The ice rain stopped in early spring, and the troops of the Han King's Central Army set off.When they arrived in Guizhou City, it was the Lantern Festival. After everyone finished eating Fuyuanzi made of glutinous rice, the New Year was over.
There are numerous mountains and forests on all sides of Guizhou City.
So Zhu Gaoxu ordered that some of the troops be hidden in the mountains and forests everywhere, so that the enemy army could not figure out how many troops he had to siege the city; then mobilized the Zuoye and Youye armies to advance eastward with great fanfare and approach Liu Ying's troops.
After the deployment was made, only the generals of the Han King's Central Army were clear that Liu Ying's troops would reach more than 40,000; while there were more than 80,000 people around Guizhou City.
...It was only the third day after the army arrived in Guizhou City, but the fortifications on all sides had begun to take shape.
The circumference of the Guizhou city wall is about eight or nine miles, but the siege fortifications are 700 steps away from the city wall, so it is more than ten miles long.
The fortification structure is not complicated. A trench with rammed earth forming a waist wall. Now people are building fences and building them with bamboo and wood on the wall of the earth; every 100 steps, camp gates, arrow towers and watchtowers are also built.
In the military camp in the distance, craftsmen who assembled Huihuans and catapults were busy, and the progress of logging and building cloud ladders was also underway.
Before coming to Guizhou, Zhu Gaoxu knew that he wanted to conquer the city.
Siege requires carrying a large number of arrows, ammunition and tools, so we cannot bring heavy artillery to avoid storming the speed of the march.
It took a while before Qu Neng would come to transport heavy artillery from Chongqing Prefecture.
boom!A huge cannon sound came from a distance, and some soldiers straightened their waists and turned their heads to look into the distance.Soon, the general's shouts and scolding came: Work quickly!
While running, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the direction where the sound of cannons came.
There is white smoke in a place on the city wall, and it should be that there is fire.
However, it has no effect. Even the Hongwu cannon with the farthest range cannot pose much threat to targets one and a half miles away.
The fortifications of the Han Wangjun were filled with dust everywhere.
In a trance, Zhu Gaoxu felt that people were building river dams or building the foundation of a palace city.
And the sporadic cannon fire did not add much of the atmosphere of the battlefield. After all, in Zhu Gaoxu's experience, construction sites would also fire firecrackers and explode mountains.
Zhu Gaoxu held the horse and withdrew his gaze, he saw many soldiers nearby looking at him; with the supervision of the generals, the brothers did not stop their work.
However, there was also a man looking at a wooden stake in front of him very attentively and did not notice Zhu Gaoxu at all.
Hey... The man opened his mouth and shouted, waved his hammer, and smashed it on the wooden stake with a clang.People who do this kind of work will scream, which is said to reduce internal injuries caused by some huge vibrations.
It was chilly during the cold spring season, but the man's shirt was open, sweat flowing on his black and yellow chest muscles, and water shining in the bright sunshine.
Zhu Gaoxu looked over his faces and thought that many of them would die in the next few days. While he was thinking about who would die, he felt a little uncomfortable.
The ancients said that Ci did not take charge of soldiers, which is probably the reason.
He not only had to consider how many people would die in siege, but also how much time could Liu Ying and Sheng Yong delay on their respective battlefields!
On the battlefield, whether time is important or life is important is an difficult problem.
Zhu Gaoxu raised his head again, squinted his eyes and looked at the dazzling sun on his head.
A little bird flew towards Guizhou City in the sky.The gray-blue sky is too broad and the eyes are too eye-catching. If you are not careful, it will be difficult for people to see the bird.
Just then, a neighing... a horse scream came.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, a knight strangled his mount and fled down from the horse's back. He stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: Prince, people have sent people to see the trestle within twenty miles, and almost all the enemy soldiers have withdrawn!
Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly and thought to himself: Guizhou City defenders are insufficient, and they are shrinking their defense line as much as possible.
The knight said again: But only Qingyantun in the south has not retreated, and he set up defenses behind closed doors and shot arrows at our scouts.
knew.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.
