Fengsheng destroyed ninety percent of the bridges in the Baihe River and Desheng River basins in western Changzhou, not only wooden bridges, but also solid stone bridges. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Bridges were blown up or burned by the Qing soldiers, in one sentence: only they didn't have time to destroy, there was nothing they didn't want to destroy.

Therefore, in the face of Changzhou City, which is sandwiched between Jiangyin and the Fuhan army, which is just blocking the Fu Han army east of Taihu Lake, the first thing the Fu Han army has to do is to build a bridge.

In the Battle of Changzhou, in the land of water towns, there were so many troops on both sides, it was impossible for Chen Ming to only march and transfer materials from the westernmost rumbling army.

It's March, and the spring flowers are fragrant, which is a good season in the south of the Yangtze River. Being in the water town, the whole line of sight is as clean as if it has been washed with water. The villages in the distance are clearly recognizable, with white Jiangnan houses, blue and black house tiles, and willow trees with tender leaves by the river, Jiangnan in this era is really beautiful.

In the spring breeze, the large force of the Han army arrived outside the city of Changzhou, and the artillery position was the first to be built, and the entire garrison division was sent by Chen Ming to help build the artillery position. This is an unprecedentedly powerful artillery position, and Chen Ming also asked Huang Jie to lead tens of thousands of subordinates to belong to the Third Division to guard the safety of the artillery position.

Three hundred and ten five-pound guns, one hundred and twenty eight-pound guns, eighty ten-pound guns, and thirty of the most powerful twelve-pound guns.

A total of six artillery positions of the Fu Han army were arranged, completely covering the western city wall of Changzhou and the out-of-town positions in the northwest corner of the city. Compared with this powerful artillery, the artillery positions arranged by the Qing army at the head of the city and on the position are so unbearable.

"This battle will shatter the confidence of the Qing soldiers!" Chen Ming made this request for this campaign.

Tunnel warfare must not be allowed to become an obstacle in the way of blocking the offensive of the Fu Han army. In the battle of Changzhou, Chen Ming wanted to release a message to the whole world - tunnel warfare was a method used by the Fu Han army, and the Fu Han army could stop the Qing army with tunnel warfare, but the Qing army could not stop the Fu Han army with tunnel warfare!

"To put it simply, we are going to use artillery to completely annihilate the Qing army."

"In this battle, in addition to flowering bullets, we also have special bullets; In addition to special bullets, there are also splint cars! ”

"Let's use the Battle of Changzhou and the seventy or eighty thousand Qing troops here to test our ability to overcome dangers." Hundreds of cannons, this is a powerful firepower that the Fu Han army has never had, Chen Ming wants to test the power of cluster artillery. Even if the power of the shells of this era is far from comparable to that of 100 years later.

Chen Ming not only wanted to solve Changzhou cleanly, but also wanted to rely on the Battle of Changzhou to sum up a set of tactics for attacking the tough system. Just like in the bayonet battle, the triangular formation became the first choice of the Fu Han army, so what should they do in the battle? Can we only fight at night and dig during the day?

Considering the inconvenience of the shield car, he deliberately asked the logistics department to make an improved plywood car. First of all, this plywood car is much lighter than the shield car in terms of weight, and secondly, compared to the heavy and difficult shield car in terms of speed, it is one in the sky and one on the ground. Of course, the defense of the plywood car is not comparable to that of the shield car.

The shield cart can carry the cannonballs, and the high-quality shield carts will not even be fine if they are hit by small cannons, and even if they are hit by the cannonballs, they can be used as reliable cover. The plywood is made of red pine wood, which is light and hard, and easy to process. Chen Ming's proposed car should be fast and sturdy, and red pine wood became the first choice for the logistics department.

In addition, the reason why the car is called a plywood car is because the deck of the car is not a simple red pine, but a red pine chip with silk cotton.

The silk cotton is used as a cotton armor method, beaten piece by piece with a hydraulic forging hammer, and then attached to the barbed wire, clamped with red pine chips, and finally fixed with iron nails inside and outside, the wall of the car is only two fingers thick, but it can resist the bombardment of the gun and the small-caliber artillery fifty paces away, but the shells to resist the cannon are far from enough. If this nimble plywood car is really hit by a cannon, it will only end up being destroyed and killed.

A simple musket cannot be pierced even if it is only ten paces apart. Grenades can withstand it, and so can shotguns!

Compared to the previous shield vehicles, the former is a medium and heavy tank, and the latter is an armored vehicle.

There are three kinds of large, medium and small plywood cars, the large one is four-wheeled, the medium-sized one is two-wheeled, and the small one is unicycle-shaped. Even for the heaviest large plywood car, two people can push the car on the flat road, because as the guarantee of the speed of the car, its wheels and bearings are the best Chinese skills of this era, and only two people need to push it on the flat ground.

Not to mention medium- and small-sized plywood trucks.

The three types of large, medium and small plywood trucks are a cover, and the latter two are more convenient. It's an improved shield car with severely reduced protection, but also a much faster one. Chen Ming expected them to be able to cover the attacking forces, such as the mortar and thunder artillery units, and quickly approach the front of the enemy's tunnels.

And the special bomb, Gao Yanming's 'inspiration', looked absurd, but Chen Ming felt that this kind of shell was used well, and it could really have a surprising effect. The current battle of Changzhou can be a test.

At the head of Changzhou City, Yin Jishan and Feng Sheng's forehead were dumbfounded when they looked at the artillery positions outside. This number was completely beyond their imagination, and a large number of infantry of the Fu Han army set up two defensive positions around it, and the Qing army could not succeed even if it used all its horse teams to sneak attack.

