In the turbulent river of the Yellow River, dozens of centipede boats stretched out on both sides of the oars are constantly rowing turbulently, although the river to the north of Qinghe County is turbulent, if there is no slender man to pull it in the past, the boat is difficult to travel, but under the rowing of dozens of paddlers, these centipede boats are easily driving in the turbulent river.

"Junmen, I just said that as long as this boat imitates a centipede boat, it will be able to move unimpeded on this canal......"

Sun Ziqin, who was dressed in iron armor, looked very proud, and the tone was a little floating, changing the cao boat into a centipede boat as a military ship, it was his suggestion to use the large cao boat in the shipyard that was nearly completed to improve it, although it was slightly smaller than the centipede boat brought by the military gate, but it made the cao boat no longer like in the past, relying on the slender man on the shore to pull the fiber, all by the paddle hand can be sailed.

"Trees are really connoisseurs of the water!"

Zhu Mingzhong never hesitated to praise his subordinates' suggestions, in his opinion, only by working together, it is possible to make up for his own shortcomings, although he has the knowledge of being ahead of the times, but he is just standing on the shoulders of giants, which does not mean that he is a giant himself, in many aspects has his own limitations, it is precisely because he recognizes his own shortcomings, he will give a lot of professional things to professional people to do, and he, at most, is the point of view of future generations to put forward some guiding opinions.

It's like changing a cao boat into a centipede ship, but it feels too much pity just to see so many cao boats idle, so he ordered someone to study how to use it as a military ship, and Sun Ziqin quickly gave the answer - to change it into a centipede ship. Although the performance of this kind of centipede ship with only ten oars on both sides is not as good as that of a real centipede ship, it has made the original boat with only a pole and a single sail become flexible, and it can only transport troops as in the past, but cannot fight on the water.

And among these centipede ships, the most eye-catching is probably the ten centipede ships that sawed off the mast, although the mast was removed, but the bow of the ship is still equipped with a wooden tower several meters high, if there are people who are familiar with ancient weapons, they must be able to recognize, the wooden tower is actually the famous "Xiangyang cannon" or "return cannon", that is, "gravity stone thrower".

These ten "gunboats" equipped with "gravity stone throwers" were designed by Zhu Mingzhong himself, and even this "gravity stone thrower" was designed by him, after all, as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, this "gravity stone thrower" had been eliminated in China, and now, the reason why he will re-introduce this "gravity stone thrower" that has disappeared in China for more than 200 years into the battlefield is precisely for the next task.

"Chu Bai, you used to be the deputy manager of Guangyun Warehouse, take advantage of your current efforts to introduce this Guangyun Warehouse to you!"

Looking at Li Jiechuan on the side, Zhu Mingzhong walked to the sand table with a smile, and the sand table happened to be the model of Guangyun Warehouse.

"Our Changying warehouse, Xuzhou's Guangyun warehouse, Dezhou's Dezhou warehouse, Linqing's Linqing warehouse, known as the canal's four major grain warehouses, these four major granaries are all built before and after the northward migration in the early years of Yongle, this Guangyun warehouse is the use of the old ship mooring place, in the dock near Kuishan to establish the Guangyun warehouse......"

Li Jiechuan, who was the manager of Changying Cang, looked a little nervous, after all, this was his first time on the battlefield as a civilian official.

"Guangyun warehouse is more than 300 steps from east to west, about more than a mile; Add another one hundred and ten steps to the north and south, and merge two miles. Guangyun warehouse is a rectangular building with a slight length from north to south. The warehouse is equipped with four gates, its east gate and south gate are all close to the residential area, the west gate and the north gate are all near the river, the gatehouse in the warehouse, the shop on duty, the official house, the kiln, the drinking well are all available, the granary is 1,000 rooms, the bucket level is 180 people, the warehouse is more than 1,000 people, and the grain storage is 1 million stone ......"

Another granary of millions of stones!

"Million stones!"

He took a deep breath and said.

"If this Guangyun warehouse is taken down, this million stone grain is worth more than one million taels!"

That's not the truth, but Zhu Mingzhong shook his head and nodded to Li Jiechuan, who was a little nervous.

"The Admiral doesn't know, although this Guangyun warehouse can store millions of grain, but its regular grain storage is only 600,000 stone at most, plus the Qing Dynasty has recently transported a lot of grain from the Guangyun warehouse, and the current Guangyun warehouse is only 300,000 stone grain at most, so ......"

