"It's not the Yuan army in Quanzhou, and I don't know which Yuan army it is. We received the flying pigeon from the three counties at the same time, just in the early hours of this morning, they were each attacked by hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops, the Yuan army was strong and strong, and the siege equipment was numerous, and the city was broken through with lightning speed, and the defenders of our counties were only more than 5,000 people, completely unable to resist, so they had to abandon the city and flee. ”

"What about our people?" At this time, Lu Guangfu asked.

"Although they escaped, who knows, the Yuan army seems to have been prepared, and ambushed cavalry interception on the road to Anxi, and most of the army that broke through to us lost most of it. At this point, they are probably on their way back. The creep continued to answer.

After listening to the soldier's report, Lu Guangfu was instantly stunned, his brother Lu Guangxin was guarding Xianyou!

"Quick! Quickly inform the soldiers, military advisors, and village chiefs of the matter! Li Dagu didn't want to think about anything else, now he had to start preparing immediately, and he couldn't waste a minute or a second.

"Zhao Qianhu, you quickly lead your subordinate soldiers out of the city to collect grain, grass and supplies, only give you two hours, the more supplies, the better!"

"Yes!" A general with a white beard, thin eyebrows and square eyes, but a muscular commander commanded the order.

"Zhou Qianhu, you also go out of the city together, persuade the people who are farming outside the city to return to the city, and if you don't listen, you will be knocked out and dragged back."

"Yes!" A short, wide-bodied, two-handed sword general also stood up and replied.

"Something big happened in the county?" Zhang Guanghua, who had just slept until noon and had not gotten up, was running on the road while dressing and putting on shoes, and when he passed by the county office, he happened to see the carriage of the village chief, so he slipped in and asked.

"Yes, the three counties have been declared lost, but we still don't know who the enemy general is?" The village chief's usual smile was gone, and he said with a gloomy face at this time.

After everyone arrived, Li Da quickly prepared the army for war, and Zhang Guanghua also arranged the pre-war mobilization in the city.

"Lu Yishan, you hurry up and send the book to Kang Shou, his intelligence mouth has spread all over Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces for most of the past half a year, and he must have understood this matter. Then you send someone to help him, and bring him a basket of pigeons. After Zhang Guanghua settled the affairs in the city, he immediately said to Lu Yishan.

"Let's go, let's go to the city wall together, I hope Lu Guangxin and the soldiers can return safely." Li Da ordered, and everyone rushed to the outer city wall with the equipment to defend the city.

Everyone seemed to have agreed on a time, when everyone arrived, the two generals who went out of the city also happened to return to the city, not far behind them, there were other three county sergeants who fled in embarrassment, only to see that all the soldiers were disheveled, gray and gray-faced, and many people were covered in blood, obviously having just experienced a life-and-death battle. But despite the untidy appearance of the army, the most important military flag of the sun and moon was spotless and fluttering in the wind.

"Quick! Come on! On the city wall, countless soldiers from Anxi County shouted in unison.

The soldiers of the three counties, who had been defeated in the battle, seemed to have endless strength in their whole body when they just fled, but as soon as they rushed into the city, they immediately threw themselves on the ground, gasping for breath, and even inhaling the soil from their mouths and noses.

"Bang!" As the drawbridge was raised, the double-layered solid iron gates were completely closed, and the inside and outside of the city were completely isolated into two different worlds.

At this moment, yellow dust rose from behind the terraced fields in the distance. At first the dust is high and sharp, then it is low and wide. According to the Art of War, "The dust is high and sharp, and the car comes; Those who are humble and broad will come in vain", this is the infantry and chariots of the large army of the Yuan army at the same time.

Zhang Guanghua looked up and saw a yellow sun hanging alone in the blue sky, and couldn't help but be a little happy. Fortunately, it has not yet reached the spring equinox, and it has not yet encountered the season of spring rain, so the role of firearms can be fully brought into play. Otherwise, the Yuan army would only need a wave of strong attacks to take Anxi.

