The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 103 Bombarding Nanchang
"Wait for General Boluo's men to enter Fujian," Jin Shenghuan had received an order from the Qing court a month ago, ordering him to guard Nanchang to the death, and wait for the chaos in the capital city of the Ming Dynasty to be destroyed by the Ming army, "Jiangxi is still my world! "

He had seen the strength of the full Eight Banners soldiers before, even those brave Dashun soldiers under him, faced less than half of the Jianzhou cavalry in less than a quarter of an hour before they scattered and collapsed.

The Ming army, whose combat power was two notches lower than that of the Dashun soldiers, would not be able to withstand the front of the Manchu soldiers anyway.At that time, when he commanded the army out of the city, those weak Ming troops would surely surrender.

He couldn't help remembering that when he first came to Jiangxi, he had only [-] men under his command, but all the way he asked the soldiers to shout "more than [-] Manchurian soldiers and horses are approaching, and they will come down quickly to avoid death", which made the defenders of Nanchang City sacrifice The city surrendered.

Maybe we can do it again soon...

There was an earth-shattering muffled sound, like a god holding a mountain and beating the ground, abruptly interrupting Jin Shenghuan's imagination.

It's a cannon!He is very familiar with cannons, this is definitely the roar of heavy artillery!However, the sound of this cannon was much louder than any cannon he had heard before, even far surpassing the heavy cannon equipped by the "Wuzhenchaoha" that Manchurians were proud of.

Immediately there was another loud bang, which was made when the shell hit the city wall.The strong tremor caused a tile to fall from the roof, almost hitting Jin Shenghuan on the head.

Several confidantes rushed in to protect their commander-in-chief.

Jin Shenghuan's ears were still buzzing, he looked up at the roof, and sighed inwardly, it's unlucky...

Luo Ming has become addicted to the recent practice of battle formation, and now he has lined up all nine of his white-bottomed boats in an end-to-tail shape, with the starboard sides facing the southwest corner of Nanchang City.

"fire!"

Following his order, the messenger standing on a high place immediately raised the small flag in his hand three times in a row.

Immediately, all warships that saw the semaphore issued the command to "fire" at the same time.

The muzzles of the seven 24-pound heavy guns burst out tens of feet of black smoke at the same time. Seven huge iron balls pushed away the thick smoke, drew an arc with a slight curvature, and slammed into Nanchang City with great force. above the city walls.

The huge impact force carried by the iron ball immediately left several three-foot-deep craters on the city wall, and the wall bricks were blown away dozens of feet away.The soldiers at the top of the city fell to the ground under the terrifying tremors, and even a few unlucky ones fell from the city.

Luo Mingshou looked at the astonishing effect of the shelling through the telescope, and nodded excitedly, "Cheer up! Let this old dog Jin Shenghuan taste the taste of my cannon! Old mother Lei, you still want to burn my boat?!"

He turned around and cupped his hands at Zhu Linmi again: "Your Highness is indeed right. It is cheaper to bombard the cities along the river with ship cannons. Warships can be moved at any time, adjusted to the most suitable shooting position, and a few rounds of cannons will be able to strip the land of the city." Go to the first floor of the city wall."

Zhu Linmi nodded slightly, thinking to herself, if the land of China is handed over to Jianlu to rule, in less than 200 years, there will be Eastern and Western powers driving warships larger than this white-bottomed boat, using more than [-] pounds The giant cannon blasted open the gate of China.Since then, China has become a semi-colonial country and has been humiliated by others for more than a hundred years.

He told Luo Mingshou: "Yangsheng, keep blasting the city day and night until the captives surrender." Yangsheng is Luo Mingshou's watchword, and with the gradual acquaintance these few days, Zhu Linming also changed to be closer. name.

"Follow the order!"

Zhu Linmi patted Luo Mingshou again, and said meaningfully: "Practice the bombardment of the city well, and there will be many opportunities to use it in the future."

