The Wuchang City in front of you was built by Zhou Dexing, the Jiangxia Hou in the fourth year of Hongwu.

The city is surrounded by 3,980 feet, with 4,168 eyes, and thirteen towers, with nine doors open.

Wuchang City starts from Shuangfeng Mountain in the east, Changchunguan, to Huanghaojitou in the west, to catfish condom in the south, and to Tangjiao Xiaxin River bank in the north.

There is a moat in the east, south and north of the city, and the west of the city is close to the Yangtze River.

In the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang City was both a county town and a royal city.

The Chu Prince's Mansion was built in the center of the south of the city, with the two sides of the county prince's Mansion and the various yamen.

The entire Chu Prince's Mansion and the County Prince's Mansion account for almost half of Wuchang City, which can be said to be a city in the city.

After the Qing army controlled Wuchang, it did not carry out large-scale transformations of Wuchang, but only demolished the city walls of the Chu King's Mansion.

At that time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Huguang, felt that this was a bad rule in the past and must be removed from the root.

Although the walls of the royal city were demolished, the buildings were not wasted.

Hong Chengchou transformed it into a military camp. The troops stationed in Wuchang were concentrated here.

Hu Quancai learned that the Ming army had already arrived at the city and came to the military camp to boost morale as soon as possible.

Zhou Peigong also followed him and gave advice to Hu Quancai.

Scher Mountain is in Wuchang City and is the boundary county between the north and south cities.

Climbing up to the top of the mountain allows you to see the panoramic view of Wuchang and the movements of the Ming army outside the city.

Zhou Peigong discovered that the Ming army was mainly concentrated in Jinshazhou in the south of the city. Just looking at the scale of the navy warships made people sweat.

It seems that the key to defending Wuchang is to defend Nancheng.

There are three gates in the south of the city, namely Wangze, Baohe and Zhonghe, among which Zhonghe Gate is the most important.

At the suggestion of Zhou Peigong, the army asked the moat as the first line of defense and the urn city as the second line of defense, striving to block the Ming army outside the city.

Because Zhou Peigong had experience in fighting with the Ming army, he knew very well that the Ming army would not attack the city according to the rules, so he suggested to Hu Quancai that he would send additional personnel to always look for the reconnaissance to prevent the Ming army from attacking.

"Governor General, be careful of the Kongming lanterns of Mingzhe! This thing burned our army's granary last time, which is extremely hateful!"

Zhou Peigong gritted his teeth in hatred.

He did not even think that the Ming army could reach heaven.

If the granary was not burned and the morale of the army was not disintegrated, he would still have the confidence to guard Baling.

But it is too late to say anything now. What Zhou Peigong has to do is to make meritorious contributions, strive to perform more in the Wuchang defense battle, and win the trust of the Governor again.

"Well, it's always good to prevent problems before they happen. As for the Ming Thief you said last time, you should stop it immediately as long as you find it, and you must not let the Ming Thief succeed in your plan."

In fact, there is a very wide moat outside Wuchang City. If the Ming army wants to dig a tunnel, they must first cross the moat.

Hu Quancai also considered the worst. If the Ming army breaks through the first line of defense, they will prevent the Ming army from digging the tunnel at all costs.

Judging from the known signs, the Ming army is likely to use this move. Hu Quancai will never be the second time Zhou Peigong has been

After a period of observation, Zhu Youlang found that the construction of Wuchang City was different from the general Central Plains city. It was built completely according to the mountain and waterways.

The highest Snake Mountain is encircled in the city, and the city walls are also built along the trend of Snake Mountain, forming a terrain that is high inside and low outside.

It is very irrational to attack from the front, and the problem of the moat must be solved first.

After careful consideration, Zhu Youlang felt that he could do some work on Shuangfeng Mountain outside Wuchang City.

Shuangfeng Mountain is facing Zhongxiaomen, and the straight line distance is about 100 meters.

Although the height of the remaining veins of the city walls was raised a lot by relying on the height of the remaining veins of the Sheshan Mountain in the city, the height of Shuangfeng Mountain is not much lower than that of the Zhongxiaomen Tower.

If you set up a cannon here, it may have an unexpected effect on the top of the city.

Zhu Youlang kept those guns and cannons until now, just to fight against Wuchang.

He knew that Wuchang was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the tactic of bombing the city in coffin was either one or two or three.

If you really want to take Wuchang, you have to rely on your hard power.

After discussing with Li Dingguo, Zhu Youlang decided that the main attack direction of the Ming army was the south and east of the city.

As long as one of the city walls is taken down, the advantage will be great.

However, Liu Xingming was very proud after learning that the emperor had given up the coffin tactic.

Isn’t it time for him to perform?

The previous few hot air balloon attacks were very effective, so Liu Xingming naturally wanted to strike while the iron was hot and then let the Donglu of Wuchang drink a pot.

Unexpectedly, the emperor did not order him to take a hot air balloon to the air at the first time, but asked him to follow orders at any time.

Liu Xingming was puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask or say anything.

There must be a reason for the emperor to ask for this. He can't question the emperor in person, right?

This goes against his father's request for him.

In fact, the reason why Zhu Youlang asked Liu Xingming to stand by was because of the terrain of Wuchang.

Due to the existence of Snake Mountain in the city, the danger of hot air balloons flying is very high.

Since the task is to be performed, the hot air balloon must go to the center of the city and then lower it to a lower height.

If the Donglu stationed troops in Snake Mountain at that time, wouldn’t he easily discover Liu Xingming?

As the commanding heights in Wuchang City, it should be a regular operation to station troops in Sheshan.

Zhu Youlang didn't plan to take this risk.

But hot air balloons may not be impossible, they just need to be used in another way.

Changing from beheading to transporting troops into the city to help the main force of the Ming army seize the city gate may have a good effect.

It was just at this time that Zhu Youlang got bad news.

An urgent report came from Yiling, and Oboi led the main force of the Eight Banners to attack Yiling and other cities.

However, judging from the current situation, Liu Tichun and Yuan Zongdi are still well-maintained.

But this still made Zhu Youlang feel much heavier.

What he was most worried about was still happening.

What is most afraid of when fighting in front of you is the fire in the backyard.

Oboi chose to rush to attack the support, which compressed Zhu Youlang's time to attack Wuchang and reduced his fault tolerance to an extremely low level.

Zhu Youlang must take over Wuchang as soon as possible to calm the morale of the army.

The problem of the expedition has always been there, but the Ming army's winning streak covered up all this.

If you experience a failure, it is likely that the morale of the army will change. Not to mention Zhu Youlang, I am afraid that Li Dingguo will not be able to suppress it himself.

This is just a fight against Huguang. If you fight eastward and the front line is longer, you will have to ensure supply.

So at least Zhu Youlang from the northern part of Huguang must be firmly held in his hands, and no matter whether it is Obai or Hong Chengchou, he must not take these cities back from him.

The frequent actions of the Qing army in Guizhou made Zhu Youlang a little worried about Yunnan.

These days, he always dreamed that Wu Sangui led his troops to attack Kunming, Mu Tianbo and Feng Shuangli led his troops to fight to the death.

Although it was just a dream, Zhu Youlang still felt a little chilled on his back.

Wu Sangui had a complete reason to send troops, it depends on whether he had the courage.

Hope is just a dream
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