Chapter 298: Attack on Zhenjiang III

Xu Chengqing shook his head and directly vetoed Li Shouye's plan: "The rebels will never give us a chance." ”

Liu Minsheng, the envoy of the prison army, said sharply: "Our family thinks it's better not to save it." ”

The identity of the eunuch made Xu Chengqing very uncomfortable, this Liu Minsheng still came halfway, it is common for more than 30,000 troops to be supervised by eunuchs, and most of the warriors don't like eunuchs.

Just when all the generals were a little angry, Xu Chengqing helplessly found that it seemed that Liu Minsheng's words were normal.

Rescue, in the face of the embarrassing place of encirclement and reinforcement, the garrison of Danyang City weakened; If you don't rescue, Xu Shiji is also the general of the Duke of Wei, and both of them have the military position of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, which is unreasonable.

Seeing this, Liu Minsheng said: "Our family is not an unreasonable person, it is better to send someone back to Nanjing quickly, report this matter to the princes of Nanjing, and let them decide, since they have the idea of encircling the point to send reinforcements, the time is enough, and General Xu can also make a situation to rescue Li Jiaji." ”

Xu Chengqing took a cold breath, thinking that the dead eunuch in front of him actually had two brushes, so he nodded: "In this way, I will act according to Gonggong Liu's wishes, and quickly send someone to inform Nanjing." ”

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"Ready..."

"Put..."

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

"Cool the cannon body..."

With buckets of ice water splashing on the body of the Shenwu cannon, the white mist steamed on the body of the cannon, but it couldn't be swept away for a while.

Tang Kainian walked to the front of the formation and looked at the ammunition box that was already a lot empty: "How is it on the other side?" ”

The commander of the artillery regiment directly under the Long Wu Army was directing his subordinates to quickly cool the cannon barrel at this moment, and when he saw Tang Kainian coming to the artillery array in person, he stood up and saluted: "Report to the military seat, the artillery position on the opposite side has not fired any more artillery after two rounds of firing." ”

After speaking, he smiled: "According to the order of the military seat, five rounds of artillery are fired every two hours, but the military seat, this ammunition cannot be received, so the logistics bureau must hurry up and transport it." ”

Tang Kainian kicked the regiment commander with a smile, and then scolded: "The Mader Logistics Bureau is still in Suzhou, and the supplies of the large army are all being saved, so you can also take it easy, and change each round of salvo to five guns." ”

"Newspaper...

Military seat, the urgent order of the national public. ”

Tang Kainian took the military order and opened it, then put the military order away, and then looked at the artillery commander with a relaxed expression: "Order, artillery covers infantry movements, no need to save up, shoot all the shells." ”

Chen Cao did not personally go to the encirclement to send reinforcements, but took two newly formed garrison divisions to stay under Danyang City, but asked Song Che to take two divisions of the Dingwu Army to go, but three days later, there was still no movement in Danyang City.

Chen Cao thought about it and finally figured out one thing, that is, Xu Chengqing didn't care about Xu Shiji's life or death at all, his primary goal was only the safety of Danyang City, unless Chen Cao withdrew his troops.

It was this idea that Chen Cao deliberately feint, and the Danyang defenders immediately went out of the city to pursue him, and it was precisely because of Xu Chengqing's action that Chen Cao completely saw Xu Chengqing's original intention.

Therefore, Chen Cao would not rub time with Xu Chengqing at all, so that Chen Cao, who had been fooled twice, was a little annoyed and angry with Xu Chengqing, and ordered Song Che to return to his teacher and at the same time gave Tang Kainian of Li Jiaji a death order.

Destroy the Li family at all costs and Xu Shiji's department.

At the head of Danyang City, Xu Chengqing looked at the rebels who were beginning to assemble, and sneered: "Did you see it, Chen Cheng couldn't help it." ”

After Xu Chengqing received the reply from Nanjing, he sent the official letter to Li Jiaji intact, and after synthesizing the battlefield situation, the Nanjing princes thought that it was the best policy not to save them, and ordered Xu Shiji to break through and return to Dantu on his own, and ordered Zhao Tianlin, the sailor of the Caojiang River, to send troops south to meet Xu Shiji, who broke through to the north.

So much so that now when Xu Chengqing looks at Chen Cao's army outside the city, he feels that it is an adult who is teasing children's tricks.

Naive...

"Order, the whole army is ready, the rebels are ready to attack, let the musketeers enter the trench positions, all the garrison equipment is ready, each battalion sticks to its own posts, and the rebels must not be allowed to take advantage of it."

Chen Cao, who was outside the city, naturally didn't know about Xu Chengqing's ridicule of him at the head of the city, but looked at every northern soldier on the head of Danyang City like a dead man.

"After the end of this battle, anyone who captures Xu Chengqing alive will be rewarded."

Chen Cao fights, this is the first time that such a high price has been offered, and it is not like this when he fought the You Shiwei brothers in the past.

"Pull all the artillery up, cover the movement of the third division with artillery, and in addition, let the sappers prepare, prepare all the explosives and ammunition, Danyang City, and rebuild it when the time comes."

