Chapter three hundred and eighty second fried boring
On May 21, Li Laosi led a group of gangsters on a steamship and went south to Suzhou to capture Zhang Pu and others, the leader of the restoration of society who was inciting the world.
It was the first time for the soldiers to take a boat, and they boarded the boat from Dagu Port with anxiety. As soon as the boat left the sea, the soldiers who had never been on a sea ship vomited, and many of them couldn't eat anything for several days. Fortunately,
The ship sailed very fast, and it only took four days to reach the Yangtze River estuary.
Zhang Pu, Zhang Cai and others are from Taicang County, and Chen Zilong is from Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, which is very close to the outlet of the Yangtze River. Li Zhi hoped that Li Laosi's army could take down these scum in one go. So Lu Hu directly sailed the fleet there
In the eastern part of Shanghai County, let the bandits disembark from the port near Chuansha Castle.
When the army landed, an informant from the secret guard ambassador Han Jinxin came to report that Zhang Pu, Zhang Cai and Chen Zilong were all active in Suzhou.
The bandits headed straight for Suzhou. Chuansha Castle was three hundred miles away from Suzhou City. The bandits marched fifty miles every day and took six days to attack the city.
Along the way, Li Laosi saw traffic in the countryside, and dogs and chickens heard each other. Although the recent years have been bad, the famine in Jiangnan has not been serious, and it is still prosperous.
When the gangsters arrived at the foot of Suzhou City, they found that the news had been received in Suzhou Mansion, the four gates were tightly closed, and the soldiers on the city guarded the city wall.
Suzhou Mansion is one of the largest cities in the world. The city walls are all covered with bricks. The city wall is sixteen miles from north to south and twelve miles from east to west. It has a circumference of sixty-two miles and thirty paces, a height of three feet and two feet, and a width of five feet. There are twenty-one towers and a crenellation.
Fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty, with twenty-three gun towers. Each of the eight city gates has an urn. There is a moat outside the city, with varying widths. The widest part is more than twenty feet wide, and the narrowest part is also five feet wide.
There are 1,500 urban and rural soldiers in Suzhou City, who are under the jurisdiction of the prefect. There is also a city garrison with 800 actual soldiers, for a total of 2,300 soldiers.
The gangsters surrounded the eight city gates of Suzhou to prevent Zhang Pu from escaping. Li Laosi was riding on a horse, looking at the towering Suzhou city, and Cui Changwu, the "Ambassador of the Shogunate Copywriting Department" who was accompanying him, said: "Ambassador Cui, this Suzhou
The city walls are so thick, and we didn’t bring heavy artillery, so it might take some time to enter the city.”
This time, after Li Zhi defeated Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng, he helped Cui Changwu apply for the title of military attaché of the Thousand Households. Although Li Laosi was a commander in command and his official position was much higher than that of Cui Changwu, Cui Changwu was Li Zhi's brother-in-law, so he did it as soon as he came up.
Although he became the ambassador of the Copywriting Department, Li Laosi did not dare to underestimate Cui Changwu.
Along the way, Li Laosi was very polite to Cui Changwu.
Cui Changwu said: "I'm afraid that the attack on the city will be delayed. Reinforcements are coming from nearby military towns."
Li Laosi smiled and said: "If reinforcements come, don't be afraid of him, just defeat him!"
Li Laosi and Cui Changwu rode around outside the city. Li Laosi said: "The moat is the narrowest in the northeast corner, so we will attack the city from here!"
Cui Changwu nodded and said, "What Commander Li said makes sense."
Li Laosi thought for a while and said to a soldier with a loud voice: "Go up and shout!"
The soldier walked to the moat with his shield in hand and shouted to the guards on the city wall: "Soldiers on the city, listen, I, the uncle of the country, Hu Ben, will launch an army to crusade, capture Zhang Pu's criminals who are inciting the world, and invade."
