The day before the Ming army executed Ma Jinbao in the capital city, the rammed earth exterior wall of the fortifications, except for the southernmost side and part of the city wall near the southernmost end, had all been destroyed by the Qing army.

Since Chen Wenshuai's army advanced westward, Jin Li received a request for help from Chen Jin and mobilized the Eight Banners in Hangzhou to defend the Eight Banners and Fubiao, and raised the entire army to cross the Qiantang River and headed south. However, when they arrived in Zhuji, the people were rumoring that the Ming army was building a dam in the upper reaches of the Puyang River.

At this moment, the Ming army launched an offensive in Quzhou, while the other side was building a dam in Pujiang County that was exhausting people and money. This unreasonable phenomenon suddenly aroused the alertness of Qing generals such as Jin Li, Tian Xiong, etc.

The Puyang River Basin has frequent floods and has always been nicknamed "Zhejiang Little Yellow River". The folk song "People along the river are poor overnight" is widely circulated among the people. This is what the folk song "People along the river are poor overnight". Once you think of these, the answer will be obvious.

In terms of his footsteps, the Ming army under Chen Wen came from the Dalan Mountain Ming army, which was known for its strict military discipline. After the main force of the Dalan Mountain Ming army was destroyed, Chen Wen's Nantangying family dominated, but the tradition of harmlessness to the people was not only preserved, but also further developed.

However, traitors like Jin Li and Tian Xiong have always maintained the mentality of thieves who think that anyone is a thief. In addition, the area north of Anhua Town is still an occupied area of ​​the Qing army, so it is normal for the Ming army to choose to use water as a soldier.

However, if they want to attack Yiwu and Pujiang from Zhuji, they do not follow the route of Anhua Town - Zhengjiawu Town, they must go to the mountainous areas. It is too inconvenient for the army they brought with them with nearly 7,000 soldiers and twice the auxiliary soldiers. So Jin Li had to stop the troops here and sent a large number of horses to explore the situation and make complete plans.

In the next half month, after repeated verification like neuroticism, Jin Li and Tian Xiong realized that the construction of the dam was originally just a rumor, and it was a lie that the Ming army could spread to delay the progress of the Qing army's southward advance.

After getting this answer, Jin Li, who was furious, had received the news that the Super Biao Battalion had been repelled by the Ming army, once again transferred a portion of the Eight Banners Army from Hangzhou, leaving only Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan with one thousand Hangzhou garrison Eight Banners and the Hangzhou City Guardian Association to continue to stay. He led this army of nearly 8,000 soldiers to continue to go south to Anhua Town, trying to break through the rammed earth fortress to break into Yiwu, realize the strategic intention of besieging Wei and saving Zhao, and then encircling and extermination.

The rammed earth city wall attacked it without much effort, but when the Qing army rushed up the city wall, it was discovered that there was a strange-shaped fortress inside the city wall, and they could only serve as targets for the internal fortress on the city wall.

After barely holding on for an hour, Jin Li and Tian Xiong had to give up the city wall after discovering that there was no meaning. However, as soon as they retreated from the city, the Ming army came up again.

The terrain there was really not conducive to the development of the army, so the Qing army had to fight with the Ming army again for the city wall, trying to burn it after taking it down. As a result, the Qing army's siege troops had just started fighting with the Ming army again, and the detectives in charge of early warning received an alarm - a Ming army appeared on the flank of the Qing army. If nothing unexpected happened, it should have gone from the mine pavilion to the side of the Qing army through a short mountain road.

Because the actual situation is not clear, Jin Li had to suspend the offensive and sent a cover to protect the side and rear Fubiao Battalion to fight. As a result, the Fubiao Battalion, as the vanguard, was almost easily defeated by the Ming army as soon as they met, and even had no ability to fight back.

This Fubiao Right Battalion was the local green camp of Hangzhou City Guardian Association last year. Its combat effectiveness is much weaker than that of the Fubiao Left Battalion drawn from the Dinghai General Biao Battalion, but even the delay of time was indeed shocked Jin Li. Fortunately, this short confrontation also made Jin Li understand the number of the Ming army opposite, and the banner he raised was actually the Dongyang camp of the Ming army in Jinhua.

