On the first day after the small-scale battle in the moat, the offense and defense sent people to restrain the bodies, but neither of them moved.

The next day, the defenders sent people to dig out the moat.

But this time it was not late at night, but during the day, it was a big fuss.

Obviously, the defenders had keenly noticed the weakness of the Venetta people, without artillery, too few cannon fodder troops, and lacked cavalry.

Therefore, there is no need to cover up the bell at night. Instead, the Venetta people can get close to the night.

Just work during the day, and the defenders on the city walls can clearly see the movements of the Vineta people.

The defenders seemed to be spreading their thighs and saying to the Venetta people: "Come on, come on, don't stop coming."

On the city wall, on the Half Moon Fort and Triangle Fort, the Union soldiers were waiting for battle. The cannons and muskets had been loaded, the crossbows had been skewed, and bundles of arrows were placed next to the crossbowman.

Obviously, if the Venetta people were willing to fight for the moat with lead and arrows, the Tacheng defenders were also very happy to exchange.

On the wall of Veneta, Leiden was so angry that he almost slapped the female wall. He cursed: "[Ambiguous swear words]! He was underestimated by the Tani! Send a brigade here! This time, XX killed them so that they dared not go out again!"

"If we send troops to kill the people in the moat, it may be the same as William Kidd's wish." Antonio smiled: "Roster [Leighton's name], who do you think there are people in the moat now?"

"Don't beat around the bush! You'll play puzzles with me every day, and it's so annoying that I can't stop talking!" Leiden didn't respond at all and glared at Antonio.

Antonio was not concerned at all. Obviously, he had been accustomed to the violent temper of his old classmates. He asked and answered himself: "William Kidd would never send his own soldiers out. I'm afraid there are miners who originally lived in Tacheng City. If we kill one more miner, he would have less food and drink. If we want to exchange the life of our soldiers with extra mouth, William Kidd is really a good deal."

"What should I do?" Leiden glared again.

Antonio's fingers rhythmically hit the wall of the female wall: "This is an open conspiracy. They were dispatched during the day to kill our commando more efficiently. You can see how far we are from the city wall now."

"About half a kilometer."

"This distance is already within the effective range of the artillery, not to mention that the Union's artillery is at a high level. Why don't the artillery on Half Moon Fort and Triangle Fort fire us? Why do you watch us build barriers to siege?"

Leiden's nostrils suddenly expanded and he angrily shouted: "I'm still playing the puzzle? You're endless, right?"

"Think, friends, think. The younger generations are watching, don't be so impatient."

"Get out."

Seeing that Layton was about to attack, Antonio patted his arm and explained: "The gunpowder in Tower City must not be sufficient. So the enemy is waiting for the opportunity to kill our army to the greatest extent, otherwise they would have bombarded us with cannons. We have few soldiers, so we can't waste it. William Kidd has few gunpowder, so we can't waste it. This kind of action is nothing more than luring us to get close to the city wall..."

"Stop talking nonsense, tell the conclusion." Layton said impatiently.

"What William Kidd wants us to do, but we don't do anything. We don't have cannons on hand now, and the enemy has little gunpowder, so it's not bad." Antonio clapped the dust on his hands: "There is no need to send troops to kill the miners in the moat. After the war last night, he was forced to leave the city to work. No one would work hard. And these miners who resent the Union may be of great use to us."

Layton's eyes were staring like a bull: "Then let's watch Tani strengthen the city defense?"

"Since William Kidd can send people to dig moats, we can also do civil engineering." Antonio said in a relaxed tone: "We will do whatever the enemy does. Anyway, we will never follow their plans and see who is afraid of whom."

In the afternoon of that day, when the defenders who had been on the wall of Tacheng for a morning began to get tired, the barriers of the Vineta people hundreds of meters away began to approach the wall.

The Union soldiers standing guard on Triangle Fort discovered the strangeness of the enemy opposite and hurriedly called their superiors. After several reports, William Kidd, the highest commander of the Tacheng defenders, came to Triangle Fort in front of the city gate - this is the closest position to the Vineta people's wall.

After careful observation for a while, Captain Kid finally understood what the Venetta was doing. He slapped the earth wall of Triangle Fort and cursed: "[The most vulgar swear words of the pirates]!"

Directly opposite the city gate and the Triangle Fort, the Venetta people opened a hole in the earthen wall and were building a corridor that was inclined at a 45-degree angle to the city gate-Triangle Fort-opening.

This is why the first sentry discovered reported that "the enemy's earth wall is approaching us."

On the side of Tacheng, the Tanillas are digging trenches to the sky.

