"Damn, they're coming up. Guys, hurry up and get your axe. You stupid fool, didn't you realize that those Japanese pirates were all wearing armor? Why didn't you put down your muskets?" Li Hui was going crazy. These Japanese pirates were
Came up.
Although their Rumi gun has a foldable scimitar hidden in the butt, it is not a bayonet and is very awkward to use. The gun body is curved and the knife is also curved, with two arcs. It is not generally difficult to use.
use.
The soldiers from the Ningyuan camp dropped their Rumi guns one after another, picked up long-handled axes, maces, and flails and rushed towards the entrance of the watchtower on the first floor.
At this time, the pirates also used big axes to chop down the wooden door. The half-foot-thick wooden door was chopped with sawdust, and a big hole was quickly cut out.
Hu Laoqi's eyes widened and he raised his bones, ready to smash his arm to pieces when the Japanese pirate reached in and pulled the crossbar door bolt.
However, he didn't wait for the arm that stretched out, but instead saw several smoking black iron lumps.
Several grenades were thrown in. The pirates outside immediately ducked to both sides of the door.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was a violent explosion, and fireworks rushed out from the broken door. The wooden door that had been cut with a big hole collapsed directly, turning into a piece of wood and spiky wood, which sprayed far away.
The outer shell of Yang Fan's grenade is made of pig iron that is extracted from high-phosphorus-containing ores during steelmaking. Moreover, horizontal and vertical ravines are prefabricated during the casting of the shell to facilitate crushing. High-phosphorus-containing pig iron is very brittle.
Can be broken into many individual pieces.
This thing can't be used for anything, it's not strong enough, and it's too brittle. But it's only suitable for bomb casings, because it's very easy to produce a lot of shrapnel.
The grenades are not filled with black powder, but with soil explosives made from sawdust and chemical fertilizers. The power of this stuff can reach 60% of Kick's kick. It is enough for this era.
The farmers and craftsmen of this era had a lot of strength due to the lack of machinery and long-term hard work. Their arm and waist strength were far greater than those of modern people. They generally threw grenades fifteen to twenty meters farther than modern people.
Yang Fan safely divided grenades into three types: defensive, offensive, and heavy.
What is used now is the heavy grenade used to attack fortresses.
This kind of grenade does not need to be thrown too far, because street fighting takes place behind corner houses and in nooks and crannies of alleys. As long as you hide behind a right angle, you can ensure safety. You can make the grenade very big.
The four that were just thrown in were all heavy-duty grenades with one kilogram of explosives. If it weren't for the fact that this watchtower was made of thick city bricks and mixed clay with glutinous rice juice, I wouldn't have dared to throw so many.
The violent explosion directly blew up the blood and flesh of the Liao soldiers waiting for melee on the first floor. Countless limbs, armor fragments, broken swords, flails, and iron bones were also sprayed out from the door hole.
What's even more amazing is that the floors of ancient watchtowers were not made of concrete, but were made of three-inch-thick pine boards plus beams and columns.
These two small watchtowers are both hexagonal and three-story structures. Each of the second and third floors has a general flag of fifty men, who use eight shooting ports on each side to shoot outwards.
Three heavy hand grenades were loaded with three kilograms of explosives, which is equivalent to 2.4 kilograms. This charge is almost equivalent to a modern medium-caliber artillery shell.
The total weight of the high-explosive bomb is kilograms, and the charge is 2.18 kilograms.
After the four heavy hand grenades exploded, they directly destroyed the wooden components and penetrated all three floors. Li Hui had already run to the top platform and directed the soldiers to shoot down through the female wall.
The explosion went straight from the first floor to the top floor, and thick smoke and flames erupted from the middle, like a volcano. Because the hexagonal walls were made of huge city bricks, more than one meter thick, and very strong.
.This big explosion directly blew the watchtower into a shaft.
Li Hui happened to be leaning on a corner at the time and was not affected by the shrapnel, but others were not so lucky. Many people's stumps and fragments of weapons and armor were sprayed out from the top of the shaft mixed with floor slabs and wooden components.
Then it fell to the surrounding ground like rain.
