Huanggang is an important town close to the territory of the Chu army, although Wang Kefan's intelligence is not sufficient, but he also knows the general structure of the city, the defense around the south gate is not the strongest, once the city wall is breached, it can quickly deploy troops, causing a fatal blow to the defenders, so Wang Kefan chose this place as a breakthrough.

Before the second wave of the offensive began, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties first engaged in an artillery battle.

After the arrival of the baggage troops, the artillery unit of the Chu army had a total of ten three-pounder guns, two four-pounder guns, and one six-pounder gun.

The Qing army only had a red cannon with a long range, which posed a certain threat to the artillery of the Chu army, but under the siege of more than a dozen Furlong machine guns, it was finally beaten into a dumb place, and the other copper cannons were too close to the range, so they could only be beaten and could not fight back, so the Qing army simply dragged these copper cannons down first and hid in the safe corner behind the female wall.

In the artillery duel before the war, the Chu army won lightly.

Successfully suppressed the artillery of the Qing army, the artillery of the Chu army bombarded the city wall again, hitting the bricks and stones flying wildly, the ground shook the wall, the two heavy yaksha and the wolf tooth slap did not withdraw in time, and were blown to pieces by the shells, and the cracked and splashed fragments injured several Qing soldiers, and the six-pounder cannon of the Chu army immediately turned the muzzle, one cannon after another, and constantly bombarded the city gate under the city tower.

Huanggang is a government city, the city gate is much stronger than Xianning County, but it can not withstand the bombardment of the six-pounder cannon, after receiving several shells in a row, two big holes were punched out on the city gate, the door leaf on the left side is still crooked, and the door leaf is obviously broken.

In this process, the Qing army has not had any counterattack action, and there is an urn city inside the city gate of Huanggang, and there is not much danger if the Ming army bursts the outer city gate.

The rumbling of artillery finally stopped, and the battlefield seemed unexpectedly quiet. The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties silently prepared for the siege battle that was about to break out. The power of the Chu army's artillery was limited, and although it controlled long-range firepower, it could not collapse the strong Huanggang city wall, and what really decided the outcome was the hand-to-hand combat in front of the city wall.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

Wang Kefan personally beat the drums of war.

Before launching the attack, he had already made careful and meticulous arrangements, and now it was up to the officers and men of Chu to realize his battle plan.

The soldiers, the murder weapon, the commander gave an order. Thousands of troops are going to go to the soup for it.

The Yuezhou battalion mainly attacked the city gate, and the Ji'an battalion feinted to attack the city wall, but the feint attack could also become the main attack at any time, and the two battalions each had hundreds of people to form a death squad, braving bows and arrows. Carrying improvised ladders across the filled moat, behind them. The follow-up troops were like waves slowly approaching. Pushing the model ladder and the half-cut boat followed.

The Qing army on the city wall opened fire and shot arrows to block the attack of the Chu army, and the archers and firecrackers of the Chu army immediately returned fire. The two of them discussed briefly for a few words, and then passed down one order after another.

The green battalion soldiers on the tower of the city pulled open the mechanism, stirred the reels wrapped in the ropes, and a heavy and strong jack gate slowly fell. in front of the ruined city gates.

The jack gate is also called the gange board, and the city gate is made of iron-clad solid wood, but it is thicker and stronger than the city gate, and there are iron nails on it to prevent the enemy from destroying, just like the super strengthened version of the city gate, because the jack gate is too cumbersome, it is usually hung on the city tower and is not used, and it will only be put down when the city is attacked.

Because the city gate was destroyed by the artillery of the Chu army, the soldiers of the Chu army could enter the bottom of the cave of the city gate, which was a certain threat to the city tower above, so Sun Baian put down the jack gate and blocked the soldiers of the Chu army outside, anyway, the artillery of the Chu army was afraid of hurting their own people, and now they dare not fire.

On the section of the city wall where the Ji'an battalion attacked, a bundle of thatch was suddenly thrown down, and the thatch was soaked with fire oil, and the Qing army general waved the flag, and the archers shot down a row of rockets, which immediately ignited a fire in front of the city wall, and several Chu soldiers were burned into burning people, screaming and running to the moat, and jumping into it crackling, and other Chu soldiers also avoided one after another, and the momentum of the attack was blocked.

The archers and firecrackers of the Chu army shot and covered, and the death squad of the Ji'an battalion divided a hundred soldiers to extinguish the burning thatch, and when the fire was a little smaller, the others carried the ladder to the head of the city......

Five miles away from the city, is Wang Kefan's Chinese army Daxu, next to a tall nest car, this nest car is the craftsman auxiliary soldiers just rushed out, to observe the enemy's situation, command the battle, Wang Kefan beat the three-way drum, let the drummer come over to replace him, and then turned around and boarded the nest car next to him.

After looking at the battlefield for five minutes, Wang Kefan put down the binoculars, and the expression on his face was slightly solemn. The rocket tactics of the Qing army are repeated, and the momentum is amazing, but in fact, the lethality is limited, so don't care too much, but the jack gate in front of the city gate is a little troublesome.

He chose the city gate as the main direction of attack, but there was still an urn city in the city gate, and it was not advisable to blindly attack and do it, Wang Kefan was ready to do something under the city tower, and the jack gate blocked the city gate hole, and the next plan could not be realized.

This jack gate is very difficult to deal with.

The jack gate can be stretched and retracted, the Chu soldiers leave the city gate, the jack gate will retract, the cannon can't hit, and when the Chu soldiers rush up, the jack gate will be lowered again, and the Chu soldiers will be used as meat shields...... Although the jack gate shrinks slowly, it is extremely strong, and even if it is hit by a cannon once or twice in the middle, it will not be damaged immediately.

Storm?

Fire attack?

Direct shelling?

Several ideas flashed through Wang Kefan's mind, and he immediately rejected them.

It is not advisable to storm it!

If you directly attack the jack gate, you have to carry the bumper wood to hit it, or send soldiers to climb the city tower and destroy the mechanism that controls the jack gate, which is a stupid way to fill in with human life, and the result is half the effort.

Fire attacks are also not advisable!

Pile up all kinds of flammable materials such as thatch and wood, burn off the wooden jack gate, it sounds like there is a certain feasibility, but the specific operation is very difficult, the key is that the jack gate is wrapped in iron sheet, it is not easy to burn, and according to the general design, there should be a water storage mechanism on the city tower, you can splash water from top to bottom to extinguish the fire, once the fire is too big, the Qing army can also take the jack gate back to the city tower, avoid the fire lit by the Ming army.

What's more, if the Chu army uses this stupid method, the Qing army in the city will not look at it, there are many three-dimensional attack points on the city tower, and some places even stick out of the city wall, and you can use bows and arrows to attack the city gate from several directions, and the Chu army will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

Direct shelling is even more undesirable!

It was a cannon shot at his own people, which would severely dampen the morale of the Chu army and damage Wang Kefan's prestige.

Wang Kefan has always had great ambitions, how can he do such a thing? (To be continued......)