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Chapter 798: Zhao Tianyue in the Huangpu River (6)

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    Many generals and officers of the Green Flag Army are no strangers to the Shanghai Business District, and are even familiar with it.  Most of these people came from Jianghuai and even the Ming Army in Jiangnan. Since the opening of the Shanghai Business District, they have envied the prosperity, singing and dancing here, and they are even more coveted for the booming business opportunities here.  It is a must that the brothers go here together to turn all kinds of belongings on hand into hard silver coins, or turn the silver into more valuable jewelry and red goods, into more marketable refined salt, fine cloth, grain, gunpowder, etc.  .  When there is really no money at hand, the worst possible scenario is to let the brothers under the banner of suppressing bandits, randomly break into a few villages, say that these farmers who are digging in the soil are bandits, and their wives and children are bandits, and then, openly and openly  Report the merits, losses, and consumption to the superiors, and then drive the people there and transport them here to be sold.  Anyway, these people are living in torment and suffering. We are kind-hearted and sell them here so that they can find a place to eat and we can fill our pockets. This kind of thing that accumulates many virtues and does good in one fell swoop is not a good thing.  Not for?  The Ming army did a lot of this kind of good deeds.  (A certain armed force that has inherited the essence of traditional Chinese culture has done more.) In their impression, the prosperity and neatness of the business district are something they have never seen before.  There is almost no garbage on the wide streets. The usual scenes of sewage flowing across the street and feces and urine everywhere disappear here.  What is in sharp contrast to the prosperity here is that the defense facilities here are so crude.  Except for a wall that separates the business area, there are no crenels, arrow towers, urns, or horse faces in the cities of the Ming Dynasty. More than one person once visited the streets of the business area and looked at the bustling gold and silver scenes.  This thought came to my mind: "In such a prosperous and prosperous place, if you bring your children to grab it, wouldn't it mean that you will have wealth for several lifetimes? Anyway, there is only one wall here!" So, when Luckard  When Hun convened the generals for discussion before the battle and asked who was willing to fight the enemy, almost all the Green Flag generals rushed forward to ask for the battle, willing to be the general, the regent, and the Qing Dynasty to flatten this commercial area and conquer the Southern Barbarians.  Drive down the roaring East China Sea.  In fact, everyone knows very well that this business district is like a child walking in the market holding gold. Whoever strikes first can grab the gold.  Even if the gold has to be handed over, it will be easy for whichever of our battalions to rush in first and get some treasures for our children!  Who can be blocked by just that wall?  So, today Luck Dehun generously deployed 50,000 to 60,000 people and gave them to Beizi Gong Adai to command. He must defeat the business district in one battle.  As for Yue Le, he still felt aggrieved and held down his position in the rear team, serving as the general reserve team and guarding the outer battlefield.  With a strong military force and almost no decent defense facilities on the opposite side, Gong Adai was very generous and threw 40,000 troops into the battlefield at once.  On the bank of the Huangpu River, a gray battle front opened.  "Kill!" "Kill the Southern Barbarians!" "Enter the business area, and you can move the silver coins as you like!" "Enter the business area, and I'll sleep with you!" The generals' flag recognition, the flags of each battalion, and various accents, accompanied by  The beating of drums and shouts of death almost drowned out the sound of the waves of the Huangpu River.  "Boom!" The shells fired from the river shattered people's dreams of getting rich. Only then did people realize that it was not that easy to get into the golden mountain in front of them.  If the Green Flag generals in front of them, including their commander Beizi Gong Adai, and Pingnan General Luck Dehun, have studied the military formations of the past dynasties on weekdays, they may have tools such as drones and observation balloons that can control the battlefield.  If the situation is monitored in real time, they will immediately exclaim, "Queyue Formation!" That's right!  What Li Huabao presented to Luck Dehun today was the Queyue Formation.  However, Liu Yu's Queyue Formation was guarded by building ships on both wings, and used trebuchets and crossbows as long-range strike force. However, Li Huabao listed gunboats on the Huangpu River with firepower density and lethality.  The same cannot be said.  