Yang Erdong suddenly saw hope and shouted: "Mr. Yi is here!"
A shower of arrows fell on the heads of the rebel soldiers. The originally very rampant rebel soldiers were killed and wounded, and there was chaos. An officer led about a hundred soldiers armed with bows and arrows, and shouted at the rebels: "Only kill the chief culprits, never ask for threats, surrender soon!"
Yi Haoran only felt that his right arm was very sore. He hadn't used a knife in several years. After all, he was getting old. Although some of the family traditions he learned when he was young were still there, their power was not as good as before. He originally wanted to go out of town to supervise the battle at the Bangshan position, but seeing the fierce artillery fire from the Australians, he was afraid that the morale of the people in the city would collapse and they would break into chaos. So he took Xiong Wencan's supervision team and suppressed them everywhere, and then suppressed them.
Seeing that he was saved, Chang Qingyun felt relieved, and immediately couldn't support himself and collapsed to the ground. Panting, my mind went blank. The servants also had the fear of surviving the disaster and saving their lives - finally they could survive until dinner time.
"You should take Mr. Chang back to the government office first!" Yi Haoran ordered.
After that, he pulled the reins and pulled the horse's head to the south. He looked up and saw that 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 Mountain have been standing ready, but after half of the afternoon, there was no movement from the Kun Thieves. Except for a few of their cannons that fired a few shells at the Bangshan position in vain from time to time, the Kun Thieves The infantry just formed an army outside the firing range of Bangshan garrison.
In addition to the three hundred servants led by Jiang Suo, there were also eight hundred elite soldiers stationed on Bangshan, led by Qian Zong Song Ming, who had narrowly escaped death in Chengmai. Nominally, Song Ming is the supreme commander of the Bangshan garrison. But in fact, Song Ming could not command the servants led by Jiang Suo. In many matters, he had 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 was well versed in the military science of the Kun thieves, he was just a "soldier" to the Kun thieves and had no experience or ability to command large armies in combat. He rashly handed over a thousand people to his command, let alone fighting, just arranging movements. It's not something Jiang Suo can do.
Although Song Ming is young, he is a "veteran" and has practical experience in leading troops. After the Chengmai War, because his main general died in battle, he was reduced to a "waste general" and was idle for a long time. It was not until Xiong Wencan began to reorganize Guangdong's armaments that he revived.
He was able to lead troops, had experience in fighting against bandits, and had been favored by Xiong Wencan. After careful consideration, Xiong Wencan selected him as the leader 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 and Jiang Suo to cooperate - after all, how will the Kun thief come over? Jiang Suo, a guy who has served as a soldier in Australia, is better than Song Ming. It will be clear to Ming that the defeated army under this Australian will be defeated. If it were others, they might be arrogant and look down on this thief. When the time comes, Jiang Suo wants to go east, but he wants to go west, and there will be no need to fight this battle.
Although the battle at Bangshan was dangerous, as long as Song Ming didn't lose his life, he could win a small battle and be promoted soon.
But what Jiang Suo had in mind was not promotion and wealth. Although there are now more than 1,100 people stationed on Bangshan Mountain: 100 Nanyang-style riflemen, 200 turtledove gunmen, and another 800 mixed archers and firearms Troops of warriors with hands and spearmen. When it comes to firearms, the Ming army on Bangshan already had turtle dove guns imitated by Xiong Wencan - this was an imitation of the heavy matchlock gun widely used in Europe at that time. It was powerful and had a long range, and was often used in position defense.
In addition, there are four to five hundred "cannons" of various kinds on Bangshan Mountain, most of which are light French guns. Although the firepower is fierce, it is still not able to match one-third of the Australians. Now, relying on their geographical advantage, they made up for the lack of range and power of the weapons in their hands, and could barely confront the Australians, but the victory or defeat was between 30 and 70. There is a 30% chance of winning, which is already a high chance of winning against the strong Australians.
Jiang Suo didn't care whether he won or not - he didn't care even if he died on Bangshan. For him, fighting is just to settle the hatred between himself and the thief. It doesn't matter who wins and who loses.
Song Ming saw Jiang Suo's absent-mindedness, and according to Yi Haoran's arrangement, he stationed Jiang Suo and his 300 Xiong Mansion servants holding firearms in the second trench. Song Ming himself took the remaining 800 people to station. Inside the first trench. These trenches were built according to the topography of Bangshan Mountain. They not only referenced Professor Jiang Suo's Australian fortification construction methods, but also mixed Yi Haoran's experience in defending the city outside the pass and the actual combat experience of the generals, and even borrowed from the red-haired trenches. The way to build a city is just to use the method of building a wall to dig a trench.
After narrowly escaping from the defeat in Chengmai, Song Ming learned from the pain. From time to time, he reflected on why He Zhen's army was defeated by the Australians, but they were repeatedly denied the benefits of the Australians building a fortress outside Chengmai City. , and it lingered in Song Ming's mind for a long time.
