Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 320 Build a chariot to reach the guns, and drive the people's boats as a pontoon bridge

When the former army led by Huang Degong approached Yangzhou City for more than ten miles, the intensity of the confrontation between the Ming army and the Qing army sentry cavalry rose sharply.

The frontier guards, imperial guards, and Huang Degong's subordinates are almost all elites. In terms of individual quality and equipment, the Ming army sentry cavalry may not be inferior to the Qing army, but the number is too much.

When the Ming army set up camp about ten miles south of Yangzhou City, the Qing army, relying on the absolute advantage in the number of sentry cavalry, finally broke through the blockade of the Ming army sentry cavalry, and detected many military situations of the Ming army...
The new camp of the Manchurian Eight Banners of the Qing army was very tricky. It was on a low slope opposite the southwest corner of Yangzhou City.

There used to be a lot of trees here, but they were all cut down by the Qing army's soldiers and slaves, and they were used for camping and building various necessary camp defense facilities.

Due to time constraints, the various facilities in the Qing army camp were far from perfect, and the civilian husbands and slaves were still busy.

These naturally have nothing to do with the Bannerman masters.

But the masters of the Bannermen were not at ease either—they were discussing the war after they received a series of military information from the Ming army detected by the sentry cavalry.

"It turns out that the leader of the army this time turned out to be the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, a supervisor."

Hearing this news, Han Dai, who had some understanding of the Ming system, immediately said: "Ming usually only let the prince supervise the country, or the vassal king.

However, Emperor Hongguang was originally a vassal king to succeed to the throne, and he would never allow other vassal kings to serve as supervisors of the country.

But if it's Zhu Yousong's son, he shouldn't be very old, right?How can we subdue a general like Huang Degong? "

Zhenghuangqi Meilezhangjing Yide said suspiciously: "I once heard from the generals of the Han army that Emperor Hongguang had a son who was a few years old. He died when Luoyang was captured by Li Zicheng's army. Now he has no son. "

Tulai sneered, "I think it's probably some vassal king of the Ming Dynasty who wants to usurp the throne and pretends to be the supervisor of the country."

Duoduo didn't want to listen to these messy arguments, he waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter who this prison country is or what it has to do with Emperor Hongguang.

The important thing is how many soldiers and horses the country has brought, and how we should attack it.Nushan, tell me. "

Nu Shan is a native of Zhenghuang Banner, and his current official position is Gebush Xianying Gu Shan Ezhen.

The so-called Gebush Xianying Camp selected young warriors from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, or outstanding nobles from the Eight Banners. It was the predecessor of the Qianfeng Battalion in the Qing Dynasty.

Its actual role is mostly to serve as the bodyguard of the powerful Baylor, the prince and even the emperor, and it is also a training camp for Eight Banners officers.

As the current top three princes in the Qing Dynasty, Doduo naturally has Gebush Xian with hundreds of people by his side.

Even Nushan, Gushan Ezhen, was sent by Dorgon to be Duoduo's bodyguard and assistant.

Nu Shandao: "The Ming army has about 3 people under Huang Degong's command, and there are also people who fight the banners of 'the number of border guards' and 'the number of imperial guards'.

This may be the pro-army of the supervisor of the country. There are four towns on land and one town on the canal. Each town has about [-] soldiers and horses.

In other words, there are about 8 or [-] Ming troops this time.

And because they came along the canal, they didn't see many civilian husbands with them. "

Hearing this, Zhenghuangqi Meilezhangjing Ahanikan said first: "Since they only have 8 or [-] people, why should we play so conservatively? It's better to let the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion cooperate to launch a general offensive and defeat them in one fell swoop. "

No one answered Ahanikan's words.

Because what he said was so stupid—now that they had learned that the Ming army had a lot of artillery and muskets, wouldn’t it be uncomfortable for them to take the initiative to attack?

Duoduo simply ordered the task directly.

"This battle still requires the cavalry to take the lead." Doduo looked at Boluo as he said, "The Ming army does not move, and neither do we. If the Ming army dares to attack the Han army and the green battalion who are attacking the city, you and E Luo Sechen will fight against each other." Lead the cavalry to their flanks.

Remember, it is not for you to really go to the battle, but to force out the artillery fire of the Ming army.

Let us know how many types of artillery they have and how far they can hit. "

Boluo hesitated for a while, and said: "General, these Ming troops are all elites, and they are not afraid of cavalry at all when they are in formation. I am afraid it will be difficult for us to test their strength."

"If you can't find out, won't you think of a way?" Duoduo said angrily, "Remember, you are committing crimes and meritorious service in this battle.

Could it be that you thought that you lost tens of thousands of cavalry, and that you could escape punishment by blaming Nikan and the two Han generals?
If you don't make any meritorious service in this battle, you will be awarded a title and fined silver after returning to Beijing! "

Boluo blushed when he was scolded, and replied in a low voice: "I understand."

