The next morning, Ming Hao, Wang Xin, Mai Yunyan, Wang Kai and other major generals, and of course, the newly arrived Zouma, Li Jihe, and Du Zhongxiao, circled the city and checked the situation.

Seeing that he returned to the south of the city and pointed to the restoration of Qucheng not far away, Minghao said to Du Zhongxiao: "Last time, I got the opportunity by the demon thief in the city and burned Qucheng, but this thing did not make a great contribution. A few days ago, the junior school student Liu Zun offered his plans. The officers and soldiers attacked the North City Gate and dug tunnels in the South City. After the tunnel was dug through, they selected elite troops to sneak into the city from the tunnel and seized the city gate. At that time, they took advantage of the demon thief in the city to be unprepared and did not have to seize the city gate. The officers and soldiers could also climb from Qucheng to the city."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "The trick of beating east and attacking west may lead to great achievements."

While talking, Du Zhongxiao stopped his horse and looked up at the head of Beizhou City not far away. Beizhou was just as the Khitan went south to the main road, the city was solid, the defense system was complete, and the horse-faced urn city was complete. The west of the city was Yongji Canal, and there was a water gate entering the city. The officers and soldiers surrounded it from the north and south sides, mainly attacking the north and south sides.

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The outside of the city gate is a horse face, and the inside of the city gate is a urn. The horse face blocks the front of the city gate. From any angle, the cannon cannot hit the city gate. Not to mention the cannon, the design of the horse face blocks all direct-firing weapons, and also prevents the siege troops from attacking the city gate from the front, but can only approach from both sides of the city gate. During the approach, they will be attacked by the defenders on both walls and cannot receive firepower support. Even if they are lucky enough to enter the city gate, they will face a dead place like the urn, which will last forever.

When siegeing the city, building a siege gate directly is actually a way to kill the siege. To take the city gate, you must first capture a section of the city wall next to it to open a safe passage for the troops entering the city. Only by occupying part of the city wall can it be meaningful to open the city gate.

After seeing the situation in the area of ​​Nancheng, Du Zhongxiao asked Ming Hao: "I don't know when the truth will be dug through?"

Minghao said: "We were invisible, and the demon thief in the city did not notice it at all. In another five or six days, we could dig into the city."

Du Zhongxiao sighed inwardly. Five days later, it was a little late. Today, I was in the fifth day of the lunar month. I still didn’t know if I could succeed. There was a deadline for Shangyuan Festival. How could I afford it? As long as there was a slight mistake, I would be in vain.

After thinking about it, Du Zhongxiao said to Ming Hao: "I advise you, and the officials think that now that you have cannons, you can still find a way from Qucheng."

Minghao actually didn't know how to use the cannon. He didn't believe that the city walls of Beizhou could collapse. Seeing Du Zhongxiao said there was a way, he was happy and asked hurriedly: "What's the plan for the bachelor? Just tell me, let's discuss it together. If you can break the city, you will be the first achievement!"

Du Zhongxiao waved his hand: "If you have no achievements, don't talk about these things. The first priority is to attack the city as soon as possible. Please look at the city wall near the south gate, because there are no officers and soldiers on the west side, there are only 10 or 20 demon thieves patrolling the city at the top of the city, and there are not many troops. In order to prevent us from climbing the city from here, the demon thieves built several battle sheds on the city wall-"

"The demon thieves called the battle shed "Xi Xiangfeng", which is similar to the Qucheng we built. They saw how high the Qucheng outside the city was built, and how many achievements they built were to fight against each other. This thing is the most hateful. When Qucheng was approaching the city wall, they used rockets and even torches to burn the nearby Qucheng from "Xi Xiangfeng". Last time, they suffered this loss and Qucheng was built in vain."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao asked, "I heard that there are iron cannons in the army, but I wonder if I have used cannons to hit the war shed?"

Ming Hao said: "The Grand Marshal of the God Guards once offered this plan to use artillery to attack the battle shed. However, it was far away from the city and was from bottom to top. The artillery was not accurate enough and was of little use. Even if the artillery collapsed the battle shed, the demon thief built it again before the officers and soldiers approached."

Du Zhongxiao looked at Wang Kai on the side, and Wang Kai said, "I tried it with cannons a few times, but the battle shed was made of bamboo and wood, so it was difficult to collapse. The monster thief had prepared wood and it was quickly rebuilt, and it was not very useful."

Du Zhongxiao asked, "I don't know how to use cannons in the army? Have you gathered all the cannons together and fired them together?"

Wang Kai shook his head: "That's not. Bachelor, is there any difference?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Of course there are differences. The cannon volley is much more powerful than the single-scattered cannons."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao bowed to Ming Hao: "Ask the advice, the officials suggested that all the artillery in the army be transferred today, and the cannons brought by the officials will be destroyed together, and the enemy towers west of the city gate will be destroyed. Let the demon thieves know that they are powerful and boost the morale of the army."

Minghao couldn't imagine it at this time. Du Zhongxiao had a suggestion and naturally obeyed. He nodded and asked again: "What's next? How to get into the city?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "First sweep away the enemy troops on the walls of the west of the city gate, then use cannons to suppress them and climb the city with Qucheng. Then we move the cannons to the east, seal the way for the demon thieves to support the city gate, and attack the city in one go!"

