Chapter 162 Ming Dynasty Military Reform [Seeking Quan Ding]

"Your Highness, it seems that these Mongols are coming for Wild Wolf Castle?" Luo Guanzhong came to report to Zhu Han after some investigation.

It turned out that the Ming army's fortress tactics had worked. The Mongolian tribes around Wild Wolf Castle could not graze in peace and were worried about being attacked by the Ming army at any time. So they asked Wang Baobao for help and asked for 3,000 Mongolian soldiers and horses to unite with a group of surrounding Mongolians.

The tribe wants to break through the Wild Wolf Castle.

After all, Wild Wolf Castle doesn't look that tall, and it seems that the Mongols can break it with just one charge.

"Haha, the Tatars are here to die. How many troops do they have?" Zhu Han looked outside the fortress and saw the Mongols looking arrogant.

"Reporting to His Royal Highness, the Mongols who invaded this time totaled about 10,000 people. They were all equipped with Mongolian scimitars, bows and arrows, as well as shields, spears, and armor. They even had many siege weapons.

Ladder?" Luo Guanzhong said.

Zhu Han said with a smile: "Huh! They came just in time to allow us to train our troops."

Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing and others were secretly surprised when they saw Zhu Han being so confident.

This Wild Wolf Fort is only one foot high, and the Ming Dynasty defenders only have over a thousand people. Zhu Han did not panic at all, but was full of confidence, which made them confused.

However, Guo Ying, Zhou Dexing and other generals did not ask, but chose to remain silent.

The general of the Mongolian and Yuan army outside the city was Wang Baobao's younger brother Alu Timur. When he saw that the Ming army's Wild Wolf Fort was only one foot high, he immediately ordered the Mongolian army to attack without giving the Ming army a chance to rescue.

The Mongolian army soon surrounded it from all directions.

And began to concentrate their efforts to violently attack the fortress.

But they underestimated the Ming army's defensive capabilities.

There were many artillery pieces inside the fortress. While the enemy was attacking, the artillery pieces fired at the Mongolian army.

"Bang bang bang" bursts of loud noises were deafening, and artillery shells hit the Mongolian army one after another. Thick smoke spread out and covered the sky.

The front army composed of Mongolian herdsmen suddenly fell into chaos and was in chaos, unable to organize an attack at all.

At this time, the lookout post at the top of the fortress immediately shouted, and then a dense barrage of muskets was fired from the city wall, killing and wounding a large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses in an instant.

When Aru Timur outside the city saw this scene in front of him, his face suddenly changed color!

He never expected that this Wild Wolf Castle would be so powerful!

However, he quickly calmed down and decided to personally lead his soldiers to attack.

There were five hundred people around Aru Timur. These five hundred people followed Aru Timur in his expeditions north and south, and they were considered the elite among the elite.

These five hundred people rode tall horses and charged with Aru Timur. They held scimitars in hand and galloped towards the Wild Wolf Castle. As long as they rushed to the bottom of the fortress, they could use ladders to climb up the low

Low walls, capture this fortress.

However, when they were still more than ten meters away from Wild Wolf Castle, the Ming Army musketeers in Wild Wolf Castle suddenly raised their heads, raised their matchlocks, and fired at the cavalry on Alu Timur's side.

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Just bursts of gunfire were heard, and Mongolian cavalry kept falling in a pool of blood.

However, Aru Timur did not care about these casualties at all, and he continued to lead the cavalry to charge towards Wolf Castle.

Finally, Aru Timur led five hundred cavalry and rushed to a distance of only seven or eight steps from the city wall. This distance was enough for them.

Aru Timur led his soldiers to dismount and use ladders to climb towards the fortress.

When Zhu Han saw this, he smiled contemptuously. He waved his hand and ordered the defenders' artillery to start firing.

"Rumble"

From the tower of Wild Wolf Castle, artillery shells continued to fly out one after another.

At this moment, the Mongolian cavalry truly realized the power of firearms. Cannonballs hit the Mongols one after another, leaving corpses scattered all over the ground.

"Retreat!" Aru Timur shouted.

At this time, the Mongolian army thought of retreating, but it was already too late. Hundreds of musketeers appeared in Wild Wolf Castle and fired fiercely at the fleeing Mongolians.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Aru Timur turned around and wanted to escape.

But it was too late, a shotgun hit him in the back of the head, killing him instantly.

