please make me king

Chapter 1390
"Report, Jianlu's criminals from the west have occupied Diaoyubao and surrounded my Sanchakou Fort. I can see it from the city. There are about four or five thousand people, all fast horses and fine armor, coming and going like the wind!" Enter Longmen City and report to Lu Xiangjin who is stationed in Longmen City.

"Oh?" Lu Xiangjin frowned when he heard the words, and couldn't help looking at Liu Hui, the former general guarding Xuanfu Middle Road, and asked, "I don't know what the general thinks?"

"Sanchakou Fort is connected to Longmen in the west, Eagle Owl in the south, and Chicheng in the northeast. It is the road for traveling in Sanqi, so it is named Sanchakou." Liu Hui replied.

"Its city is [-] paces on Monday, with [-] members of the front army. It is not an important town, because the "Art of War" calls 'Jiaodi'."

"In my opinion, it is impossible to save, so as not to be taken advantage of by captives. If we wait but guard the city, it is a great achievement."

Lu Xiangjin was quite displeased when he heard the words, but he was worried about losing the city and missing the important event of "King Shun", so he hesitated for a while.

Seeing this, Liu Hui quickly suggested again: "The Art of War says: Before thinking about victory, first think about defeat."

"Regardless of what Sanchakou Fort is like, the Acropolis is [-] miles away, and it will be there in no time. If you don't take precautions early, you may be taken advantage of by the enemy."

As soon as Lu Xiangjin heard this, he stopped hesitating immediately, and quickly asked, "Since that's the case, what advice does General Liu have?"

"A group of soldiers is wearing armor, patrolling, and performing their duties, and the general has already done it!" Liu Hui laughed when he heard the words.

"The second is to enlist young men in the city to transport supplies so that the soldiers can concentrate on defense."

"Three, lay mines where they must pass, and cut off their paths."

"Landmine?" Lu Xiangjin was taken aback when he heard the words, and couldn't help but wondered, "What is this, I wonder if there is any in the firearms depot in the city?"

"That's it!" Liu Hui was also taken aback when he heard the words, never expecting that Lu Xiangjin had been in the army for several years and didn't know about "landmines", so he quickly took one out of the basket next to him and showed it to Lu Xiangjin.

Lu Xiangjin took a closer look, and saw that the object was round and round like a "cold melon", but it had many horns on it, which looked like a large water chestnut.

He couldn't help stretching out his hand to come over, but it was heavy in his hand, weighing about seven or eight catties.

"Is this a landmine? I don't know how to use it?" Lu Xiangjin asked after observing it for a while, not knowing why.

"Look, General!" As soon as the landmines were mentioned, General Liu Hui couldn't help but point out his eyes.

"This landmine is made of cast iron, and its power is the sharpest. If you are not willing to use iron, you can use pottery or stone!"

"The size is like a 'cold gourd', and the gunpowder contained in it varies from three to five catties. If it is poisonous, you can add iron sand or wolf fire, arsenic, realgar, pepper, sand oil, etc."

"Iron sand hurts people, oil is set on fire, wolf fire, arsenic, realgar, pepper, etc. are used to smoke. Depending on the situation, it can be increased or decreased as appropriate."

"Before the battle, either bury it in the ground, or hide it in the grass, or put it by the side of the road."

"But wait for the captive to arrive, or burn the hair, or stir the hair, or step on the hair, and so on."

"Its sound is like a thunderbolt. I don't touch the enemy but hurt the enemy, so it is the sharpest..."

It's a pity that Lu Xiangjin is not Zhang Shun. Although he heard it strangely, he couldn't make any effective suggestions.

If Zhang Shun was here, he would definitely think of the "land mine warfare" in his previous life, and would even propose to Liu Hui such wonderful ideas as "hair thunder", "child mother thunder", "serial thunder" and "heavenly maiden scattered flowers".

In fact, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the development of firearms has flourished. Although such wonderful things as fire dragons emerge from water and wooden figures and fire horses have emerged, advanced combat weapons such as rockets, landmines, and sea mines have also emerged, among which landmines are one of them. stand out.

