On the battlefield east of Baoding Mansion, Zhong Feng looked coldly at the trenches of the Ming Dynasty army opposite.
The commander opposite was Qu Dingsheng, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Province. He was a typical ruffian of the Ming Dynasty.
Qu Dingsheng was a very naughty man. He experienced countless big and small battles in his life, but he had no outstanding record.
When Li Zhi was fighting against the gentry and civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, Qu Dingsheng chose to wait and see, unlike other military generals who fought with Li Zhi. Therefore, after Cui Changwu and Zhang Guanghang came to power, this ruffian became a rare "enlightened" among the Ming Dynasty frontier troops.
faction" and soon took control of the real power in Shanxi Town.
Over the years, this man's family has occupied more than 100,000 acres of military land in Shanxi, and has been involved in the coal and iron business in Shanxi Town. Factories in one town and nine provinces have imported large quantities of high-quality coal from Shanxi, and it is unknown how much money this soldier has embezzled.
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Zhong Feng had already obtained information about Qu Dingsheng from Han Jinxin. In Zhong Feng's eyes, the opponent was simply not worth mentioning.
Zhong Feng has always looked down upon the generals of the Ming Dynasty. As for the old-fashioned Ming army led by the ruffian Qu Dingsheng, Zhong Feng despises him with all his heart. In Zhong Feng's eyes, he is the Count of Zhenbei, a dignified earl. Let him and
Such a fight between Qu Dingsheng and Qu Dingsheng is an insult to himself.
However, Zhenbei Bo Zhongfeng only had 3,000 men at his disposal.
In Baoding Prefecture, Zhong Feng only had 3,000 tiger troops, 210 mortars, and 20 18-pound heavy cannons. Qu Dingsheng on the opposite side had 40,000 frontier troops, 16,000 cavalry, and countless large and small artillery pieces.
But from the beginning, Zhong Feng decided to end this battle as quickly as possible, which made him feel a little irritated.
Li Zhi's request to Zhong Feng was to hold the defensive line. But Zhong Feng was not prepared to defend. He immediately dispatched all forty infantry fighting vehicles under his command to attack the Ming army in Shanxi Town and Datong Town on the opposite side.
The fighting on the battlefield was very fierce.
In recent years, after Chongzhen's new legal reforms, the income and expenditure situation of the Ming Dynasty's household department has been greatly eased, and the money distributed to the border towns has also been greatly enriched. Therefore, at this time, the 40,000 Ming troops were all wearing fiery red mandarin duck war jackets, and a set of cotton
Armor, chain mail armor is bright, the war horse is fat, and the flag is fluttering.
These frontier troops were even widely equipped with all kinds of fire guns. The 40,000 infantrymen had more than 6,000 bird blunderbuss, and the 8,000 elite cavalry even had three-eyed blunderbuss. In addition, there were some squatting tiger cannons and general cannons in the trenches. The most conspicuous ones
The ones in the middle of the trench were twenty red barbarian general cannons. By Western standards, they were about 16 pounds of bronze cannon.
According to the standards of the Ming Dynasty, this frontier army has combat effectiveness.
It's a pity that the combat effectiveness of the seventeenth century level is meaningless in front of infantry fighting vehicles.
Zhong Feng's infantry chariots were carelessly pressing towards the trench. The soldiers of the Ming army watched these steel chariots getting closer and closer with fear, and frantically used all long-range weapons to shoot at the chariots. Bird guns,
The three-eyed cannon tried his best to greet the chariot, but these small weapons had no effect on the chariot.
Even the Crouching Tiger Cannon and the Hongyi General Cannon cannot penetrate the two centimeters thick steel armor of the tank.
Seeing the chariot approaching at a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour, Qu Dingsheng's face turned ashen.
As a general of the Ming Dynasty, he really couldn't understand how such a hard and heavy chariot could run at such high speeds in the fields and wastelands.
Qu Dingsheng subconsciously wanted to escape.
