Chapter 359: Flat and Open
Chu Fan mixed the first pot and the second pot of alcohol for each distillation together, calling them 1.5 pot heads.
Chu Fan, who has a 1.5 pot head, has been studying and researching hot weapons and drinking wine for the past few days, and his life is quite comfortable.
On this morning, just after dawn, dozens of people in strange costumes appeared outside the camp gate.
The soldier guarding the gate outside the gate took the paperwork, and a guard led the group to the wooden platform to wait, and then went to the big tent to report.
But looking at the flat and open ground here, there is a wooden platform three or four meters square in the middle, which is like a natural point military field.
Except for a few soldiers guarding the gate at the barracks, there were only a few coolies in coarse cloth shirts passing back and forth in the empty point field, and all the troops had been transferred to the front line to fight, and the rear looked very empty.
Li Rusong adopted Chu Fan's strategy, pretended to agree to the terms of the peace talks of the second wave country, and invited the Japanese side to send representatives to discuss the details of the Ming army's entry into the city.
Not to mention that the people of Cibo are sometimes really naΓ―ve and cute, I heard that there are rewards, and dozens of people actually came, and I don't know if they are poor and crazy or really polite.
Chu Fan saw that the people of Cibo were coming, and arranged for Qiao Feng: "Then this is the case, go to Li Rubai's big tent and shout, and say that the people of Cibo are coming to negotiate." β
When the envoy of the second wave country arrived, Li Rusong was in the big tent and ordered someone to inform him that he would come in a while. But just a moment later, something happened in the military field.
The envoys hadn't seen Li Rusong yet, but they saw a person wearing black armor and carrying a machete in his hand, rushing over from outside the camp gate with dozens of people, and rushed towards the reward group without saying anything.
This person is Li Rubai, who has just recovered, as a gentleman, he does not shout and kill in the military camp, does not act recklessly, it is definitely not his style, at that military meeting, the enemy Chu Fan proposed that the plan will be calculated, and I Li Rubai will not let you succeed, so I heard that the people of Cibo came to the country, and they killed them with them, and cut them when they saw them, and they didn't say a word to you.
Seeing this, the people of the second wave are also stupid, what is the situation? Even if you don't want to give a reward, you can't cut people?
When the main owner Li Rusong came out to meet the guests, the military field was already in a mess, and the second wave of the country invited the reward group to die, and the angry Li Rusong jumped like thunder, and immediately cut off his brother's head, if it weren't for the fact that several old subordinates staged a kneeling and begging for their lives again, they really had the heart to hammer this goods into a mud.
Angry is angry, but the strategy is gone, you hacked the messengers to death, why do you still talk to others? You can't say that I originally planned to kill you in a few days, but accidentally my stupid brother did it ahead of schedule.
Why did the Polish people dare to participate in World War II and challenge the whole of East Asia this time? The main thing is that the spirit is not so normal.,This envoy also killed.,The reward didn't get it.,I didn't expect the next day President Konishi actually sent someone to bring a message.,Said to send someone to negotiate again.,And the reason is very interesting.,Said to explain the misunderstanding the day before.,But if you're in normal spirit.,Definitely won't send someone again, right?
Ren Li Rusong has experienced a hundred battles, and he has never heard of such a strange thing, and he admires the envoy who dared to come for the second time, is this afraid that his life will be too long? Dare to come?
Since they said they were coming, let them come and see what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd.
The next day, the second wave of the country delegation came to the military field again, this time Li Rusong learned a lesson, waited on the wooden platform in advance, and the province killed what Li Rubai, Zhang Rubai, Wang Rubai.
A table was arranged on the stage, and the two sides sat down on both sides.
An old man in a sixtieth year made a gesture and said in broken Chinese: "We are under the order of General Konishi Yukinaga, and we only have an interview with General Chu, and we also ask General Chu to come forward. β
This remark amused General Ming and the others, this fake General Li is in front of you, which General Li do you want to meet?
The two sides communicated for a long time before they figured out that it was General Chu who they wanted to see, not General Li.
This really stumped Li Rusong and others, where is General Chu?
