Chapter 145: "Mini" Return Cannon

However, in the hearts of the Mongols, as long as they are Han and Nan, they should die, and they will die without a whole body or a place to be buried, just those who are beheaded by them and their heads fall to the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If the reputation is better, the Mongolian executioners will still feel a little guilty in their hearts, and they will still regard them as heroes or heroes;

But for officials who don't even love the people and only value their own interests, the Mongolian executioners of course think that they are doing the right thing for heaven and eliminating harm for the people, and the people who were killed by themselves are really innocent!

In addition to the first method, let the refugees of the Han and Nan people to disturb the cities besieged by them, the Mongols also like to let the army press the border and besiege the city, but they just don't attack!

Of course, it's not that they don't have the strength or the compassion they have, they want to win peacefully or anything, they don't have it!

As long as they have enough time, they still appreciate the cannibalism of the prey they catch, or die of hunger, wounds and diseases after lack of food and water, so they besiege the city and cut off all food and supply lines in the city.

The Mongols will also send Han Chinese officials to constantly shout or shout outside, and the Mongols just like to see the weak being attacked by the strong from physical to psychological, layer by layer, so as to defeat them!

The third method of the Mongols to capture the city, compared with the first two inhumane methods, is still relatively "humane", and it is a way to persuade the Mongol generals who lead the army to surrender when they have a certain courage and cultural knowledge!

Persuasion, as the name suggests, means that people (who can make Han Chinese or Mongols) negotiate with the governors in the city, ordering them to surrender immediately, otherwise they will do whatever it takes.

Although Su Zedong said that he didn't know how high the level of the people sent by the Mongols was, how eloquent they were, or how virtuous and elegant they were, anyway, the negotiation methods at home and abroad in ancient and modern times were not just about coercion and temptation, and both soft and hard!

The Mongols sometimes think that they have the capital to be arrogant, and their attitudes are only a higher nose, a louder voice, or a sharper eye, and they dare not do too many or excessive actions of the leader.

No matter how confident they are, they are always negotiating in the enemy's territory, and their own attitude is a little more arrogant;

But if you dare to slap the table in front of a large group of people, or point at the nose of the opposing general or commander and scold something, you will definitely be beheaded!

Spreading wilderness in other people's land, no matter who sent the persuasion officer to negotiate relations, he will not ask for this hardship to suffer! Not to mention that the Mongols are more "humane" in this method.

According to Su Zedong's tracking and investigation, it is also found that the success rate of this siege method is relatively high, but there are also indelible drawbacks:

That is, after being persuaded to surrender, will the victorious side really do what the envoy sent to say, or promise to ignore half of it, half of it, or even anything, and treat what he said before as nonsense!

The Mongols will desperately throw it aside, they just want to kill, to rob things, to plunder resources, gold and silver treasures, beautiful women, and so on.

Therefore, many Mongolian generals who led troops to fight wars had uneven qualities, moral culture, and three views, and in order to gain, they would be like trolls in later generations, abandoning all benevolence, righteousness, morality and the bottom line of life, just to watch others die under their own killing;

It is to let others watch their beloved wives die or be willed to be under their noses, do nothing, and then die in shame......

Su Zedong, who lived in later generations, also knew that in addition to the above three ways, the Mongols also liked to use people of other nationalities to rush ahead, and then the Mongolian people pressed the formation, followed by siege weapons with full firepower.

They just let people of all nationalities other than the Mongols die at the hands of their own people, that is, they let them become cannon fodder on the battlefield without any dignity or human rights to speak of.

The Mongols indulged their desires and cruelty in this way, and their absolute cruelty to foreigners and enemies was the truest portrayal of them on the battlefield;

When they encounter a city with strong resistance, or a hard-nosed army, when they take the city at a very large cost, what they do is the most familiar and inhumane massacre.

However, they would still keep the skilled men of the city and let them supplement the Mongol army as artisans;

In addition, the male common people who have a certain amount of labor, and the peasants who have better luck or who give the Mongols more money and food, will also be left as coolies, living without any dignity to speak of; And the more beautiful women, or the more beautiful women, will be left by them for fun.

The Mongols did not do this just because of revenge, but because they were so confident that they were not even afraid of revenge!

