Chapter 32: The First Battle of Da Xian Mountain

When Yang Chengzu heard this, his heart lit up.

Truly, the Duoduo came too quickly.

It was so fast that Yang Chengzu couldn't react, and many things were not arranged. For example, the people and horses on the Da Hyeon Mountain. If he knew that the Qing army came so quickly, Yang Chengzu would have been on the top of Da Xian Mountain long ago. Build a castle, have a castle here, and there will be no such embarrassing thing now.

However, the method that Yuan Zongdi thought of was not bad.

Yongdao is a very old military fortification. It can be seen as a two-sided defensive Great Wall, which can transport soldiers and supplies, so as to connect Da Hyeon Mountain and Xiangyang Castle. Xiangyang City is naturally impregnable.

"It's just that in this way, the Qing army will inevitably fight." Liu Fangliang coughed a few times and said.

He was slightly wounded in the last battle.

"It doesn't matter." Yang Chengzu said, as he spoke, he patted the cannon at the head of the city and said: "Our army's artillery is not vegetarian. ”

Yang Chengzu gave an order. Bai Wang took the order.

From the city wall facing Da Hyeon, a city gate was carved out. Immediately a pontoon bridge was erected over the moat, and a large number of people and hedgehogs gathered together, like hedgehogs, and then a large number of people began to build the city under the protection of the soldiers.

The size of the corridor is not large, in fact, it is just two walls on the ground.

It doesn't need to be tall. As long as you can cover the passage of people.

Wu Sangui saw that there was movement in Xiangyang City, but he breathed a sigh of relief.

He is not afraid that the soldiers and horses in Xiangyang City will go out, so he will not be able to come out.

After all, the iron-clad Xiangyang is by no means something that cannot be underestimated. Today's Xiangyang City is far inferior to the Xiangyang City of the Song Dynasty. However, it is still a majestic city, and even if it occupies Da Hyeon Mountain and bombards the city wall, it will not be able to take it in a few days.

What follows is bound to be a bloody battle.

Wu Sangui preferred field warfare to tragic siege warfare.

This can bring out the full strength of Wu Sangui's department, after all, Wu Sangui's department is a Guanning iron cavalry, and he is not good at attacking mountains.

It's just that the thirty or forty thousand elite men and horses in Wu Sangui's hands are also a big mountain in the Qing army, and it is natural for Duoduo to weaken easily.

Wu Sangui immediately ordered: "Turn the muzzle, bombard the enemy, and let go of Da Xian Mountain first." ”

"Yes." The artillery team mobilized by Wu Sangui was sent by Duoduo to support Wu Sangui's attack on the mountain. It's not Wu Sangui's own.

At this moment, Wu Sangui gave the order and immediately shifted the muzzle of the cannon.

After adjustment, the cannons opened fire, and in an instant a round of shells smashed through, although only a few shells smashed into the dense formation, but these few shells were enough. These shells instantly hit several bloody alleys.

All of a sudden, everyone was in chaos.

Of course, the more chaotic is the people.

Although Bai Wang's army is not very well trained, it is an army after all, and some conditions are known, but these people who have just been recruited from Xiangyang City do not have this experience, some are paralyzed on the ground, and they turn around and cannon, and there are such and such things.

It suddenly became a pot of porridge.

Seeing this, Bai Wang immediately ordered: "Withdraw." ”

At this time, it will not work if you don't withdraw.

However, at the same time as Bai Wang gave the order, the artillery fire at the head of the city also opened fire one after another, and some shells smashed on the ground, but they couldn't reach the artillery positions of the Qing army.

It's also natural.

If I could, I wouldn't have waited for now, and the bombardment would have started a long time ago.

Immediately, Wu Sangui gave an order, and more than a thousand iron horsemen rushed over, with a fierce momentum, as if they were swept by the wind, and rushed before the chaotic army.

"Boom, boom, boom." The cannons and small cannons at the head of the city roared in an instant. However, the elite level of the cavalry under Wu Sangui was no less than that of the Qing army, so they still had experience in how to deal with the shelling, and they scattered, but the head of the city was only four miles away from Da Xian Mountain.

And these four miles do not mean the foot of Da Hyeon, but on the top of the mountain, except for the distance from Da Hyeonshan to the foot of Da Hyeon, the width of this distance is less than four li.

These cavalry had to avoid the nearest point to the moat, so they scattered and did not disperse much, but after a while, many people died under the artillery fire of the city. There were a lot of soldiers falling down with a crackle.

