I want to be emperor

Chapter 394 Chaos in Guangzhou City
At that time, Shi Kefa, in terms of Jiujiang city defense system, in addition to building anti-gun fortifications at the head of the city, also excavated and built a large number of trenches and forts outside the city.

Especially those large fortresses about 300 meters away from the city wall are the core system of Jiujiang city defense system. Each large fortress is stationed with hundreds of thousands of people, deployed with two and a half catties or five catties of field artillery and a large number of short-barreled artillery , is as difficult to fight as a hedgehog.

In order to conquer Jiujiang, the Chu army mobilized hundreds, multiple main divisions and multiple garrison divisions, with a total strength of tens of thousands, and launched a fierce attack from multiple directions at the same time.

The shelling intensity at that time was the strongest in the history of world wars. Before the Battle of Jiujiang, there had never been a battle in which so many artillery were used and so many shells were fired.

So far, the Chu army itself has not broken the record of shelling intensity in the Battle of Jiujiang.

However, the Ming army, which once built a solid city defense system in Jiujiang, does not do so in Guangzhou now.

Anyway, Huang Xiangbin didn't see even a trench or a fortress outside Guangzhou!
In front of him, there is only a lonely ancient and traditional city, even the battlements have not been specially reinforced, and the artillery deployed on the top of the city is even more ostentatiously placed on the top of the city.

Huang Xiangbin looked at such a city of Guangzhou, his eyes were extremely hot!
This girl from Guangzhou, she has no clothes on...

It's just that seeing a girl wandering naked outside in broad daylight caused Huang Xiangbin to have some doubts, this is not normal!
The defender on the opposite side has a brain problem?Or is there something wrong with your brain?
Or, is this a trap?
Guangzhou City seems to be prepared for nothing, so that he can relax his vigilance and kill him recklessly, and then use some unknown means to beat him up?
The more Huang Xiangbin thought about it, the more he felt that there was such a possibility. Maybe they had an ambush behind the city gate?Maybe they have another set of defenses behind the walls?
By the way, when I went to Jinling City at the end of the year, I heard His Majesty talk about street fighting. He said that with the further development of gun technology in the future, the enemy may use the solid buildings in the city to resist guns and attack the city. If there is a war, it will change from fighting for the city wall to fighting for every building in the city...

Regarding this, Huang Xiangbin didn't dare to say a word at the time... If the enemy dared to retreat to the buildings in the city and tried to resist with buildings, wouldn't it be easier!

A fire thing...

Buildings in East Asia these days are generally of brick and wood structure, and the proportion of wood used in construction is very large. Not to mention that the city was deliberately set on fire during the war, even if there is a fire in normal times, it will burn directly down a few blocks...

Perhaps, the defenders in the city have other methods.

Huang Xiangbin looked at the lonely city of Guangzhou in front of him, and many messy thoughts appeared in his mind.

Reason told him that the city defense system of Guangzhou City was vulnerable, and the only thing that was threatening was their dozens of long-barreled artillery pieces, but these artillery pieces were deployed directly in the open air. Mortar used to estimate that the opponent's gunner was almost killed or injured.

At that time, it will be the time for our own artillery to fully suppress the enemy forces in the city and cover the heavy armored commando attacking the city.

The whole siege routine is simple and easy. If the fight goes well, it is estimated that there will be no more than 100 casualties...

But his intuition told him that it might not be so simple behind it... Maybe there is an ambush in the city, for example, the Ming army in the city deliberately let its own army enter the city, and then came to burn Guangzhou... and killed tens of thousands of soldiers. Burning City Coke...

The generals of the Chu army on the side looked at their generals with resolute and confident expressions for a while, worried for a while, and gritted their teeth for a while...

I can't help but feel a little worried, is it because the weather is so hot that my commander's brain is also getting hot?
Thinking of this possibility, a major poured a cup of herbal tea made by a military doctor from a bamboo kettle nearby, and brought it up to Huang Xiangbin, saying, "Commander, it's hot, let me have a bowl of herbal tea to prevent heatstroke!"

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The Ming army in the city obviously didn't know that Huang Xiangbin, a veteran general of the Chu army outside the city, was a little suspicious because his city defense system didn't have any anti-cannon fortifications...

They are in a mess at this meeting, how can they have any intention of doing anti-cannon fortifications, it is quite good to arrange people to garrison and patrol the city, and to prevent the capital from attacking the city.

In the current Guangzhou city, there are all kinds of forces in a mess.

The garrison alone is divided into seven or eight parts. They are also called navy divisions. They are actually a group of pirates from a pirate gang. The young and strong soldiers and horses, as well as the young and strong township braves temporarily recruited by the Yamen of the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, etc.

Among them, the pirate gang consisted of only 2000 people, and it was composed of four groups of people who did not belong to each other.

And the most important thing is that no one can restrain these soldiers and horses.

