I am the king of the dead

Chapter 16 Or His Highness Is Right

Zhu Qiyu looked at it with a little pity, the wood on the donkey cart, at least two or three people hugged it thickly, and it was chopped like this.

The feng shui of the capital has been destroyed. Feng shui is a metaphysics, but the tree grows in the soil, which can effectively prevent sand and soil erosion and adjust the climate in a small area. The tree is gone, the river is turbid, and the land loss has become serious. This is not feng shui. Is it broken?

Yu Qian led Ma and Zhu Qiyu to Wengcheng. In Wengcheng, he saw a weapon with a very violent aesthetics, a knife and car that was as tall as the two of them.

Dozens of sharp steel blades were installed on the knife carriage, with a cold light and a width of three or four feet, lying in the urn city.

The width of the Saimen knife cart is three to four feet wide, which is exactly the same as the width of the city gate. It is used for emergency use when the city gate is breached.

Zhu Qiyu raised his head and looked at the shadows of the torches on the city wall. In the dim light, countless artillery crossbows and car crossbows were on the city wall, facing the urn city, and there were several artillery pieces.

The inner urn city is the product of the long-term war practice in the cold weapon era of ancient China.

"If the enemy breaks through the city gate and enters the Weng City, they will face a rain of arrows, firearms, and kerosene, which will make the enemy pay an extremely heavy price." Yu Qian explained the function and configuration of the Lower Weng City.

Zhu Qiyu took a deep breath. He had no confidence in surviving under such a dense rain of arrows. How could this siege be a life-and-death situation? Even if the city gate was breached, the Wengcheng still existed like a meat grinder.

He slowly walked through the door opening more than ten steps, came to the city gate, and saw the city gate above his head.

It was completely different from the city gate he knew, that is, the city gates in those movies and TV dramas. The city gate here is two layers inside and outside, and the outer layer is actually a thousand-pound gate.

Zhu Qiyu suddenly remembered that when Zhu Di was in trouble, the guard of Jinan, Tie Xuan, swindled to surrender and tried to use the Qianjin gate to kill Zhu Di. Zhu Di was dead and his horse was crushed to death, but he was safe and sound.

This Qianjin Gate is entirely made of iron, and it is not put down at ordinary times. When the war begins, it will be put down by a noose, protecting the traditional city gate, two wooden doors wrapped in iron.

Yu Qian pointed to the Qianjin Gate and the city gate and said: "If there is a war, the city gate will be completely blocked. Even if the Qianjin Gate and the city gate are smashed, there is still soil inside, and they will have to dig it for a long time. It's just facing the serpentine car."

When Zhu Qiyu walked out of the city gate, he saw a long suspension bridge and a wide moat. The water surface was at least ten meters wide.

He couldn't imagine whether the enemy would still have the strength to stand up after swimming across the river with armor or weapons.

Not only that, along the moat, there is also a circle of parapets, standing on the inner side of the moat, swimming over, it is impossible to climb over the wall more than [-] feet high.

There was darkness outside the suspension bridge, and Zhu Qiyu couldn't see exactly what was in the dark wilderness, but he could still see some torches over there.

Yu Qian pointed to the outside of the moat and said: "There are ravines there to ward off horses. The distance is exactly the distance of the city wall's arrows and artillery fire. If the enemy wants to fill this ravine, they will have to risk arrows and flints."

"If the Oirat people drive me from the Daming people, what should I do to fill this ravine?" Zhu Qiyu asked worriedly.

However, Yu Qian shook his head and said, "This is the purpose of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields. Several counties in Shuntian Prefecture, Gyeonggi, have clearly ordered all the people to enter the city before October.

"If the Oirat people brought people to the capital from other prefectures, the boats and vehicles would be exhausted, but the gains would outweigh the losses. The supply along the road alone would greatly delay the Oara people's offensive pace."

After Zhu Qiyu inspected the city defense under the city wall, he and Yu Qian came to the Wufeng Tower of Xibianmen. After going up the city wall, he realized that he underestimated the width of the city wall again.

The widest place can be 30 meters, and the narrowest place is less than three meters.

But this is also much wider than the narrow crowded city wall he knew.

Standing on the Wufeng Building of Xibianmen, Zhu Qiyu only got a glimpse of the whole picture of Xibianmen.

There are three urn cities in Xibianmen. The height of each urn city is the same as that of the city wall. The four city walls are flanked by racetracks and city ladders.

This city gate defense system, which covers an area of ​​at least two or three football fields, is absolutely difficult to win without tens of thousands of people dying in Zhu Qiyu's view.

"If the two gates, Xibianmen and Dongbianmen, really fight, they should be completely blocked, leaving a small number of defenders, mainly Guangning, Guangqu, Yongding, Fucheng, Chaoyang, Desheng, Anding, Dongzhi. , West to these main city gates."

