It turned out that the gods helped their army to attack the city, and he actually fled, and the dead who were chased back by the cavalry were confused, and these people were all taken away by the military guards, waiting for them to be judged by the military. Although the soldiers who didn't run were a little scared out of their urine, they didn't run after all, and some laughed heartily when they saw these royal soldiers being taken away by the military guards.

"Thor help me, the common people are naturally frightened, please punish them lightly." The two division commanders pleaded with Xiong Jing in unison. The Dongcheng division could not all be nobles, and many of the soldiers were retainers and servants of various clans.

"Light punishment?" Xiong Jing was displeased. Over the past few years, he gradually understood the temperament of the Chu people, and slowly discovered the shortcomings of the Chu army from many war examples. For example, in the battle of Chu and Jin around the corner, the analysis of the Gong who fled to the Jin State helped the Jin people to make a strategy: 'The Chu master is light and slender, and it is easy to be shocked. If there are more drums and junjun, with the night army, the Chu division will escape. 'The Jin people followed, and the Chu master collapsed.

'The Chu division is light', this is the shortcoming of the Chu army, and it is also the shortcoming of the Chu people. And this is easy for him to think of embattled, although he is not familiar with that period of history, but embattled think of it is a great blow to the morale of the Chu army. 'Lightness' is not cowardice and fear of death, Chu people are never afraid of death, but the mentality of Chu people is easy to fluctuate and be restless. Anger is rage, sorrow is great sorrow, joy is ecstasy, and it is not a disadvantage to be so human, but it is a human temperament, but the army must not be like this.

"The army has military discipline, why do you run to death in wartime?" Xiong Jing looked at the two division commanders pleading in front of him. "And you wait, when your subordinates hear thunder, they will collapse, this is the first Yingshi of Chu State?"

"Minister," originally to help intercede, but I didn't expect even to get in, and the two only said: "The minister is guilty, please punish the king." ”

"You're naturally guilty." Xiong Jing hated it. "Mount Tai collapsed in front and the color remained unchanged, the tiger tended to be behind and was not frightened, the Yingshi was too light, and the victory was just that, how about the defeat?"

"Please advise the King." The shortcomings not only appeared in the Dongcheng Division and the Xicheng First Division, but also appeared in the entire Yingshi Division, and Deng Sui, the general of the Yingshi Division, also brought in and asked Xiong Jing for instructions.

"I don't think that the Chu people are less stable than the Zhao people, and there is no ruthlessness of the Qin people. There is no joy or anger in the military, abide by the military law regulations, and show calmness at a glance. Victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged, and the constant shock is a strong teacher. The Yingshi has not escaped the nature of the Chu people, can win but not defeat, can not be provoked, such a division, how can it be a battle? Xiong Jing pointed directly to the essence of the Chu army, it's okay not to talk about this kind of thing, as soon as he said it, Deng Sui immediately felt that he had been poured a bucket of ice water, and he was cold from head to toe.

"The dead can not be killed, but the soldiers of the whole army should know: the run of the dead is the run of the whole army, the cowardice of the dead is the cowardice of the whole army, and the rest laugh at fifty steps and a hundred steps." After Xiong Jing finished speaking, he immediately ordered the artillery to open fire again, and the bombardment was more fierce than the trebuchet, causing sawdust and dirt to fly in all directions. Standing on the warship, you can even see the sky inside the city through the broken city gates.

"Why is that?" Xiong Jing asked, pointing to the sky inside the city gate. "The Qin army didn't plug the doorway?"

"Not yet." Several generals also saw the sky inside the city gates. They thought that the Qin army had completely blocked the city gate, but they didn't expect that only half of it was plugged, and there were still about two meters left. Because the trebuchet is a projectile rather than a flat shot, it is generally smashed on the lower part of the city gate, and after smashing it, seeing that the city gate does not move, the artillery soldiers begin to smash the rammed earth wall, but they do not find that the city gate is only blocked by the lower half, and the upper half is not blocked.

"Please, the king, give the order to siege the city." When he saw the opportunity, he didn't want to let it go.

"What do you say about the siege regulations?" Xiong Jing asked rhetorically.

"This," Yang Yu wondered why Xiong Jing asked about the regulations. "King, this must be the negligence of the Qin people, there are not many houses in Shaxian City."

"If it's the Qin people's plan, so what?" Xiong Jing originally wanted to say that it was in accordance with the combat regulations, but the regulations were not complete, and the existing regulations were all regulations for defending the city and fighting in the field, and there were few regulations for attacking the city.

"I thought I could give it a try." Raise a beard or insist on seizing the opportunity. "The Qin people were really in a hurry, and they didn't design it on purpose."

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Prison Rider, he came out of the military academy, and Xiong Jing wanted to see what he had learned.

"The Qin army in Jiangbei is helpless, and the minister thinks that he is not in a hurry." Prison Ride. "With regulations, when the city collapses, it will be attacked, not when it is cracked."

Twelve guns, even if only one shell is fired every few minutes, is continuous. Coupled with the hammering of the trebuchet, the sound of 'boom, bang' is endless. After all, the artillery was an experiment, and it stopped after a while, and then the artillerymen came forward with their shields to measure the actual effect of the shells breaking through the city, and then recorded them one by one. Disappointingly, in the middle of the afternoon, twelve guns were towed back to the ship. Seeing that Thor didn't help him attack the city, the morale of the whole army couldn't help but stagnate.

"How?" Xiong Jing asked, and Sora was reporting to him on the effects of the shelling.

"It's better to throw stones." The air was not very satisfied with the results of the shelling. "100 kilograms of city-breaking shells, 5.44 kilograms of shells, city-breaking shells are slow, and cannonballs are fast, so city-breaking shells can destroy cities, and most of the shells are ...... through cities."

