To say a word of conscience, if there were no Shen Shuren, then Li Zicheng's army's tactics of rushing to build Lu Gongche to attack the city were still very correct and sudden.

The production speed of heavy equipment like Lu Gongche is very slow, and ordinary people would never have imagined that they would be able to do such a big thing well after a truce of three or four days in the siege.

If it is the Lu Gong car needed to attack a fortified city like Kaifeng, it may not be built well for most of the month, because once the car becomes higher, the difficulty of the project will increase geometrically-

To say the simplest, build a two-zhang high Lu bus, and cut a little tree at will, which can ensure that the length of the thick and hard part of the trunk of the wood is more than two zhang, so the wood does not need to be spliced and lost, and it can be directly supported. If it is five or six zhang high, it may be necessary to use three sections of wood splicing, and the difficulty, weight, process complexity, and stability can skyrocket more than ten times.

So at the beginning, the defenders were really caught off guard by this unexpected equipment.

Although Shen Shuren can sit in command, he himself can only control the northern city that personally supervises the battle, and Huang Degong is also in charge of the east of the city at most.

And the defense of the city walls on the southwest side, where there is no commander-in-chief, depends on the understanding of the garrison-level officers.

On the side of Beicheng, the Ming army was the most effective in dealing with it, and the official army, under the direct command of Shen Shuren, put the thief's Lu bus within fifty steps, and Shen Shucai lifted the ban on firing artillery.

Prior to this, the Ming army was nothing more than a crossbow firebolt with bows and crossbows, and a very disciplined crossbowmen who specialized in shooting the thieves to provide cover fire, as well as a small number of exposed soldiers who were responsible for lookout and dispatching cart steering. And did not waste firepower on the invulnerable Lu bus itself.

This further strengthened the arrogant mentality of the thief side, and several brigades under Tian Jianxiu's command who rushed to supervise the battle all hid behind the car and shouted and cheered:

"Hurry up and push hard! The artillery of the officers and soldiers must have been fixed on the side gun emplacements! Can't hit us at all! The officers and soldiers don't even have the courage to shoot at the car! When you get to the position, you can directly put down the baffle and rush up, and prepare to fight hand-to-hand with the officers and soldiers!

The first row of tomahawk dead soldiers, after crackling the gap to make room, the second team of pikemen, standing firmly, advanced in formation at the head of the wall! ”

The tactics of these thieves commanding the brigade are quite in line with the actual needs of the battlefield.

Anyone who has played the siege game "Ride and Blade" knows that even if they are prepared to advance with spears on top of the wall, the first echelon still can't get spears, because in the process of climbing over the female wall battlements and lining up, it is still possible to be pushed down by the swarming defenders and not be able to show their strength. At this time, it is very important for the tomahawkers to organize expendable death squads and clear their initial foothold first.

Unfortunately, all these plans are perfect, but they are destined to not go to the point of implementation.

The Ming army received the order to release the ban when the car advanced to fifty paces from the wall, and it took some time to complete the final inspection and preparation of the cannon, and when the Lu bus approached more than thirty steps from the wall, the first round of aimed fire broke out.

"Boom boom", on the wall of the north city, on the six sides of the four horse faces (the side of the horses on the most sides facing outward does not need to be fired, because there is no shooting angle for the Lu bus), at least twenty or so Franc machines fire together,

The shells flew out, and a small half hit the target in an instant - don't dislike the low hit rate, in the era of round ball shells, two or three hundred steps apart, it would be very good to have a small half hit a large target with a size of more than two feet. Usually, when hitting a ladder or trench with a smaller target, the hit rate is less than 20%.

Immediately a series of screams erupted in the army of thieves.

The Lu bus was pierced, and the soldiers hiding in it, some of whom were directly pierced by the shells, were directly killed, and the screams were mainly caused by the ejection fragments and missing arms and legs, or being hit by broken and flying wooden planks and wooden pillars.

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The solid bullet originally had a small killing area for personnel, thanks to the large amount of "wooden shrapnel" provided by the Lu bus itself after it was shattered.

Even a brigade commander who was hiding behind the car was also injured by shrapnel, causing several nearby cars to lose their unified command, and a few panicked thieves even fled from the Lu bus, but were killed and injured by the Ming army's muskets.

In the end, it was the thieves who struggled to suppress the bullets, cut down a few deserters, and shouted frantically before they temporarily stabilized: "Don't be afraid! At most, the car was punched by shells! Can't collapse! Keep rushing! ”

The Shenshu people at the head of the city couldn't help frowning when they saw this scene.

Indeed, he somewhat overestimated the effect of solid bullets of this era on wooden structures.

