Chapter 411: Outside Haizhou

In Haizhou, the battle started in the morning. Li Yongfang was standing on the top of the city, fearing the artillery fire of the Dengzhou Camp, and did not dare to stand under his "Li" banner. The battle first unfolded between the trenches and fortresses under the city. How to deal with these trenches, fences, and defense lines built by the fortresses, Dengzhou Camp made targeted preparations.

A fortress in his sight was shaking, and after another shot hit, it splashed blue bricks and flew around. With a bang, the fortress collapsed. Similar scenes have been repeated today. Li Yongfang, who was lying on the top of the city, was very serious. He had not thought of launching an active counterattack, and even thought of taking the initiative to attack at night. However, according to the results of the investigation, even if the scouts were at night, they could not get close to the enemy camp. More than a hundred people went out, but less than thirty came back. The night did not belong to the Qing army, and the service of the Dengzhou camp was too powerful. What about the daytime? The battle started in the morning, besides artillery attacks, there were dense volleys. Some brave soldiers were intercepted by volleys when they rushed to the artillery of the Dengzhou camp. After leaving behind a large number of corpses, Li Yongfang ordered that they should not attack outside the city. If they could not defend, they retreated.

Chang Shiren commanded his troops and launched a reverse attack from west, south and east. The 12-pound rifled cannon played the protagonist, approaching a distance of one thousand meters, and bombarded violently at the fortresses. Under the fierce artillery fire, the fortresses were knocked off one by one. The remnants of the Qing army hid in it had to give up the fortress and retreat. In contrast, the 24-pound large-caliber artillery stopped after a brief shooting. This thing is more suitable to attack infantry, and it is not possible to hit the fortress. Unless it hits directly, it will have no effect. More importantly, this kind of flowering thief is expensive.

In a day, more than 300 fortresses were cleared, and the front line pushed forward nearly 300 meters. In this way, Chang Shiren still felt a little slow. During the meeting at night, he said to a group of subordinates: "It won't work like this, it's too slow. There are nearly 1,000 fortresses outside the city. According to the current speed, it will take five days to clear the outside of the city. Start tomorrow. Don't consider the consumption of ammunition, give me a fierce attack."

What Chang Shiren didn't know was that the results of the first day had already scared Li Yongfang. You must know that it took more than a year to build these trenches, fences and fortresses. More than 50,000 civilians were used. The fences were made of wood and blue bricks. The fortresses were made of cement purchased from Denglai. According to Li Yongfang's idea, it would be possible to last for half a month.

"You go and report the letter to the emperor, and I will stay here to be loyal to the emperor." Li Yongfang explained his son Li Lutai. This is the only thing he can do. As an old traitor, he definitely has no way out to retreat. When the battle was fierce during the day, countless flyers were thrown away by hot air balloons outside the city, and the effect was not as good as Yaozhou. However, in this city with the Han army as the main force, these flyers may not work for the time being. Who knows in the future? There are probably many people who are already preparing for a way out.

Li Rutai knelt down to Li Yongfang, kowtowed three times, and left without saying a word. He was a decisive person, knowing the power of Dengzhou Camp and his ability to satisfy his father's wish to stay for the Li family. This was the only thing he could do.

In the morning, Li Yongfang, who had climbed the city again, noticed a new change. The artillery fire in the Dengzhou Camp became even more fierce. At the same time, one team after another rushed into the trenches of the Qing army from all directions.

This is a new tactic developed by the Staff Office last night. There is no advantage in the rifle in the trench, and no problem with short guns. I collected all the short guns equipped by engineers and grenadiers overnight and handed them over to these tactical squads for use. The infantry captain Xie Qian personally led a squad to rush into the trench. The tradition of Dengzhou Camp is like this. When fighting, the officers must rush in front.

After ten rounds of the 24-pound cannons hit the trench, Xie Qian was the first to jump up, holding a shield in one hand and a short gun in the other, with an engineer shovel behind him and a backdrop hanging on his chest. He rushed into the trench and saw several Qing troops who were bombarded with guns. The short guns were knocked down two in a row, and the other Qing troops were hit one after another and fell into the trench.

Another group entered the trench and continued to push forward to clear the next wave of Qing troops. Xie Qian seized the time to reload the bullets and led the group to chase after him. There was a bang in front of him. He rushed up and saw a dozen Qing soldiers rushed over from the nearby trench, half of which was knocked over by a short gun, and the other half was fighting with the team. It was a sword and gun, and on one side was a combination of shield processing soldiers and shovels.

The engineer shovel was a big killer in trench warfare. Seeing that his side was not at a disadvantage, Xie Qian did not rush to help, but first observed the surroundings and found that there were about fifty Qing troops rushing over from another trench. He quickly turned around and greeted: "On the left, grenade."

Sizzling, the lead was lit, and the grenade was thrown out. After a few bangs, the Qing army that rushed to twenty meters away was blown over. Xie Qian immediately jumped up and rushed towards the Qing army. The short gun in his hand sounded twice, quickly pulled out the engineer shovel, and raised a shield to block the slashing knife at the Qing army that was rushing, and turned his hand to the neck to make a shovel. The sharp edge of the shovel cut the artery, and the blood arrows burst out.

