The soldiers of the Liberation Army wanted to leave after announcing the order.
A businessman bravely stood up and asked.
"Master Wang... Master Wang, don't you want a reward?"
However, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he couldn't help but want to slap himself in the face.
How mean!
Obviously the other party didn't say anything, so wasn't he rushing to pay for it?
The soldiers of the Liberation Army stopped, looked at the businessman who spoke with contempt, and said unceremoniously.
"Our Liberation Army is the division of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Since he is the king's master, he should have the magnanimity of the king's master. How can he do things to plunder people's wealth and harm the place?"
The businessman was stared at by the soldiers of the Liberation Army, so he shrank his neck and retreated into the crowd.
The reason why Zhu Hongyu did not choose to blackmail these businessmen!
First, because of the military discipline of the Liberation Army, he was not allowed to do such a thing, otherwise it would be a slap in his own face.
The second reason is that Zhu Hongyu is still thinking about opening a commercial port in Hong Kong.
If you want to do business, you cannot do without these businessmen in front of you.
If today I want to be quick and rob these merchants, it will not be so easy to open a commercial port in Hong Kong.
Zhu Hongyu was on the fort, watching the Ming army launch its final offensive against the Macau Fortress and making preparations.
Zheng Chenggong suggested from beside him.
"Your Highness, Jianguo, instead of building Hong Kong into a combination of fortresses and commercial ports, it is better to separate the military fortresses and commercial ports."
"Hong Kong is simply a military fortress, while Macau can continue to be used as a commercial port under the old system."
"If you put a commercial port and a military fortress together and wait until war breaks out, accidents will easily happen!"
Zheng Chenggong's suggestion made Zhu Hongyu fall into deep thought.
Does what Zheng Chenggong said make sense?
The answer is yes!
It is almost a consensus that the Manchus used spies to attack cities.
There were so many fortified cities in Liaodong at the end of the Ming Dynasty. If the Manchus and Qing Dynasties didn't use traitors to break down the cities, they probably wouldn't be able to conquer Liaodong given their population.
If Zhu Hongyu puts the military fortress and the commercial port together, it is estimated that it will not take long for the military fortress to be penetrated into a sieve.
After thinking for a while, Zhu Hongyu nodded and said.
"What Lao Taishan said makes sense, so let's act accordingly!"
Zhu Hongyu is now, to put it nicely, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty.
To put it mildly, he was actually just a warlord leader with just over 10,000 troops.
I dare not say anything else, but I heard that he still has this advantage.
The two began to discuss the construction of fortresses in Hong Kong and the issue of garrisoning troops.
"If we build a Western-style fort with a thousand garrison troops, we should be able to withstand the attack of ten to twenty thousand Qing troops!"
Zhu Hongyu said.
Zheng Chenggong asked again.
"The only problem is that the construction period of Western-style bastions is too long."
Regarding the cost issue, neither Zhu Hongyu nor Zheng Chenggong mentioned it.
You get what you pay for, and in the military, nothing can be saved!
"If we use cement, we should be able to speed up the construction period!"
Zhu Hongyu said.
"I ordered an emergency batch of cement to be transferred from Luzon to build the fortress!
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"In terms of garrisoning, we can use 20% veterans and 80% new recruits."
"Training troops through fortress defense battles should not be bad!"
A soldier can be called a veteran only if he has actually been on the battlefield and seen blood.
However, if a large number of new soldiers are to be sent to fight in the field, the casualty figures will probably be very ugly!
Zhu Hongyu's idea was that after the recruits he recruited in Qiongzhou completed all the recruit training, he would drag them to the fortress in Hong Kong to fight the Qing army and see blood.
Try the strength of the Qing army across the city wall!
In this process, the new recruits are allowed to complete the transformation from new recruits to veterans.
Zheng Chenggong also nodded in agreement, but also expressed envy.
Inadvertently, he was sent to Versailles by Zhu Hongyu again!
Zhu Hongyu can mobilize troops at will, and even form a new organization by mixing veterans and recruits.
But not him!
Even though the Liberation Army currently has less than 10,000 people, these 10,000 people can be used by Zhu Hongyu at will.
The combat effectiveness that can be exerted on the battlefield is absolutely unimaginable!
Although Zheng Chenggong has more troops than Zhu Hongyu, except for his own bodyguards and a few elite troops such as the Iron Man Army.
He really doesn't have the final say in other parts of the army.
The stubborn diseases that soldiers and generals have are very fatal!
While the two were discussing, the Ming army on the other side had made final preparations to attack the Macau city wall.
There are heavy siege guns, field artillery, and large-caliber curved-firing mortars specially designed for attacking fortresses.
The range of the mortar is not very good, and the accuracy is also poor, but it has one advantage, that is, it can shoot curved trajectories!
I dare not say anything else, but it is very convenient to use to attack cities.
Cannonballs can be fired directly into the city!
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Humen Fort!
As the sky grew brighter, the Qing troops at the Humen Fort finally saw clearly the invading fleet on the sea.
Looking at the British Cross flag hoisted by the fleet, everyone in the Qing army was confused.
"Whose flag is this? The pirates changed their flag?"
Huang Zhongyuan held a telescope bought from the Portuguese in his hand and looked at the Ming fleet on the sea.
asked very curiously!
A soldier said.
"General, why does that look like a foreign flag?"
It can be heard that Huang Zhongyuan's personal soldier is a Central Plains man.
Huang Zhongyuan frowned and asked with confusion.
"what is going on?"
"Why did the foreigners come to invade our Qing Dynasty? Did they collude with the pirates?"
"This pirate is really shameless. He colluded with the foreign barbarians when he couldn't defeat the Qing Dynasty. What's the difference between him and Shi Jingtang?"
Many Qing soldiers expressed their agreement.
At this time, the artillery battle at Humen temporarily stopped, and neither side of the Ming and Qing Dynasties continued to fire.
The Qing army sent people to ask for help, but the Ming army did not continue to attack.
The order Ma Xin received was just to bombard Humen to attract the attention of the Qing army and create opportunities for the Ming army to capture Macau.
That's all!
If he was serious, he really wanted to conquer Humen.
It would not just be shelling, but troops would be sent ashore to seize the beach while the shelling fire suppressed the Humen Fort.
If you want to capture a fort, a land attack is more reliable than a simple artillery attack!
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In front of the Macau city wall, the Ming army had made preparations for the attack.
Artillery positions are deployed!
The large-caliber mortar was sent through the zigzag trench to a short distance outside the city wall, and was already preparing to fire.
This is the method Zhu Hongyu prepared to conquer a fortress head-on!
Heavy artillery and field artillery groups suppress the firepower of the bastion from a distance!
Large-caliber siege mortars were transported to the bottom of the city through zigzag trenches, and fired explosive shells with curved trajectories, causing large-scale destruction of the active forces at the top of the city.
The infantry also approached the bastion through zigzag trenches, completed the troop concentration in the trench in front of the bastion, and finally launched a frontal assault!
Very typical Vauban siege method!
It is also currently the best way to attack a bastion head-on!
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It’s the fourth update today. I went out during the day and couldn’t code the fifth update.