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Chapter 169 Fortified City Ningyuan (Deep Condolences)
Ningyuan.

After several months of intensive construction, the reconstruction of the city has been completed. More than 20 Hongyi cannons have also been deployed, and the muzzles of the black holes point out of the city.

But this is not over yet. The parapet of the trenches outside the city is also nearing completion, and all facilities for sheltering from the rain have been built.

Xiong Tingbi held up the imperial telescope and looked around on the tower.It took a while to put down the binoculars, and sighed, "If Guangning City has such an arrangement, Donglu may be bleeding like a river."

The weather is already hot, but He Kegang's armor is neat, and he is not slack at all.

Hearing Lord Jinglue's emotion, he bowed and replied: "What your lord said is absolutely true. If the Eastern captives attack again, he will definitely suffer heavy casualties and return home defeated."

Zu Dashou wiped the sweat from his brow and said: "The Eastern captives have already experienced defeat in Guangning, I am afraid they will not dare to attack Jiancheng again."

Xiong Tingbi shook his head lightly, and said, "According to my prediction, the Eastern Captives will definitely attack again in winter at the latest."

After a pause, Xiong Tingbi glanced at the generals and staff beside him, and said in a deep voice: "In the battle of Guangning, the Eastern captives gained very little, and it may be difficult to support them. They don't come to attack and loot, are they waiting to starve?"

After the fall of Guangning in history, Houjin disappeared for several years.

Among them, there are reasons for the Ming court to replace the governor of Liaodong and strengthen armaments, and there are also reasons for grabbing enough in the first battle of Guangning, so there is no shortage of food and clothing for the time being, and the need to rectify internal relations.

But now, Houjin, who was defeated in Guangning, will fall into an economic crisis if he doesn't grab a hand according to Zhu Youxiao's words.

Just like the nomads in the north, when they encounter natural disasters, they usually go south to plunder to tide over the difficulties.

"My lord." He Kegang cupped his hands and asked, "If it's a robbery, maybe the Donglu's target should be Juehua Island?"

Zu Dashou blinked his eyes, shook his head and said, "How can the Eastern Prisoners attack the island without ships?"

Xiong Tingbi also had this idea, but Juehua Island's defensive facilities were well-built and solid, and the emperor also reminded him of the possibility of sea water freezing in a secret letter, so he did not dare to take it lightly.

"I want to deploy another two thousand gunfire soldiers to strengthen the guard on Juehua Island." Xiong Tingbi glanced at He Kegang and said, "General He, would you like to guard Juehua Island?"

"The final general is willing to go." He Kegang bowed and accepted the order without hesitation.

Xiong Tingbi nodded, stroking his beard under his chin and smiling, "General He will continue to train the army on Juehua Island, as will General Zu. After four months, it should be no problem to train another [-] Musketeers." ?”

He Kegang and Zu Dashou looked at each other and bowed to accept the order.

The two returned to Ningyuan with 2000 new troops. As of now, they have expanded to [-] people with the new army as the backbone.With the gradual increase in the supply of muskets in the imperial court, training is not a big problem.

Xiong Tingbi was very satisfied. Five thousand musketeers guarded Ningyuan, three thousand guarded Juehua, supplemented by various artillery, it should be foolproof.

Xiong Tingbi was shocked after seeing the layout of Ningyuan's city defense, the "Infantry Exercise Code" of martial arts, and the drills of the new army.

These days, he has also studied and analyzed with the generals to formulate the most suitable tactics.

And some of the original strategic assumptions have also undergone considerable changes in Xiong Tingbi's mind.

For example, Jinzhou, which only sent a small number of troops to garrison, was originally only used as a warning and alarm.But now he wants to send three to five thousand troops to attract Donglu to attack.

According to Xiong Tingbi's vision, the parapets of the trenches were combined with picket trenches, and musketeers were used to defend the position, supplemented by artillery at the top of the city.

That's right, Xiong Tingbi didn't prepare reinforcements, but wanted the defenders to stick to their defenses and use the city and fortifications to consume the vital strength of the Donglu.

In other words, the three to five thousand troops stationed in Jinzhou were abandoned.Standing alone and defending to the death, it is still a death squad that wants to fight to the end. The task is to fight off at least equal numbers of Eastern captives.

Based on the population of the Eastern Captives, in two or three battles like this, tens of thousands of people died, and the mobile force was almost lost.

Dalinghe, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan, with the consumption of these three siege battles, coupled with the three-way arrangement of Liaodong and Liaonan, the Eastern Captives could only shrink back and lose the power to take the initiative to fight.

Of course, this idea is idealistic and cruel.

Allowing the friendly army to be surrounded and attacked, knowing that the final result may be annihilation of the entire army, but only hope to fight for the enemy, exchange lives for lives, and achieve the purpose of exhausting the enemy, this is really unspeakable.

However, Xiong Tingbi had already conveyed his idea to the emperor in secret.As long as the emperor agrees, this notorious old bear is willing to bear it.

Moreover, this style of play also requires the cooperation of Donglu.If the eastern captives adopt a long-term siege, it will test the accumulation of food, grass and materials in the city, as well as the strong will of the defenders.

However, Xiong Tingbi still believes that the price paid by the Donglu to besiege the isolated city is much higher than that of the defenders, and the burden of material consumption and transportation is greater, and it cannot be implemented for a long time.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi insisted on his idea, and believed that this was the best way to weaken Donglu.

Now, no one knows what Xiong Tingbi thinks.And Ningyuan's solid city defense gave everyone enough confidence, waiting for the Donglu to come and smash their heads.

Accompanied by everyone, Xiong Tingbi went down the city wall and went outside the city to inspect the fortifications.

Behind the parapet trenches, there are many wooden shelves, but careful observation reveals that this is a relatively simple and miniaturized counterweight trebuchet.

Regardless of its small size, the number of operating personnel is also small, and it can throw stones weighing about 60 catties [-] meters away!

Of course, this kind of trebuchet now has a powerful name, it is called a grenadier.There are wooden wheels below, which can be pushed and moved.When in use, it is fixed on the ground with pickets.

Since it is called a grenadier, what is thrown is definitely not a stone, but a mine filled with a new type of granular gunpowder, or "thundering thunder".

The Hong Tianlei of the Ming Dynasty mostly used coarse sand pottery as the carrier, which was about the size of a football.But its surface is not round, but has many pointed protrusions, like an enlarged thorn.

After Hong Tianlei was replaced with granular gunpowder, its power increased greatly.Not only can it show great power when defending the city, but it can also be thrown by a grenadier vehicle as a flower bomb to bomb the enemy.

You must know that the long-barreled artillery at that time could not fire explosive shells.

To be precise, it is not impossible, but it is too dangerous to launch shells with fuses without a reliable fuse.

Mortars with short barrels could fire explosive shells, but based on the manufacturing level at that time, it was not easy to cast hollow shell shells, and the cost was too high.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao decided to promote the use of this primitive-looking weapon in the army after listening to the introductions of experts such as Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua.

(End of this chapter)