Whether it's a crossbow, a trebuchet, or an artillery. Kongdu had actually fought in battle, and he felt that the effect of artillery bombardment was not as good as that of trebuchets. Xiong Jing is not surprised by this, rammed earth is not a rock, and a dozen cannonballs are pitted, which is indeed inferior to the city-breaking bullets fired by trebuchets, and a dozen large patches of rammed earth are splashed down.

Xiong Jing was silent for a long time when he heard this, not that the artillery could not break the city, the key was that the gunpowder was limited, and after several test firings, there was not much gunpowder left. The new gunpowder was thousands of miles away, and it was not until the year after that Hu Tansuo could send the second batch of sulfur.

"Please advise the King." Sora didn't know what to do, whether to continue the bombardment or not to stop bombarding.

"Let's go back." Xiong Jing finally made a decision. "The remaining gunpowder will be used later."

"Yui." Empty Wenyan was a little disappointed, and the first time the artillery landed in the city ended without a problem.

"How much gunpowder is left?" Xiong Jing asked before he went out.

"There are more than 450 rounds." Sora replied.

The gunpowder was all ordered, and more than 450 rounds meant that there was still half a ton. The power of black powder is one-eighth of the weight and one-third of the volume of Nobel explosives, and because saltpeter is impure, the power of these gunpowders will be folded by one-fifth, that is, 500 kilograms is only relative to the power of 12 kilograms of Nobel explosives.

Xiong Jing, who came up with this number, was very disappointed, he waved his sleeves to let the air retreat, and began to wonder if he was in too much of a hurry. Gunpowder cannot guarantee quality or quantity, and building artillery in advance is simply a chicken rib. That is, the sound of gunpowder explosion can frighten people, and the actual effect is not as good as trebuchets and crossbows.

Instead of using them to scare people, it is better to make some primitive grenades and throw them out when the two armies face each other, so that the enemy army will be thrown into chaos. Now it's up to the Red Ocean Fleet, India produces saltpeter, and if you can bring back saltpeter and sulfur from India, then the artillery may still be able to play, if not......

The trebuchet smashed the Shaxian city wall without hurry, Xiong Jing watched quietly, thinking of the mountain ghost and the gluttonous number, the last time they received the pigeon news, they had arrived in Aceh north of the Strait of Malacca, and now it has been almost a month, even if they miss Sri Lanka, they should go to the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Aden.

The disadvantage of carrier pigeons is that they can only be sent and sent, especially if the other party does not have a fixed residence. Xiong Jing very much wanted to remind the fleet to be sure to find saltpeter and brimstone, but it was no longer possible, and the only expectation was that there would be no hook and no city order, and he did not forget about it.

*

On the south bank of the Yangtze River under the north wind, the trebuchet siege is continuous, and the Red Ocean fleet under the north wind has reached the east coast of the Indian subcontinent and found Sri Lanka, but unfortunately, there are no cities and villages in sight on the east coast of Sri Lanka.

The fleet thought that it would only be able to cross Sri Lanka and sail west until the monsoon turns north to the mouth of the Ganges next spring, when the mountain ghost suddenly spotted a northward current, and the fleet immediately dropped its sails and sailed north. The currents are not fast, but they are close to the shore, and the fleet can just observe the coast with a land separation mirror.

The coast was uninhabited and uninhabited, and there was nothing exotic, but after two days of going north, the lookout who was directly in front of him noticed that he saw a sea boat coming along the coast.

The sea boat is similar to the previous single-paddle wings of the boatmaster, but it is not that long, with only fifteen oars on one side, and the old wings of the boatmaster have twenty-five oars, and the length of the boat is about fifteen or six meters. There was a short mast on the boat, and a dirty square sail hung from it. The monsoon wind from the northeast blows the sail and pushes the boat forward.

"What if?" Wu Gou Chang watched the sea boat get closer and closer, and didn't know what to do.

"When the boat comes from the north, let it be a city." Lu Zhuo is an envoy, and he only has the power to defend the fleet, and has no power to rob, unless Lu Zhuo allows it. "How far is the city?"

"I can't understand the words with them, this ......" The city commander also looked at the oncoming exotic sea boat, and now the biggest problem is language, and he rashly stepped forward to ask, maybe the other party thought it was malicious.

The fleet was slow to move north, and the boats were sailing faster downwind and south, and both sides were curious about each other, and for a time there were people standing on the decks of both sides. However, the decks of the Mountain Ghost and the Gluttonous are both higher than each other, and one side looks up and the other looks down. Seeing that the two sides were getting closer and closer, an Ou Yue Yue man shouted a few Yue words at each other, but unfortunately, a bearded man who looked like a shipwright on the opposite deck shook his head while spreading his hands, indicating that he understood anything.

"Kalinga!" Seeing the sea boat staggered by from a distance, Wugou shouted a word.

Kalinga is a Sanskrit transliteration, this time the bearded man understood, he pointed to the north with his finger, made a long, long gesture with his hands, and then replied loudly: "Julo." ”

"Julo?" This may be the name of a place, the name of a country, seeing that the other party is getting farther and farther away, Wu Gou Chang seized the time to ask again, and pointed to the north at the same time. In the distance, I saw the bearded man nodding again and again, indicating that Zhu Luo was also in the north.

"Or ask him to lead the way." Lu Zhuo saw that the other party was kind and said so. "Heavy reward is."

"Playing the flag, the mountain ghost is turning, please guide me in this boat." Wu Gou Chang felt that if he could find Zhu Luo, it would naturally be better to have someone.