Chapter 390: The Cannon Is the Truth

(In fact, the original intention of writing this novel is not to get anything, it is simply to read the Ming Wear novels written by others is not enjoyable, so I will do it myself, and I think that writing this thing is to do it in my spare time, because my literary skills are too low, purely to entertain myself, I used to sign a contract to write two novels at a certain point and a sleeve site, but I gave up because of various problems, and the subject matter is unusually good, think about the book after the end of the book can continue to write what was not written before, re-polish.) , I believe that the problem is not big; In addition, there is an unknown big brother who will always subscribe after I update, thank you really much, so that the little brother is terrified, and I have to update it every day, because I was going to update three chapters in a week, and the workload has increased, hahaha... ）

"See Your Majesty..."

Ten miles outside Yangzhou City, in the big tent of the Chinese army, dozens of division-level commanders were inside, and they all saluted Chen Cao, who was dressed in military uniforms.

"I've seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince..."

Crown Prince Chen Boxing stood by Chen Cao's side immaturely at the moment, accepting the salute of this group of people.

"Wang Xiaojie, what's the situation?"

Boom...

After saluting again, Wang Xiaojie clenched his fists: "Your Majesty, according to the captured captives, it is Li Yongfang's traitor who guards Yangzhou." ”

"Li Yongfang..."Chen Cao read: "He can't be regarded as a traitor... He's a big traitor... This guy surrendered to Nurhachi as early as the forty-sixth year of Wanli, who is his wife? ”

"Abatai's daughter..."

After Zhao Xin mentioned the point, Chen Cao suddenly realized: "By the way, it is the daughter of Nurhachi's son, this Abatai can be regarded as brave and good at fighting, I want to see what their family members of Jiannu look like." ”

Due to the appearance of those characters in the late Qing Dynasty, Chen Cao always thought that Jiannu's female dependents were not good-looking.

Zhao Xin couldn't help but laugh when he heard it in his heart.

"It would be best if Li Yongfang could be captured alive in this battle, but Yangzhou City is not small."

After Chen Cao finished speaking, he looked at Huang Chunyao and Weng Linzhi, both of whom had been stationed in Yangzhou, especially Weng Linzhi.

"Your Majesty," Weng Linzhi said: "Yangzhou has a high wall and a deep city, there are more than 300,000 households, although most of them were evacuated at that time, there are still some people still in the city, if Li Yongfang's family is determined to stop us in Yangzhou, we will not only face the traitor team under Li Yongfang." ”

Although there was no Yangzhou in history for ten days, after Li Yongfang took over Yangzhou, Yue Tuo, as Baylor, showed off his might in Yangzhou City, and killed no less than 10,000 people.

At that time, when Chen Cao received the news, he also scolded Huang Chunyao, who was responsible for evacuating the people.

"Didn't Li Yongfang want to defend the city? My Ming army has been recuperating for so long, and the armies have been recuperating for a few years, it's time to go crazy...

Chuan Zhen ordered to mobilize the artillery units of the Dingwu Army to assemble in front of the formation, the artillery team of the Shenwu Army flanked and covered, and the 1st Army shelled Dongcheng, so that Li Yongfang could taste the range of our artillery. ”

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Ning Guoxing, commander of the artillery division directly under the Dingwu Army, is now on the rise, and as an artillery division exclusively equipped by the Dingwu Army, as long as there is a new type of artillery, his unit will be equipped for the first time.

"Division, 120 field guns have been assigned to be in place, and the Zhuyuan loading has been completed."

Ning Guoxing put down the clairvoyant mirror: "Your Majesty has already given the order, pass the order, fire the cannon..."

"Fire..."

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

The gun mount fixed in place shifted the thrust shock absorbers somewhat after a dozen rounds of shelling, but this did not affect the accuracy in the slightest.

In addition to the 120 field guns of the Dingwu Army, nearly 200 Shenwu guns of the Shenwu Army on the front line also fired one after another.

Suddenly, the entire Yangzhou city was covered by cannonballs, until the dust of the explosion and the smoke that rushed to the sky covered Chen Cao's vision, Chen Cao turned his head to look at Zhao Xin: "Go to Wang Xiaojie and ask him to find the soldiers of Tieling Wei in the Shenwu Army, and see if he can persuade the puppet army in Yangzhou to surrender." ”

"Emperor?"

Chen Cao thought that even when the Southern Ming Dynasty was in the Southern Ming Dynasty, when Li Dingguo killed the two princes of the Qing Dynasty, it also made many former Ming army generals who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty who thought that there was still hope for the Southern Ming Dynasty to uncover the deeds of the uprising.

If he wanted to fight to Beizhili as soon as possible, Chen Cao's first thought was to use the fierce attack of his own army as a supplement, attack the heart first, and attack the city as the bottom, and rebel against the Han army of the former Liaodong and Beizhili who surrendered to Jiannu.

"They are all Chinese, but the ethnic groups are different, besides, they are the people of my Daming, if you want to break the rule of Jiannu, starting with them, there are few Jiannu, this is the point..."

"The minister understands, let's do it."

After the smoke of the artillery fire dissipated, the head of Yangzhou City had become a ruin, and the Shenwu artillery needed to clean the chamber, while the field artillery that had already used metal shells only needed to clean up the ashes of the door.

"Master, the second round of strikes is ready."

"Division, Your Majesty has an order, the artillery array temporarily stops firing, and waits for the order."

