November 15th, just after Shen Shi.

The noisy northwest battlefield of Seoul suddenly became very quiet. There were no rockets whizzing past in the sky, and there were no roars of explosions on the ground. Even Shuisedong, Yinchundong, and Sangamdong were being exposed.

The village where the two armies of the Qing Dynasty were fighting over also became quiet, and the crackling gunshots were no longer heard...

On the battlefield, there was an oppressive silence, and the air was filled with the unique tension before the war.

Two wooden watchtowers appeared on the tower of Heungjusanseong Fortress and on the wall next to the Donuimun Gate Tower in Seoul.

Next to a yellow dragon flag fluttering high, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty had already climbed up to the watchtower on Xingzhou Mountain City, holding a telescope produced by the glass factory of the Inner Court Building Office, scanning the Ming army's front.

The first line of the Ming army was more than ten miles long, extending from the foot of Zuduli Peak in Bukhan Mountain to near the embankment of the Han River. The Ming army guarding there had built an almost straight line of sheep with straw and earth bags.

The horse wall and two shallow trenches were dug in front of the sheep and horse wall. Of course, the sheep and horse wall and the two shallow trenches are not continuous. There are dozens of gaps and smooth passages in between, but

For soldiers and artillery to enter and exit. There are several villages about the same size as Gaoyang Cave located near the first line of the Ming Army, and they should have been occupied by the Ming Army.

The Ming army on the front line was still under construction. You could see people digging soil, and someone carrying straw bales that looked like rice bags and piling them on the low straw bale wall.

Seeing this, they have to work until dinner before finishing the work, so their first wave of infantry attack should be launched after dinner and before dark.

If this wave of attacks fails to achieve a breakthrough, then the Ming army will either choose to fight at night - which is not conducive to their "sugar power" - or they will have to fight again after dawn tomorrow.

After seeing the general situation of the Ming army's frontline positions, Emperor Kangxi let out a deep breath and said to Gabra and Duolong, the ministers in charge of the bodyguard and internal affairs standing beside him: "Did you see it? Zhu Heji's front row layout and

My front row layout is almost exactly the same, this is why heroes see the same thing!"

What he said was a bit unconfident, as if Zhu Heji's arrangements were similar to his, which would prove his correctness...

Gabra and Duolong looked at each other. They didn't know how to respond to Kangxi's flattery, so they had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty, your Majesty."

Kangxi also felt that he was becoming more and more wise, so he analyzed Zhu Heji's next move. He thought: "If I guessed correctly, he must have quietly deployed the long-barreled artillery to the front. Now

Most of them are still pulling the rocket launchers forward. Once the rebel rocket launchers are in place, it’s time to start bombarding! They should be bombarding my center or left wing...mostly the center!"

Kangxi is now considered to have experienced battles for a long time, and he is not the newbie who was bullied by Wu Sangui back then. Not only did he work out a set of "Sugar Age" tactics with a group of Nanshu ministers, imperial guards and foreign military advisors,

And he also guessed Zhu Heji's next move.

At this time, Zhu Heji also climbed onto the watchtower next to the Dunyi Gate Tower, holding a telescope produced in Nanjing to observe the Qing army's position in the distance.

The Nanjing telescope he is holding and the manufacturing office telescope held by Kangxi were actually made by craftsmen from Yanshen Town, Yidu County, Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province.

Yanshen Town has had a glass industry since the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. By the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, it had become China's main glass production area. However, Yanshen Town mainly produced colored glassware, as well as transparent glass.

However, the output was not large and the quality was not very good. It was not until Zhu Heji came up with a crystal glass formula and asked the craftsmen of Yanshen Town to set up a factory in Nanjing. The craftsmen of Yanshen Town fully mastered the production of high-transparency crystal glass.

Manufacturing method.

However, this method soon spread back to Yanshen Town from the glass factory in Nanjing. Kangxi naturally had telescopes made of lenses polished with crystal glass produced in Yanshen Town... and from Zhu

The technology spread from Heji's side to Kang Mazi's side is obviously not just a crystal glass.

