Within a moment, Hauge's head hung on the camp gate.
If you know it under the Huang Taiji Spring, you will probably shed a few tears.
However, discussions on the follow-up battle and defense strategies began in the Chinese army's main tent.
Duduo learned his lesson this time, and realized that the Ming army was no longer the lamb to be slaughtered before, so he decisively gave up Gan Gang's arbitrary approach and instead followed the example of the Eight Kings in discussing politics and collectively agreeing on tactics.
It’s euphemistically called brainstorming, but it actually means everyone takes responsibility together.
Even if we are defeated again, the responsibility belongs to everyone. Everyone is responsible, but no one is responsible.
Duduo said: "Although the defeat at Yunlong Mountain was caused by Hauge's arrogant advice on war and defense strategies and disrupting the morale of the army, it is undeniable that we had indeed underestimated the determination of the Ming army to defend Xuzhou."
"So how will Xuzhou fight next, or should Xuzhou still fight?"
"I want to hear everyone's opinions. If you have any ideas, just say it. As long as what you say is reasonable or the war and defense strategies you propose are practical and feasible, I will approve them."
As soon as he finished speaking, He Luohui said: "I thought Xuzhou was still going to fight."
"Yes, we still have to fight in Xuzhou." Luo Luohun nodded and said, "This southern expedition is a war to destroy the country, not a hunt south. If we just go south to hunt, we can bypass Xuzhou and go deep into the south of the Yangtze River to rob people, money and goods. Livestock, but in the battle to destroy the country, the border towns of Nanming must be annihilated first, not to mention that Chongzhen is also in Xuzhou at this time."
"That's right." Luck Dehun also said, "Xuzhou will continue to fight."
Duduo turned to Gurmahun and asked, "What do you think, Wen Jianbeizi?"
Gurmahun heard that Dodo was also inclined to fight, and immediately said: "I also think we can't give up."
Now there are already five flags supporting the fight. Although the remaining two flags have not expressed their stance, it does not matter.
"Okay, since most people support continuing to fight, let's continue to fight." Duduo slapped his thigh and said, "Then the next thing to discuss is whether to continue to choose Yunlong Mountain as a breakthrough point or choose another main attack direction?"
"There is no need to discuss this anymore." Luo Luohun waved his hand and said, "Although the first battle at Yunlong Mountain five days ago was defeated, it was because Hauge deliberately upset the morale of the army. The tactics you adopted, Prince Yu, are There is no problem, the breakthrough point of Yunlong Mountain is also well chosen, this place is Xuzhou Mingmen!"
"Yes, we should continue to attack Yunlong Mountain."
Luck Dehun and other Eight Banners nobles also agreed.
"Okay, then let's continue to attack Yunlong Mountain." Duduo slapped his thigh again and said, "But this time the Ming army on Yunlong Mountain is already on guard, and there is no way to catch them off guard, so we can only attack head-on. , first let the Eight Banners Han Army use red cannons to plow the two outer blunderbuss towers."
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At this time, we are at No. 2 gun platform on the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain.
Zheng Sen, Xia Yunyi and Xu Yingwei have already transported all the collected materials to the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain, including more than 30 large iron pots, more than 100 loads of flour and more than 100 ramie fishing nets.
Xia Yunyi ordered two soldiers to spread a fishing net.
"Your Majesty, please take a look." Xia Yunyi said, "This is the fishing net we have made in the past few days."
Chongzhen looked closely and found that the mesh of this fishing net was about an inch, and his arms could not reach it. The diameter of the entire net was about one foot and five feet, which was more than enough to cover a two-meter-large man. The material of the fishing net was ramie, so it was extremely tough.
It is absolutely impossible to tear the fishing net apart with bare hands, not even wild animals can do it.
Zhu Cijiong asked curiously: "I don't know how effective it is?"
"Then let's try the effect." Chongzhen said, "Xu Yingwei, you can be the slave."
Although Xu Yingwei is from Zhejiang, he is nearly seven feet tall and is no less impressive than Jiannu's white-armored soldier. It would be most appropriate for him to pretend to be a white-armored soldier to test the effect of the fishing net.
"Yes." Xu Yingwei did not refuse.
In order to make the simulation effect more realistic, Chongzhen asked Jin Shenghuan to find a pair of chain mail and a pair of iron armor, and asked Xu Yingwei to wear both the cotton armor and a cast-iron alms bowl.
After Xu Yingwei finished wearing his clothes, he rushed towards Jin Shenghuan with a roar.
Jin Shenghuan decisively threw out the fishing net in his hand, but ended up being lonely.
Because the fishing net was not opened at all, it was just hung on Xu Yingwei in a strip shape.