Whoosh, a bow and arrow broke through the wind and pierced hard behind Xie Qian. The huge impulse made him pounce forward. Fortunately, he was wearing a puncture suit and there was a layer of chain mail inside. Even so, he left in pain. Looking back, the bow and arrow came from a fortress twenty meters away. He saw three archers shooting desperately, and soldiers were hit by arrows and fell down.

"Fortress, grenade." Xie Qian shouted to the soldiers who were leaning over. The soldier immediately ignited the grenade, threw it at the fortress and immediately fell down. With a bang, the archers on the fortress flew up. "Beautiful work, keep going. Come with me."

A total of 100 similar teams were sent out. Under the cover of artillery fire, the assault speed was indeed much faster. Bags and grenades kept knocking down one fortress after another. The speed was faster and the casualties were greater. After a day of battle, nearly 500 fortresses were destroyed, and more than 300 casualties were killed or injured.

Fences were conquered one by one, and then pushed down, and filled into the trenches. Under the cover of artillery and infantry, migrant workers pushed the cart up and threw sandbags into the trenches one by one. Before dark, they successfully advanced to about 200 meters outside the city. This result made Li Yongfang almost desperate. The combination of trenches, fences, fortresses, and defense of more than 5,000 soldiers seemed to have to last for three days.

The 24-pound large-caliber artillery caused not much casualties to the Qing army, but the deterrence effect was excellent. The Qing army continued to run out of the trench due to artillery bombardment, fled from the battlefield, but died in the explosion.

Li Yongfang's only choice was to die in battle. He was on the city wall every day during the battle, which did encourage morale. However, the Qing army, who was used to fighting with the Ming army, was very adaptable to the tactics of the Dengzhou camp. The casualties were very different, especially in front of the artillery, where the fortresses were suppressed miserably.

On the third day, the Dengzhou Camp continued its efforts and finally cleared the trenches and fences outside the city. The Qing army in the fortress was also cleaned up, and more than half of the 5,000 Qing army surrendered. The Dengzhou Camp attacked without any casualties, and the result was a fierce battle in three days, killing more than 500 people, and seriously injured about 500. The main causes of casualties were melee battles and the other was the Qing army's archers. After so many years of dealings, the Qing army knew how to deal with the Dengzhou Camp to be effective. The bows and arrows must be shot in the face, or exposed hands and feet. There was no big harm when shot elsewhere.

"The Qing army in the city had hundreds of Fran machine cannons. Tomorrow, they would release all the hot air balloons and make sure to find out the location. Although this thing is not far away, it will be hit within a distance, and people will turn into hornet's nests."

"You can put some sharpshooters in the balloon. That's how you did it when you hit Haizhou. Then bring some bags and throw them down."

At the meeting, the officers all followed Chen Xie to fight the battle in Haizhou. The experience was ready-made.

"Li Yongfang has blocked the city gate. The casualties of the Ant Attack City are inevitable. Digging and blasting. Look at the engineers." Chang Shiren's words determined the key way to attack the city this time. In fact, the engineers have been digging tunnels in the past three days. Now they have advanced to a hundred meters away from the city gate. In order to deceive the Qing army, a tent was arranged near the tunnel. The fierce attack made the Qing army in the city take into account the tunnel tactics.

The meeting ended in the middle of the night. When the officers dispersed, Chang Shiren sat on the chair and yawned. He didn't sleep much for the past three days, and he sat there and had his eyelids fighting. He said that it was a lie to say that it was not a lie. Chen Xie used his life to bet. As a trusted subordinate, he dared not be careless at all. He found some cold water, washed his face, and found another plan to siege the city, and tried hard to find every detail he didn't expect.

At two o'clock in the evening, Chang Shiren went to bed and got up at six o'clock the next morning. The attacking troops were all in place. Digging for another day, the tunnel could reach the city. Today's battle was actually deceiving the opponent, but they had to pretend to be the same as the real one.

The fierce artillery fire turned the city into a sea of ​​fire, 24-pound cannons and 12-pound cannons. These two smooth-bore cannons can fire flowering bullets, and the large number of killing Qing army was the function of flowering bullets. After ten rounds of artillery fire, the infantry on the ground moved out. Pushing the shield cart slowly, platooning guns suppressed the Qing army on the city. The hot air balloon was less than twenty meters away from the city gate, with a height ranging from sixty or seventy meters. The sharpshooter kept killing the Qing army archers and gunners on the city, and signaling soldiers guided the artillery and attacked the Qing army's artillery positions.

Li Yongfang played his life and kept running back and forth on the city, shouting loudly to encourage the soldiers. The Dengzhou Camp's offensive was too fierce, and he kept investing in the new force, using various weapons and queuing guns in a crazily manner. After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, it was considered to have repelled the first attack, but the moat was also filled with a long piece. The abominable Dengzhou Camp, when he retreated, the injured soldiers and corpses were taken back, which Li Yongfang had never expected. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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