At that time, Shi Kefa, in the Jiujiang city defense system, in addition to building artillery defense fortifications at the city head, he also dug and built a large number of trenches and fortresses outside the city.
Especially those large fortresses that are about two to three hundred meters away from the city wall are the core system of Jiujiang's city defense system. Each large fortress is stationed with hundreds or thousands of people, and is deployed with two and a half kilograms or five kilograms of field artillery and a large number of short-barreled guns. The artillery is as difficult to hit as a hedgehog.
In order to conquer Jiujiang, the Chu army mobilized hundreds of main divisions and garrison divisions, with a total strength of tens of thousands, and launched an attack from multiple directions at the same time.
The intensity of the shelling at that time was the strongest in the history of world wars. Before the Battle of Jiujiang, there had never been a battle in which so many artillery pieces were used and so many shells were fired.
So far, the Chu army itself has not broken the record of artillery intensity in the Battle of Jiujiang.
However, the Ming army, which once built a solid city defense system in Jiujiang, no longer does so in Guangzhou.
Anyway, Huang Xiangbin didn't see even a trench or a fortress outside Guangzhou!
In front of him, there was only a lonely ancient and traditional city. Even the battlements had not been specially reinforced. The artillery deployed on the city head was even more arrogant.
Huang Xiangbin looked at the city of Guangzhou like this with intense eyes!
This girl in Guangzhou, she has no clothes on...
But seeing a girl wandering around naked in broad daylight also made Huang Xiangbin have some doubts. This is not normal!
Is there something wrong with the defenders on the opposite side? Or is there something wrong with your brain?
Or is this a trap?
Guangzhou City seemed to be unprepared for anything, so that he could relax his vigilance and kill him recklessly, and then use some unknown means to hit him hard?
The more Huang Xiangbin thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. Maybe they had an ambush behind the city gate? Maybe they built another defense system behind the city wall?
By the way, when I went to Jinling City to face the Holy Spirit at the end of the year, I heard His Majesty talk about street fighting. He said that with the further development of gun technology in the future, the enemy may use the solid buildings in the city to resist guns and attack the city. The battle will change from fighting for the city wall to fighting for every building in the city...
In this regard, Huang Xiangbin did not dare to say something at the time... If the enemy dared to retreat to the buildings in the city and tried to use buildings to resist, wouldn't it be easier?
A matter of fire...
Buildings in East Asia these days are generally made of brick and wood. The proportion of wood used in construction is very large. Not to mention deliberately setting fire to the city during the war, even if there is a fire in ordinary times, it will be burned accidentally. Falling down several streets...
Maybe the defenders in the city have other methods.
Huang Xiangbin looked at the lonely city of Guangzhou in front of him, and many messy thoughts came to his mind.
Reason told him that the city defense system of Guangzhou City was vulnerable. The only thing that was a bit of a threat was their dozen or so long-barreled artillery pieces. However, these artillery pieces were deployed directly in the open air. When his mortar regiment came over, he could fire a few rounds of mortar artillery. In the past, it was estimated that only the opponent's gunners were killed or injured.
At that time, it will be time for our own artillery units to fully suppress the enemy forces in the city and cover the heavy armored commandos' attack on the city.
The entire siege routine is simple and easy. If the attack goes smoothly, it is estimated that there will be no more than a hundred casualties...
But his intuition told him that it might not be that simple... there might be an ambush in the city. For example, the Ming army in the city deliberately let their own army enter the city, and then burned Guangzhou... and killed tens of thousands of their soldiers. Burning the city to charcoal...
Several Chu army generals on the side looked at their generals looking resolute and confident for a while, worried for a while, and gritted their teeth for a while...
I couldn't help but worry a little. Could it be that it was because the weather was so hot that my commander's brain was also having problems?
Thinking of this possibility, a major poured a cup of herbal tea brewed by a military doctor from a nearby bamboo kettle, then brought it to Huang Xiangbin and said: "Commander, it's hot, let's have a bowl of herbal tea to prevent heatstroke!"
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The Ming army in the city obviously didn't know that their city defense system didn't have any anti-artillery fortifications, which made Huang Xiangbin outside the city, a senior general of the Chu army who had experienced many battles, a little suspicious...
They are in chaos at the moment. How can they think about building anti-artillery fortifications? If they can arrange people to garrison and patrol the city, it is already quite good to prevent the capital from attacking the city.
In the current city of Guangzhou, all forces are in chaos and everyone is represented.
The garrison alone was divided into seven or eight parts. They were called the Navy. In fact, they were a group of pirates from a pirate gang. They included local guards, sentries, and soldiers, as well as temporary recruits. They belonged to the capital commander. The young and strong soldiers and horses, as well as the young and strong warriors from the countryside who were temporarily recruited by the Yamen of Guangzhou Prefecture, etc.
Among them, the pirate gang only has 2,000 people, and it is composed of four groups of people who do not belong to each other.
The most important thing is that no one can control these soldiers and horses.
Because Xiong Wencan is not in Guangzhou at this time, but in Wuzhou!
