Chapter 481: The head of the logistics department came to help, and the one-sided artillery battle
On the turbulent Yellow River, a huge fleet that looks like it covers the sky and the earth is sailing across the river at lightning speed.

Although the river channel at the exit of the Grand Canal is very wide, it can be said to be one of the widest rivers in the entire Yellow River Basin.

But for a large fleet sailing at full speed, it would only take about half an hour to cross.

“How long will it take for our fleet to reach the large dock in the north of Xuzhou?”

Liang Liping stood at the bow of the flagship, the Great Treasure Ship, and asked the military intelligence officer Mo Xiaoyong, who had just returned from a reconnaissance mission riding on a level five, initial stage bald eagle.

Due to his outstanding military achievements, Mo Xiaoyong has been promoted by the military to deputy commander of the Military Intelligence Department, responsible for intelligence work in various places along the southeast coast.

Since he had plenty of military merit points and was obsessed with becoming stronger, he had spent a large amount of them in the past few years and went to the logistics headquarters to exchange them for several kinds of spiritual fruits and spiritual wines, which greatly improved his qualifications to the level of a monstrous genius.

Mo Xiaoyong is now a general with peak level five cultivation.

The bald eagle he had just ridden was captured by Li Dingguo from Zheng Zhilong, and later given to Mo Xiaoyong as a reward, becoming his natal spirit beast.

Since this war to the south was of great importance, to be on the safe side, Mo Xiaoyong personally led the team to investigate the enemy situation to avoid any military errors.

“Commander-in-Chief.”

As soon as Liang Liping finished speaking, Mo Xiaoyong immediately replied, “It will take our army at most a quarter of an hour to reach the big dock outside the north city of Xuzhou.”

“In the water fort outside the city that Liu Zeqing had just built a few months ago, there are only a few high-quality treasure ships, as well as more than a hundred medium-quality and low-quality treasure ships.”

“Although there are 30,000 soldiers in this riverside fort, they are just a mob and cannot withstand several waves of volley attacks from our fleet.”

He then told the latest situation, “I was doing reconnaissance from high altitude earlier and saw chaos inside and outside Xuzhou City. It is obvious that the enemy has learned that our army is heading south and is trying to put up a last-ditch effort.”

“The city defense formation of Xuzhou City did not cover the large dock outside the city, nor did it cover the riverside forts outside the city.”

“As long as our army captures the water fort outside the city, it will be easy to gain a buffer zone for the army to land and land successfully in one fell swoop.”

“Xuzhou City, a truly important military town, is somewhat special. Unlike the riverside fortresses that our army has captured before, the large riverside dock outside the north city is about thirty miles away from the city gate. Our treasure ship’s artillery advantage range cannot be utilized. We need our soldiers to land before we can launch an effective attack.”

“However, the defense line arranged by Liu Zeqing is full of loopholes, and the people are in a panic due to the lack of preparation. As long as our army successfully breaks through the city defense formation, this important military town will be within our grasp.”

“besides……”

Mo Xiaoyong shared the latest information he had learned, “It is said that Liu Zeqing seemed to have had an amazing encounter recently and broke through to the early stage of level six in one fell swoop. He may have a life-defining artifact to protect him.”

“Commander-in-chief, for the sake of safety, I suggest that Liang Dingming lead the army to make targeted preparations to prevent Liu Zeqing from personally leading the army to attack and causing unnecessary losses to our army.”

As one of the senior generals of the Renaissance Army, Mo Xiaoyong naturally knew that the combat effectiveness of a level five or six warrior with or without a life-defining artifact was completely different.

Among their million-strong Eastern Army, only the little stone Liang Dingming had the two magical weapons, the Leigujarang and the golden hammer, given to him by Wan’er.

This pair of Leiguwengjin hammers were used by Wan’er in the past, so Li Dingguo spent a lot of top-grade acquired spiritual materials to refine and upgrade them using the Human Emperor Cauldron, turning them into a set of acquired top-grade divine hammers.

In terms of attack power, it is no worse than some innate artifacts.

Liu Zeqing’s breakthrough to the initial stage of level six only happened in the last half month, and it was kept secret.

Although the Military Intelligence Department of the Renaissance Army is omnipresent, it has not yet uncovered the specific situation and can only make rough guesses.

“Ah.”

After listening to Mo Xiaoyong’s report, Liang Liping’s expression changed slightly and she nodded.

She also didn’t expect that in this battle that was supposed to be a sure win, there would be such a variable as Liu Zeqing’s great improvement in cultivation.

The main reason for this somewhat embarrassing situation is that the threat posed by Huang Taiji in Liaodong is too great, and the generals stationed in Liaodong must leave behind top-level warriors who are capable of competing with Huang Taiji, Dorgon, and the Duoduo brothers.