"300,000 stones, also worth hundreds of thousands of taels ......"

"It's just hundreds of thousands of stone grain, our current food has long been enough, this time I went to Xuzhou, the purpose is not to grab grain, but to ......"

With a cold smile, Zhu Mingzhong pointed to the two-foot square sand table and said.

"It's about burning grain!"

Burn grain!

Zhang Guojiu's previous suggestion was finally accepted by Zhu Mingzhong, but instead of wanting to capture Xuzhou, Zhu Mingzhong chose another way with a higher cost and efficiency ratio - using the navy to attack Guangyuncang from the waterway!

Although the water battalion of the loyal and righteous army has only just formed an army, on the Yellow River, which is several miles wide, there is no water army of the Qing army at all, and the Qing army has no water army at all, and it is precisely because of this that this water army with the Cao army and the Cao gang as the main body is the unique force on the Yellow River.

"Junmen, it's a pity that these grains are burned, this is enough for hundreds of thousands of stone grains......"

Thinking of hundreds of thousands of stone grains and burning them like this, he couldn't help but shout that it was a pity, but Zhu Mingzhong just smiled slightly, and then patted him on the shoulder and said.

"Don't forget what is the purpose of our troops this time?"

Food is important, but sometimes, it can be sacrificed for a strategic purpose.

What is the purpose?

Is it grain?

Of course not!

However, for the Qing army guarding the granary, of course they did not know the purpose of the Ming army's "attack", standing on the wall of the Guangyun Warehouse that was no more than a zhang high, Zhang Yunyi, who was the warehouse manager, couldn't stop sweating on his forehead, as a Hubu Lang, he was a Jinshi in the second year of Shunzhi, and he was also the first "Enke" Jinshi after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, if it weren't for the fact that there were only northerners for reference that year, I'm afraid he didn't have the hope of being a Jinshi at all, and because of this, now as a Hubu Lang Zhongsi Guangyun Cang, he will be grateful to the imperial court. So much so that in the past period of time, he lived and ate in the warehouse, arranging the transfer of grain in the warehouse, and training the barnmen to guard the granary.

At this time, looking at the dozens of centipede boats on the Yellow River, looking at the soldiers on the boats, there was only one thought left in his mind!

I want to die!

But he didn't have the courage to commit suicide, so he just said with a pale face.

"Quick, quickly order someone to send a letter to Xuzhou Mansion, saying and explaining that the thief is coming to commit ......"

This will even unconsciously turn "pirates" into "Ming thieves" in his words, and this change in tone means that in his opinion, it is not pirates and bandits who occupy Jiangnan, but the Ming official army.

Zhu Mingzhong, who was in the bow, looked at the Guangyun warehouse from the telescope, since it was through the city wall, he could also see its towering granary, looking at the granaries in the city, his mind sank slightly, how many people have to be fat and ointment.

"Strategy, this Guangyun warehouse is also in disrepair, if you can concentrate on the bow cannon bombardment, at most a hundred cannons can tear open the warehouse wall, this warehouse at most there are more than 1,000 warehousemen, as long as the warehouse wall opens, the time will be ......."

Without waiting for Sun Ziqin to finish speaking, Zhu Mingzhong sighed deeply.

"It's a pity!"

After this long sigh, he continued.

"Order the gunboat to reach 70 feet ashore and anchor and shell!"

The "gunboats" in Zhu Mingzhong's mouth did not refer to gunboats equipped with artillery, but the ten gunboats equipped with trebuchets.

"What are they doing here?"

Zhang Yunyi looked at the centipede boat that arrived at the shore with some surprise, looked at the wooden tower on the bow, and watched the boatmen on the boat busy working under the wooden tower, completely unaware of what they were doing. Looking at the distance of seventy zhang, he would even have the heart to die, at this distance, Kurafu's bow and arrows would not be able to shoot at all, if they fired......

What if the Qing army in the warehouse had artillery?

Watching the gunners make final preparations for the launch of the catapult, Zhu Mingzhong secretly thought to himself, this will make him realize that he seems to be a little overpowered, the Qing army has no water army on the Yellow River, it does not mean that they do not have artillery. If they had artillery, they would have already blown up the ten "gunboats".

"Chu Bai, is there a cannon on the wall of this Guangyun warehouse?"

"Back to the military gate, the Guangyun warehouse and the Changying warehouse are both thin walls, and the Hongyi cannon cannot be installed......"

