After Zhu Youlang arrived at Fengyue, he immediately listened to the information collected by Wen Anzhi about Chongqing.

Now the highest commander of the Qing army in Chongqing is Governor Gao Minzhan.

This person is the confidant of Governor Li Guoying. After Li Guoying was promoted, he recommended Gao Minzhan to take over as governor.

Based on the idea of ​​stability, the Qing court accepted Li Guoying's recommendation and granted Gao Minzhan the position of governor.

In fact, the Qing army had extremely limited control over Sichuan and was basically concentrated in the Chongqing generation.

Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan, said that it was almost the same as governor of Chongqing.

But even Gao Minzhan could not defend such a Chongqing city. If Li Guoying had not supported him, his position as governor would have been deprived of his position as a governor long ago.

In the 12th year of Yongli, Wen'anzhi contacted the thirteen Kuidong families to attack Chongqing.

After learning the news, Gao Minzhan was so scared that he almost left the city and fled. In the end, General Wang Mingde repeatedly persuaded him to insist on sticking.

If it weren't for Tan Hong, Tan Yi's rebellion and killing Tan Wen, the Ming flag would have been hung on the top of Chongqing city.

Such people who are greedy and afraid of death can become governors of the Qing court, which shows that the Qing court does not have many talents.

There is no tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is just a king.

According to Wen Anzhi, there are about 30,000 people in Chongqing now, of which 20,000 are Green Camp soldiers under Gao Minzhan.

The remaining 10,000 people were the Ming army in the East Sichuan brought by Ertan.

In other words, there are only 30,000 defenders in Chongqing, divided into Cheng Tingjun, general of Chongqing Town, Wang Mingde, general of Jianchang Town, and Ertan.

This is even less than Zhu Youlang imagined. He originally thought that the Qing army would have to have 50,000 troops after integrating the forces of Ertan.

From this point of view, the chances of winning of the plan to attack Chongqing have increased a little.

Chongqing has a very special geographical location, and it is the intersection of Jialing River and the Yangtze River.

To attack Chongqing, there must be a navy. Otherwise, even if Chongqing is taken down, the waterway cannot be cut off, and the Qing army can still take a boat to retreat along the river in time.

This is something that Zhu Youlang cannot accept.

It is easy to talk about the Thirteen Kuidong families. They are all stationed along the Yangtze River and have many bamboo rafts and small boats in their hands.

Don't underestimate these small boats and bamboo rafts.

On the sea, large ships like lucky ships may be very sharp, but on inland rivers, such small boats can often perform strange results.

Even if Zheng Chenggong's Invincible Navy was transferred to Chongqing, there might not be a small boat from Thirteen families and bamboo rafts were easy to use.

Unfortunately, all the ships in Fengjie have been taken away by Ertan as a gift for the new master. Although Wen Anzhi has ordered people to speed up the production, it will take time to make bamboo rafts.

Zhu Youlang used this period of time to study the specific strategies for attacking Chongqing with Wen Anzhi.

There is no doubt that siege must rely on big killing weapons such as artillery.

Wen Anzhi and his team failed to attack Chongqing for a long time, but they suffered the loss of not having artillery in their hands.

But there is no way to do this.

At that time, Nanming was already poor and paid for his pants. The king and his ministers were anxious and stared at him. How could he use some artillery to make use of Wen An?

Even if there is one, it is difficult to transport the weight of the Red Cannon to the city of Chongqing by water!

However, since Zhu Youlang came to the Ming Dynasty, everything has been different.

He had many Prussian artillery in his hands, many of which were light field artillery, and the transportation was extremely in line with it.

This time, Zhu Youlang ordered people to bring dozens of doors.

These artillery may not be able to knock down the city wall directly, but there is no problem to aim at the city gate, battlements, city towers and other weaknesses.

The artillery in Zhu Youlang's hand is basically front-mounted smoothbore cannons, mostly six-pound cannons, and some twelve-pound cannons are also included.

The six-pound cannon and the twelve-pound cannon are very similar in appearance because it is lighter and flexible to use on the battlefield. It played a great role during the Napoleonic Wars and the Franco-Prussian War.

The six-pound cannon and the twelve-pound cannon in Zhu Youlang's hand include both solid bullets and grenades, and the ratio is very perfect.

The only problem is that after the Kunming Guards Battle, only a small half of the ammunition left for these artillery was enough to take Chongqing.

After the fight, you will not be able to get supplies in a short time.

On the contrary, the flintlock rifle and needle striking rifle were used less in the Kunming Guards and had sufficient ammunition.

Zhu Youlang also brought the new army he had just recruited during this march.

The purpose is naturally to allow these recruits to grow up as soon as possible when they see blood.

His guns and cannons are basically equipped with the new army. After a period of training, the recruits have mastered the use of guns and cannons.

Generally speaking, the use of firearms is much simpler than that of cold weapons.

It takes at least three years to train a great archer.

And training a musketman is enough for several months.

Compared with the cumbersome steps of using the flintlock gun, the use of the flintlock gun and the needle gun have been greatly simplified, and it is even less difficult to learn.

As for the front-mounted rifled cannon, it is even simpler, and it is simply a blessing for new recruits.

Of course, Chongqing, as an important stronghold of the Qing army in Sichuan, should also have artillery in the city.

Although these cannons are not as flexible as the field cannons brought by Zhu Youlang, they are very powerful and are very sharp to defend the city.

According to Wen Anzhi, many soldiers were killed by flying shells when the Ming army besieged Chongqing last time, which made him very heartbroken.

Zhu Youlang felt that it should be necessary to popularize the role of trenches for him.

"Look at the supervisor. I call this thing a trench. It can serve as a cover for the soldiers to prevent damage from bullets and shells coming from the front."

Zhu Youlang drew a simple schematic diagram and explained loudly.

"Trenches?"

Wen Anzhi naturally had never heard of this name, but after the emperor explained it, he did feel the function of this thing.

"Isn't this similar to authenticity?"

"There is no need to dig that deep, and the soldiers don't have to drill down completely, just serve as a bunker."

Zhu Youlang said in a harmonious voice: "Digging trenches does not take too much effort, but the benefits are obvious. With the trenches, soldiers can reduce a lot of casualties when facing the artillery fire of the Donglu."

Of course, this is only for the Qing army artillery bombardment.

If you really want to completely take Chongqing, you still have to charge. At that time, casualties were inevitable, and Zhu Youlang could only minimize casualties as much as possible.

"Do you want someone to give it a try?"

Wen Anzhi obviously did not fully believe in this trench that was magical in the mouth of the emperor, and sincerely made suggestions.

Zhu Youlang, who followed the advice, readily agreed.

For such a new thing, the best way to make Wen Anzhi and others accept it is to let him see the effect with his own eyes.

The artillery of this era is basically solid artillery, which relies on the crushing feeling or jumping attack brought by the huge kinetic energy of the shells.

When encountering trenches, this kind of shell will lose its power.

Zhu Youlang is very confident in the trenches!
Chapter completed!