"Uncle, the Chang Shengjun has arrived!"

Yang Huan said.

At this time, they had moved to the south, just overlooking the position of Hengshan Fort, and the pursuing Dangkou army also stopped at the bottom of the mountain, because further forward they would enter the fire coverage of Hengshan Fort. Although this fortress does not have an eighteen-pound cannon, there are still a lot of nine-pound or twelve-pound artillery, and it condescendingly locks the entire Hengshan Pass, with its back to the swampy wetland on the shore of Taihu Lake.

Except for a part of the Chang'an army that fled to Hengshan Fort, the vast majority of the rest all withdrew to the east of Hengshan Pass.

But they suffered heavy losses.

In fact, less than 400 corpses of the Chang'an army were collected on the battlefield, and another 600 were injured and surrendered simply before they had time to escape, and more than 1,000 were captured or surrendered on their own initiative.

That is to say, the Chang'an Army, with a total strength of only more than 5,000 people, lost nearly half of it this time.

It's miserable.

Yang Xin held the binoculars and quietly looked at the east side of Hengshan Pass.

The victorious army arrived for reinforcements.

This regiment, with a total strength of five Dutch-style provisional regiments or ten infantry battalions, plus a cavalry battalion and a heavy artillery battalion, is the most combat-effective of these regiments at present, and they are also the first to be Dutchized. And the core of Chang Shengjun is also the sand boat sailors of the Chongming Shen family, or it can also be said that the smuggling gang, the Chongming Shen family has been a maritime merchant for generations, and it would be a joke to say that there was no smuggling in the past. Therefore, his soldiers' will to fight must be greater than that of the Chang'an Army, and the training time is also longer, and even many people have fought, and the Dutch have the most among the officers, so it can be said that the Dutch officers are all worthy of the sentry level.

The officer, who was said to be a graduate of Prince Morris's military academy, was there with him.

can be regarded as Shen Tingyang's chief of staff.

Comparable to the regular winners.

"Kong Youde, it's started!"

Yang Huan said.

Yang Xin quickly turned to Toumao Peak, where the smoke was rising, and even with the telescope, he could see the faint traces of smoke in the sky, which was brought up by the mortar shells, which meant that Kong Youde began to bombard the Xishan Fort.

Needless to say, the next is Mao Feng, the counteroffensive leader of the Changsheng Army.

And what he needs to do is......

"Fire!"

Yang Xin said.

In front of him, four mortars spewed flames into the sky, followed by shells that shot straight into the sky.

But not flowering bombs.

He doesn't have many flowering shells, these are brought in the north, and they must be concentrated to bombard the Xishan Fort for Kong Youde, so this side can only use mortar cannons to shoot solid shells, but these mortar cannons are not really used to open Hengshan Fort, and the real cannons are being transported to this side.

At this time, in the valley where the battle had just ended, and even the blood had not yet dried up, a ploughing ox was being driven by its master, and it was quite difficult to march forward, and behind them were four cannons weighing five thousand pounds, or eighteen pounds. These heavy cannons, dragged by the ploughing oxen driven by the militia and pushed hard by the militia behind, moved forward little by little along a road that needed to be paved with logs from time to time.

They are too heavy.

And the soil in the south of the Yangtze River is too soft, and you can't go without paving things.

There are also countless militias in the positions of these cannon designs, but they are all below ground level, and these nearby reservist militia are struggling to dig, starting from the fire coverage of Yokoyama Fort, and a communication trench specially designed for artillery is stretching forward.

In order to collapse the outer wall of Hengshan Fort, these cannons had to be as close as possible, but Hengshan Fort was condescending and could easily use cannonballs to kill and injure the cannons, and if you wanted to transport these four cannons, you had to dig a trench that sloped forward. As for the fact that these cannons are pushed up from the ditch, they are not needed, as long as the attack surface is dug in front of them, and the high Hengshan Fort can be shot in the trench, but before that it is necessary to build a parapet in front of their position.

This is the main way in which Europe attacked those bastions.

Dig inclined or even zigzag communication trenches, zigzag forward, but not the kind of World War I, which are actually much wider, and when they reach a certain distance, they turn to digging trenches parallel to the bastion, and then the artillery is transported to the front through this system.

Twenty-four pounds is the most effective.

This was the lesson of the Spaniards in Holland, who usually had two kinds of heavy artillery, forty-eight and twenty-four, but twenty-four was the most effective.

There were also heavy mortars.

Sixty-eight-pound solid bullets were fired and smashed down.

In fact, there are many more, because the simple cannon bombardment of the city wall does not guarantee the breakthrough of the fortress, so this offensive system supported entirely by trenches has to be extended, all the way to the forefront, digging to the position where the defenders are fired at close range. Then there is Li Yunlong's set, but it is not a grenade, there are also grenades, so Yang Xin also made a bunch of horsetail grenades, and the really more popular weapon that fires at close range is a gun grenade.

Well, it should be called that.

In fact, it was a very thick but short musket with a grenade in it, and it was lit and shot.

