After the good news was issued, Yang He put the matter behind him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

For him, everything else is false, his own strength is fundamental, when the strength arrives, if he doesn't want the official, he will automatically send it to the door, just like Sui Ning Lian.

After killing the enemy and capturing it that day, he also asked Jiuye's cavalry to send the captured horses, mules, silver and other horses to the Sui River by a detour, and then cross the Yellow River and send them back to Xin'anzhuang. The wealth is moving, and in order to avoid attracting people's red eyes, it is better not to show these seizures in front of the world.

Although he is not afraid of things, but more things are better than less things, at this stage, Yang He is still the purpose of making a fortune in a muffled voice.

After returning to the military camp in Suining City, he also interrogated and classified those captured thieves.

There are thirty or forty people in each of these rogue horse infantry teams, and they are mainly divided into three parts, the main people, that is, the people who manage and transport grain and grass, and the leaders are called elite soldiers, which are the middle of the thieves who have military merits, or the disabled veterans or something.

They are responsible for the transportation and distribution of grain and grass, and often include grooms, veterinarians, etc.

There are also people in charge of weapons, who are responsible for the erection of tents in the army's nests, building and repairing equipment, and so on, and many people here are craftsmen, especially many blacksmiths, carpenters, etc.

Finally, there is the person who is in charge, that is, the person who makes a fire and cooks in the army, and the leader is called the Si Mo, and there are ten or more than a dozen firemen under his command.

These three parts of the people constitute the logistics auxiliary personnel in the rogue team, and the ratio of them to the soldiers is almost one to one, which can be regarded as attaching great importance to logistics, because they are always on the move, so they attach great importance to all kinds of logistics supplies.

After Yang He captured these guards, the elite soldiers, the armourers, and the mills in the house were basically singled out and killed, and the rest of the ordinary guards could be transformed.

After the interrogation statistics, Yang He was also pleased to find that there were more than 50 craftsmen in these camps, and there were 25 blacksmiths in the house.

This is a huge number, you must know that he Xin'anzhuang, even Li Tiannan's sister, Yu Blacksmith's granddaughter, counting, is only fifteen blacksmiths, and there are only seven people allocated to the armory. Their production capacity directly uses fine iron, and there are only ten pairs of iron armor and 20 pairs of iron-inlaid cotton armor a month.

With these blacksmiths adding, the creation of his armor and weapons in Xin'anzhuang can be greatly accelerated.

Of course, these servants are all guilty people, and they must not be mixed with the craftsmen of Xin'anzhuang, they need to accumulate merit to atone for their sins, and after making sure that they can be new people, they will be slowly arranged into various departments, at least one or two years later.

For the time being, Yang He gathered these people in the barracks to repair and make armor.

In this battle, he captured more than 200 pairs of thieves' cotton armor, 170 pairs of pure cotton armor, 35 pairs of iron-inlaid cotton armor, except for the extremely damaged can not be used, there are about 150 pairs of pure cotton armor, 25 pairs of iron-inlaid cotton armor can be used after repair.

The distribution of these cotton armors, the cavalry team, and the sentry team must have a pair of hands, all of which are pure cotton armor, which generally weighs more than 20 catties, which is about the same weight as the iron-inlaid cotton armor of the cavalry sentry team.

However, the iron-inlaid cotton armor of the cavalry sentry is only in the style of armor, and only has armor pieces on the upper body, and the thickness is only two layers, so it is not heavy. These cotton armors have a shawl, connected with cotton arms, and are basically three layers thick, so they weigh more than 20 catties, and even have four layers thick, weighing 30 catties.

Pure cotton armor has a certain anti-chopping ability, can prevent projectiles, in more than 30 steps away from the direct shot of the bow and arrow is also good, dialed into the cavalry sentry team's pure cotton armor, after repair, the outer lining cloth changed to gray homogeneous.

Twenty-five pairs of iron-clad armor were used by the captain of the main killer team, and some brave armor soldiers in the third row after the formation, because they had to cover the flanks of the flanks.

These inlaid iron cotton armor three layers plus armor pieces, generally weigh 30 catties, some even weigh 40 catties, the ability to prevent arrows is very good, there have been tests in the East and the West, the elite longbowmen of the West are at a distance of 65 feet, about 19 meters, about 13 steps, in order to penetrate the cotton armor and the armor and pierce the flesh.

The longbow they used was more than a hundred pounds, almost the eight-force bow used in the Ming army, this kind of bow can be called a strong bow, and there are not many people in the army, after all, the bow power is more than a hundred pounds. Generally, archers only use six-force bows, and those who are weak and can't help the wind use five-force bows.