The knight bowed and returned to his mount.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the almost invisible bird above the city, and his imagination was stimulated: maybe the bird was a pigeon raised in Guizhou City; the news outside was sent to Qingyantun, and the news was tied to the pigeon's legs and let it go. The pigeon would return to Guizhou City automatically as if it had set up a program.
This is not surprising. Even people are instilled in the procedures of loyalty, filial piety, morality, and highness.
Therefore, as long as the Qing Qing people have a little way to survive, even if they are forced to escape into the mountains and forests and become savages, they are rarely willing to revolt.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and saw Zhao Ping riding a horse behind him. He said: Zhao Ping, please transfer the troops from our headquarters to pull out Qingyantun!
Zhao Ping did not ask the reason at all, and clasped his fists and said: The last general is in charge!
He has been promoted to deputy general of the Western Route Army. This young man who failed the imperial examination and was originally given to Zhu Gaoxu as a horseman, has climbed very quickly.
However, even the hundreds of household officials who were captured in the Jingnan Campaign can be the governor, and it is nothing wrong for the groom to be the deputy general.
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of Zhao Ping's background and current official position, he couldn't help but say: By the way, I asked you to destroy Qingyantun, because Qingyantun is most likely the stronghold for the enemy to convey information.All so many troughs within a radius of twenty miles have been withdrawn, but it may not be accidental that Qingyantun is left behind.
Zhao Ping bowed seriously, made a sound, turned his horse's head and left.
The city tower walls in the distance are flying flags and swords and guns.
Zhu Gaoxu estimated that the defenders had only 20,000 to 30,000 people, which was not obvious... There were quotas for military households in Guizhou Dusi. Apart from Gu Cheng's troops besieging Kunming, the number of defenders could be roughly estimated.
...Gu Cheng, a Zhenyuan Hou in his seventies, has a total of eight sons.
When Gu Cheng surrendered to the Yàn Palace in Peiping, Emperor Jianwen killed four of his sons, including the eldest son.
There were still four sons left to serve as officials in the Guizhou Dusi. At that time, after the Jianwen court punished the people, they didn't care about the people so far away, so they survived.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu speculated that the chief general of the defender in Guizhou City might be Gu Yong, the second son of Gu Cheng.
Zhu Gaoxu knew nothing about Gu Cheng's son, and he couldn't even know whether Gu Yong was the governor of Guizhou.
Gu Cheng had been guarding Guizhou for many years before the Jingnan Campaign, and Yongle began to preside over the military and political affairs of Guizhou Metropolitan.
Such nobles who have always been a rank of officials in the same place will easily become personal dependent on them.
So last year, Gao Chi had not ascended the throne, so Gu Chengru dared to openly intercept the guards of the Han Palace.
Even if the Han Palace’s detailed works have to pass through Guizhou, I am extremely careful and if I can do it, I will do it.
So Zhu Gaoxu had no idea how to start and found an insider in Guizhou City; he didn't even know much about Guizhou.
There are no more people like Huayang County Prince and Wan Quan in Guizhou City... Some strategies are indeed hard to come by, and they can only be done by chance, and have little to do with the commander's wisdom.
How should we attack Guizhou City now?Zhu Gaoxu was planning a long time ago, and he had thought of many ways.
The city gate is a relatively easy place to break, but the Guizhou defenders are clearly defending the city gate, and the city gate may be blocked by stones; even if the Yuecheng Gate is broken, it will not be easy for the army to cross the stones, and they will have to become a turtle in the jar in Yuecheng and besieged by the enemy on all four walls.
Zhu Gaoxu also considered digging tunnels to seal the gunpowder inside and blowing up the city wall.
But is the foundation of Guizhou City soil or rock?
He didn't know.
Even if it is soil, it will take a long time to dig the tunnel.
The city wall was blown up, and black gunpowder was not explosives after all. The countless stones and large amounts of rammed earth wrapped at the bottom of the Guizhou city wall will definitely be piled up in the gap.
The Ming army, who had long been used to gunpowder, also knew what was going on, and then both sides would continue to consume their troops in the difficult gap... If the defenders of Guizhou City were not 20,000 to 30,000, but 200,000 to 300,000, Zhu Gaoxu might try to blow up the city wall.
