Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 207 Three Hundred Cannons

After a while, Hauge's head was hung on the shaft gate.

If Huang Taiji knows about it, he may have to shed a few tears.

However, in the big tent of the Chinese army, discussions on the follow-up strategy of the battle and defense began.

Duoduo learned well this time, and realized that the Ming army was no longer the lamb at the mercy of others, so he resolutely gave up Gan Gang's arbitrary approach, and turned to follow the example of the Eight Kings in discussing politics and collectively agree on tactics.

It's called brainstorming, but in fact it means that everyone takes responsibility together.

Even if we suffer another defeat, the responsibility belongs to everyone. Everyone is responsible, but none of them are responsible.

Duoduo said: "Although it is said that the defeat of Yunlong Mountain was caused by Hauge's reckless discussion of the strategy of defending the battle and disrupting the morale of the army, it is undeniable that we did underestimate the determination of the Ming army to defend Xuzhou."

"So how will Xuzhou fight next, or should Xuzhou still fight?"

"This king wants to hear everyone's opinions. If you have any ideas, just say it. As long as what you say is reasonable, or the strategy of defense is feasible, this king will agree to it."

As soon as the words fell, He Luohui said: "The slave thinks that Xuzhou still wants to fight."

"Yes, Xuzhou still wants to fight." Luo Luo nodded and said, "This southern expedition is a battle to destroy the country, not a southward hunt. If it is just a southward hunt, you can bypass Xuzhou and go deep into the south of the Yangtze River to rob people, money and goods. Livestock, but in the war of annihilating the country, the priority must be to annihilate the border town of Nanming, not to mention that Chongzhen is also in Xuzhou at this time."

"That's right." Luc Dehun also said, "Xuzhou will continue to fight."

Duoduo turned to Gulmahun and asked, "What do you think, Beizi Wenjian?"

Gulmahun heard that Doduo was also inclined to fight, and immediately said: "I also think that I can't give up."

Now there are already five flags supporting the fight, and although the remaining two flags have not made a statement, they are irrelevant.

"Okay, since the majority support the fight, let's continue." Duduo slapped his thigh and said, "Then the next thing to discuss is, should we continue to choose Yunlong Mountain as the breakthrough point or choose another main attack direction?"

"There is no need to discuss this." Luo Luohun waved his hand and said, "Although the first battle at Yunlong Mountain was defeated five days ago, it was because Hauge deliberately disturbed the morale of the army. Prince Yu, the tactics you adopted are There is no problem, the breakthrough point of Yunlong Mountain is also very well chosen, this place is the gate of life in Xuzhou!"

"Yes, we should continue to attack Yunlong Mountain."

The Eight Banners nobles such as Luc Dehun also echoed.

"Okay, then continue to attack Yunlong Mountain." Duoduo slapped his thigh again, and said, "But this time, the Ming army on Yunlong Mountain is already prepared, so they can't be caught off guard, so we can only attack from the front First, let the Eight Banners Han army use the red cannons to plow the outer double blunderbuss platform."

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At this time, it was at No. [-] gun platform on the ninth peak of Yunlong Mountain.

Zheng Sen, Xia Yunyi, and Xu Yingwei have already transported the collected materials to the Ninth Peak of Yunlong Mountain. There are more than [-] large iron pots, hundreds of barrels of manure, more than [-] dans of flour and more than [-] pieces of ramie fishing nets.

Xia Yunyi ordered two scholars to open one of the fishing nets.

"Please take a look, Your Majesty." Xia Yunyi said, "This is the fishing net we 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 must not be stretched through it. The diameter of the whole net was about one foot and five feet, which was more than enough to cover a two-meter-high man. The material of the fishing net was ramie, so it was extremely tough. It is absolutely impossible to tear open the fishing net with bare hands, not even ferocious beasts.

Zhu Cijiong asked curiously: "I don't know what the effect will be?"

"Then try the effect." Chongzhen said, "Xu Yingwei will let you be a slave."

Although Xu Yingwei is from Zhejiang, his height is close to seven feet, and he is not inferior to Jiannu Baijiabing. It is most appropriate for him to pretend to be a white armored soldier to test the effect of fishing nets.

"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 iron armor, and asked Xu Yingwei to wear both the cotton armor and a cast iron bowl helmet.

After Xu Yingwei finished dressing up, he rushed towards Jin Shenghuan screaming.

Jin Shenghuan decisively threw out the fishing net in his hand, but in the end he felt lonely.

Because the fishing net didn't open at all, it just hung on Xu Yingwei's body in strips.

