Yongle Emperor's grandson: Zhu Yuanzhang with cheats, Zhu Di went crazy

Chapter 238 The Invincible Three Axe
The troops were bombarded with Tianji arrows, thousands of artillery pieces fired wildly, and tens of thousands of soldiers launched a charge.

The Tsarist Russian army was confused by the Ming army's three-pronged attack.

Even more unfortunate was that one of the arrows directly hit the position of the Russian commander, and the senior officers in the command system were killed instantly.

Without a command system and facing the fierce attack of the Ming army, the Russians could only retreat in embarrassment.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves was heard, and the fleeing Russians widened their eyes in horror.

At some point, a Ming cavalry corps appeared behind them, blocking their way.

Wu Sangui raised the saber in his hand high, looked at the stunned Russian army, and gave orders with a sneer.

"kill!"

"Kill!"

The cavalry corps shouted excitedly, waved their sabers, and rode their horses into the fleeing Russians' formation.

Silver light flickered and the earth was stained with blood.

One by one, the Russians fell to the ground in horror, their bodies ruthlessly trampled by their horses and their companions.

The war started at noon and officially ended at dusk.

Zhu Zhanjun stood on a high place, watching groups of dejected Russian prisoners being escorted back by the Ming army, and he couldn't suppress the smile on his face.

In this battle, the Russian army of 100,000 was completely destroyed, plus the nearly 30,000 troops lost before, a total of 130,000 people.

This is not the era of World War I or World War II, when millions of troops were deployed at every turn.

Zhu Zhanjun later read a document that at this time, the Russians' peak troops had only more than 70 people.

There may be some militia forces among them, but the overall combat capability is fully up to one million people.

But what about a million?

13 troops were lost at once, which was more than 1/10 of the damage.

For a country, let alone 1/10, even 1/20 is unacceptable.

In this war between the two countries, the Russians' Siberian forces were completely crippled.

Unless the old stubborn Tsar decides to mobilize forces to fight the Ming army again at all costs.

Otherwise, the Russian Siberian Army will not be able to recover within a few years.

"Sir, we've captured a prisoner!"

When Zhu Zhanjun was thinking about how to advance next, a group of soldiers came over with a prisoner with a wounded shoulder.

Zhu Zhanjun looked at the other party and saw that he was dressed in French. He asked in French, which he had learned from Napoleon: "As a Frenchman, how come you are in the Russian army?"

The prisoner was the French military attaché.

He was very lucky that the Ming army did not stab him directly.

The main reason was that his military uniform was different from that of the people around him, and those ordinary soldiers mistook him for a high-ranking official.

“You speak French!”

The French military attaché was somewhat shocked.

He could not help but be surprised by the young appearance of the commander of the Ming army in front of him, and the French he spoke shocked him even more.

Although the other party's speech was not very standard, it was no problem for normal communication.

As far as he knew, Orientals were very conservative and, except for some special professions, seldom learned languages ​​of other countries.

He didn't expect that the young commander could speak their French.

This made his eyes light up, and he secretly guessed that this young commander must have studied abroad.

The other party did not answer but asked instead, which made Zhu Zhanjun frown.

The officer who escorted the French military attaché saw the king's dissatisfied look, and without saying a word, he raised his hand and gave the Frenchman a big beating.

Zhu Zhanjun waved his hand only after he had beaten the foreigner's face until it was bruised and swollen and blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth.

The officer stepped aside and Zhu Zhanjun looked at the French military attaché calmly.

"Go and tell the Tsar that his barbarity has angered me. If he does not want his country to perish, let him come to me with the utmost sincerity."

After saying this, he waved his hand, and the soldier dragged the other party away, preparing to send him to the Tsarist Russia area by cavalry.

In this war, the Ming army suffered almost no casualties.

Although the various artillery pieces and secret arrows cost a lot of money, Zhu Zhanjun didn't feel bad when he thought that the Russians would pay for it.

The Ming army won the victory easily, but the Russians suffered.

According to our own investigation, we found more than 50,000 Russian corpses and more than 30,000 prisoners.

Among them, nearly 1 people were either blown into pieces by artillery fire or fled into the desolate Siberian plains.

This was a perfect victory and also a textbook defensive counterattack.

After three days of rest, Zhu Zhanjun commanded the Ming army to continue marching towards Siberia.

Zhu Zhanjun had long coveted this territory, so the Ming Dynasty sent troops to occupy it first.

Now that he has the chance to take a bite, he naturally won't give up.

The army was so powerful that in just ten days or so, the Ming army advanced more than 500 miles into Siberia.

Together with the more than 300 troops that advanced at the beginning, they have now occupied an area of ​​nearly miles, and are still expanding further.

After nearly half a month, the Tsar finally received news from the front.

When the Tsar heard the news that the 100,000-strong army was annihilated, he was so angry that he spit out blood on the spot.

That's 100,000 soldiers, not 100,000 crops. They can be harvested this year and will grow again next year.

The furious Tsar wanted to mobilize the army to avenge this defeat.

However, it was impossible to withdraw so many legions at once, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army also made the top leaders of the Russian Empire cautious.

Finally, someone came up with a suggestion, which was to use the severe cold of Siberia to defeat the invading enemy again as in the past.

The severe cold in Siberia is notoriously terrible.

Napoleon, who swept across Europe, succumbed to the severe cold.

The future Sandezi also fell under the severe cold of Siberia and the human wave tactics.

After persuasion, the Tsar agreed to this suggestion, but the army must be mobilized immediately. He also ordered the Siberian region to block the Ming army's attack step by step.

