In early September, the temperature rebounded for a while, but the sun was getting farther and farther away from the earth, which is something that ordinary people could not change. The sun shining on people is no longer as hot as summer. It is the time when autumn is clear and cool.
The dry land and paddy fields near Jiujiang City are deserted, and only the army is seen outside the city, no farmers are seen.
This season in Jiangnan is not considered slack farming. Not only can you harvest a variety of fruits and vegetables, but you can also grow legumes. However, no one is willing to go to the battlefield to farm leisurely...
Are you a spy who inquire about military affairs?
Perhaps the countryside far away from the town is now working, and the scene will be completely different. After all, unless the army passes by, no one will be able to walk the lancet for a few days and go to the countryside to wander around.
Zhang Fu finally was willing to attack the city down-to-earth.
After several tentative attacks, he secretly ordered the inner responders to burn food, but he failed. It was obvious that the shortcut was not so stable.
Now he had no choice but to start the comprehensive project of siege step by step.
A mile away from the rebels' fortress outpost and city walls, a huge round of civil engineering is underway.
A long fortification is under construction, based on a wall built with rammed earth, and then fences are built with wood. There are horse piles outside, village gates, arrow towers, and artillery arrays in the middle. The fortifications on the eastern line wind from the Baishui Lake to the edge of the Yangtze River.
The ground was jingling and building, and the shirtless man carried heavy hammers to rammed the earth wall. People's shouts and heavy breathing blended with the hot scene.
Among the people coming and going were craftsmen and civilians, most of them were soldiers. They divided the work and did various tasks, transporting wood, dirt, piles and build fences, and the water-carrying and processing wood mixed together, which was chaotic and orderly. The soldiers turned into coolies and generals became foremen.
The Han people are best at defending and sieging cities, because soldiers all come from all walks of life, and the Central Plains civilization is at the leading level of the times in social development. Organizational and division of labor make people more suitable for fighting such complex wars, and soldiers can easily organize their division of labor and work...
It’s like the army of nomads is better at plundering and field battles, because the herdsmen who make a living on horseback can naturally ride horses and shoot arrows, and with a little combination, they will be a cavalry.
Everyone has their own strengths.
In fact, most of the army is working, not fighting.
Most of the troops going to fight were walking, transporting things, then building camps, collecting firewood, making fires, cooking, and doing these things; in a war that lasted for several months, there were very few people who really charged in the battle.
However, this kind of labor is naturally different from a pure construction site. There is a shot from time to time on the opposite side. It is just that the iron ball smashes the newly repaired things, but it is often a death.
Not only that, there were also large infantry and cavalry troops behind the construction site to guard against the opposing defenders rushing out to counterattack. Fortunately, the defenders had never attacked, but were just setting up artillery formations there to fire cold guns.
The official army is not easy to mess with, and it will also take revenge if it is bombarded.
They found that using heavy artillery long-range counterattacks did not have much effect, because they could only fire solid bullets at a distance of one mile, and were shot at high throwing angles. It was just a pit that was hit, and they were not accurate.
The officials and soldiers used ships to transport parts of Huihui cannons, set up positions in front of the fortifications, and threw away the flower bullets with Huihui cannons; this thing was used by the Tartars in the Mongolian Yuan period, and it was still useful after a hundred years. Especially after the Ming Dynasty carried out technical transformations and created flower bullets with latch mechanisms, its power was not limited to throwing stones and smashing the city walls.
The flowering bullet was hollowed out of a whole stone, filled with poisonous substances such as gunpowder and arsenic croton, combined with bombs and poison gas. When the stones hit the enemy's positions, they first exploded the fragments and injured people, and then splashed poisons, which was obviously better than solid bullets with one shot and one pit.
The Zhuque Army drank a pot, and then they began to dig trenches and pits. Here they used Huihui cannons to jump into the trenches to avoid fragments, and then sweep the poison into the pit and bury them. Because the fire rate of the rock-throwing machine's Huihui cannon was extremely slow, this method was not enough to cause too much impact.