After further questioning, the second wave of the country made it clear that the person to be seen was General Chu Fanchu.
When did Chu Fan become a general? After repeatedly communicating with the Chinese people in Cibo, they were told that the supreme commander here was Li Rusong, and no matter how bad it was, it was the deputy commander-in-chief Zha Dashou, and if they wanted to talk, they had to talk to the two generals.
But these envoys of the Cibo Kingdom really admit their death, and they don't talk about anything if they don't see General Chu.
Seeing this, Li Rusong gave Zha Dashou a look.
After a while, Chu Fan, who was further developing wine-making technology, appeared in the point field. The generals didn't react yet, but the envoys of the second wave country pointed at Chu Fan and discussed, and the excitement in their expressions couldn't be hidden.
Li Rusong said to Chu Fan: "You, come with me." β
Chu Fan didn't know the reason, and obediently followed behind Li Rusong.
After walking more than a dozen steps, Li Rusong turned his face and asked softly as he walked, "Do you know the Japanese people?" β
Chu Fan shook his head
Li Rusong then asked, "Then why are they looking for you?" β
Chu Fan's palms were sweating, to be honest, although he knew that the people of Cibo would definitely come, but why did he want to find himself, he still understood in his heart, but he couldn't tell Li Rusong, you can't tell Li Rusong that it was me Chu Fan who let Shen Weijing go. If this is wrong, and then be regarded as a spy through Japan, wouldn't it be dead?
Chu Fan, who was trembling, stammered: "He, they, want to find me?" β
Li Rusong's footsteps suddenly stopped and said, "You really don't know?" β
Chu Fan still shook his head.
Li Rusong is a person who understands after all, at this juncture, he can't say more, as for why the people of Cibo must look for him by name, it's not too late to ask in the future, I can't understand if I continue to talk about it, he turned around and said to Chu Fan: "Now you go over to negotiate with the Japanese people on my behalf, accept their terms for peace talks, and then discuss the matter of entering the city tomorrow, and find a way to let our army enter as many people as possible, and their requests, as long as they are not excessive, you can agree to them." β
When Chu Fan heard this, he had already roughly guessed his plan in his heart, nodded, and said, "Please rest assured, the little one will go all out, but please also ask the general to give me some silver taels to reward these widows."
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When Li Rusong heard this, he looked at Chu Fan seriously, and said, "That one has already been prepared, and you can arrange it later." β
Hearing that Chu Fan actually asked for a reward for silver, Li Rusong felt more and more that this little secretary was not simple, not only could he come up with the idea of transforming the cannon, but also understood strategy and tactics, and he didn't know how many times stronger than the reckless men around him who could only pick up a sledgehammer and play with a big knife.
What Li Rusong doesn't know is that 300 years later, in China, how high the popularization rate of compulsory education is, not to mention that Chu Fan is still a bachelor's degree, so he can't be compared with the illiterate martial artists of this era. After a few words, the two had already completed the work of unifying their thoughts, Li Rusong turned to the big tent, and Chu Fan sat on Li Rusong's seat.
After the old man gave up his hand again, he said: "General Chu, there were too many people in our mission yesterday, and we also brought weapons, so that your army mistakenly thought that we had other plans, it was really a misunderstanding, and I would like to ask General Haihan." β
Chu Fan arched his hand and said: "Okay, it's over, it's over, and the general doesn't care." β
said this, as if it was his Chu Fan's person who was cut down, but when he said this, it made the old man believe in Shen Weijing's entrustment even more, this person really has the demeanor of a general.
Next, the two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on the Korean issue, and Chu Fan agreed in principle to the sub-army's demand for possession of Gyeongsang-do and Jeolla-do, and recognized the Japanese-supported puppet regime as the new Korean royal family on behalf of the Ming court.
And Chu Fan's request is one, to meet General Konishi Yukinaga and hold the canonization ceremony of the Celestial Empire.
The leader of the envoy nodded frequently, and was very satisfied with the results of today's negotiations.
Immediately afterwards, Chu Fan took the hot iron, waved his hand behind him, and shouted: "Reward!" β
Behind him, the generals saw that this Chu Fan was pretending in front, and he didn't understand what tricks this guy was playing, and when he heard that he was actually giving orders to himself, he was stunned for a while, not knowing whether to take care of him or not.
