Chapter 53: Fengyang City

Even though Huang Degong was determined to break through.

But I also know that the matter of breaking through is in a hurry.

Huang Degong looked at the situation outside and knew that Cao Ying was also waiting for him to break through.

So if you go too quickly, you are afraid that you will fall into the trap of Cao Ying, so you can only wait. Waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the moment when Cao Ying was paralyzed.

And Huang Degong also knows that the Fengyang City Wall is so strong, only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are guarding it step by step, and there is absolutely no problem in guarding it for a month or two. So Huang Degong felt that he still had time.

If at this time, Zhang Xuan knew Huang Degong's thoughts, and absolutely agreed with Huang Degong's views.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan was under Fengyang City. For a while, my heart was amazed.

This is the largest ancient building complex he has ever seen, and in terms of specifications, it is still above Kaifeng Mansion.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he was actually a little hesitant about the location of the capital, and he was not too satisfied with the location of Nanjing, so he wanted to find a suitable place in the north as the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Kaifeng City was abandoned by Zhu Yuanzhang because of the Yellow River. The status of Kaifeng City Beijing is also declining day by day.

Zhu Yuanzhang once moved hundreds of people to fill Fengyang Mansion and wanted to move the capital to Zhongdu.

Liu Bowen tried his best to oppose it, but he couldn't stop Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, later Zhu Yuanzhang also woke up to the fact that the foundation of Fengyang was too thin, and all kinds of natural disasters were really not a good choice for Lidu, so he rested his mind, but he thought about Xi'an, so Zhu Yuanzhang sent the prince Zhu Biao, that is, the father of Emperor Jianwen. Go to inspect Shaanxi and check whether Shaanxi can be the capital.

Who knew that after Zhu Biao came back from this trip, he died of illness, laying the groundwork for the subsequent martyrdom.

And Zhu Yuanzhang also died because his favorite heir was gone, and he was also dying, so he stopped his mind about moving the capital and changed Nanjing to Beijing. This confirmed Nanjing's status as a national center, but it did not last long.

is also because of Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to move the capital, so the scale of the capital is extremely large. No less than Nanjing, even Beijing is inferior.

However, because of the long time, for hundreds of years, Fengyang Mansion has been plagued by famines, although the Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to it, but the outer city of Fengyang City is still not as good as Kaifeng City, Zhang Xuan can see clearly, these city walls have too many traces of filling.

The outer city wall is an earthen wall, and the traces of repair in different years are very obvious. Zhang Xuan could see it at a glance.

In the tenth year of Chongzhen, the righteous army invaded the central capital, first, the city wall of the central capital was not guarded, it can be said that it has not been maintained for hundreds of years, and it has long been dilapidated, and there is

It's just official coercion-civil rebellion. can attack Fengyang Mansion so easily. However, at that time, the rebels did not dare to stay in Fengyang for long, but they stayed for three days and withdrew from Fengyang Mansion.

Since that time, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the walls of Fengyang Mansion to be repaired.

However, the project is too big.

The entire outer city wall of Fengyang is sixty miles long.

And now the Ming Dynasty has no national strength at the beginning of the country, even if there are enough silver taels distributed above, and there are layers of deductions below, there are not many that can really be used on the city wall. It seems that the castle wall was built in recent years. The traces are still very new. I think many of them are Ma Shiying's handiwork.

Zhang Xuan couldn't help but laugh.

He Hutou asked, "My lord, what are you laughing at?" ”

Zhang Xuan said: "I laugh at Ma Shiying for not knowing the art of war, if I were him, I would never repair the outer city wall, and even tear up all the city walls." ”

"You must know that guarding the city is not the higher the city wall, the better, how many people there are, how big the city is, the sixty miles of city wall, how many people he wants to use to defend it, is it possible that he wants to put all the people in Fengyang Mansion into the city?"

The scale of Fengyang Mansion is large, above Kaifeng Mansion. But the people in Fengyang are far inferior to Kaifeng Mansion. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Kaifeng City, which is where Gao Shiheng's confidence lies in guarding Kaifeng City, but how many people are there in Fengyang Mansion?

