Chapter 63: Cracking

It's too good for Gu Baihua to go back and forth.

Knowing that everyone suddenly found a big killer weapon out of thin air in the city, Gu Baihua was also shocked. When he understood that it was a bed crossbow, and Guan Shengyun was at a loss for anything, Gu Baihua burst into laughter: "You are a group of private babies who have never seen the world!" Hahahaha! ”

The generals are so angry.

In the concept of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains is the prosperity of Wuhua Tianbao people, you are a barbarian in the land of Yunnan miasma, and you actually laughed at us for being turtles? Gao Tengdou thought that Gu Baihua didn't understand what a bed crossbow was, and in order to hide his embarrassment of running away, he gave him a detailed explanation with a description. The explanation is a bit exaggerated, well, very exaggerated, in his description, the arrow spear that shot crookedly is simply the demon pestle of Wei Tuo sweeping thousands of armies in the "Fengshen List": everywhere he passed, it was all powder! Instead, he stopped the triumphant Gu Baihua and stuck out his tongue: "Your private baby is so powerful, we really haven't seen such a divine thing......"

Gao Tengdou became proud and scolded back: "What have you seen as a barbarian? I only laugh at others, but I don't know that I am a turtle! ”

Luo Yonghao suddenly remembered Gu Baihua's experience in the border army in Lijiang before he became a horse thief, and his heart moved, and he waved his hand to call the guards to bring the arrows and spears to him to see, and said: "Ah Hua, don't worry, wait a minute, you can recognize that thing first, have you ever seen it." ”

Waiting for the guards to send the arrows and spears, when they saw it, Gu Baihua pointed at Gao Tengdou and jumped up: "You are a turtle and a private baby, Rini & Mahei has Lao Tzu to clear the pain (deceived me so badly)!" What did Lao Tzu say, what kind of gods are powerful, it's just an eight-bull crossbow! As he spoke, he picked up the arrow and spear with one hand, looked at it, and threw it on the ground, "It's so small, neither cow can use it...... Hahaha rat gall! Rat! Hahaha. ”

Luo Yonghao hurriedly stopped Gao Tengdou, who was about to return the favor: "The two brothers stay together, and it's important to get down to business." Ah Hua, have you ever seen this thing before? Do you really know how to break it? ”

Don't look at Gu Baihua can be very arrogant in front of Guan Shengyun, but the martial artist's respect for the scholar is in his bones, he didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Luo Yonghao, and bowed down and hugged his fist: "Master Commander, I know." ”

During the Ming Dynasty, the jurisdiction of Lijiang Prefecture in Yunnan was much larger than it is today, and almost half of northern Yunnan was under its rule. Among the many ethnic groups in Lijiang, the Naxi are the most famous. This is not because of its large number, but because the hereditary Tusi prefect Mu Lao Ye is of the Naxi tribe. On the contrary, compared with other ethnic groups, the Naxi people are very small in number, and they are located on the border beyond the reach of the Central Plains Dynasty, coupled with their wealth (there are copper mines), so they have always been coveted by the surrounding ethnic groups in history. Therefore, in order to survive, on the one hand, the people are fierce and not afraid of fighting to the death, on the other hand, the leaders are also much more active in their brains - for example, when Zhu Yuanzhang sent his son Mu Ying to pacify Yunnan, the Naxi leader Ajia Ade judged the situation and led the people to join him, which is a clear example of a strong desire to survive.

The greatest threat to the survival of the Naxi people is the Tibetans – the Tibetan areas of the Ming and Qing dynasties were also much larger than they are today, and there are parts of Qinghai, Sichuan, and Yunnan and Guizhou today. In response to this centuries-old threat, Naxi chieftains often resorted to two methods: on the one hand, they formed alliances with the leaders of the large tribes in neighboring Tibetan areas and sent away the women and wealth of the family to obtain a longer period of security, and the other was to fight to the death, so that the tribe that was the first to show its fangs to shatter its teeth. This kind of bloody struggle at any cost, although he himself suffered heavy casualties, will definitely hit the other tribe and break the backbone, and it will be swallowed up by other Tibetan tribes soon after. This has been the case for centuries, so that even though the tribe is relatively weak, it will always make the pretenders jealous.

This term of the Tusi Muzeng master, when he was a teenager, he led the generals to resist the Tusi of the countryside and the city, and after the victory, he chased and defeated the enemy all the way, and laid down his old nests such as Muli in Sichuan and Mangkang in Tibet - it was in Muli that they were attacked by the crossbow of the bed and broke it!

Why does the Sichuan-Tibet Tusi have such a big killing weapon that can only be equipped by officials and soldiers?

In fact, all of this is the Ming court's troublemaker behind the scenes.

In order to prevent the hereditary local officials from becoming stronger, and finally form a threat to the imperial court, the magistrates of the Ming Dynasty seem to be fair and fair, and secretly will instigate and intensify the contradictions between the tribes from time to time, and the garrisons of the surrounding guards will be fueled by the instructions of the magistrates: either to assist in training, or to provide equipment to both sides to hand knives - although the Xiangcheng Tusi felt that the young Mu Zeng was good to bully, the Sichuan Xingdu Division also made it fearless through the offensive and defensive equipment provided by the Yanjing Guard.

Unexpectedly, Master Mu Zeng was a hard stubble, and the Naxi men who fought for their relatives in their hometown were all fearless of death, and they used their lives to fill it in, and finally knocked down Muli and captured the bed crossbow by the way.

Knowing that it was impossible for that fool in the township and city Tusi to research such a big killer weapon by himself, but don't look at the young age and bright brain of Master Mu Zeng, he knew that it would be useless to say that if he tore his face with the court, it would be even worse for him, so he didn't even mention this matter, and directly carried the two intact bed crossbows back to Lijiang and swallowed them privately. In the report to the court afterwards, he only cried blood to accuse the bandits in the countryside of how they disobeyed the education, burned, killed, plundered and bullied people, and had to defend themselves and fight back.