Xu Yingwei's actions were not affected at all. He took a step forward and put the sword on Jin Shenghuan's neck: "General Jin, your name can be engraved in the Heroes' Temple."
Jin Shenghuan looked a little embarrassed.
But the onlookers laughed.
Li Xiangjun's laughter seemed particularly crisp.
"It doesn't count this time." Jin Shenghuan said with a red face, "I have to figure out how to open this fishing net first."
This sentence reminded Chongzhen that the fishing net warrior is not that easy to be a warrior. He is very skilled, even more skilled than the double sword warrior.
At that moment, Chongzhen said: "Jin Qing, Xu Qing, you each select a group of strong soldiers and scholars, and let them learn how to use fishing nets as soon as possible. Don't wait until Jiannu launches another attack, but we don't know how to use fishing nets. Then
Wouldn’t it be that Li Aiqing’s magical tactics were blinded in vain?”
"Yes." Xu Yingwei and Jin Shenghuan responded.
Chongzhen said again: "But now, you should let yourselves figure it out first."
Now Xu Yingwei and Jin Shenghuan tried for the second time. This time Jin Shenghuan finally opened the fishing net, but it was tilted. Xu Yingwei easily broke free and killed Jin Shenghuan again.
"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this won't work." Li Xiangjun suddenly said, "The success rate of opening the net is too low."
"Li Qing, do you have any ideas to improve the success rate of opening the net?" Chongzhen asked with expectation.
Li Xiangjun hummed slightly and said, "I once crossed the Yangtze River and saw fishermen fishing on the river. There seemed to be heavy objects falling on the edges of the fishing nets they used."
"Oh yes!" Chongzhen woke up from a dream, "The fishing net must be equipped with a lead pendant."
That is to say, these scholars who are ignorant of what is going on outside the window, and these peasant men from Shanshan and Guanzhong, have never even seen a fishing net, so naturally they do not know the structure of a fishing net.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Chongzhen also asked people to find lead ingots and tie them to the side of the fishing net.
Now Jin Shenghuan easily threw away the fishing net and directly covered Xu Yingwei. Although Xu Yingwei struggled hard, he couldn't break free at all, and he couldn't stand firmly because he tripped on the fishing net as soon as he took a step.
, if this was in a real battlefield, he would definitely be stabbed to death, and he would be stabbed to death even if he was wearing triple armor.
Imagine
"Beautiful!" Chongzhen couldn't help but exclaimed.
This fishing net is simply a powerful weapon against Jiannu's white-armored soldiers.
Immediately afterwards, Xu Yingwei was asked to test the effect of flour.
The effect of flour can only be said to be average, because I can endure it without taking off my mask and wiping off the flour. The effect of flour on my eyesight is still too weak, and my eyes will be back to normal after blinking a few more times.
Just when Chongzhen was a little disappointed, he climbed up the mountain and climbed up the mountain.
"Long live Lord, long live Lord!" Gao Qiqian started shouting from a far distance, lest others didn't know that he had just run an errand for the emperor.
"What are you shouting for?" Chongzhen said angrily, "Is the errand done?"
"It's done." Gao Qiqian stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, then turned back and waved, "Bring it up!"
The two little eunuchs who followed Gao Qiqiu carried two small bags onto the gun stand. They saw that the two little eunuchs had mucus flowing from their eyes and noses.
Immediately, a pungent smell filled the gun platform.
"Ahem, what does this smell like?" Li Xiangjun, who has a keen sense of smell, quickly took a few steps back.
"Everyone Li, oh no, General Li, this is the smell of pepper powder, it's very pungent." Gao Qiqian smiled, and couldn't help but ask Chongzhen for credit, "In order to grind this pepper powder into powder
, the old slave has shed all his tears."
"Gao Banban, I will mark your merits this time." Chongzhen smiled, took out another ingot of silver from his sleeve and said, "You have worked hard these past few days. This is a reward for you. Don't take it too little."
"It's not too little, I would like to thank Lord Long Live for the reward."
Gao Qiqian was so excited that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.
But in his heart, he cursed, "Long live my Lord, you are really stingy."
Our family has accomplished such a big errand, so we are rewarded with two taels of silver? Are we sending beggars away? Who are we looking down on? Am I, Gao Qiqian, the one who needs these two taels of silver?
Just as Chongzhen was about to speak again, two trumpet blasts suddenly sounded from the direction of the Jiannu camp.
"Huh? Is this a cannon?" Chongzhen was startled. He immediately led a group of general soldiers to the gun platform No. 1. He stood at the front of the gun platform No. 1 and looked down from a high position. Sure enough, he saw that the gate of the slave camp had already been established.
Opening it, groups of Jiannu infantry, cavalry and chariot camps were driving out of the gate and lining up in the open space outside the camp.
