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Chapter 706 It's amazing, I'm not as good as it!
At this time, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, and others had already arrived in front of the first wave of low-walled moats. The mountain here was also more inclined than the previous section. In addition, because of the people who took soil to pile up the walls, it gave people a sudden steepness. a feeling of.

On this slope, stands the first low wall for defense. The height is only slightly above the chest of each person. Although it is not high, it is very thickly built. The officers and soldiers behind the low wall can rely on the low wall. Set up the firecrackers to shoot at the enemies ahead.

The first low wall, if seen from the outside, is about two feet high, because there is a big trench in front of the low wall, which is more than one and a half feet deep.

There are two small moats in front of it. The small moats are about one foot deep and half a foot wide. The same as the big moat, there are sharp wooden thorns placed under the moat. Extremely sharp.

Between the three trenches, there are one or two steps apart. On the flat ground between them, large sharp stones are placed layer by layer, and some horse antlers are placed in between, and they are sprinkled on the ground from time to time. Some caltrops.

The day before yesterday, Zhang Cheng said that every three trenches with a low wall here is a wave of defense, because it is viewed from top to bottom. Soldiers can barely hit the Tartars in front of the first low wall, and with the bombardment of artillery of different heights, it is a triple three-dimensional firepower strike.

At that time, everyone didn't understand what kind of attack method "triple firepower" was. At this time, everyone went to the field to see the mystery.

The ancients did not deceive me, after all, hearing is believing, seeing is believing, everyone who saw the real scene finally understood what Zhang Cheng said at the beginning.

Hearing people talk is never better than seeing it with your own eyes!
All the people on the defense line of Changling Mountain were shocked by what they saw.

Not far from this low wall, there is another oblique wave, and on the slope there is another low wall, and then another slope, and another low wall. In this way, three low walls, along the mountain, one is slightly higher than the other. Waves towered in front of everyone.

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The officers and soldiers of the Xuanbei Army's Dushiba Battalion and the left side of the carriage have already settled in Changling Mountain. Seeing their awe-inspiring, neat, brave and powerful appearance, such soldiers will definitely be able to fight without fear and never retreat in bloody battles.

The musketeers among them were all holding novelty and sophisticated guns, imagining that they were firing salvos from behind the low wall...

Everyone present couldn't help but gasp!
Everyone looked up and down and guessed that even if he led the army to attack the Changling Mountain defense line, his first reaction was to move his troops to the first low wall to deal with the resistance of the officers and soldiers behind the low wall.

But he failed to think that there were two low walls above his head, and more cannons, staring at him coldly, aiming at himself with their sharp cannons above his head. The situation where you can't take care of your ups and downs is enough to make people creepy just thinking about it!

Everyone was amazed. Just looking at the layout in front of them, it seemed simple, but when you think about it carefully, there is something extraordinary about it.

Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan Regiment, arrived at Xingshan yesterday. All the infantrymen under his command came to Ningyuan with the Chinese army brigade, but he originally stayed in Ningyuan to arrange the guarding of the grain and the city, and led his family to accompany him in a hurry. chase after.

He did not inspect Changling Mountain with the others the day before yesterday, nor did he hear how Zhang Cheng was going to deploy his defenses, but today he accompanied him and saw with his own eyes the various arrangements on Changling Mountain. buckle.

He stood on a low wall, looking down at the defense lines of the low walls of the trenches, thinking to himself that he couldn't think of such a defense line, and couldn't help sighing in his heart: "It's amazing, I can't compare it!"

Not only Wu Sangui, but also the other town commanders who were present at the time felt that Zhang Cheng was so arrogant, but now they saw it with their own eyes, and they were all convinced.

What's more, if they saw the rows of well-equipped and high-spirited soldiers behind the low wall, if they still had any doubts, they might not be blind.

It seems that what Zhang Cheng said the day before yesterday was true. Attacking these three low walls alone, if used properly, will be effective, and even if there are 3 Tatars at once, it may be difficult to attack them!
Chen Jiugao, the former commander-in-chief of the Shenji Battalion, Wang Pu, the former commander-in-chief of the Datong Battalion, and Fu Yingchong, the former deputy commander of the battalion, were even more complacent. They were the only ones who firmly supported and believed what Zhang Cheng said that day.

Yang Guozhu looked at Zhang Cheng with strange eyes. He felt that Zhang Cheng was more and more elusive. He always felt that he seemed to be less and less able to see through Zhang Cheng. She is in the limelight again, and I am really happy for Zhang Cheng.

Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Association, whispered to Meng Dao, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Association, who was next to him. He heard Zhang Cheng's idea the day before yesterday, and he wanted to follow suit. He was discussing with Meng Dao how to copy the layout of Changling Mountain for Wudaoling's own defense line.

Although Hong Chengchou's face was still as calm as ever, his heart was full of turmoil. When he heard Zhang Cheng talk about his plan for the defense line of Changling Mountain the day before yesterday, he thought of Duke Xu Wending's gun city. Today, he personally saw it...

He stared deeply at the arrangement of the two sides of the passage in front of him, and pondered in his heart: The passage here is like a big dark mouth opened, with a protruding low wall guarding it on the left and right sides, like a horse's face on a city wall.

It can be imagined that if the Tartars attacked this passage, in addition to the frontal resistance, they would also have to face firecrackers from the side. It is a killing zone that devours flesh and blood everywhere!

Moreover, the front ends of these convex walls are so sharp that there are no dead corners on the horse's face on the city wall. Looking at the low walls in front of you, they all have such a concave-convex structure. The traditional straight-to-straight linear architectural structure of the city wall is quite different.

Not only Hong Chengchou was amazed, but also Zhang Ruoqi, the commander-in-chief, not to mention the other officers and generals who came along.

Everyone enters through the passage, first walks a dozen steps to the right, then turns left to enter the second low wall, then walks forward a dozen steps, and after entering the third low wall, you will see a relatively gentle slope. , about tens of steps wide.

Here they saw that some soldiers of the Xuanbei Army were still busy. They were using stones and logs to build neat warehouses and houses, which were used as gunpowder, food fodder, medicinal materials and other important materials needed by the soldiers in the front three low wall defense lines. The storage place of supplies, and the soldiers live in the surrounding military tents.

The crowd continued to walk inward again, and behind the slope was a ditch wall again, which was the same arrangement as the previous line of defense.

From here to the surrounding of the abandoned pier on the top of the mountain, there are three ditch low walls. In the southeast and northeast directions of the pier, there are two forts under construction in each direction. Come to set up the four Hongyi cannons supported by Chen Jiugao, the former commander of the Shenji Battalion.

The field of view here is wide, and you can look at the whole mountain. It is expected that firing artillery here will be able to effectively suppress and bombard the enemy at the foot of the mountain or at the plain.

(End of this chapter)