At the southwestern end of the Jinqu Basin, the core of the Ming army's occupation area, the Ming army in Zhejiang confronted the Qing army on the southern line across the Qujiang River. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Ming army owns Quzhou, a strong city in western Zhejiang, and a large number of soldiers control the area east of Jiangshan Port, which can be described as a rock-solid;

At first, the Ming army water battalion, which controlled the Qujiang waterway, also bombarded the opposite bank with artillery carried by battleships, but the results of the battle were lackluster, and it was not long before they were spared. On the contrary, on the north bank of the Qujiang River, the rangers of the Ming army and the Qing army are still constantly testing each other, but no one has the idea of a decisive battle, and the power is just a little ripple in this stalemate.

At the northern end of the Jinqu Basin, Anhua Town, which has long been familiar to the Qing army in Zhejiang, has already ushered in a new wave of offensives.

Anhua Zhenbastion, this is Chen Wen's biggest reliance on using a very small number of troops to contain the powerful Qing army in Hangzhou, and this fort has indeed played the role of its peers in the European battlefield on the Chinese battlefield, and last year twice in a row the elite troops such as the Eight Banners of Hangzhou were blocked here, unable to advance an inch.

In fact, without the flank troops, it would be difficult to completely block the Qing army with a single fortress, but the shock brought by the first landing of the fortress on the Chinese battlefield is really unimaginable, and it is easy to cover up everything around it.

Lin Zhongxiao, the first garrison of Anhua Town, had been transferred to the Military Judge Advocate General's Department due to his injuries, and after a few months of reorganization, he took over the position of battalion judge of the Nantang Battalion, who had been promoted to the head of the Military Supervision Division, after the reorganization of the war barracks began, and became a military judge of the war barracks.

Lin Zhongxiao's successor was not from the group of officers who had followed Chen Wen in Dalan Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, but Yu Shizhong, who went south to join the army after he recovered Jinhua Mansion.

When Yu Shizhong first arrived in Jinhua, he relied on his first-hand artillery aiming technology to become a training officer of the battalion, and in the following year, the Ming army was expanded several times, and each artillery group was personally brought out by him, and the credit was great. The reason why Chen Wen decided to replace Lin Zhongxiao with this person this time, in addition to that reminder, was more due to the expansion of the fortress and the addition of artillery, which was more suitable for this officer who was born as a foreign general.

The expansion of the fort in Anwar is not just a moat dug like the last one, but an all-round expansion.

In the past, the Anwartown Fort was a fort with six acute angles protruding from each other on the basis of the main fort, and the main fort was one level higher than those six acute angles; Now, the original fortress has been raised by one layer, not to mention, even the entire fortress has been expanded, in addition, several recesses have added new acute angles, and the moat is no longer as horizontal and vertical as before, but along the edge of the fortress zigzag to the west of the Dachen River, even the outer low wall is no longer adobe, but a solid parapet, which can be described as earth-shattering.

At this moment, Mo said that Tian Xiong was outside the city, and even Jin Li, who had been escorted back to Beijing, was in a trance for a while.

Due to the expansion of the fortress, as well as the increase in the edges and corners, the number of running positions increased, and the defenders naturally increased, but because the current fortress can independently block the passage of the Qing army to the south, the edges and corners facing the south have almost not been added, so the increase in the defenders is not as exaggerated as imagined.

The expansion of the fortress freed up the Pujiang battalion on the flank, and they could take advantage of their geographical familiarity in the mountains to move back and forth, no longer limited to containing the Qing army's siege forces, but could attack more points of the Qing army more flexibly, such as grain routes and military stations......

Since crossing the Qiantang River in early April, the Qing army on the northern front should have arrived long ago, even if it was only a few miles a day, but it was not until today that they actually approached the city and tried to launch the first offensive. For no other reason, along the way, it was attacked by the Pujiang battalion repeatedly, and the Qing army in the south was really a lot of troops, and the marching army that stretched for miles was almost everywhere with targets that the Ming army could attack. The two sides tossed back and forth for a long time, until Tian Xiong turned his baggage and marched on the west bank of the Puyang River, which was considered an end.

As for the fortress in Anhua Town, Tian Xiong already knew that this kind of building was called a fortress, which was a city defense system that Taixi had raised, and he also knew that this thing seemed to have no means to break through except for the siege.

This was very bad news for the Qing army, originally they could deceive themselves into thinking that the caliber of the artillery was not large enough, or that the investment of troops and siege equipment during the siege was too small, but now that they understand, they are even more desperate about it, at least until Tian Xiong read Hong Chengchou's order.

In fact, Tian Xiong himself is also skeptical about whether the method mentioned by Hong Chengchou will work, after all, no one has done this before, or no one has succeeded, but this is the only way for him. Even if this encirclement and suppression of him is just a foil, but the previous reproach for copying the establishment of the Ming army, as well as the dream of carrying the flag back then, has always lingered in his mind.

Other Qing troops had already built defensive stockades on the roads infested by the Ming army last year, and the army under Tian Xiong's command had already arrived in the city, and even the artillery crews of the Han Eight Banners had been prepared. Tian Xiong turned around and frowned and glanced at the siege equipment, unconsciously covered his mouth and nose, and then realized that the smell had not yet reached him, so he put it down.

Tian Xiong gave an order, the war drums sounded, and the large-caliber Hongyi cannon began to burst out with a roar. The Qing army of the brigade pushed the siege equipment and shouted to advance towards the fortress of Anhua Town, but intentionally or unintentionally, the Qing troops on the left subconsciously stayed away from those large catapults and the carts carrying barrels that were not very large but not small.

The siege battle had begun, and the Qing army of the brigade was rolling forward, and the heavy artillery of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in front of the battle began to pour out anger on the fortress even if it was powerless.

The Qing army moved forward step by step, but the Ming army had been guarding this place for a long time, and it had far more aiming technology than the Qing army, and had already marked the distance on the ground with the help of obvious obstacles such as wooden stakes and low walls. When the first batch of Qing troops crossed the farthest line of wooden stakes, the Hongyi cannons with larger calibers on the main fort opened fire one after another.

In the deafening sound of running, the Ming army successfully destroyed three Qing army vehicles in just the first test firing, and even the Qing troops under and behind the car were killed and wounded.

Seeing this, Tian Xiong couldn't help frowning, the shooting accuracy of the Ming gunners had improved a lot compared to the last time they faced it. It's just that he didn't know that if it weren't for those marks, there wouldn't be such an amazing improvement.

The defenders' artillery was no longer firing randomly, but was fired more purposefully according to its own range and the distance of the Qing army's siege equipment. Whenever the siege equipment of the Qing army passed a certain mark, the artillery of the Ming army would carry out targeted shooting, which made it quite difficult for the siege equipment of the Qing army to travel.

It's just that one needs to be as close as the lookout and the rushing car, and the other needs to go straight to the city to play its role. When the catapults approached two hundred paces, the auxiliaries and civilians wrapped their mouths and noses in cloth began to fix them to the ground under the leather whip of the Qing army. The barrels were then carefully removed from the cart behind, secured by the catapult's grenadier belt, and the auxiliaries who were responsible for holding the pole arm ready.

"Three."

"Two."

"One."

"Put!" (To be continued.) )