While answering the question of the military gate, Li Jiechuan looked at the gunboat in the distance, those gunners were loading a wooden barrel into the sling of the trebuchet, and the wooden barrels weighing 50 catties were filled with tung oil, which was the best arson oil.

"Ready!"

Li Xing, who was on the side of the ship, looked at the tung oil barrel that had been fixed, and his expression was a little excited, until now, he could not forget how big a flame the barrel of oil burned during the first test firing, and now, they are going to throw dozens of barrels and thousands of catties of fire oil here.

"Not to mention a small Guangyun warehouse, it is a city, and it is estimated that it can be burned to ruins......

When Li Xingzhao was muttering to himself like this in his heart, the gunner with the torch over there had already lit a few ignition balls on the oil drum, and when the oil drum emitted billowing black smoke, with an order, Li Xingzhao immediately hammered the bolt with a wooden hammer.

As the counterweight box filled with wet sand weighing 200 stones fell, under the action of gravity, the stone thrower threw out an oil drum weighing 50 kilograms, and for a time several oil drums in the air dragging black smoke and burning flew towards the direction of Guangyun warehouse.

The speed of the oil drum flying in a parabola was not fast, and it even seemed a little slow, so that Zhang Yunyi, who was standing on the wall, even had the illusion that he could catch it, but there was only one thought left in his mind.

"It's over!"

As if to match his idea, a burning wooden barrel slammed into the granary, and at the same time as the barrel shattered and scattered, the tung oil in the barrel was ignited, and the granary was suddenly swallowed by a flame.

"It's a pity it's not gasoline......"

Even if it's oil!

The reason why such a thought came to Zhu Mingzhong's heart was because tung oil was not as flammable as gasoline or oil, it was the same as many vegetable oils, but it was only a second-class flammable. Naturally, it can't be compared with gasoline or oil, but if it were oil, maybe the effect would be more significant, and the fire might be bigger.

At the same time, one after another oil drums continued to smash into the warehouse, turning the Guangyun warehouse into a sea of fire......

When Zhu Mingzhong lamented that the fire was not as big as he imagined, for Guangyun Cangkura, who was caught in the sea of fire, they were in a nightmare that they had never felt before.

Although tung oil is not as flammable as gasoline, but when each barrel of tung oil is fried, it will still be ignited by the fire head of the barrel, although it cannot be compared with napalm, but this oversized "Motolov cocktail" is still a devastating disaster for the canna in the Guangyun warehouse, the splashing oil ball will be ignited in the air, and then fall on the body of the nearby cangfu, the tung oil that originally only had a slight fire on the person's body, it immediately burned, and the clothes on the cangding became a large lamp twist.

In the Guangyun warehouse caught in the flames, you can see the barns burning all over their bodies. They screamed in pain in their voices, and at the same time slapped their hands against their burning bodies, but the more they slapped the fire, the bigger it became, and those who tried to roll on the ground to extinguish the fire unconsciously rolled into the flames, and then spread the flames.

In the heart-rending cries of these burning men, the original "Motolov cocktail" still continued to fall in the Guangyun warehouse, the fire became bigger, and some of the warehousemen's bodies were drenched with tung oil, although there was no fire on their bodies, but the oil on their bodies and the sea of fire in front of them made them all try to escape from the Guangyun warehouse in panic, and even jumped down from the one-zhang high warehouse wall in a panic. Occasionally, some burning barns would jump down from the barn wall, and then the fire men would set fire to the unburned tung oil that had fallen outside the wall. For a time, the entire Guangyun warehouse was full of fire. Panicked barns running around can be seen everywhere.

And Zhang Yunyi, who was on the wall, looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, watching the cangding turn into a human-shaped giant wax, his mind was completely blank, muttering words that only he could understand, but the person fell from the wall under the distraction......

"Army, military gate, this ...... This ......"

Looking at Guangyun Cang, which had been swallowed up by the sea of fire, Sun Ziqin was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that thousands of catties of tung oil would bring such an effect.

"Junmen, this, from now on, I'm afraid there will be no need to attack the city, just use a few thousand catties of tung oil to destroy the city of the world......"

Li Jiechuan muttered, his mind seemed to have the cities that had turned to ashes in the flames, and his whole body trembled even more, as if he was afraid of the fate of those cities.

"It's indispensable, this method is just an emergency method!"

Shaking his head, Zhu Mingzhong, who knew the reason why the trebuchet was eliminated, knew very well that this thing was by no means the opponent of the cannon.

"We're just sending a message to Dasu now!"

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