After a day's rest, the remaining 13,000 musketeers and more than 6,000 cavalrymen in the Tiger and Leopard Army were all prepared to send troops to Shaanxi with high morale.: 7769696%65/

In the tent where Wei Zheng was located, Zhou Yuhong, Zhao Yun, Zhou Chenguang... the three of them were standing quietly in front of Wei Zheng with a passionate face, waiting for the issuance of military orders.

At the same time, a battle map is all right in front of everyone.

With the three pairs of eyes watching, Wei Zheng finally spoke: "Brothers, take Shaanxi back from the traitors and turn Shaanxi into our Tiger and Leopard Army base again, right in front of us..."

"I decided to command the soldiers to survive, cross the Yellow River to the west, and enter Shaanxi..."

“From the map, it’s the best, and the closest river crossing point to us is in Fugu.”

"However, according to the news that I was sent back from the scouts, there were 5,000 traitors stationed in Fugu County on the other side of the Yellow River. If we want to cross the Yellow River from here, we must eliminate the 5,000 traitors stationed on the front line of the Yellow River in Fugu County."

"If we don't destroy them, many soldiers who cross the Yellow River will be killed by them with cannons on the west bank of the Yellow River. You must know that although there are only five thousand traitors defending the west bank of the Yellow River, these five thousand traitors are equipped with a large number of tiger cannons..."

"With these tiger cannons here, as long as we land, we will be devastatingly hit by the traitor..."

"So, this time we cross the Yellow River west, our first priority is to take down the thief artillery positions on the other side of the Yellow River."

Wei Zheng had just finished speaking, Zhou Yuhong, who was already impatient to enter Shaanxi, shouted: "Master, the artillery position of the rebels on the other side. Let's hand it over to the last general..."

"Although we consumed a large number of flowering bullets this time, under the repeated request of the last general, we still have 1,500 flowering bullets used for large-caliber mortars..."

"The last general can confidently say that with these flowering bullets in hand, there is absolutely no problem in destroying the traitors on the other side of the Yellow River and defeating them."

Wei Zheng smiled and asked back, "Uh... Then tell me how to hit the flowering bullets to the thief artillery position on the other side of the Yellow River... As far as I know, the width of this section of the Yellow River is more than two miles, and some places even hit three miles. And the effective range of our heavy mortars can barely reach two miles..."

At this time, Zhou Yuhong's facial expression, which was still full of confidence, became solemn.

Under Wei Zheng's gaze, he answered with an awkward look: "Master... I haven't thought about this question yet... I think that the Yellow River here is only a few hundred steps wide..."

"Then I think about it now.... You guys, think about it carefully..."

Just as the heads of several people quickly started to move and thought about solutions, Zhou Chenguang spoke.

He suggested to Wei Zheng and others with thoughtful expressions: "The Grand Marshal... will have an idea at last..."

"In our Ming Dynasty, in addition to infantry and cavalry, there were also naval troops..."

"As far as we know, the warships used by these naval forces are equipped with a large number of artillery... Those warships can be equipped with red cannons weighing thousands of kilograms, and the ferries we use to cross the river can also be equipped with artillery."

"You know, the heaviest heavy mortar in the middle of our mortar is only a few hundred kilograms. Finally, I will estimate that after equip it directly in front of the ferry, I can definitely fire the gun on the ship..."

Faced with this idea that was almost exactly the same as himself, Wei Zheng's face showed a smile full of praise. He shouted to Zhou Chenguang: "This method must be feasible, and I also gave this ferry equipped with mortars a name, called the gunboat..."

A very important reason why Wei Zheng was so sure at this moment was that a picture of the Battle of Crossing the River hundreds of years had already appeared in Wei Zheng's mind...

The mortar recoil used in that era was definitely much greater than that used black gunpowder.

When the Battle of Crossing the River was launched, our army could carry mortars onto fishing boats and act as gunboats to attack the enemy troops across the river, not to mention now.

So, Wei Zheng ordered without thinking: "I decided to do what General Zhou Chenguang said..."

"General Zhou Yuhong, my general has already drawn the scouts and collected dozens of ferries of all sizes on the east bank of the Yellow River. You can immediately pick out the largest ten from the middle and bring the heavy mortars up and test a few shells."

"When installing a mortar, don't forget to lay a layer of sandbags directly under the mortar, so as to reduce the impact of recoil on the ferry as much as possible... If feasible, we will attack the gangsters on the other side of the Yellow River at noon."

Five or six sacks filled with sand were sent to the ferry and laid flat behind the bow of the ferry. The heavy mortar weighing hundreds of kilograms was quickly lifted up by five or six gunners and assembled on the bow sandbag.

In order to maintain the balance between penetration and the stern, seven or eight musketeers who could water also boarded the ferry.

Preparing to complete the thick ferry with a mortar on the bow, slowly sailing off the shore...

When it completely floated on the surface of the Yellow River, the mortar gunner who had already prepared was quickly stuffed the firing medicine and flowering bullets into the barrel and stuffed it into the fuse to prepare for firing.

After the fire broke out on Mars, several gunners quickly squatted next to the mortar, covering their ears, waiting for the flowering bullet to be fired out of the cannon chamber by the launching medicine.

"Boom..." A violent explosion sounded at the bow of the ship, a ferry that could carry forty or fifty people. Under the influence of artillery recoil, it directly emitted a shock, as if it was about to fall apart...

However, it made everyone feel grateful that as the whistling sound of shells flying out of the barrel rang in the air, the huge ferry still floated intact on the surface of the Yellow River.

Not only that, after a brief flight of flowering bullets, after landing and exploding, they were only less than fifteen steps away from the target.

As an excellent gunner, Wen Junsheng, who was squatting directly behind the mortar, knew very well that the reason for such a large hit error must be caused by the vibration of the hull.

So, this gunner named Wen Junsheng, relied on his own experience, regardless of the temperature at which the gun barrel had already heated, quickly adjusted the angle of the gun barrel. In less than a cup of tea, he continued to command the deputy.

"Reload the bullet and continue firing..."

"Boom..." After the roar of fire, the whistling shells flew towards the target again...
Chapter completed!