Hong Chengchou still remembers Lu Guisheng's emphasis on the Ming army's most powerful firearms being artillery.

This artillery was different from the red-coated cannon of the Ming army, but a lighter artillery.

The artillery was equipped with a base and pulleys underneath, which could be pushed forward by the soldiers.

This shocked Hong Chengchou.

After all, the Qing army's red-coated artillery needed horses to pull it, while the Ming army's artillery was pushed by soldiers.

This convenience brings great possibilities for flexible operation on the battlefield.

According to Lu Guisheng, the artillery of the Ming army was different from ordinary cannons, only solid shells, and there were also flowering shells.

This flowering projectile can explode either in the air or after landing.

Either way, it's far more powerful than solid buckshot.

After all, solid buckshot relies on crushing and inertia.

Flowering shells can inflict damage to soldiers within a considerable radius.

Lu Guisheng said that he had personally heard the Son of Heaven say that the best way to deal with this kind of artillery was to dig trenches.

A trench is a kind of tunnel, but the depth of the excavation is not as deep as that of a normal tunnel, but the length is long and meandering, which can protect the soldiers to the greatest extent.

Breastwalls are built in the trenches to further block damage from artillery and firearms.

After all, the power of the Ming army's firearms is also very great.

Progressing step by step based on the trenches sounds like a good choice.

It's just that Hong Chengchou feels that the amount of work involved in digging trenches is indeed a bit scary.

Even if the nearly 100,000 troops in the city were mobilized, it would be difficult to dig up before the Ming army arrived.

If you want to dig trenches well in a short period of time, you must catch strong men to do hard labor.

Hong Chengchou was originally unwilling, after all, this is a bit unpopular and easy to make people complain, but the enemy can only try it at present.

Hong Chengchou is a decisive character, and since he has decided to do so, he will immediately pass the order.

The order of the five provinces is still very weighty, at least for the officials of Nanchang City.

For a time, the officials of various yamen, the Qing soldiers went into battle, and began to knock on the door from street to street.

All males over the age of 15 are to be arrested.

For a time, the cries of the old and young women shook the city.

The Qing soldiers and officials ignored it, and when they encountered stubbornness, they simply tied them up with iron chains and took them away.

It is better for these people to dig trenches than for them to dig themselves.

What's more, they are the ones who defend the city, and these people are just exerting some strength, what's the big deal.

"Master Jun, you are gracious, my family is such a lone seedling. He's still a kid! ”

When a woman saw that the Qing soldiers had bound her son and were about to take her away, she fell to her knees and wailed.

"Master Jun, my son is just fourteen this year, and he is less than fifteen."

"Fart! Lao Tzu saw that he was so tall, let alone fifteen, sixteen or seventeen should have it. If you stupid woman make noise here again and interfere with our official duties, she will tie you up and take you away!" ”

"Master Jun, you will be kind and kind. Who doesn't have children and who doesn't have a grandmother, my son is really a child! ”

The soldier kicked impatiently at the woman: "Get out!" ”

"Ahh

The woman was kicked over by the Qing soldiers, and she wept bitterly, wailing, snot, and tears.

She watched her son being dragged away like a dead dog by the Qing soldiers, and her mentality was completely blown up.

"Oh my God, open your eyes! I really don't let people live! ”

Similar situations were happening in the city, where the Qing soldiers treated them like pigs and dogs.

But no one dared to resist. Because the Qing soldiers had knives and guns in their hands, they would be punched, kicked or even hacked to death if they resisted a little.

Where do ordinary people have a place to reason?

Nanchang City is a provincial capital with a large population.

The Qing army captured 70,000 or 80,000 strong men in less than half a day.

These strong men, who ranged from sixty or seventy years old to fourteen or fifteen years old, were all driven outside the city by the Qing soldiers to start digging trenches.

The trench itself was not too difficult to excavate, and Hong Chengchou ordered people to dig according to Lu Guisheng's description.

These strong men dare not speak of hardship, so they can only bury their heads in hard work.

Those who were more fortunate were given shovels and hoes, and those who were less fortunate could only dig and plane with their hands.

Some people can only grit their teeth and continue to dig blood from their hands, and if they stop for a moment, they will be whipped on their bodies.

The whip made a crunch on his body, and his clothes burst open, revealing an earthworm-like streak of blood.

"Who dares to be lazy, Lao Tzu skinned him!"

The soldiers who oversaw the work were all arrogant, and treated these strong men like livestock.

I have to say that Hong Jingluo's method is very useful.

These strong men are idle anyway, so they can squeeze all their strength.

As for whether there will be anyone who will die of hard labor, the Qing soldiers don't care at all.

In the past, the canal was dredged, and when the river was excavated, there were many people who died, and there was nothing to see.

Anyway, these people are leeks, cutting stubble after stubble.

If this batch dies, there will be a new one coming up.

At this rate, at most, all the trenches requested by Hong Jinglu can be dug out in a day or two.

"Does this thing really work? Able to defend against artillery? ”

"It's hard to say, but since Hong Jingluo said so, we just do it, and there is nothing wrong with it."

"That's just as well."

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Countless crows swirled in the air, and they let out a strange cry in frustration.

From time to time, coolies died of exhaustion, and the corpses were dug and buried in a hurry.

The air was filled with the smell of rancidity, mixed with the smell of blood, which was disgusting.

Under Hong Chengchou's strict orders, all the strong men worked at full capacity, and finally dug the trenches on time, but the situation was also very miserable.

In addition to exhausting many strong men, most of the strong men were also smoked full of scars and wailed.

They looked into the distance with numb eyes, not knowing what they were desperately digging the trenches for.

Defend against the Ming army?

But what's in it for you?

The Ming army won't hurt these people, right?

For the Qing army, having already captured the strong men, they naturally couldn't let them go back so easily.

Hong Chengchou ordered these strong men to build a chest wall.

According to Lu Guisheng, the breastwork should be used in conjunction with the trenches to be most effective.

Hong Chengchou chose to believe in Lu Guisheng once, after all, he had no other choice than that.

Once the success is achieved, it doesn't matter how many soldiers die for the sake of the Qing Dynasty's eternal inheritance, let alone some untouchables.

These pariahs are not even minions, and their value is limited to that.

If their corpses can be used as nourishment to nourish the land of the Qing Dynasty, it will be regarded as a great achievement.

Hong Chengchou knew very well that this battle was related to the general strategy and direction of the Qing court in the next few years, so he had to do his best to take out all the moves at the bottom of the box.

Whether it's Zhu Youlang or Li Dingguo. Or Zheng Chenggong, Li Laiheng.

Let the horses come!

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