Moreover, the gunners of the gunboat were pleasantly surprised to find that the entire trade area was completely within the optimal firing range of the gunboat's artillery. In other words, those Green Flag soldiers who attempted to outflank the trade area were completely within the gunboat's fire range.  Inside.  "When my lord wanted to build the commercial area along the river into a long and narrow one, we all didn't know what was going on at that time and we didn't think so. Now it seems that my lord is really a god! We have long expected that such a day would come. We want to  Use artillery fire to defend the river! " "The old people have long said that the lord is the one chosen by the gods. What do you mean? The man of destiny, the son of destiny! Therefore, the old people said that you must understand what the lord said.  Execute, even more so if you don¡¯t understand. When you are done, you will do it.You will enjoy the benefits!  " Unknowingly, Li Shouhan's prestige reached a new peak in the hearts of these young gunners, sailors, and soldiers. Afterwards, when Li Peilin learned about this incident, he added fuel to the flames, making these young people the most active and fanatical  Supporters. The fierce artillery fire coming from both wings gradually made the green flag soldiers on both wings shrink towards the front, and the force on the front continued to thicken. The flags of dozens of generals, deputy generals, and staff generals were quite conspicuous.  However, in front of Gong Adai's Zhijin Longhu, he was extremely respectful. "Zhang Qingfeng, Xu Zixian, you two lead the troops first!"  Gong Adai called his two lieutenants and ordered them to attack first. The total number of troops under these two men was only more than 5,000, which was not even a drop among the more than 100,000 Qing troops. Let them lead the attack first.  , Gong Adai has only one purpose, fire reconnaissance, first find out Li Huabao's firepower configuration. As for casualties, it doesn't matter even if all five thousand people die.  The business area is very familiar. In their opinion, it is General Gong Adai who has chosen them to do meritorious service! There are 40,000 troops behind them, and there are nearly 100,000 troops behind them.  Able to rush into the street of the business district! Zhang and Xu had already planned which street they were going to rush to! Five thousand men opened a long offensive line, braving the artillery fire from both sides and heading towards the business district.  They came rushing in. In front of them was a smooth road with no trenches, no deer villages, and no artillery fire. People were running faster and faster, stimulated by the desire to get rich and promoted, looting, burning, killing, and raping, and their legs wanted to be used as their own.  Use four legs. "I'm afraid Li Ermanzi has been beaten!"  Otherwise, I would have rushed to his door, but there was no movement at all!  "The generals of the Green Flag Soldiers who were watching the battle in the back were filled with envy and regret. It contained extreme jealousy! Why didn't such a good opportunity fall on my head!? It must be that the location of the ancestral tomb is wrong. I will change that Feng Shui when I get back.  Mr. Five Horses Divided Himself! But is the situation really so smooth and beautiful? A devil's law tells you that when you think everything is going too well, there may be a big pit waiting for you. There is no pit in front of you.  There is a deep ditch. This ditch is very insidious, about ten centimeters below the ground level. In other words, you will never find this deep ditch until you are on the edge of the ditch. However, when thousands of people come together.  When running wildly, when the person at the front finds a ditch in front of him and wants to stop, can he stop? Even if he can barely stop, the hundreds of people behind him will also stop.  He squeezed in hard! "Plop!"  Plop!  "People kept falling and squeezing into deep ditches, and screams and calls for help continued. However, the first cry was often not given in time, and the second cry was suddenly broken by the person who fell head-on. "  Fire!  "A cold command was issued from the bunker disguised as a tomb not far away. Thousands of firecrackers fired fiery projectiles in an instant, and the gray-white smoke condensed into a faint barrier in mid-air, and was instantly covered by  The wind blew them away. The Green Flag Soldiers on the edge of the deep ditch were already huddled together in a panic. Some were burying their heads forward and squeezing, while others were turning back and trying to retreat. They were in a mess and were suddenly surrounded by chaos.  Such a dense firecracker attack immediately resulted in heavy casualties. Countless people were pierced by the projectiles that were fired almost across a ditch. The impact of the projectiles pushed them around, fell to the ground, and fell into a deep ditch.  