"Stop moving forward and build an artillery position immediately!"

The artillery commander saluted Wu Sheng, rode back to his artillery unit, and instructed everyone to build a gun position. The Ming army stopped advancing about a kilometer away from the Qing army's defensive line, and the officers of the artillery battalions, artillery companies, and artillery platoons received orders through walkie-talkies and began to quickly build artillery positions.

Cheng Shijie took the binoculars and looked at the Qing army on the opposite side, only to see that the Qing army on the opposite side was full of horse pits, fences, and deer barricades, and the two-zhang long horse repulsion guns were set up in rows, flashing in the cold wind, which made people frightened.

In addition, many of the camps were dug deep trenches around the periphery, and behind the trenches were wooden fences, presumably behind which were a large number of crossbowmen.

"His grandmother's legs!"

Cheng Shijie said angrily: "This shit, really learned the trench tactics of our Ning Navy to the fullest, just need barbed wire and mine arrays, give up the advantage of cavalry, and fight in a stupid battle?" Then you have to keep it! ”

Zhou Ning frowned slightly and said, "What the hell is going on with this Jiannu?" Why didn't you start the fight yet, and you put on a posture of being beaten? ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "These camps are used to consume our artillery fire and resist our cavalry, and when our shells are almost consumed and the cavalry suffers heavy casualties, their main force will swoop down from the hill and roll us into meat sauce!" ”

Zhou Ning snorted: "It's beautiful to think about, but you have to ask us if we agree first!" ”

Wu Sheng looked at the trap in that place, sighed and said, "These bastards, when did they become so obscene?" Is he at war? It's just disgusting! ”

Zhao Wencai looked at the ground that had been dug up and shook his head: "The ground has been dug up like this, and our cavalry can't rush!" If you want to attack the Jiannu camp, you are afraid that you will have to make a detour for several miles...... Whew, it's disgusting! ”

The weather is cold now, although there is no freezing, but the hard ground is suitable for cavalry charges, but if the big battlefield, a radius of dozens of miles, are dense horse traps, of course, these traps are thick in diameter and mouth, about one and a half feet deep vertically, once the high-speed charging war horse legs sink in, it will definitely break the horse legs.

However, the problem is that the cavalry of the Ning Navy has always been a short board, only after the artillery defeats them, the cavalry will charge, like them, the entire battlefield is full of horse pits, even if they win, they can't be pursued with cavalry, they must detour for more than ten miles, with the detour of the road, Jiannu can retreat calmly.

"Tell the commander, the artillery is ready!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "Let's start, play for a quarter of an hour!" ”

The gun emplacements were immediately busy, the gun commander looked at the target with a telescope, calculated the data, and the gunners adjusted the angles of the guns according to his orders.

This is a one-kilometer distance direct aim shooting, very difficult, they have artillery close to the level of the First World War, but there is no corresponding artillery knowledge, for example, ballistics or anything they don't know, all with experience and a little trick in the long-term artillery, to prepare in such a short period of time, it is really a big challenge for them.

Haoge watched the barrels on the artillery position of the Ning Navy move, and Haoge, who had been subjected to many shells by the Ning Navy, immediately whispered: "It's going to start!" ”

"You know how to bully people with artillery!"

Zilharang said viciously: "Come on! See if the fish dies or the net breaks! ”

The generals of the Qing army looked solemn and stared at the battlefield silently. As Jierharang said, with the outbreak of the shelling of Chaoyangmen in the capital, the Qing army launched a massacre of the people in the capital, most of the surrounding people fled, and the entire capital, except for the gentry and officials who surrendered to them, there were few people, and the Qing army could not obtain enough manpower and material resources here, and the city of Beijing could not be held.

If they win, they can go south without any scruples, and if they lose, there will be nothing!

Although the Eighth Brigade and the Guards Brigade of the Ning Navy have a total of two artillery regiments, they have ten artillery battalions under their jurisdiction, which are equivalent to two and a half artillery regiments of other field units, which is mainly due to the fact that the artillery regiment of the Guards Brigade is an additional regiment and a package of troops, and the ten artillery battalions have a total of 40 artillery companies, and each artillery battalion has two three-inch artillery companies, one rocket artillery company and one four-inch artillery company.

There are only six companies of rocket artillery shells, but each company has four platoons, and each platoon has eight firing groups, a total of 1,192 six-pack rocket launchers, and a single salvo can fire 1,152 rocket launchers.

