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Chapter 317: The Siege Begins

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    In the early morning of October 26th, the next morning after Fatty¡¯s army arrived at the city of Hangzhou, Fatty Lu personally went to the city of Hangzhou to observe the terrain, look for a breakthrough in the siege, and led hundreds of cavalry to run half a circle around Hangzhou City. Fatty Lu quickly  It was discovered that the fortification of the city of Hangzhou was indeed what Yao Qisheng said, and it was definitely not something that Qing Yi could break through.

    The nearly 40-mile-long city wall is more than six feet high at its highest point and five feet high at its lowest point. There are as many as fifty-eight Tibetan soldier towers on the city wall, and the moat under the city wall is more than four feet wide at its narrowest point, and even  Reaching seven feet, the original ladder car, cloud platform and city crash car can't get close to the city wall at all.  At the same time, there is a protruding arrow stack at a certain distance on the city wall, which allows the defenders to shoot and kill the soldiers attached to the city, making it very difficult to climb the city by flying ladders, which is extremely unfavorable to the attacker.

    In addition, other auxiliary fortifications in Hangzhou City are also very complete. There are urns at the ten city gates, and there are more than 20 Hongyi cannons and other artillery pieces on the city walls.  Because of the base camp, there must be plenty of supplies for defending the city, such as gunpowder, kerosene, arrows, rolling stones, thunder wood, and ash bottles, and it is impossible to run out of them in a short period of time.  As for the grain and grass, the autumn harvest has just finished, and the grain and grass hoarded in the city of Hangzhou, the starting point of water transportation, even if it is not counted as the civilian food of the people in the city, the food in the warehouse alone is enough to support the defenders for more than a year.  Breaking the city, that is no need to think about it.

    "Boss, this city is not easy to attack." Wang Shaobo said worriedly: "It goes without saying that the city wall is two feet thick. Yao Qisheng and the man-dog prisoners we captured have also confessed that the city wall of Hangzhou is made of bricks and lime glutinous rice.  If there is no rammed earth in the middle of the repair, it is impossible for our artillery to blow down the city wall directly."

    "There is no unbreakable city in the world, only people who can't be broken." Fatty Lu said calmly: "A city within three miles, a country within seven miles, can't be conquered without a city.  The weather is not as good as the right place. The reverse is also the same. A city of ten miles, a country of a hundred miles, can be broken in a circle, and the place is not as good as the people. The main force of Hangzhou Mangou has already come out, and the defenders in the city are relatively weak, and people are panicked.  Without the will to fight, the generals will not have the will to fight, but our army has high morale and sharp soldiers, if we can make good use of harmony and distract the enemy's army, our army may not have hope of breaking the city."

    "My boss plans to use psychological tactics?" Wang Shaobo asked tentatively.  Fatty Lu nodded, but he didn't explain in detail. He just raised the rein and urged the horse back to the camp, "We'll talk about it when we get back to the camp. I'll think about it on the way."

    When the quick horse returned to the self-army camp near the Buried Bridge, it was almost noon at three o'clock, and entered the Chinese army tent again. Before Fatty Lu could sit down, Fatty Lu's cheating fiancee Huang Xifeng Xiaojiao  , had already got out from the back tent with a food box, smiling like a flower on his pretty little face, and said sweetly to Fatty Lu: "Master, you are finally back, Xifeng made you lunch with her own hands, please  Try Xifeng's handicraft."

    "Why did you come in?" Fatty Lu was startled, and asked the soldiers next to him angrily, "Who told you to let her in?"

    "Back to the general, she insisted on coming in." The soldiers brought by Fatty Lu from Dali's hometown replied tremblingly: "You guys don't allow it, she just cried and made noise, and said she was the general, you didn't go through the door."  Wife, it¡¯s only right and proper to bring you food and take care of you, we don¡¯t allow her to do her duty as a wife, and roll on the ground, the little ones have no choice but to let her wait for the general in the back tent.¡±

    "Drag it out and beat it with ten army sticks. Next time you dare to let someone into the big tent, you will be punished twice!" Fatty Lu yelled, and the soldier had no choice but to salute and admit that he was unlucky and go out to receive the punishment.  Fatty Lu turned his fat face to Xiaojiali again, and shouted with a livid face: "Get out immediately! Don't say that I haven't officially married you yet, it is the three women before me who dare not enter my big tent or study room without permission."  He signed the deposit room, next time you dare to come in and make trouble, serve you with a whip!"

    The smile on Little Pepper's face froze, and he began to show an expression of grievance, and then it became clear and cloudy immediately, crystal tears flowed out of his big bright eyes, and his red mouth was about to burst into tears, but he was overwhelmed by Fatty Lu's majestic face.  Terrified, I didn't dare to cry out.  But it was the appearance of wanting to cry but not daring to cry, which made Fatty Lu a little soft-hearted. He couldn't help but pull her over, let her sit on his fat legs, and said softly in her ear: "I know you are  Good intentions, but this is the tent of the Chinese army where I give orders, discuss the military situation, and summon the generals. It is the most important place in the army. Ordinary people are not allowed to trespass without permission. It is a capital crime of direct beheading. Do you know  ?¡±

    Little Pepper nodded, and choked up with grievances and said: "I didn't know before, no one told me. I just saw that it was almost time for lunch, and I was in the boy's room.??I¡¯m not being polite anymore, one was running faster than the other, and one was crying louder than the other, scrambling to escape down the city wall to avoid the shells, no matter how hard the Qing army¡¯s supervising team tried to stop them, they stumbled and fell off the city wall in a panic and were killed  There were countless soldiers from the Qing army who had squeezed down the city wall, and almost everyone had the thought in their minds, "Wu Gou is so powerful, should he leave the city and run for his life? Or should he put down his weapons and surrender?"

    "Brothers, this is your chance, go!" Seeing that most of the soldiers of the Qing army in the city had escaped, Cheng Long, the new Ding of the Fat Army who was in charge of filling the river, waved his flag and shouted, and thousands of soldiers of the Fat Army immediately carried  The sandbag shouted and charged, rushed to the moat at a flying speed, threw the sandbag and boulder into the moat, then turned around and ran away.

    When the Qing army on the city realized that the situation was wrong, they rushed to the city wall and fired arrows, but the artillery team of the Fat Man Army had once again shown its power, roaring and pouring more shells on the Qing army defenders, forcing the Qing army soldiers to attack.  Once again, howling and fleeing down the city wall to avoid the guns, the infantry of the fat army took the opportunity to rush up to fill the river again, the Qing army went up to the city to defend again, and the fat army took the opportunity to fire and bombard again.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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