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- Seeing the dirt being thrown out from behind Guan Xia's wooden cart, Zhang Qing also knew what the Jurchens were going to do.
The place chosen by the Jurchens cannot be attacked by fire and thunder hands, and the bow and arrow can hit it, but it cannot kill the people under the wooden cart.
"Let's attack with stone cannons."
It is still difficult for the gunners to aim at a wooden cart that is three or four feet in size. Many stone cannons hit the ground and only caused a shower of snowflakes.
However, some wooden carts were still hit. Stone cannons weighing five kilograms were smashed down, and the wooden carts immediately fell apart. The civilians inside were also hit with broken bones and tendons.
As soon as one wooden cart was damaged, another wooden cart would make up for it.
The golden soldiers lined up in a line outside the firing range of the Fire Hands, and dug forward at five points.
Under the threat of the roaring stone cannons above, the peasants in the wooden cart dug very quickly. They quickly dug out a hole large enough for people to hide in. They hid in the hole one by one and continued digging.
The stone cannon can break the wooden cart above, but it is difficult to hit the people in the cave.
Zhang Qing saw that the stone cannon could not perform any feat, so he ordered the gunner to stop attacking.
A school captain said: "My subordinates are willing to take people out of the border and dig trenches to stop them."
The most common way to dig tunnels is undoubtedly to dig a trench under the city wall. When the enemy digs the trench, it will be exposed. Then the defenders can use many methods to attack the tunnel diggers.
Zhang Qing said with a smile: "It's too laborious to dig trenches. The Ministry of War has a new way to break tunnels. Just send a team of people out to dig a few holes. The entrance of the hole should be two feet."
Yue Fei asked strangely: "What method?"
Zhang Qing smiled and said: "It is said that if artillery is thrown underground, it can directly kill people underground. The news just sent by the Ministry of War is now passed on by me."
Wanyan Zongwang used his telescope to see Daliang soldiers and horses leaving the city behind the formation. He originally thought that Daliang soldiers would dig a trench, but he didn't expect that they would dig down at several points just like digging tunnels.
Telescopes have long been sold in mirror shops, and Jin Guo also bought a lot of them at a high price. For generals leading troops.
Wanyan Zongfu was also puzzled: "What are the Han people planning to do? Wouldn't it be faster to dig trenches if they lined up?"
Wanyan Zongwang shook his head in confusion and said, "I don't know. Could it be that the Han people have invented some new method to crack the tunnel? Just wait, you should know it soon."
The Daliang soldiers first burned the ground with fire oil and dug downwards. The soldiers kept rotating. Even so, it took an hour to dig out five holes more than ten feet deep.
The people of the Jin Kingdom wanted to enlarge the entrance of the hole and dig slower.
The red sun gradually sets to the west, and the evening wind keeps blowing, bringing moisture from the ocean to the east. Frost began to form on the armor of many soldiers at the top of the city.
Zhang Qing asked Guanzhong soldiers to start rotating early, and only a thousand people were retained in Guanzhong.
The Jin army couldn't stand it anymore and withdrew their troops back to the camp, leaving only a team of soldiers and horses to monitor the civilians. It seemed that they wanted the civilians to dig tunnels day and night. Anyway, tunnels still need lights during the day. As for the cold, it¡¯s not much colder at night in the tunnel than during the day.
Zhang Qing saw that the Jin State actually planned to dig a tunnel overnight, and had no patience to wait any longer. Although the eavesdropper still did not report that the tunnel dug by the Jin Army was close to the city wall.
Let¡¯s try the Ministry of War¡¯s new approach.
Seeing Zhang Qing lighting up the artillery, Yue Fei suddenly said: "General, wait a minute, let the people listening below take a rest first, otherwise I'm afraid they will be the first to die."
Zhang Qing also thought of the person below who was lying on the ground listening. They amplified the sound a lot through the water tanks buried underground. If it could really shock the people in the tunnel to death, then the people listening would definitely die even worse.
"Fortunately, you warned me, otherwise I might have accidentally hurt one of our own again."
Zhang Qing asked someone to notify the people listening below to take a rest. After receiving the reward, he lit the cannon and threw it towards the hole under the wall.
Although the artillery is much heavier, the name of the featherless arrow is not for nothing. The artillery fell into the hole accurately. Exploded with a bang.
A pile of dirt shot up into the sky, and the sound seemed louder. But it doesn't seem to be enough to kill anyone.
Of course, this is the feeling of the people who closed the door. The people who had almost reached the city wall were as if thunder from the sky fell to the ground. Some were stunned directly, some were bleeding from their orifices and became stupid, and the people at the back were stunned. His eyes were filled with stars.