Under the self-perceived absolute authority and strength, there is no such thing as human rights, human life, or morality and ethics.

This is the case for many Han armies from ancient times to the present, let alone on horseback, and rarely interacting with people from places with strong cultural heritage.

If the uncivilized Mongols, who like to ride horses, shoot eagles, and wrestle every day, if they grasp the power and power, the longer they rule, the more the whole human race will live in the sea and fire, and live in the torment of the sun and the moon!

It's really not that Su Zedong deliberately belittled a person or a nation, but in the cruel ancient wars, in the era of cold weapons, when the level of civilization is not high, most people can't live, and the people they encounter are not the Holy Monarchs!

The brutality of warfare in the Cold Weapons period was due to the fact that it was completely dehumanized......

The Mongol army traveled dozens of miles earlier than they expected to use the "Huihui Cannon", and the so-called "Huihui Cannon" has a long history, and it is based on the trebuchet made in a period that is more ancient than the Song and Yuan dynasties.

According to historical records, the Mongols used this to break through the strongest and tenacious city of the Great Song Dynasty - Xiangyang City, and then directly took Bianjing to break the power of the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty.

In the lack of means of production, the people's sense of innovation and entrepreneurship was oppressed by feudal forces and ethnic discrimination, almost equal to zero, so after more than 80 years, the Mongols can get their hands on the siege weapon, is still a "return cannon".

However, it is precisely for the same reason that more than 80 years have passed, and there is not a single firearm or weapon that can replace or resist the "return artillery" on the stage of the cold weapon era.

And it was not until the middle of the Ming Dynasty that all kinds of cannons appeared;

As a result, it gradually replaced the "Huihui Cannon" that could have been made by simply applying the physics principle that was too simple for middle school students in later generations, that is, the theory that "as long as I am given a fulcrum, I can lift the whole earth".

Regarding the Mongols' siege methods and their so-called "nirvana", Su Zedong, a university counselor in later generations, still has some understanding.

Naturally, there is a relative method in mind, but when this method is not yet used, the blockhouses and iron fences guarding the moat a few miles away will still be broken by it.

But let the Mongols pay the most painful price because of this, Su Zedong and Liu Zhenming can still do it!

When five or six Mongol troops pulled tall and clumsy "return cannons" to a distance of about twenty miles from the pillboxes and iron fences, the defenders who had been given the order to retreat began a strategic retreat, that is, the troops guarding the outside of the pillboxes to the fence left first.

When the Mongol cavalry attacked, the retreating Han Chinese army successfully "secretly" transported out of the crowd of soldiers and "hidden" behind the iron fence under the full cover of the strong bows and arrows, heavy crossbows and firearms of the ghost soldiers in the pillbox.

The Mongol cavalry attacked in front of the iron fence, and Zheng Defeng, the commander of the Han army, calmed down, and still placed the carefully selected and streamlined members of the ghost army on the pillbox just a few miles behind the iron fence.

Even if the "fireball" fired by the return cannon smashed on the hard copper wall a few times, he just didn't give the order to let it down!

When the Mongol cavalry at the forefront broke through the iron fence and were about to rush to the pillbox to fight the hundred members of the ghost army who were still holding their posts, an artifact similar to the "return cannon" that they were proud of appeared in front of them.

However, in addition to being smaller than the tall return cannon, the biggest difference between the "mini version" of the Huihui cannon in front of the Mongol cavalry was that the "cannon" made by the Han army was not loaded with gunpowder or sulfur waiting for fire.

Rather, it was a long sword of incomparably sharpness, shining under the gentle flames of the southern in winter, making every Mongol cavalry who saw them shudder!

The thirteen miniature "Hui Hui Cannons" of the Han army were fired under the order of their commander Zheng Defeng, and tens of thousands of bows and arrows in the pillbox that had not been fired from the hands of the soldiers formed the sharpest arrow rain at this time, shooting down from the heads of the Mongol army!

The Mongols were stunned and dumbfounded, but before the sharp rain of arrows fell on their heads, most of them reacted to the misfortune, knowing that this was a ploy of the Han army, so they all withdrew from the battlefield one by one in a hurry, according to the rank of the officer.