Landing in Tianjin, there is one more critical issue.The ship was traveling in the sea, but it could not get close to the coast, and was discovered by the Qing army.Sailing in the open sea, the speed of the ship is greatly affected by the wind and waves, and it is unknown when it will be able to reach the vicinity of Tianjin.In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle and the tacit cooperation between the two sides, Wang Shuo must know when Zheng Chenggong arrived in Tianjin and when he launched an attack.When Zheng Chenggong was about to launch an attack in Tianjin and advance towards Beijing, a general offensive could begin along the Yellow River, so that Zilharang could not draw troops from the front line to support Tianjin.From Tianjin to the Yellow River, thousands of miles away, it is unreliable to expect manual transmission of news and speculation, and carrier pigeons to transmit news is called nonsense.Therefore, Wang Shuo needed a telegraph, so he did not hesitate to turn his face with Wu Langxi, at all costs, and before the general attack was launched, let this yellow-bearded old guy get the telegraph out for him, and all the equipment and materials were ready early, and the production would be fast.Within a month, more than a dozen telegraph planes were deployed in the hands of the various group armies, ensuring that every attacking corps could communicate with each of them in a timely manner through telegraphs.The attack corps were already in full force, waiting for the command to attack at any time.Wang Shuo did not give the order for a long time, just waiting for Zheng Chenggong and Liang Anguo to arrive in Tianjin.On the twelfth day of the seventh lunar month in 1654, the radio station left behind at the headquarters finally received a signal from the ironclad warship off the coast of Tianjin, and the translator quickly recorded it and quickly delivered the original telegram to Wang Shuo and Song Xiance, who were left behind.The telegram had only two words: arrived.The signature is Zheng Liang.After the army moved, Wang Shuo told Song Xiance of Zheng Chenggong's whereabouts.This little trick he played behind the back of the Standing Committee surprised Song Xiance, no wonder he never agreed to launch an attack This plan is very powerful, but Song Xiance saw Wang Shuo's energy from this plan.Without everyone's knowledge, he actually mobilized the navy and Zheng Chenggong's 200,000 troops, and no one dared to divulge his secrets.Wang Shuo's prestige cannot be surpassed by anyone, and no one can stop him from becoming an emperor.Song Xiance made a serious face, looked at Wang Shuo and said, "Don't take it as an example" He has already seen the benefits of not having an emperor, and he does not approve of Wang Shuo's arbitrariness.Wang Shuo was like a child, and explained behind Song Xiance's ass that this was not to ensure suddenness, so that the Manchus would not know.You don't want the Manchus to know, you are acting on your own behind the back of the Standing Committee, and the consequences are serious, you must do a deep inspection when all the Standing Committee members gather, and ensure that there will be no next time, hey, guarantee, I promise to do it, but, forget it this time, no, after the battle is over, the Standing Committee gathers, I want to report your unauthorized behavior, good intentions are not rewarded, and you will grind for a long time.Before Zheng Chenggong launched an attack on the port of Tianjin, Wang Shuo first launched a general attack along the Yellow River, involving the main force of the Manchu Qing on the Yellow River.When Zilharang found that Tianjin had been lost and Zheng Chenggong's army had advanced towards Beijing, it was too late for him to mobilize troops to encircle it.On the 13th of July, Li Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Army's former enemy command headquarters on the banks of the Yellow River in Henan, issued a general attack order to all attacking corps in accordance with the instructions of Wang Shuo's rear headquarters.It was early autumn, the weather was not hot in the morning, and the sky was cloudless, so it was the best time to cross the river.With the order of the former commander, from Yulin in Shanxi Province through Henan to Jinan in Shandong, the Yellow River meandering for more than 2,000 miles was boiling in an instant.Rows of blue smoke rose from the bank, "tom tom", the deafening sound of artillery lasted for a long time, and countless shells with trails flew over the Yellow River and flew towards the defense line of the Qing army on the other bank.The trail was emitted by a hot projectile as it passed through the air, accompanied by a piercing screech.After a moment of silence, there was a huge explosion on the defense line of the Qing army on the opposite bank, and then the explosions were connected together, the earth trembled, and the other side was in a sea of fire.Fireballs on the Qing army's defense line exploded one after another, lifting up a few feet of dirt, and the heavenly maiden scattered flowers generally rose into the sky with the explosion, and then slowly fell.It was not only the earth that rose into the sky, but also the limbs, internal organs, and minced flesh of people, and the wooden stakes, chains, and sandbags used to block the advance of the ships on the shore were also shattered and flew in all directions with the shock wave of the cannonballs.The trenches that the Qing army had painstakingly dug were razed to the ground in an instant.In order to destroy the enemy to the greatest extent and save itself, the government of the northwest has opened up, and all the artillery shells in the stock are being transported to the front line.There is a shortage of people in the Central Plains, and the general said that it is better to run out of shells than to minimize personnel losses.After destroying the defensive positions on the shore of the Qing army, the artillery fire extended to block the advance of the cavalry placed by the Qing army on the second line, and on the Yellow River for more than 2,000 miles, thousands of sails raced, and tens of thousands of ships of all kinds were carried by military horns, carrying the soldiers of the northwest, and rushed towards the opposite bank of the Yellow River.At last the ship reached the opposite shore, and the musketeers on board jumped out of the boat and waded through the knee-high water to the shore.The Qing army, which had narrowly escaped the shelling, had already organized itself and used the remaining trenches that had not been destroyed and the deep pits blown out by the shells to shoot at the non-commissioned officers of the northwest who had landed on the shore with bows and arrows and firearms.The distance is too close to think that it is impossible to think of no casualties.Through continuous battles with the Northwest Army, the Qing army also summed up its experience, and it was no longer possible to attack in array as in the past.People have artillery, and the soldiers are densely gathered in the military formation, which is equivalent to sending them to death.Therefore, the Qing army also had to dig trenches, set up bunkers, and disperse the soldiers, so as not to be wiped out by the opponent's artillery.After a round of firearms, bows and arrows, many people in the Northwest Army fell, and blood stained the Yellow River red.The non-commissioned officers who were not hit began to look for formations, organized in platoons, and under the command of the platoon commander, fired in three bands without intermittent fire, advancing while firing.The superiority of the musketeers' weapons was revealed, and the non-stop bullets hit the soil on the sides of the trenches and craters, making a "chirping" sound, and the Qing troops could not raise their heads.Approaching the throwing distance of the flowering bomb, the Northwest sergeants took out the flowering bomb from their waists, unscrewed the iron cover, pulled the fuse, and threw the flowering bomb into the hidden bunker of the Qing army.This flowering bomb is actually a modern grenade.Compared with grenades, when attacking uphill, it is not easy for it to roll back and injure itself when it is thrown, so the Northwest Government has considered it several times and still produces flowering bombs, and only produces a small part of the grenades for special forces to use.In the continuous explosion of flowering bombs, the remnants of the Qing army fled for their lives, and they were no longer able to prevent the Northwest Army from seizing the river beach.A large number of northwest sergeants rushed to the river beach with bayonets and stabbed the recalcitrant Qing troops to death on the river beach.For the Qing troops who laid down their arms and surrendered, the Northwest Army did not kill them again, but handed them over to the rear containment team to deal with.Wang Shuo is going to be captured this time, and he can't help it.By this time, the population loss in the Central Plains had been close to three-fifths, and the population of his huge territory was only five million, and the north of the Yellow River was even worse, only three million, all of which were killed by the Manchus.He wants to grow land and produce food, and he also wants to develop industry and industrialization, and no one can't do it: