Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 442 Cannons are not as good as cannons, there is no more Shunjun

boom boom boom

Twenty shells landed on the ground and exploded one after another——the Ming army fired explosive shells this round.

The few shells that fell near the Qing army's artillery vehicles, although none of them hit the artillery vehicles, the explosion caused either death or injury to the Qing army artillerymen, and the four artillery vehicles stopped in place immediately.

The rest of the flower bombs also caused dozens of deaths and injuries in the Qing army, causing confusion among the Green Battalion soldiers and the Eight Banners soldiers of the Han army.

"Hurry up and move the cannon cart away!"

Bayan barked his orders.

Immediately, hundreds of people rushed to the four-two gun carriage, and worked together to lead it towards the city of Zhou.

The rest of the Qing army also dispersed further to avoid the second round of shelling by the Ming army.

Because the Qing army knew that the new artillery of the Ming army not only had a long range, but also fired quickly. Even if the gunner fired slowly, he could fire a round with more than a hundred breaths.

If you know it, you know it, but although these four cannons are not as heavy as the Hongyi cannon, they still weigh more than 2000 catties. Even if they are pulled by horses and pushed by people, they can only move about half a mile in a hundred breaths.

In order to threaten the position set up by the "Ming Army" on the other side of the river, they set up the cannon position on the bank of the river here, and the distance between the two is no more than one mile.

The range of the new artillery of the Ming army can be as far as three or four miles.

Sure enough, after a hundred breaths, the second round of artillery shells from the Ming army came over, live ammunition bursting and mixed, all falling towards the four artillery carts.

Immediately, dozens of people were killed or injured by the Qing army, and the artillery vehicles stopped again.

Bayan now leads only over 4000 soldiers of the Han army bordered with red flags. After being bombarded twice in a row, the casualties exceeded one percent, which made him feel distressed for a while.

Looking at the green battalion soldiers retreating like herding sheep all over the mountains and plains, Bayan's eyes flashed coldly, and he said to a soldier: "Send an order, let the green battalion soldiers send the artillery!"

"Whoo!"

On the other side, Dong Xueli was watching a play while running.

In fact, they didn't run too far, they spread out about a mile from the river bank and rearranged their positions.In this way, if the Ming army crosses the river, they can seize the opportunity to attack halfway.

Although he was the same as his grandson in front of Bayan, he had long since disliked his superiority.

At this time, watching Bayan's people lose one after another, he felt a little gloating.

Unexpectedly, before he was happy for a long time, he learned that Bayan asked their green battalion soldiers to move the gun carriages—isn't this using their green battalion soldiers as scapegoats?
Angry in his heart, Dong Xueli wished to turn back immediately.

But he was quite guilty—after all, he was already a family slave of the three surnames, and he had fought several battles with the Ming army after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. His hands were stained with the blood of the Ming army.

Think about it, the dead are the big soldiers below, so Dong Xueli decided to admit it, and sent a green battalion that he didn't like very much to transport the cannons.

In this way, until the green battalion soldiers took the four-two artillery vehicles out of the range of the Ming army's artillery, they suffered another round of shelling.

Bayan went over to check, and his face turned black immediately.

Only two of the four Hongyi cannons were intact. One fire door was smashed, and the other door was also smashed into a hole. I don't know if it can still be used.

Hexi.

Li Ren and Wang Fuchen all came over, each holding a telescope to look at the situation opposite, making Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others not far away staring at it for a while.

They had learned that the binoculars used by Li Ren and others could see farther and clearer than the telescopes before.

Gao Yigong had a thick skin, after finishing reading Li Ren, he came over and said with a smile, "Could Zongbing Li take a look?"

"Yes." Li Ren handed the binoculars over with a smile, "Actually, I also brought you a few binoculars this time—according to the regulations of the Military Affairs Council, in the garrison, the commander-in-chief and lieutenant-general will be allotted with binoculars." .”

"That's great!" Gao Yigong was very happy when he heard that.

Soon, Li Guo, Xin Sizhong and others also came over.

Li Guo said: "Before we wanted to cross the river, most of them would be attacked by the Qing soldiers. Now there are dozens of cannons. They want to stop us, but it is not so easy."

Xin Sizhong said: "There is still a certain danger - it is best to find more river boats and build them as pontoon bridges to cross the river. Or attract the Qing captives here, and we will cross the river secretly from other places."

Li Ren took a look and found that the Yellow River here was still quite turbulent.

Recalling Lu Daqi's previous instructions, he said, "Don't rush to cross the river—our purpose is to let the Qing captives increase their troops to Shanxi, so we should do a good job of reorganizing the army before Commander Lu sends the general offensive order. Run-in training is the main thing.”

