Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2105 Digging
Yang Erdong suddenly saw hope and shouted: "Mr. Yi is here!"

A burst of arrows fell on the heads of the rebellious soldiers. The rebellious soldiers who were originally very rampant were killed and wounded, and there was a sudden chaos.An officer led a hundred or so soldiers with bows and arrows, and shouted at the rebels: "Just kill the leader and the evil, don't ask the subordinates, and surrender soon!"

Yi Haoran only felt that his right arm was very sore, he hadn't used a knife for several years, after all he was very old, some of the family traditions he learned when he was young were still there, but their power was not as good as before.He originally wanted to go out of the city to supervise the battle at the Bangshan position, but it can be seen that the Australians fired fiercely, and he was afraid that the morale of the people in the city would collapse and they would become chaotic.So he took Xiong Wencan's supervisors and suppressed them everywhere, and this was considered to be suppressed.

Seeing that he was saved, Chang Qingyun felt relieved, and immediately couldn't support his body, and collapsed to the ground.Out of breath, I just felt my mind went blank.The servants also have the rest of their lives after a catastrophe, and they are afraid of recovering their lives-finally they can live until it's time for dinner.

"You guys take Master Chang back to the government office first!" Yi Haoran ordered.

After all, he turned the rein and pulled the horse's head to the south. Looking up, the afterglow of the setting sun made the sky red.

There will be a fierce battle tomorrow.Yi Haoran thought to himself.

Since noon, the soldiers of the Ming army on Bangshan have been waiting in full force, but halfway through the afternoon, the Kun bandits have not made any movement, except that their cannons fired a few shells in vain at the Bangshan position from time to time. The infantry only lined up outside the range of the Bangshan defenders.

In addition to the [-] family members led by Jiang Suo, [-] elite soldiers were stationed on Bangshan, led by Qian Zong Song Ming, who had narrowly escaped death in Chengmai.In name, Song Ming was the supreme commander of the Bangshan garrison.But in fact Song Ming couldn't command the servants led by Jiang Suo.In many matters, he still has to obey Jiang Suo's arrangements.

This kind of two-headed command naturally has hidden dangers, and it is also Xiong Wencan's helpless move.Although Jiang Suo is well versed in the military science of the Kun Bandits, he is only a "soldier eye" with the Kun Bandits, and has no experience and ability to command large forces in combat; he hastily entrusted more than 1000 people to command, not to mention fighting, but dispatching movements. Jiang Suo can do it.

Although Song Ming is young, he is a "veteran" and has practical experience in leading troops.After the battle of Chengmai, because the main general died in battle, he became a "disused general" and was idle for a long time. It was not until Xiong Wencan began to reorganize Guangdong's military equipment that he recovered.

He can lead troops, has experience in fighting Kun bandits, and has received the grace of Xiong Wencan.After much consideration, Xiong Wencan selected him as the chief general of Bangshan.

Because Song Ming has suffered from the Kun thief and knows how powerful the Kun thief is, it will be much easier for him to cooperate with Jiang Suo. After all, how would the Kun thief come? Ming, the defeated army under the hands of the Australian, will be clear.If it was someone else, they might be arrogant and look down on this gangster's surrender. When Jiang Suo wants to go east, he will go west, so there is no need to fight this battle.

Although the battle at Bangshan was dangerous, as long as Song Ming didn't risk his life and won a small victory, promotion was just around the corner.

But what Jiang Suo had in mind was not getting promoted and getting rich. Although there are more than 100 people stationed on Bangshan: [-] Nanyang-style riflemen, [-] turtledove gunmen, and [-] mixed archers and firearmsmen. and spearmen's warrior troops.When it comes to firearms, the Ming army on Bangshan has the turtledove blunderbuss imitated by Xiong Wencan—this is a copy of the heavy matchlock gun widely used in Europe at that time. It is powerful and has a long range, and is often used in position defense.

In addition, there are four to five hundred "cannons" of various kinds on Bangshan, most of which are light Francophones.Although the firepower is fierce, it is still less than one-third of the Australians.Now they take advantage of the geographical advantage to make up for the lack of range and power of the weapons in their hands, and they can barely confront the Australians, but the victory or defeat is between thirty and seventy.There is a [-]% chance of winning, which is already a very high chance of winning against the strong Australians.

Jiang Suo doesn't care whether he wins or not - he doesn't care even if he dies on Bangshan.For him, fighting is just to end the hatred between himself and the gangster, and it doesn't matter who wins or loses.

Song Ming saw Jiang Suo's absent-mindedness, and according to Yi Haoran's arrangement, he stationed Jiang Suo and his 800 Xiongfu servants armed with firearms in the second ditch, and Song Ming himself took the remaining [-] people to station in the Inside the first trench.These trenches were built according to the topography of the Bangshan Mountain. They not only referred to the Australian fortification construction method taught by Professor Jiang Suo, but also mixed Yi Haoran's experience in defending the city outside the customs and the actual combat experience of the generals, and even borrowed from the red hair The way of building cities and villages is nothing more than applying the direction method of building walls to digging ditches.

