Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 443: Civilized Army, Take the Time to Persuade Surrender

Suna was worried about the future of Mancheng.
It turns out that today's young generation can do nothing and understand nothing.

All of these bannermen are literate and can write calligraphy.

We can find at least 500 people who can master the rhythm and tones of rhymes, but it is unlikely that we can find more than 3 people who can hit the target accurately from a hundred paces away.

He picked up an ox-horn bow and gestured:

"When the Han soldiers rush to within 30 feet of the city, you hide behind the city wall and shoot. Don't worry about where the arrows will fall, and don't pull the bowstring all the way out. Pulling % to % is enough."

……

Continue to patiently impart experience:

"The enemy soldiers are three miles away, so use the artillery to bombard them with solid bullets."

"If the enemy soldiers get within 2 miles, switch to shotgun fire."

"If the bandits come within a mile, shoot them with your guns."

"If the enemy soldiers get within 30 feet, just shoot arrows randomly."

"If the enemy soldiers' ladders are placed on the city wall, don't even think about pushing them down. There are hooks on the front of the ladders, so you can't push them down. Just throw bottles of lime and pour hot gold down."

Speaking of which,

Suna was suddenly stunned.
He felt that these young people would definitely not be able to handle the job of pouring golden juice, which was both interesting and dangerous.

He ordered:
"Go to the east and capture 500 young Han people, including those with families. Tomorrow you will supervise them with knives to do the work of pouring gold juice and throwing rolling stones. If they don't do it, kill their entire family."

"Whoo."

……

Suna spoke for an hour and drank three bowls of herbal tea.

At last,
He didn't want to go down the city wall, so he just dozed off in the city gate tower.

early morning,

He suddenly woke up with sweat on his forehead.

Just as I was about to get up, I heard someone shouting outside:
"The Wu army is attacking the city! The Wu army is attacking the city!"

The sound of warning cannons rang out along the city walls.

At sunrise,

After the Wu army had an unusually sumptuous breakfast, they marched out in full force, except for a very small number of soldiers who were left to guard the baggage.

……

Lin Chuan, a former Yingde County official, was excited.

Directing the civilians to carry various siege equipment.

not far away,
It is a slowly moving artillery group, with nearly 200 artillery pieces of various calibers.

Among them were 5 24-pound guns and 30 12-pound guns.

The mainstream is the 6-pounder.

Miao Youlin followed Li Yu closely and reported in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, a 24-pounder can only be moved 10 miles a day on the official road. If we encounter a mountain road or mud on a rainy day, it may be difficult to move even two or three miles."

Li Yu nodded,
These experiences will provide sufficient experience support for the future artillery configuration of the legion.

……

Given the current land road conditions,

The 6-pounder should be the mainstream.

If the caliber is larger, it will greatly slow down the marching speed of the legion.

Wu Jun's logistics relied heavily on shipping.

It is an advantage in areas with dense water networks, but becomes a disadvantage once you enter mountainous areas.

Miao Youlin asked in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, yesterday's rocket~"

"I have to tell you that we don't have many rockets this time. How many are left?"

The guard at the secretariat nearby quickly responded in a low voice:
"35."

Miao Youlin was somewhat disappointed.
He originally thought that the siege situation could be changed.

Methods such as heavy artillery bombardment, tunneling blasting, and ant-like siege are all outdated.

Thousands of rockets were fired from the sky, turning the city into a sea of ​​fire.

……

Li Yu didn't look back, but guessed what he was thinking.

Just cut off his thoughts.

Said:

"This thing is difficult to manufacture and the cost is quite high, so it cannot be mass-produced! It can only be used occasionally in critical battlefields."

"My lord, I understand."

In fact, Li Yu lied.

The iron shell of the rocket is a bit troublesome and needs to be knocked carefully with a small hammer.

The output is not high, but it is not that serious.

This test launch verified its power.

For a long time to come, the Wu army would not allow this kind of weapon to appear on the battlefield again.

