The flowering bomb ignites a ladder cart directly, making this ladder cart the most dazzling torch between heaven and earth. However www.biquge.info there was also a ladder cart that was getting closer and closer to the city after the other guns missed. The Mongol cavalry, who were cruising under the city wall, were obviously aware of the location of the Ming army's forts, and countless arrows swooped directly at those enemy platforms, wreaking havoc on them.

"Carry down the wounded, the artillery can't cease!" Tang Zhen strode up to the enemy platform with a knife in his hand, and the arrows of the Mongolian Tartars just now were very violent, causing the Ming soldiers on the entire enemy platform to basically have no ones who could still stand. The guards around Tang Zhen hurriedly went up to check how many people were still alive, and at this critical juncture, they could only carry the injured away first, and they couldn't take care of those who had already died in battle.

Several leaders who followed Tang Zhen commanded Ding Zhuang to step forward and follow the old pawns to control the artillery, while the Ming army crossbowmen retaliated and fired indiscriminately at the city, but the Mongolian cavalry had already retreated far away, and these were more arrows to vent their anger and only took the lives of more than a hundred Mongolian foot soldiers.

The ladder cart had slowly approached the city wall, Tang Zhen suddenly frowned, his face showed an anxious look, the ladder cart of the Mongolian Tartars leaned up on the northwest side of the city wall, and Tang Zhen was still on the northeast side, so he didn't know if these soldiers could resist the attack of the Mongolian Tartars without his own command.

"Firecracker, let's go!" A somewhat thin figure suddenly appeared, and although his arm was hanging and obviously injured, he did not have the slightest intention of backing down. Countless Ming soldiers around them roared and followed this figure and rushed forward.

Musketeers and crossbowmen fired wildly at the ladder carts, and all the Mongol soldiers who poked their heads out were directly killed.

Tang Zhen suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and Liang Yanwu arrived with someone, so he could rest assured.

"Lift, bring the cannon over!" One of the chiefs yelled and rushed to the nearest cannon from the ladder cart to the battlements, and the soldiers around the cannon heard his roar and didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly helped to raise the cannon.

Under the resistance of dozens of people, the heavy artillery slowly moved to the battlements next to the ladder car, and a chief suddenly blocked the capital: "Dutou, we can't fight, the solid bullet won't work, we have to use the flowering bullet, but at such a close distance, in case it ・・・・・・"

Dutou gritted his teeth and hesitated for a while, while several Mongolian crossbowmen had already opened the guard plate on the second floor of the ladder car and fired arrows at the city, and the Ming soldiers continued to fall. More Mongolian infantry soldiers also obviously saw an opportunity here, and simple ladders were set up one after another on the top of the city, so that the surrounding Ming soldiers had to disperse.

"Rush!" A Mongolian centurion swung his sword to block the whizzing arrows, and was the first to jump on the pedal, just a stone's throw away from the cannon facing him. Obviously, the centurion also knew that if he couldn't stop this cannon from firing, he was afraid that the results of countless soldiers dying in exchange for the approach of the ladder cart would be wiped out.

"Bang!" With a soft sound, green smoke rose in a curling voice.

Liang Yanwu's chief of the guard lit the firecracker, and the centurion looked at the bloody hole in his chest with some incredulity, and then fell off the pedal unwillingly and fell under the city.

"Blossom bullets, put!" Liang Yanwu shouted loudly.

Du Tou, who was still stunned just now, suddenly woke up like a dream, stepped forward in three steps and two steps forward to stuff the flowering bullet into the barrel, and turned his head to look at the ten generals who wanted to stop him just now: "Fire!" ”

"Fire!" Ten will not hesitate to shout out in the same way.

The cannon shuddered violently, and the cannonball smashed directly into the ladder cart that was close at hand, but because it was too close, the shell passed through the ladder cart before it exploded violently. The entire ladder truck also shook violently, as if it was being pushed hard by an invisible big hand from behind, and smashed straight on the city wall. Because the impact was very violent, not only was the ladder truck cut into two sections and fell apart, but even the two battlements at the head of the city were directly smashed in half.

The two ladder carts were all destroyed, and the city walls suddenly erupted in earth-shattering cheers. And the Mongol soldiers under the city finally had to retreat like a tidal wave. The Mongol cavalry all came up and fired arrows at the city to cover the retreat of their own footmen.

The Mongolian soldiers did not hear the sound of the horn behind them and took the initiative to retreat, or it was more appropriate to use the collapse, which also made many people have no time to pay attention to scattering when they turned around and ran, and soon the two teams of foot soldiers who were panicked collided directly together.

"Put!" Of course, the Shence Army would not give up this opportunity to beat the water dogs, and the artillery and flying thunder cannons roared almost simultaneously, and countless shells and explosives bags crossed the arc and fell into the crowd. There are constantly dazzling blood flowers, flowering bullets, solid bullets and explosives bags to show the world their hideousness.

