Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Hammer Smashes Walnuts

That's right, the Yellow River Water Division.

In Zhao Yong's opinion, this is simply magic.

None of them. Because of thousands of years of human habitation and continuous deforestation, most of the northern mountains are completely bare. Taihang Mountain is like this, and Luliang Mountain is also like this. And the big wood in Shanxi, Shaanxi Province, has been exhausted in the Hundred Years War of the Song and Xia Dynasty.

Otherwise, there would not be a large amount of sediment washed downstream, so that there would be a river hanging on the ground.

In the lower reaches of the Yellow River, near Tongguan, there is a well-known pillar in the middle. Particularly affects shipping. There is also Hukou Waterfall, where it is almost impossible to sail boats from downstream to upstream. Only local ships can be built, because of the big wood, the local ships are very small. It's just a ferry. Don't even think about it.

The section of the Yellow River controlled by the Northern Army was only a part of the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River in later generations, and there were no forestry resources nearby. In this case, how could the Northern Army build big ships?

But the problem is that he did see the big ships of the Northern Army sailing on the Yellow River.

There were not many of them, but a dozen of them, and the ships were not large, they were two or three times larger than the local ferries, and there were all kinds of artillery on them. There was no heavy artillery, but it was enough to dominate the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

It was impossible for the Southwest Shanxi Army to cross the Yellow River to the west.

Zhao Yong didn't know that this was the role of the railway.

The Lushun shipyard directly disassembles the ready-made ship into different parts according to the size of the train car. Starting from Yingkou, the parts were transported by train to Dongshengwei.

This was then reassembled by qualified technicians at the Lushun shipyard in Dongshengwei.

Of course, this assembly has a certain effect on the overall structure of the ship. In this case, these ships cannot fire heavy guns, and if they fire a shot, they will probably break themselves, which is a big joke. Only some small cannons can be arranged, and even infantry guns cannot be used.

These ships are live targets on the sea, and they don't even need to be hit, and if they walk a few laps in the storm of the sea, they will sink themselves. But this is not the sea, it is the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the place he has to face is not artillery, but just some ferries.

That's enough.

As a result, the most eager reinforcements in Yulin City stopped at the Yellow River. Even Zhao Yong had to worry about another terrible thing, that is, when the northern army took Yulin, whether the enemy would attack Shanxi from Shaanxi.

As a result, Zhao Yong could only deploy along the Yellow River.

It's just that in this way, Shanxi has no mobile troops at all.

Along the Yellow River, the Inner Great Wall, and the defense line of Taihang Mountain, stretching for thousands of miles, even though there are many places that are blocked by mountains, it is a natural defense line, but looking at such a long defense line, Shanxi's troops have also been exhausted. But it doesn't work if you don't take precautions.

Such an embarrassing situation in Shanxi made Zhao Yong think a little more, nothing else. It's your own future. Did you really follow the road of Nanjing to the dark?

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Zhao Yong still has the time to think about his future. And Song Sheng no longer has this mind.

With a "boom", a cannonball smashed on the top of the city, and the bricks and stones flew wildly. In many places, patches of masonry fell, revealing the rammed earth inside.

The level of architecture in the Hongwu period is worthy of recognition. Even under the bombardment of the giant cannon, Yulin City was still stubbornly towering. The northern army occupied all the outlying camps, surrounded them on three sides, day and night, and without distinction of focus, bombarding the city walls.

In other words, it is not that the Northern Army does not distinguish between key points. It's that there are too many artillery pieces in Beijing.

Dozens of heavy artillery pieces transferred from the rear, hundreds of infantry guns equipped by various armies, and other chaotic artillery pieces were gathered together, and the number covered almost the entire front. After all, the artillery arrangement is also exquisite.

Artillery firing positions, gunpowder storage, and so on. And they should also be separated from each other by some distance. After all, although He Xi has always regarded preventing the explosion of firearms in the army as a top priority, he has even made concessions in many places for this matter.

But there is one thing He Xi has to admit.

There is always a risk of artillery boreholes.

