my days with tyrants

Regarding Hua Rong’s proposal...

Of course Mr. Huang Ge supports it!

He also knew that Hua Rong was not well-intentioned, but the problem was that it had nothing to do with him or the court. All they wanted was to open the capital quickly, and Hua Rong's proposal was obviously the most feasible at the moment.

Moling Pass itself is not difficult to open, and even Sanshan Fort is not difficult to open.

A cannon weighing ten thousand kilograms can be blasted away.

This time the power of the ten-thousand-pound cannon has been confirmed...

That's a 24-pound cannon. A [-]-pound cannon is enough to blast a bastion, let alone a [-]-pounder. Especially Molingguan is not a top-notch bastion, it is just an ordinary four-corner fort covered with bricks. Most of them are made of blue bricks. Cement is used as a binder, and because it is stuck on water transportation, the surrounding water network is complete.But these could not withstand the continuous bombardment of the forty-pounder cannon. In fact, the three mountain fortresses and even the outer walls of the city gates could not withstand it. The outer walls of the capital were made of rammed earth and were not covered with bricks. Even the Hongyi cannons could. Blast away.

Of course, don't count on the inner city wall.

That's pure brick.

Modern medium-caliber artillery can't blast them, and the Japanese have to use [-] or above. In fact, the Japanese use a large number of [-] howitzers.

But all the fortresses outside the inner city wall are indeed unable to withstand the huge cannon.

The problem now is that blasting it away is useless!

Because the defenders used a large number of incendiary bottles, even if the attackers could knock down the city wall, they would not be able to rush forward. After all, no one could continue to rush forward after countless incendiary bottles were smashed above their heads. During the previous raid on Cangbo Gate, the defenders even simply attacked directly from above. Throw gasoline and kerosene down.These are not artillery shells or shells. Even if they charge intensively, most of them will still not be hit. Even if you run faster, you will not be able to aim. After all, even if the matchlock is aimed, the matchlock will fall within ten meters. .As for cannon shot, that is left to fate, so the Semu warriors dare to charge bare-chested. They know that the mortality rate is at most one-fifth, and they can withstand it.

But once it catches fire, it spreads from person to person.

Especially under the city wall, oil is poured out from above. If there is too much oil on the body, even if there is no cloth, once the incendiary bottle explodes next to it, even if it is not licked by the fire, it will be ignited from a small distance.

It can even burn without oil.

It's like the void is burning.

Well, it was actually the kerosene vapor that was ignited by the high temperatures.

But for people who don't understand this, it is indeed burning in the void.

Extremely weird.

Even the brave Semu warriors have now completely lost the courage to attack. Most of their deaths these days have been burned to death. More than 7000 of them died at Moling Pass alone. The gap opened by the blast looks black from a distance. , but in the past, we knew that it was actually a pile of black-burnt bones of the Semu warriors, and all attacks had to step on the bones left behind.

Even the bravest people collapse.

No one dared to continue charging.

Even the rammed earth there was turned into black pottery due to the continuous high-temperature combustion.

The defenders deliberately failed to clean up.

Just let those black bones and scum pile up layer by layer in the gap, so that the morale of the attackers will collapse as soon as they step on it. After all, this is really unsustainable. After all, the color-eyed warriors are not really ignoring death. They are really so brave. The Yuan Dynasty is not As for dying.

Nearly two thousand people in the Cangbo Gate Company died during the raid, and three thousand people died when Hua Rong used them as cannon fodder at Sanshan Fort.

Twelve thousand!
This is all young and strong.

And they are all young men who can fight best.

Even if those who escaped from the north were included, the number of people in the area controlled by Jianwen Dynasty would only be [-] or [-].

These are mainly semu military households in several guard posts in Guangdong. Guangxi followed Naha to surrender and was placed in the old Beiyuan tribe in Guangxi. Naha took more than 20 with him when he surrendered, although only a small number of them were semu. After all, He is a direct descendant of Muhuali and has nothing to do with Semu.

But when Bei Yuan fled, many lustful people also fled north, and many of them were in his group.

Generally speaking, for all men, women, old and young, there is a level of 20.

Well, they are actually still young and strong.

In that case, why not use it?
Just like Hua Rong said, do they have any other choice?
Either they risk their lives to conquer Jianwen and continue to thrive in the Ming Dynasty, or when Yang Feng comes back, the men will be slaves and the women will be used as prostitutes. Besides, there will be no one else available. Those military households will definitely not do such a thing, and they will surrender at worst.Their support for Jianwen is simply because the Queen in the capital is a bit too different. As someone who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world, Jianwen is currently the most suitable for the emperor's status. But after the fight here, they have actually already understood that the imperial government is indeed better than Jianwen. Better under governance.You can continue to fight, but there is no need to commit suicide. It is not worth it. As for the loyalty brought by the gentry, they will definitely not do it. It is also a big deal that they will surrender. Even the gentry themselves will not do it. They will also surrender. They will surrender. Jianwen only wanted to share the land with Yang Feng, not because Yang Feng wanted to destroy all their families.

