Chapter 252: I, Ruan Xiaoqiang, am not in vain
Jiading City, on the tower of the Taiping Gate of the East Gate, Fan Wenshen's eyes were blood-red, and his extreme anger made his face red and white.
It turns out that everything is a conspiracy!
After seeing the letter, he hurried to Jiading to avenge his grievances, but he didn't expect this to be Ruan Fuying's conspiracy!
And now he is a yellow mud that fell into the crotch of his pants, and he can't tell clearly, the king of a country, Ruan Lu, the king of Dongding, was so frightened by him that he fled to Quy Nhon, from ancient times to the present, there is no such a ridiculous oolong, right?
Fan Wenshen estimated that the king of Beiping would soon know the news of his defection to the enemy, and he would probably believe it, because Ruan Lu, the king of Dongding, would definitely not say that he had escaped from Jiading City, but would definitely say that he had Fan Wenshen defected to the enemy, and he had no choice but to break through from Jiading City.
It seems that for the sake of today's plan, the only way to defend this Jiading City is to wait until the Beiping Wang soldiers come to the city, and they will naturally know his loyalty to Fan Wenshen!
Just as he was sighing, his cronies Fan Wenren walked in from outside, "Taifu, I have strictly ordered all armies, if anyone dares to spread absurd words outside the city in private, they will not be spared, and I also ordered General Qi Chen to organize a group of gong drums to beat non-stop, no matter how loud those thieves are, they can't surpass the sound of gong drums!" ”
Fan Wenshen nodded, there is no other way at present, but to suppress the discussion in the army with strict punishment, the hearts of the wealthy gentry in Jiading City are not chaotic, Fan Wenshen doesn't care, as long as the army is not chaotic.
Ruan Fuying claimed to be 100,000 here, but Fan Wenshen carefully calculated that Ruan Fuying only had more than 10,000 troops and horses in his headquarters, 5,000 or 6,000 in the Kunlun bandit He Xiwen, thousands of mercenaries in Fulangsha, and thousands of troops from Hou Ye Shu Wu Ye in Saigon, who was known as one enemy and ten, and the total could only fight 20,000 people.
And he still has 10,000 five major troops available in his hands, Jiading City is such a strong city, the art of war cloud ten will be encircled, five will attack it, he Fan Wenshen will stick to the strong city, Ruan Fuying's army outside the city is comparable to him, as long as he holds it firmly, Ruan Fuying will not be able to capture Jiading.
In the north of Jiading City, next to a small town called Tongchi, Ye Kai rode a horse and stood on a mountain bag, overlooking the entire Jiading City with a telescope.
The current Jiading is actually not big, because the later Ho Chi Minh City was developed from the joint city of Jiading and Saigon, and the current Jiading City is a medium-sized city built next to the Saigon River, and the area is less than one-fifth of the later generations.
However, although it is small, it is indeed a strong city, not to mention the strong city defense, and the Saigon River, which runs through the city and is extremely rich in water, provides a natural barrier for Jiading City.
In addition to the Saigon River, other places are also densely watered, and outside the city of Jiading, which is not close to the Saigon River, a large swamp has been artificially created, and it is impossible to pass through the army.
And it's tropical, and you can't expect the Saigon River to freeze or fill it up.
You must know that in later generations, when the tide is high, the 20,000-ton giant ship can directly drive into the urban area of Ho Chi Minh City, and this big river is the natural danger of Jiading!
On both sides of the Saigon River, the so-called Jiading City, is actually made up of two separate castles.
On the east bank of the Saigon River, about the area of the Ho Chi Minh Memorial Hall in the later generations, is the main city of Jiading today, where Pham Van Sang's camp is also located.
On the west bank of the Saigon River, there is also a small castle called Anqing Fort, which is Western-style and somewhat resembles a fortress.
This castle is backed by the Saigon River, just stuck in the waterway, the area that needs to be defended is small, and there are small boats to transport Jiading Castle.