The fortification of Hangzhou City collapsed under the attack of explosives, and Chen Cao didn't think that this small Dantu in front of him had a stronger wall than Hangzhou.

The one responsible for the main attack is the Ninth Brigade of the Third Division, although the brigade commander Su Zhongnian has not been promoted to the division commander of the New Army like his brigade-level general, but the three divisions of the Dingwu Army are trump card troops, and even the commander of the third division, Liu Butang, has not yet been promoted, and his two brothers Tang Kainian and Tang Yannian in the same period are now the commanders and deputy commanders of the First Army.

However, everyone in the Third Division knew that the people of their Third Division were squad leaders, and they would all become senior generals of the new division regiment in the future, and it was only a matter of time before Liu Butang was promoted.

Su Zhongmai took out his own command knife, and shouted with his front finger: "Attack..."

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

'Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock... Knock knock...'

The two sides launched a fierce artillery battle at the first time, but the power was immediately distinguished, and Xu Chengqing at the head of the city was taken aback.

Because the explosion in front of him was more powerful than before, and the number of soldiers killed and wounded increased exponentially.

He himself did not know that Songjiang had begun to be equipped with new field artillery, and the transitional artillery of the Shenwu Artillery was about to be eliminated by various armies.

Twenty 105 field guns are all in unison, and they have crossed the threshold of front-loading artillery in terms of launch distance and lethality, and the city where Xu Chengqing is located has been blown up beyond recognition in a short time, if it weren't for the big losses in Wujin before, now Xu Chengqing himself may have been blown up in the city without knowing the situation.

"What the hell is going on..."

Xu Chengqing was already a little dazed by the bombing, looking at the wounded soldiers and dead corpses that were constantly being carried down, the whole person was a little confused: "What kind of artillery do they use, it is so powerful." ”

As soon as the words fell, with the sound of an explosion, a group of soldiers who were blown up flew down from the city, and immediately fell into pulp, and of course, many of them had become stumps and broken arms when they fell.

"Commander, the rebel foot soldiers are coming up."

Su Zhongnian commanded his subordinates to start advancing, the siege of the city is not as good as the field battle, under the city head is absolutely not to line up and march slowly, can only launch a charge, if you line up to advance, even if the people at the city head use cold weapons, they can also cause huge damage to the other party.

After three rounds of field artillery salvos, the entire Danyang city head has lost its original appearance, and the city bricks in some places have also been blown off, revealing the rammed earth layer inside.

There were 1,000 firearms in the trenches outside the city, all equipped with turtledoves and auxiliaries to help with reloading, and the trenches were full of people.

"The rebels are coming..."

"Ready, Made, get ready... Raise your gun... Hurry up and raise your gun... The rebels are coming..."

Fei Jie, deputy commander of the 9th Brigade, personally commanded a regiment of soldiers to rush towards the trench.

Fei Jie, who had long known that there were people in the trench, had no intention of fighting a trench with the defenders in the trench, and when he charged again, he ordered to arrive at the trench, and when he heard the whistle, he threw all the grenades and bullets he carried into the trench.

At the same time as the whistle sounded, hundreds of grenades and bullets with handles flew towards the trench in a cloud of smoke, and just as the defenders in the trench fired their first shot, the black wood fell into the trench and beyond.

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang...'

'Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang... Bang bang bang...'

The violent explosions were heard one after another, hundreds of blows, and even Chen Cao, who was three miles away, couldn't help but pray for the defenders in the trench, hoping that they would not be blown up too badly, and it would be difficult to dispose of them when the time came to collect the corpses.

Su Zhongnian saw that Fei Jie succeeded, so he covered the sappers of his team and rushed forward according to the plan, naturally holding a big shield, even the maker was afraid of the incomparably powerful explosives.

A sapper squad of ten people crossed the trench full of corpses, and ran straight to the gate of Danyang City, accompanied by the rapidly rotating sapper shovel, the two pits for placing explosives have been dug up, and the sappers carefully put the huge amount of nitrified explosives into the pit like jelly, and then quickly backfilled the soil and moved the lead outward.

The defenders at the head of the city were about to return fire with muskets, and Fei Jie immediately ordered the whole army to open fire, and the two sides broke out again in a fierce exchange of fire at the city gates.

As soon as it was put on and off, no matter how fierce the firepower of the flintlock pistol was, it could not withstand the black guns hiding in the ruins, and countless people were shot and fell to the ground.

"Withdraw..."

With a shout from the leader of the engineer team, Fei Jie immediately ordered the bugler to blow the horn of retreat.

The lead is made of a combination of multiple medicine threads, which can block the rapid burning of fire and powder, thus increasing the time for the retreating personnel, and the defenders at the head of the city saw the rebels retreating in unison, thinking that they were being repelled by muskets, and shouted with joy, and even stood directly on the remnant wall and waved their flags and shouted.

Xu Chengqing had a tinnitus attack because of the last bombing, and the whole person had retreated to a position one mile away from the city gate to command the battle.

Before he drank a sip of water, he saw a beam of white light rising into the sky, accompanied by the Danyang City Gate and the entire section of the city wall like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers, this scene was like a fairy descending into the world.