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Chapter 495 Battle of Guangzhou
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Zhang Huangyan was left to stare at him coldly. To be honest, Song Kun's disdain hurt him very much.

Zhang Huangyan is also ambitious.

Zhang Huangyan was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, and his father became a member of the Ministry of Justice. However, Zhang Huangyan was most fascinated by the art of war. He was "generous in discussing military affairs" since he was a child, and invited famous teachers to practice martial arts hard.

At the age of 16, he took part in the county examination, and took the riding and archery test. He hit all three arrows, and all the testees were amazed.If he hadn't passed the Wen Juren examination, with his martial arts, it would not be difficult to pass the Wu Juren examination.

This is a character capable of both civil and military skills, and he has always been full of confidence. He feels that he is capable of both civil and military skills.

Following the army all the way, carefully observing the battle formations, Zhang Huangyan's actual combat experience is rapidly accumulating, and he also draws inferences from one instance, combining ancient military books and battle examples, and often offers some constructive suggestions to Xie Fei.

After three days of hard work, Dongguan fought hard, and then the whole army rested here.

Zhang Huangyan continued to observe Yang Chao's army carefully. What he was most interested in was training. Yang Chao's army had a lot of training and walking. As long as they were not fighting, they would gather troops to practice their pace every day. Thousands of soldiers lined up Walking around, Zhang Huangyan couldn't figure out the way to do it, but secretly guessed whether he was training the formation of splitting and attacking together.

"Master Zhang, our soldiers need to undergo three months of footwork training before they can practice martial arts. Does Master Zhang think it is unreasonable?"

Song Kun did not know when he appeared on the playground and stood beside Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan was interrupted from thinking, and nodded lightly: "No. This is the method that must be practiced in the joint attack. Loyalty Bozhen is a genius!"

Song Kun was quite surprised. Zhang Huangyan didn't expect Zhang Huangyan to be able to see from the footwork training that this was the basis of formation transformation, but he had two brushes.

But he still had to continue to fight: "It's a pity that Mr. Zhang can understand it, so what? There are too many tongue-tied people in the world."

"you!"

Zhang Huang paused, but suddenly smiled.

"Ha ha ha ha."

"why are you laughing?"

Song Kun was puzzled.

Zhang Huang said: "You said so much, you just want to motivate me to practice with these sergeants, what's the difficulty?"

Song Kun couldn't help being embarrassed, he really meant that, it was what Yang Chao asked him to ask Xie Fei to lure Zhang Huangyan into training, Xie Fei couldn't find a way, Song Kun used stimulation, contempt, etc. Zhang Huangyan saw through it.

"My lord, please!"

Song Kun pointed at the playground.

Then he called a team leader to teach Zhang Huangyan footwork.

Zhang Huangyan refused, thinking that he should train with the soldiers, so he found a team to join.

Song Kun was speechless, obviously Zhang Huangyan misunderstood, he specially asked someone to teach him, not to give them any special treatment, but because he had no foundation and couldn't keep up with the footsteps of other soldiers.

Sure enough, after running around, Zhang Huangyan was blushing, and was scolded by the junior officer one after another for walking in unison, even because he made the queue mess up, and finally couldn't take it anymore, and walked out by himself.

"Song Zongbing should find someone to teach me."

Zhang Huangyan himself proposed to find someone to train him alone.

Only then did Song Kun nod his head and called a captain again, and carefully told him to let him teach Mr. Zhang well.

He has a good foundation in martial arts, and his IQ is also high. In less than ten days, Zhang Huangyan has mastered the footwork such as walking and turning.

However, the regular training of the army is not just changing footwork, it is only basic training, it is only used for warming up, the most training in the army is firstly various martial arts, and the second is formation change.

Martial arts Zhang Huang said that there is no need to practice. What he is most interested in is the formation of Yang Chao's army. He felt that his footwork had passed the test, so he eagerly asked to participate in the joint training of the formation, but in the end he still made the most mistakes, even though he shortened the time with his cleverness. The basic training time is still too short compared with these soldiers who have been fully trained into instinct, because he relies on a smart brain to convert such instructions, while soldiers are completely conditioned reflexes, so in formation When changing, he is always slow.

This made Zhang Huangyan very shocked. Fortunately, he only participated in it for a few days. The army only rested in Dongguan for five days before marching towards Guangzhou.

On the water outside the city of Guangzhou, a dozen large ships bombarded the city wall uninterruptedly, and the cannons on the city wall were also counterattacking, but unfortunately there were very few cannons on the city wall.

It's not that there aren't enough cannons in Guangzhou City, on the contrary, Guangzhou City has the most cannons, except perhaps Beijing City.Because the iron production in Guangzhou was the iron smelting center of Daming at this time, Guangzhou Railway was very famous in the Ming Dynasty, second only to Mintie.Where iron is produced, naturally there are the most blacksmiths and foundry craftsmen. The cannons that Hong Chengchou used to attack Guangzhou City were made on the spot. After he occupied Guangdong, he paid special attention to casting cannons. Except for a small part of the cast cannons, Kong Youde brought them Outside of Guangxi, most of them were placed on the city walls.