What can I do if I was a major city in the Ming Dynasty, the rammed earth city wall was usually twenty meters thick at the bottom. I held a black gunpowder weapon?
The solution Zhu Gaoxu can think of at present is to waste the defenders to death!
It’s not that he is not in a hurry, but that he only thinks of this method, which makes him feel more aware of the current affairs.
Zhu Gaoxu thought it was an unwise method to climb on the siege as soon as he came up.Good luck may make it work, but most of the time it is a waste of troops.
Zhu Gaoxu could easily think that at the beginning of the battle, the defenders' organizational, physical strength and weapon preparation were sufficient; and the defenders had a city wall of more than two meters high, and there would be no danger of field queue collapse.
However, any solid fortification must be defended by people; otherwise, the city walls above two feet high cannot be stopped at all, and even twenty feet high, there is a way to climb up!
I'm afraid that only when the defenders are exhausted, lack of troops, and have low morale will it be the time to launch a fatal strong attack!
The circumference of Guizhou City Wall is about eight or nine miles, or about four thousand meters.
At an average distance of every five meters on the city wall, if one enemy army can be killed in a day or one enemy army loses its combat effectiveness, it can consume about one thousand defenders every day.
If this effect can be achieved.
Ten days later, nearly half of the troops of 20,000 to 30,000 defenders will be exhausted and physically exhausted. At this time, the possibility of weak omissions in a certain place on the city defense front that is nearly ten miles long increases.
The Han Wangjun seized the fighter plane and ants to attack the city, and it was very likely that he would find a breakthrough.
The key point is what method to consume?How many lives should be used to exchange enemy troops!It also includes the consumption of morale and confidence between both sides.
...But Gu Cheng, who is under Kunming City, will face the same problem now, and the opponent who will be exhausted is Sheng Yong.
Even Gu Cheng didn't come back to rescue Guizhou, and he was obviously going to be ruthless.Zhu Gaoxu has no reason to admit defeat, he must bet against Gu Cheng!Everything is possible. If you are willing to accept the loss, it depends on who can't stand it first.
There are numerous mountains and forests on all sides of Guizhou City.
So Zhu Gaoxu ordered that some of the troops be hidden in the mountains and forests everywhere, so that the enemy army could not figure out how many troops he had to siege the city; then mobilized the Zuoye and Youye armies to advance eastward with great fanfare and approach Liu Ying's troops.
After the deployment was made, only the generals of the Han King's Central Army were clear that Liu Ying's troops would reach more than 40,000; while there were more than 80,000 people around Guizhou City.
...It was only the third day after the army arrived in Guizhou City, but the fortifications on all sides had begun to take shape.
The circumference of the Guizhou city wall is about eight or nine miles, but the siege fortifications are 700 steps away from the city wall, so it is more than ten miles long.
The fortification structure is not complicated. A trench with rammed earth forming a waist wall. Now people are building fences and building them with bamboo and wood on the wall of the earth; every 100 steps, camp gates, arrow towers and watchtowers are also built.
In the military camp in the distance, craftsmen who assembled Huihuans and catapults were busy, and the progress of logging and building cloud ladders was also underway.
Before coming to Guizhou, Zhu Gaoxu knew that he wanted to conquer the city.
Siege requires carrying a large number of arrows, ammunition and tools, so we cannot bring heavy artillery to avoid storming the speed of the march.
It took a while before Qu Neng would come to transport heavy artillery from Chongqing Prefecture.
boom!A huge cannon sound came from a distance, and some soldiers straightened their waists and turned their heads to look into the distance.Soon, the general's shouts and scolding came: Work quickly!
While running, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the direction where the sound of cannons came.
There is white smoke in a place on the city wall, and it should be that there is fire.
However, it has no effect. Even the Hongwu cannon with the farthest range cannot pose much threat to targets one and a half miles away.
The fortifications of the Han Wangjun were filled with dust everywhere.
In a trance, Zhu Gaoxu felt that people were building river dams or building the foundation of a palace city.
