Yang Reform, who was sighing on the wall of Yanjing City, found that the city wall of Yanjing City was not ordinarily tall. The height of the four-story building, this, if you ask yourself to climb up with a ladder, Yang Reform estimates that he is a little timid, let alone attacking the city, holding a knife and a shield to resist the bricks thrown down from the fourth floor, this, it is really not an ordinary difficulty, it needs to be filled with human life!

Yang Gengai stroked the battlements of the city wall, which were made of large blue bricks and were quite strong.

Protected by such a high city wall, the Ming Dynasty was actually destroyed, and I have to say that the rot and waste wood have reached the extreme, and Yang Reform is sighing infinitely.

Zhang Baihu, who gave way just now, also came over to serve: "Zhang Weiyi, who is on duty at Xiaguan Dongbianmen, has seen the errand and listened to the dispatch. "This hundred households are also a discerning lord, look at the posture of this line of people is not like ordinary people, but also take the waist card of the brocade guard thousand households, it is reasonable, they should come over to say hello, or rather, come and wait, maybe you will meet a nobleman.

The "bodyguards" were about to scold and drive this guy away, so as not to disturb the emperor's interest.

However, Yang Gai is indeed a little interested in this person, and he is lacking a person who knows more about the details of the city wall, and wants to see what the officers and soldiers on the front line of defense have to think about the future war. So he said: "Zhang Weiyi? 100 households? Come here, I have something to ask you. ”

When several bodyguards saw that the emperor wanted to see this person, they stopped stopping him. However, he took away Zhang Baihu's knife. Although Zhang Baihu was very surprised, very incomprehensible, and even a little angry, but when he looked at this situation, others seemed to think that it was reasonable to confiscate his knife, and there was no trace of unnaturalness. is still on his own land, thinking of this, Zhang Baihu became frightened, and he was even more happy. This noble man is not low-grade!

"Xiaguan has seen a bad situation." Zhang Weiyi felt that this leader was really not an ordinary person, and Li Zubai, who was very familiar with him, didn't even dare to say anything big in front of this person, and was respectful, indicating that this person's grade was very high, so high that Li Zubai didn't dare to breathe. Zhang Weiyi felt that his opportunity had come.

"Hehe, on a bad errand? By the way, Zhang Weiyi, since you are the defender of this section of the city wall, you should also be familiar with this section of the city wall? "Yang Gengai plans to inspect the city wall on the spot, but he is lacking someone to explain to him.

"Back to Shangcha, the lower officials inspect the city wall every day, and if you want to say that you are familiar with this city wall, you can't be more familiar." Zhang Baihu was very good at answering Yang Reform's words.

"Tell me, then, how high is this wall? How thick? Yang Gengai planned to test this person, although he had a rough estimate of the city wall, however, there was no actual number.

"Back to the top chap, this is also simple and complicated." Zhang Weiyi said.

"Simple, yet complex? How do you say this? Yang asked reform.

"Back to the top of the chagrin, to say that the entire city wall of Yanjing City, that is not the same height, this city wall, and divided into the inner city, the outer city, this height is not the same, the height of the city wall in the four directions of the southeast, northwest and northwest, is not the same, so it is more complicated, but to say simple, the city wall guarded by the lower officials is three feet seven feet six inches high, the base is five feet eight feet three inches thick, and the top is three feet nine inches and three ......feet thick."

Yang Gai felt that this guy was not bad, at least he knew some of the data and situation of the place where he worked, and he didn't know anything about it.

"Well, yes, I won't ask about the other city walls, since you are the patrol here, then I will test you a few questions to see if you can answer them."

"Just ask if there is anything on the mission, and the lower officials will answer all questions." Zhang Baihu is very happy to be able to talk to this nobleman, this nobleman, it seems, is quite modest and easy to speak, but he doesn't know what this specific identity is, this is not disclosed by others, and he is not good to ask, the nobleman is too "expensive".

"What do you think if someone comes to attack the city now?" Yang Gengai wanted to ask this guy who was defending the city, what he thought of the enemy's siege.

