Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 285 Questioning North Korea

Chapter 285 Questioning North Korea

"Shanhai Pass is finished, and this pass will become history. Commander Wang, you can go in with me to sweep it now." Tao Dingjun said with a half-smile.

I don't know whether they are laughing at the Commander Wang of Jinwu's avant-garde, or at the Qing soldiers behind the city wall of Shanhaiguan who were overwhelmed and were blown to death by artillery.

If they are willing to go out to fight in the city and launch a desperate charge, maybe they can delay for a while longer.

The Wuwei Qianjun is filled with a large number of recruits. Their training level and aiming skills are very poor. They can barely hit a fixed target, but if they are facing the fast-moving horse infantry, they can only rely on luck.

But relying on the weak city wall on the south side of Shanhaiguan, it is wishful thinking to wait for the Ming army to send a large army to attack the city and repel the Ming army like it did three days ago.

"Shanhaiguan is gone!" Commander Wang of Jinwu's avant-garde stared dumbfounded at Shanhaiguan, which was in ruins and engulfed in flames.

Unexpectedly, the No. [-] Grand Pass in the world that defended the capital was destroyed in less than an hour. The firepower of the Wuwei Qianjun was beyond his imagination.

In fact, the reason why the Wuwei Qianjun's firepower is so strong is because of rockets, otherwise, if it only relies on artillery, it would take at least one or two hundred Hongyi cannons to be effective.

After all, the Hongyi cannon only has solid bullets, no flowering bullets, and its power is relatively poor, but the rocket can explode when it hits the enemy's position, producing greater power.

"Yes." Tao Dingjun's face was full of excitement.

The greater the power of the firearm, the more promising he will be as the artillery commander. Maybe one day he will be able to become a general who is appointed as a marquis and a general.

Now that the strength of the Qing army in the city had been wiped out, the Jinwu Qianwei and Wuwei Qianwei did not hesitate to send troops into the city and outside the city. In addition to sweeping the battlefield and killing the remaining Qing army, they also wanted to put out the fire.

Although Shanhaiguan no longer played such an important role after the defeat of Miqing, it still has considerable military significance as the nearest pass to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Commander Wang and Tao Dingjun, as the supreme commanders of the two troops, naturally also entered the city and led their subordinates to raid.

Riding on a white horse, surrounded by a hundred households of troops to protect him, Commander Wang patrolled the avenues in Shanhaiguan City recklessly.

As far as he could see, there were Ming soldiers packing up the corpses of the dead Qing soldiers everywhere, and many people were constantly sorting out the captured spoils, loading them into cars, and preparing to transport them to the capital.

But when Commander Wang passed by an alley, several black guys wearing Qing army armor suddenly rushed out, babbling words that no one could understand.

"Kill these remnants of the Qing army for me." Seeing that these remnants of the Qing army did not find a corner to stay, but boldly wanted to kill themselves, Commander Wang was furious.

He thought to himself, is he so easy to be bullied? Tao Dingjun bullied himself, and you bullied me too.

In fact, these remnants of the Qing army were Korean soldiers. They knew that they would never be able to get out of the city, so they wanted to hijack the main general of the Ming army and give themselves a chance to survive.

It's a pity that they think too highly of themselves. They can't even beat the few soldiers holding swords and shields on the outermost perimeter of Commander Wang.

"These seem to be Koreans." A well-informed householder discovered their identities from the words and clothing of these people.

"The subjects of the vassal state actually went to serve as soldiers for the barbarians outside the Great Wall. This is helping the tyrant, and it is even more intolerable. They will kill them all, and then expose their corpses to the wilderness." Commander Wang said angrily.

If these people were Manchurian soldiers, he might have let them go.

After all, the war between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was a war for living space, and the enmity between the Manchus and the Hans had been forged hundreds of years ago.

But North Korea has always been protected by Ming Dynasty. Decades ago, Ming Dynasty sent tens of thousands of troops to help them defeat hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops who crossed the sea to attack.

Today they sent villains to help the Qing Dynasty, and even let the Koreans join the Qing army, which can be called heinous.

Soon, several Ming soldiers killed these Koreans, stripped off their armor, swords, and all valuables, and sent them to the trolley carrying the spoils.

Even their clothes were not left behind, they were stripped off by the sergeants and thrown into the fire for fuel.

After a full hour or two, after midnight, the spoils and corpses scattered all over Shanhaiguan were cleaned up, and all kinds of useful materials were also transported out.

However, because there were no fire extinguishing tools, and there were no rivers near Shanhaiguan, and the autumn and winter were dry, more than [-] people from Wuwei Qianwei and Jinwu Qianwei managed to put out the fire in the city until the sky was about to light.

At this time, Tao Dingjun and Commander Wang realized why there was such a big fire in Shanhaiguan. It turned out that the rockets had shot into the warehouse where the Qing army stored oil, firewood, and gunpowder.

At the same time, all the Qing troops entrenched in Shanhaiguan were killed. Tang Bao and Tao Dingjun personally wrote about the battle process, and the memorials of what they saw along the way were also delivered to Zhu Cihong's desk.

Although Tao Dingjun's status was only comparable to that of the commander of a guard, Zhu Cihong was given the right to directly submit a memorial to the emperor because of Zhu Cihong's extra emphasis on firearms.

"I knew rockets were powerful. In the future, all armies should be equipped with such weapons, regardless of horse or infantry." Zhu Cixiang was very excited to see the power of rockets in the war.

In fact, this kind of rocket is not very mature yet, the direction cannot be controlled [-]%, whether it can hit the enemy can only depend on luck, and it is filled with a lot of gunpowder, the consumption of gunpowder is very terrifying, it is a big problem for Daming who is in crisis heavy burden.

"Your Majesty, General Tao and the others took half of the gunpowder in the capital to use. If my Ming Dynasty's millions of soldiers all use this kind of weapon, who can conjure so much gunpowder?" Liu Bao said with a wry smile.

For several months, he has been by Zhu Cihong's side, learned a lot of military knowledge, and gained a considerable understanding of Ming's military situation.

Because of serving the emperor, he has access to a lot of confidential information. It can be said that many generals in command are not as familiar with Ming military information as Liu Bao.

"It doesn't matter, there is North Korea next door. They sent people to join the Qing army to help the tyrant and attack the suzerain country. It is heinous. If they don't hand me an astronomical sum, I will not let them go." Zhu Cihong smiled evilly.

"Take out a list of unemployed officials in the capital, Jinshi who have no official position for the time being, and a list of candidates. I will send envoys to North Korea."

(End of this chapter)