The eight-force strong bow can only shoot through the inlaid iron cotton armor at a distance of thirteen steps, which is considered a very good protective force, of course, it cannot be compared with the Qing army who are good at shooting. They generally used a ten-force bow for foot shooting, and Bayala even used a twelve-force bow. When encountering their strong bows, the anti-arrow ability of the iron-clad armor will be moved to more than twenty paces away.

Don't encounter a well-made firearm at any of the above, otherwise it will be useless to move to seventy or eighty paces, or even a hundred paces away.

The iron-inlaid cotton armor is transformed, lined with black cloth, inlaid with red edges, and there are more than 100 pairs of pure cotton armor, which is used by the captain of the firearms team and some brave people inside, the same modification, some are lined with green cloth, and some are lined with red cloth.

If it continues to be distributed in this way, the number of armored soldiers in Yang He's team will almost reach three to one.

Sure enough, in the primitive accumulation stage, looting came the fastest.

Moreover, 80,000 taels of silver were seized, and Yang He planned to take out 10,000 taels of silver to reward the soldiers, which can be described as a great morale boost.

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In this battle, Yang He suffered 26 casualties, and finally 18 were killed, and three seriously wounded survived, and they and the remaining lightly injured were sent back to Xin'anzhuang to recuperate, and selected people from the baggage team to fill the vacancy, and then transferred people from the Xin'anzhuang new barracks to fill the shortage of the baggage team.

The first general and deputy general Yang Qian insisted on not leaving, so he recuperated in the barracks.

Ma Xiang, the captain of the first team of the second general team, was killed in battle, Zhang Zongxiang, the deputy of the third team of the first general team, was killed in battle, and the captain Lin Guangguan was seriously injured.

In accordance with the regulations, Ma Xiang was replaced by the deputy tiger squatting cannon of the team, Guan Feng was the deputy of the first team, and Li Jian was transferred to the second team as the deputy of the second team.

He also replaced Zhang Zongxiang with Gong Xianqiu, the head of the team, and Lei Qingbo, the deputy of the team, temporarily replaced Lin Guang as an official.

Life and death are impermanent in troubled times, and everyone grieves for a while, and everyone is sharpened, but they are more sharp.

In the past few days of busy work in the military camp, Yang He sent sentry spies to pay close attention to the movements of the Liukou, in order to prevent the thieves from retaliating against the attack, and also strengthened the defense of Suining City with Gao Qifeng and others.

March 7.

These days are fierce suns, peach blossoms are gorgeous, willow branches are verdant, and the muddy roads are gradually becoming dusty.

Jia Ye Qiangqiang, Chen Qiuao and other escorts followed, Yang He and Gao Qifeng, the magistrate of the county, and others walked in front, and they patrolled around the city, especially checking the four gates. There are constantly young people coming and going on the polder, carrying rolling wood and stones.

There are also forks and ramming rods, ash bottles, fire pots and other armor.

The hanging curtain guarding the battlement is also constantly moved to the polder.

There are also government servants and people, or armed with bows and arrows, or long knives, together with the social soldiers with carefree silk wrapped around their waists, from time to time in and out of the grass factories at the head of the wall, patrolling all over the polder wall in shifts, a tense and busy atmosphere.

Everyone walked to the north polder gate, there were people coming and going here, everywhere in the battlement wall, in addition to the hanging household on the side, there were a large number of young people carrying sacks and earth baskets, which were also piled up everywhere on the battlement wall.

This is used for fire artillery, the thieves conquered the city, captured a large number of artillery, and when attacking the city, artillery was also widely used, such as when they attacked the city seal, the city walls were destroyed in several places.

The soft wall of the hanging household is a sharp weapon against arrows, but it is useless for artillery, these battlements are not covered with bricks, although the rammed earth is extremely hard now, but against the artillery, I am afraid that it has not been bombarded many times, it may be blown down. Stacking sacks and baskets behind the battlement wall is a good defense against artillery.

Gao Qifeng and the others looked curiously, and they saw that some of the battlements at the polder gate of the city tower and on both sides were not only piled up with sacks and earthen baskets behind the battlement walls, but also piled up behind the battlements, and only some artillery holes separated by wooden planks were exposed.

This section is covered tightly with heavy earth baskets and bags filled with dirt.

Then the archers had to shoot their arrows, and they had to run to the other battlements at either end of the polder, where there were overhangs, but there were no sacks of earthen baskets.

