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After a moment of fierce and short confrontation, in addition to more than a dozen brave and stubborn fighters who were killed, hundreds of Jurchen soldiers were captured one by one.

Wei Zugui ordered them all to be imprisoned in the inner chambers of the castle. He immediately shouted: "Set up the scaffold immediately, time waits for no one, and you must be prepared before dawn!" ”

The cavalrymen dismounted and began to unload the wooden bars and other materials carried by the pack horses, and they carefully lit torches and set up shelves in the dark. It is necessary to act quickly, but also try to hide as much as possible so that the Mongolian battalion under the mountain will not notice the abnormality on the mountain. It's almost a dance on a blade. Just under the noses of the 100,000 Mongolian army, a long wooden shelf was erected, and the direction of the head of the shelf pointed straight to the Chinese army dome where Qu was located.

"But I don't necessarily know that Qu Zhu himself must be in the vault." Wei Sheng complained to his father while sticking to the shelf.

"The master said that the accuracy of this thing is too low, and the chance of trying to rely on it to take the life of the crooked is pitiful." Han Feng explained: "What he wants is not really to let Qu Chu be damaged, as long as these few can break into the Chinese army camp, it will be a victory." ”

The work proceeded quietly, and although everyone had exhausted their efforts to build it, it still took a lot of time to complete it before dawn.

"Let's take the team down the mountain, and go to Luhuling to meet Liu Chuan according to the plan." Wei Zugui said: "One person is enough to let go of this matter. ”

Wei Sheng responded: "The commander has the responsibility of commanding the army, and these five hundred brothers still need the commander to bring them back to Xiangyang alive." It is impossible for the commander to do this. ”

When the day dawns, once it is raised, it is almost impossible for the last person in charge of the point to escape, and it will inevitably be surrounded by the Mongol army, and the chance of breaking through alive is one in ten thousand. Of course, Wei Sheng couldn't let his father do it himself.

Han Feng also said: "Please rest assured, I will also stay, with my two horses, two horses, and two bows, even if the Hu people have 100,000, they can't stop the two of us." ”

He is a young man who is good at talking about grandiose words, but Wei Zugui can't take it seriously, he said in a deep voice: "You have a long time in the future, and there are still glorious years waiting for you."

Han Feng laughed, and he said to Wei Zugui: "The master disagrees with this sentence the most, he often says to me: 'On the battlefield, people are killed in an instant, Hugh said that young people have a long life, you must know that no matter whether it is a veteran or a junior general, everyone may be killed by the next knife. If you want to make meritorious contributions, you don't have to wait for tomorrow, men and children, you have to make meritorious contributions only today! ”

He slammed the iron whip into his palm and said, "Please let the commander let us go and make a contribution!" ”

His words boiled with enthusiasm, which reminded Wei Zugui of what he looked like when he was young. At that time, Wei Zugui was not powerless, powerless, and had no backing, just relying on an iron gun in his hand and a superb martial arts in the army step by step in the early Tang Dynasty. Today is the time for young people to show their might.

"In this case, I will not fight with you and the two of you, in this situation, it will be a burden to give more horses." Wei Zugui grabbed the arms of the two teenagers tightly: "You must come back alive, this is an order!" ”

He turned around and shouted, "All of them are on the horse, except for Han Feng and Wei Sheng, the others are retreating!" ”

For the Mongol troops outside the city, the rest of the night passed quickly, and they barely had time to take a nap under the toss of the night attack, and the sun had already dyed the sky a golden red, and the morning sun jumped from the east like a chicken egg, piercing the thin clouds of the previous night, and blooming with ten thousand rays of light.

For the civil and military officials of Xiangyang City at the head of the city, the rest of the night was as long as if decades had passed. Zheng Yunming kept looking at the mouth of the saucer with his hands, Wu Qian held his hands behind his back, and his fat body dangled in front of the control envoy, Zhao Kui was calm and relaxed, but the control made everyone around him know that when the control made him uncertain, he would keep grabbing the hilt of the sword at his waist with his left hand, which was an unconscious discharge.

Only Bai Yijie is the most calm, although the purpose of his life is to be cautious, but this time there is no need to worry about it at all. He and Zheng Yunming had different ideas, if Qu Zhu's health was so bad that he couldn't be a director, then even if he didn't do this scene, the Mongolian army could only withdraw and return north as soon as possible. The success or failure of this operation is just to add one more point to the balance for the Song Dynasty.

He looked at the Mongolian army camp where the sunlight gradually filled the distance, and Zheng Yunming and Zhao Zhizhi had already begun to raise their speculum glasses on the edge of the pheasant moat. Yang Luo said expressionlessly: "It's best for them to succeed, and it is not in vain for the soldiers who went out of the city yesterday to lose." "Obviously, the results of yesterday's night attack were not fruitful, and he has been haunted by it.

Wang Deng also looked anxious, stepped to Zheng Yunming's side and asked, "Why don't you do it over there?" ”

Even Wang Jingsong, who had always been calm, couldn't sit still, Zheng Yunming was only glad that Ge Huai was sent to patrol the city, if this lively old immortal was here, he would have been noisy and shouting.