Everyone could only see that the hole under the pass had been blown up, but they could not see the results of the battle.
Zhang Qing thought for a while and said, "Let the monitor listen again to see if anyone is still digging tunnels?"
The monitor listened to the explosion of the artillery, and curiously leaned on the water tank buried in the ground to listen.
It was deathly silent, and there was no sound of digging at all.
When Zhang Qing heard the following report, he swallowed his saliva and said: "It can't really shock everyone to death."
Yue Fei thought for a moment and said, "I'm guessing he's also injured. The sound can't be dissipated underground. I remember when I was playing in the cellar when I was a child, I yelled so hard that my ears hurt."
Zhu Tong said: "Wait a little longer. If no one comes out and no one digs the soil, he will probably be shocked to death."
The soldiers on the city wall also looked curiously at the openings in the distance.
Wushu was young and vigorous, and brought a group of soldiers to personally supervise the formation. At the same time, he also protected the civilians, lest a group of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared in the city and killed all the civilians.
After seeing the Daliang soldiers throwing an artillery piece into the hole they dug, they were also puzzled and asked a few civilians to go up and see the situation.
Since the civilians got into the tunnel, the defenders stopped attacking the civilians who were replacing them. It was difficult for the stone cannons to hit the moving wooden carts, and the catapults suffered a lot of damage in one operation. Later, some villagers discovered that the archers would not attack them, so they simply threw away their wooden carts and started running within the range of the archers.
The Daliang officers and men have not fired arrows. They only let the civilians push the wooden carts to move, which is meaningless.
It can be said that both sides are waiting for Daliang to crack the method of Jin Bing digging tunnels.
?????The selected few people bravely rushed to the entrance of the tunnel and jumped into the hole. The entrance of the hole has been dug down to the depth of one person. The horizontal tunnel is also three or four feet wide. The people can kneel down inside and keep digging forward. There is not one person in a tunnel, but a row of people. The people in front dig forward, and the people behind carry out the soil.
The civilian husband jumped into the cave entrance and saw a man kneeling in the tunnel in front of him.
"Why"
The civilian husband shouted, and the people in the tunnel moved and wanted to turn around, but they were stuck in the tunnel.
"Stupid donkey."
The civilian husband cursed secretly and leaned in. Grab the man's leg and pull it out.
The man fell at the entrance of the cave and sat up, with blood hanging from the corners of his eyes and nose, and stared blankly at the person in front of him.
"ah"
Minfu was so frightened by the man's appearance that he screamed and almost jumped to the ground.
After a while, I saw that the man was motionless, so I stretched out my hand and waved it in front of the man to see that he didn't respond. He asked doubtfully: "Are you stupid?"
The civilian husband leaned forward and looked into the tunnel again. The people inside were also motionless. Not daring to stay any longer, I climbed up from the ladder at the entrance of the cave. I saw a farmer climbing out next to me and asked, "Are the people down there alive?"
The farmer dragged a man up from the ground. The eyes and nose also bleed, and they feel numb.
"It's the same here."
The two of them saw that the people below were shocked and their legs were trembling, fearing that the Jurchens would drive them to dig tunnels again. But they could only bite the bullet and go back to do business.
The husbandmen who were huddled together behind to keep out the cold started whispering when they saw the two men returning with a stupid husbandman with bleeding from his mouth and nose.
The two peasants came back, knelt down in front of the Wushu horse, and said tremblingly: "Everyone in the tunnel was shocked."
Wu Shu saw the civilian husband standing blankly behind them. His face also became very ugly.
He didn¡¯t expect the Han artillery to explode with such force underground. Listening to the movements of the civilian workers nearby, he knew that it would be difficult to drive them away to dig tunnels.
Wu Shu didn¡¯t speak, and the two kneeling folk didn¡¯t dare to get up.
There was silence for a while. The next three peasants came back, and they pulled out more peasants from the tunnel.
Seeing their companions coming back with bleeding from their orifices, the civilian husbands who were recruited were about to explode.
"Everyone inside was dead, and those outside were stunned."
Wu Shu heard the three people who came back later recounting the authentic things. After hesitating for a moment, he told everyone to stand by. He hit his horse and ran towards the military camp. He had no idea and could only go back and ask Wanyan Zongwang.
Wanyan Zongwang had just entered the big tent with his front legs. When he saw Wu¡¯s rear legs, he chased him in. He frowned and said, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±
Wu Shu said: "The Han people threw artillery into the holes they dug, and the local people were stunned."
Wanyan Zongwang was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said, "Let them all come back. There is no way to fight. I hope it's not too late to retreat now."
