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Part 3 Pagoda Chapter 0251 Crisis

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    The red cannon, also known as the red barbarian cannon, has a barrel of more than one foot and generally weighs more than four thousand kilograms. It has a long range and is powerful, but it is extremely slow to load and expensive to build.  There are not many gates in Dahua, and there are only a few gates in Songshan City.

    The red cannon will slide backwards after each firing. At this time, water must be poured into the barrel to extinguish the sparks in the barrel, and then the barrel must be cleaned and dried with a wooden plug, and then gunpowder and projectiles can be loaded before it can be fired again. At the same time, it must be pushed out  Gun emplacement, re-aim.  []

    At this moment, a standard red cannon is being pushed out from the battlement hole next to this ladder. The inscription revealed on the first protrusion of the cannon body shows that it is an original one imported from Portugal.  On the ladder, the Tatar soldiers, who were clenching their steel swords and looking ferocious, were about to climb up the battlements and start killing people. Suddenly they saw this dark and scary thing sticking its head out beside them. They couldn't help but be startled. Then they thought of something and opened their eyes in fear.  Mouth, even if the steel knife fell and hit his companion who was following him, he didn't even care.

    There was a flash of light in front of me, and the whiteness that filled my eyes became an eternal moment of stillness.

    Zhuo Bufan and others who were lurking in the distance saw this scene. In the flash of flames that broke out in an instant, the ladder snapped. The Tatar soldiers at the top were scattered like dolls thrown by children. The entire ladder  Almost all the other Tatar soldiers on the ladder also rolled down, unable to hold on to the shaking ladder.

    The Tatar cavalry who were skimming the formation always kept their distance and never entered the effective range of the red cannons, allowing the Chinese army's city cannons to provoke and wreak havoc.  After being frightened by the damage of the cannon, the infantry's momentum was greatly reduced, and they became a little hesitant after rushing to the city.

    Zhuo Bufan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the Tatar soldiers still made little progress in attacking the city. If so, let alone one day, the Dahua defenders would have no problem holding on for another ten and a half days with the power of the cannon.

    Just as he was about to go back to sleep, Zhuo Bufan was pulled by Yi Zhihua. Under Yi Zhihua's guidance, Zhuo Bufan finally saw the strange iron cannon that Yi Zhihua had mentioned before. At this time, it was a few miles away.  The rear military headquarters of the Tatar Army advanced.  Perhaps they were afraid of being discovered by the Chinese army at the top of the city. There were a large number of infantry and cavalry who deliberately concealed the situation. It was difficult to spot them from the top of the city, but they couldn't hide from the eyes of Zhuo Bufan and others behind them.

    Zhuo Bufan's eyesight was not as good as that of Yi Zhihua. He was anxious in his heart, so he simply moved forward again under the cover of Yi Zhihua and others. With the help of several natural ditches, Zhuo Bufan reached the side of the main Tatar siege formation.  From a distance of at most one arrow's throw, not only the iron cannons could be seen clearly, but also the beards of the Tatar soldiers.

    This kind of iron cannon is really strange. It doesn't look like Dahua's design at all, nor does it look like something Western. It looks like a hybrid of the two.  At this time, the seven or eight iron cannons had stopped advancing secretly, and were adjusting their angles and carrying ammunition under the command of a few short men wearing strange armors.  The battle armor of these people is also a strange style that Dahua does not have. The color is dark red, especially the helmet. In addition to the general dome spikes, the large ear protection hanging straight to the shoulders is also impressive.

    Zhuo Bufan's heart moved. Why did these soldiers make him feel familiar? It seemed that he had seen dead people somewhere before, but he couldn't remember them for a while.  Zhuo Bufan focused his attention on these soldiers. At this time, one soldier turned around and revealed a waist knife inserted into his waistband instead of hanging on his waist like the Tatar soldiers. The long handle made Zhuo Bufan  Bufan's eyes lit up, and he looked carefully. Sure enough, their appearance, which was closer to that of Han people, also showed that these people were not Tatars.

    ??Japanese samurai?  It's a Japanese samurai. What the hell, how could you find Japanese people here?  Oh, Dahua calls them Japanese.  Zhuo Bufan frowned and thought hard. Even the roar of the Tatar army's iron artillery and the mountainous cheers of the Tatar army could not affect him.

    Through the occasional intelligence obtained in the past two years and some reports from the coast to the court about the reappearance of Japanese pirates, Zhuo Bufan already knew that Japan at this time, that is, Japan, had made great progress in firearms due to its good relationship with the Netherlands.  It is no longer the time when he was beaten to pieces by the former Dahua military firearms in Goryeo.

    Because of the Taiwan incident, Dahua has long been at odds with the Netherlands, foreign trade has been abolished, and it has almost entered a state of isolation.  The treasure ship blueprints that once shocked Southeast Asia were burned to the ground, and the fleet that cost countless silver to build was also sealed and rotted away as time went by.  In other words, Dahua has almost no idea what the current ocean and the world are like now.

    Zhuo Bufan knew very well that the Great Navigation at this time had entered its final stage, and the maritime powers of Western Europe would begin a battle for hegemony that burned the oceans. After that, there would be a vigorous industrial revolution and a wave of colonization sweeping the world.  China has suffered a hundred years of humiliation precisely because it has been sleeping for two hundred years and missed this good period of great development.