However, outside the city, the people of Vinetta were also working on the walls in full swing.

The best defensive conditions for Tacheng City are not the city walls, but the foundation. The entire city is located on a large piece of volcanic rock, and the soil generated by the weathering of the rocks is blown to a lower terrain by strong sea breezes.

Therefore, the soil layer around the city is extremely thin, even so thin that it cannot be cultivated. Below the soil layer is hard volcanic rock. The siege can neither dig trenches close to the city wall nor destroy the city wall by tunnel blasting.

Siege troops must pass through the hard open land in front of the city wall. In this process, they will be completely exposed to the defenders' long-range firepower, and are killed by bouncing shells and flying leads, and arrows.

However, when people are forced to do anything, they can think of anything.

Sebastian Vobon, an engineer who was transferred to the road construction countermeasures headquarters, was called back to the front line of the besieged before he could even sit in the heat. Lieutenant Colonel Vobon, who was forced to the corner by two major generals, racked his brains to come up with an alternative: since he could not dig a trench, he would build a wall and build trenches on the surface.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Simply put, it is to build corridors on both sides of the walls. Although doing so is much more laborious than digging trenches, it is also the only way at present.

After hearing Vaubon’s plan, Leighton immediately made a decision: Just do it!

In Rost Leighton's eyes, "It's better to think about progressing than to stop." It's better to do something than to watch the enemy dig a trench.

However, this plan decided by the head is extremely operational, and after it is implemented, a large number of engineering problems arise.

First of all, this is to build a corridor under the enemy's eyelids. The enemy may tolerate the Venetta army besieged half a kilometer outside the city, but will never tolerate the Venetta army continuing to build a corridor close to the city.

There are natural barriers for digging trenches to block direct firepower, but wall repair is not good, and the construction efficiency of rammed earth walls is too slow.

While being bombarded by the enemy with cannons, while ramming the earth with a pier, no one has such a tough nerve.

Thanks to the fact that Wobon was quick to learn, he got inspiration from the engineering technology of dam construction and temporarily invented an innovative way of building walls.

Lieutenant Colonel Vaubon used local materials and woven a cage of roughly cylindrical shapes from the vines and flexible branches in the woods on the island. First, fill large pieces of gravel into the cage, then fill the gaps with small pieces of gravel, and finally press them tightly with soil.

Put the cage flat on the ground and build it up layer by layer, and you can quickly build a temporary wall.

The length of the cage is the thickness of the wall. The walls built by a cage of one meter long are enough to withstand the shooting of muskets and light artillery.

Although walls with such poor structures will definitely collapse over time, no one expects them to stand on the earth forever and persevere until the end of the siege.

In order to enable soldiers to build safer, Lieutenant Colonel Vaubon invented a "mobile wall".

That is, fill the farm truck with soil, push it to the construction position and lock the axle in front of the construction site, forming a temporary sheltering wall.

This moving wall is not only used to block the enemy's shells, but also to block the enemy's vision. Engineers quickly built a corridor with a cage of soil and stone behind the wall.

After the corridor at the current location is repaired, the cart continues to push forward and then continues to work at the next location.

When William Kidd understood what the Venetta was doing, he immediately ordered the bombardment of the Venetta Fortifications extending towards Tower City.

The fortifications of the Venetta people are only about 500 meters away from the city wall. Even if this distance is three pounds or four pounds of light cannons can achieve approximately accuracy.

The four-pound cannon on the Triangle Fort fired first, and the four-pound iron ball flew over the head of the Venetta in a parabola and landed far behind the wall, and nothing but air and earth were shot.

Seeing this, the gunner immediately adjusted the wooden wedges padded at the tail of the barrel. After reloading, the four-pound gun roared for the second time.

This time the shell directly hit a four-wheeled cart full of soil. The iron shell broke the car plate and fell deeply into the soil.

The body of the car trembled, and the axle and spoke made a groaning and straining sound under the impact of huge force. The spokes of one of the wheels could not bear it and broke.

The four-wheeled cart fell to one corner, and the other end was raised high, and the soil spilled out... But that was it. The Vineta people towed the cart away and pushed another one up.

The gunner adjusted the angle again. This time the shell flew under the body of the four-wheeled cart, which theoretically could kill several Venettas behind the cart.

However, the enemy seemed to be a stone that would not shed blood, without any wavering, and continued to build the corridor.

William Kidd hammered a bitter punch on the earth wall of Fort Triangle.

After one shot, two consecutive shots were hit effectively. The gunner's skills and luck were beyond doubt, but the Venetta seemed to... not hurt.