Taking advantage of the panicked retreat of the Mongols, the Ming army at the head of the city also began to hurriedly carry down the dead and wounded robes. It's just that before the people in the back could go to the city to help, a loud roar had already broken through the air. Tang Zhen looked up almost subconsciously, and then his pupils contracted suddenly: "Mongolian Tatar trebuchet, dodge, dodge!" ”

"Trebuchet, dodge!" The brigade commander, the head of the capital, and the ten generals shouted loudly.

One after another huge stone bullets smashed directly on the city wall, the Dunhuang city wall, which was originally built of rammed earth, trembled in this heavy blow again and again, and the rammed city wall soil even began to fall, making the city wall appear potholes.

And just as a stone bullet smashed directly on an enemy platform, not only the two artillery pieces on the enemy platform were directly overwhelmed, but all the surrounding soldiers were overturned to the ground. A big pit appeared directly on the entire enemy platform protruding on the city wall, if it weren't for the fact that this enemy platform was much higher than the city wall, I am afraid that the city wall would be shorter.

"The Mongolian Tartars have prepared twenty return cannons, and this trebuchet was originally used to deal with a fortified city like Xiangyang, but Dunhuang City is made of rammed earth, and it can't withstand the attack of this trebuchet many times." Under the escort of the personal guards, he hid in the uptown trail in a little embarrassment, and Liang Yanwu looked at Tang Zhen, who was also running over.

The people and soldiers at the head of the city retreated from the two of them in a panic, after all, a stone bullet on the head of the city was probably more than a dozen lives, so now except for a few people left to monitor the movements of the Mongolian Tatars, the rest of the people, including Liang Yanwu and Tang Zhen, did not have the intention of staying on the city wall to do nothing.

Tang Zhen nodded, they had actually seen the return cannon before, but at that time, the Mongolian Tatars were already in the middle of the day, so they were not equipped with many return cannons, not to mention that most of the Ming army was on the attacking side, and the tall and bulky Mongolian return cannon trebuchet was useless at all.

This giant trebuchet, originally designed to attack Xiangyang, actually showed its power for the first time in the Battle of Chengdu, when the Mongols prepared a large number of artillery bombardment of the city walls, resulting in the Sichuan and Shu army having to retreat into the city after a few days of hastily holding out, thus forcing the Mongols to have no way to attack the staggered defense lines of both sides. Later, the Ministry of Industry came with artillery and directly bombarded the Mongolian return artillery team, so that the return artillery used its fierce name to achieve the unshakable status of the artillery in the Ming army.

However, in fact, the return cannon of the first battle in Chengdu was not a real large-scale return artillery, at that time, Mongolia took into account the rugged terrain of Sichuan and Shu is not convenient for the transportation of this large equipment, coupled with the lack of craftsmen in Mongolia, there is no way to make a large number of return guns in a short period of time to achieve the original purpose, so it can only retreat to the second, the original large return cannon is reduced and transformed, which also makes the production of the return cannon expand at the same time, the attack power and firing range have a lot of losses. That's why they can be easily ambushed by artillery and directly stunned.

And now the return cannon outside Dunhuang is obviously the giant trebuchet originally designed by Mongolia, standing on the top of the city, you can see the huge figure in the distance, the huge trebuchet arm is constantly swinging, and the stone projectile of terrifying size is thrown directly to the city. And artillery and flying thunder artillery have a sense of powerlessness in the face of such an opponent.

Although Tang Zhen and Liang Yanwu didn't know that in another time and space, even Xiangyang, which was as strong as iron and known as the "First Heroic City", did not support it for long in front of the return artillery, but they knew very well that according to such a bombardment method, I was afraid that there would be a gap in the city wall in a few hours. For this kind of rammed earth wall, once there is a gap in one place, it may even lead to the collapse of most of the city wall.

Not to mention the fact that for the Mongol cavalry, a gap in the walls was practically enough.

There was another loud noise, Tang Zhen hurriedly looked up, and a man ran over from the city wall in a bit of embarrassment, and said anxiously: "Supervise Qiqi, the second horse face on the left side of the city gate was smashed by the Mongolian Tartars, and even the surrounding city walls collapsed a little, forming an inclined plane!" ”

Tang Zhen and Liang Yanwu glanced at each other, and couldn't help but gasp, originally the horse face was the part that protruded outward on the city wall, and its purpose was to be able to shoot the enemy at the dead end of the city wall with a bow and crossbow on it. It stands to reason that it is an important barrier for the defense of the city wall, but once the horse face is smashed now, it will form a downward slope with a height far lower than the city wall, so that the enemy who climbs the city can directly climb the slope to attack the city wall, thereby greatly reducing the difficulty of directly attacking the city with a ladder, and the defenders of the city have no way to stand on the slope to kill the enemy, so they can only use arrows and rolling stones to block the gap, once the Mongols push the large ladder cart up, I am afraid that this gap will become a fatal breakthrough.

"We have to take action, otherwise we won't be able to support the arrival of reinforcements." Liang Yanwu said softly.