Hui Hui cannons are also facing enemy artillery attacks. The target is too large and cannot move. They stand high there, unlike artillery that can be buried on earth wall sandbags; the Suzaku Army uses three cannons to deal with a Hui Hui cannon at the same time, and usually cannons be continuously adjusted to adjust the angle and fire three or four cannons in a row.
The battle has never stopped, but there has been no high-intensity battle in the past month.
In addition to the eastern line, the army on the southern route had already arrived in the south of the city and was also repairing fortifications there.
Some of the Southern Army troops went around to the west of Gantang Lake to camp, and then built fortifications on the narrow land corridor between Gantang Lake and the Yangtze River.
With such a repair, Jiujiang City has been completely blocked, and the only way out is from the Yangtze River in the north and the lakes on both sides of the east and west.
However, the surface of the Yangtze River is controlled by the government navy, and there are no ships or navy on the lake.
There is also an almost negligible road, Li Gongdi.
Legend has it that it was built by Li Bo, an official of the Tang Dynasty, which facilitates traffic and is also built to adjust taxes.
But this narrow passage is obviously easy to defend but difficult to attack.
……
Zhang Fu and two generals climbed up a dirt mountain outside the east gate of the city and observed the scenery in the city from afar.
This earthen mountain is also one of the artificial projects. There are four buildings far and near outside the city. The one that Zhang Fu came up is the highest and furthest.
If you fire a cannon here, you can directly hit the city head, which is slightly higher than the city wall. You could have built it closer so that small cannons such as the bowl gun can also be fired, but the enemy also has cannons, but if they get close, they cannot be repaired.
The heavy artillery of the bandit army can hit two miles at a distance, and there is also danger here. The British Duke will go down quickly.A general advised.
Zhang Fu waved his hand to stop him.
The two armies have been in a battle for more than a month. Zhang Fu has almost fully understood the performance of the rebels' firearms. The distance is more than two or three hundred steps. No matter what kind of gun it is, it has no particular accurate head, so it can only hit a rough one; it can be repeatedly fired and adjusted to hit the target, but it is almost impossible to suddenly hit the mountain one mile away.
Zhang Fu felt that if he was afraid of this risk, he would not have to fight, and it would be better to go home to take care of his old age.
After looking for a long time, he first discovered that the rebels had some characteristics, and there were many real bandits on the top of the city; and before, he saw on another hill that there were many Han Wangjun surrendering thieves on the fortifications of the ditch wall, especially in the northwest where the official army had relatively weak forces, there were almost all of them surrendering thieves in the ditch wall.
Zhang Fu guessed at least two points from this discovery: First, after the civil strife of Wang Zhiyuan's army, the rebels' trust in the King of Han's surrendered army had dropped significantly and were very cautious, and the loyalty and morale of the surrendered army should also be greatly reduced...
In addition, the Jiujiang Army is outside the city and can make good use of it, and continuously induce surrender to further weaken the rebels' forces.
Second, due to the completion of the fortifications in the siege, the rebels' fortifications in the ditches of the trench walls were no longer effective, and their defenses gradually turned to the city walls, so a large number of surrendered troops were deployed on the ditch walls.
At this moment, Zhang Fu discovered that a group of people had walked up to the top of the city wall, and one of them walked to the edge of the city wall surrounded by everyone.
The weather is clear and the air is clear and the vision is excellent. Zhang Fu could almost see the people on the city wall from afar...
Although he couldn't see his face and appearance clearly, based on his guess, he felt that the person on the wall might be Zhu Wenbiao.
Zhu Wenbiao used to be Zhang Ning, and he passed the imperial examination and became a Beijing official. It's a pity that Zhang Fu had never seen this person in the capital officialdom, and he didn't know what he looked like.
Maybe he had seen it on some occasion, but Zhang Fu was an important official of the Duke and the court for a long time. When Zhang Ning was an official, he was a 6th and 7th rank. There were so many such officials in the capital, so Zhang Fu could not pay attention to him.
But now Zhang Fu has to pay great attention to this person. In addition to his separatist Huguang and disrupting the world, Zhang Fu even has a respectful attitude...
Such an opponent deserves respect.
In Zhang Fu's opinion, this person is by no means an ordinary person in some aspects of military affairs. He was also a minority in the Ming Dynasty, which was full of talents, such as the application of weapons, military governance, and even some strategies.