Therefore, in this round of war to the south, Wan’er and Cao Bianjiao, two top warriors of the Restoration Army, still stayed in Zhenjiang Fort at the junction of Liaodong and the Goguryeo Dynasty to avoid being taken advantage of by Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji is not just an ordinary hero, but one of the most powerful geniuses in the world today. His literary and military skills are enough to rank among the top five in the world.

With his skills, it is impossible that he was unaware of the big movement of the Fusion Army heading south.

Therefore, after careful consideration by the military, the Fuxing Army still has two million troops deployed on the Yalu River line, and Wan’er and Cao Bianjiao are personally in charge of the army.

The purpose is self-evident, which is to prevent Huang Taiji from leading the remnants of the Later Jin Dynasty to take advantage of the situation and try to counterattack and take back Liaodong.

In the eyes of Li Dingguo and the military, Huang Taiji posed a much greater threat than the Southern Ming Dynasty.

“Chirp…”

At this moment, a loud bird cry was heard in the sky, and a black stream of light flew from the northern sky and instantly arrived above the Renaissance Army’s fleet.

“This is the Big Black Hawk of our Renaissance Army, and it is an early level six Big Black Hawk!”

Liang Liping’s powerful spiritual sense swept across the sky, and she immediately discovered the person who came, and said in surprise.

“Whoosh!”

The big black eagle circled in the air, identified its target, and then landed on the flagship treasure ship.

“Fortunately, I’m not too late.”

The person who came was a core senior figure known to all the generals in the Fuxing Army, Zhao Hong, the general manager of the logistics department.

In the past five or six years, Zhao Hong, who succeeded Hongmei as the head of the logistics department, and his two sisters Zhao Li and Zhao Juan have managed the huge logistics department in an orderly manner. They are highly praised by the soldiers and have a very high prestige.

Liang Liping had also been to the Logistics Department several times and used her military merit points to exchange for some rare training resources. She knew this famous figure in the Fuxing Army.

“Sister Zhao Hong, how come you have time to come here?”

Liang Liping quickly stepped forward and asked Zhao Hong, who had just jumped off the back of the sixth-stage black eagle.

“I came here this time because the military considered that there were too few level six warriors in your Eastern Route Army and were afraid of accidents, so they sent me to provide support.”

“The logistics department is now on the right track. With Zhao Li and Zhao Juan in charge, there is no need to worry about any trouble.”

Zhao Hong smiled and said to Liang Liping, explaining the reason for her coming. Judging from the aura emanating from her, she had obviously broken through to the early stage of level six.

As one of the most core and senior members of the Renaissance Army, she naturally has no shortage of top-level training resources.

Especially not long ago, Li Dingguo gave her the innate top-grade artifact Cash Cow that he had taken from the Fan family and refined it into her natal artifact. With the help of the feedback from the natal artifact, she broke through the bottleneck of the peak of level five in one fell swoop and successfully broke through to become a powerful cultivator at the early stage of level six.

Zhao Hong originally had a treasure plate that was replaced by Hongmei and given to her to refine into her own divine weapon.

After Li Dingguo killed the head of the Fan family in the last battle in Liaodong and obtained his innate artifact, the Money Tree, he discovered that this innate artifact actually had a similar aura to the Treasure Plate. Apparently, the two were a matching set of artifacts.

After he returned to the capital from Liaodong, he gave this innate top-grade artifact, the Money Tree, to Zhao Hong for refining.

After Zhao Hong refined the two innate artifacts, the Treasure Plate and the Money Tree, into his own innate artifacts, they were combined together to form a set of innate top-grade artifacts!
This made Zhao Hong, the head of the logistics department, leap into one of the strongest first-tier forces in the Fuxing Army.

As their own top-level combat capability was not sufficient for this campaign in the south, Zhao Hong, a core senior leader who was rarely deployed, withdrew from the battlefield and came to the southern expedition to lead the Eastern Route Army in order to guard against the attack of the enemy’s top-level warriors.

“Sister Zhao, this is great!”

“You came at the right time. According to the latest intelligence, the enemy chief Liu Zeqing may have had a fortuitous encounter and recently broke through to the early sixth level. He may even possess his own divine weapon.”

“I was a little worried about whether Little Stone could defeat the opponent, but now I am relieved.”

After learning about Zhao Hong’s purpose, Liang Liping, who had been worried about whether the presence of a level six warrior in the enemy army might cause unknown changes, was suddenly overjoyed.

As a high-ranking general of the Fuxing Army, Liang Liping naturally knew that Zhao Hong, the chief manager of the logistics department, had recently successfully broken through to the sixth level and possessed a set of powerful innate divine artifacts.

