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Throughout the dynasties, even the most anxious battles are, there are few night battles, because they can't see things at night, and they talk about regularization and command and dispatch formations, even in the process of fighting, it is not easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy.

When the Mongols decided to fight at night, there were many voices of opposition within the Mongols, and Kublai Khan was one of those who opposed the night war.

But once the decision is made, he is the most determined executor.

When Yang Jing and Gao Taixiang retreated in disarray with a few defenders, Kublai Khan and the Mongols finally saw the dawn of victory.

They thought that a small Dali would be able to fall soon, but they didn't expect to step into the mire and couldn't get out.

I didn't expect that at this juncture, Ogedai Khan would die, and Guiyou was instantly faced with the problem of urgently returning to the northern imperial court to compete for the throne.

At this time, Kublai Khan and other Mongol generals also knew very well that they needed to carry out the strategy of night warfare in one go.

Seeing that the defenders of Dali were crippled in the fourth city wall, they should take advantage of the victory to pursue, take the fifth city wall in one go, and face the royal capital Yangzui Baa City, otherwise let the defenders take root in the fifth city wall, and they will face a bitter battle.

Due to the need to withstand the enemy's frontal attack, the first wall was the highest and thickest, with the most fortifications and the most equipment, and the last wall was basically just a decoration and decoration.

It has to be said that as the last barrier in the north of Dali, the Longshou Pass with five city walls can be called the first Xiongguan.

At this time, Kublai Khan looked up from afar, in the dim night, among the countless swaying torches, the city wall not far away was like an entrenched python, black, and only one outline could be seen.

Obviously, as long as they step on this wall, they will be able to conquer the capital of Dali, they will be able to enjoy this rich land full of milk and honey, they will be able to get enough supplies, and they will be able to return to the northern imperial court in high spirits to compete for the throne.

But Kublai Khan looked at this city wall as if he was looking at a dormant black dragon, and if he provoked it a little, this black dragon would wake up and bring them a catastrophe that would never recover!

Guiyou has come to the front line, this Mongolian male lord is not tall, but a little black and thin, take off the prince's robe, it is not much different from ordinary soldiers, only a pair of eyes, like a flying eagle falcon on the grassland, sharp, ruthless, deep.

Kublai Khan wanted to advise, but he felt that he could not destroy the grand strategy of night battle because of the ominous omen in his heart, so he hesitated for a while, and finally did not speak.

Guiyou held high the golden banner of the Mongol Empire and shouted to the Mongol warriors: "Stepping through this wall, behind you is the land of anointing fat given to us by the Immortal Heaven, Ann A, ten thousand victories!"

"Win!"

"Win!"

"Win!"

The Mongol warriors roared in unison, and then, like a tiger that had lost its life, surged towards the fifth wall!

At the head of the city, Duan Xingzhi, the king of Dali, felt the reckless primitive and barbaric bloody war of the Mongols so closely for the first time, and his heart was very uneasy, and his hands and feet were actually trembling.

For behind him is his kingdom and his people, and this last wall, which looks low and fragile, is the last support of the whole kingdom.

Victory, he will be with Gao Taixiang and others, leave a name in history, fail, he will become the king of Dali's fallen country, and say that he has no face to see the ancestors and the ancestors, after the Mongols fell, he destroyed the temple, and he didn't even have the opportunity to see the ancestors and the ancestors!

He looked at the backs of Gao Taixiang and Yang Jing and others, and suddenly felt a little hated for himself.

However, when he saw the forts on the city that had just been built, and looked at the black iron cannons with rough but heavy barrels, he couldn't help but marvel at Yang Jing.

Because Yang Jing named these iron cannons "Zhenwu General", "Shenwu General", "Yongwu General", "Shengwu General" and so on, each iron cannon has its own name.

This is what Yang Jing entrusted Du Kefeng, and on the day the iron cannon was cast, it was engraved on the barrel of the iron cannon.

There are many craftsmen in Dali, and their skills are also very high, Duan Xingzhi himself likes to make some whimsical things, and he always feels that he is a qualified craftsman.

But it never occurred to him to give a name to what he made, a stool is a stool, a table is a table, a screen is a screen, and a couch is a couch.

But Yang Jing gave these things a name, as if giving life to these things.

He didn't know the power of the iron cannons, because these iron cannons had just been cast, and they were pulled here, and the artillerymen were even improvised craftsmen, and whoever made the cannons would be the artillerymen.

But Duan Xingzhi knew that these dozen or so cannons used most of the grandmaster-level craftsmen of the Dali Kingdom, recruited more than 30,000 people in a short period of time, and searched everywhere for resources such as iron ore and sulfur ore, and only completed the project in just a few days.

It can be said that in times of war, it is simply a miracle that these iron cannons were made in such a short time.

However, it is undeniable that Duan Xingzhi's worries have always been there.

Whether it was Yang Jing or Iron Cannon, Duan Xingzhi had always pinned the last hope of the kingdom on these things that seemed a little illusory.

Without seeing the power of the iron cannon with his own eyes, staking the entire kingdom on it was simply ridiculous for Duan Xingzhi.

But the reality also makes people feel helpless, except for believing in this deputy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, except for surrendering to the Mongols, he really has no better way, and Xiangguo Gao Taixiang has chosen to trust Yang Jing, and even killed the Mongolian envoys, completely cutting off their back road to surrender.

What's even more infuriating is that even if Yang Jing fails, these iron cannons are useless, Gao Taixiang finally looked away, but he Duan Xingzhi could no longer punish these people.