Effect......

Leave it to fate!

As for digging tunnels, it is also the main means, but in fact it is not easy, because this is what the defenders are most likely to defend against, and even two-thirds of the sappers will die in the tunnels they dig, and the defenders will deal with it by pouring sulfur and poisonous smoke into the tunnels.

Vaubant himself was not a fan of blasting.

His standard siege tactics are constantly digging zigzag trenches, zigzag trenches are connected to parallel trenches, parallel trench cannons, one is not enough to continue forward, and there is more than one zigzag trench, and eventually three circles of parallel trenches are dug around the target, and several zigzag trenches are used to penetrate, and the innermost circle can be dug directly under the slope protection of the fortress.

Of course, Yang Xin doesn't have to be so troublesome.

He did not believe that the defenders of Yokoyama Fort could hold on to the city walls after they were bombarded by twenty-four pounders.

And he has other tricks.

"What are your origins?"

Yang Xin said as he stood in front of those regimental exercises who had surrendered.

The latter is indeed favoured.

The wounded were healed, and the rest squatted there guarding a large cauldron of salty rice, which looked like pig food, but was full of the smell of spices, and Yang Dudu liked to feed his soldiers.

Rice.

Canned fish.

Cuisine.

Now with locust powder.

All of them are poured into the cauldron, boiled to a pulp, and then one person holds the bowl and sucks it, every time the meal is opened, the sound is like a pig farm, but this thing is the favorite of the soldiers, there is rice and meat, there is enough salt, enough spices, and even sugar, which they used to regard as a luxury!

Now these surrenders are the same.

They looked at Yang Dudu with some fear.

"Sit down, I'm just here to talk to you about family life, I'm just very strange, if you want to say what Zhaoyi City is like now, you people won't know, the last time I went to this area for disaster relief, you all know who I am, then I'm very strange, why do you block me for those landlords?

Don't say you're all landlords.

If you were landlords, you would not have done such a hard work.

If my guess is correct, most of you must be tenants of the landlords, right?

You don't want to divide the land? ”

Yang Xin said.

He's starting to demagogue again.

"Back to the Hou Ye, the small one is the patriarch who is looking for it, the small one is the weaver, he makes a living by spinning, and there is no land at home, so he buys cotton spinning yarn and sells yarn to eat, the patriarch said that being a soldier not only earns more than me spinning, but also can glorify the ancestors."

A descendant said cautiously.

"And how much pay have you earned over the years?"

Yang Xin said.

"Back to Master Hou, the little one has been in office for two years, and he earned a total of seventy-two taels, but because he did something wrong, he was fined another five taels, and there are sixty-seven taels left."

The man said.

"Then you should have a good life!"

Yang Xin said.

"Back to the Hou Ye, that is, to make the family have a full meal, the women in the family are spinning with children, the price of cotton has risen a lot in the past two years, but the price of cloth has been pressed by Guangdong cloth, and spinning has not made money. Although the price of grain is pressed by the Hou Ye, and it did not rise too much during the famine years, a woman with three children has eaten a lot in the past two years, and she has to pay taxes and various donations, even for the 9,000-year-old seminary, and the little ones also have to pay a donation.

There's really nothing left left. ”

The man said.

"What about you?"

Yang Xin asked what was left.

"Back to the Hou Ye, the small one is a tenant, the family planted twenty acres of land, but because they are of the same clan, they are all good paddy fields, the small brothers, the patriarch can't say that one of them will be a soldier, so he will exchange ten acres of land for ten acres of paddy fields, and the small one has to come out to be a soldier."

One said.

"Back to the Hou Ye, the little one borrowed the debt of the king of Hades and couldn't pay it off, so he became a soldier to pay off the debt."

One said.

"The little ones are house slaves."

One said.

……

A group of surrendered troops said one after another.

The vast majority of these people are because of the clan, or they are domestic slaves, this slave is not a servant, but a serf, and there are machine households that can't hold on, that is, family textile owners, that is, like Shi Fu, but not as successful as Shi Fu. In fact, this is normal, Shi Fu may be a cool article written by Feng Menglong, after all, Lao Feng writes books to make money, such an inspirational story will undoubtedly be very popular with machine owners in places like Suzhou.

"So do you want to live like those militias?"

Yang Xin said.

The surrenderers were all silent.

If you want to say that you don't want to be fake, say how much cloth the militia district has bought every year in the past two years, and you can guess people's days with this alone, after all, people who can't even eat enough will not care about whether the clothes they wear look good. In fact, they don't even have to look at it, the situation there has been very clear through the traders in the past two years, the militia district controls the canal, and none of the traders who come and go from the north to the south every year will go to them.

"Then why are you holding me back?"

Yang Xin said.

"Master Hou, when you come to us, do you really know how to divide the land in the same way?"

A soldier said cautiously.

"Look at my face, look at the scars on my face, do you think I'll let go of those guys who organized group drills and shot me with black guns?"

Yang Xin said gloomily.

Anyway, the wound on his face hasn't completely healed yet!

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