And the sporadic cannon fire did not add much of the atmosphere of the battlefield. After all, in Zhu Gaoxu's experience, construction sites would also fire firecrackers and explode mountains.
Zhu Gaoxu held the horse and withdrew his gaze, he saw many soldiers nearby looking at him; with the supervision of the generals, the brothers did not stop their work.
However, there was also a man looking at a wooden stake in front of him very attentively and did not notice Zhu Gaoxu at all.
Hey... The man opened his mouth and shouted, waved his hammer, and smashed it on the wooden stake with a clang.People who do this kind of work will scream, which is said to reduce internal injuries caused by some huge vibrations.
It was chilly during the cold spring season, but the man's shirt was open, sweat flowing on his black and yellow chest muscles, and water shining in the bright sunshine.
Zhu Gaoxu looked over his faces and thought that many of them would die in the next few days. While he was thinking about who would die, he felt a little uncomfortable.
The ancients said that Ci did not take charge of soldiers, which is probably the reason.
He not only had to consider how many people would die in siege, but also how much time could Liu Ying and Sheng Yong delay on their respective battlefields!
On the battlefield, whether time is important or life is important is an difficult problem.
Zhu Gaoxu raised his head again, squinted his eyes and looked at the dazzling sun on his head.
A little bird flew towards Guizhou City in the sky.The gray-blue sky is too broad and the eyes are too eye-catching. If you are not careful, it will be difficult for people to see the bird.
Just then, a neighing... a horse scream came.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, a knight strangled his mount and fled down from the horse's back. He stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: Prince, people have sent people to see the trestle within twenty miles, and almost all the enemy soldiers have withdrawn!
Zhu Gaoxu nodded slightly and thought to himself: Guizhou City defenders are insufficient, and they are shrinking their defense line as much as possible.
The knight said again: But only Qingyantun in the south has not retreated, and he set up defenses behind closed doors and shot arrows at our scouts.
knew.Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand.
The knight bowed and returned to his mount.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the almost invisible bird above the city, and his imagination was stimulated: maybe the bird was a pigeon raised in Guizhou City; the news outside was sent to Qingyantun, and the news was tied to the pigeon's legs and let it go. The pigeon would return to Guizhou City automatically as if it had set up a program.
This is not surprising. Even people are instilled in the procedures of loyalty, filial piety, morality, and highness.
Therefore, as long as the Qing Qing people have a little way to survive, even if they are forced to escape into the mountains and forests and become savages, they are rarely willing to revolt.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately turned his head and saw Zhao Ping riding a horse behind him. He said: Zhao Ping, please transfer the troops from our headquarters to pull out Qingyantun!
Zhao Ping did not ask the reason at all, and clasped his fists and said: The last general is in charge!
He has been promoted to deputy general of the Western Route Army. This young man who failed the imperial examination and was originally given to Zhu Gaoxu as a horseman, has climbed very quickly.
However, even the hundreds of household officials who were captured in the Jingnan Campaign can be the governor, and it is nothing wrong for the groom to be the deputy general.
When Zhu Gaoxu thought of Zhao Ping's background and current official position, he couldn't help but say: By the way, I asked you to destroy Qingyantun, because Qingyantun is most likely the stronghold for the enemy to convey information.All so many troughs within a radius of twenty miles have been withdrawn, but it may not be accidental that Qingyantun is left behind.
Zhao Ping bowed seriously, made a sound, turned his horse's head and left.
The city tower walls in the distance are flying flags and swords and guns.
Zhu Gaoxu estimated that the defenders had only 20,000 to 30,000 people, which was not obvious... There were quotas for military households in Guizhou Dusi. Apart from Gu Cheng's troops besieging Kunming, the number of defenders could be roughly estimated.
...Gu Cheng, a Zhenyuan Hou in his seventies, has a total of eight sons.
When Gu Cheng surrendered to the Yàn Palace in Peiping, Emperor Jianwen killed four of his sons, including the eldest son.
There were still four sons left to serve as officials in the Guizhou Dusi. At that time, after the Jianwen court punished the people, they didn't care about the people so far away, so they survived.
Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu speculated that the chief general of the defender in Guizhou City might be Gu Yong, the second son of Gu Cheng.
