Chapter 614: Aerial Artillery

"Come here, ask a team of scouts to go to Yancheng and ask His Highness to allocate a batch of shovels, and at the same time, tell His Highness the intelligence they have found. Reading" Chang Wei said.

After just a little thought, he thought of a way to deal with it.

After a while, a team of cavalry rode northward, and they arrived in Yancheng in more than two days.

"The Japanese are quite capable." The scout told Zhao Xu about the situation in Pingyuan City in detail, and Zhao Xu snorted coldly.

From this situation, it seems that the Japanese have learned something from the Westerners.

But for him, even so, the Japanese are just showing off their skills in front of him.

The experience and knowledge he has are not comparable to the Japanese and Westerners in this world.

Like the current situation in Pingyuan City, he has already listed examples of tactics to the generals in the military academy.

In some ancient wars, in order to suppress the soldiers on the enemy's walls, the attacking party would build earth platforms.

This kind of earth platform is a sloped earth pile, which is as high as the opponent's city wall.

In this way, archers can stand on the earth platform and shoot arrows at the opponent's city wall to suppress the opponent's firepower.

After all, attacking from the bottom up is very disadvantageous.

Chang Wei asked him to transfer the shovel, probably because he wanted to use this method.

However, he just replaced the archers with field artillery.

As long as this earth platform is built, the artillery can shoot at the Qi artillery on the plain city wall through the earth platform, thereby destroying their artillery.

"Feng'er, go and call the Minister of Works Zou Rong." Zhao Xu said when he thought of something.

Chang Wei's method is certainly right, but he doesn't understand architecture.

The artillery is heavy, and if the earth platform is not compacted, several bombardments can cause the earth platform to collapse.

But if the earth platform more than ten meters high is compacted, it will take several months, greatly prolonging the time of the siege, which is not good for the war.

He just got the news from Xu Ke that Han Zheng sent envoys to Xie Family, Wu State, and Nanliang respectively.

This is a dangerous signal.

After the Jinling Rebellion, the powerful families basically cut off contact with each other, and now Qi State is trying to restore this contact.

Even if he slapped his butt, he could figure out what Han Zheng wanted to do.

If the powerful families united again under the mediation of Qi State, it would bring him a lot of trouble.

Worse, if they formed a coalition to attack Yanzhou, the situation would be even worse.

At this time, it was particularly important to occupy three cities and use Jinhe as the boundary to prevent the war from spreading to Yanzhou.

Therefore, he had to take these three cities as soon as possible while trying to avoid unnecessary sacrifices of soldiers.

In the time of one stick of incense, Zou Rong arrived at the palace.

Since he removed the title of Gongcao Gongcao and replaced it with the Minister of Works, Zou Rong's mood has been in an excited state.

Even when he arrived in the study, he still had a faint smile on his face.

He bowed to Zhao Xu and said, "Minister of Works Zou Rong pays respect to Your Highness."

Zhao Xu nodded slightly. After the completion of the two major projects of the bastion and the outer wall of Yanguan Pass, Zou Rong has been in charge of the major infrastructure of Yanzhou, supervising the construction of roads, bridges and other facilities. His life is much easier than before.

"This king has an important task for you. You should immediately select a group of capable officials to go to Pingyuan City to help build the concrete aerial artillery platform."

As he spoke, he drew a few strokes on the drawing and showed it to Zou Rong.

When he heard the three words "Pingyuan City", Zou Rong's expression immediately became serious.

He naturally knew that Pingyuan City was at war.

So he carefully looked at the building on the drawing and nodded, "This thing is easy, Your Highness, just leave it to me."

Zhao Xu absolutely believed that Zou Rong was not bragging. After all, compared with the outer wall of the bastion and Yanguan Pass, this building was simply too simple.

In fact, the building he gave Zou Rong was a modern two-story building.

The only structure was a few pillars and a flat floor.

The pillars supported the plane, and the plane was used to place artillery.

Then extend a slope from the small building to the ground to pull up the artillery.

As for the materials for this building, he planned to use a small amount of steel bars, and then prepare to let Zong Zou Rong use some strong bamboo instead.

After all, this is not a long-term building, and it can be abandoned after one use.

After explaining this matter, he gave a few more instructions to Zou Rong, and asked Zou Rong to organize craftsmen to go to Pingyuan City as soon as possible.

Zou Rong returned to the government office and immediately asked officials to summon skilled craftsmen who participated in the construction of the bastion and the outer wall of Yanguan.

Let them prepare tools and materials immediately.

Three days later, a team of 3,000 craftsmen marched towards Pingyuan City.

Because they were walking, they walked for nearly four days before arriving in Pingyuan City.

When he saw Chang Wei, Zou Rong told him Zhao Xu's idea.

"Your Highness is still thoughtful." Chang Wei sighed.

Then he felt frustrated, thinking that he might never be able to surpass the King of Yan in his life.

The Yanzhou Army was different when it was handed over to the King of Yan and when it was handed over to him.

Then, he looked happy again and returned to reality.

This time, with the help of the Ministry of Works, he could build aerial artillery platforms one by one.

So, he took Zou Rong from the east of Pingyuan City to the west of Pingyuan City, pointed out eight locations, and asked Zou Rong to build aerial artillery platforms.

After agreeing with Chang Wei, Zou Rong convened public officials to discuss and assign tasks to them.

Soon, some officials began to lead craftsmen to dig the foundation.

Other craftsmen cut down trees and made them into wooden boards one by one.

After the foundation is dug, they will put these wooden boards together into a wooden trough and pour concrete into it.

In this way, the aerial artillery platform will have a solid foundation, and the rest only needs to be piled on top.

Looking at the busy scene in front of him, Chang Wei grinned.

Glancing at Ping Cheng, a sharp light flashed in his eyes.

According to Zou Rong, concrete can solidify in seven days, so it only takes more than half a month to build a two-story aerial artillery platform.

At that time, he will let Han Qi know what artillery is.

But before that, he doesn't want to be idle.

Although it is impossible to attack in a big way immediately, it can always cause them some trouble and let the soldiers of Qi hide

Thinking of this, I am scared.

He said to Qin Shan: "Organize a skirmish attack."

"Yes, General." Qin Shan replied yes.

Flintlock rifles are not accurate, but rifles are.

So after equipping rifles, in addition to normal formations, they also began to train skirmish lines.

In this way, during the line confrontation, the paratroopers can play the role of harassing the opponent's line, and even sneak attack the opponent's artillery position, causing an unexpected blow to the enemy.

Turning to the deputy general beside him, he relayed Chang Wei's order.

Soon, a line of 300 soldiers moved towards Pingyuan City.