However, Cha Dashou understood Li Rusong's thoughts very well this time, and immediately said to the people around him: "What kind of god? Hurry up and bring it up. β
In the end, Cha Dashou was a powerful figure in this army, and this reprimand had an immediate effect, and a group of people dragged the plates and sent the silver that had been prepared to the mission of the second wave country.
Chu Fan picked up a plate, sent it to the old man, and said: "The old gentleman has worked hard this time, this little heart, and please accept it, the peace between the two countries, Mr. has to worry more." β
Such an old translator came early every day to ask for rewards, and he was the first to run away when he encountered a cut person, and he was the first to put the silver in his arms, and he really responded to the three hobbies of the old man, greedy for money, afraid of death, and not sleepy.
The old translator who had received the money was extremely excited to broker peace talks between the two countries, and repeatedly conveyed the sincerity of the Chu general in front of him to the head of the mission.
"General Chu's sincerity" made the two armies quickly reach an agreement on the issue of peace talks, and determined that General Chu would enter the city tomorrow to meet with Governor Konishi, and under the guarantee of the old man patting his chest many times, the Japanese side agreed that General Chu would bring his own guards and two battalions of Liaodong Iron Cavalry into the city tomorrow.
The next day, the "Chu General" of the Ming Dynasty led the two battalions of Xuanwei and Changdao of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, as well as the guard battalion composed of all the elite of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, accompanied by Zha Dashou, to march towards Pyongyang City.
When leaving the camp, Li Rusong, who was standing on the point platform, looked at the back of the team in the distance, and instructed his subordinates: "All battalions are ready to attack the city, and tomorrow 5 miles outside the city will be on standby"!
Mr. Chu Fan, who was highly respected by the envoys of the second wave country, pretended to lead three teams of men and horses to Pyongyang, and his identity on this trip was Chu Fan, the general of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty's aid army.
Speaking of which, the people of the second wave still attach great importance to this peace talks, after all, the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as the second wave country, and is willing to share the Korean Peninsula with themselves, which is an important beginning of friendship with the Ming Dynasty.
According to Li Rusong's arrangement before leaving, let Chu Fan lead the troops to charge in front of the city gate, and take the city gate first, and the reinforcements followed immediately, and the forward continued to advance, and finally the reinforcements made a comprehensive assault, and the inside and outside should be combined to capture the city.
When Chu Fan and the guards approached the city gate, they only heard a shout of "rush"!
But he didn't see the soldiers and horses charge, and Zha Dashou, who was behind Chu Fan, waved back, and the personal guards ran forward.
In fact, it's no wonder that no one responded to Chu Fan's command, no one listened to him, he was just a puppet, and the real command of the forward troops was actually Cha Dashou.
However, this did not have a well-coordinated command system, and obviously did not play its due role, except for the more than 500 people of the personal guard, the other two battalions did not follow the charge.
Why not rush? The reason is nothing more than - the atmosphere is too eerie.
It is said that in the battle charge, the commander gave an order, and everyone should shout "kill" and rush forward, but because the nominal commander was Chu Fan, a small secretary of affairs, he didn't see a single person charging for a long time, plus he had never seen an enemy who wore a sword without a blade in a battle, and there was no defense, nor blocking, only a group of strange-looking people singing and dancing on both sides of the road, like a group of crazy people, everyone had no bottom in their hearts, so the commanders of the two battalions decided - no hurry, let's see.
Such a play was staged in front of the city gate, and Governor Ren Xiaoxi trusted this "General Chu" no matter how much he trusted, and he knew what was going on, but Governor Konishi, who had just woken up from a dream, had already seen that Chu Fan and the others had rushed into the West Gate, but the two battalions behind him did not follow up.
Li Rusong, who was hiding behind the stormtroopers, had a complete attack, the city gate was wide open, and he gave it up, but he didn't want it? Are you all blind? Li Rusong, who was in command of the rear army, scolded his side all over again. But soon Li Rusong also realized his mistake, at least Chu Fan should be given a half-official position, or appointed to a temporary position, otherwise how could everyone listen to him?
