Chapter 539 The play must be fully acted

The city wall of Yangzhou in front of you was rebuilt on a piece of ruins after being burned down by a fire from Duoduo six years ago, and it is far less majestic than the original old city in terms of majesty in appearance and solidity in the interior.

Even so, the damage to the south wall of Rujiang Gate seems to be miserable and miserable, with many gaps, but there is still no section that has collapsed.

In this regard, Yang Yuan was not too surprised.

He is also a veteran of Temasek's enlistment, and the instructor mentioned this as early as when the recruits were trained in gunnery – don't underestimate the thickness of the walls, with the current level of artillery, no cannon can easily collapse rammed earth walls, not even mortar shells......

However, this round of artillery fire had basically destroyed the defense system at the head of the city, and in the telescope, he could hardly see any signs of the defenders returning fire. &1t;i>&1t;/i>

In Yang Yuan's opinion, this is enough.

If Yangzhou City is really beaten to pieces, even if the Tartars don't run, if it causes a fire and causes too many casualties among the people, Company Commander He's face will definitely not look good.

Because they all know that unlike the government, what their Hou Ye values most is people, and for the Hou Ye, a broken city is nothing unusual, and the people are the most critical "spoils......

"The ships are a little closer, and the second round of artillery fire is ready!"

He lowered his binoculars and commanded faintly.

Fang Cai's results almost all came from his "Beagle".

After all, the four ships of the shelling formation, in fact, only a few heavy guns of the "Beagle" had enough range, and they were not afraid of the counterattack fire of the Tartars at all.

Due to the lack of range, the remaining three small boats were basically far away behind the flanks, and Chen Liuyu asked them to join the formation, but in fact, it was just to protect the two wings and strictly prevent the Tartar fire from suddenly jumping out of the harbor to attack the ships. &1t;i>&1t;/i>

At the moment, the Tartars have nothing to fight back, and they can also move forward and swing their firepower more unscrupulously.

Actually, Yang Yuan still has a little regret.

After all, he is an infantryman, and according to the offensive mode of siege warfare that he is familiar with, even if there is no second round of strikes at this time, he can move an assault.

In his vision, the fire of naval guns and carbines was responsible for suppressing the counterattack of the defenders at the head of the city, and the infantry used a ladder to climb the city after boarding the 6th, and a charge should be able to take the city defense.

If he really wants to do this, Yang Yuan feels that he will undoubtedly gain the credit of the Yangzhou Campaign.

However, he also knew that this was just his own imagination - the battle plan did not allow him to do it at all.

This time, their combat intentions were very clear - the troops outside the southern city were just "containing", feinting to attack the Jiangmen, and trying to attract the attention of the Tartars, the real purpose was to reduce the pressure on the west of the city. &1t;i>&1t;/i>

Therefore, his own credit can only be "auxiliary".

"Volleys of cannons, beat them hard!"

As soon as the ships arrived, Yang Yuan issued a second round of attack orders.

This time, he had no intention of skimping on shells.

Although it was a feint, he still hoped to open a few more openings for Yangzhou City, so that the Tartars defending the city could have a good understanding of the power of the guns of the captured warships, and they were completely shrouded in the fear that the captive army would break the city at any time......

According to his observations, their marquis is a stingy and generous freak, every time he finishes a battle, it is really a baht to collect spoils, and he has the meaning of losing money if he doesn't pick up money when he goes out, although he doesn't see how particular he is about food and housing.

However, when building and fighting, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, and he did not blink an eyelid - in the face of human life, everything else is a floating cloud...... &1t;i>&1t;/i>

For a while, all kinds of artillery began to pour tongues of fire again, large and small shells whistling across the river, first landing on the dock outside the south gate, smashing several houses, and then knocking down a female wall battlement, and then digging more than a dozen holes in the city tower, and causing a small fire.

However, there was still no sound on the city, not even the sporadic return fire was gone, and no soldiers ran out of the city to put out the fire......

Seeing this scene, Yang Yuan frowned, he suddenly thought about it, and ran to the gun deck in person.

Under his command, three 24-pounder cannons were all aimed at the city gates, and the rest of the guns also tried to cooperate as much as possible to blast the city gates open.

He knew that no matter how strong the city defense was, there was a common weakness, and that was the city gate.

Walls can be made of solid rammed earth, but the gates can only be made of wood, and at most a layer of copper is a luxury, and they are really vulnerable to cannonballs, let alone 24-pounder guns that can easily penetrate the ship's planks. &1t;i>&1t;/i>

Since the feint attack is to be carried out, it is necessary to make the feint attack full of weight, so that the Tartars mistakenly think that the direction of the feint attack is the main direction of the attack -- the play must be fully staged, and the momentum must be large......

The guns adjusted their firing angles one after another, and smashed the solid bullets in the direction of the city gate, and these cast-iron cannonballs smashed on the wooden city gate, which felt like they were hitting tissue paper, and suddenly smoke and dust billowed ......

However, after a long while, when the smoke cleared, Yang Yuan not only smiled dumbly after seeing the situation inside the city gate.

Through the binoculars, he saw that the city gate was not a normal thoroughfare leading to the city at all, but a mound of earth that had been bombarded with holes......

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You Ji is a native of Jinhua Mansion, Zhejiang, and has been a personal soldier for Admiral Ma Jinbao for more than two years.

Eat good food and get a good salary, and the family thinks he is a good errand. &1t;i>&1t;/i>

Although the training as a pro-soldier is strict, there are many errands, and once a war is fought, it is much better than that of ordinary soldiers.

In these years, it is a great luck to be able to be a personal soldier for the Admiral-at least compared to the families around the generals, they do not have many opportunities to go into battle, so the Youji people are very satisfied with their current situation.

It's a pity that just after the New Year this year, the good luck of the Youji people is over.

The Ming thieves rushed to Zhejiang, and the Ma Admiral stationed in Jinhua was defeated without a fight, and after retreating all the way to Hangzhou, he was squeezed out by the governor, and tens of thousands of soldiers under his command were all cannon fodder except for the standard soldiers......

As a personal soldier, he didn't even have time to see his family and fled to Jiangbei in a hurry with the Admiral, and it was not until Yangzhou that he gained a firm foothold again.

For more than a month, he has been in a foreign land, and he can be said to be in Cao Ying's heart in Han, thinking about his parents at home every day, but he has no choice but to sigh and cry secretly.

This time, Admiral Ma wanted to "fight the winner" with the Ming thieves in Yangzhou, and their own soldiers had to "work together" to sell their lives, and everyone muttered: "This time, eighty percent of them have to take their lives." ”

Although there is a danger of dying, there are still not many people who run away - the risk is too great, there is still a chance to survive if you don't run, and if you slip away and get caught, you will die.

Finally, maybe the ancestors of the Youji people appeared, or maybe he was clever himself, he was not assigned to the one-eyed dragon's supervision camp, but was left in the governor's mansion as a householder, although he did all the work of guarding and doing miscellaneous work, he finally didn't have to go into battle to fight hard.

Today, he watched several old friends from the past being sent out of the city to fight against the fierce thieves on the brunt of the battle, and his heart was both sad and secretly happy.

At present, he and nine other family members were assigned to General Meng Shen and rushed to the south gate with him......