Qiming 1158

Chapter 1056 The Southern Song Dynasty will only panic more than them

While the Song soldiers were being forced to become death squads, the observers' calculation of shelling Fancheng opened Zhang Yuejing's eyes.

When he used his clairvoyance to discover that the third round of artillery shells had caused a large-scale and precise blow to the floor of Fancheng City, he was greatly impressed.

"These gunners are doing a great job! They're really accurate! Haha! It won't take long for these bastards to defend the city! Hahahahahaha!"

He Feihu smiled proudly: "That's natural. Our gunners are all masters who have been tempered and tempered, especially those observers. I don't have them who can command the artillery, so I can just leave everything to them."

Zhang Yuejing nodded with a smile.

"In this case, they should wait for them to collapse... By the way, the enemy army should be broken soon, right? Once the broken enemy army arrives again, they will be able to surround Xiangyang City. At that time, commander He, you can directly How about dispatching some artillery to help them wipe out the military village outside Xiangyang City?"

"It's your duty."

He Feihu did not hesitate.

At the stall that the two discussed, the enemy army is leading Chen Qiaoshan to break through the enemy army. [-] soldiers have broken through the cabinet door and are galloping towards Xiangyang City.

Some time ago, they conquered Zaoyang, followed the water flow to the cabinet door, took down the cabinet door with an easy raid, and the whole army advanced to Xiangyang.

On the afternoon of the [-]th day of April, Chen Qiaoshan led the main force to defeat the enemy and arrived in the southeast of Xiangyang City, and quickly encircled the south, east and west sides of Xiangyang City.

Like Fancheng, the enemy army surrounded Xiangyang City, and Zhang Yuejing, who attacked Fancheng, was trapped across the Han River.

He quickly sent someone to contact Zhang Yuejing to inform him of his success.

After Zhang Yuejing received the news, he immediately arranged for He Feihu to dispatch five general artillery teams, fifteen chariot general artillery teams, and a musket phalanx of 1000 people to destroy the enemy's army, and began to help destroy the enemy's army camp.

Take it apart a little bit, don't worry, grind it slowly.

At present, the Ming army mainly takes Fancheng as the first target to attack. Because Xiangyang City is stronger and more difficult to deal with than Fancheng, it is a little behind.

And even if he could break through Xiangyang City, Zhang Yuejing did not intend to break through Xiangyang before the main force of the Song army arrived to support him.

He wants to save a ray of life for Xiangyang, encircle the points for reinforcements, and eliminate the main force of the Song army. With this illustrious military exploits, he may be able to directly land in Xiangyang, and he does not need to use too much effort to destroy Xiangyang to obtain this strong city.

Chen Qiaoshan led the order, received the Shenji Battalion artillery group, and then started to attack the Song army camp outside Xiangyang City according to the established plan.

Take your time, little by little, don't rush.

If you do not attack, I will slowly grind.

If you take the initiative to send troops to attack, I will confront you.

The soldiers in the Song army's stronghold outside Xiangyang City had not yet begun to retreat at this moment, because Wang Yan had doubts about whether to fully shrink the force.

It's just that Zhou Benyuan couldn't stand the huge losses, so he forcibly took back his troops. Wang Yan neither supported nor opposed it.

He thought that Xiangyang was still safe, so was it too cowardly to simply give up the outer military defense line?
Is there any other way to break the situation?
He thought about it, but couldn't think of a way, but he couldn't make up his mind to completely give up the military defense line he had worked so hard to manage.

Hesitating and hesitating, Chen Qiaoshan led the enemy army to break the cabinet gate guards, went directly to Xiangyang City, surrounded Xiangyang City, and quickly introduced the Shenji Camp artillery team to launch shelling on the military villages around Xiangyang.

When Wang Yan realized that something was bad, Chen Qiaoshan had already led his army to break through the two army villages of the Song army.

At this point, there was nothing to say. Wang Yan finally realized that it was a foolish thing to stay outside the city, so he ordered the Song army in the military stronghold outside the city to retreat.

The outer army villages stayed behind the temple (song) (si), and the inner army villages began to retreat, as much as they could retreat, leaving the green hills, not afraid of running out of firewood.

So when Chen Qiaoshan demolished the military village on the outer line of Xiangyang City, he unexpectedly found that the military village on the inner line of Xiangyang City was empty.

They all withdrew.

After a short period of surprise, Chen Qiaoshan did not order to further attack Xiangyang City. He took people outside to dismantle the army village and collect the spoils-because the retreat was very hasty, many weapons and food were not taken away by the Song army. The spoils of Chen Qiaoshan.

It is also understandable that Chen Qiaoshan did not order a quick attack.

Xiangyang City is not a city that can be taken by a quick attack, and the purpose of the Ming army is not to quickly attack and take Xiangyang City, but to surround and fight for reinforcements.

In fact, according to Chen Qiaoshan's opinion, if there is no artillery in Xiangyang City, it is estimated that it will take two or three years to break through. Even if there is artillery, it will not be easy.

Among other things, the moat of Xiangyang City is the largest in China, with the narrowest point being 180 meters and the longest point being 250 meters.

