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Leaving Zhang Huangyan staring at him coldly, to be honest, Song Kun's disdain made him very hurt.

Zhang Huangyan is also ambitious.

Zhang Huangyan was born in a family of eunuchs, and his father achieved the position of a member of the criminal department, but Zhang Huangyan was most fascinated by the art of war.

At the age of sixteen, he participated in the county examination, and he took the riding and archery examination, and hit all three arrows, and the test participants were all shocked. If he hadn't passed the Wenju test, with his martial arts, it would never be difficult to take the martial arts test.

This is a character who can be civil and martial, and he has always been full of confidence, consciously both civil and military, when he has made a great achievement, but he doesn't want to be despised by Yang Chao's generals, if he doesn't take care of the overall situation, he will never be so forbearing.

Following the army all the way and carefully observing the battle formation, Zhang Huangyan's actual combat experience is accumulating rapidly, and he also draws inferences from one another, combined with ancient military books and battle examples, and often puts forward some constructive suggestions to Xie Fei.

After three days of hard fighting, Dongguan fought with difficulty, and then the whole army rested here.

Zhang Huangyan continued to carefully observe Yang Chao's army, he was most interested in training, Yang Chao's army has a lot of training and walking, as long as he does not fight, he will gather troops every day to practice the pace, thousands of soldiers line up and walk around, Zhang Huangyan can't figure out the doorway, just secretly guess whether it is training a formation of entering and attacking.

"Lord Zhang, our soldiers need to go through three months of footwork training before they can practice martial arts. Does Master Zhang feel unreasonable? ”

Song Kun didn't know when he appeared in the playground. stood by Zhang Huangyan's side.

Zhang Huangyan was interrupted from thinking. Nodding slightly: "Definitely." This is the method that must be practiced in order to enter the joint attack. Loyal and righteous Bo is really a genius! ”

Song Kun was quite surprised. Unexpectedly, Zhang Huangyan could see from the footwork training that this was the basis for formation transformation, but he had two brushes.

But he still has to continue to fight: "It's a pity that even if Lord Zhang can understand it?" There are many tongue-talkers in this world. ”

"You!"

Zhang Huang paused, but suddenly smiled.

"Hahahaha."

"What are you laughing at?"

Song Kun wondered.

Zhang Huang said: "You said so much, don't you just want to motivate the officers to practice with these sergeants, why is it difficult?" ”

Song Kun couldn't help but be embarrassed, he really meant this, this was what Yang Chao asked him to ask Xie Fei to lure Zhang Huangyan to train. Xie Fei couldn't find a way, but Song Kun used stimulation, contempt and other methods, but he didn't expect Zhang Huangyan to see through it.

"Then Lord Zhang, please!"

Song Kun pointed to the playground.

Then he called a team leader and asked him to teach Zhang Huangyan footwork.

Zhang Huangyan refused, thinking that he should train with the soldiers, so he found a team to join in.

Song Kun was speechless, obviously Zhang Huangyan misunderstood, he specially found someone to teach him, not to give them any special treatment. It's because he doesn't have any foundation, and he can't keep up with the footsteps of other soldiers.

Sure enough, I just ran a lap down. Zhang Huangyan was red-faced, and he was scolded by the junior officers one after another when he walked in unison, and even because he made the queue chaotic, in the end, he couldn't stand it anymore and walked out by himself.

"Mr. Song, let's find someone to teach the officer."

Zhang Huangyan himself proposed to find someone to train him alone.

Song Kun nodded and called a team leader again, and carefully told him to let him teach Master Zhang well.

It has a good foundation in martial arts, and its IQ is also superior, and in less than ten days, Zhang Huangyan has mastered the footwork of walking step by step.

However, the army's regular training is not just a step turn, it is just basic training, just to warm up, the first most trained in the army is all kinds of martial arts, and the second is formation changes.

Martial arts Zhang Huangyan didn't need to practice, he was most interested in the military formation of Yang Chao's army, and felt that his footwork had passed, so he eagerly asked to participate in the formation training, but the result was that he was the most wrong, even if he shortened the time of basic training with his cleverness, but compared with these soldiers who had completely practiced their abilities, it was still too much worse, because he relied on his smart brain to transform this kind of instruction, and the soldiers were completely conditioned, so when the formation changed, he was always slow.

This made Zhang Huangyan very devastated, but fortunately, he only participated for a few days, and the army only rested for five days in Dongguan before heading for Guangzhou.

On the water outside Guangzhou, more than a dozen large ships bombarded the city wall continuously, and the cannons on the city wall were also counterattacking, but it was a pity that the cannons on the city wall were scarce.

It's not that there aren't enough cannons in the city of Guangzhou, on the contrary, the cannons that Guangzhou City is equipped with, perhaps in addition to the city of Beijing, are the most. Because Guangzhou produced iron, it was the iron-smelting center of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and the Guangzhou Railway was very famous in the Ming Dynasty, second only to Min Tie. Where iron is produced, there are naturally the most blacksmiths and foundry craftsmen, and the cannons used by Hong Chengchou to attack the city of Guangzhou are freshly made, and after he occupied Guangdong, he paid special attention to the casting cannons, and the vast majority of the cast cannons were placed on the city wall except for a small part for Kong Youde to take away to attack Guangxi.

