After the huge Xiangyang cannons were collapsed by the Ming army, the Qing army also left other siege equipment and retreated to the original formation. Not long after, even Tian Xiong called out the gold and retreated early, and did not continue to waste troops and time under the bastion.

The Qing army withdrew, and the Ming army quickly cleaned up the mess on the fortress, and even opened the fort gate facing the south. The soldiers went around to the fort to burn the siege equipment left by the Qing army on the battlefield to prevent them from using it again next time they siege the city. As for the demolished wooden stakes and low walls, they did not repair them. After all, no one knew the intensity of the Qing army's next attack. Naturally, it was not good to spend too much energy on these defensive facilities that were originally used to consume.

Out of the highest commander of the bastion and the fear of the epidemic being passed down from his ancestors, Yu Shizhong didn't even care about food. He was busy supervising the auxiliary soldiers to clean up the filth and pulled these things away from the fortress in a large cart to burn. At the same time, he had to discuss defense strategies with the generals, appease the soldiers with the military supervisors, maintain morale, and supervise the implementation of the regulations with the military judges, etc., which was very busy.

However, Tian Xiong did not feel any guilt because he caused great trouble to others. A few days later, a new batch of Xiangyang cannons were built by carpenters and civilians who were forced to come. The Qing army attacked again, trying to replicate the "glorious record" that had almost wiped out all the diseased wooden barrels he brought with him last time, and continued to use this "biological and chemical weapon" to attack the Ming army.

However, this time it was far from as easy as he thought. One of the wounded soldiers of the Ming army had symptoms of fever. Although it was treated according to several items selected from the epidemic prevention regulations, the infected soldier still attracted the attention of Yu Shizhong and other defenders in the bastion.

This time, Tian Xiong pulled eight Xiangyang cannons, but before one-third of the total number was projected, they were all destroyed by the Ming army's artillery, and the damage caused was almost zero, which was not worth the effort.

In the history of world military development, the disappearance of catapults on the battlefield was because of the emergence of artillery. In terms of manufacturing, professional woodworkers need to be built in the last battle. At least it cannot be too far from the battlefield because of inconvenient transportation. It is too huge and can easily become a target for other long-range attack weapons, such as artillery; the range is too close, and the Xiangyang cannon generally has a range of only two or three hundred meters; in addition, the shells must be manufactured nearby.

So many disadvantages have made the stone catapults quickly eliminated once the artillery appeared, and even the drawings were sent into the old paper pile. In the Ming Dynasty, there were almost no records of using stone catapults, and more were the vigorous development of the diversification of fire instruments throughout the Ming Dynasty.

However, as a pioneer of bacterial warfare in the 17th century, Tian Xiong was unable to shake the bastion at all because the firearms in his hand could not shake the slightest, and the artillery could not fire such biological and chemical weapons. He had already begun to become very interested in this engineering method that lags behind the times. Seeing that the Ming army could easily bombard the Xiangyang guns that consumed a lot of labor and materials during the day, he simply turned to attack at night.

At night, due to the inability to observe the marks on the ground, the distance is difficult to estimate, and even the test fire cannot see the landing point. All of these have led to a significant drop in the hits by the Ming army's gunners. Although Tian Xiong did not know the effect, he could not only project the diseased wooden barrels he brought each time, but also re-extend the Ming army's range.

If you guard the city, you may get infected with an epidemic and give up the defense at the city. Who knows whether the Qing army will steal the city at night? The two of them will take the least harm. The Ming army can only arrange a small number of sentry guards at night. After dawn, it is a passive move.

While the Ming and Qing armies used the bastion to fight wits and courage with bacteria in Anhua Town, the eastern front of the Qing army four routes was completely another scene.

The eastern front of the Qing army was the weakest line, but relatively speaking, because the value of this direction was too low, the Ming army used to defend was very few, which just formed a certain degree of balance.

However, this balance is more due to the fact that the Ming army built a ridge with each other near Chuzhou Prefecture City, which made the Qing army attacked by the other side. In between, one had more than 1,000 warriors and a large number of civilians and men to defend, while the other was simply built so that the Qing army would be counterattacked by the Ming army in multiple directions no matter which direction it launched an attack.

The brink of the brink appeared in front of the Qing army on the Eastern Front for the first time, and this Qing army did not have not launched an attack on it. However, when the first hopeless offensive was completely repelled by the defenders, the Taizhou Green Camp and Wenzhou Green Camp on the Eastern Front gave up their foolish actions of continuing to hit the south wall. Instead, they retreated nearly half of the way and began a sit-in confrontation with the Ming army.

Along the Oujiang River, the Qing army camps were spotted along the villages and towns in the lower half of the river between Chuzhou and Qingtian County. In the Qing army camp not far from the Qingtian County where it returned to its starting point, Ma Xin and Hu Laijin sat and drank together, not as exhausted as they had written in the document reporting Hong Chengchou.

"Brother Ma, what do you mean by this? It's so easy to defend but hard to attack. Well, why didn't anyone take it out or use it in the previous dynasty or the court?"

"Who knows?" Ma Xin thought for a while, and then said: "No matter how easy this bastion is to defend but difficult to attack, after all, someone needs to defend. No one, what's the use of an empty shell?"

Speaking of which, Ma Xin’s first thought was not this bastion, but the siege skills of these barbarians since the rise of the Qing Dynasty, but they were able to capture the city again and again. In the final analysis, it was just because the defenders were not determined enough.

But who knew that when Hu Laijin heard this, his eyes lit up. "Brother Ma, are you saying that you have to find a way to turn the basin into an empty shell to have a chance of winning?"

Ma Xin had not had this idea before, and he had vaguely thought of anything, but after all, it was still too harmful to the world, and even if he thought about it, he would feel terrible. Moreover, he had already made up his mind to be this green leaf in this battle, so naturally he did not have any idea of ​​using any means.

But for Hu Laijin, the temptation to capture the brink is extremely great. After all, the former General Pingnan of Jin Li was blocked by the brink twice, and there was no way to go. If he could capture a brink, even if it was smaller than the one in Anhua Town, it would be inevitable to get promoted and make a fortune.

However, after thinking about it, Hu Laijin's mind was filled with thoughts about how to seduce the enemy. It was not until a long time later that his mind was revealed.

"Do you want to ask General Hong to transfer Taizhou Water Camp and bombard Chuzhou Prefecture?"

This sudden whim was not only explained by Ma Xin, but even Hu Laijin felt that it was a pure dream after he said it. However, the only difference between the two of them in the denial of this proposal was that Hu Laijin realized the problem of river channel and range, while Ma Xin obviously had to know more about the inside story.

"Even if the warships of Taizhou Water Camp can approach Quanzhou, even if the range and power are enough to pose a threat to the city walls of Chuzhou Prefecture City, I'm afraid you and I are still not qualified to let Hong Jinglue transfer him." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!