Shenyang Chengbu, looking at the black cavalry under the city, Zhu Jun climbed on the female wall and laughed with the old smile. The fish had already been hooked, and the infantry from the Shanhaiguan line had begun to return the same way. As long as Shenyang City can hold out for three days, Galdan under the city will be surrounded by the army that has driven back from the front, as if hunting, and the trap has been laid. The prey has already entered the full set, and now what needs to be done is to prevent the beast from dying and struggling.

Woo woo, horns and horns, the Dzungardans pulled out a lot of wood from the rear team, and then began to build wooden frames, and a bright artillery was also pulled out, thinking that Galdan had already anticipated the difficulty of the cavalry siege, and had already made full preparations.

"Your Majesty, those wooden shelves are the return cannons, and some of the old artillery pieces that I have purchased from my Daming, and even the return cannons have been brought, it seems that this time Galdan has decided to fight with all his might, Your Majesty, this city is very dangerous. Please ask the emperor to sit in the city to supervise the battle, there is a general, and never let the Dzungars touch the walls of our Shenyang City. "On the city wall of Shenyang, a number of stone platforms were built, and there was one every ten zhang, which was used to place new artillery, the power of the new artillery was too strong, and the recoil was amazing. Ordinary city walls are easy to break, and the room for maneuver is too small, which is not conducive to calibrating the direction, therefore. Especially in the section of the city wall facing the west, hundreds of forts were built in a month to recruit some laborers and Mongolian refugees, Wang Qiu stood by Zhu Jun's side, as the governor of the Guards Legion, Wang Qiu's duty was to defend the emperor, at this time the war was imminent, the emperor was still standing on the city wall. made Wang Qiu worry about Zhongzhong, looked for a catty, and persuaded the topic.

Zhu Jun took the monocular and looked at it, only to see a pound in the lens, a big wooden frame, and hundreds of guns connected by metal parts at the joints.

Huihui cannon is also known as Western Regions cannon, boulder cannon, Xiangyang cannon. It is a weapon that throws stones by machine and is used for offensive and defensive warfare. This kind of stone throwing machine is just an improvement, improvement, and innovation on the basis of the ancient stone throwing machine to be more advanced and more powerful.

Actually, both in ancient China. Or in the ancient piece country, there was a "cannon" very early on, which is a kind of combat equipment that uses the principle of carrying a rod to throw stone projectiles. It is also known as rein, Yunji, flying stone, throwing stone, etc. In ancient Europe, however, it was called a stone thrower. Before the advent of artillery, the stone thrower was an important weapon in the offensive and defensive battles of both sides in ancient wars.

The Central Plains Dynasty had already used this weapon as early as the Spring and Autumn period. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, it was recorded in the "Fan Fool Art of War": "The flying stone weighs twelve as an opportunity, and it takes two hundred steps." The Eastern Han Dynasty was built for five years. The "thunderbolt" used by Cao Cao when he attacked Yuan Shao was the earliest cannon. In the thirteenth year of the Sui Dynasty, Tian Maoguang made "300 Yunji" and was known as the "general cannon", and Li Guangbi made a giant cannon that was shot with a strong force, which could hurt dozens of people each. The Song Dynasty had frequent wars and the use of artillery was more extensive. In the first year of Jingkang in the Northern Song Dynasty, when the Jin soldiers besieged Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty. "More than 5,000 cannons were installed overnight." Later, the Mongol army attacked Bianliang, set up hundreds of cannons to attack Longde Palace, day and night cannons, and the stone bullets that fell were almost equal to the city. Among them, the largest thirteen-pin cannon can shoot hundreds of pounds of stone bullets, and it requires four or five hundred people to be dragged at the same time. When the Mongol army marched west, it mainly relied on artillery to capture the castle. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, with the wide application of fire, the cannon of the stone machine was gradually replaced by the cannon of gunpowder.