The Australian fortresses are similar to those built by Hong Mao. They all built the city corners into sharp corners instead of square walls like the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the Japanese slaves also had a good way of building cities. The shape was not large, but they relied heavily on the geographical location. , often built against mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
About a year ago, Master Xiong quietly recruited a few Hongmao to teach gunnery in the army. One Hongmao not only taught artillery, but also presented a picture to Master Xiong. It was a picture of their Hongmao. Schematic diagram of building a castle. People who saw this picture and listened to the explanation in Cantonese by the red-haired man thought that the red-haired man built the city exquisitely. It is said that Mr. Xiong, who saw the sample drawing, originally planned to build a maple-leaf-shaped urn city at each city gate in Guangzhou in the style of the drawing presented by the red-haired man. However, after quietly doing some calculations, he suddenly felt that the cost would be huge, so he had to give up. .
Mr. Yi, who had been guarding the city outside the pass all year round, and Song Ming, who had seen the Australian fortress, were both lucky enough to see the red-haired man's painting. This time, under the leadership of Mr. Yi, the people were mobilized to build a trench on Bangshan. version of the fortress. Song Ming felt that if a castle was built according to Hongmao's method on Bangshan Mountain, then the castle would have the advantages of Hongmao and Japanese slaves in building cities, and it would be able to tightly lock the Guijiang River.
It is a pity that there is no time left, not to mention the huge amount of money that will be spent to build the city. Besides, what they have come into contact with now is just a little bit of Kun Thief. They don’t know how many powerful killing moves Kun Thief will have in the future. Thinking of this, Song Ming couldn't help but take a breath of air.
At this time, someone suddenly reported: "Many Australian soldiers are holding small shovels and don't know what to do."
After listening to this, Jiang Suo and Song Ming were distracted. Within a moment, they took out their telescopes and looked down the mountain.
Yang Zeng stretched. He had just taken a short nap. Yang Zeng had not had a solid sleep since last night. He was woken up in the middle of the night for a meeting and stayed open until dawn. After the meeting, he didn't sleep long and got up again to arrange the landing of the 8th Battalion. After all the troops were transported ashore and Zhushan was occupied, Yang Zeng ordered the troops to assemble to the west of Bangshan and ordered the messenger to notify the engineers to prepare. Engineer shovel.
While waiting for the messenger to return, Yang Zeng took a short nap on the marching chair, probably less than fifteen minutes.
"Are the engineers and soldiers ready?" Yang Zeng asked the messenger who had just returned.
"Everything is ready!"
Yang Zeng nodded, then took out his telescope and looked at the Ming army's position on Bangshan Mountain again. The Ming army dug two trenches. The first trench was an irregular quadrilateral with a short north and a long south, while the second trench was closer to a square. The shortest distance between the two trenches was about five meters, and the longest distance was almost ten meters. , connected by several passages. The outer perimeter of the trench was artificially piled high with sandbags, and three deer villages were set up. The Ming army dug these two trenches according to the standards for building fortresses.
Almost all the trees on Bangshan Mountain have been cut down, leaving the area bare and very open. Once a charge is launched, they will be hit by a mixture of bows, arrows and muskets, and are restricted by the deer village in front of the trench and cannot complete the combat mission in a short charge.
Judging from the terrain, the Ming army not only built convex corner fortifications, but also absorbed some practices of using terrain to build fortifications from Japanese mountain cities. Further increasing the difficulty of infantry assault.
After thinking about it, Yang Zeng decided to treat the other person in his own way and use trenches to deal with trenches.
After carefully observing the Ming army's position, Yang Zeng believed that a forced charge would cause heavy casualties. In order to reduce casualties, the only way to reduce the charging distance is to reduce the charging distance as much as possible, so digging traffic trenches to advance is the best option. So Yang Zeng ordered the engineers to prepare infantry shovels in order to prepare for digging communication trenches.
The engineer shovel equipped by the Fubo Army's engineers is called the 32-year-old engineer shovel. Yang Zeng didn't know that the 32-year engineer shovel was an imitation of the second-generation engineer shovel installed in the old time and space. Several veterans of the arsenal Originally I wanted to imitate the third-generation engineer shovel, but considering that many functions of the third-generation engineer shovel are actually unavailable to engineers in this time and space, and its complex structure makes it difficult for the existing industrial system to mass-produce qualified products. As for the first-generation engineer shovel, the veterans felt that its structure was too simple and its function was too single, so it was abandoned. Therefore, the second-generation engineer shovel copied from the Soviet Union's World War II engineer shovel 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 placed in a backpack, or the shovel head can be folded to 90 degrees and then tightened with the fixing bolts to turn into a small hoe. In order to facilitate the engineers to use the 32-year-old engineer shovel for fighting, the 32-year-old engineer shovel is bladed on one side and can be used as an ax for hand-to-hand combat when necessary. Some 32-year-old engineer shovels have one side made into a serrated shape to realize the function of a saw.
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