Finally seeing the Yangzhou city wall, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Guerrilla warfare is really not what the Liao army is good at. Regular warfare and positional warfare are what the Liao army is good at.

Looking at the Liao army cavalry that kept wandering under the city, Huang Daozhou and Zhang Rusong looked at each other speechlessly. They knew that the real battle was coming. Guerrilla warfare could only temporarily stop the Liao army's actions, but it could not stop the Liao army's footsteps. They also

Unexpectedly, when the Liao army came to Yangzhou, they actually brought mastiff dogs raised by the Liaodong Jurchens. These mastiff dogs, used for hunting, were very effective in searching for gunmen.

"It seems that everyone outside the city is finished." Huang Daozhou shook his head helplessly.

"They are all the essence of the Nanming Forbidden Army. The gains outweigh the losses in this battle." Zhang Rusong also shook his head and sighed.

"The troops are approaching the city! I see that the Liao army does not seem to have too many people. If we leave the city now, can we drive the Liao army away?" Huang Daozhou saw that the Liao army in the distance did not seem to be too many. The cavalry was also in twos and threes.

, it seems that there are only a hundred riders in total.

"Master Fu Zun, please don't think so. The Liao army is now thinking of letting us go out of the city to fight them." Sun Kewang, the commander of the Nanjing Forbidden Army who led the team to Yangzhou, was so frightened that he hurriedly spoke. We must kill people like Mr. Huang.

It is an unrealistic idea. If you go out to fight in the city, you will die uglier than a pig.

"Why?" I guess Huang Daozhou has watched too much Romance of the Three Kingdoms and really likes the scene of attacking the camp at night.

"Although the Liao Army has only one division, each division of the Liao Army is specially equipped with artillery regiments. The number of artillery pieces in each Liao Army division is several times that of our army. I once accompanied the army in Liaodong and saw the Liao Army and the Tatars.

During the battle, the artillery shells were hitting like rain, especially those called rocket launchers. It was a devastating force. As long as it was exposed outside the fortifications, everything would be torn into pieces by shrapnel.

At the foot of Wanghai Village, the Liao army fired a single salvo. Thousands of Tatar soldiers were wiped out in ashes. I dare not recall that scene. According to the artillerymen of the Liao army, if a heavy rocket like the one on the ship exploded, even if it was

If you stay inside the fortifications, you will be beaten to death." Thinking of the terrible artillery fire from the Liao army, Sun Kewang couldn't help but tremble.

"Uh...! Is Master Sun exaggerating?" Huang Daozhou glanced at Sun Kewang. He felt that the commander had exaggerated the Liao army. In the guerrilla war in the past few days, many Liao soldiers were killed and successfully delayed.

The speed of the Liao army's advance makes it seem that the Liao army is not invincible.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to doubt that what Master Sun said is true." Liu Wenxiu, commander of the 10th Division who came to support him, hurriedly supported Sun Kewang.

"Your Excellency, Mayor Sun and Commander Liu have all seen the Liao Army fighting the Tatars in Liaodong, and are very familiar with the Liao Army's organization and artillery." Zhang Rusong, who is also a warrior, also knows the legend of the Liao Army's undefeated and ferocious nature.

For example, the Jurchen Tatars were no match for the Liao army's artillery.

When he was chatting with Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu these days, he often heard them mention the Liao Army's artillery. He had a new understanding of the ferocity of the Liao Army's artillery.

After hearing what his three generals said, Huang Daozhou gave up his plan to leave the city to meet the enemy. Instead, he began to discuss the shortcomings of Yangzhou's city defense!

Just opposite Huang Daozhou, Cao Wenzhao was also looking at this ancient Jiangnan water city.

The history of city building in Yangzhou can be traced back to King Wu Fu Chai's construction of Han City. In the Han Dynasty, Guangling City was built, and its location basically remained unchanged. In the Sui Dynasty, the city was built on the basis of Guangling City in the Han Dynasty. The city wall in the Sui Dynasty consisted of the Sui and Jiangdu Palaces and the East City; Jiangdu Palace

The city plane is nearly square. In the early Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou City was called Zicheng. Chen Shaoyou, the governor of Huainan, built Luo City, which was the foundation of Yangzhou City thereafter. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the city wall was expanded on the basis of the "Zhou Small City" in the Five Dynasties and later Zhou Dynasty, which was called

It is called the "Song Dacheng". The prefect Guo Di used the old site of Tangzicheng to build a city and called it "Baozhai City" (it was rebuilt during the Baoyou period of the Southern Song Dynasty and was called "Baoyou City"). It is opposite the Song Dacheng in the north and south, two miles apart; in addition, in Baozhai City

A "clamping city" was built between it and the big city of the Song Dynasty to facilitate communication. These three cities are collectively called the "Three Cities of the Song Dynasty".

