The six hundred artillerymen of the Ming Army, divided into five rows, set up two hundred new squatting tiger cannons and started firing. The overwhelming artillery fire made the Eight Banners Han soldiers at the mouth of the valley fall over.
This new type of tiger crouching cannon uses bronze as raw material. In this era, compared to the iron cannon with immature smelting technology, a large amount of zinc is needed for the brass cannon. The performance of the bronze cannon is stable and good. The Ming army continued to improve the casting process of the bronze cannon;
The artillery shells were replaced, and the original fragmented shells were replaced by whole shells: sandstone shells. This kind of sandy rock is brittle and hard. When it falls to the ground, it scatters in all directions and is as sharp as a blade. It not only has the effect of shotguns, but also improves the
The range has been increased and the power has been increased; the gunpowder purification process has also been improved to increase the kinetic energy of the artillery shells.
Improve equipment to win! Zhu Hengjia introduced advanced capitalist production methods to the Armed Forces Department of the Ministry of War. The essence is just twelve words: "Reward inventions heavily, reward the good and punish the bad, more work, more rewards". For a time, the Department of Arms became the Ming Dynasty.
In the most dynamic department, the work enthusiasm of the craftsmen has greatly increased, realizing the transformation from "I want to work" to "I want to work".
In addition to improving artillery, they also focused on improving the quality of gunners. At this time, almost all Western artillery gunners had studied geometry and mathematics, were proficient in the use of various measuring tools, and could fire accurately. However, the Ming army gunners lacked knowledge of natural sciences.
There are various measuring tools installed on the cannons, but most of them don't know how to use them. They only fire based on experience. Cannons with the same performance can't shoot the Westerners as well.
Zhu Hengjia ordered the establishment of an artillery simple school, a navy simple school, and a land division simple school in the army to train military talents in all aspects, including gunners.
According to the emperor's temperament, he also planned to set up more than a dozen military academies across the country, and then open dozens of private universities to popularize various natural science knowledge. Education is the most expensive thing, and now he is fighting against the Qing Dynasty, and the money is flowing like water.
, finances are often in a state of making ends meet, and there is no way to carry out large-scale education. I can only keep this matter in mind and wait until Beijing is conquered.
The navy is Zhu Hengjia's treasure. All good equipment is used first by the navy. It is precisely because of the good equipment that Sun Gui's troops avoided being annihilated in Malingshan.
The fierce artillery fire stunned the Qing army at Taniguchi. In just two quarters of an hour, the spear array, which was as dense as a forest just now, was riddled with holes. More than two thousand Eight-Banner Han troops fell in a pool of blood. Melezhang Jingzu Zepei
I was so shocked that I thought the Ming army was carrying red cannons.
"Brothers, the whole army is here to fight for life and death. Follow my commander to kill the enemy." Sun Gui roared, pulled out his sword, and prepared to charge personally.
"My dear brother, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, how can you risk your life? Let me go." Lin Cha stopped Sun Gui and led the charge.
"Brother Lin, be careful." Sun Gui's voice echoed in the valley for a long time.
Generals Lin Cha, Wang Sheng, and Dai Jie fought bravely. They knew that if they could not break through the valley entrance, the whole army would be destroyed here, so they behaved like crazy tigers, advancing but not retreating.
At this time, the Qing army at Taniguchi had been beaten to pieces by fierce artillery fire and was unable to form an formation. Seeing the Ming army risking their lives to kill them, I couldn't help but feel frightened.
"Form up! Hold on!"
Zu Zepei shouted to hold on, but he couldn't hold it back. The Ming army became red-eyed and headed straight for his central army.
Zu Zepei was horrified, knowing that Taniguchi would definitely not be able to be defended. If he did not withdraw and did not block the Ming army, he would have to confess here.
"Mount your horses and withdraw," he ordered through gritted teeth. The Eight Banners and Han troops mounted their horses one after another and moved out of the valley entrance to form.
The Ming army rushed out of the valley and retreated toward Haizhou.
Yue Le, Le Du, Ma Zhixian, Cheng Fuliang, and Zu Zepei followed the Ming army in pursuit. They pursued until dark before Yue Le gave the order to set up camp.
"General, the last general requested to be the vanguard to pursue the Ming army." Ledu happily asked Yue Le to fight.
"No, tomorrow the army will go south to Shuyang."
Ledu was puzzled, "Why didn't the general pursue the Ming army and instead went south?"
Yue Le sighed, "The Ming army suddenly appeared in Tancheng. It seems that Duni is in danger, and we must go south to meet him immediately."
