Chapter 227 Lord Ye gave up the near and far to return to his ancestors, what kind of general is Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma was shocked!

After Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang greeted General Chen, the commander-in-chief of the defense of the East Gate, they quickly walked to the nearest bow and crossbow bed.

General Chen looked at the backs of the two, and only felt that they were wearing armor, from head to toe, they were like that, whether it was a vigorous and resolute pace, or the temperament between gestures, they were very general-like.

But thinking back to what they did after they came here, how they didn't look like a general.

"General?"

"Where's the ginseng?"

"It's just a rarity"

General Chen just secretly complained in his heart and pulled him down, just because General Guo was a general invited by Lord Ye.

He knew that they Lord Ye was a very purposeful person, and he had his own purpose in everything he did, but he really couldn't figure out what the use of inviting them to come was.

But it's still the same sentence, this General Guo is the person invited by their Lord Ye, as long as this person doesn't do anything too out of the ordinary, he can be treated politely.

Thinking of this, General Chen didn't bother to care about them and continued to start his command.

And at this moment,

Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang also came to the nearest bow and crossbow bed, and when they saw the bow and crossbow bed, they were also a little bit looking at old antiques.

Rao is Zhu Yuanzhang, who has been fighting for so many years, and he has never seen this kind of old antique in kind!

He knew that the three-bow crossbow was widely used in the Tang and Song dynasties and during the Mengyuan and Yuan expeditions, and its role in that era was like a cannon now.

With a maximum range of 900 paces (1,500 meters), enough to pierce several people, almost ignoring the influence of the wind, when the arrow could shoot the enemy chief from a long distance, tied to an incendiary ball, it was the cannon of that era.

Song Liao's battle of Lanyuan ended because the bow bed fired a giant arrow to kill the main general Xiao Tzu Rin!

After the Song Dynasty was destroyed, the Mengyuan army took all the bow and crossbow beds for their own use, and made a lot of meritorious achievements during the westward expedition.

Hulagu Khan used these Song-made crossbow beds to beat them out of a nightmare when he conquered the castle of Mementes in the Alborz Mountains.

The locals felt after watching it: "When the soldiers of Meng Yuan had nothing to do, they pulled out a bed crossbow made by the Han people, with a range of 2,500 steps, and a meteor-like projectile burned the devilish pagan soldiers!" (From "History of the Conquerors of the World", 2,500 steps in Arabia is about 1,000 meters)

It's just that Meng Yuan's expedition to the west is the last glory of the bow and crossbow bed!

When a large number of various types of firearms were equipped with the army, these bow and crossbow beds were no longer valued, and in order to empty the arsenal, Qianyuan directly dismantled them as firewood.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang has never seen such a real crossbow bed.

As early as the beginning of the rebellion, he did not have a cannon, but he also thought of building a bow and crossbow bed, which could barely be used as a cannon by tying incendiary fireballs.

But after he made it, he realized that the things made by the craftsmen according to the historical legends were not like that at all, either the range was too short or the accuracy was too floating.

In this way, the manufacturing process of the bow bed was lost!

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the bow and crossbow bed engraved with the information of 'Made in Yanmen Arsenal' and the number of the responsible team and the craftsman number on this girder, and couldn't help but admire: "This bed is really good, not only does it look consistent with the historical data, but also has its own changes, the arrow groove is simple to replace, and the buckle is firm, but I don't know the range power and accuracy, whether there is the effect recorded in the historical materials!" ”

Mao Xiang also nodded after seeing it: "I have to fight to know, I don't know if there are historical records that are so powerful, but it should be stronger than what we made at the beginning, after all, the cannons are so much stronger than those made by the Imperial Ordnance Bureau!" ”

"Huh?"

Mao Xiao looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, who suddenly stared at him with a pair of bull's eyes, and immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing again.

It's okay to make an analogy, but to compare the Yanmen Arsenal and the Imperial Court Weapons Bureau is equivalent to taking Ye Qing and Zhu Yuanzhang as a comparison, saying that the Yanmen Arsenal is stronger than the Imperial Court Weapons Bureau, that is, Ye Qing is stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang.

Although in some ways, this Lord Ye is indeed more powerful than Emperor Zhu, but he can't say it clearly, after all, the emperor's face is the first priority.

Thinking of this, Mao Xiang only felt very lucky, fortunately he said the wrong thing here, if he said the wrong thing in the palace far away from Ye Qing, then he would have to face Zhu Yuanzhang, who was decisive, not 'Uncle Zhu' here!

"Well, aren't you here to intercept the giant arrows?"

Under Mao Xiang's reminder, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he had missed the point at all just now.

Of course, this is not to blame him, only to blame the bow and crossbow bed here, which is indeed much better than the bow and crossbow bed he groped to make, even if he has not seen the actual combat effect, but this appearance alone can be said to be a world of difference.

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly glanced at the various arrow boxes on the side of the bow and crossbow bed, and saw a giant pedal arrow shaped like a javelin, and also saw an armor-piercing arrow whose length and thickness were equal to half of the pedal arrow, but he didn't see the so-called 'intercepting giant arrow'!

He was sure that there was no interception of the giant arrows here!

Although he didn't know what the interception giant arrow was, he knew that it was definitely not one of these arrows that he could recognize!

"What about intercepting the Giant Arrow?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the soldier who was preparing the armor-piercing arrow.

The soldier was a little stunned when asked, if it weren't for the purple flower armor that represented his identity as a general, he would have started to be unkind.

But it was precisely because the person who asked this question was a general that he felt even more inexplicable.