Judging from the history of artillery, the exhibition of ancient weapons is divided into two stages, before and after, with gunpowder beginning to be used in military affairs. The previous stage was the Cold Weapon Age, which was introduced around BC

Old Century AD; The latter stage was the era of the combined use of firearms and cold weapons, about the middle of the century. Born in the Thiam Era, the Battle of Xiangfan in the Song and Yuan Dynasties was in the era of the combined use of firearms and cold weapons. The emergence of firearms in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. It marks the beginning of the era of the combined use of firearms and cold weapons, through the Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, continuing the covenant. centuries. During this period, with the improvement of gunpowder performance and the application of new technologies, new and more powerful firearms were constantly created by Mingli and played an increasingly important role in warfare.

From the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty, about 3 centuries, it was the early stage of the creation of firearms. Gunpowder arrows and fireballs of the Northern Song and Ming dynasties. It is mainly used as a fire attack tool for arson, which can burn the enemy and frighten the enemy's soldiers and horses. Iron artillery and musket firearms of the Southern Song and Ming dynasties. It has a relatively large lethal and destructive effect. However, except for a few types of firearms that can be thrown by hand, these two types of firearms are mainly shot and thrown with cold weapons such as bows, crossbows, and lazy stone machines.

Therefore, it is still a period dominated by cold weapons.

The emergence and evolution of firearms indicates another aspect of the progress of firearms. The earliest musket recorded in the historical records is the long bamboo pole musket used in the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty when the rules and regulations were observed, and the bamboo was used as the barrel. It was filled with gunpowder, ignited in battle, and sprayed flames, burning the enemy's siege equipment "flyover." "In the first year of Kaiqing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the earliest tubular shooting firearm was created, which used giant bamboo as the barrel of the gun, and used gunpowder to shoot it.

Then there were firearms such as solutions, iron artillery, and muskets.

And now, the Dzungars are actually trying to use the return cannon to capture the Ming Dynasty's Shenyang City, the corners of Zhu Jun's mouth can't help but outline a sneer, and he said to the nervous Wang Qiu: "Can these return cannons smash on the city wall?"

Wang Qiu said: "With these return guns. Hey. The last general promised that before they could move closer, they would be turned into a pile of waste wood, but it was indeed very dangerous for the emperor to stand on this wall, and the last general would be the guards... Heart bones. It has the heavy responsibility of protecting the emperor. Let's ask the emperor to take the center seat. It is not safe for turtles to return to the old tortoise. ”

Zhu Jun pursed his lips: "Since those return cannons can't hurt the city wall, then Lian is naturally safe, you can just go and command the soldiers to meet the enemy, Lian will not be in the way." ”

Wang Qiu saw that he could not move, the enemy under the city had assembled the return artillery, and was advancing to the range of the Ming army's new artillery, hundreds of return guns and some old guns began to advance under the impetus of manpower, these guns and the fire range of the society was not far, so to bombard the city wall, it could only be pushed to the city, at this time, Wang Qiu could not control Zhu Jun, hundreds of artillery pieces of the artillery battalion of the Guards Regiment were distributed on the city wall, the soldiers had calibrated the artillery, and a brass shell weighing ten catties had been loaded into the breech, Just waiting for the commander to give the order.

The guerrilla officer of the artillery battalion calculated the distance and immediately approached Wang Qiu's side: "My lord, the enemy's artillery has entered the firing range, may I ask, are you bombing?" ”

Wang Qiu waved his hand: "You still need to ask, go and give an order."

"The artillery battalion listens to me." The guerrilla officers of the artillery battalion excitedly raised the command flag. Shouted loudly: "The target is up and down 730 feet in front of him, open fire,"

"Fire, fire" The herald began to transmit his orders far away, shouting one after another, but soon the shouting was silenced by the loud sound.

The sound of "boom boom boom" artillery suddenly rang out, and the great recoil made the entire section of the city wall tremble, and the tower fluttered and fell dust. It was like an earthquake, and the Dzungars who were within the range of the artillery and pushing the return artillery and the old artillery forward were obviously even more moldy, under the roar of the artillery, many people first buzzed in their ears, and then exploded everywhere around them, and the powerful air currents and shrapnel fired everywhere and the left and right open space exploded in vain. The black crater made them lose their minds instantly, and then someone around them was blown to pieces, and the pushed return cannon turned into sawdust and fell everywhere, some were hit by shrapnel, and then lay down in a pool of blood.