In fact, according to the scale of later generations, an artillery company of the Ning Navy is roughly equivalent to the size of an artillery battalion in later generations, and an infantry brigade is equivalent to the size of a division, mainly because there are not enough officers.

The first to fire were the six rocket artillery batteries of the 208th Regiment and the 200th Regiment of the Ning Navy, with a total of 1,152 arrows and artillery pieces forming this formidable long-range strike group.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The first to fire was the three-inch gun, and the three most experienced gun crews opened fire at the same time, and the shell missed unexpectedly and landed more than 100 meters away from the target.

The artillery commander immediately corrected it, and the fourth shell successfully smashed into the Qing army barracks. Immediately after that, the sky and the earth cracked, more than 300 cannons opened fire at the same time, white gunpowder smoke and orange flames erupted, and the cannonballs pierced and weaved into a curtain of fire whistling across the sky, smashing into the Qing army camp.

The Qing troops who were sticking to the camp only felt that the ground shook suddenly, as if a volcano had erupted under their feet, everything was burning and shattering in an instant, and many people sat on the ground with weak feet and couldn't stand up!

The shells fell, the orange fireballs swelled out, the muddy water splashed everywhere, shrapnel flew sideways, fences, deer, horse guns, tents, ...... These were all shattered in a flash of fire, the bodies of the Qing soldiers who were swept by shrapnel were broken, and the dirty blood gushed out at high speed to form a miserable blood mist, and the screams came one after another, but the first round of salvo caused them a lot of casualties!

The shock wave from the first round of shelling had not yet dissipated, and the second round of artillery fire came again. The artillery of the new army buried their heads in the stuffy and fiercely attacked, and they didn't care what they could hit at all, in fact, it was unrealistic for them to shoot accurately at such a distance to destroy any specific target, as long as they smashed the shells into the Qing army barracks!

The barracks of the Qing army that had been shelled were like boiling pots, the sound of people shouting and neighing almost overwhelmed the sound of artillery, the muddy ground was beaten into hot mud, and the fences and deer barricades were ignited by the fire caused by the shelling, and they were burning, and even the cold rain could not extinguish the fire.

From such a distance, you can see the stumps and broken arms of the Qing army and even the bodies flying high with the naked eye, and their terrifying screams make people involuntarily think of the beasts that are being disemboweled!

The Qing army had more than 20 Hongyi cannons that had just been removed from the city walls of the capital, as well as two or three hundred small and medium-caliber artillery, as well as artillery that had just been produced from the Gun Bureau.

It's just that the artillery of the Qing army, both in quantity and quality, is not the same scale and magnitude as the Ning Navy, especially the artillery that was pulled from the capital with great effort, and was blown into parts before it could even be launched, and more than two-thirds of the artillery of the Qing army was blown to pieces in the first round of artillery bombardment.

With half an hour later, the Qing army in the first and third lines of defense, tens of thousands of men and horses, were already scattered, but fortunately they established a stable defense line on the position, especially a large number of anti-artillery holes, giving the Qing soldiers excellent protection.

"How many rounds of shelling is this?"

Cheng Shijie looked at the Qing army's defense line, although the trench tactics were not complicated, but the tactics of the First World War were still very effective, especially on the positions of the Qing army, a lot of wood was directly removed from the people's houses, covered with layers of sandbags, in the face of three-inch artillery and rocket shells, it could protect most of the soldiers from being killed.

Cheng Shijie is also sighing, although the power of the Ning naval artillery is increasing, but the Qing army is also improving, if they are still like the original battle in Baliwan, directly lined up and fought, only a quarter of an hour of artillery bombardment, can make the Qing army collapse directly, but unfortunately the current Qing army is progressing too fast, they found that the original fortifications can protect their lives, and they slowly got used to surviving under the bombardment of the Ning Navy.

What if you don't get used to it?

The artillery of the Ning Navy was too powerful and accurate, and if they hadn't hid in the anti-artillery holes, they wouldn't have been enough to die for ten lives.

"So hard to fight?"

Zhou Ning smiled bitterly: "It's harder than imagined, although these fortifications are not built with steel bars or mud, but simple sandbags are used, and the sandbags are covered with thick soil, I heard that these thick soils are three feet ......thick."

Zhou Ning and Cheng Shijie had a headache about the Qing army's fortifications, but the Qing army was also complaining. Only now the fierce man's brows were twisted into a big pimple, and his expression was sad, like a peasant uncle whose crops had been eaten by pests.

