Xu Junsheng put a lot of effort into the defense of Crab Bay. The Ming people's advantages were too obvious. What he had to do was to use geographical advantages to offset the Ming army's firepower advantages as much as possible. Crab Bay did provide him with such a possibility. He pulled the Ming army to the same starting line with his cold weapons as the main attack method, and then engaged in a life-and-death duel. For this reason, he did not hesitate to dig out two tributaries of the Red River, causing a large area of ​​mudflats, and also avoided being attacked by the Ming army several routes. Because he knew very well that even if there was a strong city, it would be difficult to withstand the bombardment of Ming army artillery. Not every city could be reinforced with a large amount of steel and cement structure. Although cement can produce a lot, steel can not be as much as you want. Concrete without steel reinforcement cannot resist the bombardment of artillery.

The large tidal flats not only caused countless people to lose their homes, but also caused these areas to lose the possibility of planting for a long time. For this reason, Xu Junsheng was not only scolded among the people, but also many people were spared no effort to attack him even in the court. However, the emperor ignored it, and Xu Junsheng turned a deaf ear. In his opinion, those guys who claimed to be pleading for the people in Chang'an did not know how disadvantage the Qi army was in this war. They were still lying on the glory of their ancestors and thought they were the country of the Celestial Kingdom, but they did not know that the barbarians of the Ming Kingdom, who were now so powerful that they had already left Qi far away.

In order to win this war, or to persist for a longer period of time, we have to do everything we can. This has caused so many people to lose their homes. In Xu Junsheng's view, it is in line with some policies implemented by the emperor today. These people will have to rely on the court to survive. Now the court needs more soldiers and more civilians, and these people can do this.

Besides, several counties in the Honghe Basin are fertile lands, and there is no shortage of these counties that he has destroyed. Using the losses from several counties to block the pace of the Ming army's advance is a very cost-effective transaction. Because if he doesn't do this, he will have to fill in the lives of his life, and it will not be able to stop it.

The setting of the thunder fire on both sides is very ingenious. They are no longer the iron houses that are moving like the Ming army, but are built with steel and cement structures. All structures are found in this kind of cement house. The throwing arms are just throwing. Behind these throwing arms, the cement is also poured on slopes. The Ming army's shells hit the front and cannot shake the thick cement wall. When hit the rear, these inclined surfaces can slide the shells down as soon as possible. Even if they explode, the losses will be much smaller. There is only one situation that will cause fatal damage to the thunder fire, that is, the shells happen to fall into the trenches where the throwing arms are located.

This situation is certainly inevitable under the cover shooting of the Ming army, but as long as the losses can be reduced, Xu Junsheng is very satisfied. If the throwing arm is blown up, he can replace it immediately. As long as the structure inside the Thunder Fire is not destroyed, the losses are affordable.

Of course, these thunder fires were not intended to deal with the Ming army's warships, and they could not fight at all.

After all the military deployments, the Ming army had only two roads left. First, it was a detour of hundreds of miles, but on this road, Xu Junsheng arranged more troops and was surrounded. If the Ming army dared to take this road, they would inevitably fall into a quagmire. At least their logistics would be seriously threatened, and the Ming army was in a desperate situation, and he had no choice but to go inland, the greater his space for his circumference.

He even looked forward to the Ming army taking a detour to attack. In this way, as long as the Ming army's logistics is cut off, he can expect victory after victory.

If the Ming army did not take a detour, they would have to attack Crab Bay. He was still very confident in the defense of Crab Bay.

In fact, his arrangement did cause great trouble to the Ming army. It seemed that the artillery fire of the Ming warships blew up the Qi army's positions on the two pincer arms, but the losses caused by the real heavy weapons such as the Thunderbolt Fire were actually quite limited. When the army commanded by Suqian began to land on a ship, countless stone bombs immediately fell from the sky, and all kinds of ships that were already close to the beach were at this time, except for passively being beaten.

The overwhelming stone bombs fell from behind the high cliffs, stirring up wave pillars that soared into the sky. Some fell on the beach and smashed deep pits. Some ships were destroyed before they could even get to the dock. The soldiers fell into the sea, with countless casualties, and the living were all desperately swimming up the beach.

More ships rushed to the beach in the rain of bullets, and the soldiers on it immediately ran forward. On the beach, they were also the target of stone bombs. Only by running to the bottom of the cliff was the safe place.

