On the day of the exercise, all the civil and military officials from Tianjin came and sat in the wooden shed built by Li Zhi to observe the exercise. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Zhi's exercise was a simulated attack on a well-defended fortified city by the Tiger Division. The city wall used for the exercise was 100 steps long and was built by Li Zhi beforehand. The city wall is four zhang high and eight zhang wide, and is covered with blue bricks. A deep moat was dug outside the city walls, ten zhang wide.

Tianjin officials who came to watch the exercise were stunned when they saw a section of the city wall built by Li Zhijian for the first time. The height and thickness of this city wall are clearly simulating the city wall of the capital. How can the walls of other cities be so tall?

Li Zhi wants to drill to attack the capital?

This Li Zhi thief was emboldened, and sent troops to attack the city thousands of miles away, killing the governor and the prefect. Now the Chinese official and the Son of Heaven are arguing, and they are arguing about how to deal with Li Zhi. Could it be that Li Zhi broke the jar and was ready to lead his troops into the capital?

Li Zhi is determined to rebel?

Looking at the tall and thick city wall, the civil and military officials who were invited to observe were all frightened and uncertain.

Li Zhi stood in front of the wooden shed he was observing, and said to the officials: "Today, our Fanjiazhuang Tiger Ben Division is conducting an exercise to attack Jiancheng, and I thank the officials for taking time out of their busy schedules. ”

The official positions of the officials are not high, and the biggest one is that all the soldiers are prepared, and they are all a little panicked in front of Li Zhi, who is strong and strong. At this time, when they saw that Xingguo Bo spoke so politely, they hurriedly surrendered their hands one by one, and replied one after another: "Xingguo Bo is serious. ”

"I'm here to see you!"

Li Zhi waved his hand and shouted loudly at the flag commander: "The exercise has begun." ”

The flag was waved, and five hundred artillerymen marched over with forty eighteen-pounder guns. The gunners stopped a mile from the city wall, and the gunners separated the cannons from the gunners, skillfully clearing the chambers of the cannons and loading them.

Seeing that Li Zhi had so many heavy Hongyi cannons, the civil and military officials who were observing the exercise immediately let out a chorus of admiration, and the officials praised Li Zhi's strength of soldiers and horses -- these civil and military officials were all old fritters in the officialdom, and no one in Li Zhi's territory showed any dissent, for fear that Li Zhi would take him down on the spot.

But seeing so many cannons, the officials actually had everything in their hearts: some civil officials were worried that the imperial court would not be able to clean up the powerful Li Zhi. Some civil officials felt that Li Zhi had a grudge against civil officials, and were worried that Li Zhi would use these cannons to dismantle his official office at any time. Some military attachés were really shocked and amazed at the appearance of so many heavy artillery pieces in a small exercise.

Some military attaches were shocked by Li Zhi's strength, and made up their minds to find a way to stammer Xingguobo. It is rumored in the officialdom that Cao Bianjiao helped Li Zhi guard Fanjiazhuang once, and Shengsheng shared more than 1,000 heads of thieves from Li Zhi, and directly won the official title of Prince Shaobao. Cao Bianjiao's experience made the military attachés' eyes hot.

Forty heavy guns aimed at the city wall a mile away and opened fire.

One after the other, there was a loud rumble, as loud as forty thunderclaps. Forty heavy guns spat out tongues of fire, and the red flames converged into one, looking like a line of fire from a distance.

Forty heavy shells were fired at the city wall a mile away, "booming" and "booming" on the city wall, smashing the blue bricks outside the city wall to smithereens. The walls crumbled under the bombardment of cannonballs, and large swaths of rammed earth inside were shaken down, fell, and collapsed in the moat.

The artillery finished one round, the gunners cooled the barrels and began a second round of firing.

Seeing the terrifying power of the cannon, the Tianjin officials in the wooden shed were stunned. The scene of these forty Hongyi cannons firing a salvo is really shocking, under such artillery bombardment, what kind of city wall can stand it? No matter how high the city wall is, it will not turn into dust after being bombarded by this cannon for more than a dozen rounds?

The cannons were fired until the hundred-pace-long walls were all smashed into a dirt slope. The blue-brick city wall, which had been painstakingly built, lasted only a few hours in front of forty cannons.

The walls were broken, and the soldiers went into battle with twenty tall well railings.

The wells were five feet high, and on each of them stood ten soldiers with rifles. The well fence was pushed seventy paces away from the wall, a distance where the bow and arrow were not accurate at all, but the riflemen on the well fence could shoot the defenders on the wall with precision.

Two hundred riflemen on twenty well railings fired freely at the crumbling walls. Crackling shots rang out, and bullets struck countless clouds of flying dust on the already mounds of dust.

Seeing this, the faces of the officials in the wooden shed turned pale one by one. If on the real battlefield, under the suppression of these well fences, the defenders on the city wall will not be able to defend at all. There was certainly no way to stand on the wall, and even on the intact wall, the guards could only hide against the wall, not daring to stick their heads out.

If Li Zhi used this set of men and horses to attack the capital, what would be the result? If Li Zhi has a heart of disobedience, then... Officials did not dare to think ...

At the end of the exercise, the soldiers kept filling the moat with their shoulders, and soon the moat was filled. Under the cover of the shooters on the well railing, the heavily loaded soldiers walked up the wall that had turned into a dirt slope with rifles, and kept shooting at both sides of the wall, simulating killing the defenders who rushed up.

Seeing this, the officials understood that under the firepower of Li Zhi's new cannons, it was meaningless to defend the city and only be beaten passively. If you want to deal with Li Zhi's 20,000 tiger divisions, you must at least mobilize 100,000 border troops to fight Li Zhi. Now there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing battalion in the capital, and if Li Zhi transfers more than 10,000 tiger divisions to attack the capital, the Beijing division will be in danger.

The civil servants in the court who collectively jumped their feet did not seem to have a deep understanding of the strength of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.

The officials couldn't help but think again, why did Li Zhi invite him to watch the Tiger Benshi attack the "capital wall"? Want to demonstrate to the court through your own words? Obviously, Li Zhi used the officials in Tianjin as a channel to shout to the imperial court.

Li Zhi knows that he and him are not of the same mind? Some civil officials who thought they had followed Governor Li Jizhen and "offended" Li Zhi were so nervous that they even soaked their shirts. Fortunately, it was the height of summer, and civil officials could blame the hot weather for their cold sweats.

At the end of the exercise, Li Zhi's soldiers successfully occupied the city wall, which had been turned into a dirt slope, and planted the Li character banner on the soil slope.

Li Zhi stood up and said with a smile to the civil and military officials with different faces: "The weather is hot, you have been observing for a morning, and you have worked hard!" ”

When the officials heard this, they all threw themselves at Li Zhi and touched the ground, but they didn't kneel down. After observing this exercise, the officials became more in awe of Li Zhi and more respectful in their attitude.

"Xingguobo has opened my eyes!"

"The strength of the soldiers and horses of the rejuvenation of the country is rare in the world."