Empress Suzhou only punishes criminals and does not kill innocent people! Soldiers in the city should not take any chances and resist stubbornly, otherwise the army will be destroyed in one fell swoop, and the lives of the defenders will not be saved!"
After the soldier shouted several times, there was no movement in the city.
Seeing that the defenders on the city refused to surrender, Li Laosi said to the battalion commanders: "The soldiers of the first, second and third battalions took shovels and poles to dig earth and fill the moat. The soldiers of the fourth and fifth battalions arrived.
Cut down trees nearby and make manhole railings to suppress the guards on the city wall."
The battalion commanders sang loudly and then led the soldiers to go about their business.
The soldiers dug earth and carried loads and began to fill in the moat in the northeast corner. But as soon as the filling work began, a loud rumbling sound was heard from the city.
Li Laosi thought it was the cannons on the city that were defending the city and was a little worried about the safety of the soldiers filling the trenches. He held his breath and wanted to see where the cannonballs flew out.
But after waiting for a long time, he never saw the cannonball fall.
Li Laosi was in a daze there when he saw a guard on the city wall screaming and covering his face, rushing on the city wall, and finally fell off the city wall and fell on the land between the city wall and the moat. That one
The guard fell almost to death, but he still covered his face and screamed repeatedly.
Li Laosi smiled and said to Cui Changwu: "The guard's cannon may have exploded!"
Cui Changwu smiled and said: "Since the Japanese pirates subsided, there has been no war in Jiangnan for decades, and the soldiers have not practiced drills. Unexpectedly, their skills have become so rusty. People say that during the Jiajing period, dozens of Japanese pirates defeated thousands of Ming troops, and even dared to attack
Ying Tianfu, today I found out that the rumors were true."
Li Laosi smiled and said nothing.
After blasting once, the cannons on the city guard never fired again. I'm afraid the guards on the city never operated the cannons on weekdays, but after they were blasted once, no one dared to operate the cannons.
Li Laosi felt relieved and asked the soldiers to increase their efforts to fill in the moat.
The soldiers of the Dang Kou regiment were wearing full-body steel armor and were not afraid of the scattered bows and arrows shot down from the city wall. Especially after the manhole railings were completed, the riflemen climbed up the manhole railings and aimed their rifles at the top of the city from above, killing thirty of them.
A few guards came out to shoot arrows, and the soldiers guarding the city were even more afraid to shoot arrows.
It took five days for the soldiers of the Dang Bandit Regiment to fill in a 200-step-long section of the moat in the northeast corner of Suzhou City.
At this time, more than a hundred manhole railings had been completed, and a thousand soldiers stood on the manhole railings to suppress the guards on the city head. The guards in Suzhou City did not dare to leave the battlements at all, and they hid behind the battlements with their waists high.
Behind, if the officers guarding the city hadn't been watching, the soldiers on the city wall would have dispersed long ago.
The soldiers of the first battalion prepared long ladders and climbed up the city wall. No defender dared to come out and shoot arrows.
The soldiers climbed on the ladder, and the two of them lit the grenades together and threw them onto the city wall one by one.
Only a loud bang was heard, and dozens of grenades exploded on the city wall. The defenders hiding behind the city walls were in bad luck. Each one was stabbed by the broken iron slag exploded from the grenade, and their blood flowed.
Drenching. Some people who were very close, if they were only two steps away from the point where the grenade exploded, were killed alive.
Each siege soldier had three grenades on his waist, and there was plenty of ammunition. The soldiers on the ladder kept throwing grenades at the city wall, causing the defenders on the wall to howl like ghosts.
The defenders collapsed.
There is no way to fight this battle. If you show up, you will be killed by riflemen. If you hide behind the wall, you will be blown up by bombs. Let’s look at the equipment of the world’s most powerful army, Tiger Ben Division. Look at those steel armors. How can we hold this wall?
live?
Some defenders jumped under the city wall. The flight of these defenders quickly led to other defenders. Finally, more than a thousand defenders guarding the northeast corner of the city wall all escaped down the city wall and fled into the city to hide...
