At night, the Zhangye defenders stepped up their preparations for war.

Ding Wenchao patrolled the city wall with a knife. Wherever he passed, Zhangye soldiers came to awe. Ding Wenchao looked calm and set up his defense at night to withdraw the large number of small cannons arranged on the outer wall and the troops into Wencheng.

It made full use of all kinds of Franchise machines and Tiger Dun cannons, and a large number of gunmen on the inner wall of the urn city, turned the Zhangye urn into a death trap with dense firepower.

Zhangye Wucheng is not big, and can accommodate about two or three thousand people, but it is equipped with multiple firepowers of high and low combinations, or cross-fire power. Above the Wucheng, there are thousands of soldiers fighting with muskets, and below, two gates are placed in the two city gate holes.

The thousand-pound Franc aircraft was also filled with tiger squat cannons in the holes of the inner city walls, and the fire density was really terrifying.

There were less than 10,000 defenders in Zhangye, and they took turns to defend the city. The city defense must have a choice and a deed.

Ding Wenchao arranged a large number of troops in the urn city on the second line of the city defense. The first-line city defense must be discharged. Ding Wenchao arranged five hundred troops on the outer wall of the front line, relying on the city defense cannons and various defense facilities to stick to it. This way of fighting is a military move.

There were few generals from the Ming Dynasty who dared to do this. The practice of putting the focus of defense on the second-line urn city must be an elite soldier with strict military discipline.

In the case of attacking and defensive battles in a strong city, the defenders arranged a large number of troops to defend the city walls.

Once the outer wall of the city defense battle has been broken through, the defenders will most likely be in a state of great power. Once the enemy soldiers climbed onto the city wall in large numbers, the defenders will be in chaos and people's hearts will disperse, and most of them will disperse. The reason is nothing more than

The quality of the soldiers is too poor and the fighting spirit is not strong. There are also cases of wars in history where the city walls were broken but turned defeat into victory. Looking at these cases, all of them were the soldiers and civilians who defended the city and resisted the death.

Ding Wenchao gathered people's hearts with a bet, making Zhangye treat him like a god.

Although it is a bit of accusation of being a ghost, there is no way. The two armies compete in the Western Regions in front of the formation and say what the great principles of defending the country are. It is useless. It is not that they are passionate about talking about the great principles. The whole city is full of people.

Everyone strives for the first place, and they don’t change their faces even if they wear steel knives. That’s bullshit, that’s the lives of more than 50,000 people, and not everyone can die generously with slogans.

In the past, Ma Cheng implemented the propaganda policy in the Liao army, and it failed in its implementation.

However, Macheng's reputation became increasingly important. With the command of the Grand Commander, the Liao army soldiers rushed forward with red eyes, which was more useful than any major principle. The Liao army soldiers regarded themselves as invincible in the world, and were only arrogant and powerful generals.

Listen to the military orders of the Grand Commander, he will not listen to any major principles of the country and the world. This is the limitation of the times and it is also a reality that even Macheng cannot change.

Ding Wenchao followed Macheng for many years and used some tricks to make the whole city of Zhangye feel like a rainbow. He respected him and feared him, and followed him as soon as he made the orders. Ding Wenchao only left five of them on the tall outer wall of Yifang.

The hundreds of soldiers arranged two thousand heavy troops on the second defense, but they were so nervous that they all said that Lord Ding had a clever plan and opened his pocket to put the Tartars into the city to die.

This is the heart of the people. A small trick will bring people's hearts to a higher level of morale.

One defense, two defense, these terms invented by the original military science represent the tactical concept of locating troops in defensive warfare, becoming increasingly mature. In the battle with the Mongolians, a small number of troops were arranged in the first defense to avoid being attacked by Mongolia.

The large number of people's arrows and rains killed each other, and gradually became the mainstream practice of the elite Ming army in defensive warfare, which is somewhat similar to the strategic ideas of later generations.

This kind of fighting proves in actual combat that the siege tactics that restrain the Mongols from rushing up to shoot archery are extremely effective.

The next day, early morning.

It was about to dawn, and Ding Wenchao, who was lying on the back of the city wall and clothes, opened his eyes and looked up at the slightly bright sky. Under the city wall opposite more than ten steps away, two young young people were peeking at him. Ding Wenchao stood up and patted his military uniform.

The gray grinned, and the two young people hurriedly lowered their heads to avoid his sight. Ding Wen looked at the two young people with tiger backs and bear waists and legs, and at a glance they knew they were excellent riders growing in Hexi.

The two young men with simple longbows on their backs were simply bent and made into a bow. They were even thicker and longer than the original longbow. They could not be pulled without any strength. Ding Wenchao saw him.

Hunting was happy, they were all good young people in Hexi and good seedlings of elite soldiers. A look of his eyes made him pass by, and a subordinate beside him smiled knowingly, took out two pieces of A-level food from the bag behind him, and walked over with a smile.

"Mr. Jun!"

Two young men in Hexi stood up in a hurry with longbows on their backs, and were forced into their arms with two pieces of A-level food. Ding Wen narrowed his eyes as he looked at them, and he was happy. It was OK. If I accepted my gift, I would be my soldier.

The military intelligence department's team has grown stronger again. Although the military intelligence department recruits soldiers in the northwest for cheating, such a simple young man from the northwest, he is born in Hexi, and he is born with cavalry and hunters. Any general who leads troops is not moved.

Ten miles away, the sad trumpet of the Tartars sounded, and the Tartar cavalry gathered their troops.

Ding Wenchao's heart moved. He only focused on setting up city defense last night. Today, he saw that the young and strong people in Hexi were born, and the young were powerful. His iconic ring legs and his homemade longbows were used. Hexi soldiers were available. I am afraid

There is no need to be a Liao army. Ding Wenchao suddenly discovered a soldier who was the best in the world and was happy. This time, Ding took the lead.

After this battle, the Military Information Department could recruit soldiers from four divisions in Hexi.

All the Hexi soldiers are superb riding and shooting skills. They are nourished by the beef and mutton of Hexi's fat girls. With a little training, they will be an elite soldier. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Hexi, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers who can occupy. They are guarding in vain.

With such a high-quality soldier, he could only guard Jiayuguan. How cowardly, Ding Wenchao was increasingly looking down on the old officials. The matter of the Ming Dynasty was that those fools were ruined.

In an isolated city, a border fortress, morale determines success or failure.

When garrisoning, the people have only courage and poor morale, so they can only be slaughtered.

Outside the city, the Tatars gathered again, and another team of ten thousand people rode on horseback, pressing on a large scale. This time, it was not unprepared. The Tartars were not idle that night. Judging from the posture, it seemed that they were turning the whole East.

The buildings in the ancient city were demolished, and the wood they had been demolished temporarily created flying ladders and cloud ladders. They even dragged several cannons with livestock to cover the thousands of infantry fighting off the horse and put up with a large number of cavalry.

The Mongolians played with cannons, but Ding Wenchao didn't find it ridiculous, but instead felt awesome.

When did the Western Mongolians learn to play cannons? If they were determined, it would not be difficult to learn to fire cannons. The Mongolians did not learn to walk in Handan. The Mongolians' art of artillery may be very clumsy, but such a large city wall can still hit. Ding Wen Chaozhou General Li Rong
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