The soldier just asked rhetorically: "General, the east gate is not equipped with interceptor giant arrows, don't you know?" ”

"I know what you know, but you don't?"

Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't expect such an answer.

But then, he still casually perfunctory a few words without losing his style, and went to the city gate tower with Mao Xiang.

At the same time, he looked in the direction of the county government again, and there was a little obvious anger in his eyes!

"General?"

"After today's battle, you must explain clearly to Lao Tzu, what kind of general is a general who has been kept in the dark?"

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind, General Chen's voice came from behind him.

"The flag language reported to Lord Ye, on the battlefield of the East Gate, he used his 'matrix dislocation' artillery array to annihilate half of the enemy's cavalry, and there were less than a hundred heavy armored cavalry left in the front row, and half of the infantry had been annihilated!"

"The last general now asks all the artillery to adjust the lowest elevation angle, and let all the bow and crossbow beds replace the three arrow slots to prepare armor-piercing arrows, and intends to take four hundred steps outside the city to exhaust the enemy's infantry and cavalry."

"After the enemy has broken through 400 paces, between 400 and 200 paces outside the city, he will be stopped by a rain of archers' arrows."

"The last general thinks that in this way, we can consume the enemy army to the greatest extent before the melee battle, so as to reduce the casualties of our melee soldiers!"

"I also asked Lord Ye that the enemy's baggage troops are about to enter the range of artillery, will they be shelled?"

As soon as General Chen's voice fell, the herald flag soldiers began to wave the flag at the watchtower in the direction of the county government.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that these flags would pass through these watchtowers and reach the highest watchtowers in the central square of the county government.

Immediately afterwards, the flag soldier on the watchtower informed the herald below in the form of oral instructions, and finally conveyed it to Ye Qing's ears.

Zhu Yuanzhang was just very curious, after the enemy's baggage troops entered the range of the artillery, they just fired directly, what is there to ask about?

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at General Chen, and just asked politely: "General Chen, there is indeed nothing wrong with reporting the results of the battle and the way you came up with the fight." ”

"But the enemy's siege baggage force is about to enter the firing range, let's just directly draw some artillery bombardment, there is nothing to ask?"

General Chen also knew what General Guo meant in front of him.

Not bad

This is a common sense, according to common sense, it is indeed enough to just bombard.

If you still have to ask about this kind of common sense play, he, the commander-in-chief of the scene, is too worthless.

But that's just common sense in the face of other generals, and for them Lord Ye, common sense basically doesn't work.

General Chen didn't want to answer this question, but because of their Lord Ye's face, he still patiently replied: "General Guo doesn't know, common sense is completely worthless here in our Lord Ye." ”

"His original order was to use a crossbow bed to fire a treadmill bolt tied to an oil bomb, and although General Ben also found the cannon more convenient, he still had to ask."

"What if, what is his strategic and tactical purpose that we don't expect?"

Hearing such an answer, Zhu Yuanzhang only nodded in disbelief, and then looked in the direction of the county office.

In his opinion, the cannon is the best choice!

Don't use such a good cannon to bombard the baggage, but use old antiques to fight, it's really a bit reluctant to go far!

He couldn't figure out what strategic and tactical purpose this kind of 'atavism' style of playing could have?

Could it be that this old antique can be more powerful than the new Hongwu cannon?

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe it, and he couldn't figure it out, but he had to wait for Ye Qing's reply.

Of course, if Ye Qing still insisted on his style of playing of 'returning to his ancestors', he would have to stare wide and become a prisoner.

If the tactical effect can't reach the effect of the bombardment, he will have to re-evaluate Ye Qing's command and combat ability!

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze in the direction of the county government became deep and complicated again.

And at this very moment,

General Chen's words had already reached the operational command room through the flag.

"Lord Ye is really amazing!"

"It was just a round of artillery bombardment, which directly destroyed half of the enemy's cavalry army, and the key is that it also destroyed almost all of the enemy's heavily armored cavalry."

"The cavalry of the Broken Formation is gone, and my melee soldiers will be much easier."

"It has to be Lord Ye's tactics that are powerful, this is the tactic of staring at the front row of cavalry!"

The sand table operator who was in charge of fiddling with the model was talking excitedly while the autumn wind swept away half of the enemy's infantry models.

Not only that, but the ten young men in brocade clothes who were wearing pro-army armor standing on the right side also whispered to each other.

In terms of distance, Ye Qing couldn't hear their voices, but Queen Ma behind them could hear them approximately.

Of course, not only do they think it is powerful, but even Queen Ma also thinks it is powerful.

She knows the bombardment effect of the imperial artillery, this is more than twice as powerful, the key is that his Ye Qing's tactics are still very successful!

Queen Ma just looked at Ye Qing who was sitting on the top of the handsome seat with her peripheral eyes!

In her eyes, after Ye Qing heard these returns, she just looked at the sand table, and her eyes were full of concentration, as if there were no words of praise around her.

Looking at Ye Qing like this, Queen Ma just smiled faintly with satisfaction, and began to record General Chen's return.

In her opinion, no matter how powerful Ye Qing is, she has to think about it for a while.

After all, General Chen's words include the return of phased results, the on-site command and tactical notice, and the next tactical instructions.

Thinking of this, she didn't write so fast!

But at the moment when she had just finished recording, another herald came to report on the situation on the battlefield of Ximen.

The phased results of the Yanmen Pass West Gate battlefield are almost the same, the tactics that the on-site commander thought of are also similar, and the next tactical instructions are exactly the same.

As soon as the herald's voice fell, Queen Ma hurriedly put pen to paper, but before she could finish recording, Ye Qing directly made a decision!

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