The second type of red cannon is a heavy cannon, weighing about two thousand kilograms, and is suitable for attacking cities. Compared with the previous red cannon, this type of red cannon is not only about half more powerful, but also increases the range to Two miles is enough to deal with ordinary county towns and prefectures...
While the power and range have been increased so much, the weight of this type of red cannon has only increased by a few hundred kilograms. Although it is not very convenient to transport compared to the light red cannon and requires a dedicated transportation team, but It's not too much trouble.
The Type 3 Red Coat Cannon is the latest development of the Fengwu Army Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau based on the needs of attacking fortified cities. It is a super heavy cannon weighing more than 5,000 kilograms. This type of huge cannon is not only specially made for the cannon itself, but also Even the shells themselves are specially made.
Although this kind of giant cannon is very troublesome, to be honest, its power is worthy of its weight. In actual combat, for a city with a wall thickness of only half a foot, as long as this kind of heavy cannon hits, it only takes two or three shots. Blast a hole.
Even in the face of a fortified city like Yujing with a wall thickness of ten feet, one cannon can blast a hole. If you are lucky enough to hit seven or eight cannons in a row, you can also blast a gap in the city wall, which is absolutely devastating. A weapon to destroy the country!
In addition, the range of this giant cannon has reached an astonishing five miles. Of course, in order to improve the accuracy of the bombardment, it is best to shorten the distance.
This time, in order to seize Yujing City, the Fengwu Army also mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources, and brought five of these super heavy artillery and twenty Type II red cannons to Yuan Song's troops who were besieging Yujing.
Although the Type 2 Red Coat Cannon can also hit Yujing City, in order to ensure the safety of the artillery, Yuan Song still ordered the Type 3 Red Coat Cannon to be used for bombardment... ····
Because the shells of the Type III artillery are specially manufactured, the output of the Ordnance Manufacturing Bureau is not very high. Although under the order of Ye Mingsheng, every effort is made to ensure the supply of artillery on the Yujing front line, but due to the long distance and the difficulty in transportation, Due to wear and tear, not many shells were delivered.
However, Yuan Song didn't seem to care about this, and continued to bombard them with artillery fire, as if he wanted to harass the soldiers of the Henan Army in Yujing City, leaving these people with no peace for a moment, and their spirits were always under high pressure.
In Gu Shouting's view, Yuan Song's move was a waste of artillery shells. These artillery shells should be stored as much as possible and used until the full-scale attack, instead of using precious artillery shells to harass the enemy at this time.
Seemingly sensing Gu Shouting's confusion, Yuan Song smiled and said:
"These artillery shells will be useless as long as they get damp. The weather is fine now. When the weather gets colder and the humidity is greater, the non-combat losses of these artillery shells will be greater. So instead of letting these artillery shells get damp in the warehouse, It’s better to beat them out and kill them as much as you can!”
"The most important thing is that our commander has figured it out and does not want to attack Yujing!"
"In this battle between Hebei and Henan, our army annihilated nearly 100,000 Henan troops and suffered at least 10,000 casualties. If we attack Yujing by force, the casualties will be at least doubled. Our commander-in-chief does not want to pay so much. The price is high, so I want to stew Yujing City on a low fire, so there is no need to keep all these shells. Shoot them out to let the gang of turtles in the city feel the pressure... ·············
"There is indeed no shortage of food in Yujing City now. It can last for two or three months. However, there will always be a day when the food is exhausted. The cities around Yujing are all under the control of our army. When winter comes, we will have a place to live. So just spend time with them, Yujing is now a dead city and cannot turn the world upside down!"
Following Yuan Song's narration, Gu Shouting finally understood her intention and said with great sincerity:
"Master Yuan, you really have foresight!"
While Yuan Song and Gu Shouting were standing on the watchtower, watching the effects of the shelling, a man with a bandage on his arm on the city wall of Yujing was observing the Fengwu Army camp with a cold expression. This man was at Sancha Ridge. During the war, Gao Dingshan escaped from death!
In the Battle of Sanchaling, Gao Dingshan suffered a disastrous defeat and felt ashamed and angry. He wanted to die to apologize, but he wanted to kill his men but did not want to. Seeing that the situation was not good, he ignored Gao Dingshan's orders and forcibly took him back to Yujing. !
