Chapter 169: Conquering Yangzhou
Relying on the advantage of powerful firearms, the Qingfeng army besieged Zhang Mingjian's Qing Turban Army in Yangzhou City on all sides, the purpose was to put on a posture of ambition to win, and force Zhang Mingjian to surrender with the momentum of thunder. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hao Ren also attacked Anqing, Hezhou, Luzhou and other important cities, in the final analysis, with more to avoid the real and the virtual, transfer the tiger away from the mountain, the enemy's main force to other places, and then attack the weak defense of the fortified city, every battle, Hao Ren is to do enough homework, do as he likes, some attack and some do not attack, so, the city attacked, everything is not broken.
In the first battle of Hao Ren's exit from the mountain, he used a bluff strategy to fill the river with horse manure, which scared the courage of Shouzhou Dalu Huachi, and easily won Shouzhou with 700 horsemen.
When attacking Luzhou, with the surrender of the Red Horse Detective Army, he deceived the city of Luzhou, and there were Zuo Junbi's spies lurking in the city, and with the help of the inside, Hao Ren broke Luzhou.
During the war with Hezhou, Mao Gui and Li Pusheng attacked Chaoxian with their naval armies, and the general of Hezhou was also divided by Timur first, and Hao Ren bypassed the Jiancheng and Hanshan, avoiding the real and the false, and breaking through Hezhou in one fell swoop.
When attacking Anqing, it was also used by surprise, attracting Marshal Li Zongke and Hu Boyan out of Anqing City, and taking advantage of the tall building ship, loading stones at the tail to raise the bow of the ship, and driving the big ship directly to the head of Anqing, breaking through the western town of Anqing in one fell swoop, and forcing the landing of Yuque.
Now the strength of the Qingfeng army is unprecedentedly strong, and there are more unstoppable fierce generals such as Chang Yuchun and Deng Youde, and Zhang Mingjian has no backup and is trapped in the lonely city.
Hao Ren's heavy troops came to the east, and he was determined to win Yangzhou City, and the purpose of the battle was clear, and he had already been informed by Zhang Mingjian, Zhang Mingjian had already made up his mind, no matter who came, he would eat Yangzhou City, he had no backup, and naturally there was no place to save him.
Hao Ren sent people to dig tunnels to Yangzhou City, and wanted to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall of Yangzhou, but the foundation of Yangzhou City Wall was very stable, and the ground was under the digging city, and it was impossible to dig out the cave where gunpowder was placed under the hard city wall, and Yangzhou City was close to the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the underground water system was developed.
In the blink of an eye, two days have passed, Hao Ren has already lived in the same siege as the ants, Yangzhou City is too strong, the ants are attached to the siege, there is no progress in breaking the city, and it can only increase the casualties of his own side meaninglessly.
If you want to break through Yangzhou Jiancheng, I am afraid that there is only a long-term siege, and when Zhang Mingjian eats up the 800,000 people in Yangzhou City, at that time, I am afraid that Yangzhou will be self-defeating.
Then again, everyone has eaten up, what's the use of wanting a dead city? And Hao Ren was in a hurry to teach the class, and he couldn't wait for a few months to break the city.
At night, the north wind was howling, blowing the torches hula, Hao Ren could not sleep, he stood on the warship of the navy, staring at Yangzhou City for a long time, the city above and below, the night wind was silent, and the bonfire was extinguished.
Could it be that this Yangzhou city must be besieged in order to be breached?
Does it have to cause 800,000 people to disappear from history out of thin air and become food in the belly of the Green Turban Army before Yangzhou can be breached?
Hao Ren, after all, has hundreds of years of historical knowledge than the current people, and if his life, including the war, has to follow the inevitable trend of history, it will be a failed journey through time, and it will become a boring and old-fashioned word in the book.
Xu is the matter of his hometown, so that Hao Ren is uneasy, Xu is the war in Yangzhou is unfavorable, become the necessary reason for his thoughts to fall into the trough, Xu is like the moon is cloudy and sunny, people's emotions also have ups and downs, in this quiet night, Hao Ren feels that he has failed to the top, can not break through the bottleneck of history, it is better to hit the mast on the bow of the ship, rush to the next reincarnation
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"When does Liu Senjun think this Yangzhou will be broken?"
Hao Ren didn't know whether he should leave the army to continue the siege and cause 800,000 deaths for no reason, or should he withdraw the siege of the division, so he couldn't help but ask Liu Bowen, who joined the army on the side.
Liu Bowen shook the feather fan, looked up at the sky, the bright torch on the bow of the ship, could only see the dark sky, could not see a star, but Liu Bowen said in a matter-of-fact manner: "Bowen watched the sky at night, and saw that the broken army star was extremely bright, this is the auspicious light of the broken army!" ”
Star? How can you see the stars in the sky when the bright fire is reflected in front of you? Liu Bowen began to play metaphysics to fool people again, this bug is too obvious, Hao Ren naturally refuses to believe it, however, Liu Bowen euphemistically stated that he should not withdraw from the army at this time, and the withdrawal of the army will be in vain.
"What is the best way for Liu to join the army to break the city?" Hao Ren asked again.
"Well, this ...... Well, that ...... "Liu Bowen is a human being, after all, he is not a fairy, he also has times when he is embarrassed, he has been in trouble for a long time, he can't come up with a plan, and he is tricky, stretches out his index finger, makes a silent sound, up his ears, listens, and says: "It seems that a boat is coming!" ”
Liu Bowen is Liu Bowen, there is no way, just say that there is no way, why deliberately change the topic? Hao Ren wanted to ridicule him, but when he listened closely, he did faintly hear the sound of "whoosh", which was the sound of the oars pulling on the water.
The voice, neither intensified nor weakened, seemed to be not far ahead, and someone had been gently paddling with an oar at a uniform speed.
"Yu Wanhu, did you hear that?" Hao Ren asked Yu Tonghai, the naval army on the side of the strength, Yu Tonghai nodded affirmatively, and said in surprise: "Could it be that the enemy came to steal the camp?" ”
"Send a boat out to sentry, make sure to find out the sound!" Hao Ren gave an order to Yu Tonghai, he was already trapped under the fortified city and restless, if he was letting the enemy come to steal the camp, it would also make Hao Ren's family annoyed.
The two sentinel's boats passed by with the Shouzhou, looking for the faint 'whooshing' sound, and gradually disappeared into the night, before they were, the two small boats jumped out of the night, and the centurion on the boat moored the boat into the side of the big boat, and hugged his fists and said: "Report to the governor, the sound is not from the boat, but the drainage pipe in Yangzhou City, the plain water season, the drainage outlet is hidden in the water, and it is not obvious, now it is the dry season, so the pipe is higher than the water surface, and the sound of the water is the sound of sewage flowing into the water!" ”
The ancients built the city, the urban drainage system is particularly developed, especially Yangzhou, a prosperous metropolis, is in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the precipitation in the rainy season is too large, in order to prevent the city from opening the 'look at the sea' mode in the rainy season, build a grand bottom drainage system, and the drainage outlet, hidden on the side of the Grand Canal.
"Great, the city is broken tonight!" Hao Ren shouted excitedly.
I was worried that there was no way to break the city, and now inadvertently, I found the sewage outlet that Yangzhou City extended outside the city, and found the weak link to break through Yangzhou City.
(To be continued.) )