The Yuan army did not stop, and the main army was only four or five miles away from the city wall in a blink of an eye, and seeing that the Yuan army had completely walked to the range of landmarks built of cement pillars, Li Da issued the first order to the heralds.

"All artillery ready, first group, salvo!" Under the instruction of Li Da, Huang Er raised his flag and ordered, and the war drums sounded three times. "Bang!" In a cloud of smoke and dust, hundreds of flowering bombs exploded in the Yuan army.

"Second group, salvo!"

"The third group, salvo!"

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!" The maximum firing range of the May Fourth cannon was 9 li, and 4 li was the effective range with a very high hit rate. The Yuan generals immediately canceled the order to storm, and Ming Jin ordered the army to retreat.

"! Who the said that camping in the Land of Three Shots can be foolproof, get out of here! The governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, "Buddhism Lu", was suddenly so angry that he jumped like thunder.

"Chen Youding, you get out of here! Lao Tzu saw that you were good at leading the army to fight, so he gave you the task of intercepting the rebels and the first siege of the city, you see what you are doing! Tens of thousands of elite cavalry intercepted the rebels at ease, and even let the rebels run out of half. This siege, before the fuck got close, someone beat people upside down! ”

"Your Excellency! At first, I didn't expect the rebels to be so powerful, in fact, I could have annihilated them all, but their firearms seemed to have one in hand, and under their turns, one row after another, our cavalry in front was shot to the ground, and many horses were frightened, and there was no chance to pursue, so they fled while fighting. ”

"And this siege, I didn't expect them to have such a powerful 'fire gun', which can shoot three or four miles away with a single shot. I didn't expect the rebels to be so wicked! Chen Youding knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

Now he was also a little confused, he only knew that Anxi had been broken by the rebels in the past few months, and in his experience, this group of Red Turban Army was at most a rabble that had robbed the Yuan army's weapons, not to mention that the number was less than them, and the weapons must not be as good as the elite of the Mongolian army in his hands. Who knew that if one trick was not careful, he would plant two heels in a row.

"Don't kneel, get out of here! Look at the wall in front of me, I've never fucking seen it before, it looks so strong, it's fucking easy to break? ”

Chen Youding looked at it, and sure enough, the Anxi city wall was twice as large as he had in his impression, and it was also much taller, and it was all gray in color, without any brick and stone joints exposed, like a huge stone that was completely natural.

"What about the barbed sand in Quanzhou? Fetch him for me, and ask about the situation. Today we will set up camp first. Go down. "Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs 'Yue Kuo Cha'er' came out to play a round, he thought clearly, now the three of them are grasshoppers on a rope, judging from the situation that Chen Youding can easily break through the three counties in front of him, he is indeed a talent, and this time it should be an accident. However, no matter how clever the rebels were, as long as the army surrounded him, they could be trapped and killed in a few months.

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"Lu Guangxin! You're still alive! After the escaped sergeants rested, Lü Guangfu finally found his brother lying on the ground gasping in the crowd.

"Great! I thought I'd never see you again. Lu Guangfu helped Lu Guangxin up, crying with joy, who said that men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't reached the sad place. And Lu Yishan and Lu Zhen, who had been waiting outside, also ran over, hugged each other and cried. Many of the sergeants' family members could not get close and stood at a distance with tears in their eyes. Suddenly, the city burst into tears.

"Big brother, don't cry!" Although Lu Guangxin's eyes were also red, he still said strongly: "I finally lived up to my mission, and I brought back all the cavalry that my eldest brother handed over to me." ”

At this time, Zhang Guanghua walked over, separated a few people, and said: "General Lu, don't be sad anymore, the Yuan army estimates that it will not attack the city again for a while and a half, you quickly let the soldiers go back to the camp to rest, and eat some hot dishes and hot meals by the way." ”

"I have just received a report from the secret agent, and it is the Mongol army and the Tanma Red Army, which are directly under the Yuan Dynasty, that have come to attack us, and the Han army and the new annex army have only accounted for a small part, and these Mongols and Semu people are very strong in combat. Their leaders were the governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, "Fojialu", and the Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs "Yuekuochaer", and the vanguard was Yin Chen Youding, the county of Qingliu County, because they had just failed to attack Gaoyou, so they came to attack us. ”

The Yuan army camp outside the city.