During the period of returning to Yujing, Gao Dingshan also slowly emerged from the shadow of the Battle of Sanchaling. Although his arm was injured when escaping from Sanchaling, Gao Dingshan was eager to take revenge on the Fengwu Army. During this period, He went into battle despite injuries and tried his best to organize and train the young men in Yujing City, hoping to turn them into qualified soldiers and strengthen Yujing's city defense.
Gao Dingshan is also very confident about the city defense of Yujing. In his opinion, Yujing is one of the most fortified cities in the Zhou Dynasty. The city defense facilities such as Wengcheng, moat and so on are all very complete. Although the main force of the Henan army has been annihilated by the Fengwu army, most of them have been wiped out. , but with the addition of young men, the strength of the Henan army to defend the city has also become sufficient...
And the most important thing is that there is no shortage of food in Yujing. Yujing's warehouses store hundreds of thousands of stones of food. This food is enough to feed hundreds of thousands of people in Yujing for several months!
Based on the above advantages, when everyone in Yujing City is in danger and worried about when the Fengwu Army will start to attack the city and whether Yujing City can be defended, Gao Dingshan is very much looking forward to the Fengwu Army's siege. He is eager to Seeing the Fengwu army smashed under the solid city wall of Yujing, their heads were bruised and blood flowed, the men were turned over, and the blood flowed into rivers. Only in this way can he avenge the annihilation of his entire army in Sanchaling!
The news that Xu Zhaojie led the Anqing Army to the north made Gao Zongchang and Gao Dingshan even more overjoyed. They urgently hoped that Xu Zhaojie could defeat the Fengwu Army and relieve the siege of Yujing, so that they could take advantage of the opportunity to recover the areas in Hebei Province that had been captured by the Fengwu Army. other places.
However, to the great disappointment of the Gao family and his son, Xu Zhaojie, who had high hopes for them, fled with a false shot in Fengqiu, leaving them in Yujing to defend the isolated city, while the First Army led by Yuan Song blocked Yujing and After contacting the outside world, they launched several tentative attacks on Yujing, but instead of launching a large-scale attack on the city as Gao Dingshan expected, they started a disgusting artillery attack... ········
At the beginning, Gao Dingshan led a group of people to ridicule the Fengwu Army's night bombardment, calling him a coward without courage. If the Fengwu Army did not dare to attack the city, they should get out and go back. Holding children at home.
Seeing that Yuan Song was not fooled, and his plan to let the Fengwu army bleed into a river of blood under Yujing City was about to go bankrupt, the anxious Gao Dingshan followed the example of the sages and sent someone to send Yuan Song a set of women's clothes and rouge and gouache. This time he mocked Yuan Song for being as timid as a woman.
Faced with Gao Dingshan's low-level provocation method, Yuan Song naturally would not be fooled. He still went his own way and did not attack the city. He continued to bombard Yujing City irregularly, although this bombardment did not cause any major damage to the soldiers of the Henan Army defending the city. The most damage caused by the explosion was only more than 80 people, but if it could not be sustained for a long time, the feeling of being beaten passively without being able to fight back would do a lot of damage to the morale of the defenders!
In this regard, Gao Dingshan had not thought about destroying the artillery positions of the Fengwu Army. He sent death squads to attack at night three times in a row. However, Yuan Song had long been on guard against this attack. These three night attacks were without exception, all were done by meat buns. The dog never returned. Not only did it fail to blow up a single cannon of the Fengwu Army, but it damaged thousands of elite death warriors.
Although judging from the current total number of troops in Yujing, the death of thousands of people is nothing to the Henan Army, but you must know that although there are many troops in Yujing now, 70 to 80% of them are young and strong, and there are no elite veterans. There are not many, and only veterans can succeed in carrying out such a night attack mission. If those young and strong people who were small traders, farmers, and craftsmen a month ago dare to do this kind of work, it is simply giving away their heads. Other than that, There will be no results other than...
With the lessons learned from these three failed night attacks, although Gao Dingshan was very angry at the Fengwu Army's artillery bombardment, he also learned from the experience and did not dare to send troops out to attack the Fengwu Army's artillery positions at night. He would rather suffer some blow to morale. I don't want to let the few veterans under my command lose their lives anymore.
Although Yujing has never suffered a big blow, and the originally fearful people in the city have gradually settled down, Gao Dingshan's heart has become impatient. After this confrontation over time, he has gradually seen clearly that Fengwu The Fengwu Army's strategy is that the Fengwu Army wants to slowly kill Yujing.
