However, like many people who have lived through important historical periods, they do not feel that there is anything unusual around them. The same was true of Wu Shigong at that time.

On November 2, the fifth year of Chongzhen, four modified two-pounder curved guns officially began to fire. On this day, the Runing battalion fired a total of twenty shells, of which eighteen were fired into the city. On the second day, the Haode artillery had been corrected, and all the 36 shells fired were fired in or near the city of Dengzhou.

On the third day...... On the third day there was no more. weishenme? There are no shells left for these guns. At that time, when Liang Hui bought these cannons, he only bought 34 shells at the same time. And during this period of time, the intensified construction has only increased by 30 rounds, which cannot support such a high frequency of launches.

However, this shelling of the Runing battalion brought great panic to Kong Youde's rebels. It should be said that the effect of this shelling of the Runing battalion was not too great, and it was only in the end that the bottoms of two ships were damaged. However, because the damaged ships are all in the water castle, although it is a bit troublesome to repair, it is not completely impossible to repair.

But with such a steady stream of shells from the air, the rebels were not sure how long the shelling would last. You must know that after a long period of shooting like this, all the ships in the water city will one day be all broken and sunk.

The rebels thought that after the city of Dengzhou was broken, there was still a way to escape by boat, but now there is a sense of suffocation that the back road has been cut off.

For the rebels, the shelling also brought anxiety about the constant need to guard against death overhead. In the Ming Dynasty, no one had the awareness and training of air defense, and the rebels did not know how to guard against these shells falling from the sky.

This is just like Britain during World War II, the German army's V1 and V2 missiles actually did not cause much damage to British personnel and materials, but these missiles brought heavy psychological panic to the British government and the masses. As a result, the primary targets of the Allied air force became like those missile launch bases of the German army.

In these days of defending the city, what is somewhat different from the quiet of Wu Shigong is that Kong Youde has arranged for the rebels to break through from the west of Dengzhou City four times, and although these four breakouts were defeated by the Ming army, they also caused huge casualties on both sides.

But Wu Shigong came with such an unexpected air strike, as if the backbone of the rebels was broken at once. They did not dare to go out of the city again, so they immediately retreated into the city, and mobilized their artillery and heavy troops to the southern wall of Dengzhou City. In this way, we will fight the biggest threat at the moment.

But to the great discomfort of the rebels, they had no way to stop the artillery fire of the Runing battalion. Because the artillery of the Runing battalion was fired in a curve, it did not need to be exposed at all, and the positions were also set up on the back of the mountain. Therefore, the artillery erected by the rebels at the head of the city was not only a big blow to fire a blow to embolden themselves. Didn't cause any harm to Runing.

Now they can only go out of the city and pull out this artillery position of the Runing battalion. First came the night attack. On the evening of the third day, a rebel army of 500 men took advantage of the darkness of the night to leave the southern city. When they touched the foot of the mountain. Being beaten by the Runing Camp, which had been prepared for a long time, was a fat beating. After dropping more than eighty corpses. Before it was even clear where the attack of the Runing battalion came from, the rebel night attack army fled back to Dengzhou City in such a gloomy manner.

The rebels' night raiding army didn't know that they had just left the city when they were discovered by the secret outpost arranged outside the city by the Runing battalion. Night raids and counter-night raids are also key training subjects for the Runing Battalion. The rebels' night raid was nothing more than an axe at Banmen.

Then came the assault. But the rebels' onslaught was even worse. On the morning of the fifth day, the rebel army of 3,000 men marched out of the southern city. They walked a hundred and ten paces, then stopped and looked at the hill where the artillery was positioned, and then returned home without firing a shot.

Such a steep hill is facing the preparation of the Haode Runing camp. How can this be attacked? You don't have to go to death.

However, the Runing battalion was also enraged by the rebels' night raids and onslaughts. The tiger is not powerful, when I am a sick cat? When the two-pounder guns were fired again after a three-day hiatus, the shells of the two-pounder guns made in the past few days and collected from other battalions of the Ming army were all gone.

Without shells, what will the Runing battalion do next? Wu Shigong came up with an idea -- to play propaganda bombs. On the artillery position, in addition to the four two-pounder guns, the Runing battalion also carried several one-pounder guns for the defense of the artillery position. And now, it's time to use these one-pound guns.

The craftsmen of the Runing battalion attached a rope to a pound of artillery shells, and tied this rope to a closed wooden basket. The wooden basket is not large, and the planks on the walls of the basket are thin. The wooden basket was filled with leaflets.

And it is not easy to write so many leaflets in such a short period of time. Wu Shigong came up with another idea, engraved propaganda patterns and slogans on a wooden board, and then used this wooden board as a template, dipped in ink and quickly printed on the paper.

Amazingly, printmaking was invented. It seems that war can really promote the development of jishu and the progress of society! Even art is no exception.