However, the damage is always mutual.

These cavalry were in front of the Bai Wangbu who were out of the city, converged and rushed violently.

The already chaotic formation can no longer be maintained, not to mention that there are still many untrained people in the crowd, and these people can only make trouble for them at this time. At almost a touch, they were crushed and rushed backwards into the freshly hewn gates.

How could Yang Chengzu, who was above the city, see such a thing happen.

An order was immediately given to cut off the pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge, which had been erected over the moat, was immediately cut off, and half of it was pulled ashore.

The defeated soldiers immediately faced the dilemma of having no way forward, and one of them fell into the moat one by one.

The moat of Xiangyang City is not narrow, and it directly leads to the living water of the Han River, and even boats can be carried inside. For a moment, it seemed that countless hands were desperately stretching out in the moat. The river seemed to be boiling.

Wu Sangui's subordinates did not retreat, but shot like a target on the shore, but after a few rounds of arrow rain, a large area of the moat was dyed red, and this red spread down with the flow of water, and finally rushed into the Han River.

However, above the city, they will not be allowed to run rampant for too long.

After a while, countless large and small artillery pieces bombarded down.

After a round of blows, these people lost a lot, and then Wu Sangui's voice was heard, and these cavalry withdrew.

This is just a round of contact, and Bai Wang's department has at least more than 1,000 casualties, and there are many more dead and wounded people. However, this defeat did not shake Yang Chengzu's determination to build Yongdao, but strengthened this point even more.

Yang Chengzu said secretly: "The Qing army's combat power is so strong, on the mountain, thousands of people and horses, I'm afraid it won't be able to support it for a long time, if you don't want to solve the traffic problem between Xiangyang City and Dan Mountain, if you send troops to rescue in the future, I'm afraid the number of casualties will be a little more than this." ”

Yang Chengzu pondered for a while, mobilized artillery, it was heavy artillery, and found a way. Bombardment of the artillery positions of the Qing army.

For example, build a fort at the head of the city and give full play to the condescending advantage. and prepared to send cavalry to guard, replace all the people with soldiers, and go out of the city at night. On the one hand, reinforcements were sent to Da Hyeon. On the other hand, the construction of the road.

Three or four miles of Yongdao is actually not a big project.

If you don't need anti-artillery, you can build it overnight. Even if it is a requirement for anti-artillery. It is also not required to be able to defend against the Hongyi cannon. As long as it can defend against ordinary small cannons and is easy to maintain.

The battle between the two sides on Da Hyeon Mountain has just begun.

Wu Sangui also changed his strategy again.

On the one hand, it was decided to intensify the offensive on Da Hyeon.

In fact, Dan Hyeon Mountain is a corner of the mountain range, directly behind the Da Hyeon Mountain facing Xiangyang City, there are rolling mountains, although it is not too big. However, Wu Sangui was ready to send people to attack from the mountains, but Wu Sangui was not familiar with the local geography and had to be carefully probed to determine where to start.

Besiege Da Hyeon Mountain from multiple roads, increasing the pressure on the top of Da Hyeon's mountain.

The second is to be ready to fight a battle with Yang Chengzu under Xiangyang City at any time to cut off the connection between Xiangyang City and Da Xian Mountain.

In this regard, Wu Sangui was most worried about nothing else, but the cannon in Xiangyang City.

The large number of cannons in the Xia army made not only Wu Sangui, but also Duoduo Azig and other Qing army kings definitely very tricky. When attacking Li Zicheng, there was no such situation at all, even in the most critical battle of Tongguan, as soon as the Qing army's Hongyi artillery team came out.

Immediately locked in the victory in the Battle of Tongguan.

There is no other reason, that is, there are no firearms in the camp that can resist the Hongyi cannons. And the Ming Dynasty built Hongyi cannons, most of which fell into the hands of the Qing army.

But dealing with Xia Jun is a different story.

Although the artillery of the Xia army was slightly weaker than that of the Qing army, the problem of whether there was a problem had been solved. In several encounters, the Hongyi cannon can be contained, so that the power of the Hongyi cannon cannot be fully exerted. There was more than one artillery battle on both sides.

Wu Sangui even had an intuition that in the future, the war between the two countries in Qingxia would definitely be the first artillery battle. This made Wu Sangui have to think of something, and said secretly: "Is this the power of the iron mold casting cannon method?" ”