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"Well, it's all good! Any other suggestions? ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded, continuing to encourage the teenagers in front of him, encouraging them to express their thoughts. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

For a while, in this Yaowang Temple, more than a dozen young people put forward their own suggestions, maybe they only received less than three months of military education, and Linus, who was an instructor in the military academy, had not attacked Chinese cities, but Linus brought them experience in attacking and defending fortresses in Europe. And these teenagers are learning and applying them to the attack on Changsha.

After listening to their suggestions, Zuo Zongtang noticed that these teenagers were more concerned about the sharpness of the "weapon", and they emphasized the advantage of firearms, whether it was on the cannon or the musket, the righteous army had an absolute advantage over the Qing army, but Zuo Zongtang did not want these teenagers to attach so much importance to the weapon, although he had no intention of serving in the army, but he knew what these teenagers meant to the righteous army.

"With the advantage of the firearms of the righteous army, it is natural to suppress the defenders of Changsha and break through the city wall, but everyone should note that at present, there are many officials and few soldiers in the city, and the dispatch is not effective, which is the status quo of Changsha's city defense, so it is a good time to attack the city."

Zuo Zongtang tactfully taught.

"On the other hand, although Luo Bingzhang does not know soldiers, he can be regarded as an old and stable person among the governors, and he should not be underestimated."

Staring at the Changsha city wall made of cyan bricks like a dragon, Zuo Zongtang pointed his hand forward.

"The circumference of the Changsha city wall is 2639 zhang. Starting from the Chengjiao Wharf on the riverbank, through the North Gate (Xiangchun Gate), Xinghan Gate, Jingwu Gate, Xiaowu Gate, Liuyang Gate, Huangdao Gate (South Gate), Xuegong Gate, Xiaoxi Gate, Taiping Gate, Daxi Gate, Fuxing Gate, Chaozong Gate, Tongtai Gate to Chengjiao Wharf, the city gate, the city tower, the corner tower, the female wall, the battlement, the wall platform, etc. on the city wall ,......"

The reason why Zuo Zongtang was able to count the Changsha city walls one by one was because he had assisted Changsha in defending the city with Zhang Liangji last year, and it was even he who broke the method of digging the city of the Cantonese bandits in one fell swoop.

“…… The role of the urn city here is to garrison troops in peacetime, rest and recuperate in wartime, and mobilize troops; Second, it was not only the position of the artillery unit defending the city, but also the bunker for the soldiers to hide from the enemy's artillery, and the defenders of Changsha City used the city wall to resist the enemy many times. When the Cantonese bandits attacked Changsha last year, the city wall became a temporary fortress for the Qing army to defend the city. The Qing army deployed troops in the urn city of Tianxin Pavilion and set up cannons on the city wall to counterattack, which not only held the city, but also caused the puppet king Xiao Chaogui of the Cantonese bandits to be hit by artillery fire and died......"

Changsha is the second city that the Taiping army has not breached on the journey, it can be said that because of this, Zuo Zongtang will be quite proud when mentioning this old matter, because it was he who used the blind man to break the Taiping army's method of digging the city, and found out where the Taiping army attacked the city, so as to defend Changsha City.

In his words, he still referred to the Taiping Army as "Cantonese bandits".

Noticing the smugness in the commander-in-chief's expression, Liang Yuqiu patted his ass lightly.

"This is all thanks to the commander-in-chief's strategy of defending the city back then, Changsha can survive! Back then, if it weren't for the commander-in-chief who set a heavy reward for anyone who threw a stone into the gap and rewarded a thousand liters, how could this Changsha be defended! ”

Liang Yuqiu's sycophancy, only let Zuo Zongtang stroke his beard again and again, there is quite a proud state, the Taiping army dug more than 10 tunnels in the area of Kuixinglou and Jinji Bridge in the south of the city, and there were 3 blasts to collapse the city wall, ranging from four or five Wen, seven or eight zhang. The Taiping army attacked the city from the gap, and He Chun, Jiang Zhongyuan and others supervised the troops to resist desperately and quickly plugged the gap. He was in the shogunate of Zhang Liangji, who was in the governor's office, and raised 120,000 taels of silver from the wealthy merchants of Changsha, Huang Mian, He Ming, Sun Dingchen, and Ouyang Zhaoxiong, thus calming the hearts of the army in the city. When there was a gap in the city wall, he was in a hurry to make a wise man, ordered to fill the gap with stones, and stipulated that anyone who threw a stone into the gap would be rewarded with a reward of 1,000 yuan. Suddenly, stones flew from everywhere, killing and injuring countless Taiping troops.

"Liang Yuqiu, since you know how to defend the city in the first place, there are urn cities at all gates in Changsha, even if our army blasts open the city gates, how can this urn city be broken?"

"Use artillery and muskets as cover to blast the city gates!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Liang Yuqiu gave an answer.

Faced with such an answer, Zuo Zongtang didn't say anything, he stared at the Changsha city wall like a dragon rolling down, and said a word.

"Take a closer look at the walls!"

Walls?

While the cadets were looking at the city wall, Linus, who was their instructor, also picked up the binoculars and looked at the wall, which seemed to him to be meaningless, as early as hundreds of years ago, in Europe, this kind of wall had been obsolete, and only the concentration of artillery was needed to destroy this kind of wall.

Is there any difference between the city walls?