Cha Dashou and Chu Fan have already entered the city with a group of guards, and when Konishi saw that the situation was not right, he immediately ordered someone to close the city gate.
The most anxious people trapped in the city are not only Chu Fan and Zha Dashou himself, but also Zha Yingkui and Qiao Feng who are outside the city, seeing Chu Fan, a rising political star, have the opportunity to follow Huang Tengda in the future, but he doesn't want to be trapped in the city at the moment, life and death are uncertain.
As soon as the city gate was closed, he ordered the guards to ride their horses and gallop wildly, observing the environment while running, and immediately selected a water pass at the bottom of the city wall next to the small west gate, and more than 500 people abandoned their horses and entered.
The water gate is located on the city wall for the moat and the water outside the city, on the water gate is located the attic, one is to open and close the gate operation room, the other is to observe the water level and prevent the enemy water from escaping into the city.
When the group rushed into the attic, the two soldiers were dozing off, and Zha Dashou didn't let the two people shout, and their heads fell to the ground.
But at this time, the cannon outside the city was loud, and the Ming army had already begun to attack the city.
To explain that the army's sneak attack was very hasty, and the defense of the second army was even more hasty, since the day before yesterday, the envoys came back with a reward, and boasted in front of Governor Konishi, explaining how the general of the army Chu Fan was majestic and sincere, and the old man in the armor patted his chest, saying that he took a personality guarantee, and General Chu kept honesty and reasoned, and definitely came to peace talks with sincerity.
It was Governor Konishi who also relaxed his vigilance, and except for the daily patrol troops, the rest of the people were either resting in the camp and preparing to pack up and return to their hometowns, or were preparing for the canonization ceremony, or were sent out to dance to welcome the distinguished guests.
In fact, it is more relaxed than the daily defense.
This sudden rush to the city made Konishi Yukichang chaotic the phalanx for a while, although the gate was closed, but what about the people who rushed in? As one order after another was issued, the second army began to deploy defense, but the Ming army was prepared outside the city in advance.
Now the first priority of the second army is not the hundreds of men who rushed in, but the crisis on the city walls.
They found that this time the strategy of the Ming army changed, no longer hundreds of artillery shelling in a row of more than a dozen waves, but to take turns shelling, continuous shelling, non-stop shelling, and what they couldn't understand was that the Ming army's artillery was getting more and more accurate. In the past, I could master the rhythm and fight back at the right time, but now it's good, I won't let you show your head, and you can hit wherever you show your head.
Speaking of which, I have to say that Chu Fan is a person who likes to ponder, a few days ago, after careful research, it was found that the accuracy of the ground carving aiming method used by the Ming artillery was not very high, so after many tests, he added a triangular iron leg to the Franco cannon, and he named this thing: triangular sight.
Previously, artillery aiming, by aligning the muzzle and barrel with the line engraved on the ground and the scale, was adjusted by the naked eye. In fact, it's just a rough aim, so why shoot all the shots? It is to cause a range of strikes, in fact, more often than not, the bombardment before the siege is a means of deterrence.
The Franc cannon equipped with a triangular sight, by observing the distance and direction, calculates the position of the triangle plate overlapping on the ground engraved line, line to line, point to point, far more accurate than the naked eye adjustment, first
If the cannon is not accurate, the second cannon can be fine-tuned to be more accurate, and the design of the sub-mother gun can accurately control the amount of gunpowder filling in the early preparation, which further accurately refines the impact point compared with the uncontrollability of the hasty filling of gunpowder on the spot.
Therefore, through Chu Fan's promotion and improvement, the Ming army changed the tactics of bombarding first in the past, and instead used the method of three artillery groups and taking turns to attack to ensure that there was no gap, no difference, and no waiting for the attack on the city wall.
By the time Konishi Yukinaga's large army arrived at the city wall to defend, the Ming army had basically eliminated the patrol defenders on the city wall, and some of the Ming troops had already climbed the city wall, and the two armies once again launched hand-to-hand combat on the city wall.