After narrowly escaping Chengmai's defeat, Song Ming learned from it painfully. From time to time, he reflected on why He Zhen's army was defeated by the Australians, and they couldn't afford the fortress built by the Australians outside Chengmai city. , is lingering in Song Ming's mind for a long time.

The Australian fortresses are similar to the castles built by the red hair. They built the city corners into sharp corners, instead of building a square city like the Ming Dynasty. , Often built on the mountain, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

About a year ago, Lord Xiong quietly recruited a few red hairs to teach gunnery in the army. One of the red hairs taught gunnery and also presented a picture to Lord Xiong. It was a picture of their red hairs. Schematic of building a castle.Those who have seen this picture, after listening to the red-haired man's explanation in half-baked Cantonese, all think that the red-haired man built the city exquisitely.It is said that Mr. Xiong, who saw the sample picture, originally planned to build a maple-leaf-shaped urn city at each city gate in Guangzhou according to the style provided by the red-haired man. .

In the past, Mr. Yi, who had been guarding the city outside the customs all the year round, and Song Ming, who had seen the Australian fortress, were both fortunate to have seen the pictures presented by the red-haired man. This time Shoubangshan, under the auspices of Mr. Yi, mobilized civilians to build a trench on Bangshan version of the fortress.Song Ming felt that if a castle was built on Bangshan according to Hongmao's method, then the castle would have both the advantages of Hongmao and Japanese slaves in building a city, and could lock the Guijiang River to death.

It's a pity that there is no time now, let alone the huge funds that will be spent on building the city.Besides, what they have come into contact with now is just the fur of the Kun thief, and it is not known how many powerful killer moves the Kun thief has behind him.Thinking of this, Song Ming couldn't help taking a breath.

At this time, someone suddenly reported: "A lot of Australian soldiers are holding small shovels, and they don't know what to do."

Jiang Suo and Song Ming, who were distracted, took out the binoculars and looked down the mountain after a while.

Yang Zeng stretched his waist. He had just taken a short nap. Yang Zeng hadn't slept soundly since last night. He was woken up in the middle of the night to have a meeting, which lasted until dawn.After the meeting, he didn’t sleep for long, and got up again to arrange the landing of the 8th Battalion. After all the troops were transported ashore and occupied Zhushan, Yang Zeng ordered the troops to gather in the west of Bangshan, and at the same time ordered the messengers to inform the engineers to get ready. Sapper shovel.

While waiting for the messenger to return, Yang Zeng took a little sleep on the marching chair, which took less than 15 minutes.

"Are the engineers ready?" Yang Zeng asked the orderly who had just come back.

"It's all ready!"

Yang Zeng nodded, took out the binoculars, and looked at the Ming army's position on Bangshan again.The two trenches dug by the Ming army, the first is a trapezoidal shape with a short north and a long south, while the second trench is closer to a square. The shortest distance between the two trenches is about five meters, and the longest distance is almost ten meters. , connected by several channels.Sandbags were artificially piled up on the outside of the trench, and three deer villages were set up. The Ming army dug these two trenches according to the standard of building a fort.

Almost all the trees on Bangshan Mountain have been cut down, and it is bare and very open.Once a charge is launched, it will be hit by mixed firepower from bows, arrows and muskets, and constrained by the deer village in front of the trench, it is impossible to complete the combat mission with a short charge.

From the perspective of terrain, the Ming army not only built fortifications with convex corners, but also absorbed some methods of using the terrain to build fortifications in Japanese-style mountain castles.Further increased the difficulty of infantry assault.

After thinking about it, Yang Zeng decided to use his own way to deal with his own body, using trenches to deal with trenches.

After carefully observing the positions of the Ming army, Yang Zeng believed that a forced charge would cause heavy casualties.In order to reduce casualties, the only way to reduce the charge distance is as far as possible, so the way of digging traffic trenches is the best option.So Yang Zeng ordered the engineers to prepare infantry shovels, just to prepare for digging traffic trenches.

The engineer shovel equipped by the Fubo Army is called the 32-year engineer shovel. Yang Zeng didn’t know that the 32-year engineer shovel was an imitation of the second-generation engineer shovel installed in PLA in the old time and space. Several veterans of the arsenal I originally wanted to imitate the third-generation engineering shovel, but considering that many functions of the third-generation engineering shovel are actually beyond the use of space-time engineers, and its complex structure, it is difficult for the existing industrial system to mass-produce qualified products.As for the first-generation engineering shovel, the veterans thought its structure was too simple and its function was too single, so they were also abandoned.Therefore, the second-generation engineer shovel imitated from the Soviet World War II engineer shovel in the old time and space became the only choice. The 32-year-old engineer shovel adopts the design of the second-generation engineer shovel with a movable shovel head. It can be folded and put into a backpack, or the shovel head can be folded to 90 degrees, and then tighten the fixing bolts to become a small hoe.In order to make it easier for engineers to use the 32-year-style engineer shovel to fight, the 32-year-style engineer shovel has a single-sided edge, which can be used as an ax for hand-to-hand combat when necessary.One side of some 32-year-old engineering shovels is made into a serrated shape, which realizes the function of a saw.

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