Chapter 161： Bombing the city wall

The next day, Wu Jun put on a siege posture under Xuancheng City.

Forty cannons fired solid shells at a section of the city wall in an attempt to knock down a section of the city wall.

This is mainly because there are not many howitzers they carry, so they can only change to a way of siege.

Logistics transportation in this era is a big problem, and I don’t know when the next batch of shells will arrive.

And they can't stop attacking the city because they don't have howitzer shells, they can use the traditional way to bomb the city wall with solid shells.

Destroying the city wall can not only open the gap, but also break through the psychological defense of the defenders, which is a good siege method. The only drawback is that it takes longer. It is not easy to knock down a section of the city wall, even if the city walls are made of rammed earth.

With the continuous shelling, Fang Guoan also discovered Wu Jun's attempt.

In this regard, there are not many ways he can do it, he can only organize a reserve force first, ready to fill this hole at any time.

This is the helplessness of weapons inferior to the enemy. If he also had a red cannon, he could bombard the enemy's artillery positions on the wall instead of being beaten like he is now.

In addition to launching shelling, Wu Jun was also digging tunnels, trying to replicate the successful experience of attacking the outer city wall of Nanjing.

When attacking the outer city wall of Nanjing, Wu Jun exploded a huge gap in the city wall by burying gunpowder.

This method is simple and effective, but it takes a little longer.

In order to reduce casualties, Wu Jun showed enough patience to arrange for soldiers to dig trenches leading to the city wall.

The shelling lasted for nearly two hours. From the binoculars, Wang Dayong saw that the enemy's city walls had begun to falter. In addition, trenches are about to be dug under the city wall, and the stage of burying explosives has begun.

Therefore, Wang Dayong gave the order of the general attack.

coming.

The generals on the wall couldn't help but get nervous, and then the cruel offensive and defensive battle, the time has come to test them.

"Everyone, glory and wealth, whether we can go further depends on this time, we must not let Xuancheng be handed over to others, and we cannot be underestimated by that hairy boy."

Fang Guoan tried to motivate his morale, but, except for the few diehards under his hand, the mood of the other generals was not too high.

In their view, conflict and fighting with Wu Changqing is really unnecessary, dangerous and not good.

Unfortunately, Fang Guoan insisted on doing this, but they couldn't help it.

Just as Fang Guoan was boosting his morale, there was a sudden noise.

The city wall that had been blasted for nearly two hours finally couldn't hold it and collapsed.

Although this situation was expected by everyone, they couldn't help but feel a little nervous when they saw the city wall collapsed.

The collapse of the city wall means that it is more difficult to defend the city.

This was not over yet, just as Fang Guoan ordered people to plug the gap, a loud noise came from the other side.

This is definitely the loudest noise they have ever heard in their lives, like thunder rolling in the sky.

In the bang, they also saw the mud that flew into the sky.

"How is this going?"

Fang Guoan questioned, what the generals on the battlefield fear most is to encounter unexpected situations, which will mean many accidents, and accidents represent danger.

After a while, soldiers came to report, saying that the southern city wall was blown up for a while, and a large gap of several feet wide was blown up.

"Block it, Xu Wenwei, immediately take someone to plug the gap. Yuan Da opens you to organize the soldiers to make up for the gap."

Fang Guoan was already a little gaffe, and hurriedly issued various orders in a panic.

Fortunately, he has a lot of troops and enough manpower to defend those gaps.

But without the height of the city wall, the difficulty of defending these places is undoubtedly doubled.

At this time Fang Guoan already regretted a bit. Knowing that Wu Jun was so difficult, he simply let Xuancheng out.

The other generals were no more calm than Fang Guoan at this time. The city wall was blown up for two stages, and the advantage of defending the city was greatly weakened. Can this city be defended?

Many generals have this question in their hearts.

As the two sections of the city wall were blown up, Wu Jun's general offensive was also completely launched, and an attack was launched around these two gaps.

In particular, the gap that was blasted was the focus of Wu Jun's attack.

More than four thousand flintlock troops marched forward to suppress the enemy at the front of the city, covering the cold weapon troops from entering the gap, and the Ming army also appeared on the wall and fired at Wu Jun.

This time, shooting Wu Jun didn't suffer as much as last time. Their firepower density has doubled, and there are still troops that can be replenished at any time.

As for the archers of the Ming Army, they were obviously less confident than the last time.

Last time they had an advantage in numbers, the resulting battle damage was higher than that of Wu Jun. This made many soldiers fear Wu Jun. But this time Wu Jun’s strength has no disadvantages, so do you still have to think about the result of shooting down like this?

With this kind of careful thinking, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has dropped a little invisibly.

Some archers didn't aim at all at all, just squatted down after hurriedly shooting an arrow.

Although they use a covering type of strike, they still need to aim more or less, and shoot the arrow to a general area, instead of just shooting blindly, you can hit the target.

These clever soldiers are obviously smarter than other soldiers, because those archers who aim honestly have a greatly increased hit rate.

The chance of death of those honest soldiers is obviously greater than that of these clever ghosts.

For individual soldiers like them, doing so certainly saved their lives. But for the army, it actually hurts very much.

This is why when Wu Jun was recruiting, he liked the honest farmers more than the treacherous and cunning gangsters who seemed fierce and domineering.

Discipline, the bonus to combat effectiveness is very high.

After several rounds of shooting, the Ming army suffered a big loss.

After several generals were shot, the other archers simply squatted down to stop the counterattack.

Without the obstacles of these archers, Wu Jun's infantry arrived at the gap under the city wall with little loss.

Such an easy attack made the death squads rushing in front laugh. This credit is too easy to pick up. Said to be a death squad, but the survival rate is actually very high.

When they arrived at the gap, they finally encountered obstacles.

However, Wu Jun had too many methods for fighting on this plane.

Following the death squad were the grenadiers, and the grenades in their hands were thrown into the Ming army.

As the explosion sounded, the Ming army suffered heavy losses.

More importantly, the Ming army had no way to defend against this kind of grenades that would explode, so they had great fear in their hearts.

When the Ming army panicked, the will to resist declined.

But Wu Jun's death squads were all desperadoes.

After the two armies met hand in hand, the situation fell and the Ming army retreated steadily.

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