"Deputy Commander, the artillery is coming!"
Some soldiers ran into Xing Chaoxi's tent with excitement on their faces.
When Xing Chaoxi, who was studying the siege with his officers, heard this, he raised his head, looked at the soldiers who came in to report the news, and asked, "Say it again? What's going on?"
"It's a cannon. It's a big cannon. I've never seen such a big cannon before." The soldier opened his arms as hard as he could to describe the size of the cannon.
Xing Chaoxi put down the pen in his hand, smiled and said to the officers in front of him: "Let's go and see the cannons that have just been transported to the camp."
"Why don't you just leave the artillery to the artillery team? Deputy Division Chief, why don't you go and pick it up yourself!" Zhao Wu looked at Xing Chaoxi with a puzzled look on his face.
The Tiger Flag shows off its power with firearms, and the most indispensable firearms in the army are blunderbuss and cannons. They, the officers in the army, are often exposed to various firearms, and some officers have even manipulated cannons themselves.
"The cannon this time is different. I asked the Navy specifically for it." Xing Chaoxi smiled mysteriously and walked out of the tent first.
Seeing this, Zhao Wu and others followed.
After leaving the tent, we came to the camp gate and found that the camp gate was crowded with people.
"Spread out, spread out. The deputy division commander is coming. Stop crowding around." Xing Chaoxi's guards drove away the surrounding soldiers and made way for Xing Chaoxi and others to go.
Before he could get closer, Zhao Wu took the lead and let out a sigh, saying: "Oh! Such a big cannon, I remember the nine-pounder wasn't this big!"
In the past, he followed Liu Heng and often went to the artillery field with him. He had seen many cannons, but this was the first time he had seen such a big cannon.
"This is a ship's cannon. I asked the navy to unload one from the ship, specifically for attacking Jinzhou City." Xing Chaoxi grinned and stroked the barrel of the cannon with his hand.
Just transporting this cannon from the sea took a lot of effort.
If Jinzhou City was not far from the coast, transporting such a large cannon would have been a troublesome matter.
"So this is a ship cannon!" Zhao Wu touched the cold cannon body with his hand.
He was a battalion commander in the army. Although he had taken navy ships to various islands, he had never entered the cabin to see what the ship's guns looked like.
In his eyes, the ship's cannon was no different from the cannons he had seen in the artillery field in the past, at most a little bigger.
But this time, when I looked at it, I saw that it was much bigger.
In the past, what I saw at the Daqingshan artillery field were field artillery and city defense artillery. Since there was no sea around, there was no need to cast such a large ship cannon.
"If this cannon goes down, the city wall will collapse!" Qin Xiaozhan circled around the ship cannon in front of him at the third battle barracks.
He knew the power of ship cannons, but he had never used ship cannons to blast a city wall.
Zhao Wu on the side nodded in agreement and said: "One shot won't do it, but a few more cannons will surely bring down the wall of Jinzhou City."
Jinzhou City was built by the Ming Dynasty. The last construction was a few decades ago. Four corner towers were added to the city wall. Later, slave thieves attacked Jinzhou City and destroyed some of the facilities on the city wall. Even after some reconstruction, they were still intact. It can't compare to what it was like before Jinzhou City was captured.
The main reason was that the Jurchen guards in the city did not think that the Ming army in Lushun had the courage to attack Jinzhou City. ….
Even if the Ming army invades, the worst they can do is go out of the city and fight the Ming army, so the Jurchens are not like hedgehogs about city defense measures like the Ming army.
"I can't help but want to fire a cannon myself." Qin Xiaozhan said, touching the barrel of the cannon.
Xing Chaoxi glanced at him and said, "You'd better forget it and leave it to the artillery team to fire!"
"Now that the cannon has been delivered, when will we attack the city? I want to watch carefully how our ship cannon destroys Jinzhou City." Zhao Wu asked Xing Chaoxi.
Half a day has passed since the siege of Jinzhou City, but no next step has been taken. An officer like him can't wait to take action.
Facing the slave thieves, Huziqi has never been defeated and always has the upper hand psychologically.
"Prepare some more meat today so that the soldiers in each battalion can eat and drink well.
We will attack the city early tomorrow morning and go back to discuss the specific plan for the siege. "Xing Chaoxi glanced at the cannon in front of him.
The cannons have been transported and the attack on Jinzhou City can begin.
"Here come some people from the artillery team and transport our big treasure back. They must take good care of it for me." Qin Xiaozhan explained a few words.
The artillery team members who had been waiting at the camp gate cooperated with the people who brought the cannon to deliver the ship's cannon to the artillery station.
Xing Chaoxi and others also returned to the big tent.
Several guards were standing outside the house, but there were only three people inside the tent, Xing Chaoxi, Zhao Wu, and Qin Xiaozhan.
"Tell me, how do you want to fight this battle?" Xing Chaoxi asked the two people in front of him.
Zhao Wu was the first to speak: "In this battle of Jinzhou City, we will attack from the first barracks, and the main attack direction will start from the south gate."
As he spoke, he pointed at the location of the south gate of Jinzhou City on the sand table on the table.
"Since you want to main attack, I won't argue with you." Qin Xiaozhan said, "We have been delayed outside Jinzhou City for a day. I am afraid that Fuzhou has got the news, and there may be someone in Fuzhou soon. Reinforcements are sent to Jinzhou."
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Xing Chaoxi nodded and said: "Jinzhou is too close to Fuzhou. It is difficult to hide the news of our attack on Jinzhou City from Fuzhou. In order to prevent soldiers and horses from Fuzhou from supporting Jinzhou City, we need to send a team Soldiers and horses are engaged in a blocking attack at Shiheyi."
"What the deputy commander is saying is that we should surround the area to provide reinforcements?" Zhao Wu asked.
Xing Chaoxi waved his hand and said: "No, our goal is still Jinzhou City. As for Fuzhou's reinforcements, we just need to delay their arrival to buy time for us to take Jinzhou City."
"Then who will stop Fuzhou's reinforcements?" Zhao Wu asked, while subconsciously looking at Qin Xiaozhan.
Qin Xiaozhan, who noticed his gaze, said, "Don't look at me. We don't have many soldiers and horses. I can't lead the Third Battle Barracks to fight the reinforcements from Fuzhou. I don't know what the reinforcements from Fuzhou are." The time will come!"
"It's really a waste to send a combat barracks to Shiheyi. Let's just send a thousand-man team from the third combat barracks." Xing Chaoxi looked at Qin Xiaozhan.
Qin Xiaozhan said: "I have no objection."
"Okay, then it's settled. Shiheyi's troops to block Fuzhou's reinforcements will be sent out from the third battle barracks, and the first battle barracks will be the main attack to capture Jinzhou City as soon as possible." Xing Chaoxi made the decision.
Then several people began to discuss specific combat plans.
Jinzhou City is nominally an important town in Liaodong, but in fact it does not receive much attention. In addition, the city wall is dilapidated. Even if it is covered with a layer of blue bricks, there are still cracks in many places.
The moat outside the city is well preserved, but it's hard to say how deep it is.
Jinzhou City has basically never been repaired in the hands of the Ming army over the years, and it was only briefly repaired in the hands of the fake gold.
It is true that the Ming army was too weak. They only defended the city and rarely took the initiative to attack the city. Even though Jinzhou City and Lushun were only a few feet away, the Ming army in Lushun only defended Nanguandao Fort and never took the initiative to attack. Jinzhou City. .
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