In October, the Wei River in Tianjin is extremely busy, the Wei River connects from Tianjin to Dagu, then goes straight to the sea, connects to the sea in the east, and reaches Daming in Hebei in the south, which is the longest water post road on this road.

During this time, a large number of ships came from the south and from the east.

Large ships go to the sea, small and medium-sized boats take the water post road, and materials from all over the country are gathered here one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu led people to walk slowly on the edge of the Wei River, looking northward.

He didn't plan to move the capital, so he was considering whether to make a fortune to Beiping in the future like Zhu Di did before he moved the capital.

In the short term, if the capital is not moved, it will be useless, but in the long run, if you want to strengthen your control over the north in the future, and even give future generations of Jurchens a chance to develop, you must control Liaodong, and this canal will still be used.

After thinking about it, he suddenly asked: "In addition to the rebels, there are soldiers and horses in Shanhaiguan, do you still have troops and horses in Daning City?" ”

A head popped up behind him, with a flattering smile on his face, it was Ji Gang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard.

"Back to Your Majesty, the rebels are now only stationed in Daning City with more than 1,000 people from a thousand households."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and was silent for a while.

When Zhu Di was there, Daming still had some control in Liaodong, but he had already revoked the Daning Xingdu Division.

Because he himself started with hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Daning Xingdu Division, he was afraid that others would do the same, so he abolished the Daning Xingdu Division, and rewarded most of the territory to Duoyan Sanwei, before Mei Shunchang said that the Northern Yuan Dynasty herded horses to Shanhaiguan, which was not a joke.

Originally, it was in the hands of the two emperors of Renxuan in history, especially Zhu Zhanji, who successively gave up Jiaozhi and Nuer Gandusi, which laid a hidden danger for the rise of the Jurchens in the future.

"Let's go, let's fight Yongping and Shanhaiguan first." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "The rebel king wants us to attack the city one by one, as he wishes. ”

At the beginning of November, when the weather in the north was getting colder and colder, Zhu Gaoxu took 150,000 riders to Yongping.

During the Jing disaster, Guo Liang led thousands of soldiers and horses, and the defense of Yongping was not broken for several years.

Of course, the southern army in the middle and late stages did not have time to fight here.

Now in order to strengthen Zhu Di's defense, Yongping has 20,000 soldiers and horses, and Zhu Neng is also there.

But the more soldiers and horses there are in the city, food is a problem.

Fortunately, they have just finished harvesting the autumn grain, and as long as they hold on for a month, I believe that Zhu Gaoxu will retire from the army, because this was the case during the Jing Dynasty.

However, Zhu Gaochu did not plan to learn from Qu Neng Shengyong, after Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses arrived, he first surrounded Yongping, and then prepared to attack the city, before the cold winter came, Zhu Gaochu planned to sweep the north.

At this time, Zhu Neng and Guo Liang were watching the officials and soldiers busy at the head of the city, and the distance between the officers and soldiers was a little far, two or three miles away, so they didn't see it very clearly, they only knew that a large number of officers and soldiers were going back and forth, as if they were transporting something.

The two are estimated to be cannons, but they are faintly different.

"When Cheng Anhou was in Jingjing, he was stationed in Yongping and tried his best to ensure that he did not lose it, and this time he will definitely make Zhu Gaoxu's scalp bleed." Zhu Neng was also full of confidence at this time, after all, Guo Liang performed very well in the Jingjing Disaster and was extremely good at defending the city.

Guo Liang's expression was a little uneasy, he thought about the reputation of the King of Han for winning all battles, and Jing Nanzhong had a good relationship with himself.

Now that it is like this, Guo Liang is also quite uncomfortable, he didn't expect that he would have a day to fight against King Han.

Because he really has no faith.

"King Han is different in fighting, we can't underestimate it." Guo Liang had no choice but to say.

Zhu Neng patted him on the shoulder: "I believe in Cheng Anhou, you come to defend the city, if you want to go out of the city to fight, let me come." ”

Guo Liang was noncommittal.