William Kidd ordered the eight-pound cannon to be used instead, but the previous two hits seemed to have exhausted luck. The eight-pound cannon fired either too low or too high.

An eight-pound shell hit the cart directly, but it did not cause any trouble to the Vineta people.

Seeing that the Vineta corridor had been repaired for a distance, William Kidd ordered eight-pound cannons to bombard the walls on both sides of the repaired corridor.

However, the effect of shooting the corridor walls was even less than ideal, because Lieutenant Colonel Vobon deliberately turned the corridor left and right, approaching the city wall like a snake.

Although this has increased the project volume, it also prevents the cannons on the city wall from firing directly into the corridor.

The eight-pound cannons arranged on the Triangle Fort could only bombard the corridor walls at a large angle, and were all bounced away by the walls.

Seeing this, William Kidd went to Half Moon Castle on the east side of the city wall. The artillery of Half Moon Castle was farther away from the corridor, but the angle between the ballistic and the wall was larger.

Sure enough, shooting into the corridor from Half Moon Fort was even worse. William Kidd was heartbroken and prayed that the next shot would hit the corridor wall directly.

Finally, an eight-pound iron ball slid in the air in a graceful arc and smashed hard on the side wall of the corridor.

The huge impact of the shells directly knocked down a large piece of the side wall, and the defenders who had been suppressed on the city wall suddenly exclaimed a shocking cheer.

However, they couldn't laugh immediately, because the Venetta carried out more cages filled with earth and rocks, and quickly repaired the broken walls.

In desperation, William Kidd stopped the shelling, and he could not waste the gunpowder on the earthen wall hundreds of meters away from the shelling.

On the side of the Venetta, Major General Leighton laughed generously and patted Vaubon's shoulder: "It's gold that will shine sooner or later. With your business ability, a lieutenant colonel of the reserve army obviously wronged you. Work hard, take Tacheng and I will recommend you to become a colonel!"

"The more you go forward the corridor, the closer you get to the city wall, the more difficult it will be." Lieutenant Colonel Vobon shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I am a pot repairer. If there is any problem, I will think of a way to make up for it. I just hope that if you can't practice it in the future, you don't just send me to the Military Law Office."

"Every time your corridor is pushed forward one meter, many casualties can be reduced in subsequent battles." Antonio said gently: "We know the difficulty of this plan, just do our best. After the war, General Leighton and I jointly requested you the credit."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Second Lieutenant Otto Scholzne, the engineer, hurried over, saluted the three senior officers, and reported anxiously: "Sir, our wall seems to be built too high. I observed that the lowermost cage can no longer withstand the soil and rocks above it, and it is about to be crushed!"

Vaubon, Antonio and Leiden immediately rushed to the dangerous wall where Lieutenant Otto discovered. After careful observation and testing, Lieutenant Colonel Vaubon confirmed: "It's really not possible. There are too many heavy objects pressed on it, and the cage basket on the bottom can't stand it."

Antonio asked, "Or what if you remove a few layers and make the soldiers bend down?"

"The height of the wall is calculated. If the wall becomes shorter, the corridor will not be well covered at the corners." Lieutenant Colonel Vaubon explained helplessly.

"What do you think you should do?" Leighton asked impatiently.

Vobon thought silently for a while and said slowly: "I saw that there was no sign of breaking the third floor below, which means that removing the two-layer cage basket can ensure the stability of the wall structure. After removing the two-layer cage basket from the top of the wall, dig a shallow moat between the walls with a depth of two-layer cage baskets, which is equivalent to increasing the height of the wall in disguise. At the same time, the digging of soil and stones can also be used to build walls, saving time to carry soil and stones from the rear, killing two birds with one stone."

Leiden was overjoyed when he heard Vobon's method, and his face quickly turned from yin to clear. He happily punched Lieutenant Colonel Vobon in the shoulder: "You guy is a little anxious."

The thin-bodied engineer Lieutenant Colonel Vobon was gasped by the big and thick Layton. He said bitterly: "Don't rush to praise me first. If you dig a trench, water will accumulate when it rains. Digging a trench on the rocks is not only troublesome, but it is also difficult for the accumulated water to seep like in the soil... These are all solutions. I think I'd better pray for not raining first."

Antonio and Layton couldn't help but feel silent.

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When the officers on the front line of Tacheng were busy with civil engineering work, Andrey roared angrily outside a village in the inland Chiyi Island: "This group of XX people! Trouble! Trouble! Trouble! I'll kill them today! Whoever doesn't go to build the road will kill him! I'll see who dares not go!"
Chapter completed!