Since the military horses have been dispatched, the soldiers on the front line should be trusted, and when Zheng Yunming was in charge of the army, he set an iron rule for himself, unless there is a sudden change in strategy, otherwise the part of the battle in front will be left to the commander in front to decide. This is the most correct choice in this era, the three hundred years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, with countless negative examples to prove Zheng Yunming's theory.

Only the sneak attacker who stayed in the fortress of Wanshan at this moment could decide the best moment to attack.

Suddenly, on the hill south of the Mongol army company camp, several pillars of smoke rose into the air, and several fires dragged a long trail of smoke across a clear arc, and flew into the Mongolian army camp against the background of the glow.

There was a cheer on the head of the city, Zheng Yunming moved the vision of the speculum to the center of the Mongolian army, although the three of the four were far away from the dome of the Chinese army, but with the help of the speculum, it could be vaguely seen that one of them still fell near the big tent of the Chinese army.

Regarding the idea of large rockets, Zheng Yunming has always had it since he was a student in Lin'an. Although the use of rockets as a weapon to determine the outcome of a war on another plane usually does not work, it is undeniable that rockets were widely used in all corners of the firearms age. However, the opening of the rocket was not so easy, and it was not until the artillery projectile with a large part of the fire and nitrate was initially finalized that he began to study the basis of the rocket.

Perhaps the hardest part for these craftsmen, who had never known that gunpowder could also be fired as a propellant, was to explain the basic principles of gunpowder rockets and to make their own initial experiments in building prototypes of primitive rockets. Zheng Yunming took a lot of trouble just to decide on the name of the rocket, and the so-called rocket today is a flammable object that ignites an arrow with fire and shoots it with a crossbow. Zheng Yunming tried to change the name to a medicine arrow, but it was also used to refer to the poisoned arrow that was coated with poison. In the end, Zheng Yunming was almost ready to use the Shenji Arrow to call this new weapon of gunpowder propulsion, anyway, the word Shenji will also be widely used in firearms in the future. In the end, it was decided to use the mediocre name of gunpowder rocket.

With the initial explanation of the principle, the craftsmen who had a preliminary understanding of the performance of gunpowder made a little surprised by the rapid progress of their research, and they soon came up with three gunpowder rocket schemes, one was to directly tie the propulsion canister to the Mao Lingyu arrow for boosting, although the accuracy of this improved arrow was ridiculously poor, the range was much longer. One is to imitate the kite style, tie paper wings on the 10,000 enemies, connect the fire torch below, once pointed, the four advance fire tubes take the 10,000 enemies straight to the enemy camp. The last is to place the iron cannon directly at the head of the propelling fire barrel, install it in a wooden frame groove, and fire it with a wooden frame, which can correct the direction of the distance.

But the problem was the weight of the iron cannon, which the average gunpowder cartridge simply could not carry. But this was not difficult for the wise craftsmen of Jinghu, who used bamboo strips to weave a frame, sealed paper with yellow clay as a shell, and filled the middle with explosives, iron nails, and lead. Such a gunpowder rocket was made of three models: a five-kilogram warhead, a three-kilogram warhead, and a ten-kilogram warhead. It can attack targets up to a thousand steps away.

When they proudly showed this kind of rocket to the deputy capital of Jing and E, they saw a dissatisfied face.

"Up to a thousand paces?" Zheng Yunming shook his head and sighed: "It's far from enough!" Go ahead, no matter how much it costs, I want a large gunpowder arrow with a warhead of twenty-five pounds and three thousand paces! ”

Now he was finally able to see through his lens the real effect of his rocket on the battlefield. One of the four rockets hit the Mongol army's forage storehouse, and as the army grew in size, the pastures near the army could no longer meet the army's needs for raising war horses, especially in the middle of winter. The army is even more extensive in the storage of forage, after all, Mongolian horses also need food. The rocket fell into the haystack and immediately caused a raging flame, one haystack after another ignited, and the nearby Mongol troops rushed to put out the fire, but blocked the way of the soldiers and horses who were eager to rush out of the camp to the top of Wanshan Mountain.

Another rocket deviated from its target and fell directly into the flotilla along the river, with a huge explosion that shattered two fishing boats close together. The rest of the ships did not know where the attack came from, and they took anchor and fled towards the north of the river. Another one fell into the camp of the former army and burned several yurts to the ground.

But Zheng Yunming and the civil and military officials at the head of Xiangyang City were only concerned about the rocket that was lucky enough to fall next to the Chinese army's dome, and the wind of the rocket explosion tore a corner of the dome, and the dome burned in the sputtering of sparks, and the smoke from the explosion immediately enveloped the Chinese military camp. After the smoke dissipated, Zheng Yunming realized that the fire had been extinguished by the cowardly soldiers who had gathered, but there was a crowd of people near the Chinese army barracks, obviously shocked by the attack of this rocket.