Chapter 140: Shelling

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"What are you doing?" Li Fuqiang asked strangely.

"Don't bother me." Xu Lang said, "I count how many of them came out. ”

"Yours is yours." Li Fuqiang couldn't help but laugh and said, "You said how you were the former major chief of staff, relying on counting on the battlefield, it is powerful." ”

"Li Fuqiang, they almost came out of 400 people." Xu Lang finally finished counting.

"That's just enough for Zhou Lei's 400 flintlock pistols." Li Fuqiang said with a smile, "Zhao Qi, continue to bombard the city gate, the three-pounder cannon is filled with solid bullets, and the infantry shoots." ”

"Yes. 30 ship guns prepared. Before Zhao Qi's word "put" was spoken, there was a rumbling cannon sound from the battleship behind him, and 17 iron balls swept over Li Fuqiang's heads with gunpowder smoke and flew towards the opposite phalanx. The beaches of Puliango are much harder than those of Jinpu, and in addition to the fact that it has not rained for the past few days, a few shells have made a few bloody paths in the phalanx.

Priango's phalanx was a little in turmoil, but then everyone began to speed up and run under the orders of the generals. At the same time, a burst of muskets rang out in the phalanx, and a volley of crossbow arrows shot into the sky.

"These people are far worse than the Vietnamese." Xu Lang chuckled, "If you shoot so far, even if an elephant stands here and can't hit." ”

"Hehehehe." Xu Lang's words made the people around him laugh, and Li Fuqiang felt relieved for a while, "Okay, Zhao Qi, you command the artillery, I'll take a break, just this combat effectiveness, I will have to run away in a while." ”

"Yes, Captain." Zhao Qi shouted excitedly, "30 naval guns, free 3 rounds of shooting, target, city gate." 3-pounder gun, 250 meters in front of the target, free fire with solid shells. ”

"His grandmother's." Zhou Lei, who was in the trench, plunged the command knife into the soil, "This battle is all for the artillery to fight, let's watch the excitement here." ”

"Battalion commander." Yang Tao, who was beside Zhou Lei, said, "Our trench has been dug in vain, and this enemy can't rush at all." ”

"While resting, Lao Tzu is annoying." Zhou Lei scolded and said, "Yang Tao, now you are in charge of commanding, I squinted for a while, I was bored." ”

"Yes, Battalion Commander." Yang Tao agreed, but pouted again, "I'm commanding a fart, how can there be an enemy here." ”

"First Company, Second Company, Ready." Under the bombardment of more than 20 cannons, there were only a few enemies who could rush to 100 meters, and most of them had already begun to scatter and flee.

"Fire." Yang Tao was ruthless, and finally dug a trench, so he couldn't just let go of a shot.

200 flintlock pistols were fired at the same time, and the dozen or so people who rushed over were not left by the 200 rounds, and all of them fell to the ground.

Priango's phalanx was crushed. The city gate of Priango finally collapsed under the bombardment of 4 30 naval guns in turn, and the gate of the black hole was revealed at a glance.

"Commander, are you rushing in now?" Ye Zhan asked.

"Rush in? No. Li Fuqiang said, "Ye Zhan, have you ever seen a cat and a mouse?" Let's be cats and play with this big mouse. ”

"How to play?" Not only Ye Zhan, but also the people around him didn't understand what Li Fuqiang meant.

"Zhao Qi, stop shooting, the artillery dissipates heat." Li Fuqiang ordered, "Ye Zhan, Xu Tianbin, lead the second battalion and the third battalion, and cooperate with the pioneer regiment to set up tents and build barracks. ”

"Build a barracks? Captain, aren't we going into the city? Ye Zhan didn't dare to ask, Xu Tianbin asked everyone's doubts.

"What's the hurry, go in and fight hand-to-hand now, I'm going to wait for them to come and invite us into the city."

"Then, Captain." Xu Tianbin asked again, "What if their reinforcements come?" ”

"Hehehehe." Li Fuqiang smiled, "What I want is their reinforcements, I want to see how many reinforcements they can come." ”

"Alright." Li Fuqiang didn't explain again, "Let's carry out the order." ”

Ye Zhan and Xu Tianbin left with 2 battalions, and only one guard platoon was left by Li Fuqiang and Xu Lang's side.

