Liu is generally happy and busy.

He was able to meet his son again after nine deaths, and his life was actually not bad, but he and his son didn't even say a few words, the big camp was opened, everyone was busy, and naturally someone assigned him a task, in all fairness, Mrs. Xing's military camp was not heavy, because the supply line was very short, and there was no need to carry any siege weapons that were too difficult to transport, mainly lightweight, and even reached the point where there was a leading party to help Zhang Luo in every state and county.

Of course, the rules are very strict, and it seems that some people keep saying that they dare to rape and captivate the captives, and there is no forgiveness for killing, and this threat seems a little frivolous.

Li Dingguo really didn't remember it, and his years of conquest made him have no psychological burden on the retreat, and in his opinion, this choice is also quite like the old wisdom of throwing a lot of gold and silver on the road for the officials and soldiers to pick up when Zhang Xianzhong fled, so as to successfully flee.

Of course, Liu Mao's task is to clean up the battlefield, hundreds of corpses are not so easy to clean up, fortunately, there is a lot of wasteland, and there is no need to pay attention to anything, Liu Mao even learned from the White Lotus Sect liar he once met, chanting about the rules of dust returning to dust.

Tossed to the middle of the afternoon, and finally began to head towards Anqing City, at this time Anqing City is still very noisy, the reason is naturally complicated, Li Dingguo may be very strong in command and force, but he is not enough to let everyone follow, and in Anqing City, there are still many people.

Either a rich man in the resistance, or a robber who broke the army and turned into a job, or a homeless person who rushed into the city and didn't listen to the greetings and concentrated on playing with women in the big courtyard of the originally rich family, anyway, peace is impossible, and it is impossible for a lifetime.

After Li Dingguo left, the time difference was very good, and Mrs. Xing wanted to enter the city and clean up, so she naturally began to clean up.

Of course, this also exposes that Madame Xing's army is an inexperienced team, at least the experience of street fighting is very poor, and the point is that the queue to shoot in the Great Plains battle is incomparable with the chaos of the streets caused by mob looting.

Therefore, until the evening, Mrs. Xing could not enter the city, personally holding a rifle, temporarily stationed in a city gate tower at the head of the city, although there were no casualties, but such a few people, it seems that the devil soldiers can defeat half of China at once, but in the case of just a few people, most of the Eighth Route Army can calmly shuttle through the enemy's defense line, and in the later stage, the transportation of the devil's stronghold must be transported by the brigade at one time, once the escort team is less than a certain number, it is basically to deliver food.

Similarly, the more than 1,000 people brought by Mrs. Xing in a hurry on this trip were more than enough to protect themselves, and they were not afraid to force Li Dingguo back, but it would be difficult to control this big city, and when Li Dingguo left, he didn't take many displaced people with him, so he left them to fend for themselves.

And after they were defeated by the combination of Mauser guns and barbed wire, Tianmeng Mengliang ran back to Anqing City, where the city gate had already been opened, and continued to rob them, and the original gangsters in the city were also agitated.

Mrs. Xing had a headache, and she could only rest at the city gate tower, but fortunately, it was a big city along the river, there was no shortage of food and clothing, and no one dared to offend relying on the city wall, but she still had to wait for someone to come.

People are still on the way.

Li Dingguo put away the shock of the power of Mrs. Xing's firearms, since Anqing City has been returned to Mrs. Xing, then she at least wants to make a fortune there, but she can't interfere in her battle of Nanjing, although the legend will have an internal response at that time, but Li Dingguo has always known that this kind of thing is fate, and there must be other preparations.

It was the city of Nanjing built by Zhu Yuanzhang himself, the city was wide and densely populated, and at this time I was afraid that I had already taken precautions, although I was prepared, but I always felt that it was a little insufficient.

Nanjing is the place where Emperor Taizu built the capital, the inner city gate is thirteen, the outer city gate is eighteen, through the city forty miles, along the city a turn is enough to have more than one hundred and twenty miles, according to the geographical situation of mountains, lakes and rivers, from the needs of defense, because of the irregular shape built with the situation, the folk say that the city wall of Nanjing is the shape of "treasure gourd"; Some experts say that the Nanjing city wall is "a non-square, non-round, irregular polygonal and unequal zongzi shape."