His previous actual combat experience in this kind of combat came from Shen Lian and Li Yu and Liu Wenxiu's battle of Dongting Lake a few months ago, when it was a water battle, the dive shot penetrated the bottom of the ship, and the enemy ship sank directly, which gave Shen Shuren a great hint, and he felt that it was easy to hit the wooden structure giant with a solid bullet.

But at this moment, I am facing a car, not a boat, and the car will not sink if it smashes a hole. As long as the main structure does not collapse, at most, the internal staircase will break some steps, or make a few holes, splash and break the wood, but the car can still be used.

"Li Zicheng's morale is okay, but he still continues to rush after smashing a hole? Careless. It seems that in order to completely destroy the giant siege engine, you can either count on the shells to break the load-bearing main beams, or you can only wait for the invention of blasting ammunition, otherwise you can only kill some people by hitting holes. ”

Shen Shuren is also humble and good at accepting new things, and after two or three rounds of shelling in a short period of time, which caused certain obstacles to the enemy, he recognized the difficulties in reality.

At the same time, a strange thought naturally came to his mind - he had also played a lot of naval battles and sailing games in his previous life, especially "The Age of Discovery" and the like, and he knew that the Western artillery of this era had already developed the ammunition of "chain bullets" in naval warfare.

To put it bluntly, chain bullets are also a variant of solid bullets, which are nothing more than two single-headed bullets in the barrel at once, and the two single-headed bullets are connected by iron chains. When it is shot, it will fly and spin in the air like a meteor hammer.

The biggest role of this kind of chain bomb in naval warfare is to break the mast and boom of the enemy ship and make the enemy ship lose power. Because of the superstructure of these wooden pole structures, the targets are too small, and ordinary solid bullets are difficult to aim.

Once the chain is wrapped around the mast, even the kinetic energy on the cannonball can be transmitted as much as possible, and it is easy to cut it off.

And the Tree Sinking Man immediately thought of this kind of bullet that was very useful for destroying the superstructure of wooden-hulled ships, and thought of it as a heavy and large-volume siege weapon. What they need is to destroy the load-bearing structure, not to make a hole into the water, and the principle and the profession are completely compatible.

"After this battle is over, we must go back to Zheng Chenggong and the Spanish instructor consultants, surpass the ready-made chain bomb technology, and secretly make a batch and put it first, so as to be prepared!"

Shen Shuren was already thinking about the future in advance, so it can be seen that although there was a small accident, he was still very confident and knew that the situation was controllable.

For the Ming army, the fact that the Franc machine could not directly bomb the Lu bus was indeed just a small episode.

Because of the switch to the new type of fixed ammunition, the gunners of the Ming army fired at a speed far beyond their peers, even if some of the thieves had seen it a few days ago, most of them were still seeing it for the first time, and they were still overwhelmed by the continuous bombardment, and their morale plummeted.

In particular, the firing angle of the Ming artillery is very consistent with the side line of the horse face wall, and the closer the thieves get to the outer two sides of the horse face that have just been piled up into a pentagonal shape, the more the soldiers are congested to the firing line of the artillery.

After all, the body of the Lu bus is only so big, and there are not many people to hide, more soldiers need to line up to hide in the back of the car, and the soldiers in front climb up the ladder in the car to enter the city.

The thieves finally pushed the car to the base of the wall, but the Ming artillery began to aim at the rear edge of the Lu bus, and the soldiers who were congested behind the car could not rely on the cover of the car body at all.

"Whoosh-" After discovering that he switched to hitting a fixed target, Shen Shuren also gave up solid ammunition and let the troops switch to howitzer shotguns, and this ammunition finally ushered in actual combat for the first time.

The cannonball flew over a distance of 200 paces, and when it was about halfway over, the butt fell off in mid-air due to wind resistance, and dozens of lead beads the size of grapes flew out, immediately stirring up a cloud of blood mist in the crowd.

The shrapnel that Shen Shuren asked Song Yingxing to make, in the barrel in front of the butt, is in the shape of a honeycomb, and each layer is filled with seven lead beads, just enough to ensure that the plug is tight and the gap is not too large.

In this way, the diameter of the lead ball is only one-third of the barrel of the gun, and in order to ensure that the cartridge is long and cylindrical, it is natural to have at least three layers of lead balls in the longitudinal direction.

In fact, the Shenshu people let people install five layers to ensure that the aerodynamic shape of the shell when flying is optimized as much as possible, so each howitzer is five seven and thirty-five grape large lead balls, each weighing more than one or two, and the total weight of the cartridge is three catties - this is the system when using a thousand catties of Franc machine, if it is a small Franc machine of three or five hundred pounds, it will be reduced in equal proportions, and each shot put is only the size of a pecan, weighing half a tael.