More than a dozen horsemen headed towards Yangzhou, but before they could reach the trench, they could only dismount, and a dozen people risked being shot by black guns to cross the trench towards the city gate.

In the Qianli Mirror, Wang Xiaojie muttered: "Your Majesty's idea is also feasible, but I don't know how Li Yongfang chooses, this traitor is Nurhachi's grandson-in-law." ”

More than a dozen people climbed directly up from the ruined city, and actually easily entered the city.

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"Ran away?"

Chen Cao's eyes widened in surprise: "Are you sure?" ”

The person who came was one of the dozen or so people who had personally entered the city, and was reporting the military situation in front of Chen Cao at the moment: "After I entered the city, there were corpses everywhere, and when I ran to their commander's mansion, I saw that there were wounded soldiers, and at this moment my squad controlled thousands of people, and they were all willing to surrender. ”

"Have you carefully inspected the whole city? But are there any civilians or other slave defenders? Huang Chunyao interjected and asked.

"I didn't find it..."

Huang Chunyao turned his head to look at Chen Cao: "At the beginning, I didn't receive the news of Li Yongfang's evacuation, at this moment they can easily capture thousands of people, there must be fraud among them, Yangzhou City is lenient, compared to Suzhou, the north and west of the city have not yet gone to reconnoitre, the minister suggested that a search force be sent to carefully inspect the city to avoid accidents." ”

Chen Cao nodded: "Order Wang Xiaojie and Weng Linzhi to send people into Yangzhou City in two batches, and then search city by city." ”

"Yes."

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In the north of the city, Yang Lian Maha's forehead was shaved not long ago, and the hair that grew out showed that his spirit was particularly decadent, but now his eyes were sharp, as if he had taken a fancy to a prey.

"My lord, the Ming army has searched for it."

Although Li Yongfang retreated, he gave him and Li Shihan a death order to hold on to the north and west of the city for a day, and they could evacuate after dark.

Yang Lian Maha is a native of the northwest, and there is no idea of the Han people, they are directly attached to Jiannu, not the surrender of the Han army: "The musket team must be all hidden, and the spear throwing team is fully prepared, and they can see clearly, as long as the Ming army enters the attack range, they will fight to the death." ”

The sudden ambush caught the officers and soldiers of the Shenwu Army who rushed into the north of the city by surprise, and the casualties were mainly the entire company, and then the soldiers who were ambushed fired back one after another, and the Qing defenders relied on houses and dug tunnels for defensive cover, but the blow was not high.

Yao Cheng, the commander of the 342nd Regiment of the 114th Brigade of the 38th Division, almost died under the throwing gun, and in shock, he ordered the soldiers of the 17th Company who rushed to the front to throw all the grenades and bullets they were carrying into the houses in front.

The effect of the explosion was good, and the muskets and bows fired from inside the house suddenly stopped, and the number of guns thrown was much less.

"Tuanza, we're in ambush, let's retreat."

The adjutant's shouting brought Yao Cheng back to his senses, and then he couldn't help but shiver, and immediately ordered the charging soldiers to retreat and distance themselves from the houses in front.

"The Jiannu of the dog is really not human, and he still blocks the common people in front."

The corpses of the people are very easy to identify, because of the national strength, the current puppet army is still wearing the red cloth jacket of the original Liaodong Ming Army, and the degree of recognition is extremely high.

Yao Cheng stood outside the security zone, turned his head and instructed the adjutant, "Report the situation here at once." As he spoke, he said: "All battalions will immediately surround this place, and we must not let Jiannu take advantage of them, be careful of their weapons." ”

After hearing the news, Chen Cao sneered, and then led people to slowly ride his horse to the front of the formation, and the whirring banner set off the formation extraordinarily solemnly.

"Wang Xiaojie, it is not a problem for your troops to surround the entire Yangzhou, I thought that the Qing army would choose to break through from Beicheng, and Li Yongfang would definitely not give them an order to defend to the death, otherwise it would not take half a day for these people to run away;

How is the propaganda offensive prepared? ”

"It's ready."

"Let's get started."

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"War is just a continuation of politics, it is a political product, not a direct choice, a strong country, does not need to fight to feed the war, the Li Tang Dynasty is like this, the grand scene of all countries to come to the dynasty is the Hongwu Emperor is also yearning, but after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the so-called all countries to the dynasty is only because of the vassal and benefits, this is based on the common interests of both sides of the choice;"

Inside the big tent, dozens of civil and military officers were listening to Chen Cao's teachings, of course, the most serious one was His Royal Highness the crown prince Chen Boxing.

"An emperor who rules a country cannot use feudal superstition, but must be scientific, and he will rule the emperor with a vertical arch, but if the emperor chooses everything, what are the officials set up for? Raise a bunch of white-eyed wolves like the Zhu family? When something happens in the country, everyone knows how to protect themselves, and some people even take advantage of the national disaster to make a windfall, killing the unclean, killing can only deter a group of people, to change in essence, the setting of the Prime Minister's Office is on top of this;

And there is no real friendship between countries, there is only the mutual recognition of a thing and the value of interests in it for the time being, son, remember a sentence, in this world, there are no eternal friends, but there are eternal interests;

In the future, if you become the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as long as you do not violate the principles of the ancestors and do not harm the Ming Empire itself, you can choose what to do with any country, but you must remember that without interests, you must not do it in vain..."

"My son remembers..."

The Chinese Wu was silent, and they couldn't imagine that the emperor would tell this kind of imperial mental trick directly in front of the foreign ministers.

"Report, report from Yangzhou City."