Chapter 229: I am comfortable watching the mountain scenery from the castle tower

Zhao Tianyou shook his head and said: "I can't see it for the time being, but they are very afraid of our cannons, and there are not many people who shoot them and they are still hiding under the wooden rows, so they should be cannon fodder who came to test the power of our cannons!" ”

Wen Tianxiang has been in the battle of defending the city for a long time, and he knows all the siege techniques of the Yuan soldiers, but today's scene is really the first time he has seen it.

"Let them in? Anyway, this is not more than a team of thousands of people, even if it rushes to the city, it can't set off any waves! Ling Zhen didn't care much about this, but hoped to contact Yuan Bing as soon as possible to start a war.

Zhao Tianyou did not say anything, the soldiers of the firearms battalion had already entered a state of readiness, and as long as an order was given, more than 20 cannons could be fired immediately. If you aim at the four Yuan army teams, you can immediately verify the power of the flowering bomb, and hide people behind the wooden platoon, whether you can stop the bombardment of the Song army's killer weapon.

Zhao Tian did not give an order, the Song army at the head of the city watched the Yuan soldiers slowly approach, and as time passed, the wooden platoon of the Yuan soldiers finally stopped, and at this time it was almost a mile away from the city wall.

"Stopped, don't you dare to go forward, or do you want to do something?"

No matter how many trebuchets, siege vehicles, etc., the defenders of the city have corresponding methods, which is also the countermeasure that the Song army has figured out in defending the city for decades, but he can't see through what the Yuan soldiers are doing today, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help frowning.

"I see, this is an engineer, not here to fight, they want to build a fixed fortification at that distance."

Zhao Tianyou stared calmly for a while, and saw the Yuan soldiers hiding under the wooden platoon and digging frantically, such a distance is definitely not digging tunnels, it should be to build a fixed fortification that can not be afraid of artillery attacks.

This method seems simple and not ingenious, but it is similar to Yu Dong Wenbing's construction of a mobile wooden house, which is to establish a safe point against artillery bombardment, so that the Yuan army can calmly approach the city wall.

"Don't open fire, let them dig their official business well, and see if they have the real ability to dig three feet into the ground and drill outside the city gate."

Zhao Tianyou said in his heart that science is not a problem that can be solved by understanding, and the explosion of artillery shells cannot simply be prevented by relying on wood and digging deep pits. When you build a turtle shell, you also give up the opportunity to attack, lose the characteristics of flexibility and mobility, and when a large number of people gather, the explosion of a cannonball can cause great results.

No matter what method is used to reach the outside of the city wall, it still has to face the bombardment of artillery, which is a problem that can never be avoided, but it avoids the price and battle damage that the Yuan army would have to pay when approaching the city wall.

As Zhao Tianyou expected, these soldiers did not want to dig a tunnel directly under the city, but dug a pit in the same place, dismantled the wooden rafts and erected them, and buried them in front of the pit to protect against the attack of the cannons. In this way, the Yuan soldiers built four huge fortifications one mile outside the city, and they continued to dig passages to try to connect the four fortifications.

Zhao Tianyou looked at the Yuan army that was slowly constructing, and began to deduce the possible changes in the future, slowly thinking about whether it was necessary to start stopping them now, or watching silently, and then attacking when they invested more troops.

Zhao Tianyou is very confident in the power of the flowering bomb, especially the largest-caliber cannon equipped at the head of the city, which fires a flowering bullet with a six-kilogram charge, and with the slow improvement of the process, it has enough power to ensure it.

To say that it can deal with armored vehicles with modern equipment is a bit bragging, but just by connecting the fortifications with logs, it will be sparse if it can't withstand a few shells, and it will not protect the soldiers inside at all.

In the Battle of Yashan, the bombardment of the cannons of the ships smaller than it was against the newly built large warships, and the thick planks of the deck were strong enough, not a hole in one shot, and countless soldiers were killed in the cabin.

After the four places were built, they were connected together, and the passage was enough for one person to be three or five people in parallel, allowing the Yuan soldiers to quickly and freely move between several fortifications, a bit like the trenches that were widely used in World War II.

I have to say that there are also capable people in the Yuan army, and such advanced methods can be come up with, if it weren't for the fact that the Yuan army has been lagging behind in the application of gunpowder weapons, Zhao Tianyou would have doubted whether Kublai Khan had a helper who crossed over like him.

Wen Tianxiang had no solution to such a fortification, and he was a little unbreathable to see it gradually taking shape, once the threat and lethality of the cannon were reduced, Guangzhou City would be in danger.

"God bless, we can't let them continue digging pits, if we continue like this, we will soon be able to dig outside the wall, and today we will send cavalry out of the city at night to destroy them."

Zhao Tianyou said with a smile: "Master Wen, you just let him dig slowly, they can't figure out if this method is good or not, let's stay motionless, it's good for us to delay it now." Not only was the cannons not equipped on board moved to the city of Guangzhou, but Zhao Tianyou also ordered the dismantling of the cannons of twenty gunboats, a total of 250 guns, which were slowly being transported into the city of Guangzhou.

This is also Zhao Tianyou feeling the pressure, Ah Shu's subordinates did not play the tactics of hard attack, so they should be extremely careful. After careful consideration, it was enough to maintain the combat power of twenty gunboats on the water to deter the entire Pearl River waters, so the people and money were spent dismantling the equipped cannons on board.

The silence at the head of Guangzhou actually made Ah Shu dizzy, and he didn't know what to do next.

For the Song army to bombard with artillery, send a small team of cavalry to raid, or directly attack the army out of the city, Ah Shu made full arrangements and responses, but he stared at the Song army with big eyes without considering it.

It's like a clenched fist hitting the air, and the target that has no force is even more uncomfortable, and the plan that has always wanted to see the true power of the Song army's cannon has to continue to endure. The purpose of this excavation fortification, the purpose of Ashu is not simple, most of the soldiers sent out to work are composed of miscellaneous servants and coolies, and they have been abandoned cannon fodder since the first day.

In Ah Shu's opinion, if the cannon at the head of Guangzhou is as powerful as others say, then under the continuous bombardment of the cannon, the Yuan soldiers have no chance to defeat at all. And the Song army did not pursue the defeated Yuan soldiers, nor did they attack the cities occupied by the Yun army, then there must be other reasons that were restricted, whether it was the inconvenience of the movement of the artillery or the range, it was not as convincing as the lack of shells.

The greatest purpose of digging fortifications in front of the city wall is to fully consider the power of the cannons in Guangzhou and reduce the casualties of the soldiers, and the biggest purpose is to test the lethality of the cannons with the least casualties, and at the same time consume the number of artillery shells of the Song army.

But Guangzhou's indifferent attitude made Ah Shu start to be impatient.

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