And Jiading City and Anqing Fort have forty or fifty cannons to block the Saigon River, which is absolutely easy to defend and difficult to attack!
If you follow the current siege routine, even if you smash yourself and Ruan Fuying into the 20,000 people, you may not be able to attack Anqing Fort.
What made Ye Kai even more speechless was that this Anqing Fort was built with the help of the French mercenaries under Ruan Fuying, otherwise with the craftsmanship of the Xishan Dynasty, it would not be possible to build such a thing similar to a European fortress.
There were also cannons on both sides of the Saigon River, which were also removed from Nguyen Phuc Anh's third-class battleship that had been captured by the Tay Son Dynasty.
This Ruan Xiaoqiang is really a minister of enemy logistics like Principal Chang, and both of them like to carry out fake micro-exercises, okay!
And if Anqing Fort can't be captured, then don't expect to be able to capture Jiading City, if you can't capture Jiading City, wait until the Xishan Dynasty sends troops to come, then the fun will be great, and the proper center will bloom! The front and back pinched two flowers, Ye Kai and Ruan Fuying are a dead end!
Although Nguyen Hue is seriously ill now, there are other generals in the Xishan Dynasty, such as Chen Guangyao, Wu Wenyong, Wu Tingxiu and others, who are known as the Seven Tiger Generals of Xishan, and they are all veteran generals who have been in battle for a long time!
Eh, Ruan Phuc Ying has the Five Tiger Generals of Jiading, and the Xishan Dynasty has the Seven Tiger Generals of the West Mountain, Ma De, are these guys in Vietnam too much to watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms or the Heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties?
Similarly, in history, Ruan Phuc Anh suffered a big loss under Anqing Fort, and fought fiercely for more than ten days, but he was never able to capture Anqing Fort.
When Nguyen Phuc Anh's morale was low and the army's morale was exhausted, Pham Van Shen led 3,000 elites to cross the river from Jiading City and attack Nguyen Phuc Anh with the defenders in Anqing Fort.
Ruan Xiaoqiang was suddenly defeated, and the army of the Xishan Dynasty was already about to crush his guards, and when he was almost about to capture the future Emperor Jialong alive, the situation suddenly changed.
You must know that Ruan Fuying's name as a little strong did not come for nothing, at the critical moment when the whole army was about to be destroyed, Ruan Fuying's second brother-in-law, the concubine of Ruan's Yuyu, the princess of Fulu Jiarou, Ye Kai's brother-in-law, and the fierce general Huaiguo Gongwu, suddenly arrived with 4,000 elites!
This one was originally going to help Ruan Phuc Ying clean up the surrounding Xishan Dynasty forces, but it turned out that it was neither early nor too late, and he came back just when Ruan Phuc Ying was most dangerous.
So Fan Wenshen, who was supposed to bloom in the center of Ruan Fuying, turned out to be two flowers, and the martial arts were originally the fierce generals of the Jiading Dynasty, he and Huang Fengde attacked Fan Wenshen one mile and one away, and killed Fan Wenshen and lost his armor, and he couldn't even go back to Jiading City, so he could only choose to run away, so Ruan Xiaoqiang died and successfully captured Jiading.
But this time, there shouldn't be such a thrilling one, Ye Kai took a closer look at the terrain, and he had a plan in his heart.
In history, Nguyen Phuc Anh couldn't defeat Anqing Fort, it was because he escaped from Bangkok in a hurry, and he didn't have many heavy weapons, how could he attack this kind of Anqing Fort, which was similar to a fortress, just by relying on people.
And now Ye Kai, he not only has artillery, but also the top artillery of this era, as well as the mortar cannon that specializes in fighting fortresses, it is simply easy to come up with a parallel siege method.
This kind of thing is almost obsolete in Europe for thirty or fifty years, and any artillery soldier who will not attack the fortress must be unqualified.
When Anqing Fort was captured and the threat of the fort on the west bank of the Saigon River was lifted, Ye Kai could directly drive his battleship into the Saigon River.
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