Gao Qifeng said: "Shen Yan, what is this?" ”

Zhou Mingyuan, the head office who followed behind, and Zheng Shixin, the chief bookkeeper, were also curious, and Liu Zunhe, the county minister, and Wei Kungang, the official historian, followed behind, silently, and their eyes flickered.

Yang Hedao: "Ming Mansion, if the thieves come, it is very likely to use artillery, the hanging household can be used against arrows, but not against artillery, these sacks and baskets are anti-artillery weapons." ”

Gao Qifeng seemed to understand or not, and Zheng Shixin and the others also touched these heavy earthen baskets and bags curiously.

The defense arrangement of Suining City is naturally led by Yang He, he is the general manager of Lian, and he also defeated the thieves in the field, his prestige is known, and Gao Qifeng is strongly supported, what he says, what is it, the rest of the officials just cooperate.

In Yang He's arrangement, in addition to all kinds of armor, several officials in the city guarded the east gate by Zheng Shixin, the county Cheng Liu Zunhe, the county Cheng Liu Zunhe guarded the north gate, Wei Kungang guarded the south gate, and Yang He himself and Gao Qifeng, the county magistrate, guarded the west gate, because he judged that that that there was the main attack place of the thieves.

Then in terms of troops, originally there were less than 200 people in Suining City, but fortunately, they formed a social army, adding 1,000 troops, and they were led by the chief and deputy leaders, guarding the three gates in the southeast and north, and each gate had 250 social soldiers.

The remaining 250 people were led by Zhou Mingyuan of the head office, accompanied by Yang He's baggage team as a maneuver, which side was in danger and which side was rescued.

And Suining City is not big, the city wall is more than four miles, although the polder wall is a big circle, it is not much bigger, all more than 1,000 battlements, more than 300 on each side, according to the strength of the city, each battlement can be assigned to the people to guard.

What's even better is that in addition to the west gate, the rest of the city walls are on three sides, and the ones near the walls are muddy lakes, puddles and ponds, and they can't gather the public at all and arrange troops.

There are only a few houses outside the east gate, and there are only a few houses outside the south gate.

This is a crowded group, and the polder wall artillery is facing the roads outside the gates, so that the attackers can calmly bombard, so that the attackers will suffer heavy casualties.

Gao Qifeng looked outside the city through a cannon hole, and the battlement in front of him was a very thick earthen basket and soil bag, and the width was about one step.

He presided over the construction of the city, and of course he knew the thickness of the polder, the width of the polder wall at the bottom was four feet and five feet, and the width at the top was one foot and seven feet, almost five meters, and more than three steps. These people are tall and a step thick in baskets and bags of earth, which look very sturdy and can indeed defend against artillery.

Touching the Franc cannon in front of him again, Gao Qifeng sighed: "It's a pity that there are fewer artillery." ”

Yang He said with a smile: "Only the thieves on the road are bombarded, and six little wolf machines are enough for each polder." ”

The artillery of Suining City is only 28 guns in total, and then 23 of them are small Buddha Lang machine guns, and the rest are old firearms such as generals, exterminators, and tribute.

It was not easy to fire and reload the old firearms, so Yang He abandoned them, but Yang He had to go five of the Franc machine guns earlier, all of which were of the Falcon gun type, and there were only eighteen small Franc machines left, three of which were guarded, and six of the small Franc machines in each place.

This artillery is indeed a little less, but Yang He thinks it is enough, after all, it is only bombarded by thieves rushing towards the road.

But......

He looked at the six Franc cannons on the wall of the North Polder, only two of which were of the Falcon type, mounted on heavy four-legged wooden benches, and then, like the other four Franc machines, the place where the mother and the child were at the junction were all oval.

In this way, when loading, the mouth of the mother and the mother is not tight, and it is not very clear.

Moreover, Yang He could see that when the sub-guns of these cannons were stuffed in, there was a large gap between them and the mother's belly, and they felt loose. If you are not an old gunner, or when the war is tense, you may not be close to the two guns, allowing the fire to leak out.

This fire leakage accident is not trivial, it is often sprayed several feet away, and the gas is extremely hot, and it is not uncommon for the gunners around them to be scalded to death.

Yang He sighed secretly in his heart, in the future, he still has to popularize that kind of "convex" shape of the sub-gun, this kind of sub-gun is not difficult to say, but it is built in two steps, one step first to create the sub-gun tube, which is as big as the front gun barrel mouth, and then wrap a square cast iron or fine iron, revealing a section of the sub-gun.

