Chapter 206: Polemic
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"So where do you think you are now with the enemy?" Zhang Qiang asked.
Liu Guoxuan turned to face the Dutchman's castle of Geranza, "We are now in the second stage, triple the siege, we can attack it, but we may not be able to win it." β
Zhang Qiang smiled, "You say that, does King Zheng Jun know?" β
Liu Guoxuan said: "This is just a little idea of mine, and I haven't told the king of the county yet." β
Zhang Qiang pointed to the continuous camp tents around him, and the immigrants who were like ants working around in a daze, "Is this three times the number of troops?" Ten times more, right? β
Liu Guoxuan said: "The strength of the army cannot be simply judged by the number of people, if it is counted like that, 100,000 people, charging together, according to one person, one stone, also smashed the enemy, but in the face of the enemy's fortified city, let alone 100,000 people, it is a million people, what can it be?" β
He paused to take a breath, "They are all a group of civilians and farmers who have never fought before, and our real soldiers who can fight are only ten thousand and five, but if you compare with the Dutch in the castle, the combat effectiveness of these ten and five thousand still has to be considered, and in the end I estimate that there are only five thousand people, in fact, except for the Zheng clan in the hands of the county king, the other people are only slightly stronger than the farmer and know how to obey orders." β
Zhang Qiang's heart fluttered, he had long heard that Zheng Chenggong had a so-called swaying pirate soldier, and this time after listening to Liu Guoxuan's words, he knew that there was really such a soldier.
Every successful tyrant or emperor is surrounded by a group of elite soldiers or officers who are equivalent to seeds to protect them.
Li Zicheng's ironclad dead soldiers, Dashun Iron Cavalry, are such an existence, but Li Zicheng's dead soldiers, when Wu Sangui Shahai raided the place, are estimated to have died in the chaotic army, so that he has no capital to recover again in the future, and was killed by a villager in Jiugong Mountain.
It's really a tiger falling into the plains and being bullied by dogs.
"So you're going to deplete the enemy's forces by besieging the city and sending cannon fodder to death?" Zhang Qiang said.
Liu Guoxuan looked helpless, nodded slightly, and said very sadly: "There is no way, the enemy is a fortified city, muskets, and cannons, and we only have a numerical advantage, so we can only use this method, using the method of ants gnawing wheat cakes, gnawing piece by piece." Fill in the moat today, knock down the enemy's breastwall tomorrow, and remove all obstacles from the breastwork to the wall the day after tomorrow. Fill in the trenches, then attack the enemy's walls with siege engines. β
"Don't you have artillery?"
Zhang Qiang asked: "Suppress the enemy with artillery, and use soldiers to go up and fill the moat." Use soldiers to siege the city, and use arquebuses to suppress the counterattack of the enemy's castlehead. β
"Hey, if only it was as easy as you say, the enemy is not stupid, they had a lot of musketeers above the breastwork, you see the whole terrain is not conducive to attacking, the enemy is on a high place, and the cannons in any place can hit farther than our cannons, and their artillery is too accurate, we can only hit a place with twenty or thirty cannons, and they only need five or six cannons to hit a place. How do you say this battle will be fought? Liu Guoxuan said.
Zhang Qiang touched his chin and looked at the city of Relanza, he had heard that Zheng Chenggong introduced himself to the layout of the city of Geranza and the city of Chichi, Zhang Qiang knew that in fact, he had no good way, if there was no advantage in troops, no muskets, no artillery, only cold weapons soldiers, if he wanted to attack such a city, he had to fill it with human lives. Chinese always love to use tricks, but in the face of such hard-fought Westerners who don't know how to turn, they really have no way.
This is not the city of the Ming Dynasty, who does not have a family and friends, who does not have a half-hearted, in the eyes of the strategists, unless the time is urgent, otherwise, there are countless ways to make the defenders of the city ashamed of themselves without a fight, and easily take the city.
For example, Fan Wencheng, this big traitor, Hong Chengchou, this big traitor, and so on Ming rebels, how many cities they used this means to take for the Tartars, and disintegrate the entire resistance of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing soldiers except for the Chongzhen era, after entering the Ming land, they fought less, most of the Ming land, were taken by these traitors and Ming surrender officials and squires.
