Chapter 332: Once the battle starts, it must be tough!
After the military council meeting, Azig was in the Fuzhou camp. The first thing he did when he got up every morning was to go out of the city to see the sea.
"Punch a hole to see how thick the sea ice is!" Azig didn't trust other people's judgment and asked his soldiers to drill holes in the sea every morning to determine the thickness of the ice.
When tens of thousands of troops want to march across the ice, they must be absolutely cautious. If the ice collapses during the march, it will be a big mistake.
"Your Majesty, the ice thickness within five miles of the sea is more than two feet thick, and the ice thickness within ten miles is also one foot thicker. The passage of the army should be unobstructed." The soldier made an ice skate along the sea surface, and finally
It was concluded that the thickness of the ice layer was sufficient.
The Manchus are quite good at digging holes in the ice. Ice fishing is a necessary survival method for the Manchus in winter. They are good at judging the thickness of the ice layer.
The ice thickness on the sea surface in Dalian is more than half a meter, which is difficult to imagine in later generations. Dalian and Lushun are famous ice-free ports in later generations. Even if it freezes, it will usually be thin ice within ten centimeters, but during the Little Ice Age,
In the late Ming Dynasty, it was easy for sea ice to be sealed with a thickness of about half a meter, and sometimes the sea ice thickness was more than one meter.
"Instruct all armies to launch a general attack on Jinzhou in three days." To be cautious, Azig suppressed his inner impulse and postponed the general attack for another three days.
After watching the sea, Azige and his soldiers had just returned to the camp when they saw Shang Kexi hurriedly ran into the camp.
"King Zhishun, you came here in such a panic, but something happened."
"Your Majesty, our plan to cross the sea to attack Port Arthur will probably not work."
"It doesn't work? How is it possible? I just led people to dig ice in the sea off Fuzhou to check. The sea ice is two feet thick. Is there a big difference in ice thickness between Jinzhou and Fuzhou?"
"It's not that the thickness of the ice is very different. The main reason is that the Ming army built a barbed wire fence along the trench wall of Jinzhou into the sea, and built ice blocks inside the barbed wire to form a trench wall. The most troublesome thing is that they are still ice-cold.
Several ships are frozen inside the wall, which is equivalent to building an entire defense line on the sea!"
"What? How can Mingguo be so ingenious? I will rush to the front line to check the situation."
After Azig led a large group of troops to the Jinzhou defense line, he saw an ice-iron defense line appearing out of thin air on the sea. His head almost exploded with anger! How could he cross the sea and attack Lushun when this thing appeared?
Won't the entire army of ten thousand be concentrated within thirty to fifty miles of Jinzhou's ribs for an assault? In this case, the Ming army's artillery will cover the entire line, and there will be no conditions for a large-scale attack.
"King Zhishun, which one do you think is stronger, the Ming army's sea fortifications or the land fortifications?"
"It should be more fragile at sea. After all, they are all made of ice barriers! If they are bombarded with heavy artillery, they can still be blasted away." Shang Kexi thought for a long time before giving Azig an uncertain answer. To be honest.
He said that at this time, he felt that the defense line was not easy to fight. The maritime defense line appeared out of thin air, causing the Qing army to lose its biggest advantage of rapid cavalry assault. Even the numerical advantage had little effect. In other words, this
The battlefield of time has become a time of fighting for firepower.
"Then bring all three of your heavy artillery units to the sea. Concentrate the artillery first and destroy the Ming army's sea defense line." Azig, who was in a hurry, was ready to be tough as soon as the war started. It won't work if it's not tough!
The Ming army gambled all sea and land routes to death, and there was no room for any tricks they wanted to use.
Is it possible to drag a heavy cannon to the sea and hit an ice wall? Shang Kexi was a little unsure, but looking at Azig's face, he still suppressed his desire to speak. Although he was also a prince in name, in fact
The gap between the prince and the prince is huge. Not to mention facing Azig, even facing Manchu generals such as Tan Tai and Obai, he doesn't have much confidence to dare to stand up to him.
After receiving Azig's order, Shang Kexi, Kong Youde and others arranged for people to drag the heavy artillery that had been deployed on land to the sea.
"Old Shang, the heavy artillery should be closer to the coast. If it is far away, it will easily crack the ice. If one of the cannons falls into the water, we will suffer great losses." When Kong Youde was setting up the artillery array, he ran over to give Shang
It’s a welcome reminder. Among the three kings, Kong Youde is actually an honest man who values brotherly loyalty and human kindness the most. He was also driven into despair by this thing and surrendered. So sometimes many life choices are made out of helplessness, at least Monk Kong Youde
Fortunately, if the two of them had a choice, they really wouldn't vote for it. They were dragged down by the bad atmosphere in Dongjiang Town and the internal strife in the Ming army and had no choice.
"We need to build an ice wall around the heavy artillery. The Ming army's artillery is now very accurate and can easily hit our artillery array." Shang Kexi looked at the artillery array for a long time and felt that some protective measures should be added before letting people release it.
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While listening to Shang Kexi's words, Kong Youde aimed his gaze at the Ming army's position opposite. After looking at it for a while, he sighed and said, "I don't know what the battle of Jinzhou will be like."
"Don't look at it! Let's do our job honestly. You and I are both people who have no choice but to look back. If we win over you, my life will only be more difficult. If we are born with a wise ruler, we can do nothing about it.
What?" Shang Kexi knew what Kong Youde was thinking when he was looking at the opposite position in a daze! So what could he do? At that time, Shang Kexi was so passionate that he led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses for nearly three months in the waters of Liaodong and Shandong.
Yue, did not wait for an opportunity to serve the country and kill the enemy.
When the artillery of the Qing army entered the position, the artillery battle between the two sides began immediately. This battle should be the largest artillery battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties in recent years. Almost all the old bases of the Qing army's Sanshun Wang moved to the position, and the Ming army
Several ships nearby also had nearly fifty heavy guns.
The solid shells flew wildly on the sea, pulling out lines of ice. The ice surface was more conducive to the shooting of solid shells than the land. The solid shells that landed on the ice flew forward almost without slowing down. The Ming army used ice blocks to block
The trench walls really couldn't withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery, and many of them were knocked down. Fortunately, when the artillery battle began, the soldiers all hid on and behind the boats, so they suffered no losses in the artillery battle.
"It's better to use barbed wire. No matter how fierce the artillery is, it won't have a big impact." Fang Ruocheng stood on the deck of a ship piled with sandbags and sighed while observing the battle. As long as the barbed wire defense line is there, when the artillery battle is over,
After that, the Qing army's cavalry could no longer take advantage of the impact, and the soldiers could quickly enter the battle post to block the incoming enemy.
Compared with naval warfare, Fang Ruocheng is actually better at artillery warfare. He is a graduate of the first class of the Artillery Department of the General School. In the end, he became a naval captain by accident, which he did not expect. At that time, he traveled from Taizhou to
I went to the Beijing Normal University to take the General Academy examination to become a real army general. However, because my riding skills were practiced on mules, I was assigned to the artillery department during the final division. The artillery department was just the artillery department. I fought in a few battles in the army.
Later, because he knew how to swim, he was transferred to the navy. Although he was promoted quickly after joining the navy, he was promoted to captain and captain a few days ago. If he advances a little further, he will be qualified to be called a general.
, but from the bottom of his heart he still wanted to become an army general.