Xu Wenjue, the eldest son of Wei Guogong Xu Hongji, was a fat man in his thirties.
He is the commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan Army.
Originally, being the commander-in-chief of an army of nearly 200,000 people was undoubtedly an extremely glorious thing and could be called the pinnacle of life.
Xu Wenjue also felt his father's cultivation and trust in him, so he secretly made up his mind to achieve great results and never let his father down. He wanted to regain the reputation of Wei Guogong and make as glorious achievements as his ancestor Xu Da.
As long as the Xujiazhuang blocking the front is destroyed, as long as the manors are destroyed one by one, Xujiazhuang, this cancer in the south of the Yangtze River, can finally be destroyed.
He will be famous throughout the ages, become the savior of Jiangnan Tianqing, and will surely win the trust and support of all noble gentry!
Therefore, after sending troops to annihilate Xujiazhuang, even if the imperial court takes the blame, even if the emperor of the Zhu family wants to punish the Xu family, he may even kill the heroes and cook them as lackeys.
Haha, when the time comes, the Xu family will not kill anyone at the slightest provocation. They will continue to be loyal ministers of the Zhu family. It is not a bad idea to start a new business in Jiangnan.
Because he has an army of 200,000 people, which is well-equipped, and has sufficient money and food, he can fight for three to five years without any problem.
But the poor man from Chongzhen was so depressed that he went to Xujiazhuang to borrow money, which disgraced the great Ming Dynasty and was extremely disgraceful.
This just proves that the Zhu family dynasty is about to run out of strength, and the time for a change of dynasty is coming. After all, in China's more than two thousand years of history, no unified dynasty can last for three hundred years. This law of rise and fall was also followed by the ancients.
Already known that.
Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity for the incomparable unity of the Jiangnan gentry, we destroyed the Xujiazhuang in front of us first! We won the support of all the gentry.
Next step, haha, if the Xu family enters the arena to compete for the real dragon, they may not be able to have the last laugh.
As for the small Xujiazhuang, it was just a stepping stone on the way forward for the Xu family. It was not taken seriously by Xu Wenjue at all, because no force in the world could withstand the thunderous blow of the Jiangnan nobles and gentry united.
Will turn into powder!
But after the war started.
Like two big ear scrapers, Xu Wenjue suddenly woke up from his sweet dream and returned to the cruelest reality.
"We are defeated. I have an army of 200,000 men. How could I be defeated?"
"Come on, order people to charge for me again! A small manor can't be taken by 20,000 dead, so if it's 50,000 or 100,000 dead, he can win it even with a pile of dead people!"
"Keep going, don't retreat. Anyone who retreats will be killed. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!"
Xu Wenjue drew his sword, his eyes were red, and ordered to kill all the deserters, and he waved his sword wildly.
But real war is not about playing games. You can click a mouse and fight to the death with a 100% death rate. This situation is almost impossible to happen in reality.
Ants are still greedy for survival. In a real war, those with more than 10% casualties and invincibility are strong armies; those with more than 30% casualties that are invincible are powerful troops; those with more than 50% casualties that are invincible are absolutely invincible.
Xu Wenjue, who was taught a lesson by the cruel reality, no longer wanted to fight for the dragon, so he could only return to pragmatism and study how to defeat Xu Jiajun.
Then they sent 30,000 firearms soldiers to use firearms against firearms to eliminate the firearms advantage of the Xu Family Army, and ended in a disastrous defeat. They found that they were too far behind Xu Family Village in terms of firearms. Thousands of people were killed and injured on their side. Zheng Zhihu, who led the Zheng Family Army, was shot.
Kill them. Although some people on Xu Jiajun's side were obviously shot, they only staggered and no one fell down. There were zero casualties.
despair.
Xujiazhuang's firearms were so sharp that they made Xu Wenjue despair and created an invincible fear in Xujiazhuang's army.
Just when he wanted to withdraw his troops and seek peace to end the war.
Zheng Cai, the deputy general of the Zheng family army, gave him an idea: to buy cannons, ask the Franji people to buy Hongyi cannons. The Zheng family can help contact them, and there are two Franji people parked at the port outside Nanjing.
Merchant ships, buy all the artillery on board, transport them to Yangzhou, and then use Hongyi cannons to deal with Xu Jiajun, it will definitely be effective! Because Xu Jiajun is not equipped with artillery, and no matter how sharp their guns are, they cannot be Hongyi cannons.
opponent.
"Okay! Just use the cannon to destroy the Xu family manor!"
