About three kilometers outside the west gate of Shanghai, more than 1,000 soldiers of Yu Shengjun's army were stationed here

The camp is centered on a grange in the area, and the grange does not know which landlord owned it, but since the rebel army of the Little Knife Society occupied Shanghai, the rebel army has come out in all directions, and not only the original steward of this grange has run away, but even the small households have run away to the unknown.

Because this small grange has several brick houses and a low hill in the middle, Yu Shengjun set up a temporary camp here, and around the houses, there are a large number of camp tents, and outside the camp tents are temporary wooden fences and breastwork as the most basic fortifications.

Judging from the camp of Yu Shengjun, it can be found that this army has been formed, and the camp is strictly enforced according to the regulations.

At this time, in the largest house in the middle of the camp, that is, Yu Shengjun's temporary military headquarters, Lin Zhe and a group of senior officers of Yu Shengjun were discussing how to attack Shanghai City.

As the assistant of the supervision department, Xu Pengan was telling Lin Zhe and others about the current situation.

At the beginning of the establishment of Yu Shengjun's supervision and training office, it was only responsible for the training affairs of the troops, but later with the expansion of the troops, this supervision and training office gradually assumed many responsibilities that belonged to the 'general staff' of later generations.

He is not only responsible for the training of the troops, but also responsible for the collection and judgment of military intelligence, and the formulation of the most basic tactics.

When he was in Huzhou, these things were personally responsible for Shi Qingxuan, the supervisor of Yu Shengjun's training, but now that Shi Qingxuan is staying in Huzhou, these affairs naturally fall into the hands of Xu Pengan, the assistant of the supervision and training office.

I saw Xu Peng'an standing in front of a simple hand-drawn map of Shanghai City and the surrounding areas by the wall, holding a small command list and saying:

"According to the information we have obtained from many sources and we have observed, most of the thief army has shrunk back into the city, but between the east of the city and the Huangpu River, there are also a large number of thief troops entrenched, and have a fort, according to Wu Jianzhang's feedback, the fort has at least fifteen or more guns, the caliber and weight of the guns are unknown, but we judge that it should be the old artillery left by the Qing army in the Shanghai area, which is enough to effectively block the fleet from launching a landing attack from the Huangpu River!"

Xu Pengan continued: "Since the enemy army cannot hold out, and the enemy army has a large amount of material supplies in the city, according to our judgment, they can hold on to the city for at least half a year or more without worrying about the supply problem, which means that if they do not come out, we will not have the opportunity to give full play to our field advantages and directly defeat them in the field battle."

The only way to do this is to take a hard attack! ”

"Since the opening of the port of Shanghai, the imperial court has carried out a lot of reconstruction and renovation work on the city's walls in order to guard against foreigners, although the walls of the city are not too high and thick, but they are still relatively perfect, and if you want to destroy their walls, you must carry out a long artillery bombardment to make it possible."

Xu Peng'an's words came out, and its focus was already very obvious, that is, now the Xiaodaohui rebel army in Shanghai is a turtle with a shrunken head, shrinking in Shanghai and not coming out, relying on the strong city to defend, if Yu Shengjun wants to take Shanghai, there is no good way except for a hard attack.

As for the siege and waiting for the knife to meet the rebel army, not to mention how much time it will take, and more importantly, Yu Shengjun's own troops are also insufficient.

After Xu Peng'an finished speaking, Shi Langyi also spoke: "According to this view, then we will bombard him with artillery for a few days first, find the weak direction of their defense, weaken their will to resist, and finally launch an attack on the city in one go!" ”

Shi Langyi's words were also agreed by others.

Hearing that everyone agreed to test one or two with artillery bombardment first, Lin Zhe said: "Since this is the case, then the troops will start a tentative attack tomorrow!" ”

After that, he set his eyes on Fu Linyang, the company commander of the Second Artillery Company: "Tomorrow's battle, it's up to your artillery!" ”

"Rest assured, the department will definitely live up to the trust of adults!" Fu Linyang immediately said: "Tomorrow our artillery will definitely hit them!" ”

After this night's military discussion, the next day, Yu Shengjun arrived early in the morning outside the west gate of Shanghai, and through the binoculars, Lin Zhe also saw the crowds in the city, and it was obvious that those small knife rebels also knew that they were coming, and were ready to defend.

"In my opinion, there are now three thousand thieves on the wall of the West Gate alone, and if we launch an attack on the city, I am afraid that the enemy's strength will increase to more than five thousand in a short period of time!" Xu Pengan also put down the telescope at this time, and turned his head to Lin Zhe.

And Hunter William, who has been relatively low-key in recent times, and his influence and actual role in Yu Sheng's army have been greatly reduced, also spoke in time: "General, in order to prevent all the enemy troops from gathering at the West Gate, when I build a follow-up attack, I can appropriately send some troops to the North Gate and the South Gate to contain them!" ”

Lin Zhe did not answer at this time, but continued to look with a telescope, in which he had already seen the rebel army of the Little Knife Society at the head of the city pushing several artillery, judging from the size, it should be an old-style artillery such as 800 catties or 1,000 gold.