After thinking about it, he suddenly said: "Chengguo Gong can prepare fine cavalry, once they attack the city unfavorably, we will see the opportunity and rush out to kill a wave." ”

"When it is, good." Zhu Neng was very happy, and when he went down, he was ready to gather five thousand elite horsemen, and he would find an opportunity to rush out in a while.

After his soldiers and horses were ready, he went up to the wall again, and just arrived at Guo Liang's side, before he could speak.

Woo, the horn sounded on the opposite side, and the officers and troops who had been preparing for more than an hour finally began to attack the city.

"It's coming, it's coming, it's siege." Guo Liang was a little excited.

He had heard that the King of Han personally led his troops to break Jingzhou, but it was said that the son of the King of Liao had turned against the water, and in other battles, he had not heard that the King of Han had broken through the city.

So although Guo Liang admires King Han, he still wants to compare with King Han in his heart, it is I who defend strongly, or you attack fiercely.

If it is well guarded, will it be better to negotiate the price at the last minute?

Zhu Neng definitely didn't expect that Guo Liang would also want to drop a little, but he wanted to keep it first and sell it at a good price.

Guo Liang wanted to keep Yongping well and then sell it for a good price, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't give him a chance.

As the large forces of officers and troops advanced in the distance, Guo Liang and Zhu Neng's faces changed slightly.

Boom, tall catapults were pushed down.

It turned out that the officers and soldiers had just been weaving catapults.

"Zhu Gaoxu is still using the return cannon?" Zhu can see incredible.

This thing became popular at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and with the advent of artillery, it was slowly phased out.

The main thing is that the range is short, and it usually takes two or three hundred steps to throw into the city.

And the artillery can hit a mile.

But they also have a problem, there are not many cannons in Yongping City, and there are only a dozen around them.

This is already a lot, and there were not so many cannons in Jingzhou City back then.

"Kill." At this time, there was a shout of killing from the city, and the officers and soldiers pressed on it in a big way, walking faster than the catapult.

After a while, they could see clearly that the officers and soldiers who rushed up were carrying a woven bag on their shoulders, and the woven bag was full of dirt without thinking about it.

Because Yongping City is on the Luan River, it also has a moat, and Zhu Neng and Guo Liang thought they were going to fill the river.

Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers stopped after running about 300 paces, and then piled sandbags on the ground one by one.

"Open fire." Zhu Neng wanted to shoot.

"Don't." Guo Liang has enough experience in defending the city, and the Hongwu cannon is not resistant to fighting, of course, he has to keep the trebuchet, and now it is a waste to beat people: "You have to keep the trebuchet." ”

But the trebuchet didn't push it up for a long time, and the sandbags around it piled higher and higher, and soon overtook the head.

The officers and soldiers continued to pile up, and in the stunned eyes of Guo Liang and Zhu Neng, in less than half an hour, dozens of sandbag walls about two meters high were piled up all around.

The sandbag wall is composed of three sandbags in each floor, about two meters high and four meters long, and there are probably less than 500 sandbags.

Several waves of soldiers took turns moving forward, and soon they were stacked.

When the stacks were complete, the rumbling logs behind them rolled, and the carts followed the trebuchet forward.

"Prepare to fire, shoot back." Guo Liang hurriedly said.

When the trebuchet and the cart approached 500 paces, the head of the city immediately opened fire.

The trebuchet on the opposite side walked very slowly, but the Hongwu cannon also hit slowly, from 500 to 300 steps, only 200 steps, the city head fired two rounds of cannons, and hit a catapult, but also did not hit the catapult.

At this time, the catapults came behind the sandbag wall, although there was a little distance because of the stone, but it would be much more difficult to hit accurately.

If you don't have a sandbag wall, even if you don't hit, if you get closer, the cannonball may roll forward and hit the catapult.

Now you have to hit it directly, it's almost impossible to hit.

Moreover, the officers and soldiers also piled thicker layers in the middle and lower parts of the sandbag wall to consolidate stability.

Guo Liang at the head of the city asked people to continue firing the cannon while looking at the trebuchet of the King of Han, which he had not paid special attention to.

What haven't the Yongping defenders experienced, and the little Huihui Cannon wants to praise us?

