Outside Xiangyang City, there was a large camp of Ming army on a high platform of more than five meters high.

Zhu Qizhu held the telescope and scanned the city walls in the distance over and over again, constantly thinking in his mind.

This Xiangyang City is indeed a world-class city. It is really difficult to conquer it.

If they used the method of attacking small county towns in the front, first used cannons to collapse the city gate, and then rushed in, that would be a death!

Because there are urns in all six gates on all sides of Xiangyang City, urns are specially designed to deal with this tactic of breaking the city gate.

If you just break the city gate outside and rush in, it's no different from seeking death. The city gate is like a jar, surrounded by a city wall that is more than ten meters high, and there is a huge pit in the middle. It can't be filled with many people when they enter. The defenders on the city walls around can kill everyone in the city even if they throw huge rocks down!

If you want to take down such a city with a urn city, there is no way to break the city gate. Only by directly attacking the city wall from outside can you have hope.

Problem, it is not ordinary to attack the city wall, because Xiangyang City has a moat, and the width of the moat is about a hundred steps, and he has tried the water depth, at least ten meters deep. Moreover, the moat in Xiangyang City is connected to the Han River, which is living water. It is basically impossible to fill the moat!

In other words, if you want to attack the city wall, you can only walk through several narrow stone bridges in the moat, and the stone bridge is still broken near the city gate, and only if the suspension bridge opposite is placed down can you pass through.

How can such a solid city be destroyed?

To be honest, even Sun Chuanting, who has been through many battles, has a headache when he sees such a city.

You know, the Mongol Yuan, who was so powerful that he swept across the Eurasian continent, took more than 30 years to capture this heroic city. It can be seen how terrifying the city defense of Xiangyang City is.

Zhu Qizhe frowned and pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "When will the navy warship arrive?"

Ning Choudan hurriedly bowed and said, "It should be possible to arrive tomorrow morning."

Zhu Qizhuo nodded slightly and then ordered: "Boya, I ordered the Southwest Army to build more well railings and siege ladders. The well railings must be higher than the city wall, and they are lined up as wide as the east wall. How many things need to be built? You can estimate for yourself. If you want to build five thousand siege ladders first."

After observing for two days, he decided to launch an attack from the east of Xiangyang City.

Because the city wall on the south side of Xiangyang City was almost built on the river, there was not much room for foothold under the city wall. Even if the infantry rushed over, the defenders on the city wall could destroy them by throwing some rolling stones, wood, tincture oil, etc. down.

The west and south sides of Xiangyang City are all mountainous areas, and the army cannot spread. Only there is enough place to launch the siege army in the east side of Xiangyang City. Moreover, there is about a hundred steps between the Han River and the city wall on the east side of Xiangyang City, so there is not much problem with the siege infantry.

It can be said that the east side is the only loophole in Xiangyang’s city defense.

Of course, this small loophole is not worth mentioning in the previous battles dominated by cold weapons, because the gap of more than a hundred steps can accommodate up to 20,000 people, and the rain of arrows on the city wall can completely cover this area.

If you are using cold weapons to attack the city, there is a city wall that is more than ten meters high in front and a Han River that is more than ten meters deep behind. There is still constant rain of arrows above your head. Moreover, the stone bridge in this direction has been destroyed and you can't even retreat. Is it useful to rush over 20,000 people and horses?

Not just delivering food to people!

Of course, if there are muskets and cannons, it is different.

As for how to attack the city, Zhu Qituo did not explain it. He just ordered 80,000 Southwest Army to quickly build a well railing and siege ladder, and ordered the Pingdong Army, Pingxi Army, and Pingnan Army to build a temporary dock for wheel boats from the southeast corner of Xiangyang City to build a row of temporary docks on the east bank of the Han River, and then there was no other action.

This time, he mobilized 500 wheel boats, but most of these wheel boats were under Zheng Chenggong, Qi Yuanfu and Qi Yuanbi. Moreover, these wheel boats had the task of transporting food and grass from the East, so the army had surrounded Xiangyang City, and these wheel boats had not arrived yet.

Fortunately, the next morning, Zheng Chenggong led the group of wheel boats over in a mighty manner.

This guy, five hundred wheel boats lined up on the river for dozens of miles long. Moreover, each wheel boat was shakyly equipped with three artillery guns, and ten navy soldiers holding muskets were stationed. No matter what force saw it, they would be frightened and silent. As for the small sailboats and fishing boats under Zhang Xianzhong, the journey was basically cleaned up by Zheng Chenggong.

When it comes to water power, no one can compare with their Zheng family at this moment, and no one can compare with Zhu Qizhuo.

When the navy warship was in place, the red vessels began to move.

Early on the third morning, he ordered the Imperial Guards, Pingdong Army, Pingxi Army, Annan Army and other eight corpses to assemble all the tiger squat artillery on the east bank of the Han River outside the east gate of Xiangyang City and lined up a dense array of artillery formations.

This guy, more than three thousand tiger squatting cannons, went to the row, and Ma Yuanli in the city was frightened.

What is the situation? Why are there so many artillery in the Crazy King?

Although the tiger squat cannon is not big, it is also an artillery. Although the range is not far, it is about one mile. He can't reach others at all, okay?

He could only watch as he lined up the cannons in a neat manner, densely packed manner, and then prepared to eat shells!

Zhu Qizhuo failed to kill more than 3,000 cannons fired at the same time, which was too wasteful of shells. The city wall on the east side of Xiangyang City was only more than four miles wide and less than five miles wide. More than 500 tiger squat cannons were enough to cover the entire east side of the city wall. There was no need for more than 3,000 cannons to cover it.

Moreover, this day was just a test fire, and he did not allow more than 3,000 artillery pieces to take turns to fire.

On the third day, he ordered more than 10,000 artillery soldiers to carefully calculate, adjust the shooting angle and lead length, and strive to make every shell fall on the top of the city wall and explode in the air above the heads.

On this day, Ma Yuanli was so bad that the army under the Crazy King was like a slumber of water. From time to time, they would come to a volley for no reason, and then stop for a cup of tea or even an incense stick. Suddenly, another volley was fired again. The fragments of iron splashed around made them mess with them and couldn't hide anywhere. They could only find a way to block everything in front of them and then shrink into the corner of the wall.

In desperation, he could only order people to go to the city to remove the door panels of ordinary people's houses, move the city walls, lean against the corners of both sides, and then order all the soldiers guarding the city to shrink down, so that they can be considered temporarily safe.

However, when he put out the panel array, four or five thousand soldiers had been scratched by broken iron pieces.

Fortunately, he had 50,000 soldiers under his command, otherwise, the intermittent psychopathic bombardment alone would make them lose their combat effectiveness!

At this time, Ma Yuanli was already panicked. He really didn't know what other tricks the Crazy King would do.
Chapter completed!