In the Ming Dynasty, although the armament was relaxed, local officials repeatedly requested the construction of Yangzhou city defense in order to obtain government funding. During the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the Yangzhou city wall was overhauled seven times and minor repairs more than 30 times. Although the funding was embezzled by the officials

It was a lot, but in the end some money was spent on repairing the city wall.

After knowing that the Liao army was going to attack Yangzhou, Huang Daozhou followed Zhang Rusong's plan and began to rush to repair Yangzhou's city defense.

To repair the city defense, we first dug a trench 30 to 40 meters away from the edge of Yangzhou City, which was two meters deep and three meters wide. Because this is a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, the trench was filled with mud and water. If a person fell in, he would have to climb out.

I'm afraid it won't be easy. The soldiers on the city wall can rely on the city defense to easily shoot people who fall into the ditch from a high position.

Not only the trenches, but also wooden boards, stones, sand and other materials were used to make exterior walls on the Yangzhou City Wall. These small boxes covered the Yangzhou City Wall, making the Yangzhou City Wall look like a face covered with acne. Trypophobia

The patient must appear to be dizzy.

You don’t need to think about it to know that although nothing can be seen on the city wall, there must be mortars deployed in the darkness behind the city wall. When the siege troops attack the edge of the trench, they will definitely be attacked by mortars.

It’s hard not to suffer heavy losses! This is how the Liao army dealt with the Jurchen Tatars back then.

During the defense battle at Wanghai Village, the tactics instructors of the Liao Army taught the Nanjing Forbidden Army. After that defense battle was summarized in detail by Shi Kefa, he compiled combat regulations and distributed them to all divisions as a model for future defensive operations.

As far as defense is concerned, Yangzhou City is indeed impregnable. Cao Wenzhao knows that he is not qualified to surround Yangzhou with just the strength of his own division. No matter what, let's bombard it first. I don't believe it, Yangzhou

The city walls can withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery.

Fifteen miles away from Yangzhou, Cao Wenzhao set up camp, arranged his defenses, and then began to organize an attack.

The copper-tube artillery pulled by the oxcart was pulled up, and more than a dozen cannons were lined up in a row and fired fiercely at the city wall. Orange flowers bloomed on the city wall, and smoke billowed and shrapnel flew across the sky. It lasted for a while.

After the smoke cleared, Cao Wenzhao was surprised to find that there was almost no damage to the Yangzhou city wall.

Many of the wooden boxes on the Yangzhou city wall are missing. The city wall now looks like a scab, with the missing parts revealing the city wall made of glutinous rice and sand inside. Cao Wenzhao rubbed his eyes vigorously, fearing that he had seen the wrong thing. But even his eyes

It was crushed to pieces, but there was no damage to the Yangzhou city wall.

Damn it! Could it be that the walls of Yangzhou City have the function of avoiding cannonballs?

"Uncle! I know what's going on. Those wooden boxes should be filled with gravel and sand. The cannonball hit the box and exploded. The gravel and sand were blown away, but the city wall was fine.

This kind of city wall made of glutinous rice water mixed with sand is the toughest. When they first attacked Penglai Port, the Chen family built such a city wall. The fortress was so strong that it had to be bombarded with rockets. Our artillery shells are useless against such a city wall.

.Look, there are wooden boxes coming down from the top of the city and covering the damaged areas." Cao Bianjiao pointed to the top of Yangzhou City.

Cao Wenzhao raised his telescope and took a look. He was so angry that he almost lost his breath. At the same time, wooden boxes were being hoisted down with ropes from the top of the city wall. One by one, they were stuck in the damaged areas. It only took half an hour.

.The Yangzhou city wall has been restored to its original state again. Damn, those hundred and ten rounds of artillery shells just now were in vain.

The Yangzhou defenders were not afraid of spending time with Cao Wenzhao in this way. The price of artillery shells was much more expensive than the wooden box. The stones and sand inside the wooden box were even worthless!

"What the hell!" Everyone was dumbfounded.

The Liao army has always been victorious with artillery. No matter how strong the city wall is, it will be bombarded with artillery. If it cannot be blasted, then a larger caliber artillery will be mobilized to bombard it. Li Xiao has always believed that caliber is justice. If not

Because the materials these days are not up to standard and the large-caliber artillery is too heavy and difficult to maneuver, Li Xiao even wanted to build a Tsar cannon.