Ming Hao was skeptical and could not imagine what the scene was, but he always had to give it a try and nodded in agreement.

After seeing the city wall, everyone returned to the coach's tent and discussed the next battle.

Ming Hao ordered each general to immediately transfer all the artillery assigned to each army under the southern city wall and wait for Du Zhongxiao's orders. He also ordered Wang Kai to select 500 elite troops from the Divine Guard Army, and to use five commanders as the capital, and set up another general to command the city from Qucheng to the unified command. Wang Xin's troops were concentrated outside the south gate, and waited for the city gate to open and attacked the city from the south gate. The remaining troops of Hao Zhi and others continued to attack north of the city.

The four armies of the imperial guards were on the Japanese army as cavalry, the Tianwu army as infantry, and the Palace Front Office was unified to command the commander of the commander of the four armies of the Pengri Tianwu. The Long Guard was the cavalry, the Cavalry, the Shenwei was the infantry, and the Infantry Department was under the Infantry Department, and the Unified to command the commander of the four armies of the Long Shenwei. The two armies of the Pengri Tianwu totaled about 30,000 people, half of each horse and stance, and the Dragon Guard and the Shenwei were similar. These six or seventy thousand troops were elite among the elites, and the small soldiers were small officers in other armies, not comparable to other armies. Both commanders were ranked as generals in the military and had a respectable status.

During the Battle of Dangxiang, the four upper armies were transferred to the northwest in large numbers. In addition, the main force stayed in the capital, Wang Kai only brought 3,000 people to Beizhou.

Minghao learned from the last time he entered the city, allowing the elite Divine Guards to enter the city, and carefully selected them so that they would no longer be commanded by grassroots officers.

Everything was ready, and it was already three o'clock in the sun. Each general left and commanded his troops. Ming Hao followed Li Jihe and Du Zhongxiao to come outside the south city to command the shelling.

There were more than 200 artillery pieces in the army, and at this time they were all concentrated at the southern city, which was spectacular.

Du Zhongxiao said to Ming Hao: "Ask him, these cannons should be arranged in several rows and attack the city in turn. Each row will send a general, with a flag as a trumpet. When the flag is raised, the cannon will be loaded, and when the flag falls, the officials will send people to adjust the cannons and blow off the battle sheds on the city one by one."

Minghao said: "No one here knows how to use cannons better than you. Even if you give orders, no one dares to refuse to obey."

After saying that, he called the small school in the gunman and asked them to obey Du Zhongxiao's instructions.

Du Zhongxiao asked the schoolmen to report their names and said, "All your cannons are divided into three rows, each with three steps apart. Each finger chooses a command, raises the flag as a command, and the flag is dropped and the flag is loaded. The first row starts, the second row, and the third row are next in sequence. When firing the cannons, the gunners must not rush to the top, and must be uniform. The more tidy, the reward will be given at night, and there will be wine and meat."

Everyone agreed.

Du Zhongxiao accused Minghao and brought several small schools to the gunners and divided the people into three rows. Although the iron cannons were not big, each door had to use three people, one was used to operate the cannon, one was loaded with gunpowder, and one was loaded with iron bullets. Du Zhongxiao was tested when he made the iron cannons in the Volcanic Army and did not have a gun stand. It was good to use it to defend the city, but when it was operated on the flat ground, it could only be placed on the ground and lifted the muzzle with a pile of soil, which was quite inconvenient to operate.

Three prestigious and convincing schools were selected, and they were asked to choose each one, dividing the gunners into three rows, staggering each other in front and back.

The flag is a command tool in the army, with all kinds of things. Du Zhongxiao chose three triangular red flags and distributed them to three primary schools, and said to them: "You will first perform your own subordinates, load the flags, and put them on fire, and make sure to be uniform!"

The three of them agreed with each other and called their gunners together to declare their constraints. At the beginning, they did not load gunpowder and projectiles, and they simulated the exercises there, trying to be neat. This matter was not easy. Du Zhongxiao watched it for a while and asked them to perform on their own and took Tao Shiqi to prepare the cannon.

The gunners were all looking at the huge cannon being pulled over by mules and horses, and their eyes were straightened. Unexpectedly, the cannon could still look like this. When they removed the mule, the cannon was on the cannon stand, and the gunner adjusted left and right, everyone felt that it was extremely novel.

It is best to use threads to adjust the height of the gun. It is just that time is urgent and it is not easy to make. It is too late. Du Zhongxiao can only use an iron plate with holes instead. The iron plate is fixed on the gun stand, and the gun body has a pin, and the pin is adjusted into the hole. This is a lot of trouble, and it cannot be adjusted steplessly, but it is only for use.

There are slide rails on the gun mount that can swing left and right slightly, without changing the gun position frequently, and fixing it with a sample and a pin.

The artillery has a gun mount. In addition to being convenient for adjustment, it can also transfer the recoil of the fire to the gun mount. Once the gun is fired, the gun mount will retreat, and the gunner can push the gun back to its original position in time, which is not as troublesome as a fixed gun position.
Chapter completed!