Although the Fengwu Army blocked the passage between Yujing and the outside world, it could not block the exchange of information between Yujing and the outside world. Through flying pigeons to pass messages, Gao Dingshan already knew that the Fengwu Army had controlled the Hebei and Henan tracts including Fengqiu. Land, it won't be long before the Fengwu Army will occupy the entire territory of Hebei and Yu except Yujing, and by then Yujing will be reduced to an isolated city.
Although there is no shortage of food in Yujing now, it cannot get replenishment from the outside world. No matter how much food there is in the city, it will eventually be exhausted. Previously, the father and son Gao Zongchang and Gao Dingshan had hoped that the arrival of winter would allow Fengwu to The Fengwu army retreated, but now the Fengwu army has captured all the towns and cities around Yujing. When winter comes, they can spend the winter wherever they want and continue to block Yujing.
In this way, the strong city of Yujing will collapse sooner or later. When he realized this, Gao Dingshan felt very painful in his heart. The Fengwu Army's tactics were like cutting flesh with a blunt knife. I will execute you bit by bit...
You clearly know what he wants to do but are unable to stop it. You can only watch yourself getting weaker day by day!
Regarding the current situation, the father and son Gao Zongchang and Gao Dingshan had very serious differences. Gao Dingshan, who was only thirty-one years old this year, was full of blood. He could not accept this oppressive way of death, so he wanted to take advantage of Yu Yu's life. When the army still has the strength to fight, they go out of the city to fight Yuan Song outside the city. Even if they die, they must die vigorously. They cannot be so depressed and useless!
But Gao Zongchang, who was old and frail, wanted to wait for change and wait until the last moment to see if God would favor them! Whether he could wait until Ye Mingsheng contracted a serious illness and died suddenly, or some other black swan incident, although his father did not say it explicitly, Gao Dingshan knew in his heart that the matter had come to this, and his father no longer wanted to fight the Fengwu Army!
So I thought to see how lucky I was in the end. If I were lucky enough to wait until the Fengwu Army retreated, it would be a pie in the sky. If I couldn’t wait, I would surrender and give Yujing City to Ye Mingsheng. Although Ye Mingsheng has always had an eagle Shilanggu is known as the wolf's ambition, but judging from the way the Fengwu Army treats prisoners and Ye Mingsheng's usual behavior, this wolf cub is not a violent person who kills everyone.
In addition, there is no life-and-death feud between the Gao family and Ye Mingsheng, and it will not really come to the point of death. Therefore, as long as the Gao family expresses its willingness to surrender and is willing to peacefully hand over Yujing City, then Ye Mingsheng will have an 80% chance. Jiu will not embarrass them, and it is not impossible to send gifts out of the country. At worst, he can become a rich man, and the safety of the whole family is guaranteed... ···
Although I really don't want to admit it, the reason in my heart also tells Gao Dingshan's father's idea that it is the best choice for their family at present. In this troubled world, it is best to be able to sit on the position of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. If not, then... Retreat and settle for the next best thing.
Although he was still unwilling to give up and wanted to fight the Fengwu Army and fight for a glimmer of hope in the desperate situation, Gao Dingshan's attitude gradually softened and he was ready to acquiesce to his father's plan and resign himself to fate to see the Gao family and his son. How's your luck!
Perhaps it was God's fate that allowed Gao Dingshan to really wait for an opportunity. Just yesterday, when Gao Dingshan drank a few glasses of wine to drown his sorrows, and then was about to find a concubine to vent his anger and resentment, he flew out of the sky. There is a piece of news in the book of pigeons. Cao Changping of Qilu sent 30,000 troops, led by veteran Duan Yanfeng, to help Hebei and Yu. Currently, the 3rd and 4th divisions of the Fengwu Army have been contained, including tens of thousands of troops!
Although based on past knowledge, Gao Dingshan felt that they could not defeat the Fengwu Army, the emergence of this news still caused ripples of hope in his heart, which was gradually dying.
According to Gao Dingshan's understanding of the deployment of the Fengwu Army, if the news is true, it means that he only needs to face the First Army of the Fengwu Army outside the city. As long as he can defeat this First Army, it will cause some series of events. A chain reaction, and the entire situation in Hebei and Yu will undergo earth-shaking changes!
Since there is no end to the road and God has given him the opportunity, Gao Dingshan must seize it and never give up until the last moment... ········
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