Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

There are quite a lot of discussions on the part of defending the city in the Chinese Art of War, but any kind of discussion will mention a point of view, that is, you should not just sit and watch the enemy besiege the city, but take the initiative to attack appropriately, so as to encourage the officers and soldiers who defend the city morale.However, this point could not be realized in the Battle of Anyang. Yinxiang could only watch helplessly as Xia Jun first dug a trench, then built a parapet, and then used cement to turn the parapet into a real city wall.

The main reason for Yinxiang's passiveness is of course that the Xia army has more soldiers and more artillery - more soldiers means that the speed of digging trenches and building parapets is fast enough, and the Qing army has no time to react. The Xia army has completed the siege around Anyang; More means that the Qing army will be bombarded by at least 150 artillery pieces no matter which city gate it comes out from. What makes Yinxiang most angry is that a considerable part of these artillery pieces were abandoned by the Qing army itself.

In fact, during the Northern Expedition of the Xia Army, Kangxi spent huge sums of money to build it, not counting the city defense artillery weighing several thousand catties on the top of the city and the green camp equipped with Hongyi artillery, Dafolang machine gun, and tiger squatting artillery. The Inner and Outer Firearms Battalion dropped more than 700 General Wucheng Yonggu Cannons and General Shenwei Cannons.

Regardless of the large caliber and excellent quality of these artillery pieces, they actually do not meet the Xia Army's equipment standards like those built and flag-made artillery pieces, so sooner or later they will only have to be returned to the furnace. Utilize their residual heat, among other things, at least those guns and gunpowder that also do not meet Xia Jun's standards must be consumed at one time, and Anyang is the best place to use them.

Naturally, the Xia army could also transport the captured Qing army's heavy artillery to Taiyuan, which was also undergoing a siege, but the road to Jin was not much easier than the difficult road to the sky. Spend as much as you can in the Battle of Anyang, if you really can't use it, then transport it to the next battlefield. [

"Next, the ministries will dig longitudinal trenches. After fifty steps, they will expand to both sides, and finally form inner trenches and parapets. At this stage, the artillery army should pay attention to preventing the Qing army from leaving the city." Sima, the army beside Sun Yu Engage in high-pitched arrangements. "The Holy Majesty is sympathetic to the soldiers and does not want to see any so-called sacrifices before the whole country is restored, but we must not relax. We must tighten the noose round and round, and finally put the cannon directly under the nose of the Qing captives." Army Sima After finishing speaking, he looked back at Sun Yu, the big man who was scheduled to enter the Privy Council nodded lightly, so Jun Sima gave orders for him. "My lords, please act immediately. There are thousands of cannons anyway, and you must not fall behind Taiyuan and sink the city."

Xia Jun got busy again. Seeing Xia Jun digging forward like ants, the Qing army couldn't sit still. Brother, Xia Jun is really disgusting. He wants to dig the soil to the base of the city wall instead of fighting the men head-on. This is not acceptable. Once their cannons are transported to the city, and the cannons on the city cannot hit them, Anyang will be in danger. Still have to attack."

"Attack? Xia Jun's artillery blocked all the gates. As soon as they went out, they bombarded the sky and covered the sky, and even the iron bumps were smashed. Let alone the boys are all meat." Hearing Darrow's words, He immediately shook his head. "Master Thirteen, this lack of security is Hai Ni's scheme to lure our troops out of the city, and they want to consume my guarding soldiers with artillery fire."

Thinking of the thousands of wounded soldiers waiting to die in the city due to lack of medical treatment and medicine, all the Manchurian civil and military officials shook their heads, saying that they couldn't fight the Xia army's artillery, but Daluo didn't give up. He suggested: " Why not attack at night, Xia Jun's artillery can't be so accurate at night."

Yinxiang thought about it, and felt that he really couldn't watch Xia Jun's trenches expand inward, so he agreed to the night attack.

After midnight, several city gates in Anyang were slightly opened, and groups of Qing troops quietly slipped out of the city gates, crossed the suspension bridge, and went straight to the Xia army's fortification area.Worried about a possible night attack by the Qing army, the Xia army took the troops back at night, so the Qing army appeared at the second trench that was still under construction, and then worked hard to remove the soil dug out by the Xia army. Backfilled it again.Seeing that the construction was almost completed, the Qing army did not follow the longitudinal trench and went straight to the breast wall of the Xia army, but turned around and fled, leaving only the mess of the place to the Xia army.

After dawn, Xia Jun stared dumbfounded at the fact that his several days of labor had been ruined overnight by the Qing army, and was annoyed, but Sun Yu ordered them to continue digging.Well, military orders cannot be violated, so let's continue digging.Of course, this time Xia Jun had a heart, and left an observation post on the front line at night in case the Qing army came to destroy it again.

The Qing army still came, and seeing Xia Jun digging for another three days and re-excavating the original damaged part, Yinxiang had to send out night attack troops again.As a result, Xia Jun didn't pay much attention to the guard post because it was only a crack when the city gate opened, but the movement of putting the suspension bridge was so loud that it was impossible for Xia Jun not to notice the abnormality.

So when the Qing army resumed the work of filling the soil, the Xia army immediately shot at the marked area.Since the Xia army has too many artillery pieces and can shoot wildly regardless of the cost, the area from the trench area to the front of Anyang city gate, which is nearly [-] Huaxia paces, turned into a sea of ​​flames. The Qing army had no time to escape when they left the city, and most of them fell on Under the artillery fire, only a small number of smart people decided to run to the corner, and then fled back to the moat after dawn to be rescued by the Qing army in the city.

