Chapter 189: Nanjing Secret Passage Five

Today, Daniel Zhang showed his superiority, but I am afraid that the backer in the future will be Zhang Xuan.

How Daniel Zhang, Qin Meng just thought casually. His real mind was to wait for Zhang Xuan's order, and it would take a while to enter the secret passage from here and come out of the palace. In other words, it is necessary to enter the secret passage in advance.

It's past noon today.

It's not too early. It's just that when will the order to attack come?

Zhang Xuan held a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, but saw a cloud ladder set up at the head of the city.

This ladder was pushed from the camp to the bottom of the city wall, and I don't know how much effort it spent, even if there were cannons desperately trying to suppress the artillery at the head of the city, it still couldn't completely suppress it. Therefore, most of the ten ladders have become tattered wooden shelves under the city.

But even if the ladder went to the bottom of the city walls, it might not be of much use.

I saw a few people The Qing army smashed a big round iron ball from the city, which is the so-called 10,000 enemies. Dozens of catties of gunpowder were filled with iron balls, and they exploded at once. The momentum is far above the solid cannonball.

The earth-shattering explosion lifted the entire ladder into the air.

As for the soldiers above, none of them fell well, and they fell down from the ladder one after another.

Immediately above the head of the city, he smashed the oil torches on the ruins of the ladder. For a while, the flames were soaring, and on the battlefield, another fire was ignited.

Zhang Xuan put down the clairvoyant mirror.

"Your Majesty, General Qin has already sent someone to wait outside, just waiting for His Majesty's order." Zheng Lian said: "Your Majesty seems to be running out of time. Isn't it? ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Let him wait." ”

Over the years, Zhang Xuan has become more and more mature and sophisticated in command, and he has calmed down. Today, he adheres to a principle, that is, if he does not tighten the strength of the Qing army to the extreme, Zhang Xuan will not give the order to attack. Although 2,000 people are a lot, but in this big battle, even if 2,000 is an elite, the role they can play is quite limited.

So be sure to use it at critical moments.

And what is the critical moment, that is, the Qing army has used its strength to the limit.

As for when this limit will be reached, it depends on Zhang Xuan's eyesight.

"Report, Daniel Zhang attacked the Sanshan Gate and was defeated by the Qing army." Outside, a herald knelt on the ground and said.

Zhang Xuan listened to the eyes and looked at the treasure city with a clairglass again.

Hesitation is the reason for the sight, Zhang Xuan didn't see anything, but Zhang Xuan had a feeling that the Qing army must be mobilizing soldiers, and it was likely to be transferred from outside the Jubao Gate to the Sanshan Gate, but he lacked evidence to corroborate it.

It's just that he's on the battlefield

A kind of intuition, all based on speculation, is put in the shoes of the people. However, although Zhang Xuan had a rough idea of the number of Qing troops in Nanjing, it was impossible for this number to be more than 1,000 people, and it was normal for more than 1,000 to be less than 1,000.

Therefore, the command in Zhang Xuan's mouth turned around a few times on the tip of his tongue, and he hadn't said it yet.

Zheng Lian suddenly said to Zhang Xuan: "Your Majesty, look. ”

Zhang Xuan turned his eyes, but looked at the big glazed tower.

Although Zhang Xuan was no longer on the big glazed tower at this time, the big glazed tower was still the most important command node of the Xia army, and the orders of all departments of the Qing army were all coordinated by accepting the flags on the big glazed tower, and some of Zhang Xuan's information was also obtained from here.

This flag was designed by Zhang Xuan, so he only needed to glance at it to know what it meant.

"The Qing army transferred troops from Jubaomen to Sanshanmen, and there were a large number of troops."

"Okay." Zhang Xuan was overjoyed, this is the use of the glazed pagoda, and some of the movements of the Qing army on it are impossible to hide it from Zhang Xuan. After all, the mobilization of at least thousands of people can't get under the ground, as long as you walk on the ground, you will fall in the field of vision of the glazed pagoda.

After all, the mobilization of thousands of people is not small.

"Drumming." Zhang Xuan gave an order.

"Boom." Dozens of drums rang out together. The tune of this drum is familiar to everyone, it is the most intense drum sound of the general's order, this drum sound goes back and forth, and repeats itself, as if chasing each other, the rhythm is getting faster and faster, the faster and faster, countless big men are shirtless, alternating between three or five batches up and down, sweating like rain for a while.