Because if he surrendered, he would still be able to continue to be the king of Dali, and Gao Taixiang could be the governor of Yunnan Province, and they could continue to manage this place.

But now he beheaded the Mongolian envoys, so that the Mongols hated him to the bone, once he was trampled on this wall, the Mongols would definitely slaughter the city, he didn't even have a foothold, and he had no ability to settle accounts with Yang Jing again, because Yang Jing would also die here.

The reason why he was angry was because Yang Jing had forced him into a desperate situation where there was no room for manoeuvre, and then he was forced to accept Yang Jing's slightly illusory hopes.

He is not a strong man, but he was forced by Yang Jing to show courage, he is not a hero, but he was pushed to the altar of the Fierce Lord by Yang Jing.

He looked at Yang Jing's back, and suddenly felt that the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty were so hateful and terrifying.

Yang Jing didn't notice King Dali's gaze, and even if he did, he didn't have time to pay attention to it, because his mind was all on the iron cannon.

The city walls were already full of cannonballs, as well as various firearms such as new earth-shattering thunders, and Du Kefeng even built a small rocket called "detonator" according to Yang Jing's earlier design concept.

The auxiliaries followed Du Kefeng's instructions and tied these rockets to the throwing guns, as if making pear flower guns.

After Gao Chi's victory, the monks and soldiers he brought back had been carefully selected and had gathered about 100 people, all of whom were strong people with natural divine powers, so they were responsible for throwing these pear flower spears.

Yang Jing was stroking the iron cannon, and Du Kefeng was not excited!

At this time, Du Kefeng stood at the head of the city, standing in front of these iron cannons, as if he could touch the sky with his hand, he never thought that he could do this.

As a craftsman, he is the bigwigs of the Ministry of Industry, responsible for the construction of the imperial city and the imperial mausoleum and other important weapons of the country, although he can gather the strength of the whole country, but he cannot fully implement his own ideas, but he Du Kefeng did it, at this time he is really dead without regrets.

Let's ask who in this world can be like him Du Kefeng?

should have been exiled for three thousand miles, should have been silent and nameless, and thought that the rest of his life would be hopeless, but because of Yang Jing, he got such an opportunity.

He didn't dare to say that these iron cannons would definitely work, but he was 10,000 willing, willing to stand next to these iron cannons, and if the iron cannons were blown up, he was willing to laugh and be blown to pieces by these iron cannons!

It was precisely because of this idea that he asked the supervisors and craftsmen who supervised the construction of iron cannons to serve as artillerymen, firstly, only they knew how to use iron cannons, and secondly, they were willing to stand with what they had created, just like Du Kefeng, even if it was very likely to be deadly.

They are like the father of a monster, even if they are eaten by the monster, they have no regrets!

Yang Jing touched the iron cannon and asked Du Kefeng, "What is the probability of exploding?"

Du Kefeng was pulled back from his dream, pondered for a moment, and said to Yang Jing: "Dali's smelting and forging technology is very mature, according to the design of the adult, the cannon barrel is dense, and we have been reinforced, and each cannon barrel is added with six large iron hoops, the problem should not be too big." ”

Yang Jing has always been most worried about the explosion, because the power of the new gunpowder is much more violent than the Mongols' return cannon gunpowder, and the ancient smelting technology is not high, there are too many impurities in the iron, once the artillery is blown up, the consequences will be unimaginable.

For this reason, he also asked the defenders at the head of the city to pile up the shells and explosives separately, most of them under the city, prohibit fireworks, and then let the monks carry them up from the city when they are used.

Seeing that all this was ready, Yang Jing suddenly felt a little tired.

This kind of fatigue is a relaxation that will only appear after the completion of a major event, but now that the artillery has not been fired, and the Mongols have not yet attacked the city, Yang Jing actually appeared in this situation in advance.

However, Yang Jing knows very well in his heart that victory or defeat is life and death in one fell swoop, and the next thing is no longer something he can control, he can only resign himself to fate, so this kind of emotion will appear.

Feng Ruochen and Lu Baiyu also climbed to the top of the city, they failed to accompany Yang Jing to kill the enemy, and they kept complaining in their hearts, at this time Yang Jing naturally didn't want them to stay in the city, but he couldn't resist them.

Perhaps Feng Ruochen and Lu Baiyu also know that this is the last moment, and they must live and die with Yang Jing.

Yang Jing didn't refuse them anymore, he looked at Liu Hanchao, and then said, "If you can go back, I will definitely ask you to be a general!"

Liu Hanchao turned his head to look at Yang Jing, this taciturn man, and suddenly said: "My Liu family has been a general from the Taizu Dynasty to the present, and there have been people as generals from generation to generation, but when I Liu Hanchao arrived, I was wronged, and my family was in the middle, if it wasn't for Lord Song Ci to help clear up the grievances, I would have broken off the sect long ago, what is good about being a general, if Lord Yang really has a heart, it is better to ask me for a Jinshi background, let me be a civil official." ”

Feng Ruochen and others couldn't laugh or cry, even if they knew that Jinshi had to pass the imperial examination, and many people had not been able to get the Jinshi background after taking the exam all their lives.

Zhao Jingyin and Zheng Zhuoqun and other people from Jinshi just took Liu Hanchao's words as ridicule and jokes.

However, Yang Jing replied very seriously: "Okay." ”

At this time, the Mongols under the city had already begun to attack!