When Mao Wenlong divided his troops again in Zhenjiang and led a suitable battalion to launch an attack on the selected Fuji, he encountered unexpected resistance.

Fuji is the largest market town near Zhenjiang, and it is also the headquarters of the surrounding Jurchen families. They have nearby manors in other places to manage land slaves, but every winter, the whole family has to move back to Zhenjiang or this Fuji.

The most important thing about living a convenient and comfortable life is that in this land that we just took over, although everyone used knives to make the Han people their slaves, and although they used iron hoofs to turn the Han people's land into their own land, the Han people's

Resistance is still everywhere, and it is somewhat safer for a group of Jurchens to live together.

Nowadays, Zhenjiang has been devastated by wars, and it is already a ruins. In addition, Tong Yangxing massacred more than 20,000 Han people in Zhenjiang in revenge. The land was stained with blood for a while, and the ground is still dark now. Even in the winter, you can ask questions

There is a smell of blood. Among the ruins, you can see Leilei's frozen body at any time. It is now a ghost land and is no longer suitable for the common people and the rich to live. Therefore, it has become a gathering place for Jurchens.

Fuji originally had tall walls to guard against bandits. After the Jurchens made this place a place for their cats to live a good life, they even widened and thickened the original tall walls, turning it into a strong castle.

After receiving the news that Mao Wenlong's army had counterattacked again, although all the soldiers in the banner were transferred to follow the emperor to western Liaoning, and the rest were also transferred to defend Zhenjiang, there were still no less than a thousand Jurchen women, children, old and young who stayed in Fuji.

There are also their most loyal slaves, the forced men. This time, everyone also knew that Mao Wenlong was here and would never return empty-handed, so in order to save everyone's hard-earned property, they risked their lives and gave it to those slaves.

The promise of generous rewards allows us to fight Mao Wenlong's attack with us.

Mao Wenlong stood in front of Fuji, facing the tall fortress wall, and couldn't help but hesitate in his heart. This guy was not easy to take down.

But it’s not easy to take, so you have to take it down. You must not give up. If you can’t even take down this small market town castle, then in the future, let alone attack the city. Just use this small castle.

Come to train your army's ability in siege warfare, summarize experience and accumulate some lessons for the future.

There are just a few methods of siege warfare in ancient times. If time permits, the most economical and cost-effective way for the attacking party is to besiege the city, trap the enemy in the castle, consume the enemy's supplies, and eventually starve them to death in the city.

, such sieges have been staged continuously from ancient times to the present. The time is long, and the ending is tragic. It is a kind of death.

Of course, such a siege method must have sufficient time and enough personnel, but now Mao Wenlong must collect enough money, food and supplies within half a month and return to Tieshan, North Korea. Otherwise, the Liaoxi Campaign will be over, not to mention Nurhachi's mobilization.

If the entire army comes back to deal with him, even Amin, who has been crippled by himself, can completely defeat him on this land. There is also the problem of personnel. The art of war clearly tells you about a battle like a siege.

, surrounded by ten, there were at least about 0,000 slaves inside, and at least more than a hundred Jurchen men. In terms of numbers, both sides were basically equal, so this tactic was naturally eliminated.

The second tactic is to dig tunnels into the city, and then attack from both inside and outside by surprise.

But this tactic is not possible at this time. One of the reasons is that digging tunnels is still time-consuming and laborious. At the same time, digging tunnels requires ensuring the topography and soil quality. The soil layer in the Northeast is shallow, and less than half of it can be dug.

Ten feet deep, there is solid rock underneath, and half a foot deep is basically the depth of the base of the opposite city wall.

There are also equipment for siege, but unfortunately, for Mao Wenlong, simple equipment is available, but those large equipment, such as rams, catapults, etc., cannot be built with Mao Wenlong's current financial and material resources.

The only other way is to attack the city with ants, which is to drive the soldiers, like ants, up the ladder to the top of the city and fight to the death with the enemy. However, the losses in such a battle are huge. At this time, Mao Wenlong absolutely cannot bear it.

We cannot afford to lose soldiers.

Is there no way? Of course there is a way, because the troops led by Mao Long are now composed of mining soldiers, and what are these coal diggers and iron ore miners best at? It is digging holes and blasting. Although the gunpowder of the Ming Dynasty is inferior, as long as there are enough

With the quantity, there is no problem in blowing down a section of the city wall.

When Mao Wenlong sent out troops this time, he had already foreseen that he would attack the city, so he borrowed tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder from Li Guangdao in North Korea and distributed it to four teams. Each team had more than 000 kilograms of gunpowder, which was enough to blow down a section of the city wall.

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"Use your special skills. Now dig a tunnel for me, bury the gunpowder under the city wall, and then blow up Fuji's castle with a bang. By then, the Jurchens' belongings will be ours." Mao Wenlong

It was so easy to give orders to the captain of his eleventh team, Zhang Zhong, who was a miner.

Zhang Zhong happily accepted the order: "It's been two years since I put down the steel drill and picked up the steel knife. Fortunately, I haven't lost my skills yet. In just two days, I can blast the walls of this fortress into the sky."

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It will be easy for everyone to return to our business.

Mao Wenlong smiled and said: "Then you can take a hundred brothers and I will stop those slaves who dare to go out of the city to harass you and ensure your safety."

"Please, Commander, let's do what we say."

With Mao Wenlong's guarantee, digging tunnels did not have to be hidden in the distance like normal siege tunnels, which was time-consuming and labor-intensive. Zhang Zhong started digging directly in front of Fuji with the old tricks of a hundred miners.

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Mao Wenlong said it was easy, but he still arranged his nine hundred soldiers in a formation to deal with Jiannu who came out to attack at any time.

Mao Wenlong's team has not yet had time to conduct formation training, and there is no time for him to train like in time travel novels, such as spears, formations, etc. Of course, he must do this in the future, but there is no time yet.

Fortunately, these soldiers already have a complete concept of superiors and subordinates, and with a period of rest and satisfactory food supply, each of them is physically strong and energetic. At this point, they are already stronger than the official Ming army. And in
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