"Commander! It's better to report back to the commander for more troops now. It's very difficult to blow open the Yangzhou city wall in this situation. We can only dig tunnels and place explosives under the Yangzhou city." Nie Dahai thought he was a smart idea.

Cao Wenzhao gave Nie Dahai an angry look, as if he was looking at an idiot.

This is Yangzhou, a place with dense water networks and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River. The groundwater is extremely abundant, and the terrain is low-lying. I wish I could dig two shovels deep and see the water. In a place like this, you fucking want to dig tunnels

?

"Commander, we can only bring in rocket launchers now." Li Hutai knew what was going on with the city wall made of glutinous rice, millet and sand, let alone such a box. Even if there was no such wooden box filled with stones and sand,

The artillery also has to be chewed for a while.

In Penglai that year, Li Hu almost died under such a fortress. To this day, he still remembers the huge explosion sound of the heavy rocket falling on the central fortress. The power of the explosion seemed to make the earth tremble!

Cao Wenzhao knows that rocket launchers are very powerful, but he also knows that this is impossible. Rocket launchers are too heavy and are extremely inconvenient to transport. Especially heavy rocket launchers can only be mounted on ships now. After a salvo, it is necessary to

Long time to reload.

What makes Cao Wenzhao even more speechless is...! This is the first time that the Third Division has completed a combat mission alone, and everyone pays attention to a good start. It is better for him to open the door to Yangzhou. The city walls of Yangzhou are not even seen, so he will lose no less than two soldiers.

even.

Now we have finally reached the city walls of Yangzhou. We have set up cannons but can't blast open the walls of Yangzhou. When this news reaches Jinan, other division commanders will laugh to death. He, Cao Wenzhao, cannot afford to lose this person!

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"You really have a way to sneak me into Yangzhou City at this time." Shi Kefa got off the carriage and walked into a small courtyard under the escort of Li Dingguo. Followed by Lu Zhu, who was dressed as a maid, looked like this

A wealthy businessman who had just returned from a trip with his maids and servants.

"This Yangzhou spy has not been in business for a long time, but now the world is all about money. Now there is a war, and the owner of this house went to Jinling to avoid the war. There is only one steward left in the house, along with a few dissatisfied servants.

I'm looking after the house. The little girl just paid money to let the adults stay here." Luzhu followed Shi Kefa step by step, like a pretty maid from a wealthy family.

"Money can make you go round, but here you have taken it to the extreme." Shi Kefa said with a smile.

Entering this courtyard, Shi Kefa nodded immediately. After all, it was the courtyard of a wealthy family in the south of the Yangtze River. The pavilions, terraces and water pavilions in the courtyard should be thoughtful. Beside the Moon Gate, there was also a huge Taihu stone. Several servant-looking guys nodded and bowed.

He smiled charmingly at Shi Kefa.

"Are these people reliable?" Li Dingguo frowned.

"It's not reliable, but I heard that we came from the north. I immediately fawned over us. The people outside were scared to death of the Liao army, but these people followed the salt merchants and knew a lot of things. Besides, there are a few of them here.

Our informant has also passed on a lot of information about the Nanming Army to us. If something happens to us, they will not be able to escape their involvement.

You must know that Nanming is now practicing joint sitting. If we are reported by someone, we will definitely lose our heads!"

Li Dingguo shook his head helplessly. Shi Kefa was also forced to side with the Liao army. The Liao army had such courage that they dared to send Shi Kefa back to Yangzhou. The court of Nanming would never dare to do this.

The matter of letting the tiger return to the mountains.

"Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were both Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates. When Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, he came to my place to take them in. They were still battalion commanders at that time. During this time, I don't know whose connections they had in the camp. Each one of them became a division commander.

." After entering the hall, Shi Kefa sat in the hall and sighed.

"Who else could have the connection? Wen Tiren! It's no secret that Wen Tiren appoints private individuals. Zhang Xianzhong's men have nothing but a lot of money. Xi'an robbed a batch, and Luoyang robbed another batch. Zhengzhou

, even Kaifeng could not escape their grasp. Although the antiques in their hands are not as good as those in the imperial palace, they are much better than those of ordinary people.

Wen Tiren accepted their benefits, and you went north to join the Liao army. Naturally, these people should be promoted properly. It is normal for them to be promoted to division commanders in such a short period of time!"

"Haha! Wen Tiren still thinks that this is his Southern Ming court. Whoever is promoted will be promoted, and whoever is demoted will be demoted. Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were lucky enough to enter. What do the other regimental commanders who are equivalent to division commanders think?

The two bandits were actually able to climb on top of them. How can these men who followed me in Wanghai Village survive the robbery and survive? Can they hold their breath?
Chapter completed!