Wu Shu said unwillingly: "Just retreat like this?"
Wanyan Zongwang said helplessly: "It would be fine if Daliang asked us to retreat like this. I'm afraid Daliang will gather troops to counterattack. We still have to hold on here to prevent Daliang from counterattacking from Yuguan. I will ask the emperor and other Boji Lie will discuss the matter of sending troops. From now on, we must be careful about Liang Jun¡¯s counterattack. "
Wu Shu said: "Then Nianhan's death was in vain?"
Wanyan Zongfu said: "If we continue the fight, more people will die, and maybe the Jin Kingdom that dad conquered will be destroyed. It is so troublesome to fight just one Yuguan, and there are so many cities behind, and each city is so difficult. Fight, there is no way we can fight with Daliang."
Wu Shu was not a fool. Seeing that his second brother and third brother said so, he had no choice but to go out and deliver the order.
Not long after, a group of people left the camp and headed north.
The next day, Zhang Qing did not wait for the Jin soldiers to attack, but instead waited for reinforcements.
Chao Yong personally led Hua Rong's tribe northward, preparing to completely eliminate the Jin Kingdom.
Zhang Qing welcomed Chao Yong into the pass and said impatiently: "The Jin soldiers attacked the city for two days, but we blocked it with artillery and fire thunder. They seem to have lost their energy and did not attack the city today. The prince looked at us When can we counterattack?"
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "We are not the main force in this attack."
Zhang Qing thought for a while and said: "Are we going to let the barbarians on the grassland be the main force?"
Chao Yong nodded and said: "After the establishment of Prairie Road, almost all men in various ministries had to serve as vassal soldiers. If the Ministry of War had not asked Dong Ping to strictly limit the age, there would have been how many vassal soldiers there would have been on Prairie Road. These 100,000 vassal soldiers would be sent to the imperial court every month The salary to be spent is hundreds of thousands of dollars, so of course we need to use them, we can¡¯t let the court support them in vain. "
Zhang Qing smiled and said: "What the prince said is that the Jurchens are ferocious, and it is just right to let the prairie barbarians deal with them."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "After Dong Ping leads the soldiers and horses on the grassland road to capture Linhuang Mansion, he will directly attack the capital of the Jin Kingdom. The Jin soldiers will definitely come back for reinforcements, and then it is time for us to pursue."
Only 10,000 people from Shi Xiu's tribe held Gubeikou, but in addition to receiving a large number of artillery and fire mines from the Ministry of War, they also received some secret weapons. Although there were only 10,000 people, no one was worried that the Jin army would break through Gubeikou.
Shi Jin was promoted to deputy general because of his great merit in killing Jin Guobo.
Wanyangao walked mostly mountainous roads, and there had just been a heavy snowfall. Therefore, the march was very slow. Wanyan Zongwang had already turned to the defensive. Wanyan Gao had just led his troops to Tiemen Pass.
Seeing that the Tiemenguan city wall they had built before was blown down, all the Jin people screamed with anger. If Wanyan Gao hadn't been quite prestigious, they might not have been able to suppress the angry savages.
Early the next morning, Jin soldiers came to Gubeikou aggressively.
Shi Jin saw that the Jin soldiers had arrived two miles away from the city, and couldn't help but said: "General, they have entered the artillery range. Do you want to give them a show of strength first?"
Shi Xiu used a telescope to observe Jin Bing. Seeing that Jin General's big banner was still behind him, he shook his head and said, "Don't worry, let's see if we can catch a few big fish."
When Shi Jin heard this, he had no choice but to suppress his temper.
Next to it, ten jet-black cannons squatted on the city wall. The one-foot-long barrel pointed diagonally at the sky, like a roaring beast looking up to the sky.
This is the latest research result of the Gun Bureau, and the range can reach two and a half miles. This time three troops were dispatched, and only Gubeikou received real artillery. However, their mission was to hold on, not to attack. Of course, they also had the ability to attack. Therefore, Shi Xiu was unwilling to expose the power of the artillery too early.
This time to wipe out the Jin Kingdom, Chao Yong only brought 10,000 Huarong troops, and did not mobilize domestic troops on a large scale.
Most of the domestic soldiers and horses cannot adapt to the severe cold in the Northeast, and the Jurchens are cruel. If domestic troops and horses are mobilized, even if we can win, the casualties will be huge. When Chao Yong encouraged the Han people to expand, he was unwilling to sacrifice a large number of young and middle-aged people.
Chao Yong has already persuaded Chao Gai. Let Chao Gai issue the decree and the people give birth. All of them were hired by the imperial court. For twins, the court will grant ten guans, and for three children, the court will subsidize them 20 guan. For those with more than five children, the court will reward them with 100 acres of land.
