Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 230 Demolition Tactics
There are two types of enemies.

One is the mud shell, which is filled with gunpowder and has many small holes on the surface. It is placed in a wooden frame and hung from the top of the city with a rope. After being ignited, it can spin while spraying fire, so as to burn the enemy who attacked the city. , It is burning, not bombing, and the mud shell will not explode, and it does not rely on explosion to kill and injure the siege enemy.

The other is easier to make, which is to sew gunpowder into the quilt, roll up the quilt before throwing it, ignite it and then throw it from the top of the city. The deflagration of the gunpowder and the deflagration of the cotton will instantly turn into a huge ball. The fireball, the effect of this burn is many times more ferocious than the mud shell's enemy, the disadvantage is that the duration is too short.

The big reason why the old slave suffered in Ningyuan City was that he suffered a great loss from thousands of enemies.

Therefore, the enemy of ten thousand people left a lingering nightmare in the minds of Duoduo and other Eight Banners nobles.

They suddenly remembered that the Ming army still had a sharp weapon dedicated to defending the city, the Ten Thousand Enemy.

Accompanied by the terrified roars of Duoduo, Ashan, He Luohui and others, dozens of beds of "ten thousand enemies" thrown down from the top of the city exploded into dozens of huge fireballs.

In an instant, these dozens of balls of fire fell on Qi Ding's head.

There was no suspense in the result, more than a hundred Bala soldiers climbing up the ladder fell down one after another.

The triple armor can hold the arrow stone, it can hold the gold juice, and it can even hold the lime if it is careful, but it is impossible to hold the magic attack of the explosive fireball.

The enemy's attack is extremely ferocious, but the duration is also short.

In the blink of an eye, the glare that could almost blind people's eyes dissipated invisible.

However, when Duoduo and other nobles from the Eight Banners took a closer look, they saw that there were already mourners under the city wall.

More than half of the more than one hundred Bala soldiers attached to the ladder by ants have fallen to the bottom of the city wall.

"Mingjin, stop attacking!" Although he was unwilling, Duoduo knew that he couldn't continue fighting today, because the morale of Xiangbaiqi had fallen to the bottom.

Moreover, the judgment of the enemy's situation was seriously misunderstood.

If the fight continues, even confidence will be severely damaged.

Therefore, timely stop loss is the most sensible choice.

After all, Duoduo is over thirty, not eighteen years old anymore!
……

Shanyang East City.

Seeing the army of slaves retreating slowly, Zhi Tingjian let out a sigh of relief.

Until then, Zhi Tingjian really recognized Yan Yingyuan in his heart.

Although this young man is a little younger, he still has some abilities. At least he managed the defense properly just now, which is much better than his performance as the county magistrate.

At that moment, Zhi Tingjian said sincerely: "Yan Xiaoyou, the county has offended you a lot with your words before, and I hope you will forgive me."

"The county's respect is serious." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, "What's more, although I am not powerful, I will definitely not ignore the hundreds of thousands of people in Shanyang City for the sake of anger."

"That's good." Zhi Tingjian nodded happily, and said, "Jiannu should have retreated after suffering such setbacks? After all, they also gave up after minor setbacks in Suining County, Taoyuan County and Qinghe County. .”

Yan Yingyuan said: "I'm afraid this will disappoint the county lord. Jiannu will never give up easily this time, and the next attack will only be more brutal and cruel, so we need to be fully prepared."

"Ah?" Zhi Tingjian's expression froze, is Jiannu going to die this time?

……

As soon as he returned to the camp, Doduo immediately called the generals of the two white flags and the bordered blue flag to hold a military meeting to discuss what siege tactics should be adopted.

In the beginning, it was just cursing as usual.

"It's all the fault of Chongzhen, the dog emperor." He Luohui scolded angrily, "We dug so many blunderbuss platforms in Xiazhen and Xuzhou, so we thought that Minggou could only guard the blunderbuss platforms, not the city. Shanyang City suffered a big loss."

"Really." Ah Shan nodded and said, "I almost forgot that Minggou can still defend the city."

Xianglan Banner Gushan Ezhentun Qi said in a deep voice: "Ming Gou is not only good at defending the city, but extremely good at defending the city. Back then in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, Lao Han and the late emperor were very embarrassed."

"Yes." Duoduo sighed, "We suffered a big loss in Ningjin back then."

Tun Qi said: "Therefore, it will definitely not work to attack a strong city like Shanyang according to the tactics of fighting the gun platform. We must attack Shanyang City according to the tactics of fighting Ningyuan and Jinzhou."

"Break down!" Ah Shan, Shi Tu and other generals from the Eight Banners said in unison, "Dig out the city wall!"

Duoduo hesitated a little, frowned and said, "The demolition tactic is not very easy to use. When we attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou, we were not able to defeat them. Instead, a lot of Baoyi died."

Tun Qi said: "Then we can only dispatch the cannons in red to come to Shanyang City."

"Yes, let's bring the cannons in red." Ashan agreed, "It doesn't take many, a dozen cannons are enough, as long as you blow up a gap in the city wall, everything will be fine."