With such a sophisticated weapon, the thieves were killed in a lake of flesh and blood, and hundreds of soldiers fell one after another in a few breaths, screaming and screaming.

A few people who relied on the Lu bus to rush to the city wall were also powerless, and some long-handled battle axe dead soldiers barely hacked to death and wounded one or two Ming army defenders, but found that the comrades behind them could not keep up, either the ladder in the Lu bus was broken and it was difficult to rush up quickly, or the follow-up troops were blocked by artillery fire.

In the absence of backup, a small number of warriors and dead soldiers were also stabbed back by the Ming army, and they died in blood.

In the other directions of Shangcai City, the situation may be better than that of Shen Shuren and Huang Degong in person, but the difference is not big.

Shen Shuren brought Shen Lian and Li Yu, the two "famous firearms generals" who participated in the Battle of Dongting Lake, with them, and today they just let them guard one side of the city gate alone. Although they did not have the ability to make strategic decisions, they carried out firearm defense tactics without a lake, and in the face of the highly efficient deployment of artillery arrays, the offensive of the thieves was broken up one after another, leaving heavy casualties in vain.

At the beginning, he was at the north gate, seeing that Shen Shuren was well defended, and there was no chance, so he hurriedly galloped to the other side, wanting to see if there were any weak links.

However, Shen Shuren only relied on more than 60 flexible Buddha Lang machines to guard sixteen horses, each of which was only four, but they played at least a dozen or even dozens of doors in each one.

With the blessing of the new gun mount, all the artillery is dispatched quickly, and where the pressure is high, it will shoot wherever it is, and it always concentrates superior firepower, and on the most ferocious positions, the thief generals almost all think that they are being fired by dozens of cannons, where can they find the so-called "flaws"?

The siege lasted less than half an hour, and as most of the Lu buses collapsed and shattered one after another under repeated bombardment, and the soldiers were killed and wounded, the thieves finally got rid of the dilemma of "retreating and reluctant to retreat", and the tide generally collapsed and retreated.

What made Li Zicheng most depressed was that on the battlefield in the east of the city, when Liu Fangliang, who was in charge of the attack, retreated and retreated, the Ming army actually opened the city gate, and Huang Degong personally led more than 1,000 cavalry to go out of the city to fight a wave of counter-charge.

Killed Liu Fangliang's troops who were fleeing extremely badly, adding thousands of additional casualties and rout. Liu Fangliang himself also threw away his armor and abandoned all the distinctive armor that could prove his identity, so he escaped Huang Degong's pursuit, which really frustrated the thief's spirit.

……

After Li Zicheng went back, he learned that the siege of the various departments had failed, and Liu Fangliang's losses were particularly miserable, and he was also angry.

The five main forces under his command, Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang, were successively beaten by Huang Degong, and this face has been lost.

The morale of the troops, I'm afraid, will not support the continuation of the offensive on Shang Cai.

But if you don't attack, is it just so consumed? Li Zicheng is in a dilemma.

"Who said a few days ago that the official army is not enough to fear, and only 30,000 people can easily attack the city! I've tried it twice and it's still like this, so many people died in vain! Tell me what's next! ”

At the summary military meeting that night, Li Zicheng was also rarely angry.

The failure of the assault is iron, and this kind of thing can never be repeated. Losing so badly twice, or losing in a different way, no one can stand it.

Song Xiance, who had suggested an all-out attack, was also silent now, and he didn't dare to let go of his fart.

And Yuan Zongdi, who provoked the stab four days ago, jumped out, and he didn't know what to do with Song Xian, but just pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, crying about today's casualty figures, and changing his methods to stimulate Li Zicheng's nerves.

"The king is so right! At the end of the day, there will be no less than two or three thousand people lost to the west of the city! If it weren't for the fact that the last general saw the cannon fired, he would have given up the two Lu buses in the back and didn't push them up, I'm afraid there would be more casualties. General Tian and General Liu, your side is desperately attacking, and the losses must be greater than mine! ”

When Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang were asked, they had to sigh and tell the truth, they each lost three to five thousand people, and now the camp is full of wounded soldiers.

Even if there are hundreds of thousands of thieves in the army, human lives are not valuable, and it is not good to throw them like this.

Shen Dog Officer is too vicious, every time he makes the thief see the hope and see the opportunity, place a heavy bet, and then flip the table to eat it, it is really despicable and shameless!

