Chapter 352 The Fire of the Prairie in the South of the Yangtze River
Jinzhou.
Twelve cannons on the west bank of the Xiaoling River were lined up, and the muzzles of the cannons pointed to the west gate of Jinzhou on the opposite side.
The width of the river here is about three hundred meters, and the city wall is two hundred meters from the river bank, which adds up to exactly five hundred, except that the cannons have to be erected on the river beach, otherwise it is a little farther away.
"The King?"
Yang Ping looked at Wang Yue with an inquiring gaze.
"Let's get started!"
Sitting on the Iron Throne, King Wang said proudly.
This was brought to him with the cannon, and without this pretending to be the king, the king always felt that something was missing.
Representative Yue had already removed the two barrels from the inside, and was studying with the generals how to better hold this obviously recoiled thing to fire, because Wang Dawang didn't tell them that they could add a butt, so they were giving full play to their brains. Wang De has even proposed that a special shield can be made, and then wear this thing in the center, so that it can be supported in front of the formation, which not only solves the problem of stable launch, but also provides protection for soldiers.
I have to say that they are all very creative.
Yang Ping immediately waved the command flag in his hand, and the gunners next to the twelve giant cannons lit the fuse, and then scattered with those soldiers in an instant.
Yue Fei and the others all got up and looked at these giant cannons one by one.
Then they began to roar.
Huge granite cannonballs whizzed across the river, reaching their target in the blink of an eye, although only one of them was in the middle of the city wall, and it hit the female wall, but the generals who held the binoculars that had just been issued could clearly see how it smashed the female wall, and then swept through the defenders on the city wall behind, and sent the Jurchen soldiers backwards and flew out.
The other one that was high landed on the top of the tower, and then the wooden tower was instantly half missing.
There was jubilation on this side, and panic on the opposite wall.
"Go on, aim at the point, and also, don't always hit one point, hit three corner points, first hit two at the bottom not far from each other, and then hit one on top, so that you can collapse a large piece."
Wang Yue said.
Of course, this is purely rhetoric.
These cannons have a fart accuracy, and if they can land on the city wall, it is a success, and it is too demanding to shoot where to point.
But that didn't stop the soldiers from doing the same.
Twelve cannons were slowly loaded......
This reload is really slow, but it can be cooled down sufficiently.
"King, it is inevitable that the city wall will be opened, but you need to be careful that the enemy army abandons the city and flees, although Jinzhou is the place they must defend, but our cannon is too powerful, as long as these cannons are there, it is impossible for the Jurchen to hold Jinzhou anymore, and Mu Han is also a general, at this time he will abandon the city and flee."
Yue Fei reminded Wang Yue.
Indeed, Mu Han is not a fool, and he can't defend Jinzhou if he can't fight back after being beaten.
They don't have the ability to fight back now, the counterweight trebuchet can't throw it here, the thing can be thrown on the river at most, and the bed crossbow can shoot here, but they rarely use this, and it's useless to go out of the city to attack, because the three-hundred-meter-wide river surface of the Xiaoling River blocks the cavalry. They could only be in Jinzhou City, watching these huge cannonballs continue to fall, and then collapse their city walls piece by piece, once the city walls were blown down, it was the 140,000 troops on this side who rushed in.
Then he will be defeated.
Although he still has an army of 60,000, in fact, the real Jurchens are less than 30,000, counting on those Han army Khitan Bohai and him to live and die with him after the city is broken......
He's not that naΓ―ve.
"That's exactly what I wanted."
Wang Yue said.
Sticky Han will definitely abandon the city and flee.
Who can withstand this kind of battle that can't fight back?
Then the rest is the battle in the field with ability, 140,000 to beat 60,000, even if Sticky Han can finally escape, he has to leave at least half, especially those miscellaneous cards, as long as they let go and accept their surrender, it is estimated that they will immediately defect.
"By the way, what about the Koreans? Call them all! β
Wang Yue said.
The attendant beside him hurriedly ran to call someone.
The last time the Goryeo cannon fodder who escaped in Tasan, a total of more than 500 people escaped, and then surrendered and joined his command, these people temporarily followed as the Ming army, as one of his direct troops, the leader was a man named Jin Cheng. In the past few days, Wang Yue is personally in charge of indoctrination, as for the main content of indoctrination, of course, it is their hatred with the exploiting classes of the Goryeo royal family, because there are enough materials here, they eat canned fish and white rice every day, and that pair of Wang Dawang has really advanced to the rank of fanatics.
Soon more than 500 fanatics arrived.
"The king, the little one, please order the city wall to be opened and the king will drive forward!"
Jin Cheng stepped forward and saluted excitedly.
Wang Yue got up from the Iron Throne, walked up to him and patted him on the shoulder.
Jin Cheng's body continued to decrease as he slapped down, and it was almost ninety degrees.