The launch of the propaganda bomb did not go so smoothly, mainly because the correction of the launch was not very easy. But there are always a few propaganda bombs that hit the city of Dengzhou. The crushing of the wooden basket caused propaganda leaflets to scatter everywhere, but the propaganda effect caused by it was almost zero, not because of the seizure of Kong Youde's rebel military attachés. Those rebels are also at a loss for this novel method of psychological warfare, and the main reason is that those rebels are illiterate! Wu Shigong's leaflet was shown to the blind.

However, with the proficiency of the operation, the success rate of the Runing battalion's propaganda bombs has risen from 2 or 3 rounds of 10 rounds into the city to 5 or 6 rounds of 10 rounds into the city. But the firing of propaganda shells had to be stopped again.

It's not that the Runing Battalion is in Dengzhou City, and arranging spies to report leaflets to the Runing Battalion has little effect. The reason for the stop was: the Runing camp ran out of paper. Paper in the Ming Dynasty was not cheap, even in the Runing battalion, not every soldier was equipped with hand paper. And in this wilderness, there is no place to look for paper. As a result, there is no raw material for propaganda bombs.

But don't be afraid, there are many crooked ideas of these bad boys in Runingying. Since there are no more leaflets in the wooden basket, it can be loaded with dirt, bricks, snakes, scorpions, bed bugs, and animal carrion, and ...... to Zuihou, and when I arrived at Zuihou, I used the rice fields produced by each person in the overtime of the Henan Army these days. Anyway, how disgusting is it, Runing Camp has used Dengzhou City as their toilet.

The rebels in Dengzhou City were overwhelmed by the endless disgusting methods of the Runing battalion. After several setbacks in sending troops out of the city to attack the artillery positions, Kong Youde summoned the rebel generals at all levels to discuss once again how to face this situation.

But what good way can we negotiate with this kind of consultation? The most important thing is: now it is offensive and defensive transposition, if the rebels want to pull out the nail of the artillery of the Runing battalion, then they must attack it. And as long as it is attacked, the artillery and Dengzhou city walls that the rebels rely on the most will not be able to rely on. Not to mention the terrain here in the Runing camp.

So after talking a lot of nonsense, Kong Youde gave a look to a cronie. The cronie immediately understood and said, "Kong Dashuai, Geng Dashuai, brothers, the junior brother has a question. Do the brothers who went out of the city a few days ago know which army it is? ”

A rebel general who had led his troops out of the city a few days ago immediately replied: "I heard that it is a guest army from the south." ”

The confidant of Kong Youde nodded, and immediately followed Kong Youde's instructions and continued: "That little brother has an idea. Since it is a guest army in Henan, and it is not the Guanning Iron Cavalry who has an enmity with our old Liao army, nor is it a local official army in Shandong, then there is no blood feud between us at all. ”

"Do you want the two marshals to arrange and send a lobbyist to talk? It is very difficult for us to fight out of the mountainous area outside the southern city wall where this guest army is staying now, but it is also difficult for them to break in, obviously because the commander of the official army does not let them make meritorious contributions. It can also be seen that this guest army is also in the official army and is an excluded character. ”

"Since we don't have a grudge, then there is something to talk about. Let them stop for a while, and we will be safe with them. There was not much in Dengzhou City, but there were many looted things, and the silver on the brothers was certainly immovable, but there were quite a lot of calligraphy, paintings, porcelain, and embroidery that were useless now. Pick some exquisite ones and send them to the commander of the Henan official army, which can be regarded as our spending money to buy a friendship. ”

"That's a good idea. But who is going out of town to talk? An anxious rebel general interjected.

His interjection immediately caused a silence. A few days ago, the rebels had sent people out of the city three times to Zhu Dadian and Gao Qiqian to discuss the matter of surrender. However, the people who had negotiated in the past were all killed, leaving only a few soldiers whose ears had their ears cut off and returned to Dengzhou City to report the news. This also made the surrender generals of the rebels completely silent in Dengzhou City. And if you send someone out of the city to negotiate this time, it will be a journey to death.

After waiting for a while, Kong Youde immediately made a final decision: "What Xiao Mao said is a good idea." But the dangers of going out of the city are also known to you, brothers. The old way! Drawing! One of you counts as one. ”

"That's it!" Geng Jingzhong also reconsidered on the side.

Now that the two giants in Dengzhou City have spoken, the method of drawing lots has also been decided. After some hectic confusion, a pale-faced rebel general named Huang Qiqi was selected.

Kong Youde and Geng Jingzhong left Huang Qiqi alone. Kong Youde Zuihou explained: "Later, you go to the warehouse and pick up some valuable things to bring." Nothing else matters, just ask the officers and troops outside the southern city to stop firing any more cannons. We also pledged not to go out of the city to fight with them. As long as they agree to this, tell them that we will give you ten times more in the future. Anyway, these things can't be exchanged for any gold or silver, nor can they be exchanged for any grain and grass. It's not worth much. It doesn't hurt to send it out. ”

"No! Handsome! (To be continued......)