Originally, Chongzhen wanted to take advantage of the topic to investigate the fact that the courtiers collectively concealed the military affairs of the Guide Mansion and did not report it.

But at the critical moment, Zhang Fengyi, the old guy, stood up.

Zhang Fengyi is a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and he is a very capable person, he came forward to speak Zhu Youzhen can't help but give him this face. And privately, although Zhang Fengyi is slippery, he is indeed one of the few ministers he admires.

Moreover, according to the speed of the Ministry of War, it is reasonable to send Henan's military information to the capital in six days.

If you want to ask a difficult question, you can only clean up a little, Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and said: "Liu Aiqing, please, since you now know that Luo Rucai's 200,000 army is besieging Guide Mansion, you can tell me, how to untie this knot?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Min Hongxue, the secretary of the ministry and the cabinet minister, came out of the list and arched his hand: "Master Su is a military wizard, he single-handedly pacified Shandong without bloodshed, and now he has 6,000 soldiers in his hands, and 50,000 people in Guide Mansion can use it, so there is no problem to defend the city." ”

"Hmm!" Zhu Youzhen nodded and said: "According to common sense, Su Baiyi should be more than enough to defend the city, but what Zhang Fengyi said just now is not bad, there is a shortage of food in the city, how long can he defend it?" So, Zhuqing, put aside other methods for the time being, let's think about how to send troops to help, near Guide Mansion, what soldiers can be adjusted? ”

"The minister suggested that troops be transferred from Chen Qiyu!" Min Hongxue said: "Chen Qiyu is the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces, and its purpose is to exterminate the bandits, which belongs to Henan, and Luo Rucai is also a bandit, so it is most suitable for him to take care of it." ”

"No!" Zhang Fengyi waved his hand and interrupted, and said: "Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jin, and Henan provinces are encircled, and the ambush layout on all sides has been completed. ”

Min Hongxue looked at Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen frowned and nodded.

He can still tell where it is light and what is heavy.

"The Beijing Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, and His Majesty's Twenty-Four Guards can't move either." Zhang Fengyi blew his beard and said: "It's autumn, there is a possibility that the Jianyu outside the gate will come at any time, the defenders of Xuan and Daer Town are insufficient, and none of the soldiers of our Beijing division can move, so let's not fight the idea here." ”

"That's only around Guide Mansion!" Zhu Youzhen thought for a while and said: "The Ministry of War has ordered Kaifeng, Nanjing, Xuzhou, Huai'an and other places to send 10,000 troops to each town to support, and if you can't eat Luo Rucai, you can drive him away and return to Germany." ”

"That's all there is to it!" Zhang Fengyi nodded, but he didn't think so.

The armies stationed in the interior are different from the border armies, they are accustomed to living a peaceful life, and those generals have drunk the blood of their soldiers for more than 200 years, and the combat effectiveness of the garrisons in these places is very unbearable without testing. What's more, shoddy is good, and less is more. When the time comes, 10,000 reinforcements will be reported to the imperial court, and it is likely that there will be less than 5,000 in Guide Mansion.

However, this is no longer something that he Zhang Fengyi is considering.

Whether Su Baiyi is dead or alive doesn't matter much to him. He has only one goal, that is, the four provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jin, and Henan are surrounded and ambushed on all sides. As long as the anti-thief leaders of the thirty-sixth battalion can be eliminated, it will be just a piece of cake.

Su Baiyi? Hehe...... This person may be very talented, but unfortunately, he doesn't know the times.

……

Two days ago, after Su Baiyi suddenly sacrificed the explosion-proof glass and reinforced concrete of the big killer, the crying father who killed Luo Rucai almost ran away. But in the end, it was the 20 million taels of silver from the Guide Mansion that prevailed in his heart, and Luo Dashuai restrained the fear in his heart and stayed hard.

In the past two days, he did not continue to attack the city as vigorously as he had in the first few days, because he also knew that doing so would be tantamount to suicide and would not have any effect at all.

But naturally he will not be idle.

Song Zuzhi is worthy of the name of resourcefulness, and gave Luo Dashuai another idea: attack from afar!

The close fight was completely restrained by Su Baiyi's team, and there was no room to play, so there would be some harassment battles every day. Song Zuzhi is beautiful and his name is called: the plan to exhaust the enemy.

Here's how it works.

Let the archers stay far away, holding bows and arrows, but not at the head of the city, but into the city.

The arrow was smeared with a layer of tung oil and ignited, which really brought endless troubles to Su Baiyi.

According to reason, the effective range of the general bow and arrow in the Ming Dynasty was about 150 meters, and after this distance, the lethality was insufficient. In addition to the effective range, there is also a maximum range.

The maximum firing range is generally twice the effective firing range, and the high can reach 300 meters, and the less can reach more than 200 meters.

That's the trouble.

Because the arrows were on fire, they didn't care what the effective range was, they just shot far.

What does the inner city of Shangqiu City look like now?

Fifty thousand inhabitants live in tents that are basically people next to each other, tents next to tents. As soon as these rockets came in, they made a big difference. Countless tents were set on fire, one after the other, and they couldn't pounce.

And Luo Rucai is too bad, every time he shoots arrows, he is specially selected when everyone opens the tent in the evening when they are about to go to bed, or in the middle of the night, or when they haven't gotten up in the morning. Fortunately, there were hundreds of disciples under Su Baiyi's hands, and many people spontaneously followed behind the students to put out the fire, so that the fire could not burn on a large scale.