Because Xiong Wencan is not in Guangzhou at this time, but in Wuzhou!
Xiong Wencan, he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and the governor of Guangdong. He succeeded Yang Sichang as the governor of Southwest China and still served as the governor of Guangdong.

For a long time, Xiong Wencan has personally controlled the military power on the Guangdong side. This was the case in the previous encirclement and suppression of pirates and the quelling of ordinary civil disturbances, and the subsequent resistance to the Chu thieves is also the same.

And Xiong Wencan, who is based in Wuzhou, can also coordinate and command the various Ming armies in Guangxi and Guangdong at the same time. After all, at that time, the war in Guangdong was mainly on the northern line such as Nanxiong Mansion and Shaozhou Mansion, and the hinterland of Guangdong was still safe.

If Xiong Wencan is in Wuzhou, he can also command it.

But as the Chu thieves captured Shaozhou, Qingyuan and other places, and then went all the way to Guangzhou, Xiong Wencan, who was in Wuzhou, had no way to personally coordinate and command the various Ming armies to fight against the Chu thieves.

Although he also appointed a right to participate in politics to sit in Shaozhou and supervise the military affairs of Shaozhou Prefecture and other places, but this right participated in politics before the Battle of Shaozhou. As soon as the general soldier of Guangdong gritted his teeth, he voted for a thief...

At the same time, due to time constraints, Xiong Wencan, who was in Wuzhou, did not have time to arrange a second supervising army. Therefore, there is no actual governor or supervising army in Guangzhou to lead the various troops in the city.

As a result, there is a deputy commander in chief, two guerrillas, a magistrate, a left political envoy, a chief envoy, and a command envoy in the city, and other senior civil and military officials are not subordinate to each other...

What, you asked the chief envoy with the highest official hat to command the army?

Bullshit!

In the Ming court, there is no rule that the chief envoys command the troops. According to the rules of the Ming court in recent decades, the governors are generally in command of the troops. Class officials go to be supervisors.

In other words, the above-mentioned types of talents have the authority to command the army. As for the chief envoy, this position has become a purely administrative position by the end of the Ming Dynasty. of.

Even Zuo Canzheng, who has not been formally authorized by Xiong Wencan, is stronger than his immediate boss, the chief envoy, in terms of military power.

This Zuo Shenzheng, at any rate, is in charge of hundreds of soldiers in Fubiao, Guangdong, and he is the supervisor of this Fubiao.

In addition, the commanders of the capital in Guangdong also have thousands of young and strong guards recruited temporarily.

Now the various ministries in the city are in disarray, no one listens to anyone, no matter who makes any comments, there will always be people who oppose it...

So much so that it has been several days, and they have not even done to strengthen the city defense, because they have not yet coordinated how much materials should be used, how many people should be recruited, and what should be repaired first.

In this noisy room, not everyone was thinking about fighting the Chu bandits, and many of them deliberately held back, waiting for the Chu bandits to kill them, turning around and revolting anyway, and joining the Great Chu king...

For example, guerrilla Zhao Xinhou.

Zhao Xinhou was born in a poor family, and was trafficked into a wealthy family as a slave when he was young. He managed to learn a few common words. Later, when pirates attacked his master’s family, he himself was plundered in the chaos and taken to a pirate’s lair on a remote island overseas. coolie.

Then this person slowly gained a foothold in this pirate den, and became one of the many pirates.

In his 20s, he became one of the leaders of this pirate gang and owned a pirate ship.

A few years later, an internal fight broke out in their pirate gang. During the fight, Zhao Xinhou had the last laugh, killing many other competitors in one fell swoop, and succeeded in becoming the new leader of the pirate gang, with more than ten pirate ships under his command.

Later, like other pirate leaders, he ran to the merchants for nothing on weekdays, doing some sales business, and he didn't forget to grab a ticket by the way.

Pirates these days, are they all like this!
Strictly speaking, in fact, it is difficult for you to distinguish the people who go to sea these days, whether they are pirates or sea merchants... because they are basically both sea merchants and pirates at the same time!
Even their ships are similar, all armed merchant ships!

Going to sea these days, if you don't put a few cannons on board, you will be robbed in minutes!

Even if it is for self-protection, maritime merchants these days will turn their merchant ships into armed merchant ships and place a ring of artillery on them. As for the swords and muskets used by sailors, they are even more necessary for sailing to sea.

Zhao Xinhou is such a person. Sometimes he goes to sea to do business in a serious manner, and sometimes he becomes a pirate leader and leads a group of men to rob passing merchant ships.

Of course, he was also shot by other pirates.

These days you are living at sea, even if you rob me today and I rob you tomorrow, they are all sea merchants and pirates...

It is not surprising that the merchant ships under his big pirate leader are robbed by other pirates.

After more than ten years of turbulence, Zhao Xinhou, who was already on the fourth day, didn't want to continue to be turbulent at sea, so he thought of accepting the recruitment.

(End of this chapter)