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In fact, since Yuan Chonghuan of the former Ming Dynasty won the victory in Guanning, the Ming Dynasty has always positioned the use of artillery as a weapon to defend the city, and has not thought much about using artillery to attack the city. In fact, Yuan Chonghuan's victory at Guanning was largely due to the fact that he used artillery to inflict heavy losses on Nurhachi in this battle, causing him to die of his injuries, and his own accident was too great. But since then, Yuan Chonghuan has worked out the tactical model of fortifying the city with artillery. Later, it also became the principle of artillery use in the former Ming military, and even after the death of Yuan Chonghuan, this tactical principle did not change.

In this way, in accordance with the requirements of this tactic, the former Ming blindly pursued large-caliber heavy artillery, and completely ignored the manufacturing, development, and application of medium and light artillery and muskets. And, in fact, the use and development of heavy artillery has also advanced a strategic misunderstanding. In fact, the greatest role of artillery is not in the defense of the city, but precisely in the siege of the city. Originally, heavy artillery such as the Hongyi cannon was indeed very powerful, and when used in field battles, it was very cumbersome and unbearable, and it was inconvenient to transport; And when it is used to defend the city, the effect is quite good, so it makes them wrong again and again.

After the death of Yuan Chonghuan, the former Ming border army general Zu Dashou guarded the Daling River and defended Jinzhou in the two battles, although the Ming army had a large number of Hongyi cannons, but the Qing army used tactics such as long-term siege, siege but not attack, siege and reinforcement, etc., as a result, the results of these two sieges were all ended with Zu Dashou's food exhausted, and finally surrendered, and the result was that a large number of well-made Hongyi cannons were given to Houjin in vain. On the contrary, it became the most powerful weapon of the Qing army to break through the fortified city of the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the Hongyi cannon was used for siege. It can be used to the fullest and has a long range. The advantage of high impact. It can be used to attack the towers and walls to suppress the resistance of the city head, bombard the city gates, and open a gap for the besieging soldiers. There is no need to fill the city with human lives. Some cities that seemed impossible to conquer at once can be conquered. In modern warfare, since the advent of artillery, there have been many examples of heavy artillery being used to defeat the enemy's defensive positions, city walls, fortresses, etc., and achieve victory.

In the seventh year of Tiancong, Shenyang City Shou Zhu Shichang gave Huang Taiji a recital, the content of which was to ask Huang Taiji to cut down Ming. Song Shuli specifically mentioned: "Siege the city as a special red-coated cannon, the country has more than 30 old and new guns, Shenyang left four, the city defense is enough, the rest of the army is used as a strange and positive, light soldiers first, seize people and animals, plunder the storage of the Zhizhi, and then the whole army carries the red-coated cannon from the avenue Xu Jin." This article illustrates the main role of the Hongyi cannon. In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the battle of Songjin, and later the battle of Yangzhou in the second year of Hongzhi of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the Battle of Jiangyin, the Qing army was able to quickly break through the city. The Hongyi cannon played an important role. It can even be said that if the Chun army did not have Hongyi artillery, it would be difficult to sweep the Southern Ming.

Geng Jingzhong, of course, is familiar with modern combat examples and the use of various weapons, whether it is offensive or defensive, we must grasp the absolute initiative, so we have been attaching great importance to the research and development of this aspect over the years, not to mention heavy artillery, what is needed on the battleship is a heavy naval gun with great power and long range, and light artillery has not given up, and there are all kinds of land combat type general guns and general guns from 12 to 6 pounds. Correspondingly, the artillery of the Marine Army has been designed with a fairly reasonable artillery carriage to reduce the difficulty of its transportation as much as possible, and the results are quite good in terms of the results so far. Now, when these big guys are used to attack the city, their usefulness is fully demonstrated.

After two hundred cannons continued in succession, they spewed out tongues of fire and let out a roar, mercilessly firing cannonballs at the city walls, towers, and gates of Guangzhou City. After seven or eight rounds of continuous bombardment, the city wall was the most bombed, and the city wall near the strong city gate in Gangzi Village was densely packed with dozens of uneven pits, and the cracks on the city wall were as dense as spider webs. It's no wonder that just this part of the city tower is the key part of the artillery fire, and it has withstood at least 200 shells during this period, and it is really strange that there is no reaction at all!

The tower above was also shelled fifty or sixty times, the walls were cracked out of a dozen or so large holes, the roof had been half smashed, and the rooms in the tower were full of wolves, and nearly 100 soldiers defending the city had died. The defenders in Guangzhou City did not dare to stand on the city tower at this time, and retreated to both sides, and even Qi Liwen, the commander-in-chief of the Guangzhou Army, who commanded the battle, retreated to the side, and the entire city tower was almost undefended.

