The fourth volume of the sharp blade out of the sheath Shenzhou moves

After dinner, the night shrouded the Liaodong Peninsula, and a bonfire was lit at the gate of Wafangdian City to prevent the Tartars from escaping at night.

And Qin Haoming's Chinese army tent was also brightly lit, Zhang Yun, Yan Yingyuan and other civil and military generals surrounded Qin Haoming and crowded around the big sand table, discussing the next battle situation.

For them, the Wafang shop in front of them is not the point. Although I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are in the city, through the daytime siege, there are only a few thousand people killed.

Now the key is the follow-up Tartar coalition army, how many people are there, and how to stop the enemy?

Zhang Yun held the long whip in his hand, pointed to the location of the sand table Wafang shop and said: "Everyone, please see, the Wafang shop seal is expected to be completed in the middle of the night, and the attack will start at dawn tomorrow."

After taking Wafangdian, one-third of our army can defend the city. There is a moat outside the city, and from southwest to northeast, it is mountainous and hilly.

Only the southeast can be placed to attack the city, so the focus is on the arrangement of the direction here to stop the Tartar army.

In the southwest, northwest, and northeast, relying on the continuous mountainous areas, I would have wanted to set up nine official villages, each with two thousand household teams and one baggage team.

The mountains in both directions are full of low walls and bunkers that are one person high, and a large number of traps and rolling stones are laid on the mountain, and the soldiers are mainly armed with firearms, bows, crossbows, rockets, and grenades.

Send another general to command, and the defenders of the nine cottages can be mobilized separately. When the enemy arrives, you can calmly hold on to the consumption of the enemy army, you can support each other to encircle and annihilate the enemy army, and if the enemy does not attack, you can gather to support the Wafangdian city. ”

"Not bad." Yan Yingyuan nodded and continued: "The enemy army is attacking the mountain, not to mention the physical strength consumed by the upward attack, starting from the halfway up the mountain to the Dazhai in front of the mountaintop, six circular fortifications can be set up.

Layer by layer to resist consumption, each fortification is buried with gunpowder, and retreating to the next fortification can be ignited and killed until Dazhai does the final defense.

Each of the five mountains in the middle has five Franc cannons, all of which mark the firing boundaries on the opposite hill and below the hill to support each other. ”

"You can let the soldiers and the people dig the mountain roads in a mess, and it will be better during the day, but if you attack the mountain at night, you must light the lights, so that before our army can attack, they themselves will have to be killed and wounded.

And even if the sneak attack is successful, the six fortifications will definitely let them meet and break the blood flow beforehand.

Ten thousand steps back, even if you miss in all three directions, it is just an extra passage for the barbarians. ”

Today, Li Xiang's night has already made the nearby terrain transparent, and at this time he also pointed to the location called Liupan Mountain by the locals and added.

Thinking in his heart that if he was an enemy, he was afraid that if he wanted to capture these five cottages, it would be impossible for the soldiers not to shed blood, but he thought that spending so much strength was just to guard a passage.

Suddenly felt a pity, so he hesitated a little and said: "Isn't it a bit of a waste to put in such a big effort, but only to protect a few passages?" ”

Qin Haoming looked at some of the generals and nodded, and said with a smile: "There are no reinforcements outside Wafangdian, so you can't harass or sneak attack the enemy army, no matter how strong you defend, it is also a dead city."

What's more, the city of Wafangdian is small and cannot accommodate our army of 50,000 or 60,000 people, so we must disperse.

And if the Tartars do not pass through these mountains, they should go far away, and they will not waste their strength and food? You then said, how to lay out the city defense outside the city and in the Golden State? ”

Of course, Qin Haoming's Dingnan Army does not have five or six people, but now in the war, it is basically one soldier with two soldiers, or also called auxiliaries.

There is no fixed number of people.

Because in addition to requisitioning some of the people from the Ming Dynasty, the others were Korean laborers on Jeju Island and Liaodong Han people in Lushun Jinju, and even some captured Mongol Tatars.

