Relying on much more artillery than the defenders, the Taiping Army suppressed the Qing army's artillery fire. Amid the sound of artillery, Qi Hao ordered the gunner to transport the small cannons that were easy to move through the trench, constantly move forward, push them directly to the city of Wuzhou, and then shoot directly at the city gate.

At the same time, thousands of Qing army prisoners were driven by the Taiping Army to continue digging along the trench. Looking down from the city, thousands of prisoners waved their shovels like ants in the trench. If they were slack, they would be pulled to the trench by the surveillance Taiping Army. They ignored the other party's begging and directly chopped off their heads, then kicked the headless corpse into the trench and kicked the prisoners. The bloody scene made the prisoners no longer dare to be lazy and dig desperately, fearing that the next person to be pulled to beheaded will be themselves.

The soil was flying, and the Qing army on Wuzhou City could not see the figure, but could see the soil under the city flying from the ground like rain and then falling down. The Qing army prisoners worked hard to dig, which quickly made the city of Wuzhou like a crack, and trenches went straight to the city. The prisoners were digging hard to survive. The civil workers sent by the Taiping Army General's Office to accompany the army kept correcting the straight lines of the trenches to avoid digging. Dozens of men with red scarves on their heads and embroidered with the words "blasting" on their right shoulders squatted carefully in a trenches and looked nervously at Wuzhou City in the distance. Behind them were two large coffins. The two large coffins were dragged along the trenches by these big men, leaving only a flat and flat mark in the trenches, as if the ground in the trenches had been flattened.

The civil engineering operations of the Taiping Army made the Qing army in the city stunned. They looked at the trenches leading to the city like strange things. When the trenches were dug to the city only a few dozen steps away, they finally saw countless comrades in the trenches who were captured by the Taiping Army yesterday digging them hard like ants. They also saw teams of Taiping Army carrying spears and guns going back and forth in the trenches, and the cannons fired by their artillery on the city did not threaten them at all. The trenches became safe passages for the Taiping Army, and teams of Taiping Army approached the city without any damage from the trenches and appeared in front of the Qing army.

This scene surprised the Qing army, but the Taiping Army soldiers in the Second Town were very familiar with this. When they were in Guangdong, they had conducted countless drills of digging trenches at the request of the General Manager's Office. Through the drills, they knew how to dig trenches faster, deeper and safer, and how to quickly transfer them in trenches. The camps that the Second Town once stationed in Guangzhou had long been densely packed with deep trenches under the city of Wuzhou.

The civil engineering work done in Chaohui's battle with the northern line was unanimously recognized by the Taiping Army. The three-dimensional defense tactics of bunkers, guardhouses, and trenches were vigorously promoted by Zhou Shixiang and were further improved. The trench tactics under Wuzhou City are one of them, but this tactics are not for defense, but for offense. Preparation is to break the city with minimal losses.

"The Ming army wants to dig tunnels to break the city. Each surveillance outlet immediately prepares tinder oil. If you find that the Ming army tunnels are dug into the city, pour oil in and set fire immediately. You must not let the Ming army rush out of the tunnel!"

Based on past experience, Dai Liangchen judged that the Taiping Army had such civil engineering operations, in addition to avoiding the Qing army's cannons in the city, he had to dig tunnels from the underground to enter the city. He immediately sent an order, and even took people to the nearest two monitor tanks to listen to the movements underground. Fortunately, there was no sound coming from the underground, which made him a little calmer, thinking that the Taiping Army would not be able to dig in for a while. After all, digging from the ground is not just as simple as having the strength to dig the ground, but a very complex technical job.

Although the Taiping Army had not been able to dig into the city, Dai Liangchen did not dare to take it lightly. He personally inspected the surveillance ports, and after repeated explanations to the Qing army at each surveillance port, he brought people to the city.

The Qing army on the city had already begun to fire guns and arrows into the trenches below. They didn't care that those who were digging were theirs. They only knew that they could not let the Taiping army dig the trenches. The guns and arrow branches shot towards the trenches as if rain. The prisoners who were digging were immediately shot into a large area and fled back screaming.

"preparation!"

"put!"

After discovering that the Qing army prevented the prisoners from excavating, Huang Sicheng, the former Qianhu of Conghua, quickly transferred a battalion of gunmen, ordered them to quickly advance along the trench, and then used a team as the basis to set up a row of guns on the city. The cannon town also slightly raised the guns and smashed the guns directly at the top of the city, instead of hitting the city wall as before. The firepower firing of the Taiping army's gunmen was much more intense than that of the Qing army in the city. In addition, the suppression of the cannons, the Qing army in the city was immediately pressed so hard that they could not protrude. As long as they poked their heads out, they would be pressed back hard, so that they could only fire randomly with their feelings. Such artillery bombardment could be said to be no threat to the Taiping soldiers hiding in the trench.