Li Hui was immediately frightened. A stream of warm liquid soaked his crotch. Is this something a human being can do? He spread his legs and sat there with blank eyes, looking at a huge figure in front of him.
There are many holes, and you can even see the mess on the third, second, and first floors.
He didn't stay in a daze for too long. The watchtower to the west also erupted immediately. It was also like a volcano, with flames and thick smoke spewing out, and residual limbs, weapons, armor, and wooden components flying all over the sky. The explosion there was more powerful than here.
The squadron leader over there, fearing that it was not powerful enough, directly threw an explosive bag into it.
Yang Fan and others also saw two big explosions in the backyard. They knew that the first battalion of the pirate group had taken control of the situation behind them.
Soon the Order Battalion and the Pirate Battalion met in the garden.
Everyone knew that there were a lot of Rumi guns in this big castle. For a while, everyone hid behind the obstacles, not attacking, waiting for the next order.
The battlefield fell into silence for a while.
Yang Fan took Lin Yueru and Sakurai Tao to hide behind the fortifications made of rice bags brought by the regiment, and carefully observed this large watchtower with binoculars.
Engineers were digging trenches on all sides with marching shovels, and the soil was flying in all directions.
Tao Zi also knew that they must have encountered a tough situation now. If they attacked forcefully, they would lose many people because of their sharp weapons.
She was a little reluctant to give it up. With all the money she had now, she couldn't spend it all here.
"The first floor of this fortress is made of bluestone strips. It's not easy to do. If we use engineers to blast it, it will be more time-consuming." Yang Fan said to himself.
After a while, He Kui came with the captured Li Hui.
"Master, we caught a big fish. This old bastard is the Baihuguan of the Ningyuan Firearms Battalion. Commander Yuan sent a whole battalion of firearms soldiers to garrison here, and they are all equipped with Lumi guns." He Kui reported.
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"What, Lumi Cannon, how can I shoot so accurately? Huh, Yuandu is really good at it. Such an elite force is not placed on the front line of Ningyuan, but it is actually here to guard Donglin's lair."
Yang Fan looked at the frightened Li Hui and asked, "Why are you so unlucky? Why were you sent here?"
Li Hui looked at Yang Fan, who was wearing a grimace mask, and felt a little scared. There was a Japanese girl in a kimono next to him. He knew that there were many Ming people among the so-called Japanese pirates, and there were also many Japanese pirates who could speak the Ming dialect.
I am still engaged in international trade, so it is normal to know several foreign languages.
"Little one, little one, because there was a mutiny in the first month and the handling was not good, the supervisor sent him here." He said tremblingly.
"The handling was not good, huh, I guess you are the mastermind behind it. Why didn't Inspector Yuan kill you?" Lin Yueru snorted coldly.
Li Hui suddenly thought, this girl is so powerful, she seems to have the ability to read people's hearts at a glance. The Ningyuan mutiny was indeed a conflict between different factions within the Donglin Party. The new governor of Liaodong, Bi Zisu, who was captured and beaten by the rebels, was an upright man.
A good official. He was persecuted to death because he actually went to his brother Bi Ziyan.
Bi Ziyan was a very powerful financial management expert in the late Ming Dynasty. He was just appointed by Chongzhen this year as the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. He was responsible for overseeing the national finance.
After the Donglin Party returned to Dabao, its first goal was to control finances. Unfortunately, Chongzhen was suspicious by nature and handed over the financial power to Bi Ziyan, who was not a Donglin Party member.
Last year, after the victory of Ningjin, the then governor of Liaodong was Wang Zhichen of the eunuch party, and Lin Yueru knew the situation on the Ningyuan front line very well.
At that time, Yuan Chonghuan was the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Zhichen was the governor of Liaodong.
One of them is an eunuch, and the other is a Donglin cadre who is being chased and beaten by the eunuch. It is surprising that they can cooperate well.
The feud between Wang Zhichen and Yuan Chonghuan was brought to the attention of the imperial court. For the sake of the overall situation, the imperial court put Yuan Chonghuan in charge of the outside of the customs and Wang Zhichen in charge of the internal affairs. Soon, Wang Zhichen was transferred to the Ministry of War as Minister of War.
