The fortress in the north of the city of Guangxin is divided into two parts: the main fort and the peripheral fortifications. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The main fort as a whole is an equilateral pentagonal shape, with a protrusion resembling the tip of a spear at each corner, and this is the key to distinguishing the bastion from ordinary cities, because this protrusion can provide more firing surface for the defenders, and when the attacker attacks this protrusion, it will also be attacked by the walls of the pentagonal main fort on both sides.

This kind of fortress has a shooting corner, which is the outermost two sides of the protrusion, and this dead angle cannot be supported by fire from other directions when attacked like other walls, and they can only defend themselves.

However, these two sides are the outermost corners of the main fortress, and they are generally made of stone, and the force surface is oblique, and the ability to resist shelling will be stronger. In addition, this protrusion is not one with the main fort, and even if the protrusion is captured, the defenders can still hold on to the recessed fort wall in the area.

In addition to the main fort, the outer fortifications of this fortress include the Half Moon Fort, which covers the walls of the main fort, and the moat that surrounds the main fort and the Half Moon Fort, and the outer part of the moat is constantly rising in the direction of the fortress, so that your own firepower can more perfectly suppress the opponent's impact slope. In addition, there are Chinese and Western-style defensive facilities such as wooden piles and low walls on the periphery, and the whole is a hodgepodge.

In this way, in order to attack the main fort, you must first dismantle the outermost defenses, and at the same time fill the moat with artillery fire on the impact slope. After the moat is filled, the half-moon fort is taken down under the artillery fire of the half-moon fort and the main fort, and then the moat of the main fort is filled. As for the suspension bridge between the Half Moon Fort and the main fort, don't think about it, the defenders will not be able to put it down.

Next, when the moat is filled, it's time to attack the main fort. However, a direct attack on the main fort wall is to withstand the flanking attack of the protrusion, so you must try to take the protrusion, and then try to break through the concave fort wall on the inside of the protrusion in order to attack the bastion.

All in all, this fortress was captured, and it was subjected to multi-angle attacks throughout the whole process, and even if every step was done, it would have to be killed several times or more than ten times the number of men and horses of the defenders. What's more, with the current tactics, it would be a fool's dream to capture it, so later Zheng Chenggong and Kangxi chose to use hunger to capture the Dutch and Lao Maozi's fortress like the Europeans.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that the tactics that Tian Xiong used before seem to be more creative......

The Anhua Town Fort, Hulu Town Fort and Lishui Fort built by Chen Wen before have the prototype of the star-shaped fort of later generations in design. However, he himself is also a two-sword, and he has not memorized a lot of experience accumulated in the European-style fortress for a hundred years, such as the half-moon fort and the impact slope, such as the design of the protrusion is too rigid, and he does not use the method of piling up a mountain of earth to reduce the height of the fortress wall to reduce the vibration of his own artillery to the fortress, and rely on the raised soil to absorb the kinetic energy of the cannonballs.

Fortunately, in terms of solidity, Chen Wen absorbed some techniques from the construction of the Chinese city wall, and greatly strengthened the outer wall of the fortress. In addition, it already has the prototype of a more advanced star-shaped fort, and with the Qing army of this era, even the Han Eight Banner Army and Tian Xiong who garrisoned the Eight Banners in Hangzhou and those sharp soldiers who started with Huang Degong and cut down the Liukou in the hands of Tian Xiong have nothing to do with her.

James thought that Chen Wen had not learned well in the fortress, and Chen Wen did not look down on this Jesuit priest. It's not that we Tessie who are mouthful, this guy probably sees too much Tartar in the city of Beijing, so he despises China together. He doesn't have the same knowledge of this guy as he does, but every time he shows off, it always makes people sound like "I'm better than you, so you can't kill me, you can only provide for me, I see how you can do it for God's sake".

"This Hongyi, probably using us as Tartars, is so unlearned and unskilled, this time let him know that our Ming is not without capable people."

Zhang Gongyan is the staff officer of the General Staff Department of the Army, and Zhao Qian is Chen Wen's chief military engineer. For example, the moat is designed to have a slope, then grass is planted on the slope, pebbles are laid, and finally thistles are placed in the grass and between the stones......

At this moment, Zhang Gongyan and other staff officers were consulting with the engineer officers led by Zhao Qian, so as to better implement Chen Wen's will to those lower-ranking engineer officers.

After a long time, the officers had a complete understanding of them and how their unit needed to work, and they returned to their units, organizing the sappers and the assigned auxiliaries to begin their "offensive".

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At the head of the fortress, Liu Guangbi, the governor of Jiangxi, and Bu Shilong, the chief soldier of Guangxin Mansion, immediately rushed to the city after receiving the summons from the sentry.

As far as the eye can see, except for the fortress wall of Xiangfu City, there is no Half-Moon Fort, and there is the direction of Half-Moon Fort, and the Ming army began to dig in the ground after entering Changwei. Looks like......

"Military Gate, don't plan to dig tunnels outside the city to do the collapse method."

