Ma Cheng got up very early today and was preparing to go to the front to watch the Suzhou siege. Ma Cheng was a third-rate college student in his later generations. Although he had fought several battles in this era and was also awarded the title of the God of War, Ma Cheng knew his level and was really not very good.

Although Ma Cheng was the commander-in-chief in Nanjing, the basic battlefield commander was Ma Bao and Zhang Guozhu fighting. In the final decisive battle of Longtan, Ma Cheng only led the army to attack the Longtan camp with the retreat of the Qing army. This was like cooking. The ingredients were good. No matter what kind of cook, they could make good dishes, but if they could use ordinary ingredients to make a table of good dishes, they would be able to find out the chef's skills.

Ma Cheng is such a chef with a low level, but the difference between Ma Cheng and other chefs is that he has the best ingredients of this era.

Ma Cheng used his characteristics of a time traveler to train an army from this era. Although it may not be as good as the British army in later generations in terms of weapons and equipment, it has reached or passed the British army in the Raven War in training. Such a powerful brigade, coupled with powerful firearms, would be a bit too much if it could not defeat the Qing army.

Therefore, the well-trained new army was the key to Ma Cheng's victory in the Battle of Nanjing, and Ma Cheng's personal ability did not play a big role. When the Battle of Nanjing started, Ma Cheng had been rushing forward with his personal soldiers. Although this courage had improved morale, it was of no use to the overall direction of the battle. Therefore, Qi Biaojia was not aimless at questioning Ma Cheng's military achievements at that time. In terms of personal command ability and battlefield adaptability, Ma Cheng might not be as safe as Qi Biaojia.

Ma Cheng also knew his shortcomings. In the battle of Lucheng half a month ago, according to Ma Cheng's strength, no matter how Fang Guoan exercised and made an illusion, Ma Cheng could completely defeat it with strength. After all, Fang Guoan's strategy was perfect and was of no use in the face of absolute strength. But Ma Cheng knew that his ability was average, so to be safe, after defeating Qi Biaojia, he would shrink his defense to avoid giving Fang Guoan a chance.

There were many war modes in ancient China, including field battles, encounter battles, ambush battles, water battles, etc., but the most difficult part of them is the siege battle. Because the attacking party needs a large number of siege weapons and a large amount of casualties to capture a city, no matter what military book it is mentioned, if it is not impossible, do not attack a city with complete defense facilities.

Ma Cheng also knew that his ability was not good, so he had to leave it to experts to attack Suzhou. Zhang Guozhu had served as a Chinese officer for Ma Shiying before, and was a military family and performed well in the defense of Nanjing. With these, Ma Cheng decided to let Zhang Guozhu serve as the commander of the battlefield.

Ma Cheng stood on a hill five miles away from Suzhou City. Seeing the rows of siege troops moving slowly, he praised Zhang Guozhu as a talented person. He managed the siege troops in an orderly manner, with all kinds of siege equipment in front and siege artillery behind. The main siege camps carrying heavy armor were all ready to go, and they were really orderly and without any confusion.

Ma Cheng said to Wang Xian beside him: "Mr. Wang, this Zhang Guozhu has good methods and commanded tens of thousands of people in an orderly manner!"

Wang Xian and Zhang Guozhu have a deep feud. He heard Ma Cheng praise Zhang Guozhu for being uncomfortable, so he bowed his head and didn't

Speaking. Ma Cheng knew that Wang Xian’s Xiaojiu and sighed and said, “Mr. Wang, don’t take the matter to heart. I would like to reward you more beauties and start a family and start a career as soon as possible!”

After Ma Cheng said that, he knew that he had said it in vain when he saw Wang Xian's appearance. There was no way Ma Cheng could only sigh and ignore the mess between them.

At this time, the siege troops had already arrived at the moat outside Suzhou City. The river was more than 20 meters wide, but this was not a problem, because the siege troops had special bridge-building equipment.

Of course, this kind of equipment is not as exquisite as the bridge-building vehicles in later generations, but its basic functions are still similar. The military men followed the army and took off the wooden boards on the car with rainy bows and arrows, and let the next few people support the racks and place them on both sides of the moat, and then lay wooden boards on them. A simple pontoon bridge is completed. However, this kind of pontoon bridge can only be passed by people, and those heavy siege equipment still need to fill the river and pave the road before they can pass.

The next step of the floating bridge was to attack the city. After seeing it, Zhang Guozhu, not far from the back team, saw it, and said to his younger brother Zhang Guoyi beside him: "Brother, you bring the One Thousand Death Camp forward. You must get the first-time merit!"

Zhang Guoyi is also a ruthless person. He will never be ruthless in the battle of defense in Nanjing. Naturally, he knows that the most important contribution in the army is to first arrive. Now he nodded when he heard his brother say this and said, "Please don't worry, brother, I will definitely not embarrass my brother!"

There were three major contributions in the ancient Chinese army. According to the ranking, first climbing, grabbing the flag, and killing generals. The most important of these three contributions is first climbing. This first climbing is not the elite troops under Yuan Shao's general Yi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Although first climbing is also an elite, first climbing is a kind of military merit, not the name code of the army.