"The subordinate Quanzhou Lu Daru Hua Chi Barbed Sand knocked on the two political affairs!"

Along the way, he hurried over, but Barbed Sand was still a step slower. When he first entered the camp, he saw the Yuan soldiers lying on the side of the road and groaning, and he knew that he had a big deal. In fact, as soon as he received the order from the Buddha family, he immediately realized that they might not be familiar with the current situation in Anxi.

Anxi's combat effectiveness is very strong, even his current Quanzhou city wall, there are many places that are repaired with smuggled cement, and there are also some imitation arquebuses in his army, and he also vaguely understands that there are many big killing weapons in the Anxi rebel army that can take people's heads several miles away. Originally, he was going to rush over to remind the Buddha family in advance, but in the end, the speed of the Buddha family was still too fast.

After getting up, Barb Sha continued: "Governor of the government, you don't know, there is a powerful figure in this Anxi rebel army, he is the rebel army's military advisor Zhang Guanghua. The surrounding people called him the reincarnation of the demon, and after breaking through Anxi, he made three powerful weapons, one was a 'arquebus', one was a 'cannon', and the other was a 'grenade'. Another weapon used to defend the city was 'cement', and the new city wall of Anxi was built with cement, which was as hard as stone. In addition to these things, he also made a lot of strange things in Anxi City. ”

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1. The place of one shot: the maximum range of the bow and arrow, about 200 meters.

2. Cannons: There were no cannons in the Yuan Dynasty, only bowl-mouth cannons with a similar range than firearms, and the earliest cannons that appeared in China were the red-coated cannons of the Ming Dynasty, also known as "Hongyi cannons", which were imported from the red-haired Netherlands.

27. Chapter 27 Hard-hitting

Chapter 27 is hard to beat

"And such a thing? Do you have any of these things? Buddha asked.

"Participate in the governor's affairs, this arquebus and cement are in our army." At this time, Chen Youding answered first.

"Really? Take a look. Buddha Jialu asked a little excitedly, now the situation of the entire Yuan Dynasty is not optimistic, if you can bring these kinds of things back to Dadu, even if you don't break through Anxi, it will definitely be a great achievement!

"Two political affairs, you come out with me to see." Chen Youding stood up and led everyone to a clearing outside the barracks.

"You see, this big stone pillar is the same color as the city wall, and it must be the so-called cement."

"Yes, yes! This is cement, and we also have it in Quanzhou City. Barbed Sand said immediately when he saw it.

At this time, Buddha Jialu took out his saber and slashed hard at the cement pillar with the back of the knife. There was a crisp sound of "bang", except for a little debris popping out, the cement pillar was not damaged at all.

"If you look at the governor's affairs, this is the arquebus." At this time, Chen Youding asked his subordinates to bring a captured arquebus and said.

"You show the grown-ups."

"Yes!"

Chen Youding's subordinates unfamiliarly loaded the ammunition, lit the fire rope, held the gun in both hands, and pulled the trigger with a firecracker. "Smack!" Without aiming, a small pine tree broke off in response to the sound of the two shots.

"This ...... That's too far away! "Buddha Jialu took the arquebus and was very surprised.

Barbed Sha also said: "Yes, this is the arquebus, except for the butt, I thought it was all made of steel, I once asked the craftsman to copy a few samples, but it took too many resources, and then I gave up." The whole gun contains more than 100 parts, each of which needs to be forged by a craftsman repeatedly, and it may be scrapped if you are not careful. But the rebels in Anxi City have one such weapon, and the quality is very high, I don't know how they made it. ”

"By the way, I brought a replica cannon with me this time." After Barbling Sha finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to take out the cannon as well.

