Despicable and not despicable and put aside, the battlefield is about being useful or not!

How could Zheng Zhilong's trick not work?

It's useless, Hauge will scold angrily?

Relying on this trick, in the first half of the night, Zheng Zhilong swept the two Qing army defense lines outside Tongzhou City, and the innermost one failed to make persistent efforts, the reason was not that the pepper bomb was not used inappropriately, but because there were several small fortresses outside Tongzhou City.

It was Buckhouse who was responsible for building it.

Each fortress is not large, but no matter how big the fortress is, it is not something that Zheng Jun can take in the dark light.

Shi Lang on the front line immediately stopped after suffering a loss.

People are hiding behind a thick earthen parapet and shooting and cannons, you can't hit people, what else can you do? The fireworks in the sky are constantly being set off, so that you can't get close to them quietly.

What's more, the Tartar is not an immutable fool, and after seeing Zheng Jun's mortar and grenades, he added a lid to the fortress.

The thigh-thick logs were covered in rows on the head, and even if the mortar grenade really fell on the top of the head, it couldn't hurt the people below.

Originally, it was an open-air fortress, but now it is a bit of a closed one.

Fighting to the death is just sending them to death, and the Tartars now also have grenades and scattered bullets, and no matter how many people there are, it is useless. Shi Lang saw that the situation was not good, and immediately shouted to stop.

But on the whole, it was very tight to get such results overnight.

After dawn, the artillery bombardment of the Zheng army was still deafening. Seriously, it's pretty much useless to those little bastions.

The building of the fortress is not tall, but low, so that it can avoid enemy shelling. This thing appeared on the battlefields of Europe at a time when artillery was just beginning to become the undisputed dominant player on the battlefield. Stone cannonballs can easily break through walls, and metal cannonballs can pierce through the parapets between bunkers, a destructive force that can crumble towering castles at the touch of a button – their impregnable days are gone.

From then on, in order to avoid the ballistics of artillery, the castle designers gradually abandoned the tall and sturdy parapets and towers that reached into the sky, and instead designed the military buildings closer to the surface to make them hidden in the ground. Strict geometry was incorporated into this complex construction technique – all the side fortifications in the castle were basically made up of trapezoids and triangles.

The trapezoidal shape refers to the height up and down, and the low level of the fortress can't block the enemy, so you only need to thoroughly clean the soil and sand in front of the fortress, dig a pit, and look out of the pit from the bottom of the pit, will this height come back again? The triangular composition is a striking surface with sharp corners pointing outwards and not leaving a vertical angle on the front.

Second, it is thick. No matter how bad the wall thickness of the fortress is, it is not less than three feet, and Zheng Zhilong has detailed information about these fortresses outside Tongzhou City, and the wall thickness is between four feet and five feet. In addition, the resistance of the earthen parapet to cannonballs is much more powerful than that of stone, which may sound ridiculous at first glance, but it has been tested in practice.

People overcome rigidity with softness, rather than fighting hard with shells.

Therefore, don't look at Zheng Jun's artillery is very cheerful, but in essence, it is useless against the fortress at all.

What can make the enemy in the bastion feel threatened is the zigzag trenches that keep digging forward.

Zheng Zhilong remembered that in European history, there was a French marshal named Vauban who was an architectural genius, whether it was the design and construction of the fortress or his attack on the fortress, it was remarkable. He even came up with a siege method for the fortress, but unfortunately, he couldn't remember a word of the content.

The only way he could come up was to dig a tunnel and get close to the Tartar's fortress, while breaking the lid on top of the Tartar's head as much as possible.

As long as there is no cover overhead, send the cannonballs to the surface of the fortress and sweep away the defenders, artillery and gunners of the city.

and then attack the later bunker in the middle and rear of the fortress, this is the siege method that Zheng Zhilong came up with after thinking about it over and over again.

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Standing in the trench on the side of the fortress, Martai was polishing his saber with the masonry of the trench, and a green flag was planted behind him, indicating the identity of the soldiers around him.

In the first battle of the war, he was assigned to the Green Battalion. This is something that Martai never expected.

Yesterday he was still a third-class guard by Hauge's side, although he was only sixteen years old and had just been transferred from the capital, but as a son of the Niu Colu clan and the grandson of Yidu, one of the five ministers, he deserved it.

Promoted from a third-class guard to a first-class guard, and then transferred to the Green Banner Soldier as a deputy general or something, and slowly worked to the rank of Admiral, then he was qualified to return to the Eight Banners to play a role.

This is the route that Martai has been set for a long time.

But he really didn't expect that this plan was not as fast as the change, and in the blink of an eye, he was pushed to the front line and oversaw the battle.

Last night, the defenders were defeated, I don't know how many men and horses were lost, many green flags were messed up, and the groups of defeated soldiers have not yet been fully organized.

And the officers also suffered a lot of losses.

Hauge couldn't let these Green Flag defeated soldiers mess up, so he simply organized them in units of thousands of people, and then sent his guards to pick up the beams.

