Chapter 210： Jiujiang offensive and defensive war

Two days later, the main force of Wu's army arrived at Jiujiang City, a total of about 70,000 people.

The Qing army still has 90,000 people in Jiujiang, occupying an advantage in strength, but the Qing army generals are generally pessimistic.

The strength of the army can never be based solely on the number. In the past, they often beat the more with less, chasing the Ming army. Two now, they met the even more powerful Wu Jun.

Because of weapons, the importance of the number of troops has once again been reduced.

Even the Qing army has realized that it is no longer an era of greater numbers, and the weapons of war are the most important.

In the past, whether it was a knife or an arrow, it would kill a person at best. Nowadays, a howitzer can kill as many as a few people and as many as dozens and dozens of people.

There are also hand grenades, which are quite powerful.

Although the flintlock gun is a single killer, its rate of fire is extremely fast and its killing efficiency is also quite high.

These advanced weapons have greatly improved the killing efficiency and made wars more cruel.

In order to deal with these advanced weapons, the Qing army also thought of a lot of native methods.

For example, generals no longer wear special clothes and armor to prevent them from being cleared by snipers.

Secondly, a large number of wooden planks and damp quilts were prepared on the walls. These things built a simple concealed place on the city wall to prevent mass shooting of howitzers.

In order to prevent the city wall from being blown up, they also deepened the moat.

In order to prevent Wu Jun's grenadiers, they also prepared a large number of torches and tung oil on the city. The clever Qing army discovered that Wu Jun's grenade was afraid of fire. As long as they throw torch tung oil at the grenadier and detonate the grenade on the grenadier, the threat of the grenadier can be solved.

Of course, these native methods can only slightly improve their plight, but it is impossible to obliterate Wu Jun's equipment advantage with this.

As the offensive order was issued, Wu Jun’s artillery began to sound.

There are more than 80 cannons on the army side, and more than 70 cannons on the navy side.

At this time, not only the army’s artillery began to bombard the city, the navy also opened fire on the city wall north of Jiujiang on the river.

The Qing army was not to be outdone here. They had more than fifty cannons, and they all moved to the wall at this time to bombard the artillery positions of the Wu army.

However, it was also a red cannon, but the Qing army suffered a lot from its artillery shells. They all use solid bullets, unless they are lucky, the bullets directly hit a person or hit a cannon, otherwise their cannons will be in vain.

However, Wu Jun’s howitzer is a large piece of bomb, and the accuracy requirements are much lower. As long as it hits the general position, it can achieve the result.

"boom."

As some of the artillery shells of the Qing army fell on the position of the Wu army, the artillery of the Wu army also suffered some casualties.

The soldiers who were directly hit by the shells were basically turned into **** and died in a very miserable state.

However, the Wu Jun soldiers next to him were indifferent and continued to calibrate and reload.

It's not that they are not afraid, but that it is useless to be afraid.

Honestly continuing to fire the cannon, the chance of death may not even be 5%. However, if you run away because of fear, the chance of death is 100%.

The supervising team not far away is not for decoration.

Any soldier with a little brain can make the right choice.

As for the artillery of Wu Jun, their brains are very normal, they are not smarter than other soldiers, and they cannot enter the artillery battalion.

In a round of artillery by the Qing army, only three Wu Jun artillerymen were killed. Among the three artillerymen, all of them could be replaced at any time by loader and auxiliary troops for transporting artillery.

The most important technical units, such as measurement and operation, have not died. As long as these people are not dead, the strength of the artillery unit will not be affected.

In contrast, the Qing army is much more miserable here.

There were more than 20 artillery shells that successfully landed on the city. These artillery shells exploded, and even if the Qing army did protection, many people were still injured.

In the center of the explosion, the thin wooden boards were not big to the left and right.

The artillery is even worse. They want to fire without any protection.

A howitzer exploded among them, directly reimbursing more than a dozen people in a battery.

Several of these people are experienced gunners, and they are irreplaceable. Without them, one cannon in the Qing army would not fire.

"Order the artillery to stop fighting back and hide."

Luck Dehun was observing the situation in the tower through a telescope. After several rounds of shelling, he assessed the results and damages, and decisively issued an order to stop the artillery from resisting.

It's not cost-effective. They have to die an average of five people to kill one Wu Jun.

Instead of losing those precious gunners in vain, it is better to save their lives and wait for the Wu army to attack the city on a large scale and let them kill the charging infantry.

Solid bullets are inefficient in killing scattered artillery, but they are still quite powerful when attacking dense formations.

Luc Dehun can achieve this position, naturally there is also his outstanding.

At this time, he could rather be beaten and save his strength.

After shelling for half an hour, Wu Jun began to launch a tentative attack.

This time the offensive was not to break the city, but to test out the deployment of the Qing army to see which section of the wall had more archers, which section of the wall had more supplies for defense, and which section of the wall was weaker in defense. .

After testing out this information, the next general attack can make targeted deployments.

Of course, if the tentative offense goes well, it is naturally best to be able to directly win the city.

However, during the deduction process, the staff members unanimously determined that this was impossible. It is totally unrealistic to want to capture Jiujiang at once.

There are too many Qing troops in Jiujiang City, even if they are filled with human lives, they can hold on for a long time.

More importantly, among the defenders in Jiujiang City, the Eight Banners soldiers accounted for nearly half of them.

Compared with the Han Army Green Camp, the Eight Banners soldiers were more tenacious when fighting with the Wu Army, because they were different from the Wu Army after all, so they resisted surrendering psychologically.

Although the Wu Jun never killed the surrendered Manchu soldiers, these Eight Banners still had an instinctive distrust of the Wu Jun. This kind of distrust made them tend to fight to death in battle.

The soldier's will to fight has a great influence on the course of the battle.

In the past, the Wu army only had to kill about 20% of the enemy's people, the enemy would almost collapse and escape, and then the Wu army could reap easily.

But this time, they had to kill at least 40% of the defenders before they could break the defenders.

To achieve this goal, Wu Jun has to pay more casualties.

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