The purpose is to keep it confidential!
The rocket has a very low technical content, with an iron shell body, three tail fins, and a long guide rod. It is a complete breakthrough in military concepts.

As long as it is used frequently on the battlefield, the enemy will definitely imitate it.

……

Therefore,
The best way to keep secrets is to not have any.

For the time being, let the world not realize that a weapon of enormous power has become available.

Yesterday,

The choice of the test firing in the evening, including the expulsion of irrelevant personnel within a hundred feet around the position, was all done in order to maintain secrecy.

When fighting the Qing army, there is no need to crush them by taking advantage of the generation gap in weapons.

Tian Ji's idea of ​​horse racing shines again.

……

I am not afraid of my friends being surprised, but I am afraid of their coveting me.

When the empire rises and marches into Southeast Asia in the future, there will inevitably be a fierce battle.

By the time,
Since the Wu navy’s warships could not make up for the disadvantage, they used ship-borne weapons to make up for it.

Winning a key naval battle at a critical time is enough to maintain military superiority in the South China Sea for three years.

Rocket shells are being produced normally, but are all in stock.

the above,

Li Yu had no intention of explaining to any of his subjects.

……

An infantry platoon of Wu's army set foot on Yuexiu Mountain.

His steps were slow, with ashes under his feet.

Because of incomplete combustion, sparks are still hidden in many of the ashes.

The air nearby was filled with a pungent, choking smell of sulfur.

There was a dead silence at the four artillery positions.

The soldiers climbed up the ladder and saw corpses piled up in various places on the fort, suffocated to death, with horrified looks.
Most of them were suffocated to death by smoke, and a very few unlucky ones were burned to death.

There were corpses upside down in the water tanks and corpses floating in the water cellars.

An artillery lieutenant climbed up the fort battlements and looked south at Guangzhou City.

All at a glance~
He covered his nose and announced loudly:
"Order 500 civilians to come up and clean up the bodies."

"Please ask the commander-in-chief to allocate an artillery platoon. There are still a few gun positions available in the four-sided artillery forts, which can provide small-scale support to friendly forces in attacking the city."

……

Because of the original design and construction by the Qing army,

The wall on the south side is higher and has no battlements, leaving only a few lookout holes.

This means,

If the gunners wanted to move the artillery fort to bombard Guangzhou, they had to first dig a larger lookout hole, enlarging the hole so that the gun barrel could extend out of it.

……

The first target of Wu Jun’s attack was Mancheng on the west side.

This is purely due to geographical considerations.

If they attacked the east side first, the army would have to bypass Yuexiu Mountain and take the official road further north.

Moving artillery and siege equipment over long distances is time-consuming and laborious.

Moreover, doing so would be equivalent to splitting the troops into two groups, which would make it difficult to provide quick assistance if something happened.

In summary,

The Wu army gathered together and attacked Mancheng directly.

The infantry stopped 4 miles away from the city wall, with flags flying and scattered around, with each square representing a battalion.

1 quarters of an hour later,
The advancing artillery passed the infantry.

Then they built an artillery position on the spot and forced the Hakka laborers to build simple crescent-shaped anti-artillery fortifications with sandbags.

……

Li Yu suddenly put down the telescope, pointed ahead and asked:

"Who is that?"

"He is a servant of Yingde County, Lin Chuan. During the siege, he rebelled and led his men to chop off the head of the county magistrate. He is now the leader of the Hakka civilians."

"Ah."

Lin Chuan was particularly active at this time.

Directing the laborers to build temporary fortifications.

At this time, the Qing army in Guangzhou could not bear the huge psychological pressure and fired first.
The 5000-jin-weight General Cannon spewed out flames, and under the huge recoil force, the gun carriage instantly moved back 1 feet.

A smoking iron ball bounced and smashed two civilians on the path into an indescribable mass.

Lin Chuan just took a look and immediately turned his head away.

