He has already sent many weapons and weapons to Li Dingguo free of charge!
What he got in exchange was only nominal surrender!
Even if Li Dingguo was a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a national hero, what Zhu Hongyu did was enough.
If you do too much of something that doesn't see any benefit, the people below will have objections, and Zhu Hongyu will be regarded as the one who was taken advantage of.
At the meeting, the Ming army thoroughly finalized the battle plan for attacking the Leizhou Peninsula and how to deploy defenses after capturing the Leizhou Peninsula.
Zhu Hongyu ordered that a batch of cement for construction be urgently dispatched from Luzon.
From a general perspective, the Leizhou Peninsula cannot be defended!
If you can't keep it, then don't keep it!
After conquering the Leizhou Peninsula, all the local people were relocated.
Then, several forts and fortresses were built in key places on the Leizhou Peninsula to attract the Qing army to attack.
Attract a large number of Qing troops to the Leizhou Peninsula to prepare for the Ming army's next counterattack strategy!
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In early September of the 16th year of Yongli reign, the Ming army's transport fleet pulled anchor from Qiongzhou Haikou and headed for the Leizhou Peninsula separated by a sea.
Most of the troops mobilized by the Ming army for this battle were new soldiers who had not yet entered the battle formation.
Half an hour later, the Ming fleet passed through the Qiongzhou Strait and began to land on the Leizhou Peninsula.
The Qing army sent troops to block the Ming army's landing, but under the attack of the Ming army's fleet and naval guns, the Qing army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat.
Under the cover of naval guns, the Ming army successfully completed the landing!
The army marched towards Leizhou City in a mighty manner!
Cai Pei, the magistrate of Leizhou in the Qing Dynasty, and the general soldiers of Leizhou were all frightened, so they gathered the troops from surrounding prefectures and counties to defend Leizhou City.
On the one hand, we urgently reported to Guangzhou for help!
Cai Pei of Leizhou ordered to recruit all the young men in the city to form a heroic army to assist the army in defending the city.
They also implemented a strong wall and clearing out the wilderness near Leizhou, and gathered a large number of people into Leizhou City!
Then he ordered the city to prepare rolling wood, stones, arrows, gunpowder, and boil gold juice to prepare for the enemy.
The Liberation Army that invaded Leizhou Peninsula this time consisted of 5,000 people!
The number sounds small, but no army dares to fight in the field to face the enemy.
Because the news of the Battle of Tanzhou Town had already spread, the Liberation Army's record of encircling and annihilating 7,000 Eight Banners soldiers with inferior strength shocked the world.
Who dares to fight against the 5,000 Liberation Army whose combat strength is even greater than that of the Eight Banners soldiers?
Also, the Qing army did not have many troops in Leizhou at all.
The Eight Banners soldiers are only stationed in important cities, and there is not a single Eight Banners soldier on the Leizhou Peninsula.
The total strength of the green battalions in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only about five to six million!
Although the distribution of troops in the sixty-three provinces of the south, seven and north cannot be exactly the same, on average, there are only 30,000 to 50,000 green soldiers in a province.
There are only a few thousand green soldiers in each state capital at most!
Facing the menacing Liberation Army, thousands of Green Battalion soldiers could barely defend the city and had no ability to leave the city to fight.
The Liberation Army quickly reached the foot of Leizhou City without encountering any obstacles on the way.
Zhu Hongyu stood on a slope outside Leizhou City, looking in the direction of Leizhou City, and ordered.
"Instruct the army to stay where they are and prepare to attack the city!"
After receiving the order, the Liberation Army began to build camps and set up artillery positions.
Leizhou City is located not far from the seaside and is supported by a large number of transport ships. The Liberation Army prepared a large number of siege heavy artillery, large-caliber mortars, and corresponding shells and gunpowder for this attack on Qiongzhou.
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The next day, when the sky was just getting brighter, the artillery bombardment by the Liberation Army began.
boom!