Inside and outside the city of Changzhou, the morale of the Qing army that followed Feng Sheng's attack on Danyang was already very low, but as soon as it was saved by the silver and wine brought by Yin Jishan, it was like beating chicken blood in an instant, and it regained its strength. But this momentum came and went quickly, when the cannons of the Fu Han army were placed in front of them, and the Fu Han army outside the city was neighing over the cannons for a whole morning, the Qing army in Changzhou was like being put into a bowl of blood, empty, wilted. No matter how much silver was sprinkled before the abundance of money, it would not be used.

Not to mention Duan Xiulin and other Han soldiers under him, even the Eight Banner generals such as Fuchun, Ayintu, and Changling have lost their energy.

The disparity between the two sides was too great, and the Fu Han army really took out hundreds of cannons at once, not to mention the Qing army, but Blanco and the Portuguese artillery under him were dumbfounded. At this time, Europe had just ended the Seven Years' War and had not yet entered the Napoleonic Wars, and the European Army's emphasis on artillery was far from comparable to that of Napoleon. For more than 500 cannons to be assembled in a war, Blanco seems as incredible as the Arabian Nights.

You can't do anything, it's a waste of military power, it's better to retract your fists and think about the future. Before the battle began, the sound of withdrawal of troops sounded inside the Qing army in Changzhou City. With more than 500 cannons and the battle of Danyang a few days ago, Feng Shengyi and Yin Jishan couldn't suppress this agitation.

"Sergeant, let your men fire a cannon and see if you can hit the city gatehouse!" Chen Ming inspected the artillery position, and his eyes were also looking at the Qing army opposite, compared to the morale of the front army of the Han army yesterday evening, today's Qing army is undoubtedly weaker. This morning, the Fu Han army was busy putting the artillery in place, and the morale of the Qing army was always declining. On the No. 2 artillery position directly west of Changzhou City, Chen Ming, who was looking at Changzhou City with a playful smile, asked the artillery team at hand that had just completed its position to fire a few cannons and listen to the sound.

"All artillery crews are in place!" The sergeant officer gave the order, and after a while, the gunners of this artillery team were busy, and they untied the waterproof cannons covered by the cannons, and quickly loaded the shells.

"No. 1 gun position, put!" The sergeant gave the order.

The artillery on the first gun position has been loaded. Each cannon here is also covered by a rain canopy. It's against the sudden rain of God!

The cannon made a deafening rumbling sound, a flowering bullet flew over Chen Ming's head, and there was a roar, and the place where the flowering bullet fell, a little to the left of the gatehouse of the west city of Changzhou, was hitting the wall, and a ball of flames exploded at the landing point, and billowing gunpowder smoke came out.

Six twelve-pound cannons roared in front of Chen Ming in turn, and Chen Ming saw that the morale of the Qing army on the opposite side shook like a flame blown by a strong wind. And the position of the Fu Han army suddenly sounded the cheers of the soldiers, and their morale was boosted, like a fire pouring oil, and they were cheering for these six cannon shots.

"Let the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 artillery positions organize the artillery that has been placed in place and open fire on Changzhou." Chen Ming didn't wait any longer, and immediately passed the order.

There are already a lot of cannons in place, so the fight is, although God has a gloomy face in the morning. Chen Ming originally planned to organize a firepower bombardment of Changzhou at noon, but when he saw that the sky was about to change, he hurriedly asked people to build a rainproof shelter on the artillery position, which delayed a lot of time and delayed the shelling now. There are many people up and down the Fu Han army who joke that God is pitying the Qing soldiers, but I don't know how many Fu Han officers and soldiers still have a little bit of unhappiness in their hearts.

Pan Mancang was lying bored on his bed, and this village outside Changzhou had become their camp. So far, the entire army has been busy with the placement of artillery, and their infantry have either been encamped or directly placed in the surrounding villages. These villages are also natural strongholds!

Some of the people of the village fled, but some remained. For example, in this village now, the Fu Han army has moved all the remaining villagers to the north of the village.

The soldiers in the room were wrestling poker, and after the game was invented, it quickly spread inside and outside the Fu Han army. Of course, Chen Ming has also done some processing on this to give poker a more Chinese color.

For example, the big and small kings became kings and queens, and JQK became the generals. This kind of game is more contagious than the leaf play, and Chen Ming himself has developed so many 'gameplay'. Chen Ming himself likes to play double promotion the most, but he also handed it over to the people around him, and then it spread very quickly.

Soldiers like to bet two. But there are exceptions, Pan Mancang doesn't like to gamble. He hopes that this battle will start sooner than gambling. The six cannons just now made him almost jump up with joy.

Until three o'clock in the afternoon, the rain had not yet fallen, and the artillery positions of the Fu Han army had begun to prepare for firing. Not only the four artillery positions of No. 1234, but also the two artillery positions of No. 5 and No. 6 were also added, and the artillery teams that had been arranged opened fire in unison.

"Let go ......" with an order. The rumbling cannon sound resounded through the sky and earth in an instant.

Pan Mancang climbed onto the roof, not only he climbed on the roof, many people climbed on the roof, and the remaining people in this village, from the beginning of being frightened by the cannon, to later pointing in the direction of Changzhou City, a few and a half children directly hugged the big tree with their skills, and climbed high and high.

Everyone was watching the power of the artillery swarm. The sound of hundreds of cannons is earth-shattering. The firelight stained the sky red, and clouds of gunpowder quickly covered the position, and from a distance it looked like a sea of clouds.

(To be continued.) )