Chapter 226: Siege
Sun Chuanwang did not dare to send his men out of the city in the end. Without him and suspicious, Li Zhe's current fame is too great, even if it is a simple camp, it will make people taste a lot of flavors.
Why did the Tianzhu army dare to camp so boldly, and why did they not take precautions knowing that there were enough troops in the city?
This kind of thing is suspicious.
Don't let your army go out of the city and encounter a trap, then it's a joke
In addition, the morale of the soldiers of the Tianzhu Army outside the city really made Sun Chuanwang look a little frightened. If it weren't for the ever-winning military, there would never be that kind of spirit.
So after thinking about it, he finally gave up his plan to get out of the city.
He thought to himself that he was foolproof in the city, and that the two armies had never taken the initiative to give up their advantages and risk attack. He still remembered the moment when King Ning dragged his hand and gave a thousand instructions with tears in his eyes before coming to Anzhou to defend the city.
The current Ning Wang Domain is almost approaching a dead end, and there is no capital to take risks. You must know that at this moment, the Anzhou he is stationed in has become King Ning's last hope to hold the vassal state.
He really has no heart and no capital to go out of the city to wave!
Now, he has occupied a favorable position, the troops in the city are sufficient, and there is no capital and no need to fight the Tianzhu army outside the city. The best result he could think of was to be able to hold Anzhou, if he could drag Li Zhe's army here, it would be the best, after waiting for a year and a half, Li Zhe would probably not be able to bear the strength and take the initiative to retreat, and at that time, his old grandson would really become the savior of Ning Fan.
Therefore, from the very beginning, Sun Chuanwang's plan was to defend for a long time, and he had no intention of attacking Li Zhe's army at all.
As for the choice of attacking Kaicheng at this moment and wanting to hit Li Zhejun with a dismount, the benefits are not big and the risks are not small, and he will not do it.
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Li Zhe, in a half-buried bunker in the distance, waited for two hours, and the enemy general in the city was really cautious and escaped the catastrophe.
Sun Chuanwang guessed correctly, the Tianzhu army camped outside the city was a trap.
The simpler the strategy on the battlefield, the more effective it is, Li Zhe felt that his army was invincible in line tactics and field battles, and he still wanted to lure the enemy out of the city to fight.
Just outside the city was an opportunity.
Li Zhe ordered his subordinates to deliberately swagger, wanting to lure the enemy to attack, which was a normal idea.
Who knew that the enemy was not fooled, which still made Li Zhe a little regretful.
Just as Sun Chuanwang thought, Li Zhe's purpose was to fight a quick battle and quickly capture Anzhou, and it would be Dinghai's turn to follow. After the final decision was made in Dinghai, the follow-up ripped was still a headache.
When the battle is fought, it is unlikely that Li Zhe wants to stay, the scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and it has long exceeded the bottom line that he and Zhao Jieyu discussed in advance.
The key is that Ning Wangfan's performance is so poor that he and the queen have not yet entered the battle in Mengzhou for this war, and the war is basically over.
You must know that until now, the soldiers of the new army in the big camp outside Mengzhou City have not been reorganized.
In the whole war, the regular army of the Tianzhu court only used a whole Weiyuan army and a dissatisfied Japanese army, and the rest were all the princes' armies of Tianzhu and the private armies of the major merchant groups.
It can be said that Tianzhu's mobilization order has not yet used six or seven percent of his strength to defeat the Ning Domain.
In the face of such a weak neighbor, you can't do it even if you didn't want to annex it in the first place.
In this era, just like a saying in the later eras, if you are backward, you will be beaten!
That's the last word.
Tianzhu has no reason to let go of the fat that has been eaten in his mouth.
"Governor!" The staff officer next to him came in to report.
"All artillery battalions are already in place, and they can only be ordered by the governor!"
"Good!"
Li Zhe praised.
This is the preparation that Li Zhe has been waiting for before, and the enemy army has not come out of the city, but it does not mean that Li Zhe cannot fight it. In addition to the line tactics of the infantry, artillery is the main force of the Tianzhu army to defeat the enemy.
In fact, the future mainland battlefield is the battlefield where artillery gallops, and with rifled guns that are more than several times more powerful than ordinary smoothbore guns, the era of artillery dominating the battlefield is finally coming.
When the defenders and commander Sun Chuanwang on the city wall saw the infantry phalanx of the Tianzhu army slowly approaching from outside the city, he realized that on the first day of today, the Tianzhu army was about to start attacking the city.
The infantry of the Tianzhu Army, lined up in a strange formation of thin horizontal rows, slowly approached the city wall, and the defenders of the city had never seen such a strange formation.
The key is that this formation is full of firecrackers, don't Tianzhu people know that pure firecrackers can't stop the charge of dense formations? What's more, the formation set up by the Tianzhu people is still so thin, and the defense is simply found to the extreme, Xie Shaozhen is sure that as long as his cavalry battalion comes out, he can break down this big formation of the Tianzhu people in a few breaths.
What are Tianzhu people doing?
How can you put the ranged troops in the front, is this still tempting your own army out of the city?
The defenders in the city couldn't figure out this strange formation of the Tianzhu army, and the more they looked at it, the more confused they became.
Then when the dense artillery appeared behind the Tianzhu people's large array, his face finally began to move.
"Artillery! The Tianzhu people actually brought so many artillery! ”
In Sun Chuanwang's field of vision, the kind of artillery with movable wheel gun carriages had already planted a gun carriage three or four miles away from the city wall, and it seemed that it was preparing for shelling!
With a range of three or four miles, this can almost compete with the heavy artillery placed on the Anzhou city wall of our army, and the heavy artillery on the Anzhou city wall are all city defense guns of more than five or six thousand catties. However, the artillery of the Tianzhu Army that Sun Chuanwang saw in the telescope looked like it was only about five or six hundred catties, no matter how you looked at it, it was no more than a thousand catties.
The artillery of the Tianzhu people seems to have a very long range!
Sun Chuanwang was still sighing in his heart.
More and more Tianzhu artillery appeared in the field of vision of the telescope, divided into several positions, and there were hundreds of them in the dark from a distance.
This is far more than what should be on a normal battlefield in this era.
At this time, Sun Chuanwang's expression finally changed, and he suddenly thought that it was rumored that the warship of the Tianzhu Army Navy Division was equipped with a new type of artillery, which was extremely powerful, not only at the same level, the range was several times longer than that of ordinary artillery, but also the accuracy and penetration of this artillery were extremely amazing.
Since the Tianzhu people can be equipped with this kind of artillery in naval battles, they can also be used on land.
If the artillery in the Tianzhu people's army formation on the battlefield in front of them is also this kind of legendary artillery, then do the Tianzhu people want special artillery to blast open the city gate?
With this thought, Sun Chuanwang didn't have time to react.
Far outside the city a few kilometers away, boom! A series of fires flashed, and hundreds of blazing red cannons were ejected and flew into the sky!