Chongzhen, with his two brothers Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong, stood solemnly on the top of the city, surrounded by Wang Chengen, Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and other chamberlains, as well as civil and military generals such as Du Yinxi and Jin Xuan.
To say that Chongzhen was not nervous would be a lie.
But to say how nervous Chongzhen was, it wasn't serious.
After experiencing the Battle of Xiazhen, Chongzhen already had enough confidence in the Huanghuai defense line he had built.
Because the victory of Xia Town has fully proved that the combination of Zeng Shaotou's "strengthen the stronghold and fight the war" strategy with the Western fortress tactics is effective, and the effect is very good.
To be honest, Chongzhen was not sure how long Xuzhou could hold on.
But one thing is certain, it is impossible for Jiannu to capture Xuzhou in a short time!
However, it is already early February. As long as it takes another two months or so, the weather will get warmer and the Yellow River will thaw. By then, Zheng Hongkui's navy will be able to enter Yunlong Lake directly from the Yellow River.
The navy is the real trump card of the Ming army!
By then, the situation in Xuzhou will be greatly alleviated.
Because Xuzhou is bounded by the Yellow River to the north and east, and to the south is Yunlong Lake and Yunlong Mountain. Yunlong Mountain is sandwiched between Yunlong Lake and the Yellow River. The Ming Navy navy can provide support to the defenders on Yunlong Mountain from the left and right sides, so when arriving
At that time, the only breakthrough left for Jiannu was the west!
And even this breach to the west is in trouble.
Because the straight-line distance from Yunlong Lake to the Yellow River is only six or seven miles, if Jiannu really launches an attack from this narrow passage with a width of only six or seven miles to the west gate of Xuzhou, he will accidentally encounter the Ming navy from Yunlong Lake.
, shelling from both directions of the Yellow River, so the difficulty of siege will also be greatly increased.
In short, Chongzhen was confident in holding Xuzhou.
Zhu Cijiong put up an awning and looked around, but found that he couldn't see anything.
Even if I tried to borrow it from Chongzhen, I couldn't. The three-section telescope had already been given to Zheng Sen in the sky.
At that moment, Zhu Cijiong began to complain: "Father, why can't our Ming Dynasty build a telescope?"
Chongzhen smiled and turned to Fang Yizhi, who happened to be present: "Don't you want to say a few words about Fang's affairs?"
Fang Yizhi said with some embarrassment: "Your Majesty, and His Highness Prince Ding, the main accessory of the telescope is the glass lens. Our Ming Dynasty can smelt glass and has no shortage of polishing craftsmen. The main reason is that it has never been tried before, but if it is added
Try it, I believe it will be easy to make."
Zhu Cijiong asked: "When will Gewu Ke start trying?"
By the way, Fang Yizhi has now been appointed as the head of the Geshizhong Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Fang Yizhi hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, once the battle in Xuzhou is over, the Gewu Department will immediately start trial production."
"Then hurry up." Zhu Cijiong scratched his head and said, "It's really impossible to fight without a telescope in this battle. If you are farther away, you won't be able to see clearly. How can this be possible?"
While he was talking, the alarm bell of the Kongming Lantern was suddenly sounded.
Chongzhen looked up quickly and saw Zheng Sen lying on the guardrail of the hanging basket while gesturing downwards in sign language.
Chongzhen had systematically learned sign language, but what he taught Zheng Sen and Qin Wangshizi was a simplified version of sign language, which could convey some of the simplest messages.
"Bing 13 Gun Tower has been lost?!"
Zhu Cijiong also saw it and exclaimed in surprise.
Chongzhen felt a sudden shock in his heart. The Bing-13 Gun Tower was lost so quickly?
From the time when Jiannu launched the attack to now, it only takes two-quarters of an hour to complete the attack, right?
However, as soon as Zhu Cijiong finished speaking, Zheng Sen continued to sign in sign language like crazy.
"Bing 14, Bing 17, Bing 16, and Bing 15 have also lost their guns!" Even Zhu Cixiang exclaimed at this time, and Chongzhen felt an inexplicable uneasiness in his heart.
No way? No way!
No way!!!
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Although Chongzhen and the others were standing on the five-foot-high city wall, they still couldn't see seven or eight miles away.
But Zheng Sen was in the air at a height of five feet plus ten feet, a total of fifteen feet, so he could see very far away. Jiannu's attack on the five gun platforms in the first level of Area C could be seen very clearly.
When I was still studying in the Imperial College, I often heard people talking about the ferociousness of slave-building.
Almost all the students in the entire Imperial College knew that Jiannu was fierce by nature, but they lacked a clear idea of just how fierce Jiannu was.
But now, Zheng Sen has the most intuitive understanding of Jiannu's ferocity.
The mother-in-law thief, Jiannu is really fierce. The Ming Dynasty frontier army, which was regarded as an elite in the eyes of diligent princes and scholars, collapsed under the impact of Jiannu!
It collapses as soon as it is touched, not when it is not touched!
In other words, the Ming army was able to resist with the help of blunderbuss, but it was completely unable to withstand it!
Jiannu's fierce attack was like a hurricane, while the Ming army's resistance was like a dam made of sand.
What makes Zheng Sen even more unbelievable is that the Jiannu who launched the attack only numbered a few hundred people, which was slightly more than the Ming army with five gun stations. The Ming army from the five gun stations combined totaled 450 elites.
of the frontier army officers.
How is that possible? Zheng Sen is going crazy.
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Build the slave formation.
A smile appeared at the corner of Hauge's mouth.
