Chapter 823 Battle of Nanchang

On the night when Wang Shouren blocked the return of the rebels in Poyang Lake, Wan Rui, who was determined to show his skills in this city defense, received an order from Zhu Chenhao from the military pigeon, and ordered him to immediately lead 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city to carry all the grain and materials, as well as the family members of the royal officials and 10,000 soldiers and horses who came to pick up. Evacuate to a place called Yangcun on the west coast of Poyang Lake and board the ship to evacuate.

This order made Wan Rui extremely angry. Obviously, he was fully prepared and waited for Wang Shouren to give a head-on blow when he attacked the city. Nanchang City could be as solid as gold. The emperor suddenly asked to give up Nanchang.

Thinking of Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses doing in the city during the day, Wan Rui was very angry. Wang Shouren's soldiers and horses shouted and persuaded to surrender in the city. They lay naked under the sun and laughed unscrupulously, just like they were not on the battlefield, but in their own backyard. Some soldiers even deliberately peed in the direction of the head of the city, and then shook and humiliated the defenders at the head of the city. After these were reported to Wan Rui by the defenders, Wan Rui's seven orifices emitted smoke.

But he also understood that what these guys did was to provoke him to go out of the city to fight with them. Although he was angry, Wan Rui would never do so. 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 head of the city and bombarded the soldiers who sought to die into meat sauce, the anger in his heart was still difficult to dispel, waiting for Wang Shouren to teach them a lesson when he attacked the city.

Now, the emperor ordered to evacuate, hasn't this really become the 'shrink-headed turtle bastard' that scolded the soldiers yesterday? What is the difference between evacuating and escaping? It's just a different word.

"If you don't leave, don't leave. Isn't the emperor just worried that Nanchang can't keep it? I would like to prove to the emperor that Nanchang is an impregnable city in the hands of Wanrui, just like the peak of Lushan Mountain. Excited, Wan Rui suddenly said a wonderful metaphor.

"But the general, this is the emperor's order. Once the emperor's family members make a mistake, you can't help it." The vice general is busy.

"Well, you take 5,000 people to escort food, materials and personnel to meet the people, and I will stay and guard Nanchang City. Sooner or later, the emperor will understand my painstaking efforts. Nanchang will be lost, and everyone's old nest will be gone. What kind of war will he fight?

"But the general, in this way, you will fight alone. As soon as we get on the ship, we will follow the emperor to attack Nanjing. It is impossible to leave a warship waiting for you. You also disobey the imperial edict and military order. You have to think twice."

"Don't care. What you leave is 50,000 stones left for the grain and fodder, and you will take the rest away. When the emperor can't capture Nanjing, he will know how happy it will be to have Nanchang City as a nest in the rear. At that time, the emperor will not blame me. Wan Rui was determined to defend Nanchang, and his expression was quite decisive.

The deputy general knew that there was no way to persuade him, so he had to follow his orders. In the afternoon, all the grain and materials were loaded, and the family members of the royal palace and the families of many officials also settled down with the army. Wan Rui personally sent the soldiers and horse from the north gate, returned to the city and immediately issued a warning order for the whole city, closing the gate to prepare for the battle.

In the evening, the soldiers watching from the head of the city came to find that a sentry horse was rushing from the east. Wan Rui climbed to the head of the city to watch and immediately understood that it was Wang Shouren himself. The strange thing is that the officers and soldiers in the city did not officially attack for two days. It turned out that Wang Shouren himself was not present. As soon as he came, the siege battle was about to begin.

Although the enemy had another 10,000 horses, Wan Rui was still not afraid. He ordered the people in the city to drive away the sandbags and build more than three feet high fortifications above the wall of Nanchang, and concentrated all the soldiers and horses on the wall to prepare for the death. He believed that even if he had only 15,000 people in his hand, Wang Shouren's 30,000 people would not attack the city at all.

On the other hand, Wang Shouren, who rushed to Nanchang City for more than a dozen hours, was shocked by a piece of news reported by Wang Mian. More than a dozen escaped soldiers who died under the artillery at the head of the city yesterday exchanged their lives for a military secret, that is, there were artillery installed at the head of Nanchang. Wang Shouren is not an ignorant person. He knows what artillery means. That thing is not ordinary fierce. Whether it is attacking or defending the city, it is a magic weapon.