With the help of a telescope, looking at the Changsha city wall made of blue bricks, Liang Yuqiu was a little confused, can this city wall see what is the reason? Old, dilapidated ...... Suddenly, Liang Yuqiu noticed the difference in a section of the city wall, compared to the ruins in other places, that section of the city wall seemed very new, it was a new section of the wall.

"New wall, commander-in-chief, this section is a new wall!"

The new wall is not strong!

This is a well-known truth!

"That's right!"

Nodding, Zuo Zongtang said.

"Last year, the Cantonese bandits dug the earth to attack the city, blowing up many places of the city wall, these sections of the newly built wall, most of them were built in a hurry, although it seems to be solid, but in fact it is ......."

Cutting corners is inevitable!

Sighing in his heart, Zuo Zongtang continued.

"Bombarding the city gate, there is an urn city to block, in this case, it is better to bombard this section of the city wall with heavy artillery, and after the wall city is opened, and then bombard the Qing army at both ends of the city wall, the infantry can take advantage of the situation to attack the city......"

Last time, Zuo Zongtang was defending Changsha, but this time he was attacking Changsha, how the Cantonese bandits were defeated, he naturally knew very well, so he emphasized bombarding the Qing army on the city wall, so as to avoid being blocked by the Qing army on the city like the last time the Cantonese bandits attacked the city.

In fact, Zuo Zongtang will ignore one point - there are neither strong generals nor brave warriors in Changsha City now, so it is naturally impossible to fight to the death like last time.

"I see......"

Although Zuo Zongtang did not break it directly, Liang Yuqiu also understood the meaning of his words.

"The commander-in-chief told us that before the operation, we must do a good job of intelligence reconnaissance, accurately grasp the weak links of the enemy's defense, and then attack ......."

When he said this, Liang Yuqiu only felt that his face was slightly red, perhaps because he was used to seeing the fierceness of the firearms of the righteous army, but it made him have the heart to despise the enemy, and he thought about it so much, but he felt that fighting a war was just by bombarding with artillery. Now it seems that it is too arrogant.

What is intelligence reconnaissance?

Zuo Zongtang didn't know, but the reason why he knew Changsha so well was because he had guarded the city, of course, he didn't say it, but just said it to Linus, the foreign instructor of the military academy.

"Mr. Linus, now that the strategy has been decided! Now, here it is for you! ”

When formulating the siege strategy, Zuo Zongtang didn't even ask for the other party's opinion, but when he actually attacked, he became the shopkeeper again, and this is also his cleverness, because he didn't know how the righteous army fought!

"Of course!"

Linus, who took over the command and command, was not polite, but directly issued the order to his students, asking them to formulate the next shelling plan, after returning to their own duties, although it was the first actual battle, Liang Yuqiu, Liu Ziwei and others seemed to be familiar with the road, but it was only ten minutes, and a detailed shelling plan was formulated.

In the evening, with an order, the thirty-six 12-pounder field guns on the artillery position on the mountainside of Miaofeng finally sounded, and at the same time, the four 68-pounder guns and six 24-pounder guns removed from the ship at the foot of the mountain also began to sound, in the deafening cannonade, the cannonballs of the big hat fell from time to time on the newly built city wall on the east side of Xiaowu Gate, but only a few cannon kung fu, the blue bricks collapsed to reveal the internal rammed earth, and the rammed earth that had not settled over the years became more and more loose with the shelling, As the shelling continued, the earth and rocks continued to collapse from the city walls, and there was a great possibility that they could collapse at any time.

"Use grenades!"

Noticed from the telescope that that section of the city wall had begun to show signs of collapse, and the Qing troops on the city wall kept throwing stones at the gap, trying to block the expansion of the gap, Liu Ziwei, who was on the artillery position, immediately shouted loudly, it was time to bomb those Qing troops off the city.

In his order, the cannonballs that ended a round of shelling immediately switched to grenades, although the power of the grenades was not great, but the grenades fired from the height could always accurately fall on the city wall, and exploded around the Qing army on the city wall, those exploding shells exploded red fireworks on the city wall in the evening, and the cast iron fragments flew in the air, tearing apart the body in an attempt to block it, and for a time the city wall around Xiaowumen was full of flesh and blood.

Just when the Qing army on the city wall was screaming and trying to avoid the shelling, suddenly, with a violent impact, the seemingly solid city wall suddenly collapsed, and tens of thousands of loads of earth and stones at the collapsed city wall collapsed into the moat, directly filling the moat, and "building" a gentle slope of up to three or four meters between the river and the city wall.

The walls are falling!

Almost at the moment when the city wall collapsed, the infantry hiding behind the houses in the distance immediately sounded the trumpet with an order, and at this time there was no drumbeat, no neat and uniform square formation, some were just the rapid trumpet and desperate shouts and the team that rushed towards Changsha City like a tide.

When the infantry charged at the gap opened by the artillery, the artillery on the mountain and under the mountain all concentrated their fire on the city wall to cover the infantry's attack, and when the first batch of infantry rushed into the gap, the follow-up troops fired at the city head with muskets to cover their attack, and under the rain of bullets, the Qing army on the city head was completely unable to stop their attack, so they had to watch them attack Changsha and attack the Changsha city wall. As for the artillery and muskets in the city, they did not play any role.

"The city is broken......

At the moment when the city broke, Zuo Zongtang muttered softly, he never doubted that he would take this city, but he never thought that it would be so fast! And the firearms of the rebels were fierce, which was also far beyond his imagination. (To be continued.) )