The Han general who guarded the important town of Guangji was Chen Cai, a veteran who had followed Chen Youliang in his early years.
Recently, he has been depressed.
Originally, he was overjoyed when he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang sent his army up the river and attacked Han Dynasty by both land and water.
After two years of construction, Guangji City is as good as gold.
It was a good time for him to make great achievements.
However, the Holy Sage Chen Li suddenly came with an edict, making him uncertain.
The heavy artillery on the Jiangjun Mountain fort opposite Guangji City was not allowed to fire a single shot.
Only when the Ming army attacked the mountain were they allowed to use small artillery and flintlock muskets to fight back.
Second, the main warships of the navy in Guangji City's water village are not allowed to be dispatched to intercept any Ming army ships in the river.
Third, they were not allowed to go out of the city to engage in battle.
No matter how much the Ming army yelled at them to invite a battle, they could only stick to the city and were not allowed to go out to fight without permission.
Chen Cai was unhappy and had to act according to the edict.
Following the edict, Chen Li mobilized a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition and stationed them in Guangji City and the fortress fort on Jiangjun Mountain.
He also posted notices in every village and township to persuade people within the jurisdiction of Guangji to enter the city to avoid war.
The city could not accommodate so many people, but the Han army had already set up forts in strategic places in some villages and towns around Guangji City and moved the people who could not be accommodated there.
In the misty spring rain, the huge fleet of the Ming army came up the river.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood under the canopy on the bow of the ship, admiring the scenery on both sides of the strait.
He suddenly sighed: "The country is so picturesque, which hero doesn't want to take it into his pocket, but there is only one such person, and the rest who have this idea will have to die."
Hu Weiyong beside him complimented him and said: "Today, the only person in the world who is qualified to take possession of this picturesque land is His Majesty."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed heartily, and then turned the conversation to several advisers on the Sui army's campaign beside him and asked: "Do you know why I want to go on an expedition during the rainy season at the turn of spring and summer?"
Li Shanchang next to him stroked his long beard and said: "Your Majesty must be using this humid weather to restrain the Han army's firearms.
I know that such humid weather is most unfavorable to the explosion of gunpowder.
Ordinary guns and cannons have even been destroyed."
Unable to ignite the medicine twist."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "Shan Chang's views are indeed the same as mine."
Then he heard that Li Shanchang had something to say later, and asked: "Does Shan Chang have anything to say later?
It's just nothing, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
Li Shanchang was polite, and then said: "It's just that this humid rainy season is not good for bows and crossbows.
When the bow string gets wet, the tension is greatly reduced, and the range and power are greatly reduced."
Zhu Yuanzhang hummed and said: "But our army's longboards are not as powerful as bows and crossbows.
In the end, this battle will have to be won in hand-to-hand combat with real swords and real spears."
While they were talking, a guard in brocade came to report: "Your Majesty, Guangji City is five miles ahead.
According to previous reconnaissance investigations, there are more than 15,000 enemy troops stationed in Guangji.
They are distributed in and outside the city.
Inside the three stronghold camps.”
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and ordered the eunuch beside him: "Go and get my telescope."
At this time, there were still more than two hundred years before the invention of the telescope.
His telescope was one of several telescopes that Mu Ying captured while fighting in eastern Hunan.
In addition, he also presented dozens of matchlock guns, which he equipped on the Jinyi Guards.
When his telescope was fetched by the eunuch, the fleet was closer to Guangji.
Zhu Yuanzhang carefully observed Guangji City with a telescope and found that the city wall was extremely strong, thick but not high.
It is impossible to destroy with the return cannon.
He used his telescope to look at Jiangjun Mountain opposite Guangji City, and immediately asked: "What mountain is this?"
An adviser who is well versed in geography said: "Your Majesty, this mountain is called Jiangjun Mountain, and it is the remnant of the Mufu Mountains.
It lies in the middle of the river and guards the Yangtze River waterway."
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Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted him and asked: "Is there any Han army stationed on the hilltop close to the river?"
The guard in brocade clothes said: "Your Majesty, one of the three Han military camp strongholds outside the city is on this hilltop."
A trace of disappointment flashed across Zhu Yuanzhang's face, and then he said with a smile: "I said that baby and the Han generals would not be so stupid.
If there were no Han troops above, I would have occupied this important place."
After that, he decisively ordered: "Pass my military order, and the entire army will stop at the river bank on the outskirts of Guangji City.
Attack Guangji with all our strength.
After Guangji is captured, we will march into Wuchang."
Under the orders of the trumpet and flags.
Thousands of boats, large and small, were approaching the river bank, and the cavalrymen on the bank had begun to set up camp.
In half a day, the fields outside Guangji City were already filled with tents and horses.
"Attack the city" Zhu Yuanzhang spat out two words coldly.
Following his order, large cannons mounted on land and warships threw hundreds of kilograms of boulders toward the Guangji city wall one after another.
Giant bronze guns and cannons were arranged in a circle around Guangji City and began to bombard them in turn.
When Chen Cai was building the city defense of Guangji, he only thickened and strengthened the city wall according to Chen Li's instructions, but did not increase the height.
And its shape was transformed into a concave and polymorphic structure similar to a European bastion.
The stone bullets fired by Huihui artillery and Wankou gun cannons scattered the bricks and stones on the walls of Guangji City, and the dust flew up.
However, it has no impact on the structure of this "flat" wall.
After two hours of continuous bombardment, the gunners who returned the fire were exhausted, and the barrels of some cannons were also bulged, causing air leakage and unable to fire anymore.
Some of the bronze cannons even had their chambers blown.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that shelling could not pry open the walls of Guangji City, so he gave up and ordered the bombardment to stop.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang tried to attack with a sea of people.
The Ming army erected countless ladders from all directions, and there were hundreds of large carriages and flying bridges during the process.
But these traditional siege methods will undoubtedly cost you a life for a bastion equipped with powerful firepower.
The Han army fusiliers on the city wall continued to shoot powerful lead bullets from the front, left and right sides and even the back of the Ming army soldiers who boarded the city.
The Ming soldiers climbing the ladder were like peeling wall skin, falling piece by piece amidst screams and screams.
All kinds of large siege equipment were completely destroyed by the solid bullets sprayed by the eagle cannon.
Most of Zhu Yuanzhang's more than 10,000 siege troops were quickly consumed.
After just over half an hour of fighting, there were already mountains of corpses under Guangji City, and the Ming soldiers who participated in the siege had no fighting spirit.
Zhu Yuanzhang was distressed by such losses and quickly ordered the attack to be stopped.
In the evening, Zhu Yuanzhang sent two groups of troops to secretly explore the Han army camp on Jiangjun Mountain across the river, and secretly dug pits under Guangji City to fill them with gunpowder, intending to use explosive methods to blow up Guangji City. .
The Ming army that attacked Jiangjun Mountain was ambushed as soon as they reached the mountainside.
Only one or two survivors survived.
Those who were filling the gunpowder under Guangji City had not dug the hole very deep when they were discovered by soldiers on the nearby city wall.
They fired muskets indiscriminately, and the Ming army abandoned a dozen corpses and ran back to the camp
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