As a later comer, Zhu Zhanjun naturally considered the problem of severe cold in Siberia, and he also experienced it personally.

"How is the preparation of the cotton-padded clothes going?"

After the army advanced to a certain area, Zhu Zhanjun chose to rest.

In this area of ​​Siberia, it will snow in August and September, and the temperature can drop to minus 40 or 50 degrees Celsius.

It's impossible to survive this kind of weather without cotton clothes.

Zhu Zhanjun notified the space to make preparations two months ago, and he came today to check the situation.

"You still don't trust me when I do things."

Old Zhu, who did not help in reality and stayed in the space to store supplies, patted his chest confidently.

As they talked, the two walked into the storage warehouse.

As soon as you enter, you will see bundles of cotton clothes neatly stacked together.

Zhu Zhanjun took out one and touched it with his hand, finding it very thick.

The cotton-padded jacket is a set, consisting of four pieces in total.

The outermost layer is the military coat which became very popular in later generations, as well as the small jacket inside and the cotton trousers and sweater on the lower body.

With this set of sturdy equipment, combined with the hot food provided by the army, they will have no problem surviving temperatures of minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius.

"There's news from Zheng Zilong. According to their investigation, the Western Allied Forces have already appeared in the Malacca area."

After checking the cotton-padded clothes, on the way to the canning factory, Lao Zhu talked about what had happened recently.

Recently, Lao Zhu and others on duty have paid special attention to these three things.

The first was the storage of cotton clothes and food for the Northern Legion, the second was the advancement of the other two legions, and the third was the Western Coalition Forces that set out half a year ago.

As for the issues concerning the second world's government, with Li Baishi's talent and the spatial coordination of Liu Bowen and others, there was no pressure at all.

They are already experienced in this kind of post-war reconstruction.

Li Baishi and his men were absolutely loyal, and Zhu Zhanjun was very confident in them.

It was also for this reason that Zhu Zhanjun was able to concentrate on commanding the Northern Army's advance.

"Is he sure?"

Upon learning of the arrival of the Western coalition forces, Zhu Zhanjun frowned and asked.

During this period, he has been commanding the Northern Legion to advance, while space affairs are commanded by Lao Zhu and others.

In addition, it was unknown when the Western coalition troops would arrive, so he was not too concerned about these things.

"It wasn't originally."

Old Zhu chuckled and pointed to the dock in the distance as Zhu Zhanjun was curious.

"But since the sixth battleship was launched, and another one will be launched in three days, his confidence has been fully fulfilled."

Hearing this, Zhu Zhanjun also smiled.

Zheng Zilong already had two ironclad ships in his hands, and now he would add seven more warships, so he was naturally full of confidence.

The Warrior's full load displacement can reach more than 9000 tons, and the total displacement of nine ships is more than 8 tons.

And they are all ironclad steam battleships.

Perhaps in the future such warships will be nothing, but in the current era when wooden sailing ships are the main weapons, they are overwhelming.

The ship's artillery was improved and optimized by Xu Shou and others.

The navy is an important branch of the military and also the one that costs the most money.

It would take some time to surpass Britain, France and other countries in quantity, so Zhu Zhanjun decided to win over them in quality.

So in terms of naval artillery, half of the firepower is equipped with new breech-loading fixed ammunition artillery.

Invincible armor defense and fierce artillery attack.

Zhu Zhanjun couldn't help laughing when he thought about the scene where nine ironclad warships were shuttling back and forth among the Western Allied fleets on the vast sea, making the enemies cry out in pain but unable to do anything to them.

But he stopped smiling after a moment and said to Lao Zhu: "Even so, we still need to be cautious. After all, the West has also sent ironclad ships this time, and their strength should not be underestimated."

Lao Zhu nodded, "Don't worry, I will tell him."

The two inspected the canning factory and pharmaceutical factory again, and after confirming that there were no problems, Zhu Zhanjun was about to return to the second world.

At this time, Empress Ma, who had come back to cook, called out to Zhu Zhanjun.

"You little bastard, you only care about state affairs and don't care about your family."

Zhu Zhanjun looked at Empress Ma in confusion: "With the old man and my father at home, could anything go wrong?"

Queen Ma walked forward angrily and poked Zhu Zhanjun on the forehead with her finger.

"If you're alright, why would I call you?"

Zhu Zhanjun felt a little nervous, but then he became confused.

If there really was a problem in reality, why didn't Lao Zhu tell him just now?

Noticing Zhu Zhanjun's puzzled expression, Empress Ma said angrily, "You don't even know you're going to be a father."

Zhu Zhanjun was stunned for a moment, looking at Queen Ma in astonishment.

"What did you just say?"

Empress Ma repeated speechlessly, "When Xia Yuanji came some time ago, he told me that Wenxiu was pregnant. But you were fighting at the time and I didn't want to distract you, so I didn't tell you..."

Zhu Zhanjun could no longer hear what Empress Ma said next.

Upon learning that his wife was pregnant, Zhu Zhanjun was stunned for a moment.

There are surprises, astonishment, and even a feeling of disbelief.

Although he feels comfortable being the grandson of the emperor, when Zhu Zhanjun interacts with the old man and others, he always feels like he is watching history.

That kind of estrangement is hard to describe and explain, but now that I know my bloodline is about to be born, this inexplicable feeling of estrangement has inexplicably disappeared.

Perhaps this is the concern of blood ties and the responsibility of being a father.

Zhu Zhanjun asked Wu Sangui to watch outside and report to him at any time if there was any news, and then he happily returned to the Ming Dynasty to see his young wife and his unborn child.

(End of this chapter)