The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 26 Dig Deep, Build Walls

More than 100 old and weak women and children were mobilized to dig a two-meter-wide and two-meter-deep moat along the wall.

The ditches are more than 100 meters long along the inside of the city wall, but each person dug a separate section, with a small distance in the middle, which means more than 100 ditches two meters wide and two meters deep are connected in a line.

Then vacate [-] centimeters and dig another one of the same length.

The front wall is only more than 100 meters long, and almost every person digs one meter long and two pieces.

The excavated fill was used to start building the walls inside the fort.

Cooperate with all kinds of planks, tables, beds, garbage and other sundries in the fort, in short, use everything that can be used, stack them together, and pile up the whole fort into four alleys.

Fearing that everyone would not understand, Ding Yi took paper and charcoal as a brush, and drew a picture on the board. Everyone gasped when they saw the completed castle.

After the completion of the whole project, there will be a depth of more than 40 meters in front of the fort, (not including the two ditches.)
When the Tartars attacked the fort, they first had to cross two moats. At this time, the musketeers on the front pier could attack them continuously.

The Tartars couldn't shoot the people on the pier with their arrows, and the scene would definitely be terrible.

Even if the Tartars filled the ditch with their lives, after rushing in, they would be horrified to find that the entire space in the fort was blocked by mud and debris, and there were only four alleys and four roads to walk through.

There were originally many houses on the front of the fort, and there were more than a dozen walkable paths between the houses, as well as the avenue in the middle, with a lot of space.

Now Ding Yi has filled up all the gaps between the houses with earth and sundries and built them into high walls.

The Tartars had nowhere to go, so they could only choose the four trails that Ding Yi had prepared for them.

The widest of these four trails is less than five meters, and the narrowest is only more than three meters. Only four or five people walk side by side at the same time, really entering the state of street fighting.

On both sides of the path are house walls, with archers on them, and the gaps are blocked by high walls made of mud and debris. After entering, you can only go forward, and there is no way to go on the left and right sides.

Such four roads are not long, only more than 40 meters.

After all, Ding Yi's time and manpower are limited, and the excavated soil and debris from the fort can only fill these places.

But this 40 meters will be a nightmare for Tartars.

At the end of the four roads, Ding Yi dug Haogou again and laid a springboard on it. At that time, the Ming army withdrew from the springboard, and then removed the springboard.

Finally Ding Yi said: "Suppose the Tartars rush in with 400 people at once."

"Originally we had to fight 400 people head-on, and we definitely couldn't beat them."

"Now they only see four roads, and there are bows and arrows and firecrackers hitting them above their heads. They don't have time to push the wall, so they can only rush in along these four roads."

"In this way, there are only a hundred Tartars on each road."

"But the road is very narrow, and only four or five people can stand in front of it."

"Then we have 60 people in each team at the exit, and we can take turns to deal with four or five of them."

Everyone understood immediately.

No matter how many soldiers and horses the Tartars rushed in, after passing through Ding Yi's defensive facility, the superior troops would become weak.

Everyone is in the narrow passage, four or five people fight four or five people, and the Ming army has archers to help.

"This is the advantage of street fighting. No matter how many troops the opponent has, when they are in the alley, everyone is fighting with the same strength."

"And the defensive side will always have the upper hand."

Everyone at the scene was stunned, thinking about this beautiful picture in their heads. After the Tartars attacked, there were firecrackers and bows and arrows above their heads, and the sky was full of lime. Spears overwhelming the sky, as well as Fran cannons, were squatting beside them.

This is war, this is massacre.

Mr. Ding's head is really not an ordinary head.

Everyone Qi Qi was thinking, never to fight against Ding Yi in wars in this life.

The key to street fighting is to have alleys.

Xu Dabao originally had no alleys, but the biggest difficulty for Ding Yi was to create four alleys, and they had to be reliable.

Fortunately, Xu Dabao is not very big, and there are nearly 300 women, children, old and weak, and more than [-] soldiers. With the desperate construction of these people, and the guidance of craftsmen and Ding Yi, earthen walls were temporarily built in the fort. pile up.

That night the castle was brightly lit, and Ding Yi paid one tael for every adult man, five taels for women, and one tael for children and elders, and asked all the staff to work overtime, digging holes and building walls overnight.

In order to strengthen the temporary walls, wooden planks and trees were added to all the walls. The gates and bed boards of many houses were removed, and various sundries were added, mixed with mud and rocks, and all usable things in and around the fort were all Be exploited.

According to Ding Yi's request, each wall should be at least four meters high and one meter wide to ensure that the Jin army is below, neither jumping up nor pushing down.

If time is enough, after all the pits and trenches are dug, after the newly added wall on the front, the pit will be dug again, and the excavated pit soil will be piled up on the wall.

In this way, even if some Tartars really wanted to cross the wall, they would still fall into the pit after going up and then jumping down.

Of course, under normal circumstances, after the Hou Jin army rushed into the city wall and saw that there was a wall blocked in front of it, they would definitely follow Ding Yi's idea and attack along the four passages, unless the commander of the Hou Jin army had someone beyond ordinary people battlefield adaptability.

While the civilians in the fort were struggling to work overtime, the commanders of each team were also meeting with their soldiers.

Sein Fei and Xu Wei of the first team are gathering [-] subordinates together.

More than 40 of the [-] Ming soldiers were local military households in Xu Dabao, and [-] came from other forts.

Every ten people is a Jia, divided into six Jia.

Originally, 50 members of the Ming army formed a team, with a team officer and a team officer each.

Now because of the large number of people, we temporarily form a team of 60 people.

The two summoned the whole team, and Xu Wei first introduced the six Jia leaders to Sein Fei.

After Sein Fei recognized them one by one, he asked loudly: "I won't say anything superfluous, I can only fight to the death, and fight for promotion and fortune."

Everyone looked serious, and some looked scared.

"Payment" Seinfeld then yelled directly, then turned around and took out a plate of silver and copper coins.

Everyone's face was shocked, and they could hardly believe it.

The treatment of soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty was very poor. The original salary was very little. Not to mention compared with scholars and officials, it was not as good as many ordinary households of self-cultivating farmers and semi-cultivating farmers, and even inferior to entertainers, actors and craftsmen.

Only slightly better with poor peasants and slaves.

During the reign of Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty, the military salary of soldiers was changed to rations, and the standard was one stone per month.

During the Shenzong period, it was changed to silver taels, and the standard was one tael to five taels per month.

During the Apocalypse, the monthly food standard was raised. The monthly military salary of the frontier army in Liaodong was more than two taels, but in many places, rice was still used for expenditure. Pay out m.

Buy three dou for one stone with one tael of silver, and then pay one tael of silver for one tael of rice to the soldiers.

But in fact, many places don’t even get one shi, like the officers and soldiers here in Zhang Cheng, because Zhang Cheng doesn’t withhold money, after being deducted by Zhou Yong and other deputy thousand and one hundred households, they get about ten shi a year, that is, twelve taels About half of it has been lost.

This is not bad, because Zhang Cheng has money in business, and he distributes it to Zhou Yong and other thousands of households, and they also deduct less.

When Ding Yi was in Daxing Fort, he was cheated from top to bottom. As an armor chief, he could get one stone and three buckets per month according to the standard, but in reality he only got seven buckets, which was less than half.

So everyone usually takes food, and almost never sees money.

Now that Seinfeld suddenly issued the silver, the officers and soldiers at the scene were all shocked.

(End of this chapter)