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"Your Highness, I have carefully examined it, except for the vicinity of the city gate, the other sections of the city wall built on the hill are indeed not conducive to attack. However, it is difficult for large troops to move, and small units can still make a difference. I plan to send a special battalion of the teaching brigade to fight from the mountains while attacking all points of the city gate, and as long as one squad can break through, the gate of Fuzhou will be opened. Chen Yucheng, who had just inspected the terrain in front, returned and asked for instructions with confidence.

"Yucheng, you are a battlefield commander, just do it according to your general idea." Lin Haifeng smiled and put down the binoculars in his hand, turned his head and snorted behind him, "Just when we are not here, you see, Minister Huang is in charge of battlefield ambulance, I am here to watch the battle, go and prepare, my task is to cheer and cheer up the brothers." ”

Chen Yucheng nodded vigorously. The headquarters didn't even set up a temporary tent of its own, which is actually telling everyone that Fuzhou is bound to break.

Seeing Chen Yucheng go, Lin Haifeng turned around and came to the art troupe. From afar, he heard Liu Xianghe's voice.

"You girl, you're so fierce." Lin Haifeng pointed at Liu Xianghe.

Liu Xianghe smiled, put away the short gun in his hand, and whispered, "People just scare and scare them, look at them, how squeamish they are." It's all old men, and they can't stand it after a few days of riding, and if they are told to walk on their feet, it will be even worse. ”

Lin Haifeng snorted, looked at the head of the regiment who was a little embarrassed on the side, and came to the middle of the group members, "Everyone has worked hard!" ”

As soon as the members of the group saw King An, they got up one after another.

"Sit down, sit down," Lin Haifeng smiled and waved his hand, and then found a stone to sit down, "It's also our fault, there are too many tasks assigned to you to perform in the army, and you lack physical endurance training, this cold long-distance march is inevitably unsuitable." ”

"No, it's all because I don't usually pay attention to this aspect of the problem, and I always think that we won't go to war again, so ......" The regimental commander lowered his head embarrassedly.

"Hehe, yes, although you don't need to use guns to fight, but the musical instruments and snare drums in your hands are also a weapon of battle." Lin Haifeng beckoned and motioned for the regiment commander to sit down, "The reaction of the troops and the people to you is very good, the brothers like to listen to the military music you play, watch the small plays you choreograph, have a taste in training and life, and can also be educated from it." ”

"How about it, the guard squad arranged for you along the way takes care of you?" Lin Haifeng looked at the members of the group and asked with a smile.

"Well, it's just too thoughtful." The regiment commander praised repeatedly.

"Alas, we don't need to feed the horses, and we don't need to cook the food."

"Yesterday, they took a temporary break for half an hour, and they also specially boiled water for everyone."

As soon as the guard class was mentioned, the interest of the members of the regiment came up, and they were full of praise.

Lin Haifeng smiled, "That's what they should do." You are all treasures of the Celestial Empire, of course you have to take care of them. However, they are all warriors, and they will go to charge into battle in a while, and if they want to listen to everyone's military music again, would you like to? ”

"Of course I do!" The members replied.

"Well, look at how beautiful the night is today." Lin Haifeng raised his head and looked at the bright moon in the sky, "How quiet it is, if at this time, with the sound of the trumpet, the majestic and mighty military music is played, what kind of feelings do you say the brothers in front will have?" ”

It would be superfluous to say anything next, and everyone's heart suddenly became clear, yes, if this is the case, then music is no longer simple music, it is a war drum and a cannon fire.

Wang Yide, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, did not rush to send soldiers and horses from Fuzhou City to rescue him after receiving the report that Ningde and Nanping had been besieged by the Taiping army on the first day. In the past few years since he took office, he has either made trouble with pirates, or has been a bandit or a mob, and there is not much time to be free and quiet. In the past, it seemed that he had no interest in military affairs, but now he is forced to be more comfortable in military affairs. It is no wonder that Su Shun, who was at the beginning of his tenure, changed this for that, but did not make a big move against Fujian, but praised him greatly.