This is a characteristic of the times, because the transportation is inconvenient, and food and ordnance materials need to be transported by a large number of soldiers and civilians.

In today's armies, the ratio of a soldier to an auxiliary soldier is often four to one or five to one.

Just like Qin Haoming's army, it is said that there are 50,000 or 60,000 people, but in fact, there are more than 10,000 combatants, and the rest are soldiers and people, and their combat effectiveness is not strong.

Therefore, the cavalry trained by Zhang Songrong and Yin Yuang from Xuanda was recruited to participate in the battle, and even Wu Sangui and Zu Kuan were invited to come over.

It was Qin Haoming who took into account the lack of troops.

Therefore, later generations often heard that the ancient armies were fighting, and they were often millions of troops at every turn, which included heavy soldiers and people, or exaggerated the fact to deter the opponent.

In fact, less than a quarter of the real fighters were there, otherwise, there would be no way to solve the problem with food and salary alone.

As soon as Qin Haoming's words fell, Zhang Yun immediately continued: "According to the consultation of the General Staff, when the ditch is dug and a small military village is set up to resist, the time and difficulty of the enemy's siege will be delayed.

However, according to my combat philosophy, it is to kill rather than delay. As a result, the perimeter works can be reduced, and it is planned to dig five deep trenches directly in the short-range strike range.

Seven roads are set up outside the east gate, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and don't want to fill it without half a day's effort. And the span on it can be larger, the ladder is too short to reach, and it can't be erected when it's long, and even if it is built, it can't stand the force.

The ditches are full of sharp wooden stakes, and behind each ditch are dense and high arrow railings and arrow towers, which can not only defend against enemy bows and arrows, but also allow soldiers to shoot with peace of mind.

Wooden rails were laid on the walls, and the gun wagons could move at will to strike. Like the cottage, it is also lost one, burned one, and retreated until it enters the city to defend. ”

Zhang Yun looked around and continued: "The head of the city is full of horses and quilt racks, which can prevent the enemy from landing the city to fight, and can protect the enemy from the rain of arrows.

Every fifty paces on the city walls there were several ladders and turntables to ascend the city, ready to be reinforced and supplied with ordnance.

At both ends of the upper and lower city ladders of the city wall, turrets with rotating muzzles were built, in case the city wall was lost, one was to block the passage of the lower city on both sides, and the other was to use artillery to attack continuously to annihilate and help our army regain the lost territory. ”

Yan Yingyuan added: "Several city gates are all blocked, and the city is also a layer of fortifications, even if the city wall is lost, it can also be retreated one by one until the southern city is the final defense."

There are seven roads in the north city ring and five roads in the south city. In addition to cannons and rocket carts, thousands of counterweight stone-throwing trucks are also prepared to make a large number of stones, 10,000 enemies, and flowering shells, which will be used together when the time comes. ”

Zhang Yun finally gasped and said: "As for the southern city, it is the place where we will finally fight, and it is full of fortifications, and the number of pits and gunpowder is twice as large as that of the northern city.

It can be said that as long as the soldiers fight to the death, the army of the Tartars will start from outside the city, and they will advance layer by layer under the comprehensive attack of long-range, process, and short-range attacks on the ground.

Dead and wounded to take one defense, we have to face another again, from outside the east gate to the south city, before forcing us to flee and evacuate, there are eighteen fortifications in any direction.

And you have to count the two walls of the north and south cities. In this way, cannons and catapults are long-range, and rocket cars, rockets, bows, firearms, and small catapults are short-range.

Spears, broadswords, and grenades are short-range, and we are the defenders, so we can calmly arrange fire points on the walls, towers, and rooftops.

Worthy of the all-round, covering, and uninterrupted strike capability that Qin Du said, the Tartars are afraid that they will have to shed their blood before they can take the Wafangdian. ”

The civil officials and others were shocked when they heard this, and they were chilled when they heard it.

Wang Fuzhi and others lamented that there was no trivial matter on the battlefield, and everything was a rainy day.