On the south wall, Xie Qian looked at the north with a solemn expression, and after only a while, there were more and more Qing troops gathered in front of the wall.Within the sight of everyone, there is a figure of a Qing soldier, what a sea of people, all over the mountains and fields can not be described, the Qing army is a large number of soldiers.Xie Qian looked down from the wall, and as far as he could see, there was a crowd of people and horses, as well as various instruments standing in the crowd.Dai Zhijun on the side took a cursory look, in addition to a large number of cavalry, artillery, ladders, cave houses, shield carts, stone throwers and other large equipment, all of which were in number, hundreds of them, which would pose a huge threat to Lushun's defense.For a while, the noisy sound outside the wall came to the face, and the soldiers at the head of the city all watched the Qing army assemble with solemn expressions."
The Qing army has begun to set up artillery!"
Dai Zhijun's expression was solemn.Xie Qian clenched the hilt of the knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, sir, although the Qing army has many soldiers and horses, Nanguan City is fully defended, and there are warships on both sides, and the area that the Qing army can attack is very narrow, and it is only a few miles in front, we can concentrate our forces to defend, and Yue Le's soldiers and horses can't be used at all." ”Earlier, the Qing army had attacked Lushun once, when tens of thousands of people were blocked in the north of the South Pass Wall, not only did not break through the wall, but also were bombarded by the Ming warships on the sea on both sides of the wall, and were harassed by the Ming army that landed from the rear, and the pain was unspeakable, and finally the Qing Army Naval Division, attacked from the sea, captured Lushun from behind, and killed tens of thousands of troops in Donghai Town.In this attack, because the Qing army's naval division was annihilated by Zhao Ming more than two years ago, it has not been able to recover so far, and can only hide in Weihai, Shandong Province and lick its wounds, so only the men and horses brought by Yue Le attacked Lushun.However, Yue Le was not worried about this, because he had already found out that the Eastern Domain soldiers in Lushun were less than 10,000, only thousands, and he brought 80,000 troops.With such a strong force, Lushun is an impregnable wall, and Yue Le is also confident that he will defeat Lushun.At this time, while the artillery team of the Qing army was arranging artillery, Yue Le led dozens of horsemen out to peek at the defense of the Nanguan Wall.Donghai Town arranged a large number of obstacles such as horse rejection piles and antlers in front of the wall to prevent the Qing army from approaching the wall, and Donghai Town built two parallel walls in order to prevent artillery, the front one was shorter, only two zhang, and the back one was close to three zhang.Yue Le immediately frowned and exhaled a breath of turbidity, Donghai Town was arranged like this, even if a wall in front was smashed to pieces, there was another one in the back, and it was not easy to be hit by artillery.In fact, in addition to what Yue Le saw, in front of each wall, there was a moat three zhang wide, which was full of spikes and wooden stakes, because under the ground level, these Yue Le could not observe.Yue Le hurriedly looked to the side and found that the defense of the Nanguan Wall was very perfect, and there were warships on both sides to cover, he could only attack the middle section, which was very difficult, but he looked back at the Qing army all over the mountains behind him, and he was full of confidence.At this time, Yue Le pulled out his horse and returned to the banner of the Dao, and the Qing artillery placed in front of him had already been erected."
Lord Wang, the artillery team is ready!"
The Han Army's flag artillery team A Lazhangjing Hu Maozhen stepped forward to hold his fists.Yue Le waved his hand with a cold face, "Open the cannon bombardment!"
