Weizheng noncommittally nodded to Zhou Yuhong and replied, "Silver is still the second time … we have worked so hard to train soldiers to deal with Tatars and loyalists, but now a group of rebels with low fighting capacity will lose so much …"
Nai Gui Nai Wei Zheng didn’t forget his duty …
After taking a deep breath, he ordered Zhou Yuhong, who was still upset before him, "General Zhou’s battle is over, and no matter how upset he is, he can’t save the lives of more than 1,000 soldiers …"
"Besides, through this siege battle, we are not without gains … Besides what you just said, our biggest gain is to let the 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers go through a real bloody battle and let them change from a recruit who has never seen blood to a veteran who can kill and dare to kill …"
Face quickly restored calm Zhou Yuhong answered with a face of approval, "You’re right … The soldiers can only become a real elite after seeing blood … Today I can already feel a little murderous from the soldiers …"
Wei Zheng nodded and continued, "This is the biggest gain of our battle … Now that the battle is over, what we have to do is to reduce the loss and supplement the consumption as much as possible …"
"Battlefield captured weapons and equipment. Although we don’t send them to the Equipment Division, the Equipment Division can turn them into weapons we urgently need … Besides, even if we don’t sell them to other provincial loyalists and local armed forces, we can get a large sum of money in return …"
"If all the iron and copper things in Baode County are brought back to Datong …"
"In addition, a battalion will be deployed to bury the dead soldiers on the spot and send the injured soldiers back to Datong for treatment, and the equipment and gold and silver will be taken back …"
"It’s a guard …" Zhou Yuhong brought life without thinking.
Then he tentatively asked Wei Zheng, "After the end of the guard, did we pick up the target in Shaanxi on the other side of the Yellow River …"
Wei Zheng nodded without hesitation and replied, "Don’t forget that the head of the guard is still holding the post of governor of Shanshan … It is duty-bound to be governor of Shanshan to recapture Shaanxi from the rebels …"
"So our next action is to take advantage of this opportunity to send troops directly to Shaanxi and hold Shaanxi in our own hands …"
I heard that Zhou Yuhong’s face expression became fanatical again.
Staring at a pair of hot eyes, I replied again, "The guard … will be white at the end … After going there, Ma An will be arranged for the wounded and captured, and ready to go to Shaanxi …"
Chapter three hundred and nineteen’ gunboats’
After a day’s rest, there are more than 13 thousand musketeers and 6 thousand cavalry units left in the Tiger and Leopard Army, and their morale is high and they are ready to send troops to Shaanxi.
Wei Zheng suo Shuai Zhang Zhou Yuhong Zhao Yun Zhou Chenguang … Three people are quietly waiting for the military order in front of Wei Zheng with a full face of enthusiasm.
At the same time, a war map is also in front of everyone.
Three pairs of eyes looked at Wei Zheng at the same time and finally said, "Brothers, take back Shaanxi from the rebels and turn Shaanxi into our Tiger and Leopard Army base again …"
"Shuai decided to command the living soldiers to cross the Yellow River to Shaanxi …"
"From the map, it is the most suitable and the closest crossing point to us is Fugu"
"But according to the news that Shuai came back from the scouts, we know that there are 5,000 traitors stationed in Fugu County on the other side of the Yellow River. If we want to cross the Yellow River from here, we must eliminate 5,000 traitors stationed in Fugu County."
"If we don’t destroy them, how many soldiers we cross the Yellow River will be shelled to death by them on the west bank of the Yellow River. You know, there are 5,000 rebels defending the west bank of the Yellow River, but these 5,000 rebels are equipped with a large number of tiger guns …"
"With these tiger guns, we will be devastated by the rebels when we land …"
"When crossing the Yellow River to the west, we mainly took the rebel artillery position on the other side of the Yellow River."
Wei Zheng just said that he was eager to kill Zhou Yuhong in Shaanxi, so he promised that "the rebel artillery position on the other side of the guard will be handed over to the last general …"
"Although we consumed a lot of flowering bombs in this attack on Baode County, we will repeatedly ask us to have 1,500 large-caliber mortars to make flowering bombs …"
"At the end of the month, I can confidently say that there is absolutely no problem for these flowering bombers to destroy the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River and defeat them."