To pacify the entire southwest, southeast, south, Southern Ming forces, Dashun, and Daxi forces, these remnants of the Ming Dynasty led the generals to be a few Baylor and princes of the Qing Dynasty, but in fact, in the war, the most contributed were hundreds of thousands of Ming troops and these civil officials and generals.
The Ming Dynasty died because of the rapid development of civilization, died in infighting, died in the hands of traitors, and it is always your own people who understand you, and the castle is breached from the inside, this truth has been staged again and again on the land of China.
"Actually, it's not that there is no way, it's just that the county king can't make up his mind." Liu Guoxuan said leisurely.
"Oh," Zhang Qiang became more and more interested in this guy.
"Tell me about it." Zhang Qiang said.
"Look at this ......" Liu Guoxuan squatted down and picked up a dead branch from the ground, Zhang Qiang leaned over, staring at the dead branch in his hand, to see if he had any way to crack the enemy's turtle shell.
When encountering this kind of turtle shell, the general way of fighting is either to concentrate the forces and attack a little, or to draw them out, fight the enemy in the field, and use the numerical advantage to consume the enemy's strength.
Of course, Zhang Qiang knew that the enemy could not be so stupid, according to the consistent style of the Dutch and the Portuguese, they believed in the defensive function of the castle very much, and would rather hide in the turtle shell and run out of ammunition than come out to fight back, the number of people is too small, they are not stupid.
"We can make a batch of wooden ox carts, and the soldiers will hide underneath and push forward, and when we get to the bottom of the city, we will shoot at them with bows and arrows and crossbow beds, and then the artillery will attract the attention of the enemy's artillery, and send people to storm a section of the city wall, and use the advantage of numbers to attract the enemy, and then send the Bandour soldiers to attack the city wall with shields, and open the gap with elite troops, and then flood the enemy with a steady stream of troops."
Liu Guoxuan's method is not out of the thinking category of people in this era, and it is not an ingenious method, in fact, it is to use cannon fodder to attract the enemy, buy time and opportunity to get close to the city wall for the elite troops behind, and then raid the enemy's city wall with elite troops, take the enemy's city wall, and the troops behind continue to kill in.
There are not many Dutch people, which is well recognized.
But Zhang Qiang didn't know whether the Dutch had more bullets or more shells.
According to the Western thinking, a fortified castle must have enough food and ammunition to last three or four years, and there is also an arsenal in it to constantly make ammunition and weapons, and maybe farmland to feed the population inside.
"Very good, when are you going to prepare for such an attack?" Zhang Qiang asked.
Liu Guoxuan shook his head, "The king of the county feels that it is not worth it, he is not willing to take risks, he wants to besiege for a long time, send people to attack continuously, sweep away the surrounding obstacles, just this morning, they launched another attack on the other side of the city."
This time it was still 2,000 people, and five or six hundred people came back, consumed a lot of shells and gunpowder from the enemy, opened a section of the breastwork wall of 50 meters, and advanced 20 meters away, bulldozed the obstacles, filled the trenches, and prepared to launch another attack on three sides at noon to disperse the enemy's forces, it is estimated that it will take less than half a month, and all obstacles around the entire city will be cleared, and it is estimated that soldiers from all departments will be sent to participate in the siege of the city at that time. β
"And when do we expect to play?" This is what Zhang Qiang wants to ask.
"It is estimated that after half a month, the king of the county decided to let you rest and familiarize yourself with the climate of the treasure island, which was originally a barren land, and most of the mainlanders couldn't adapt to it when they came, and many people died of illness." Liu Guoxuan said to Zhang Qiang sincerely.
Zhang Qiang didn't stay here for half a month, and there were still a lot of things waiting for him to do in his Jinhua Mansion.
The Qing army and the Longwu court will not trouble him for half a month, not to mention, his three-way army is fighting against the Qing army, and he also promised Zhang Huangyan, the superintendent of King Lu, that he would take Nanjing.