After Le Erjin came to Xinhui, after seven days of preparation, he finally completed all the preparations before the siege. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Siege!" Leerjin gave an order.

In the camp of the Qing army, the war drums rumbled, the horn sounded, the two wings were full of Mongolian and eight banner cavalry lined up out of the camp, the middle of the cavalry was used to protect the auxiliary soldiers and the people's strong soldiers, and in the middle, it was the auxiliary soldiers and the people who pushed the shield carts in groups. Needless to say, it is also known that these auxiliaries and the strong part of the people are all local young men who were recruited not long ago, and after simple training, they were reorganized into siege auxiliaries by Leerjin to consume the ammunition and defense weapons of the Ming army.

The shield cart pushes sandbags, which are used to build Yuliang Road. The previous Yuliang Road had advanced to less than fifty steps from the moat, and now the Qing army had to do what to do was to push the Yuliang Road to the edge of the moat, fill in the moat, and then continue to build the Yuliang Road on the head of the city.

This siege plan seems simple, but when it actually works, it has to cause heavy casualties. As the distance approaches, the hit rate of artillery fire at the head of the city is higher; If the shield cart advances further, the bastions on both wings will directly fire from the side of the shield cart, and bullets and feathered arrows will be fired from the side of the shield cart, which can kill and injure a large number of auxiliaries who are building Yuliang Road.

When the moat was filled, the loss was even greater, and all kinds of defending weapons were brought down on the head of the city, and I don't know how many people would die on the edge of the moat.

Leer Jin is determined to capture Xinhui, how many Han people who were captured died in Qingzhuang, he is not a pity, anyway, it is Han, there are many Han people, and a group of dead people will be arrested. Grain can also be collected on the spot, and it will not waste the precious grain of his Qing army, which is simply a lot of money.

After all, the attack surface is not large, and the 50,000 or 60,000 auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang can't press it all in one go, and on the frontal attack surface, it can only be 5,000 auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang pushing 500 shield carts at a time.

If the Qiongzhou army wants to reduce the casualties of these innocent people, it can only leave the protection of the city wall and go out to start a field battle with the Qing army. But Wang Xinyu knew that he did not have the strength to deal with the two large armies of the Qing army in Guangxi and the Qing army in Leerjin, and only by waiting for the frontal attacking Ming army to take the city of Guangzhou and gather the main force could he defeat the two Qing troops outside the city in one fell swoop.

At the head of the city, a three-pounder cannon with an extremely fast rate of fire was already in full formation, and the loaded three-pounder cannon stretched out of the muzzle of the black hole hole and aimed at the shield cart that was slowly approaching under the city.

The Qing army's auxiliaries and Minzhuang had already entered the firing range, but the Qiongzhou army was not in a hurry to fire, but had to pull the distance closer in order to ensure the hit rate of the city's artillery.

Watching the Qing army's shield car advance step by step, all the gunners held their breath and just waited for an order. When the Qing army's shield car was only a hundred steps away from the city, Wang Xinyu shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

A row of thunderous cannons rang out at the head of the city, and the scene of thirty three-pounder guns firing at the same time was spectacular! I saw that orange tongues of fire erupted from the head of the city one after another, and white smoke rose in a thick air, and spherical shells rolled out of the muzzles one after another, smashing towards the advancing shield carts.

The first round of shelling, thirty cannons fired, more than a dozen shield wagons of the Qing army were shattered, and more than 100 Qing army auxiliaries were torn to pieces by shells.

The cannonballs kept smashing on the wooden planks of the shield cart, this thick, wooden shield that could resist the shooting of bows and arrows, under the blow of the three-pounder cannon, seemed to be hit by a large stone falling from a high place, and the wooden shield hit by the cannonball was immediately shattered, turning into countless sharp pieces of wood, and the auxiliary soldiers behind were killed and wounded heavily.

When the shield cart entered within fifty paces and was about to throw bags of sandbags from the cart, the roar of artillery was heard again from the head of the city, and the cannonballs smashed into the face of the Qing army's shield cart, which was only a few dozen paces away. At such a close distance, the three-pounder gun can almost be said to be a hundred shots.

One after another, the shield carts were shattered, and the auxiliaries behind the shield carts let out screams, and the crowd that was ploughed by the cannonballs sprayed a dazzling mist of blood.

Zhuang Hucheng was also in the ranks of the auxiliaries, and he and the others pushed a shield cart slowly forward. Pushing all the way over, the shield cart with a very slow speed was constantly hit by the cannonballs fired from the city, Zhuang Hucheng saw with his own eyes that the shield carts on his left and right sides were shot, the wooden shield in front of the shield cart on the left was torn apart, and the auxiliaries behind were killed several people. The shield cart on the right was smashed by a cannonball, and it tilted to the side, revealing the auxiliaries behind it, and as a result, the arrows and projectiles shot down at the head of the city, and the auxiliaries who had lost the protection of the shield cart fell like weeds harvested.

