After Yang Zhen ordered the bombardment of Qinglu positions on the river, only five of the Qinglu heavy artillery troops on the snow-covered river fired counterattacks.

However, these five hastily fired heavy guns did not cause any damage to the east wall of Zhenjiang Fort.

As for the remaining twenty-odd guns, in the sudden artillery battle and chaos, they were either frozen on the river surface and unable to adjust the shooting angle, or they fell into chaos after Yang Zhen ordered the first firing and were unable to clear the accumulated gunfire.

Snow completes the tedious filling.

Yang Zhen also couldn't figure out why the Qinglu heavy artillery team on the opposite side suddenly took back their deployed heavy artillery instead of directly using these heavy artillery to bombard their designated targets.

However, he was of course very satisfied with the Qinglu heavy artillery team's approach, which was almost seeking death.

Through the telescope in his hand, Yang Zhen could see clearly that in the extremely chaotic scene caused by the artillery fire at the top of the city, the entire Qinglu artillery array only had seven heavy cannons with carriages.

Pushed by people and horses, he successfully escaped from the area covered by artillery fire at the head of Zhenjiang Fort, and finally hid in the Qinglu camp on Waihua Island.

During the entire process, the circles of wooden ice walls that the Qinglu heavy artillery team had worked so hard to build had instead become an ice cemetery where their heavy artillery frames were buried.

Those thick ice walls, three to four feet high, were extremely solid due to the cold wind and snow in recent days, and surrounded the emplacements of many heavy artillery pieces of the Qing Dynasty.

They originally did this to use the ice wall as a bunker to block the huge cannons fired from the city's heavy artillery. However, when they were about to take back these heavy artillery, they unexpectedly became a roadblock.

Being frozen on the ice is just one aspect of the God Blessing General's heavy artillery. In addition, its huge gun body and heavy frame are covered by layers of ice walls like a maze, making it difficult to turn around for a while.

, was dragged away.

Although there were many men and horses sent by the Qing Dynasty, they were unable to fully play their role in the relatively narrow space, and they fell victim to the artillery fire at Yang Zhen City.

Yang Zhen rarely saw such an extremely comfortable scene on the spot - the enemy's heavy artillery could not move or even fight back, and could only become a big target for the own army's artillery fire.

Therefore, when the artillery battle that lasted for more than an hour came to an end, and the Qing heavy artillery team on the river left their dead and wounded soldiers and the damaged heavy artillery and fled the river, Yang Zhen immediately attacked Liu Zhongjin, who was commanding the heavy artillery bombardment, and Liu Zhongjin, who was commanding the sky cannon.

Sun Dengxuan, who was bombarded, was full of praise and promised to commend them both in public.

For Yang Zhen, the biggest threat to him among the Qing captives was never the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry or horse archers that the Qing captives were proud of, but the large number of heavy artillery owned by the Qing captives.

Therefore, every time he fought with the Qinglu army, the first question Yang Zhen considered was how many heavy artillery teams the Qinglu had, how many heavy artillery there were, and where they were deployed.

As for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, Yang Zhen admitted that their skills in bowing, horse riding, and shooting were better than those of his own soldiers, and could even be said to be much better.

But Yang Zhen didn't really care.

Because no matter how powerful the Qing Dynasty's archers, horses, cavalry and archers were, they would be of little use when facing a fortified city.

If this fortified city has enough food and grass and sharp firearms, then there is no need to worry about how powerful the Qinglu's horse archers are.

On the contrary, it was only after the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry of the Qing Dynasty had the cooperation with the heavy artillery troops of the Eight Banners Han Army that they began to seem invincible in the world.

Once there is no heavy artillery team of the Han army to cooperate with them, or if their heavy artillery for attacking fortresses and clearing obstacles is completely destroyed, will the prestige of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry still exist?

The biggest advantage that Yang Zhen, a time traveler, has is that he understands subsequent history and the general trend of historical development.

Hot weapons such as guns, heavy artillery and grenades are the future, while cold weapons such as bows, horses and cavalry are the end.

While trying to develop thermal weapons, and trying hard to destroy the heavy artillery team owned by the Han army under the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty will have no future.

As time goes by, it is inevitable that our side will win the final victory.

Of course Yang Zhen was happy to be able to kill and injure the Qing Lu's cavalry soldiers in large numbers, but what made him even happier was to be able to destroy or capture a large number of the Qing Lu's heavy artillery.

At least under the current situation, without enough heavy artillery, the Qing Dynasty's siege of Zhenjiang Castle was destined to be a siege but not an attack, and it was impossible to besiege it.

If Yang Zhen's men were short of food and grass, he would certainly be worried about this, but coincidentally, the rice in Zhenjiang Fort can last at least another three months.

The hundred thousand stones of rice that Liu Lin and others escorted to Zhenjiang Fort fell into the hands of Yang Zhen's troops almost intact.

One hundred thousand shi of rice is not too much, but it is not too little.

Especially when there are only more than 10,000 troops under Yang Zhen's command, 100,000 shi of rice is enough for them to persist in Zhenjiang Fort for a year and a half.

It may be difficult to persist for a year, but there is no big problem if you persist for half a year.

Therefore, after the artillery battle on the sixth day of the first lunar month, although Yang Zhen didn't know what happened to the Qing prisoners outside the city, he intuitively felt that the defense of Zhenjiang Fort was stable.

Of course, some people are happy and some are worried.

At almost the same moment when Yang Zhen and his men were happily celebrating the results of the artillery battle, Huaishun King Geng Zhongming, who was in the Qinglu camp on Waihua Island, was furious in front of his generals.

