This Mekava main battle tank is about eight meters long, four meters wide, two meters high, and is estimated to weigh about sixty tons. It is covered in yellow and looks like a sleeping tiger.

"Good guy, even if such a guy doesn't fire, he can kill a large number of Qing troops!"

Lin Yu circled around the tank, patted the cannon barrel, and touched the track, and the excitement in his heart was beyond words.

Lin Yu had served in the army for five years before traveling. Although he had never driven a tank, he would usually use guns and cannons. What's more, the plug-in elves said that the weapons drawn can be controlled by computers, just like playing games, so he was not worried that he could not control this "bird".

Lin Yu climbed into the tank and entered the cockpit. Sure enough, he saw a screen about thirty inches in front of him. He reached out and clicked the switch button at the bottom, and the screen lit up.

The first thing that jumps out is the introduction about the "Mekava" tank: The Mekava main battle tank was produced by Israel in the 1970s. This one is the MK3, which is the third generation of Mekava.

The main weapon of this Mekawa tank is a smoothbore gun that can fire 120mm shells. The barrel is about five meters long, can rotate 360 ​​degrees without dead angles, and has a range of about 2,500 meters.

The secondary weapon is a coaxial machine gun that can fire 7.62mm bullets, which can rotate like a cannon barrel or rotate freely at 360 degrees alone.

In addition, the speed of this main battle tank can reach a maximum of 48 kilometers per hour, which is far beyond that of this era of war horses, and the range of a fully loaded fuel tank is 400 kilometers.

"What a powerful beast, it is simply incomparable to the weapons of this era. It is not an exaggeration to call it an iron-armored lion!"

After reading the introduction, Lin Yu was amazed. Before traveling through time, he was just an ordinary soldier. Most of the tanks he saw in the army were old-fashioned tanks, which naturally could not be compared with the world's top Mekawa.

After reading the introduction, Lin Yu checked the tank data again, and saw that the screen was written clearly:

Currently, there are 46 rounds of 120mm shells, 1800 rounds of 7.62mm bullets, and 900L of fuel.

"Bang!"

Another shell fell from the sky and landed on the top of the temple gate.

The Qing army launched solid bullets this time to destroy Yangzhou city walls, which is different from the flower bullets used to kill and injure the defenders before.

This large-caliber shell is cast from iron or lead, and is ground into a sphere with a small amount of stone. It is mainly used to penetrate city walls and fortifications. It has a long range, but it has little damage to people. Unless it hits the target directly or hits other buildings, causing it to shatter and splash, and kills people indirectly.

This solid bullet fell on the top of the temple door and suddenly a big hole was smashed, dust was flying and rubble splashed everywhere.

Lin Yu, who was checking the screen, was startled and frowned and cursed: "The Qing Dynasty Tartars raised by the bitch, I will give you five shells to get an appetizer first!"

Lin Yu exits the data interface, enters the control interface, clicks the start button, and the engine starts instantly.

The normal Mekava tank needs to be controlled by four people, and the Mekava modified by Lin Yu only needs one person to control the screen to realize the tank's advancement and fire.

Lin Yu clicked the forward button and drove the iron-armored lion directly to the temple's courtyard wall, rolled forward, and went straight to the wide street, then turned the angle of the cannon barrel and looked upward, ready to fire outside the city.

"What is that?"

The Ming army on the city wall was suppressed by the Qing army's artillery troops headed by red cannons, and there were heavy casualties. If it weren't for General Liu Zhaoji and Deputy General Ma Yingkui's full efforts to supervise the battle, they would have been disbanded at this moment.

When the Ming army on the east city wall suddenly saw "a huge iron-armored monster" slowly sailing towards the east city gate, they were confused and shocked, unable to figure out what was going on?

"Sir General, look at what monster is there on the east city gate?"

Liu Zhaoji, the general general who was supervising the battle at the North City Gate, heard the soldiers' shouts, and he touched the "Thousand Mile Mile" across four or five miles to check the city. After seeing it clearly, his face suddenly changed.

"Hiss... What a monster this is? I have lived for more than 40 years, and I have never heard of it, and I have never seen it! It seems to be made of steel, without wheels, it is simply copper tendons and iron bones."

The guerrilla Ding Fenwu next to him touched the telescope with a slightly lower magnification and followed Liu Zhaoji's gaze, and was also shocked: "Oh... this iron-armored monster actually broke through the courtyard wall from the temple. What is it? Could it be the inner support of the Tatars? If that's true, Yangzhou City will be over."

Just as Liu Zhaoji was observing the "monsters" in the city, Sadu, the deputy commander of the Qing army who was commanding the attack on the north gate of Yangzhou, also stood on the high slope and watched the Ming army on the city wall, and keenly captured Liu Zhaoji's whereabouts.

"Fire a fire for me and focus on the central part of the north wall!"

Sadu shouted loudly, "There are commanders of the Ming army over there, either the general or the general!"

The Qing army under the city was everywhere. Under the command of their respective leaders, under the leadership of twelve red-clothed cannons, they used more than 600 artillery pieces of the Bolang machine cannon, tiger squat cannon, mother-child cannon, tassel cannon, etc. to surround Yangzhou City.

After capturing the BJ, Dorgon reused Fan Wencheng, Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui and other surrendered generals of the Ming Dynasty to reform the Qing army's troops. At the same time, he seized and manufactured a large number of various artillery, which greatly enhanced the strength of the Qing army.

Dorgon selected elite troops from the surrendered Ming army to form the Eight Banners of Han. Other miscellaneous armies were formed with "battalions" as units and were marked with green flags, so they were collectively called "green camps".