As a ruffian, Qu Dingsheng's escape skills were top-notch. The Shanxi soldiers and horses under his command collapsed countless times, but Qu Dingsheng escaped again and again, relying on sniffing out danger at critical moments and running away.
But this time, Qu Dingsheng's reason was preventing the ruffian's escape instinct. Because this time was different, this time it was a decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and Qi King Li Zhi. If Li Zhi won, the entire China would be brought under Li Zhi's rule.
If he loses this battle, Qu Dingsheng will have no way to escape.
Although Qu Dingsheng's instinct made him tremble all over, his reason pinned him to the trench and allowed him to insist on directing the battle.
But he has nothing to command.
The flags of the Ming army in the ditch were flapping in the wind. They were so powerful that they should have overwhelmed the mere three thousand tiger troops. However, the Ming army had no way to stop the approach of the infantry chariots. As the border troops watched in amazement,
Forty tanks soon pressed onto the trench.
The trenches of the Ming army were not very wide. In fact, most of the trenches were only about one and a half meters wide, which was not an obstacle at all for a chariot that was more than three meters wide. The drivers of the infantry chariots
After training day and night to drive combat vehicles, they have become very proficient in operating combat vehicles. Many infantry combat vehicles simply drive the combat vehicles directly above the trench and use the length of the infantry combat vehicle to rest across the trench.
The chariot made a huge roar and crossed the ditch with its tracks that seemed to be able to crush everything. The momentum was so amazing that it scared the Ming troops near the chariot and ran away.
No matter how many people there were on the Ming army's side, the indestructible chariots terrified the border troops to their core.
The chariot was set up on the trench, and the breech-loaded gun on the left opened fire.
As more and more tanks arrived at the trenches, sparks suddenly flew out of the Ming army's trenches, and smoke from exploding shells enveloped the battlefield.
Of course, what's even more terrifying is the Gatling gun's fire. A bunch of barrels rotate at high speed, and bullets like a storm are fired into the trench. Wherever it is swept, blood is everywhere like ripples on a lake on a rainy day.
splash.
Once any chariot was mounted on top of the trench, the area of one or two hundred meters nearby would become a slaughterhouse.
The frontier troops in Shanxi Town and Datong Town had not yet experienced the terror of machine guns. At first, they tried to lie down in the trenches to resist, and even shot arrows and blunderbuss at infantry fighting vehicles. However, the only result of such efforts was
It's death.
Pieces of death.
The Gatling gun roared, and wherever the bullets passed, only screams were heard and blood was seen flying.
Qu Dingsheng saw an infantry fighting vehicle three hundred meters away, and then the trench in front of the tank was fired over and over again by machine guns. The Ming troops hiding in the trenches were like static targets, being sprayed with machine gun bullets.
Plowed over and over again.
Once the Ming soldiers wearing cotton armor were shot, they would roll and twitch violently in the trench, and even get up and struggle and scream. As the angle of the machine gun extended forward, a trench seemed to be lit by a piece of news.
.Every place swept by the machine gun will suddenly move, and the wounded are everywhere squirming, scratching, and screaming.
Whether it is a Ming army general wearing fine fish scale armor or an ordinary soldier wearing cotton armor without any armor, facing a large-caliber Gatling gun is a matter of one shot.
The soldiers hit by bullets were like pigs and sheep that had been bled in a slaughterhouse. They rolled in the trench, piece by piece, and gradually turned into cold corpses.
The Ming army's frontier soldiers often collapsed after one or two hundred people were killed, and fled toward the trench without chariots as if they had seen a ghost. Order in the trench quickly lost.
The infantry fighting vehicle strafed one position for one or two minutes, killing and dismantling all the Ming troops within sight. Then it crossed the trench and drove to the next section, bombing and strafing the trench at the other end.
Fifty infantry fighting vehicles were like fifty grim reapers, rapidly harvesting lives above the trench.
Qu Dingsheng opened his mouth wide and knelt down in the trench with a plop.
