Chapter 15 Iron Mold?

Gao Mingheng and the others were overjoyed when they heard that someone was coming from the thief camp. Gao Mingheng secretly said in his heart: "The thieves make good use of the room, and an old woman entered the city before and found two silver ingots from her bag. It can be seen that the thief is vicious, and the ignorant women and children are used for it, and the thief knows my truth, and I do not know the enemy's truth. Then he said, "Please." ”

The siege of Cao Ying and even Xiao Yuan's camp was not strong, especially the south gate was not guarded by a single soldier at all, and as for Kaifeng City, they even wanted to use the south gate to transport grain.

This is the old trick of missing one of the three.

And the 400,000 people in Kaifeng City, not to mention anything else, just for daily life and cooking, the firewood needed is an astronomical amount, and it is not enough to use the accumulation in the city alone, so the south gate is half closed, leaving a door for the people to collect firewood. And this old woman Xu took advantage of this time to go to Yan Li Village to meet Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng personally inquired about the situation in the city, rewarded him with 100 taels of silver, and ordered him to report back with news as soon as possible. One hundred taels of silver, divided into two ingots, was put under the wild vegetables by the old woman Xu, and when she entered the city, she was picked up by the officers and soldiers, and nailed to death at the mouth of the city, wailing for a day, and died the next day.

From then on, women were not allowed to leave the city in Kaifeng City.

But Gao Mingheng still didn't think that no one reported the news in the city to the thieves. He was worried that he didn't know the details of the thief, and now that someone came, wouldn't he be happy?

"Your Excellency." Wu Shijian bowed and brought up a man dressed like a beggar.

As soon as the beggar entered, he bowed and said, "The student is the prime minister of the Deqi world, and he has seen the governor of the country. Qi Shixiang seemed to remember all the hardships in the thief camp, and couldn't help crying and said, "Please also ask the boss to be the master of the students." ”

Gao Mingheng didn't speak, but looked at Wu Shi and said. Wu Shi said that he would like to know, and said: "This person is a Shangqiu sacrifice, the article is very stylish, I have the impression that he followed Liang Zhixian before, and I have met once." The implication is that he is willing to guarantee this Qi Shixiang.

Gao Mingheng spoke at this time and said, "Get up, those who read the books of the sages, what does it mean to cry and cry?" ”

"Yes." Qi Shixiang's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The students and thieves don't share the sky, and I also ask the boss to prospective students to join the army and take revenge." ”

Gao Mingheng said: "After this incident, besides, you said that you were taken captive by thieves from Shangqiu?" So what was the situation in Shangqiu at the beginning? ”

Qi Shixiang told the story of the fall of Shangqiu City in 1510. Gao Mingheng nodded secretly, as the governor of Henan, he can't know everything about returning to virtue, but it is not much different, knowing what Qi Shixiang said, there are some discrepancies with what he knows, and it is about the same. The doubts in my heart were relieved again. That's when I asked about the thief camp

Circumstance.

In the camp of the thieves, Qi Shixiang said everything he knew, and he knew everything and said everything.

Gao Mingheng corresponded with the information he knew, explained many things, and finally asked: "Do you know about the recent thieves casting cannons?" ”

Qi Shixiang said: "The students are in the camp, but the place where the cannon is cast is in the Xiaoyuan camp. The students don't know much, but they vaguely seem to have heard of some 'iron mold'. ”

"Iron mold?" Sang Kai was taken aback and said, "Are you talking about 'iron mold'?" ”

Qi Shixiang said: "Because of literacy, students were included in the back camp documents, the day before yesterday some craftsmen were transferred to the small Yuan camp to cast cannons, the students deliberately responded to the harmony, only to get these two words, but I don't know what it means? ”

Qi Shixiang didn't know, how could Sang Kai not know.

Although he specializes in the way of water conservancy and has no achievements in other aspects, he is a disciple of Xu Guangqi after all.

Moreover, the iron mold is never a new thing in metallurgy, but it is only in the late Qing Dynasty that he was applied to artillery, and was introduced into this era by Zhang Xuan.

Sang Kai was a little distracted for a while.

"San-sama, San-sama, San-sama." Chen Yongfu called him.

Sang Kai came back to his senses at this time, bowed down to Gao Mingheng, and said, "Xia Guan knows how the thieves cast more than a dozen cannons in half a month, which is exactly the method of iron molds. Immediately, Sang Kai told Gao Mingheng about the method of iron mold and clay mold.

