Of course Kangxi Kang Mazi did not come to die. He wanted to live another five hundred years. How could he not live a good life and come to Jingmen Prefecture to die?

But the battle situation on the front line in Jingmen Prefecture is really tight!

Moreover, the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty depended on this battle. If Dangyang was defeated, Emperor Kangxi's prosperous Qing Dynasty would be gone, and it would turn into the Troubled Times of the Three Kingdoms.

Regardless of the fact that the Qing Dynasty had more than 200,000 troops on the battlefield in Huguang and Jiangxi, the only troops that can carry out large-scale field operations are the more than 70,000 here in Jingmen Prefecture and the 50,000 or 60,000 in Jiangxi.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of people on the official roads in Anlu, Hanyang, Wuchang, and along the Han River... We need to gather them first before we can put them to good use.

Among them, Jiangxi's 50,000 to 60,000 troops, who Kangxi had high hopes for, are now far away from the main battlefield. It will take at least ten days for them to invade Hunan, and it will probably be half a month before they take over Changsha and Hengzhou.

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Fifteen days later, the besieged Dong E either starved to death or became a Manchu minister. The old guy Zhuo Butai might have been defeated and ran away... By then, Wu Sangui would have 60,000 or more.

The 70,000-strong army was "alive".

Once the 60,000 to 70,000 Wu troops are "alive" and the Qing troops in the Jianghan area have taken a break, Fuquan's 50,000 to 60,000 troops will be of no use even if they capture Changsha and Hengzhou.

As long as Wu Sangui led the victorious Jiangbei Army back to Hunan, if the Qing soldiers who had penetrated deep into Hunan retreated slower, they might be caught and devoured by Wu Sangui!

By then Wu Sangui will be able to complete his "two kicks to become the king"!

And if the war situation really develops to this point, then Emperor Kangxi's personal expedition will be a disastrous failure!

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi, who was in Xiangyang Prefecture, couldn't sit still anymore, so he asked Mingzhu to escort him south from Xiangyang with 5,000 people. He arrived at the Jingmen Prefecture front line yesterday evening. Early this morning, the people on the Jingmen front line

When the Qing army discovered that their master had arrived, they shouted "Long Live the Mountain" like a pot was exploding.

While moving south, Kangxi also mobilized 20,000 elite soldiers under Ezha, and also ordered Wang Fuchen, who had just arrived in Hanyang, to come to Jingmen Prefecture with his more than 10,000 green flag soldiers.

Then, he asked Eza to lead the remaining 10,000 men into Wuchang and Hanyang to defend the city.

After some planning, Emperor Kangxi finally gathered another 40,000 troops (including the 5,000 people Dong E left in Jingmen Prefecture). With the 40,000 troops that were not yet fully in place, Kangxi's back became harder.

Now Emperor Kangxi is walking in the city of Jingmen Prefecture, standing with his strong waist in front of a wooden map to study the battle situation!

Zhuobutai, Lerjin, Mingzhu, Shuotuo, Bahai and other generals in the army were all standing behind him with their bodies bowed, waiting for Tianyu's inquiry.

"Forty thousand plus fifty thousand equals ninety thousand. Wu Sangui's maximum is seventy thousand, and he has to spend twenty thousand to surround Xianglu Mountain... So that's ninety thousand plus fifty thousand?"

"Your Majesty!" Zhuo Butai hurriedly knelt down and started flattering him.

Kangxi turned back and glared at the old man, "How can I still be the emperor if I can't do such simple arithmetic?"

Of course you can... The kneeling Zhuo Butai said heartily: "You became the emperor because of the pockmarks on your face, not because you are good at arithmetic."

Kangxi asked again with a pockmarked face: "Zhuo Butai, let me ask you, do we have an advantage with 90,000 people against Wu Sangui's 50,000 people?"

"This..." Zhuo Butai is really in trouble!

Now in terms of numbers on the Dangyang front line, it is true that the Qing army has an advantage. However, this advantage is not too great. Counting those trapped on Xianglu Mountain who have not starved to death or been beaten to death, it is estimated to be only about 100,000. As for Wu Sangui's troops

There may be another 67,000 to 8,000 people.

But compared to firepower, the Qing army was far behind.

Wu Sangui's cannons were much stronger than the Qing army on the Dangyang front line! His cannons were cast directly in Yuezhou and then transported to the Dangyang front line by water. Because Wu Sangui originally planned to use these cannons to bombard Shi Lang's navy, but

I want to use them to bombard Wuchang. So they are all "heavy artillery" with a weight of more than 1,000 kilograms.

