As the distance between the shield cars of the Qing army was shortened, the accuracy of the artillery fire at the head of the city became higher, and one after another shells smashed into the shape of the shield convoy, and the shield cars that were shot burst and shattered one after another, as if the clay pots concentrated by the hammer were cracked, and the wooden planks flew sideways, and the Qing soldiers behind were smashed by the cannonballs and splashed blood, and the broken limbs and flesh were scattered all over the ground, and they all fell down screaming. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before approaching the moat, more than 20 shield carts were destroyed, more than 100 Qing soldiers died under the artillery of the Ming army, and more people were injured, but they were injured by shells in this era, and they were helpless.

Sun Yanling looked at the broken shield carts everywhere, the corpses and wounded soldiers all over the ground, and gasped: "There are too many cannons in the Ming Dynasty, right?" Before they even reached the moat, the casualties were so big. ”

Kong Sizhen sneered: "Ben Gege can still afford this casualty!" ”

Fu Honglie said: "I have heard for a long time that this king is good at offense and defense, and now when I see it, it really deserves its reputation!" ”

Kong Sizhen said with a straight face: "Originally, Wang Wei was only good at attacking and defending cities, but in the first battle of Zhejiang and the first battle of Zhangzhou, Wang Wei could also fight with our army in the field battle!" ”

Fu Honglie turned around and arched his hand and said: "Gege, this Wang Wei won in Zhejiang, not because of how powerful the field battle was, but because he was advancing step by step, steadily advancing, and using the night decisive battle, this is the victory!" Most of our army have night blindness, but this Wang Yi doesn't know what means he used, and his soldiers don't have night blindness. ”

"You said that Wang Wei won the night battle in Zhejiang, but what about Zhangzhou? Also a night fight? Kong Sizhen asked.

Fu Honglie knelt down on one knee and snorted: "Back to Gege, Geng Jimao and Li Shutai in Zhangzhou were scared by Wang Ying!" In the battle in Fujian, these two people have been defeated repeatedly, nine times out of ten, and their morale has long been gone, so how can they win? ”

When Kong Sizhen and the others were talking, the shield cart of the Qing army had already advanced to the obstacle under the city. Under the city wall, there are many deer barricades and wooden stakes, which can block the advance of siege vehicles.

However, the Qing soldiers did not stop, but directly poured the sandbags on the car into the middle of the wooden stake and the deer.

"Tartar wants to repair Yuliang Road!" Yao Qisheng pointed to the Qing army busy outside the city and said.

The so-called fish beam road is to describe the backbone that looks like a fish. It was a very effective siege method by piling up a passage above the ground under the walls of earth and sandbags, which could be laid all the way to the head of the city. As long as the Yuliang Road is completed, the Qing army can directly rush to the city with cavalry.

The construction of Yuliang Road requires a large number of auxiliary soldiers and people, as well as a large number of shield vehicles, which is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, and cannot be completed in one day, and takes a long time. During this period, once the defenders go out of the city to counterattack, they can easily destroy Yuliang Road, so that the attackers will lose all their efforts.

The Qing army built Yuliang Road to attack, but the Ming army had many artillery.

More than 20 shield carts transporting sandbags were destroyed halfway through, and it was only after they reached the obstacle that they collapsed. When the shield wagon unloaded the sandbags and retreated, it was chased by shells and suffered losses again. The Qing army's shield vehicles lost more than 20 shield vehicles and more than 200 casualties in each round of advance.

Although the losses were very large, under the supervision of Kong Sizhen, the Qing army's auxiliaries and Minzhuang went forward one after another, and they came up in batches, and they fell under the city in pieces.

The corpses and the damaged shield carts were thrown under the obstacles, and the Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang piled sandbags directly on them, and these corpses and damaged shield carts were also turned into materials for the construction of Yuliang Road.

The Qing army went back and forth ten times, killed and wounded more than 2,000 people, lost more than 200 shield carts, and only advanced the Yuliang Road less than 100 paces.

"It's a big loss! Before even the moat arrived, more than 2,000 people were lost! How many lives will it take to pile this up to the top of the city! Sun Yanling was shocked by the magnitude of the losses.

This is still fifty steps from the moat, and it is closer to the head of the city, and the fire at the head of the city has become denser and more accurate, and it is estimated that there will be 2,000 dead and wounded at these fifty paces of the moat. Fill in the moat, and I don't know how many dead and wounded it will be, and when the moat is filled, it will be piled up under the city......

It is estimated that by the time the Qing soldiers can reach the top of the city, the auxiliaries and the people will have at least more than 10,000 casualties!

