I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

On September 2, the confidant sent by Wang Zhiren returned to Hangzhou and reported the results of the trip to Wang Zhiren.

"There is no reason for this, Huangkou child, there is no one in your eyes."

Wang Zhiren shouted the idiom and cursed Wu Changqing.

Because the treatment Wu Changqing gave was a blatant humiliation in his opinion.

He is now a grandfather anyway, and he has 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, so he can be regarded as a figure who can control the local situation.

However, Wu Changqing only gave the position of an ordinary teacher.

You know, Wu Jun now has more than 20 division commanders. Plus the army commander above the division commander, the logistics minister, the army staff officer, and a large number of senior civilians.

An ordinary division commander in the Wu army can only be regarded as the middle class, not the core high-level.

"Hmph, doesn't Wu Changqing despise us? Well, I'll fight him to the end. I want him to know and despise my price."

The reason why Wang Zhiren is full of confidence is mainly because his subordinates performed very well in defending the city two days ago, which gave him a little more confidence in defending Hangzhou.

In his opinion, as long as there are enough grenades, Wu Jun can't do anything about them.

He is already imagining that when Wu Jun takes them helpless, maybe he will come back to persuade him to surrender. At that time, higher demands can be made.

Wang Zhiren was not completely confused yet, he knew that he could barely defend the city. But it is absolutely impossible to defeat Wu Changqing.

Therefore, deep in his heart, he still yearns to surrender.

Unlike Fang Guoan, who has a knot in his heart and resents Wu Changqing and Liu Hansan very much.

So much so that Fang Guoan's will to resist is also very firm because he is so afraid of being at an absolute disadvantage.

On Wu Jun's side, Liu Hansan also received a secret order from Nanjing to tell him about Wang Zhiren.

Therefore, Liu Hansan waited for another two days, waiting for Wang Zhiren's reply.

After waiting for two days without Wang Zhiren's arrival, Liu Hansan decided that the other party must be dissatisfied with the conditions for surrender. Or maybe things were exposed and Fang Guoan was slaughtered.

"This guy is really greedy."

Liu Hansan sneered.

"It may be because we didn't attack with all our strength some time ago, so he mistakenly thought that we could defend Hangzhou."

Tao Dongcheng guessed that if it weren't for this reason, Wang Zhiren would not have changed from taking the initiative to surrender to wanting to defend and resist.

"The Air Force is ready, let's launch a general offensive tomorrow. I heard that the First Army of the North has already started operations, and our progress is slower here."

Xue Guiren couldn't wait.

"Well, then we will attack tomorrow, let Wang Zhiren see our strength and clear his head."

Liu Hansan smiled.

They have already made sufficient preparations before, and advanced equipment such as artillery, air force, and new building vehicles are ready.

Each of these things can give Hangzhou's defenders a headache.

The next day, Wu Jun's camp began to operate. Cannons were pushed out and pushed to the bottom of Hangzhou City. Wang Zhiren's scalp was numb when he saw it.

Before this, Wu Jun did not take out so many cannons at one time. Now, there are at least one hundred doors. There are thousands of soldiers in charge of the artillery alone.

And they only have more than forty artillery pieces.

Moreover, their cannons were much smaller in caliber than Wu's and could only fire solid rounds.

The power and function of these forty cannons were not even as good as the twenty of the Wu army.

Immediately afterwards, he saw more than two dozen oversized building cars.

The appearance is similar to the previous building car, but Wu Jun has made a lot of changes in the details, adding more metal structures. Make it stronger and harder to destroy.

The height of these trolleys is higher than the city walls of Hangzhou. At the top of each trolley, about 20 people can stand at the same time, and at the same time, the people below can continue to climb up from the ladder.

If these buildings can successfully lean against the city wall, the Ming army will have more than 20 places that need to be guarded.

"The enemy is about to fire, so the general should go down first to avoid it."

His subordinates advised.

Wu Jun's howitzer can kill too much, and there is no safe place on this wall.

Wang Zhiren didn't try to be successful when he heard the words, but went down the city wall decisively, sat down with Fang Guoan and drank tea together, waiting for the end of Wu Jun's artillery bombardment.

It didn't take long for Wu Jun's cannons to sound.

The salvo of hundreds of cannons was quite earth-shattering.

Countless artillery shells flew towards the head of Hangzhou city, and a small number of Ming soldiers on the city wall shrank in the corner.

Some also covered the planks and hid under the planks.

Others could hide, but the artillery couldn't.

They aimed at Wu Jun's artillery positions and fired cannons, trying to destroy Wu Jun's artillery.

However, before they could achieve any results, Wu Jun's cannon also turned its muzzle and aimed at them first.

The artillery of the two sides began to fire each other, and there was no accident that the artillery of the Ming army suffered a big loss.

Whether it is quantity or quality, or the quality of artillery, they are not the opponents of the Ming army.

After a few rounds of shelling, the artillerymen of the Ming army were killed by 30 to 40%.

The rest of the artillerymen dropped their guns and fled to the city.

This battle can't be fought, it's completely exchanging life for life, and it's still the kind that can't be won.

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Out of sixty or seventy people, only a dozen or so died on Wu Jun's side.

Compared with the troops of nearly 1,000 people, Wu Jun died a dozen or so, and the other artillerymen were indifferent and did not panic at all.

The Ming army was different, their artillery number was less than 200 in total.

On average, one out of every three people was killed. How can the rest of the people not panic? This probability is too great.

The artillery collapsed and fled, and Fang Guoan and others did not execute the soldiers.

There's no way, it's hard to find soldiers who can shoot artillery, kill those technical artillerymen, and no one can operate the artillery.

"Leave a small number of people on top, and let the rest come down and hide."

Fang Guoan ordered that if he couldn't beat it, he could only avoid the edge for the time being.

Anyway, Wu Junguang couldn't attack the city with artillery, and in the end he had to rely on infantry to attack.

At that time, Wu Jun's artillery would be useless.

Wu Jun's artillery stopped after bombarding for a while, and their greatest role had become deterrence.

To say how many enemies can be killed, it is not necessarily true.

An earth-shattering bombardment, which can create huge psychological pressure on the enemy, has already achieved results.

Subsequently, Wu Jun's infantry began to advance, and equipment such as buildings and vehicles were also advancing. The moat has long been filled, and they can go directly to the city.

At the same time, 60 hydrogen balloons have also lifted off, drifting towards the city of Hangzhou.

These hydrogen balloons are more advanced than the last one, and some details have been optimized to make the control more convenient and the stability better.

War is the best catalyst for technology. When there is such a demand on the battlefield, the development speed of these hydrogen balloons is much faster than other projects.

No, no, those researchers are afraid that those unreasonable officers will forcefully urge them.