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After Sun Gui withdrew to Haizhou, he counted his troops and found that he had lost more than 13,000 people.
"This handsome man has no plans and killed the three armies!"
The tiger general sighed and apologized to Zhu Hengjia.
"Stupid! Sun Gui, Lin Cha, what kind of fight is this?"
In Liujiazhuang, south of Shuyang City, in the Panlong tent, Zhu Hengjia was so angry that he broke a tea cup. He originally wanted to order the navy to harass the ports of Northern Zhili after annihilating the Dorni tribe, and advance by land and water to capture Beijing. But he could pass through this
After a huge defeat, the navy will not be able to count on it in a short time.
However, this great emperor had a stubborn personality, and even eight oxen could not bring him back what he had decided. Since he had decided to sweep the Hulu out of Beijing like Emperor Taizu Gao did, he would never let the navy fail because of his stubborn character.
And gave up. Sun Gui and Lin Cha were ordered to reprimand Sun Gui and Lin Cha. Each was given a major offense and fined three months' salary. Sun Gui's navy was also ordered to return to Haimen Port in Yangzhou Prefecture for rest.
Then, Emperor Guangwu no longer cared about this matter, and his target was placed on Liujiazhuang, specifically on the remnants of Dorni who were surrounded in Liujiazhuang.
More than 20 days ago, he heard that Doni had led the remnants of his troops to withdraw to Liujiazhuang, and immediately ordered Bai Wenxuan, Zhang Chengwu, and Sun Guangwei to lead more than 8,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry, lightly armed and moving quickly, to surround Liujiazhuang; he led his own army and brought food, grass and baggage.
, follow behind.
Unfortunately, when the Qing army woke up, they were trapped in the vast ocean of the Ming army.
God will destroy our Qing Dynasty! Are these tens of thousands of troops going to be buried in Liujiazhuang? Doni felt like the world was spinning.
More than 30,000 Qing troops were trapped and still fighting. The Ming army attacked for more than 20 days but failed to capture the town.
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Yue Le's army rushed to Shuyang. Hearing that Duny was besieged in Liujiazhuang, he hurriedly led his troops south to help.
"Report! A hundred miles north of Liujiazhuang, Qing captives were found, with more than 30,000 people and more than 10,000 cavalry."
"Report! The Qing captives are still sixty miles away from our army!"
"Report! The Qing captives are still thirty miles away from our army!"
The scouts continued to present military information, and Zhu Hengjia sat in the Panlong tent, sneering again and again. All the guests were here, and if he didn't entertain them well, wouldn't it look like the host was rude? Forget it, he would hunt rabbits with grass, even Donny and Na Yue
Le, annihilate them together.
"Send an order to open a gap and let the Qing captives enter the village." He wanted to lure Yue Le into the village and surround and annihilate them together.
Unexpectedly, Yue Le was also a veteran general. When he saw that the Ming army had made a gap, he did not enter the village. Instead, he formed a formation in the north of the village and sent someone to notify Doni to come out of the village to meet him.
After hearing that Doni withdrew from the gap to join Yue Le, Zhu Hengjia's face became more and more gloomy. Want to leave? You also need to ask my more than 100,000 soldiers if they agree.
The Qing army formed a formation and fled, while the Ming army formed a formation and chased, chased and beat, beat and chased. In this kind of pursuit battle, as long as someone on the pursued side is left alone, he will definitely die. The Qing deputy general Zhang Wei was in
Cui Zhen escaped by chance, but this time he accidentally fell behind and was beheaded by Ming general Huang Yuqi.
The Ming army pursued for more than ten days, and the Qing army abandoned Tancheng and fled to the Maling Mountains.
Zhu Hengjia saw that the mountain was very dangerous and asked: "What is the name of this mountain?"
"Your Majesty, this mountain is Maling Mountain."
Maling Mountain? Sun Gui and Lin Cha suffered a big loss here. Zhu Hengjia was shocked. Although this emperor usually showed a heroic spirit of looking forward to death, in fact he was very timid and cherished his life. Whenever he encountered mountains,
I will never dare to enter without checking it out.
"When people come, send more scouts and be careful of enemy ambush."
Teams of scouts were sent up the mountain to search carefully. After such a delay, the Qing army disappeared.
It turns out that during his stay in Maling Mountain, Yue Le became very familiar with the terrain here. He knew that there was a path in the mountain leading to Yizhou, and he escaped through the path as soon as he entered the mountain.
Seeing the Qing army slipping away from the road, Zhu Hengjia secretly scolded the Tatars for being cunning. Before Xuzhou was conquered, it was not easy to march into Shandong immediately, so they only stationed themselves in Tancheng in the southeast of Shandong.