Duoduo also said to Ezhen and Zhang Jing of Baiyintu, Tulai, Ashan and other banners: "It's not like we haven't fought the battle where the artillery of the Ming army was superior - when my father Khan was in power, and in the early years of the first emperor Kong Youde and other Han troops did not fight. When returning to obedience, which battle was not fought against the artillery fire of the Ming army?

This time, we only need to look for the old example and use the car more often.

Go down now and check the carts you need to carry for each cattle record. If there are not enough, let the civilians hurry up to make them, and then cover the carts with iron sheets and cowhide to strengthen their defenses.No need to be sympathetic to manpower and materials, just make as many as you can before the war! "

Baiyintu and the others are all veterans, and they can understand that Duoduo is asking them to use civilian husbands and slaves to death.

After all, if a group of civilian husbands and slaves were exhausted, it would be very cost-effective for them to win this battle.

Because of the false propaganda that began during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people thought that the Manchus had conquered the world by riding and shooting.

But they don't know that in the series of battles that the Manchus fought to unify the world from before entering the customs to after entering the customs, they relied on the three armaments of heavy armored cavalry, artillery, and chariots.

Not much to say about the artillery, but it was brought over by the three traitor kings, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi.

As for the heavy armored cavalry and the chariots, they are a set of tactics that Nurhachi has learned from the original Ming Dynasty Northeast Frontier Army's fighting style and summed up after many years of fighting with the Daming Frontier Army after the rise of troops.

Although it can't be said to be invincible, it is enough to deal with the advantages of the Ming army in artillery and firecrackers.

Therefore, this time it was confirmed that the Ming army had many artillery pieces and many gunners, so Duoduo thought of the old tactics.

According to the military regulations of the late Jin Dynasty, every [-] people in the army must be accompanied by four chariots, and there is even a saying that "if you encounter an enemy without a chariot, do not go to battle."

Although the number of chariots in the Eight Banners of Manchuria has been reduced due to the advantage of artillery, it has reached the level of at least four vehicles per cattle record (300 people).

But Duduo and others knew that with this number of chariots alone, it was still difficult to offset the advantage of the Ming army's artillery, so they stepped up to manufacture more chariots.

Of course, this is also due to the fact that the Qing army has only entered the customs for a year or two, and still maintains the combat effectiveness before entering the customs.

If in a few years, when Dorgon passed away, the Eight Banners of Manchuria would begin to degenerate, and their combat power would plummet. There might not even be a usable chariot in the army...
This afternoon, the Ming and Qing troops spent the rest of their time stabilizing their camps.

Until the next day, that is, the morning of April [-].

The Kong Youde Department of the Han Army Banner, Yang Chengzu, Xu Dingguo, and Li Yuchun from the Green Camp, together with nearly ten thousand remnants from Li Chengdong's Department, began to attack the south wall of Yangzhou City at [-] o'clock in the middle of the day.

This time, Kong Youde not only carried 100 large-caliber Hongyi cannons, but also more than 200 long-range artillery such as Hongyi cannons and Franjis, as well as more than 3000 tiger crouching cannons, and more than [-] artillerymen equipped with them. people.

In addition, there were more than 3000 elite musketeers who used matchlock guns purchased from Hongyi.

In addition, there are more than 3000 troops using firearms such as Ming Dynasty's old-style firecrackers, three-eyed blunderbusses, and bowl-mouth guns.

Then there are more than [-] elite infantry.

That is to say, this time, the Han army he led was 5000 people in Zhenghongqi.

Yesterday, Kong Youde found out that Yangzhou City did not have many defensive artillery, so today he not only used 100 Hongyi cannons, but also transported more than [-] long-range artillery to a place more than a mile below the city, and bombarded the city with fierce artillery fire. .

At the same time, thousands of civilians were driven by the Green Army and Geng Zhongming's water army to sail one after another civilian boats from the ancient canal into the south moat, and spread wooden boards and sand to form a pontoon bridge for the Qing army to pass through.

At the head of Yangzhou City, although the Ming army braved artillery fire to attack these civilian ships with bows and arrows, stone throwing, and tiger squatting guns, they intended to obstruct them.

However, the artillery fire of the Qing army was so fierce that the Ming army who defended the city did not dare to show their faces. The attack of a few people could hardly cause too much damage to the civilian ships and civilian husbands.

As a result, a series of pontoon bridges built by civilian ships are forming at a speed visible to the naked eye...
At an altitude of 700 meters, two flying bird's-eye-view drones transmitted these images to the Ming army camp ten miles away.

Aunt Zhu was not in a hurry to send her troops to attack the Green Camp Army and Han Banner Army in the south of the city.

It wasn't until the pontoon bridge was paved and [-] to [-] Qing troops rushed across the moat carrying ladders and began to attack the city, that she picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Uncle Jingnan, prepare to send troops."

"As ordered!"

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In Yangzhou City, after being bombarded by twenty Hongyi cannons and hundreds of other long-range artillery pieces, the south wall was already in a mess.

Not only were many Ming soldiers killed by artillery shells, but many of the defense materials prepared before were also damaged.

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)