Two cannonballs killed the Jinchuan Gate Tower in seconds, and such a powerful cannon really shocked Geng Jingzhong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Such a cannon, the power is amazing! With just two cannons, they actually destroyed Jinchuan Gate! If the Ming army bombarded the city with this kind of artillery, how many shells could our Jiangning City withstand? Geng Jingzhong saw that there were no outsiders around, so he sighed softly.

The cronies lowered their voices and replied: "The Ming army's giant cannon is extremely powerful, but such a large cannonball, the loading must be very slow, I'm afraid it won't be able to shoot five or six cannons in an hour, right?" ”

Geng Jingzhong said: "The power is so powerful, do you still need to reload quickly?" They're on the boat, and we can't hit them. They can be reloaded slowly, shelling again and again. With a few more rounds of bombardment by such a huge cannon, I'm afraid that the entire Jiangning City will be razed to the ground! This king has just heard the sound of their cannons, and such a powerful cannon is probably a cannon of more than two hundred pounds! With such a heavy cannon, the range must be long, maybe they can fire on the river, and the cannonballs can hit the south of the city! ”

In fact, this kind of artillery shells in the Ming army are very rare, and shells are more expensive than silver, so it is impossible to use them more. But Geng Jingzhong didn't understand this.

Hearing that it might be a giant cannon of more than two hundred pounds, his cronies were also taken aback: "Two hundred pound cannons? Could it be that a single shell weighs 200 pounds? ”

Geng Jingzhong replied angrily: "Do you still think that the cannon weighs two hundred catties?" Such power is two hundred pounds of shells! This kind of cannon is estimated to weigh 30,000 catties! ”

According to Geng Jingzhong's speculation, the weight of the 24-pound cannon is about 3,000 catties, so the weight of the 200-pound cannon must be more than 30,000 catties. What a concept is such a powerful super cannon! He couldn't imagine it.

The cronies lowered their voices and whispered in Geng Jingzhong's ear: "Lord Wang, it seems that we have to deceive Malerji and Liang Huafeng's gang to the mansion as soon as possible, and then slaughter them with one sword!" Let's open the door and surrender to the Ming army! ”

Geng Jingzhong nodded lightly: "Okay, this matter should be sooner rather than later!" ”

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army continued, and the fleet went back and forth, firing shells at the city wall again and again, and shells of various calibers roared and smashed on the city, turning the city wall into a mess. The howitzers and mortars of the Ming artillery ships also fired overwhelming flowering shells, which kept falling on the head of the city, or smashed into the city and exploded.

After that, the Ming army began a landing operation.

Zhang Yukun is very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang army. The Zhejiang army came to attack Jiangning, in fact, it was only used to scare Geng Jingzhong. As long as Geng Jingzhong is frightened and the city gate is opened, the task will be completed. And what can really fight, in addition to the powerful fleet of the Ming army, is only 5,000 marines. Zhang Yukun considered that when the Zhejiang army landed, it needed to land under reliable conditions, and the Qing army must not be allowed to fight a counterattack. Otherwise, Geng Jingzhong was not bluffed, but Liang Huafeng saw the flaw, so as long as the Qing army continued to launch counterattacks, the Ming army would not want to gain a firm foothold on the shore.

Considering that any accident can happen on the battlefield, Zhang Yukun seeks stability.

Fighting a war is like this, taking risks when the strength is inferior to the enemy; In the case of a situation where the strength far exceeds that of the enemy, it should be fought steadily. Wealth is in danger, it is completely inferior to others, anyway, if you don't gamble, you will lose, it is better to gamble. When the strength exceeds the opponent, why take the risk.

Zhang Yukun, who had adopted the tactics of steady and steady fighting, first let his 5,000 marines make a tentative landing under the cover of the fierce artillery fire of the river fleet.

The Ming army concentrated artillery fire, sealed several city gates near the river in Jiangning, and prevented the Qing army from going out of the city to counterattack with fierce naval artillery fire. Subsequently, small boats came ashore, and groups of marines disembarked from the boats and formed a formation on the riverside to avoid being counterattacked by the Qing army.

Twenty swarms of bee wagons were also sent ashore and placed in the hollow array of the marines to prevent the Qing cavalry from breaking through the Ming formation.

A swarm of bee fire vans, the nemesis of the cavalry. If the Qing army charged with the Eight Banners cavalry, it would inevitably suffer heavy losses in front of a swarm of bee fire vans, and there were few people who could rush in front of them, and the remaining cavalry would not be able to break through the hollow array at all.

The Marines disembarked, put on their armor, and formed formation. Then a large number of auxiliaries and people disembarked. After these auxiliaries and Minzhuang went ashore, they began to start construction, digging trenches, building earthen cities, and building fortifications under the cover of the fire of the Ming naval guns in Jiangbei.

"If Geng Jingzhong breaks his promise, we will fight steadily, slowly extend the trench and the earthen city to the west of the city, arrange defensive positions on the bank of the river, and then extend to the east and south, and finally surround Jiangning with fortifications, and we will fight slowly." Zhang Yukun said to Zhang Huangyan.

With this kind of steady formation, the Qing army really has no temper. Although the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang army is not strong, and the field and attack capabilities are very poor, but they have built fortifications, and the Zhejiang army can still fight with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry by virtue of the fortifications.

Seeing that the Ming army began to land, and then seeing that the Ming army's formation was tight, and the auxiliaries who built the fortifications did not leave the coverage of the fleet's artillery fire for a single step, even Liang Huafeng, who wanted to take a risk, did not dare to act rashly.

Maleji pointed to the formation of the Ming army and said: "The puppet Ming Haikou wants to besiege the city with fortifications, we can't let them repair the fortifications, do we let the army go out of the city to attack them for a while?" Use the Green Battalion to break the formation in front, and the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to follow behind, looking for an opportunity to attack, and maybe a chance to break the enemy. ”

Liang Huafeng glanced at the swarm of bee fire vans that the Ming army had set up, he had heard of the power of this weapon, so he shook his head and said that he couldn't go out of the city to fight back: "My lord, can you see the cars of Ming Dog?" That's a swarm of rockets, if the army rushes to kill, that swarm of rockets is extremely powerful, and the more people who attack, the greater the loss! ”

The power of the rocket lies in the fast rate of fire and the fast reloading. In addition to the twenty swarm of bee vans, the Ming army also had twenty single-engine rocket launchers. This single-shot rocket launcher looks like a three-pounder cannon, except that instead of a barrel, the gun carriage is equipped with a copper slide. When launching, put the rocket on the slide and ignite it. Once a rocket is launched, the second rocket can be loaded immediately, and it only takes a few seconds to launch again.

In addition, although the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang army is weak, but the degree of firearms of the Zhejiang army is not low, although the weapons in their hands are relatively backward bird guns and old-fashioned artillery, but after the Ming army built the fortifications, the Zhejiang army entered the fortifications, and the Qing army was still difficult to break.

However, Maleji was not in a hurry, and the Qing army had hoarded food in Jiangning City that could be eaten for at least two years. If the Ming army adopts the method of besieging the city, the Ming army's own food consumption will be a huge amount.