This is due to technical reasons. Before the technology advances, the risk can only be reduced, and it is impossible to completely eliminate the risk of exploding. That is to say, when the artillery position is arranged, the risk of the artillery exploding must be taken into account, otherwise it will be blown up if it is too close. caused a chain reaction. That's not good.

Such a dispersed arrangement. So many pieces of artillery are almost as long as the walls of Yulin.

Naturally, it doesn't seem to be the focus of the offense. Of course, there is an important point. The focus is on the North Gate. Because it is here that the army is easiest to unfold. Once the breach is opened here. The army is ready to fight in the streets.

Countless armorers were bored at the moment and sat on the ground behind the artillery, but did not remove their armor. for they do not know when the wall will fall. They were to be prepared to rush in as soon as the walls fell.

However, it is certain that the city walls will not hold on to this.

for they saw clearly the cracks in the walls of the wall. From afar, it looks like black lines.

The northern army overlooks the black lines. But Song Sheng seems to be even more alarming.

There seemed to be a bright light at the end of the cracks, indicating that some of the cracks had penetrated the rammed earth wall several feet wide. The light has come to an end.

It is already a matter of time before Yulin City is broken.

And Song Sheng looked at the soldiers who were sticking to the cave under the city, all of them were disgraced, and the northwest was already windy and sandy. Not to mention the artillery bombardment of the rammed earth walls, each cannon kicks up countless smoke and dust.

And these soldiers can't go up to the city wall, going to the city wall is simply looking for death, but they don't dare to leave too far, otherwise the enemy will suddenly attack the city, and there will be no time to react. That's a big problem.

Only ash can be eaten here.

That's what it looks like.

The eyes of each of them were dark.

Song Sheng sighed, and secretly said in his heart, "Enough, it's time to retreat."

Song Sheng can encourage morale. Although Song Sheng is not a first-rate general today, but in the end, he is a veteran who leads troops, and he knows very well that at this point, in fact, Yulin City is already in a completely passive situation. At this time, it is not the method and strategy that will be tested, but the will.

The will to stay the course.

There is no way, in fact, it is also a way. A lot of siege battles are held to the end, that's it. Hold on to hope in the midst of despair.

What if the city is broken?

It's not that street fights can't be fought. And Song Sheng actually clearly felt that although the Northern Army was very strong, in hand-to-hand combat, that is, hand-to-hand combat, the Northern Army was not stronger than them, and even a little inferior.

The Northwest man slashes people with a knife, and he is not weaker than anyone else.

Moreover, there was enough food in the city, and there was a lot of gunpowder.

He fought until the last moment. Even in the case of the city being broken, it is not impossible to persist in fighting for more than a month, or even longer.

But he, Song Sheng, must be martyred. The soldiers who followed him, it is estimated that not many people will leave Yulin City alive.

Thinking of this, Song Sheng couldn't help but ask a why?

If it were the Mongols who were to call now. Song Sheng: Don't say that there is food. Even if there is no food, he will continue to fight by gnawing on the corpse, and he will not be ruthless. But in the end, it was the Zhu family's family matter, the eldest and the second child fought for the family property, and asked him and his soldiers to give their lives.

Song Sheng was unwilling.

And even if Song Sheng is willing, these soldiers are not too willing.

Many of these soldiers were from the old ministry of King Qin. They all miss King Qin very much, and it has nothing to do with whether King Qin is a good person or not, King Qin is dead. Anyway died. From the last years of Hongwu, they were all put into a separate book. Now it's being reused.

From the eyes of these people, Song Sheng also felt that they might not be willing to die for Nanjing.

If Song Sheng insists, his fate will not be too good.

At this time, he felt that he was already worthy of the Nanjing Imperial Court. As for Song's future, he will talk about it in the future, and now he is thinking about withdrawing the army. Look at the book

Fortunately, Song Sheng had a lot of preparations for the withdrawal of troops

Finish.

One night, the southern army in Yulin City suddenly withdrew from Yulin City from the south gate.

Such a big move cannot be hidden. Can't hide it from Qu Neng.

Qu Neng was even more overjoyed.

Of course, he wanted to conquer Yulin with regular soldiers and hit walnuts with a hammer.