The sound almost silenced the sound of the drum explosion.

However, the sound of various cannon explosions suddenly stood out from time to time, which only increased the majesty and majesty of this drum sound.

This is the order of the general offensive.

The so-called one drum is angry, two is declining, and three is exhausted.

The previous attack was a key attack, and the main target was the Jubao Gate, but at the moment it was a full-scale attack, and all the people were released for a while, and the city wall several miles long outside the Jubao Gate was full of shouts and killings. But I saw countless soldiers there, surrounded by I don't know how many siege equipment, and rushed forward.

In order to avoid artillery strikes by the Qing army.

The establishment of the Xia army was also scattered, and they were all a team of 100 people, and one team pushed several siege engines or ladders.

Li Chengdong was above the city, and at a glance, the number of Xia troops almost permeated to the end of the field of vision. I don't know how many, but you must know that as soon as there are more than 10,000 people, the number is already unclear. And now Zhang Xuan has used at least tens of thousands of soldiers, and there are also gaps between them, so this covers an even larger area.

Li Chengdong suddenly felt that the artillery in his hand was not enough.

Everything is constantly evolving with development

Variational.

At the beginning in Ningyuan City, Yuan Chonghuan had thirteen cannons, which was already very satisfied, but now Li Chengdong is in Nanjing City, large and small artillery pieces are more than thousands, even if the Hongyi cannons alone are hundreds of them, if it were not for the Qing army to mobilize a large number of artillery in Nanjing City to Huang Wu's sailors, and now the artillery will only be more.

But at this time, Li Chengdong still felt that it was not enough.

First of all, these small cannons can only be useful in the range of a few hundred steps, and the Hongyi cannon will be used outside. Secondly, please have more artillery, but there are not many artillery in the Xia army?

You must know that there are two sources of artillery for the Qing army, the first is self-made, but the quantity is quite limited, and the quality is not good, but Huang Shu has also been in the Beijing Artillery Factory for a while, and the Beijing Artillery Factory has eaten up the iron mold casting method and can cast artillery on a large scale.

It's just that for a while, it's just about equipping the vicinity of Beijing.

I have seen the situation of hundreds of artillery pieces bombarding each other on the battlefield in the south. The sense of insecurity among the Manchu elites increased dramatically, so they were using these artillery pieces to increase their control of the vicinity of Beijing. For a while, it was not possible to transport to the south.

Almost 10% of the artillery used by Li Chengdong in Nanjing City was the product of the Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau, which had been blown up.

Since Luo Yulong's Northern Expedition, the production capacity of the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau has begun to skyrocket, and there were some restrictions at the beginning, but after the failure of Luo Yulong's Northern Expedition, there were no restrictions, not asking any other questions, only asking artillery, only asking weapons.

Even Zhang Xuan smashed all the taxes of Liangguang into the Manufacturing Bureau.

For most of the past six months, the artillery produced by the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau and the Macao Artillery Factory. There are more than 10,000 of them, of which there are about 3,000 Hongyi cannons. Although there are other problems due to transportation problems, a considerable part of them have not been transported to the front line, and even now they are still floating on Dongting Lake.

But there is no shortage of artillery that is enough to supply a large army.

Not to mention that for today's battle, Zhang Xuan can temporarily recruit Zhou Fuchen and Zheng's naval artillery, not to mention the artillery in Zhang Xuan's army, just the artillery of the two naval divisions, Zhou Fuchen's side can transfer at least three or five hundred guns, and Zheng Chenggong's side can mobilize at least a thousand.

There are even a few Western heavy cannons that can be temporarily seconded, and the power is still above the Hongyi cannon. This is the artillery specially built by Zheng Zhilong to support the façade after seeing that the Xia army was equipped with artillery on a large scale, and the cost of a cannon is 10,000 taels of silver. With the cost of the Hongyi cannon, which has dropped to hundreds of taels of silver, even the cost of the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau can be a little cheaper. Because Zhang Xuan has built an industrial chain from raw materials to finished products, these prices are now just on the books.

However, even so, it is not enough for Guangdong's finances to be put into it, and there is a big hole here.

These Western heavy artillery, it can be said that Zheng Zhilong created it, was almost used on the battlefield once, even when Zheng Chenggong attacked Nanjing.