"That's it! Now is not the time to complain! Li Zicheng also found that the atmosphere was a little too much, and stopped drinking to stop this kind of complaint, and guided the topic to the right path.

He knew that his subordinates didn't dare to speak at this time, so he made an arbitrary decision and made an idea himself: "The responsibility for attacking Shang Cai doesn't have to be investigated, it was originally made by himself, and I won't blame you, what matters now is how to fight next!"

Lone decided to give up the idea of breaking the city and robbing grain from Shen Shuren, and let the troops continue to hold each other and blockade each other, as long as the Shen Shuren were not allowed to advance to Kaifeng City and transport the grain into Kaifeng to rescue Chen Yongfu.

As for our army itself, it is also short of food, so we have to gradually divide our troops and provide food, and you will work together to solve it. It's really not good, let Ye County pick soft persimmons and pinch them, and beat Zuo Liangyu to grab grain,

Or force Zuo Liangyu to hand over part of the grain that Yang Sichang left in Nanyang before his death, and threaten him to beat him if he doesn't hand it over, that's okay, you see how it is more appropriate! ”

The generals looked at each other, and no one dared to say anything about taking the initiative to persuade the king to admit it, so they had to prevaricate with the words of the chariot, saying that the king's decision must be wise, and we will do whatever the king says.

Li Zicheng was also depressed and helpless, but he had to carry the pot himself, and he didn't dare to face the city of attacking the Shenshu people.

……

In Shangcai City, Shen Shuren's side still did not relax their guard after the second siege of the city.

Because the "fortress-style pentagonal horse face" is very easy to use, it has been tested in actual combat, and after the battle, Shen Shuren continued to supervise the soldiers to repair the city defense and optimize the structure.

With more time and the experience of the last time, the Ming soldiers and soldiers have become more and more handy in repairing fortifications, which can be regarded as practicing in actual combat.

And how to build chain bombs to ensure that when encountering giant siege equipment in the future, structural damage can be inflicted on load-bearing beams and pillars, this matter was also immediately put on the agenda by Shen Shuren.

Anyway, the chain bomb was a mature technology that had been used by the Western Navy for a long time at that time, and there was no difficulty, just find two blacksmiths and weld two ordinary cast iron shells together with iron chains, so I took out a sample in just two or three days.

And Huang Degong was beside him, watching that Shen Futai was able to "sum up the lessons of actual combat" so quickly, and he couldn't think of how to collapse Lu's bus a few days ago, but now he has come up with countermeasures.

After it was built, Shen Shuren also carried out a rigorous live-fire test, he did not let people build Lu buses, but just dragged a few enemy vehicles that were damaged but did not collapse a few days ago, and bombarded them, and sure enough, this time they collapsed in a few shots.

Shen Shuren still felt uneasy, and asked people to try those log structure of the sentry tower, arrow tower, found that it was really easy to smash the log column, the arrow tower sentry tower will also collapse quickly, this is very satisfied.

In this way, even if you can't encounter heavy siege engines in the future, this kind of ammunition has some other multi-functional uses, and when attacking the enemy camp in the future, you can easily use chain bullets to knock down the wooden pillar arrow tower in an instant.

"My lord, you are really a god, you just saw a little new tactics of the enemy army on the battlefield, and you can immediately come up with a crack in a few days, and the last general has been in the army for twenty years, and I have never seen you with such a fast brain!"

When Huang Degong saw the test results, his admiration was like a surging river, and he was out of control.

Shen Shuren still had that cloudy and breezy expression: "It's nothing, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles." I'm just from a wealthy background, and I've been a lot more common since I was a kid.

This kind of chain bomb is available in the navy of the Hongmaoyi people, and it specializes in hitting masts, and I use it to hit wooden pillars and wooden towers, which can be regarded as an opportune time and make the best use of things.

By the way, Li Zicheng has not heard from him in the past few days? Did you really give up completely after retiring from the army? ”

Huang Degong hurriedly replied with vigor: "That's true, the last general has been careful in the past few days, and since yesterday, he has also begun to send a large group of cavalry scouts to explore the way.

The Chuang army has indeed given up the plan to attack Shangcai, and it is estimated that the casualties are too bad. I estimated that since Li Zicheng came to confront you, it is estimated that the army has lost tens of thousands of people. ”

Only then did Shen Shuren show a sneer: "Li Zicheng can't come, then it's time for us to make some moves." ”

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ps: the comment is still not restored...... Today's update, the number of words is actually a lot, more than 5,000 words, and 3,000 words are no different.

Let's wait and see, it just so happens that my son vomited a few times last night, and I took him to the doctor today. Today and tomorrow are 5,000-word chapters, and two more will be resumed on Friday.

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