Yu Qian briefly introduced the various defense equipment of the city defense, such as crash cars, fork poles, flying hooks, ground listening, stone, rolling wood, fierce fire oil cabinets, swarms of bees, bowl-mouth guns and so on.

One Hive also has a hook, which is a copper pillar in the shape of a hexagonal prism. There are some traces of gunpowder use in it. Yu Qian briefly introduced the usage of the next Hive.

The Wankou gun is more like a shotgun with a huge caliber. After the gunpowder is loaded, when the enemy reaches the city gate, the lead bullet of the Wankou gun will smash the people who climb the city to pieces like a rain curtain.

This bowl of mouth gun was first used in the battle of the southern sea ships, and then it was widely used in defending the city.

Yu Qian sighed and said: "Fire bricks, a nest of fronts, mines, thousand-mile cannons, magic spears, fire dragons blowing water, etc., all of them are not suitable for defending battles, and they are quite expensive. It is usable, and should not be discarded, it is a rare item."

Zhu Qiyu frowned and looked at Yu Qian, carefully savored the meaning of this sentence, and then wanted to understand the meaning of this sentence.

All kinds of firearms with all kinds of tricks are actually not conducive to defense or combat, and they are extremely wasteful. Only the sub-cannons are useful.

Yu Qian also explained: "Some individuals come up with ideas, just come up with ideas, and without proof, they go to the Ministry of War to get documents. After they are built, they can't be used much. They waste money and silk, mainly gunpowder."

Cheat funds, unrealistic products.

What is a mother cannon?
It is a tricky breech gun with an open-shaped charge chamber on the gun body, which can be installed with sub-cannons.

The sub-cannons are generally equipped with about five sub-cannons. After firing, the sub-cannons are replaced and fixed with iron buttons.

The rate of fire is high, but the air tightness is poor, and the range and accuracy are not very ideal.

Zhu Qiyu said with some disagreement: "I think Yu Shangshu's words are bad. If everyone follows the rules, how can there be big firearms? All gunpowder is used to set off fireworks."

"Firearms have today's benefits, aren't they made just like this?"

"It still has to be built, whether it is suitable for use or not, it will be seen after it is built. If it is useful, it will continue to be transformed to make it better and better, and it is not too late to discard it when it is useless."

Yu Qian was stunned for a moment, thought about it for a moment, nodded involuntarily, bowed his head and said, "It's still true what Your Highness said, it's because the minister thinks less."

The patrolling soldiers saw that Yu Qian came up quickly, bowed their heads and shouted, "See Yu Shangshu."

Yu Qian introduced to the soldier: "This is His Royal Highness King Yu."

Your Royal Highness?

Several soldiers glanced at each other, hurriedly saluted and said, "I have seen His Royal Highness King Yu, and the armor is on his body, so it is inconvenient to do full salute, and I hope His Highness will forgive you."

"It's okay, you can continue to patrol." Zhu Qiyu said with a smile, indicating that they are busy with their work, and don't care about themselves.

After the patrolling sergeants walked away, Zhu Qiyu looked at the short fire guns on the waist and asked, "What is that?"

Yu Qian took out a handgun of the same style from his waist, handed it to Zhu Qiyu and said, "The handgun made by Yongle is a weapon for close combat."

"That's why the minister thinks what His Highness said is reasonable."

"This gun was originally the burst gun in the Song Dynasty in the previous dynasty, and then the Zhizheng fire gun in the Yuan Dynasty. In the seventh year of Hongwu, the fire gun finally became what it is now in the hands of Emperor Taizong."

"The size is getting smaller and smaller, it is more and more convenient to carry, and the firing is simpler. Instead of igniting the gunpowder with a match rope, it is more convenient to ignite the gunpowder."

"There is a cover above the gunpowder and the powder chamber to prevent the gunpowder from being blown away by wind and rain or from getting wet, and it can be fired even in rainy weather."

"So, after thinking about it, what Your Highness said is very true, because the minister's thinking was not thorough enough."

Yu Qian has never been aimless. What Zhu Qiyu said makes sense is justified. He also holds a weapon that has been precipitated and transformed over time.

Zhu Qiyu held the handgun in his hand, "The word is eight thousand one thousand two hundred seventy seven, and it was made on the [-]st day of the nine month of the nineteenth year of Yongle."

"Is there a medicine stone?" He was eager to try it. This handgun had not been loaded with medicine, and he wanted to try its power.

"Have."

　Ask for recommendation, ask for monthly pass, ask for collection, ask for investment, in short, ask for everything! (づ￣3￣)づ╭～

　　
　
(End of this chapter)