Wei Zhongxian was still in power at that time, and Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of the outside world and commanded Ningjin to achieve great success. This was something Wei Duong did not want to see.
He was soon criticized and all the credit was attributed to Wang Zhichen. Instead, he was forced to resign and return to his hometown in Guangdong. So Wang Zhichen was appointed as the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Liaodong.
Wang Zhichen immediately used Yuan Chonghuan's military exploits to be promoted to Minister of War, indicating that Wang Zhichen was a direct descendant of the eunuch party. After Yuan Chonghuan resigned and returned to his hometown, Chongzhen came to power and Wei Zhongxian fell.
The emperor was worried that the eunuch party would control Guan Ning's army alone, so he just promoted Bi Zisu, the younger brother of Bi Ziyan, the household minister of the Donglin party, to serve as governor of Liaodong. At this time, Governor Wei had already stepped aside, and everyone knew that Donglin was the governor of Liaodong.
Lin wants to return to Dabao.
Governor Ji Liao is definitely something Dong Lin is determined to win. The emperor also needs Dong Lin's support at this moment, but he cannot let them completely control the military power of the Guan Ning Army. It will be a matter of time for Wang Zhichen to leave sooner or later, so the emperor rushes to replace the governor first.
people from other forces.
Here, Yuan Chonghuan battled wits and courage with the emperor in the capital, boasted about his methods, returned to Liao Dynasty in five years, and deceived the little emperor.
On the other side, Donglin took advantage of the personnel changes and financial difficulties in the court to incite mutiny among the officers and soldiers. In the name of asking for pay, he attacked Bi Ziyan's younger brother Bi Zisu in an attempt to implicate Bi Ziyan.
The mutiny was a big deal, and Bi Zisu would definitely not get any good results. Unexpectedly, Bi Zisu wrote a letter to defend himself and explained the whole story. He was a strong-tempered man and did not want to be taken advantage of by these villains, so he committed suicide directly.
Now, things got big.
Donglin can't close the game anymore.
It is no joke to force the second-grade governor to death.
The Bi brothers were from Zibo, Shandong and important figures in the Qi Party. This incident directly led to the complete break between the Qi Party and Donglin.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan was having fun with the emperor in the capital. Now that the governor was in hand, he was trying to prolong the restoration of Liao Dynasty. It was best to leave this matter alone.
As a result, he delayed leaving for more than a month and spent time alone in the capital.
Why didn't he leave? Was it because he wanted to regret it?
He is not a fool. In front of so many people, could he go back on what he promised the emperor? Would the emperor agree?
What on earth is he waiting for?
He is waiting for Ningyuan to mutiny. He is the core of Donglin. He has sources and knows many things. He is staying in the capital to have evidence of alibi.
Donglin's plan was to overthrow Bi Ziyan, tear down Bi Ziyan, seize the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and control the central finance.
Shunbian also cleared the obstacles for him.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan rode out of Shanhaiguan alone, with one person and one horse, to Ningyuan to quell the mutiny, without anyone.
Is he a lonely hero? Maybe so. After all, when he was a county magistrate, he also rode out alone when he was in charge. He was very courageous, either ordinary, courageous, or extremely courageous, and dared to poke trouble.
The main reason is that he knows that this matter was done by people from Donglin. There is no danger.
When he arrived in Ningyuan, he didn't kill anyone. This was very strange. According to the custom, after a pay riot, a few leaders were usually killed to make a warning to others.
But he didn't deal with any of them. What does that mean? He brought these people to Zhangjiawan.
There is no need for heavy hammers to play drums. Lin Yueru does not need to explain clearly. Now Yuandudu is already the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Jiliao.
Yang Fan sneered and said: "It's really hard for you. I'm jumping up and down all the time, from the front line to the court, just for that military expenditure."
Li Hui said tremblingly: "It's none of the villain's business. The villain is just a hundred households. It's all the wishes of the princes in the court."
"In this shitty world, Mr. Bi is such a good official. He has done so many good things for the court and the people. It's you, the fools, who drove him to death. Push him to the front of the castle.
