The shells poured wildly towards the west, and explosions came one after another, with light balls exploding in the air, and the ground exploded, beating the Mongols a mile away and overturning them.

Especially those cannons show strong lethality.

Every time the shell was shot, at such a close distance, the shells rushed forward. Under huge potential energy, no flesh and blood could withstand it.

Moreover, even a 75mm caliber cannon will not turn into a jump because of its distance. It often hits several people and then explodes with a bang.

The artillery of the heavy artillery regiment became even more violent. The shells fired by each cannon can at least rush out dozens of meters from the crowd, and some even hit hundreds of meters.

But after these shells were fired, a bloody passage immediately formed, and after the explosion, it could even kill a single one.

On this night of poor lighting, the artillery can only perform blind shooting.

That is, they kept firing in the general direction. The Mongolians stole the camp from the west, and the artillery soldiers shot to the west.

Even if he was blindly shot, he still caused heavy casualties to the Mongols.

When shooting, you only need to grasp the general direction, but it is the most suitable for playing in front of the formation in this plain.

Cannons, on the other hand, shoot at places where the number of enemies may be relatively concentrated.

The shelling like thunder continued to echo on the Hetao Plain, and the violent sound of cannons was still heard clearly by a hundred miles away.

Hundreds of miles away, you can still hear the sound of thunder.

Looking into the distance, you will find rising light spots. These small light spots rise one after another to the sky, like bright stars, making people feel shaking.

But the Mongolians didn't feel that beautiful. The Ming army's artillery shells kept coming, causing them great chaos.

In the dark night, you can clearly see shells rushing into their formation or falling from the sky.

There was a phenomenon of people rushing over and overturning everywhere. The Mongolian horses did not train like the Qing Dynasty, and it was extremely difficult to control under the attack of artillery.

Horses are very timid domestic animals. Once they are frightened, they will run wildly.

The Mongolians who attacked the barracks at night were in chaos, and the horses were no longer under their control. Some were overturned and off their horses, while others tried their best to control the horses and ran around.

The owners of those horses that were not frightened were afraid of the fierce fire of the artillery, so they turned their heads and ran!

The night attack has failed so much that it cannot fail anymore. When will it last until it doesn’t run away?

Under the fierce shelling, the Mongols began to retreat. The Shandong army did not chase after him, but kept firing artillery behind him, and the cannons kept firing, while the howitzers continued to extend the ballistic.

The infantry also quickly dispatched, and more than a dozen large chariots were pushed out of the barracks.

‘Chi Chi…’, sparks flashed in the car, and suddenly a strong light came out of the car, and the surroundings became translucent instantly. The dazzling light instantly illuminated the distance thousands of meters ahead.

Arc light!

It turned out that the car was equipped with arc lights. The price of arc lights was not too expensive, and the cost was about the same as a few 200-caliber heavy artillery shells.

The arc light was installed on a large cart and applied to combat. Two thousand batteries made this lighting tool a little bulky, but the light was very strong and still had military application value.

As soon as the arc light was turned on, the infantry behind quickly stepped forward under the arc light to clear the battlefield and deal with the dead and lost horses of the Mongols.

The shelling continued at this time!

The Mongols certainly did not run three thousand meters away, so the cannons were still firing, but the howitzers had stopped firing.

Howitzers support infantry propulsion and do not have the killing advantage of cannons.

The infantry that rushed out of the military camp first cleaned up the mines on the ground. They knew where the steel wheel lighter was buried. Just remove the steel wheel lighter.

Confirm that the mine was not at risk of accidental explosion, the infantry rushed into the mine belt and began to clean up the battlefield. The injured Mongolians were stabbed with one shot, and the bayonet was stained with blood!

The Mongolians who fled to the distance looked back from afar and found that a strong light was lit in the Ming army camp, and they couldn't help but be shocked.

The next day, the results came out.

Yesterday, the Mongols attacked sneak attacks, and more than 32,000 people were lost under the double strike of mines and artillery. The combat command estimated that the number of Mongols might be only 70,000 to 80,000.

But in fact, there are still 90,000 Mongolians!

However, it was a lot of dispersed in the night attack last night. The Mongols gathered their troops at dawn, leaving only 70,000 people, but some people returned one after another.

There was a suffocating depression and frustration in the entire Mongolian army.

The tragic and tragic defeat at night, coupled with the strong lights they saw in the Ming army camp, all kinds of rumors flew among the tribes.

The most widely rumored version says that Changshengtian no longer cares about Mongolian warriors. Yesterday, it was Changshengtian who was helping the Ming army.

This made the Mongolians deeply panic.

The Mongolians, who were in chaos and scattered in the system, were unable to control the rumors. As soon as the rumors came, they were collectively in panic. The leaders of various tribes immediately began to discuss countermeasures.

It was impossible for them to attack the Ming army head-on, and the fierce artillery fire was definitely not something they could withstand.

However, if they attacked at night, the lessons learned last night were even more bloody, so that during this discussion, the leaders of several tribes could no longer come.

Because they are dead!

Some were directly killed by landmines, some were killed by shells, smashed and killed by bombs.

