Soon, Yue Le found out that he had misjudged.

Wu Songwei repeated his old tricks, stopped at a distance of seven or eight miles from the city, and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on the south gate and city wall.

The Qing army is indeed not good at fighting this kind of artillery battle.

The red-coated cannon deployed in the city, although it is large, its firing speed is really too slow, and it is often after three or four shells by the Wusong Guard Artillery Regiment that the city wall holds its breath and fires a cannon.

The charge of the redcoat cannon is even larger, because it is still using the round bullets of the front load, including iron, lead, and even stones, etc., which causes the sealing to be very poor, the firing range and charge ratio are too low, and the fire and smoke during the shelling are frighteningly large.

So it is easy to expose the position of the artillery, just imagine, a cloud of smoke suddenly appeared above the city wall, even if it is ten miles away, it can be seen clearly, plus the range is not as far as Wu Songwei's artillery, and then expose the artillery position, this is self-defeating.

After seven or eight rounds of artillery fire between the two sides, the artillery on the city wall was removed one by one by Wu Songwei's artillery fire.

Next, the defenders were left to be beaten.

Fortunately, Yue Le saw the opportunity quickly, and after the first artillery was blown off, he quickly ordered the defenders to withdraw from the city wall, leaving only some scouts as ears and eyes on the city to prevent the enemy from suddenly attacking the city.

For a whole day, Wu Songwei did not organize a single siege, not even a feint.

It was a constant shelling, as if the thick walls could be collapsed by shelling.

Yue Le really couldn't figure it out, could the enemy have so much silver that there was nowhere to spend it?

This round of shells is a pile of white silver!

The countermeasure that Yue Le could think of was to strengthen the city wall and put up a lookout, so that the defenders under the city could wait for the city and go up to the city wall at any time to meet the enemy's siege.

……。

That's the difference in the idea of war.

Yue Le, as the commander of a new army of firearms, it stands to reason that he should know that firearms are far away, not that the two armies faced each other before, blowing their beards and glaring at each other, and fighting hand-to-hand with one sword and one sword.

After all, Ke Yuele is nearly thirty years old, a man of man, he has been controlling the strings since he was thirteen years old, and after more than ten years of fighting, can he not form a subconscious combat idea?

Yue Le thought that no matter how fierce the enemy's artillery fire outside the city was, it would wipe out the defenders on the city wall, and if he wanted to break through the city, he would have to come up with infantry and fight head-on with a knife and a gun.

And Yue Le confidently believed that even if the enemy army organized tens of thousands of people to attack the city, the defenders under his command in the city could calmly drive the enemy on the city wall.

However, Wu Zheng didn't think so.

Haizhou is only a small county town, because it is located at the junction of Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Huai'an, it has become a military pass, and the city wall is really strong, but after all, it is only a small city.

With a radius of less than ten miles, the artillery with the farthest range of the artillery regiment in the Eru domain is a cannon at the south gate, and the north gate is shaking.

Why did Wu Songwei attack the city at the cost of his life?

In addition, Ji Xiha and Lan Bai ordered the slaughter of the people in the city before, that is to say, as long as they are willing to shell, they can level the Tartar defenders in Haizhou City.

Of course, this requires a premise, that is, the artillery regiment must continue to approach north.

And at this time, the constant shelling is to prepare for the approach.

……。

At midnight that day, a quarter of the hour.

Wu Songwei's shelling continued, and the originally frightened defenders in the city gradually began to get used to surviving in this kind of artillery fire.

Human beings are indeed very adaptable, but in fact, they are also very simple, and they can be safe and sound with their backs against a solid thick wall.

This kind of discovery has allowed the Tartars in the city to ignore the shelling outside the city, except for some inconvenience, the others are no different, they should eat and drink. Yunxuan Pavilion

Some people even joked, pointing to the bullet marks that instantly crossed the air and said, "This is a southerner from outside the city, set off fireworks for us!" ”

Yue Le also thinks so, he feels that Wu Zheng, who has always been low-key, is too high-profile this time.

Some, not worthy of the name!

Could it be that after becoming the king of Wu, he drank and feasted all day long, accompanied by beauties, and his hip bones grew fat?

But Yue Le wanted to think about it, but his heart did not relax at all.

With the lessons of the past, Yue Le's heart has always been carried, and he knows that the enemy army outside the city is powerful.

Strong in combat and dare to work hard, as long as there is the slightest gap, they can dig a chasm.

Therefore, Yue Le strictly ordered to send more patrol posts in the city and on the city wall to ensure that everything is safe.

The only change he made was that the defenders of the east and west gates, which originally numbered 3,000 men, were transferred to the vicinity of the south gate to strengthen the defense of the south gate.

That's actually right.

The east and west gates have been blocked, and it is almost impossible to collapse the city wall by shelling, leaving a thousand people to defend, it is enough!

But Yue Le couldn't figure out Wu Zheng's deployment after all.

This whole day of shelling is actually not a waste, but also a saving.

The reason why Wu Zheng ordered "to recover Haizhou within three days" was not that Wu Zheng did not know the difficulties in conquering Haizhou, but that he could not afford to delay.

Instead of fighting a protracted offensive and defensive battle, it is better to take a desperate gamble and fight a blitzkrieg with all your might.

No matter how intensive the shelling is, it will be more economical than dragging it out for one or two months.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there are other reasons, that is, what Wu Zheng said before, "the 3,000 elite soldiers who landed east of Haizhou from the East China Sea".

Why is there still aimless shelling in the middle of the night?

This is the main reason, firmly attracting the attention of the enemy in the city, and laying the foundation for the landing of 3,000 elite soldiers to storm the east gate.

Otherwise, with the density of the defenders in the city, it would be difficult not to spot the three thousand men approaching the east gate.

……。

Ugly at the beginning.

The artillery outside the city still roared, and the blazing ballistics swayed in the night sky.

Yue Le looked in the direction of the south gate, tightened his collar, and sighed lightly, since the regent was in Xuzhou City, the imperial court has shown a strong and capable trend after a series of changes.

Especially after Hong, Fan and other Han ministers instigated the emperor to liquidate Dolgon's henchmen, the government and the opposition can be said to be in a rumor, Dolgon, as the regent, controls the government and politics for many years, who dares to be disobedient? Who would dare not be a henchman?

Including himself, Yue Le sighed heavily.

Although he chose the right team and chose the opportunity to stand on the emperor's side, after all, he was a "halfway monk", and the experience of attaching himself to Dolgon in the first two years made it difficult for him to win the emperor's trust.

If...... If Haizhou falls this time...... Thinking of this, Yue Le shook his head vigorously, how could he lose it? There are more than 16,000 defenders, and they are not greedy for life and afraid of death, even if the enemy army comes to attack with tens of thousands, they want to easily break through Haizhou City.

Yue Le laughed out loud, is he ...... Take the Nanans outside the city too seriously?

But at this time, a more dull and long cannon sound shocked Yue Le's whole body.

"What's going on? How could there be cannon sound in Dongcheng...... Who gave the order to open fire? Yue Le shouted, "Quick check!" ”