please make me king

Chapter 1409 West Bali Fort Defense Line
"Bastard, Jiming Station is lost just like that?" Mrs. Hong couldn't help but dare not believe it when she saw Gushan Beizi Boluo and Gushan Erzhen Turge leading their troops and fleeing back in a mess.

"No...it's not that our army is incompetent, it's really...it's because the firepower of the 'thief' is too fierce..." Turg couldn't help but bow his head in shame.

"You still dare to quibble?" Mrs. Hong became more and more angry when she heard the words, and she couldn't help accusing loudly, "You have [-] elites with a white banner under your command, and Boluo brought another [-]."

"A total of eleven thousand Manmeng elites, a total of eleven thousand, can't even hold on to a fortified city like Jimingyi for a day, how can you see me!"

"Ke Ke's red-clothed cannon of the 'thief' is really fierce, and beat us so hard that we couldn't hold our heads up." Boluo couldn't help but continued to argue because he was young and energetic after all.

"How dare you argue!" Mrs. Hong was furious, "How many cannons in red clothes are there that can beat us so hard that we can't lift them up?"

"Eighty or eighty" Boluo felt guilty, and couldn't help muttering a number in a low voice.

"How many?"

"eighty!"

"There are really so many?" Mrs. Hong was taken aback, thinking about the forty red-clothed cannons that she had accumulated for several years, she couldn't help but hesitate to believe it.

"The two of us saw with our own eyes in the city that the 'thieves' lined up eighty cannons in red clothes, and they knocked down the northwest corner of Jiming Station in just a few rounds, and knocked down the west gate tower in a few more rounds." Gu Shan Ezhen Turger couldn't help but nodded seriously.

"The facilities on the city wall, such as the boards, female walls, and battle sheds, were all destroyed, leaving only a bare city wall. The soldiers really couldn't stand on their feet."

"Hey~" Mrs. Hong and the other golden generals couldn't help but gasped, and couldn't believe their ears.

Bashimen, what are you kidding?
With backward productivity and poor materials, Hou Jin couldn't imagine what the concept of eighty red barbarian cannons was.

It turned out that about half of the forty red barbarian cannons in Hou Jin's hands were brought from the Ming Dynasty by the "San Shun King" and others, except for the self-made ones.

That is to say, since Tiancong won the "General Zhenguo Longwei" in the first year of Tiancong, he cast and seized it himself, and Houjin managed to increase an average of two Hongyi cannons every year.

How long did Zhang Shun take from the time he occupied Luoyang City to when he left Shaanxi?
It's only been twenty months in total, where did he get so many red cannons!

In fact, this is Mrs. Hong taking it for granted that she judges others by herself.

It turns out that since Zhang Daojun joined the rebel army, he brought the advanced ironmaking technology from Yangcheng, Shanxi.

The blast furnace method is used to smelt pig iron, the crucible method is used to make armor weapons, and hydraulic forging hammers are used to assist in forging. Naturally, the speed of making weapons is astonishing.

Especially after Wang Zheng joined the Rebel Army, Zhang Shun let the two work together, one in charge of smelting and casting, and the other in charge of forging, which complemented each other even more.

Regardless of other places, the Lantian Iron Smelter under Zhang Daojun alone can produce tens of thousands or even more than [-] catties of iron every day, pouring cannons day and night at an astonishing speed.

Not to mention the artillery of the rebel army, let's say that Mrs. Hong got the news of the rebel army from Boluo and Turge, and she was shocked.

Do you know why?

It turns out that Miyun is [-] miles away from Bao'an. If you want to wait for the Houjin "San Shun King" to come with the Hongyi cannon, it will take six or seven days.

If the rebel army really has so many artillery pieces, can Houjin wait for the Hongyi cannons to come to help?
Thinking of this, Mrs. Hong couldn't help but frowned, and asked Fan Wencheng beside her, "Is there any news about Prince Su?"

Prince Su is Hauge, the eldest son of Mrs. Hong, who is the owner of the Zhenglan Banner. He originally led [-] troops to station in Yanqing.

Now that the security battle is urgent, Hong Taizao ordered him to go west to relieve the pressure of the rebel army on the security direction.

This time, among the [-] soldiers and horses he led, apart from some Mongolian Niulu, there were about [-] Zhenglan Banner elites.

"Previously, Prince Su replied that he planned to stay with [-] people to garrison Yanqing, and lead the remaining [-] people to cross Songshan Mountain and capture Chang'an Ridge." Fan Wencheng responded quickly after hearing this.

"It's only been a day now, I'm afraid it's still on the road."

Mrs. Hong became more and more restless when she heard the words. Since he led the elite of the Eight Banners to enter the customs this time, everything is not going well, which makes people feel uneasy.

"Order to continue to strengthen the construction of trenches and city pools near West Bali Fort. This time, I want to see with my own eyes how the 'Shun Bandit''s Hongyi cannon is!"

The offensive speed of the rebel army was too fast. After only one day and one night to break through the Jiming Station, Houjin fell into an extremely passive situation.

If Hou Jin easily lost Xibali Fort again, Mrs. Hong couldn't imagine how much the blow to the morale of the soldiers would be.

West Bali Fort is only ten miles away from Jiming Station. Sure enough, after Houjin lost the Jiming Station, scouts from the rebel army came to West Bali Fort to protect the outside. Looking up, I couldn't help being surprised.

It turns out that not only was a moat excavated outside the small city of West Balibao in the past, but also the Yanghe River in the south was injected into the moat through the moat and turned into a moat.

The higher terrain in the north of Xibalibao, where the river cannot be injected, is connected to the Heifeng Mountain in the north through a trench.

It turns out that West Bali Fort is not only eight miles away from Baoanbali in the east, but also eight miles away from Yanghe River in the south and Heifeng Mountain in the north.

In order to prevent the intrusion of the rebels, Mrs. Hong actually had people dig through the north and the south, cutting off the passage from Jimingyi to Bao'an.

Not only that, behind this long trench, watchtowers and small camps were set up to prevent the passage of the rebels.

Seeing this, the scout quickly turned around and left, and hurried back to Jiming Station to report to Zhang Shun.

Oh?Is this trying to turn Jiming Station into Madrid?Zhang Shun smiled when he heard the words, and couldn't help but take it lightly.

If you want to deal with his artillery tactics, it is impossible to stick to it only with traditional fortifications, otherwise you will lose if you defend for a long time, and it will be broken sooner or later.

It was just that it was already late at that time, and the rebel army could not launch an attack. The armies of both sides entered a rare rest period, and entered the fierce scouting battle.

Not to mention how the two sides compete, let's say that a fierce battle is also taking place in Chang'anling Fort, which is sixty or seventy miles away.

"Kill, kill!" Prince Su Hauge held a saber and commanded the soldiers to attack Chang'anling Fort.

It turns out that Chang'an Mountain Fort is more than [-] miles away from Yanqing, but this road winds among Songshan Mountain, Ma'an Mountain and Baxian Mountain. From here on over the mountains.

Na Haoge specially recruited guides in Yanqing, and arrived here after crossing mountains and mountains, just to catch people by surprise.

It turned out that Chang'an Mountain Fort set up a garrison of thousands of households, and there were about a thousand soldiers stationed there. However, the three towns of Xuanda in Shanxi fell one after another.

The defenders in the fort gave up their weapons and surrendered after a little resistance. So far, Mrs. Hong's preliminary idea has been realized, and the next big battle between the two sides is imminent.

(End of this chapter)