Chapter 4: The Destruction of the Barbarians

Faced with a city that cannot be attacked for a long time, most people will choose to besiege.

But this Nine Silk City, this city that is not a city is impossible to besiege, there is no shortage of food, they have arable land, there is no shortage of water, there are not only streams on it, but also several large ponds.

It is enough for tens of thousands of horses to drink, and even irrigated.

And the Ming army has fewer men and horses, and it cannot be besieged, and if there is more food, it will become a problem.

Although the main force of Du Zhangman retreated to the Nine Silk City, it does not mean that all the Du Zhangman are in the Nine Silk City. The food and grass needed for the army needed to pass through hundreds of miles of winding mountain roads, and no one was more familiar with this mountain road than Du Zhangman.

Du Zhangman will definitely harass the grain road.

Although if you only calculate the straight-line distance, the closest county to Xuzhou Capital here is only a hundred miles, and even Lingxiao City is only more than twenty miles away from the nearest county seat, but if you take the mountain road, you have to walk hundreds of miles.

Such a city is more than terrible.

In the battle of Chenghua in history, Emperor Chenghua had the determination to destroy the capital and the barbarians, but in the end he did not destroy them, although they suffered a heavy blow to the Duzhang barbarians, so that they could recover after a hundred years.

But this was not the original intention of the Ming army.

It was that the Ming army had no way to deal with Nine Silk City at that time.

Liu Fu leaned forward slightly, didn't know where to take out a bottle of wine, respectfully sent it to Liu Chang, and said, "Brother Liu, say it quickly." ”

These contents are invisible above the Di Bao.

Only those who have witnessed it can tell.

Although these details may appear in the textbooks of martial arts in a year or two.

This is already a task given by Zhu Qizhen to generals at all levels, no matter what kind of battle is fought, whether it is defeated or won, it must be written out in detail, in duplicate, one into the inner and one into martial arts.

Moreover, it must be written in great detail, and it is impossible to restore the situation on the battlefield as written by the literati, and even require the drawing of each other's formation changes.

Liu Chang said: "Uncle is also under the Nine Silk City, and the uncle decided to use a large amount of gunpowder to blow up a gap in the Nine Silk City. ”

"It's just that it's easy."

"Hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder were immediately known by the capitalists."

"Du Zhangman just decided that it was impossible for Nine Silk City to be blown up, but he didn't want the power of hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder, so the mountains simply shook, and the stones collapsed several miles away."

"Whether it is in the Nine Silk City or in the camp of our army, I feel an obvious sense of shock."

"The result is a big hole in one of the cliffs of Nine Silk City, and there are several cracks that penetrate it, and it seems that the entire mountain wall can easily fall."

"Guess how much gunpowder does our army have at this time?"

When Tang Yin heard this, he immediately understood and said, "I know."

In vain, these hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder are definitely half of the gunpowder in the army. I wanted to blow it up again, but I didn't. ”

Liu Chang said: "Actually, where is there so much gunpowder in the army, do you really think that gunpowder doesn't cost money?" ”

The military gunpowder determined by Zhu Qizhen is also very fine, and the price per 100 catties is a few dollars of silver, which means that one or two catties of silver can only buy a few hundred catties of grain.

Speaking of which, this price is more expensive than grain.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder are equivalent to tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the effect of blowing up the mountain can also be seen, it can't be said that there is no effect, but if you really want to blow up a channel, it is estimated that it will come several times, or even a dozen times.

That's not a small amount.

Where did Wang Yue have so much money to throw into it.

Liu Chang said: "It's just that no one in the army knew about it at that time, and they all thought that it would be blown up like this, and they didn't know it even more." ”

"So Du Zhangman deliberately gave up the passage up the mountain."

"This passage up the mountain is not a smooth road. There are not many people who can go up at one time. And Du Zhangman has been prepared inside for a long time, waiting for our army to go up. ”

"The barbarians will rush up again and beat us down."

"They just want to put a fragrant bait and make us give up blowing up the mountain."

"But I don't want to fall for my uncle's trick."

"This time, the firecrackers have made a great achievement, five hundred firecrackers, first go up and rely on the cliff to shoot at Duzhangman, but as a result, so many people in Duzhangman can't eat less than five hundred firecrackers."