The atmosphere was very depressing, so depressing that it made people suffocate for many years. These leaders no longer knew what to say at this time. They had lost all their solutions in the face of the Ming army who wanted to kill them.

Of course, there is another way.

That is unconditional surrender. I believe that under such a decision, the Ming army will not fight again. But no one said it first, and other ideas seemed stupid, and no one was willing to speak.

After nearly half an hour of stalemate, someone finally spoke.

Everyone was silent for a while.

surrender!

It has become their only choice.

...The infantry brigade that marched again has been scattered this time. A place as big as Hetao cannot catch up with the Mongols when they are gathered together.

It is much easier to scatter and catch up with them.

Yesterday, I learned from the prisoners that the Mongols had slaughtered many horses, and their mobility was no longer as good as before, but the combat command was not in a hurry.

Anyway, the more you drag it, the more unfavorable it will be for the Mongols. The most important thing is not to be robbed of logistics supplies by the Mongols during the pursuit.

However, the Mongols sent an envoy again.

The Mongols were very aware of each other. This time they unconditionally regarded Zhao Yan as the Khan of Heaven, and put down their weapons and let them deal with them.

To this extent, the Mongolians didn't want to do this, but they had to do so, at least there was a glimmer of hope.

Liu Heng did not make any promises to the Mongols, but only asked the Mongols to surrender one day later, otherwise they would continue to launch an attack.

After the envoy returned to report, the next day, the Mongolians arrived as promised.

Amid the low sound of the trumpet, the Mongols gathered five miles away from the Shandong Army. The Shandong Army sent a brigade to accept the surrender of the Mongols.

Under the orders of the leaders of each tribe, the Mongols put down their weapons one by one and were then controlled.

On that day, more than 80,000 Mongolians were locked up in concentration camps.

Liu Heng was unable to make decisions on how to deal with these Mongolians. The instructions given by Zhao Yan were not applicable under the current circumstances.

So Liu Heng sent people to report the Hetao battle to Shandong at a speed of 800 miles.

...It was the end of April, and some areas of Dongsanfu and Liaodong have already harvested winter wheat this year. With the increase in fertilization this year, Dongsanfu and wheat are generally harvested.

In terms of fertilizers, this year's fertilizer factory has begun to speed up the production of fertilizers. The fertilizer factory currently produces phosphorus fertilizers, which use animal bones.

With the development of Shandong's breeding industry, more domestic animals were slaughtered, and all the bones were collected to produce phosphorus fertilizer.

The grain from the three eastern prefectures alone is enough for food in Shandong.

But with the increase of population, it is impossible to transport it out. Only sweet potatoes can be transported out. However, agriculture in the north and northwest has begun to recover after the thieves and the Qing Dynasty. Apart from disaster relief, there are basically no sweet potatoes needed.

Now, I basically don’t do anything about relief. If I can’t survive, I can come to Shandong and get land. Due to various preferential treatments for immigration, after increasing publicity efforts, a large number of people come to Shandong every day.

Wang Shitou is one of the immigrants.

He is from Songjiang. He lives by weaving cloth in his family. He has worked for five generations for generations and is engaged in the textile industry. However, since Shandong's cotton cloth used better machine textiles, the price of cotton cloth has dived year by year, and now it has dived to an extremely cheap level, which has made him lose his income and find it difficult to support his family.

There are a large number of people like him in Songjiang.

I heard that the general strongly encourages the people to go to Shandong in Shandong. Not only does the children not have money to go to school, but the school is responsible for the food, and they also pay some pocket money every month.

This is undoubtedly a huge temptation for Wang Shitou, who has five children.

At the same time, in Shandong, it is not easy to see a doctor. In terms of taxation, it is similar to the current tax exemption system for industrial and commercial use in the Ming Dynasty. Although Shandong collects commercial taxes, it does not collect money from workers.

Moreover, I heard from the propaganda staff of the Shandong Recruitment Bureau that as long as you go to Shandong and choose to work, the monthly wage will not be less than 1 tael of silver, and it will only take nine hours, which is four and a half hours. If you work overtime, there will be processing money.

If you choose to go to Liaodong and North Korea, you can get land, and it will be 300 acres.

It is obviously impossible for a handicraft like Wang Shitou to let him farm, so he chose to come to Shandong to do work, and I heard that workmanship also has advantages. Because living in the city, we face more opportunities than in the countryside.

This made Wang Shitou very yearn for it. Under the guidance of the recruitment bureau personnel from Shandong, he boarded the cargo ship to Shandong, and took his whole family there.

When they arrived in Shandong, after registering their household registration, Wang Shitou and his wife were arranged to work in the textile factory and lived in the dormitory of the textile factory. Their five children were also placed in the nearest school.

Wang Shitou's life quickly settled down. The couple planned to work hard and work overtime for three hours a day, so that their salary would be nearly 1.5 taels of silver.

In this way, their lives will be comfortable.

Basically, there is no big expense. The five children don’t spend half a penny at school, and there is no worry about illness. The income of 3 taels of silver per month can make a good day in Shandong.
To be continued...