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Volume 1 Yuzhou Snow Chapter 823 Battle in Nanchang

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    On the night when Wang Shouren blocked the returning rebels at Poyang Lake, Wan Rui, who was bent on showing off his skills in the city defense battle, received an order from Zhu Chenhao sent by a military pigeon, requiring him to immediately lead the 20,000 people in the city.  The soldiers and horses carried all the grain and supplies, as well as the family members of the royal officials and the 10,000 soldiers and horses who came to support them, and evacuated to a place called Yangcun on the west bank of Poyang Lake to board ships and evacuate.  ¡ÑDing Dian Dian Novel, 2+3wx This order made Wan Rui extremely angry. He was obviously fully prepared, and he was just waiting for Wang Shouren to give him a head-on blow when he attacked the city. Nanchang City was obviously impregnable, so what kind of evil wind did the emperor use?  , suddenly asked to abandon Nanchang.  Thinking of all the actions of Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses outside the city during the day, Wan Rui was very angry. Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses were yelling at the city during the day to persuade them to surrender. They lay bare-chested and basked in the sun under the city, laughing and fighting unscrupulously.  , as if we were not staying on the battlefield, but in our own backyard.  Some soldiers even deliberately urinate in the direction of the city head, and then shake the black thing to humiliate the defenders at the city head.  After these were reported to Wan Rui by the defenders, Wan Rui was so angry that smoke was rising from his orifices.  But he also understood that what these guys did was to go out of the city to fight with them. Although he was fuming with anger, Wan Rui would never do this. If he gave up the strong city defense, his advantage would be gone.  .  Although Wan Rui did not hesitate to expose the secret of the fort installed at the top of the city and bombarded the soldiers who were looking for death into a pulp, the evil anger in his heart was still hard to get rid of, and he was waiting for Wang Shouren to teach them a lesson when he attacked the city.  It¡¯s better now. The emperor ordered the evacuation. Isn¡¯t this really the ¡®shrinking turtle bastard¡¯ that those scolding soldiers said yesterday?  What is the difference between evacuating and running away?  It's just a different word.  "Don't leave, don't leave. Isn't the Emperor just worried that Nanchang cannot be defended? I want to prove to the Emperor that in the hands of me, Wan Rui, Nanchang is an invincible city, just like the peak of Mount Lu.  Out of reach." In excitement, Wan Rui suddenly spoke a perfect metaphor.  "But General, this is the emperor's order. If something happens to the emperor's family, you can't stop it." The deputy general said hurriedly.  "Let's do this. You take five thousand troops to escort the supplies and personnel to meet up with the supporting troops. I will stay and guard Nanchang City. Sooner or later, the emperor will understand my painstaking efforts. Once Nanchang is lost, everyone's old nest will be gone, and they will fight.  "What kind of battle?" "But General, in this case, you will be fighting alone. Once we get on the ship, we will follow the emperor to attack Nanjing. It is impossible to leave the warship waiting for you. You are also disobeying the imperial edict.  "You should think twice before taking any military orders." "Don't worry about it. Leave fifty thousand shi of food and fodder behind. When the emperor cannot capture Nanjing, you will know that there is Nanchang City as your rear."  What a happy thing it will be, and the emperor will not blame me at that time." Wan Rui is determined to defend Nanchang, with a look of determination.  The lieutenant general under his command knew that there was nothing he could do to persuade him, so he had no choice but to act according to his orders.  By the afternoon, all the food and supplies were loaded onto the cart, and the family members of the royal family and the families of many officials had also settled in with the army. Wan Rui personally sent off the soldier and horse from the north gate. After returning to the city, he immediately issued a city-wide alert order.  The city gates were closed tightly and they were ready to fight.  In the evening, news came from the soldiers on the lookout at the top of the city. They found a sentry horse rushing from the east. Wan Rui climbed to the top of the city to take a look. When he saw the flag, he immediately understood that this was the arrival of Wang Shouren himself.  The strange thing is that the officers and soldiers under the city did not formally attack for two days. It turned out that Wang Shouren himself was not present. As soon as he arrived, the siege was about to begin.  Although the enemy army increased by 10,000 men, Wan Rui was still not afraid. He ordered the people in the city to carry sandbags and build another three-foot-high fortification on Nanchang's city wall, which was more than several feet high, and gathered all the soldiers and horses.  On the wall, be prepared to fight to the death.  He believed that even if he only had 15,000 men in his hands, Wang Shouren's 30,000 men would never be able to attack the city.  On the other side, Wang Shouren, who had been running for more than ten hours to reach the gate of Nanchang City, was shocked by the news reported by Wang Mian before he could take a breath. More than a dozen people who escaped from the city's artillery fire yesterday died.  