Will the Tumen choose to attack?

At this point, don't say that Gao pragmatic can't be sure, in fact, even the figures themselves are hesitating now.

The spies have come to report that the city walls of Shacheng are now full of Ming soldiers guarding, and it is not clear where the Ming army came from, but they must be Ming soldiers wearing mandarin duck robes.

There is no doubt that the Ming army is good at defending, even if the Tumen feel that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is very average, and only a few troops can fight in the field, but when the Ming army defends the city, even the Tumen Khan will have a headache.

In particular, the firearms of the Ming army have made great progress in the past ten years, unlike in the past, they are not as explosive and dumb as in the past, and the firing range has also increased significantly.

For the Mongols, the speed of firing the bow and archery was very fast, and it was not as some said that only a few arrows at a time would lead to a loss of strength. If you turn around and shoot a few arrows, you will lose your strength, isn't this tactic of turning around and flying a kite directly announcing the death penalty?

But no matter how good the Mongols are, in the face of the three zhang high city wall reinforced by the old city wall of Yuanzhongdu, it is difficult to shoot at the Ming army from below, and it is not useful to shoot with the Ming army with archery, and the ultimate goal of the siege is to break the city, and breaking the city is nothing more than a few ways: breaking the city gate, climbing over the city wall, or destroying the city gate and the city wall.

As for the later buying of the wild boar skins that the city gates should be opened, the Tumen really couldn't do it.

There is no need to think about destroying the city gate and the city wall, unless the current attacking and defending sides change positions and let the Ming army bring the artillery mount over.

If it is in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there is an old method available, which is to catch the Han people as cannon fodder, drive them to the city, and see whether the other party opens the city gate or not.

The Mongol cavalry swarmed in, first capturing the city gates, and then slaughtering in all directions, causing panic and causing the defenders to collapse. If you don't open it, it's okay, continue to catch the people and send them over as cannon fodder, increase the psychological pressure on the defenders, no matter how you fight in the future, this is all beneficial.

But this place is too annoying, this Shacheng was originally the capital of Yuanzhong, and now it is not in the Ming Realm, how can the Han people around it be caught?

There is Zhangjiakou Fort not far to the south, but if he can take down the Nine Sides to Zhangjiakou, does he still need to worry about any sand city?

Looking at it this way, it's only a dirt way to build siege equipment honestly.

But there are also difficulties in building siege equipment, first of all, there is a lack of big trees nearby, otherwise it will not be called Shacheng, according to the report of Tanma, there are mountains in the southeast direction of fifty or sixty miles, and the trees on the mountain may be difficult to make some siege equipment, but they can only be used for emergency purposes.

The second is the lack of good craftsmen. Today's Mongolia is not the Mongolia that conquered region B two hundred years ago and has countless B craftsmen under its command.

Maybe the most common equipment such as ladders and crashes can still be barely built, but if it is something like the legendary Lu bus, then don't even think about it.

After counting the number of carpenters in the army, he calculated for a long time according to the distance of the timber production area and other factors, and finally told the Tumen: If you want to launch an offensive after building the equipment, then it will take half a month to prepare, even if you go all out to make it, it will take at least ten days to relax the quality problem.

After hearing this, Tumen Khan felt a sense of loss in his heart. According to the saying handed down from the ancestors, where did it take so long to build siege equipment in the era of the Great Mongolian Kingdom!

But this is the situation at this time, whether he admits it or not, he can only accept the facts.

"What siege engines can we build now? The ladder should be fine, but the goose cart will work? Tumen asked in an unkind tone.

"It is possible to build a goose cart, but we lack iron sheets. ”

Tumen frowned and said: "There is no iron sheet now, so I can only use a hardwood board to cover the cowhide general." ”

The predecessor of the goose cart was the cave house, which was also called the cave house, like a hut, covered with a layer of iron sheet on the outside, and there were four wheels underneath, which could effectively protect the soldiers from attacking the city. Later, in the Mongol and Yuan dynasties, the Mongols integrated the cave house with the ladder to create a goose-shaped siege vehicle, that is, a goose cart, which took into account both defense and attack.

But Buzhhatu was a little worried, and said: "Even if it is a complete goose cart, it is difficult to say how effective it is in the face of the Ming army's defense of the city, and now it is still replaced by hardwood planks and cowhides, which the minister thinks is a little dangerous." ”

Of course, it's dangerous, not to mention that the army's small artillery can be more convenient to bombard, even if the Ming army doesn't use artillery, just cold weapons against cold weapons, it's not very afraid of these siege methods two hundred years ago.

For example, the Ming army has a fork pole, which is also called a "fork pole", which can not only resist the enemy's use of the ladder to climb the city, but also can be used to kill the enemy who climbs the city. When the enemy's ladder is close to the city wall, use the horizontal blade at the front of the pole to resist the ladder and push it down, or when the enemy climbs halfway up the wall, use the fork rod to push down the ladder and chop hard, the horizontal blade in front of the pole can break the enemy's arm.

There is also a flying hook, also known as "iron owl foot", which is shaped like an anchor, with four sharp claw hooks, tied with iron chains, and then connected to the rope. When the enemy soldiers are attached to the foot of the city and are ready to climb the ladder to climb the city, they will be taken by surprise and thrown into the enemy group, and several people can be killed at a time.

There is also the Yaksha, also known as "staying in a guest's house". This kind of weapon is made of wet elm wood with a diameter of one foot and a length of more than one zhang as a roller, and the "reverse whisker nail" is closely nailed around it, and the nail head is exposed to the wood surface of five inches, and wheels with a diameter of two feet are installed at both ends of the rolling wood, which are tied to iron cables and connected to the winch. When the enemy soldiers gather at the foot of the city, they are thrown into the enemy group and twist the winch, which can play the role of crushing the enemy.

As for the more common tools used to defend the city, they are stone and rolling logs, that is, stones and logs used to defend the city. In the cold weapon war, the city wall is usually equipped with some ordinary stones, logs, when the enemy soldiers climb the city wall, throw down to hit the enemy, these stones and logs are called "stones", "rolling wood", this kind of thing is in any Ming city, although the sand city is the old city of the Mongols, but since Gao Shishi came, it was naturally equipped.

In addition to the above castle defense equipment, there are also wooden female heads, Saimen knife carts, etc., which are used to block the city walls and gates that have been destroyed by the enemy.

Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, Gao Pragmatic also has a big killer weapon like a grenade