"I have received your wishes, but this is the land of Liao, General Xiao Pu and his subordinates will be the main attacker, you don't have to, but you also have a task, and there are many innocent people of all ethnic groups in the city who are like you and are coerced by the Jurchens. You have to make them understand that I have no ill will towards them, except for those like Geng Shouzhong, and the likes of Yelu Yujian are indeed unforgivable, but as long as others are willing to turn against them, I will give them the opportunity to mend their ways, just as I did to you. β
Wang Yue said.
"What does the king want the little ones to do?"
Jin Cheng said.
"It's easy, go sing and dance!"
Wang Yue said.
"Little obedience!"
Jin Cheng said without hesitation.
Then he beckoned his men to come forward.
"Look, how harmonious this is!"
Wang Yue said.
Under the light of the fire sprayed by the giant cannon, in the smoke of gunpowder, accompanied by the sound of thunder and cannons, five hundred Goryeo soldiers happily began to sing and dance, they can indeed sing and dance, soon not only them, but even many Khitan soldiers also joined the song and dance, and then the soldiers of the Changsheng Army also began to sing, because they had to wait for the river crossing to attack, the entire west bank of the Xiaoling River was full of soldiers, and these guys directly turned this place into a venue for the party.
Seeing Wang Yue, he hummed along.
The Jinzhou city wall opposite them was gradually collapsing under the bombardment of shells.
"The King."
An attendant walked up to Wang Yue's side.
At this time, a fixed attendant system had been formed around Wang Yue.
These people are all selected through examinations, and the source is still those students trained by his school, at this time his school in Yanshan Mansion has formed a university, in fact, it is still a school, but at the beginning, those students who were admitted to the school since childhood, as long as they are not adults, they have been studying. Adults, no matter what level they have learned, take exams and then throw them out as grassroots officials, even if they are only literate, they can be arranged to become teachers in schools in various places.
But those who were young when they entered the school continued to study like this, after two years of primary school, two years of secondary school, two years of university until they officially graduated.
After such an examination, he was selected as an attendant.
They are all real talents, although their studies are two years, but in terms of the knowledge that Wang Yue can teach them, two years is enough, the key is that Wang Yue can't wait for nine years, six years is enough, these attendants are now all really proficient in astronomy and geography.
They first served as acolytes for a year.
Follow him to do all kinds of work, and then throw out to be a magistrate.
The real magistrate must at least start as the head of the township, and the rest is promoted by ability, and in this way build up a cadre team that is absolutely loyal to himself.
These are all absolute cronies.
"What?"
Wang Yue, who was watching a cabaret performance, said.
"An urgent report was sent from the capital, and the envoys sent by the Zhenjiang puppet court arrived in the capital, and the official family asked the king to go back quickly to discuss their surrender."
The squire said.
"Uh, they reacted so quickly?"
Wang Yue said unexpectedly.
At this time, Zhenjiang should not know that he defeated Muhan, and he would be able to send the news to the capital in such a short time, but it was impossible to send it to Zhenjiang, not to mention that they also sent envoys to the capital, which meant that he had not yet left Yuguan, and the envoys over there had actually set off.
"Back to the king, Zhong Xiang rebelled, led an army of 200,000 to break through Dingzhou, and the king of the same fight local tyrants to divide the land, in addition to Fujian's smuggling salt dealer Fan Ru for the army, claiming to be the righteous people for the national hoe, led the army of 100,000 to break through Jianzhou, in addition to the Jiangxi people chanted the scriptures to raise troops, also called the righteous people as the national hoe traitor, has broken through Guixi, Yiyang. These people are all fighting local tyrants to divide the land, especially Fan Ruwei, who has completely learned the militia practices in Hangzhou, and the entire Jiangnan has been full of smoke, and those people in Zhenjiang were frightened and panicked, so they had to surrender.
After all, the conditions given to them by the king can still keep their property, but they can't even save their lives when they are beaten by these poor people who raised troops, and their armies are all in the north, so they don't dare to transfer back, and they are attacked by the enemy, so they naturally don't have the courage to hold on any longer.
According to the news brought by a Jiangnan ship that had just arrived, it was said that there were already troops on Guangnan East Road who had raised troops to fight local tyrants and divide the land in the name of righteous people and traitors. β
The squire said.
"In this way, reply to the official family, just say that I will go back after Jinzhou, now is the critical time, how can I care about them, is they important or the battlefield here is important? Let them endure it first, they still come to talk about conditions after they are like this, are they qualified to negotiate any conditions? Isn't what they need to do to surrender unconditionally? β
Wang Yue said.
He's not in a hurry!
Let those gentry know that knowing the horror of the people's uprising, in the final analysis, it is definitely not possible to let some people die in Jiangnan, and the undead will not let those gentry get a profound lesson, so that those rebellious poor people can destroy more gentry in order to let the rest understand that King Wang is actually for their good. Everything the king did was for them to be rich and prosperous, and it was not harmful to them to divide their land, but to let them continue to control the land and exploit the poor.
In order to make them understand this truth more clearly, let them burn in the fire of the prairie for a few days!
First burn them to the core.