After Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian's troops joined the Chu army, they first trained for several months, and then they have been stationed in the localities, and they have not fought a real tough battle for more than half a year, except for some contact battles with the military headquarters.

The battle of Shangrao can be said to be the debut of the Pingjiang camp and the Changsha battalion, not only has a strict evaluation, but there are countless eyes on them from top to bottom of the Chu army, so Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian are under great pressure, and they are trying their best to fight this battle well, and they are even a little anxious.

After Wang Jincai's siege was frustrated, there was a disagreement between Wang Sheng and Wang Sheng on how to fight the next battle.

Wang Sheng's angle is higher, from the perspective of the overall battlefield, Tan Tai's division of troops is not thorough enough, and now he is conquering Shangrao at any cost, but there is a suspicion that the gains outweigh the losses, and he can be patient with Zhang Cunren. Therefore, he sent someone to inform Wang Jincai that there was no need to continue to storm Shangrao, but to build a camp around Balibao to lure Zhang Cunren out of the city to attack.

This is an anti-guest tactics, Zhang Cunren is a veteran of the nine sides, good at using soldiers, Shangrao City is well defended, if you attack the city directly, the loss is too great, lead him out of the city to fight a few battles, the Qing army's vital force is almost consumed, Shangrao City will fall to the ground like a ripe fruit.

Wang Jincai immediately came to Geyang, and pleaded with Wang Sheng excitedly for war, claiming that he was willing to make a military order and ask Wang Sheng to allow the Pingjiang battalion to continue the siege.

Wang Jincai knew very well that he and Cao Zhijian were able to join the Chu army and be treated as the main force, there were too many coincidences and special factors, and there would definitely be no chance at a different time and place. If he really pulls it out and compares it, his personal ability will definitely not be as good as Li Guo and Gao Yigong. The Pingjiang camp is far inferior to the camp, so he is a newcomer who is still on probation...... For him and the Pingjiang camp, the entire Eastern Crusade was a series of entrance exams. The battle of Shangrao is only the first of them, we must try to show as much as possible, the more frustrated the attack, the more frustrated we must be.

Wang Sheng talked with him for a long time, and after weighing and considering, he agreed to his request to a limited extent.

Wang Jincai was overjoyed and immediately bid farewell to Wang Sheng. Xing Chong was in a hurry to return to the white duck's mouth, but Wang Sheng did not allow him to leave immediately, and gave a death order with a stiff face. You can leave if you want, but you have to stay and eat first.

Wang Sheng's heart was as careful as a hair, knowing that Wang Jincai and his soldiers were all Shaanxi people who loved noodles, so he specially instructed Si Yang to roll noodles by hand for them. Be full to the brim. Several large bowls of steaming noodles are served, accompanied by garlic and piping hot noodle soup, and it looks so solid that it shows the sincerity of the host's hospitality. At this time, although Wang Jincai was as anxious as a cat, he had no choice but to sit down obediently and launch a stormy attack on the noodles.

As soon as a bowl of noodles was finished, Wu Yongqi and his two apprentices walked in......

This is an additional condition for Wang Sheng. While the Pingjiang battalion was besieging the city, it also had to build fortifications in the area of Balibao in the south of the city. Serve as a backup hand to prevent accidents.

After eating two large bowls of noodles in a row, Wang Jin burped and found Wang Sheng again to ask for his resignation, Wang Sheng personally sent him out of the door, and carefully instructed him, Wang Jin responded one by one, pulled the saddle on the horse, and took his own soldiers and Wu Yongqi and others to leave.

Wang Sheng stood there, watching their backs disappear.

In the Pingjiang battalion and the Changsha battalion, the Chu army invested a lot of effort and cost, now it depends on their table in the battle of Shangrao, if the table is too bad, the Pingjiang battalion and the Changsha battalion will wait to be reorganized and rectified, or even eliminated directly.

Turning around and walking into the courtyard, he suddenly heard a few officers in a room talking about the battle of Shangrao, Wang Sheng stopped and listened to a few words, these officers looked down on the Pingjiang battalion and the Changsha battalion very much, and felt that now it was a waste of time, if the Chongyang battalion was transferred, Shangrao would be conquered soon, and so on.

It was probably a few ordinary officers chatting, and their words were a little out of line, and the faces of the two generals beside Wang Sheng changed, and one of the adjutant generals named He Shanyong said in a low voice: "These guys don't do things well, so they chew their tongues behind their backs!" General Wang San, shall I go in and have a look? Shut up all this for three days! ”

"Actually, what they said is right, it's just that this relationship is not quite right, I'll talk to them......" Wang Sheng said as he walked up the steps and reached out to open the curtain.

If the Chongyang battalion is transferred up, it is entirely possible to conquer Shangrao in a quick way, three days may be too tight, but five days and seven days will definitely be no problem. Compared with the two little brothers of Changsha Camp and Pingjiang Camp, Chongyang Camp is like a big brother who dominates the kindergarten, and it is not too simple to sweep Zhang Cunren, the villain little boss.

Seeing Wang Sheng, He Shanyong and others suddenly appear, the room immediately fell silent, and several officers hurriedly returned to their seats, hurriedly at a loss, and their faces were full of nervousness because of their weak hearts.

Wang Sheng smiled and said hello and called everyone together.

"If the Chongyang battalion is really dispatched, the battle of Shangrao will become a loss-making business, and our Chu army will not always rely on the old eighth battalion to fight the world."