Although the Qing army also had a large number of red cannons, there were hundreds of them captured from the former Ming Dynasty alone.

In addition, after the two major rebels, Prince Zhu San and Wu Sangui, Kangxi ordered Nan Huairen, Fo Bao, Shuo Sitai and other Western missionaries to open artillery factories in Beijing to cast the powerful and invincible general cannons. Wucheng Yonggu

General Cannon and Weiyuan General Cannon.

Among them, the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon weighs more than 2,000 kilograms, and its ammunition weighs more than seven kilograms. The Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon is a heavy siege cannon with a projectile weight of twenty kilograms. As for the Weiyuan General Cannon, it is a large-caliber cannon.

mortar.

These three types of artillery can be considered relatively advanced Western artillery types, but the problem is that except for the Weiyuan General Cannon, which is relatively light, the other two long cannons are too heavy. Now they are still being used together with other red cannons.

On the way to Xiangyang!

Most of the artillery that arrived at the Huguang front line were light artillery with a weight of less than 400 kilograms. There were only a small number of heavy artillery with a weight of 700 to 800 kilograms to 1,000 kilograms, and they were all issued to Shi Lang's navy.

In addition to artillery, Wu Sangui's fire and thunder were more powerful than those of the Qing army - this was more deadly than artillery!

Wu Jun's fire thunder uses military white sugar produced by Guangzhou Beichang and high-quality fire salt produced by Xichang. It is boiled on the Dangyang front line according to the formula provided by Zhu Heji. There are also two types: explosive type and smoking type.

species. Moreover, the shells of Wu Jun Huo Lei were also cast in bronze in Yuezhou based on the samples provided by Zhu Heji.

Therefore, these fire mines are not only powerful, but also will not self-explode, making them safe and reliable.

The Qing army's fire thunder was invented by Kangxi, Zhang Zhenren, Shi Lang, and Deng Zhong on their own. However, they did not solve the problem of catalyst and coagulant. They also used iron shells as bullet shells and added rusty iron directly to them.

nails, so it is easy to self-destruct.

But the bigger problem is that Kangxi had too strong a sense of confidentiality!

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Only the "medicine slaves" in the firearms camp of the coated slave army under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be personally taught the "Secret Technique of Fire and Thunder" by Taoist Hanlin Zhang Hongtian...

.In this way, the secret has been kept. Even Nan Huairen still thinks that the "Secret Technique of Fire and Thunder" is magic! But the production volume becomes a problem.

On the Dangyang front line, the number of fire thunders thrown by the Qing army was less than one-tenth of the number of fire thunders thrown by the Wu army.

One can only imagine how miserable the Qing army fought this battle.

But it was Kangxi’s decision to keep Huo Lei secret!

How could Zhuo Butai, who had suffered so much, dare to speak out? So he was hesitant and "stuck".

"Your Majesty," Guarjia was transferred from Ninggu Pagoda. Bahai didn't know how powerful his master was. Seeing that Zhuobutai was "stuck", he helped him continue, "I think this battle cannot be fought in Dangyang.

Go down!"

"If you don't want to fight in Dangyang?" Kangxi asked, "Where can you go to fight?"

"Fight on the way to Jingzhou City!" Bahai said, "Dangyang is close to Zhangshui and Jushui, and there are ready-made docks for loading and unloading artillery. Wu Sangui transported one or two hundred heavy artillery from Jingzhou in one go.

, they beat our brothers so hard that they couldn’t even lift their heads. And their fire thunders were more powerful than ours..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Zhuo Butai suddenly coughed violently at this time, which startled Emperor Kangxi. He quickly turned to look at the old guy - don't let this old guy catch any disease. If you pass this on to the emperor, it would be a heinous crime!

"Your Majesty, I think Bahai's suggestion is very good!" Zhuo Butai said, "Going directly south from Jingmen Prefecture to Jingzhou is a flat river, and Wu Sangui probably doesn't know that our new force is coming soon. I suggest that we go from Hanyang to Anlu

The new force that has arrived does not need to come to Jingmen Prefecture anymore. They can drive directly to Jianyang Town on the edge of the Jianyang River, spread out their formations ten miles away, and wait for the army from Dangyang to lead Wu Sangui's troops there. In this way, they will not only defeat Wu Sangui.

Being caught off guard, and Wu Sangui's heavy artillery can't follow up, our chances of winning are huge."
Chapter completed!