The moat in Fancheng is three to forty meters wide, which is already very deterrent, but compared with the giant moat in Xiangyang, it is the difference between urine and a high-pressure water gun.

As long as the only land passage is cut off by the Song army, Xiangyang City is a giant city on the water, and it is almost unimaginable to break through Xiangyang.

Therefore, both Su Yonglin and Zhang Yuejing thought of a simple strategy of encircling the points to fight for reinforcements, using Xiangyang City as a bait to attract the main force of the Song army to come to the rescue, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating the main force of the Song army.

As for Xiangyang City, there is no need to attack.

Attacking Fancheng is already adding psychological pressure to the defenders of Xiangyang City, otherwise Zhang Yuejing would not want to attack Fancheng so much.

However, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan did not know the real purpose of the Ming army. Faced with the roar of artillery and the great deterrence brought by the artillery, Zhou Benyuan did not dare to take the lead. After Wang Yan witnessed the terrifying attack power of the artillery, he directly ordered the army Evacuate, do not make unnecessary sacrifices.

They are still fighting to defend the city!
The night attack failed, the active attack failed, then only Gucheng was left to defend this road.

For the next few days, the trapping army maintained a certain intensity of artillery fire on Fancheng, which continued to bring huge damage and deterrence to the defenders of Fancheng.

The bombardment of the city wall is the second, the solid city wall several meters thick has not collapsed so quickly, but the general cannon can bombard the city by raising the muzzle.

The bombardment of the city by the Great General Artillery made the defenders of Fancheng very uncomfortable. After all, no one knew when a large iron ball fell from the sky and crashed to the ground. The scorching air could completely burn a person, not to mention the shelling on the buildings in the city. blow.

In particular, the buildings that store ordnance and food have been shelled fiercely, making a lot of ordnance and a large amount of food storage lose a good storage environment.

In order to avoid damage and waste, Zhou Benyuan urgently dispatched cannon fodders to dig cellars to store food and Tibetans.

Seeing that the ground can't wait, the underground is also a way.

The Ming army's attack on Fancheng was so severe, compared with this, the attack on Xiangyang was sentimental.

Chen Qiaoshan just demolished all the military camps, confiscated all the spoils, and then slowly built artillery positions outside the city, allowing the observers to calculate and choose the best shooting angle and shooting direction.

Take your time and don't rush.

The Ming army's food supply was absolutely abundant and affordable.

At the same time, the Xiangfan Song army fell into an unprecedented trough and panic. The huge threat of the Ming army's artillery was hanging on the head of the Xiangfan Song army like a sharp sword, and it would fall at an unknown time.

If the moat in Xiangyang is not too wide and there is no way to go, the Song army is expected to have a large number of deserters.

Despite this, some people tried to escape from Xiangyang along the Han River from the pier in the north of the city, and were tortured after being discovered——

The remaining 46 soldiers in the team where the four deserters belonged were forced to stab the four deserters one by one, and they were not allowed to stab them at vital points, but only at non-critical places such as legs and arms.

As a result, the four deserters bled profusely, and finally bleed to death miserably. Then their bodies were chopped into pieces, boiled in a pot, and forced to eat a piece of meat by each of the 46 people in the same team.

Can't do it?

You will die with it.

Can't keep your mouth shut?

You will die with it.

Song Jun was so vicious and cruel when dealing with deserters.

Of course, such high pressure will cause serious psychological problems for the soldiers, so the senior generals of the Song Army will not only have such means.

In order to boost morale and maintain the morale of the army, in addition to severe punishment, Wang Yan and Zhou Benyuan, especially Zhou Benyuan, also set up corresponding incentive measures.

In addition to money and extra meals, there are "special incentive terms".

For example, if he dares to fight in the city for half an hour, he will reward a woman for him to play once.

Dare to fight in the city for an hour, then reward two women for him to play once.

If you go to the city to fight for an hour twice, reward a relatively beautiful woman for him to play once.

If you go to the city to fight for an hour three times, you will reward a carefully selected beautiful woman who has never been touched by a major soldier in his life and let him play once.

The carefully selected beauties were dragged out to parade in costumes. They wore heavy makeup and were extremely tempted, and were forced to show them to the big bosses.

Zhou Benyuan told the big-headed soldiers that as long as they fight bravely, they can play such beauties.

The eyes of the big-headed soldiers who have long lacked the means to solve their physiological problems have turned green.

The lower body quickly dominates the upper body, and even dominates the mind.

In this way, coupled with the brutal execution method of Zhou Benyuan's personal guards, the Song army soldiers in Fancheng always maintained a certain degree of counterattack ability, and the soldiers in the city did not lose control under the extreme high pressure environment.

Although this kind of counterattack did not bring any losses to the Ming army, and this way of maintaining the soldiers' rationality may not be able to last.

But as long as it can be maintained, it is enough.

Zhou Benyuan didn't care so much, let alone the sorrows of those women.

Like Wang Yan, what he cares most about now is when the Lin'an court can send troops to support him.

Who knows when the terrifying artillery can smash the city wall down?

Their panic is about to collapse, and the Southern Song Dynasty court will only panic more than them.

(End of this chapter)