Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 543 Impulsive
At this time, the Tatars were still regretting that they hadn't protected the cannon well at the beginning, but they didn't know that the bastion itself was born to defend the city from artillery siege.

On the European battlefield, there is no shortcut to deal with bastions, and it is even more impossible to expect to rush down. The most effective way is to encircle or dig.

Siege is a long-term siege, cutting off supplies, blocking reinforcements, and trapping the defenders in the bastion to death.

Digging is civil engineering work, digging trenches, complex trenches, can avoid the deadly artillery on the bastion to the greatest extent, and allow the siege troops to reach the city directly.

Especially the outer fortifications of the bastion, if it falls into the hands of the siege troops, can provide the attacker with a comfortable foothold, even good cover, and most importantly, a turret for erecting cannons, becoming a good counterattack platform.

Of course, if there is water in the ditch, or if it freezes in winter, its defensive performance will also be reduced.

Europe also tried its best to deal with the bastion, and finally concluded that there was no trick.

It is necessary to have a superior force, besiege the city, and cut off foreign aid.

Then set up camp.

Then send troops to use the night to build a fortress, use it to set up artillery, cover the soldiers to move forward, advance to the outer fortifications, dig trenches, repair earth walls, etc., until the dug trenches can deploy siege artillery, Next, dig a winding passage to avoid the artillery and get close to the enemy bastion.

The further you go, the more dangerous you are, so the more skillful you are in tunnel construction, you have to bend around to avoid artillery, and even build wooden walls to block the sight and shooting of musketeers.

It is necessary to dig until 30 meters away from the enemy's trench, and then dig a trench to the left and right at the same time, and build a wall to serve as a safe position and a rallying point for the assault troops.

Wait until everything is ready.

When officially launching an offensive, you can deploy your own cannons directly to the front, and then equip musketeers to attack with concentrated firepower and open the gap.

Or after the commando opened the breach in the city defense, they covered the breach with firepower.

Basically, it is such an attack mode. The key idea is to use magic to defeat magic, use bastion to defeat bastion, approach the civil engineering work, and then build an attack platform against the enemy's castle, and finally use artillery and guns, etc. Provide enough firepower to break through.

But even with this attack method, the casualties will be very large.

The key to attacking a bastion is to prepare everything in the early stage, especially when digging a tunnel, a large number of soldiers will die. To conquer a bastion, two-thirds of the soldiers may actually be killed while digging a tunnel.

The Qing army did not know this method.

In China, bastions are only in a few places such as Macao and Taiwan, and they are used as strongholds by Portugal and the Netherlands.

The Ming army did this because there were a large number of mercenaries who had come out of European wars in the army, and they played this game very professionally.

But the Tartars didn't know. They only thought that the Ming army had a lot of artillery and firearms, and the terrain was unfavorable, so it was difficult to approach and penetrate the defense. They felt that they needed more soldiers, more shield vehicles, and even more artillery. courage.

So the Tatars repeatedly tried various methods.

Attack again and again.

In front of that narrow bastion, guns and guns continued to rumble for three days.

In the end, more than half of the more than 1 Tartars were lost.

The Ming army guarding the fort was not in a hurry to fight back.

Just let you come to attack, fight as soon as you come, and ignore it when you retire to rest.

The Tartars were looking forward to the Ming army coming to attack the camp in the middle of the night, so that they could fight back in one fell swoop. As a result, no Ming army came to attack every day, but after a while, there would suddenly be Ming army cavalry approaching and firing a few shots at them. , making people panic, and the night can't be peaceful.

The Tartars, who had suffered heavy losses, had no choice but to ask the assistant king Shuosai, who came to Ningyuan to supervise the battle, to increase the number of red cannons and deploy more shield vehicles.

Shuo Sai came to the front line in person.

Then it fell into a long siege without attacking. The Tartars mobilized artillery, shield vehicles, gunpowder, muskets, etc. in western Liaoning, but the weather was cold and transportation was inconvenient.

It took almost a month before they mobilized more than a hundred large and small artillery pieces, and there were [-] Mongolians and Han Chinese. These new reinforcements were not even the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion at all.

Follow the artillery to build momentum.

This time the shield car was really used a lot, and some shield cars can even be called siege towers.

There are also many guns.

About [-] guns weighing seven to eight thousand catties were brought in.

everything's ready.

Shuosai personally commanded the siege.

This time the preparation was not lacking.

But even if their artillery was seven or eight thousand catties, they did not have a range advantage in front of the long and heavy artillery of the Ming army's bastion, and they were even still weak in number.

The Tartars had to put the artillery a little back, and built a stronger fortification fortification, built a turret for the artillery, and hid it inside.

But on the question, even if you hide, can you still have an advantage over those guns on the bastion fort?

The two sides started an artillery battle, the Tartars coordinated on foot and cavalry, the cavalry covered, the archers fired arrows, and the musketeers fired. Then the shield chariots and siege towers moved forward slowly. He followed with his big shield up.

Even learn to be smart and try to spread out as much as possible.

