Jiang Chuan still continued the style of the last attack on Liaoyang, and bombarded with all his strength with artillery from the beginning, and he didn't need to do the so-called fire test at all. Fastest updates

Because according to the situation in all aspects, the fifty red-coated cannons cast by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in addition to the thirty that were robbed by themselves, the remaining more than twenty were deployed in Shengjing.

Therefore, Quang Ninh could not have artillery that could pose a threat to the red-coated artillery.

The onslaught of the Jiang army's artillery attack made the defenders of Quang Ninh accept it at once, after all, the strength of the Manchu soldiers was field warfare rather than defending the city. In the past, they went to fight others, but this time the offensive and defensive momentum was reversed, and they were suddenly attacked by such a strong artillery fire, and many people had no experience in defending the city at all, and they were suddenly blinded.

The solid iron eggs bombarded the city wall heavily, the rubble was splashed, and the Qing troops in the city shouted and screamed, hiding in all directions.

The Qing generals dodged the flying debris while shouting loudly for the soldiers to fight back. The arrows fired by the soldiers in a panic simply landed in the open space outside the city, because the enemy simply stood there and watched the excitement.

And those small artillery pieces such as tiger squat cannons or general cannons captured from the Ming army were simply out of reach in terms of range. But it can still play a role in inspiring the morale of the army, so under the urging of various generals, it also sounds like the cannon is rumbling and fierce, but in fact, the cannonballs fired out did not even touch a single hair of the enemy.

Moreover, many of these cannons have been around for a long time, and some of them have begun to have cracks in the process of long-term use. Under the constant urging of the Qing army guards, the cannon chamber did not have time to be cleaned up, and the yellow powder used now did not burn sufficiently, so there were several explosions in a row, and the enemy did not hit any of them, but the Qing troops surrounded by the artillery were blown up on their backs, crying for their fathers and mothers.

The Qing army was helpless, and then gave up these old antiques.

After hundreds of dead and wounded, the Qing army finally learned to behave. When Jiang Jiajun fired the cannon, he lay on the ground as a turtle to avoid the flying rubble. The posture is ugly, but it can save my life.

Therefore, if you look down from the sky, you can see a group of pouting Qing soldiers lying on the road of the city wall one by one, horizontally and vertically, and the scene is really a bit spicy.

The Qing troops on the other three walls heard the rumbling of cannons, and they didn't know what the actual situation was, they only felt that the battle was fierce, and they were also panicked and uneasy.

The loss of Liaoyang made them already feel a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox. And now basically the defenders in the city are mostly Han Eight Banners.

These people followed the wind when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was strong, and they were definitely good hands, and they were absolutely competent. Even many people burned, killed, and looted, and the degree of viciousness and shamelessness was even better than that of the Manchurian soldiers.

But now everyone can feel that the upward momentum of the Manchu Qing is beginning to be curbed, and it is beginning to decline.

Liaoyang was lost and Shengjing sent troops to rescue, and now the enemy's 50,000 or 60,000 troops are under the city, and there is not a single reinforcement, so these natural thoughts are chaotic. If it weren't for the Manchurian soldiers above, there would have been a lot of desertion among these people.

Ran Wu and Shanjia, who surrounded the other two city walls, did not plan to be idle to watch the excitement, nor did they plan to let the Qing army at the head of the city idle to watch the excitement.

So from time to time, they sent troops to go up and walk around under the city wall, shooting a few arrows at it, which made the Qing army at the head of the city nervous, and when they were about to counterattack, they patted their butts and went back.

After going back and forth like this a few times, the Qing army was a little skinny, and slowly didn't pay much attention to them.

But when the Qing army didn't care, Jiang Jiajun came to the real thing. The archers flew past the city, and the arrows shot like rain, and the Qing army, who was lying on the top of the city to watch the excitement, was caught off guard and was shot into a large area.

When the Qing army reacted and wanted to counterattack, the arrows they shot out at most grazed the tails of the archers of the Jiang family army and fell to the ground.

The Jiang army took turns to toss the Qing army, but the Qing army could only deal with it mentally. After tossing for a long time, although the Qing soldiers died not much, their spirits felt like they were all tossed and crazy.

Hearing that Ran Wu and Shanjia were so happy that they played a cat and mouse trick, Jiang Chuan also laughed and let them go.

He listened to the rumbling cannons, but in his heart he pondered something else.

"After you explored it just now, do you think it's feasible?" Jiang Chuan asked a general standing in front of him.

This person was the captain of the engineering battalion, Moban, who was recruited by Jiang Chuan for questioning.

"Returning to the lord, the soil in Quang Ninh is dry and slightly sticky, which is very suitable for tunneling." Moban replied.

Hearing this answer, Jiang Chuan had a number in his heart, and asked again: "Then how long will it take to dig the tunnel from five hundred steps away from the west city to the root of the city wall." ”

Moban pondered slightly and said, "It can be completed in about two days." ”

Jiang Chuan asked, "How long will it take to draw a waterway from the river five miles away to the tunnel?" ”

"If all the engineering battalions are dispatched, these two sieges will take about three days." Melbandao.

Jiang Chuan paced back and forth on the ground twice before saying in a deep voice: "Moban, I will allocate 5,000 people for you to work with your engineering battalion, and I will complete it in two days at most." And the dug waterway must also be able to be poured into the tunnel as quickly as possible after the embankment has been dug up, can you possibly do it? ”

Mo Ban straightened up and said in a deep voice: "If there are another 5,000 people to help, the end will ensure that it will be completed on time and live up to the expectations of the lord." ”

Jiang Chuan was overjoyed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Okay, if Guangning is down, I will give you the first credit." ”

The two discussed some details again, mainly Jiang Chuan asked, and Moban answered.

After the basic agreement was completed, Moban left the big tent of the Chinese army and hurriedly went to the officers at all levels of the engineering battalion to assign tasks.

That's right, Jiangchuan's real means of conquering Quang Ninh City was actually flooding.

He originally planned to bombard it with artillery like he did in Liaoyang. However, the cannons of these years were all solid shells, and they basically relied on huge kinetic energy to collapse the city walls.

I don't know how long it will take to continue like this.

The last time I conquered Liaoyang, I was also stained with Ran Wu sending people to pretend to be reinforcements to sneak into the city and grab the light of the city gate, otherwise it would not have been captured so quickly.

But after coming to Quang Ninh this time, Jiang Chuan inspected the surrounding terrain and found a river to the south of Quang Ninh. Although the amount of water is not very large, it makes Jiang Chuan think differently.

That is to use the bombardment of red-coated cannons to attract the attention of the Qing army, thinking that the Jiang army is planning to rely on artillery to collapse the city wall.

But in reality, the shelling was only to cover up the movement of digging tunnels and waterways.

Of course, the Qing army would not have thought that the enemy would use this method to attack the city, after all, the river was also five miles away, and it was not a small project to drink water and storm the city from five miles away.

Moreover, Quang Ninh City is not in a low-lying area, so even if it attracts water, it can't help them, after all, the amount of water in this river is not large.

However, these problems may be difficult for other armies, but they are not a problem at all for the Jiang Jiajun engineering battalion, which has ultra-high efficiency.

In fact, Jiang Chuan was also thinking that if there were explosives, after the tunnel was dug, dozens of catties of explosives would be placed directly under the root of the city wall, and the city wall would collapse with a bang, and there would be no need to use the method of diversion and collapse.

However, there is no suitable explosives at all, and the yellow powder is too powerful, and it has to be kept for firing shells.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan had to come up with such a way to repair the plank road and secretly Chen Cang.

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