Because what Zhu Heji saw now was an army that was very similar to his own Ming Army... Although their armor and uniforms were still the same color as the traditional Eight Banners soldiers, and the flags they used were also straight yellow and bordered with yellow.

They have eight colors: pure white, bordered white, pure red, bordered red, pure blue, bordered blue, etc. However, their current tactics and equipment are obviously imitating the Ming army.

It seems that Emperor Kangxi's learning ability is much better than that of his unsatisfactory descendants!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heji put down his telescope and said to Yu Xiaoqian beside him: "It seems that Kang Mazi has learned a lot of real skills from us in the past two years and is becoming more and more good at fighting. Wu Sangui's son is a real treasure."

If you encounter him, you probably won't be able to defeat him."

Yu Xiaoqian smiled and said: "But he has become the king... As a student, he is obviously not yet a scholar, so he cannot be your opponent."

Zhu Heji said with a smile: "He doesn't have that much sugar...We monopolize 90% of the world's sugar, and Wu Zhou holds another 10%. It's a pity that no one discovered in the early years that sugar can also be used to prepare gunpowder."

, Otherwise, where would the danger of Qian Ming’s collapse be?”

In fact, low-grade sugar can also be used to produce sugar pills, but they are less powerful.

As for white sugar with higher purity, in the 17th century, only the Chinese could produce it... From squeezing the sugar cane to producing white sugar, there are twenty or thirty steps!

The Europeans can't produce it now, and it will be a few decades before they start industrializing and it won't be that difficult.

However, the Ming Dynasty in history held the most powerful explosives before the industrial era, but only used them for food. It is really a pity...

Zhu Heji sighed and asked again: "Are the rocket launchers in place?"

"It's in place!" Yu Xiaoqian nodded, "The shooting started at the second quarter of the day. The shooting ended an hour later, and the first assault wave of infantry went into attack."

"good!"

Zhu Heji nodded, "The Gu family is waiting for the good news of their victory!"

...

The commander-in-chief of the Ming Army's artillery group is Qiu Hu, an artilleryman from the Palace Army Department. He is Qiu Hui's youngest son, who is just in his early twenties this year.

Despite his young age, he was one of Zhu Heji's earliest "apprentices", and he was also one of the first pharmacists to learn the "Black Sesame Jue" and "Tang Shu Jue" - Zhu Heji still took great care of his brother-in-law.

In the eight years after becoming a pharmacist, Qiu Hu continued to travel between the army and the military academy, completed all the Army Military Academy courses, and even learned a little calculus from Leibtzny - this guy also turned out to have a high IQ.

The academic master!

Qiu Xueba was now at the front of Gaoyang Cave, and his rocket launcher cluster was placed in the southeast of Gaoyang Cave.

In addition, eight other long artillery leaders also squeezed into Gaoyang Cave, or quietly arranged themselves in the woods near Gaoyang Cave, waiting for Qiu Hu's order.

At this time, Qiu Hu just looked at the pocket watch in his hand. This was a Chinese pocket watch produced in Guangzhou. It did not have twelve hours, but twelve hours plus eight quarters. The hour hand had already been aligned with the word "Shen".

, seeing that the engraving needle was about to point to the Chinese character "二". He strode back to his command position - this is the highest point of Gaoyang Cave, where the red background and gold sun and moon flag was inserted. He saw Qiu

Tiger pulled down the big flag, shook it vigorously a few times, and shouted at the same time: "Fire! Fire!"

Several artillery groups consisting of eighty five-pound long-barreled cannons roared first, and the fire was spit out first, followed by the thunderous sound of the artillery. Then, forty rocket launchers also began to unleash their power, "Jie Jie Jie"

A strange scream sounded, and more than two hundred rockets soared into the sky, roaring towards the Qing army's position ahead.
Chapter completed!