Originally, Wang Shouren was still a little sure about the conventional siege. After all, the force is superior. Even if he fights for his life, it is not an impossible task to complete to break through Nanchang, but once there is artillery defense at the head of the city, it will be very different.

In order to verify Wang Mian's report, Wang Shouren had no time to rest and organized a wave of tentative siege while the sky was still a little bright, in order to see the number and power of artillery in the city. When the 3,000 soldiers and horses in the scattered formation carefully stepped through the barren field and marched towards the south gate of Nanchang City, dozens of artillery on the head of the city roared in an instant and gathered for more than a thousand steps. Dozens of black smoke suddenly appeared in the officer and soldiers formation far from the range of bows and arrows, and stone rubble iron sheet steel balls scattered around. Even if the formation is loose, this round of shelling still took the lives of hundreds of soldiers. On average, each shell will kill or hurt three or four soldiers, and many soldiers around will be injured.

A round of artillery made these 3,000 tentative soldiers and horses lose one-perone of their fighting power, which was simply stunning.

These guns are one of the sharp weapons that Zhu Chenhao has painstakingly prepared for so many years. He sent people to contact the Portuguese on the southern coast and spent a lot of money to purchase the cannon with a gun frame, called the Folang machine mother cannon, which is the most advanced Western artillery in the world today, with fast firing speed and good safety. , fast heat dissipation and long service life. After calculation, it only takes 20 breath to fire three shells of this Franco machine gun, which shows its horror.

The disadvantage is that the air tightness of this gun is poor, and the design principle of the mother gun leads to this insurmountable shortcoming. There is a huge gap between the void between the gun and the mother gun, resulting in the leakage of launch power, so that the range is not long enough. Otherwise, General Wang Shouren's camp was three miles away from the city, which just became the target of the artillery. Wang Shouren didn't know this, but inadvertently avoided the bad luck of artillery bombardment.

But even so, the huge damage caused in the mascuous formation thousands of steps away made Wang Shouren almost drop his chin. He did not hesitate to issue a retreat order. Three thousand soldiers and horses were chased by the buttocks by the last two rounds of shells and finally escaped from its fire range. After the count, the casualties reached more than 500. In the blink of an eye, he lost 500 combat effectiveness. Wang Shouren was so depressed that he almost swore and almost buried his hard-won image as a great scholar in the world.

The information obtained from the casualties of 500 people is that, first, there are a large number of artillery in Nanchang City, and more than 20 cannons have just been fired, and I don't know how many cannons have not been fired. Second, the artillery is equipped with flowering bullets, with a very fast shooting speed, a short interval, and a range of 1,000 Within a step.

Wang Shouren quickly calculated in his mind that no matter how many there are, from the siege to the dead corner of the moat under the city, his soldiers and horses will suffer at least 30 or 40 rounds of bombing. This is not include the shooting of the bows and arrows at the head of the city after entering the range of bows and arrows. With the lethality of this gun, any shield armor It was in vain. It was blown to death, and there was no possibility of resistance at all.

In this way, if all 30,000 soldiers and horses rush up to attack, I'm afraid they will have to pay at least 30% of the casualties when they rush to the city. That is to say, 10,000 soldiers are killed before the city is attacked. How can they fight this battle? Play a ball?

The generals in the army obviously also realized this. They looked at Wang Shouren in silence and were helpless. Wang Shouren knew that they had no good idea, so he ordered to stop the guise attack, guard the whole battalion, retreated the crowd, blew out the candlelight in the tent, and quietly thought about the strategy of attacking the city in the dark.

Wan Rui was extremely proud. He stood at the head of the city with his waist crossed and looked at the dark Wang Shouren camp in the distance, highlighting a mouthful of thick phlegm. The moment when the parabola fell to the thick phlegm fell to the ground, there was his proud laughter.

"Hahaha, the rat generation still wants to compete with me. Wang Shouren is a powerless scholar. This time, I guess he was scared to pee in his pants. Aren't his men very arrogant? Tomorrow sends a few loud brothers, uh... find a few big brothers, go to his camp to scold, sprinkle a few soaks of urine and pull a few soaks of shit, so that they can also taste the taste of being humiliated.