Gao Mingheng's eyes lit up and asked, "Who is better between the artillery cast by the iron mold or the clay mold?" ”

Sang Kai pondered for a while and said, "The clay mold, the iron made by the iron mold is brittle, I'm afraid it can't withstand much medicinal power." This is not as good as the clay mold, but the biggest advantage of the iron mold is that it is fast. ”

"Okay." Gao Mingheng said: "This official ordered you to collect the iron tools of the whole city, all of them used casting cannons, if necessary, even if the Kaifeng Iron Tower is demolished, it doesn't hurt." ”

"Yes." Sang Kai said: "The lower officials obey the order. ”

Without further ado, Sang Kai immediately dispatched manpower, put away the iron tools, and recruited all the craftsmen in the closed city to supervise the casting of cannons.

However, Gao Mingheng did not put all his thoughts on casting cannons, he understood very well that the strength of Kaifeng City was limited, and no matter how the factor that determined the victory or defeat of Kaifeng City was not in Kaifeng City, but outside Kaifeng City, so he wrote an urgent document, went out of the city from the south gate, quickly rode the whip, passed through the heavy blockade of the righteous army, and finally came to Runing City.

At this moment, Runing City has become a military city.

This letter was uploaded layer by layer, and finally came to Ding Qirui's hand, Ding Qirui hurriedly looked at it and slapped it on the table

Above, he sighed and said, "What can I do? ”

Now Ding Qirui is under tremendous pressure.

As the highest-level Ming official in Henan, he also has the largest strategic group of the Ming Dynasty in his hands, including the general soldier Zuo Liangyu, and tens of thousands of troops under Zuo Liangyu, probably more than 50,000, and the general soldier Hu Dawei, but the strength of Hu Dawei is not as good as Zuo Liangyu's, and there are thousands of elites under his subordinates, as well as thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, probably more than 10,000 people. Then there is the veteran general Yang Dezheng, Yang Dezheng is also a veteran, Yang Sichang's old team, but with the fall of Yang Sichang, he has gradually been marginalized, and there are only more than 10,000 elite soldiers under his command. Then there is Fang Guoan. Fang Guoan was originally Zuo Liangyu's subordinate, but the imperial court separated Fang Guoan from Zuo Liangyu's subordinate and became a town.

It seems that the imperial court's countermeasures against Zuo Liangyu's self-respecting move to support the army, many generals were separated from Zuo Liangyu's command, such as Jin Shenghuan, and now Jin Shenghuan is no longer under Zuo Liangyu's subordinates.

Coupled with Ding Qirui's own guards, and even Yang Wenyue's guards, the total is less than 100,000 troops, and Ding Qirui also understands the bad habits in the army.

The border army of Qin, the army that came out of these poor places, it would be good to give a seven-fold discount, while the inland army, those who have a record of war will be given a five-fold discount, and the army rebuilt after the new defeat will be given a three-fold discount, and as for the guards, it will be okay to give a discount.

And with the collapse of the situation, even this kind of discount method can't make Ding Qirui believe it.

On paper, there are 100,000 troops and soldiers in the four towns, but how many there are in reality, Ding Qirui doesn't dare to think about it. But pressure from all sides came from all directions, and asking for help in Kaifeng City was still a small matter, and the most important thing was the supervision of Beijing.

Ding Qirui also knew that his various actions were already very inferior to the meaning of Beijing, if it weren't for the chaos in Henan, everyone was willing to take over this mess, he would have been dismissed a long time ago. It's just that there is no one in the entrainment in Beijing, so he is just used for the time being.

Once he is rash and defeated, he will not be his own.

The one in Beijing who can't do anything else, killing the minister is a first-class neatness, thinking about how many ministers have died in the past ten years, Ding Qirui's absolute back of the neck blowing, blowing like a knife wind.

"Your Excellency." Guo Zai said: "In today's situation, when it is decided, it will be decided? ”

"Break, break, break," Ding Qirui said: "What do I use to break it, these 100,000 horses, once they are broken, is there any possibility of recovery on the ground in Henan?" ”

"But if your Excellency delays like this, I'm afraid it's not the 100,000 army that will be ruined, but your life, my lord?" Guo Zai said.

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