Chapter 538 is the best of both worlds

Report to the Lord

At this moment, a herald rushed over in a panic.

Well?

Ma Jinbao was stunned, what happened?

My lord

The herald ran out of breath, snorting and snorting, and the thieves in the south of the city were in a hurry

What the?

Ma Jinbao's body was shocked, and he almost stumbled.

However, when he heard that it was the south of the city and not the north of the city, he immediately reacted and scolded: What are you panicking about!

Uh-huh

How many people, do you see clearly?

When the herald had taken a breather, he asked in a deep voice.

Much, a lot

Fart!

Ma Jinbao pressed the hilt of the sword in his hand, and he scolded angrily!

Damn! These two cadres stationed in Nancheng are really incompetent! Shocked, I can't afford any!

The main force of the Ming thieves is still in Shanyang, how many people are there in total?

The battle in the west of the city is so fierce, how many people will attack over there? Naturally, it's just a false shot, trying to reduce the pressure on this side!

Back to adults, it is a lot of ships

The herald took a breath and was finally able to reply normally.

Where's the attack?

Outside the Ruru River Gate.

Darn!

As soon as he heard this, Ma Jinbao was angry and couldn't wait to immediately draw his sword and cut this kid.

Outside the Rujiang Gate? Isn't this a lie about military intelligence?

The team in the south of the city has long shrunk into the city, and there is no one stationed outside the city, and the fleet of thieves is approaching the city gate and still needs to attack? Still in a hurry?

Was there a siege at all? Let's be honest!

Back to my lord, I attacked,

The herald cowered and said, the thief artillery is fierce, our lord

All right!

Ma Jinbao waved his hand vigorously and shouted, no need to ask, he knows everything.

After a little groaning, he turned his head and called Meng Tietou: General Meng!

Mark it in!

It must be those cowards who are afraid of the enemy like tigers, bothering you to go over and see,

Ma Jinbao frowned and said, if there is a person who escapes from the battle, you can deal with it on the spot

Military Gate

Meng Tietou frowned after hearing this, but he just bowed.

The endgame here

Ma Jinbao sighed lightly, shook his head and said, let's clean it up by Ben Shuai himself.

subscript

Meng Tietou looked up at him, and said in his heart, are you kidding? Isn't my new army still outside the city to cover your lineage?

Call me a bare-bones commander, and take a dozen of his own soldiers to the south of the city to bomb and suppress?

You can rest assured, this commander sent a team of personal soldiers to go with you,

Ma Jinbao was not stupid, so he naturally understood what he meant, and comforted that after the new army entered the city, Ben Shuai would order them to rush over immediately.

Obey the order!

Meng Tietou finally reluctantly accepted his life.

Well

Ma Jinbao nodded and said, if the thief really attacks, you should know how to deal with it.

Whew!

Meng Tietou hugged his fists and replied, rest assured that the military gate is not only heavy artillery but also tiger squat artillery at the head of the city, and it will be able to seal the city gate, as long as the flintguns under the mark arrive in time, the left and right will not let the thieves succeed!

Well, thank you!

Ma Jinbao waved his hand, then looked out of the city with a tired face, and stopped speaking.

The one who is attacking with artillery in the south of the city, needless to say, is naturally Chen Liuyu's department.

According to the plan, his fleet, with the cooperation of two platoons of the guard company, only needed to occupy Wenfeng Tower, and then further blockade the Rujiang Gate, and the purpose of the campaign was achieved.

Because, according to the meaning of He Shouxin, they could not rashly attack the city, on the one hand, if they attacked too fiercely, they were afraid that they would stab the hornet's nest and increase the risk of the Tartars scattering and fleeing.

On the other hand, if the Tartars abandon the city and flee, they will set fire to it before leaving, which will fall into their trap.

Therefore, they went all the way north along the canal, but they did not meet any decent resistance, and after successfully reaching the outside of the Rujiang Gate, they had nothing to do.

The Tartars stationed at the head of the city of Rujiangmen were unusually honest, and in the face of a strong enemy, they neither artillery, nor did they open the city to meet them, and there was no sound on the city wall, and there was almost no movement.

It seems that the Tartars are also good at learning.

Since the Battle of Nanchang and the defeat of two generals, Chen Tai and Jin Li, they have not fired indiscriminately at targets outside the firing range, let alone exposed to the superior firepower of the thieves, and have casually engaged in field wave battles, which has become the consensus of the generals up and down

However, if the Tartar does not fire, it does not mean that Chen Liuyu will not do it.

Listening to the sound of gunfire in the west of the city, he was a little anxious.

Looking at the situation, the Tartar did jump off the wall in a hurry, and the manpower on Company Commander He's side was too small, and the pressure on him could be imagined.

At a certain point, Chen Liuyu wanted to discuss with Yang Yuan, the deputy commander of the guard company, several times to see if he could ask him to bring reinforcements.

However, before the war, He Shouxin had already warned him not to blindly underestimate the enemy - the west gate was blocked, and the south gate was the best breakthrough direction that the Tartars could think of.

After some hard thinking, he naturally thought of a two-pronged way to attract Tartar troops and reduce the pressure on He Shouxin.

So, he found Yang Yuan.

Of course, Yang Yuan was also very anxious, and after some discussion, the two decided to act immediately, and Yang Yuan personally commanded the Beagle, led the other three small warships to approach the city gate, made a siege posture, and fired at the city.

At the sound of the order, the ships approached, and more than a dozen naval guns opened fire at the same time, pouring cannons into the city.

For fear of causing a fire, they did not dare to use incendiary bombs, and all the cannons fired solid bullets, and the walls were still filled with smoke, and from time to time there were flickering fires

Because the smoke from the artillery was too thick, after a few rounds, Yang Yuan ordered to suspend the shooting, on the one hand to cool the body tube, and on the other hand, let the smoke disperse a little, so that it was easier to observe the results of the battle.

In less than a bag of cigarettes, the smoke on the city wall and the smoke on the ship were cleared, Yang Yuan raised the binoculars, observed the Yangzhou city wall after the shelling, and read out two poems that he didn't know from which strength: The wind is blowing and the clouds are flying, and the cannons are bombarding his mother!

The results of the first round of shelling were good, and the entire wall near the Rujiangmen tower could no longer be called complete, and even the tall enemy tower had been half destroyed by the shells.

Yang Yuan swallowed his saliva and nodded with satisfaction.

Although he only had one Beagle on hand, which could be regarded as a large gunboat, the rest of the ships, even in Zheng's army, could only be called troop carriers, and each ship was equipped with two medium-sized tiger squat guns.

However, it seems that the power of the Beagle's guns alone is enough to produce great destructive power, and each shot can knock off a large chunk of the wall, leaving countless small gaps.

In the shot, the defensive facilities such as the battlements of the horse-faced female wall on the city wall have been bombarded with holes under artillery fire, and these traditional fortifications built of masonry are very fragile after the artillery is clear.

However, fortunately, it was only a feint, and Yang Yuan felt that if he really wanted to rely on artillery to collapse the city wall, it would still be difficult - the biggest problem was the city wall itself.

The ancient Chinese city walls, for thousands of years, were almost all rammed earth construction, the thickness is at least one zhang away, the rammed wall is very thick and strong, as long as the maintenance is proper, it can last for many years.

Most of the city walls of the Ming Dynasty were built in the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, and those that were not destroyed at the end of the Ming Dynasty were not only mostly used in the late Qing Dynasty, but even after the city bricks were removed, it was still a continuous earth mountain after a hundred years.

Such a wall could not be done with traditional breech guns alone, directly opening in the wall.