But even so, they still underestimated the bastion.

Ordinary city wall defense is linear defense, that is, a line, focusing on piercing a hole, and it is basically successful.The moats of those fortified cities, sheep and horse walls, enemy towers, arrow towers, urn cities, etc., are not without countermeasures.

But when encountering this kind of bastion, the defensive firepower is too strong, especially the garrison Ming army is an all-firearms force.

I want to find a stormy weather to attack, so as to weaken the advantage of the defenders' firearms, but they are in the castle, and the impact is not too great.

In the first round of tentative attacks, the Tartars almost never returned.

He even lost a dozen cannons, so he had to retreat the artillery positions, and at the same time built many fake artillery towers to attract the firepower of the Ming army.

But the problem is that the Ming army is not stupid. First, the number of artillery and the range are superior, and second, the reserves of gunpowder are sufficient.

And once there is artillery shooting in any turret, then focus on the attack until it explodes.

Whether it is the Qing army's shield chariot or the siege tower, even if it can reach the front of the fort with the artillery fire on the narrow terrain, it is a bastion. Not only heavy artillery and long artillery close combat, but also various shotguns, wall guns, heavy guns, firecrackers, grenades, kerosene bombs, etc. all came.

No matter what car came close, it couldn't hold it for long.

Come and die as many as you come.

Although some Ming troops were also killed and wounded, the casualties were disproportionate and the disparity was too great.

Shuo Sai stopped the attack time and time again and re-studied the countermeasures, but every time he re-attacked, he suffered heavy losses soon.

If the fighting was stopped and fought for half a month, the Ming army was still mighty, and the guns did not weaken in the slightest.

But the Qing army couldn't hold it anymore, not to mention the death of five or six thousand people. These newly recruited soldiers, except as cannon fodder, have no effect at all. They also consume a lot of food and grass every day, and even start to flee in large numbers, which arouses high morale fall.

In the end, before the new year, Shuosai had to order his troops to withdraw to Ningyuan.

Going back to Ningyuan City, the statistics show that five or six thousand people were killed or injured during the siege, of which more than 3000 died while wearing armor in the Eight Banners. The damaged artillery and the consumption of food and grass were countless.

If they don't take the initiative to withdraw and continue to fight, Ningyuan City will have no soldiers to defend.

Shuosai had no choice but to go to Beijing to plead guilty against the wind and snow.

However, when the news spread back to Dengzhou, it was exciting and filled the city with joy.

Even Emperor Zhu Yihai specially held a court banquet on New Year's Eve to celebrate the victory.

It was rare for Zhu Yihai to be slightly smoked and half-drunk, but at this moment he was not interested in going back to drink again, and he just wandered around the Penglai Palace on the cold New Year's Eve.

Penglai Palace is just a temporary remodel of the original water city, not too big, maybe it will still be in the old capital of Beijing in the future, but now Zhu Yihai will not build another palace here, he will live there first.

Miyagi is not big, but fortunately, the population of the palace is not too large.

Walking aimlessly in the palace, turning the corner of the veranda, but was bumped into the chest by someone.

"Bold!"

The guard stepped forward to arrest him, but Zhu Yihai stopped him.

He looked at the person who bumped into him recklessly, a young palace lady dressed in palace costumes, under the dim light and shadow, her slender figure was reflected, she had a melon-shaped face, and her facial features were delicate.

"Slaves deserve to die, they offended the saints."

At this time, the maid also realized that she had bumped into Lord Long Live, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she knelt down and kowtowed to plead guilty.

Zhu Yihai stretched out his hand to hold her, "I also came here by accident, get up."

The girl was trembling with the hand he held, very uneasy.

"Today is New Year's Eve, why are you here alone?"

"Slaves... Slaves just finished their errands and passed by here. Suddenly, they felt homesick and missed their family members. However, they all died in the war and famine. They were sad for a while, so they stayed here for a while. I didn't expect to collide with the Long Live Lord, the slaves should die..."

The north wind was blowing, and it seemed extraordinarily deserted here.

The maid was cold and frightened, trembling all over.

"Who's from your hometown?" Zhu Yihai saw how pitiful she was, and when he was half-drunk, he felt a desire to protect her. He took off his coat and put it on her body. Dare, but in the end he made himself unsteady and almost fell down. Zhu Yihai grabbed her waist and held her shoulder with one hand.

"Do you hate me?"

"No...it's not..." The little palace maid blushed anxiously, she was even a little frightened and shy, her excited words didn't come easily.

"It's fine if you don't hate it."

Zhu Yihai suddenly felt impulsive, bowed his head and kissed her.

Drunk, holding the young girl's waist at this moment, feeling her trembling body, made him suddenly have a desire to possess him immediately.

"Um·····"

The girl's eyes were wide open, her head was blank, and the emperor had already lowered her head and kissed her.

The emperor kissed her and brought her the taste of wine, but she didn't think it was disgusting or bad, but felt that it had a sweet taste, and even made her whole body soft...
　good Morning

　　
　
(End of this chapter)