Chapter 478 of the main text volume Biological and Chemical Weapons

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Zhu Yuanzhang's battle to defend the city was not easy, after all, the 80,000 troops led by Tuhuan Timur were composed of the Su Guards, the Mongolian Army and the Tanma Red Army in the Mongolian army, and some of the cowardly Xue who served as Tuhuan Timur's personal guards, these soldiers were the elite of the elite of the Mongolian army, and their combat effectiveness was not comparable to those ordinary Mongolian troops.

At the beginning of the war, Tuhuan Timur's army did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army composed of peasants was equipped with firearms, as well as a large number of trebuchets and crossbows.

There were not many sharp weapons in the Tuhuan Timur army that could fight against Zhu Yuanzhang's defenders, so he immediately adjusted his strategy, and concentrated the weapons that were conducive to the siege of the city in one place, and concentrated his firepower to bombard a point, and under the strong attack, he even blasted a gap in the strong wall of Haozhou City, and the two sides launched a fierce tug-of-war on this gap.

When Tang Dou crossed back, the two sides were fighting fiercely on the gap, the Mongol soldiers were outnumbered, and the soldiers were extremely brave, and they had already controlled the gap, and they were pouring into the city from the gap.

Tang Dou didn't see Zhu Yuanzhang and the others when he came back, so he hurriedly grabbed a soldier and asked, and the soldier pointed in a direction in a panic: "The city is broken, Wu Guocheng and people are there to block the enemy army." ”

Tang Dou couldn't help but run in the direction of the gap, and saw Zhu Yuanzhang wielding a big knife to slash and kill the Yuan troops who climbed up the slope of the gap, and he had already turned into a bloody man.

Tang Dou rushed closer, saw the shape clearly, and without hesitation, he pulled down the grenade on his chest and threw it into the gap.

'Boom', 'boom', two violent explosions sounded, and the ant-like Yuan army in the gap instantly fell a large piece.

Not only the Yuan army was stunned, but even the rebels who were resisting were also stunned, how could they have ever seen a weapon with such terrifying lethality.

After Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, he immediately ordered his soldiers to throw boulders into the Yuan army to fill the gap.

At this time, Xu Da also rushed over with the Shenji battalion to reinforce, and a volley of firearms fired over, and the Yuan army, which was unable to advance or retreat in the gap, fell again.

Seeing Xu Da rushing over, Tang Dou was overjoyed, and immediately thought of a simple weapon, and he hurriedly grabbed Xu Da: "Xu Da, how much gunpowder do you have now." ”

Xu Da said without hesitation: "Yes, Wang Baobao brought two truckloads of gunpowder, which are more than a dozen barrels. ”

"Immediately call someone to bring a bucket up, and find some rags and iron sand ropes."

These things are ready-made, and in the blink of an eye, Xu Da has already ordered the soldiers to send these things to Tang Dou's eyes.

Bundle explosives bag, although Tang Dou has never seen an explosive bag, but he also knows that the principle of this thing is extremely simple, but when Tang Dou trapped the explosive bag, he added an extra layer of bandaging cloth to the outside of the explosives bag, and he added a lot of iron sand gravel to this layer.

Lighting the fuse, Tang Dou threw the freshly bundled explosive package directly into the Yuan army group in the gap.

With a loud bang, the mountains shook loudly, and under the powerful explosion shock wave of the explosive pack, the flesh and blood of the Yuan army in the gap splashed, and a large piece of Qi Brush fell, and the iron sand contained in the explosive bag exerted a huge power, and under the indiscriminate attack, the power of the explosive package was amplified more than ten times.

An explosive bag was dropped, and the Yuan army in the gap collapsed at once.

The power of the explosive bag was far beyond their psychological tolerance, and this explosive bag was even more palpitating than the two grenades that Tang Dou threw down just now.

After throwing an explosive package, even Tang Dou himself was a little dumbfounded, this should be a fucking weapon of mass destruction, right?

Under the shock of the explosive pack, the Yuan army, which was attacking the gap, finally collapsed, just like their tide, and immediately retreated like a tide.

Liu Bowen took the opportunity to order the soldiers to quickly fill the gap, but Zhu Yuanzhang ran to Tang Dou's side with a big grin, and slapped his ass wildly.

Tang Dou woke up from his stunned, grinned, and explained to himself, this is a war, either you die or I die.

After seeing the power of the explosive pack, Xu Da jumped up and ordered his soldiers to hurry up and tie up the explosive pack.

Tang Dou adjusted his mentality and said to Xu Da: "Xu Da, like this situation just now, if the layer of cloth on the outer layer of the explosive package is wrapped with something like chili flour and pepper, it can also make the enemy lose its combat effectiveness, and the scope of the explosion may be greater." ”

"That's right," Xu Da exclaimed excitedly, and immediately ordered the soldiers to go to the city to collect things like chili flour and pepper.

Tang Dou smiled bitterly, if this pepper flour explosive package goes down in history, maybe this explosive package will become the world's first biochemical weapon, right?

The siege battle continued, and Xu Da had already ordered his subordinates to bundle up countless explosive bags, and when he saw that there were many Yuan soldiers besieging the city under the city, he threw one wherever he went.

The power of the explosive package is huge, especially those damaged pepper flour explosive bags, once they explode, the Yuan army within a radius of more than a dozen battles will immediately lose their combat effectiveness and become a live target for bows and arrows in the hands of the soldiers defending the city.

Flesh and blood became the theme of siege warfare at this moment, and in this era of overlapping cold and hot weapons, gunpowder became the protagonist of the dominant battlefield form.

After repelling three waves of attacks launched by Tuhuan Timur, Tuhuan Timur finally realized that there was little hope of taking the city by storming it like this, and even if he could conquer Haozhou City, he was afraid that he would not be able to bear the casualties he would suffer.

It seemed that the goal of a quick battle could not be achieved, so Tuhuan Timur decisively ordered the army to suspend the siege and immediately sent people to the nearby states and counties to collect siege equipment.

Boyan, the right minister who went out with the army, offered a strategy and used the new annexed army stationed in Chuzhou to come to Haozhou to recruit Zhu Yuanzhang.

The new annex army was formed by the surrender army of the Southern Song Dynasty after the Mongols occupied the Southern Song Dynasty.

The number of new annexed troops is huge, and it is not allowed to kill or release, and it is afraid that the people will mutiny, and if they are released, they are afraid that they will wait for an opportunity to rebel, so Tuhuan Timur has been trying to weaken the new annexed army, and in addition to suppressing military supplies, the new annexed army is not allowed to expand its troops.

Boyan's plan was in the middle of Mur'er's arms, and he immediately ordered an order to recruit the new annexed army from Chuzhou to come to Haozhou.

Using Han people to fight Han people, no matter who wins or loses, it will be beneficial and harmless for Tuhuan Timur.

Tuhuan Timur dispatched troops to redeploy, and Tang Dou summoned Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen and others to reformulate their strategies.

The battle to defend the city was too fierce, and it hurt Tuhuan Timur, and it was no longer possible for Tuhuan Timur to attack the city without stopping with the wheel warfare method as originally expected, and the original strategy also needed to be adjusted accordingly.

This is war, a war that changes all the time.

No one can predict what the final outcome of a war will be until it is over, and perhaps, a small thing can change the whole pattern of the world.

A man threw a nail on the road, the nail pierced a war horse, the horse fell and injured a general, the general lost a battle, a battle affected a war, and a war decided the fate of a nation...... (To be continued.) )