"Bought time for the army to go up the mountain."

"Needless to say, the rest."

In fact, according to Wang Yue's meaning, he didn't want to use firearms, but wanted to give full play to the strength of firearms. After all, they are all in charge of the people in this circle of ravines.

Their long-range attack weapons are nothing more than javelins, bows and arrows.

It's far from being in front of firearms.

Even the barbarians can't play the Ming Dynasty in the bow and arrow, and their bows and arrows are only hunting bows in the eyes of the Ming military, and they can only be used for hunting.

With their tattered armament, it will take time to wipe out five hundred well-armed veterans.

It's just that they don't have time.

But even so, in this battle, Wang Yue fought very aggrieved.

The military use of geographical advantages is too important.

Wang Yue fought so aggrievedly, it was not that the strength of Du Zhangman exceeded that of the rest of the tile spurs, but that the mountain where they were located was really blessed.

The content that followed was introduced in the Ming Bao of the Imperial Court.

It is nothing more than changing the land and returning to the stream, and changing the local place names one by one. Then set up a new guard on top of the Nine Silk City, without him, because the terrain here is too unique.

If you don't control it, you will be controlled by bandits, and it will be a trouble to suppress bandits in the future.

This is not unfounded.

As a lower-level officer, Liu Chang didn't know much about many things.

For example, Du Zhangman can make such a big noise, of course, it is the strength of Du Zhangman itself, and there are a large number of Han thieves who defected. For example, one of them is named Fang San, the name is a pseudonym when you hear it, but he is the righteous son of the old barbarian king, and he is the most difficult of the various barbarian armies that fight with the official army.

What's more interesting is that the Duzhang barbarians all know that the Ming army judges whether this person is a barbarian or a Han according to whether they have chiseled teeth, but they don't want the Duzhang barbarians to stop chiseling their teeth, but instead chisel the captured and plundered Han people and let them act as vanguards.

Even after this battle, during the aftermath of the cleaning, traces of the White Lotus Sect were discovered.

In short, the inside story of this is not simple.

Moreover, judging from the overall trend of Jinyiwei, the activities of the White Lotus Sect have become more and more intensive since the orthodoxy. This has also become a point that Zhu Qizhen can't understand.

What Zhu Qizhen couldn't understand was not the White Lotus Sect's rebellion, but where did the White Lotus Sect have the strength to rebel?

Rebellion is not a trick.

It needs the support of manpower and material resources, and the White Lotus Sect will not really have magical powers, and it is impossible to eat and drink, whether it is the rebellion when the White Lotus Sect was just put down by allegiance, or the small chaos one after another before, or the Jinyi Guard in the dark, he has never stopped chasing and killing the White Lotus Sect.

Since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, Zhu Qizhen is not sure how much the living standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty have improved, but he is sure of one thing, that is, the cost of living has decreased.

The cost of living such as salt, iron and other necessary living is falling, and the people's livelihood is not good, but it is by no means bad.

But where did the White Lotus Sect get its strength, rebelling again and again, where did he have so much financial and human resources to replenish, it can't be said that there are really heavenly soldiers and generals to help.

Liu Chang and these martial arts students didn't know what was going on, and they already knew what the current emperor thought, and now they also talked to each other.

The relationship becomes more intimate.

I even started drinking, but there was no appetizer for a while, and I don't know where to get a stack of pickles, so a few people drank it.

The more they talked, the more speculative they became, especially Liu Chang's campaign for several years, and the thrilling points, such as the fierce battle in the rain in the Battle of Langshan, made them stunned.

I almost can't wait to burn yellow paper, cut off the head of a chicken, and become brothers of the opposite sex.

Liu Chang undoubtedly said about the horse market outside the north gate.

Sun Cuo patted his chest and said: "The eldest brother's business is my business, my Sun still eats in Beijing, and I will take the eldest brother to see the horse tomorrow to ensure that the eldest brother can choose a good horse." ”

No matter how the title of the Earl of Huichang came about, the title is always true, plus the Earl of Huichang is the queen mother's family after all, although Zhu Qizhen has suppressed them in the title for so many years. But there is no disadvantage in other aspects.

Sun Cuo's words are also true.