"I remember the humble job." Luo Mingshou hurriedly nodded.

When Zhu Linmi left Luo Mingshou's warship and returned to the Dragon Guard camp, Yu Xin was already waiting a few miles away.

"How are the hunters prepared?" The hunters are undoubtedly Zhu Linmi's most concerned question.

"My lord, this time I have picked out four companies of hunters, a total of more than 280 people, all of whom are extremely accurate in shooting guns. For the time being, Lieutenant Gan Xinda will be in charge." Yu Xin said, "I will follow the method you taught me this month. Drilling, the hunters have gradually become familiar with the tactics of breaking up and advancing quickly, drawing cold firearms."

Zhu Linmei nodded, "You did a good job. By the way, have those hunting rifles arrived?"

"The boat that was unloaded at noon is estimated to have entered the camp by now."

"Okay, send it to the Jaeger Company quickly, and start target training as soon as possible."

"Yes!"

"Where is Longnan's new barracks now?" Zhu Linmi continued to ask.Five days before he set off with Luo Mingshou's fleet, he ordered Chen Yi to lead the team, leading two thousand recruits and engineering companies to Nanchang to join the brigade.

"The letter I received last night indicated that Chen Yi had already crossed the Xiajiang River, and he should be arriving at Qingjiang River soon. It is estimated that he will be able to reach Nanchang in three days."

Yang Tinglin was commanding the soldiers to dig trenches around Nanchang City. He had three trenches dug outside the city, the deepest of which was more than two feet deep.A circle of more than ten feet high earth barrier was built outside the ditch, with a row of wooden boards installed on the top, which can stand on it and shoot into the earth barrier.

This set of things is what the Ming army is best at, and it is guaranteed that not a single mouse can escape from the besieged city.

All of a sudden, there was a roar of artillery on the east side of Nanchang, which made Yang Butang's eyelids twitch - what kind of artillery is this?So much movement!
Soon some soldiers came to report that His Royal Highness Chen put the newly cast heavy artillery on Luo Mingshou's warship and bombarded Nanchang City on the Gan River.

Yang Tinglin was overjoyed. He thought that even if King Chen made these cannons in a month, it would take at least half a month for the big ones weighing nearly [-] jin to reach the city of Nanchang. He didn't expect it to arrive so soon.

He was about to invite Wanji, Zhao Yinxuan and others to watch the effect of the shelling, when another soldier came to report that King Chen had asked Luo Shoubing to bring in a large amount of weapons and money, which had been piled up outside the camp of the Chinese army.

Yang Tinglin simply didn't know what to say. King Chen spent so much time building cannons for the Nanchang War, not only did he not ask the court for a tael of silver, but he also subsidized such military supplies.

He immediately rushed back to his camp, looked at the list of supplies, and there were all kinds of jewels, brocades and silks worth a total of 1 taels of silver.At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the trading of goods was very common. He immediately ordered people to exchange the nearby jewelry and jade articles for grain, brocade and silk, etc. as military salaries to the armies.

Behind him are two thousand six-coin bird guns, more than one thousand thunderbolts, two thousand steel shovels, and several steel helmets...

In addition to the more than 600 blunderbusses, twelve No. [-] Frang machine guns, and six thousand-jin Flang machine guns brought in by the Ganzhou Military Weapons Bureau a while ago, it can be said that the equipment level of the Ming army has reached a qualitative level. improvement.

He thought for a while, and ordered these weapons to be equipped with the Dian army selected by Zhao Yin first, and then some were reserved for Zhu Youmao's department, followed by Wanji's department. After all, his men were still mainly recruits.

As for the Guangxi wolf soldiers led by general Chen Zhao, it is said that their equipment is far better than that of the Ming army, so there is no need to allocate them for the time being.

Luo Mingshou was standing at the bow of the ship, commanding the fleet to bombard Nanchang City majestically, and then he heard the report from his subordinates, "Master Guard, Yang Butang ordered someone to send a reward."

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