In the Battle of Liujiazhuang, the Ming army annihilated more than 10,000 Qing troops and lost 10,000 people. The 110,000 army was exhausted, who should be sent to capture Xuzhou? Zhu Hengjia fell into deep thought.
Suddenly, it was reported that Ninghai Bohe Jiuyi, General Liu Zhenguo, and Zhang Hu arrived with 20,000 Yunnan soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses were originally used to guard against the Heshuote Khanate. After the death of Gushi Khan, they were transferred to the Northern Expedition. They arrived at the right time.
At that time, it not only increased the strength of the Ming army from 110,000 to 130,000, but also greatly improved morale.
"He Qing, I know that tiger generals are coming from Yunnan to capture Xuzhou, so I'll leave it to you," Zhu Hengjia encouraged He Jiuyi with a smile.
He Jiuyi was far away in Yunnan and rarely had the opportunity to contact the emperor. When he saw the emperor praising himself as a tiger general, he couldn't help but be moved to tears and vowed to do something to repay the emperor's kindness.
He summoned Liu Zhenguo and Zhang Hu, and encouraged him: "My Yunnan Army has been pacifying the sands and settling the continent, fighting the Heshuote people, and fighting against Burma. Although it is far from the capital, your majesty knows all about it. Today, your majesty personally told me
It is said that 'Yunnan produces tiger generals', we are the ones who can afford the word 'tiger generals'!"
"Your Majesty praises our Yunnan Army for producing a tiger general. This is our honor. Don't worry, Commander, the last general will show off to Your Majesty and will never disgrace the Yunnan Army." The second general's face turned red with excitement. p>
It all shows that the late warriors are domineering, but the blood of warriors is hot. They are far less frivolous than civil servants. Just for the emperor's praise, they are willing to risk their lives to fight.
He Jiuyi led his army to attack Xuzhou. The defender was Heshuo's consort Huashan. He had five thousand soldiers and horses, but he did not dare to fight. The main force was defeated, how could a partial army defend Xuzhou?
Withdrawing, retreating north, the Qing army just hated their parents for losing two legs, and fled to Fei County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, euphemistically saying that they were in horns with the general of Yizhou.
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Hearing that He Jiuyi had captured the important military town of Xuzhou without any effort, Zhu Hengjia was overjoyed and held a banquet in Tancheng to reward the generals.
"These days, you all have fought bloody battles, and your hard work has yielded great results. I offer you a drink."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Most of the people present were military generals, and they were very drunk when they drank. After a while, Zhu Hengjia became drunk. When Cao Mengde was drunk, he wrote poems across the tree, so I can do it!
"When someone comes, come with me."
They couldn't find the straw for a while, but it happened that Li Mingzhong, the Duke of Chang State, was good at using straw and hurriedly offered the straw for himself.
Zhu Hengjia had never practiced the spear, so he simply used the spear as a spear and started dancing. While dancing, he composed a song and said:
Walking in the wind and snow, heading north to the Central Plains.
The Xiongnu were not destroyed, so they returned home in shame.
The phoenix does not sing, and the Yellow River is not clear.
When will there be peace? My heart is leisurely.
Life is so short, and the days are full of hardships.
Don’t wait until you are old and let your sun hang over you.
Civilization collapses, pity Qilu.
Waving my palms in the wind, just for you.
A generous man washed away the national humiliation with blood.
Be prepared for danger and risk your life.
Above Lin Pavilion, there are twelve jade towers.
The heroic spirit is immortal and flies with wings.
As winter passes and spring comes, the trees are filled with fragrance.
The blood is like a tide and cannot be stopped.
Why don't you play the harp? It's great to talk.
The capital is near, let’s sing for joy.
Zhu Hengjia did not expect that the song "Song of Waves in the Wind" composed drunkenly would later become the military song of the Ming Dynasty Army.
When the emperor composes a song, the officials naturally want to harmonize with it.
For a time, everyone was singing, dancing, and staggering around, completely forgetting the etiquette of monarchs and ministers.
True feelings emerged when the wine got thicker! Zhu Hengjia suddenly left the table, walked up to the generals, and hugged them all, with tears filling his eyes.
"It's not appropriate, it's not appropriate." Huang Zongyi, a great scholar on the side, muttered to himself when he saw this scene. Suddenly, the corners of his eyes became wet, and he shed tears.
"The Chronicles of Emperor Guangwu of the Ming Dynasty": The emperor and his generals held a banquet in Tancheng, waved their bows and composed songs, and burst into tears.
