Looking at Chen Qiyu's extremely thin face and towering cheekbones, everyone looked gloomy, in order to keep Luoyang City, a generation of Ming ministers died here so tired.

"Come on, store the body of the old man for the time being, Lord Shu and Master Li, and ask the two of you to jointly play the court ...... with me."

Shu Xinchen and Li Dingguo nodded hurriedly and replied: "The elder is loyal to the country, and it should be so!" ”

The matter of writing the chapter is naturally handed over to Chen Qiyu, a Wenchen, to do, Shu Xinchen and Li Dingguo are at most to sign their names on it, that is, the most important task of the two people now is to hold Luoyang City, Luoyang City must be held, once Luoyang City is lost, then the Qing army will directly threaten Kaifeng Mansion, and the whole of Henan is in danger, not only the whole of Henan, but even Xu Yifan's Tianwei Army is in danger!

It's just that if you want to defend Luoyang City now, how easy is it?

The walls of the entire west city of Luoyang City have been destroyed, and the Qing army has dozens of artillery, powerful, Luoyang City has absolutely no way to hold on for a long time, once there is no barrier of the city, just the field, not to mention Shu Xinchen and Li Dingguo's two military towns, even if it is four military towns, there is no absolute strength, defeat the army of Jierharang, you know, this Jierharang's 100,000 army is an elite division, and the weakest Han Army Eight Banners are all elite battles, in addition to the Eight Banners of the Han Army, There are also the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Two Red Banners, there are 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry alone, and 50,000 infantry, this force is really too strong!

"Brother Ning Yu, you are the emperor's most valued cadre, I am an old Shu coarse person, and it's okay to charge into battle, but if you want me to be alone, I'm still a little bit behind, this time I have to rely on your prestige, look at the next, how should we fight?"

Shu Xinchen and Li Dingguo returned to the mansion, and Shu Xinchen asked.

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Master Shu, you are polite, in terms of seniority, you are much higher than me, in my opinion, the key to this battle lies in artillery!" Now the Qing army has dozens of artillery, powerful, Luoyang City's current city defense is absolutely not able to withstand the Qing army's indiscriminate bombardment, not to mention that the city wall of the West City has collapsed, even if it does not collapse, in a few days, it will definitely be blown up, after all, a few years ago, Li Zicheng led the army to besiege Luoyang, the entire Luoyang City wall was almost destroyed, this is just a later tinkering, there is no original city wall solid, once the city wall of Luoyang City was completely destroyed, Manchurian elite cavalry rushed in, Judging from their fierce combat power and strong troops, our two families can't resist it at all, you must know that Jilharang's strength is more than twice that of us, and I heard that Jilharang is still continuing to transfer troops and continue to draw troops from Shanxi......"

"Hmph, they have artillery, we have it, and now our infantry has come up, and the artillery together is more than their Manchurian Tatars!"

Shu Xinchen said coldly.

Li Dingguo shook his head and replied: "The question is not how many artillery we have, but whether we can withstand the assault of their cavalry once the city is broken!" The two red flags, plus the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, are all first-class powerhouses, close to 50,000 people, and our cavalry is only 15,000 people, and now it is not even enough for 15,000 people! In the wilderness, do you think we can withstand the cavalry? ”

Shu Xinchen's expression froze, and he asked rhetorically: "Then Brother Ning Yu, what do you think?" ”

"Preemptive strike!"

Li Dingguo said in a deep voice, "Pull all our artillery to Xicheng, Xicheng will inevitably make the focus of their attack, give them an artillery battle first, however, our goal is not to annihilate the cavalry, but to destroy the artillery of the Manchurian Tartars as soon as they come up, only in this way can we deter the fierce attack of the Qing army!" ”

Destroy the artillery positions of the Manchurian Tartars!

Shu Xinchen's heart jumped, this Li Dingguo really dared to think!

"Brother Ning Yu, where is it so easy to take out other people's artillery positions? When we fight others, they are also beating us, we must be better than the Tartar artillery? ”

"Of course!"

Li Dingguo said proudly: "Don't forget, our red-coated cannons are all the latest equipment, and there are a lot of flowering shells, the emperor has spent a lot of money on this, and the artillery of the Qing army, most of them are red-coated cannons imitated by the Manchurians, and the power is still in the battle of Ningyuan, and there are even a lot of generals' cannons, their range is only three or four miles, and the range of our red-coated cannons can exceed six miles, what we have to do now is to take advantage of the range advantage to make the Manchurian duan suffer a big loss!" ”

"How do you make them suffer?"

Shu Xinchen said helplessly.

Li Dingguo said in a deep voice: "It's very simple, now the main force of the army led by Zierharang has retreated to ten miles away, and is being rectified, if you want to attack again, you have to rearrange the artillery position, advance from ten miles away to within four miles, so as to ensure the power of the artillery, and we are going to preemptively strike at their artillery before the Qing army's artillery enters their own range, so that they can stare dryly, there is no way!" And this depends on our flowering bomb! ”

Li Dingguo is right, if the artillery of the Qing army is on the move, and the solid shells of the Qing army want to destroy other people's artillery, how easy is it to talk about? The current artillery technology is extremely backward, where can it be so accurate? If you want to destroy the artillery of the Qing army, you have to rely on your own flowering shells and use the explosion to destroy the artillery of the Qing army! ”

Shu Xinchen shook his head and replied: "No, our flowering shells are too few, there is no way to kill their artillery team during the time they advance to the firing range, two or three miles away, even if their artillery team moves slowly, it will only take two quarters of an hour to be in place, two quarters of an hour, we can't complete such a strike, but it is indeed a good strategy to kill their artillery......

"If this one method doesn't work, then the only way to take the risk is to take a chance......

Li Dingguo groaned.

"What else can be done?"

Li Dingguo said in a deep voice: "Send scouts to find out where they store gunpowder, send cavalry to raid, and destroy their gunpowder in one fell swoop!" Let all these guns be ornaments! ”

Shu Xinchen laughed and said: "Haha, this is a good idea, it just so happens that I brought a small team of masters from Brother Gao Jie, specifically to do this, or the emperor was prescient, he had foreseen today's situation, for most of the year, Brother Gao Jie is just training such elites, what they are best at is lurking, spying, assassination, killing people and setting fires, haha......"

(End of chapter)