Li Chengdong and his subordinates were still unwilling to accept this.
"Brothers, please report this to your Gui King! We have hidden many treasures in Guangzhou Prefecture. As long as you don't kill us, we can tell your Gui Wang the location of the treasures!”
"Also, there are many ministers under your King Gui who colluded with us. We can also confess!”，Li Chengdong said anxiously.
The jailer didn't dare to hide anything and immediately relayed Li Chengdong's words to King Gui.
The King of Gui frowned, not daring to make a decision.
"Wait, His Majesty will arrive at Zhaoqing City tomorrow!”
Ding Kuichu, the cabinet secretary, was a little flustered. He had spent millions of taels of silver and a few large boxes of gold, silver, and jewelry for Li Chengdong.
"Your Highness, I believe that Li Chengdong will definitely use a scheme! He said that many ministers had colluded with him, but in reality, he wanted to drag a few loyal ministers along with him before he died!”
Hearing Ding Kuichu's words, the Gui King nodded.
"Grand Scholar Ding is right! This was definitely his scheme! They would wait for His Majesty to arrive tomorrow and see how they would be dealt with!”
Dinghu County, outside Zhaoqing City.
Pu Zhenguo had been defending the carriage formation for a few days, but Tudor's white flag still couldn't take down the carriage formation.
Five thousand heavy cavalrymen patrolled the surroundings. Tordor's mood had dropped to the freezing point, and he even began to doubt his life.
After a few days of attack, especially against the heavy cavalry, the White Bordered Banner had already lost two bulls.
These two Niu Lu were true elites who had been through hundreds of battles.
Tong Yangjia's 60,000 Green Army soldiers had also arrived at Duo Duo's camp.
The atmosphere in the camp was filled with sorrow.
"Prince Yu, what's wrong with you? Why is the camp so sad?"
"Tong Yangjia, has the Red Cannon been transported over?”
"They have arrived. There are a total of 100 Red Specter Cannons and 40 General Cannons!”
Tudor heaved a sigh of relief.
"My 20,000 White Bordered Banner soldiers and 60,000 Green Camp soldiers lost two elite White Bordered Banner soldiers and 3,000 Green Camp light cavalry soldiers!”
Tong Yangjia was very surprised and looked at Tudor suspiciously.
"Prince Yu of the First Rank, this is impossible! Could it be that the Eight Banners Army couldn't even defeat the scattered soldiers of Canming?”
Todor angrily pointed into the distance.
"Go up to the high wall immediately. Look, are those scattered soldiers?”
Tong Yangjia climbed up the high wall of Landlord Zhao's residence. Looking at the carriage formation in the distance and the heavy cavalry roaming around, he sucked in a breath of cold air.
"Oh my god! What was going on? Zhaoqing Prefecture was so far south, so where did the heavy cavalry come from? These horses didn't look like horses from the north!”
Todor was already in a trance from the battles of the past few days.
"How would this king know? All along, the south had never produced horses! This cavalryman who suddenly appeared, his warhorse is even taller than ours, this king can't understand!”
Tong Yangjia was also a little depressed. He was the Banner Lord of the Han Eight Banners 'Zhenglan Flag. He led 60,000 Green Camp soldiers and 8,000 Han Eight Banners' 8,000 True Blue Banner soldiers. Along the way to the south, they had not encountered any decent cavalry.
The cavalrymen in front of him were much taller than the warhorses of the Guanning Cavalry, and their armor was thicker.
"Prince Yu of the First Rank, could it be that the enemy has the support of other countries! Even if you beat me to death, I still can't imagine how Canming could create heavy cavalry with his strength.”
Todor was also in despair. He had already experienced the combat power of the heavy cavalry.
"Red Cannon is here, right? Immediately set up a formation and attack fiercely!”
Tong Yangjia led 60,000 Green Camp soldiers and 8,000 Han Zhenglan Flag Cavalry to set up the Red Cannons in three different positions in the fields outside Dinghu County.
Both the Ming Empire and Slave Jian had imitated the Red Cannon. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Slave Jian had imitated the Red Cannon through the captured craftsmen and the craftsmen brought by Kong Youde.
Slave Jian's imitation of the red cannon used the lost wax method to turn cast iron into cast steel. The cannon casting technology was ahead of the Ming Empire.
If there was enough silver during the Chongzhen period, the artillery technology would not have fallen behind. Because they could not afford to pay the craftsmen, many craftsmen surrendered to the slaves. As a result, the firearms technology of the late Ming Dynasty could not even catch up with the firearms technology and the use of firearms in the middle or early Ming Dynasty.
Many Ming soldiers didn't even dare to use crude firearms.
Slave Jian's imitation cannons were three meters long, with a diameter of 130mm and a weight of more than two tons. The cannonballs fired were spherical solid cannonballs made of copper, lead, and iron.
The Red Cannon had a crosshair and a camera. It could calculate the trajectory according to the parabola. The accuracy was considered very high in this era.
The effective range of this cannon in the early Chongzhen period was 500 meters, with a maximum range of 1.5 kilometers. Now, the effective range of the Red Cannon had reached 1500 meters, with a maximum range of 2.5 kilometers.
The Red Cannons in the three positions were operated by the surrendered Ming soldiers and the Han Eight Banners Zhenglan Flag soldiers.
The Eight Banners of Slaves generally did not operate the Red Cannons because they did not like to use firearms.
100 Red Cannons, 40 Red Cannons in the center, and 40 General Cannons.
The left flank had thirty Red Cannons, and the right flank had thirty Red Cannons.
The soldiers loaded the iron pellets into the muzzle and used a huge wooden pole to press down on the shells.
The soldier who lit the fire lit the fuse.
Sizzle ~~~
Boom! Boom!
Red Cannon roared, and a dense number of solid shells smashed into the ground.
A solid pellet weighing about ten pounds smashed into the carriage.
There were bags of grain and potatoes on the carriage. When the shells hit them, the rice and potatoes flew everywhere.
The cannonballs of this era could not be compared to the exploding cannonballs of the future.
A cannonball could cause two or three casualties at most. When the soldiers were spread out, it was not easy for the cannonball to hit them.
The soldiers who were hit were basically smashed into pieces.
The infantrymen who were resting in the carriage formation all hid under the carriages and scattered.
The heavy cavalrymen immediately retreated, maintaining a distance from the Red Cannon, trying their best not to be hit by the cannonballs.
Pu Zhenguo squatted beside the carriage, waiting for the enemy's bombardment to stop.
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