There was a loud bang and a shell from a heavy siege artillery shot towards the city wall of Leizhou.
The cannonball hit the battlements of Leizhou, and the battlements were smashed to pieces, but the cannonball grazed the main body of the city wall and shot into Leizhou City.
Carrying terrifying kinetic energy, wherever the shells passed, everything was destroyed and buildings turned into complete ruins.
The artillery of the Liberation Army began to bombard Zhuyuan in an orderly manner!
It's just a test shot, it's normal to miss!
With a bang, the second round of test firing began. This time there was no accident. A shell the size of a human head landed hard on the city wall of Leizhou!
In just an instant, the brick layer outside the Leizhou City Wall was smashed, and the broken bricks fell down, exposing the rammed earth layer inside.
The flag of the Liberation Army was changed, the test firing ended, and the official bombardment began.
Just for a moment, boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Everything in the whole world seemed to have disappeared, leaving only the roaring heavy artillery.
The muzzle spit out fire, and the shells flew out from the thick smoke and shot towards Leizhou City.
Boom! Katcha! Katcha!
The brick cladding outside the Leizhou city wall was broken bit by bit like egg shells.
A cannonball hit the gate tower!
The cannonball broke the supporting pillars of the city gate tower, and in an instant the city gate tower collapsed like falling blocks.
At the last moment when the city gate tower collapsed, Cai Pei, the prefect of Leizhou, escaped from the city gate tower in disgrace.
He looked at the city gate tower that had turned into ruins behind him, and at the Leizhou City that was becoming more and more dilapidated under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army.
He felt desperate!
The Liberation Army attacked not only solid bullets, but also a large number of explosive bullets.
Amidst the rumbling explosions, the bombed Qing troops at the top of Leizhou City were thrown off their backs.
The fragments harvest lives like a harvester!
Blood almost covered the entire Leizhou city!
The young and strong civilians who were captured by the Qing army and forced to participate in the defense of the city fled in all directions, leaving Leizhou City in chaos.
The heavy artillery is still roaring!
Boom! Boom!
The sound of hundreds of 20-pound, 30-pound, and even 50-pound heavy artillery firing was quite terrifying.
The infantry of the Liberation Army began to attack!
Artillery suppressed the local city walls, and infantry pushed forward with siege equipment.
The rolling wood and rocks prepared by the Qing army in advance had no effect at all!
Facing the artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army, the artillery at the top of the city tried to fight back, but after only one round, it was knocked down by the heavy artillery fire of the Liberation Army.
The Liberation Army put the ladder truck on the city wall!
In order not to inadvertently injure their troops who were climbing the city, the roar of the heavy artillery suddenly stopped!
"kill!"
"..."
The soldiers of the Liberation Army, holding shields and wearing heavy armor, rushed towards the city via ladder trucks.
The Qing army suffered heavy losses in the shelling just now, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to survive also found that they could no longer stay at the top of the city.
They all huddled under the city wall to avoid the bombardment!
After the shelling stopped, the Qing army realized that the Ming army was about to attack the city.
However, if they wanted to board the city to resist, it was already too late.
Several heavy armored infantrymen from the Liberation Army have already boarded the city and formed a formation at the top of the city.
The Qing army and the Ming army that ascended the city collided head-on and strangled each other!
The heavy armor of the Liberation Army had astonishing defensive capabilities. The swords of the Qing army's green battalions were basically unable to break through the armor.
The Liberation Army only needs to dodge when the spear is thrust at them!
The combat knives in the hands of the soldiers of the Liberation Army were all good knives with steel-coated blades. Against the cotton armor of the Qing army, they could basically make a big hole with one blow.
The two sides strangled fiercely, and corpses fell one after another!
They were slashing and stabbing with knives and spears, engaging in a very cruel confrontation with cold weapons.
It is very obvious that the number of Qing troops killed in the battle was much greater than that of the Liberation Army!