Let the North Koreans rise up, but it's just an idea, for Mao Chengdou, of course he wants to take down the 40,000 Jiannu, even if he knows that among the 40,000 Jiannu, there are still 35,000 people who are the so-called Goryeo Eight Banners, and even the remaining 5,000 people are not necessarily real Tartars, and there may be 2,000 Han Army Eight Banners.

But the important thing is to get rid of these Jiannu and play the prestige of the Great Tomorrow Army!

How to fix it?

The steep mountain castle itself is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.

"If you can't do it, let the North Koreans attack the city!"

When Mao Chengdou was calculating in his heart to let the Koreans be cannon fodder, a reinforcement army from Dalian arrived at Daifang Fort, and very much arrived at the Ming army camp under the Zhengfang Mountain City. Almost as soon as the reinforcements arrived, they attracted everyone's attention.

Not to mention those North Korean soldiers, even the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army also surrounded them.

"Good boy, that's big!"

"It's a little shorter, but look at this muzzle, you can stuff a head into it!"

"Good fellow, how heavy is this shell!"

When the onlookers said a word, Mao Chengdou, Li Yi and others also came over.

"This is the cannon you brought here!"

Walking to the back of the twelve horse-drawn artillery carriages, staring at the black and shiny short-barreled cannon on the gun carriage, Mao Chengdou and the others were also stunned by this cannon, which had a caliber of seven or eight inches. Although he knew that the prince had sent an artillery as reinforcements, he didn't know that the artillery cannon was so big.

"Yes, Junmen!"

Zhao Zhigang replied.

"How much does its shell weigh?"

"50 pounds!"

As soon as these words came out, the people around them all gasped!

Good boy! Fifty pounds of shells!

That's, it's a little bigger!

Before that, the biggest cannon they had ever seen was an eighteen-pound cannon, but it was a fortress cannon, or it was a mortar cannon, and this cannon could actually hit a fifty-pound cannonball!

In fact, in another world, this kind of artillery is called "caron", and this giant short cannon was first made by the Scottish Cart Iron Works, hence the name. Its characteristic is that although it has a small charge and a short range, it is very popular with the British Navy because of its short barrel, light weight and large caliber. As soon as it came out, it was famous for its large caliber and played an extremely important role during the Napoleonic Wars.

In Napoleon's time, the caron was a very unique type of artillery. Its magnification is close to that of howitzers and mortars, but it is used in a flat-firing manner like a cannon. It has only a single lug, a ring on the button, and the muzzle is not expanded, but retracted. Its caliber is huge, even up to 68 pounds, but it weighs much less than a cannon of the same caliber.

With the application of horizontal boring machine, sand mold casting gun, gray cast iron and other technologies in Dalian Arsenal, the reliability and accuracy of artillery have been improved, and the production efficiency has also been improved. The application of these new technologies also allowed them to manufacture caron guns, which were mechanically drilled and sharpened into cast solid shells to become guns with smooth bore and precise dimensions.

It's just that in this world, it didn't appear as a naval gun, but after a little improvement, it became an army heavy howitzer, although it fired a 68-pound shell, but the gun body was only a mere 1.5 tons, even lighter than a 24-pound howitzer, of course, the only beauty was that the range was closer, but its shell was 68 pounds, and its accuracy was far more than that of a mortar.

This is also the reason why Zhu Guoqiang changed it into an army artillery, and even deliberately set up an independent artillery battalion, and the first artillery battalion that is now being sent for reinforcements is the artillery unit that has just been formed.

"How many big guys like this have you brought here?"

Touching the cannon in his hand, Mao Chengdou asked a little eagerly.

"6 artillery posts, 48 cannons, all 50-pound cannons!"

48 fifty-pound cannons!

Mao Chengdou's face suddenly bloomed with a smile, and he pointed to the mountain city on the mountain and asked.

"Well, if you bombard this mountain city, will you be able to hit the cannonballs?"