Everyone was frightened, the roar was incessant, and they were expecting to rely on the return cannon and these old guns to break the city, but now. Under the continuous bombardment, the hundred return cannons had already fallen apart before they could get close, and even if they were intact, I am afraid that no one would enter the firing range to return them.

Baihak, who was in the back of the formation, was scared into a cold sweat, and this time it was his Kazakh department that used the return cannon as a striker to break the city, and now it was in the middle of nowhere. Most of the 2,000 Kazakhs who were pushing the return guns were dead, and the rest ran away without a clue. Baihak was frightened by the artillery at that time, and he couldn't stop it, nor did he retreat, and he knew that he was dead and stopped people from rushing forward. If this kind of thing is done, I'm afraid that he, the Kazakh leader, will also come to an end, what will his people think of him in the future? But do you want to retreat? I can't retreat, I can't do it, I'll be Galdan in the back, and now I'm in a mess, even if it's excusable. But if he retreats in such a panic, will Galdan give himself a good look?

In the end, caught off guard, before Baihak could react, he had been dispersed by the retreating troops, and he could only take the deserters to the rear camp in frustration.

Galdan was also startled by the sound of artillery ahead. He immediately came out of the big tent with Tashi Dorjee, and saw the smoke in the distance, and the sound of artillery fire was deafening, and he couldn't help but be shocked. For this reason, he also spent a lot of money to order a batch of artillery from the Ming Dynasty, but who knew that these old artillery, which was very advanced in the eyes of Galdan, were now in front of the secret weapons of the Ming army.

Kaldan and Tashi Dorjee looked at each other. Huihui artillery and dozens of old artillery pieces that had been purchased from the Ming Dynasty are now all finished, according to Galdan's calculations, even if these artillery can't play a vital role, as long as they can bombard a few hundreds of cannons, blow out a hole in the city wall, and then the cavalry can break through the hole, but he definitely didn't expect that the secret weapon of the Ming army is so powerful. The artillery exploded as if the earth was shaking the mountains, and the momentum was felt even by the Dzungar army that had set up camp far away.

Great Khan Tashi Dorjee finally came to his senses after being shocked for a moment, and his face became unusually solemn: "I have been thinking about it for the past few days, I'm afraid we have gone wrong, the Han people seem to have known that we are coming, and they have set up a gap here, just waiting for us to get in, as Yu" Tashi Dorjee sighed, and Kaldan said: "Ask the master, what should we do now?" ”

Tashi Dorjee shook his head and half-closed his eyes: "It is impossible to retreat, behind us are 100,000 Ming cavalry and 100,000 Ming foot soldiers, and the grassland has long been destroyed, even if there is no army behind us, it is surrounded on all sides." Back in the desert, there are no cattle and sheep, no food. How to spend this winter? If it is in winter, the Han people are still chasing and fighting, Khan, with all due respect, I am afraid that we can only return to Moxi in disgrace, otherwise this game will not be broken in any way

Galdan said hatefully: "Since Ben Khan is here, he will never retreat, don't the Han people often say that it is better to break the jade than to complete the tile?" Ben Khan fought to the death against the Han people today

Tashi Dorjee's eyes lit up: "If you don't retreat." Then I'm afraid we don't have much time, and then be cautious about the four friends, staring at the gadu, lian;; Day. Reinforcements from the Ming army arrived. At that time, a closed circle will be formed, even if you want to chew... Sichuan can't be done, let alone break through Shenyang, for the sake of today's plan, the only way to break the city immediately before the arrival of the reinforcements of the Ming army, otherwise, the consequences are unimaginable, the Great Khan, since he has made up his mind, then it is good to do it. ”

Galdan nodded, this time. One of the guards came and said, "Great Khan, Baihaq has returned and asked to see the Great Khan." ”

Galdan waved his hand in disgust: "Let the warriors of our western frontier come over." He deliberately bites the word warrior very hard, which is quite ironic.

