I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Under the cover of the flintlock troops, the auxiliary soldiers filled in several sections of the moat, and the siege equipment was successfully pushed under the city.

Without the cover of the flintlock troops, the enemy troops on the city walls would be able to do a lot of damage to the soldiers who filled the river.

Now, although the Fusiliers have suffered great losses, they have ensured the safety of the ant-attached siege troops, and also caused damage to the Qing army's long-range troops.

On these two points alone, their cover was very valuable, wiping out the greatest advantage of the garrison troops.

The cold weapon troops arrived at the bottom of the city and began to attack the city with ants, and the soldiers on the building also began to climb the city.

A tentative attack is not meant to be a joke. The soldiers at the bottom and lower-ranking officers don't even know that it is a tentative attack, and they are all used as a general attack.

So, they rushed very hard.

Of course, only with such a realistic attack can we get a clear picture of the deployment of the Qing army.

In the distance, the eyes of Li Shaobin and the others never left the telescope, and they have been observing the situation on the walls of the Qing army.

Through observation, Li Shaobin found that the enemy's Eight Banners soldiers and the Han army green battalion were mixed garrisoned, and no section of the city wall was purely green, and no section of the city wall was pure Eight Banner soldiers.

This is probably because the soldiers of the Green Battalion are too weak to fight and will surrender.

In fact, this approach has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it can deter and supervise the soldiers of the Green Battalion to fight, but the disadvantage is that the two troops who usually do not have a tacit understanding together, the cooperation is not good enough.

Through observation, everyone also found that the archers of the Qing army were mostly concentrated on the middle section of the city wall, presumably to facilitate support to both sides. On the city wall on the left side of the Qing army, there are many defensive materials such as stones. On the right side, there are more materials such as rolling oil. . . .

Some information is useful and some information is not. Even, we have to think about whether some of the arrangements of the Qing army are deliberately made by the other party to confuse ourselves.

All these require them to rely on experience and smell to analyze and judge, and then make corresponding deployments in the next siege battle.

"It's almost there, Ming Jin withdraws his troops."

Li Shaobin ordered that because of the sufficient strength of the Qing army, their attack did not take advantage of it.

Of course, as the siege party, they were able to draw a tie with the defender, which was quite remarkable in itself, and could even hit the opponent's morale to some extent.

Before the rise of the Wu army, the direction of the siege was to suffer greater casualties.

As the Wu army retreated, the Qing army on the city wall breathed a sigh of relief.

In this battle, there is no sense of experience of defending the city at all, and I can't feel any advantage. If this fight continues, not many of them have the confidence to hold on to it.

"The enemy is probably just a test."

Lucid sighed.

The Wu army's siege was short-lived, and it did not retreat because the soldiers were defeated, but voluntarily retreated. This shows that the Wu army's commander did not intend to take Jiujiang through this siege.

All indications are that Wu Jun may just be a tentative attack.

"The following statistics have come out. Our army killed a total of 1,110 people and seriously injured more than 2,300 people. These serious injuries are basically equal to death. If the enemy's attack this time is just a test, it will be too terrifying. When it’s time for the general attack, we’re probably going to lose tens of thousands of people in a single battle, and if we defend two or three times at most, the city will be destroyed.”

It didn't take long for Gong Adai to receive casualty statistics, and the numbers were shocking.

The loss of 3,500 people accounted for 4% of their total strength. It didn't seem like much, but after all, this was just a tentative attack.

According to this loss rate, they will lose tens of thousands of people every time they attack. In this case, they can only defend three or four waves. When the soldiers are halfway dead, they will definitely collapse and mutiny, and Luck Dehun may not be able to control them at that time.

"What about the enemy's losses, have you estimated it?"

Luckard asked.

"According to the visual inspection of the other party's corpse collection team, it can be inferred that the enemy army killed at least 800 people, and nearly 2,000 people were seriously injured. The loss is slightly less than ours."

Gong Adaihui reports.

"In this way, it is still possible to keep a guard, and one has stronger endurance than anyone else."

Lucked snorted coldly, as long as it continued to cause a large number of casualties to the Wu army, the Wu army's soldiers would panic and risk collapsing.

At that time, whoever can hold on longer will win.

Of course, this tactic can be said to be the most rubbish tactic. Luck Dehun also had no choice but to hope for this tactic.

However, this little illusion of his is destined to be shattered.

The Qing army's estimate of the death toll of the Wu army was relatively accurate, but there was a large deviation in the estimate of the number of serious injuries.

The Qing army defined the injuries that they were unable to treat as serious injuries, so they estimated that 2,000 people in the Wu army were seriously injured, and came to the conclusion that the Wu army lost nearly 3,000 people.

But in fact, among these two thousand people, at least 1,200 people can be saved. According to Wu Jun's statistics, these people were only slightly injured.

Therefore, the real loss of the two sides is one thousand sixteen to three thousand five, which is almost one to two.

If you really can't stand it first, it will definitely be the Qing army who will lose.

Of course, Li Shaobin didn't like this tactic of exhaustion, and he would suffer heavy losses.

The enemy is fighting to the point of collapse, which is obviously not cost-effective.

That night, in Wu Jun's staff, everyone once again formulated a general offensive plan.

"According to this plan, our number of shells may not be enough, and we need to wait for the arrival of the next batch of materials."

Dai Zhijun reminded.

Although their army fought fiercely, its reliance on logistics was much greater than that of other cold weapon troops.

If there are no shells and bullets, their combat effectiveness will be directly reduced by 30%, which is very terrifying.

Therefore, they are very concerned about military supplies, and they have to calculate the consumption at all times.

"Then wait for the next batch of supplies to arrive before attacking. During this time, we can also build as many siege equipment as possible to reduce casualties as much as possible during the siege."

What Li Shaobin considered was not only to lay down Jiujiang, but also to consider some other aspects.

For example, the Wu Jun's death pension and the aid for disabled soldiers are much higher than those of other forces. If there are too many dead and disabled soldiers, it will be a big burden on their finances.

This is also an important factor for Wu Jun soldiers to work hard, relying on a good welfare system to attract soldiers to work hard.

Although Wu Changqing never told Li Shaobin to pay attention to the loss rate of soldiers, but he wanted to satisfy Wu Changqing, so he naturally took the initiative to share his worries for Wu Changqing.

If you want to gain Wu Changqing's trust and reuse, you must take the initiative to solve Wu Changqing's troubles instead of passively accepting various orders.