Since it was in the battle camp, it was nothing abnormal for Fubiao Right Battalion to be no opponent. However, when Jin Li gave up and continued to attack the city and instead assembled a large army to prepare to annihilate the Ming army, he found that the Ming army had withdrawn.

So, in the following days, Jin Li began to spend the process of burning, artillery fire, ramming the earth walls and responding to the harassment of the Ming army. It was not until the day before yesterday that the earth walls on the fan-shaped surface that were conducive to the attack were completely collapsed and cleaned up. The Qing army could use its military advantage to besiege the internal fortress.

After a day of rest, the army attacked the city today as planned. However, after several days of observation, Jin Li found that the Ming army fortress in the earthen wall was completely different from other fortresses of this era, but instead raised several corners from roughly the same angle. If he could have some knowledge of Hinduism, Judaism, or geometry and Western military development, then he should be able to recognize that it was clearly a prism built in the shape of a hexagram!

Unfortunately, Jin Li and Tian Xiong neither knew what hexagrams meant, nor did they know anything about new things like the Bastion from Taisie. Although they felt something was wrong and even realized a certain degree of threat, the siege battle had already been underway to this point, and today's siege was naturally imperative.

Early in the morning of June 12, the sixth year of Yongli, before Ma Jinbao came out of the prison where he was imprisoned, Jin Li and Tianxiong commanded the army composed of most of the Eight Banners in Hangzhou and the Tibiao Battalion to appear in the north of the Anhua Town Battalion, forming a fan-shaped encirclement state. The Fubiao Battalion was led by the Guerrilla Changjin of the Fubiao Left Camp to continue to cover the flanks of the Qing army.

The number of troops dispatched by the Eight Banners and the Admiral Battalion in Hangzhou was almost the same, but the Eight Banners of Han were also slaves of the Qing emperors after all. Naturally, the main force of the siege of the city was still the Extraordinary Battalion. Even Tian Xiong, the commander of the Extraordinary Battalion, did not feel anything wrong with this.

Since the encirclement and suppression of Siming Mountain nearly two years ago, the Tibiao Battalion has been rebuilt through internal adjustments and recruiting soldiers when the Zuo Ba was almost completely destroyed. After the Battle of Zhoushan, a part of the Zhoushan Association was successfully formed and then supplemented. Overall, even if the combat effectiveness has decreased, it is very small. If one of the rebuilt Zuo Battalions has turned to train and organize according to Qi Jiguang's teachings, then one positive and one negative will be improved.

The army formed an encirclement, and there were no defensive facilities such as moats, low walls, wooden stakes outside the Anhua Town Bastion. After just a moment of work, Tian Xiong ordered the auxiliary soldiers to push the built-in rushing carts and the nest chariots forward, and the soldiers of the Extrababa also carried the ladder and slowly advanced, waiting for these siege equipment to distract part of the defenders and then they could siege the city.

On the high platform of the castle in Anhua Town, guerrilla general Lin Zhongxiao, who was the guard, looked at the Qing army's deployment in the distance.

Originally, when he was a scrupulous army on Dalan Mountain, he had once whipped an extra whip during the punishment, causing Chen Wen to be sentenced to clarify military discipline. This lesson not only led to his demotion by Gu Shouli during the subsequent expansion, but also made this low-level officer who was known for his honesty and kindness take every order issued by his superiors more seriously while feeling guilty.

Whether it is his daily training, military discipline, or fighting against the Tartars, even Chen Wen's literacy of officers at all levels, he tried his best to complete this "military mission" and never slacked off. It is precisely this reason why he was chosen by Chen Wen as the crucial guardian of Anhua Town Bastion, rather than the one whom he was the governor of the politician whom others thought.

Looking into the distance, the Qing army's nest chariots and rushing vehicles were slowly advancing under the support of the auxiliary soldiers. There were some bulges on the ground outside the basin, which were coordinates used to measure the distance of the artillery inside the basin. Under the prompts of the officers, Lin Zhongxiao did not rush to order the fire. This originated from the plaza guard Cao Dian, which he had memorized since his report. This Cao Dian will be modified in the future, but for him now, it is the iron law of the Jinke.

On the battlefield, the Qing army's rushing chariots and nesting chariots were always moving forward slowly until the Qing army's nesting chariots all passed the Ming army's mark. The red artillery cannons on the artillery positions of the fortress were the first to fire, and the targets were those nesting chariots.