But in any case, it will be a difficult task for you to take the city.

In fact, the city was largely not taken in a fierce offensive and defensive battle.

During the construction of the city gate of Nanjing, the city gate was painstakingly repaired, increased and restructured several times, so as to strengthen its momentum and look at its view. There are 13 city gates in the capital of Nanjing, each of which has a considerable scale of enemy towers, and there are several wooden gates and jack gates. The location of the gate site is not symmetrical according to the shape of the city wall, and the urn city set up according to the gate is divided into inside and outside, and the size and shape of the urn city are also different. Each city gate has two gates inside and outside, the outer one is the "jack gate" that is put down from the city head, which has a strong defensive effect, and the inner one is two gates made of wood and iron sheets, and in normal times, pedestrians, vehicles and horses pass through the city gate hole.

This is not a problem, according to Zuo Mengeng's intelligence, he went down the river, and almost had to face several artillery attacks on the northern city wall, although the city of Nanjing was loosely armed, but it also spent some money to do things.

The biggest problem here, the point of contention, is Urn City.

Urn City, is the product of long-term war practice in the era of cold weapons in ancient China, in the beautified siege war in the historical TV series, there are few descriptions of the urn city, the gap is huge, after you attack the city gate, it is not over, there is a small square inside, above the square are soldiers holding bows and arrows ready to deal with you, and because they only rushed into the first city gate, they could not carry any large equipment, so those who wanted to rush into the city were basically sent to death.

It's up to fate now, fortunately, it is the displaced people who have performed well under Anqing City before that time to take the lead, and the key to this is when Nanjing City received the information that Zuo Mengeng raised troops, and how long it will take to be alert and carry out military preparations, as for the man's promise, Li Dingguo knows that the literati are unreliable.

"Someone, the ship!"

The sound of the gong almost means that there is a situation in the fleet!

Li Dingguo was suspicious in his heart, in the intelligence, there are less than ten small boats in Nanjing, as for the merchant ships and fishing boats that can be requisitioned, although it is estimated that there are a lot, but how much combat effectiveness can be had, of course, if you want to play the trick of burning the warship, sorry, he Li Dingguo is the upstream, and there are more than a dozen ships captured in Anqing, which are in good condition, which can be used as fire ships at any time, due to the role of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the Ming Dynasty even a landlubber like him knows how to burn Chibi!

Li Dingguo's boat is going down the river, even if it is a small fishing boat that he met when he was passing by, he met such a team, even if he didn't know that there was a military disaster before, he now knows it, he is directly frightened to the shore to avoid it, and the most central and best channel is naturally occupied by them.

But now, it is a ship coming from downstream!

The ship didn't seem to need any oars and sails, and it was very fast when there was no wind.

Most of Li Dingguo's fleet relied on Zuo Menggeng, and a small part was brought out from Sichuan by himself, as well as captured in Anqing, so Zuo Menggeng's people were in front, which also shows who presided over this farce.

And from the front of the boat came the sound of gongs, and when Li Dingguo panicked out of his cabin and went out to check, he happened to see the clipper.

didn't run away, although it was smaller than the boat that sent him back to Sichuan, but with such a speed and prestige against the current, he must be a person from the imperial capital!

Of course, seeing that there were no cannons on it, and there seemed to be only such a ship, and more than a dozen people, he still calmed down, this didn't seem to be a strong enemy?

Taking out the extremely cherished telescope, Li Dingguo looked over, but there was a person standing on the boat, looking at their fleet, the speed was very fast, and it took almost a few minutes to pass through on both sides, and the people on the boat seemed to be unwilling to delay here.

Li Dingguo's heart fluctuated, he knew before that the reason why the imperial capital sent him back to Sichuan was to show his ability, they had the ability to quickly transport the army upstream, and the ship was going upstream, it should be going to Anqing, so it would be good, at least there would be much less variables in Nanjing.

Li Xiangqian sighed, peace is really just a gap between wars.