The rest of the Mongolian cavalry were not much better. Although they luckily escaped the musket fire, they were still blown up or shot dead by the Ming army's artillery.

The Mongolian army suffered heavy losses. In the end, less than half of the people escaped, and basically all the remaining people were killed.

At this time, the Mongolian troops outside the city saw this and immediately turned around and ran away.

Meng Yuan's sneak attack on Changfu this time originally wanted to pull out these Ming army's fortress strongholds on the grassland, but they never expected that the Ming army's defense would be so strong. Those inconspicuous fortresses had such powerful

The firepower not only caused them a bloody blow, but also killed one of the generals, Alu Timur.

After getting this news, the entire Meng Yuan was trembling with fear. No one dared to think that Yingchang Mansion would launch an attack. Even Wang Baobao could only endure it after knowing the situation. With this bad breath, he ordered his generals not to attack.

It would be easy to launch another attack on the Ming army in Mongolia.

As a result, the entire Mongolian tribes on the Monan grassland were almost abandoned by the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. They quickly changed their original stance and began to surrender to the Ming army.

After Zhu Han learned of this situation, he immediately ordered Luo Guanzhong, Zhou Dexing and others to quickly expand this kind of fortress on the grassland.

It's just that this kind of fortress requires a lot of soldiers and horses to be garrisoned. Each fortress must have at least two to three hundred people. If you want to build enough fortresses on the entire Monan Grassland, you must deploy enough soldiers.

A mere 10,000 soldiers were simply unable to meet Zhu Han's plan to completely control the grassland.

In order to deal with the problem of insufficient soldiers, Zhu Han immediately wrote a letter to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang, requesting that some of the military households in the Huaixi area of ​​Henan be allocated to the Peiping Dusi to serve. The conditions offered to these recruits were very generous.

Of course, military households were stationed on the grasslands, and it was impossible to obtain the land originally owned by each military household. Their military pay levels could only be greatly increased.

You must know that there are many children of military households in Huaixi, but they have not inherited the status of military households.

Their way out is a big problem.

Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou Prefecture.

Li Shan is seventeen years old this year, and his father Li Sanming was once a member of Guo Zixing's Red Scarf Army.

First, he followed the commander-in-chief Guo Zixing in Haozhou, and later he joined the current emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. As Guo Zixing's old tribe was incorporated, Li Shan's father became a military household.

Unfortunately, less than a year passed.

Li Shan's father died gloriously in battle, and Li Shan's eldest brother inherited the position of military household, which is the 150 acres of work land, 64 acres of tax land, and the rest of the mounts, pack horses, and armor.

, bows and arrows, etc., all belong to the elder brother.

Li Shan and another brother.

Except for a suit of clothes and two houses, I didn't get anything at all.

There is no other way. According to the laws of military households in the Ming Dynasty, the positions of military households and soldiers are not allowed to be split and inherited.

Because a military soldier's job field is the source of most of his supplies when he is on an expedition.

If a soldier's land was split up, there would only be twenty or thirty acres left, and it would be impossible to support the expenses of weapons, grain, pack horses, and leather armor.

Therefore, according to the inheritance laws in the Military Household Law, Li Shan's elder brother became a wealthy military household soldier.

Li Shan and his second brother became ownerless.

On the outskirts of Xuzhou City, there is a garden with ten large houses, where Li Shan lives now.

This is the house of his eldest brother Li Zhong, who belongs to a hundred military households in Xuzhou.

Today, the eldest brother Li Zhong went to Xuzhou City.

I heard that I was going to listen to the latest military orders.

"Lao San, I can't survive this day!"

As soon as Li Shan lay down on the broken bed in his room, he heard a burst of shouting from outside.

This voice was none other than that of his second brother Li Yi.

As soon as the voice fell, a short, stocky man with a dark face pushed open the wooden door and barged in.

"Second brother, what's going on? Why can't you live a good life?"

Li Shan stood up slowly and asked.

They were from a military family with mud-legged backgrounds, and there were very few red tapes between brothers.

Naturally, they are carefree in their dealings with each other.

"snort!"

When Li Yi heard this, he spat very angrily.

"What else can there be!"

"That woman who is not the boss is really hateful."

"Today's work arrangements are to treat you and me as tenants and charge us for meals!"

"Have you, this bitch, forgotten that our father founded this family?"

After Li Yi said this, he picked up the coarse porcelain bowl on the table and took two swigs of low-quality rice wine.

Li Shan frowned when he heard his second brother's words.
To be continued...