He suppressed the churning in his stomach and joined the team in building fortifications.

at this time,

He had only one thought: to perform well, build a good fortification, and retreat alive.

Li Yu and Miao Youlin whispered:

"Hakka people seem to be more organized than ordinary people? Can they withstand pressure better?"

"Your Majesty has a sharp eye."

……

far away,

Zhao De, a Hakka gentry from Shaozhou Prefecture, and his two sons were also there to watch the game.

He stared at the Guangzhou city in the distance, his hands tucked into his sleeves and trembling slightly.

"Father, you said today~"

"The Wu army will win!"

Zhao De blurted out, his tone firm and excited.

He didn't know what his son wanted to ask, so he quickly interrupted his son's question.

The voice has not fallen,

The ground shook and the sound of the explosion was dull and long.

It was visible to the naked eye that the fortifications outside Guangzhou city were blown up into the sky.

but,

The city walls are still intact.

……

"Mozi"

Earth listening:
The defenders can dig up the ground and bury several large vats, cover the mouths of the vats with thin cowhide, and select people with good hearing to lie on top and listen with their ears tilted.

If the tunnel is dug about half a mile away from the city wall, it will be exposed.

The Qing troops in Guangzhou city defended the city strictly according to this method.

Both tunnels of the 5th Corps were discovered, and the Qing army resorted to digging tunnels horizontally, filling them with water and oil, and causing extensive damage.

finally,
The demolition battalion reluctantly gave up the plan to dig a tunnel under the city wall, and chose to blast outside Guangzhou, blowing up two fortresses.
on the city wall,
The Qing army was frightened by the violent vibration and a few people were injured, but that was all.

Guangzhou General Fu Min leaned out and looked at the big pit outside the city, then immediately retracted his head, ready to meet the Wu army's tidal attack~
……

"My Lord, look."

The water level in the moat dropped rapidly.

There was even a whirlpool on the river surface.

Fu Min didn't know what tactics Wu Jun adopted, he was just secretly frightened.

The Wu army's blasting battalion was stunned at this moment.

Because, somehow, the explosion just now had blown through the moat, and now the tunnel was full of sewage.

"Damn it."

Zhang Laosan, the officer of the 1st Expeditionary Army Camp standing next to him, felt relieved.

According to the original plan, part of the expeditionary force took a tunnel to the outskirts of Guangzhou.

He is very reluctant~
Even if there were artillery shells and bullets flying everywhere on the ground, he would rather walk on the ground.

What if the tunnel collapses?
Zhang Laosan would rather die in the sun.

……

Various siege weapons moved slowly forward under the push of the laborers.

At the front are 10 tall towers, which look like a square watchtower. Their height is the same as the city wall, and they carry musketeers on top.

Once close to the city wall, they can shoot to suppress the Qing troops on the wall.

The Qing army in Guangzhou fired frequent artillery fire and concentrated their fire on the tower vehicles.

After a while,
A building car was hit and fell apart, and the soldiers on the top fell down collectively.
Wu Jun’s artillery also began to counterattack, with a high hit rate.

Broken bricks flew everywhere, and the Qing army was frightened.

Lin Chuan silently prayed to the ancestors on both sides and resolutely picked up the bag of earth.

Shout out:
"Hakka brother, come on."

A large number of civilians, carrying sandbags on their shoulders, howled as they crossed their own artillery positions.

Half a mile forward,

Another crescent-shaped anti-artillery fortification was quickly built.

……

When the construction is completed,
Wu's gunners pushed the 6-pounder guns forward and stationed them in the new fortifications.

The ammunition truck followed.

According to the Artillery Manual, ammunition trucks will not be directly behind artillery trucks to avoid being in the direct line of enemy artillery fire and being completely taken away by a single shell.

If we look at it from the perspective of the Qing army, we would be surprised to find that the heavy artillery group at the back and the light artillery group at the front of the Wu army were not in a straight line.