It's just that this failure did not dispel the Qing army's plan to destroy the moat. Yinxiang quickly opened a few more holes in the Anyang city wall, sneaked out of the place where the Xia army's guard posts could not observe, and then used buoys to cross the moat. Break into the trench from unexpected places, kill the sentry and refill the trench.

Xia Jun quickly discovered the tricks of the Qing army, so he sent additional guard posts in more places and scattered some artillery, which soon made the Qing army's next attack fail.But Yinxiang, who refused to admit defeat, quickly changed his tactics. He first sent a group of sharp soldiers to sneak out of the city, swim across the moat, and infiltrate the edge of the Xia army's guard post. After all the sneak attacks were successful, he sent out a large number of troops to fill the trench Once again, Xia Jun's few days' achievements were completely destroyed.

As the saying goes, the Tao is three feet high and the devil is one foot high. When the Qing army resorted to attacking and killing the Xia army's posts, the Xia army responded by sending additional light and dark double warning posts. Therefore, a few days later, the Qing army sent troops to attack A painful blow.

Yinxiang was finally at a loss. The exchange ratio between the two sides was too disparate. The Qing army only killed dozens of people at a time when they killed the Xia army's guard post. The Xia army's shelling would at least cause the Qing army to lose 3000 to 7 people. There are only [-] people, and after three or four failures, more than ten thousand people have either died or been injured. How many times can he squander it next?

As a last resort, the Qing army in Anyang City could only watch as the noose that hanged itself was tightened day by day.

However, the Qing army temporarily stopped, and the Xia army did not do it yet.Therefore, as long as the wind direction and strength are appropriate, Xia Jun will light the Kongming lanterns and use the wind to send various promotional materials into Anyang City.These promotional materials include text, pictures, and the real achievements of the Xia army, as well as fabricated Kangxi edicts and the like.At the beginning, the Qing army was very nervous, fearing that this would shake the morale of the army, but later it became normal, and even regarded these propaganda materials as spiritual reading materials to adjust the boring life.

Since the promotional materials had little effect, Xia Jun took out new weapons.The so-called new weapons are rockets. Of course, this is not the kind of rocket that sticks a piece of cloth on the arrow and then ignites it to shoot out. paper, but the shell of the rocket is thin iron.However, it is precisely because of the heavy weight of the shell that the range is quite limited. It can only shoot fifty to eighty Chinese steps, which is far less than the range of the artillery.

Some people say that since it is not as good as artillery, why should it be installed, but this is Zheng Kezang's meaning, and the Ordnance Department of the Ministry of War can only make fun of it, but it has basically never been used after being equipped. This time it is the first early adopter in Anyang City.

On September 14, 120th year of Wucheng, Huaxia, which is the fourth day after Kangxi's death, the second trench of the Xia Army, which was 20 Huaxia steps away from the first trench, was encircled. After 150 days, the third trench, which was dug [-] steps forward, was completed again.It’s just that the part of the breast wall that was completed this time was not solidified like the previous two. Instead, it was carried by baskets collected from various places around it, and it seemed to be randomly piled under the muzzle of the Qing army.

230 Huaxia steps, converted into the Qing system, is more than two miles, completely within the shooting range of the Qing army's General Wucheng Yonggu cannon, so the Qing army immediately opened fire on the parapet.However, to the amazement of the Firearms Battalion inside and outside the Eight Banners, although the artillery fire scattered some of the soil baskets, it did not damage the main structure of the parapet, and the Qing army was limited by the limited amount of "medicine" and could not continue to bombard a pile of soil. I had to watch Xia Jun clean up at night, and the complete soil basket embankment reappeared the next day. [

Just when the Qing army in Anyang City was at a loss and thought that Xia Jun had used witchcraft, Xia Jun, who was on duty in shifts, began to dig forward again. This time, he dug forward another 150 steps, so that he was only a hundred steps away from Anyang. up.The feeling of the light on the back made the Qing army toss and turn. Unless it happened to enter the trench, the artillery would have no effect on the trench. Within the shooting range, it is obviously death.what to do?I had no choice but to wait for the heavy snow to freeze Xia Jun to death.

But to the disappointment of the Qing army, the snow had fallen, but the Xia army continued to dig the frozen soil regardless of the cold.

On October 26, the fourth trench was encircled, and the Xia army immediately dug several small traffic trenches forward.

Three days later, these deliberately dug one-person passages have arrived crookedly less than fifty steps away from the moat outside Anyang City. The Qing army can almost clearly see Xia Jun's movements when digging horizontally to both sides.But for such a small traffic trench, the Qing army, which had already turned a blind eye, only regarded it as an observation post in front of the Xia army, so it was not very vigilant. What is the difference between one observation post and one less.

On the night of October 29th, Xia Jun transported [-] new rockets into these launch positions that looked like observation posts.Four thousand rockets, evenly divided into eight launch positions, is only [-] rockets each, but the momentum of this new type of rocket is terrifying.When a group of ten rockets all took off into the sky, eighty fireballs appeared repeatedly in the dark night.

Some of these bolides flew low and hit the city wall, and then landed and exploded. Some flew high and fell into the city, causing a fire immediately. The most coincidental thing was that they hit the enemy tower and the watchpost on the city, and quickly turned them into fireballs. As a torch, it even ignited the gunpowder accumulated on the city wall, causing an earth-shattering explosion.

Seeing the power of the rockets is so powerful, Xia Jun's first-line shooters, who seemed to have got a fun toy, happily launched all the rockets in groups, and Anyang City was completely messed up

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