The Mawei artillery focused on not hitting the city gate section, but on killing and injuring the defenders on the head, but in this way, the city gate was also hit dozens of times, and nearly ten holes appeared in the city gate, but the city gate still did not fall. At this time, the horsetail generals also saw the situation at the city gate from the telescope, and scolded Shang Kexi for being cunning, and actually blocked the city gate in advance! Zeng Yangxing has been watching the effect of the artillery bombardment from the command vehicle, and I have to say that their general cannon is simply mighty, and it can be said that it can be said to be the strongest and best siege weapon in the world. Now, he is fully aware of the huge difference between the Firearms Age and the Iron Age.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is only a matter of time before the city gate is blasted open, so Zeng Yangxing is not in a hurry, and gives an order again: "Inform Yang Jian that the artillery division will continue to shell for two rounds and then pause for two quarters of an hour." In addition, the artillery division divided into three more battalions and moved to the east gate, and after two quarters of an hour they attacked at the same time, and all the first divisions followed the past to form a formation to escort them, and after another twenty rounds of artillery shells were fired, they returned here to assemble! ”

Zeng Yangxing means that he wants to inflict maximum damage on the defenders of the city, and the continuous shelling will cause great panic to the defenders of the city. Yang Jian, who was commanding in front, did not pause when he received the order, and immediately divided the first, second, and third battalions. In this way, half of the land army in this formation was divided out at once, but at this moment, there is no need to worry that the enemy army will rush out, after all, the southern city gate is blocked, and the defenders of Guangdong can be called a trapped beast.

Soon, the two rounds of shelling ended, and the Mawei Army stopped, and did not continue firing for several minutes in a row. The defenders in the city thought that the Mawei Army should say that there was no ammunition at this moment, and when you think about it, so many cannons bombarded nearly twenty rounds, and thousands of shells came out, each shell is more than ten catties, how much good iron does it have to be! This is all silver spent in vain, no matter how rich the Ponytail Army is, he can't squander it like this. Still, they were wrong.

Shang Kexi stood on Yuexiu Mountain in the distance, staring at the city gate in the distance, it can be said that his heart is also dripping blood, those are his own descendants, at the beginning he sent to the city wall are the elite of the Guangdong army, in order to hit the arrogance of the Mawei army and frustrate their prestige. But now it seems that it is not that he has frustrated the prestige of others, but that others have given him a rather fatal blow, and he has no confidence at all! This person didn't come up to attack the city at all, and bombarded you with cannons from afar, making you stare at you dryly, and what was even stricter was that he was passively beaten, and he really lost a lot of elite soldiers!

"Lord Wang, it's not okay to go on like this, we're completely passively beaten, and we can't do it at all. If this continues, the defenders in the city will definitely lose morale, and at that time, we will be finished without the horsetail army attacking us! Han Yucheng, the commander of the guards who had followed Shang Kexi for decades, said with an anxious expression. According to the subordinates, let's just kill them, with the 15,000 elite soldiers in our city, are you still afraid of their seven or eight thousand people? ”

It's not that Shang Kexi didn't think about doing this, but he was frightened by the battle report sent from Meizhou, Chaozhou yesterday, the Mawei Army is so strong, and the artillery is so sharp and hard It's really not a good way. Moreover, I had already expected that the Mawei Army would attack from the sea, but I just didn't expect that the sailors of the eldest son, Shang Zhixin, would be so vulnerable and block the enemy at the door so quickly. The two sides engaged in such a hurry did not give him enough time to lay out a specific strategy.

"We only know that the Mawei Army has all been transformed into sailors, but no one thought that he had such a hidden hand. Looking at the troops they are besieging the city at the moment, it is obvious that they are infantry soldiers. The Mawei Army that took Meizhou Chaozhou must also be the army of Fujian, just now we know, the strength of the Geng family's army is completely superior to ours. But if you look at the white sails and dense warships on the river, the sailors formed by the previous letter of the letter, this king already feels quite shocked, and the strength of the Mawei navy that can defeat the letter in such a short time must be even stronger. This made this king hesitate about his decision, Yucheng, do you say that this king did something wrong. Shang Kexi stared at Han Yucheng with his old cloudy eyes and asked.

What can Han Yucheng say at this moment, of course, if he can not squeak, he will not squeak, Shang Kexi is his master after all, he can't comment at will. "Yucheng is only responsible for protecting the safety of the prince, and whatever decision the prince makes, his subordinates will resolutely support it!" This sentence is equivalent to not saying it, a little sycophant, but in fact, he has been doing this for more than 20 years.

"Hmph, Wu Sangui is powerful, he has the confidence to argue with the court, but what can this king do? The weakness of our Guangdong is not enough for the imperial court to press a finger, and Wu Sangui can make a call with the imperial court, it is just a matter of being able to call the board, or it will not be long before it is still a defeat. With one domain against one country, not to mention that it has not occupied the general righteousness, it can only be said to be wishful thinking. Is it wrong for this king not to respond to him? But this king miscalculated Geng Jingzhong's kid, when he went to Beijing with him a few years ago, he just felt that this kid was extraordinary, much better than those unsuccessful guys in the family, and this king was just envious of Geng Jimao's good luck to have such an outstanding son. (To be continued......)

PS: Go out to class, all day, the update time for the next few days will be changed slightly, to one chapter at eight o'clock in the evening and one chapter at eleven o'clock in the evening! I'm sorry!