"It's easy to say." Duoduo snorted, "It's nearly five hundred miles from Xuzhou to Huai'an, and the red cannon is heavy and heavy. It can only travel less than twenty miles a day. How many days will it take?"

Tunqi, Ashan and other Eight Banners generals were speechless for a while.

It will take at least a month to transfer the cannon in red from Xuzhou.

The problem is, the remaining rations they have now can only last for a month.

At this time, Niyaha suddenly stepped forward and said, "Master, this matter is actually very easy to solve."

Duoduo was stunned when he heard the words. Niyaha was extremely brave in battle, but he didn't like to use his brain very much. Today, the sun came out from the west, and Niyaha actually started to use his brain?
At that moment Duoduo asked with a smile: "Then tell me, what can you do?"

Niyaha chuckled, and was about to say his idea when his mountain-strong body suddenly shook, and then fell straight backwards.

The body weighing more than two hundred kilograms hit the ground with a bang.

Duduo was stunned for a moment, then squatted down and called out in concern: "Niyaha? Niyaha, wake up."

While shouting, Doduo slapped Niyaha's cheek vigorously, even if you die, you must finish talking before you die.

Unfortunately, at this very moment, Niyaha fell into a severe coma, no matter how much Doduo shouted, there was no response, and even his breath became extremely weak.

"Lang Zhong!" Duoduo said urgently, "Come find Lang Zhong!"

When the military attendant arrived, Niyaha had already developed a high fever.

The doctor stretched out his hand to touch Niyaha's forehead, and was immediately taken aback: "My lord, Mr. Niyaha has contracted a fever, and the onset is extremely severe and urgent. I'm afraid it's, I'm afraid it's..."

The word "lucky and good" was stuck in my throat, and I didn't dare to say it easily.

"It turned out to be a fever!" Duduo's heart sank immediately, and he said again, "So, do you have any way to wake him up? Even if it's just a moment of sobriety."

"My lord, this slave really can't do it." The doctor said with a mournful face, "Whether Mr. Niyaha can wake up depends on whether his body can bear it. If he can bear it, he can wake up. I can't bear it..."

"Okay, anyway, take good care of you." Duoduo signaled the bannerman to carry Niyaha down.

Doduo looked around again and said, "What do you think Niyaha thinks of?"

He Luohui, Tunqi, Ashan and other Eight Banners generals looked at each other in blank dismay, I'm afraid you have to ask Niyaha to know.

"Forget it, you don't have to think about the cannon in red. Even if you have time, you may not be able to reach Shanyang." Duoduo breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "After all, from Xuzhou to Shanyang is within the border of Nanming. Inside, there are Ming armies everywhere along the way, especially Xiazhen and Pizhou where there are also two large armies of the Southern Ming stationed, so we must guard against them."

He Luohui waited for the generals of the Eight Banners and then his expression became concentrated. They were reminded of what happened to Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

After a pause, Duoduo said again: "So let's think about how to break Shanyang City and grab the food and livestock goods in the city without the red cannon."

Tun Qi said: "Then we can only hope for demolition."

After a pause, he went on to say: "In order to disperse Minggou's troops and defense equipment, we can demolish the eight turrets of the east and west cities at the same time. As long as we successfully demolish one of the turrets, the army will be able to continuously enter Shanyang City from the gap."

Duoduo said: "If there is really no other way, we can only use the method of demolition."

Tun Qi said: "If you want to use the method of demolition, you have to quickly collect wooden boards and make long cards."

Duoduo said: "The shield alone will definitely not be able to carry it. You have to rely on the chariot. Let those dog slaves renovate the chariot. According to the practice in Ningyuan and Jinzhou, splice two chariots into one, and put them on the top of the chariot. Put another cover to make a vault, and this vault must be able to bear the impact of hundreds of kilograms of rolling wood and stones."

Tun Qi said: "The top should be covered with multiple layers of raw cowhide to prevent fire attack."

"Yes, in addition to raw cowhide, we also need to build an earthen platform outside the turret, and station archers to suppress the Ming dogs at the top of the city." Duoduo nodded and said, "I will leave this matter to you Xianglanqi."

"Hey!" Tun Qi slapped a thousand and turned to leave.

For this task, Tun Qi did not resist at all, on the contrary he was very happy.

Because according to the rules, if Xianglan Banner completes the demolition of Shanyang City, then the first batch of warriors entering Shanyang City can only be their warriors with Xianglan Banner, just to eat this verbal soup.

Watching Tunqi leave, Duoduo said to He Luohui again: "He Luohui, you can pay more attention tonight, if you let the spies of the Ming army come in again, you will burn the little luggage we have left with the white flag , then you don’t have to live anymore, cut off your own head as soon as possible.”

"Hey!" He Luohui quickly knelt down on one knee and punched him.

Duoduo said to Shi Tu and the other two white-flag generals: "Go, follow me to visit Niyaha."

Originally, it was unlikely that Duoduo cared so much about the life and death of a mere Baya Latuzhangjing. It was really the method Niyaha didn't mention that whetted his appetite.

He was eager to know Niyaha's method.

What kind of solution would this be?
(End of this chapter)