It is precisely because the city of Wenzhou is extremely strong, so when the Japanese invaders were most rampant, this ancient city, which was almost a lonely city in southern Zhejiang, could withstand the attack of the Japanese invaders.

The location of Wenzhou, surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on the other, is the most convenient road to various places is the waterway. In later generations, the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Railway, Wenfu Railway and Jinwen Railway were all tunnels and bridges. Until the Republic of China, there were no decent highways in Wenzhou, which means that there was no road at all in this location except for the waterway and the outside connection.

When the Japanese were most rampant, the waterway was cut off, and Wenzhou was a lonely city, but this city was extremely strong, and the Japanese who did not have many heavy weapons naturally had no way to take this city.

The ingenuity of this fortified city lies in the fact that the natural mountains form a barrier, the natural river forms a moat, and the extremely strong walls and towers can be said to be a nightmare for the attackers.

There were not many Qing troops in the city, but the Qing prefect recruited many local people and threatened them that once the Ming army broke through the city, they would be slaughtered. Even if the Ming army does not slaughter, the Ming army will not be able to hold the city, and if Wang Shi fights back, he will definitely liquidate the people who surrendered to Haikou. Therefore, if you don't work hard to defend the city, you won't be able to survive.

Under the instigation of the prefect of the Qing court, the people in the city organized one after another, and climbed to the top of the city to assist the green camp and practice courage to defend the city.

Because the east and north of the city are close to the river, as long as the Ming army blocks it with water divisions, it can block the retreat of the Qing army in the city. Therefore, the Ming army adopted the blockade of Ying'en Gate in the west, and the main direction of attack was Rui'an Gate in the south, taking into account the attack on Yongning Gate and Laifu Gate in the south. As long as the south is broken, the Qing army in the city has no way to retreat.

As for the five hills that rely on each other with the city wall, Wang Xinyu did not consider attacking the hills. In this era, it is extremely difficult to attack mountains, and the price paid is too great, and the gains outweigh the losses. The defenders on the hill can easily defeat the attackers with rolling logs and stones. And the attacker has to pay a great price to attack the mountain. Unlike the era of hot weapons, the attacker has mortars and machine guns to suppress the fire points on the mountain, although there are machine guns on the mountain, but the machine guns under the mountain can also hit it. However, in this era, the lethality of solid shells in the mountains and forests was too small, muskets could not hit the mountains, and bows and arrows could not shoot them, and the defenders guarding the mountains only needed to roll wood and stones.

"We don't have to think about those mountains, as long as we capture the whole city, don't the Tartars guarding the mountains have to obediently come down and surrender? Otherwise, they will starve to death in the mountains. Wang Yuyou said.

Wang Xinyu did not despise the fortified city because of the small number of defenders in the city, on the one hand, he ordered the digging of trenches, the construction of strong barracks, the construction of forts, and the construction of large siege tools.

At that time, there were many jungles near Wenzhou, and the auxiliaries went into the jungle to cut wood and began to build various siege tools.

In addition to building siege tools such as nest cars, shield cars, and watchtowers used in the previous siege, Wang Xinyu also built a very large ladder car and siege tower car with complex construction projects this time.

The so-called siege tower car, and the nest car, watchtower car is different, this siege tower car not only has the nest car and watchtower and other functions that can be observed and shot, but also has a certain ladder function! The siege tower car is higher than the city head, and small artillery is installed on the tower car, with musketeers and archers, and the tower car can also put down a long springboard, directly let the sword and shield hand through the springboard, and rush into the city, of course, that is after the tower car suppressed the firepower of the city head.

As for the large siege ladder, it is also a very complex siege weapon, and the large ladder car itself plays the function of a trench bridge car, which can be raised on this side of the moat and directly put the platform on the head of the opponent's city.

The large ladder cart was also covered with wet felt and wet dirt to prevent the opponent from attacking. There are also a large number of buckets under the ladder cart, and when the auxiliary soldiers push the ladder cart forward, once they find a fire, they can immediately put out the fire. When this kind of ladder car is attacking, it is difficult for the opponent's rocket to burn them.

In addition to building large-scale siege equipment, the original method of using shield carts to fill the moat and transporting gunpowder to blow up the city wall was also carried out simultaneously.

In addition, Wang Xinyu also has a novel siege method, which can be said to be an unprecedented siege method, and it is estimated that when it is used, the Qing army will be so frightened that it will not possess its body.

On June 5, the Ming army, which was all ready, began an attack on the city of Wenzhou.

On this day, the southeast wind just blows, and the wind is not small, and the wind blows the flag hunting.

The soldiers standing on the high platform waved their flags, the war drums rumbled on the Ming army's position, and a team of shield vehicles pushed out from the large array and slowly advanced in the direction of Wenzhou City.

The Qing army prefect standing at the city gate looked at the shield cart pushed up and sneered: "The thieves think that we can fill our moat with this method? And don't look at what our city is like! ”

On the two hills of Songtai Mountain and Jigu Mountain in Wenzhou City, the Qing army arranged artillery and trebuchets on them, because the artillery and trebuchets of the Qing army were placed on the mountain, and it was difficult for the Ming army's shells to hit the mountain, and the Qing army was condescending and could destroy the shield car of the Ming army with artillery fire. Although the accuracy is a little worse, it can cause great deterrence to the auxiliaries.