Zhu Gaoxu knew nothing about Gu Cheng's son, and he couldn't even know whether Gu Yong was the governor of Guizhou.
Gu Cheng had been guarding Guizhou for many years before the Jingnan Campaign, and Yongle began to preside over the military and political affairs of Guizhou Metropolitan.
Such nobles who have always been a rank of officials in the same place will easily become personal dependent on them.
So last year, Gao Chi had not ascended the throne, so Gu Chengru dared to openly intercept the guards of the Han Palace.
Even if the Han Palace’s detailed works have to pass through Guizhou, I am extremely careful and if I can do it, I will do it.
So Zhu Gaoxu had no idea how to start and found an insider in Guizhou City; he didn't even know much about Guizhou.
There are no more people like Huayang County Prince and Wan Quan in Guizhou City... Some strategies are indeed hard to come by, and they can only be done by chance, and have little to do with the commander's wisdom.
How should we attack Guizhou City now?Zhu Gaoxu was planning a long time ago, and he had thought of many ways.
The city gate is a relatively easy place to break, but the Guizhou defenders are clearly defending the city gate, and the city gate may be blocked by stones; even if the Yuecheng Gate is broken, it will not be easy for the army to cross the stones, and they will have to become a turtle in the jar in Yuecheng and besieged by the enemy on all four walls.
Zhu Gaoxu also considered digging tunnels to seal the gunpowder inside and blowing up the city wall.
But is the foundation of Guizhou City soil or rock?
He didn't know.
Even if it is soil, it will take a long time to dig the tunnel.
The city wall was blown up, and black gunpowder was not explosives after all. The countless stones and large amounts of rammed earth wrapped at the bottom of the Guizhou city wall will definitely be piled up in the gap.
The Ming army, who had long been used to gunpowder, also knew what was going on, and then both sides would continue to consume their troops in the difficult gap... If the defenders of Guizhou City were not 20,000 to 30,000, but 200,000 to 300,000, Zhu Gaoxu might try to blow up the city wall.
What can I do if I was a major city in the Ming Dynasty, the rammed earth city wall was usually twenty meters thick at the bottom. I held a black gunpowder weapon?
The solution Zhu Gaoxu can think of at present is to waste the defenders to death!
It’s not that he is not in a hurry, but that he only thinks of this method, which makes him feel more aware of the current affairs.
Zhu Gaoxu thought it was an unwise method to climb on the siege as soon as he came up.Good luck may make it work, but most of the time it is a waste of troops.
Zhu Gaoxu could easily think that at the beginning of the battle, the defenders' organizational, physical strength and weapon preparation were sufficient; and the defenders had a city wall of more than two meters high, and there would be no danger of field queue collapse.
However, any solid fortification must be defended by people; otherwise, the city walls above two feet high cannot be stopped at all, and even twenty feet high, there is a way to climb up!
I'm afraid that only when the defenders are exhausted, lack of troops, and have low morale will it be the time to launch a fatal strong attack!
The circumference of Guizhou City Wall is about eight or nine miles, or about four thousand meters.
At an average distance of every five meters on the city wall, if one enemy army can be killed in a day or one enemy army loses its combat effectiveness, it can consume about one thousand defenders every day.
If this effect can be achieved.
Ten days later, nearly half of the troops of 20,000 to 30,000 defenders will be exhausted and physically exhausted. At this time, the possibility of weak omissions in a certain place on the city defense front that is nearly ten miles long increases.
The Han Wangjun seized the fighter plane and ants to attack the city, and it was very likely that he would find a breakthrough.
The key point is what method to consume?How many lives should be used to exchange enemy troops!It also includes the consumption of morale and confidence between both sides.
...But Gu Cheng, who is under Kunming City, will face the same problem now, and the opponent who will be exhausted is Sheng Yong.
Even Gu Cheng didn't come back to rescue Guizhou, and he was obviously going to be ruthless.Zhu Gaoxu has no reason to admit defeat, he must bet against Gu Cheng!Everything is possible. If you are willing to accept the loss, it depends on who can't stand it first.
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