"Thank goodness! I finally didn't get hit! Zhuang Hucheng secretly felt fortunate in his heart.

If you are hit by a shell, there is basically no chance of survival.

With the distance getting closer, the Ming army's artillery bombardment became more and more accurate, Zhuang Hucheng saw with his own eyes that his front and back, left and right, there were shield carts hit by shells, the planks of the shield carts were broken and flying, and the auxiliary soldiers of the carts were either killed or wounded.

Zhuang Hucheng was very fortunate that his shield car was not shot, but it successfully advanced into place, and threw sandbags, adding a contribution to the construction of Yuliang Road.

Throwing the sandbag, Zhuang Hucheng quickly ran back behind the shield cart, and several auxiliaries pulled the already empty shield cart and ran back quickly. At this time, Zhuang Hucheng felt relieved, breathed a sigh of relief, and finally was able to go back safely! Although this is only the beginning, the shield cart will come after a while loaded with dirt, but on the battlefield, it would be good to live a little longer.

The first shield carts retreated, and the second round of shield carts pushed forward. The Qing army suffered very heavy losses in this round of attack, destroying more than 40 shield carts, killing and wounding more than 200 auxiliaries, and dropping more than 4,000 sandbags.

More than 4,000 sandbags seem like a lot, but for such a huge project as Yuliang Road, it is insignificant, and the Qing army has lost so many people that it has only advanced one step.

The second round of shield wagons advanced up, destroying more than 30 shield wagons, killing and wounding more than 200 auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang, and dropping more than 4,000 sandbags again. The corpses and sandbags, as well as the broken wreckage of the shield cart, pushed Fishbeam Road a step forward.

More than 600 people were killed and wounded, and Yuliang Road only advanced one step! There are still fifty paces to go from the moat, and at this rate of loss, by the time Yuliang Road advances to the edge of the moat, it is estimated that at least 20,000 people will be killed or wounded.

In the face of the defenders with strong artillery fire, outnumbering the attackers in terms of weapons, and forcibly attacking the city with crowd tactics was the result of heavy casualties.

However, the efforts of the Qing army were still rewarded, and when Yuliang Road advanced to the moat, the casualties were smaller than Leerjin expected, with less than 20,000 casualties and more than 18,000 casualties. Although it did not cause any losses to the Ming army at the head of the city, only consumed their ammunition, it was already a success to push Yuliang Road to the edge of the moat. Anyway, the people who died were all Han Chinese, and Le Erjin was not distressed at all.

When Yuliang Road finally advanced to the edge of the moat, Le Erjin ordered the soldiers to move forward, and the auxiliaries were covered with archers and bird gunners to fill the moat. At the same time, the Qing army's general artillery and tiger squat artillery also advanced, using these small cannons to bombard the city head and suppress the fire of the defenders at the city head.

The Qing army attacked under the moat, and this was the beginning of the real fierce battle.

The mortars and rockets of the Ming army began to play a role, and the mortars arranged behind the city walls roared, and the shells rose into the air, pulling out arcs and sending flowering cannonballs to the crowd of Qing troops. The cannonballs that landed exploded, and the Qing archers and bird gunners fell in the explosion, and the shield carts that were landed on the side by the flowering shells were also blown to pieces.

On the head of the city, from time to time, the Ming army stretched out a launch frame from behind the female wall battlement, and a fire dragon shot out from the launcher, roaring into the crowd of Qing troops, raising a cluster of scarlet fireballs, countless iron bead fragments flew horizontally, and the exploding rockets killed and injured a large number of Qing soldiers.

This kind of weapon is the rocket slip, in fact, it is a swarm of bee fire van car individual reduced version, the multi-launch rocket into a single tube, and reduce the weight of the rocket, is a kind of rocket that can be launched alone, this weapon is introduced in the "Wu Bei Zhi", is a kind of single soldier rocket launched using a chute. It's just that the accuracy of this rocket is too poor, and despite the addition of a tail, the error is still very large, and the range is not far.

Therefore, the rocket slip is used at close range, especially the defense of the city is particularly useful, which is equivalent to a kind of increased throwing distance of 10,000 enemies, and wait until the Qing army rushes to within fifty steps of the city, and launches the rocket slip, which can cause a large number of casualties to the Qing army.

The Qing army rushed to the bottom of the moat, and they were not only attacked by the Ming army's direct-fire cannons, curved mortar guns, rocket slides and other weapons, but also by the smoothbore guns and pulley compound bows at the head of the city, as well as the sharpshooters and rifled guns on the fortress. All kinds of firepower were intertwined, and the Qing army under the city fell in pieces, whether it was a soldier or an auxiliary, they all became corpses all over the ground.

