After a hard day, and another military discussion in the evening, Geng Jimao took a leather whip and angrily whipped the officers who led the team to attack the city. For example, the marshals of the feudal soldiers like Lian Decheng and Xu Degong were silent one by one; Green battalion officers such as Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying trembled and did not dare to make any noise, so as not to be noticed by the little prince who had lost his mind.

The high morale of the Qing army, the overestimation of their own combat strength, and so on, made the Qing army's ability to tolerate casualties much stronger than that of the Ming soldiers in eastern Guangdong who had been in the army for three or five years or at least one or two years.

However, it is precisely because of this ability to bear casualties that they have paid more huge casualties in front of this fortress - this time, Geng Jimao originally planned to use this to directly enter Chaozhou, in order to face the illusion of the opponent Zheng Chenggong has a higher chance of victory, he simply transferred most of the troops of the Jingnan Palace, more than 7,000 troops to go out, supplemented by these two green battalions and Hao Shangjiu in the north. This time to attack Beibao, even if the force is not suitable for expansion, the front and back used nearly 4,000 soldiers, but in the end, they were hit by the iron wall of the fortified city, and paid no less than 800 casualties and a large number of minor and serious injuries.

These are all the Jingnan Wangfu soldiers left by his father to live for him, not those lowly green camp wastes like dogs!

Geng Jimao jumped like thunder, not only because of casualties, but more importantly, because he, as a dignified Manchu prince, was defeated in front of such a small fortress. With such humiliation, how could he be able to swallow this breath?

"Pull out all these wastes for this prince and cut them down!"

"Lord Wang, on the occasion of the war, it is ominous to kill the general. According to the general's opinion, the rod will be reprimanded and the silver will be fined, and they will be punished for their crimes and meritorious service, and they will also be ashamed and courageous. ”

"What Xu Shuai said is very true, and I hope that the prince will think twice."

"The last general seconded."

"The last general seconded."

“……”

Several officers pleaded, Geng Jimao was not as good as his father's ability to control this army, such as Xu Degong and Lian Decheng, since they were his father's cronies and loyal to him, it was naturally difficult to refute the feelings. Moreover, these officers were all in the banner of the Han army, and it was another question whether he would cause dissatisfaction with the Qing court if he killed the flag officer so rashly. Since this is the case, simply use persuasion to let people pull down and fight for a beating.

The officers were dragged down with a thousand thanks, and what followed was nothing more than the screams of sticks. In such an atmosphere, Geng Jimao naturally wouldn't stop there, and simply asked the generals present about the corresponding countermeasures, but the fortress of the Ming army was really beyond their experience, and it took a long time for a voice to timidly say "For today's plan, there is only one way" came out.

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After this fiasco, the Tartars withdrew their troops and would not attack again in the next few days. If I'm not mistaken, Geng Jimao's turtle grandson should have sent someone back to Guangzhou to mobilize the Hongyi cannons, the dozens of Hongyi cannons that they bombarded the city wall of Guangzhou! ”

When it is difficult to break the fortified city, it will be bombarded by Hongyi, which is the habit of the Qing army that has become a patterned use of troops. There was nothing unusual about this, and everyone present agreed with it. However, there is a problem that the Hongyi cannon is powerful, but the weight is not light, and it will take several months to transport it from Guangzhou, just like it was transported from Nanjiang when it was attacked in Guangzhou. And it's already the middle of April, and a few months later, even if it's two or three months, it's the midsummer season of June and July. At that time, those elite feudal soldiers who were born and grew up in Liaodong were afraid that they would not even be able to leave the house, let alone fight.

"When the Tartars are housed, it's winter again. When the time comes, the Lufeng Twin Fortresses designed by the general system will only be stronger and more complex. If the Tartars want to break through again, they have to be fools' dreams! ”

Lufeng Twin Fort is the collective name of these two forts named by Chen Kai, individually the North Fort and the South Fort. The Bastion Building, which originated from the European continent, essentially changed the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, so that no matter what point was attacked in the castle, the attacker would be exposed to more than one bastion surface, and the defender could use crossfire to perform multiple strikes.

Before the advent of the Gunpowder Age, both the European continent and China would build the walls and fortresses very high, in order to prevent the soldiers of the besieging side from quickly climbing the city walls and posing a threat to the defenders. In fact, such as China's Mamian Fort and Urn City, their existence also takes into account the role of attacking siegers from multiple angles. However, after the age of firearms, the height of the fortress was reduced due to the destructive effect of the huge recoil of the defenders' artillery on the wall; The attacking artillery can directly threaten the frontal wall, so there are more changes, making the shape of the fortress more and more different from before.

Even in continental Europe, the birthplace of the fortress, for most of the time, the siege of the fortress was regarded as a desperate task by European soldiers.

