I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The next day, Wu Jun took a siege stance under Xuancheng City.

Forty cannons aimed at a section of the city wall and fired solid shells, trying to knock down a section of the city wall.

This is mainly because there are not many howitzer shells they carry, so they can only change the way of siege.

Logistics transportation in this era is a big problem. I don't know when the next batch of artillery shells will be shipped.

And they can't stop attacking the city because they don't have howitzer shells. They can use the traditional method to bombard the city wall with solid bullets.

Destroying the city wall can not only open the gap, but also break through the psychological defense line of the defenders, which is a good means of siege. The only downside is that it takes longer, and it is not easy to knock down a section of the city walls, even if those city walls are made of rammed earth.

With the continuous shelling, Fang Guoan also discovered Wu Jun's attempt.

In this regard, there are not many ways for him. He can only organize a reserve force first, ready to fill this hole at any time.

This is the helplessness of the weapons being inferior to the enemy. If he also has a red-clothed cannon, he can bombard the enemy's artillery positions on the city wall, and he will not be beaten like now.

In addition to launching shelling, Wu Jun is still digging tunnels, trying to replicate the successful experience of attacking the outer city walls of Nanjing.

When attacking the outer city wall of Nanjing, Wu Jun blew a huge gap in the city wall by burying gunpowder.

This method is simple and effective, but it takes a little longer.

In order to reduce casualties, Wu Jun showed enough patience and arranged for soldiers to dig trenches leading to the city walls.

The shelling lasted for nearly two hours. From the telescope, Wang Dayong saw that the enemy's city walls had begun to crumble. In addition, the trench is about to be dug under the city wall, and the stage of burying explosives has begun.

Therefore, Wang Dayong issued the command of the general attack.

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The generals on the city wall couldn't help but get nervous, and the next thing was a brutal offensive and defensive battle, and it was time to test them.

"Everyone, glory and wealth, whether we can go further depends on this time, we must not hand over Xuancheng to others, and we must not be underestimated by that hairy boy."

Fang Guoan tried to boost his morale, but, except for the few diehard loyalists under his command, the other generals were not very emotional.

In their opinion, fighting with Wu Changqing is really unnecessary, both dangerous and useless.

It's a pity that Fang Guoan insisted on doing this, but there was nothing they could do.

Just when Fang Guoan was boosting his morale, there was a sudden noise.

The city wall that had been bombed for nearly two hours finally couldn't hold it and collapsed.

Although this situation was expected by everyone, when they saw the collapse of the city wall, they couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

The collapse of the city wall means that defending the city is even more difficult.

This is not over yet, just when Fang Guoan ordered someone to plug the gap, there was an earth-shattering loud noise from the other side.

This is definitely the loudest noise they have ever heard in their life, like thunder rolling in the sky.

In the rumbling sound, they also saw the mud lumps flying into the sky.

"How is this going?"

Fang Guoan asked that the most feared thing for generals on the battlefield is to encounter unexpected situations, which will mean many accidents, and accidents represent danger.

After a while, the soldiers came to report, saying that a section of the city wall on the south side was blown away, and a large gap several feet wide was blown open.

"Block it, Xu Wenwei, you immediately bring someone to plug the gap. Yuan Da asks you to organize the soldiers who descended to fill the gap."

Fang Guoan had already lost his temper, and hurriedly issued various orders in a panic.

Fortunately, he has a large number of troops and has enough manpower to defend those gaps.

But without the height of the city wall, the difficulty of defending these places is undoubtedly doubled.

At this time, Fang Guoan had some regrets. He knew that Wu Jun was so difficult to deal with, so he simply let Xuancheng go.

The other generals were not much calmer than Fang Guoan at this time. The city wall was blown open by two sections, and the advantage of defending the city was greatly weakened. Can the city still be defended?

Many generals have this question in their minds.

As the two sections of the city walls were blown up, the Wu army's general offensive was also launched, and the attack was launched around these two gaps.

In particular, the gap that was blown up was the focus of the Wu army's attack.

More than 4,000 flintlock troops moved forward to suppress the enemy at the head of the city, covering the cold weapon troops to enter the gap, and the Ming army also emerged on the city wall to shoot against the Wu army.

This time, the Wu army did not suffer from a loss of strength like last time. Their firepower density has been doubled, and there are still troops that can be replenished at any time.

As for the archers of the Ming army, they were obviously less confident than the last time.

The last time they had an advantage in numbers, the resulting battle losses were higher than that of the Wu army, which made many soldiers fear the Wu army. And this time Wu Jun's strength no longer has the disadvantage, so do you still need to think about the result of shooting like this?

With this kind of careful thinking, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has virtually declined.

Some archers don't focus on aiming at all, and just crouch down after a hurried shot.

Although they use a covering strike, they still need to aim more or less, and shoot the arrow into a general area, rather than just blindly shooting to hit the target.

These clever soldiers are obviously smarter than other soldiers

, because those archers who aim honestly have a greatly increased chance of being hit.

The chances of those honest soldiers dying are significantly greater than those of these clever ghosts.

For these individual soldiers, this is of course saving their lives. But for the military, the damage is actually very large.

This is why Wu Jun prefers those honest farmers when he recruits troops, rather than those gangsters who seem to be fierce and domineering, but are actually cunning and cunning.

Discipline, the bonus to combat power is very high.

After several rounds of shooting, the Ming army suffered a big loss.

After several generals were shot and killed, the other archers simply crouched down and stopped fighting back.

Without the obstruction of these archers, Wu's infantry reached the gap under the city wall with almost no losses.

Such an easy siege made the death squads who rushed in front laughed. This credit is too easy to pick up. It is said to be a death squad, but the survival rate is actually very high.

When they reached the gap, they finally encountered a block.

However, in this kind of battle on the plane, Wu Jun has too many means.

Following the death squad were the grenadiers, and the grenades in their hands were thrown into the crowd of the Ming army.

As the explosion sounded, the Ming army suffered heavy losses.

More importantly, the Ming army had no way to defend against this explosive grenade, and they had great fear in their hearts.

As soon as the Ming army panicked, the will to resist declined.

And Wu Jun's death squads were all desperadoes.

After the two armies faced each other, the situation fell apart, and the Ming army retreated.

Seeing this scene, Xu Wenwei's heart froze in half, it was completely impossible to fight.