Clearing the obstacles in front of the city wall, this is just an appetizer of the siege battle, the Qing army is just opening artillery interference, along with further delaying time, and the Ming army, not only did not rush to dispatch siege equipment, but the cannon fodder sent was also a slightly weaker combat effectiveness among the prisoners, and there were even a large number of auxiliaries mixed in. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But when these cannon fodder cleared the way for the siege equipment to advance, the Ming army's siege equipment began to advance slowly, and the real siege battle officially kicked off.

Rushing carts, ladders, lookouts, a large number of siege engines began to slowly push forward, and behind these were a large number of prisoners of war armed with swords, shields, spears, and auxiliary prisoners carrying bags of dirt. At the same time, the Ming army of the brigade drove the artillery carriage behind the captured artillery crew of the Qing army.

The artillery carriage was to provide fire support for the siege troops after entering the firing range, and there was a way to be vigorous, and then to decline, and then exhausted, the Ming army put on an all-out posture, and the Qing army naturally did not dare to ignore it.

The person in charge of the East City Wall Guard is Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, who has been Chen Wen's old opponent since the Battle of Shentangyuan. After years of confrontation, Liu Guangbi also heard that Chen Wen seemed to have an unwritten convention, that is, those who caused the massacre of the city were bound to be punished with Ling Chi.

Ling Chi is generally a punishment that can only be imposed for heinous crimes, but there were a lot of things to slaughter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the Qing army was already commonplace, and even more eager to try. The year before last, Chen Wen was late to Ma Jinbao in Jinhua, because of the massacre of Jinhua, and this time Daniel Zhang's fate was even more because of the massacre of Ji'an. He had his share in these two massacres of the city, and after the scene just now confirmed the fear in his heart, it naturally strengthened his determination to defend the city.

"Give the order, let the cavalry go out and interfere with the Ming army outside the city."

The flag was waved, and the cavalry of the Qing army, which had long been on standby north of the fortress, quickly moved.

"Marshal, the cavalry of the Tartars has been dispatched."

The movement of the Qing army has long been in the sight of the Ming army, the west of the Ming army's battle line is Guangxin Fucheng, the east is Daying, and the south is Xinjiang, and the only way to interfere is from the northeast. In this regard, Chen Wen naturally had no reason not to know, and even the Qing army acquiesced to this, but he still rushed out blatantly.

The Qing army was far superior to the Ming army in terms of the number of cavalry, a problem that had plagued him for a long time, and it was still hindering the Ming army in Zhejiang, and now it was even more necessary to prevent them from interfering with the rhythm of the siege.

"Order, Li Ruixin led the Iron Cavalry Battalion and the mixed cavalry brigade of each battalion to meet the battle."

The siege force continued to advance, and those huge engineering facilities moved slowly, and from time to time they would be shelled by the Qing army, but they did not dare to stop under the surveillance of the Ming army behind the palace.

A moment later, the smoke and dust north of the fortress flew in the direction of the Ming army's siege point, and the cavalry of the Ming army also came out from behind, lined up on the north side of the battle array, and the phalanx composed of Yiwu, Lishui and Chun'an battalions was responsible for the defense of the flank. However, far in front of the Ming army's battle formation, the besieging artillery team was the first to approach the firing range and began to fire to suppress the artillery fire at the head of the Qing army.

"Put!"

Having received the order, the captured artillery crews lit the fuses in turn. Compared with those cannon fodder, these technical arms still received a certain degree of preferential treatment from Chen Wen, not only did they have enough to eat, but they also did not get whipped at every turn in the past few days. And Chen Wen has only one requirement for them, the worst cannonball will hit the city wall, and it will be okay to bombard the city, but if you can't even touch the city wall, the three cannonballs are like this, and the entire artillery crew will be directly pulled down and beheaded, and it will not be tolerated.

Chen Wen has no confidence in the skills of their masters and apprentices, passed down from father to son, and naturally they don't require any precision, as long as they are in the direction and greet them from afar. Anyway, the city of Guangxin Mansion is tall, and the east city wall is even more so, even if it is just hit on the city wall, there is a certain chance that it will destroy the female wall and cause damage to the Qing army at the head of the city, so it is enough.

Adhering to the spirit of striking from afar, these artillery crews all gave full play to their ingenuity and tried to hit the shells farther.

When the Qing army opened artillery to bombard the siege troops of the Ming army, with the sound of cannons under the city, the cannonballs flew out of the muzzle one after another, and the most recent cannonball pierced into the moat as soon as it slammed into the moat, carrying water vapor and stirring up a splash of water almost half the height of the city wall, and most of the other cannonballs hit the city wall, and one of them directly hit the female wall, not only broke the female wall, but also swept away the Qing army near the left.

"Just this angle and reload, aim and continue to hit me!"