Jierharang smiled bitterly at Haoge and said: "Ning Haijun is a routine, bombarding with cannons non-stop, their cannons have been fighting for so long, but there is no sign of stopping, our soldiers continue to suffer casualties, morale is getting lower and lower, we have to think of a way, if this continues, the morale of the soldiers will be destroyed." ”

"Let the Mongols rush!"

Haoge actually has no good way, as the most familiar old opponent, as long as he dares to attack the defense line prepared by the Ning Navy, he will definitely not end well.

With Hauge's order, more than 6,000 Mongolian cavalry horses immediately mounted their horses, and the flag was stretched out in the cold wind, murderous!

"Attack!"

Just when the Mongolian cavalry entered the Ninghai formation about four or five hundred paces ago, gunshots rang out in front of the Ninghai formation,

"Bang ......"

The soldiers of the Ning Navy did not hesitate to use the Chongzhen eight-year bolt-action rifle to shoot bullets at the Mongolian cavalry who were rushing over, these Ning Navy recruits did not have a good killing effect in the first round of guns, mainly because their marksmanship was too poor, but even if the blind cat hit the dead mouse, it could also cause heavy casualties to the Mongolian cavalry.

As the distance got closer, the bullets poured the Mongol cavalry like wheat in a large area.

Seeing that the Mongol attack formation was already in chaos, Hauge sighed and said, "Let them retreat!" ”

In Hauge's view, the formation of the Mongol army has been disorganized, and it is useless to fight again, so it is better to withdraw and rest first, even if they are allowed to continue the attack, they will only send their heads, and he can not care about the lives of the Mongols, but the problem is that in comparison, the number of Manchu and Mongolian in the Qing army is too small, nearly 100,000 Beijing battalions plus the surrender of troops from all over Gyeonggi, and now the number of Han military banners of the Qing army has increased by three or four times, and if this continues, Manchu and Mongolia will be even less.

If there is a fundamental change in quantity, there will be a big problem.

If you want to attack the Ning Navy, it is easy to retreat, but it is difficult to retreat, as the Mongolian army is about to retreat, the artillery of the Ning Navy directly changes the target, and the breech-loading rifled artillery and rocket artillery are all fired at the Mongolian army.

Shells fell into the cavalry formation of the Qing army's Xugu army one after another, and fireballs rose from the ground, and the Mongolian cavalry of the Qing army was blown to pieces. The morale of the Ning Navy was greatly boosted.

The rocket artillery group of the Ning Navy drove an incoherent wall of fire between them, and even smashed the expensive air-burst bombs as if they didn't need money! The airburst shells fired by rocket artillery became a nightmare for the Qing army, although the fuse of this kind of artillery shell was very primitive, and the probability of an air explosion was less than half, but as soon as a large area was exploded, the red-hot shrapnel and steel balls sprayed down overhead, blowing up a large area of blood and flesh, and the Qing troops who were swept away fell silently.

The howitzer shells fired by the four-inch cannon are even more deadly, a shell is filled with seven or eight catties of cotton wool, and one smashes it over as if throwing a thunderbolt, the Qing army located in the killing path disappeared in a flash of the explosion, leaving only a hedgehog, many Qing soldiers were shocked to the point that blood sprayed out of the ear holes, the explosion shock wave tore the clothes, and the clothes fragments were blown high, and many Qing soldiers who were shocked to death fell to the ground, they were not an inch on their bodies, and their clothes were torn apart by the explosion shock wave!

"The last general is going to fight!"

Wu Sheng came to Cheng Shijie and said: "Dashuai, the Jiannu defense line has been almost blown up, we ......"

"It's not even close!"

Cheng Shijie took it and looked into the distance, pointed to the defense line of the Qing army in the distance and said, "Look carefully!" ”

"How is this possible?"

Wu Sheng found that the Qing army, just like the Ning navy had done in the Battle of Baliwan before, retreated in the direction of the capital while abandoning the outer defensive line.

Although the first three lines of defense were razed to the ground by the artillery of the Ning Navy, they built more lines of defense in the back.

"Damn, they're good at learning!"

"War is the best school, all are learning, all are improving!"

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "There is no big problem, have fun with them, the cannonballs are handsome!" ”

……

At the same time, Jinzhou, located in eastern Liaodong, the economic and political center of the Ning Navy, was not affected by the war in the slightest, and this city, which was in ruins five years ago, arrived from scratch with more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians led by Cheng Shijie in just over five years.

