In the second year of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Jianguo was on October 13th.

On the third day after Kang Mazi defeated Jianyangshui, on the bank of the Ru River in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, more than a thousand miles away from Jianyangshui, Kangxi Kangmazi was about to face the third important battle in his life.

The decisive battle - the first decisive battle was to capture Obai in Nanshufang; the second decisive battle was to fight Wu Sangui on the Jianyang River; and the third decisive battle was to face Zhu Heji on the edge of the Ru River in Jiangxi!

Well, if you have to travel more than a thousand miles in two or three days, you can theoretically travel from Hubei to Jiangxi to fight this battle, right?

Kang Mazi's opponent in the Battle of Ru River, Zhu Heji, had just arrived at the Dagang Town on the south bank of the Ru River on October 9. In the remaining nine days, there were still two days, the tenth and the eleventh.

Throughout the whole day, plus most of the day on the 12th, Zhu Heji and his army mainly rested.

On the afternoon of the 12th, the army was almost rested and began to take action. Wisps of smoke first appeared in the sky above Dagangang Town!

This is not just the smoke from cooking, but the smoke from cooking rice plus making sugar syrup!

Due to the emergence of the "Kaqiu Sha" and the cable-type grenade hammer, the Ming army is now "getting sweeter"... When marching, everyone has to bring a large bag of military white sugar or

Fire saltpeter.

Moreover, since the "ingredients" of military white sugar have been added in advance, every piece of white sugar and each pack of saltpeter have been weighed in advance. When boiling the sugar medicine, you only need to use a piece of white sugar and a pack of saltpeter.

Since the craft of boiling sugar medicine has become easier, more people can participate, and the output will of course be greater.

By the evening of the 12th, all ministries had completed the preparation and filling of sugar pills. More than 30,000 cable grenades, smoke grenades, 2,000 flower hammers and 2,000 rockets had been assembled and launched.

Sent to the troops participating in the war!

At the same time, the musketeers participating in the war also produced more than 100,000 paper-cased custom ammunition.

Just looking at the number of these arms, you can see how powerful Guangdong is with sugar and gunpowder - Guangdong's sugar, porcelain, iron industry, and foreign trade all require a large number of laborers in the handicraft and transportation industries. With these laborers

, Zhu Heji's southeast and northwest internal factories can quickly expand production capacity and provide a large amount of ammunition.

At the same time, Zhu Heji's army was also able to recruit many soldiers who came from handicraft workers. These people may not be as brave as peasant soldiers and herdsmen militiamen. But compared with farmers and herdsmen, they have an extra "craftsman spirit", that is, they are more

He is serious and responsible, able to produce in strict accordance with the techniques taught by his master, and he is also relatively disciplined.

If these soldiers with "craftsman spirit" compete in strength, archery, horse riding, and shooting, they may not be the opponents of peasant soldiers, herdsmen militiamen, and Manchurian barbarian soldiers. But compared with operating muskets and artillery, preparing sugar gunpowder, and making

Grenade hammer, rocket launcher, that's a lot stronger.

After all, traditional agriculture and animal husbandry is not a delicate job, it is just fine. And traditional agriculture and animal husbandry relies largely on the sky and the earth, so it is not very efficient.

The handicraft industry, even traditional handicrafts, is more about exquisite craftsmanship. Everything cannot be the same. And it also has to pay attention to efficiency... The faster and more economical you can make more money!

Therefore, once the war enters the industrialization and pre-industrial era, the advantages of industrial countries and pre-industrial countries become extremely obvious.

After dinner on the 12th, the soldiers in the first town of the Ming Army who were about to join the battle received three days of rations. Then, under the supervision of the officers, they checked their equipment one by one - because of the

Cable grenades, so the Ming Army no longer had dedicated grenadiers in the first town. Instead, grenades were issued to musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, so except for artillery, baggage soldiers, and engineers, everyone

Grenadier.

At the same time, the sword players and archers have also disappeared. The troop configuration of the front-line infantry leader has changed to half musketeers and half pikemen. Belt knives and grenades are standard equipment.

After checking the equipment, the soldiers from the first town left their backpacks in the camp, then lined up in armor and drove out of the big port town.

At the exit of the town, they also saw the third grandson of Sage Zhu who was wearing a breastplate and riding a long-legged horse!