Ba Ya La Bing of the Zhenglan Banner gave him a face this time. Maybe this time, Duduo will steal the chicken but lose a handful of rice. Originally, he wanted to take the opportunity to weaken the strength of their Zhenglan Banner, but in the end, he might have lost a lot of money.
Give him a great contribution!
If the Baya La soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner can win the first battle, they will have a great contribution to the Battle of Xuzhou.
Even Dorgon, who was the emperor's father and regent, could not defeat Zhenglan Banner's great achievements.
However, there was no expression on Duduo's face, and he just said lightly: "Prince Su, your Baya La soldiers from Zhenglan Banner performed well, but this is only the first level of musketry, and there will be a second level next.
The gun platform and Yunlong Mountain, especially the attack on Yunlong Mountain from behind, will test the physical strength of the blue flag warriors."
Hauge's face fell and his eyes turned to the battlefield.
Kuerchan, please don’t let me down!
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Kulchan was Baya Lazhu Zhangjing of Zhenglan Banner, the commander of the protective army.
Kuerchan is thirty years old this year, and he is the strongest in his life. He is tall and strong, has a huge appetite, and is extremely strong. He cannot beat Ao Bai in horse riding and archery competition, but his strength is better than that of Ao Bai.
bye.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If Obai is the first warrior in Manchukuo, Kurchan is the first strongman!
At this time, Kurchan was pushing a cart with iron sheets and rawhide on the surface, walking in the retreat passage between the first and second gun platforms.
The retreat passage is a foot deep and the ground cannot be seen.
Beside Kurchan and behind him were more than twenty other white-armored soldiers.
A cart in Jiannu weighs over a thousand kilograms and requires more than twenty people to push it at the same time.
But one truck can also provide strong cover for dozens of people at the same time.
The three hundred white-armored soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner divided into two groups and pushed six carts forward slowly along the two retreat channels. The Ming army's muskets hit the front baffles of the carts like raindrops.
However, all this is of no use.
Whether it's a blunderbuss or a shot fired from a squatting tiger cannon,
For Jiannu's car, it's just an itch.
Only the closed-mouth shells fired from the Folan cannon or the Tiger Crouching cannon can threaten the carriage.
However, the peripheral gun platforms were not equipped with Folan cannons. Although there were many Crouching Tiger cannons, their accuracy was extremely poor, so they were not enough to stop the advancement of the carriages.
Soon, the cart was pushed to the edge of the gun platform trench.
Further ahead was a ridge two feet high, but the white-armored soldiers of Jiannu did not pause at all.
When the center of gravity of the carts crossed the edge of the ridge, the six carts somersaulted down and hit the bottom of the ditch with a loud bang.
Immediately, more than a hundred white-armored soldiers slid down the two-foot-deep trench like dumplings. They worked together to right the cart that had overturned at the bottom of the trench and continued to push forward along the bottom of the trench.
I have to admit that Jiannu is really good at summarizing.
During the last battle in Xia Town, Jiannu did not have this strategy.
At that time, Jiannu pushed the cart to the edge of the slope protection and was forced to stop.
But in this battle in Xuzhou, Jiannu summed up the strategy of carrying chariots across trenches.
This tactic is simple and crude but effective. It is to directly push the cart down the ditch. Anyway, the cart is strong and thick, so it will be fine if it falls twice. It can even use the weight of the cart to flatten the antler wood thorns at the bottom of the ditch.
Just now, Jiannu used this strategy to attack the first turret on the perimeter.
Kurchan, carrying more than a hundred white armors, pushed six carts forward from the bottom of the trench.
Countless muskets were still raining down, and now that Jiannu was at the bottom of the ditch, the carriage could no longer provide shelter, so all the muskets fell on Jiannu.
However, it is still not enough to cause fatal damage.
Because these white-armored slave soldiers all wore triple armor.
Only the occasional hit by the muzzleloader can cause damage.
"Whoops!" Accompanied by a scream that ripped through the air,
A 30-pound closed-mouth bullet hit a white-armored soldier.
[Note: In the Ming Dynasty, 1 tael = 37.3 grams, 30 taels = 1.119 kilograms]
[Note: The 1.119kg bullet is a stone ball with a diameter of nearly 10cm]
Then there was a loud "bang", and the white-armored soldier's chest was instantly dented.
Due to its open-top design, the Tiger Crouching Cannon lacked air tightness, so the muzzle velocity of the projectile was not high, and its warhead kinetic energy was far from comparable to that of later flat-firing cannons.
But even this is enough to cause fatal damage.
It is indeed impossible for a stone lump of more than one kilogram to penetrate iron armor, cotton armor and chain mail continuously, but it is enough to dent the three layers of armor and transmit huge kinetic energy to Jiannu's body.
"Poof!" The white-armored Jiannu soldier who was hit opened his mouth and spat out a large ball of blood.
Then the whole person quickly collapsed to the ground, and there was no movement after falling to the ground.
However, Kurchan and the other white-armored soldiers did not even blink.
These white-armored Jiannu soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles have already seen too many lives and deaths.
None of the white-armored soldiers were emotionally affected, and the white-armored soldiers who followed up drew their large bows and shot a three-foot-long heavy arrow at the Ming army on the cannon platform.
Ordinarily, firearms such as blunderbuss should be more lethal than bows and arrows.
But in this local battlefield, Jiannu's bows and arrows gained a crushing advantage.
The Ming Army musketeers guarding the guardrail of the gun platform were shot one after another. After nearly half of them were dead, the remaining Ming Army musketeers were too frightened to show their heads.