Le Erjin gasped when he saw it: "The thief's firearm is too powerful!" If the Han people's firearms continue to develop in this way, will there be a way for us Manchurians to survive in the future? ”

The more he saw the powerful weapons of the Qiongzhou army, the more Le Erjin wanted to take Xinhui, because he knew that Wang Xinyu was in the city! It was a very tempting bait, knowing that he would lose a lot of money if he ate it, but he had to gamble, if he won, he would be exchanged for the Qing Dynasty for thousands of generations.

Le Erjin believes that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has broken the backbone of the Han people through the literal prison, shaving their hair and making it easy to obey, and killing, as long as this group of Han people who dare to resist is eliminated, there will be no more rebels in the future.

It's a pity that Le Erjin forgot one thing, even if Xinhui City is broken, he can't hold Wang Xinyu! Because one side of Xinhui City is close to the river, even if the Ming army can't defeat it, it can be withdrawn at any time.

The Qing army began to press its forces like crazy and desperately attacked Xinhui.

The Ming army in the city was intertwined with firepower, killing and injuring a large number of Qing troops. The waters of the moat were stained red, and countless corpses fell into the moat. Every time the Qing army advanced, the corpses of thousands of auxiliaries fell into the moat along with thousands of sandbags. The corpses were used to pave the road, so that the moat was filled in little by little.

What the Ming army paid was nothing more than the consumption of a large amount of ammunition. However, not to mention the ample ammunition of the Ming army in the city, there is also a naval division on the river that can provide ammunition for the Ming army continuously, as long as the city is not breached, the Xinhui city is the ammunition unlimited mode!

The weapons and ammunition transported from the Dongfan Gun Factory and the Qiongzhou Arsenal were continuously sent into the city, replenishing the consumption of weapons and ammunition, so that the Ming army could continue to kill and injure the Qing army. Moreover, not only weapons and ammunition were transported from Qiongzhou, but also some recruits who had just been trained were sent to Xinhui for military training.

Leer Jin's cost-free style of play, even Kong Sizhen, who was the most loyal to the Qing court, couldn't stand it, because the casualties on the side of the moat were not only the auxiliary soldiers and people who didn't want money, but Kong Sizhen's Han Eight Banners had a lot of casualties!

If you want the Qing army to go up, you can only use long-range weapons to shoot at the Ming army at the head of the city. And the Qing army with the strongest long-range firepower is Kong Sizhen's Han Eight Banner Qing Army. As a result, the Ming army at the head of the city far surpassed Kong Sizhen's Han Eight Banner Army in terms of both the quality and quantity of firearms, and the two sides fired at each other, and the Qing army suffered heavy losses repeatedly.

In the past few days, the Guangxi Han Eight Banner Army has lost more than 1,000 people, and the Green Battalion has lost more than 5,000 people.

"Lord Wang, the moat has not been filled yet, our army has suffered heavy casualties, is it still necessary to fight this siege battle?" Kong Sizhen painfully raised her own questions to Le Erjin.

Leer Jin said: "The moat has almost been filled!" Wouldn't giving up at this time be a waste of all your previous efforts? It will take us one more day at most, and we will be able to fill the moat! Then pave the fish beam road to the head of the city! We can rush to the top of the city with cavalry and kill all these barbarians!" ”

The Qing army stubbornly continued to attack, and after two more days, finally filled a section of the moat with corpses and sandbags.

Then Yuliang Road is to continue to push forward, only the last twenty steps are left, and if you advance another twenty steps, Yuliang Road can be paved to the head of the city!

It's just that in the last twenty steps, Yuliang Road is not easy to pave. First, the distance is closer, and the firepower of the Ming army is more ferocious; Second, Yuliang Road is a slope, and the closer it is to the city wall, the higher it will be piled up, and the larger the amount of work. For every foot increase in height, the width of the base below is increased by at least two feet, and the circumference of the cross-section increases a little, but the volume increases considerably, depending on geometrical distance. So the closer you get to the city walls, the more arduous the project becomes.

As the distance closes, the Ming army can not only use long-range weapons, but even the grenades thrown by the soldiers can also cause great damage to the Qing army under the city.

However, Wang Xinyu should keep the grenade to deal with the real Tartars, and deal with these siege militias and auxiliaries, just use traditional weapons such as rolling wood and lime bottles.

At the head of the city, there were constantly rolling wood and stones falling down, wolf teeth and yaksha smashing down the city, lime bottles flew out like rain, and the city head also poured the golden juice of the cauldron. From time to time, a canister of oil was thrown and landed on Yuliang Road, and then a rocket came and ignited the broken canister and ignited a fire.

The Qing army auxiliaries who were on fire let out heart-rending screams and fell into the moat.

The artillery at the head of the city has been replaced with shotguns, and every round of shells is fired, a large rain of bullets is scattered. (To be continued.) )