The rumbling sound of artillery sounded on the top of the "boom" hill, and the shells fell from a high place and flew towards the formation of the Ming army.

Although the formation of the auxiliary troops was quite dispersed, there were still shield carts that were unfortunately hit by shells, and the shield carts that were hit by the bullets were immediately shattered, and the auxiliary soldiers pushing the shield carts were killed and wounded a large number.

The Qing army used the seven-tip cannon on the hill to throw the broken stone like the goddess scattered flowers, although the accuracy of this trebuchet is poor, but because it is a broken stone that is fired, it is a large piece of it when it is thrown, so the trebuchet has great lethality to the shield car, and the falling gravel is smashed in the crowd of Ming army auxiliaries, and a piece of blood mist is raised.

The reason why the Diaoyu City in the Southern Song Dynasty could hold on for so many years was that the seven-pin cannon fired condescendingly was extremely powerful, and even Meng Ge was killed under the Diaoyu City.

The Ming army auxiliaries kept falling, but the undead auxiliaries did not dare to take a step back, there were sword-wielding overseers behind them, as long as they dared to retreat, the superintendents would not hesitate to cut off their heads. Because most of these auxiliaries were composed of the original Qing army prisoners, the warlords would not be polite to them.

However, to the joy of these auxiliaries, it didn't take long for the sound of gold to be heard from the rear.

Hearing the sound of gold, the auxiliaries quickly retreated, glad that they could finally live and not have to brave the hail of broken stones to attack the city.

"I didn't expect Minggou to be so quick to mingle!" The prefect of the Qing court thought proudly. He secretly said in his heart: If I can hold this lonely city, drag the Ming Dog all the time, drag it until the imperial court and the king counterattack, and drag it to the red-haired ghost to support, what kind of merit is that! You will definitely not be able to run away from being promoted and making a fortune.

Just when the prefect of the Qing court was dreaming of yellow sorghum, suddenly a Qing soldier shouted in horror: "Look at the southeast sky!" What's that? ”

Looking in the direction of Qing Bing's finger, the prefect raised his head and found that nine strange things had appeared in the sky, which were floating in the direction of Jigu Mountain in the southeast. The prefect looked closely at the objects and found that it was a large round ball, and under the ball was a hanging basket, which seemed to be touching flames.

"What is it?" The Qing soldiers were stunned.

Someone knelt on the ground and bowed to the sky: "Immortal Lord bless!" Bless us for defeating the thieves! ”

"Get up! That's just a Kong Ming lantern! The prefect kicked the soldiers who were kneeling on the ground.

Those things didn't float fast, but because of the strong wind today, the speed of drifting wasn't too slow, and soon those objects flew over Mt. Sekitani. At this time, the phenomenon that stunned the Qing army happened: they saw small black balls falling on these objects, and some of them shot rockets.

The small black ball landed on the side of the Qing army's huge trebuchet.

"Boom Boom" The fire rose from the top of the mountain, and the balls that fell on the side of the trebuchet and the turret burst into clusters of fireballs. The massive trebuchets crumbled in an instant, turning into broken wood and falling to the ground.

The rocket was fired at the Qing army battery, accurately hit the powder keg, ignited the powder keg, and triggered a chain reaction that caused a large explosion in pieces.

"Run!" The Qing soldiers who did not die on the hill turned around and ran.

At the head of the city, many Qing soldiers knelt on the ground one after another, and some people shouted: "It's over!" The gods have helped the thieves! ”

"The immortals are helping the thieves, how can this battle be fought!" A Qing soldier trembled and knelt on the ground and bowed to the sky.

The prefect blushed and asked his own soldiers to pull up the Qing soldiers who were kneeling on the ground and tell them: "That's not a god!" That's a thief's kitsch! They built a huge Kong Ming lantern, and the Kong Ming lantern carried people! Throw flowering cannonballs from Kong Ming lanterns to the ground! Don't be afraid of them! There are not many thieves Kong Ming lanterns! ”

There are not many manned "Kong Ming lanterns", but destroying the trebuchets and forts on Jigu Mountain is not a problem.

Under the influence of the wind, nine manned hot air balloons flew over Mount Jigu and threw flowering shells on the ground at a distance of 200 meters. Although the hot air balloon is carried by the wind, it is difficult to control the exact direction, and the hit rate of the bomb is not high, but it is still feasible to launch an attack on a huge trebuchet on the top of a mountain. And against relatively small targets, such as powder kegs, a gunpowder rocket is fired directly, which is a rocket with gunpowder on a bow and arrow, which is fired with a bow and arrow.

If you want to bomb the city wall, then you may not even be able to blow up the city wall just by relying on the wind to fly and manually drop bombs. But blowing up a mountain that big is not a problem.

The balloon ran out of flowering shells, the weight was reduced, and the height of the balloon increased. The soldiers on the balloon reduced the flames, causing the balloon to drop its height a little more. When the hot air balloon flew over Wenzhou City and flew to the west of the city, the Ming soldiers on the hot air balloon began to extinguish the flames and let the hot air balloon land in the Ming army camp in the west.

Because the hot air balloon is limited by the shortcomings of unstable wind, small bomb load, and poor accuracy, this kind of bombing cannot be used more, and can only be used at critical moments with the help of wind to destroy the trebuchets and artillery on the top of the Qing army's mountain, and then the siege war will be easy to fight. (To be continued.) )