"Wait for the general Boluo's men and horses to enter Fujian," Jin Shenghuan had received an order from the Qing court a month ago, asking him to defend Nanchang to the death, wait for the chaos in the Ming capital for a lifetime, and the siege of the Ming army to relieve itself, "This Jiangxi is still Lao Tzu's world!" ”

He had seen the strength of the Eight Banners, even if the brave soldiers under him were scattered and collapsed in the face of less than half of the Jianzhou cavalry, which only lasted less than two quarters of an hour.

The Ming army, whose combat strength was two cuts worse than that of the Dashun soldiers, could not resist the Manchurian soldiers in any case. At that time, he commanded the army out of the city, and those weak Ming troops would inevitably surrender.

He couldn't help but remember that when he first came to Jiangxi, there were only about 20,000 men under his command, but he asked the soldiers to shout all the way, "More than 200,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses are coming, and they will descend quickly to avoid death", so that the defenders of Nanchang City surrendered the city.

Maybe we can do it again soon......

There was a shocking muffled sound, like a god holding a mountain and hitting the ground, which suddenly interrupted Jin Shenghuan's imagination.

It's a cannon! He is very familiar with artillery, which is definitely the roar of heavy artillery! It's just that the sound of this cannon is much louder than any artillery he has heard before, and even far exceeds the heavy artillery equipped with the "Wuzhen Chaoha" that the Manchurians are proud of.

Then there was another loud bang, which was made when a cannonball hit the city wall. The strong tremor caused a piece of tile to fall from the roof, almost hitting Jin Shenghuan's head.

Several of his henchmen hurriedly ran in to protect their commander-in-chief.

Jin Shenghuan's ears were still ringing, he looked up at the roof, and sighed in his heart, unlucky......

Luo Ming was addicted to the recent practice of the battle line, and at this time, all his nine white-bottomed boats were lined up in a head-to-tail connection, and the starboard side was facing the southwest corner of Nanchang City.

"Fire!"

As soon as he gave the order, the herald standing on the high place immediately raised the small flag in his hand three times in a row.

Immediately, the warships that saw the flag issued the order to "open fire" at the same time.

The muzzles of the seven twenty-four-pounder guns burst out of black smoke several zhang long, and seven huge iron balls pushed away the smoke, drew an arc with a small curve, and slammed into the walls of Nanchang City with ten thousand forces.

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

Luo Mingshou watched the amazing shelling effect in the binoculars, and nodded excitedly, "Refreshing!" Let Jin Shenghuan, the old dog, also taste the taste of Lao Tzu's cannon! Mother Lei, you still want to burn Lao Tzu's boat?! ”

He turned to Zhu Linmiao and said, "What His Highness said is indeed right, it is cheaper to bombard the cities along the river with ship cannons." The ship can be moved at any time to adjust to the most suitable firing position, and a few rounds of cannon can peel off a layer of walls. ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded slightly, and secretly said in his heart, if this land of China is handed over to Jianyu to rule, in less than two hundred years, there will be Eastern and Western powers driving warships larger than this white-bottomed ship, and bombarding the gate of China with a giant cannon of more than thirty pounds. Since then, China has become a semi-colonial country, and has been humiliated for more than 100 years.

He instructed Luo Ming to be receiving: "Yangsheng, bombard the city day and night, until the thieves surrender." "Yangsheng is Luo Mingshou's epigraph, and as he gradually became familiar with it in the past few days, Zhu Linmiao also changed his name to be closer.

"Obey!"

Zhu Linmiao patted Luo Mingshou again, and said meaningfully: "Practice hard and bombard the city, there will be many opportunities to use it in the future." ”

"I remember." Luo Ming nodded busily.

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

"How prepared are the Chasseurs?" The huntsman team is undoubtedly Zhu Linmiao's biggest concern.

"Lord Hui, this time I picked out four companies of hunters, a total of more than 280 people, all of whom are extremely accurate in marksmanship. For the time being, Lieutenant Gan Xinda is in charge. Yu Xindao, "In the past month, according to the methods you have taught, the hunters have gradually become familiar with the tactics of scattering and fastening, pumping and releasing guns. ”

Zhu Linmiao nodded, "Good job." By the way, have the Chasseurs arrived? ”

"The ship unloaded at noon is estimated to have entered the camp at this time."

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

"Yes!"

"Where is Longnan's new barracks now?" Zhu Linmiao continued to ask. Five days before the departure of the fleet with Luo Mingshou, he had ordered Chen Yi to lead the team and rush to Nanchang with 2,000 recruits and an engineer company to join the brigade.

"The letter I received last night, Chen Yi has crossed the Xiajiang River, and he should be about to arrive at Qingjiang at this time. It is estimated that there will be three more days to get to Nanchang. ”

Yang Tinglin was directing his soldiers to dig trenches around Nanchang City, and he had people dig three ditches outside the city, the deepest of which was more than two zhang deep. A circle of earthen ramparts more than one zhang high was also built outside the ditch, and a row of wooden planks was installed on the top, which could be stood on top and shot into the earthen ramparts. This set of things is what the Ming army is best at, ensuring that not a single mouse in the city can escape.

Suddenly, an artillery roar roared on the east side of Nanchang, which startled Yang Butang's eyelids - what kind of cannon is this? It's so big!

Soon, a soldier came to report that His Royal Highness King Chen had set up a newly cast heavy artillery on Luo Mingshou's warship and bombarded Nanchang City on the Gan River.

Yang Tinglin was overjoyed in his heart, he thought that even if King Chen cast these cannons in a month, but the big guy of nearly 5,000 catties would have to take at least half a month to arrive at Nanchang City, but he didn't expect it to arrive so soon.

He was about to summon Wan Yuanji, Zhao Yinxuan and others to watch the effect of the shelling, when another soldier came to report that King Chen had asked the Luo garrison to bring a large number of weapons and money, which were now piled up outside the Chinese army camp.

Yang Tinglin didn't know what to say, King Chen bothered to cast cannons for the Nanchang war, not only did he not ask the court for a tael of silver, but he also subsidized so many armaments.

He immediately hurried back to his camp and looked at the list of supplies, which first included all kinds of jewelry, brocades, silks and other items worth a total of 12,000 taels of silver. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, trade in goods was extremely common, and he immediately ordered people to exchange jewelry and jade for grain and rice, and brocade and silk were sent to the army as military salaries.

There are also 2,000 six-coin bird guns, more than 1,000 earth-shaking thunders, 2,000 steel shovels, and several steel helmets......

In addition to the more than 1,600 bird guns, 12 No. 1 Buddha Lang machine guns, and 6 thousand Jin Buddha Lang machine guns transported by the Ganzhou Ordnance Bureau a while ago, it can be said that the equipment level of the Ming army has been qualitatively improved.

He thought about it for a while, and ordered these weapons to equip Zhao Yinxuan's Dian army first, and then leave some for Zhu Youzhen's department, followed by the Wan Yuan Ji department, after all, his subordinates are 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 official army, so they will not be allocated to them for the time being.

Luo Mingshou was standing on the bow of the ship, commanding the fleet to bombard Nanchang City majestically, so he listened to his subordinates report, "Lord Garrison, Yang Butang ordered someone to send military salaries." ”