Chapter 64: The Battle of Zhaozhou

Zhaozhou is a small old city.

It's so small that it can only hold 5,000 soldiers, and no more.

This is also why Zhaozhou is such an important place, as if only 5,000 soldiers are stationed.

At this moment, Zhu Yi stood on top of the city, watching the green wheat fields outside being trampled on by countless people.

There is always not much food, so Zhu Yi opened up hundreds of hectares of land around the vicinity of Zhaozhou City, although it can only be harvested once a year, but it is better than nothing.

It's just a piece of his hard work, and now it has been destroyed by the whole city of Watts.

A large number of siege engines were pushed out.

There is never a shortage of wood in the Northeast.

Even among the siege equipment, Zhu Yi also saw a lot of firearms, although there were not many of them.

This is the only stock that Shingles has.

This is still the trophy of the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, although Zhang Zong wanted to develop firearms in the tile spur, but the tile spur continued to be in civil strife, and even the tribute was cut off.

Under the difficulties, Zhang Zongzhou had nothing to do. After all, from the perspective of later generations, firearms in this era are quite simple, but in this era, a large number of firearms are equipped with national support.

And the national strength of the tile spur is too weak compared to the Ming Dynasty.

The performance is particularly obvious in the manufacture of firearms and the arming of a large number of firearms.

Therefore, the firearms that the tile spurs can use are nothing more than some trophies.

Zhang Zongzhou could only use more siege equipment to offset the firepower of the Ming army.

And as the first to ascend, it was not the Tile Thorn army, but the nearby Jurchen tribe.

These Jurchen tribes wanted to flee in the face of the Tile Thorn army, but they would not let them go first.

In particular, he also discovered that his prestige in the Jurchen tribes was almost collapsed. Even he realized that such a collapse could well be irreparable. His attitude towards the Jurchen tribe has also taken a 180-degree turn.

There was Huairou before, but now it is regarded as a disposable item. 、

Now that the control of the Northeast is about to be lost, he would rather the entire Songhua River basin become a white land and a no-man's land, rather than leave these people to the Ming Dynasty.

I can't get it first, and I don't want the Ming army to get it.

Therefore, it is only natural to expel them and attack the city.

Even Zhu Yi's cheap brother-in-law is among them.

A long horn sounded like a wolf's howl.

The Tile Spurs prepared to attack on three sides. The ministries are ready.

It is not that there is a lack of one of the three in the tile spur area, but that the south of Zhaozhou is the Songhua River. Even during the Yongle period, Zhaozhou was one of the northeastern water and land stations of the Ming Dynasty.

The south of Zhaozhou could not spread the army at all.

Zhu Yi walked on the city wall, looked at the soldiers, and didn't say anything, just walked past them indifferently, which was enough for the bottom

The soldiers perked up.

Zhang Fu's evaluation of Zhu Yi is appropriate.

Zhu Yi is not as good as his father in terms of military talent, after all, although Zhu Yong is not guaranteed in his later years, after all, he really killed from the bloody wind when he was young.

has seen big scenes, big fights, and has also presided over large military operations, although the battle of Maoerzhuang was defeated, but Zhu Yong's military talent cannot be denied because of a failure.

Zhu Yi is much inferior to it.

Although the Chengguo Gong family has declined, the hundred-legged insect is not stiff, even if the Chengguo Gong family does not have the title of Duke of Guo, compared with ordinary soldiers, it is still the difference between heaven and earth.

Zhu Yi has a lot of resources that ordinary soldiers can't think of.

Silver or something is still relatively low-grade. Not to mention anything else, Zhu Yi promoted one or two low-level officers in one sentence. Just like the various academies established by Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Yi can send people in with a letter of recommendation.

Although this kind of aftermath will only become less and less.

But within a few years, it will not be lost.

Therefore, Zhu Yi used all kinds of means to say to the soldiers, it can be said that he can get the death force of the soldiers, which is also one of the bargaining chips for Zhu Yi to dare to stay in Zhaozhou.

Zhu Yi may not be outstanding in her own right, but she is absolutely qualified.

Therefore, he just walked around the city wall, and every soldier who saw him couldn't help but straighten his chest.

Finally, Zhu Yi stood on the north city gate.