Siege battles have always been the battle that tests the strength and morale of the army, so climbing first can greatly boost the morale of the army. When you stand under the city and look at the city wall that is more than ten meters high, someone suddenly climbs onto the city wall. Naturally, all the siege troops have a great boost in morale and may attack the city wall in one go.

So first climbing has been a meritorious in the army since ancient times. Liu Bang's brother-in-law Fan Kuai was just a butcher who killed dogs, but why was it ranked fifth among the meritorious officials? This is not something that Liu Bang's brother-in-law could handle. The fact is that Fan Kuai's military achievements are outstanding. According to the biography of Fan Kuai, Fan Kuai killed 176 levels and captured 288 people. Apart from the seventh army, 5th army, 6th county, 5th county, 1st county, 1st prime minister, 12 generals, 2,000 stones have fallen to 300 stones and 11st.

The lower city is to climb first. Fan Kuai has made the contribution of climbing first five times in his life. Naturally, after the founding of the country, he was named the fifth most meritorious official and was named Wuyang Marquis with a fief of 5,000 households.

Zhang Guozhu knew that Ma Cheng would definitely be a good match in the future. After the founding of the country, he would definitely be fine as a general, but his younger brother Zhang Guoyi may not be sure. Moreover, Zhang Guoyi also had a marriage with Ma Cheng's confidant Wang Xian. If he did not have military merits, it would be difficult for Zhang Guoyi to avoid Wang Xian's open sword and secret arrows, so this time he let his younger brother go into battle and strive to win this first to achieve success.

Zhang Guozhu's actions were naturally reported to Ma Cheng by someone who was interested. When Ma Cheng heard Zhang Guozhu send his younger brothers up, he sighed and said, "The Zhang brothers are so brave. Since this is the case, I can't stay behind. Go to the front line!"

Ma Cheng brought two thousand personal soldiers to a mile away from the city wall

At the command post, Zhang Guozhu saw Ma Cheng coming, and quickly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "Master, there are many wandering arrows in front of the army. Please pay attention to safety!"

"Haha, I am a war formation in Nanjing. I have almost finished the battle. There are not a hundred elite soldiers of the Northern Territory who died under my command. I can be scared by the small Suzhou City there! But I heard that Zhang Guozhu, you sent your own brother to the death camp, is it true?"

When Zhang Guozhu heard Ma Cheng's question, he quickly replied: "When he returned to the general, the army naturally valued military merits. Zhang Guoyi was promoted from a lieutenant general to a deputy general, and in order not to make outsiders think that Zhang Guoyi was promoted by his own personal advancement, the last general transferred Zhang Guoyi to the death camp!"

The deputy general is not a very important official position. The Zhang family and the Ma family have been intimate for generations. Zhang Guozhu was Ma Shiying's central officer back then, so giving his younger brother a deputy general was nothing. After hearing Zhang Guozhu say, Ma Cheng sighed and helped him up, and then said: "Uncle Zhang's family is really hard work. When I, Ma Cheng, I will never forget Uncle Zhang's great achievements!"

Zhang Guozhu was waiting for Ma Cheng's words, but he didn't even dare to say it.

At this time, the One Thousand Death Camp had rushed under the city wall, and the big and small Folang machine on Ma Cheng's side had also pushed down the moat and began to cover and shoot for the siege of the Death Camp.

These large and small Bolang aircraft were captured by the Qing army, with a total of more than 2,000 gates, all of which are of any material and quality, and their power varies from more than 300 meters to twenty meters. Although these Bolang aircraft are not as good as Ma Cheng's standard artillery, they are better because they are large in number and are not long-range, and they are still competent in attacking short-range city walls.

As the Flang machine opened fire, the soldiers on the city wall were suppressed and could not raise their heads, and the threat to the death camp under the city was gradually weakening.

Zhang Guoyi stayed at the base of the city wall, and there were fewer sleepers and stones thrown from the city, so he quickly ordered the soldiers to set up the ladder. After the ladder was set up, Zhang Guoyi was the first to climb the ladder.

The Suzhou city wall was eighteen meters high. Zhang Guoyi took half a minute to climb up the city and flipped over the battlement. He saw several soldiers hiding at the battlement, avoiding artillery fire outside the city. A soldier saw someone coming from outside the city and was so scared that he was about to scream. Zhang Guoyi stabbed him into the abdomen and ended his life.

Other soldiers of Lu Wang appeared in Zhang Guoyi's city and quickly picked up their swords to fight, but followed Zhang Guoyi and seven or eight soldiers from the Death Camp came, and immediately fought with these Lu Wang soldiers.

The close connection reflects the advantages of Ma Cheng's new army. Ordinary soldiers of the new army have three dry meals a day and can eat meat every day. With the hard training, their physical fitness is naturally much stronger than the guards in the Lu Wang army. In addition to the death camp, everyone was wearing heavy armor, and Zhang Guoyi even wore three layers of armor. In addition to the slat armor outside, there was also a chain mail at the bottom and a layer of leather armor in the middle.

Under this kind of equipment, every soldier in the suicide camp is like canned food. Although his movement ability is somewhat insufficient, his safety can definitely be guaranteed.
Chapter completed!