I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The next day, Wu Jun arrived under the outer walls of Nanjing City.

Through the telescope, Wu Changqing felt the majesty of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties for the first time.

In later generations, he also went to Nanjing and saw the ruins of the ancient city wall. It's just that the broken ruins and the whole have a completely different visual feeling.

The Nanjing City Wall in front of us is still in its most complete stage.

The city wall of Nanjing City is divided into four parts, the palace city, the imperial city, the capital city, and the outer city.

Among them, the palace city wall is the lowest, only enclosing the emperor's harem, where the emperor and his concubines live. This section of the city wall is mainly to prevent the emperor from being cuckolded, and there can only be one man in the palace city.

The Imperial City Wall, which encloses the palace, contains the palace city, as well as the hall used by the previous dynasty, the hall for the emperor's office, and the hall for other functions such as ceremonial sacrifices.

The scale of this section of the city wall is not large, but it is very high, about 11 or 2 meters. After all, this is the last line of defense to protect the emperor. The tall city walls can also show the majesty of the palace.

The third part is the Beijing City Wall, which is probably the section of the city wall that surrounds the entire city. The scale of this section of the city wall is large, with a circumference of nearly 40 kilometers.

This is just a mere city wall, excluding the connecting mountain sections and water sections.

This section of the city wall is the most important line of defense in Nanjing. The effective defense height alone reaches 14 meters. With some heights of the city towers, there are places over 20 meters.

Its base is fifteen meters at the narrowest point, and the top is four to fourteen meters wide, which can accommodate a large number of soldiers for defense.

In addition to the height and thickness, these city walls also constituted various defense facilities such as urn cities and caves for hiding soldiers, which played a huge role in defending the city.

For example, Wengcheng, it is divided into two gates, the outer gate is easy to be knocked open by a collision, but after it is knocked open, it is Wengcheng. The Wengcheng is very small, and there is no space to charge the collision, so it is difficult for the second gate in the Wengcheng to be knocked open.

After all, it is the capital of the country, and its various defensive measures have embodies the top wisdom of this era. If you don't have any special means, you can use conventional methods to attack this kind of city, and it is unlikely to attack the army until it collapses.

At a height of more than ten meters, this defensive advantage is too great.

The fourth part is the outer city wall. This part of the city wall is only four or five miles away from the capital city wall. Its circumference is longer, more than 60 kilometers, and it also surrounds part of the suburbs.

The outer city wall of Nanjing is currently the longest city wall in the world, and it is longer than the city wall of Beijing.

However, the outer city wall is much shorter than the capital city wall, only about eight meters.

The shortness is also relative to the Beijing city wall. The main city wall of Suzhou is only more than six meters, which is not as good as the outer city wall of Nanjing.

Such a tall city wall can be daunting at a glance.

The city wall of Nanjing City used nearly 300,000 migrant workers, and it took nearly 30 years to complete the construction. Just 350 million bricks and stones were used for firing, and there are countless other kinds of bricks and woods.

The Three Gorges Dam in later generations only used 30,000 workers and took 12 years.

This kind of city, if there are enough troops and food, can be said to be absolutely impossible to attack if there are no accidents such as the betrayal of the defender.

Historically, in the middle of the 19th century, soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom stood guard against these city walls for seven years.

It was the nineteenth century, and the art of artillery had advanced tremendously. However, there is still no way to take this kind of city wall.

And now it's only the seventeenth century, and under normal circumstances, such a city is almost impossible to capture.

Emperor Hongguang of Nanming fled when he saw the arrival of the Qing army, which is enough to prove what kind of waste he is. As long as Emperor Hongguang has a little bit of military common sense, it is impossible to be afraid.

If Emperor Hongguang didn't run away, and if Qian Qianyi chose to stick to it, the ghost knows what year and month the Qing army is going to attack Nanjing.

Unfortunately, history is full of jokes, and there are always some jaw-dropping things.

With such a majestic city and more than 100,000 soldiers, Emperor Hongguang chose to escape. After the emperor escaped, Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party, directly opened the city gate and surrendered.

The Manchus were able to destroy the Ming Dynasty. It was really full of countless contingency and drama. If one of them was less, it would be impossible for the Qing army to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

For example, if Li Zicheng did not occupy Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, Wu Sangui would not have surrendered to the Qing in Shanhaiguan. With the majestic customs of Shanhaiguan, the Qing army could only stare blankly, and could not enter the North China Plain at all.

Huang Taiji's ability is no worse than Dorgon's, and after more than ten years of fighting, he can't beat this kind of heroism.

For another example, if Li Zicheng did not die accidentally, it would not be so easy for the Qing army to destroy the Dashun Army.

If Zuo Liangyu's army did not surrender, the Qing army would not have so many troops to attack all parts of the south.

If Qian Qianyi did not open the city of Nanjing to surrender, at least 100,000 Qing troops would die under the city of Nanjing.

"If only Hong Chengchou opened the door and surrendered like Qian Qianyi."

Wu Changqing sighed with emotion, the Manchu Qing Dynasty really picked up too many bargains before, so much that Wu Changqing envied them.

The other generals didn't find this sentence funny when they heard the words, and they thought so too.

If Hong Chengchou did not surrender, it would be too difficult to storm the city. Even if they have a variety of advanced weapons and high morale, their losses will never be small.

"This outer city wall can only rely on us, you must be careful."

What they and Tong Youwei planned was the gate of the capital city wall, and

The outer city wall needs to be broken by Wu Jun himself.

If the outer city walls cannot be taken down, then there is no need to plan the gates of the capital city walls.

After all, even if a city gate is opened, there are only dozens of soldiers who can enter at one time. The Qing army can concentrate its forces to block the city gate with human lives.

To break through the city of Nanjing, the main thing is to rely on the performance of the soldiers on the city wall. Only by putting pressure on the Qing army on the city wall, forcing them to divide their troops to rescue the city gate, can they break through the city gate.

Moreover, a single city gate is actually the icing on the cake. It was fatal and uncomfortable for the Qing army, but it was far from enough for the Ming army.

"Swear to the death."

The generals replied that no matter how majestic the city wall was, they had to bite the bullet. The benefits of capturing Nanjing are too great to imagine.

Subsequently, Wu Jun began to make various preparations before the siege.

This is a huge battle plan that will be divided into many parts.

There are troops with ants attached to climb the city wall, there are also troops who are responsible for ramming the city gate, and there are people who are responsible for digging tunnels and building earth mountains.

At this time, Wu Jun was ready to try all the siege methods that everyone could think of.