arrested you, you must know very well in your heart." Looking at the Great Treasure Dharma King who was struggling hard and wanted to attract rescuers, the personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King sneered and ruthlessly poured a basin of cold water on the other party.

Then he leaned into the ear of the Dharma King of Dabao and whispered: "Our Dharma King asked me to ask you, you should tell Da Ming all about the defense situation on our side!" Hearing this, the Great Treasure Venerable King who was struggling was stunned for a moment, and his eyes widened and he looked at the living Buddha in disbelief.

Seeing it like this, the personal living Buddha of the Mahayana King was even more proud. A person who was once high on top is now being caught by himself like a dog, and the feeling is really indescribable.

Even in a happy mood, he felt that he was in control, and he leaked some more things.

"The man you sent to lead the way for Da Ming was caught by our men when he returned, and he has already explained everything." The eyes of the Great Treasure Dharma King instantly lost color.

It turned out that all the actions he thought were secret had all fallen into the eyes of the Mahayana King.

Now Da Ming hasn't come in yet, even if he attacks now, he can't wait, Da Ming came to save him.

What's more, Daming's side is already ready to attack, and now he hasn't hid it yet, it is estimated that before the Mahayana King cuts off his head, he will die in the artillery fire of Daming.

Thinking that he had calculated everything, but he was planted on the body of a small person, the body of the Great Treasure Dharma King collapsed in an instant.

"Take it away!" Looking at the Great Treasure Dharma King, the personal living Buddha of the Mahayana Dharma King laughed, and with a wave of his hand, he was about to take the Great Treasure Dharma King out to worship the flag.

"......Tuck", but as soon as their footsteps moved, a piercing scream suddenly sounded in the direction of the Ming army in the distance.

Then, before they could understand what the sound was, a shrill whistling sound rushed from the direction where the Ming army was located.

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In addition, I communicated with the editor today, and she felt that the title of the book was too traditional, and with my current results, it was not appropriate to use this kind of 4-character name.

After communication and discussion between the two of us, the name of the new book was set as: "Gu Daming Zhu Houzhao, the beginning of the angry robbery of the Holy Father!"

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