Relying on those marks, the Ming army's Red Barbarian Cannon did not have insufficient range. However, the first round of shooting was not very effective because it was very far away. It only hit a nest car and was not even destroyed, enough to continue moving forward.

After the Qing army's artillery counterattack, it was temporarily restored and reloaded, the red artillery on the main position of the Ming army opened fire again in the midst of the Qing army's dumbfounded...

Under the Qing army's tent, Jin Li and Tian Xiong looked at each other and frowned. Just now, with the start of the second round of artillery attacks of the Ming army, three nest cars were destroyed on the spot. The shooters on them either jumped down first or landed on the ground with the collapsed nest cars.

At this moment, the two sides were at least 200 meters away. Such a range was caused by the Red Barbarian Cannon. In fact, it was not scary to reach the Red Barbarian Cannon. There were also the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou, and the Qing army's artillery had just launched a counterattack. It was just a long distance, and the shooting from bottom to top was almost either hitting the city walls and the ground, or they didn't know where they flew.

However, just a little comparison between the two, the Ming army gunner's reset was only slightly slower, and the shooting hit rate after the test shot was quite astonishing, all of which aggravated Jin Li's uneasiness.

The Eight Banners in Hangzhou are still composed of the Eight Banners of Han, and the predecessor of the Eight Banners of Han, Wu Zhenchaoha, was positioned in the Qing army as artillery. Although the current Han Eight Banners Army is not just that "heavy army", artillery is their greatest reliance. This Ming army is obviously from the rebel army called the Ming army of Dalanshan. Most of the soldiers served as soldiers and ate food for less than a year. Even though these gunners were veterans, they were close to the gunners under his command since the Tianqi and Chongzhen Dynasty who began to serve in the army since the Chongzhen Dynasty were still very unbelievable.

"The training intensity of this Ming army has always been terrifyingly high, but I didn't expect it to improve so quickly."

Jin Li knew that Tian Xiong's subordinates had fought a big battle with the Ming army in Siming Mountain, but the result was a big surprise. For this reason, Tian Xiong had vigorously studied the commander of this army and the composition, training and combat methods of the army. Later, he arranged a garrison to replicate its tactics, so his understanding of them was far better than that of other Qing generals.

At this time, as Tian Xiong uttered this incredible sentence from his mouth, a large number of Qing army's rushing carts also entered the range of the Ming army's Folang machine cannon. After an instant, a series of cannon sounded from the fortress of the Ming army, and dozens of shells ejected out of the gun smoke and flames, instantly covering the route of the Qing army's rushing carts.

The rushers were knocked down to the ground and could not continue to move forward. Anyone who was alive under the rushers began to move towards other rushers that were not attacked. At this time, the Ming army's musketeers and archers also aimed at and shot.

As the nest car and the rushing car continued to move, the Ming army archers were trying to kill the Qing army that had lost their protection, and the Qing army wanted to continue to advance while surviving and approach the city. So, the Qing army, who escaped by luck, also began to play "hide and seek" with the Ming army archers on the city.

Whenever a rusher was destroyed, except for the Qing army that had lost its ability to move or was directly shot by the aftermath of the artillery shells, most Qing army would choose to leave the siege cars that could collapse at any time as soon as possible. However, some veterans were not so anxious. Instead, they waited for the Qing army who rushed out to find a new cover because of fear to endure a round of Ming army shooting before taking advantage of the loading and remaining strong enough to run towards the destination. The Ming army at the top of the city just chose target shooting according to the officer's orders. In this way, some Qing army veterans with more experience escaped.

The wailing sounds on the battlefield have become even louder than when the nest cars were bombed one after another. However, Jin Li has not seen this level of firepower. At least when he attacked Daling River, Jinzhou and even Ningyuan in western Liaoning, the artillery intensity of the Guanning Army there was much greater.

Time was moving rapidly on the battlefield, and the Qing army could not always endure the Ming army's shooting. When the first nest car entered a range that was enough to attack the city and began to suppress the Ming army's shooters, the Qing army soldiers following behind shouted loudly at the moment the drum sounded.