Before the French Marshal Vauban took action, European armies could only choose to besiege the fortress, hoping to force the defenders to surrender on their own, rather than attacking them, after exhausting the defenders' food and grass or fighting spirit. This Marshal Vauban was not only an expert in attacking fortresses, but also a genius in building more complex and fortified fortresses, and his construction of Vauban Fortress was famous all over the world, so that France always had a favorable defensive environment in the early and middle stages of modern warfare.

In fact, Chen Kai's design of the Lufeng Twin Fortresses is still not comparable to Vauban Fortress in terms of complexity and sturdiness. He just drew from memory and then modified it according to the principle of concave polygons, which still had a lot of design blind spots. This pair of fortresses is exactly as Ke Chenmei said, and there is still room for further strengthening.

"When it comes to winter, Geng Jimao will be reluctant to let go of Guangzhou's gentle township, and when the time comes, we will work hard to strengthen it, but it may be a blind man."

After laughing, the generals couldn't help but be infected by such an optimistic mood. However, Chen Kai is not blindly optimistic, the fortress is a new thing for the Ming army and the Qing army, the first time the Ming army captured the fortress in history was Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, and the Qing army was the Battle of Yaxa. Both of them have the same ambition to choose the siege to force the defenders to surrender, and Zheng Chenggong's methods are more diverse, but he still can't get out of this category.

Now that the fortress has appeared on the Chinese battlefield at least more than ten years earlier, whether anyone will figure out more ways to do it, in fact, Chen Kai can't predict it. But as far as these figures of the Qing army in Guangzhou, through history, Chen Kai really can't see which one has the potential to use other methods to capture the fortress. What's more, these two fortresses are each other's horns, and behind them is the Luo River controlled by the Ming army, and there are pontoon bridges connecting the east and west, even if the Qing army wants to besiege it, it will not be able to do it at all.

"The only thing to worry about now is Shang Kexi sending someone to France to tie up Vauban here. No, Vauban is only nineteen years old now, and it is estimated that even if he comes, he will not be able to toss a parallel siege method for a while. What's more, Shang Kexi may not even know if France can eat it now, right? ”

Relying on the fortress to consume a large number of Qing troops, whether it is the green battalion or the feudal soldiers, it is really a fool's dream to rely on cold weapons to capture the fortifications of this firearms era.

The beheadings were much less than the casualties counted by the Qing army, because many of the Qing army's heads had been smashed by lead bullets and artillery shells, and there was no way to distinguish them. However, after the two wars, the direct casualties were about 1,500, and the minor and serious injuries were no less than 4,000, and this number is also a very conservative estimate.

For the huge base of the Qing army, this is not a nerve-wracking, but the inferior Ming army held the defensive line and ensured the safety of the rear, and the casualties of their own side can be as small as 30, 50, or 100, but it is worth celebrating and hyping up.

The celebration banquet was a matter of course, but before nightfall, Chen Kai led a group of generals out of the gate of the North Fort and went down to the Shura field by ladder.

The auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army are cleaning the battlefield, and the weapons of the Qing army will be retracted and recast, because Chen Kai only has the three big words of standardization in his eyes; The clothes of the Qing army will be stripped off, and the better ones will be thrown to the coolies to wear, and the bad ones will be made into sandbags and dirt bags, and who knows when they will be used; The corpse of the Qing army, the head is used to remember the merits, and the other parts are thrown directly into the Luo River, floating down the river to the sea, as for the soil for safety, there is no such time, the violent corpse wilderness, Chen Kai is not interested in making any plague out.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and when you stepped into it, the official boots were soon stained with blood and mud mixed with the dirt. Chen Kai didn't mind this, and just walked on until he was once on the bank of the moat, where the broken corpses of the Qing army and the tattered siege equipment painted a dilapidated picture.

Such a scene, coupled with the setting sun at this moment, has a poetic artistic conception. It's just that Chen Kai, walking here, is still attracted by a lone left arm stretched out from the soil on the flat filled by the moat.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we can't realize the great cause of expelling the Tartars and recovering the Han family, such a tragedy will continue to play out in this Chinese homeland where I was born and raised. In a hundred, two hundred years, and perhaps more, more innocent and good will die of the cruelty and tyranny of the Tartars. And others, under the terrifying atmosphere created by the Tartars, will become the same beasts as them, just like the Han army banner people we are facing today, when the Liao incident did not arise, there were a few people who were not honest and good families......"

"Yi Di's theft of China is not just as simple as destroying a Han dynasty, their existence is bound to destroy, and even destroy the great civilization that we have inherited for thousands of years......"

"Today, we may not be able to kill too many Tartars, we may not be able to completely annihilate the soldiers of the Jingnan Domain, and we may not be able to inflict spine-breaking casualties on them, this is due to the reality that the enemy is strong and we are weak. As a side that is at a serious disadvantage, strategy determines tactics, and our army can only take a defensive position on the Guangdong battlefield for the time being. But our efforts will not be in vain, not to talk about the future, only to say that now, with our perseverance on the battlefield in Guangdong, the national surname can fight with the Tartars on the battlefield in southern Fujian without distraction, and the robes of Fujian will also make up for our share with more Tartar lives! ”