Then the outer belly of the female gun is also square, and the mouth of the barrel in front of it is retracted to the same length as the exposed sub-barrel, and then finely ground to make the size of the two seams.

In this way, the pipe is inserted, the square is blocked outside, and the iron bolt is plugged into the back, although the leakage of the wolf machine is still inevitable, but some residual warm gas leaks out directly above, but at least it will not hurt people.

But there is nothing that can be done about this transformation for the time being, so let's use it first.

Gao Qifeng and others also saw that not far from both sides of the polder, there was a hanging tower on the wall, which was very thick, wide enough to span three stacks, and four or five feet outside the stack, and each floor could accommodate about ten people.

Yang Hedao: "The thieves are good at using the 'release method', and every time they attack the city, they don't use the ancient ladder rushing method, and they take the Ling. They pierced through the cave city, and there was no horse face on this side of the polder, and if the thieves came to the city, the soldiers could live in the hanging towers and hit them with fire jars and ash bottles. ”

Gao Qifeng said: "The official has also heard that the thieves attacked Kaifeng, and the student Zhang Jian offered the hanging building, and the upstairs hit it, and there was no one who missed." Three doors are hanging in a total of six, I'm afraid it is insufficient, and it is necessary to build more. ”

Liu Zunhe, the county magistrate, suddenly said gloomily: "I heard that the thieves did not dig straight holes in order to avoid the hanging building, but even more to avoid it, I am afraid that the hanging building is useless." ”

Gao Qifeng said lightly: "It's better than nothing, Suining is the three gates, and most of the thieves are not allowed to enter, even if they dig holes, they are only one or two." ”

Dian Shi Wei Kungang suddenly muttered: "What kind of limelight, no, it's going to attract thieves to retaliate." ”

His voice was very small, and everyone didn't hear it clearly, but Yang He heard it, and couldn't help but have a cold light in his eyes.

But he didn't say anything, and continued to discuss defense with Gao Qifeng and others, the east gate, the south gate section is similar to the north gate, but there are two polders outside the east gate, and the task of guarding will be more arduous.

Finally, everyone turned to the west gate, the outside was bare, the wilderness was vast, and several miles near the city, it was a barren grassland with barren grass, which was very suitable for the formation of a large group of men and horses.

This side is also the defensive place of Yang He and Gao Qifeng of Zhixian County.

Different from the rest of the three doors, the tall and very thick sack basket stretches the entire wall, and all the buttresses are covered tightly, only the position of the person squatting, revealing some perforations separated by wooden boards, which are large on the outside and small on the inside, which is convenient for vision.

Then the hundred Xin'an Zhuang guns leaned on this side, laughing and exchanging, and most of the thieves who might come were unimpressed.

Then everyone talked, while carefully wiping the new anjun in their hands with a muslin cloth, all of them were very meticulous.

Several times, and in the city, it was inevitable that Yang He's command used a unique firearm that could be loaded in the breech, and at this time, not to mention that Gao Qifeng and others were curious, it was the history of Wei Kungang who was probing his brain and trying his best to look.

Yang He didn't care, the breech gun was not a sophisticated technology, at this time there were both the East and the West, such as the Ming Dynasty's thunderbolt, which was the same as the Franc machine, it was a firearm loaded from behind.

What if the outside world knows?

The reason why his breech gun has the current prestige is not because of its superior technology, but because of its precision and standardization, so the firearms created are of excellent standard. Replaced by the chaotic management and craftsmen behind closed doors at this time, it is difficult to copy his standard Xin'angong.

His firearms are also more expensive, and the cost of a pole is eight to ten taels of silver, which will scare away most people, and for many officials and military leaders, with this silver, they can buy a small cannon.

The biggest obstacle is that the sergeant has difficulty overcoming that psychological pressure, and the breech gun is indeed less powerful in range than the breech gun.

For the officers and soldiers who are impatient to open the gun at a distance of 100 paces, Yang He is afraid that as soon as the enemy enters the 50 paces, most of the sergeants will run away in fright, even if the bird gun in the Qi family's army starts fighting at a distance of 100 steps.

This is also the reason why the Hongyi cannon is becoming more and more popular, a kind of psychological security, whether it can hit or not, the farther away the enemy is better.

A strange circle was formed, and everyone was studying the range and power of the breech gun, and the famous Spanish general Bawick advocated: "A heavy arquebus should be able to kill a person wearing bulletproof armor at 100 yards, a person wearing ordinary armor at 400 yards, and a person without armor at 600 yards." ”

If the breech gun can hit people, it can indeed do this, but the problem is that although the power is strong, the accuracy is too poor. No matter how strong the firepower is, in order to hit someone, you still have to run to a distance of 50 meters and line up to shoot it, and it doesn't matter how much powerful firepower it turns into.