However, this is also very annoying, and you have to think of a solution.

At noon on this day, Wang Zheng, who had been unknown, brought Su Baiyi good news.

"How's it going, sir?"

In a workshop behind the Confucian Temple, the grizzled Wang Zheng patted the cannon in front of him with joy on his face, showing off to Su Baiyi.

"Cannon?" Su Baiyi's eyes widened: "Oh, how did I forget that you can cast cannons?" As he spoke, he patted his head in annoyance.

Wang Zheng said: "It doesn't matter if the adults forget, the subordinates haven't forgotten." At that time, before we closed the city gates, we brought back a lot of steel and coke from the river, and I had the workers build a blast furnace, and it took a few days to make an example, and only then did I melt a few rails and cast the cannon. ”

"How many are there?" Su Baiyi stepped forward and asked.

"There are two at the moment, but they are still being minted, and if there are no accidents, we can make eight tomorrow." When Wang Zheng said this, he said mysteriously: "My lord, because our iron is good, so is the cannon made here." The subordinates looked at it carefully, the artillery in Beijing and Ningyuan can only shoot two shots an hour, and our cannon can hit five guns without exploding! ”

Su Baiyi's eyes shrank slightly, and he said in a low voice: "After the casting is completed tomorrow, put two guns on each city head, and don't do this cannon." The models are also destroyed, and ......" Su Baiyi's voice was lowered: "Our cannon is better than Beijing's, don't spread this!" ”

Su Baiyi is not afraid of casting cannons, and he is not afraid that the emperor will ask him for it.

But now the steel production of his own railway is slightly insufficient, so naturally he can't give this skill to the imperial court. This is the foundation of his life, and if he wants to do it, he must do it until he is in his position, and not make wedding clothes for others.

"Are there any shells?" Su Baiyi asked.

"Yes!" Wang Zheng took Su Baiyi and walked around the inner room, which was full of round stone balls, and he said to Su Baiyi: "These are all made by the people in the city, and now they can make two hundred a day." ”

Su Baiyi has naturally seen this stone ball.

When it was attacked on the surface of the Bohai Sea, it was flanked by three Fu boats, and the cannons on board fired this kind of stone ball. If this thing is placed on a sea ship, it is very powerful, and it can blast a hole in the side of someone's ship with a single shot, but if it is bombarded into a dense army, its lethality will be limited.

How many people can a stone ball hit?

Even if you can smash three to death, you can't get it.

"Are there any flowering bombs?" Su Baiyi asked the king again.

Flowering shells, as the name suggests, are the shells that can explode in the enemy camp after being fired. When Su Baiyi used to go online, he often saw people discussing on the forum, and some said that there were flowering bombs in the Ming Dynasty.

Some people also say it's apocryphal!

But whether there is one or not, just ask Wang Zheng.

Wang Zheng's answer was, "No." His answer did not disappoint Su Baiyi, because he immediately said: "That thing is complicated to make, and you still have to use iron, if you want it, I will go and cast a few." ”

That's it.

It seems that Da Ming has a flowering bomb.

"Good, good!" Su Baiyi said: "Go and do a few, I'll tell you how to do it, use two layers of iron outside, put gunpowder in the center, and put two layers of iron in the middle, hehe, Luo Rucai has been burning our tent these days, and he is not rude, and this governor wants to send some surprises to Luo Dashuai." ”

……

Day 2.

The eight cannons were laboriously carried up to the top of the city by the soldiers, but in order to achieve the effect of taking them by surprise, Su Baiyi did not show the cannons to the enemy on the opposite side.

Cannon?

Sharp weapons too!

Don't show it lightly.

This thing is like a brother in the crotch of the pants, which usually needs to be covered with a cloth, and it surging out at a critical time to achieve the desired effect.

When is the critical time?

Of course, when the guy on the other side came to set the fire again.

At noon, Luo Rucai's people came again.

Five or six hundred archers gathered a hundred and ten meters in front of the city gate, drew their bows and arrows at the same time, and then shot at the city.

Rockets flew through the sky above the city like meteors and landed in the inner city.

"Now, fire!"

Su Baiyi gave an order, Kong Youde personally uncovered the cloth on the cannon, reached out and took out a lighter to ignite the fire rope outside the cannon barrel.

"Whoa...... Bang ......" with a loud bang, the black shells flew into the enemy line, and then exploded a second time.

It's blooming!

In addition to the fragments of iron bullets, there were also boiled coal pitches of more than 200 degrees. Once this thing is thrown on the skin, hehe!

Su Baiyi's ears briefly lost their sound because of the loud explosion.

The surrounding scene is like a TV with sound turned off.

Under the smoke and dust, a small black head covered its mouth and leaned over to him, saying something loudly.

Su Baiyi saw that this little guy was Su Yan, she was choked by the smoke and dust rolled up by the cannon, and she looked like a little beggar.

"What's the matter, how did you get here, get down!" Su Baiyi said loudly, but his ears were buzzing, and he could barely hear his own voice.

Su Yan opened his mouth wide to speak while pulling his clothes.

But I couldn't hear what he was talking about.

It was a long time before she could hear a voice, and she seemed to be saying something non-stop, raw...... Bear...... Gave birth to ......

"My sister-in-law is born!"

Su Baiyi was stunned for a moment, and the shield in his hand fell to the ground.