Is this another attack? Jiannu really hasn’t given up yet.
"Quick." Chongzhen said urgently, "Gao Banban, hurry up and bring the Renhu paper bag. Use thin paper, a thin paper bag that can break into pieces after being thrown out."
"After collecting the paper bags, put a small amount of flour and paprika into each paper bag."
"Oh, be careful not to wet the flour or let it fall out."
Because there is too little paprika powder, it can only be mixed with flour, otherwise it will be used up within a few bags.
Chongzhen turned his attention to Xia Wanchun again: "Xia Wanchun, take people to check the Hongyi cannon one last time."
"Yes." Xia Wanchun agreed, and immediately led a group of Qinwang scholars of similar age to begin checking the emplacements of the Hongyi cannon one by one.
At this time, the number of Hongyi cannons installed on Yunlong Mountain had increased to ten.
When Jiannu also discovered that Yunlong Mountain was the weak point of the entire Xuzhou defense line, strengthening the defensive firepower of Yunlong Mountain became an inevitable result. Chongzhen moved all the Hongyi cannons to the mountain in one go.
It's a pity that the Xuzhou defense line only has ten Hongyi cannons in total, not more.
Therefore, Chongzhen was still a little worried about the last battle in Henan. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's Eight Banners Han Army of more than 10,000 took advantage of the rebel Li Zicheng. The key point was that the more than 180 Hongyi cannons were a pity.
If more than 180 Hongyi cannons were captured and transported to Xuzhou, we would be afraid of building slaves.
However, there is also good news, that is, the Daming Arsenal in Nanjing is already trial-producing Hongyi cannons, and they are produced according to the technology of the Macau Bugalao Cannon Factory, which means that standardization is about to be achieved.
Looking at Jiannu on the opposite side, he has already begun to push out the Hongyi cannon.
The scene was really huge. A large number of Hongyi cannons were lined up at a distance of about a thousand steps. The distance between two adjacent Hongyi cannons was about ten feet. The total length of the artillery position was more than two miles.
[Note: One mile in the Ming Dynasty = 150 feet = 480 meters]
Judging from this length, there are at least 300 Hongyi cannons.
Jin Shenghuan said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, it seems that Jiannu is going to attack with the Hongyi cannon this time."
"It's expected." Chongzhen smiled and added, "However, Jiannu will soon realize that this is in vain. If he wants to break through Xuzhou's defense line, he still has to pay for it with human lives."
The bastion was specifically designed for anti-cannon use.
Because since the emergence of cannons, the traditional high-walled and thin-walled castles in Europe have become vulnerable. In order to strengthen the defense of the castle, the strategy of building bastions outside the castle came into being.
The bastion can easily withstand cannon fire due to its low, inward-sloping and extremely thick walls.
Moreover, there is usually a slope protection outside the trench of the bastion, and the height of the slope protection is usually the same as or even higher than the fort wall, which makes it difficult for cannons to hit the bastion wall.
Because the slope protection outside the bastion must be cleared first, and the cannon's firing interface must be cleared.
However, in the process, the bastion must be covered by firepower, so the attacker usually needs to spend a lot of time and pay a lot of casualties to destroy a bastion.
With the human resources of the small European countries at that time, the bastion tactic was basically unsolvable.
Combined with the current Xu Zhan War, the human resources of Jiannu are not much stronger than those of European countries. Therefore, not to mention the bulldozing of more than 600 gun towers with twelve levels outside Xuzhou City, there are only two gun towers on the outermost perimeter.
It's enough for them to drink a pot.
Even the most conservative estimate is that each gun platform can take away at least one thousand to two thousand slaves.
So Chongzhen wanted to see how far the slaves could endure? How many casualties could they endure?
After the Eight Banners Han Army set up the Hongyi cannon, they began to fire the cannons one after another under the command of the Han army generals.
The scene was really astonishing. More than 300 cannons fired one after another, and the muzzles of the cannons sprayed out balls of flames, followed by a huge roar.
The ground shaking can probably be felt from the nearest musket stations.
Chongzhen adjusted the sight of the telescope and saw that most of the shells fired by the Jiannu Hongyi cannon landed on the slope protection of the first turret on the outermost side, leaving patches of black soil.
A small number of shells also fell into the gun platform at the rear.
However, there were no casualties, and the Ming army was hiding in the bunker at this time.
Therefore, despite the excitement of the Jiannu and Hongyi artillery fire, the killing effect was actually zero.
Such a bombardment, even if Jiannu used up all the gunpowder and lead bullets, would not be able to destroy the outermost slope protection.
"A worm can shake a tree." Chongzhen finally felt relieved, put down his telescope and said with a smile, "Let the Jiannu waste their gunpowder and lead bullets. We'd better hurry up and make preparations."
