On April 20th, Liu Hansan's main force arrived outside Xuzhou City and set up camp three miles away from Xuzhou.

The arrival of Liu Hansan made Wanyan Yechen no longer have to worry about whether to go out of the city to support reinforcements.

Their number one event has become to guard against enemies outside the city, and they dare not have other ideas.

At the same time, Shang Kexi, who came from Linyi, also stayed in Taijiazhuang, the later Taierzhuang.

Taijiazhuang guards the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and is also an important strategic location.

Moreover, the current ancient city of Taijiazhuang is surrounded by water on all sides, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, not the kind of moat that is only one or two meters long and can hold three to four meters long.

This is a natural moat with a width of tens of meters, which cannot be filled at all.

Moreover, the city wall of Taijiazhuang is very close to the water's edge, even in some places.

This created a situation where the siege troops did not have room to place their troops.

Even how people approach the city wall is a big problem, let alone transport siege ladders or the like to the city.

Although the city wall of Taijiazhuang is not high, which is three or four meters in height, the difficulty of attack is even more difficult than that of a typical five or six meters high city wall.

It was Qian Sule who was in charge of destroying the Shang Kexi Ministry and taking over Taijiazhuang.

With the death of Zhu Yihai, Qian Sule began to be reused. After all, Qian Sule's military literacy was much higher than that of some military generals who were born in the wild.

Moreover, he is a person who is good at learning, and his grades were among the best when he was studying in the military academy.

If it wasn't for identity reasons, he was at least in the position of commander of the army or even the chief of the general staff at this time.

But now, he is still just the teacher of a division.

However, his 22nd Division is the main division of the Northern Army, with well-equipped weapons.

In the face of other ordinary teachers, he is dominant.

Just like now, in fact, in addition to his division who came to Taijiazhuang, there was also a brigade of the 27th division, which was temporarily assigned to conductor Qian Sule.

At the same time, the navy was also cooperating with Qian Sule's operation. In theory, it was also necessary to listen to Qian Sule's orders.

Of course, this is limited to theory.

In reality, the Army and Navy are more like a cooperative relationship.

In order to cooperate with the army's actions, the navy will obey the orders of the army generals.

However, they retain the right not to listen at any time. If this happens, army generals can't help them.

Of course, for the time being, this has not happened among the Chinese Army.

"It's a broken place, it's not easy to beat."

Qian Sule put down his binoculars and vomited.

If possible, he would rather not attack this place, but occupy the surrounding area, and then force the Qing army to retreat.

However, it would take too long and too much force.

At present, there is only one way Qian Sule can choose, and that is to attack.

"You can send an envoy to persuade you to surrender first, and it doesn't hurt to try, in case it succeeds."

The subordinate persuaded.

Anyway, even if the persuasion fails, there will not be much loss.

But once it succeeds, it can make a lot of money.

Although Qian Sule was not optimistic about persuading surrender, he also adopted the suggestion of his subordinates and sent an emissary with good eloquence.

In the end, he was ridiculed by Shang Kexi, threatening to make the Huajun suffer in Taijiazhuang.

Dahua is very powerful, but there are some people in this world who are not afraid.

The reasons are complicated, but it doesn't matter.

The persuasion to surrender failed, and Qian Sule began to arrange the general attack.

He was already eager to break the city, and then grabbed Shang Kexi over and asked who it was and what gave him courage and dare to be so arrogant.

The next day, the Navy took the lead in starting operations.

There are a total of 30 large ships, including 10 warships and 3 steamships. These ships are equipped with about two hundred cannons.

The rest are transport ships, responsible for transporting the army across the river.

These two hundred cannons are the key to breaking the city.

They need to rely on these artillery to destroy the enemy's city walls and reduce the difficulty of the army's siege.

Ten warships traveled on the river, this distance can already launch shelling on the city wall.

This time they used solid bullets to destroy the enemy's walls.

The sound of cannons sounded, and hundreds of cannons were fired at an astonishing level.

Shang Kexi didn't dare to go up the city wall for fear of being killed by the Chinese artillery.

Only a few low-level officers remained on the city wall, and they were all forced to stay, unwilling.

The prestige of Dahua artillery has long been spread throughout the Qing army.

After several rounds of artillery sounds, a small Qing army flag asked in confusion: "Could it be that the rumors are wrong, the Chinese army's artillery looks almost as powerful as ours.

The lethality of solid bullets is naturally very average.

What's more, the Chinese army didn't aim at those soldiers to fight, they were all blasting at the city wall.

Only a few missed shells would fly to the city wall, and the others were not dangerous to Qing soldiers.

"It's not right. The Chinese Army seems to be using solid bullets, not the rumored howitzer."

Another more careful Xiaoqi said.

As he said, he suddenly realized, "No, they are going to destroy our city wall."

Upon discovering this situation, he immediately got off the city wall and reported to Shang Kexi.

"These Chinese troops are really cunning. Unfortunately, Lao Tzu is not a vegetarian. He ordered all artillery in other places to be transferred to the northwest corner and fired at them."

Shang Kexi snorted disdainfully.

"But sir, isn't it written in the military register? Don't shoot at the cannon of the Chinese army. You should hide the cannon and shoot the enemy's infantry soldiers."

His eldest son Shang Zhixin reminded.

The Qing army summarized many methods of dealing with the Chinese army, printed it in a booklet, and distributed it to all ministries, so that the generals of all ministries could study hard, so as not to suffer a big loss when fighting against the Chinese army.

Although the Chinese army’s weapons and equipment are very advanced, there are actually many ways to reduce casualties as long as they deal with them properly.

For example, setting up some bunkers on the city wall can effectively resist the Chinese army's howitzers.

For example, don't attack the hollow phalanx, don't launch an assault on the flintlock troops, and so on.

"Stupid, impermanence of soldiers, impermanence of water. The art of war can only be used for reference, not rigidly applied. You probably ignore the enemy’s current artillery on the ship, and how much damage their artillery can cause to us if they fall on our wall How much damage can they cause if they sink a big ship?"

Shang Kexi reprimanded.

Experienced generals understand the same principle. No two battles in the world are exactly the same. The principles of warfare need to be combined with the current actual situation.

If you just follow it mechanically, it will be over.

Xiang Yu also played the game, and then wins more with less. Can anyone else play like this?

Without Xiang Yu's prestige, playing like this forces the soldiers to surrender.

Since the end of the road, it has always been a taboo of military strategists.

The current situation that Shangxi is facing is completely different from the situation summarized in the military brochure.

The cost of a warship is as high as tens of thousands of taels, and the value of the artillery on it is tens of thousands of taels, plus a ship of soldiers and other materials.

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