Zhang Weiyi listened to Yang Reform's question, and then laughed, and said, "Hehe, isn't it a joke, attacking the capital?" Thinking that this capital is the center of the world, the place where the Son of Heaven rules the Quartet, who is so bold that he dares to attack this city, this, the poor, forgive the small dare not speak. Zhang Weiyi was taken aback by this question, and came to attack the capital? Who ate leopard gall? At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the root of the Imperial City, come to attack here? Whose head has too much? Talking about this kind of thing, it's going to lose your head!

The questioning failed, Yang Reform was a little depressed, and it seems that it is not easy to engage in this first-hand information today!

"This, hasn't Your Majesty been going to strictly investigate and annihilate recently? Is there a strict access control? In other words, the above attaches great importance to the defense of this city wall, which is why I came over to ask about this city wall,...... This requires on-the-spot inspection, on-the-spot questioning of the garrison soldiers, so, I just asked you, although you say according to the facts, don't be afraid, if you say reasonable, reliable, what construction surname, once it is adopted by the above, your time to soar, it will come, of course, if you talk nonsense, nonsense, and other people say it is not right, then what awaits you is to lose your head, understand? …… Now you know why I'm making this speculation, right? The above has the heart to ask about the defense of the city wall of the Beijing Division, to see if there is any missing, to see where there is a need to make up for the omission, so, this is just coming to you, do you think, I have nothing to do and casually run to the city wall to ask a small hundred households? Hehe, I think you're quite pleasing to the eye, I hope you seize this opportunity......" Yang Reform used a flicker, and tried his best to fool this Zhang Baihu.

According to what this noble man said, this is the above requirement to inspect the city defense, ask what are the shortcomings of the city defense, and ask about the situation on the ground, this noble man has made thousands of households, so this nobleman's top, isn't it the emperor? Zhang Baihu's heart was beating hard. I am really lucky, when I meet this kind of nobleman, it seems that the ancestral tomb is really smoking.

"The small understands, the small understands, everything must be worse in the truth......" Zhang Weiyi can't wait to tell this poor man everything he knows, so that this poor man can value himself and his own advice, in this way, it is straight to the emperor! If the emperor can talk to himself, then he should be of infinite use.

Li Zubai, who was standing on the side, had an expression of envy to death, knowing that Zhang Weiyi was running from time to time and had a relationship with the emperor, after that, I was afraid that he was going to really soar, and he was envious and jealous in his heart, thinking to himself, when would he be able to get out of this "official prison" like Qin Tianjian!

"Well, that's good, that's good, then tell me, if an enemy comes to besiege the city, to attack the city, how will this matter develop?" What Yang Gengai wants to know most is the opinion of the personnel on the front line of defense on the war, and this kind of information is very helpful for the battle between Hou Hou and Wild Boar Pi and Li Zicheng.

Zhang Weiyi did not immediately answer Yang Reform, but frowned and thought for a while before saying: "Back to the superior, this assumption is not easy to draw conclusions!" You know, the entire Yanjing City, the circumference is almost sixty miles, according to one person and one battlement to defend, there are no twenty or thirty thousand people, I am afraid that even the battlements are not satisfied, let alone the siege of the city, so, I think that if the number is less than 100,000 people, I am afraid that even the city can not be surrounded, this city can not be encircled, when the time comes, the emperor Qinwang edict, this world soldiers and horses, will gather in Beijing, this attack on Yanjing City, in the next view, is simply looking for death! Zhang Weiyi still had some ideas, and after a quick calculation, he came to such a conclusion.

Yang Reform also nodded, feeling that this guy still has something in his stomach, at least he is not talking nonsense, he knows that he is talking about things with numbers, which is not wrong, this Yanjing City needs twenty or thirty thousand people just to stand under one battlement, let alone come to attack the city? You can't even surround the city, when the emperor's edict of King Qin arrives, the world's soldiers and horses will gather, and then it will not be you who will attack Yanjing City, but the world's soldiers and horses will fight you.

Yang Gai looked at the endless battlements, which stretched into the distance, sighed, and felt that this Zhang Weiyi was basically very reliable, probably the first time that the wild boar skin entered the customs, the total number was less than 100,000 people, to attack Yanjing City, as a result, even the city wall of Yanjing City was not touched, this Yanjing City, gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, although the wild boar skin can fight, but it can't stand the swarming of the world's Qinwang soldiers and horses! In the end, he robbed and retreated, and after entering the customs several times, he didn't even look at Yanjing City, just robbed, which is a good illustration of how powerful Yanjing City's city defense is.