Martai, who had never even touched the battlefield before, had to drive ducks to the shelves.

This guy's martial arts are pretty good, after all, it's a real tartar. At this time, the high-level Tartars had not yet been corrupted, but when he was asked to lead the troops into battle, Martai was really tender like a delicate yellow flower girl.

But he still had to come to the front - such a precarious place.

In the last layer of the trenches, Hauge sent out all his guards, such as rookies like Martai, who were sent to the trenches to supervise the battle. It was really a big defeat in the night, which hurt the morale of the defenders too much.

Originally, there were three layers of defense line, especially the first night of Zheng Jun's killing, and Zheng Jun was repelled once.

But who would have expected that people would make a move, and they would take down two layers of defense in the first half of the night. There is a fortress in this third layer of defense, and it is difficult to make this thing fake, but although I dare to guarantee that Zheng Zhilong has nothing else to look for, and the fortress will be done? In that case, Tongzhou City will be finished.

Martai sharpened his saber, hoping that the sword left behind by his own son would bring him martial luck. Suddenly, there was a roar in his ears, and the sound was different from the sound of Zheng Jun's cannon. Hurriedly raised his head to see that his own artillery at the head of the city was firing one after another.

Martai didn't stretch out his head to look and knew that Zheng Jun's trench must have been dug closer.

A puff of dust and smoke rose from the southern position, and almost at the same time, the screams of mortar shells burst through the air!

Even if this cannonball can't hit the Qing army at all, the cannonball still has to hit, and the rising gunpowder smoke can finally obscure the vision.

Martai has been sharpening his knife, he is not worried that this cannonball can fall on his head, he is a child of the Niu Colu clan, how can he have such a back, he will be stunned by the cannonball and fall into the narrow tunnel?

What's more, Zheng Jun's artillery fire was all aimed at the fortress.

But ......, people really can't just set up flags!

It was only after a while that a sharp voice came into his ears, and the sound was really getting closer and closer!

Frightened, Martai didn't have time to get up when he saw a black shadow fall two or three feet away on the right side of the tunnel, and the iron bullet hit impartially and landed right in the trench. As soon as Martai screamed, the man threw himself out.

There was a scream and a bang, but it was the cannonball that ignited half a bucket of powder on the side.

Thanks to the fact that the powder was open, the power of the powder was greatly reduced after the explosion, and the Martai people were lifted high by a wave of qi, and then smashed heavily on the side wall of the tunnel, and their whole body was numb.

But his life is still alive.

His face was wet, his nose smelled bloody, and he struggled to get up to look at the trench, the smoke was filled, and the terrible screams came out, and the soldiers on the left and right all left and right left and left one after another. Then two of his attendants stumbled over, and they looked at Martai nervously, and opened their mouths in Martai's ear to say something, but Martai couldn't hear it clearly.

It is true that Zheng Jun was blocked in front of the fortress, but the scene in this trench is not real?

Martai was only a member of the Qing army, and he was lucky that he did not die; He can encounter this unfortunate thing when he squats in the trenches, and then it is his misfortune again.

Luck and misfortune have a great impact on the fate of an individual. But on the battlefield, the fate of the individual is so insignificant to the outcome of the entire battle.

The rest of the battlefield progression is a microcosm of the previous one. Under the bombardment of the Qing artillery, the soldiers of the Zheng army dug the tunnel little by little, and the mortar bombs exploded on the battlefield one by one. More importantly, this can give great spiritual comfort to the Zheng soldiers who are digging trenches.

Martai was lucky not to be hurt and sat up staggeringly, "Dog minion." Don't hurry up and help me to sit. The fear in his eyes quickly disappeared, and his mouth began to scold Zheng Jun with a nagging voice.

After being assigned to the trenches, he knew that he would probably give his life here. But that's a life, what are you afraid of?

It has not been a day or two since the Manchu Qing Dynasty fought with Zheng Zhilong, and the ministers of the Eight Banners who died in his hands were not one or two. Aixin Jueluo's family has lost several of them, and their two uncles (Turge and Yierden) are all defeated under Zheng Zhilong, so what's so unusual about him dying in Tongzhou?

Although he was only sixteen years old, he was really not afraid of death.

Compared with death, Martai was more worried about disgrace to his ancestors.

Soon there was no moaning in the trenches, the latter were carried away, and as for where it would be sent, Martai knew very well, but many of the low-ranking minions did not know.

There were no screams or moans in the tunnel, but there were whispers of crying.

Martai's eyes lit up with a fierce light, and he didn't want to hear the cry now. Is he afraid of death? Afraid. If he could, he would never want to die. But he will not surrender, he will not run away, and he will not cry. The cry was a coward in Martai's eyes.

He stood up with his knife in his hand, glancing at everyone like an eagle, and his crying immediately ceased. After two screams, blood stained the soles of Martai's shoes red, "If you dare to disturb the morale of the army, behead!" ”