102, defend the city
In the evening, when Han Oak ate freshly roasted venison, and drank two large bowls of pheasant stewed grass mushroom soup with satisfaction, he also had a rare smile on Zhu Gaoxu, which made King Han feel that this approach was really correct, and he was wondering whether to take this little girl out often in the future, after all, she was still young, and it was when she was lively and active, she was always circled like this, no wonder she was unhappy.
Just as he was thinking about beauty, he heard a rapid trumpet sound from the corner tower of the city gate, and he jumped up from his chair: "Not good! Enemy attack! He quickly grabbed the saber from his desk, strode out of the house, and shouted, "Anping! What's going on! ”
Anping was the leader of his guards, and hurriedly jumped off the roof and said, "Master, it seems that there is an alarm from the city gate."
As he was talking, he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves coming from afar, accompanied by a hoarse man shouting: "Assemble quickly!" The Mongols are attacking! The Mongols are attacking! ”
Han Oak lifted the door curtain, came to the courtyard, stood on tiptoe and looked to the north, this Aru Taibu has been torn apart, where is there still the power of climate on the grassland? At this time, the Ming army has almost regarded the grassland as its own backyard, how could there be another Mongol army that can attack the city? Looking at it like this, I'm afraid the scale is not small.
The Ming army was a little careless for a while, just because Arutai was not a climate, so the original 30,000 troops stationed were transferred to Datong 10,000, there were only 10,000 guards and 10,000 garrisons of Zhu Gaochu, if the Mongols came to attack, it would be troublesome.
At this moment, there was already a deafening shouting of killing from the city wall, accompanied by the neighing of people and horses, and the rumbling of cannons!
Han Oak listened quietly, this is by no means the artillery of the Ming Dynasty! Her heart sank, where did the Mongols get the cannons?
She thought about it, turned back to the house and changed into a strong outfit, put the streamer in hand, and beckoned to the guards at the gate of the small courtyard: "Go, take me to the city wall to have a look." ”
The guard was embarrassed and said, "Girl, the Mongols are attacking the city there, it's too dangerous, you better stay here."
Before he finished speaking, he was kicked on the heel by Han Oak: "Less nonsense!" Hurry up! “
The guard rolled up and got up, didn't care about patting the dust on his body, didn't dare to disobey, this was a role that even the prince dared to do, and he couldn't afford to offend. I had to honestly take the cold oak to the north city.
All the way, with the waist card of the Han King's guards, Han Oak and the two climbed the city wall unimpeded. Han Oak leaned over the wallpile and looked down, gasping as he landed. How many people are there! The dense black pressure is all human heads, and they are carrying the ladder to the city wall like ants all the way.
In the bright lights, Han Li saw King Han with a sinking face like water and Mr. Yan standing beside him, who also looked like water. At this time, the Han King and the others also discovered the Han oak that appeared at the head of the city.
Zhu Gaoxu's black face darkened even more, and he glared and shouted, "What are you doing here?!" Go back! “
Han Quercus also raised his eyes and shouted, "What am I doing?" Don't forget, I'm your advisor! She pointed at Mr. Yan: "I do the same job as him!" Why can't you come up?! “
Mr. Yan hurriedly stopped the two people who were fighting: "Okay, okay, this is not the time to worry about this." Lord Wang, Miss Li is resourceful, it is good to have her here to come up with ideas. “
But in his heart, he was scolding: Do the same work as me? Bullshit! What do you do? Let the prince bring you tea and pour water! What do you eat and what do you use for what? Am I like you?
But then again, this is really not the time to worry about this, Mr. Yan calmed down, and said to the King of Han: "Lord, I looked at the army under this city like the Yarkand people in the extreme west, and I didn't expect that Arutai actually borrowed soldiers from the Yarkand people. Looking at this scale, I am afraid that the Yarkand people have actually set out with their nests. ”
The oak put his hand on the pergola, and looked at it, because the night had fallen, and the shadows were dark and unclear. As soon as she raised her hand, she took off the clairvoyant mirror from King Han's neck and looked at it carefully.
As expected, behind the black-pressed infantry, there were a few black and heavy iron guys!
That's artillery!
Although it is the most primitive artillery, it is still an artillery after all! How can the rammed walls of the loess of this city withstand the baptism of artillery?
She bit her lip and quickly pondered her thoughts. Looking at the fact that the Mongols did not seem to intend to fire with artillery at the beginning, it means that the Mongols are not too familiar with these artillery, or that the stability of these cannons is not strong? Han Oak knew that the original artillery was very easy to explode due to the fact that the molten iron used to cast the breech contained too many impurities. There are often cases where artillery shells do not go out and kill many of their own family members.
This is probably why the Mongols did not want to use these iron lumps immediately.
But even so, these iron guys are the biggest threat and must be destroyed.
Han Oak handed the clairvoyant mirror to the king of Han, motioned him to look at the cannons hidden in the shadows, and said to him, "Those cannons must be destroyed in a way, otherwise a cannonball will fall and the city will be destroyed."
Zhu Gaoxu was startled, and hurriedly pointed the clairvoyant mirror in the direction pointed by Han Quercus, and glanced carefully. After a long time, he frowned and put down the clairvoyant mirror, and said: "But now that the enemy is outnumbered, our army is already laborious to defend the city, how can we have the spare strength to destroy those artillery?"
Han Oak saw that the enemy army who first put the ladder on the city wall had climbed up in a row, and the Ming army defending the city was so calm that they only shrank behind the battlements, and waited for the enemy to climb high enough before they shouted, and the left and right teams each stretched out an iron rake, and pushed the ladder outward, and the people who carried the ladder on it were pushed down. The enemy soldier who had climbed the highest had fallen from a ladder several feet high, and it was evident that he was not alive. However, the Ming army knocked down one cloud ladder after another, and could not withstand the large number of enemy soldiers, but there were still more cloud ladders on the city wall, and a series of enemy troops desperately climbed up.
Later, the Ming army simply stopped pushing, and after knocking down the enemy army, they would get up and straighten the ladder and continue to climb. The Ming army waited until the enemy was about to climb to the city wall, poured a pot full of hot oil, and burned it one by one, and the hot enemy soldiers cried wolf.
Han Oak frowned when he saw it, how wasteful is it to pour hot oil on such a pot? I'm afraid that the city will soon run out of gas!
She grabbed Mr. Yan: "Prepare more torches!" After pouring oil, he lit a torch and threw it down! ”
Mr. Yan slapped his forehead: "Why didn't I think of it!" Hurry! Ignite the torch! ”