Tang Zhen raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "The huge threat of trebuchets to Dunhuang City is impossible for the Mongolian Tartars not to see, so we must be able to guess that we will definitely try our best to destroy these return cannons." And even if the cannon is burned clean with one fire, the Mongolian Tartars will be able to make another batch in a short time. ”

Liang Yanwu was stunned for a moment, what Tang Zhen said was true, the Ming army could think of the method Mongolian Tartars must also be able to think of, maybe tonight night is a net waiting for the Ming army to throw themselves into the net. Tang Zhen smashed his fist on the city wall, and said in a deep voice: "But we can't sit still in the city, now at least we have two advantages in our hands, one is a sneak attack at night, the enemy is bright and I am dark, where to attack and what kind of way to take, we have the final say, the Mongolian Tartars can only be passively defended; Second, the Mongol Tartars thought that the cavalry of the Shence Army had been wiped out in the Star Gorge, and in fact, Huo Liang retreated with 2,000 cavalry, just in the city, which was a bargaining chip that could determine the outcome at a critical time. ”

"But the Mongol Tatars will definitely keep the defense around the return artillery watertight・・・・・・・ Liang Yanwu said with some surprise, "In this way, our advantage is not so obvious, the target can already be determined to be the return artillery, and in the face of the ambush prepared by the Mongolian Tatars, even if it is a ・・・・・・ dispatched"

Looking around, Tang Zhen said in a deep voice: "Who said that the goal is to return the cannon?" ”

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Western Regions, Hotan.

The tent of the Great Khan of the Chagatai Khanate.

Outside the low city walls, tents stretched. Lighting torches to turn the dark night sky in a faint shade of red, giving people a warm feeling even in the cold desert wind.

Sitting on the tiger skin chair in the center of the Great Khan's tent, Bara is the great-grandson of the first Great Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, the grandson of the eldest son of the Chagatai Khanate, the grandson of Mua Kuogan, the seventh Great Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, the leader of the entire Chagatai Khanate, the leader of the large and small tribes of the entire Chagatai Khanate, and the master of the most powerful force in the Haidu Alliance. Under his leadership, the Chagatai Khanate continued to expand eastward, defeating Kublai Khan's army several times, and finally capturing Hotan at the hands of Kublai Khan, so that the territory of the Chagatai Khanate could finally be extended to the west of the river.

Later, Haidu united with the khanates to resist Kublai Khan's rule, and Bala, who had always opposed Kublai Khan and even often met each other in arms, joined the coalition directly without the slightest hesitation. At that time, all the khanates agreed to conquer Kublai Khan this time in order to maintain the essence of the Mongol Khanate as a steppe people and nomadic people, maintain the original intention of the great Genghis Khan to create this country, and prevent Kublai Khan's southward expansion from wasting Mongolia's national strength.

(Author's note: Historical records are indeed the case, reading this can't help but complain about the clumsy excuse)

Perhaps it was out of the promise made at the meeting of the Khanate League at that time, or perhaps because it was uncomfortable to live in the low and dilapidated Hotan City, so the big tent of Bara was directly set up in a sheltered position in the south of the city, and the bureaucratic families of the entire Chagatai Khanate also followed to set up their tents on the left side of the Great Khan's tent. It's also a magical sight.

The bonfire in the big tent is blazing, so that everyone who walks into the camp tent has the illusion of spring, as if they are not in the cold Gobi Desert, but in the Jiangnan of fireworks in March.

A yellow sheep is cleaned and rolled on the fire, and the rich aroma can be asked clearly even if it covers its nose. The favorite mare's milk wine of the men on the grassland was served directly one by one and placed on the table of the guests under the Great Khan's seat.

Although there was only one guest in the tent, even the Chagatai Khanate did not send any vassals to accompany him, except for an interpreter standing beside Bara, only the guards standing at the door of the tent pressed the handle of their swords and did not squint.

Cut off a piece of mutton and stuffed it into his mouth, Bara chewed it heavily, and said heartily: "Ma Xianggong came thousands of miles to my Hetian, what happened?" ”

The young man sitting below stood up and bowed his hand respectfully, and raised his head to look at Yara, the firelight dancing on his cheeks, reflecting the face in a flickering light and dark, and even making it impossible to see the expression on it. However, this young man is not only handsome and handsome, but also stands here like a javelin, with a straight waist, and has a mature and steady tempered by wind and frost and the passionate energy of a young man who has not yet passed away, so that Bara, who is in a high position, knows countless people, and has no good impression of the Han people, can't help but look at him twice.

What is the origin of this man surnamed Ma, who claims to be the messenger of the Ming Dynasty?

It was Ma Tingyou who was standing there. Perhaps Ma Tingyou was the least outstanding of all the people who followed Ye Yingwu in the first place, and even his name was almost forgotten, but this does not mean that he has disappeared from the central authority of the Ming Dynasty. After all, Ma Tingyou's identity makes it safer for his name to be forgotten by everyone.

The president of Daming Jinyiwei is the successor of Yang Feng's mantle.

The two hairy young men who were fledgling with Guo Chang and were in charge of Six Doors and Jinyiwei have finally grown into pillars. (To be continued.) )