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Two days later, the main force of the Wu army arrived at Jiujiang City, a total of about 70,000 people.

The Qing army still has 90,000 people in Jiujiang, and has an advantage in strength, but the generals of the Qing army are generally pessimistic.

The strength of an army can never be purely based on numbers. In the past, they often used less to win more, chasing the Ming army to fight. 2 Now, they have encountered a more powerful Wu Jun.

Because of the weapons, the importance of the number of troops was cut down again.

Even the Qing army has realized that it is no longer an era of quantity, and fighting weapons are the most important.

In the past, whether it was a knife or an arrow, at best it would kill a person. Today, a single shot of a howitzer can kill as few as a dozen people.

There are also hand grenades, the power is also quite amazing.

Although the flintlock gun is a single-shot kill, its rate of fire is extremely fast, and the killing efficiency is also quite high.

These advanced weapons have greatly improved the killing efficiency, making the war more and more cruel.

In order to cope with these advanced weapons, the Qing army also thought of a lot of local methods.

For example, generals no longer wear special clothes and armor to prevent them from being targeted by snipers.

Secondly, a large number of wooden boards and wet quilts were prepared on the city wall. These things set up simple concealed places on the city walls, which could prevent the mass shooting of howitzer shells.

In order to prevent the city wall from being blown up, they also deepened the moat.

In order to prevent the grenadiers of the Wu army, they also prepared a lot of torches and tung oil on the city head. The ingenious Qing army found that Wu Jun's grenades were afraid of fire. As long as they throw torches of tung oil at the grenadiers and detonate the grenade on them, the grenadier threat can be resolved.

Of course, these local methods can only slightly improve their predicament, but it is impossible to obliterate Wu Jun's equipment advantages.

With the order to attack, Wu Jun's artillery began to sound.

There are more than 80 cannons on the army side, and more than 70 on the navy side.

At this time, not only the army's artillery began to bombard the city, but the navy also fired on the city wall north of Jiujiang on the river surface.

The Qing army was not to be outdone. They had more than 50 artillery pieces. At this time, they all moved to the city wall and bombarded the artillery positions of the Wu army.

However, it is also a red-clothed cannon, but the Qing army's artillery shells are very disadvantaged. They used solid bullets, and unless they were lucky enough to hit someone directly or hit a cannon, their cannons would be in vain.

As for Wu Jun's howitzer, it is a large piece when it explodes, and the requirements for accuracy are much lower. As long as it hits the approximate position, it can achieve results.

"boom."

As some of the Qing army's artillery shells fell on the Wu army's position, the Wu army's artillery also suffered some casualties.

The soldiers who were directly hit by the shells were basically turned into slag, and the death was very tragic.

However, the Wu Jun soldiers next to him were indifferent and continued to calibrate and reload.

It's not that they're not afraid, but it's useless to be afraid.

Honestly continue to shoot, the chance of death may not even be five percent. But if you run away out of fear, you have a 100% chance of dying.

The supervising team not far away is not used for decoration.

Any soldier with a little brain can make the right choice.

As for the artillerymen of the Wu Army, their brains are normal, they are not smarter than other soldiers, and they cannot enter the artillery battalion.

In one round of artillery strikes by the Qing army, only three Wu artillerymen were killed in total. Among these three artillerymen, there were still loader soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who could transport the artillerymen at any time.

None of the most important technical arms such as measurement and operation died. As long as these people are not dead, the strength of the artillery unit will not be affected.

In contrast, the Qing army was much worse.

There were more than 20 cannonballs that successfully landed on the city. These cannonballs exploded. Even with the protection of the Qing army, many people were still injured.

In the center of the explosion, those thin planks weren't big or small.

And the artillery was even worse. They had to shoot without any protection.

A howitzer bomb exploded among them, and directly reimbursed a dozen people in an artillery crew.

Several of these people are experienced gunners and are irreplaceable existences. Without them, there would be no cannon in the Qing army.

"Order, let the artillery stop fighting back and hide."

Luck Dehun observed the situation in the tower through a telescope. After several rounds of artillery fire, he assessed the results and damages, and decisively issued an order to stop the artillery resistance.

It's not worth it, they have to kill five people on average to kill one Wu Jun.

Instead of losing those precious gunners in vain, it is better to save their lives and let them kill the charging infantry when the Wu army is attacking the city on a large scale.

Solid bullets are inefficient for scattered artillery, but their power is quite impressive when hitting a dense formation.

Luc Dehun can achieve this position, and naturally he also has his advantages.

At this time, he can achieve that he would rather be beaten, but also preserve his strength.

After half an hour of shelling, Wu Jun started a tentative attack.

This attack is not to break the city, but to test out the deployment of the Qing army, and see which section of the city wall has more archers, which section of the city wall has more supplies to defend the city, and which section of the city wall has weaker defense. .

After testing out this information, the next general attack will be

Can make targeted deployments.

Of course, if the probing attack went well, it would be best to take the city directly.

However, in the course of the game, the staff members unanimously decided that this was impossible. It is completely unrealistic to want to capture Jiujiang all at once.

There are too many Qing troops in Jiujiang City, and even if it is filled with human life, they can hold it for a long time.

More importantly, among the defenders in Jiujiang City, the number of Eight Banners soldiers was very large, accounting for nearly half.

Compared with the Green Battalion of the Han Army, the Eight Banners soldiers were more tenacious when fighting against the Wu Army. Because they were different from the Wu Army after all, they were psychologically resistant to surrender.

Although the Wu army did not kill the surrendered Manchu soldiers, these Eight Banner soldiers still had an instinctive distrust of the Wu army, which made them inclined to fight to the death in battle.

A soldier's will to fight has a great influence on the course of the battle.

In the past, as long as the Wu army killed about 20% of the enemy army, the enemy army would almost collapse and escape, and then the Wu army could easily harvest.

But this time, they had to kill at least 40% of the defenders before they were able to beat the defenders to the point of collapse.

In order to achieve this goal, Wu Jun has to pay more casualties.

In short, in the deduction of the staff, it is not easy to attack Jiujiang City.