Yang Erdong suddenly saw hope and shouted: "Mr. Yi is here!"
A shower of arrows fell on the heads of the rebel soldiers. The originally very rampant rebel soldiers were killed and injured, and there was chaos. An officer led a hundred soldiers armed with bows and arrows, and shouted at the rebel soldiers: "Only kill the first culprit, and threaten others."
Never ask, just give up as soon as possible!"
Yi Haoran only felt that his right arm was very sore. He hadn't used a knife in several years. After all, he was getting old. Although some of the family traditions he learned when he was young were still there, their power was no longer as good as before. He originally wanted to go out of town and go to the Bangshan position.
They went to supervise the battle and saw that the Australians were firing fiercely. They were afraid that the morale of the people in the city would collapse and chaos would break out. So they took Xiong Wencan's supervising troops and suppressed them everywhere, and then they suppressed them.
Seeing that he was saved, Chang Qingyun felt relieved. He immediately couldn't hold himself up and collapsed to the ground. Panting, his mind went blank. The servants also had the fear of surviving the disaster and saving their lives - finally he could do it again.
Live until it's time for dinner.
"You should take Mr. Chang back to the government office first!" Yi Haoran ordered.
After that, he pulled the reins and pulled the horse's head to the south. He looked up and saw that the afterglow of the setting sun made the horizon red.
There will be a fierce battle tomorrow. Yi Haoran thought to himself.
Since noon, the soldiers of the Ming army on Bangshan Mountain have been waiting in full formation, but after half of the afternoon, there was no movement from the Kun Thieves. Except for their few cannons that fired a few shells at the Bangshan position in vain from time to time, the Kun Thieves
The infantry was just outside the firing range of the Bangshan garrison.
In addition to the 300 servants led by Jiang Suo, there are also 800 elite soldiers stationed on Bangshan, led by Qian Zong Song Ming, who escaped death in Chengmai. Nominally, Song Ming is the supreme commander of the Bangshan garrison. However,
In fact, Song Ming could not command the servants led by Jiang Suo. In many matters, he had to obey Jiang Suo's arrangements.
This kind of two-headed command naturally has hidden dangers, and it was also Xiong Wencan's helpless move. Although Jiang Suo was familiar with the military knowledge of the Kun thieves, he was just a "soldier" to the Kun thieves and had no experience or ability to command large troops in combat; he rashly
Putting more than a thousand people under his command, let alone fighting, it was beyond Jiang Suo's ability to coordinate movements.
Although Song Ming was young, he was a "veteran general" with practical experience in leading troops. After the Chengmai War, because his main general died in battle, he was reduced to a "waste general" and was idle for a long time until Xiong Wencan began to reorganize Guangdong's armaments.
Only then did he get back on his feet.
He was able to lead troops, had experience in fighting against bandits, and had been favored by Xiong Wencan. After careful consideration, Xiong Wencan selected him as the commander-in-chief of Bangshan.
Because Song Ming has suffered from the Kun thief and knows how powerful the Kun thief is, it will be much easier for him and Jiang Suo to cooperate - after all, how will the Kun thief come over? Jiang Suo, a guy who has served as a soldier in Australia, is better than Song Suo.
Ming, the defeated general under the Australian, must be clear. If other people are arrogant and look down on this thief, when the time comes, Jiang Suo wants to go east, but he wants to go west, there will be no need to fight this battle.
Although the battle at Bangshan is dangerous, as long as Song Ming doesn't lose his life, he can win a small battle and be promoted soon.
But what Jiang Suo had in mind was not promotion and wealth. Although there are now more than 1,100 people stationed on Bangshan Mountain: 100 Nanyang-style riflemen, 200 turtledove gunmen, and another 800 mixed archers, firearms
As for firearms, the Ming army on Bangshan Mountain had the Turtle Dove Gun imitated by Xiong Wencan - this was an imitation of the heavy matchlock gun widely used in Europe at the time. It was powerful and had a long range, and was often used in positions.
On defense.
In addition, there are four to five hundred "cannons" of various types on Bangshan, most of which are light Frenkers. Although the firepower is very fierce, it is still not able to withstand one-third of the Australians. Now they
Relying on the geographical advantage, which made up for the lack of range and power of the weapons in hand, it was barely able to confront the Australians, but the outcome was between 30 and 70. With a 30% chance of winning, it was already a high chance of winning against the strong Australians.
Already.
Jiang Suo didn't care whether he won or not - he didn't care even if he died on Bangshan. For him, the war was just to settle the hatred between himself and the Kun thief. It didn't matter who won and who lost.
Song Ming saw Jiang Suo's absent-mindedness, and according to Yi Haoran's arrangement, he stationed Jiang Suo and his 300 Xiong Mansion servants holding firearms in the second trench. Song Ming himself took the remaining 800 people to station.
Inside the first trench. These trenches were built according to the topography of Bangshan Mountain. They not only referred to Professor Jiang Suo's Australian fortification construction method, but also mixed Yi Haoran's experience in defending the city outside the pass and the actual combat experience of the generals.
, and even borrowed from Hongmao's method of building cities and forts, but used the method of building walls in digging trenches.
After narrowly escaping from the defeat in Chengmai, Song Ming learned from the pain. From time to time, he reflected on why He Zhen's army was defeated by the Australians, and why they were repeatedly denied the benefits of the Australians building a fortress outside Chengmai City.