Zhang Xuan didn't have any data at hand, but according to the spies' report, I'm afraid that there are probably more than 100,000 people in Fengyang City, and Zhang Xuan is already overcounting.

Sixty miles, one mile with 1,000 people to guard, about 60,000 soldiers, if you add the change of shift or something, even if the people in the city are all in the city, it is estimated that it is not enough.

Guarding everywhere is equivalent to not guarding everywhere.

However, although Zhang Xuan laughed at Ma Shiying again, he also knew that Ma Shiying was quite sloppy with the outer city wall, and it seemed that he had no intention of sticking to it, and the real tough battle had to be fought inside.

With Zhang Xuan's order, the German army and the Xuzhou army were the vanguard, attacking the outer city wall of Fengyang Mansion, under the first battle, Zhang Xuan found that the resistance above the city was very weak, even if the German army and the Xuzhou army were not strong, it was only one hour to take the city wall.

Zhang Xuan climbed on the city wall, only to know why Ma Shiying did not guard the outer city wall, firstly, Ma Shiying felt that the outer city wall was too long, and if he guarded it, too many people would be needed, and secondly, he was afraid that he also knew what kind of project he had done.

Zhang Xuan kicked on the female wall, and most of the female wall actually fell from the top of the city.

This level of engineering is not enough to describe non-tofu slag.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuan knew that this city wall was just a look, after all, no matter what kind of building, it needs to be maintained, this outer city was formed, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, during the Jingtai period, during the Chenghua period, and in the Zhengde year

Period, Jiajing years have maintenance, but in the ninth year of Wanli local people suggested that the city wall be covered with bricks, but for various reasons did not build, since then, there is no record of maintenance, decades of ups and downs, this city wall is independent of the wind and rain, although from the outside, it still stands, but many details on the offensive and defensive points, are unbearable.

You must know that the city wall is not just a city wall, the female wall above, the city tower, artillery, etc. are the key to attack and defend.

If you don't have any of this, just a wall of earth won't do anything.

After occupying the city wall, Zhang Xuan entered the outer city of Fengyang from the old north gate.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang later gave up the idea of moving the capital to the central capital, the specifications of the central capital were downsized, so the north gate was not built, and the old north gate should be called the North Left Jiadi Gate.

Several zhang deep city gate hole, Zhang Xuan has a feeling of passing through the tunnel, after entering the outer city, he saw the grain of Pingchuan, it was August, in the earth, a place of golden wheat seedlings, a harvest is imminent.

After entering the outer city, there are not many buildings, it is all farmland.

No matter how much the outer city wall is not used, it is also a city wall, some thieves still can't break it, so the outer city is much safer than other places, this is also one of the tuntian areas of Fengyang Mansion, the grain here, the tuntian near Fengyang Mansion, has the foundation left by Shi Kefa, enough to support tens of thousands of troops.

Come to think of it, that's part of it.

Zhang Xuan looked at it with his eyes, and could only see a faint outline, nothing else, it was the second city wall of Fengyang Mansion, the forbidden wall.

Although Fengyang Mansion is dilapidated now, it is because the outer city is too big, not that Fengyang Mansion is much worse than ordinary prefectures and counties, on the contrary, just a forbidden wall is much larger than an ordinary prefecture and county.

However, the inner city is far away from Zhang Xuan's place, several miles away, and Zhang Xuan's eyesight is not very good, so naturally he can't see it really.

You can only see one outline.

"Order, return to the German army, Xuzhou army, go south along the city walls on both sides, and clean up all the officers and troops on the city walls." Zhang Xuan said.

"Yes." Yuan Shizhong and Cao Zongyu said in unison.

After the two agreed, they bowed and went to prepare.

Zhang Xuan knew that some of the soldiers in their two armies lacked combat experience, so he could only let them fight some small battles that they were sure to win and exercise them.

"The rest of the people are encamped here." Zhang Xuan said: "With our backs to the city wall and building it firmly, I'm afraid we will have to stay here for a while." ”

In any case, there is a city wall, which is a ready-made long wall, and only the control of the outer city wall will limit the officials and troops. It is about ten miles away from the inner city of Fengyang, and Zhang Xuan's camp is about a few miles long, so it is only a few miles away from the inner city wall.

It is the best distance for a siege.

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