    To be honest, Zhuo Bufan has thought about these things, but he has never seriously thought about how he could live so long and lay a good foundation for his descendants. At least he would not let HuaIt's almost as if Xia Shenlong really fell asleep.  I believe that with the intelligence of the Chinese children and my own help, there will definitely be no more miserable centuries of humiliation.

    However, now I suddenly saw the Japanese figure outside the pass, on the historically famous battlefield where Dahua (Ming Dynasty) and the Tatar Army fought a decisive battle, which made me unable to calm down.  Frowning, Zhuo Bufan thought of the national pain that was closest to his own era and the most difficult to let go of during the century of humiliation.

    "The pain of the souls of 30 million compatriots, and the sorrow of the loss of the country to 40 million Chinese people.

    What is most difficult for me to let go is that after we paid a huge price to drive away the invaders, our generous gestures of friendship that showed history is like smoke and looks forward to the future were regarded as weak and despicable. We are kind-hearted in nature and think that the bad guys are just a few. The Japanese people still yearn for it.  The view of peace, friendship and kindness is regarded as ridiculous and naive by the other party.

    We ourselves call for a harmonious and peaceful world, but others are sharpening their knives without stopping for a moment.  We are unwilling to hurt each other with the pain of history, but we openly enshrine war criminals every year.

    A nanny country that ranks at the bottom of the world dares to openly challenge the sword and stick, and among them, the shadow of this Japanese island nation is indispensable.

    "What the hell," Zhuo Bufan suddenly cursed. Fortunately, the battle had already entered a fever pitch and he was not exposed.  Gritting his teeth, Zhuo Bufan focused his attention on the battlefield again.  At this time, the Japanese iron cannons had begun to fire.

    The shelling was concentrated on the south gate tower, which was the most heavily defended and the strongest place, and was not the main place where the Tatars attacked.  This type of iron cannon is a front-loading cannon like the red cannon. It uses solid bullets. It is quite powerful and the settings are good.  But if you want to blow open the city tower, even if you fight for half a year, I'm afraid it won't work.  For the Tatars, its symbolic significance is greater than its practical effect.

    Sure enough, the morale of the Tatar soldiers who attacked the city was greatly boosted. They had long been envious of Dahua's cannons. Now they have their own artillery. Although it doesn't sound as loud as the cannons at the top of the city, they can't just be beaten and cannoned after all.  .

    The vanguard's assault on the city became more intense, and hand-to-hand fighting finally broke out at the top of the city, with endless shouts of killing.  Obviously, the Dahua army at the top of the city was not at a disadvantage due to its condescending advantage. Although Dahua soldiers from Hongying fell under the city from time to time, more Tatar soldiers were killed, which was like dumplings.

    "Okay, even though he was trapped in a tight siege, he didn't show any weakness. General Hong is really powerful." Zhuo Bufan saw it clearly and couldn't help but applaud the Dahua Army. As long as there is still fighting spirit, the Dahua Army is still quite capable.  Moreover, at this time, the Chinese army has a favorable geographical location, and the most elite cavalry of the Tatar soldiers have no place to use it. If they advance and retreat like this, the city can be protected.

    Yi Zhihua and others also looked at it carefully. Although Dahua was not as good as before, some troops who were truly good at fighting were still very capable. And what was more important to them, from this point of view, they could naturally ensure that they could persist until night, okay.  Let them complete the task of protecting Zhuo Bufan from entering the city, and the hard work along the way will not be in vain.

    There was a fierce battle at the top of the city, and the Tatar army suffered heavy casualties. However, the Tatar army's rear camp was not panicked and nervous. It was as if the people who were hacked like dumplings under the city were not soldiers from their own side. They were just using teams of thousands to attract them.  Zhuo Bufan was a little surprised by the firepower of the Dahua Army.

    After half an hour of this, the Tatar infantry attacking the city were obviously exhausted, and the archers accompanying the team who used bows and arrows to cover the ladders also began to be exhausted, and could not even shoot arrows on the top of the city.  But behind the Tatar army, several miles away, there was a new movement.

    From a distance, Zhuo Bufan saw another group of soldiers and horses coming slowly, and there was actually a lot of baggage among them. When the group advanced a few miles and entered the rear of the Tatar formation, Zhuo Bufan's heart suddenly changed.  It sank.

    I saw fifty or sixty four-wheeled carts slowly approaching under the protection of a large group of Tatar cavalry. Among them, more than thirty carts were clearly visible, and the huge barrels of the red cannons that Zhuo Bufan was familiar with were clearly visible.  , and on dozens of other carts, fully loaded gunpowder barrels and piles of boxes of projectiles were clearly visible.

    At this time, even Yi Zhihua and others felt that the situation was not good, and they all looked at Zhuo Bufan. Zhuo Bufan looked anxious, and the handful of ice and snow tightly held in his hand slowly melted, and slowly dripped from his fingers.  .

    Damn it, what's going on? We haven't figured out what's going on with the Japanese yet. Where did the Tatars get so many red cannons? Even though they might have captured some from the Chinese army, the Chinese army outside the customs was all  I'm afraid there aren't that many troops, and where did these more than thirty gates come from.

    This is troublesome. If more than thirty red cannons are used to attack the city with explosive shells, let alone one day, Matsuyama will be extremely lucky if he can last two hours.  Even with solid bullets, demolishing the city is just around the corner without any difficulty.

    Soon, these more than thirty huge doorsThe red-clothed cannon, this terrifying weapon that had never been used in the Tatar army, was laid out in a leisurely manner. He slowly raised his head, opened his ferocious mouth, and looked at Songshan City with a ferocious smile.
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