Xu Yingwei's actions were not affected at all, he stepped forward and put the waist knife on Jin Shenghuan's neck: "President Jin, your name can be engraved on the Hall of Valor."

Jin Shenghuan looked a little embarrassed.

But the onlookers laughed.

Li Xiangjun's laughter was especially crisp.

"It doesn't count this time." Jin Shenghuan said with a blushing face, "I have to figure out how to open this fishing net first."

This sentence reminded Chongzhen that it is not so easy to be a fishnet fighter, and his skill is very strong, even higher than that of a double sword fighter.

Immediately Chongzhen said: "Jin Qing, Xu Qing, turn around and select a group of strong soldiers and scholars, let them learn how to use fishing nets quickly, don't wait until Jiannu attacks again, but we don't know how to use fishing nets, then Wouldn't it be in vain to be blind to Li Aiqing's miraculous tactics?"

"Yes." Xu Yingwei and Jin Shenghuan agreed.

Chongzhen said again: "But now, you should let yourselves understand first."

Now Xu Yingwei and Jin Shenghuan tried for the second time, this time Jin Shenghuan finally opened the fishing net, but it was thrown crookedly, Xu Yingwei broke free easily, and beheaded Jin Shenghuan again.

"My lord, I'm afraid this won't work." Li Xiangjun said suddenly, "It's too difficult to spread the net."

"Li Qing, what can you do to increase the success rate of Zhangwang?" Chongzhen asked expectantly.

Li Xiangjun hummed lightly, and said: "I once crossed the Yangtze River, and I saw fishermen fishing on the river. There seemed to be heavy objects on the edge of the fishing nets they used."

"Oh yes!" Chongzhen woke up like a dream, "Fishing nets must be matched with lead pendants."

That is to say, these scholars who don't know what's going on outside the window, and these peasant men from Shanshan Pass, have never even seen a fishing net, so naturally they don't know the structure of a fishing net.

Chongzhen also asked people to find lead ingots and tie them to the side of the fishing net.

Now Jin Shenghuan easily threw off the fishing net, and directly covered Xu Yingwei. Although Xu Yingwei struggled hard, he couldn't break free at all, and he couldn't even stand firmly, because he stepped on the fishing net and tripped over , If this was on a real battlefield, he would definitely be stabbed to death, even if he was wearing triple armor.

"Beautiful!" Chongzhen couldn't help bursting out a mantra.

This fishing net is simply a sharp weapon against Jiannu white armor soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yingwei was asked to test the effect of flour.

The effect of flour can only be said to be mediocre, because I can hold back without removing the mask to wipe off the flour. The impact of flour on eyesight is still too weak, and the eyes will return to normal after a few more blinks.

Just when Chongzhen was a little disappointed, he climbed up the mountain with high spirits.

"Long live, long live!" Gao Qiqian shouted from a long distance, lest others would not know that he had just done an errand for the emperor.

"What are you shouting for?" Chongzhen said angrily, "The errand is done?"

"It's done." Gao Qiqian reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead, then turned around and waved, "Bring it up!"

The two little eunuchs who followed Gao Qiwen carried two small bags to the gun platform, and saw that the two little eunuchs were dripping with snot from their eyes and nose.

Immediately, a choking spicy smell permeated the gun platform.

"Hmm, cough, what does it smell like?" Li Xiangjun, who had a keener sense of smell, took a few steps back quickly.

"Master Li, oh no, General Li, this is the smell of pepper powder, which is choking." Gao Qiqian smiled, and couldn't help asking Chongzhen for credit, "In order to grind this pepper into powder , The old slave really shed tears."

"Gao Banban, I will credit you 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 your reward, don't think too little."

"It's not too little, old slave, thank you Long Live Lord for the reward."

Gao Qiqian was so excited that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

But he slandered in his heart, Long live you are really picky.

Our family has done such a big errand, so we only reward two taels of silver?What about sending off beggars?Who do you look down on?Am I Gao Qiqian short of these two taels of silver?

Just as Chongzhen was about to speak again, two trumpets and cannons suddenly sounded in the direction of the Jiannu Camp.

"Huh? This is the No. [-] gun?" Chongzhen's heart trembled, and he immediately brought a group of general soldiers to the No. [-] gun platform. Standing on the front edge of the No. [-] gun platform, he looked down. When it was opened, teams of slave-building infantry, cavalry and chariot camps were coming out of the gate, and lined up in the open space outside the camp.

Is this going to attack again?Jian Nu really didn't give up.

"Quick." Immediately Chongzhen said urgently, "Gao Banban, hurry up and bring someone to paste the paper bag. You need to use thin paper, a thin paper bag that can be broken with a slight impact after throwing it out."