After a while, Nabaihak came over with a trembling face and knelt on one knee: "The Great Khan deserves to die for his crimes, and he has lost so many artillery pieces to disgrace the Great Khan.

Galdan swayed. The disgust was fleeting, and it was replaced by an amiable look, and he helped Baihak up: "The war Ben Khan has seen it, it is not a crime of war, Baihak, you get up, I don't blame you." ”

The rules of the desert are different from those of the Central Plains Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty has only one emperor, the whole world is not the king's land, and the top coast is not the king's minister, who the emperor wants to cut, I am afraid that in addition to the ministers' death. There is no other way for the dramatist, but the leader of the steppe, which one of his subordinates has a group of people from his own tribe, such as this Baihak, his head is thousands of Kazakh warriors, once the head of Baihak is cut off, those Kazakhs may have already made a fuss, this has just experienced a defeat, it is no matter what, it can't be messed up by itself, even if Galdan hates Baihak very much, I'm afraid it's not this time to kill him, he soothed with kind words, and finally helped Baihak up, and said: " The firearms of the Ming army are really powerful, but the warriors in our desert are not afraid, Baihak, you immediately go and gather your subordinates, an hour later, Ben Khan will personally lead a large army to attack the city, and you and your people will be able to redeem their merits at that time. ”

Baihak didn't know what it was like. nodded sullenly, in fact, the bombardment of the Ming army's artillery was just beside him, he was deeply touched by the power of the Ming army's firearms, the Han people were guarding the city wall, and this army did not have artillery to destroy the city, even if the Great Khan personally supervised the battle, could this city be captured? Anyway, Baihak didn't have confidence, but at this time, he didn't dare to say something discouraged in front of Galdan, so he could only express his support.

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More than 100,000 cavalry formed a column under the city, and the endless heads were like waves with no end in sight, and sometimes the neighing of horses came, and all the cavalry eyes looked at the city in the distance. The Great Khan had already given a death order, even if he fought to the point of one soldier and one soldier, he would have to talk about Shenyang to take it, and the cavalry of the front team had a long ladder, and they were still riding horses. The task is to ride a horse and rush to the city of Shenyang. Dismount and set up a ladder, so that the soldiers who rushed to the city in the rear dismounted and climbed up, in fact, for these pure cavalry, in the face of powerful firepower, this is also a helpless thing, now they have no way to retreat, and they can only choose this stupid way to attack the city.

The platoon fire scope poked out from behind the female wall, the artillery had been loaded with shells, and the officers who supervised the battle walked in the aisle of the city wall, urging the soldiers to get ready, for the Guards Legion, this should be the most fierce attack since the defense of Shenyang City, most of the soldiers of the Guards Legion are the backbone veterans selected from the various legions, for them, this kind of thing is simply commonplace, although the Guards Legion belongs to the forbidden army, but it is different from the Janissaries who are glamorous and burly on the surface, but in fact, they faint at the slightest point of blood. Every three years, the Ministry of War will screen all veterans, extend the service period of some meritorious or battle-hardened veterans, and transfer them to the capital to enter the Guards Legion.

"Your Majesty, Galdan is going to fight hard." From behind Zhu Jun, Zhou Mubai suddenly flashed out, and said mysteriously.

"Oh? Zhou Aiqing doesn't work in the city, why did she come here? Zhu Jun turned his head, let go of the way, and let Zhou Mubai stand on his side.

"The emperor is here, how can Weichen not come to serve, your majesty, Wang Qiu will be scared to death by you. You are a golden body, even if there is no danger here, but after all, it is a place of war, it is better to be careful in everything, if the emperor is interested. How about we go down the wall and walk around the city together? ”

Zhu Jun laughed: "Okay, you Zhou Mubai, it turns out that you are here to be a lobbyist for Wang Qiu, say it quickly." What benefits did Wang Qiu give you, so that you could run to persuade you to come to persuade you. ”

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Hey, other people's New Year's Holidays, I also celebrate the New Year, the family all went to grandma's house, the younger brother in order to update, New Year's greetings everywhere during the day, and even reluctant to open the crazy code word when he came back at eight o'clock in the evening, pitiful.

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