When the Qing army entrenched in the Xiaoling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty was bewitched by Sun Sike, a good slave of the Qing Dynasty who was willing to risk his life and money, the soldiers of the Ming tycoon army outside Dajinmen were sweating profusely using their "trench tactics".

It is to use a short-handled iron shovel called an "engineer's shovel" to dig outside the first trench outside the Golden Gate... and to dig in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's grave is indeed an act.

They are quite rich, but they dug out only soil and nothing else good. And they didn't dig very deep. They just dug a shallow trench along the trench and piled the excavated soil on the side of the shallow trench.

On the north side, a low earth wall is formed.

If a man over five feet tall were half-kneeling in a shallow trench and then straightened up, his shoulders should be higher than the low wall.

If a man of the same height stood in a shallow trench, the earthen wall would probably reach his chest.

If there was another person standing outside the trench, the wall would only reach his waist at most.

In other words, if there are three rows of fusiliers standing in the trench in a kneeling position, in a standing position in the trench, and in a standing position outside the trench, all the fusiliers can be fired without blocking each other.

Point your guns forward and fire at the same time!

Since the fusiliers can form a denser formation, if three rows of fusiliers can still fire at the same time, the scene can only be described as a rain of bullets!

The low earthen wall and shallow trench will become the support for the fusiliers to avoid artillery and save their lives on the battlefield. This is not the era of solid artillery shells, and the line infantry can fight for their lives with their chests.

The enemy's solid bullets. Now is the era of sugar-sprayed bullets. If there is no "trench" (earth wall plus trench) to block it, then the infantry carrying flintlock rifles may be killed in entire groups!

In the historical era of smoothbore artillery bombardment, it was very common to fire cannons for one or two hours before the infantry attacked. If the smoothbore cannons were replaced with "Kaqiu Sha" and fired for one or two hours...

Does anyone still dare to be an infantryman?

So Zhu Heji and Zhuge Zhengyang thought for a long time and finally "came up" with this genius trench tactic.

When this tactic is fully popularized, the infantry of the Ming Dynasty will have to have an engineer shovel, and they will all become "country masters". When they go to the battlefield, they will first dig soil and trenches, and then use the "trenches" to protect themselves!

Chen Yonghua, Chen Yonghua's younger brother, is a general of the First Musket Battalion, that is, the commander of the first battalion. He was originally a young man sent by the Yanping Palace to Zhu Heji to learn "making sugar". After returning, he worked as a "sugar cooker" for a period of time.

Pharmacist", and later went to Huangpu Military Academy to further his studies, and once again became Zhu Heji's disciple... With this "double master and apprentice" relationship, Chen Yongxia did not return to the Zheng Family Army, but joined Zhu Heji

He defeated the "Central Army" and became one of the only three fusiliary battalion generals.

Now, like the hundreds of soldiers under his command, he has taken off his cloth armor and red robe, and with both arms bare, he is wielding an engineering shovel and digging soil, digging trenches and building walls!

The current Qing army's firepower is not weak. There are many Weiyuan general cannons that can fire large explosive shells!

And in the battle this morning, Chen Yongxia also saw the explosive power of the large explosive bombs fired by the Qing Weiyuan General's artillery...and those were only black powder bullets and not several times more powerful.

Sugar pills.

If the trenches are not dug wider and the walls are not piled thicker, then the Qing army will use sugar bombs, and his men will suffer heavy losses.

Just as Chen Yongxia was piling a shovelful of soil onto the low parapet, he suddenly heard a roar of rolling thunder, and then a cry that seemed to erupt from his chest: "Shell bombardment..."

Chen Yongxia suddenly raised his head and saw a dozen black spots appearing in the northeast sky, flying toward him at extremely fast speeds.

He immediately understood that this was a bomb fired by the Qing army's Weiyuan General's artillery!

And the firepower is several times stronger than before!

"Avoid the artillery!" Chen Yongxia shouted, and quickly rushed to his position on the inside of the low wall with the engineer shovel, then took his cloth armor and saucer-shaped helmet placed against the wall, and then leaned against the low wall with his back.

