Why is it said that Chen's artillery shells have little lethality, but it has a great blow to the Qing army?

That's because compared with Chen's artillery, the Qing's artillery fire was really inferior.

Some of the shells could not even be broken into earthen towers.

No matter how deep the soil behind the earth pile is, in the eyes of the Qing army, the earth pile is the earth pile.

What's more, insufficient charge and insufficient kinetic energy are the problems that Qing army artillery have always existed.

Because the Qing army gunners knew that their artillery was of poor quality, they dared to load powder according to standards. No one was afraid of blowing up the chamber, so they didn't dare to load a lot of launching medicine. It was no wonder that the shells were short and weak.

Fu Kangan knew this well, but he didn't care.

Because his visit to Jiezhou this time was actually a response to the Linqing side. It can even be said that it was a tactical attempt by him. Last month, he sent a letter from the south, and the contents were quite useful.

Just like Mingliang's previous judgment, Fu Kangan also felt that the problem of the battle in the Qing Dynasty was not big.

With so many horse teams in hand, even if the confrontation fails, Mingliang can retreat calmly and wait until the team regroups to fight the enemy again.

Meng Can's eyes did not stop at the Qing army's artillery, but instead bet more on the men and women behind the artillery.

The Qing soldiers were driving thousands of civilians Ding Zhuang while building camps and digging trenches outside Jiezhou City. They were not only trying to build soil walls, but also digging intertwined traffic trenches!

This was much beyond Meng Can's expectations. Because judging from the previous Qing army's offensive, they had never thought of digging trenches and approaching the city.

Why did it suddenly evolve now?

Because in the Chen army's combat manual, when besieging a strong city, especially a city with strong firepower, tunnel approaching is a very effective means of attack. It can avoid major casualties - Jiezhou's artillery has lethality four or five miles away. Even if these four heavy artillery has not been revealed before, Jiezhou artillery has a considerable lethality to the Qing army one mile away. Every time the Qing army gathers on a large scale, it must at least run out of the range of Jiezhou artillery and travel from two miles away to Jiezhou. The journey is long and it has to constantly withstand the bombardment of the opponent's cannon along the way, which is very harmful to morale.

Now that the traffic trench has been established, the safety of the Qing army has naturally been greatly improved, which will greatly reduce their casualties.

Due to the different distribution of artillery positions, almost no shells can penetrate into the trench accurately. Especially the trench is still tortuous, and there are earthen trenches built on both sides - earthen trenches can not only conceal the actions of the Qing army, but also the earthen trenches are soft and thick, and can also absorb the kinetic energy of the shells well. Even if an iron bullet really falls into the trench, the earth walls on both sides can quickly calm the iron bullets, greatly reducing the threat to them by those iron bullets jumping on the ground.

At least, it is difficult to see again when you rely on jumping on flat ground.

The only disadvantage of this is that the project volume is too large, and only the party who completely possesses the advantage of manpower can afford it.

"Target the targets of those people and strong people!"

Meng Can knew very well that these trenches were built before and after Chen Jun's position outside the city. It was okay to say that the threat during the day was, but at night? At that time, I was afraid that I would give up most of the position outside the city and only retain two limited fortresses. Because he didn't have so many people to fight Fu Kang'an.

But Fu Kangan was determined to be determined, even though the shells on the top of the city were constantly stopping, the twists and turns outside the city were still unswervingly extending to the city of Jiezhou.

Under the threat of the Qing sabers, the men and women could only be obedient.

The shells fired by Chen Jun were very threatening, but the Qing army's swords and guns could kill people as much as the swords and guns.

Moreover, the Qing army's killing of people was much sharper than Chen's artillery shells.

In two days, the trench extended to about 400 meters below the city. But it was over and I couldn't dig any further. Chen Jun's sharpshooter plus mortar cannon flowering bullets was not for nothing.

Starting from a position about one mile and extending forward for a short 100 meters, the villagers died and injured seven or eight hundred people, which was more than the total casualties in the previous work of more than one mile.

Even the Qing army supervising the workers lost forty or fifty people.

Ding Zhuangmin men had collapsed, and Fu Kangan was unwilling to completely ruin his reputation. After all, in his eyes, the world is still a big green fruit, so he should take care of it.

Then the Qing army began to pile up sandbags of soil and sandbags, not only relying on the soil dug out of the trenches, but also input from the rear.

In short, we must build a thick wall at a 400-meter position to serve as a starting position.

That night, Meng Can withdrew the defenders from the positions outside the city into Jiezhou City with great obedience, leaving only two fortresses as strategic support points for counter-siege outside the city in the future.

The general of Hezhou Town, Ha Tingliang, stood in front of the formation nervously, behind him were about 3,000 troops who had been arranged in the array. These people were the capital of Hezhou Town.

Hezhou Town, which had just experienced the battle, should be a team with rich combat experience.

If we are dealing with the rioters in Hexi, Hartingliang, the top martial arts scholar in the 17th year of Qianlong, would never be afraid.

But the Chen army and the Hexi riots are two completely different groups.

Although the rioters in Hexi were determined to fight, they were just a group of rioters. The Chen army in front of him was already a real army, and a well-trained army.

Whether it was artillery battles or gun battles, the Qing army was steadily overwhelmed by the opponent.

This is a fact that everyone sees.

But then again, the artillery teams and birdslingers sent out before were already elite in the army, at least in the eyes of Ha Tingliang. But even such elites were retorted by Chen Jun and crushed, which had a great impact on his thoughts.

Now Hartingliang only hopes that his troops will suffer less losses.

In fact, he did not have much confidence in capturing the two fortresses outside the city at night.

Previously, the Qing army's artillery fire was aimed at the two fortresses, but they just didn't move at all. It can be seen how strong they are!

Such fortresses have the care of Chen Jun’s firepower on the head of Jiezhou City. It is conceivable how difficult it is to take them down.

But this is the military order he received, so he could only bite the bullet and go.

It was very relaxed that the Qing army flattened the fences, trenches, etc. in front of Chen's position, with bullets pouring down from their heads.
Chapter completed!