The 50,000-strong army took the train north, arrived in Xuzhou, crossed the Yellow River, changed to canal ships, and continued along the canal all the way north into Shandong.

"Lord Wang, it's not good, the 50,000 army of the southern king is here!" In Wu Shifan's big tent of the Chinese army, a scout cavalry stumbled over to report.

"This king has an army of 100,000, why fear that the king will rebel against 50,000 horses!" Wu Shifan said confidently.

The 100,000 Wu troops under Wu Shifan's command, if you talk about the weapons of the elite troops, there is no generation difference with Wang Yu's counterinsurgency army, with 500 breech-loading riflemen and 5,000-meter ni bullet riflemen, and ten rear-loading rifled guns, Wu Shifan relied on these sophisticated weapons to defeat the 100,000 army of his second uncle Wu Yingqi with heavy casualties. It's just that Wu Shifan's sophisticated weapons are too few, and most of the infantry still use old-fashioned smoothbore guns, and most of the artillery still use front-loading smoothbore guns.

On the other hand, Wang Yu's 50,000 counterinsurgency army, 30,000 infantry all rifled guns, including 2,000 rear-loading rifles, 5,000 artillery equipped with more than 300 cannons of various calibers, 52 75-mm rear-loading mountain guns, 6 150-mm rear-loading howitzers, and 24 82-mm mortars, and the rest were front-loading smoothbore guns.

With just those six 150-millimeter howitzers and twenty-four 82-millimeter mortars, they are already powerful weapons of mass destruction on the battlefield. Moreover, Wang Yu's artillery unit was also equipped with extremely powerful machine guns and machine guns.

On 8 October, the armies of both sides exchanged fire in the vicinity of Tai'an, and a fierce artillery battle broke out first.

The six 150-millimeter howitzers completely suppressed the Wu army's artillery, and as soon as the Wu army opened fire, one shell after another from the opposite side immediately fell accurately on the Wu army's artillery position, destroying all the artillery that exposed the target.

Don't talk about 150 mm howitzers, in fact, even the 52 75 mm mountain guns can suppress the Wu army artillery, and the Wu army artillery is only 10 75 mm mountain guns, the number is only less than one-fifth of Wang Yu's army, and it is completely covered by human firepower.

Seeing that the artillery was completely suppressed, Xia Guoxiang, who commanded the operation, found that Wang Yu's artillery was actually deployed independently, and there was no large number of infantry around to cover it, so he decided to make a desperate decision and ordered the infantry to charge, trying to let the infantry seize Wang Yu's artillery position.

The Wu infantry charged at the artillery positions of Wang Yu's army, and on the way, 52 mountain guns continued to fire shells, and the Wu infantry was killed and wounded thousands of people on the way. By the time they reached within 3,000 meters, twenty-four mortars fired at a rapid rate, and the shells rained down like hailstones.

A mortar, with a rate of fire of thirty or forty shells in one minute, is a sharp weapon for slaughtering infantry!

Wang Yujun's gunners had already opened the ammunition box, took out the shells inside, and placed them neatly on the artillery position. Seeing the Wu infantry rushing over, the gunners kept grabbing shells and stuffing them into the muzzles. After the shell was stuffed into the muzzle, there was a dull sound of gunpowder gas expansion, and the shell landed accurately in the crowd of Wu troops, exploding a ball of fire.

I don't know how many Wu infantry fell, and they paid a heavy price before rushing within 500 meters.

At this time, Wang Yujun's artillery position spit out tongues of fire like devouring poisonous snakes, like fire whips wielded by death, sweeping through the crowd of Wu troops and knocking down Wu troops piece by piece.

It was a hand-cranked machine gun, and the hand-cranked machine gun was also incorporated into the artillery.

The Wu army didn't even see the face of Wang Yu's infantry, just artillery, and they were defeated miserably.

The artillery of the Wu army was completely suppressed, as long as the artillery was fired, it was destroyed, and the infantry attack suffered heavy losses, and Gao Dejie couldn't resist Gao Dejie crying and going back to report: "Lord Wang, I can't fight, Wang Regent's artillery is too powerful!" As soon as our artillery fired, it was immediately destroyed by them. ”

Gao Dejie was also the first fierce general under Wu Sangui, but the gap in weapons could not be made up by personal bravery.

Wu Shifan then remembered that his elite army weapons were not bought from Wang Yu? They are sellers, and they must have left more sophisticated weapons, so how can Wu Jun be an opponent.

"Immediately send someone to ask the king for peace, and this king was also forced to rebel." Wu Shifan immediately remembered the path of seeking peace.

Xia Guoxiang volunteered to go to Wang Yujun as an envoy.

"Don't fire! We're here to negotiate! Xia Guoxiang and the others waved the white flag and walked towards the position of Wang Yu's army.

"Let them in, this clan wants to hear what Wu rebels have to say!" Wang Yu ordered to get out of the way and let Xia Guoxiang and a few of them enter his Chinese army tent.

After Xia Guoxiang walked into Wang Yu's Chinese army tent, he tried to impress Wang Yu with family affection and asked Wang Yu to give up the attack: "As the saying goes, a son-in-law is half a son, and Wang Xian's nephew is also half a son of my Wu family, we are all a family, so why kill each other and let outsiders see jokes?" The Yongli Emperor was incompetent, listened to slander, and wanted to harm our prince, so we were forced to rebel. is so unreasonable, it is long overdue to step down! We should form an alliance, jointly go on a northern expedition, attack the capital, and clear the king's side! ”

Wang Yu laughed: "A rebellion is a rebellion, and it sounds good, what is the Qingjun side?" Even if Yongli is a Daoless Monarch, it will not be your turn to deal with it from the Wu family! What's more, your Wu family let the Qing army enter the customs, causing my Chinese land to fall into the hands of the Tartars for more than 20 years! If it weren't for the fact that the old prince had lost his way and returned to the light, he would have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and this domain would definitely not let go of the sinners of his nation! And your Wu family didn't know about the retribution, but rebelled again, this rebellion, although Wu Shifan was forced, but it was also because of the people of your Wu family! That's why I declare that the Wu army is a rebel! There is only one way for all Wu troops, that is, to unconditionally lay down their arms and surrender! There is no second way to go! ”

"But the granddaughter of our old prince Wu is also your beloved concubine, why should General Wang be so ruthless?" Xia Guo couldn't convince Wang Yu when he saw him, so he had to leave in a daze.

Wang Yu's army launched a final onslaught against the Wu army, and after the cannons of various calibers vented their shells to their heart's content, the hordes of infantry launched a charge with the latest three-three system, relying on the advantage of rifled guns, at a distance of two hundred meters, crushed the stubbornly resisting Wu infantry.

The Wu army was defeated, and the 10,000 cavalry of Wang Yu's army were in hot pursuit, and the cavalry, equipped with rear-loading guns and revolvers, was originally much faster than the infantry, and the defeated Wu army was constantly caught up and surrendered on their knees. Those who do not surrender are either killed by a single shot or have their heads cut off with a knife.

But in the end, Wu Shifan still had the backbone to choose to commit suicide and was not captured and humiliated.

After Xia Guoxiang died in the chaos and Gao Dejie was captured, Wang Yu considered that in real history, Gao Dejie killed a lot of Manchu Tartars, so he intended to let him live, and ordered people to let Gao Dejie go, and said to him: "The old general Gao is old, and for the sake of the old general who killed a lot of Tartars, this domain decided to let the old general go, and the old general will return to the mountains and forests in the future." Don't come out and ask the world anymore. ”

Gao Dejie did not thank him, and left directly, and then returned to Mount Tai with his family and property, and died of illness soon after.

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