Wang Sheng said to everyone: "Officials and soldiers like Cao Zhijian used to run away when they saw Tartar...... No, it is not that you run when you see the Tartars, but when you hear that the Tartars are coming, you run away without a trace. As for Wang Jincai, Wang Jincai is not much stronger than him, although he will not run away, but basically he will collapse at the touch of a button, they can now go up to fight with their heads, and they have repeatedly taken the initiative to ask for battle, which is already very good. ”

"Do you want to send them some more reinforcements? Pull up the artillery team and engineer team of the Chongyang battalion, Wang Jincai and Cao Zhijian should be able to break through the city faster. He Shanyong proposed to build yì.

"No, I don't. If you want children to learn to walk, you have to let go when you should let go, and you can't hold them all the time. Wang Sheng pondered in his heart for a while, and said: "Now there are still a few days of free time, since Wang Jincai still wants to attack the city, let him try again, but no additional reinforcements, what this battle will be, it depends on the ability of the Pingjiang battalion and the Changsha battalion......

After two days of preparation, Wang Jin launched another attack on Shangrao City.

Cao Zhijian in the north of the city also sent troops to feint and cooperate with him.

Two days is still too short, the number of siege equipment that can be built is not much, there are some wooden donkey carts, ladders, and flying bridges, but it is too late to build such a large and powerful equipment as a half-intercepted boat, but Wang Jincai still launched an attack with confidence.

He also had a hidden method of breaking the city - the "release method", using gunpowder to blow up the city wall, which was the new killer weapon of the Pingjiang battalion after joining the Chu army.

Under the city of Shangrao, the war drums were like thunder, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties forgot to die, and once again launched a fierce battle.

With the continuous attack of the Pingjiang battalion, twelve six-pounder guns plowed all over the city wall again, and the half of the female wall that could be seen was cut out of several gaps by the shells. Within a hundred zhang of the front, all the defensive equipment on the city wall was destroyed, and the only bunkers that the Qing army could hide in were the strong battlements and the lower half of the female wall, which cleared the siege obstacles as much as possible. The Ming army also used wooden donkey carts as cover to clear roadblocks, and built several passages in trenches and moats, which could rush directly from the front of the battle to the bottom of the city walls.

Xi Baotian, the commander of the second battalion, led 1,500 infantry to block the city gate to prevent the Qing army from going out of the city to counterattack, Lei Gong, the officer of the first battalion, took 500 death squads to stand by behind them, and Wang Jinbao, the officer of the third battalion, took 1,000 armored soldiers to do the second echelon. After the city wall collapsed, he rushed up to occupy the breach and continued the attack into the city.

In order to confuse the enemy, the Pingjiang battalion built three stockades in parallel within a hundred zhang of the front, and dug three tunnels at the same time, so that they could not judge where the breakthrough of the Ming army was, but Wang Jincai had already selected, and the real demolition team and breakthrough were in this tunnel on the left.

"Slow down, slow down! Don't break it, it's not good to break it. ”

In the stockade on the left, under the cover of the wall, an officer who was a former mine leader commanded the soldiers of the Pingjiang battalion, carefully lifting a huge "mine" out of the wooden box.

Blowing up the city wall with gunpowder is a sharp weapon for the Chu army to attack the city, Wang Kefan attaches great importance to this, and has been working hard to improve the power of technical means, the arsenal has eliminated the original coffin after many tests, and now uses the latest round equipment, the shell is all made of pig iron, and there are deep grooves crisscrossing the surface, which looks like a super landmine.

"Let's go, be especially careful with the lantern in front, don't get too close to the mine!"

Hou Qingsheng, an officer who was a native of Daye Mining, commanded the soldiers, carrying the mines through the long tunnels with nets to the blasting point under the city wall, where the enclosed environment was like a large bugging, and the footsteps, talking, and very harsh digging sounds of the Qing army inside the city wall could be clearly heard...... It is obvious that the Qing army in the city is digging tunnels in reverse, trying to destroy the tunnels of the Ming army by flooding.

"Just put it here, wait, wait, lift it up a bit, and raise it two inches under the left side......"

After working for a while, he finally put this super big land mine cloth in place, but Hou Qingsheng frowned, very dissatisfied, and personally started to adjust the position and angle of the mine.

Pulling the fuse out of the tunnel, he ordered the soldiers to wait first, and then went out of the village to find Wang Jincai, who was commanding the Chinese army.

"Wang Shuai, I just found out that there is a problem with the tunnel! The earthen wall left behind was too thin to blow up and couldn't hold its breath. Hou Qingsheng was very annoyed, he taught him hand in hand for three months, but these soldiers of the Pingjiang battalion still did not learn the blasting technology, and they did not even dig a tunnel.

"What? Can't this tunnel work? Wang Jincai's eyebrows immediately rose.

"It's not that it can't be used, it's just that the power of the explosion is not enough, and I don't know if I can blow up the city wall......" According to Hou Qingsheng's original intention, he really wanted to rework the blasting room, but the Qing army was digging tunnels in reverse, and time did not allow it.

After Wang Jin understood, he thought for a moment and made a decision: "Let's try it, just blow him up, anyway, we still have a mine." ”

With his order, the Ming army was ready for the attack, and Hou Qingsheng returned to the stockade and ordered the soldiers to light the fuse.

"......"

A puff of white smoke came out of the fuse, and the spark rushed into the tunnel. (To be continued......)