As an insider, Wang Zhiyuan was arranged without any leakage, and the timing of his actions was very decisive. Just before, the army was approaching Jiujiang City, although Zhang Fu thought that this method was a trick, he thought that he was almost sure to win, but he still failed in the end.
Moreover, even Yang Shiqi defected to him. No matter whether he was voluntarily or forced, who was Yang Shiqi? If he had invaded the Green Forest, Zhang Fu concluded that Yang Shiqi would not bow his back even if he was desperate.
The other party seemed to be looking here, and Zhang Fu couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he could feel that he was looking at him.The two of them looked at each other from a distance, and Zhang Fu even thought that he was Zhu Wenbiao.
Zhang Fu, who was usually very serious and rigorous, developed a stubborn intention by chance.He raised his hand and pointed to a place east several times.
In the direction pointed, there is a beautiful view that Zhang Fu had discovered before, beside Baishui Lake.
There is an antique pavilion with orange-red trees and a layer of beautiful fallen leaves on the ground. From a distance, the clear water, exquisite pavilion, and bright leaves seem to have turned into a wonderful picture.
Zhang Fu pointed out that there was a very obvious meaning, just to tell Zhu Wenbiao: The scenery is beautiful.
When the army was approaching the city with tension, Zhang Fu told him that he still had the heart to see the scenery, which was to show a calmness and confidence, and a sense of determination that was inevitable to win.
Overwhelm the other in momentum.Zhang Fu touched his beard and continued to observe.The general next to him also looked at the pavilion with great interest following Zhang Fu's actions, but he didn't know why, he was as stupid as a rooster.
He hoped that the cannon on the top of the city would hit him, and that would reveal Zhu Wen's angry mood.Young people cannot withstand teasing, and it is natural for them to be competitive.
Unexpectedly, it was extra quiet at this time. If the opponent would usually fire cold guns from time to time, there would be no guns today.
Zhang Fu waited for a long time but there was no movement. The two continued to look at this, as if they were communicating silently.
Alas... Zhang Fu finally sighed slightly, turned around and called his followers to leave Tushan together.
The dry land and paddy fields near Jiujiang City are deserted, and only the army is seen outside the city, no farmers are seen.
This season in Jiangnan is not considered slack farming. Not only can you harvest a variety of fruits and vegetables, but you can also grow legumes. However, no one is willing to go to the battlefield to farm leisurely...
Are you a spy who inquire about military affairs?
Perhaps the countryside far away from the town is now working, and the scene will be completely different. After all, unless the army passes by, no one will be able to walk the lancet for a few days and go to the countryside to wander around.
Zhang Fu finally was willing to attack the city down-to-earth.
After several tentative attacks, he secretly ordered the inner responders to burn food, but he failed. It was obvious that the shortcut was not so stable.
Now he had no choice but to start the comprehensive project of siege step by step.
A mile away from the rebels' fortress outpost and city walls, a huge round of civil engineering is underway.
A long fortification is under construction, based on a wall built with rammed earth, and then fences are built with wood. There are horse piles outside, village gates, arrow towers, and artillery arrays in the middle. The fortifications on the eastern line wind from the Baishui Lake to the edge of the Yangtze River.
The ground was jingling and building, and the shirtless man carried heavy hammers to rammed the earth wall. People's shouts and heavy breathing blended with the hot scene.
Among the people coming and going were craftsmen and civilians, most of them were soldiers. They divided the work and did various tasks, transporting wood, dirt, piles and build fences, and the water-carrying and processing wood mixed together, which was chaotic and orderly. The soldiers turned into coolies and generals became foremen.
The Han people are best at defending and sieging cities, because soldiers all come from all walks of life, and the Central Plains civilization is at the leading level of the times in social development. Organizational and division of labor make people more suitable for fighting such complex wars, and soldiers can easily organize their division of labor and work...
It’s like the army of nomads is better at plundering and field battles, because the herdsmen who make a living on horseback can naturally ride horses and shoot arrows, and with a little combination, they will be a cavalry.
Everyone has their own strengths.
In fact, most of the army is working, not fighting.