This is to prevent sparks from the shells from falling on the gunner's head and the ammunition cart in front during artillery bombardment.

Based on the battlefield experience of Wu’s artillery,

This possibility does exist, and the sparks ejected from the muzzle are very obvious within 50 feet.

……

The Wu army's artillery shells were like a torrential rain, accurate and sharp.

The Qing army huddled together and hid behind their shields.

suddenly,

Wu Jun's artillery fire suddenly stopped.

A messenger with a conspicuous helmet and tassel rode alone to the foot of Guangzhou city, waving a small red flag and shouting a few words from afar.

Guangzhou General Fu Min asked in confusion:

"What is that thief shouting?"

Goshha next to him shook his head:

"It's too far away, I didn't hear it clearly, probably some words of persuasion to surrender."

Fumin burst out laughing.

At a time like this, it seems a bit inappropriate to persuade people to surrender, right?
So he ordered:
"Keep firing back."

……

When the gunfire sounded,

The Wu army messenger immediately lowered his head and turned his horse back to the camp.

Shouting:

"Your Majesty has ordered that our Wu army is a civilized army."

"We first persuaded them to surrender and offered them a chance to live. However, the Eight Bannermen stationed in Guangzhou were stubborn and refused to surrender."

"After the city is captured, all enemies who are unwilling to surrender must be resolutely eliminated, regardless of age, Manchu or Han, or male or female."

The 1st Expeditionary Army Commander-in-Chief Gan Changsheng raised his sword.

Take a deep breath,

roared:

"Break the whole city, kill, kill, kill."

The dispatched corps, whose total strength had rapidly expanded to 9000, was stunned for 2 seconds, and suddenly burst into thunderous cheers.

"Break the whole city!"

"Break the whole city!"

……

What is the best pre-war mobilization?

Killing~
The new army composed of captives had eyes that gradually turned red and their veins were exposed as they roared.

The original uneasiness was replaced by a rapidly expanding evil.

Conquer the entire city of Guangzhou,

After that, you can quickly integrate into the new group.

Zhang Laosan even took off his helmet and smiled happily with his old brothers around him.

The Eight Banners refused to surrender.

Good, very good.

The 1st Expeditionary Corps is full of perverts, they just like hard bones~
……

The roar was like thunder, falling into the ears of the Eight Banners soldiers standing on the city wall.

Everyone was silent and checked their weapons silently.

Even the flag bearer, who was usually the most cowardly, muttered:

"Fight."

……

The horn sounded, symbolizing the attack.
The 1st Expeditionary Corps, the phalanx began to move forward slowly.

Still a familiar recipe.

According to the time of joining the Corps,
The newer the recruit, the more he should stand in the front and face the enemy's artillery fire.

The more experienced the soldiers are, the more they should stand behind and be ready to join forces with the enemy to attack our new recruits at any time.

Very bad, very useful.

Such layers of pressure must be based on the Wu army's own strong military force, otherwise it will backfire.

The Wu army controlled guns, artillery and food.

Even if a dispatched army equipped entirely with cold weapons has 100 Lu Bu, they will be pinned to the ground and beaten if they dare to show their teeth.

……

If you open it the way a professional Olympic commentator would,

The battlefield situation should be described like this:
Dear Guangzhou Flagmen,
Now coming towards you are the cannon fodder troops of Wu State. They are full of fighting spirit, their eyes are bloodshot, their ranks are neat, and they swear to win the championship in this killing competition.

The phalanx of Qing prisoners of war in northern Guangdong marched in the front, and they were full of anticipation.

Following closely behind was the Jiangxi Qing army prisoner formation, who were full of confidence.

Behind them was the prisoner formation of Wu, fully armored and marching briskly.

Walking at the end is a phalanx of heavily-armored veterans who have survived a near-death experience. They are determined to defend the title and are ready to compete with your families in the city!
This competition will be very exciting~
it has started!

it has started!

(End of this chapter)