"After pasting the paper bags, put a small amount of flour and pepper powder in each paper bag."

"Oh, be careful not to wet the flour, and not let the flour smear."

Because there is too little pepper powder, it can only be mixed with flour, otherwise it will be used up without filling a few bags.

Chongzhen turned his attention to Xia Wanchun again: "Xia Wanchun, take someone to check the Hongyi Cannon one last time."

"Yes." Xia Wanchun agreed, and immediately led a team of Qin Wang scholars of about the same age to inspect the emplacements of the Hongyi Cannon one by one.

At this time, the number of Hongyi cannons erected on Yunlong Mountain had increased to ten.

When Jiannu also discovered that Yunlong Mountain was the weak point of the entire Xuzhou defense line, it became an inevitable result to strengthen the defensive firepower of Yunlong Mountain. Chongzhen moved all the Hongyi cannons to the mountain in one go.

It's a pity that there are only ten Hongyi cannons in Xuzhou's defense line, not more.

So Chongzhen is still a little brooding about the last battle in Henan. Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's more than 180 Eight Banners Han troops are cheaper than Li Zicheng, the rebel. The key is that the more than [-] Hongyi cannons are a pity.

If the more than 180 Hongyi cannons were seized and shipped to Xuzhou, Jiannu would be a bird.

But there is also good news, that is, the Daming Arsenal in Nanjing is already trial-producing the Hongyi cannon, and it is produced according to the technology of the Bugarao Cannon Factory in Macau, which means that it is about to achieve standardization.

Looking at Jiannu on the opposite side, he has already started to push out the Hongyi Cannon.

The scene was really big. A row of Hongyi cannons were lined up at a distance of about a thousand steps. The distance between two adjacent Hongyi cannons was about one foot. The total length of the artillery positions exceeded two miles.

[Note: One mile in Ming Dynasty = 150 zhang = 480 meters]

Judging from this length, there are at least 300 Hongyi cannons.

Jin Shenghuan said in a deep voice: "My lord, it seems that Jiannu is going to attack with the Hongyi cannon this time."

"It's expected." Chongzhen smiled and said again, "However, Jiannu will soon find out that this is futile. If you want to break the Xuzhou defense line, you still have to pay for it with human life."

The bastion is specially designed for anti-cannon.

Because since the appearance of the cannon, the traditional high-walled and thin-walled castles in Europe have become vulnerable. In order to strengthen the defense of the castle, the method of building bastion outside the castle came into being.

The bastion can easily withstand the shelling of cannons due to its low inclination and extremely thick walls.

Moreover, there is usually a revetment outside the ditch of the bastion, and the height of the revetment is usually the same as or even higher than the fort wall, which makes it very difficult for the cannon to hit the wall of the bastion.

Because the slope protection outside the bastion must be cleared first, and the shooting interface of the cannon must be cleared.

But in the process, it has to bear the firepower of the bastion, 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 those small European countries at that time, the bastion tactics were basically unsolvable.

Combined with the current battle of Xu Zhan, the human resources of Jiannu are not much stronger than those of European countries, so let alone flatten the [-]-fold blunderbuss with more than [-] blunderbusses outside the city of Xuzhou, it is the outermost two-fold blunderbuss Enough for them to drink a pot.

Even with the most conservative estimate, each gun platform can take away at least [-] to [-] coated slaves from Jianu.

So Chongzhen wanted to see, what was the limit of Jiannu's tolerance?How many coated casualties can be tolerated?

After the Eight Banners Han army set up the Hongyi cannon, they began to fire the cannons one by one under the command of the generals of the Han army.

That scene was truly astonishing. More than [-] cannons were fired one by one, and clusters of flames were sprayed out from the muzzles one after another, followed by a huge roar.

It is estimated that the ground vibration can be felt from the nearest gun platforms.

Chongzhen adjusted the sight of the binoculars, and saw that most of the shells fired by the Jiannu Hongyi Cannon landed on the slope protection of the first heavy gun platform in the outermost periphery, leaving patches of black soil.

There are also a small number of shells falling into the rear gun platform.

However, there were no casualties, and the Ming army was hiding in the bunker at this time.

Therefore, despite the lively Jiannu Hongyi cannon, the killing effect is actually zero.

Such bombardment, even if Jiannu used up all the gunpowder and lead bullets, would not be able to destroy the outermost slope protection.

"The gnat may shake the tree." Chongzhen finally felt relieved, put down the binoculars and said with a smile, "Let Jiannu waste their gunpowder and lead bullets, and we should hurry up and make preparations."

"Yes." All the generals and scholars agreed.

(End of this chapter)