The reason why there are no extra cannons to bombard the sea ships is because most of the cannons are concentrated in the west and used to bombard the artillery of the Yang family's army, in Hong Chengchou's eyes, it is obvious that the infantry of the Yang family army is regarded as the biggest threat, as for a few big ships, even if they break through the city wall, can those pirates still enter the city?

The army has already driven to the west of the city, at this time the siege of three is missing one, except for the south three sides are encircled, but the west is the main direction of attack, and the city of Guangzhou will also take the west as the main defensive direction.

In the west of the city, there is a long earthen ridge parallel to the city wall, which is as high as three zhang, and the bottom layer is more than 20 zhang.

Behind the ridges are deep semi-circular pits, each with a cannon.

Behind the pit are the trenches.

This kind of civil engineering operation made it impossible for the artillery in the city to threaten the artillery positions behind the ridges, nor to threaten the soldiers in the trenches.

Hu Quan was lying on the top of a ridge, as the chief artillery soldier, he was indispensable for attacking Jiancheng, after Guangdong became the strategic direction of attack, he was sent over, Hu Quan was lying next to Xie Fei and others, they looked solemn through the telescope to observe the city of Guangzhou.

In the telescope, Hu Quan roughly estimated that there were about 500 cannons that were fired.

"Five hundred Hongyi cannons!"

Hu Quan said in a deep voice.

"There must be more small cannons."

Xie Fei guessed.

This is a very serious situation, they did not expect that there are so many cannons in Guangzhou.

Five hundred Hongyi cannons are nothing, Hu Quan still has thousands of them in his hands, it is not a problem to break through the city wall, the question is how to fight in the back? If you send infantry to attack, you will definitely be bombarded by the enemy, and the opponent's artillery is so large that it will definitely be impossible to suppress, and you will have to suffer heavy losses at that time.

This is precisely the concern of these officers.

Suddenly, a cannonball hit the side of the earthen ridge in front, and several people lying on the earthen ridge suddenly felt as if they had been punched in the chest, and felt the ridge jump.

"Let's go, let's go down!"

Hu Quan immediately suggested that this kind of earthen ridge shooting made the artillery positions hiding behind foolproof, quite scientific, and they had explored it in perennial combat, but it was still very dangerous to be close to the earthen ridge, especially the top of the earthen ridge, whether it would be pierced by shells.

After several people withdrew, they went into the tunnels dug in the deep trenches.

As a command post, a space was excavated to accommodate more than 10 people, and the walls were reinforced with wood, making it quite sturdy.

There were tables, chairs, benches, maps, and a few lights.

"If it's a strong attack, it will inevitably cause heavy damage."

After sitting down, Xie Fei said in a low voice.

Hu Quandao: "Our army has enough artillery shells, but if we want to destroy the entire western wall and the artillery on it, not a month is not enough." ”

Xie Fei nodded: "That's all it can be." ”

As officers, this group of people does not think about how many shells, how much gunpowder, or even how many cannons are destroyed in a month, they only think about the best methods of warfare.

Song Kun said: "Chief soldier Xie, total soldier Hu." If the war is stalemate, Geng Zhongming from Zhaoqing rushed to support, and the cooperation between the inside and the outside will definitely be unfavorable to our army! ”

Song Kun said, his tone was not as heavy as Hu Quan and Xie Fei, on the contrary, it was a little light, and he didn't seem to be talking about a very serious problem.

Xie Fei and Hu Quan both nodded.

"Why don't you dig tunnels and attack the city?"

Zhang Huangyan said suddenly.

He also looked at it with a telescope for a long time just now, and at first he was really amazed by this kind of mirror, and when he learned that Yang Chao's army had distributed thousands of such things, he couldn't help but admire, Yang Jiajun's ability to win battles has nothing to do with this kind of thing.

But he carefully observed for a long time, and he couldn't find any flaws in the Qing army, Hong Chengchou was led by old soldiers, and there would definitely be no loopholes in the defense, and even if there were, it was not something that Zhang Huangyan, a scholar with little practical experience, could see.

Even Xie Fei and the other three general soldiers could only attack, and Zhang Huangyan had no good way, but he felt that it seemed unreasonable for him not to raise some opinions.

But as soon as this proposal to dig a tunnel was put forward, even he felt unreliable, looking at the deep moat of Guangzhou City, he knew that there was no condition for digging a tunnel here.

Song Kun said again: "Chief Soldier Xie, I suggest sending our army to attack to harass and obstruct Geng Zhongming's army and prevent them from approaching Guangzhou City." ”

Xie Fei nodded: "Chief Song is reasonable. Order your troops to attack, advance along the Xijiang River, and be sure to block Geng Zhongming to the west of Sanshui! ”

"Yes!"

Song Kun responded and immediately went out to deploy.

Song Kun walked along a zigzag trench for more than six miles before he got out of the trench and walked forward for three miles before entering the big camp, which was stationed ten miles away, in order to prevent being bombarded by the Hongyi cannons in the city.

The main army was entrenched in three large battalions, and there were only 30,000 troops in the trenches responsible for protecting the artillery.

In the final analysis, the real attack still depends on the main force in the big battalion. (To be continued......)