I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

On April 20, Liu Hansan's main force arrived outside Xuzhou City and camped three miles away from Xuzhou.

With Liu Hansan's arrival, Wanyan Yechen no longer has to worry about whether to go out of the city to support the reinforcements.

Their number one priority has become to guard against enemies outside the city, and they dare not think otherwise.

At the same time, Shang Kexi, who came from Linyi, also stopped his troops in Taijiazhuang, which is Taierzhuang in later generations.

Taijiazhuang guards the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and is also an important strategic location.

Moreover, the current Taijiazhuang ancient city is surrounded by water, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, not the kind of moat that is only one or two meters long and is three or four meters long.

This is a natural moat tens of meters wide, which cannot be filled at all.

Moreover, the city wall of Taijiazhuang is very close to the water's edge, and in some places it is even by the water's edge.

This creates a situation where the siege troops have no room to place their forces.

Even how people get close to the city wall is a big problem, let alone transporting siege ladders and the like to the city.

Although the city wall of Taijiazhuang is not high, that is, it looks like three or four meters, but the difficulty of attacking is even more difficult than the ordinary five or six meters high city wall.

It was Qian Sule who was in charge of destroying Shang Kexi and capturing Taijiazhuang.

With Zhu Yihai's death, Qian Sule also began to be reused. After all, compared with some military generals from wild road, Qian Sule's military literacy was much higher.

Moreover, he is also a person who is good at learning, and his grades were among the best when he was studying in the military academy.

If it wasn't for his identity, he would at least have gotten the position of the army commander or even the chief of staff at this time.

But right now, he's just a teacher of a division.

However, his 22nd Division was the main force of the Northern Corps and was well-armed.

In the face of other ordinary teachers, he is in a dominant position.

Just like now, in addition to his division, there is actually a brigade of the 27th division who came to Taijiazhuang, and was temporarily assigned to the conductor of Qian Sule.

At the same time, the navy is also cooperating with Qian Sule's actions, and in theory, they must obey Qian Sule's orders.

Of course, this is only in theory.

In practice, the Army and Navy are more of a partnership.

In order to cooperate with the army's actions, the navy will obey the orders of the army generals.

However, they retain the right to not listen at any time. If this happens, the army generals will have nothing to do with them.

Of course, this has not happened in the Chinese army for the time being.

"This is a broken place, it's not easy to fight."

Qian Sule put down the telescope and complained.

If possible, he would rather not attack this place, but occupy the surrounding area, and then force the Qing army to retreat.

However, that would take too long and would require too many troops.

At present, Qian Sule has only one option, and that is to attack.

"You can send messengers over to persuade them to surrender. It's okay to give it a try, in case it succeeds."

The subordinate advised.

In any case, even if the persuasion fails, there will not be much loss.

But once you succeed, you can make a lot of money.

Although Qian Sule was not optimistic about persuading him to surrender, he also took the advice of his subordinates and sent an eloquent messenger over there.

In the end, he was mocked by Shang Kexi, who threatened to make Hua Jun suffer in Taijiazhuang.

Dahua is very powerful, but there are some people in this world who are not afraid.

The reasons are complex, but none of them matter.

The persuasion to surrender failed, and Qian Sule began to arrange the general attack.

He is now in a hurry to break the city, and then captures Shang Kexi and asks who it is and what gave him the courage to be so arrogant.

The next day, the navy took the lead.

There were thirty large ships in total, including ten warships and three steamships, all of which were loaded with about two hundred cannons.

The rest are transport ships, responsible for transporting the army across the river.

These two hundred cannons are the key to breaking the city.

They need these artillery pieces to destroy the enemy's walls and make it easier for the army to siege the city.

Ten warships were traveling on the river, and this distance was enough to launch shelling on the city walls.

This time they used solid bullets in order to destroy the enemy's walls.

The sound of cannons sounded, and hundreds of cannons fired in unison. The momentum was quite astonishing.

Shang Kexi did not dare to go up the city wall, for fear of being killed by the artillery of the Chinese army.

There were only a few low-level officers left on the city wall, and they were all forced to stay, unwilling to do so.

The prestige of the Dahua artillery has long spread throughout the Qing army.

After a few rounds of cannons, a small flag of the Qing army wondered: "Could it be that the rumors are wrong? The power of this Chinese artillery seems to be similar to ours."

The lethality of solid bullets is naturally very general.

What's more, Hua Jun didn't aim at those soldiers, they were all aiming at the city wall.

Only a few missed shells flew to the city wall, and the others were not dangerous to the Qing soldiers.

"Something's wrong, Hua Jun seems to be using solid bullets, not the howitzer bullets as rumored."

Another, more careful little flag said.

As he spoke, he suddenly realized and said in shock, "No, they are going to destroy our city walls."

Having discovered this situation, he immediately got off the city wall and reported to Shang Kexi.

"These Chinese soldiers are really cunning, but unfortunately Lao Tzu is not a vegetarian, and ordered the artillery in other places to be transferred to the northwest corner and shoot at them."

Shang Ke snorted disdainfully.

"But my lord, isn't it written in the military book, don't shoot at the cannons of the Chinese army, you should hide the cannons and shoot the enemy's infantry soldiers."

His eldest son Shang Zhixin reminded.

The Qing army summed up many methods of dealing with the Hua army's skills, printed it into a booklet, and distributed it to various ministries, so that the generals of all ministries could learn it well, so as not to suffer a big loss when fighting against the Hua army.

Although the Huajun's weapons and equipment are very advanced, as long as they are properly handled, there are actually many ways to reduce casualties.

For example, setting up some bunkers on the city wall can effectively resist the howitzer shells of the Chinese army.

For example, don't attack the hollow phalanx, don't charge the flintlock troops, and so on.

"Stupid, soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. The art of war can only be learned from, not rigidly applied. You are probably ignoring that the enemy's artillery is now on the ship, and how much damage their artillery can cause us to fall on our city walls, we How much damage can be caused to them by blowing up and sinking their big ship?"

Shang Kexi reprimanded.

Experienced generals all understand a truth. No two battles in the world are exactly the same. The principles of the art of war need to be combined with the current actual situation.

If you do it hard, it's over.

Xiang Yu is still playing the game of breaking the boat, and then winning more with less, can others play like this?

Without Xiang Yu's prestige, wouldn't this play force the soldiers to surrender?

It has always been a taboo for the military family to be out of the way.

The current situation Shang Kexi is facing is completely different from the situation summarized in the military manual.

The cost of a warship is as high as tens of thousands of taels, and the artillery on it is worth tens of thousands of taels, plus a ship of soldiers and other supplies.

As long as they bombed and sank a warship of the Huajun, they would make a lot of money, enough to make the Huajun retreat painfully.