Sitting down against the wall.

At the same time, the early warning suona also sounded. The fusiliers who were digging in the earth all stopped what they were doing, and then took up their positions at an extremely fast speed - they all had their own positions in the "trenches".

The location is either against a low wall or against the other side of the "trench".

As soon as Chen Yongxia placed a forged disc-shaped helmet on his head, a huge roar came from above his head!

He looked up and found a huge fireball suddenly appearing in the air dozens of feet away from his head!

Seeing the size of the fireball, Chen Yongxia's expression became a little heavy - this was a "sugar bomb" of the Qing army!

As soon as Chen Yongxia thought of this, clouds of smoke and fireballs suddenly rose from the Ming army's "trench position". Judging from the size of the smoke and fireballs, they should be expensive "sugar bullets"!

Sun Sike also went all out this time! Not only did he take out all the money to boost the morale of the army, he also took out all the precious sugar and boiled it into "sugar medicine", which was all put into the cast iron shells used by General Weiyuan's artillery and used by the infantry.

cast iron grenade hammer.

Kang Mazi didn't give much sugar to Sun Sike, but it was quite powerful when used in a few hours of battle.

More than thirty Weiyuan general cannons opened fire at the same time, sending wave after wave of "sugar bullets" towards the Ming army's position.

Although at least two-thirds of the artillery shells exploded in mid-air or simply turned into dumb bombs that could not explode, nearly one-third of the artillery shells still exploded around the Ming army's "trench".

Perhaps there was something wrong with the Qing army's sugar medicine formula, and the smoke from the explosion was a bit loud. The Ming army's "trenched defense line" was soon shrouded in gray-white smoke. The strong smell of gunpowder smoke filled the battlefield, slowly

It flows slowly and makes people breathless.

Viewed from a distance, the Ming army's position seemed to be submerged in gunpowder smoke.

The Qing army really spent a lot of money on this artillery bombardment, which lasted for an hour plus three quarters of an hour! Nearly two thousand rounds of sugar bombs were fired one after another, and the bombardment stopped suddenly at three o'clock in the morning.

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While the bombardment was in progress, large groups of Qing troops had already formed phalanxes one after another on the Shinto between the Golden Gate and Sun Quan's tomb.

The morale of these Qing soldiers was not very high when they first went into battle, but the continuous shelling for one hour and three quarters of an hour raised their morale to the highest level.

When the bombardment had been going on for almost an hour, the clear demons who were waiting in line to attack had already begun to cheer.

They didn't expect that their side would have such strong firepower... The Ming army that was bombarded by artillery must have suffered heavy losses, and it's not certain that they were all dead!

So when the sound of the artillery stopped and the drums of the advance sounded, these demons who had been waiting in line for almost an hour shouted the slogan "Fight the traitors and seize Jiangning", one after another, and the passage had been cleaned up long ago.

Enter the battlefield through the three doorways of the Golden Gate with no obstructions.

The second trench outside the Golden Gate has been filled with sandbags to create three channels, and the anti-horse guns blocking the road have been moved away.

In the "trench" of the Ming army, Chen Yongxia was squatting in the "trench" with his head in his hands, his head and face covered with dirt. As soon as the bombardment stopped, General Chen Dacan, who had already put on cloth armor, came

He jumped up and walked around the "trench" front line he was responsible for, shouting loudly: "Everyone get up, everyone get up... Qingyao is coming to die!"

If we win this battle, we will all be the founding heroes of the new Ming Dynasty, and everyone will be rewarded! Stand up for me and form a three-row shooting formation!"

When Chen Yongxia shouted these words, he was actually worried, because he didn't know how many casualties the Qing army's shelling caused? But when most of the flintlock rifles huddled in the "trenches" to avoid the artillery fire,

The soldiers were all cursing at Mr. Qian. When Mr. Qian urged him to stand up and form a team, he finally felt relieved.

Obviously, the "earth trench" anti-cannon effect is very good!
Chapter completed!