Daming: I help my wife be the empress

The Qing army lost many Eight Banners soldiers and horses in the First World War in Yangzhou, but most of them have been replenished in the past few months.

Although the number of Eight Banners Manchurian soldiers and horses has only recovered to about 7, which is still far from the 50-odd people in its heyday, and most of the supplementary soldiers are underage teenagers and elderly people over [-] years old, but at least let the Eight Banners Manchuria face Not so ugly.

As for the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han armies, their strength was originally not as large as that of the Eight Banners Manchuria.

There are few Mongolian soldiers in the Eight Banners because there are still relatively few Mongolian tribes willing to accept the Qing court's incorporation, and there are not so many Mongolian warriors who can join the Eight Banners Mongolian army.

The lack of Han soldiers was purely the Qing court's intentional restriction—after all, there were too many Han people. If there were no restrictions, many soldiers could be recruited by relying on the military pay of the Eight Banners Han troops after entering the customs.

The Eight Banners Army is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, so it is very important to ensure that the Eight Banners Manchuria has an absolute superiority in the Eight Banners Army.

However, now that the Qing Dynasty has reached a more dangerous moment, the Manchuria of the Eight Banners has been crowded and crowded, and it has only recovered to the appearance of nearly [-] soldiers.

Considering that there are still a large number of green battalion soldiers that need to be suppressed, the Qing court can only appropriately relax the conditions for entering the banner of the Han army of the Eight Banners.Therefore, the total strength of the Eight Banners Han Army has now recovered to more than 5 people.

However, Dorgon, Bumbutai and other high-level officials in the Qing court lacked enough confidence in the battle with the Ming army, and secretly prepared to return to the outside of the customs at any time, so they were assigned to the Eight Banners Army on the west, middle, and south fronts. Not a lot.

Luck Dehun, Tan Tai, Aobai, Ebilong, and Suksaha are all currently commanding only one Jiala (up to 1500) Eight Banners Manchuria soldiers and horses.

Adding in a 600-strong Bayara camp led by Azig himself, and more than 100 Gebush sages (guards), the Eight Banners Manchuria on the center line only had a total of [-] people.

But Jin Li's Han Army with the Red Banner, Wang Shixuan's Zhenghong Banner Army, and Shang Kexi's part of the Blue Banner Han Army totaled 5000 men.

Finally, there are [-] elite green battalion soldiers led by Zu Kefa.

This is [-] to [-] soldiers and horses.

It's just that now Tan Tai is leading a Jiala Eight Banners Manchuria and five thousand green battalion elite guarding Xinxiang.

Only a little over 4 people came to attack Yangwu with Azig.

In addition, Azig conscripted more than 3 civilian husbands.In such a situation, it is possible to claim a [-]-strong army, but the strength of the troops is actually not too small.

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Yangwu County, the north of the Qing army's main attack.

With the sound of the Qing army's war drums, there were ten red barbarian cannons and thirty red barbarian cannons. Shang Kexi's Han army and civilian husbands pushed out the army formation and pushed them to the selected artillery positions.

At the head of Yangwu City, Xu Yong could clearly see the situation of the Qing army formation three miles away through the binoculars.

Seeing that the [-] red cannons launched by Qinglu first had entered within two miles of the city wall, he sneered and immediately ordered the artillery groups on the north city wall to fire.

The so-called artillery group refers to the bright artillery.

Because only the bright artillery requires more than ten artillerymen to cooperate in transportation and firing.

As for the tiger squatting cannon, two or three soldiers, or even one or two soldiers can be dispatched, which is already close to individual weapons. If a gun group is installed, it will limit the performance of the tiger squatting cannon and the soldiers.

Xu Yong is guarding Yangwu this time. In addition to the artillery posts directly under the No. [-] Town of the Frontier Defense Army, there is also a battalion of the First Battalion under the artillery posts.

Each gun post of the border guards generally has [-] bright artillery pieces of various calibers, so two gun posts are [-] guns.

When the Qing captives attacked Yangwu this time, they gathered heavy troops in the north, and only one or two thousand cavalry guarded the east, west, and south sides.

Therefore, Xu Yong dropped all forty cannons on the north city wall—anyway, the bright cannons were far more convenient to transport than the Hongyi cannons. Even if the Qing army changed the main attack direction, he still had time to send the bright cannons.

What is the power of forty bright cannons?Xu Yong felt that few of these Qing captives had seen it before.

When Ru Ning was besieging the Qing army led by Le Ke Dehun, although there were more than forty bright artillery pieces in the new Ming army, they were not concentrated in one place like this, and were used by each battalion alone. .

"Forty cannons against forty cannons, this artillery battle looks very fair." Xu Yong smiled and said to the soldiers beside him.

His relaxed expression infected the soldiers, making the surrounding soldiers firmly believe that Yang Wu can be defended.

After Xu Yong finished speaking, the bright artillery at the top of the city let out a series of "roars".

boom boom boom

Because they were dealing with Qinglu artillery, the Ming army used flowering ammunition—the Qinglu red artillery was relatively difficult to destroy, and the probability of being hit by live ammunition was also low. Therefore, the Ming army mostly used Qinglu gunners on the battlefield. for purpose.

Although the Ming army is still using black powder for explosive ammunition, it is already the best black powder, and its power is much greater than that of the previous black powder.

I saw one after another bombs blasting out, either falling next to the Qinglu gun emplacement, or right in the middle of the Qinglu artillery emplacement.

The flowering bomb either exploded on the ground or exploded in the air, all spurting out countless pieces of iron and porcelain, sinking into the bodies of the surrounding Qinglu, and the air waves of the explosion blasted them out.

Although there were only a few Qing captives who were directly killed by a burst bomb, there were often as many as a dozen or dozens of people injured!

Azig in the van was stunned for a moment.

Although he had seen cannons firing before, he had never seen so many cannons firing such powerful bombs together.

I saw a few artillery positions preset by our own cannons, almost all of which were covered by air waves and smoke amidst a series of explosions!

The Han army and civilian husbands who were in charge of pushing the cannon were scattered everywhere, howling.

What's more, the unlucky one happened to be hit by a flowering bomb, was blown to pieces, and died instantly!
"This..." When he came back to his senses, Azig couldn't help being extremely angry, trembling with anger, pointing to the miserable artillery formation in front of him and saying: "Which idiot said that we can use artillery to suppress the artillery of the Ming army? Let him do it." Tell me, how do you suppress this?!"

Shuo Sai also came back to his senses, and said: "General, it seems that it is impossible to suppress the artillery of the Ming army. The most important thing at the moment is..."

He has been there several times, but he didn't come here for a reason.

Seeing this, Azig became even more angry, and immediately wanted to go down, urging the soldiers in front to attack the city directly, and ignore the useless artillery—isn't it a dead man, how can there be no dead man in a war?

As a result, before he even got out of the car, he saw Luck Dehun riding over and shouted: "General, you can't fight like this."

Azig quickly got out of the lookout car, and said angrily, "Then how do you fight?"

A look of sternness flashed in Lu Kede's eyes, and he said: "The pioneers asked the peasants to build a trench bridge on the moat, and let the green battalion suppress the formation. After the trench bridge was built, let the green battalion use bows and arrows, muskets and other small cannons to suppress the city's Ming Dynasty. military.

If we take the opportunity to send people to manipulate the dozens of red cannons, the Ming army's artillery on the city wall will be harassed, and they will definitely not be able to fire as fiercely as before.

In this way, it only takes a few rounds of our Hongyi cannons to destroy part of the Ming army's artillery, and it will become easier for the green battalion and the Han army's ants to attack the city. "