Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 417
It was Guo Yongzhi's son-in-law Lai Wenli who led the troops to help.

Because Guo Yong was named Minister of the Ministry of War by Lu Wang Zhu Changxiao.

Lai Wenli changed his body and was named the general officer of Zhenjiang.

The 2 troops led by Lai Wenli are naturally not a regular army. Except for some of them are guard soldiers of Qianhusuo, most of them are servants and tenant farmers of the Guo family.

But Lai Wenli himself is very confident. After all, he has not encountered any decent resistance all the way from Jurong, and because he is Guo Yong's son-in-law, he is used to domineering in Jurong, so he feels that Daming Armament is natural But it is the same as the Jurong County Yamen.

Even when Lai Wenli met Jiang Yun's deputy general Sha Xing and his [-] infantry who were defeated by the explosion, he directly reprimanded Sha Xing on the basis that his father-in-law was the minister of the Ministry of War, and forced him to go to Daming with him. The Ordnance Office came and told Sha Xing that taking down the Daming Ordnance Office would be equivalent to making the first contribution to King Lu's taking down Nanjing City.

Sha Xing didn't have any ideas, and his army had to rely on the support of the Guo family and other gentry for money and food, so he had no choice but to follow him to the Daming Armory Station again.

Lai Wenli led a group of soldiers from the guard and Ding Yaowu to walk in front, but in fact there were no regular steps. Some directly used the spears as crutches, and some carried the spears on their shoulders with their hands curled behind their backs. Even holding a bird The musketeers of the blunderbuss were also shaking the matchlock while knocking the blunderbuss on their shoulders.

The officers and soldiers under Sha Xing's command still had lingering fears from the initial explosion, and followed Lai Wenli's 2 horses like thieves, looking around, for fear of encountering a strange glass jar as the cavalry said.

Waiting for the two groups of people to arrive at the explosion site, Sha Xing hurriedly pointed to the broken corpses and said to Lai Wenli: "This is the remains of our general soldier and his personal soldiers. There was indeed a strange explosion here. At the end I really didn't lie to you, Lai Zongbing!"

"What are you afraid of? According to my father-in-law, Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian are two brothers, one is a good carpenter and the other is good at alchemy. Although the Ming Dynasty Ordnance Institute manufactures guns and cannons, there are warlocks who refine some gunpowder in it. It’s the monsters made by these sorcerers, Brother Sha, don’t be afraid, I asked Mr. Yin Yang before I came, these things are all magic tricks, and they can be broken with the blood of black dogs!”

As he spoke, Lai Wenli led his men to carry out the jar of black dog blood he had brought, and sprinkled it along the way.

It is said that in this era, except for Zhu Youjian and the people of the Daming Ordnance Institute who are relatively familiar with natural science, many people are not even materialists.

Lai Wenli and Sha Xing, who are just ordinary warriors of this era, naturally don't understand that the explosion just now was caused by the nitroglycerin explosion, and even instinctively combine this violent explosion with superstition.

Because Sun Heding said that only he and his students would make nitroglycerin, and there was no way to mass-produce it and the risk factor was extremely high, so after the explosion once, there was no explosion again.

Therefore, when Lai Wenli led the officers and soldiers under his command to sprinkle black dog blood all the way to the Daming Ordnance Station, he never encountered such a violent explosion again.

Because of this, all the rebels believed that what Li Wenli said was right.

"These are really demon techniques, and they are really afraid of black blood. The last general didn't expect that if the general of my family could think of such a method, he wouldn't die so badly," Deputy General Sha Xing said with some sentimentality.

"Brother Sha, don't be sad. Your commander-in-chief is willing to respond to His Royal Highness Lu Wang. He is a loyal minister. As long as His Royal Highness Lu Wang becomes the emperor, he will definitely pursue his posthumous posthumous title and comfort him. The same is true for you. As long as you are with me Winning the Daming Ordnance Institute made the first contribution to King Lu's invasion of Nanjing City, I believe you will also become the general soldier and even become a marquis!"

Lai Wenli unknowingly established his prestige among the [-] rebels because he broke the explosive technique of the Daming Ordnance Institute with the blood of a black dog.

Now that he was fooling around with Lieutenant General Sha Xing again, Lieutenant General Sha Xing's thoughts came alive:
"What Lai Zongbing said is that the final general will swear allegiance to His Royal Highness King Lu, loyal to Lai Zongbing, and take down the Daming Armory!"

In this way, Lai Wenli successfully gathered the morale of the [-] rebels, and marched towards the Daming Armament Institute in a mighty manner.

"Mr. Lai, the Ming Dynasty's armaments are backed by mountains and rivers. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. We still have to figure out how to fight. It is even worse that they still have artillery. According to the general, it is better to attack with fire. , now it's winter and the weather is dry and the wind is strong. As long as you take a few dead soldiers to light a section of the hillside with a lot of withered grass over there, it will definitely lead to the mountain. There will be chaos inside his Daming Armory Station. If you take advantage of this to rush in, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"

After all, Sha Xing has been a lieutenant general for many years, so he naturally has some military common sense, so he put forward his own suggestion to Lai Wenli.

Naturally, Lai Wenli didn't want Sha Xing to guide him, so he waved his hands and said, "No need, these are just craftsmen who know how to do their crafts for a while. Kill it!"

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But at this moment, at the Daming Ordnance Institute, the craftsmen of the experimental team of the Guards Artillery Bureau, as officers and soldiers of the Guards Artillery Battalion, had finished debugging the artillery. In an instant, hundreds of iron bullets were accurately fired. It hit the [-] army.

But before the iron bombs hit, the [-] rebels were so frightened that they ran back after hearing the rumble of the artillery fire. Seeing this, Lai Wenli hurriedly yelled: "Why are you panicking? It's just a shell, and it can't kill a few people , let’s talk about what kind of artillery those people can play with.”

Before Lai Wenli finished speaking, dozens of people were smashed into meatloaf by the iron bullet in an instant, and the thousands of people around were so frightened that they all shouted: "Dead, dead!"

These thousands of people ran out immediately, followed by all the rebels who thought they had been defeated and started to run back.

Here, the officers and soldiers of the Guards Infantry Battalion who were about to stop the rebels were directly confused: "This is just the beginning. Why did these rebellious rebels run away? Could it be that our reinforcements have come?"

"Whatever, according to the infantry command course, I will do whatever needs to be done at this time. Brother Xia, your battalion will stay in the ordnance station, and the officers and students of the teaching battalion will follow me to kill!"

Chen Zilong first raised his flintlock gun, jumped out of the bunker with a loud roar, and chased after the rebels.

The three thousand officers and students of the Ming Army Military Academy did not expect their first battle to start in this way. They followed Chen Zilong out of the bunker and trench, and chased the fifty thousand rebels with flintlock guns in their hands. It's like chasing a herd of pigs.

(End of this chapter)