He has tried his best to suppress those princes, try his best to keep Jiangnan stable, and wait until the emperor can start to storm the army, but now he has just started to be a leader, the "river to sea" movement has just begun, and countless men who eat on the canal need time and subsidies to slowly transform into good men on the sea, and with the improvement of this transportation capacity, the bottleneck that restricts them is unlocked, and it is logical to start a big expansion at that time.

However, just as after changing history, you don't expect people to act according to the original history, Zhang Xianzhong is not a good man and a woman, since there is no Haoge's attack, then after this kid gradually grew up in Sichuan, he began to stretch out his salty pig hand.

First of all, Nanjing must not be given to him, but it is obvious that the elders cannot directly go to battle, so it is important to stabilize the situation.

Of course, more importantly, by coincidence, Anqing fell into the hands of Mrs. Xing, whether it is humanitarian considerations or support point considerations, it is also very important to preside over Anqing's work, which is also the reason why Li Xiangqian, who is busy with the ribbon-cutting ceremony in Suzhou and the start of the shopping mall, is in a hurry to go up the river, as for Nanjing City, he is not afraid.

Retrograde between a hostile fleet, Wang Jian separated the distance, and the artillery of this era basically couldn't be fired without tossing for a while, and it could also be said to be very safe.

From Suzhou all the way to Anqing, the speed is still very fast, but the muscles of the whole body are numb, as soon as they go ashore, the instructor stationed here will come to greet them, but Wang Jian listened to the little gunshots from the city, and said in surprise: "It's not over yet?" ”

"Report to the elder, there are still bandit activities in the city, it is difficult to deal with for a while, and almost all of those homeless people have been stained with blood and cannot be released easily, so it is difficult, we are recruiting the chengguan brigade on the spot to go to suppress the bandits."

Li Xiangqian said: "Isn't this just a sedan chair that pierces your ears and eyes, don't talk about it, are there dead people in the city, let them lead the way, divide the division, and lay down one piece and then another!" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's urban layout is almost very suitable for ruling or controlling the people, but if you talk about fighting, there are too many drawbacks of this system, and Li Xiangqian does not fight for the military power of Mrs. Xing at the moment, which still has to maintain its majesty.

Of course, after seeing Madame Xing soon, she gave orders to control the four city walls first, close the gates, and the soldiers were stationed on the city walls, which was convenient, and Madame Xing's brigade would soon arrive, but the homeless gangsters in the city had no reaction to this.

"Elder, there is something that must be reported to you, I also just learned the news, the reason why Li Dingguo broke the city so quickly was that the people in the city were defenseless, and secondly, the poisonous smoke they lit, and the smoked soldiers couldn't open their eyes, this is a big deal, we must ......"

Li Xiangqian waved his hand, didn't seem to care, and said: "If you have time to go back to the imperial capital, if you read more, maybe you can go to the officer class opened by Lao Liang at the Central University, and you will learn these ways in the Ming military system. ”

Poison gas has a long history, there are many schools, of course, if there is no baptism of modern knowledge, the cost and efficiency of the things produced are not high, at present, China's home-made poisonous smoke, basically arsenic croton grass and the like are ignited, in fact, any serious student, go to the kitchen of the 21st century in the future to tinker, can do better than them.

The ancients were still very smart about the perception of poison, at least from the time of the Xiongnu, throwing animal carcasses into the lake on the grassland to block the attack of the Han army, and during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, poisoning was also a highly cost-effective action.

According to the general record of the Wujing, when the army enters the enemy's territory, the food and drink left by the enemy and the food sold by the local merchants cannot be used without inspection, and the local spring water must also be inspected or treated before drinking to prevent the enemy from poisoning.

It's just that later generations were more "civilized", and most of the riots were used with tear gas, which was like the pepper spray used by the US imperialists to expel the poor students who occupied Wall Street, which was eyesight-damaging, but at least it wasn't fatal.

So Li Xiangqian doesn't care much about these home-made smoke bombs, croton, arsenic, the output is there, it is impossible to use it indefinitely, and the restrictions are also very serious, that is, it is okay to deal with weak chickens like me Daming.

(End of chapter)