Wang Yide felt that whether it was Ningde or Nanping, there would be no problem at all if it was guarded for a while. Recently, especially after the complete fall of Hangzhou, he seriously questioned some deserters and refugees who had been dispersed in Zhejiang, and conducted a comprehensive analysis of the Taiping Army's combat methods and strength. He never paid much attention to the foreign guns and cannons of the so-called Taiping Army, which the deserters unanimously talked about. If the Taiping Army really has invincible strength, then why bother to besiege Hangzhou for a year?

Ningde and Nanping both want to be saved, but they can't be saved now. In this regard, he actually has the same view as Yu Bingtao, who is currently sitting in Ji'an. Wait until the Taiping army is exhausted by the fortified city and the blade begins to dull before going, and give them another hard knife from the back.

Dou Zhenbiao, the commander of the naval division who was also in Fuzhou, and Zhou Tianshou, the registered commander-in-chief, held different views from the governor. Once the Taiping army also adopted the tactics of encircling Ningde and Nanping for a long time, the so-called fatigue of soldiers and dullness was a matter of wishful thinking. Or should the Taiping army first concentrate on opening up the situation on one side when the Taiping army has just arrived in the two cities and has not yet gained a stable foothold, and then ......

Wang Yide insists on his own opinion, what is the unstable foothold? They have had ample opportunities to recuperate after taking Jianyang and Fu'an, and now they are all prepared, how can they find any opportunities for you to gain a stable foothold.

Each has its own ideas, each has its own opinions. However, the next two days proved the Governor right.

On the evening of the third day, the banner of the Taiping Army was found on the outskirts of Fuzhou.

Hearing the news, Wang Yide was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

Wang Yide's smile is reasonable. The city wall of Fuzhou was built by King Yue of the Han Dynasty and was the beginning of the city wall of Fuzhou, and then through the Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, the rulers of each dynasty built and fell the city of Fuzhou several times. Until the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Gong, the commander of the horses, began to rebuild the city wall, and built and expanded it with solid stone masonry on the old foundation of the original sandwich city and the outer city. It crosses Wang Mountain (Ping Mountain) in the north, and winds around Yu Mountain and Wushi Mountain in the south. During the reconstruction, a tower was built on the top of Pingshan Mountain as a sample of the gate towers of each city, and it was called "sample building". Since you can directly see the sea to the east from the building, it is also called "Zhenhai Building". After that, the successive repairs, to the eighteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1661), and the wall was added, 2.4 zhang high, 1.9 zhang thick, there are 264 nest shops, 93 forts, more than 3,000 battlements, 5,530 zhang of horse road. In the thirtieth year of Kangxi (1691), the southwest 2 city towers were rebuilt. In the fifth year of Yongzheng, the ninth year, the sixteenth year of Qianlong, and the twenty-second year of Jiaqing, they were rebuilt one after another, and the female wall was added. The overhaul was carried out again during the Daoguang period, and the overhaul project was only announced four years ago.

Compared with Hangzhou, Fuzhou occupies a geographical advantage, and it is a dream to trap Fuzhou, and you want to capture it? Not to mention that there are abundant soldiers and horses in the city, this peculiar urban defense system alone is enough for the Taiping army to gnaw for a year and a half. The original city defense was not as strong as it is now, so didn't the invincible Japanese robbers find their own cemeteries here?

Pingshan, the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Wang Yide concluded that the Taiping army was bound to attack Fuzhou from the west. Therefore, he sent the Fujian political envoy to the north of the city, and ordered Zhou Tianshou to be in charge of the defense of Xicheng and Yushan, and strengthen the artillery fire on the mountain. He also discussed with Dou Zhenbiao, the commander of the water division, to control the water division along the Min River, and to undertake the defense task of the foothills of Wushi Mountain.

Fuzhou is solid, hehe, the governor is afraid that you will not come, just come. Wang Yide, who had dinner very late, felt that tonight must have been spent safely, the Taiping army had just arrived, and he had to have a time to prepare for the siege of the city, but he was still a little relieved. He began to walk around the fortifications, he liked it, be prepared!

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