Losing would only mean losing the land, and it was impossible for Yang Feng to kill their whole family.

They know this.

Oppose Yang Fenggui and oppose Yang Feng, but they all know that Yang Feng is not Zhu Yuanzhang and will not skin them.

Even the Japanese slaves didn't do it.

The worst they could do was continue to be slaves. They had nothing to begin with, but they followed because the gentry gave them money.

If you lose, you will still be a slave.

Yang Feng himself used the most Japanese slaves in the entire Ming Dynasty.

The most he could lose would be to become a prisoner, and if he caught him, he would go to farming in the wasteland.

That's not a bad thing.

Annan soldiers did not do it either.

The worst they can do is escape back to Annan.

The chieftain soldiers are even less willing to work. They are all the chieftain's private soldiers. They only come because Jianwen gives money. If you give money to fight, you can die. If you die on the battlefield, you will die. Fighting is inevitable, but this kind of pure suicide, they are Definitely not.

In the end, only Semu can do this, because they are the only ones with no choice.

If you don't do it, you have to do it.

Although the world is big, no one except Jianwen will give them a place.

Even Mu Sheng is driving out his semu military households. These guys were enemies of the Ming Dynasty in the past. Many of the military households in Yunnan used to fight with them on the battlefield, and even their relatives died at the hands of semu. There are a lot of them, how can I like them.In the past, there was no chance to exclude them, but now that the opportunity has come, of course they have to be pushed out. If they are squeezed out, their fields will belong to other military households.

Now, except for Jianwen, who is open to accepting them and even treating them as confidants, all other places are ostracizing or even expelling them.

Of course, the Guangdong military households led by Hua Rong also did not want to tolerate them.

That's why this poisonous plan was devised.

Immediately afterwards, Mr. Huang Ge wanted to test it. He found some brave warriors with gunpowder bags and rushed directly to Moling Pass, but was stopped by Hua Rong. What this tactic requires is suddenness. After you test it, everyone will also be there. knew.They just have to go back to find thousands of warriors with colored eyes, and then prepare a large number of explosive bombs that can be strapped to their bodies. When these are ready, they can suddenly launch a general attack on the capital.

The Beijing camp was caught off guard.

And not only that, but at least [-] more color-eyed soldiers must be recruited to make up for the previous losses.

What's more, bombing alone is not enough. Even if the walls of the capital are blown open, fighting will still have to take place within the city.

So the more soldiers the better.It doesn't matter if you are younger, you can handle weapons at [-] or [-] years old.

This is not their fight for Emperor Jianwen, but their fight for their right to survive in the future.

Just have to work hard.

People in their forties and fifties are also here.

In this case, Mr. Huang Ge hurriedly sent a secret report to Guangzhou, asking His Majesty the Emperor to prepare these.

Mobilize five thousand warriors with colored eyes, and tie a thirty-pound explosive bomb to each person.

Explode the capital with their flesh and blood.

At the same time, we will mobilize another [-] young and strong men. If that doesn't work, we will relax the standard, ranging from fifty to fifteen. Fifteen is a very reasonable age to enlist in the army.

Of course, this requires sufficient preparation time.

and so……

"Hua Rong?"

Yang Feng smiled.

At this time he was walking through Xingxingxia.

Four-wheeled carriages carried the women of the Beijing camp soldiers and their harvests. Many of the women were even pregnant. After all, they had walked for a long time. According to this situation, after entering Jiayuguan, there would be more people in this team. Thousands of children.

Of course, there were many children.

Ambassador Yang has tens of thousands of adopted daughters in this round. They are all crowded into four-wheeled carriages, staring blankly at the long yellow sand around them. However, because they have enough food and clothing under Yang Feng, they all look good, and all the Turks , Persian, Armenian, and even Kurdish, in short, the little girls of various shapes are dazzling.

As for the soldiers, they were all on horseback or camels.

There are a total of [-] women and girls. How can there be carriages for them to ride?
Fortunately, after going through this expedition, they have all evolved to the level of Zhu Di's guards and are fully capable of traveling thousands of miles on horseback.

However, due to limited conditions, we had to drag the team to a length of more than [-] miles.

