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Slowly advancing, the stone projectile in the city is only fired at this time, the approximate range can almost be judged, the stone projectile of the trebuchet in the open area is a range, over the city wall, take a large angle of the parabola projection, this is another range. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The stone bullet is not as good as the artillery, when it flies out with a roar, the soldiers below can see the trajectory of the stone bullet, and the characters who are chosen are agile and agile, and the open space behind them has been cleared out of a large enough area, and it is easy to dodge it, so the soldiers drop the weapons in their hands and scatter in a hurry.

The stone bullet fell heavily, and after it landed, Wang Tong realized that the range of the stone bullet might be closer than he expected, because it did not fall into the clearing, but smashed on the house, destroying several dilapidated shacks.

The next demolition was much more careful, with iron hooks hung in front of the thick ropes, thrown out and hung in the shacks or houses, and then the people pulled and dragged down the buildings one by one.

If it is a house outside the Daming City, there are also many deep mansions and courtyards, brick and stone buildings, and if you want to demolish it, you need to use equipment such as a large wooden hammer, but here, it is all wooden and grass-covered shacks, which is really simple.

The only thing the Ming soldiers had to be careful about was the stone bullets that came from time to time in the city, but the interval between the trebuchets was very long, and from a certain point of view, the fire of the trebuchet actually helped the Ming army to demolish the houses, and after two rounds, it did not stop much.

At the south gate and city wall of the naturalized city, more than 600 steps to the south, the shack buildings were all demolished, and the broken wood and hay were also piled aside, and a fairly wide open space was cleared, and the Ming army teams began to enter this open space to line up.

The rear team is still busy, turning the area where the army is located into flat ground as much as possible, so as to facilitate the activities of the army, this side is gradually no different from yesterday's battlefield, except that the battlefield is still covered with snow yesterday morning, and this side is a wasteland.

The soldiers who were cleaning up in front gradually became bolder, and the degree of demolition and cleaning gradually accelerated, but at this time, there was an accident, and there was a whistling sound.

Six or seven stone bullets were thrown out of the naturalization city, and the soldiers below naturally scattered in a hurry, and the stone bullets would not eject too far after they landed, and they could still run away if they escaped in advance, but this time the stone bullets did not bounce up after they landed, but exploded violently, and the debris burst out.

Some Ming soldiers thought they had run away, but they didn't expect the debris to burst out, and many people fell down screaming, and there were more than 100 dead and injured in this round.

Under the order of the general, the soldiers quickly withdrew to a safe distance, and the debris was immediately delivered to Wang Tong, who was originally quite surprised, but after seeing the debris, he understood.

This is not a stone bomb at all, nor is it an ammunition with gunpowder placed, but a mud bomb, Wang Tong also saw it for the first time, and the reason why he understood it was because Yu Dayou had told him this back then.

The trebuchet shoots mud bombs outward in the city, which is the technology of defending the city handed down from the Song Dynasty, the mud bombs use dry mud and wet mud *** into fist-sized projectiles, and then aggregate into larger projectiles after a little drying, and then throw them out with a trebuchet, after landing, the mud bombs explode, those fist-sized mud balls scatter, and the people who were hit were either killed or injured.

"Push the cart to cover it, continue to empty the front, if there is any movement, don't use the cart, people withdraw first!"

Wang Tong gave the order again, and the herald passed the order, Wang Tong passed the mud bomb in his hand to the people around him, and said with a sneer: "Yesterday I interrogated the prisoners, saying that this time the return cannon was made by the craftsmen invited by their prince from the Western Regions. ”

The trebuchet is mainly for destroying the city, the mud bomb is for guarding, the vast grassland from the great forest in the extreme east to the desert in the extreme west, that is, the naturalization of the city such a decent city, what to master these techniques for, not to attack the city of the Ming Dynasty, the first generation of Altan Khan several times into the Ming Dynasty, burning, killing and looting, killing and wounding more than one million soldiers and civilians, but at that time rarely attacked any city, even if it hit the city of Beijing, it was just for looting, but now with these technologies, their intentions are obvious.

Yang Jin was silent for a while, and said: "This time, if it wasn't for the commander leading the army to the Naturalization City, forcing the Tartars to expose their families, if they beat them to Daming, it would be a monstrous disaster, but with this trebuchet, let's attack the city, I'm afraid there will be trouble, it's difficult to break the city in these two days!" ”

Wang Tong shook his head and smiled, and said: "Why do you always think that you need to break the city in two days, the city is broken today, you all return to your own team, and listen to the orders of the commander!" ”

After listening to Wang Tong, everyone immediately bowed down and returned to their own teams, Wang Tong has been staring at the front of the demolition of the ***, from the city there are mud bombs shot out, but the burst of mud bombs to the people is not small, but the front of the car is covered by a heavy wooden board covered with iron, smashed up is at most a little tremor.