Xu Wenjue accepted Zheng Cai's suggestion and immediately sent people to Nanjing to buy cannons. Although the Franji people offered a sky-high price of 10,000 taels of silver per gun, Xu Wenjue also placed the order without blinking. As long as he could win, no one else could
Talking about just money, he is willing to pay any price!
…
June 20th.
Outside Yangzhou City.
Dragged by countless civilians and strong oxen, 50 Hongyi cannons weighing more than 5,000 kilograms slowly moved westward, leaving deep ruts along the way.
More than 300 Western gunners responsible for controlling these artillery followed beside them, using unskilled Chinese from time to time to instruct the civilians on how to move.
Claude, a native of the Netherlands, is thirty-three years old. He is both a professional artillery officer and a businessman. He has a very keen sense of business. He knew about the news that a war was about to break out in the Jiangnan region more than two months ago.
, so a batch of Hongyi cannons and other military supplies were prepared in advance, loaded on Galen ships and shipped to Nanjing Port, preparing to make a big fortune.
Facts have proved that his foresight paid off very generously. Two ships full of military supplies were sold. The Hongyi cannon was very powerful, but the price was too expensive. Not a single one was sold. I thought it was all a loss.
However, with the development of the war and two consecutive defeats, the Jiangnan army had no choice but to finally buy these cannons with the help of Zheng Cai and hire them to operate these cannons at high salaries.
, bombing the Xu family manor.
"Claude, the Ming Dynasty is too big and rich. There are too many high-quality slaves that can be enslaved here. Look at these Ming people who pull cannons. They work hard and never complain. They are the most diligent slaves I have ever seen.
, the work efficiency is at least three times that of black people. Oh, God, why is my motherland still fighting that stupid battlefield in Europe? If we can send an army of 500,000, no, 300,000, to conquer the Ming Dynasty, we
I have already obtained ten times or a hundred times the wealth and land."
Adjutant Año, a typical Spaniard, looked at everything on this land with extremely greedy eyes, wishing he could take it all for himself, just like other colonies occupied by Spain, and Ming Dynasty was definitely the most
The fattest, richest and most valuable, he drooled with greed.
"Anio, what you said is a good idea, but there are too few of us, Ming Dynasty is too big, and it is too far away from our hometown. Unless all countries in Europe unite, it is impossible to turn this place into a place blessed by God.
land."
Claude shook his head. He agreed with what Adjutant Anio said, but thought it was unrealistic.
"Then let's send more priests to let more Ming people believe in the glory of the Lord; and recruit more mercenaries to help Ming people fight. We have powerful and accurate artillery, well-trained soldiers, etc.
When the cowardly intellectual nobles, like the nobles of Rome, are completely inseparable from us mercenaries, it is time for them to kneel at our feet and become slaves. Gee, I really want to see the beautiful wives of those intellectual nobles, strip naked.
In order to serve me..."
Aniao said angrily that he once fell in love with the beautiful wife of a wise man and could not help but strike up a conversation with her for a romantic encounter. He wanted to have an in-depth integration of Eastern and Western cultures, but he was rejected without telling her.
He was also taken down and beaten fifty times, and his life was almost lost. He still feels resentful about it, so his heart is full of greed and desire for the land and population of the Ming Dynasty, and he also has endless resentment for wanting but not being able to get it.
"Let's fight this battle first and then talk about it."
Claude said, he looked at the bastion that had appeared in front of him, and couldn't help but frown. There was also a bastion here in the Ming Dynasty? It was a bit difficult now. The sloping earth wall of the bastion was a weakened spherical shape.
The ingenious design of the lethality of iron bullets makes it much harder to defeat than ordinary cities.
This Xujiazhuang should not be underestimated. The owner of this village, who claims to be a wealthy overseas businessman, must have secretly learned a lot of advanced technology from their West.
"Move the artillery two miles forward, and we will directly bombard the internal facilities of the bastion!"
Claude ordered that the maximum range of the Hongyi cannon was five miles (2,500 meters), but in order to capture the bastion in front, he ordered the fifty cannons to be moved forward to only three miles away from the bastion, and then started
Construct an artillery position, take out a paper and pen, and calculate the firing angle and charge yourself.
And this distance is outside the effective killing range of the Xu family's gunfire. No matter how they shoot, it cannot affect the construction of the artillery position.
The more than 50,000 Jiangnan troops in Xu Wenjue's hands were all deployed around the artillery positions, and multiple earth walls were built for defense to prevent the Xu family's army from taking the initiative to attack and seize their artillery positions.
…
At this moment, on the wall of the bastion of Manor No. 72.
