Chapter 449: Texas

"Third uncle, fight for a while, let's withdraw."

Yue Tuo looked at the angry Mang Gultai, but found that he couldn't persuade him at all.

Mang Gurtai kicked a clothed minion to the ground, and then sat on a chair and scolded angrily: "Ming Dog is cunning, Amin has been fooled, Yue Tuo, are you not rescued?" ”

Yue Tuo smiled bitterly, he didn't think about rescuing Amin, but Amin's strategy had been seen through by the Ming army, and before he could destroy the Ming army, he was surrounded by the Ming army, and in the end he rushed twice in a row, but there was still no way to rescue Amin who was trapped in the formation.

"Providence..."

Mang Gurtai sneered: "Hmph, Providence, Yue Tuo, you Ama is rumored to have surrendered to Minggou. ”

"Third uncle, the Ming people once said that there is no need, why, the third uncle's anger can't be sprinkled, so he goes to Ama, who is uncertain about my life and death?"

"Sharp teeth," Mang Gurtai snorted coldly, and then said: "I don't object to the old fourteen's plan, after all, he is also thinking about the Qing Dynasty, since Ama raised troops to establish the Dajin Kingdom, after all, it is for the future of our Manchuria, you take the Red Flag Banner under your command to carry out the fourth brother's order, Texas...

Leave it to me. ”

Mang Gurtai called Huang Taiji the fourth brother, thinking that he had already made up his mind, Yue Tuo was stunned for a moment, and then understood the meaning of Mang Gurtai, and made a Manchurian etiquette towards Mang Gurtai's chest: "Third uncle... You... Take care, I'll stay in Hejian Mansion, if things don't get along..."

Mang Gurtai raised his hand to stop Yue Tuo's words, and then nodded lightly: "You go back and tell the fourth brother that I love Xinjueluo without a bad seed, and go..."

After Pingyuan County, it was less than thirty miles away from Texas, but Chen Cao received a report from the front-line scouts just before he set off.

"Your Majesty, the Tartars did not give up the city of Dezhou, but the walls around Dezhou were clear, and the gates of each city were closed, and the front gates were even blocked with sand and gravel."

Chen Cao looked around at the people around him: "Tartar, this is going to defend Texas?" ”

Li Yan approached next to Chen Cao, and when he heard the words, he said: "After Dezhou, it will enter the territory of Beizhili, Dezhou is only one hundred and twenty miles away from Hejian, and there is a distance of three hundred miles from Hejian to Beijing City, from the topography of Beizhili, Dezhou, is the last important town between Hejian, breaking Dezhou, our army can divide troops along the road to support Beijing City, if the minister is a Tartar, he will naturally defend Dezhou. ”

"Your Majesty," Zhao Xin's fast horse galloped urgently: "The news just came, the Longwu army has broken the Tartar army in the Daimyo Mansion and has recovered the Daimyo Mansion, and the Longwu Army has gone north to Shunde and Zhending in accordance with the plan previously formulated by His Majesty. ”

Chen Cao nodded, and then raised his hand to signal: "The whole army is leaving Texas." ”

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"Your Majesty has an order, and the artillery will be in place immediately..."

"Each artillery position obeys my orders, the target is the Texas city wall, and the Zhuyuan is loaded..."

"Prepare for the fire..."

"Ignition..."

'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... Knock knock knock...'

Under the command of division commander Ning Guoxing, the artillery unit operated like an assembly line, and 150 Shenwu guns and 100 field artillery pieces bombarded the Dezhou city wall 700 steps away.

"This is not enough, the infantry cannot storm ..."

Ning Guoxing put down the clairvoyant and turned his head to tell the herald: "Go and tell Your Majesty quickly whether to continue firing the cannon." ”

As soon as the words fell, dozens of artillery explosions were heard from inside the city of Texas, and the sound came from far and near.

"Be careful, the Tartars have fired."

As soon as the words fell, the shells flying out of the city of Texas hit the artillery positions directly, setting off a wave of mud and causing a lot of casualties to the artillery units.

Without waiting for Chen Cao's order to arrive, Ning Guoxing once again ordered three volleys of artillery, in order to suppress the resistance of the Tartars in Dezhou City with superior forces.

The cannonballs flew towards the gap again, and while Ning Guoxing was still waiting, the herald arrived and brought Chen Cao's order: "Division, Your Majesty's military order, let our troops cover the engineering troops to blow up the city wall of Texas." ”

After several years of dynamite changes, the Songjiang Arsenal was able to make finished explosives as it pleased, and by adding seaweed and other fusion substances, the Arsenal could turn nitroglycerin liquids into coagulants, and then make even more powerful yellow explosives.

This time, the new type of explosives was also used in actual combat for the first time, and Texas was the first place to have the honor of being an experimental city.

Ning Guoxing immediately ordered all field artillery positions to lower their muzzles, mainly pressing the Tartar counterattack force on the city wall, and never covering the engineering troops who were preparing to bomb the city.

The research on the line of fire was still in full swing, and the way to detonate the explosives was still to ignite from a distance, and the sappers successfully arrived under the broken walls of Dezhou City under the cover of artillery, and the engineer squad immediately withdrew to the canal not far away after the dynamite was buried in the root of the city wall.

Because of the artillery, the Tartar defenders on the city walls couldn't see the engineer units that had already planted the explosives, and they couldn't even see the small flames that were slowly burning along the lead.

Due to the bombardment, the smoke from the ignition of the Tartar was not visible from the Tartar's viewing hole.

Suddenly, Chen Cao felt a shaking of the mountain on his horse, and the war horse he stepped on was even more restless and stepped in place, followed by a huge explosion, and the city wall of Dezhou City, two miles away, collapsed.

Song Che, who was in command of the front, was overjoyed and immediately ordered the 1st Division to attack Texas as the vanguard.

"Your Majesty's military order, order the artillery fire to be extended."

Ning Guoxing turned his head and shouted when he heard this: "The muzzle of the field artillery is raised by fifteen degrees, and the artillery fire extends into the city, and the artillery is fired..."

After the walls were completely torn down, there was no more cannon sound in the city, and not a single shell that had previously hit and wounded the artillery array flew out.

After some indiscriminate bombardment, Ning Guoxing got the news that the first round of shells had run out, and before Chen Cao got the news again, he found that the artillery had stopped attacking, and turned his head to look at Zhao Xindao: "Immediately send an order to the 9th Division to outflank Dezhou City on the left and right, and let go of the direction of Dezhou Beicheng." ”

The encirclement of the three is a common tactic, but now the troops of the 1st Division have rushed into the city from the collapsed city wall, and it can be regarded as forcing the Tartars in the city from the center of the city to the direction of the northern city.