"The gentry's shameless exploitation once forced the rebels to rebel, and almost caused the Ming Dynasty to be destroyed. The gentry's selfishness made the Ming Dynasty unable to make ends meet, unable to raise troops, and almost allowed the Manchus to enter the Guan and move south. This country was almost destroyed by the gentry."
"It was our Tiger Army who stood up, turned the tide, and held the building alone."
"However, if we do not knock the blood-sucking gentry to the ground, and if we continue to allow them to be shameless and despicable, we will not be able to save this country no matter how hard we try."
"If every time we desperately expand overseas, the Jiangbei Army unites with the barbarians at home to besiege us, then how can we protect our colonies? If every time we fight with foreigners, the gentry will stab us in the back, sooner or later
All our efforts will be wasted."
"A country and a nation always need some heroes to stand up. If everyone is silent about the shamelessness of the gentry, then this country and this nation will have no future."
"For the rise of any powerful country, some heroes must stand up and speak loudly with blood and sweat. Now in the Ming Dynasty, only our Tiger Army can bear this burden!"
"For the Han people, for the future of this country, and for the interests of the Han people, we must defeat the Jiangbei Army, we must defeat Shi Kefa and Wu Sangui, and defeat the delusions of the gentry to continue to parasitize and suck blood on this country!"
"This battle! We will completely annihilate the Jiangbei Army and completely pluck this parasite from our Han people's bodies! Choke it to death!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the eyes of the soldiers of the Huben Army lit up. Li Zhi explained to them the significance of this battle, making every soldier full of a sense of historical mission, and they were all excited and eager to try.
Sixty thousand people suddenly roared in unison.
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
"Tiger!"
The sound of 60,000 people roaring in unison was like a shock wave, making people's eardrums bulge wildly.
Li Zhi said loudly: "I will make Zheng Kai the general and Zhong Feng the deputy general. I will send troops to the capital to completely defeat the Jiangbei Army and its servants!"
"send troops!"
Sixty thousand soldiers roared in unison again: "Tiger!"
One hundred and fifty tanks, pulled by oxen and horses, walked at the front, heading towards the capital. Sixty thousand soldiers armed with various rifles walked behind the tanks. The team walked in an extremely orderly manner, filled with murderous intent.
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At seven o'clock in the evening, King Qin's Huben troops who entered the capital camped in the open on the Gyeonggi plain between Tianjin and the capital.
Boss Wei's platoon lit a bonfire outside the tent to keep warm. The soldiers chatted and laughed while eating dried fish sent by the logistics team beside the bonfire.
Since the advent of trawling, this protein-rich fish meat has become the cheapest thing in Tianjin. A pound of grain costs fifteen cents, but fresh sea bass only costs twenty-two cents a pound. Even in the poorest Tianjin
The common people can also afford to eat fish.
In order to improve the food for the army, the king also had fish meat made into dried salted fish as military rations. At this time, the soldiers soaked the dried salted fish in water until soft, and grilled it on the bonfire to eat, which gave it a unique taste.
Boss Wei did not eat salted fish with his soldiers. He sat on a big stone next to the campfire, wiping his Jinwang breech-loading rifle with an oily rag, and kept aiming with his eyes.
That steam tank parked dozens of meters away.
Chen Yao'er, a soldier under Boss Wei, looked at Boss Wei and said, "Boss, that tank is so powerful, but I don't know what will happen if it actually goes on the battlefield."
Boss Wei curled his lips, patted the Jinwang rifle in his hand, and said: "Chen Yao'er, don't be frightened by that tank. I see that if we really fight on the battlefield, we still have to rely on the rear of our infantry."
Load the rifle."
Boss Wei opened the gun with a snap, turned the gun on, and said expertly: "The Jinwang breech-loading rifle has a caliber of 15.2 millimeters, a length of 134 centimeters, and a weight of 4.1 kilograms.
Rear-mounted, external flash cap, hammer fired.”
"Using paper shells, the theoretical shooting speed is once every 4.5 seconds, and the actual shooting speed on the battlefield is once every five to six seconds."
Hearing Boss Wei recite the articles in "Infantry Conduct" again, the soldiers around him laughed.
Boss Wei curled his lips and said: "In trench warfare, we first use our mortars to carry out pressure bombing on the mortars on the opposite side. We use our mortars' accurate landing point and fast firing rate to suppress the enemy's first line of trenches.
The number of men in the attack forced the enemy to retreat to the backup trenches behind and disperse."
"After the enemy dispersed, our army was divided into two groups, one group shot and covered, and the other group charged with rifles and broke into the enemy's trench. In the trench, we used the high rate of fire of our breech-loading guns to suppress the enemy and press the entire line for the large forces.
Create conditions until the enemy is defeated."
Chen Yaoer flattered: "Boss, this is the latest issue of "Infantry Conduct". You memorize it so well that you just blurt it out!"
Boss Wei sneered and said: "This march relies on our infantry to charge into battle and the firepower of the rifles in our hands. But what's the point of this tank?"
Yang Li, another soldier under Boss Wei, said: "But boss, this time there are 200,000 people in the Jiangbei Army, and we only have 60,000 people. The Jiangbei Army has 60,000 standard rifles and a lot of mortars. If we
If we use the old method to storm the opposite trench, the casualties will probably be extremely high."
Everyone was stunned after hearing Yang Li's words. These big-headed soldiers usually practiced fighting hard, but they had no idea about the general situation of the battlefield. After listening to Yang Li's words, they felt that Yang Li was very insightful and hit the nail on the head.
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Boss Wei stopped wiping his rifle and said to Yang Li: "So according to what you said, we can win with these tanks?"
Yang Li looked at his comrades who all looked at him, and said: "Platoon leader, this tank is an iron lump. It cannot be penetrated by a gun or destroyed by a mortar. This is the best bunker and a living trench on the battlefield."
.If we charge behind the tanks, wouldn’t we be able to avoid Jiangbei Army’s cold shots?”
"Platoon leader, you have to believe in new technologies and new weapons. Haven't you heard about the navy? The navy couldn't even defeat the Zheng family's navy before. Later, it installed iron armor on the warships and defeated the Zheng family."
When everyone heard Yang Li's words, especially when they heard Yang Li's example of an armored ship, they felt that it made sense. They all looked at the steam tank dozens of meters away, but no one said anything.
Boss Wei thought for a long time and snorted coldly.
Putting the rag in his hand into his pocket, Boss Wei said loudly: "Whether it's useful or not will be revealed on the battlefield. I'm afraid that the tank will be useless by then, and our infantry will have to crawl forward and launch an attack!"
After saying this, Boss Wei walked into the tent and went to sleep.
The other soldiers did not follow Boss Wei in. They all looked at the steam tank in the distance, with expectant light in their eyes.
