On the day of the exercise, all civil and military officials from Tianjin came and sat in the wooden shed built by Li Zhi to observe the exercise.
What Li Zhi practiced was a simulated attack by Huben's division on a well-defended fortified city. The city wall used in the drill was a hundred steps long and had been built by Li Zhi before. The city wall was four feet high and eight feet wide, and was covered with blue bricks. The outside of the city wall was dug deep
The deep moat is ten feet wide.
The Tianjin officials who came to watch the exercise were stunned when they first saw a section of the city wall built by Li Zhi. The height and thickness of this city wall clearly simulated the city wall in the capital city. How can the city walls in other cities be so tall?
Li Zhi wants to practice attacking the capital?
This thief Li Zhi was so bold that he sent troops to attack cities thousands of miles away, killing governors and prefects. Now the civil servants and the emperor are quarreling about how to deal with Li Zhi. Could it be that Li Zhi broke the jar and prepared
Have you led troops into the capital?
Is Li Zhi determined to rebel?
Looking at the high and thick city wall, the civil and military officials who were invited to observe felt frightened and confused.
Li Zhi stood in front of the wooden shed where he was observing and said to the officials: "Today our Fanjiazhuang Huben Division is conducting a drill to attack Jiancheng. I would like to thank all the officials for taking time out of their busy schedules to come."
The officials were not high-ranking, and the biggest one was the army. They were a little frightened in front of Li Zhi, who had a strong army. At this time, when they saw Uncle Xing Guo speaking so politely, they all quickly bowed their hands and replied: "Uncle Xing Guo
Strong words."
"I'm here to learn more!"
Li Zhi waved his hand and shouted to the flag soldiers: "The exercise has begun."
The flag was waved, and five hundred artillerymen pushed over forty eighteen-pound artillery carriages. The artillery carriages stopped a mile outside the city wall. The gunners separated the cannons from the carriages and skillfully cleaned the barrels of the cannons.
Loading the charge.
Seeing that Li Zhi had so many heavy Hongyi cannons, the civil and military officials observing the exercise suddenly burst into admiration. The officials praised Li Zhi's powerful troops and horses. These civil and military officials were all veterans of the officialdom. In Li Zhi's territory
No one on board showed dissent, for fear that Li Zhi would take him down on the spot.
But seeing so many cannons, the officials had all kinds of thoughts: some civil servants were worried that the court would not be able to deal with the powerful Li Zhi.
He would use these cannons to demolish his government offices. Some military attachés were really shocked and marveled at the appearance of so many heavy artillery pieces in a small exercise.
Some military attachés were shocked by Li Zhi's strength and made up their minds to find ways to curry favor with Uncle Xing Guo. If they could get Uncle Xing Guo to favor him, then there would be rumors in the officialdom that Cao Bianjiao would share his life with Li Zhi because he helped Li Zhi guard Fanjiazhuang once.
After paying more than a thousand thieves' heads, he directly obtained the official title of Prince Shaobao. Cao's experience of transforming into a dragon made the military officers jealous.
Forty heavy guns aimed at the city wall a mile away and opened fire.
Huge booms came one after another, as loud as forty thunders. Forty heavy cannons spit out tongues of flame from their muzzles, and the red flames merged into one, looking like a line of fire from a distance.
Forty heavy cannonballs were fired at the city wall one mile away, hitting the city wall with a "bang bang" and smashing the green bricks outside the city wall into pieces. The city wall was shaking under the bombardment of the cannonballs, and large areas were
The rammed earth inside was shaken, fell down, and collapsed in the moat.
After the artillery fired one round, the gunners cooled the barrel and started the second round of shooting.
Seeing the terrifying power of the cannon, the Tianjin officials in the wooden shed were stunned. The scene of forty red cannons firing a salvo was really shocking. What kind of city wall could withstand such artillery bombardment?
No matter how tall the city wall is, if it is bombarded by this cannon for more than ten rounds, won't it turn into dust?
The cannons continued until the hundred-step city wall was reduced to a slope. The hard-built blue brick city wall only lasted a few hours in the face of forty cannons.
The city wall was broken down, and the soldiers pushed twenty tall manhole rails onto the field.
Those well railings were five feet high, and there were ten soldiers with rifles standing on each well railing. The well railings were pushed seventy steps away from the city wall. From this distance, bows and arrows were not accurate at all, but the riflemen on the well railings
But it can accurately shoot the defenders on the city wall.
Two hundred riflemen on twenty manholes fired freely at the defeated city wall. The crackling sound of shooting sounded, and the bullets hit countless flying dust on the city wall that had become a pile of dirt.
Seeing this, the officials in the wooden shed all turned pale. If it were on a real battlefield, under the suppression of these well fences, the guards on the city wall would not be able to defend at all. The city wall that was beaten into a slope must be
It was impossible to stand alone. Even on the city wall with complete crenellations, the guards could only hide against the crenellations, not daring to stick their heads out.
If Li Zhi used this set of troops to attack the capital, what would be the result? If Li Zhi had disobedient intentions, then officials would not dare to think about it.
At the end of the exercise, the soldiers carried carrying poles and kept filling the moat, and the moat was quickly filled. Under the cover of the shooters on the manhole fence, the soldiers with live ammunition raised their rifles and walked up the slope that had turned into dirt.
of the city wall, and kept shooting at both sides of the city wall to simulate killing the rushing defenders.
After seeing this point in the exercise, the officials all understood that under the firepower of Li Zhi's new artillery and muskets, it was meaningless to defend the city and only be beaten passively. To deal with Li Zhi's 20,000 tiger troops, at least 100,000 soldiers would have to be mobilized.
The army came to fight with Li Zhi in the field. Currently, there are only tens of thousands of soldiers in the capital camp. If Li Zhi mobilizes more than 10,000 Huben troops to attack the capital, the capital will be in danger.
The civil servants in the court who were jumping around together did not seem to have a deep understanding of Li Zhi's military strength.
The officials couldn't help but think again, why did Li Zhi invite them to watch the Huben Division attack the "Beijing City Wall"? To demonstrate to the imperial court through his own words and writing? Apparently Li Zhi regarded the officials in Tianjin as a channel to speak to the imperial court.
Li Zhi knew that he and he were not of the same mind? Some civil servants who thought they had followed Governor Li Jizhen and "offended" Li Zhi were so nervous that they sweated profusely and even soaked their clothes. Fortunately, it was midsummer at this time, and the civil servants
You can blame the hot weather for your cold sweats.
At the end of the exercise, Li Zhi's soldiers successfully occupied the city wall that had turned into a slope, and planted the flag with the character "Li" on the slope.
Li Zhi stood up, smiled and said to the civil and military officials with different expressions: "The weather is hot, you have been watching all morning, thank you for your hard work!"
When all the officials heard this, they all bowed to Li Zhi to the ground, barely kneeling down. After observing this drill, the officials became more awed and respectful towards Li Zhi.
"Uncle Xing Guo opened our eyes!"
"Xingguo Bo's military strength is rare in the world."