However, the next round was the stone projectile shooting, and in response to this, the officers and men just turned around and ran, and several large cars were smashed, and the buildings in front of them were gradually cleared.

When it was almost cleared, Wang Tong looked around, and there was enough open space in the front and rear of the army array to move, which was extremely beneficial to the Ming army, but not to the cavalry of the Tartars, who needed more space to move, and these buildings were a natural obstacle for them.

"At the front of the cleared open space, set up cannons at a distance of 400 paces from the city, and set up three cannons at each end, and fire at the muzzles."

Wang Tong's order was spoken, and the herald listened attentively, and he was still there with a pen and a quick record, this order was complicated, and it had to be taken seriously.

In addition to practicing martial arts, the family also invited Mr. to teach them to read and write, and recorded on the battlefield, the traditional pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are not very suitable, they use a hard pen, this hard pen is a quill pen imitating the Francophil machine, and the ink is placed in a porcelain jar.

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The Tartar officers and soldiers defending the city were also confused by the arrangement of the Ming army under the city, just now they demolished the dilapidated buildings under the city, and now they placed a few artillery pieces at a safe distance.

The three guns on the right side are side by side, the three guns on the left side are side by side, and the left and right guns are three hundred steps apart, and the guns are all flat, so the placement of such guns will not be effective at all.

The flat-firing artillery can knock down the bottom of the city wall at most, where in addition to the city bricks, there is also a thick rammed earth, not afraid of the fire of cannonballs at all, and these cannons look at the caliber is not large, the power must be nothing, what effect can this have, but they don't dare to be careless, this Ming army is unexpectedly strong, they have experienced it yesterday.

Behind the city wall, there are loud shouts and screams, the Tartar soldiers are using leather whips to urge the captured Han people to load stone bullets, yesterday suffered a defeat, everyone is depressed and irritable, a little slow, immediately a whip to pull over, even with the back of the knife to beat, naturally is a cry.

"Minggou is going to attack the city!!"

There was a shout from the top of the city, and the trebuchet was immediately busier, and the people at the head of the city had to report down the position, so that they could adjust it by counterweights or something.

"Damn Ming dogs, they use our people!!"

There were angry shouts from the city, and some people in the city were scolding.

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The open space between the artillery and the artillery was crowded with the Tartar captives captured yesterday, some of these people looked terrified, some looked defeated, and some were indifferent and desperate, they all held bricks, stones and wood in their hands, these things were taken from the buildings that had just been demolished, and someone behind them shouted in Mongolian: "Fill in the trench in front, you still have a chance to live, those who escape, those who do not work and contribute, all are killed, now forward!" ”

In the past, the Tartars attacked the city, often using the captured people to rush in front, they were riding horses to follow behind, the defender did not dare to move, they took advantage of the situation to rush over, the defender made a move, it will only damage their morale, consume their own strength, how to not pay themselves, but I didn't expect that today's Ming army used this method.

"Don't rub it off, go quickly, go quickly, drop something on the other side of the trench, and then come back and go again, you fuck, why are you still rubbing!!"

drove away two sentences, everyone knew that the city was a dead place, and no one dared to move, but the Ming army general who drove behind was impatient, and snatched a spear from the soldiers next to him, and stabbed it directly, and a Tartar prisoner in front of him was immediately stabbed to the heart, screaming and dying.

When one person dies, the other captives immediately move forward, die immediately here, there may be a glimmer of life under the city, such a wide open space, there may be a chance to escape, the Ming soldiers behind do not need to be whipped at all, but just take the spear in their hands and stab forward, stabbing deserve to die, stabbing the unlucky.

The captives were driven faster and faster, running forward with earth, stone, bricks and wood, as soon as they left the formation, the firecrackers and archers immediately followed, the captives were thinking about fleeing for their lives at this time, and some people just ran out of the Ming army array, they dropped what they were doing, and wanted to turn around and leave, within the range of bows and arrows and firearms, there was such a cheap thing, listening to the sound of the roar, the people died there immediately.

Threatened with death behind them, the captives could only run forward, and there were also smart people who ran in front with their things in their hands, and when they calculated the range of their firearms and bows and arrows, they dropped what they were holding and ran in other directions

There was a loud "boom", and the artillery guns lined up behind opened fire, and the captives clearly saw the smart man who had fled, his body interrupted by the shell. Blood and minced flesh splashed on the faces of those around him.

Everyone finally knew what was behind them, and the captives no longer dared to move, and ran to the other side of the trench with earth and rocks