Hearing this, Li Tianqian hurriedly asked, "You say I'm missing a strategy?" I don't know what this strategy is for me to be less? ”

Lin Fei smiled: "You don't seem to say that you will blow up the city wall. ”

Li Tianqian frowned and said, "I have thought of this one a long time ago, but I think this one is more impossible than the ant annex to attack the city, so I didn't say it." ”

Lin Fei smiled and asked, "How is this one more impossible than the ant annex to attack the city?" ”

Li Tianqian said: "Cotabato has a total population of 400,000, of which 200,000 are Chinese, if we let go of the Chinese after entering the city, the odds of winning are not low, but we can't blow up the city wall at all, I heard the words of Qin Xiren's old craftsman that day, and I know how strong the city wall is." ”

"At the beginning, I thought about using our mortars to blow up the city wall, but when I found Zhao Menggang and asked, I learned that the power of the cannonballs could not blow up the city wall at all, so I asked the miners of the engineer company about the way to blow up the city wall."

"The miners of the engineer company said that if you want to blow up the strong city wall, you must use a large amount of explosives at one time, pile the explosives together, detonate them at once, and blow up a point specifically, so that it is possible to blow up the thick city wall, and it is impossible for mortar shells to fall on one point."

"I heard about the method of using a large number of explosives to blow up the city wall, so I thought of digging a tunnel to get close to the base of the wall, and then piling up the explosives on the side of the wall, and then detonating it, but I heard Zhang Chuang say that the Spaniards often patrol the wall, and they will definitely find out when we dig the tunnel."

"It is not feasible to use mortars and dig tunnels to release explosives, I know that the city wall cannot be blown up, so I didn't say this method, could it be that His Majesty has a way to blow up the city wall?"

Lin Fei smiled and said, "I did think of a method, but this method first has to figure out the range of the artillery on the enemy's wall!" ”

Li Tianqian was taken aback and asked, "What does the range of artillery have to do with blowing up the city wall?" ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously and said, "You will know this later, you go and call Zhao Menggang and Zhang Chuang to me now." ”

Li Tianqian didn't ask much, agreed, turned around and went out, and brought Zhao Menggang and Zhang Chuang in a short time, Lin Fei looked at Zhao Menggang and asked, "Do you know how to ride a horse?" ”

Zhao Menggang nodded and said, "Yes, I don't ride very well." ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "There are cannons on the city wall of Cotabatar, do you know about this matter?" ”

Zhao Menggang replied: "I saw your reconnaissance report and know about this matter. ”

Lin Fei nodded and smiled: "It's good to know, you go and reconnoiter the range of the enemy's artillery." ”

Zhao Menggang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Reconnaissance range?" How can this be reconnoitred? ”

Lin Fei said: "There is an open field in the east of the city, the terrain is flat, the farthest end is almost five thousand meters away from the city wall, you bring two mortars, and start firing at the city wall from a distance of five thousand meters. ”

Zhao Menggang hurriedly said: "The maximum firing range of our mortar shells under the condition of full charge is only 4,000 meters, and it is impossible to hit them from 5,000 meters." ”

Zhang Chuang said on the side at this time: "Your Majesty is not trying to blow up the city wall, but trying to lure the enemy troops on the city head to open artillery, as soon as the enemy army fires cannons, won't their range be exposed?" ”

Zhao Menggang suddenly realized, but then asked, "Then why did Your Majesty ask me if I can ride a horse?" ”

Zhang Chuang said: "Isn't this simple? With a horse, it is fast and not easy to be hit by the enemy! ”

Zhao Menggang nodded again and again, and said, "So that's the case, I understand, Your Majesty, is there anything else to order?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "No, let's go." ”

Zhao Menggang and Zhang Chuang left, and Lin Fei said to Li Tianqian again: "Find the old craftsman Qin Xiren." ”

When Qin Xiren walked in, Lin Fei said, "Mr. Qin, you can write Spanish, right?" ”

Qin Xiren said: "Yes, I have lived in the Spaniards for more than ten years, and they still know some words. ”

Lin Fei said: "Okay, you take someone to make a big flag, about fifteen meters in length and five meters in width, the flag is white, and it is written 'Execution of Spaniards' in Spanish, understand?" ”

Qin Xiren didn't ask much, agreed to come down, and said goodbye, Li Tianqian on the side thought to himself, His Majesty made such a big banner It seems that he wants to anger the Spaniards in the city and lead them to battle, but didn't His Majesty say that he would blow up the city wall? What the hell is Majesty going to do? Alas, His Majesty's clever calculations are really not something we can guess through.

Two hours later, Zhao Menggang and Zhang Chuang came back and reported: "Your Majesty, we have reconnoitred clearly, and the Spaniards' artillery can't even hit a thousand meters!" ”

Lin Fei exclaimed, "What? Can't even hit a thousand meters? ”

Zhao Menggang said with a smile: "Not only can they hit less than a thousand meters, but their cannons are still old-fashioned front-loading artillery, and they are all iron sand." ”

In the development of artillery, there were front-loading artillery first, and then there were rear-loading artillery, and the front-loading artillery was loaded from the muzzle of the projectile and shells, and the red-coated cannon was the representative, and by this time in 1894, the rear-loading artillery had far surpassed the front-loading artillery in terms of performance, so Zhao Meng just said that the front-loading artillery of the Spaniards was an old-fashioned thing.