"Sinking twelve landing ships!" Suqian looked at the battle calmly, counting the ships sunk by the enemy during the landing process. He didn't know how many people on the ship could survive. For him, these casualties were not enough to move him. As a general from the Western Army of Chu State, he had seen too many battles that were much crueler than this.

Zhou Li beside him was very angry because his shelling did not seem to have achieved more results and did not suppress the enemy.

"Go closer, drive closer!" Zhou Li roared and gave an order.

As if feeling Zhou Li's anger, Suqian smiled and patted Zhou Li on the shoulder: "General Zhou, this is already very good. If it weren't for your artillery fire support, I wouldn't have thought of attacking a defensive position like Crab Bay, because it's completely impossible. But now, we already have this foundation, and you have done a good job."

"I really want to know now how the Qi army arranged their thunder fire position." Zhou Li said in a hatred.

"Xu Junsheng is also a famous general in the world, so he naturally has his own set of methods. Besides, the firepower of our Ming Dynasty is already known to everyone in the world. Even though we know that our army has such a powerful weapon, they will definitely find ways to find a way to resist. In this world, if there are spears, there will naturally be shields."

Zhou Li stood there for a while and nodded helplessly: "No wonder Your Majesty said that the battle of unification to conquer Qi's country alone is definitely not enough to rely on the benefits of weapons. The final decision will be the one who decides the outcome. General Su, it depends on you next."

"Let our army finally solve the problem!" Suqian laughed loudly. The dispute between the navy and the army was not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone thought they were stronger. Now a senior naval general like Zhou Li personally admitted that the final battle must be solved by the army, which made Suqian extremely happy.

No matter how powerful the navy is, it can still drive to land? In the end, it depends on our army to fight against Qi. As for the navy, it is more suitable for use in places like Manila.

"The Marine Corps is also very good. They seem to have occupied a small half of the water camp." Suqian was not hesitant to praise the Marine Corps at this time, because Zhou Li's words just now made Guan Zhen of the Marine Corps a little depressed. The three of them stood on the command platform of the Dachu. When the warship sailed past the entrance of the bay, they could clearly see the fierce battles on the water camp. The flying sun and moon flags of the Daming battle were particularly conspicuous in a corner of the water camp.

In the sky, two airships discovered the position of the Thunderbolt Fire, and they began to try to drop bombs into the trenches with strange shapes.

However, they were too high from the top of the cliff. It was difficult to accurately land in the trench and explode with a bounce. However, if the height was lowered, they would immediately be shot by countless powerful crossbows. Now there were several powerful crossbows at the bottom of a airship. Several large holes were poked at the bottom of the airship. Fortunately, they did not hurt people or machines.

However, their efforts still played a role. Several bombs fell into these trenches, and the throwing arms were destroyed one by one with the violent explosion. But what made the soldiers on the airship a little annoyed was that after they turned around for a few rounds, they found that the throwing arms that had just been destroyed had appeared again.

Although such a result is disappointing, efforts are not ineffective. At least after destroying the enemy's throwing arm, it will take time for the enemy to replace it, and this time is extremely precious to the attacker.

They circled in the air perseverance, trying hard to correct their ballistics, wanting to drop bombs more accurately and destroy the enemy's long-range weapons.

The Western Army in Suqian was trained by scissors that betrayed Qin Feng. This army first fought against the Qin people in the Luoying Mountains, and then fought thousands of miles to the east to fight against the Qi people. It can be said that it has experienced many battles. After surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, although many local soldiers of the Ming Dynasty joined, the former Western Army was still the main body. Of course, their equipment is not comparable to those in the past.

Although they have not been equipped with the Ming Type 1, they have been equipped with weapons that can be produced in large quantities such as grenades. In addition to these, they also equipped weapons such as crossbows as one of the means of attack. The Ming army began to eliminate archers a long time ago, and this Western army is no exception, because in the Ming army sequence, long-range suppression weapons have long become artillery, and this army is of course equipped, but in such a battle, artillery is naturally useless. The artillery of Suqian troops is still loaded on the transport ships behind them.

The soldiers who got on the shore began to sort out their luggage. The bravest soldiers, led by the officers, hung rolls of ropes on their bodies. Next, they had to face the steep cliff in front of them. They wanted Fan to climb up, and their enemies were preparing to attack them at the top of the cliff. A team of 500 people sent by Guan Zhen was also at the bottom of the cliff. If the enemy dared to show their heads, it was time for them to shoot. Their mission was to cover the cliff soldiers.
Chapter completed!