There are only two gates in the north and south of the whole Zhaozhou City.

The south gate directly faces the Songhua River, and the north gate is naturally the focus of the attack of the tile spurs.

Zhu Yi glanced at it. But I saw that the north didn't know how many flags were displayed, and countless shield carts, mixed in the crowd, slowly came in the direction of the city gate.

Outside the city of Zhaozhou, there is only a shallow moat, and there is no moat.

If the Tile Thorn army had been two or three months late, it was estimated that this trench would have become a moat.

Since Zhu Yi stayed in Zhaozhou, he has not been idle.

The buildings in the city had to be maintained, repaired, and even rebuilt, which was the top priority he had to do last year, for no other reason than how to keep the soldiers through a harsh winter if the houses were not built well.

Then there is the repair of the city wall, which is how many years it has been.

Many of the city walls seem to be okay, but the inside has long been empty, it can't withstand the bombardment, whether it is a cannon or a return cannon, some city walls are more obvious, there are palm-sized cracks, I can't wait for the wind to blow down.

This should not be a cannon bombardment, I am afraid that the artillery will not be able to withstand the cannon firing on it.

After the New Year, spring ploughing is required. Wait a minute.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yi has been stationed in Zhaozhou for nearly ten months.

But after digging out the long winter in the Northeast, the time to really start construction is only five or six months, so he has too many things to complete.

This great war is coming

Finish.

Zhu Yi slapped the female wall hard. His eyes were staring downward.

And a few miles north of the place where Zhu Yi was, he also rode on his horse first, looking at this abrupt high ground standing on the northeast plain.

I also had an illusion in a trance in my heart. It seems that this is not on the prairie, but somewhere on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

also suppressed his cranky thoughts first, and waved his hand lightly. Suddenly, all the horns sounded together, and for a while, there was only one voice left in the entire grassland.

It's the sound of a trumpet.

The city of Zhaozhou showed no weakness, and all the big drums sounded at the same time. The rumbling drums became more and more urgent, and even at last the beat could not be heard.

The two sides are like the roar of two beasts. It was a temptation before they wrestled.

"Kill." Whether the Jurchen tribes were willing or forced to be helpless, on the battlefield, they had no choice at all, they were already close to the artillery range on the city wall.

One by one, they pushed the siege equipment and approached the city walls.

If they want to attack Haixi City, such an offensive will not have any impact on Haixi City, first, the specifications of Haixi City are large enough. It is an authentic capital city, but Zhaozhou is different, far worse than the general county seat of Daming.

Hercy also had enough artillery. But there are not too many cannons in Zhaozhou City.

It's not that the rear doesn't want to send artillery, but the cannon is too heavy, and if the thousand-pound cannon wants to be transported from the rear to Zhaozhou, it may not be able to stop for a month or two.

And when the weather was suitable, the Ming army had not heard of the supply of Zhaozhou.

But artillery is important, but even more important than artillery is food.

Without food, the soldiers have become soft-footed shrimp. Therefore, heavy artillery was transported after pressing, and most of the firearms in Zhaozhou City were small artillery.

The power is not enough to destroy the ladder, shield cart, goose cart, gimbal, battering ram and other siege equipment in one shot.

Of course, not without heavy artillery. It's just not enough to cover the entire battlefield.

But among these firearms of the Ming army, there was not enough to make the tile spurs fearful.

After Zhu Yiwa's army entered the firing range, an order was given, and only a few cannons fired first. The roar of the cannon was like a thunderbolt on the horizon, and it suddenly smashed into the crowd of the attacking city, smashing a bloody alley.

Dozens of Jurchen warriors were so miserable that not even a single corpse remained.

However, they quickly calmed down.

Because the rate of fire of these cannons is too slow. The threat to the siege soldiers is limited. But these shellings also made them aware of the danger on the battlefield and began to charge at a brisk pace.

Countless firearms, bows and crossbows, swarms of bees, and all kinds of artillery on the head of the city were waiting for Zhu Yi's order.

Zhu Yi stood on top of the city tower, stepping on the female wall with one foot, as if he didn't care that there were countless people shooting arrows at him, stretched out a hand, estimated the distance in the rain of arrows, and suddenly said, "Release." ”