The governor Dong Yingkui and others have already gotten off the city now, but no one dared to go back to rest. They gathered together and kept sending people to the city to investigate the movements outside the city, so that the people of Wuzhou found that the most popular thing for these high-ranking officials in the city was the word "peace" that the soldiers who rushed from the city rushed to the city shouted in a long and monotonous manner.

Many years later, when the people in Wuzhou City celebrate the New Year, the first sentence they met with each other was not "congratulations on getting rich" or "Happy New Year", but "I wish you a safe New Year"

Wang Fuchen led his subordinates to leisurely look at the city of Wuzhou filled with smoke. They were cavalry and they didn't need them to fight the siege. In addition, the physical loss in the battle yesterday was also great, so they were all resting in the rear. The injured were carried to the navy warship on the river for treatment, while the uninjured sat cross-legged on the hillside, gnawing on the reward meat sent from above, while smiling betting when Wuzhou City could be dropped.

Most of Wang Fu. Chen's subordinates were Mongolian soldiers. The Mongolians loved wine, and he also liked wine, so he specially ordered dozens of jars of wine from the iron commander of the second town, and each of them drank it with a big bowl. Yesterday, more than a thousand cavalry from the two towns killed more than two thousand Hui cavalry and overturned the horses. Wang Fu. Chen even killed the Qing army commander Ma Xiong and his son Ma Chengyin. There were dozens of Hui Hui soldiers who died under his spear. Such strong skills and impressive record naturally made the Mongolian soldiers who had not been very impressed by him. Although there were still some inconvenience in words, the toast was understandable without words. Brave people have always been admired and respected.

Wang Fu. Chen didn't know how many bowls of wine he drank from his Mongolian soldiers. No matter how strong he was, he felt a little dizzy. However, he was still excited and vigorously watched the war under Wuzhou City. It was the first time he saw the Taiping Army siege the city, and he didn't expect that the siege could come up with so many tricks. The siege method of the second town made Wang Fu. Chen was very unfamiliar. He was no longer the ants-attached siege he was familiar with, no longer the kind of death-sieged siege in double armor climbing the city, and there was no need to hit the city car or arrow tower, but only single

Purely approached the city with trenches, and then used the cover of trenches to suppress the defenders on the city. Judging from the current situation, the Qing army in Wuzhou City had basically been oppressed by the Second Town and had no power to fight back. However, Wang Fu, the minister, was still very curious about how the Second Town broke through Wuzhou City. After all, after so long, the Wuzhou walls still stood firm and showed no signs of collapse. As long as the city walls were there, no matter how many trenches in the Second Town were dug, they were still Bai Gong. To siege the city, you must conquer the city.

It was not only Wang Fu who was curious about how the Taiping Army attacked the city. The Mongolian soldiers under his command were also curious, and the Qing army in Wuzhou City was even more curious. The large jar monitored under the city wall showed that the Taiping Army did not dig the tunnel into the city, and their trenches did not dig to the corner of the city wall, but stopped at twenty or thirty steps away.

How did the Taiping Army attack the city? Could it be that it was just bombarded with cannons? When would it be bombarded? How many medicines and cannons do they have to withstand this level of consumption?

After the Qing army on the city found that the Taiping Army did not seem to have any powerful backup, they couldn't help but feel a little more confident. Wuzhou was a major city in Guangxi no matter what, Wuzhou was a major city. The Ming army and the Qing army had reinforced the city walls. It was very difficult to collapse the city walls with cannons. Although the defenders in the city are short of enough troops, there are still 3,000 people. In addition, the thousands of young and strong Wuzhou, as long as the city gates are not lost, the Taiping Army will probably have to pay much more casualties than the defenders if they want to attack. The Taiping Army under the city has only more than 10,000 troops. How much loss can this little manpower withstand?

However, just when the Qing army had a little confidence, a shocking sound suddenly sounded in their ears, and then the ground under their feet suddenly shook, like an earthquake. Many Qing soldiers felt a flash in front of their eyes, and they couldn't stand and fell to the ground. Then, as if they were meteorites above their heads, countless gravels and city bricks were smashing at them.

Dai Liangchen, who was explaining the city guard with his subordinate, was also alarmed by the loud noise. Before he could react, he swayed on the city wall. A piece of gravel fell like rain. If it weren't for the fact that a personal guard was pressing on his body, he might never know what was going on.

After the earth-shaking sound disappeared, the air was covered with dust and yellow, and I couldn't see clearly what was going on. All I heard was the sound of coughing and screams. After a while, Dai Liangchen breathed a long breath, and then pushed away the guard who had been smashed to his head by gravel on his body, struggling to get up from the ground, but was surprised to find that the city wall that was originally connected in front of him had a big gap.
Chapter completed!