Chapter 882: Advance tactics

? The salty and wet taste of seawater comes oncoming under the blowing of the east wind.
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao stared at the royal soldiers who were slowly coming. Unlike their nervousness, these soldiers seemed to be holding a winning ticket.
　　
　　 They even heard a loud singing far away, which was impassioned and exhilarating.
　　
　　 "Let the artillery be prepared."
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao put down the monoculars in his hand. These items were purchased by the merchant council from western merchants. Almost every general now has one.
　　
　　 "Yes, General." Upon receiving the order, the lieutenant immediately put all the artillery in place and filled the shells and waited.
　　
　　 At the same time, soldiers with flintlocks ran back and forth on the wall to arm their defenses, and everyone found their shooting position.
　　
　　Everything is ready. The lieutenant frowned. He said: "General, there don't seem to be many soldiers in Dayu, there are only about 20,000. Maybe we can defeat them head-on."
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao glanced at the lieutenant, and he said lightly: "Do you think the northern royal army is Li Chuyuan's stragglers? You didn't know where these soldiers were when they defeated the barbarians in Jizhou with flintlocks!"
　　
　　 Lieutenant's face was flushed. After successfully defeating the siege for several times, he was very confident in the current firearms army. In his opinion, defeating Li Chuyuan was only a matter of time.
　　
Because of this, they didn’t bother with the army in front of them. He said:
The general seems to be a bit more ambitious to destroy his prestige. Now it turns out that the loyalty of soldiers loyal to the king is far less than that of soldiers loyal to the merchant council. I believe that the people must be dissatisfied with the decadent dynasty in the north, and their soldiers will not sacrifice their lives for them."
　　
　　 "Really? Have you been to the north? Have you known Qingzhou?" Yao Hongtao was a little dissatisfied. This deputy is not his person, but the one assigned by the merchant council.
　　
　　 He knew very well that the Merchant Council was not very at ease with him, but he chose to betray the King of Chu, and now he had to follow the Merchant Council. What's more, Cao Kun promised to give him a seat as a member.
　　
The lieutenant was speechless again, and he argued: "General, it seems that you don’t trust the Merchant Council enough. Now the Merchant Council has decided to adopt the same method he used in Jizhou to win people’s hearts under the proposal of the Qinglong King. You will wait and see. Well, soon the people in Jiangnan will gather around the merchant council just like they were in Jizhou."
　　
　　 "The Blue Dragon King." Yao Hongtao frowned. The Blue Dragon King he had seen before was a very cold scholar, and the most frightening thing was that the Blue Dragon King was very good at bewitching people.
　　
　　 The King of Chu reused him in the past. He succeeded in provoking turmoil in Jizhou, but he was refrigerated after returning to Chu, because the King of Chu was also worried that the Qinglong King would bring cholera to Chu.
　　
　　 Now that the Azure Dragon King has defected to the Merchant Council, he can already imagine what would happen to these two freaks together.
　　
　　 The deputy general laughed immediately when he saw this. He said, "The Azure Dragon King still has a way to win over the people. Now many people are even going to join the merchant council in order not to pay for food."
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao suddenly sneered after hearing this, he suddenly felt sad for the people, because he knew very well that this slogan would eventually become a dead letter.
　　
　　 Throughout the ages, there has been a dynasty that did not pay for food. Now the merchant council has just drew a big cake for the people to die for them.
　　
　　 "Sad, sigh." Yao Hongtao didn't know if he was talking about the lieutenant or himself. He stopped talking, but fixed his eyes on the approaching royal soldiers.
　　
　　 Outside the city, Lu Fei is observing the situation in Songjiang City.
　　
　　Different from the past, the current tiger army is not arranged in a dense formation as before, but is distributed in a line of skirmishers outside the east wall of Songjiang City.
　　
"There are 20 artillery pieces on this city wall. The walls are full of soldiers with flintlocks. If we attack from the front, we will suffer a lot of casualties. We only have 20,000 people. We have to take advantage of the breech rifle." Lu Fei said sternly. , Even with artillery, siege warfare is still a headache.
　　
　　Especially the soldiers in the city still use firearms. They can completely rely on the city walls to use firearms to kill and wound the soldiers siege of the city, which is not cost-effective.
　　
　　 So, he continued: "Guo Ming, you immediately led the soldiers to dig the trenches until they were within fifty meters of the city wall."
　　
　　 "Yes, General."
　　
　　 Guo Ming responded, and now the iron shovel has basically become the standard configuration of the army, in order to dig trenches, after being ordered, thousands of soldiers were thrown into it.
　　
　　 So Yao Hongtao was surprised to see that after the royal army stopped at a distance of 300 meters, they began to dig.
　　
　　"General, what are they doing?" The lieutenant was surprised. They had never encountered such a situation.
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao shook his head. He is also at a loss now, but he understands that this is definitely not a good sign. He shouted at the artillery; "Fire!"
　　
　　 At his command, the artillery on the wall suddenly roared, and the solid bullets went toward the royal army like lightning.
　　
　　 But when the guns sounded, the royal army on the opposite side immediately dispersed and looked for the uneven terrain as a barrier to lie down. At the same time, he saw the royal soldiers lying on the ground shooting.
　　
　　 "Boom boom boom..."
　　
　　 There was a burst of fire, and bullets flew around the city wall. Some soldiers couldn't dodge and were hit. They fell down with a scream, and the city wall suddenly fell into chaos.
　　
　　 Yao Hongtao has a cold sweat from his back. When will the royal musket shoot three hundred meters?
　　
　　 Lu Fei kept urging the soldiers to dig trenches when he was mad. In fact, this shooting standard is not much. After all, the accuracy of 300 meters shooting is not high.
　　
He has gained experience in daily training. In fact, as the distance increases, the shooting accuracy of soldiers continues to decline. Even though the range and accuracy of the breech rifle have been greatly improved, the human vision and operation are also limited. .
　　
　　 It is difficult to accurately shoot a person within 500 meters. The best shooting distance is still within 200 meters.
　　
　　 So this shooting is just to suppress the opponent's artillery ~EbookFREE.me~ and not to kill the enemy.
　　
　　 After some fire cover, the soldiers dig trenches faster, and none of the soldiers wanted to be hit by the artillery on the wall.
　　
　　 Three hours later, a winding trench extended to the bottom of Songjiang City, and other soldiers entered the trench and continued to expand the trench project.
　　
　　 After the initial shelling, the parliament army quickly gave up shooting because the royal soldiers hiding in the trench could not be injured by the solid bullet.
　　
　　 At this time, Lu Fei ordered all the soldiers to enter the trench and encircled Songjiang City. At the same time, the mortars carried by two people also entered the trench.
　　
　　 They advanced to a distance of fifty meters from the city wall.
　　
　　 After receiving Lu Fei's order, he immediately threw the flower bombs and lime bombs onto the wall of Songjiang City. Soldiers with falcon rifles also shot at the wall through the edge of the trench.
　　
　　 The battle of Matsue Castle officially started.