Zachdan thought for a moment and then ordered, "Let's use the shield cart and the caravan as cover first, and excavate from the side of the moat close to Fuzhou City.

We first dug a defensive trench on the inner side of the moat, and built a breastwall in front of the trench, a series of buildings that could serve as cover for our troops.

Then, we dug a tunnel from the trench to the city of Fuzhou. ”

Fu Yan said in surprise, "Commander-in-chief, in that case, wouldn't our army dig a tunnel under the nose of the Houjin Army?" From the top of the city, the Houjin Tartars can easily determine the location of the tunnels dug by our army.

When the time comes, the enemy will be in the corresponding position in the city, whether it is to fill the method of smoke, or to find rivers and wells to fill the tunnel, or even to dig the tunnel in the opposite direction, it will be a fatal blow to the tunnel of our army! ”

Zachdan waved his hand and continued to explain, "It doesn't matter, since you want to look like it, you have to do it like something."

You should know that with the current state of the Houjin army in Fuzhou City, how dare you risk letting our army dig a hole so close to the city wall?

Let's just put on a show, we don't need to really attack it, it's best to lead the Houjin army out of the city to fight in the field.

You send someone to tell the reserves, let all the teams take turns to play, and they all go and try their skills, and the infantry of the two infantry companies of the main attack, don't rush to the south gate again, there is no need to make such a big loss. ”

The herald took down the order, and as soon as Zachdan had signed it, he went to give the order.

In the Huaxia Army, the remaining caravans, which had survived the battle just now, temporarily stopped at a distance of about 2 or 30 meters from the city wall, and lined up with the shield wagons that were responsible for covering the main attacking infantry.

At this distance, the Huaxia army could dodge the fire attack that posed the greatest threat to the siege vehicles made of wood, because the Houjin army threw down the quilts and straw bundles soaked with grease from the city, and they would never be able to throw it so far.

Therefore, at this distance, the greatest threat to the siege troops of the Huaxia Army are still those ceramic jars filled with lime (also called ash bottles) and ceramic jars filled with gunpowder powder (also called fire bottles).

As soon as Zachdan's order was communicated to the troops, all the members began to adjust.

Only the infantry guns planted on the front line did not move their positions, and still bombarded the battlements on the wall with solid shells.

Under such a long period of bombardment, almost all the battlements near the southern gate have been flattened by cannonballs, shattered into small pieces of broken bricks and small clods of earth scattered around, and only the bird gunners and archers in the Houjin army have suffered heavy casualties.

The other shooters who were remobilized to support this side were also smashed by the constantly crumbling stones and had nowhere to hide, so they could only helplessly spread out to both sides and hide.

The soldiers of the artillery unit can proudly claim that the fire of the Houjin Tartars near the main gate to the south has been completely suppressed by them.

The coated captives under the caravan, who had been in charge of pushing the cart and digging the city walls, also began to dig again under the orders of their superiors, this time of course, no longer digging the city walls, but digging the ground.

The earth excavated from the ground will not be sent away, but will be piled up in situ between the gaps in the shield carts that have crossed the moat, and the Huaxia army has built a breast wall based on these siege equipment.

The soldiers of the Houjin Army on the city wall of Fuzhou, under the orders of the officers and slave owners, kept probing their heads to check the situation and observe the movements of the Huaxia army.

The various teams that had been serving as reserves in the rear had also adjusted their division of labor, and a platoon of heavy weapons from the artillery company under the battalion directly under the brigade headquarters also came to the front of the position with large pieces of belongings.

Several large rocket vehicles based on the Hundred Tigers Rushing Arrows and expanded their capacity have also adjusted their angles and aimed at the location of the South City Gate.

In the early days of the founding of the Chinese army, that is, the Xuan Army period, it was widely equipped with bazookas made based on the arrows of a hundred tigers.

In fact, it is to make a cylindrical cylinder, and inside are some fixed, honeycomb-shaped launch racks, on which are put on a kind of rocket with hollowed-out arrow shafts and gunpowder compacted inside.

Most of these rockets are buried in the rocket launch canister, with only arrows and ignition fuses, which emerge from the front and tail respectively. On the side of the bazooka, there was also a shutter to shield the launcher from being burned by flames.

When launching, the launcher needs to put this rocket on his shoulder, cover his face with a baffle, and then an igniter behind him ignites the fuse, which can launch 120 rockets in a very short time.

This is a new type of rapid-fire weapon created by borrowing from the Ming Dynasty's rocket system in order to make up for the lack of firepower in the era when the Xuan army used front-loading muskets.

In this era of change when cold weapons and firearms are mixed, such a firepower density is really quite powerful.

However, later, with the establishment of the Huaxia Army, the rear-loading rifles, rapid-fire infantry guns, and even pump-action rifles began to equip elite troops, and the firepower density of this bazooka was no longer so important.

In addition, the weight of this thing is not light, it seriously slows down the marching speed of the infantry, and it is very troublesome to reload, and there is a bazooka that requires the establishment of two people, etc., the units have withdrawn the establishment of this weapon one after another.

Although the infantry brothers did not like this thing and threw it into the garbage heap, the artillery unit never forgot about this bazooka.

The strength of the artillery lies in the artillery they control.

The number of people in the establishment of an artillery piece can range from two or three people to more than a dozen people, and so many people are all revolving around that artillery.

If the artillery is lost, or if the enemy is approaching, the artillery brothers are not even comparable to the militia, and they can only catch the blind, and they can only hope that the infantry brothers who are responsible for covering can repel the enemy and protect them.

The artillery units have always been obsessed with this, and they have repeatedly reported that they can adjust the infantry covering the artillery positions to the artillery establishment, because after all, they are always protected by other troops, and everyone's face is a little unbearable.

However, how could the military department in China, which was responsible for the establishment of troops and other matters, agree to such a whimsical suggestion.

If all the arms do this, then it would be good to divide the arms into a fart and mix them up directly, and let each small hill become an independent warlord by itself.

The higher authorities disagreed, but the people in the artillery unit still did not give up the idea of arming their own team and being able to stand up to it at a critical moment.