Kong Sizhen said ruthlessly: "If you want to become a great tool, how can you have the kindness of a woman!" The auxiliaries and the people are all dead, and they will recruit another batch, are they still afraid that there will be no one? ”

Wang Yongnian stepped forward and flattered: "What Gege said is extremely true! As long as our Yuliang Road is paved to the head of the city, it will be the day when the King of the Sea Kou will give the head of the king! The world-beating achievement of killing the puppet thief Wang Rebellion is just around the corner! ”

In those days, when there was a war, the lives of the auxiliaries and the people were really not valuable, and they didn't feel distressed to die. Moreover, the auxiliaries and the people were not afraid that their defeat would cause a rout, they did not belong to the ranks of the soldiers in the first place, and they were not in the formation during the field battle. When the siege was still the time of the pass, the soldiers were fighting them with knives in the back. As for the auxiliary soldiers and the people who are strong, they can be arrested again, anyway, there are many common people, and there are still a number of dead people.

After nightfall, the Qing army stood guard outside the city to prevent the Ming army from going out of the city at night to destroy Yuliang Road.

Wang Xinyu in the city also rejected Jiang Zhiping's proposal to let him lead his troops to attack at night and destroy the Qing army's Yuliang Road. Because it is easy to get out of the city, it is difficult to go back to the city after destroying Yuliang Road. And Wang Xinyu doesn't want to go to a decisive battle with Kong Sizhen too early now, he wants to use the city wall as much as possible to consume Kong Sizhen's troops. He had received reliable information that behind Kong Sizhen, there would be a Qing army coming.

The Ming army used the city wall to hold back the Qing army, and when the main force of the frontal attack took Guangzhou, the two armies could meet and kill Xinhui City together, and the Qing army would naturally be defeated at that time.

For the whole night, there was no movement of the Ming army.

The next day, just after dawn, Kong Sizhen gave the order again to launch an attack on Xinhui City.

Sure enough, Sun Yanling said that the last fifty steps left from the moat, the advance of the Qing army became more difficult. As the distance closes, the firepower at the head of the city becomes more and more ferocious, and the artillery fire fired within a hundred steps is almost inmissible, and every shell fired can destroy a shield cart, causing many casualties among the Qing soldiers.

The solid shell smashed the shield cart, revealing the Qing army auxiliaries and people in the back.

The muskets, bows and arrows, and small cannons loaded with shotguns at the head of the city mercilessly spilled projectiles and arrows, flying arrows like locusts and lead bullets raining down, and groups of Qing army auxiliaries and people fell on the road of advance screaming.

The Qing army also sent bird guns and archers to press forward and shoot at the city with bows and arrows; Behind the Qing army, the tiger squat cannon and the small cannon of the Franc machine pushed up and fired shells at the head of the city, trying to suppress the firepower of the defenders at the head of the city.

Under the blows of the Qing army's birds, bows and arrows, and artillery, the Ming army at the head of the city began to suffer casualties.

"Give me a hard beating! Suppress the Tartar's ranged weapons! Wang Xinyu gave an order to the artillerymen.

The artillery of various calibers at the head of the city, as well as the mortar cannons arranged in the city, spit out fire one after another, and rows of shells fell on the crowd of Qing troops. The solid shells ploughed deep trenches in the ground, and the shells bounced off the hard ground, and the flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers hit by the shells flew sideways. The flowering shells fired by the mortar artillery fell in the crowd of long-range shooters of the Qing army, exploding a ball of fire, and sharp shrapnel flew horizontally, overturning a large number of Qing soldiers.

At the same time, the three fortresses in the frontal direction of the Qing army's attack also opened fire, and the firing holes of the three forts spewed out tongues of fire one after another, and bullets shot out of the firing holes and pierced into the crowd of Qing troops.

On the top of the fortress, behind the battlements at the head of the city, the Ming stragglers equipped with rifled guns also kept sticking out of the muzzles of the black holes from the shooting holes at the battlements. These rifled guns, which are extremely accurate, shoot at a distance of a hundred paces, are simply gun-to-flesh, and every bullet fired can hit a person.

The Qing army paid a heavy price, not only suffering more than 2,000 casualties among auxiliaries and civilians, but also more than 400 casualties among archers, bird gunners and gunners. At such a tragic price, the Qing army's Yuliang Road actually advanced less than ten steps!

The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in Dingnan Wangfu was originally Kong Youde's Tianyou Army, and it was the most elite Wuzhen Chaoha firearms soldier in the Later Jin Dynasty, with a very high firearms equipping rate, and it was an elite army with semi-firearms. However, when this Han Eighth Banner Army encountered the Qiongzhou Army, it had no number of firearms, but it was crushed by the Qiongzhou Army in terms of quality. What's more, the Qiongzhou army was also protected by the city wall, shooting condescendingly, and in the counter-shooting, the Qing army's losses were much greater than that of the Ming army.

Ten steps, a distance of only ten steps, made the Qing army pay more than 2,000 casualties, the corpses on the ground have been piled up more than two feet high, and the blood-soaked soil has turned black and brown, which is shocking.

