Chapter 1173 Learning from my father-in-law(1/2)
At the second moment of Shen Shi, Xu Mingwu issued an order to attack.
At the front of the battlefield, in rows of trenches, Far East soldiers were nervously and orderly equipped with bayonets.
In the sky, dozens of hot air balloons slowly rose and drifted over Haizhou City along the wind direction.
"The thief army killed my brother and went against the will of heaven. The Governor has an order to attack Haizhou! Kill all the thieves!"
With the repeated calls, the soldiers and horses suddenly moved out and entered the prepared attack site.
The sixty artillery vehicles of the heavy artillery brigade rumbled and pushed to a distance of 500 steps from the city wall, spreading out in a row, forming an arc.
The artillery servants quickly arranged sandbags and other objects in front of the artillery, and the artillery was busy checking the artillery and gunpowder.
"Prepare!"
With a command, the barrels of the sixty cannons slowly descended, pointing straight at the same point on the city wall, preparing to forcibly break the city.
At this moment, the Zhou army artillery on the top of the city also opened fire. The Zhou army's heavy artillery was defeated by the Far East Army's heavy artillery brigade in the previous battle. Only a dozen heavy artillery were left, and the rest were small artillery with limited range.
The shells were sparsely hit on the Far East Army bunker, and there were dense bullets that kept hitting sandbags.
Qin Shiyue, the commander of the heavy artillery brigade of the Far Eastern Army, looked up at the top of the city, ignored Zhou Jun's scraping fire, and gently waved his right hand forward.
The flag bearer beside him immediately danced his flag suddenly and shouted loudly: "Fire!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom"
The earth was shocked, the sky and the earth changed color. Sixty Wuhuang cannons fired in a wave of volleys, smashing a large pit with a diameter of five meters on the city wall, scaring the Zhou soldiers on the city to escape cleanly.
Seeing this scene, Qin Shiyue's mouth rose slightly and her heart felt very happy.
All of these sixty gates are Martial Emperor cannons, thirty of which were transported from the Ming Dynasty, and the thirty gates were made by the Far East Military Weapon Bureau themselves.
In the Battle of Junggar, Xu Mingwu destroyed several Wuhuang cannons, and Qin Shiyue was about to die and almost turned against Xu Mingwu.
Now that Old Xu is well-developed and kind, he has organized a heavy artillery brigade for him, and there are eighty Martial Emperor cannons alone!
It's so satisfying!
It is a bit troublesome to transport artillery in this mountainous area, but Qin Shiyue doesn't care about transporting artillery in the Far East Fleet. He just needs to be so excited!
Sixty cannons gathered together, what is this scene? No one has tried it in history, but today Qin Shiyue tried it.
A hundred years later, the "Imperial Ming. Far East Chronicles" records: "The king ordered a siege, sixty Martial Emperor cannons, the formation bombed Haizhou, and the cave cracked the stone city, which shook dozens of miles!"
"fire!"
The mountain city shook, and another round of volleys came from the heavy artillery brigade of the Far East Army. The Haizhou city wall was instantly blown open a large hole about five meters wide.
The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the broken bricks on both sides of the gap were still falling down. Through the gap, you could see many figures of Zhou Jun running in.
A wonder appeared on both sides of the city wall: Zhou soldiers were mixed together and rushed to the collapsed place, climbing down the collapsed place, and those outside wanted to escape into the city to take refuge, while some defenders in the city fled outside the city.
The heavy artillery brigade did not stop, and the sixty Wuhuang cannons slowly turned the muzzle and aimed at another target position in the city wall.
The moment the city wall was blasted open, the Far East Army infantry had already set off. They pushed dozens of things similar to two-wheeled gun cars and struggled forward. The few in front were still spinning and firing continuously!
These things are Mingwu machine guns. Xu Mingwu referred to Japanese bamboo bundles and put Gatlin on a cannon truck to push them away. There was also an iron shield baffle in front, which was operated by three soldiers. It was simply a mobile killing machine!
Dozens of chariots carrying Mingwu machine guns roared, spraying fire, slowly moving towards the gap. They were like small bunkers and moved very slowly.
However, no one dared to fight against it.
The Zhou army, who was in a mess at the gap, was immediately swept across the area and lay on the ground and screamed loudly.
Last month, Wu Sangui and Xu Mingwu had their first field battle, and suffered a great loss. They were ruthlessly swallowed up tens of thousands of elite troops by this thing.
Wu Sangui almost died of anger and had to retreat in disappointment, letting his younger brother take the opportunity to consume in front of him.
There was basically no defense in the gap several meters wide. The vanguard of the Far Eastern Army roared and crawled in, and the black mass from behind swarmed into the gap.
Other battlefields were also completely opened. The air formation entered the east gate along the southeast wind, throwing explosives into the Zhou army camp, and clearing the Zhou army outside the inner city of the East Gate.
On the bank of the river, the Dongfeng Rockets on the warship flew round after round and landed into the city like a meteor.
The Far East Army's 50,000 ground troops were advancing the Haizhou City Defense Line layer by layer.
The Far Eastern Army, which broke through the city in the middle, separated the chariots carrying Mingwu machine guns, and each of them advanced forward on a street, followed by hundreds of Ming army infantry.
They held breech guns, and under the cover of the chariot, they were simply killing groups.
The Zhou army in the city was completely in panic and felt layers of murderous aura from afar. Usually, at this time, the officers could no longer control the soldiers, and most of the soldiers fled.