Most of the troops going to fight were walking, transporting things, then building camps, collecting firewood, making fires, cooking, and doing these things; in a war that lasted for several months, there were very few people who really charged in the battle.
However, this kind of labor is naturally different from a pure construction site. There is a shot from time to time on the opposite side. It is just that the iron ball smashes the newly repaired things, but it is often a death.
Not only that, there were also large infantry and cavalry troops behind the construction site to guard against the opposing defenders rushing out to counterattack. Fortunately, the defenders had never attacked, but were just setting up artillery formations there to fire cold guns.
The official army is not easy to mess with, and it will also take revenge if it is bombarded.
They found that using heavy artillery long-range counterattacks did not have much effect, because they could only fire solid bullets at a distance of one mile, and were shot at high throwing angles. It was just a pit that was hit, and they were not accurate.
The officials and soldiers used ships to transport parts of Huihui cannons, set up positions in front of the fortifications, and threw away the flower bullets with Huihui cannons; this thing was used by the Tartars in the Mongolian Yuan period, and it was still useful after a hundred years. Especially after the Ming Dynasty carried out technical transformations and created flower bullets with latch mechanisms, its power was not limited to throwing stones and smashing the city walls.
The flowering bullet was hollowed out of a whole stone, filled with poisonous substances such as gunpowder and arsenic croton, combined with bombs and poison gas. When the stones hit the enemy's positions, they first exploded the fragments and injured people, and then splashed poisons, which was obviously better than solid bullets with one shot and one pit.
The Zhuque Army drank a pot, and then they began to dig trenches and pits. Here they used Huihui cannons to jump into the trenches to avoid fragments, and then sweep the poison into the pit and bury them. Because the fire rate of the rock-throwing machine's Huihui cannon was extremely slow, this method was not enough to cause too much impact.
Hui Hui cannons are also facing enemy artillery attacks. The target is too large and cannot move. They stand high there, unlike artillery that can be buried on earth wall sandbags; the Suzaku Army uses three cannons to deal with a Hui Hui cannon at the same time, and usually cannons be continuously adjusted to adjust the angle and fire three or four cannons in a row.
The battle has never stopped, but there has been no high-intensity battle in the past month.
In addition to the eastern line, the army on the southern route had already arrived in the south of the city and was also repairing fortifications there.
Some of the Southern Army troops went around to the west of Gantang Lake to camp, and then built fortifications on the narrow land corridor between Gantang Lake and the Yangtze River.
With such a repair, Jiujiang City has been completely blocked, and the only way out is from the Yangtze River in the north and the lakes on both sides of the east and west.
However, the surface of the Yangtze River is controlled by the government navy, and there are no ships or navy on the lake.
There is also an almost negligible road, Li Gongdi.
Legend has it that it was built by Li Bo, an official of the Tang Dynasty, which facilitates traffic and is also built to adjust taxes.
But this narrow passage is obviously easy to defend but difficult to attack.
……
Zhang Fu and two generals climbed up a dirt mountain outside the east gate of the city and observed the scenery in the city from afar.
This earthen mountain is also one of the artificial projects. There are four buildings far and near outside the city. The one that Zhang Fu came up is the highest and furthest.
If you fire a cannon here, you can directly hit the city head, which is slightly higher than the city wall. You could have built it closer so that small cannons such as the bowl gun can also be fired, but the enemy also has cannons, but if they get close, they cannot be repaired.
The heavy artillery of the bandit army can hit two miles at a distance, and there is also danger here. The British Duke will go down quickly.A general advised.
Zhang Fu waved his hand to stop him.
The two armies have been in a battle for more than a month. Zhang Fu has almost fully understood the performance of the rebels' firearms. The distance is more than two or three hundred steps. No matter what kind of gun it is, it has no particular accurate head, so it can only hit a rough one; it can be repeatedly fired and adjusted to hit the target, but it is almost impossible to suddenly hit the mountain one mile away.
Zhang Fu felt that if he was afraid of this risk, he would not have to fight, and it would be better to go home to take care of his old age.