Of course, the imperial court pretended to be deaf and dumb and was happy to see it happen - no matter who hacked who killed, the imperial court was happy, and the "loss" of these Xu equipment was simply a drop in the bucket for the long-term peace and stability of the imperial court.

Master Mu paid special attention to Gu Baihua, and it was in Mufu that the curious Gu Baihua not only got it with his own hands, but also studied it thoroughly.

The two bed crossbows seized were one large and one small, and the big one was the "Eight Ox Crossbow" in Gu Baihua's mouth, which was composed of three hard bows in front of the two in front and one in the back. As the name suggests, the huge winch requires eight cows, that is, hundreds of people to work together, to wind, and the huge arrows and spears fired have a range of almost 500 meters (don't listen to the nonsense of 1500 meters on the Internet - put aside the limit of mechanical energy, just use your brain a little: how to aim at such a long distance to ensure accuracy?). Huge construction costs, hundreds of people sweat like rain and toss for half a day just to let you shoot the air at the invisible enemy and have fun? The small one is the double-bow bed crossbow at the head of Shaanzhou City, which can be launched by more than a dozen people together.

The Eight Ox Crossbow is almost unbreakable, but it is large in size, not to mention the cost, there are not a few in the city, and the launch speed is extremely slow, so it will only be used to deal with the most imminent threats, which is a chance. For example, if you make four or five towers, and let out one or two of them and the soldiers in them—if you have fewer people to get in, the towers will be lighter, and if you have the same number of cart auxiliaries, you will advance faster, and the defenders of the city will think that this is the greatest threat - sacrifice this, and the others will probably have to come up! Put down the guard plate in front of you to make a passage and set it up at the head of the city, rush up and a few people cut the noose bowstring first, at least a few hours and more than a day or two, this threat does not need to be considered for the time being. If it would be better to throw a few cans of oil on the shelf, this thing will be wasted.

The Double Bow is easier to break, and the casualties will be much smaller. In fact, Guan Shengyun and others all heard about its power when they were soldiers, and they didn't actually experience it personally - the half-pulled guys had the best to deceive, if they really fought, as long as they were willing to bleed, it wouldn't be long before they would naturally figure out how to crack it.

Gu Baihua heard Master Mu talk about the method that was exchanged for the lives of many Naxi men, and he tried it himself, so he immediately said how to deal with it. The generals were overjoyed, and the haze that shrouded everyone's hearts was swept away.

Gu Baihua only brought back two infantry teams, in fact, he was reluctant to miss the excitement, and the main attack was still Gao Tengdou's three battalions. Everyone prepared for the attack step by step and according to their own methods, and Gu Baihua's small army simply replaced Guan Shengyun's Breaking Sky Battalion and took on the escort work of delivering food to the people.

Then, Gu Baihua picked up a daughter-in-law for nothing.

For many days of fear and half-starvation, the people were domesticated to obedience, and they bowed their heads in front of Guan Shengyun's army. The initial armed convoy was to suppress the possible resistance of the people when they were driven to the end of their rope; Now, it's just a routine. It was more about demonstrations against the defenders of the city, and humiliation: making them watch the people cheer at them.

The auxiliary soldiers who deliver meals, although they are the lowest level in their own battalion, not only need to endure the bullying of the regular civil war soldiers at all times, but most of their lives will be sent to the ditch in the middle of nowhere—they also all know, not to mention Guan Shengyun and Luo Junshi, even their own immediate superiors will not care about this in the slightest, but in the people, they have become savior-like characters, enjoying people's heartfelt gratitude, and their eyes are full of flattering words and flattering smiles. There were even people with little babies who privately forced the church dolls to kowtow to the ground, and expressed their respect for "listen to me and say thank you" in a childish child's voice - for this reason, it also caused a small dispute: the people waiting in the back to receive the multigrain cakes were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, so they quarreled.

However, this kind of order is only for Guan Shengyun - inside the people, it is a different scene. After the auxiliaries left, brawls and robberies were commonplace, and even several murders had occurred, and the corpses were thrown down the Qinglong Stream and blocked at the pontoon bridge, and the soldiers of the Tianyi Battalion had to untie a small boat and leave a gap for the corpses to float into the Yellow River.

Another big problem is the rampant disease. Although there is not a lot of excrement in one meal a day, the number of people is there, and tens of thousands of people huddle in a small area, just feces and urine, it is a big trouble. Even worse - excrement polluted the only water source, although everyone has always had the habit of going to the river at five o'clock to empty the body and then fetch water after the morning (seven o'clock), but the self-cleaning ability of the river is limited after all, and such a large-scale concentrated excrement cannot be fully decomposed in just over an hour, so many people fall ill, and digestive diseases further deteriorate the already bad environment, making matters worse.

Everyone is looking forward to getting out of here as soon as possible.

Even to die.

At this time, Gu Baihua came.

Changed the multigrain salty cake in the past, today Gu Baihua brought hot white flour flatbread, and when mixing the noodles, he also mixed some lard and sprinkled green onions, and as soon as the burden of the auxiliary team was lifted, it seemed to be able to break through the sky and lure the immortals to the mortal world.

The sick crowd is boiling! Some people really couldn't hold back the order to sit on the ground, and they raised most of their bodies to look at it, stretching out their hands and praying. Without exception, these people were all whipped - Luo Shifan had expected this, and he took the trouble to explain to the leaders and guards of the auxiliary forces again and again: The chaos that has just emerged must be strictly stopped, otherwise, once the situation is chaotic to the point of getting out of control, all the previous efforts will be wasted!

Kill if necessary!