Chapter 1103: The Decisive Battle
As the banner of Li Zhiqi in the telescope got closer and closer, Yang Guozhu felt more and more pressure in his heart.
Yang Guozhu felt that he was no longer a Ming army, and Yang Guozhu was now standing opposite Li Zhi, feeling that he was the Emperor Taiji of Jinzhou and Dolgon of Qingshankou. Since he is not Li Zhi's comrade-in-arms, he will inevitably be defeated by Li Zhi, as if it has happened again and again in the past twenty years.
Yang Guozhu fought side by side with Li Zhi many times, and he clearly remembered the scene of one strong team after another collapsing in front of the Tiger Ben Army.
Under pressure, Yang Guozhu's chest rose and fell violently.
This war was a war against one town and nine provinces in Tianjin, but it was also a life-and-death battle for the Ming Dynasty. Now the hearts of people all over the country are turning to Li Zhi, and the people are not so much envious of the people of one town and nine provinces, but rather hope that Li Zhi will replace the Son of Heaven to rule the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Son of Heaven has beaten Li Zhi as a traitor, it can be said that he has completely torn his face. If Li Zhi wins this war, the Zhu Ming Dynasty will be overthrown by Li Zhi without any suspense for more than 200 years.
Yang Guozhu was born as a Ming general, and died as a Ming minister. Although he once fought with Li Zhi because of the traitors in the court, Yang Guozhu was definitely a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty.
Now that the Son of Heaven has made a desperate bet, this war is the decisive battle that will determine the fate of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Youzhen, the great son of tomorrow, could not bear the defeat of this war, and the rebellious general Yang Guozhu could not bear the defeat of this war.
However, no matter whether he can bear it or not, when he really faces Li Zhi at this time, the only ending Yang Guozhu can think of is failure.
Perhaps the foreign army did not know the details when facing the Tiger Ben army, but Yang Guozhu and the soldiers of the Beijing camp knew too well about Li Zhi's glory. The pressure on the victorious Li Zhi and the invincible Tiger Ben Army is fatal.
Yang Guozhu watched as Li Zhi posed his headquarters on a high ground behind the trench.
Suddenly, he heard the rumbling sound of cannon coming from the south.
Yang Guozhu put down his binoculars and looked south, where was the southern front in charge of Qu Dingsheng, the chief soldier of Shanxi. In fact, because the main direction of attack designed by Yang Guozhu was in the area of Wuqing County, the number of new troops in the Beijing camp in Qu Dingsheng's area was not large, and most of the soldiers were border troops using old-fashioned firearms. If Yang Guozhu could not preemptively break through the frontal Huben army in Wuqing, the outcome of the battle between the border army in the south and the Huben army would be extremely difficult to predict.
Of course, "extremely difficult to predict" was the battlefield situation before Li Zhi's arrival. And now seeing Li Zhi personally go to the front line to command, under the huge psychological pressure of Li Zhi, the god of war of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Guozhu feels that the battlefield situation has completely changed, and he subconsciously feels that it is only a matter of time before the southern front collapses.
Yang Guozhu could not let the southern front bear the firepower of the Tiger Ben Army alone.
His face turned red, and he waved his hand sharply, shouting, "The whole army is out of the trench and advances, using the curved cannon to attack the trench on the opposite side." “
Hearing this, the other generals around looked at Yang Guozhu in surprise.
After the large-scale armament of curved artillery, that is, mortars, the trench was no longer an insurmountable obstacle. The curved range of the curved gun can reach 500 meters, far exceeding the limit range of ordinary rifles, so the curved gun can bombard the opponent's trenches outside the range of the rifle.
Although the curved artillery bombardment will be retaliated by the opponent, at least it can be fired, which gives the attacker the ability to attack the trench.
In any case, artillery hiding in trenches will have better survivability, while artillery on the attacking side firing on the plains will be more vulnerable. Now that the god of war Li Zhi is on the battlefield, the generals of the Beijing camp around Yang Guozhu have lost their courage, and they all forget that they are the attacking side.
They looked at Yang Guozhu and opened their mouths wide one by one.
Yang Guozhu's face turned even redder, glanced at the generals around him, and shouted: "If Wuqing County in the middle road can't win quickly, he is in danger of defeat." Pass on my military orders! The whole army advanced, attacking the enemy on the opposite side with curved artillery. “
The surrounding generals looked at each other for a while, but no one carried out Yang Guozhu's order.
Yang Guozhu's eyes widened angrily, and he put his hand on the imperial sword on his waist, and he was almost about to draw it.
Seeing Yang Guozhu's movements, the officers around him woke up like a dream. The commanding officer swallowed and began to run briskly to the flag a little behind.
Behind Yang Guozhu, the Ling Flag began to wave. The order banner passed orders on one hill after another, and passed Yang Guozhu's military orders to the trench battle line more than forty miles long in Wuqing County.
After a few minutes, on the entire front, the war drums and military trumpets of the Beijing camp sounded. The soldiers of the Beijing camp wearing the red uniforms of the Ming Dynasty carried Mini rifles and walked out of the trench under the leadership of the officer.
However, in the face of the victorious Tiger Army on the opposite side, and in the face of Li Zhi, who was extremely awe-inspiring to all the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers of the Beijing camp walking in the wilderness of Wuqing County were a little trembling.
They really didn't know what would happen to attacking Li Zhi. Li Zhi has never been defeated, can Jingying change history?
The atmosphere of the Chinese military office of the Tiger Ben Army is completely different from that of the Beijing camp, which is full of soldiers.
Around Li Zhi, all the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army looked at Li Zhi with reverence, waiting for Li Zhi to give an order.
Li Zhi is the king of Qi in one town and nine provinces, the commander of the Tiger Army, the commander and mentor of all the soldiers in Tianjin, and the king of Qi who has given tens of millions of people a happy life.
The worship of Li Zhi is no longer a kind of respect, but almost a kind of faith. Wherever Li Zhi stands, confidence and determination will shroud.
Li Zhi looked at the Ming army who was pressing over and shook his head.
Li Zhi never wanted to see the Han people fratricidal, especially not to see the Tiger Ben army kill Jingying, who had done nothing bad.
However, the Jingying New Army, which was founded by Zhu Youzhen, occupied the opposite side of history this time, trying to challenge the wheels of history that were driving towards the "era of national competition" with ignorance and ignorance, and pull the Ming Dynasty back under the closed rule of the gentry and civil officials.
Li Zhi had to raise his butcher's knife against these innocent Jingying soldiers.
Li Xing looked at the soldiers of the Beijing camp opposite, laughed, and said, "The mantis arm is a car, and it is vulnerable. “
Li Zhi said slowly: "I hope that after this battle, the guns of my descendants of Yan and Huang will never be aimed at my compatriots again." “
With a wave of his hand, Li Zhi shouted: "The chariot is attacking!" Crush the enemy head-on! “
The Central Military Division of the Tiger Ben Army immediately waved the flag to convey Li Zhi's order. The 100 infantry fighting vehicles that had been parked behind the trenches immediately started their internal combustion engines, and from the exhaust pipes behind the vehicles spewed out choking black smoke, which bounced and vibrated and pressed forward with trembling.
The Tiger soldiers in the trenches stared wide as the roaring war machines pulled dirt across their heads. Infantry fighting vehicles easily crossed the trench and attacked the new army in Beijing with the barrels of the terrible Gatling guns and breech-loading guns.
The 3,000 Tiger soldiers armed with the new rifles followed the rear and flanks of the infantry fighting vehicles, and coordinated with the fighting vehicles to attack the 60,000 enemies on the opposite side.