Xiong Wencan, he was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi and also the governor of Guangdong. He later succeeded Yang Sichang as the governor of Southwest China and still served as the governor of Guangdong.
For a long time, the military power in Guangdong has been personally controlled by Xiong Wencan. This was true for the previous encirclement and suppression of pirates and the suppression of ordinary civil unrest, and the same was true for the subsequent resistance against Chu bandits.
And Xiong Wencan, who was based in Wuzhou, could also coordinate and command the Ming armies in Guangxi and Guangdong directions at the same time. After all, at that time, the war in Guangdong direction was mainly on the northern front such as Nanxiong Prefecture and Shaozhou Prefecture, and the hinterland of Guangdong was still safe.
Xiong Wencan is in Wuzhou, so he can also command.
However, as the Chu thieves captured Shaozhou, Qingyuan and other places, and then fought all the way to Guangzhou, Xiong Wencan, who was in Wuzhou, could no longer personally coordinate and command the Ming armies to fight against the Chu thieves.
Although he had previously appointed a right-wing political officer to sit in Shaozhou and supervise military affairs in Shaozhou Prefecture and other places, this right-wing political officer had previously served as the general of the left army of the New Standard Army of Guangdong and Guangxi during the battle of Shaozhou when the city was broken. , the Guangdong general soldier gritted his teeth and surrendered to the thieves...
At the same time, due to tight time, Xiong Wencan, who was in Wuzhou, did not have time to arrange a second supervisor. As a result, there is no actual governor or supervisor in Guangzhou to command the various troops in the city.
As a result, there was a deputy commander in chief, two guerrillas, a prefect, a left political officer, a chief envoy, a capital commander and other senior civil and military officials who were not subordinate to each other...
What, you want the chief envoy with the highest official title to command the troops?
Nonsense!
There is no rule in the Ming Dynasty that the chief envoys command the troops. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty in recent decades, the army is generally commanded by the governor. If the governor cannot take care of it, he will assign left and right envoys to participate in politics, left and right to consult, and deputy inspectors. Officials like this were sent to serve as military supervisors.
In other words, the above-mentioned types of talents have the authority to command the army. As for the chief envoy, by the late Ming Dynasty, this position had become a purely administrative position. He was only in charge of administrative and financial matters, and very few had the power to encroach on the military. of.
Even Zuo Shenzheng, who has not yet been formally authorized by Xiong Wencan, has stronger military authority than his immediate superior, the Chief Envoy.
This Zuo Shenzheng, after all, is still in charge of hundreds of soldiers in Fubiao, Guangdong. He is the supervisor of this Fubiao army.
In addition, the capital commander in Guangdong also has thousands of young men and women recruited temporarily for the guards.
Nowadays, various ministries in the city are in chaos. No one listens to anyone else. No matter what opinions anyone puts forward, there will always be objections...
It's been several days, and they haven't even strengthened the city defense yet, because they haven't yet coordinated how much materials should be used, how many people should be recruited, and where to repair first.
During this commotion, not everyone was focused on fighting against the Chu thieves. Many of them deliberately held back, waiting for the Chu thieves to kill them, then turned around and revolted anyway, joining the army of the King of Chu...
For example, guerrilla Zhao Xinhou.
Zhao Xinhou was born into a poor family and was sold as a slave to a wealthy family when he was young. He barely learned a few common words. Later, pirates attacked his master's family. In the chaos, he himself was robbed and taken to a pirate lair on a remote island overseas. coolie.
Then this person slowly established himself in this pirate den and became one of the many pirates.
In his twenties, he became one of the leaders of the pirate gang and owned a pirate ship.
A few years later, their pirate group had an internal fight. During the fight, Zhao Xinhou had the last laugh, killing many other competitors in one fell swoop, and successfully became the new leader of the pirate group, with more than ten pirate ships under his command.
Later, like other pirate leaders, he would go to business and do some selling business on weekdays when he had nothing to do, and he also didn't forget to grab a ticket.
All pirates these days are like this!
Strictly speaking, it is actually difficult for you to tell whether the people running the sea these days are pirates or merchants... because they are basically both merchants and pirates at the same time!
Even their ships are similar, they are all armed merchant ships!
When you go to sea these days, if you don't put a few cannons on the ship, it will be robbed in a minute!
Even for self-protection, maritime merchants these days will turn their merchant ships into armed merchant ships, with a ring of artillery mounted on them. As for the swords and guns used by sailors, they are even more necessary for traveling on the sea.
Zhao Xinhou is such a person. Sometimes he is a serious businessman, and sometimes he becomes a pirate leader and leads a group of men to rob passing merchant ships.
Of course, they were also shot by other pirates.
These days, we are making a living at sea. Today you rob me, and tomorrow I rob you. We are both merchants and pirates...
It is not surprising that the merchant ships owned by one of his pirate leaders are robbed by other pirates. It is also very common...
After more than ten years of bumpy life, Zhao Xinhou, who was already on his fourth career, didn't want to continue bumping on the sea, so he had the idea of accepting a job offer.
