"This is a natural danger!"

Yang Feng stood in the hanging basket of the hot air balloon and looked forward and sighed.

On the endless green plain ahead of him, three nearly parallel rivers slowly came south, and quickly approached and gathered into a vast river. At this fork junction, a floating bridge stretched across the river. On both sides of the floating bridge, there was a square castle standing in the surrounding wetland swamp. A cannon could be seen vaguely locking the river channel in the two cities. The only road extends from the east gate of the castle on the right and continues to the east. At the end of the road, there is a larger castle vaguely visible.

Besides that, it's all green.

The boundless green floating among the stars and water light, this green constantly heads south and even extends to the faintly visible blue.

This is Niuzhuang.

At his feet is the Sancha River where the confluence of the Liaohe River, Hunhe River and Taizi River, which is the estuary of the Liaohe River. On the east side of the Sancha River floating bridge is the expanded Maquanzi City, and on the west side is the rebuilt Hewan City. The big city vaguely visible to the east of Maquanzi City is Niuzhuang. These three cities and one bridge is the Niuzhuang Fortress prepared for him by Jiergalang. Among these three castles, there are a total of 15,000 Qing troops and forty-six cannons waiting for him. These are all the current forces of the Qing army in southern Liaoning.

No coat, no slaves.

None of them.

There are only genuine Eight Banners Army in the three castles. Jiergalang doesn't want to make a joke about Gaizhou anymore. This place is too important to him and he dare not take any risks. For this reason, he even gave up the defense of Haizhou and Yaozhou. Yaozhou's post is indeed not necessary, so Haizhou's abandonment is helpless, but if he doesn't give up Haizhou, he can't get enough Eight Banners Army to guard Niuzhuang. After all, the original coat of clothing accounts for a large proportion of the Eight Banners. After deducting these people, they were originally

With only a few troops, he was even more exhausted. In the end, he could only give up Haizhou and use all his strength to protect Niuzhuang. Although this was equivalent to letting the Ming army go straight to Liaoyang, there was a transportation line from Gaizhou to Liaoyang. This transportation line was close to the mountainous area, and the mountainous area was their hometown. The Qing guerrillas attacking from Xiuyan could cut off this line at any time, so Yang Feng would definitely not venture north without opening Niuzhuang.

Only by opening Niuzhuang and opening the water transportation line of Taizi River.

And Niuzhuang...

"Your Majesty, it's not easy to fight here!"

Huang Fei beside Yang Feng said.

This place is indeed difficult to fight. The key is that it is surrounded by swamps. The coastline at this time is different from that of modern times. It basically has to be located in the middle of modern Yingkou and Niuzhuang. That is to say, it has moved north at least twenty kilometers, and it is only twenty kilometers away from Niuzhuang. Because this area is full of plains, the Liaohe River floods every year and eventually becomes a large coastal wetland. In history, Niuzhuang was still the Venice of the East and the West! The only way to connect the three cities is to connect the east and west. Fortunately, the spring season is a little better. In summer, even this road cannot be guaranteed. Some places must go through the reserved earth embankment.

If you want to open Niuzhuang, there is only one way to smash it forward one by one, but these three cities are all in the middle of the swamp wetlands. It is really not easy to hit it. Don’t think about setting up cannons to smash the city wall. The cannons cannot push forward in the swamp until within a thousand meters of the city wall. If a soldier carries a ladder forward, he will trek in the empty mud swamp, and then be shot calmly by the Qing army with cannons.

"How did you lose such a place back then?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly.

Jirgalang's set is indeed very good, but compared with the defense system of the Ming army here back then, it can be said to be far inferior to that of the Ming army. There were more than three cities here back then.

Niuzhuang is now just the Dongchang Fort of the past. To the north of Dongchang Fort there were originally Dongsheng Fort, between the Haizhou River and the Taizi River, there were Changding, Changning, Changxing Sanbao, floating bridge, Maquanzi City, and Hewanpucheng. To the west of Hewanpucheng is Sancha Pass, and to the west of Sancha Pass are Xining Fort, Zhenning Fort, and Zhenyuan Fort have more than ten castles lined up to Guangning. To the south of Xining Fort, there are Xixing Fort, as well as the famous Xiping Fort, and Zhenwu Fort. It can be said that dense fortresses protect this crucial estuary.

However, the only one who fought in the end was Xipingbao and Luo Yiguan.

"I am so sorry for the holy grace!"

Huang Fei said with his head down.

He was actually Huang Long's nephew who committed suicide in Lushun. Huang Long himself was from Liaodong. He also participated in the Battle of Guangning because of this, but he probably was just a soldier or something.

"Oh, go down!"

Yang Feng sighed and said.

Huang Fei quickly shook the flag downward. On a large warship below, the soldiers immediately turned the winch and slowly pulled the hot air balloon downwards.