Under his gaze, not for a moment.

Bang, there was a loud bang three hundred paces away, and the counterweight box fell hard.

Whoosh, a boulder burst through the air.

Guo Liang also looked at it calmly, and found that the trebuchet was thrown a little far, and it swept over the city wall, pounced, and smashed into the street behind.

The rebels at the head of the city cheered, because they didn't hit at all.

The first wave of officers and troops mounted more than 30 trebuchets from all directions, with an average of about eight on each wall.

More than thirty trebuchets were mainly concentrated at the city gate and in the middle direction, and after the casting, only one hit the city wall and smashed outside the wall, and the effect was not very good.

But Guo Liang also knows that the weight of the trebuchet counterweight box can be adjusted, and the weight of the projectile can also be adjusted, and the hit rate of the next wave is much stronger than that of artillery.

Sure enough, it didn't take a while.

Bang, the counterweight box fell down again, and with a whoosh, a boulder flew over, this time directly towards the city.

The rebels at the head of the city suddenly jumped in all directions to escape.

Boom, the boulder smashed the city, and the city was splashed with rubble, but everyone ran fast, and no one was hit.

"Hmph, it's just a return shot, that's it." Zhu Neng sneered, this thing doesn't seem to be of much use, no wonder it didn't become popular later.

Yongping is a strong city, and the city wall is built with large pieces of bluestone, but it is not a civil engineering city wall, and it is not afraid of returning to the cannon at all.

But what he didn't know was that the first few rounds on Zhu Gaoxu's side were all for measuring distance and weight.

At this time, the trebuchet on their side had already determined the weight and distance of the counterweight box.

"Prepare for a reload."

A soldier carried a bullet that appeared to be made of wood, carried it to the trebuchet, and then used a knife to split the wood, which contained a round bullet wrapped in sheepskin.

He handled it gently, and when he put it on, it was still faintly moving, and it was obvious that it contained liquid water.

That's right, it's all infused oil.

In addition to preventing the cannons from hitting the trebuchet, the main thing is to protect the fire oil bombs.

Fuel bombs are piled up behind sandbag walls, and artillery can't hit them.

Wait for the oil bomb to be loaded.

Bang, bang, one after another fire oil bombs burst through the air and flew towards Yongping City.

The rebels watched as the oil bombs flew over and fell to the city walls, and the oil immediately scattered to the ground.

A strong smell of fire oil spread all around.

"It's not good, it's fierce fire oil?" Guo Liang and Zhu Neng were shocked and frightened, they didn't expect that the officers and soldiers could load the fierce fire oil into bullets and throw it on the wall.

The defenders of the city were originally prepared with fireproof equipment, but they could not stand the officers and soldiers continuously throwing them upward, and the speed of this trebuchet was much faster than that of artillery, mainly to clean and fill the weight box, which could be put once in an average of five minutes.

The point is that immediately after the first wave was thrown, several groups of cavalry rushed up, and the cavalry rushed within fifty paces, and then took arrows, fired fire, swished, and threw them at the fire oil at the head of the city.

All kinds of firearms and bows and arrows were also fired at the cavalry.

Officers and soldiers continued to throw fire bombs.

After only three or four rounds, fires began to burn on the four city walls, and many fire oil bombs were thrown directly on the side of the artillery at the head of the rebel city, and the rebels did not dare to fire and use firearms.

Guo Liang had no choice at all, and Zhu Neng could only stare dryly.

The officers and soldiers began to count from the first stone, and within half an hour of the full battle, the flames at the head of the city became bigger and bigger, and began to spread in all directions.

You must know that the head of the city is not empty, you know that the officials and soldiers have many bows and arrows, they also have arrow stacks, iron pots, and oil in their own iron pots, and there are firearms, gunpowder, wood and other objects at the head of the city, and now they can be ignited, all of which are lit.

The rebels retreated to the city.

Seeing that there was no one standing at the head of the city.

Special mother, the Han King is different when he fights, Guo Liang screamed in his heart.

Originally, he still wanted to defend and then find a chance to surrender, but now it's okay, I'm afraid it won't be as he wants.