"Collapse?" Liu Guangbi glanced at it from a distance, and then turned to say: "It does look like it, and there is probably no other trick." ”

Hearing this, Bu Shilong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "That's good, this fortress is ingenious, and when it was built, a hole was dug in the fort, and a few blind people listened there. When the time comes, fill in the soldiers in the tunnels of the Ming army, and we can speak harder. ”

Bu Shilong and his subordinates, like the five towns of Jingbiao, were all green battalion soldiers transferred from the north, but Hong Chengchou hollowed out the treasury in the south of the Yangtze River and trained that army, and the defending troops like the Guangxin Fubiao Battalion had nothing to do with the Spanish phalanx. In the previous three encounters, the Ming army defeated the Qing army, and when the city was broken, Liu Guangbi fled into the fortress with more than 1,000 subordinates.

The fort where the 3,000 Qing troops were stationed suddenly had more than a thousand mouths, and the food would inevitably be more tight, but they had lost the confidence to fight in the field with the Ming army, and they didn't dare to break through, especially without the cooperation of the cavalry, they could only live here temporarily.

Reinforcements, basically don't think about it anymore, Bu Shilong watched Liu Fangming move in with the remaining more than 1,000 horsemen. The only way is to hold on, and when the Ming army hits its head and breaks the bloodstream, but is still unable to break through the city, then negotiate with Chen Wen on terms, at least to save the lives of these people.

Liu Guangbi said this to his remnants of the defeated generals, and also said this to Bu Shilong, and Bu Shilong also said this to the soldiers of Guangxin Mansion.

Liu Guangbi knew that he was certain to die, so he tried his best to persuade his subordinates and Bu Shilong, and his subordinates also gained a lot from the slaughter of the city in Yongfeng County before, and those who fled into the fortress with him were basically the beneficiaries of the front and rear camps, which can be described as a relationship of both prosperity and loss. Liu Guangbi relied on his own basic plate to persuade the hesitant Bu Shilong, and next, Chen Wen's killing of the Nanchang shogunate and the evil murderers also endorsed his words.

"Brother Bu, our net worth, life, wealth and glory all point to this fortress. As long as we hold this place for a while and force Chen Wen to no avail, we will always have the opportunity to exchange this fortress for better conditions. When the time comes, even if we go back, the court will also record the credit we once made Chen Wen deflated! ”

"That's exactly how it should be."

Now that he had seen the tactics of the Ming army, Bu Shilong hurriedly sent someone to pass the order, so that the personnel in charge of listening to the urn tensed their nerves, and they didn't want to let the Ming army take advantage of it.

From a distance, the excavation speed of the Ming army is not slow, but it will take some days to dig up. Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong saw that there was nothing to do for the time being, so they returned to Bu Shilong's general military mansion in the fortress. It's one thing to share weal and woe with the soldiers, but at least entertainment is still necessary, such as getting together to drink a little wine, letting the singers of the women's camp dance and sing a song, and picking out a few eye-catching warm quilts, which are also excellent.

Just drank a little wine, and the two of them naturally complained about one or two. Hong Chengchou is dead, but it's only been a few days, and there are still some Jiwei, so everything involving Hong Chengchou is generally overlooked by the two of them subconsciously with excuses such as "misbelieving people's words". As for whose nonsense was mistaken, it is self-evident.

"Speaking of that Hongyi, when I killed people in the east of the city a few days ago, I still let people listen to it, from the old Jingluo to the officers below, there is no such thing at all. In my opinion, it is a counter-plot sent by Chen Wen. ”

When training troops in Nanchang, the effect of the Spanish phalanx was clearly very good, and it was not bad when it first clashed with the Ming army, but when it came to the decisive battle, the dense phalanx became the target of slow action.

In fact, the fortress they were in was also designed and built by a Jesuit monk, but the monk was very good at dealing with people, and he was also very polite to them, the commanders of the Qing army, not like this James. Of course, if they knew that this James had already taken the designer of the fortress in order to be more able to speak in front of Chen Wen, it was estimated that these two green camp marshals who had never done anything good in their lives would also have to uphold justice for the justice of the world.

Hearing this, Liu Guangbi hurriedly waved away the singers, lowered his voice and said to Bu Shilong: "I also listened, Lao Jingluo, Admiral Bai and Huang Fantai were all killed, but Admiral Li, Admiral Liu and Hu Daotai were not executed by the Ming army like that Hongyi, and probably escaped." ”

As soon as these words came out, Bu Shilong was disdainful. "We don't know about Admiral Li and Hu Daotai, but Liu Fangming, brother, I watched him go away with my own eyes. I haven't seen him send someone back to inform him these days, thinking that he would have escaped a long time ago, if it weren't for this, how could the long enclosure of the Ming army outside the city be so easy to repair, but he still has thousands of iron horsemen in his hands. ”

If there is cavalry, the fortress will only be more impregnable, which is the most basic principle, and the same is true for ordinary cities. Bu Shilong didn't believe that Liu Fangming didn't understand it at all, but according to him, nine times out of ten, this guy ran away, because of the long enclosure, the traffic inside and outside the city was cut off, so naturally there was no need to talk about any cooperation.