Wei Zheng smiled and asked, "Well … then tell Shuai how to hit the bullet to the rebel artillery position on the other side of the Yellow River … As far as Shuai knows, there is a place where the width of the Yellow River exceeds two miles, and the effective range of our heavy mortars is only two miles …"
At this time, Zhou Yuhong was just confident and his facial expression became dignified directly.
Wei Zheng stared at a face of embarrassment and answered, "The guard … at the end of this question, I haven’t thought of it … at the end of this question, the Yellow River will be hundreds of steps wide here …"
"Then think about it now … you guys have to think about it …"
Zhou Chenguang spoke when several people’s heads quickly started to think about countermeasures.
At the end of the WeiZheng and others a face of thoughtful way "guard … there will be an idea …"
"I have a water army besides infantry and cavalry …"
"As far as we know, the warships made by these water forces are equipped with a large number of guns … Those warships can be equipped with several thousand kilograms of red cannons, and we will certainly be equipped with guns when we cross the river."
"You know, the heaviest mortar in our mortar is only a few hundred kilograms. We will guess that we can fire it when we equip it in front of the ferry …"
Faced with this almost identical idea, Wei Zheng’s face showed a smile full of approval and affirmed to Zhou Chen Everbright, "This method must be feasible and handsome, and this mortar ferry was named gunboat …"
A very important reason why Wei Zheng is so sure at the moment is that a picture of the battle of crossing the river hundreds of years later has already emerged in Wei Zheng’s mind …
In those days, the recoil of mortars was definitely much greater than that of black powder
When the battle of crossing the river was launched, our army could use mortars to move fishing boats as gunboats to attack the enemy on the other side of the river, which made it worse.
Without thinking, Wei Zheng opened his mouth and ordered, "Shuai decided to do as General Zhou Chenguang said …"
"General Yu-hong Zhou has transferred scouts to the east bank of the Yellow River, and dozens of ferries have been found. Your horse will pick out the largest ten and move heavy mortars to test several shells."
"Don’t forget to lay a sandbag on the front of the mortar when installing it, so as to minimize the influence of recoil on the ferry … If possible, we will attack the rebels on the other side of the Yellow River at noon."
Five or six sacks filled with sand were sent to the ferry and the bow of the ferry was laid flat. After that, heavy mortars weighing several hundred kilograms were quickly carried by five or six gunners and sandbags at the bow were assembled.
In order to keep the balance between penetration and stern, seven musketeers also boarded the ferry.
Get ready to finish the thick bow and slowly leave the shore with a mortar ferry held high …
When it floats on the Yellow River, it is already ready. Mortar gunners quickly put propellant and flowering bullets into the gun bore and into the matchrope to prepare for firing.
After braving the fire of Mars and lighting the matchrope, several gunners quickly squatted next to the mortar, covering their ears and waiting for the flowering bomb to be withdrawn from the gun bore by the propellant.
"Boom …" A violent explosion sounded at the bow, which could hold 40 or 50 people. The recoil of the ferry gun directly caused a shock, as if it were about to fall apart …
But what makes everyone feel lucky is that with the shells flying out of the gun bore and whistling, the Nuoda ferry is still intact and damaged the floating Yellow River.
Not only that, after a short flight, the flowering bomb landed and exploded, but it was less than fifteen steps away from the target.
An excellent gunner squatted right behind the mortar, and Wen Junsheng knew very well that all such big hit errors must be caused by hull vibration.
So this gunner named Wen Junsheng relied on his own experience to quickly adjust the angle of the barrel regardless of the heating temperature of the barrel, and continued to order to the deputy in less than a cup of tea.
"Reload and continue firing …"
"Boom …" The cannon roared out and the shells flew to the target again …
After Wen Junsheng’s adjustment, this flowering bomb directly fell less than five steps away from the target. In terms of its lethality, this flowering bomb has already hit the target …
Chapter three hundred and twenty Crossing the river
Zhou Yuhong, on the east bank of the Yellow River, cried with excitement, "It’s really true that mortars move ferries …"
"Hurry up and move the remaining nine heavy mortars to the nine ferries that have just been selected and reinforce them … when you hurry, you must finish them before attacking at noon …"
"Report the horse to the guard and ask the guard to get ready to cross the river …"
17 June, 2024
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