Behind each artillery group was a Ming army, and they were responsible for supervising the firing of these artillery groups and evaluating their shooting performance. Those who are not qualified will be recorded, and they will not need to fire again after three times, and they will be directly pulled down and beheaded. Those who are qualified continue, while those who can hit the defenders will be credited with credit and will be treated better after the battle.

Facts have proved that as long as there is a knife behind their backs, these experienced Qing gunners can fully estimate the maximum charge of their own artillery, and there will be no accidents of exploding at all. Even the shooting accuracy can be improved.

"As far as the last general knows, these gunners, or the original gunners of the Ming Dynasty, many artillery crews operate to reduce the amount of ammunition not only to prevent explosions, but also to save gunpowder and sell it for silver, and even many of them have already sold gunpowder before the war, and they can't do it if they want to load more when the war starts."

Zhao Qian, the first captain of the engineering team of the original Nantang Battalion, as the earliest batch of officers in Chen Wenjun, had already been promoted to Captain Zhiguo, who was enough to serve as a battalion officer. And as an officer from an engineer background, although he was not able to command a combat battalion, his status as the chief military engineer under Chen Wen over the years was not low, but Chen Wen did not plan to use him in this attack on Guangxin Fucheng, at least temporarily.

"People in the city really know how to play."

Corruption is a factor that erodes the combat effectiveness of the army and has a very lethal effect, and the army in the late Ming Dynasty still has a lot of jokes that Chen Wen had heard of at the beginning, and even more similar jokes in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, but his attention was not here during this time, but he just replied casually, and continued to pay attention to the war situation.

After the first round of shelling, the besieging troops were still advancing, and the artillery began a series of tasks such as repositioning, delag removal, loading, and aiming. At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army also quickly rushed to the right side of the Ming army's battle line.

Since the discovery of the Qing army, the distance between the two was only a few miles, and it did not take long for the cavalry to roar. However, the Ming army had long been prepared for this, and with the deployment of the troops on the right flank responsible for containing the Qing cavalry, under the command of Wu Dengke, the three battalions of Yiwu, Lishui and Chun'an soon listed the hollow phalanx in the bureau, which was precisely blocked by the Qing army's attack on the only way.

The Qing army's iron cavalry roared in, but in the face of the spear forest on the outer layer of the hollow phalanx, and the infantry bows and firearms in the inner layer that far exceeded the cavalry bows in their hands in terms of range, they could not take advantage of anything at all.

The military general who led the team was Hu Maozhen, the commander of Jingbiao Zuo Town, who was a pioneer cavalry general in Gao Jie's army, and now he is already in a high position as a commander, but he still has to return to his old business, and there is really no way.

"Marshal, the cavalry of the Ming army is waiting in the formation, or let's withdraw first."

The Ming army made it clear that the infantry and cavalry cooperated, and it was difficult to break the formation by relying on the cavalry alone. However, Hu Maozhen has heard too much these days, and many of the Qing army's names for the Ming army have changed from thieves and robbers, and they are completely regarded as equal or higher level opponents, and they are no longer in a psychological advantage, and there is no way to continue this battle without doing something.

"Rush in and see where the flaws are."

There was a considerable distance between each hollow phalanx of the Ming army, in order to give the Qing army and its own cavalry space to intersperse. When the Qing army entered the forest of the phalanx, the hollow phalanx of the Ming army immediately turned into frightened hedgehogs, spears poked out, and the Ming archers and musketeers also aimed at the Qing army's cavalry and began to shoot.

After a crackling burst of fire, the Ming musketeers began to reload, while the infantry archers continued to shoot. The cavalry of the Qing army, led by Hu Maozhen, rushed through the passage between the first and second games of the Yiwu battalion, but also lost a large number of Qing cavalry under the fire from both sides.

After the cavalry, the Qing army who fell off the horse was either killed on the horse, or trampled to death by the follow-up war horses after falling off the horse, and there was no way to live at all. In comparison, the power of the riding bow is really not great, and even these elite cavalry of the Ganshan Green Battalion, which is by no means inferior to the Mongols in the northwest, will inevitably be limited by the power of their weapons, making their damage to the Ming army very small.

The purpose is not to pass, the purpose is to try to find the flaws in the Ming army's formation. As for cavalry warfare, the number of cavalry under his command was far superior to that of the Ming army, and his combat effectiveness was much better, so he was naturally not very afraid.

"Damn, it can't be without flaws, where the hell is it?"

Rushed through the phalanx of the first layer, and there was actually a back, but the position of the phalanx array behind was not parallel to the front, so Hu Maozhen had to lead the cavalry to go around in the forest of this phalanx.

However, the cavalry roared past, but it was bound to be attacked by the Ming troops on both sides, and when they got closer, their spears pierced straight away, and if they were far away, they would also be attacked by the infantry bows and firearms.

