Chapter 107: Two Birds with One Stone
Zhu Jianwen's face was embarrassed, and he just wanted to say that if he opened the city gate and sent too many troops, he would not be able to defend and let the enemy army take advantage of the situation, and he couldn't wait to let Shi Biao ride out of the city to rescue him, and make every effort to kill two birds with one stone.
One bird is Lu Yunzhi, the other is Shi Biao, although Zhu Jianwen has restored the identity of the king, but at this time the power in the court is not as good as Shi Heng, if Lu Yunzhi is dead, I am afraid that the commander of the Northern Expedition army will not be able to take his turn, Shi Biao is most likely to inherit, if Shi Biao dies, then only he can be of great use, and he has saved Shi Biao once before, Shi Heng will not doubt it, and when the time comes, he can only secretly hate his nephew for being too righteous, too stupid and naΓ―ve, even if Shi Biao does not die outside, I will lock him up outside, This ploy is good,
Shi Biao spoke in the face of Zhu Jianwen's thoughts, which made Zhu Jianwen overjoyed, the words did not come out of his own mouth, and there was no danger and responsibility, only to hear Shi Biao say: "Go out of the city to rescue, the soldiers are fine but not many, just let me lead five hundred elite soldiers, I will go back quickly, and the king will strictly guard the gate of the village to ensure that the camp is not lost." β
Zhu Jianwen's face was full of admiration, but a contemptuous smile appeared in his heart, and he hugged his fists and said: "General Shi Gaoyi, this king admires it very much, go out of the city, this king will open the way for you with artillery." "Using artillery to open the way, it is not just a casual mouth, there is Zhu Jianwen's strategy, ordinary people must think that Zhu Jianwen is good intentions when they hear this, and those with lower levels will be moved to worship on the spot, and those in high positions will not think that Zhu Jianwen has evil intentions.
Obviously, Shi Biao didn't see that Zhu Jianwen was deliberate, but smiled and said: "This is not good, I just said that the king is good at defending the city, and I, Shi Biao, am good at raiding recklessly, it seems that I really have a specialization in the art industry, and it is a taboo to open the way with artillery, not to mention that it is possible to injure our own people by mistake, after all, the number of people I brought is not much, the most important thing is that we are out of the city to save people this time, not to defeat the enemy, so we have to trouble His Royal Highness the king to hit the side with artillery to attract the enemy's idea, I led the troops out from the side gate of the wooden village, and went back quickly." Well, without further ado, go some-and-so. β
Zhu saw and hugged his fists and said: "This king admires, and this king wishes General Shi a success." Said secretly in his heart: Although Shi Biao has a bad sense of politics, it is not possible to lead troops to fight, the matter has come to this point, and it depends on the will of God whether it succeeds or fails.
The words are all on this, Zhu saw and heard that it was not good to make a stumbling block, and used artillery to concentrate on attacking the enemy's Chinese army, and put Shi Biao and five hundred dead soldiers out of the village from the side gate, Shi Biao just ran into the Mongolian army as soon as he left the city, not that Zhu saw and heard that he was bad, but when Shi Biao ordered the soldiers and horses to go out of the village, the Mongols had changed from strolling to running wildly, until the wooden village,
But why did the enemy attack the side gate that was not wide, could it be that Meng He saw Shi Biao's attempt, not only the side gate, but also the fierce attack of Mongolian soldiers at each gate.
Before the attack, the general of the Mongolian army asked Meng He: There are not many side gates of the Muzhai gate, but there are a lot of plans to get together, which gate is better for the army to attack on the whole line,
Meng He smiled coldly and asked, "Can we all squeeze hundreds of thousands of people into one door?" All the generals shook their heads, naturally they can't, but there must be a certain rule in the war, which gate to attack, which gate to feint to attack, and only if you cooperate well can you build a strong city, so you have to listen to Meng He's arrangement, how do you know that Meng He actually asked them, although the leaders of these Mongolian generals are all big and coarse, they can't say it but they understand it in their hearts, because most of the generals also followed the Ming Dynasty in the south, so they naturally know these ways,
Meng He suddenly shouted: "I know what you are thinking, and when I was there first, I waited for the Mongolian athletes to be less than the Ming army, and they were able to defeat the enemy army, and they were close to the Han capital, and now we have so many people, and the number of Ming troops is the same, you still ask which gate to attack, it is a gate to attack, the Han people can't send so many people in one sect, and we are the same, let's fight, fight a blitzkrieg, don't let them and us consume each other on the same door, I want to see if the Mongolian athletes who eat meat are powerful, or the Han people who eat grass are brave, Break the door, break the village, and kill him on the head. β
The long-range artillery attack is quite easy to use, and the close attack is not so cool, but fortunately, there are new artillery and new weapons such as those bizarre firearm repeaters developed by Fang Qingze, which has played some role, but the number is too small after all, in the face of hundreds of thousands of general battles, these things seem to be a drop in the bucket and not enough to see, such an unorganized blow of the Mongols made Zhu Jianwen also a little confused, as the saying goes, this is the truth of beating the master to death,
The Mongols are strong, brave by nature, brave and ruthless, and the military law is quite strict, so they are desperate to attack the wall, and the Ming army is condescending, there is a strong wall to rely on, and there are advanced weapons such as firearms in their hands, in short, these advantages and disadvantages are combined, the two sides are evenly matched, and they are in a stalemate for a while, there are roars and abuses everywhere, and the smell of blood in the air is strong with the sound of killing.
The return cannon threw boulders and still threw them into the wall, although some lost their accuracy and hit the Mongols who were attacking the city, but most of them still flew into the Ming army's wooden village, the Ming army had to defend against the Mongolian barbarians who kept climbing below, and the defense gate was broken by the Mongols, and some of the red-eyed Mongolians were crazy to chop the wooden village with a sabre, and they also needed to shoot, now, the headache is that the boulders flying from the sky have not been broken, but fortunately there are artillery supports, and the advantages of artillery have also been highlighted,
The artillery is expensive, the so-called cannon is a gold 10,000 taels is said to be expensive, but the power of the artillery is also much greater than the return gun, the shell is troublesome to fill, first put in the gunpowder, press it, neither too pressed, the more not too loose, and then put in the iron ball or the filled shell developed by Fang Qingze, and then ignite the lead to fire, and then can not be filled immediately, you must first wipe the gun chamber with water, clean up the residue, and then wipe it with a dry cloth to continue firing, otherwise it will explode,
However, later, some people found that it was better to use vinegar, vinegar is more volatile than water, and after wiping it with vinegar, the heat of the artillery itself dries quickly, and the rear-entry artillery developed by Fang Qingze is more convenient, but the cost is relatively three or four times more than that of ordinary artillery.
The reason why artillery is expensive, firstly, is because the shell needs to be cast of the appropriate size, otherwise it is easy to leak, and the shell cannot fly far and cannot fly accurately, and secondly, the artillery itself is difficult to cast, and it needs a blast furnace to practice.
The artillery manufacturing process is quite troublesome, so even if it is the main force of the Ming Dynasty, the artillery will not be equipped too much, and the battle of more than 90 new artillery pieces like this is already super large.