Because of the distance of fifty meters, more than thirty steps, the breech gun can kill a person wearing any heavy armor, and it can hit quickly, and it can also be hit while lying on his stomach.

Sure enough, Gao Qifeng couldn't help but ask, but after listening to the cost price of his new Angun, he was extremely staggered, and there was no follow-up.

Dian Shi Wei Kungang muttered again: "It's really rich and has nowhere to spend." ”

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For the defense of the West Gate, Yang He did not freeze the city, but fought according to the city.

How many historical war histories have proved that it is the most foolish way to defend the city and let the enemy besiege it, so Yang He's way is to fight above and below the city.

Fifty paces from the polder, he built two earthen ditches, both of which were more than a man high, trapezoidal, and very thick earthen walls.

The first earthen wall is defended by a general firecracker, winding about 200 steps, there is a trench in front of the earthen wall, the trench is one zhang wide, more than one zhang deep, "V" shaped, it is difficult to climb out if you fall in, and the inside is covered with bamboo thorns, wooden thorns or something, if people fall in, the result can be imagined.

Then the earthen wall behind the trench, there are perforations in the position where people are squatting, and the wooden board holes are specially erected when the wall is repaired, the outside is large and the inside is small, and the inverted trapezoid, Gao Qifeng and others squatted curiously and looked at it, and the line of sight was very good, especially not only the line of sight in front, but also the line of sight to both sides.

And because the shooting hole is only in the position of the person squatting, needless to say, the thief's arrow projectile is definitely not good, and the direct shot at close range is as extremely difficult as the impossible.

And because the earthen wall is thick, it can be protected against artillery, not to mention fireproof, to protect the safety of soldiers to the greatest extent.

There are also some officers' lookout holes on the earthen wall, and then there are five empty spaces between this earthen wall, except for the middle road space, the rest are two steps wide, and the front trench also has a two-step wide passage for the sergeants behind the wall to attack, and in time of war, artillery is fired.

However, in order to prevent the rogue artillery, when the rogue shells, these cannons are hidden by the wall, and when the rogue rushes closer, they will be pushed out to bombard.

These guns have guards that are also protected against arrows.

After a dozen steps of the first earthen wall, there is the second earthen wall, which is also high and thick, and some parts of the first earthen wall block the vacancy. But there was no trench in front of the wall, and it was incoherent, but it was for the killers and cavalry sentinels to take refuge and attack.

In Yang He's calculations, it is still the firearms team that guards the front, and the killer team guards the wings.

The terrain here is empty, only the road is on the north side, there is an abandoned martial arts arena about 200 steps out of the polder, Yang He has been to the martial arts arena to see, the broken walls are ruined, the surrounding and the inside are full of puddles and mud, and they can't be defended at all.

Therefore, he built these 200 paces long earthen wall along the fifty paces of the wall, and used a row of soldiers above and below the city to form a fire echo.

This thief attacked, and suffered heavy casualties under the frontal blow, but he could not even see people, and he would definitely come from both wings.

The killers hid on the two flanks of the first earthen wall, and behind the second earthen wall, and the thieves had to fight in a roundabout, first facing the muskets on the walls, and then facing the army formations on both flanks.

In the middle of this fight, the soldiers on the polder wall can still strike at them continuously, and the thieves will definitely suffer heavy casualties on both flanks.

Then they were defeated, and the cavalry and others could pursue.

Fighting by the city in this way, with a three-dimensional defense line, Yang He is confident that Liukou will take down the West Gate, which is an impossible task.

Listening to Yang He's explanation of the use of this line of defense, Gao Qifeng and the others were eye-opening.

Dian Shi Wei Kungang's eyes flashed, and a look of jealousy appeared, he couldn't imagine this kind of defense line, and he didn't have the courage to go out of the city to fight.

Gao Qifeng looked around, although he was a little worried that Yang He was out in such a formation, if the thieves attacked fiercely, he would be able to stop it.

But considering that he fought in the field, defeated 5,000 thieves, beheaded 1,300 ranks, captured many people, fought according to the city, and had a low wall and trench defense line, there should be no problem.

He looked at it, and at this time, many people were still digging trenches and building walls, and they were busy, and the mountain rain was about to come, and the wind was full of buildings.

Gao Qifeng was inexplicably a little nervous, and he was looking forward to it, thinking: "I don't know how many thieves will come, if only I could make another meritorious service." ”

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