The Qing army's nest car was almost parallel to the Ming army's city wall. The Qing army archers above immediately interfered with the Ming army after entering the range. After the Ming army suffered a practical and effective counterattack, they also chose to change the target to the archers on the nest car. Even some of the Folang machine cannons were lifted up by the Ming army and stuck on the merceration to fight back.

The fortress's shooting force at the city entered a declining range. The Qing army officers were obviously very experienced in this and hurriedly commanded the Qing army soldiers who were already shouting in the drums to charge and set up ladders to climb the city after approaching the city.

The Qing army siege mainly came from the Lubiao Right Battalion, which Xu Lei once served. Nearly a thousand people launched a tide-like attack in multiple echelons, while there were only a few hundred people in the Ming army's bastion.

However, just as the Qing army's ladder began to be on the top of the city, with Lin Zhongxiao's order, the Ming army guarding the city began to be divided into several parts: most artillery continued to bombard the Qing army's marching nest chariots and soldiers; some continued to attack the nest chariots to prevent the Qing army's shooters from causing greater casualties; the other began to attack the Qing army who used cloud chariots to climb the city according to the normal city defense model to eliminate the threat in this aspect; and the last part used the grooves between the hexagram-shaped basil protrusions to attack the Qing army that climbed the city on the opposite city wall. Under the technical level of this era, three-dimensional defense was truly realized.

At this moment, for the first time in history, the Qing army and the Western soldiers of the same era were facing the bastion on the Chinese battlefield.

On the one hand, they have to withstand the attack of the defenders in the traditional sense while appearing. On the other hand, the defenders on the opposite city wall can attack their backs, even more convenient than the defenders on the wall they attacked, because they appear in the sight of the defenders like slowly moving targets, which makes them feel extremely uncomfortable.

But there was no way to adapt. The Ming army's defenders and reserve troops were enough to support the defense of this bastion. Not only the Qing army, which was attacked by the ant attached, was attacked on the opposite city wall, but even the rushing cars were no exception.

Soon, the Qing army's limited-level nest vehicles that were able to reach the range were also destroyed by the Ming army's artillery. Without the interference of the shooter, the Ming army immediately threw more firepower onto the Qing army attacking the opposite city wall, causing the Qing army, who came in a tide in a tiered manner, soon fell into a dilemma of adding fuel to the oil.

The decline of the Qing army has undoubtedly been revealed. It is not only Jin Li, but also Tian Xiong, who is old in military affairs. Even Yin Yue, who is in the flanking mountain camp, got this information from the report of the horse.

The Ming army's defense system on the northern line was based on Anhua Town Basin, Zhengjiawu Town Daying as its end, and the mine pavilion advance base where he is now on is wing. This is a defensive system designed in advance before Chen Wen took over Jinhua Prefecture. Anhua Town Basin is the core of this defense system.

Like Jin Li, Tian Xiong and others, Yin Yue had never heard of any bastion, but in history, the Zheng family would encounter early bastions in Taiwan a few years later, and the Qing Dynasty would have first seen them in Yaksa decades later. And like Jin Li at this moment, they did not capture them immediately: one was after half a year of siege, thanks to the informant of defecting to the enemy, and the defenders lost their determination to stick to it; the other was siege more than ten times the enemy's army to siege for more than one year before barely conquering the bastion with the help of illness. As a result, the "Treaty of Nibchu" was signed for cede land for peace, which was also a precedent for the descendants of the slave chief Xuanye, and he really did not disappoint the temple name of the "Saint Ancestor".

"Second brother, did the Lord come up with this bastion?"

The speaker was Yin Yue's youngest brother. With his physique, it was not enough to become a war soldier, so his brother recruited him to be a personal soldier.

"No, the Grand Marshal said he saw it from a military book explaining Thais' weapons and guarding the tools."

In the late Ming Dynasty, it was a fashion for scholars and officials to study Western learning, and the attention to military science was even more so under the official praise. There were not only red and barbarian cannons, but books such as "The Western-French Divine Machinery" and "The Complete Book of Guardians" all recorded the structure of the bastion. Some people even built simple bastions in the early Qing Dynasty, but this military technology was not popularized.

Yin Yue's answer aroused his younger brother's deep thoughts, but Yin Yue did not leave his younger brother to continue thinking, but instead pulled his younger brother closer when he was sure that there was no one around the big tent.
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