At the southwest end of the Jinqu Basin, the core of the Ming army occupied the Ming army in the area, the Ming army in Zhejiang confronted the Qing army across the Qujiang River. The Ming army had Quzhou, a strong city in western Zhejiang, and a large number of war soldiers controlled the area east of Jiangshan Port, which was as solid as a rock. On the Qing army, iron cables blocked the river, beacons, and pontoon bridges were connected to the north and south, and deep ditches and high bases that were more than ten miles of the camp spread, which was also a strong posture.

At first, the Ming army water camp that controlled the Qujiang River waterway bombarded the other side with artillery carried by warships, but the results of the battle were not good, and it was spared not long after. On the contrary, on the north bank of the Qujiang River, the Ming army and the Qing army's cavalry were still constantly testing each other, but no one had the idea of ​​a decisive battle, and it was just a little ripples in the stalemate.

At the northern end of the Jinqu Basin, Anhua Town, which has long been well-known among the Qing army in Zhejiang, has also ushered in a new wave of offensives.

In fact, without the flanking forces, it would be difficult to completely block the Qing army with just a fortress, but the shocking power brought by the first landing of the bastion on the Chinese battlefield is indeed unimaginable, and it would easily cover up everything around it.

Lin Zhongxiao, the first garrison of Anhua Town, was transferred to the Military Justice Department due to injury. After several months of recovery, Yu Zhan Barracks reorganized and began to replace the battalion judge of Nantang Camp, who was promoted to the head of the Military Supervisory Department, and became a military judge of a military barracks.

The one who took over Lin Zhongxiao's position was not from the group of officers who had followed Chen Wen in Dalan Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, but Yu Shizhong, who went south to join the army after he recovered Jinhua Prefecture.

When Yu Shizhong first arrived in Jinhua, he became a training officer of the camp by relying on his artillery aiming technology. In the following year, the Ming army expanded and each artillery group was brought out by him personally, and he made great contributions. In addition to the reminder of that time, Chen Wen decided to replace Lin Zhongxiao with this person, not only because of the expansion of the bastion and the addition of artillery, it was more suitable for this officer who was born in a foreign military general.

The expansion of Anhua Town Bastion was not just a moat as it was last time, but a comprehensive expansion.

In the past, Anhua Town Bastion was a bulging six sharp angles connected to each other on the basis of the main fort. Compared with the six sharp angles, the main fort was one higher. Now, not only the original fortress has been raised, but even the entire fortress has been expanded. In addition, new sharp angles have been added to several recesses. The moat is no longer as horizontal and vertical as before, but is connected to the big Chenjiang west of the bastion along the edge of the bastion. Even the low walls on the periphery are no longer adobe bricks, but a solid guard wall, which is astonishing as earth-shaking.

At this moment, not to mention Tian Xiong outside the city, even if Jin Li, who had been escorted back to Beijing, would be very tranced when he came.

Due to the expansion of the bastion and the increase in edges and corners, the number of running positions increased, so the defenders naturally increased. However, because the bastion can independently block the Qing army's path to the south, and the edges and corners facing south have almost not increased, so the increase in the defenders is not as exaggerated as imagined.

The expansion of the bastion has released the Pujiang Camp on the flanks. They can use the geographically familiar advantages to move back and forth in the mountainous areas. They are no longer limited to restraining the Qing army's besieged troops, but can attack the Qing army more flexibly, such as food roads and military stations...

Since crossing Qiantang River in early April, the Qing army on the northern line had arrived even if it only traveled for several miles a day, but it was not until today that it had truly approached the city and tried to launch the first round of offensives. The reason was that it was attacked by the Pujiang Camp on the way, and the Qing army heading south had quite a lot of troops. The marching queues that lasted for several miles were almost everywhere. The two sides went back and forth for a long time until Tian Xiong turned the baggage and marched on the west bank of the Puyang River, which was a conclusion.

Regarding the fortress in Anhua Town, Tian Xiong already knew that this building was called a bastion, which was the city defense system that emerged in Taixi. He also knew that this thing seemed to have no means of breaking apart from besieging.

This was very bad news for the Qing army. They could have deceived themselves and thought that the caliber of the artillery was not large enough, or that the investment in troops and siege equipment was too small during the siege. But now that I understand, I am even more desperate about it, at least until Tian Xiong saw Hong Chengchou's order.

In fact, Tian Xiong himself was skeptical about whether the method mentioned by Hong Chengchou would work. After all, no one had done this before, or no one had succeeded, but this was the only way for him. Even if this encirclement was just a foil, the blame he had received for copying the Ming army's organization and the dream of carrying the flag in his mind were always lingering in his mind. If he could make greater contributions this time, he would probably not only be able to make meritorious service, but even raising the flag might not be a dream.

The other Qing troops had already built a defensive village on the roads that the Ming army had appeared last year. The army under Tian Xiong was already at the city, and even the artillery groups of the Eight Banners of Han were ready. Tian Xiong turned around and frowned and looked at the siege equipment. He unconsciously covered his mouth and nose. Then he realized that the smell could not be transmitted to him and let it go.

At Tian Xiong's order, the sound of war drums sounded, and the large-caliber red cannons began to roar. The Qing army in the brigade pushed the siege equipment and shouted forward to the Anhua Town Bastion. It was just intentionally or unintentionally that the Qing army near the neighbors subconsciously stayed away from the large catapults and the large trucks carrying not very large but not small wooden barrels following behind.

The siege had begun, and the Qing army in the brigade was rolling forward, and the heavy artillery of the Han Eight Banners in front of the formation also began to pour out anger that would burst into the bastion even if it was powerless.

The Qing army moved forward step by step, but the Ming army guarded the place for a long time, and also had aiming technology far beyond the Qing army. It had already marked the distance on the ground with obvious obstacles such as wooden stakes and low walls. After the first batch of Qing army's rushing vehicles passed the farthest line of wooden stakes, the red artillery artillery with larger caliber on the main fort opened fire.

Amid the deafening sound of running, the Ming army successfully destroyed three Qing army's rushing vehicles with just the first test shot. Even the Qing army under the rushing vehicle and behind it were many casualties.

Seeing this, Tian Xiong couldn't help but frown. The shooting accuracy of the Ming army gunners had improved significantly compared to the previous one. But he didn't know that if it weren't for those marks, there wouldn't be such an amazing improvement.

The defending artillery is no longer random shooting, but is based on its own range and the distance of the Qing army's siege equipment. Whenever the Qing army's siege equipment passes a certain mark, the Ming army's artillery will launch targeted shooting, making the Qing army's siege equipment difficult to move forward.

However, it was no different from the watchtower and the rusher, which needed to reach a hundred steps, while the other needed to reach the city directly to play a role. The catapults brought by Tian Xiong this time were quite large. When the catapults approached to 200 steps, the auxiliary soldiers and civilians who were wrapped in cloth began to fix them to the ground under the whip of the Qing army. Then they carefully moved the wooden barrels from the cart behind, and the grenade belts of the catapults fixed them, and the auxiliary soldiers responsible for pressing the pole arms were also prepared.

"three."

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