The cannon was only the size of an arquebus, but it was as thick as a thigh, and it was placed on a wooden frame.

"This is also a miniature version of the imitation, and the cannon in Anxi City is much larger than this. But even if it was just such a cannon, it took dozens of craftsmen half a month to knock it out little by little with iron sheets, but there were hundreds of such cannons in Anxi City. ”

"Barbed sand, try it quickly." Yue Kuocha'er saw that this cannon was dozens of times thicker than the arquebus, and immediately felt the power of this cannon, and couldn't wait to see it.

Barbed Sand's subordinates fixed the cannon in the direction of the Anxi city wall, loaded the ammunition, and ran away with his ears covered as soon as he finished lighting the lead.

"Bang ......" There was a loud bang accompanied by a whistling sound that quickly moved away, and I saw that the shells stirred up a cloud of smoke and dust in the open space in the middle of Anxi County.

Before everyone had time to sigh, there was another "bang", accompanied by a sharp whistling, but this time the sound was coming towards them.

"No, run! Protect the two adults! Chen Youding screamed in fright.

However, everyone had a false alarm, the shell landed in the woods not far from the cement pillar, and did not hurt anyone, this time the shell did not explode, but rolled directly forward, knocking over countless trees in a straight line. But even so, everyone was shocked into a cold sweat.

"Withdraw, withdraw!" The Buddha family Lu hurriedly ordered.

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"Haha!" A burst of laughter erupted in Anxi City.

"It's a pity that I didn't hit." Huang Da put down the monocular in his hand and said regretfully. As soon as he put down his hand, the telescope was snatched away.

"The accuracy of this cannon is not good!" Huang Da sighed with a smile on his face.

"Just blow it! The cement pillar is 7 miles away, which is the longest range of the cannon, and it still has to be loaded with solid bullets. If you can wipe it off, you can sneak it on the side. Huang Er also smiled and teased.

"Huh." Huang Da pretended to be defeated, touched the back of his head and sneered embarrassedly: "But with this experience, the Yuan army will not stand stupidly under the cement pillar we have calibrated in the future." ”

"Haha......" The people around laughed when they heard it. This hilarious vignette also brought a little joy to the solemn atmosphere in the city.

The next day, in the early hours of the morning, it was slightly bright.

A hurried bell rang over the city walls.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Guanghua lifted the quilt and put on his shoes and ran out, he didn't even take off his clothes when he slept last night.

"The Yuan army has begun to attack the city." The soldiers around him said.

When Zhang Guanghua climbed the city wall, he saw that the Yuan army had already lined up a few miles away, but each of them was very far apart, and it seemed that there were also talents in the Yuan army who knew how to minimize the damage of the cannon.

Suddenly, there was a shouting and killing sound, but it was not from the Yuan army array, and I saw hundreds of people rushing out of the woods on the left. At this time, the catapults of the Yuan army also began to throw stones into the city to interfere, and some even threw explosive bags. Otherwise, because of the fear of the cannons in the city, it is obvious that the catapults are far away and do not cause any substantial damage to the city walls.

After all, the cannons on the city walls did not turn well, and when the distance was within two or three miles, they did not play a big role, and they did not open fire on the enemy troops on the flank.

I saw that the Yuan army that rushed out of the woods on the side actually pushed out the rushing carts that had been hidden long ago from the grass, and the front of these rushing carts was actually blocked by two wooden planks, and the two wooden planks were also sandwiched by a quilt soaked in water.

"Groove! This is the ancient tank tank, who the invented this? Zhang Guanghua complained infinitely.

"Gunners, first row, put!"

"Second row, put!"

"Third row, put!"

Seeing that the role of the cannon could not be played, Huang Er began to organize gunners to shoot.

"Poof, poof, poof!" Except for a few unlucky Yuan soldiers who were shot to the ground, the other bullets were actually blocked by the rushing car. And Huang Er, in order to save ammunition, did not shoot too intensively.