Lin Fei immediately ordered the whole army to set off and camp in an open field three kilometers east of Cotabato City, where the current village of Palang was fifteen kilometers away from Cotabato City, which brought great inconvenience to the battle.

Lin Fei ordered, and the troops of the two regiments set off immediately, and successively came to the open land that Lin Fei said, and set up camp here, which is an endless open land, and you can see the city wall in the distance.

The next day, at 8 o'clock in the morning on February 5, Lin Fei said to Li Tianqian: "Don't you understand how I blew up the city wall? Go, I tell you how I plan to blow up the walls. ”

Li Tianqian was both suspicious and surprised, followed Lin Fei out, Lin Fei took Li Tianqian to Qin Xiren's old man's engineer company, the engineer company had already done the banner of executing the Spaniards, Lin Fei looked at the banner, nodded with satisfaction, and then Qin Xiren old craftsman said: "Your Majesty, do you want to use this thing to provoke the Spaniards?" Why don't we do more? ”

Lin Fei shook his head and smiled: "No need, I'm going to take you to do more important things, Old Mr. Qin, come with me." ”

Qin Xiren said with some fear: "But I can't ride a horse......

Lin Fei smiled: "It's okay, I'll ride a horse with you." As he spoke, he took the old craftsman on his horse, left the engineer company, and ran to the south, and after ten minutes a river appeared in front of him, the river was a hundred meters wide, but unfortunately it was the dry season, and there was not much water in the river, so the water surface was only about fifty meters wide.

Lin Fei urged the horse to go down the river, Li Tianqian and several sniper fighters followed, when Lin Fei reined in the middle of the river, the horse stopped with a low neigh, Lin Fei jumped off the horse, and fell into the water with a "plop".

Everyone was stunned when they saw Lin Fei jumping into the water, looking at him in a daze, and several soldiers of the sniper team also wanted to jump down, Lin Fei waved his hand and said, "You don't have to come down." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to Qin Xiren and said with a smile: "Old man, come down." ”

Qin Xiren was stunned for a moment, but he didn't ask any questions, reached out and grabbed Lin Fei's hand, took out the stirrup with his foot, got down from it with one step, and fell into the water with a "plop".

Lin Fei pointed down the water with his hand and said, "Touch the things under the water." ”

Qin Xiren's face was full of surprise, but he still squatted down, stretched his hand under the water, and slowly groped, Lin Fei asked, "Did you find out what was under the water?" ”

Qin Xiren said: "Stone." ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "The riverbed of this river is dominated by stones. ”

Qin Xiren hesitated for a moment and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Remember this clearly. ”

Qin Xiren nodded as if he understood, Lin Feifei got on the horse, stretched out his hand to pull Qin Xiren on the horse, and led everyone to continue to run to the opposite bank, and soon crossed the river, there was a forest by the river, Lin Fei led everyone through the woods, all the way west, the fast horse ran for about ten minutes, Lin Fei stopped at the edge of the woods, pointed to the woods with his hand, and said: "Kotabato is just across the woods, we can see it through this small forest." ”

Lin Fei turned back to a soldier and said, "You watch the horse here, Mr. Qin, Lao Li, you follow me." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he led everyone into the woods, and after a while, he came to the edge of the woods, only to see that outside the woods was the river just now, and more than fifty meters away on the other side of the river was the wall of Cotabato City.

Lin Fei pointed to the city wall in the distance and said, "Old Mr. Qin, I need you to blow up the city wall." ”

Qin Xiren asked in surprise, "I blew the wall open?" How do I blow it up? ”

Lin Fei said: "From this position to the wall, there are about two hundred meters, I need you to lead the engineer company, dig a tunnel to go over, and then pile up a large amount of explosives under the city wall." ”

Qin Xiren's face changed greatly, and he said: "The young men of our engineer company are all miners, and they usually dig in the mountains, so they are naturally no strangers to digging tunnels, but there is a river between us here and under the city wall, and we have never done this before." ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said: "You don't have to worry, the place where there is water in the riverbed is more than fifty meters, and the riverbed is made of rocks, which is very strong, we dig a tunnel in the middle of the rocks, and the water will not penetrate down." ”

At this time, Li Tianqian said on the side: "Your Majesty, isn't this idea too risky?" What if it is discovered while the tunnel is being excavated? ”

Lin Fei said: "We started digging from the woods, the patrol on the city wall will definitely not be visible, and there is a river in the middle, they will definitely not think that we can dig a tunnel from the bottom of the river, and our vigilance will naturally be reduced, and in the past few days, we will create the illusion that we are going to attack the city in other directions, so that the Spaniards do not know our true intentions." ”

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