"Captain Li, look." Xu Lang held up the binoculars and shouted, "They are repairing the city gates." ”

"Really?" Li Fuqiang also raised the binoculars and looked at it for a while, "It's okay, Xu Lang, you can call me when they repair the city gate, I'll sleep, we have time to play with them." ”

About an hour later, Xu Lang woke up Li Fuqiang again: "Get up, the city gate opposite has been repaired." ”

"Really? So fast. Li Fuqiang raised the binoculars, "They have a way to block the city gate with sandbags." Zhao Qi, continue to fire cannons and blast open their city gates. ”

Four 30 guns began to fire in turns, this time only four rounds, and the city gate blocked by sandbags was once again pierced, and the wall next to the city gate was also blown down.

"Zhao Qi." Li Fuqiang called Zhao Qi over, "I'll leave the rest to you." As long as they block the gates, you will bombard him with me, and I will see how many times they can block them. ”

"Commander, why are you going?" Zhao Qi asked.

"I'm going to see what's going on in the barracks, we're going to camp on the shore tonight."

After Li Fuqiang walked for more than an hour, Zhao Qi put down the binoculars and said to Xu Lang next to him, "The Cambodians have learned smart this time and blocked the door with stones." ”

"You don't care what he uses, aren't you a fool, keep digging your mountain." Xu Lang was tired of this game of cat and mouse.

But Zhao Qi seemed to be interested: "30 naval guns, free shooting, bombard him again." ”

But this time the effect did not seem to be as pronounced as the previous two, and several salvos of 30 naval guns came down, and the gates blocked with boulders did not seem to have changed much.

"You're stupid." Xu Lang pointed to the city gate and said with a smile, "If you can't bomb the city gate, won't you bomb his city wall, his city wall is not so strong." ”

"That's right." Zhao Qi suddenly realized, "The 30 naval guns deviated 5 degrees to the right and bombarded his city wall." ”

An hour later, the wall to the right of the gate was blown down again.

The sun was setting west, and Li Fuqiang came to the artillery position again. The telescope of the city of Pliango no longer has a gate, and is full of crumbling walls and gaps blocked with boulders.

"In this Puliango, whether the Cambodians or the Vietnamese have the final say." Li Fuqiang said to himself, "It's all like this, and you still don't surrender." ”

"Commander, what should we do, do we keep bombing?" Zhao Qi asked.

"It's going to be dark soon, so I'm going to stop fighting." Li Fuqiang ordered, "Herald, order the first battalion to withdraw." The barracks are almost repaired, let's sleep well all night, and continue to bombard him tomorrow. ”

"Are they going to steal the camp tonight?" Zhao Qi asked suddenly.

"What are you afraid of?" Li Fuqiang replied, "All the cannons are loaded with loose bullets, and the guards are arranged, and if they dare to come to the camp, they will not return." ”

Zhou Lei finally woke up: "Yang Tao, what's the situation now." ”

"Report to the battalion commander." Yang Tao replied in a low voice, "The regiment commander ordered the first battalion to retreat." ”

"Withdraw, withdraw." Zhou Lei yawned, "I dug a trench all morning." ”

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the barracks, all the officers gathered together again, this time Zheng Wentong did not dare to shout again, but asked with a pleasant face: "General Li, since the general has blasted open the city gate, why don't you rush in, but let the enemy block the city gate." ”

"Zheng Jianjun." Li Fuqiang pretended to be strange, "Don't the prison soldiers know that the death of a soldier is to pay a pension of 200 taels of silver?" If you really want to rush to the past, start hand-to-hand combat, and die a hundred and eighty, will you pay for this silver by Zheng Jianjun, or will you let the king of Qingdu pay for it? ”

"General Lee." Zheng Wentong had no choice but to give up his hand and say, "It's all up to General Li's decision." ”

"What are we going to do tomorrow?" Xu Lang asked.