Although the set of natal magic weapons refined by Zhao Hong is a special magic weapon mainly for financial management, it does not mean that it is not powerful.

The power of any innate top-grade artifact can be underestimated, let alone a set of combined artifacts.

“Liu Zeqing has broken through to the early stage of level six?”

Zhao Hong’s eyes lit up when he heard this. “I will meet him this time to see what kind of ability this famous Ming general has that makes the Duke of Chengguo Zhu Chunchen value him so much!”

Although she has been in charge of the logistics department in the military, it does not mean that she does not have strong combat capabilities.

As a core general in the early days of the establishment of the Renaissance Army, Zhao Hong participated in many bloody battles in the early days of joining the Renaissance Army.

Now that she has a very special set of divine weapons, she claims that her fighting ability is no worse than most of the strong people at the same level.

A moment later, with Liang Liping’s introduction, Zhao Hong, who had already gained a preliminary understanding of the general situation of both sides, had an idea of ​​the upcoming battle.

She is able to easily control such a large logistics department. Her intelligence is not comparable to that of ordinary genius generals. She is a true evil genius.

At this time, the Fuxing Army fleet, which had been sailing at full speed, had crossed the Yellow River and arrived twenty miles ahead of the large wharf water fort north of Xuzhou City.

What you see is that to the east of this large wharf which is over a hundred miles wide, stands a water fort covering an area of ​​several miles.

The more than one hundred enemy treasure ships of various levels anchored by the river had no intention of coming out to fight, but were lined up on the river in the water fort.

“Pass the order down, all ships, prepare to fire in unison!”

Liang Liping, commander-in-chief of the fleet, used her vast spiritual power to the fullest and could clearly see that the enemy’s water stronghold was in a panic. Both the treasure ship and the naval officers and soldiers seemed to be in some confusion.

Following Liang Liping’s order, the Fuxing Army fleet, which had already formed a battle formation, lined up in three horizontal rows on the river, with the treasure ships staggered, appearing to be in order.

The soldiers of the Renaissance Navy, who had experienced countless naval battles, were incomparable to the navy of the Southern Ming Dynasty in all aspects.

What’s more, what we have before us is an enemy inland fleet, which is pitifully weak.

Although Liu Zeqing received strong support from the Jiangnan families and the Chengguo Mansion, he would definitely not be equipped with the extremely precious and top-grade treasure ship.

The Jiangnan aristocratic families didn’t even have enough strategic-level weaponry for themselves, so how could they possibly contribute it to Liu Zeqing, a warlord?

Liu Zeqing has done his best to raise a few high-quality treasure ships.

The several high-quality treasure ships and more than a hundred medium and low-quality treasure ships in this water fortress looked good in the inland river area, but compared with the huge fleet of the Renaissance Army, it was simply ridiculous.

“Three volleys, fire!”

“Rumble…”

The Fuxing Army, which had extremely rich experience in naval warfare, fired all the psychic cannons on hundreds of large treasure ships. Hot psychic shells shot out from the black barrels, instantly illuminating the sky while slamming into the protective light shield of the enemy’s treasure ship!
This was a salvo of thousands of psychic cannons, and its intensity was beyond the tolerance of any mid- to low-grade treasure ship.

In this wave of volleys that seemed to cover the sky with artillery shells, most of the enemy’s low- and medium-quality treasure ships had their protective shields shattered on the spot!
“It’s over!”

“Get away from here!”

“No!”……

“ah!”……

The Southern Ming soldiers who lost the protection of the treasure ship formation were immediately frightened. While screaming loudly, they jumped from the boat into the river one by one and began to escape for their lives!
The 30,000 warriors in this water fort were newly formed and most of them were new recruits. How could they have ever seen such a terrifying cannon attack?

“In the next round, focus your fire on those high-quality treasure ships and the enemy’s water strongholds!”

“emission!”

Liang Liping, whose mind is locked on the battlefield, how rich is her war experience?
Seeing that those medium and low-quality treasure ships had been abandoned by enemy soldiers, they naturally would not sink them again and issued the latest attack orders in a timely manner.

This is a civil war in China. Different from fighting with foreign races, capturing the enemy’s treasure ships and soldiers is more important than destroying the enemy.

After all, most of the Southern Ming soldiers were their own compatriots, and it was impossible to kill them all.

As for whether the prisoners should be put to death, they would naturally be interrogated and screened after the war.

“Rumble…”

Under the horrified eyes of the enemy soldiers, another massive wave of concentrated fire attacks began, and the psychic shells in the sky continued to cover the remaining enemy treasure ships that were protected by the formation light shield!
As expected, the artillery battle between the two sides became one-sided as soon as it began.

(End of this chapter)