"That's true, I think this guy is the most unreliable."

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When Liu Guangbi and Bu Shilong were drinking wine in the fortress, Liu Fangming, who "didn't rely on the plate", had already arrived in Raozhou Mansion on the east bank of Poyang Lake.

The capital city of Raozhou is located in Poyang County, which is 300 miles away from Guangxin Mansion, but Liu Fangming's command is all cavalry, and after the first day of desperate running and the next few days of demoralization, he finally arrived at the Nanchang Shogunate's munitions transfer and shipbuilding center today.

"How so?"

In the yamen of the prefect of Raozhou Prefecture, Zhang Daocheng, the prefect of Raozhou, and Hao Zongfu, the prefect of Poyang, listened to Liu Fangming's narration in amazement. Originally, they had already learned the news of the defeat of the Qing army in Yushan County, and even a large number of newly arrived military supplies were also shipped with Hong Chengchou returning to Guangxin Mansion. Now it seems that it is obvious that they have to cheapen the Ming army.

Hong Chengchou's defense of Guangxin Mansion, the original responsible for the cavalry was the fierce general Hu Maozhen, but on the first day of the siege, Hu Maozhen died in the phalanx of the Ming army, and also left a lot of Qing cavalry.

Fortunately, the number of cavalry in the Qing army was really quite large, and 20% of the original 35,000 troops were cavalry, which was 7,000 people. After a large number of casualties on the first day of Yushan and the first day, Hong Chengchou still put together the cavalry, including the town mark of Guangxinfu, together with other cavalry, and handed over this cavalry army, which was still more numerically than the Ming army, to Liu Fangming, so as to continue to contain the Ming army the next day.

Unexpectedly, Liu Fangming learned the lesson of Hu Maozhen and did not act brutally, but the city could not be defended. He fought hard at the critical moment, but it turned out to be useless, and in the end, he was carried away from the battlefield by the defeated soldiers who were temporarily transferred to his command.

Liu Fangming is not a fierce general who is known for his martial arts like Hu Maozhen, he is a military general who uses troops to seek stability and is good at judging the situation, which is the case in Ningxia, and Hong Chengchou also handed over the cavalry to him for this reason. But this kind of temperament is far less able to intimidate these temporary subordinates than Hu Maozhen. The city was breached, the army was crushed, and he was powerless for a while.

In the past few days, he has spent a lot of effort to stabilize the morale of this army for the time being, but it is also difficult to fight again. At this moment, Zhang Daocheng asked him what to do, and Liu Fangming said in his heart: "Who does Lao Tzu want to ask!" ”

It's just that although Zhang Daocheng and Hao Zongfu are both members of the Nanchang shogunate, they are only civil officials, and they are obviously in turmoil here, and only he can try to come up with this big idea.

"It's obviously impossible for Lao Jingluo to escape, and there are only two ways to go for now."

"Will the plan be released?"

Hearing this, Zhang Daocheng grabbed Liu Fangming's sleeve, as if he was grasping the last straw.

"First, use the ships at the wharf to load all the military supplies, materials, soldiers, and family members of Raozhou on the ship and transport them to Nanchang. Nanchang city defense is strong, when the ancestor of the previous dynasty did not win the world, the ancestor of Jingjiang Domain once defended there, dragging Chen Youliang's hundreds of thousands of troops, it is a rare fortified city in the world......"

What Liu Fangming said was that Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wen was guarding Hongdu, and the victory in this battle laid the foundation for Zhu Yuanzhang to unify the south, and Zhang Daocheng naturally knew about it. It's just that since Chen Wen has opened the door to Jiangxi, Nanchang is where he must take, and it doesn't seem to be very safe.

"What about the other one?"

Second, while the Ming army had not yet blocked Poyang Lake, he sailed into the Yangtze River by boat. We can't go to Huguang to the west, so let's go down the river and go to the governor of the horse. Jiangxi is not guaranteed, he is in a situation of being besieged by the Ming army, and only by trying to keep us can we increase our strength! ”

For more than a year, the Nanchang Shogunate and the Changsha Shogunate have been filthy a lot, and going there to defect to Fan Wencheng is to find the dead, which is naturally not as reliable as Ma Guozhu.

"We are in chaos, everything is subject to the will of the military gate, and we will do our best to cooperate."

In this way, the chickens and dogs of Raozhou Mansion jumped for a few days, and finally prepared properly, carrying everything needed into Poyang Lake. It's just that the day after the fleet left, Li Benshen, Hu Quancai and others were late. Looking at the noisy docks in the past like ghosts, especially the wreckage of those ships that were inconvenient to take away, there were occasionally a few sparks flashing, Li Benshen couldn't help but blurt out a curse.

"Zhang Daocheng, a dog, your mother!" (To be continued.) )