Zhu San Taisun led the few "knights" under his command and lined up on the official road outside the town to see off these warriors who were going on the expedition.

Seeing each infantry leader coming out, these knights would shout together: "Capture Kang Mazi alive and take him to Nanjing!"

The morale of the infantrymen who went out also rose, and they all raised their arms and shouted: "Capture Kang Mazi alive and restore the Ming Dynasty!"

Catching Kang Mazi is not just a casual shouting, Zhu Heji is serious!

So Zuo Chunqiu has been busy painting Kang Mazi's portraits for the past two days. He has painted hundreds of them, and now he is so tired that he fell asleep.

And the portraits of Kang Mazi he painted have been distributed! Every leader and deputy leader has received a portrait of Kang Mazi - just follow it and grab it!

According to the plans of Zhu Heji, Yang Qilong, Zhuge Zhengyang and Liu Jinzhong, the Ming army will launch an attack with the strength of four infantry associations (including one from Liu Jinzhong) on ​​the battlefield of Sanjiangkou Town at once!

The town's artillery, including the "Kaqiu Sha" rocket launchers, are also concentrated here!

One alliance is the general reserve team, and the other alliance (Liu Jinzhong's Department) is based on the battalion. It launches diversionary attacks in other directions. The units directly under the first town, except the cavalry battalion, all stay in Dagang Town to watch "home".

Zhu Heji himself would lead the "Grenadier Cavalry" to supervise the battle on the south bank of Sanjiangkou Town, and wait for the completion of the pontoon bridge construction before crossing the river to join the battle.

Zhu Heji must go all out and prepare to attack Shicha Town in one fell swoop to capture or kill the Qing Emperor Kang Mazi alive!

In the early morning of the 13th, the first town of the Ming Army participating in the war and most of Liu Jinzhong's Yongwei Battalion had entered the attack position on the other side of Sanjiangkou Town.

This attack position is located behind a section of embankment on the south bank of the Ru River, and the dock of Sanjiangkou Town is on the other side of the river.

Because the ships on the Ru River and the nearby Gan River had been "cleared" by the Qing army, Zhu Heji's Ming army did not find ships to cross the river. However, the Ru River was not very wide, and the First Town and Yongwei

The officers and soldiers of the battalion built one or two hundred sheepskin rafts, which was enough to cross the river.

The six "Kaqiusha" rocket launchers belonging to the First Town Artillery Battalion have been pulled behind the river embankment and put away, just waiting to "shoot to scare people"... The power of this thing is not necessarily that great, but

It's really bluffing when it's launched.

If the Qing troops on the other side of the river could be scared away, the forced crossing would be a thing of the past!

At about midnight in the early morning, the sky was already getting slightly brighter. On the Ming army's attack position, everyone tried to keep quiet. There was only the sound of rolled-up armor and weapons lightly colliding with each other - all the infantry were not wearing armor, but were curled up.

Here comes A. We are going to cross the river later, but accidentally fall into the water. Wearing armor, we can't float.

The people in the brigade were crowded together, and the atmosphere was a little tense. The person in charge of leading the attack was 1,500 elites selected by Liu Jinzhong from the three associations of the Yongwei Battalion under his command to form a temporary association (two of the associations in the Army's First Town

Thousands of people), all of them were shirtless, with grenades on their chests, machetes on their backs, and a shield tied to one arm. Each of them was assigned a sheepskin raft, and each of them also received a bottle of water.

Let's drink sugar cane wine to strengthen your body and warm your body.

Liu Jinzhong was also dressed like them. At this time, he was leading a few confidants behind the embankment to kowtow to an old-looking piece of "Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty" for blessing!

A small hilltop not far from the attack position is now controlled by the cavalry team led by Zhu Heji himself. His command position is here - when the rocket launcher fires, Zhu Heji's "The world is for the public"

” flag and the flag of “Great Harmony in the World” will be raised!

From childhood to now, Zhu Heji has been standing on the hillside, using a telescope to observe the situation on the other side of the river... There is a little light in the town of Sanjiangkou on the other side of the river, and there is still rain farther away.

We set up a small Ming camp (a camp with lights on), which seemed to have only about ten or twenty thousand people.

If it's a little less, it won't be a scam, right?
Chapter completed!