At a distance of more than thirty steps, it was equivalent to firing a blunderbuss at the head of the Green Flag Soldier. After two rounds of shooting, the two lieutenants had less than a thousand men left, and the rest were swallowed up by the deep ditch.  "Damn Nikan!"  Barbarian!  How poisonous!  "Gong Adai could see clearly from behind, and felt a sense of fear in his heart. He secretly shouted that he was lucky! If he hadn't temporarily arranged for Zhang and Xu to lead the team first, I'm afraid that more than a few thousand people would have fallen in front of him! "You are not  Are you saying that there are no fortifications in the commercial area?  How could so many people be lost in just one battle?  !  "Gong Adai had a dark face and pointed the iron-steel sword in his hand at the surrounding generals who claimed to be familiar with the business area. The hundreds of Baya soldiers around him each pulled out their weapons and surrounded these dozens of people with eager eyes. "Gong Adai  General!  We are indeed familiar with the business district. We are all familiar with the streets and houses there. We also drew a map and gave it to the general. No one could have imagined that Li Ermanzi dug such a ditch overnight!  "This ditch was not dug by Li Huabao overnight. It was just one of the sewage pipe networks in the business district. Everyone knows that both the Shanghai Business District and the Hangzhou Business District are environmental abnormalities.The streets and houses are neat and tidy, but they don¡¯t know what lies behind this neatness.  At the beginning of planning the business district, Li Shouhan repeatedly emphasized the construction of sewage and sanitary pipelines.  ¡°Domestic sewage and rainwater when typhoons come are drained out through these underground ditches and into the river.¡± At the same time, it is also regarded as a construction principle to strictly integrate the construction of urban defense systems and daily housing construction in Ha Tinh, Hue and other places.  Combined.  Today, the Qing army faces such a defense system. On the surface, there is no barbican, no watchtower, and no horse face, but there are covered ditches, bunkers, gun emplacements, shooting positions on the roof, and dense firepower points.  It constitutes three levels of attack power: high, middle and low. The firepower network is densely covered with no blind spots.  The original sewage ditch was opened with a pre-made cover made of burnt ash, and it became an insurmountable Jincheng hot spring pool.  The cover was transferred to build bunkers, and the open drainage ditch became a nightmare for the Green Flag soldiers.  But this is just where their nightmare begins.  "Go up! Go up again! Charge up one battalion after another! Charge up town after town! I don't believe it, they are made of iron!" Gong Adai looked at the miserable state of Zhang Xu's two lieutenants, his face was livid, and he gritted his teeth.  This should be the most brutal and useless battle he has fought since entering the customs.  In one confrontation, the opponent killed more than 3,000 soldiers and horses.  He issued a series of attack orders, and the passionate war drums sounded again.  At the same time, the artillery shells from the rear artillery team also hit the business district hard, spraying smoke, dust and blood mist in the streets of the city.  Overwhelming shouts rang out, and a wave of Qing soldiers swooped in carrying ladders, planks, straw bags and other tools they could find to cross the wide and deep ditch.  They rushed in like a tide. In the lens of the Hongwu Army officer's telescope, there were black flags, armor, weapons, and straw bags filled with soil that were constantly being thrown into the deep ditch. They tried to use these to join the ladder planks.  Create a passage.  "Strange! In the past, the artillery fire of the Southern Barbarians was extremely sharp. Once the war started, it would crack mountains and crack rocks, shaking the earth. Why are they so sparse now?" Wang Yuele of Anjun, who was watching the formation in the distance, stared at the business district with the telescope in his hand.  Counterattack artillery fire.  He did not believe that the firepower of his artillery team would be sharper and more fierce than that of the Second Marshal of the Hongwu Army.  The artillery strength of the Qing army and Hongwu army can be regarded as good at winning.  If it is heavier and has a greater range than a single artillery piece, then the Qing army's twenty-four-pounder can dominate the field.  However, if compared with the number of artillery, mobility, ammunition performance, and artillery technical level, the Hongwu Army completely defeated the Qing Army.  They are mainly composed of artillery with a bomb weight of less than twelve pounds, which is extremely suitable for water network areas such as Shanghai. Whether it is the mobility of transfer, the speed of constructing gun emplacement fortifications, and the attached medicine bags made of thick silk,  There are also almost endless cannonballs and endless amounts of gunpowder that the Qing army dare not compare with.  