"Bastard, bastard! Shi Mingxiong, Song Guofu, what do you do for food?! You lost twenty-one heavy artillery pieces at once, what crime do you deserve?!"

Huaishun King Geng Zhongming always looked gentle, respectful and thrifty in front of Huang Taiji, even more submissive than King Shun, but in front of his generals, he had a completely different look.

On weekdays, he treats his subordinates as domestic slaves and bosses them around. If they make the slightest mistake, they will be scolded and scolded in public at the least, and served with military sticks and whips at the worst.

At this moment, he was like this. While shouting and scolding at the two generals whose names were called, he whipped the riding whip in his hand across their heads and faces.

"I asked you to guard the heavy artillery camp a few days ago. You kept complaining and complaining, saying that it was too cold on the river. Today, the king of Japan has granted your request and asked you to move the defense back to the camp. This is how you moved the defense back to the camp for me?!"

Geng Zhongming cracked his whip several times, first knocking off the warm hats on the heads of the two generals kneeling in front of him, and then leaving swollen blood marks on the upper skin of their foreheads.

"Before leaving, the Emperor personally issued an order that all the heavy artillery that God Blessed and Supported the General in front of the General, a total of twenty-eight, should be handed over to King Huaishun's military command and given to my command. Where are the artillery?!

"You have lost twenty-one of the twenty-eight heavy cannons. How do you ask me to explain to the Emperor and Master?! The cannons are destroyed and you are back. How dare you come back?!"

The more Huaishun King Geng Zhongming thought about it, the angrier he became. He kept whipping the whip in his hand, hitting Shi Mingxiong who was kneeling on the ground. Song Guofu instinctively dodged while shouting for mercy:

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's wrong to be humble because of one's position. However, the artillery fire from the top of Zhenjiang Fort is very sharp, and there is nothing you can do about it even if you are humble! Please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, victory or defeat is a matter of military strategism. The artillery array was destroyed, and Beiji and others are not willing to do this. Beiji is willing to take the blame and perform meritorious service, and is willing to atone for his sins. Please spare my life, Your Majesty!"

The general who was whipped was the first to ask for forgiveness. He was in his forties, had a fat head, big ears, and a short stature. He was kneeling on the ground like a big meat ball. He was the Dengzhou guerrilla stone in front of Geng Zhongming's army of the former God's Blessing Soldier.

Mingxiong, the current official of the Qing Dynasty Zhenghuang Banner and the Han Army's Huaishun King's Division, Jia La Zhangjing.

The general who was whipped immediately asked for mercy. He was also in his forties, but he was a tall and thin man. He was kneeling there with his neck hunched over. He was Song Guofu, the former commander of the Dengzhou Naval Battalion in front of Geng Zhongming, the former Tianyou soldier. He was also a tall man.

The current official is Jia La Zhangjing of the Qing Dynasty Zhenghuang Banner and the Huaishun King of the Han Army.

The two of them were originally colleagues of Geng Zhongming. When they both served under Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, their seniority was a little more senior than Geng Zhongming, the Dongjiang rebel general.

However, since they followed Geng Zhongming and cooperated with others to help Kong Youde capture Dengzhou City, they became Geng Zhongming's subordinates.

Later, after following Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, they crossed the sea and surrendered to the puppet emperor Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty. They became Geng Zhongming's own tribe.

Originally, their relationship with Geng Zhongming was that of colleagues in the military. Even after they unintentionally launched a mutiny, their relationship with Geng Zhongming was actually that of superior and subordinate, completely different from the relationship between master and slave under the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

But after crossing the sea and surrendering to the Qing captives, the relationship between them gradually changed.

Especially after Geng Zhongming was awarded the title of King Huaishun, he immediately changed his identity and regarded himself as the master of all the soldiers under his command. At the same time, he also treated his colleagues who had followed him in the mutiny as his slaves.

Regarding this situation, people like Shi Mingxiong and Song Guofu were of course very dissatisfied, but people had to bow their heads under the eaves. No matter how unhappy they were, they dared not speak out.

Fortunately, although Geng Zhongming did not treat them as colleagues in the army, in other respects, he treated his subordinates quite well. After they were incorporated into the banner, they were all given worldly posts one by one.

For example, Shi Mingxiong and Song Guofu were granted the title of Jia La Zhangjing under the Han Army of Zhenghuang Banner.

For this, Shi Mingxiong and Song Guofu were sometimes somewhat grateful in their hearts.

Because they always believe that if they follow the Qing Dynasty into the country and seize the power of the Ming Dynasty in the future, they can also be a small and meritorious minister, and Shike Shilu will definitely be able to go one step further.

Therefore, even when faced with various insults from their former colleague Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming, they often chose to swallow their anger.

But today, the two of them were scolded and beaten again, and the old and new hatreds in their hearts suddenly piled up together. Although they said words of apology and begging for mercy, the hatred in their hearts was about to catch fire.

Fortunately, Geng Zhongming, who was always shrewd and ruthless, seemed to have noticed the resentment in the words of his two subordinates. He snorted coldly and retracted his hand at the right time.

But his vicious expression did not calm down at all. He stared at Shi Mingxiong and Song Guofu who were kneeling on the ground and said coldly: "Abandoning ordnance in front of the battle is a serious crime. What's more, the ordnance abandoned by you is always valued by the Qing Emperor.

God help the general with heavy artillery?! Today’s matter will not end so easily. If the emperor takes the blame, don’t blame me for refusing to defend you! Get out!”

When the two people kneeling on the ground heard this, the short and fat man Shi Mingxiong immediately said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for not killing me." Then he got up, bowed and backed out of Geng Zhongming's tent.
Chapter completed!