On the way south, Duoduo added special troops such as artillery battalions and cavalry battalions. The cavalry battalions were commanded by Bele Aisin Gioro Wakda, while the artillery battalions were commanded by Bele Aisin Gioro Nikan.

This time the Qing army went south by commander-in-chief of Prince Yu Duoduo, Nikan led the artillery battalion as the vanguard. Nikan ordered his brave and warlike general Sadu to command twelve red-clothed cannons to attack the north gate and east gate of Yangzhou.

In addition to the 10,000 artillery battalions formed by the Manchus, the Qing army also had 60,000 surrendered Ming army, including Kong Youde, Li Jiucheng's troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for many years during the "Wuqiao Mutiny", and the Zhang brothers who had just surrendered.

These Green Camp officers and soldiers either held bird guns, three-eyed guns, thunder guns, and various bows and arrows to surround Yangzhou City, constantly firing guns and arrows on the city walls and attacking the defenders on the city walls and assisting the artillery battalion in siege.

With Sadu's order, at least forty Qing army artillery gathered fire at the place where Liu Zhaoji was. For a moment, the shells fell from the sky like rain, wrapped in flames.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"Boom...bang!"

Among these shells are solid bombs used to break the city, and flower bombs used to kill and injure the defenders, which are terrifying.

Compared with various artillery with average power, the red-clothed cannon with a range of more than two kilometers shows strong lethality. If a solid missile flies on the city wall, a hole will inevitably be dug, stone chips will splash and dust will spread.

The flowering bullets burned under the explosion of black gunpowder, and the fragments burst out could form a killing radius of about two and a half meters. Those who were hit by the fragments would fly everywhere, and their skin was blooming. Basically, a flowering bullet could kill and injure five or six Ming troops.

"Get down quickly!"

The telescope in Liu Zhaoji's hand was shaken down, and he instinctively pushed the deputy general Zhuang Zigu beside him, and shouted loudly.

The Ming army around him was dizzy when the Qing army suddenly started to gather fire, and suffered heavy casualties, and the broken limbs kept flying into the air.

The guerrilla Ding Fenwu, who was standing a few meters away from Liu Zhaoji, watched a solid bullet fall from the sky and could not dodge. He was immediately smashed to the ground, turning into a vague mass of flesh and blood, and a irregular hole was cut into the city wall.

The splashed gravel flew around, and a sharp stone rubbed Liu Zhaoji's ears and cut a long wound on his right cheek, and blood flowed in an instant.

"Protect General!"

Deputy General Zhuang Zigu roared, crawled in front of a tiger cannon, and fired a shell under the city.

Liu Zhaoji suddenly stood up, rushed eastward with more than ten meters, raised his arms and shouted: "I'm fine, the soldiers fight back and fight back at the location where the red-clothed Tatar cannon is!"

After Shi Kefa came to Yangzhou City, he regarded the city as the gateway to protect Nanjing, gathered 8,000 troops in the city. After Gao Jie's death, he transferred 70,000 Gao's army to the north of Yangzhou City to garrison. In addition, Liu Zeqing, who was stationed in Huai'an, thought he could block the Qing army's journey south.

Who knew that Liu Zeqing, who was stationed in Huai'an, surrendered without fighting, led his 50,000 troops to surrender to Duoduo. He was immediately removed from his military power and granted a free position, and transferred to the BJ for a separate appointment.

After Liu Zeqing surrendered, the Qing army marched straight in and approached Yangzhou City in just three days. Gao Jie's former subordinates Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, Yang Chengzu and others led their troops to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The Yangzhou defense line built by Shi Kefa suddenly collapsed.

Shi Kefa, who was already full of confidence and determined to block the Qing army's southward journey, was stunned. While organizing the Ming army to defend Yangzhou City, he also wrote a letter to the Nanjing court and the surrounding Ming army for help.

Emperor Hongguang, who was frightened and panicked all day long, did not send any soldiers. Liu Liangzuo, who was stationed in Fengyang, and Huang Degong, who was stationed in Hefei, remained silent. Only General Liu Zhaoji led 4,000 soldiers under his command from Gaoyou to Yangzhou for assistance.

As the Qing army approached Yangzhou, the Ming army in the city would flee or surrender every day, and even the general Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu brothers planned to hijack Shi Kefa and surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

After Duoduo's troops arrived at the Yangzhou city, they were not in a hurry to attack the city. Instead, they surrounded the city first, and then waited for the slow-moving red cannon to arrive before starting to attack the city.

By noon today, the Qing army officially bombarded Yangzhou City, and there were only about 5,000 left on the Ming army on the city wall. In addition, there were twelve tiger squat cannons and more than 30 Folang machine cannons.

Most of the remaining Ming troops were patriotic, or had a bloody feud with the Qing army. Under Liu Zhaoji's command, they fought back against the Qing army's guns and bullets.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

White smoke rose everywhere on the city wall, and more than 20 artillery fired at the Qing army's positions on the north and east walls, and smoke rose everywhere.

However, the Ming army's artillery range was limited, only about 1,500 meters, while the Qing army's red-clothed cannons had a range of about 2,500 meters. The Ming army's artillery shells could not threaten the Qing army's main artillery force except for causing small-scale damage to the Qing army.

Seeing this, the commander of the Qing army, Sadu laughed loudly: "Haha... these barbarians are really stupid. Our red-clothed cannons were taken from the Ming army, but now they do not have such magical weapons. Now they can only be bombed like a lamb to be slaughtered. It's so pitiful!"
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