After more than five years, this city has surpassed the capital, and has become the city with the largest number of people in the Ming Dynasty so far, the most prosperous city, more than a dozen cement avenues extend in all directions, the city wall has long been demolished, the old buildings in the old city are well preserved, but those low tile houses and thatched huts have long been demolished, and the buildings built of red bricks, steel bars and cement have risen from the ground, and the rows of buildings are as neat as the infantry queue on the military parade, and the streets are also built with cement. Some particularly prosperous areas are even covered with beautiful tiles.

There is a biogas digester under each building, in addition to the manure produced by daily life directly discharged into it, there will also be workers from the military horse farm and livestock farm regularly transport truckloads of manure cake to add to it, the biogas produced by fermentation is enough to supply the daily needs of a family of seven, and also saves the people from the hard work of cutting wood and burning charcoal.

There are many textile factories, quilt factories, shoe factories, food processing factories and other factories in the city, as for phosphate fertilizer factories, cement factories, hardware factories, steel factories and other huge factories with relatively large pollution and noise are concentrated outside the city, so the city is always so neat and clean, so that every guest who comes to Jinzhou is full of praise.

Convenient transportation conditions, dense population, and strong productivity have made Golden State prosper rapidly, with a large number of business travelers and an endless stream of travelers.

And today, this vibrant city is shrouded in a solemn atmosphere, the whole city is under martial law, three steps, one sentry, five steps and one post, but people within a radius of hundreds of miles still rush over and gather in the main square of the civic center, everyone looks serious, because there, they are about to witness the end of an old era, the birth of a new era.

Da Ming is about to complete the painful transformation here and be reborn from the ashes!

In the meeting building of the Liaodong Management Committee, the entire management committee originally had 22 members, but now it has been supplemented by Liaoxi, Dayuan, Luzon, and Manchurian, with a total of 39 members and a total of 74 alternate members.

Zhu Weiyuan, who usually did not come here, as well as Empress Zhou, Empress Zhang, and Prince Zhu Cihong, who had just arrived here, attended this emergency meeting.

Empress Zhou took a thick document and read it word by word, line by line, she had read it several times, more and more serious each time, as if she wanted to memorize every word.

Sun Chengzong and Sun Zhili sat beside him, waiting quietly, and all the members below, including Sun Zhilan, did not have the slightest impatient look.

Finally, Queen Zhou turned to the last page, read it word by word, was silent for a long time, slowly exhaled a breath, and closed the document.

Sun Zhilan finally spoke, and said slowly: "Queen Mother, have you decided?" ”

Empress Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "Sun Qing, make such a decision...... It's hard. ”

Sun Zhilan nodded and said, "Yes, it's difficult. ”

Empress Zhou was quite haggard and had not yet recovered from the escape on the line of life and death. The lines and lines on the document are simply rebellious from the perspective of traditional thinking, not to mention putting these things in front of the royal family, even if it is just a private discussion, it is a big crime for all nine clans!

But now, Queen Zhou read page by page, but she was very calm, and after reading it, she sighed in her heart: "These are all you deserve......"

The crown prince Zhu Cihong whispered: "The queen mother ......"

Empress Zhou closed the file, raised her head, looked at the prince gently, and asked softly, "My child, have you really decided?" ”

The crown prince Zhu Cihong nodded vigorously: "It's decided!" ”

Empress Zhou knew very well that it was very easy to give up power, but it was too difficult to take it back, and that would require a lot of blood and death.

Sun Zhilan said: "Queen Mother, even if you don't sign, what should our prince do, what will he do, it's just that if the name is not right, it will be difficult to achieve it, now, our time is limited, if they succeed, this is ...... Ming."

"Hongu understands!"

Empress Zhou, as Empress of the Ming Dynasty, authorized Cheng Shijie to be the regent of Guangping.

Empress Zhou knew that because Emperor Chongzhen had lost the hearts of the people, although Cheng Shijie was willing to be a loyal minister of Emperor Chongzhen, the officers and men of the Ning Navy and the Liaodong Management Committee had their interests.

The emperor didn't starve to death, and the soldiers of the Ning Navy ate Cheng Shijie's grain, and if they didn't give Cheng Shijie benefits, they didn't want to do it.

Since Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has never had a regent, and he is also a king with a different surname. (End of chapter)