About three miles away, I saw the fifty black cannon muzzles, adjusting their shooting angles, one by one pointing this way.
The 120 soldiers of the Xu Jiajun Artillery Battery also quickly adjusted the firing angle of twenty 80mm mortars and aimed at the enemy artillery position three miles away.
"Company commander, all the mortars have been adjusted. Can we fire?" a soldier asked the company commander Wang Chenglong.
"First calibrate and test fire two rounds, and then fire a salvo of twenty guns to cover the area!" Wang Chenglong said.
"yes!"
Mortar vs Hongyi artillery?
You must know that the complete weight of an 80mm caliber mortar is only about 30 kilograms, which can be carried by a soldier; the weight of an artillery shell is only four or five kilograms, and a soldier can carry more than a dozen.
As for the Hongyi cannon, each one weighs more than 5,000 kilograms, and the muzzle diameter exceeds 100 millimeters. A solid iron bullet can weigh up to 30 kilograms, and one is equivalent to six or seven mortar shells. From all aspects,
Compared with the hardware parameters of the Hongyi cannon, the mortar is just a younger brother!
But in this PK between small artillery and big artillery, the winner must be the lightweight and compact mortar!
Because the propellant in the mortar shell uses smokeless gunpowder based on nitrocellulose, the detonation velocity is several times that of traditional black powder.
In terms of range, the maximum range of mortars can reach 5 kilometers, which is twice the range of Hongyi cannon.
In terms of rate of fire, the mortar can fire one shell every two to three seconds and can fire twenty rounds per minute. The Hongyi cannon fires once every two to three minutes, and the rate of fire is dozens of times different.
In terms of shell power, a mortar shell with a charge of more than 300 grams in the warhead, after exploding, is far more lethal than a solid iron bullet that uses collision to kill.
Even in terms of manufacturing costs, lightweight and compact mortars are much cheaper than Hongyi cannons, and the cost of using shells is also lower - of course this is based on a modern industrial system.
boom!
boom!
The two school-fired artillery shells did not hit the artillery position on the opposite side, but fell into the crowd at the rear, killing at least twenty or thirty civilians and soldiers.
"Raise the muzzle to five mils, all artillery, focus fire!" Wang Chenglong roared.
"yes!"
Bang bang bang bang bang bang!
There was a dense humming sound, and twenty small black dots, with a special whistling sound caused by friction with the air, very accurately covered the Hongyi artillery position three miles away.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
A violent explosion sounded.
The fifty Hongyi cannons did not suffer much damage and were motionless. At most, there were some scratches and scratches.
But the artillery officer Claude, who was still calculating the shooting angle, subconsciously looked above his head. A ball of fire lit up beside him, and he disappeared from the spot. Among the pieces of blood and flesh scattered nearby, he could only pass through the
Only the charcoal pen broken into two pieces and a notebook with many mathematical formulas written on it can be used to identify the identities of a few lumps of flesh and blood.
Adjutant Anio was clever and immediately lay on the ground and hid behind a pile of gunpowder barrels. However, a high-temperature iron piece splashed out from nowhere and penetrated one of the gunpowder barrels, igniting the gunpowder inside.
, which then triggered a chain reaction. After two or three seconds, all the powder barrels turned into dazzling flames.
"Nonono, God, this is not fair!" Anio, who was watching this scene, shouted in surprise, and was immediately swallowed up by the flames.
The large-scale explosion of the gunpowder barrels caused heavy casualties to more than 300 Western artillerymen, bringing a result similar to the annihilation of the entire army, and countless dreams of getting rich ended here.
After firing the first round of mortar shells.
Wang Chenglong did not stop the attack, but fired another twenty rounds in a row, firing more than 400 shells.
Not only does it cover the artillery position on the opposite side.
It also covered the surrounding Jiangnan army, allowing each cannonball to harvest at least a dozen results.
After the bombardment ended.
The five thousand Xu family troops in the fortress, holding alloy knives and riding bicycles, rushed out in multiple teams and launched a "surrender or die" charge against the remaining Jiangnan army. In order to complete their victory, they pursued them until dark.
They also invaded the city of Yangzhou and arrested more than 800 officials, nobles and gentry who were against Xujiazhuang. They planned to impose severe sanctions on them after a public trial.
Xu Wenjue hurriedly changed into women's clothes and tried to escape, but was intercepted and captured by Xu Jiajun, and became a prisoner in despair.
The capture of the head coach Xu Wenjue marked the complete annihilation of the nearly 200,000 Jiangnan army. The Jiangnan nobles and gentry suffered another complete defeat!