, it lingered in Song Ming's mind for a long time.
The Australian forts are similar to those built by Hong Mao. They all built the city corners into sharp angles instead of square walls like the Ming Dynasty. It is said that the Japanese slaves also had a good way of building cities. The shape was not large, but they relied heavily on the geographical location.
, often built against mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack.
About a year ago, Master Xiong quietly recruited several Hongmao to teach gunnery in the army. One Hongmao not only taught artillery, but also presented a picture to Master Xiong. It was a picture of their Hongmao.
A sample diagram of building a castle. People who saw this picture, after listening to the explanation in Cantonese by the red-haired man, thought that the red-haired man was exquisite in building the city. It is said that Mr. Xiong, who saw the sample diagram, originally planned to click on the red button.
The style proposed by Mao Ren was to build a maple-leaf-shaped urn city at each city gate in Guangzhou. However, after quietly doing some calculations, he suddenly realized that the cost was huge, so he had to give up.
Mr. Yi, who had been guarding the city outside the pass all year round, and Song Ming, who had seen the Australian fortress, were both lucky enough to see the red-haired man's painting. This time, under the leadership of Mr. Yi, the people were mobilized to build a trench on Bangshan.
Song Ming felt that if a castle was built according to Hongmao's method on Bangshan Mountain, then this castle would have the advantages of Hongmao and Japanese slaves in building cities, and it could firmly block the Guijiang River.
It's a pity that there is no time now, let alone the huge amount of money required to build the city. Besides, what they have come into contact with now is just a little bit of Kun Thief, and they don't know how many powerful killing moves Kun Thief has in the future. Thinking of this,
Song Ming couldn't help but take a breath of air.
At this time, someone suddenly reported: "Many Australian soldiers are holding small shovels and don't know what they are doing."
After listening to this, Jiang Suo and Song Ming were distracted. After a while, they spontaneously took out their telescopes and looked down the mountain.
Yang Zeng stretched. He had just taken a short nap. Yang Zeng had not slept well since last night. He was woken up in the middle of the night for a meeting and stayed there until dawn. He didn't sleep long after the meeting.
He got up again to arrange the landing of the 8th Battalion. After all the troops were transported ashore and Zhushan was occupied, Yang Zeng ordered the troops to assemble in the west of Bangshan and ordered the messenger to notify the engineers to prepare the engineer shovels.
While waiting for the messenger to return, Yang Zeng took a short nap on the marching chair, which probably took less than fifteen minutes.
"Are the engineers and soldiers ready?" Yang Zeng asked the messenger who had just returned.
"Everything is ready!"
Yang Zeng nodded, then took out his telescope and looked at the Ming army's position on Bangshan Mountain again. The first of the two trenches dug by the Ming army was an irregular quadrilateral with a short north and a long south.
The trenches were closer to squares. The shortest distance between the two trenches was about five meters, and the longest distance was about ten meters. They were connected by several passages. The outer edges of the trenches were artificially piled high with sandbags, and three deer villages were set up. The Ming army was
These two trenches were dug according to the standards for building a fort.
Almost all the trees on Bangshan Mountain have been cut down, leaving a bare and very open area. Once you launch a charge, you will be hit by a mixture of bows, arrows and muskets, and due to the constraints of the Luzhai in front of the trench, you cannot complete the battle with a short charge.
Task.
Judging from the terrain, the Ming army not only built convex corner fortifications, but also absorbed some of the Japanese mountain city practices of using terrain to build fortifications, further increasing the difficulty of infantry assaults.
After thinking about it, Yang Zeng decided to treat the enemy with his own medicine and use trenches to deal with trenches.
After carefully observing the Ming army's position, Yang Zeng believed that a forced charge would cause a lot of casualties. To reduce casualties, the only way to reduce the charge distance is to minimize the charge distance, and then digging traffic trenches to advance was the best option.
So Yang Zeng ordered the engineers to prepare infantry shovels in order to prepare for digging communication trenches.
The engineer shovel equipped by the Fubo Army's engineers is called the 32-year-old engineer shovel. Yang Zeng didn't know that the 32-year engineer shovel was an imitation of the second-generation engineer shovel installed by the old time and space pla. Several veterans of the arsenal
Originally, I wanted to imitate the third-generation engineer shovel, but considering that many functions of the third-generation engineer shovel are actually unavailable to engineers in this time and space, its complex structure makes it difficult for the existing industrial system to mass-produce qualified products. And
The first-generation engineer shovel was abandoned by the elders because they thought its structure was too simple and its function was too single. So the second-generation engineer shovel, which was copied from the Soviet Union's World War II engineer shovel, became the only choice. The 32-year-old engineer shovel
The engineer shovel adopts the design of the second-generation engineer shovel with a movable shovel head. It can be folded and put into a backpack, or the shovel head can be folded to 90 degrees, and then the fixing bolts are tightened to turn it into a small hoe. In order to facilitate the use of engineers 32
The 1992-type engineer shovel is used for fighting, and the 32-year-old engineer shovel has one side with an edge. It can be used as an ax for hand-to-hand combat when necessary. Some 32-year-old engineer shovels have one side made into a serrated shape, realizing the function of a saw.
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