"Order the artillery units, focus on striking the enemy's artillery units!" Lin Zhe gave the order in time.

These knives will be captured by the rebel army from the Qing army, although the performance is not very good, but it is also a threat to one's own side, so it is necessary to destroy them all in advance!

Just when Lin Zhe, Xu Peng'an and other officers of the military department were observing the rebel army of the Xiaodaohui in the distance, the soldiers of the Second Artillery Company and the Third Artillery Company, which were not far from everyone, were nervously pulling away the horses that were pulling the artillery, and the artillerymen pushed the artillery into the temporary gun positions one by one.

These temporary artillery positions were built by Yu Shengjun before sending a large number of non-combat soldiers such as civilian men and baggage regiments, and these simple temporary artillery positions could not actually bring too much protection to the artillerymen, but only gave the artillerymen a sense of psychological security.

But then again, if the enemy was in front of the artillery position in this situation, then it meant that the troops of the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment in front of the total of nine infantry companies had all collapsed.

Fu Linyang was riding on his horse as before, and at this time he put down his binoculars, and at this time he had already seen the flag of Lin Zhe's position in the Chinese army not far away, and the flag ordered the artillery unit to fire now.

Fu Linyang also said to his herald in time: "Order each platoon, shoot freely, and give priority to attacking the enemy's artillery!" ”

The artillery command of these years was very different from the artillery command of later generations, first of all, the officers of the artillery unit had great autonomy. Lin Zhe ordered Fu Linyang to carry out artillery bombardment, and asked him to give priority to the artillery that hit the enemy, but Fu Linyang had to decide how to fight the artillery unit.

Once the war starts, the superior generals will not be able to and have no time to interfere in the specific battles of the artillery units, and the artillery company needs the commander of the artillery company to command alone.

Therefore, it is very important for an artillery commander to understand the operational intentions of the generals in wartime, and an excellent artillery officer can effectively cooperate with the senior generals to carry out their strategic intentions at any time.

The artillery company commander formulates the strategic objectives of the strategic artillery bombardment and controls the command of the whole company, while the artillery platoon commander is responsible for providing the artillery commander with specific artillery targets, observing the shelling effect, the types of ammunition selected, controlling the consumption of ammunition, and timely deploying the crew members of the two guns under his command to give full play to the maximum firepower.

The gun commander, on the other hand, relies on his rich experience and training level to control the operation of the entire artillery crew and be responsible for the specific firing of the artillery, observing the landing point of the cannonballs, and proofreading the shooting elements until the cannonballs accurately hit the target.

The shooting of modern artillery is actually more complex than that of later artillery, and at the same time, it is more dependent on the personal quality of the gun commander.

To put it simply, whether this artillery can hit the target or not depends on the level of the gun commander!

As Fu Linyang's order was delivered, the guns of the Second Artillery Company and the Third Artillery Company opened fire one after another, and as with each long-range artillery bombardment, it was difficult for their first few rounds of shelling to accurately hit the target, because the first few rounds of shelling were only relatively high.

It was not until a few shells were test-fired that the artillery commanders were able to obtain a relatively accurate shot and finally successfully hit the target.

The rumbling cannon continued to sound, and Yu Shengjun's artillery began to shell at a rate of about two minutes, and because they were all solid shells, a considerable part of them flew directly over the city wall, and finally fell into the city, and a small number of them hit the city wall.

However, there are not many casualties to the enemy!

However, after more than ten minutes, after many rounds of proofreading and firing, Yu Shengjun's artillery unit slowly increased the rate of fire, and at the same time, the hit rate was getting higher and higher.

After carefully inspecting his cannon, Han Shan confirmed that all preparations were in place, and then shouted to the gunner holding the fire rope: "Fire!" ”

Immediately, there was a loud bang from the entire artillery, and the entire cannon body suddenly retreated, and a large amount of smoke and fire erupted from the muzzle, but Han Shan, who was the gun commander, didn't care about this, he squinted and looked at the cannonball in mid-air motionlessly, and then his eyes directly followed the trajectory of the cannonball, until the cannonball landed on the Shanghai city wall more than a thousand meters away.

The solid-ball cannonball fired from the twelve-pounder cannon smashed a small crater in the wall, and smashed a lot of the bricks and stones of the wall near where the shell landed.

"It's a little bit close!" Han Shan raised his head while muttering to himself, and saw that the few gunners in front of him had not yet started to move, and immediately shouted: "What are you waiting for, don't quickly reset the artillery!" ”

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pclass=MsoNormal> Moreover, if Xu Naizhao asks in the name of the imperial court to ask for back the silver that was originally deposited in the Shanghai Daotai Treasury and Jianghai Customs, will he give it himself or not?

It is impossible to give, but if you don't give it, it will also cause trouble, and if you completely fall out with Xu Naizhao and Wu Jianzhang, it will not be good for your future development.

Thinking of this, Lin Zhe knew that this Shanghai could not continue to drag on, and when Xu Naizhao also arrived in Shanghai, I was afraid that there would be a lot of unnecessary troubles.

Over time, it will change!

Thinking of this, Lin Zhe called Xu Pengan in: "What did those mobile platforms look like?" ”