"Zhang Baihu, you are right, then let me ask you, if the soldiers are less than 100,000, but they are all elite, what will happen if they come to attack the city?" Yang Gengai wanted to ask him what he thought of the siege of the wild boar skin after the day.

Zhang Weiyi didn't have much hesitation and thinking this time, and said directly: "Back to the top of the cha, this, it's not a small big talk, this number is not enough for 100,000, the soldiers of this Beijing division are more than him, in terms of numbers, he does not have an advantage, with such a high city wall as the Beijing division, such as a small defensive section of the city wall, there are also three or four zhang high, the small one is just throwing a brick down, you can smash the people below, not to mention the stone rolling wood?" If you go down now, you will be injured if you rub it, and you will die if you are next to it! What's more, there are archery, boiling oil, and other defensive weapons, even if he comes to the elite, so what? Can you still not die if you are hit by a rolling stone? The little one was planted, didn't the upper chaser? ...... "Speaking of which, this Zhang Weiyi has a strong self-confidence.

Yang Gengai felt that it was reasonable to fall into this paragraph, if you fall a flower pot from the fourth floor, you can kill someone, or smash your head to blood, not to mention rolling stones, sassal wood, these dozens of catties, one or two hundred catties of things go down, unless all of them are King Kong's incorruptible body.

"Well, that's right, but what if the enemy comes with hundreds of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of troops?" Yang Gengai asked about the siege of the boar skin, and then asked Li Zicheng about the siege. Prepare to see what this officer and soldier on the front line of defense think of this siege battle.

This time, Zhang Weiyi thought for a long time before he said: "Superior, to say something offensive, if there are really hundreds of thousands of people to besiege, it will be really a bit troublesome, first of all, the gate of this Beijing division will definitely be guarded to death, in this way, the transportation of this Beijing division, I am afraid that it will be broken, and it will not be easy to contact the outside world, this Qinwang's soldiers and horses want to contact the Beijing division, it is not easy!" If it is hundreds of thousands, it is not terrible, what is terrible is that there are hundreds of thousands, if there are five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses to surround it, it is too dangerous, the enemy can attack the city at will in the four corners of the city wall, the defense of the city, will definitely take care of one or the other, tired of running, when the soldiers and horses in the city are exhausted, it will be the time of the city to break! ......" Zhang Weiyi voiced his worries.

However, he quickly added: "However, the difference is ...... This small estimate is really unreliable, this world is His Majesty's world, this court is the court of His Majesty the Emperor, this Ming Dynasty is the Emperor's Ming Dynasty, except for His Majesty the Emperor, except for the Ming Dynasty, who else can send five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses to the Beijing Division? This is impossible......" Zhang Weiyi also felt that his assumption was too outrageous, under the whole world, it was not the king's land, who could send five or six hundred thousand soldiers and horses to besiege the Beijing Division?

Yang Gai nodded, feeling that this guy was right, there were really five or six hundred thousand horses to surround him, and he might as well hang himself in advance, there was no force or country around him that could send five or six hundred thousand horses. Not to mention the likes of wild boar skins, even if it was a rogue like Li Zicheng who coerced the people, when he besieged Yanjing, there were only 200,000 people.

"Well, five or six hundred thousand horses is really unlikely, so tell me, more than 100,000 horses, or more than 200,000 horses, what will the situation be?" Yang Reform turned to ask about the specific number, this number is not much different from when Li Zicheng attacked the city, and there is still a certain margin.

"Back to the upper chap, if it is about 200,000 people to attack, the small one also thinks that it is almost impossible." Zhang Weiyi answered very simply this time, and he seemed very confident.

"Oh? So tell me, why is it impossible? Yang asked reform.

"Back to the upper chagrin, the same, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to attack the situation is almost the same, but it is just to be able to guard a few more city gates, it is impossible to hold any of the gates of the Beijing Division, you know, the circumference of the Beijing Division is sixty miles, to surround the Beijing Division, this force is extremely thin, as long as the defenders in the Beijing Division rush in one direction, even if they want to come to save in the other directions, it is impossible! When they come over, the battle is probably over! Isn't it a bad idea? ”

"Well, yes, that's reasonable, there are more than ten city gates in Jingshi, and it's almost impossible to do everything!"