From Nanjing to shrinking positions all the way to today's Shanghai Business District, Li Huabao concentrated almost all the Hongwu Army's artillery in Jiangnan, waiting for such an opportunity.  On the defense line of the Shanghai Business District, if Luck Dehun, Yue Le, and Gong Adai could see it, they would find that four artillery pieces were arranged in an orderly manner on the front of a short area of ??more than ten feet!  The firing ranges of each cannon are intertwined and overlapped, with no blind spots!  ¡°Seeing that the straw bags filled with soil in the trench were used as stakes, door panels and ladders were placed on them, simple passages were completed.  The second wave of more than 10,000 Qing troops swarmed forward and formed a group again around these passages.  "No!" Yue Le shouted instinctively.  He knew that the more people gathered, the greater the opportunity for the opponent's artillery fire to exert its firepower.  At this moment, from the opposite position, a loud copper whistle pierced the noise on the battlefield.  Immediately afterwards, hundreds of hidden artillery roared from their respective gun emplacements.  Shoot at close range, double shots.  The muzzle of the gun was almost fired at the chest of the Qing soldiers. Those with sharp eyes could see the thick smoke and short flames from the gun emplacement from the firing port of the gun emplacement.  The staggered artillery firepower network emitted an earth-shattering roar that made the ground beneath our feet tremble.  Amidst the deafening volley of artillery fire, the six-pounder cannon, eight-pounder cannon, Dafolang machine, and 12-pounder cannon opened fire at the same time according to their respective pre-calibrated firing ranges.  A large plume of gray-white thick smoke rose from the gun emplacement, carrying the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke. The entire Shanghai business district was almost shrouded in smoke. To the Qing soldiers in the distance, this layer of smoke was like a cloud of smoke hanging over the Shanghai business district.  A mysterious substance, similar to the circle drawn by the gods, the nine dragon divine fire shield, which is unbreakable and will never disappear.  Countless projectiles roared and crashed into the Qing soldiers gathered in front of the trench. No matter who they were, what armor they wore, or what weapons they held in their hands, all were treated equally in front of the shells and projectiles. ??In front of Haogou, a large area of ??those Qing troops fell down like rice fields blown by a typhoon.  Their bodies were bloody and covered with dense blood holes.  Countless people were hit by cannons and fell into the ditch. Blood, minced meat, corpses, internal organs, and sewage in the drainage ditch were mixed together, giving off a disgusting and strange smell.  As the standard equipment of the first-level troops of the Hongwu Military Camp, the six-pounder cannon has a shotgun range of more than 200 steps. The eight-pounder cannon and the Dafo Lang machine gun have a slightly longer range. The 12-pounder cannon can reach a maximum range of about 500 steps.  It was used to bombard the Qing troops who were swarming in a trench more than ten paces wide, and the effect couldn't be better.  These artillery guns are fired at close range and directly aimed at the level. When they are fired, the cannons are enough to penetrate the entire formation of the Green Flag Soldiers.  Those Qing soldiers came in densely, and from one end to the other, no one could escape. From beginning to end, they were cut through alleys of flesh and blood!  The sound of artillery had just become sparse, and the guns began to be brushed and loaded. The Dafolang machine acted as the artillery on duty. At this time, the sound of firecrackers like exploding beans was mixed with the explosion of grenades.  The huge sound, fire, and smell caused by artillery, grenades, and firecrackers, as well as the killings caused among people, the screams of the injured, and the groans of the dying, all gave the Green Flag Soldiers  They caused a huge psychological impact.  Boom!  When another round of artillery shells hit them head-on, the Qing soldiers collapsed.  They turned around and fled like a tide. Some of them were blinded, screaming and not knowing where to run, or to find something to cover themselves.  Some people slipped and fell to the ground, and then countless pairs of big feet stepped on them.  The people who were stepped on screamed loudly and struggled to get up, but countless pairs of big feet kept stepping on them until they were speechless and their heads, faces and bodies were trampled to pieces.  "Fire arrows!" Thousands of archers in front of Gong Adai's formation fired a wave of arrows at the defeated soldiers who were rushing towards them. These defeated soldiers, whose minds were filled with the huge impact of flames, smoke and loud noises, calmed down a little.  Coming down, I knew I couldn't attack the formation, otherwise it would be a death penalty.
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