The soldiers exchanged their lives for a military secret, which was that artillery was installed at the top of Nanchang City.  Wang Shouren is not an ignorant person. He knows what artillery means. That thing is not ordinary fierce. It is a magic weapon whether it is attacking or defending the city.  Originally, Wang Shouren still had some confidence in conventional siege operations. After all, he had the superior force. Even if he risked his life, it was not an impossible task to conquer Nanchang. But once the city was defended by artillery, it would be a big difference.  In order to verify Wang Mian's report, Wang Shouren did not bother to rest. Taking advantage of the sky to be bright, he organized a wave of exploratory siege. The purpose was to see the number and power of the artillery on the city head.  When three thousand soldiers and horses formed a skirmishing formation, they carefully stepped through the grass and fields toward the south gate of Nanchang City.As they advanced, dozens of artillery pieces on the city top let out ear-splitting roars for an instant. They were more than a thousand steps away from each other. Dozens of black smoke suddenly appeared from the formation of officers and soldiers who were still far away from the range of bows and arrows. Stones, rubble, iron, etc.  Pieces of steel balls flew in all directions. Even if the formation was loose, this round of shelling still took away the lives of hundreds of soldiers. On average, each shell killed three or four soldiers and injured many soldiers around them.  One round of artillery caused the three thousand probing attack troops to lose 10% of their combat power. This was simply jaw-dropping.  These artillery pieces were one of the sharp weapons that Zhu Chenhao had painstakingly prepared for so many years. He sent people to the southern coastal areas to contact the Portuguese, and spent a lot of money to purchase these cannons with gun mounts, called the Folangji-Mother Cannon.  , this is the most advanced Western artillery in the world today. It has the characteristics of fast firing rate, good safety, fast heat dissipation and long life.  After calculation, it only takes twenty breaths for this Folan machine gun to fire three rounds, which shows how terrifying it is.  The fly in the ointment is that this kind of artillery has poor air tightness. The design principle of the sub-cannon and the main cannon has led to this insurmountable shortcoming. There is a huge gap between the boring ports of the sub-cannon and the main cannon, which leads to the leakage of firing power, so that  The range is not far enough.  Otherwise, General Wang Shouren camped three miles away from the city, which would be a target for artillery.  Wang Shouren didn't know this and inadvertently avoided the bad luck of the cannon blast.  But even so, the huge damage caused in the feint attack formation a thousand steps away still made Wang Shouren almost drop his jaw. He gave the retreat order without hesitation. Three thousand soldiers and horses were chased by the last two rounds of artillery shells and exploded three times.  The wheel finally escaped its firepower; after counting, the number of casualties was as high as more than 500. In just the blink of an eye, 500 combat effectiveness was lost. Wang Shouren was so depressed that he almost cursed, almost ruining the image he had worked hard to build as a great scholar in the world.  .  The information gained from the five hundred casualties was that, firstly, there were a large number of artillery pieces at the top of Nanchang City. More than 20 of them had fired just now, and it is unknown how many artillery pieces had not fired yet; secondly, the artillery pieces were loaded with explosive shells.  , the shooting speed is very fast, the interval is very short, and the shooting range should be within a thousand steps.  Wang Shouren quickly calculated in his mind. Regardless of how many there were, just from the time he attacked the city to the moment he reached the blind spot by the moat, his troops would have suffered at least thirty or forty rounds of bombings. This did not include entering the range of bows and arrows.  With the shooting of bows and arrows from the top of the city, with the lethality of this kind of artillery, any shields and armors are useless. The explosion will cause death or death, and there is no possibility of resistance at all.  ¡°In this case, if all my 30,000 soldiers and horses rush forward to attack, I am afraid that I will have to pay at least 30% of casualties before reaching the city. In other words, if 10,000 soldiers are killed before the city is attacked, how can we fight this battle?  Play a ball?  The generals in the army were obviously aware of this. They all watched in silence as Wang Shouren was helpless. Wang Shouren knew that they did not have any good ideas, so he ordered the feint attack to stop, the whole camp to be on alert, everyone retreated, and the candles in the tent were blown out.  Fire, quietly disappearing in the darkness, thinking hard about the strategy to attack the city.  Wan Rui was extremely proud. He stood at the top of the city with his hands on his hips, looking at the dark Wang Shouren camp in the distance. A mouthful of thick phlegm protruded heavily. The moment the parabola-shaped thick phlegm hit the ground, he heard his proud laugh.  sound.  "Hahaha, the rat still wants to compete with me. Wang Shouren is just a weak scholar. He probably peed his pants this time. Aren't his men very arrogant? Send some loud ones tomorrow.  Hmm find a few older brothers, go to his camp and yell at him, sprinkle him with urine and shit, and let them have a taste of being humiliated."
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