The casualties of the auxiliaries and the people were so heavy that those auxiliaries and the people did not dare to step forward again. It is impossible for the Qing army to cut down all the auxiliaries and Minzhuang, cut them all, who will transport food, who will build fortifications, and who will build siege tools? But after cutting a few people, there was no way to get them to come forward and attack the city.

"Gege, we've lost too much! This Wang Rebellion is indeed good at defending the city! It's not a way for us to fight like this! Not to mention the auxiliaries, I'm afraid that when we reach the top of the city, even the soldiers will be gone! Fu Honglie proposed.

Kong Sizhen looked around and asked, "Then tell me, how should we attack the city?" ”

Ma Xiong offered a plan: "Gege, there will be a way in the end!" The last general once heard that during the battle in Zhejiang, both the enemy and us dug trenches, built earthen cities, and advanced steadily. In addition, I heard that the king was also good at building mounds to block the artillery fire at the head of the city, advancing steadily, and then erecting cannons on top of the mound to bombard the city. ”

Kong Sizhen immediately understood how to fight, so she ordered the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang to dig a trench in front of the battle, and pile the excavated soil in front. At the same time, another group of auxiliaries and people were sent to fetch earth and fill sandbags, followed behind the gradually higher mounds, and piled sandbags on them, using this trench excavation method to get close to the city wall.

"The Tartars have changed their tactics again! They imitated the trenching method of their own domain! Wang Xinyu pointed to the Qing army hiding in the trench under the city and digging with their heads in.

"I don't know if the marshal has any good strategies to crack this siege technique?" Yao Qisheng asked.

"Let them dig! Digging in front of the moat, I don't believe they can still hide in the trench and dig! Sooner or later they will show their heads and shoot at us! As long as we shoot at us, we are not afraid of them! Wang Xinyu sneered.

The water of the Xinhui moat is all entered from the river, and it is impossible to be led away at all. If the Qing army's trench dug in front of the moat and continued to dig forward, the water of the moat would backflow and flood the trench. Therefore, when the Qing army dug in front of the moat, they could only open their heads and open fire.

Wang Xinyu's trench excavation method was based on the suppression of opponents by firearms. The trench excavation method only protects one's firearms units from attack when advancing, especially to protect mortars.

The Qing army was far inferior to the Qiongzhou army in terms of firearms, but they had to follow the example of the east and adopt the trench excavation method, and in the end they still couldn't even cross the moat.

As the situation turned out to be the case, the Qing army's trenches were about to reach the moat, and they had to stop, pile up mounds, show their heads behind the mounds, and shoot arrows at the Ming troops at the head of the city.

The Ming army had already taken precautions, and when the Qing army's bird gunners and archers came up, the bullets at the head of the city rained down, and a row of bullets was hit, and the mounds set off bursts of flying sand and stones, and the Qing soldiers who had just emerged and shot arrows at the head of the city immediately suffered countless casualties. Especially rifled gunners, as soon as the Qing soldiers show their heads, a deadly bullet whizzes away.

The bastions protruding from the outside of the city walls played a great role. The fort is about one zhang protruding, the width of the moat is only six zhang wide, the trench of the Qing army is dug to five zhang away from the moat, the fort is only about thirty steps away from the Qing soldiers, so close to the distance, the smoothbore gun in the fort can hit the target.

Above and below the city, muskets roared, feathered arrows flew around, and both sides used their weapons to shoot at each other.

The Ming army had superior weapons and terrain, and the Qing army suffered a lot of losses.

Kong Sizhen, who was red-eyed, finally waited for the Hongyi cannons, and these heavy cannons were transported slowly and fell far behind the team. The Qing army had been attacking for several days before the heavy artillery arrived under the city like a turtle crawling.

Seeing the arrival of the Hongyi cannon, Kong Sizhen couldn't wait to push the cannon up and prepare to launch an artillery bombardment on Xinhui.

"The Tartars seem to have brought the Hongyi cannon." The observation post left at the head of the city reported to Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu walked up to the city, picked up the telescope and looked at the Qing army camp, only to see the figures in the Qing army camp shaking, and a large number of Qing army gunners pushed the heavy Hongyi cannon in the direction of the city wall.

"The Hongyi cannons of the Tartars can bombard our city walls from three miles away, and at such a distance, it is difficult for our smoothbore cannons to destroy the cannons of the Tartars. Fortunately, this domain has been prepared! Wang Xinyu didn't pay attention to the Qing army's Hongyi cannon at all.

Those heavy cannons were originally a kind of naval guns, and the barrels were too heavy and the transportation was very slow. Moreover, the Qing army in Guangxi did not make two-wheeled artillery carriages like the Qiongzhou Army or the Huguang New Army, but still installed four small wheels on the gun carriage, which was too slow to transport and extremely inconvenient to move.

And now, Wang Xinyu still has a secret weapon at hand that can restrain the Hongyi cannon! (To be continued.) )