Mulima asked, "I wonder if Prince An has any good strategy to deal with the thieves?" ”

Yue Le replied: "Relying only on the Anqing city wall, it is estimated that it will not be able to withstand the three-day shelling of the puppet Ming Haikou, since the city wall is difficult to hold, it is better to keep most of the troops in the city, and use knife carts, female wall carts and sandbags to build fortifications on the streets behind the city wall opened by thieves and artillery; Bird and fire strikers hide in houses; The archers went to the rooftop, waited for the thieves to enter the city, and used the buildings to resist. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Abandon the city wall, can you hold it?" Mulima and others found it incredible.

"Hong Jingluo suffered such a loss in Qiongzhou back then, and Hong Jingluo wrote a book on street fighting before he was plotted by thieves. Ben Beizi saw the book at the time and was unimpressed. Looking at it now, I think it makes some sense! Today, more than half of our army uses firearms, and the use of street fighting in the city can stop the enemy. Yue Le said.

"No wonder after the prince came to Anqing, he demolished all the wooden houses in the city and built brick and stone houses, it turned out to be for this purpose!" Mulima exclaimed.

After Yue Le came to Anqing, he made a lot of preparations in the past two months, and the houses that were originally built of pure wood in the city, as well as most of the houses made of wood, were demolished and piled up with stones and bricks to create simple but sturdy houses. As for some half-timbered buildings, all the wood on them was removed and used to build sword carts, women's wall carts and other fortification weapons, and sandbags and bricks were used to reinforce only half of the houses.

In some of the houses, all the wood was torn down, leaving only a three-foot-high brick wall, and such houses were simply piled up with sandbags and turned into barricades, with deer barricades on the outside, wooden stakes, knife carts, and female wall carts.

The changes in Anqing City, of course, did not escape Wang Yuyou's eyes.

"The Tartars were originally riding and shooting the world, and they were good at field warfare, but now they have degenerated to defend the city, so they are not certain to be defeated?" Wang Yuyou pointed to the layout of the city and said to all the generals.

In fact, Yue Le also knew very well that if Shi Lang's sailors could not inflict heavy losses on the Ming army, Anqing City would inevitably be lost. It's just a question of how long it can hold out and how much damage it can inflict on the Ming army. If the Ming army invades the city and suffers heavy losses, it will inevitably change its tactics, use auxiliaries to push the shield cart, and attack with fire, so that the Qing army will not be able to hold out no matter what. Although the flammable wood was basically dismantled, the Ming army could use shield carts to send firewood and burn it with kerosene.

The opponent was Wang Yuyou, the first division of the Qiongzhou Army, and Yue Le knew that Wang Yuyou would definitely come up with these methods. However, he can't say to Jieshu and Mulima that he must fight to the death anyway, and he can't fight before he fights.

In fact, Yue Le didn't know that even if Wang Yuyou didn't use fire to attack and use a new type of flowering bomb, he could beat the fortifications in the city to pieces, after all, these simple buildings were not new-style buildings with cement stones and iron cores.

Seven days later, five 1,500-ton large transport ships docked at the Anqing wharf, and the auxiliary soldiers and civilians removed boxes of goods from the ships. Among the arrivals were all kinds of canned goods, fixed ammunition for muskets, propellants for cannons, and one of the most important weapons: the new flowering cannonball.

The new types of flowering shells include 64-pounder mortar shells, 32-pounder mortar shells, 12-pounder mortar shells, and 12-pounder howitzer wood-butted shells.

At present, the new flowering shells produced by the Dongfan Explosives Factory, except for these four shells, the rest of the new gunpowder are used to produce rockets to enhance the power of a swarm of rockets, which will be used to deal with the cavalry and infantry of the Qing army in the decisive battle in the northern plains in the future.

After the Ming army's new flowering shells arrived, Wang Yuyou ordered the siege of the city the next day.

Thirty-six 64-pounder mortars, sixty 32-pounder mortars, one hundred and twenty twelve-pounder mortars and sixty-four twelve-pounder howitzers were erected and aimed at the Anqing city wall, and the gunners loaded their shells and lit torches.

"Boom, boom, boom" all kinds of siege artillery spewed flames, rows of shells fell on the city wall, smashing the stone city bricks in all directions, and the female wall battlements cracked. The first round was fired with relatively inexpensive solid shells, which were used to correct the shooting of Zhuyuan, and many of the shells landed in the moat outside the city, and some flew over the head of the city and landed inside the city.

On the river, five battleships also bombarded the city with long cannons, ten thirty-two-pounder long cannons, because of the long barrel, large charge, range and accuracy are much larger than sixty-four-pounder mortars, but these elongated cannons are not suitable for the use of flowering shells, the barrel is too long, and the wooden butt flowering shells are loaded in it may explode.

Inside the yamen of the prefect of the city, Yue Le half-squinted, listening to the rumbling cannons outside the city. The artillery fire of the Ming army was terrifyingly dense, and the number of artillery pieces was shocking, these Yue Le had long known that during the Battle of Huguang, the artillery fire of the Ming army was extremely fierce. In the field battle, in addition to the swarm of rockets with big killers, there were also a large number of artillery pieces that could be directly used as large muskets, completely relying on the artillery to defeat the Qing army's field combat ability.

A swarm of rockets also belongs to artillery, so the field ability of the Qing army was defeated by the artillery of the Ming army.

However, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army lasted for about two incense sticks, and Yue Le suddenly heard a terrifying huge explosion outside the city, the sound was earth-shattering, as if tens of thousands of cannons were firing at the same time!

"Why is the thief's cannon so loud? It seems that there are tens of thousands of cannons? Yue Le was taken aback.

A Goshha, who was covered in the smell of gunpowder, ran into Yue Le's study, knelt on the ground and cried out: "Lord Wang! Something is wrong! The thief shells are very ferocious! It's all a new type of flowering bomb! Hundreds of shells came down, all exploded, and the city was in flames! The minions really can't stop it! ”

"What?" Yue Le almost jumped up, "Hundreds of new-style flowering bombs? ”

This news is indeed shocking, Yue Le knows that the Ming army has a new type of flowering bomb with considerable power, and in the previous battle, the Qing army has also picked up an unexploded new flowering bomb, and it can't be imitated. And the number of times that the Ming army used that kind of shell was very rare, and Yue Le knew that that kind of shell must be very expensive to build, and it was difficult to make, so it would not be much.

But today, the Ming army is so arrogant, and it smashes hundreds of new-style flowering bombs in one go!

"Where did Minggou get so many new flowering bombs? Is there too much money for them to spend? That's not right! Even if there is a lot of silver, it should be difficult to make that kind of cannonball, how can there be so many? Yue Le muttered to himself.

Immediately after that, the earth-shattering explosion sounded again, and the entire Anqing City shook violently, as if a strong earthquake had occurred.