”The Qing army in the middle of the army sounded gold, and the rangers under the city retreated, and then the front artillery array suddenly made a loud noise, and a Hongyi cannon retreated sharply, and a black iron bullet pierced the sky, smashing into the horse rejection pile in front of the city wall, and the broken wood splashed, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.When the Qing artillery team saw that it missed a hit, it immediately readjusted the gun position and raised the gun port slightly.The Qing army was helped by the Dutch, and in the battle of Jiangbei, Huang Ting and other generals of Donghai Town surrendered to the Qing army, and with the help of these people, the Qing army's use of firearms immediately improved to a certain extent.It can be said that when King Sanshun surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty lost the advantage of firearms, and the help of the Dutch, coupled with the surrender of thousands of elite soldiers in Donghai Town, not to mention that the Qing army's firearms surpassed Donghai Town, but at least it improved the level of the Qing army's artillery.At this time, after the Qing artillery team was readjusted, the artillery officers roared loudly and waved down the pennant, and the gunners raised their ignition forks and sticks in their hands one after another, ignited the fuse, and the artillery position instantly erupted into a deafening sound of cannons.In the thunder, thick white smoke covered the long front, the artillery mounts of the Qing army retreated, dozens of iron bullets of more than ten catties rushed out of the muzzle, smashed into the Nanguan wall, the long wall immediately exploded countless broken ice, blooming white lotus.For a moment, the walls were smashed, and the sound of ice and earth and rocks collapsing was constantly heard, mixed with many screams and cries of panic.In front of the Hongyi artillery, the reaction of Donghai Town, which has strong combat power, and the Qing army is not much different.The Qing army concentrated on bombarding a section of the city wall, and after three rounds of shelling, the long wall was smashed to pieces.At this time, Yue Le, who had a cold expression, suddenly waved his hand on the horse, "Attack the infantry army!"
”The new army of the 5,000 Han Army, with the red flag in front, and the musketeers in the back, stepped neatly and pressed towards the city wall, launching a tentative attack.~~~~~~ the Dutch on the island of Taiwan, the total number is only 2,500.In the naval battle, Donghai captured and wiped out nearly 1,000 people, defeated more than 600 people in Rothkan, and more than 300 people surrendered to Chikan Fort, leaving less than 700 Dutch people in Reshalan Fort.But these more than 700 Dutch people stumped more than 10,000 soldiers in Donghai Town.After the surrender of Chikan Fort, Zhao Ming began to try to launch an attack on Fort Reshalan, but the flowering bomb with huge lethality to the battleship lost its effect on the stone fort, and sent soldiers to land and attack, and the narrow sandbar could only allow more than 1,000 soldiers to deploy at most at a time, limiting the investment of troops and unable to give full play to the advantage of troops.After several attempts, the soldiers of Donghai Town lost more than 600 people, which was equivalent to the losses of the entire previous campaign.In the process of firing at the Donghai Town battleship and the Reshalan Fort, the wooden sail warship and the stone fort were also not afraid of the advantage, and the gunboat was smashed through by the heavy artillery on the fortress, and Zhao Ming could only temporarily stop the attack.The fortress is known as "impossible to be conquered" before the appearance of long-range siege heavy artillery, but it is not completely impossible to deal with the fortress, one of which is to dig a "Z" trench, advance under the city wall, avoid premature exposure to the artillery of the fortress, in order to reduce casualties, or set up mortar hanging fire, and then take human lives to fill, but Reshalan Fort is surrounded by the sea, these methods are not used.For a time, Donghai Town fought around Resharan Fort for more than a month, but there was no progress at all.This made Zhao Ming at a loss, and understood why it took eight or nine months for Zheng Chenggong's tens of thousands of people to land the Dutch in Reshalan.In Chikan Fort, Zhao Ming was quite annoyed and said: "It is not unreasonable for the Western Zhuyi to build a stronghold and control a large number of colonies.We still have cannons, those with bows, arrows and spears, for such a fortress, even if there are tens of thousands of people, it will be difficult to overcome!
”The Westerners were able to colonize successfully, and they did have some skills, which Zhao Ming had to admire.Xu Fuyuan said: "If we are not in a hurry to end the war, we can besiege the Hongmaoyi in the city, and when they run out of food and water, they will naturally surrender."
However, now, General Xie was under great pressure in Liaodong, and due to the impact of the war, Jiangdong's merchant ships could only go to Japan and Korea, and only to Taiwan in the south, and there was already a backlog of cotton cloth and silk produced by various workshops and firms. ”Zhao Ming's face became heavy, and at this moment, Guo Zhong suddenly walked in and whispered to Zhao Ming.Zhao Ming's face became even more gloomy when he heard this, and he punched the edge of the sand table, "The Manchu Qing Dynasty really made a move!"
”(One chapter today, one tomorrow) ()