This policy can not only encourage people to have more children, but also solve the problem of some people who are unwilling to move to the border and have no land to cultivate.
Of course, another reason is that the Ministry of Revenue does not understand the organization of the vassal armies of the Ministry of War. The vassal armies on Ningxia Road and Caiyuan Road have almost no effect, but the vassal armies on the two routes combined consume nearly one million dollars in salary every month. , that¡¯s 10 million yuan a year.
Although the national treasury is sufficient now, when the mirror bank's income begins to decline, the Ministry of War's military expenditures will strain the treasury, so the Ministry of Revenue also recommended that the Ministry of War control military expenditures.
Chao Yong does not want to reduce military expenditures, so he must let the vassal armies reflect their value. Of course, Chao Yong also hopes to reduce the number of strong men in each department through war, which will also speed up their assimilation.
Gubeikou and Tiemenguan are both in the valley, and it is impossible to move many troops and horses. Wanyan Gao could only ask the former army to move in the valley, and then sent a team of Bohai navy to test.
Wanyan Gao also brought a group of savages to the front to watch the battle, so as to control the situation.?Methods of siege.
In their opinion, about two miles is a safe distance. Although the crossbow can also reach here, as long as you pay attention, you can completely avoid it. Nothing can travel two miles at once.
The Bohai Navy was the earliest foreign military force established in the Jin Kingdom. They fought many victorious battles with the Jurchens and were very energetic. They rushed towards Gubeikou carrying ladders.
"All artillery is aimed at the front of the Jinguo Formation and fires."
Shi Xiu used his binoculars to keep looking at the front of the Jin Army formation. He saw a dozen Jin generals wearing fine armors, including two tough and fur-clad Jin generals who went into battle, and gave the decisive order.
The gunners operating the artillery were all gunners who had been experimenting in the Gun Bureau for two years. After hearing this, they all adjusted the gun body.
"Boom"
"Boom"
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There was a muffled sound, streams of fire erupted from the muzzle, and then violent explosions began in front of the Jin army's formation.
Wanyan Gao heard the noise on the wall and saw something spraying fire, and then black dots rushed towards him. Just as he was about to dodge, fires exploded in front of him.
People with telescopes on the wall were observing the Forbidden Army formation with telescopes. Smoke and dust were everywhere where the artillery shells fell, but they still could not cover up the splattered flesh and blood.
The gunner did not stop attacking, but continued to adjust the gun body, from near to far, and continued to bomb backwards.
Artillery shells spread from the front and back of the Jin army's formation, and the valley that could only accommodate one vehicle was completely covered by artillery.
Seeing that the soldiers and horses in front were blown to pieces inexplicably, as if by witchcraft, the explosion spread all the way back, and the Jin army finally couldn't restrain their fear and fled back.
The Bohai navy, which had not yet rushed to the pass, saw that the Jin army behind them had fled, so they did not dare to attack again, so they threw down the ladder and fled back in embarrassment.
The artillery bombarded for a while, and there were no more Jin troops in the range, so it stopped.
All the soldiers in the gate were shocked. This is artillery. The previous catapults could only hit one mile, and hundreds of people were needed to fire the cannon. However, this iron cannon only requires three people. It seems that one person can do it. Operation, the range can reach more than two miles, and the launch speed is much faster than the catapult.
After standing dumbfounded for a while, Shi Xiucai said: "With these ten artillery pieces and a thousand soldiers and horses, we can defend Gubeikou."
Shi Jin walked up to a cannon obsessively and reached out to touch the black cannon.
An artilleryman hurriedly shouted: "Be careful of hot hands."
The reminder was a little slow. Shi Jin had already touched it. The hot feeling made Shi Jin immediately retract his hand and said with a smile: "Good thing. How many artillery pieces have the Guns and Artillery Bureau made?"
The craftsman responsible for tracking the ten cannons said: "Sixty cannons were made, and fifty were shipped to Dengzhou to be loaded onto the Prince's fleet. Only ten were shipped to Gubeikou."
Shi Jin sighed: "This artillery is a powerful weapon. With artillery, who can take down the city of Daliang?"
Shi Xiu also calmed down, shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, this valley is where the artillery exerts its power. If there is a flat plain outside, ten artillery can't cover much area."
Shi Jin thought for a while and said: "General Shi is right, but with artillery, our Gubeikou can be blocked with one gun. No one can open it. I don't know who was killed just now."
Shi Xiu smiled and said: "There must be a few Dutong, and maybe Bo Jilie. Once the Intelligence Department verifies it, we can take credit." - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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