"What Li Zongbing said is true."

"Then let's go back to the camp and continue discussing the reorganization. The Hexi position can be left to Wang Zongbing (Wang Fuchen) to guard."

"it is good."

This time, Li Guo and Gao Yigong brought out almost all the Shun troops who followed them. As for Ningxia Wei, they were handed over to Niu Chenghu to garrison them.

Niu Chenghu was originally the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, and later surrendered, so when Lu Daqi traveled to Shaanxi and Gansu, he contacted Niu Chenghu and let him know the situation outside, so it would be easy for Niu Chenghu to return to the Ming Dynasty anyway.

It's just that Niu Chenghu's department was originally a semi-warlord general, so Lu Daqi was not in a hurry to let him accept the reorganization, but made him guard Ningxia Wei as before.

When the Qing captives were driven out of Shanshan, Niu Chenghu could only accept reorganization unless he took refuge in a large tribe in Oirat Mongolia.

It took a few days for the recruiting department to complete the selection work.

As Gao Yigong said, most of the soldiers of the Shun Army under their command, except for those who were too old or too young, were of good quality, so more than 8000 people were finally selected into the new army.

However, there are only more than 1000 strong soldiers who meet the standards of the new army; more than 4000 elite soldiers who meet the standards of the new army; the rest can only be regarded as soldiers who dare to fight.

According to the instructions of the Military Affairs Council, Li Ren selected [-] strong soldiers and prepared to transfer them to supplement the vacancies of the imperial guards.

Another [-] elite soldiers were selected to supplement the shortage of border guards.

There are about [-] strong soldiers and elites left, and they are going to be reserved as personal soldiers in the newly formed two-town garrison.

As for the extra 1000 soldiers who dared to fight, they were added to the garrison troops in several towns in Shaanxi.

In the end, the newly formed Shaanxi garrison of the two towns had Li Guo and Gao Yigong as the commander-in-chief respectively, and Li Ren and Wang Fuchen each selected a battalion general as their deputy.

In addition, Xin Sizhong was transferred to Lu Daqi as the deputy general.

Ma Chongxi, Zhang Neng, Tian Hu, Yang Yanchang, Liu Wenbing, and Guo Junzhen were the battalion generals of Li Guo and Gao Yigong respectively.

Among them, Liu Wenbing has the same name as Daming Xinlebo who died in the Jiashen national disaster.

After the recruiting department completed the selection process, it picked out some people, and the specific reorganization work was handed over to Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other former Shun army generals.

In this way, Li Guo and others will reorganize according to their own understanding of the soldiers in the army, and they will run in faster, so that the combat effectiveness will not drop too much...

Time goes back to a few days ago.

September [-], Nanjing.

Aunt Zhu was in the Hall of Martial Ying, having a video conference.

"In Shaanxi, Lu Daqi and Li Dingguo have already formulated a strategy to attack Shanxi from the south, the center, and the north, and it is expected to launch a general attack by the end of September.

However, it is difficult to predict whether the Qing captives will increase their troops to Shanxi and how much they will increase.

Therefore, the minister suggested that Du Yinxi and Zeng Ying be ordered to launch a general offensive as soon as possible to increase the pressure on the Qing captives on the southern front.

In this way, even if the Qing captives do not increase their troops to Shanxi, they will increase their troops to the south, and we can always achieve the goal of reducing their troops in northern Zhili. "

After hearing Li Yan's words, whether it was Zhu Dadian and Hong Niangzi on this side, or Qin Liangyu and Ma Ke on the other side, they couldn't help nodding.

Seeing this, Zhu Wei said, "The Military Affairs Council sent a message to Du Yinxi and Zeng Ying, ordering them to look for opportunities to launch a general attack on the Qing captives before September [-]!"

During the video projection, Li Yan bowed and said, "Observe the order!"

The Military Council issued military orders, which are currently done by the Chief of Staff, and the Chief of Staff is actually managed by Li Yan.

As for the coaches of each side equipped with a telecommunications team, after receiving the order from the Military Affairs Council, they would usually send a message to the telecommunications office that Auntie Zhu was in charge of to confirm the order.

After receiving the confirmation telegram sent by the Telecommunications Office in the name of Zhu Yuxi, the commanders of all parties will carry out the military orders issued by the Military Affairs Council.

Although it is a bit convoluted, it can ensure that Aimee Zhu can firmly control the army.

In addition, Aimee Zhu and the Military Affairs Council will basically not issue too specific command orders to the generals in front.For example, this time, Du Yinxi and Zeng Ying were given ten days to find the best fighter.

(End of this chapter)