"Just like today, keep bombarding him." Li Fuqiang replied, "We have enough shells and gunpowder this time, bombard him for ten days and half a month, see what they can do, we can't tear down the whole city to block the door." ”

"Commander." After listening to Li Fuqiang's plan, Zhou Lei asked, "What about us, we are still stupidly standing in the trenches to watch." ”

Li Fuqiang glanced at Zhou Lei: "If you don't want to stand stupidly, it's simple." You and Ye Zhan's second battalion exchanged, your battalion came to repair the barracks, and they went to stand guard. ”

"Well, I didn't say it." Zhou Lei smiled, "Let's go and stand stupidly." ”

Everyone laughed for a while, and before the laughter was over, a burst of gunfire was heard outside the barracks, and then the roar of cannons came.

"What's the matter, General Li, what's going on?" Zheng Wentong was the first to shout.

"Shout something." Li Fuqiang shouted at Zheng Wentong dissatisfied.

"Report." Yang Tao walked in from outside the tent, "Report to the sir, the enemy has stolen the camp and has been repelled by us." ”

"I'm really here to steal the camp." Zhao Qi asked, "How about the artillery position?" ”

"Report to sir, there is nothing to lose. It's just that...... Yang Tao seemed to want to say it but didn't dare to say it.

"Just what?" Li Fuqiang asked.

"It's just that the artilleryman's hand was too fast, we only fired one shot, and as soon as the artillery 10 cannons bombarded, the enemy ran away."

"Huh." Li Fuqiang smiled, "Strengthen vigilance." ”

"Yes." Yang Tao turned around and went out.

"Okay, let's go back and rest." Li Fuqiang said, "Tomorrow we will continue to play with mice. ”

Early the next morning, Li Fuqiang and others came to the artillery position early, and Zhou Lei's first battalion continued to be in the trenches.

From a distance, through the binoculars, the place where the city of Priango had been bombed yesterday had been blocked with rocks and sandbags, but there seemed to be not a single soldier in sight on the top of the city.

"Zhao Qi, keep bombarding him." Li Fuqiang didn't even bother to give the order, and said lightly.

The bombardment lasted for five days, and none of the walls of the entire Priango were intact, and on the fifth day, the city did not know whether it was too lazy to repair it, or if there were no stones to repair it, so that the gap was exposed, and no one cared.

"Commander, it's not going to be a bomb yet." Zhao Qi asked, "It seems that there is no place to bomb this, it has basically collapsed." ”

Li Fuqiang touched his chin, turned his head to Xu Lang and asked: "Xu Lang, you have a lot of eyes, what do you mean by this city, you don't build the city wall, and you don't send people out to talk, is it playing an empty city plan?" ”

"I don't know if it's an empty city plan." Xu Lang replied, "But I think they must be waiting for reinforcements." Since we don't attack the city, they won't surrender, and I'm afraid they won't be able to figure out our intentions now. ”

"Xu Lang." Li Fuqiang looked around, lowered his voice and asked, "Do you think the method we have decided on will work?" ”

"It should work." Xu Lang replied, "Just like last time, although it is our goal to occupy Priangge, we have to settle Prianggo once and for all this time, so we must defeat his reinforcements in order to reach an agreement with the Ruan clan." Besides, as long as they send reinforcements, we will also have a rhetoric in front of Zheng Jie, at least to contain the Ruan family's troops. ”

"What if they don't send reinforcements?"

"No, even if the Nguyen clan doesn't send it, Cambodia will send it, they won't just wait for the fall of Pliango. Don't worry, since we are well prepared, let's wait slowly. ”

The shelling continued for a few more days, and in Xu Lang's words, this was the Kinmen artillery battle of the seventeenth century. Zhao Qi's cannon is fixed every day every 2 hours to shoot a few rounds, three times a day, basically once in the morning, noon and evening, after the fight to eat, Zhao Qi gave the artillery a name, called "pre-meal exercise." ”

"It's all up, it's up, it's ready to exercise before dinner." At noon that day, Zhao Qi lazily began to beckon the artillerymen to prepare for the noon bombardment.

"Company commander, look." The sergeant major of the artillery company pointed to the opposite side and shouted, "Someone is out of town." ”