This skirmish, a few hundred men, ended after the Yuan army filled a small moat with sandbags and left behind a dozen corpses.

Subsequently, when the Yuan army sent a man to drag back the body, Li Da did not send anyone to shoot, these people were all Han people who were coerced, and there was no need to waste ammunition.

The next few days were all small-scale tentative attacks by the Yuan army, and they also knew the power of the artillery, and the soldiers were scattered very much during each attack, so that Li Da did not have much chance, and they seemed to have learned to be obedient, always picking the section of the city wall with few arquebuses to attack. The arquebus always had to be lit first when preparing to shoot, and the Yuan army could tell which wall was the weakest in defense from the rising green smoke.

And because the newly built outer city wall in Anxi County has a large area, it is necessary to disperse the troops to defend, and the defenders do not have the equipment to quickly ignite, so the fire rope must be guaranteed to burn all the time, and there is no way to avoid this problem.

It was another morning, still the same routine, and the Yuan army jumped out of all kinds of grass and woods to attack tentatively. Just as Li Da organized the defense, four or five hundred soldiers scattered in the base camp of the Yuan army on the opposite side began to advance en masse. And the catapult began to cover remotely, and the rushing vehicle also began to clear the deer and other obstacles in front.

Under Li Da's order, the herald raised a small red and green flag and waved it twice on the left and right regularly.

"Bang!" Several shells exploded in the camp of the Yuan army, but because the Yuan army was scattered, the damage caused was not great. Because it was about to be a protracted defensive battle, Li Da still deliberately controlled the amount of ammunition used.

As the Yuan army entered within two hundred meters, the herald began to wave the pennant in his hand again.

This time, however, there was no sound of arquebuses, but a row of "poof" low string sounds, and I saw a row of crossbow machines that required three or four people to operate at the same time at the entrance of the city wall at the same time, and the all-steel crossbow arrows "swished" through it, and each crossbow arrow penetrated a rushing car, skewering all the people behind it into a skewer.

The Yuan army saw that the protection of the rushing car did not work, so he simply pushed all the rushing cars under the moat, and filled in a road in this way. While the infantry began to lay planks, the cavalry of the Yuan army also began to move around shooting arrows, interfering with the musketeers on the city walls.

When the first ladder was erected, a tentative siege of several hundred men began.

"General, it's not good! The back side was climbed up the wall. The herald ran over from the other side of the city wall to report to Li Da.

At this time, there was a sound of gold, and Li Dachao looked forward, only to see that the Yuan army had dropped the ladder and retreated like a tide.

And he came to the back city wall, which was Lu Guangfu's defense area, and the battle was over.

Seeing Li Da coming, Lu Guangfu said: "There are not many firecrackers arranged in this section, and the hundreds of cavalry of the Yuan army suddenly rushed up in one horse or two, and the horsemen quickly retreated after dropping the ladder and the soldiers behind the horses. The remaining hundreds of men quickly rushed up the walls and began a hand-to-hand encounter with us. Although we annihilated them, we also sacrificed nearly 100 people. ”

Li Da was in a heavy mood, this exploratory attack he shot dozens of Yuan troops on the frontal battlefield, and Lu Guangfu wiped out hundreds of Yuan troops on the flank battlefield, but his side also lost nearly 100 people.

And Zhang Guanghua, who was behind Li Da, was also full of sadness, and thought quite uncalmly in his heart: "There are masters in the Yuan army, who can make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, avoid reality and make things virtual, so that our advantages cannot be brought into play at all." This time, the shortcomings of our own side have also completely emerged. Although the arquebus is powerful, it is too difficult to conceal, if it is an encounter, the advantage is still great, but it is not suitable to defend the city, and the melee ability of the musketeer is too poor, a Yuan soldier with a saber can pick up a piece of musketeer, and he needs the infantry in the rear to step forward to make up for the knife. ”

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