Although the cavalry of the Qing army numbered thousands, they were constantly scratching in this thorny forest, and the huge cavalry was also shrinking, so that after a few laps in this labyrinth, the Qing army had lost hundreds of horses. However, Hu Maozhen also found the key point of the jungle of the Ming army's formation in his mind. That is, where the flag of Wu Dengke in the middle of the jungle of the phalanx is located.

"Rush over, kill the commander of the right wing of the Ming army first, and then drive the rout to break the formation!"

The city defense of Guangxin Mansion City is far inferior to the fortress, Hu Maozhen knows that with the morale of the Qing army that has just been defeated, once those grenadiers appear in front of the Qing army, it will mean the rapid collapse of the army's morale. If he wanted to hold the city of Guangxinfu, he had to use the cavalry advantage of the Qing army to break the formation, and there was no other way.

The Qing army of the brigade had already begun to rush towards the phalanx where General Wu Dengke's banner was, and with the beginning of the third artillery bombardment, the siege equipment of the Ming army finally approached the position suitable for them to launch an attack after a series of baptisms.

After three rounds of firing, the shells were basically able to hit the city wall, and some experienced gunners also successfully sent the shells to the women's wall after one or two rounds of test firing.

The so-called female wall is taken from the meaning of watching, and the defenders can use the female wall to cover their bodies, and at the same time use it to observe the movements of the enemy army, and even use it to fight back. However, when the cannonballs with huge kinetic energy hit the women's wall, these buildings not only did not play a defensive role, but increased the damage.

There is a fort not far from Liu Guangbi, which was added, and there is a female wall in front of it, so the gunner can naturally walk around and shoot behind the wall. The third round of artillery bombardment of the Ming army sounded, and a cannonball flew straight towards the female wall, only at the moment when it hit the female wall, the wall of the blue bricks fell apart like tofu slag, but the flying stones swept away the Qing army behind the female wall in an instant.

"Replenish the run!"

There was no need for Liu Guangbi to command, and an officer under his command immediately instructed the troops on standby under the city to make up for it, and at the same time, the auxiliary soldiers cleaned up the dead bodies and wounded on the running position, but the stones on the ground were deliberately left behind. These stones are left and will soon come in handy.

As long as there is spare strength, the wounded must be sent down as soon as possible, otherwise it will seriously affect the morale of the defenders at the head of the city. This was especially true for Qing troops who were forced to defend the city after their defeat.

The officers defending the city were experienced, and the replenishment and counterattack were well arranged, but during this time, the moat under the city was also filled with a lot of earth bags carried by the advancing carts, rushing carts and auxiliaries, and even at the same time as the shelling, the first ladder was also erected on the head of the city.

"Wait, don't worry, wait for the Ming army below to climb halfway before pushing."

The officer shouted loudly, but the soldiers below could not calm down a little, the ladder was not only this one, even the area that this officer was in charge of had several ladders.

The captives in the uniforms of the Ming army under the city were biting the blades and climbing up, and more were either holding on or waiting to follow. Although the shouting and killing was full of Ganshan's Qin dialect, the Qing army defending the city did not dare to have the slightest softness, because these former compatriots are now wearing the uniforms of the Ming army, fighting under the command of the Ming army, and even their braids have been cut, they are the real Ming army, and they are the mortal enemies who came to ask for their lives!

A large number of ladders attached to the city wall, one of which already had an ant attached to the siege of the city halfway up, the Qing army defending the city did not try to knock down the ladder, but instead lifted a large stone and smashed it at the soldier.

The stone fell, and the captive was smashed on the head without accident, and fell straight down from the ladder, seeing that he was no longer alive, but under the urging of the Ming army supervising the battle team, the follow-up soldiers did not dare to delay in the slightest, but continued to climb up.

The Qing army won the jackpot, but at the moment when he threw the boulder, in the crackling sound of the Ming and Qing armies, a projectile from the distant lookout also hit him in the face, and he was directly killed on the city.

The Ming army's guns have a lot of advantages in range, and the pressure of the Ming shooters on those lookouts is much lower than that of the captives who are attached to the siege of the city, but there are also a lot to pay attention to, such as those Qing artillery, which not only has enough range, but can also destroy the entire lookout in one or several shots.

As far as Chen Wen could see, a lookout could no longer bear the weight of itself and the Ming army on the platform after withstanding a few shots, and it was very reluctant to bend, twist, and break until it broke, so that it fell to the ground, and buried several auxiliaries under the lookout in the ruins.

The siege continued, and the new lookout was slowly moving forward with the help of the auxiliaries. However, just a moment later, when the lookout was pushed to the left of the just-destroyed lookout, it was the right flank of the Ming army, and the phalanx jungle that was withstanding the attack of the superior cavalry of the Qing army erupted into an exclamation, which made Chen Wen can't help but turn his gaze there. (To be continued.) )