"Your Majesty, how should I fight?"

Huang Fei asked.

"What's the difficulty? Jiergalang wanted to block me with this Niuzhuang, it was a joke!"

Yang Feng sneered.

Just as he was saying this, a long dragon composed of countless soldiers was slowly coming from the horizon to the west.

Tang Yu has arrived.

Arriving with Tang Yu and the main force of the 30,000 Ming army...

The invincible general's cannon.

Is it difficult to fight in Niuzhuang?

Then let’s go to a spherical flowering projection with a diameter of half a meter.

"I just like this!"

The next morning, when the sun was rising in the sky, Yang Feng stood beside a powerful general cannon and said reservedly.

On both sides of this cannon, there were two identical cannons. Yang Feng actually cast a total of ten invincible general cannons, five were transported here, and the other five were sent to support Wu Sangui. At this time, in front of these five giant cannons, the artillery soldiers were hanging five huge shells from the shell transport vehicle with their cranes. Pig iron balls with a diameter of half a meter were thick, and a total of seventy kilograms of black gunpowder mixed with aluminum powder were stuffed into the inside. As for the fuze or wooden pipes, it was difficult to make the medicine plate fuze, and now the craftsmen under Yang Feng could not make it.

At least five miles ahead of these five cannons, is the river beside pagoda of the Qing army, floating like a small boat in the vast wetland.

Speaking of which, the accuracy of the God-Majestic Invincible General's cannon is indeed not high. It is almost impossible to accurately hit any target at a distance of 2,500 meters, but it depends on how big the target is. If the area of ​​this target reaches hundreds of thousands of square meters, there is nothing to worry about, especially when using flowering bullets. Speaking of which, the power of such a shell is almost comparable to that of a modern heavy artillery shell, he does not believe that the civil and architectural buildings of this era can withstand the blows of this thing.

Jirgalang's naive fantasy can't stand the violent sledgehammer of Emperor Yang after all.

"Your Majesty, please move."

Cao Youyi said.

"What are you doing? Don't say this thing can explode!"

His Majesty the Emperor, who was about to ignite the fire horn, said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, let's leave this dirty work to the soldiers!"

Cao Youyi said.

But his expression told Yang Feng that it was obviously not for this reason.

This is really a blow-off. It's not that the cannon is not good. The cannon is made of bronze in modern refined copper tin in the best proportion. It is not the same level as the stuffy stuff like the Urban cannon. However, it is very dangerous for the cannon to fire cast iron flowering shells. Even if the launching medicine is reduced and the shells are thickened, there is still a danger of the shells breaking in the barrel at the moment of fire, and the gunpowder inside is detonated and blowing the cannon to pieces.

The Ming army had already blown up a door during the experiment in Jinzhou, but such a small matter should not be disturbed by the emperor, so it did not report it to him.

Well, they have actually started to deceive their superiors and hide their subordinates.

This is nothing strange. These Ming generals are almost instinctively ignoring their superiors and concealing their subordinates.

After understanding this, Yang Feng instantly gave up his thoughts and quickly retreated with Cao Youyi. The power of this thing to explode was huge, and it was no difficulty to blow him to pieces. He did not have the ability to grow other parts like bean sprouts. His Majesty the Emperor retreated until fifty meters away before stopping. Then Cao Youyi beside him signaled to the commander, who immediately waved the command flag, and then the gunner in front also poked the fuse of the ignition rod into the ignition hole.

The earth-shaking sound of cannons suddenly rang out.

The red flag of the city of Hewanpu City was Zhang Jingga Dahun, looking at the scene in the distance in horror. The five cannons spewed out spectacular flames like monsters in mythology. Then, in the background of blue and green, five vague flames appeared in his vision, climbing up firmly at a speed not too fast. Soon a faint whistling sound came into his ears, as if they were five little monsters smiling, approaching rapidly with the oppression of death.

Almost at the same time, five flames climbed to the ground and suddenly fell down.

The next moment, he could even see five black balls as big as mills with his naked eyes, dragging his little tail like gunpowder and fireworks to pass by quickly above his head, and instantly smashing into the castle behind him. The nearest one was less than ten feet away from him, smashing a house like a meteorite and disappearing into the dust.

"This dog emperor!"

In history, he followed Ajige to chase Li Zicheng all the way to Jiugong Mountain, and then followed Ajige to slaughter the Qing army general Nala Gadahun, who was in a tragic and angry manner.

Almost at the same time, as if he was tearing apart the space, a monster of flames suddenly broke away from the ruins of the house with countless gravels turning into diffuse shock waves. Before he could react, the raging waves composed of dust and gravel hit him hard. Amid the screams of horror, Gadahun's sturdy body flew backwards and fell down the city wall.

At this time, four other terrifying fire groups continued to explode in the castle.
Chapter completed!