The reason why there were no extra cannons to bombard the sea ships was because most of the cannons were concentrated in the west and used to confront the artillery of the Yang family army. In the eyes of Hong Chengchou, it was obvious that the infantry of the Yang family army was regarded as the biggest threat. A few big ships, even if they blast through the city wall, can those pirates still enter the city?
The army has already reached the west of the city, and at this time, there are three areas surrounded by one, except for the south side, which is surrounded on three sides, but the west side is the main direction of attack, and Guangzhou City also uses the west side as the main direction of defense.

In the west of the city, there is a long soil ridge parallel to the city wall, which is three feet high, and the bottom layer is more than twenty feet high.

Behind the ridges are semicircular deep pits, and each pit has a cannon.

Behind the deep pit, together with these ditches.

This kind of civil engineering made the cannons on the city unable to threaten the artillery positions behind the ridges, nor the soldiers in the trenches.

Hu Quan was lying on the top of a ridge. As the artillery chief, he was indispensable in any attack on Jiancheng. After Guangdong became the strategic attack direction, he was sent over. Next to Hu Quan lay Xie Fei and others. A dignified look at the city of Guangzhou through the binoculars.

In the binoculars, Hu Quan roughly estimated that there were about [-] cannons firing.

"Five hundred Hongyi cannons!"

Hu Quan said in a deep voice.

"There must be more small cannons."

Xie Fei guessed.

This is a very serious situation, they did not expect so many cannons in Guangzhou.

Five hundred Hongyi cannons are nothing, but Hu Quan still has thousands of cannons in his hand. It is not a problem to blast through the city wall. The problem is how to fight later?If you send infantry to attack, you will definitely be bombarded by the opponent. There are so many cannons on the opponent, it must be impossible to suppress them, and you must suffer heavy losses at that time.

This is exactly what these officers are concerned about.

Suddenly a shell hit the side of the ridge in front of them, and the people lying on the ridge suddenly felt as if they had been punched hard in the chest, and the ridge jumped.

"Let's go, go down!"

Hu Quan immediately suggested that the shooting of this kind of soil ridge makes the artillery positions hiding behind safe and sound. It is quite scientific, and they have explored it through years of fighting. However, it is still very dangerous to get close to the soil ridge, especially the top of the soil ridge. Will it be pierced by shells?

After the few people withdrew, they got into the tunnel dug out of the deep trench.

As a command post, a space capable of accommodating more than a dozen people was excavated here, and the four walls were reinforced with wood, which was quite strong.

There are tables, chairs and benches, as well as maps and a few lamps.

"If it is a strong attack, it will inevitably suffer heavy damage."

After sitting down, Xie Fei said in a low voice.

Hu Quandao: "Our army has enough shells, but if we want to destroy the entire western wall and the cannons on it, even one month is not enough."

Xie Fei nodded: "That's the only way to go."

As officers, this group of people will not consider how many shells, how much gunpowder, or even how many cannons will be destroyed in a month. They only consider the best method of combat.

Song Kun said: "Xie Zongbing, Hu Zongbing. If the war is at a stalemate, Geng Zhongming from Zhaoqing will come to support us. It is definitely not good for our army to cooperate with the inside and outside!"

Song Kun said, his tone was not as heavy as that of Hu Quan and Xie Fei, on the contrary, he was a little relaxed, as if he was not talking about a very serious problem.

Xie Fei and Hu Quan nodded.

"Why not dig a tunnel to attack the city?"

Zhang Huangyan said suddenly.

He also used the binoculars to look at it for a long time just now. At first, he was really amazed by this kind of mirror. When he learned that Yang Chao's army had distributed thousands of these mirrors, he couldn't help admiring that the Yang family's army was able to win battles. It doesn't matter.

However, after careful observation for a long time, he could not find any flaws in the Qing army. Hong Chengchou led veteran soldiers, so there would never be any loopholes in the defense. Even if there were, Zhang Huangyan, a scholar with little actual combat experience, could not see them.

Even Xie Fei and the other three commanders could only attack by force, so Zhang Huangyan had no better solution, but he felt that it seemed unreasonable for him not to raise some opinions.

But as soon as the suggestion of digging a tunnel was put forward, even he himself felt that it was unreliable. Looking at the deep moat in Guangzhou City, he knew that there were no conditions for digging tunnels here.

Song Kun said again: "Xie Zongbing, I suggest sending our army to attack, harass and obstruct Geng Zhongming's army, and prevent them from approaching Guangzhou City."

Xie Fei nodded: "Song Zongbing is right. Order your troops to attack and advance along the Xijiang River. Be sure to block Geng Zhongming to the west of Sanshui!"

"Yes!"

Song Kun responded and immediately went out to deploy.

Song Kun walked along a winding ditch for more than six miles before leaving the ditch and three miles before entering the camp. The camp was stationed ten miles away to prevent being attacked by the city's soldiers. Hongyi cannon bombarded.

The main force is stationed in three camps, and there are only [-] troops in charge of protecting the artillery in the trenches.

In the final analysis, the real attack still depends on the main force in the camp.

(End of this chapter)