"Mountain City ......"

Looking up at the mountain city, Zhao Zhigang pondered for a moment, and then nodded.

"No problem, as long as you dig a pit at the end of the cannon and increase the angle of fire, you will definitely be able to hit the shell in!"

"Not only to hit in, but also to hit accurately, this city is not small, twenty-four miles of city walls, there are many places in the city where the cannonballs are useless......"

Before Li Yi's words were finished, Zhao Zhigang smiled and said.

"This one is no problem, in addition to the cannon, we also brought a baby! Just look at the military gate! ”

Baby?

What baby?

After a short rest, more than 1,000 brothers of the First Artillery Battalion got busy, first in the open space in front of the camp began to place the artillery fort basket, that is, a basket made of bamboo, which can be filled with sand, similar to modern sandbags, and erected a 50-pound cannon.

It took three hours of busy work to build a position, and when everything was done, Zhao Zhigang ordered the brothers.

"Sleep well tonight, big guy, and shell Zhengfang Mountain City early tomorrow morning!"

Compared with the freedom of the besieging side, for the Jiannu trapped in the Zhengfang Mountain City, they were extremely nervous, especially those Goryeo Eight Banner soldiers who had just shaved their heads into the flag, seeing that they were besieged in the mountain city, their minds became more and more frivolous.

"I knew that if I fought with the Celestial Empire, I would definitely suffer a big loss, not to mention that the whole army under the leadership of Han was wiped out, we were also surrounded here, North Korea is a small country, and it is our duty to do small things and big things."

As soon as Park Mingao's words fell, someone over there retorted.

"Park Mingao, North Korea is a small country, but the Qing country is not big, didn't the Qing country defeat the Ming State before, and also occupied their Liaodong."

"But no, in the past twenty years, the Qing State has pressed the Ming State to fight, so there is a small country and a big one?"

"Oh, Uncle Li, you also know that it has been the past twenty years, and this small state affair is a matter of course, just like we respect the elders, with small crimes, and the following crimes, even if it is a temporary profit, but after all, it is also temporary, and now Dongyu will not be beaten by the Heavenly Empire and Heavenly Army and cannot fight back......"

As the most filial son of the Ming Dynasty, since Li Chenggui launched a military mutiny to seize the throne of Goryeo and accepted the name of "North Korea" given by the Ming Dynasty, North Korea obediently became the son of the Ming Dynasty. The idea of "taking small things and big facts as the duty", nearly 300 years of continuous repetition, has long made the whole of Korea take the Ming Dynasty as the kingdom of heaven, all of them take the big things as their duty, even the untouchables also know that "take the small things and the big truth as their duty", and even when the Imjin resisted the Japanese, the Korean soldiers who were originally defeated by the Japanese army immediately turned into vicious dogs after the appearance of the Great Ming Army, and the fierce appearance was not inferior even to the Japanese, not to mention the Japanese, even the Korean kings and ministers were also puzzled, After a little inquiry, they all took it for granted - with the support of Daming's father, what else was there to be afraid of.

In fact, as the saying goes, it's just "dogs fighting people".

In fact, there is nothing wrong with being a dog, when a dog is at least protected by its owner. Besides, it is better to be a dog of the Ming Dynasty than to be a dog of the Hu people. Of course, it's too late to regret at this time.

In the early morning of the next day, Park Min-go, who had been guarding the city wall all night, yawned and squinted his eyes to look down the mountain, first stunned, then rubbed his eyes, and opened his mouth wide as if he had seen some monster. Then suddenly shouted loudly.

"Quick, look, that, what's that......"

As Park Min-goo's hand pointed up and down the mountain, the others followed the direction of his finger, and at first, they seemed to be a little puzzled, but after a moment, they shouted loudly in horror.

"Oh my God, Buddha bless ......"

At this moment, the people on the entire city wall opened their eyes wide in horror and looked down the mountain......