Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 419 The Tragic Yangzhou Offensive and Defensive Battle (Please Subscribe!)
In Yangzhou Prefecture, the battle has already begun, and the Qing army has been preparing for a long time.

The fall of Jiangdu did not touch Zhulong, the governor of Yangzhou, and Yangzhou was his lifeblood.

Before that, he had no contact with the Ming army. In his opinion, these Ming monsters were just advanced firearms. Now he has all the foreign guns and cannons made in the "Dutch" and Portuguese, and he thinks that they will not be far behind.

So he feels that he can persist in Yangzhou for a long time.

But when he saw the firepower of the Ming army, he realized how wrong he was.

The moats outside Yangzhou City are being bombarded by two hundred artillery pieces from the Ming army. The Ming army has already equipped a large number of Shenwu six-year-style front-loading rifled artillery. Thousands of Qing soldiers were killed in the trenches.

In ancient city defense battles, trenches were often dug to increase the difficulty for the enemy to approach the city wall, allowing the defenders more time to kill the enemy with arrows and muskets.

Ancient trenches generally had to be dug with a width that a person could not jump over and a depth that was as high as a person. According to our current standards, they were generally at least 3 meters wide and 2 meters deep.

For cities that are not near rivers, sharpened wooden sticks are often inserted in the trenches, and barbed caltrops and other things that delay the enemy's advance are often sprinkled.

It is even simpler in the city near the river. The river is dug directly, and the trench becomes a moat.

During a war, there is often more than one trench outside the city, and the depth of several trenches plus other measures often require the siege party to pay a lot of casualties to get under the city wall.

Fu Zhulong is a general in many battles, and his defense is very good.

But the first line of defense in Yangzhou City was easily broken, and the surviving soldiers ignored the order to fight to the death and retreated to the second line of defense.

Fu Zhulong could see clearly from the city wall that his own artillery had no power to fight back, so he ran down the city wall in horror and came outside the city to supervise the battle in person.

The Qing soldiers defending the second line of defense are the newly trained Eight Banners new army. They hid in the trenches and gritted their teeth.

The artillery fire continued, and the Dongying Congjun Army invested four battalions of about 5000 troops to attack. They bowed their heads and charged under the cover of artillery.

Fu Zhulong observed the tactics of the Ming army on the third line of defense and found that they were very different from the tactics taught to them by Portugal.

The bright monsters in front of him did not form a line, but a very scattered formation. What surprised him even more was that these bright monsters kept charging regardless of their own artillery fire.

How did he know that this was the coordinated tactic of skirmish charge and infantry artillery in later generations.

The new rifled guns of the Ming Dynasty all have a scale with six scales on it, each scale represents six ranges, and the error of each range is about [-] meters.

But in reality, it is impossible for infantry to charge this distance. According to the assessment requirements of the Ming army, it is 300 meters.

That is to say, the artillery fire will stop when the soldiers rush to within 300 meters.

Zhang Yunyi, Zhao Liangdong's son-in-law, watched the battle behind the formation, and also learned. It was the first time he participated in such a large-scale battle since he joined Daming.

Although he had trained at the Daming Imperial Military Academy for nearly a year before the war, he was still a novice in the war compared to new weapons and new tactics, and this was a rare opportunity to learn.

Within a thousand meters, the surviving artillery of the Qing army began to fight back. These sporadic artillery fires could only cause little damage to the soldiers of the National Defense Forces.

Soon the cannon fodder of the Dongying Association rushed within 500 meters and within 300 meters, and the artillery fire stopped. All the surviving Qing soldiers immediately picked up their muskets and prepared to shoot. Once the Ming army entered the range of [-] meters, they began to line up and shoot.

"Fire, all the artillery on the third line of defense fire!"

Seeing that Ming Yao entered the artillery range of the third line of defense, he ordered the ten artillery behind him to fire regardless of whether he would accidentally injure his own soldiers.

The soldiers of the Dongying Association did not flinch, and charged quickly with their bayonets and rifles in their hands. The second line of defense was already in sight.

"Come on..."

100 meters, 50 meters, the Japanese soldiers rushing to the front suddenly pulled out a long-handled grenade from their backs, and threw them into the trenches of the Qing army far away.

The sound of "booming" was endless, and the screams of the Qing army being bombed were repeated.

The Qing army also had hand grenades, but they were not as powerful as those of the Ming Dynasty, so the Qing army suffered even greater casualties.

Two thousand grenades were thrown into the trenches, killing and injuring numerous Qing soldiers.

Seeing this, Fu Zhulong immediately drew 2000 people from the third line of defense to support them, but they were quickly fired by the forward artillery of the Ming army.

However, these Qing soldiers advanced along the trenches dug in advance, and the losses were minimized.

More than 5000 soldiers from the Japanese Union Army finally rushed to the second line of defense, and started a fierce and cruel hand-to-hand battle with the Tatar Qing Army.

The Qing army's second line of defense outside Yangzhou City was full of fighting crowds, mixed with the sound of shouting and screaming, thousands of people strangled together with weapons, the scene was huge and cruel.

The soldiers of the Dongying Association Army had been brainwashed for a long time, coupled with their usual hard-practiced fighting skills, they had an absolute upper hand as soon as they came into contact. Even though their morale was high, Batulu's Tatar Qing army soon couldn't hold on and retreated.

Fu Zhulong, who personally supervised the battle, was unable to prevent the retreat of the Qing army, because they were completely at a disadvantage regardless of their weapons, soldiers' quality, and numbers, so what did they use to hold their positions.

"Your Majesty, the third line of defense should be given to our National Defense Forces!" Zhang Yunyi said to Zhu Kezang, who couldn't bear it anymore.

Looking at the battlefield in the distance, Zhu Kezang said: "Yes, but the Qing army will stick to the third line of defense. The National Defense Army must be careful. The most important thing is to avoid casualties. Don't be stingy with the consumption of firearms!"

Zhang Yunyi nodded solemnly and said, "Don't worry, your majesty, the national defense forces will definitely take down the Qing army's third line of defense before dark today!"

On the battlefield, Zhang Yunyi's National Defense Army tactics were also skirmish assault tactics with infantry coordination, but they relied more on the ultra-long range of the electric rifle to put pressure on the Qing army.

At the same time, it is supplemented by the black whirlwind rocket for deterrence.

However, the third line of defense of the Qing army was guarded by Fu Zhulong himself. He led 1 people to resist desperately. After being subjected to fierce shelling and shooting, he still did not retreat.

"Damn it, this Qing army has something!"

Zhang Yunyi, who was in charge of supervising the battle, slashed his commanding sword fiercely. He did not expect the Qing army's resistance to be so tenacious.

However, he is very confident that he can take down the third line of defense with a single charge, because the strongest of the National Defense Forces and Guards is still fighting with bayonets: "Use the bayonet, and I will attack myself!"

"The second town of the National Defense Forces listens to the order. The first and second battalions are mainly attacking the front. Remember that you are a feint attack. The third and fourth battalions are mainly attacking the north side of the enemy's position. Charge immediately after the artillery fire ends!"

"Yes!"

Half an hour later, the offensive started again. The first and second battalions launched the attack under the cover of [-] artillery pieces, while on the north side, forty artillery pieces were concentrated for bombing.

Fu Zhulong soon realized that the front was a feint, and personally led 1000 people to support the northern position.

Zhang Yunyi saw that the firepower of the Qing soldiers in the frontal position had weakened, and ordered: "The third battalion and the fourth battalion charge forward, blow the charge!"

(End of this chapter)