Because the fresh water for these hundreds of miles can only be obtained from the barely drinkable bitter water wells along the way. Although the soldiers can carry enough fresh water from Hami, the large number of horses cannot hold it. If tens of thousands of troops really pass through in a dense manner, it is estimated that those The well must be drained.Therefore, Timur's hundreds of thousands of troops marching eastward is really a joke. He can't even drink water if he takes this route. Unless he drags a long queue like Yang Feng, the situation is similar if he takes the southern route. After all, he has to pass through Lop Nur.Then if hundreds of thousands of troops really move here, only a few thousand people will defend Xingxing Gorge, no more, just ten days and a half. Then hundreds of thousands of troops will have to bleed each other between Hami and Xingxing Gorge.

This route can maintain the continuous passage of tens of thousands of troops at most, and no more will be possible.

Those wells must be drained.

Then tens of thousands of people, half dead from thirst, walked out of the Xingxing Gorge and ran into Song Sheng's Gansu Army.

It is said that during Timur's Eastern Expedition, Song Sheng and He Fu jointly guarded Gansu.

And Zhu Di also knew about his eastern expedition.

Before he died, Zhu Di had already ordered Song Sheng and He Fu to prepare for war.

"So Hua Rong deliberately asked the Jianwen Dynasty to recruit semu warriors to build bombs to attack the city. This back and forth would delay at least a month. They knew that Xu Huizu had arrived at Jiayuguan. Huang Zicheng also knew that I must be returning, so he We have no choice but to rush to the capital quickly."

Yang Feng said.

Of course Hua Rong has secretly surrendered.

They are all very sober. From the failure of the first wave of attacks, the entire plan has actually failed.

This kind of raid is a one-shot deal.

If you open it, you will win, if you cannot open it, you will lose. There is no possibility of failure in the first wave, and the siege of the capital can be continued for a long time. The current wait-and-see of the generals in various places, and the joy of the gentry to welcome the king's division, are actually due to the absence of Yang Feng. Regardless of whether he is dead or alive, his absence can still make people fantasize a little bit.

Otherwise there is not even a fantasy.

Once he returns, those general soldiers will serve the king without hesitation.

So Jianwen is actually just an opportunity.

Under normal calculations, Yang Feng had already gone to the Western Regions. It would take at least three months for the news to reach him. After all, many of the stations on this line were inaccessible, and he could not return immediately. After all, He was going to fight, so it was normal for him to be delayed for a month or two, and then go away for at least half a year.So Jianwen had more than half a year to capture the capital in one go, and then quickly bribed the general soldiers in various ways, giving them all the conditions they could offer, and giving the gentry everywhere what they wanted.Huang Zicheng even proposed that the gentry could simply refuse to pay the grain in order to gain support. In the end, the entire Ming Dynasty united as one and prepared to wait for Yang Feng to return for a decisive battle.

But the key is to capture the capital quickly.

If you can't even win the capital, why let others bet?

So it's a lost cause now.

Since the defeat was certain, Hua Rong and other Guangdong Guard generals certainly had no interest in being buried with Jianwen.

"The news of Xu Huizu's return must have been deliberately leaked by someone. He was in Jiayuguan to deliver a letter to the capital in a hurry. After arriving in Fengyang, he was sent to Yangzhou by Mei Yin and then to Zhenjiang and transferred to the capital. Mei Yin knew about it, but he behaved differently this time. If someone can leak secrets, it can only be Wu Gao. He is leading the Huaiyang and Su Song armies in Zhenjiang, and he has been waiting and watching recently."

Chun Ji said.

"This bitch, Wu Shou'an has already given face to his father without being implicated, and now he dares to do this!"

The little princess said angrily.

Now relying on the equipment provided by Sister Liu, Yang Feng can start group chats with them.

Wu Gao was Wu Shou'an's brother and he also inherited the title of Wu Liang. Wu Shou'an's crimes should have at least implicated him, but the little princess finally gave up the implication. After all, she still took care of these nobles.The closest people to the capital now are Wu Gao and Wu Jie, the Marquis of Anlu in the south. The latter is also waiting with the Zhejiang Army. Xu Huizu issued a memorial at Jiayuguan. Even if the memorial cannot be dismantled privately, they only know that Xu Huizu is back. Wu Gao and others should also guess By the time Yang Feng started to return eastward, there was not much time left for Jianwen.For them, the next step was the last chance. Even if Yang Feng entered Jiayuguan, he would still have to walk for two months to reach Xi'an. He would still have a chance before he arrived in Xi'an, as long as he captured the capital before he arrived in Xi'an.

The situation in the capital fell into chaos immediately.

Although the situation in the future will depend on Jianwen's ability to win people over, there will be no chance if there is no chaos.

There is a chance only when there is chaos.

"Hurry up and give Qi Bin an order to lead the navy south to meet with Zheng He."

Yang Feng said.

"What do you want to do?"

The little princess said in astonishment.

"Searching your home? I'll take you to search your nephew's house."

Yang Feng said.

He has no interest in following these guys' ideas.

How easy it is to go straight to Guangzhou.