The earliest landmines were produced in the late Song Dynasty, and they were actually things like "shocking thunder" and "incendiary bombs" that were ignited with fuses.

But with the development of the times, it finally differentiated into two systems of grenade and landmine in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The representative work of the former is the "enemy of ten thousand people" used by Li Guo and others when defending Heishiling Fort.

The representative work of the latter is the mine fired by the steel wheel.

According to the "Fire Dragon Classic": When the engine is stepped on, it shakes up, iron blocks fly like flying, and flames soar into the sky.

Over time, generals who were good at some special firearms appeared in the Ming army, and Liu Hui, the general who guarded Xuanfu Middle Road, was one of the best.

In the original history of Zhang Shun's previous life, Hou Jin entered the customs in three groups in the ninth year of Chongzhen.

One of them breaks down the walls from the mouths of Zhen'anbao and Lianghe, the other walks through the mouths of Baiyang, etc., and the other breaks down the walls through Yong'an Terrace.

Only Bai Yang and others were able to survive because of Liu Hui's preset mines, and the other two were breached.

Of course Lu Xiangjin didn't know that Liu Hui had such abilities, but he himself didn't have the good abilities of his elder brother Lu Xiangsheng.

Although he has read a lot of books and learned the art of war, he still can't master it well, so compared to other generals of the rebel army, he can only be regarded as quite satisfactory.

Knowing that he did not have the power to turn the tide, he followed suit and let Liu Hui arrange him.

As an important military stronghold to the north of Xuanfu, Longmen City has only two east and south gates, although there are more than four li in the city.

Then Liu Hui led the soldiers and set up more mines at the two gates to wait for the "Eastern captives".

Sure enough, after a while, sporadic Houjin scouts appeared outside Longmen City.

Later, more and more Hou Jin soldiers gathered, and after noon, a whole battalion of troops appeared outside Longmen City.

After that, General Jin sent two soldiers from Sanchakou Fort to persuade them to surrender, but Lu Xiangjin shot three arrows and killed one on the spot before retreating in despair.

First the courtesy and then the soldiers, and then the later Jin generals saw that "persuading surrender" failed, so they took simple siege equipment and began to attack the city.

But after the golden soldiers approached the city gate, they only heard a loud "boom", and there was a thunder on the ground, and several soldiers were blown over on the spot.

Some lay directly on the ground with only breathing in and no breathing out, seeing that they were dying; while others were lying on the ground rolling and crying non-stop.

"Hey? Where did the cannon come from?" Lu Xiangjin and the Houjin general under the city couldn't help but wondered at the same time.

"The steel wheel is angry!" General Liu Hui couldn't help explaining with a smile, "This weapon is the most exquisite, and it's like a miracle!"

Although Lu Xiangjin didn't understand it very well, at least he understood that the mine was detonated by the "steel wheel ignition" device.

And after that, General Jin was born in a place of bitter cold. Although he was brave and cunning, he had not received a perfect cultural education after all, and no one explained it to him, so he was shocked: "What the hell?"

"The ground is a landmine!" The veteran soldier who knew the goods long ago shouted.

"Landmine?" The general had heard about this thing before, but had never seen it before, so he couldn't help but wondered, "How can there be thunder on this flat ground?"

Just when he was suspicious, who would have thought that there would be loud bangs again, three or five soldiers were killed on the spot, and seven or eight soldiers fell to the ground and howled.

Seeing this, the general became more and more frightened, and thought: "This is an evil gate, could it be that there is a Thunder God protecting us? Why don't we let it go and say that this city is heavily guarded and there is no room for us to take advantage of!"

Thinking of this, General Jin couldn't help but give an order: "To this day, it's just to show our military prestige."

"Sure enough, the Southern barbarian was terrified when he heard the news. He heard that as soon as my army arrived, he hid himself in the city, trembling and did not dare to come out."

"Since that's the case, I'll just go back home, so as not to waste the lives of all the soldiers in vain!"

(End of this chapter)