After looking for a long time, he first discovered that the rebels had some characteristics, and there were many real bandits on the top of the city; and before, he saw on another hill that there were many Han Wangjun surrendering thieves on the fortifications of the ditch wall, especially in the northwest where the official army had relatively weak forces, there were almost all of them surrendering thieves in the ditch wall.
Zhang Fu guessed at least two points from this discovery: First, after the civil strife of Wang Zhiyuan's army, the rebels' trust in the King of Han's surrendered army had dropped significantly and were very cautious, and the loyalty and morale of the surrendered army should also be greatly reduced...
In addition, the Jiujiang Army is outside the city and can make good use of it, and continuously induce surrender to further weaken the rebels' forces.
Second, due to the completion of the fortifications in the siege, the rebels' fortifications in the ditches of the trench walls were no longer effective, and their defenses gradually turned to the city walls, so a large number of surrendered troops were deployed on the ditch walls.
At this moment, Zhang Fu discovered that a group of people had walked up to the top of the city wall, and one of them walked to the edge of the city wall surrounded by everyone.
The weather is clear and the air is clear and the vision is excellent. Zhang Fu could almost see the people on the city wall from afar...
Although he couldn't see his face and appearance clearly, based on his guess, he felt that the person on the wall might be Zhu Wenbiao.
Zhu Wenbiao used to be Zhang Ning, and he passed the imperial examination and became a Beijing official. It's a pity that Zhang Fu had never seen this person in the capital officialdom, and he didn't know what he looked like.
Maybe he had seen it on some occasion, but Zhang Fu was an important official of the Duke and the court for a long time. When Zhang Ning was an official, he was a 6th and 7th rank. There were so many such officials in the capital, so Zhang Fu could not pay attention to him.
But now Zhang Fu has to pay great attention to this person. In addition to his separatist Huguang and disrupting the world, Zhang Fu even has a respectful attitude...
Such an opponent deserves respect.
In Zhang Fu's opinion, this person is by no means an ordinary person in some aspects of military affairs. He was also a minority in the Ming Dynasty, which was full of talents, such as the application of weapons, military governance, and even some strategies.
As an insider, Wang Zhiyuan was arranged without any leakage, and the timing of his actions was very decisive. Just before, the army was approaching Jiujiang City, although Zhang Fu thought that this method was a trick, he thought that he was almost sure to win, but he still failed in the end.
Moreover, even Yang Shiqi defected to him. No matter whether he was voluntarily or forced, who was Yang Shiqi? If he had invaded the Green Forest, Zhang Fu concluded that Yang Shiqi would not bow his back even if he was desperate.
The other party seemed to be looking here, and Zhang Fu couldn't see the man's face clearly, but he could feel that he was looking at him.The two of them looked at each other from a distance, and Zhang Fu even thought that he was Zhu Wenbiao.
Zhang Fu, who was usually very serious and rigorous, developed a stubborn intention by chance.He raised his hand and pointed to a place east several times.
In the direction pointed, there is a beautiful view that Zhang Fu had discovered before, beside Baishui Lake.
There is an antique pavilion with orange-red trees and a layer of beautiful fallen leaves on the ground. From a distance, the clear water, exquisite pavilion, and bright leaves seem to have turned into a wonderful picture.
Zhang Fu pointed out that there was a very obvious meaning, just to tell Zhu Wenbiao: The scenery is beautiful.
When the army was approaching the city with tension, Zhang Fu told him that he still had the heart to see the scenery, which was to show a calmness and confidence, and a sense of determination that was inevitable to win.
Overwhelm the other in momentum.Zhang Fu touched his beard and continued to observe.The general next to him also looked at the pavilion with great interest following Zhang Fu's actions, but he didn't know why, he was as stupid as a rooster.
He hoped that the cannon on the top of the city would hit him, and that would reveal Zhu Wen's angry mood.Young people cannot withstand teasing, and it is natural for them to be competitive.
Unexpectedly, it was extra quiet at this time. If the opponent would usually fire cold guns from time to time, there would be no guns today.
Zhang Fu waited for a long time but there was no movement. The two continued to look at this, as if they were communicating silently.
Alas... Zhang Fu finally sighed slightly, turned around and called his followers to leave Tushan together.
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