Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 871 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
Will Tumen choose to attack?

This point, not to mention the high pragmatism, can't be sure, in fact, even the Tumen themselves are hesitating now.

The spies have come to report that the walls of Shacheng are now guarded by the Ming army. It is not clear where the Ming army came from, but they must be Ming army soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle robes.

There is no doubt that the Ming army was good at defending. Even if Tumen felt that the Ming army's combat effectiveness was very average and only a few troops could fight in the field, when the Ming army defended the city, even Tumen Khan would have a headache.

In particular, the firearms of the Ming army have made great progress in the past ten years. They are not as explosive as they used to be, and their range has also increased significantly. Now the horse bow is used against the Longqing II style of the Ming army, and the range is not dominant. Yes, unless it is approaching quickly, it will have a chance of winning if it is compensated by the rate of fire advantage.

For the Mongols, the speed of bow and arrow is very fast, and there is no such thing as some novels saying that they can only shoot a few arrows at a time to cause loss of strength-if that is the case, Mangu's tactics are still a ghost ?If you turn around and shoot a few arrows, you will lose your strength. Isn't this tactic of turning around and flying a kite directly announcing the death penalty?

But no matter how good the Mongols are at shooting, facing the three-foot-high city wall reinforced by the old city wall of Yuanzhong Capital, it is difficult to shoot at the Ming army. The ultimate goal is to break the city, and there are only a few ways to break the city: breaking the city gate, climbing over the city wall, or destroying the city gate and the city wall.

As for the later wild boar skins who like to buy and open the gates of the city, Tumen really can't do it.

There is no need to consider destroying the city gates and walls, unless the current offensive and defensive sides change positions and let the Ming army put up the artillery.

If it is within the territory of Ming Dynasty, there is an old method that can be used, which is to catch the Han people as cannon fodder and drive them to the bottom of the city to see if the other party opens the city gate or not.

The Mongolian cavalry swarmed in at the speed of their horses, first occupied the city gate, and then killed indiscriminately, causing panic and causing the defenders to collapse.It's okay if you don't open it, continue to arrest the people and send them over as cannon fodder, which will increase the psychological pressure on the defenders. No matter how you fight in the future, this will be beneficial.

But the place that Gao Wushi picked is too annoying. This Shacheng was originally the capital of Yuanzhong, and it is not in the Ming Dynasty now. How can there be any Han people in the surrounding area to catch it?

There is Zhangjiakou Fort not far to the south, but...if he can conquer Zhangjiakou, the Nine Border Pass, does he still need to worry about the sand city?

Looking at it this way, the only solution left is to build siege equipment honestly.

However, there are difficulties in building siege equipment. First of all, there are no big trees nearby—otherwise, it would not be called Shacheng. According to Tan Ma’s report, there are mountains fifty or sixty miles to the southeast, and the trees on the mountains may be difficult to manufacture. Some siege equipment, but only for emergency use.

The second is the lack of good craftsmen.Today's Mongolia is not the Mongolia that conquered the Arab region 200 years ago and has countless Arab craftsmen under its command. It is hard to say whether there are any good craftsmen under Tumen Khan's command.

Perhaps the most common equipment such as ladders and crash cars can be made with difficulty. If it is something like the legendary Lugong car, then don't even think about it.

Buri Hatu, who is now almost used by Tumen Khan as a military adviser, after counting the number of carpenter craftsmen in the army, he calculated for a long time based on factors such as the distance from the timber production area, and finally told Tumen: If To launch an offensive after building the equipment, it will take half a month to prepare. Even if you go all out to make it, and relax a little bit about quality issues, it will take at least ten days.

After hearing this, Tumen Khan felt a sense of loss in his heart.According to the sayings handed down from the ancestors, it took so long to build siege equipment in the era of the Great Mongol Kingdom!

But the situation at this time is like this, whether he admits it or not, he can only accept the fact.

"What kind of siege equipment can we build now? The ladder should be fine, can the goose cart work?" Tumen asked in a bad tone.

Brihatu said: "The goose cart can be built, but we lack iron sheets."

Tumen frowned and said, "There is no way to think about it now without iron sheeting. We can only cover it with hardwood boards and cover it with cowhide."

The predecessor of the goose cart was a cave house, also known as a cave, like a hut, with a layer of iron on the outside and four wheels underneath, which can effectively protect soldiers from attacking the city.Later in the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, the Mongols integrated the cave house with the ladder to form a goose-shaped siege vehicle, that is, a goose cart, which took into account both defense and attack.

But Brihatu was a little worried, and said: "Even if it is a complete goose cart, it is hard to say how effective it is against the Ming army's defense. Now I still use hardwood boards and cowhide instead of iron sheets. I think it is a bit dangerous."

Of course it is dangerous, not to mention that the army's small artillery can bombard the enemy more conveniently. Even if the Ming army does not use artillery, it is not very afraid of these siege methods 200 years ago when it is just cold weapons against cold weapons.

For example, the Ming army had forked poles, which were also called "forked poles". This kind of tool can not only resist the enemy's use of flying ladders to climb the city, but also can be used to kill the enemies who climbed the city.When the enemy's flying ladder is close to the city wall, use the cross blade at the front end of the fork to hold the flying ladder and push it down, or wait for the enemy to climb halfway up the wall, use the fork to push down the ladder hard, and the horizontal edge in front of the rod The blade foot can break the enemy's arm.

There are also flying hooks, also known as "iron owl feet", which are shaped like anchors and have four sharp claws. They are tied with iron chains and then connected with ropes.When the enemy soldiers are attached to the foot of the city and are about to climb the ladder to climb the city, they are caught by surprise and plunge into the enemy group, killing several people at a time.

There is also Yasha Lei, also known as "Liu Ke Zhu".This kind of weapon is made of wet elm wood with a diameter of one foot and a length of more than one foot as a roller, and "reversed beard nails" are densely nailed around it. The heads of the nails are five inches above the wood surface. Connect to the winch with iron cables.When the enemy soldiers gather at the foot of the city, throw them into the enemy group and twist the winch, which can crush the enemy.

As for the more common tools for defending the city, they are stones and rolling logs, that is, stones and logs used for defending the city.In cold weapon warfare, there are usually some ordinary stones and logs on the city wall, and when the enemy soldiers climb the wall, they throw them down to hit the enemy. These stones and logs are called "stones" and "rolling logs". , This kind of thing is available in any Ming city. Although Shacheng is the old city of the Mongols, since Gao Pragmatism has come, it is naturally equipped with it.

In addition to the above-mentioned defense equipment, there are also wooden girl heads, gate knife carts, etc., which are used to block the city walls and gates that have been destroyed by the enemy.

Oh, by the way, I almost forgot, Gao Pragmatism also has a big killer like a grenade...

(End of this chapter)