"That's it! Poor, since it is impossible to block any city gate, the connection between this Beijing division and the outside world will not be interrupted, this Qin Wang's edict, the world's Qin Wang's soldiers and horses, not crazy Chao Jing Division? These 200,000 horses have no advantage in an instant! Thinking that the Beijing division already has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, why is it afraid of the same number of enemies to attack? As the saying goes, ten times the siege, three times the attack, as long as the people and horses who come are not more than three or four times the soldiers and horses of the Beijing Division, they are basically safe! Zhang Weiyi made a summary, about 200,000 soldiers and horses came to attack, and the result was similar to tens of thousands of horses.

"But what if 200,000 men don't besiege it, and attack it? So what? Yang Gengai nodded, feeling that it made sense, and asked again.

“…… Hehe, this, the top difference, the wall of this Jingshi is so high, even if he comes to attack, he doesn't have to be afraid, just throw a brick down, he can be stoned to death, what are you afraid of him doing? Zhang Weiyi replied easily.

"Others are not fools, they must have tactics, as well as siege equipment, such as ladders, siege cones, digging tunnels or something." Yang reformed the problem.

"Back to the top of the road, defending this kind of siege equipment, simple, if the enemy uses a ladder, it couldn't be simpler, as long as the small one takes a pole and pushes one side of the ladder forward, his ladder will be flipped over, this ladder will be overturned, the people on it will fall, and they will not die and peel off their skin! You can also pour oil on the ladder and light a fire to burn them, or roll down the ladder with a piece of wood to make sure that he will die as many as he comes...... Don't talk about this siege cone, just let him fight, not ten days and half a month, I'm afraid it will be impossible to smash a hole in such a thick city wall! It is said that there are several zhang thick stones under this city wall, let him dig it, not a year and a half, I am afraid that he will not be able to dig a hole! ......" Zhang Weiyi said this, quite confident.

Yang Gengai nodded, the siege cone, the tunnel is a means of attack against small cities, and it does not work at all against this kind of big city.

"And what if the enemy uses artillery bombardment? How? Yang asked again.

"This ......, go back to the top of the road, don't be afraid, our Ming Dynasty has Hongyi cannons, it is said that the fight is accurate, and the fight is far, we are standing on the wall three or four feet high, and the fight must be farther than the enemy, so there is no need to be afraid, isn't it?" Zhang Weiyi thought for a while before giving this answer.

"What if the enemy bombarded with dozens, or one or two hundred Hongyi cannons? What should I do? Yang Gengai asked again, this time, it was not about the Ming Dynasty, but about the last years of the Qing Dynasty, at that time, the Eight-Nation Alliance Army broke through Yanjing City, relying on artillery.

Zhang Weiyi was dumbfounded, stupid, dozens, one or two hundred Hongyi cannons? This number is beyond the limit of Zhang Weiyi's imagination.

Yang Gengai saw Zhang Weiyi's demented appearance, and did not disturb him, intending to see what this city defender thought of the force in the face of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

“…… Back to the last errand, this, the small one is really hard to say, I think I imitated the Hongyi cannons of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that each one costs as much as one or two thousand taels of silver, these hundreds of Hongyi cannons, is it too much? Zhang Weiyi thought about it for a long time, and felt that this poor topic was too difficult, how much silver did it take!

"No, you don't care, tell me, what's going to happen." Yang Gengai wants to know the answer.

"Forgive me for being bold, there are really hundreds of Hongyi cannons bombarding the city wall, and on this city wall, there is no other way than to bombard with a similar number of Hongyi cannons......" Zhang Weiyi said his answer.

Yang Reform laughed, the cannons of the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century are far more powerful than the artillery of this era, a dozen or dozens of artillery pieces can reach or exceed the power of hundreds of cannons in this era, and the effect is very limited. It deepened a little more.

Zhang Weiyi looked at the noble man and laughed inexplicably, I don't know what he was laughing at, laughing at his ignorance? Or laugh at yourself for not being able to do it yourself? Or laugh at yourself for being bold?

"Zhang Baihu, you are right, if that day comes, you can only rely on the same number of Hongyi cannons to bombard the other party, and the test is the will of both sides." Yang came to the conclusion that this question should not be asked to people in the 17th century, but to people in the early 20th century, or 21st century.

(To be continued)