Under the threat of officers, a few soldiers lay on the ground, or rely on street windows, holding grenades and muskets to prepare for the attack.
However, when he saw the Far East Army opposite him surrounding the killing weapon and entering his sight, the small number of Zhou soldiers who were planning to hold on to him were trembling all over.
They threw the grenades from a distance, then turned around and ran away.
The battle lasted until the evening. At this time, these Zhou soldiers who turned against each other during the "Rebellion and Rebellion" usually surrendered in groups.
If you surrender is a matter of being very entangled and nervous for the first time, you will get used to it after you have experience, and you will even become addicted.
"Surrender! We want to surrender!"
In a window in the streets and alleys, a cramped voice roared and reached the Ming army across the road.
A Ming army general hid behind the earthen wall, took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket, lit it and took a few sips, and muttered, "Fuck surrender at this time? What did you do long ago!"
A soldier next to him said, "Sir, those bitches are just trying to save their lives. As the saying goes, if you are anxious, you can jump over the wall. We don't have to fight with them. Why don't you talk to them?"
The regiment general also knew that if he attacked hard, he would suffer a lot of casualties. The brothers traveled across the ocean to do their careers, and no one wanted to die in a foreign land.
He smoked two more puffs of cigarettes and frowned and said, "No one wants to die, but the Governor wants us to kill all the thieves. How about the fucking talk about this thing!"
"We want to surrender..."
The Zhou army general opposite continued shouting: "As long as we don't kill us, we will surrender!"
The voice was shrill and desperate, echoing on the street.
The regiment was upset and hesitated, and decided to report Zhou Jun’s request.
In the military tent, Xu Mingwu listened to the report, hummed, turned to the Painting President Qin Yu and said, "Does these dogs want to survive at this time? Dreaming in the daytime! If I say that I am fart!"
Qin Yu coughed lightly and said, "Sir, the first culprit is actually the rebel king of thieves. For the officers below, we don't have to kill them all, as that will only increase the casualties of our army."
Xu Mingwu looked unhappy and frowned: "How many casualties are there now?"
Qin Yu recalled the general data just reported below and said: "At present, our army has been killed 302 people and injured more than 400 people. Most of them were sneak attacked by the enemy in street fighting."
Xu Mingwu was silent. It was night now, and it was even more unfavorable for the street fighting of the Far East Army. There were several places outside the city where Zhou troops were resisting desperately.
Overall, although the Zhou army's defense line was narrowing layer by layer, they were still insisting on it. After all, their boss, Wang Jinbao, was not dead.
After a while, Xu Mingwu glanced at Qin Yu and slowly spoke: "Brothers' lives are important."
Qin Yu knew it and immediately went to pass the order.
At nine o'clock in the evening, the white flag was first hung up at the west gate of Haizhou City, and a general of Zhou army led his troops to surrender.
Immediately afterwards, within just two hours, several Zhou army generals hung out white silk cloth. After leading their troops to surrender, the defense of Haizhou City quickly collapsed.
The habit of surrendering with white flags has been used by humans for thousands of years and has not changed yet.
China's surrender originated in the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the Qin people belonged to water in the five elements, and black was the "national color" to represent victory.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang advanced to Guanzhong and directly avoided Xianyang. Qin Ziying surrendered, so he used the anti-color white color of the Qin people's "national color" as a submission to surrender (you can imagine his mood).
This is the origin of China's "succession color".
The West originated from their perceptual understanding of whiteness. Whiteness, like an idiot, represents complete failure.
In Haizhou City, Wang Jinbao, the general of the Great Zhou Zhuguo, saw that the situation was hopeless, quickly sent someone to negotiate with the Ming army, saying that he would be in an uprising.
Xu Mingwu agreed immediately, and the remaining tens of thousands of Zhou army left the city and surrendered, and surrendered all night alone.
The next day, just as Wang Jinbao surrendered generals came to consult when they would implement the surrender treatment, Xu Er turned against him.
He seemed to be possessed by Hong Chengchou, and ordered the surrendered generals to be arrested on the spot and hung them all on high poles in the city.
"Sir, you are not kind enough. As the commander of the First Army, who will surrender to us in the future?"
In the lobby in the city, Qin Yu said worriedly.
Xu Mingwu said indifferently: "Brother Qin, your situation is small. You are never tired of cheating. Are the two armies fighting strategies? They can only say that their IQ is not good, what does it have to do with my credibility?"
"Sir, if you think so, they don't think so."
Xu Mingwu waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I don't care! I only know that these damn soldiers wash the city and don't do personnel! If these people are spared, these bitches will do this in the future! Sooner or later, they will have to kill them! It's better to be happy and avenge the people in the city first!"
When Qin Yu heard the word "revenge", he was stunned and suddenly understood something.
The prince consort wants to win the hearts of the people!
Thinking about this, Qin Yu immediately changed his words: "Sir, the official thought that all these surrendered generals should be killed! Let the people in the city deal with it!"
Xu Mingwu glanced at him in surprise, and understood him at the sight of him, and was very satisfied.
Emperor Zhu had such an activity in Beijing that year, and the effect was significant and he won the hearts of the people in the enemy-occupied areas.
Xu Mingwu said seriously: "This matter must be done thoroughly and do a good job of publicity. To the outside world, these kids are ungrateful and kill our envoys, and they have passed the time to surrender!"
"We want to let these thieves know that as long as the surrender time stipulated by our Far East Army, there will be only a dead end!"
To be continued...