Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 843 Bombard Turpan

In fact, it has been more than a year since the Ming army changed their costumes. At the beginning, they were all troops fighting on the front line. Later, they gradually replaced all the traditional armors. Now they are all green camouflage uniforms, including cotton padded clothes.

In the past, it was a duel with cold weapons, and it was necessary to wear armor to protect the body. Now the Ming army has all changed to hot weapons, and they do not fight the enemy at all. There is no need to wear those heavy armor.

Although the steel helmets on the Ming army's heads couldn't stop bullets, bows and arrows still couldn't shoot through them. They all wore bulletproof vests under their camouflage uniforms. Although they were not very heavy, they were still effective against ordinary bows and arrows and flintlock Vulcan guns.

The injured soldiers in front were all injured in their legs and arms, and almost all their vital parts were protected. Most of the fifty soldiers who died in battle were trampled to death by war horses, and the rest were hit in the face, causing excessive blood loss and dying.

This kind of military uniform is much lighter than the previous armor. Whether it is marching or fighting, it is very dexterous in movement, which is not comparable to the previous armor.

Of course Hassan didn't know this. Seeing that the Ming army didn't wear battle armor, and was looking at the bundles of arrows and piles of rolling logs and stones on the city, he felt his confidence suddenly improved a lot, and turned his head to face the city. The garrison of the Yarkand Khanate shouted:

"Warriors, look carefully. The Ming army is wearing simple cotton clothes and has no armor at all. As long as they dare to attack the city, we have the ability to shoot them into hedgehogs. They don't even have a decent armor. It seems that the legend It’s all fake, the Ming army was not that powerful at all.”

Under Hassan's reminder, the soldiers of the Yarkand Khanate looked at the Ming army barracks one after another, and found that the Ming army did not have any defensive armor on them. They thought the same as the coach, and their morale immediately rose.

Several generals around Hassan offered their advice:

"My lord, the number of Ming soldiers is about the same as ours. We have occupied Turpan City. As long as they dare to attack the city, they will be smashed to pieces."

"Yes, when the Ming army attacked the city, our army first beat them with bows and arrows and rolling logs and stones, and then suddenly went out of the city to attack. Even if they don't wipe out the whole army, they will kill them and bleed into rivers..."

Only one of the lieutenant generals who they usually look down on the most seems to be calmer. When the companion who watched said this, he couldn't help reminding:
"Your Excellency, generals, it is better for us to be cautious. Don't forget that the 2 troops led by General Maota and the 5000 troops led by Yaowa have not returned yet."

Several confident generals looked at the lieutenant with supercilious eyes, and immediately wanted to spit on him:
"Margiela, you have no skills, you are as timid as a mouse, what can you do to General Maota and the others with the appearance of the Ming army? They must have not met the Ming army, maybe they will fight with the Ming army after they find out that the Ming army is besieging the city. We should unite inside and outside to wipe out the Ming army in one fell swoop.”

"Your Excellency, the last general suggests sending a cavalry to break through the encirclement to look for Maota and Yaowa. If you find them, we should join forces to break the Ming army tonight..."

When Hassan heard the generals mention Maota and Yaowa, the self-confidence he just mentioned disappeared instantly, but he would never show his worries in front of the generals, but said:

"How many troops do you see in the Ming army?"

The generals were taken aback:
"Your Excellency, looking at the size of their company, the Ming army is estimated to have 10 troops..."

Hassan nodded:
"The Ming army has about 2 troops, while Maota and the others only have more than [-] troops. It is impossible for two teams of such a large scale to fail to find each other's traces. They have not returned yet, and they should be blocked by the Ming army. Or they were scattered for a short time after the fight and could not gather.

So don't be anxious and don't act rashly. We are only defending but not attacking. The two countries are almost equal. The governor does not believe that the Ming army can break through Turpan. When they suffer heavy casualties and are exhausted, I, the warrior of Yarkand Immediately go out of the city and beat him up..."

To say that Hassan's mind is still the clearest now, he would rather believe that the [-] cavalry ambushing was defeated by the main force of the Ming army than go out to fight the Ming army.

"Yes"

Hassan has made such a decision, and the other generals can't say much, they can only follow his ideas to carry out the order.

Suddenly a general pointed at the Ming army camp and shouted:
"Look, Governor, what tricks are the Ming army playing?"

The others immediately looked in the direction of his finger, and found that the Ming army was dispatched one after another, and they were also pushing dozens of flatbed carts with two wheels.

Although Hassan didn't understand what was going on, he always felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly sent someone to check the fourth door.

"Go and see the other city gates."

"Yes"

The people who were sent out soon ran back:
"Your Excellency, the Ming army at the other city gates are all dispatched. They just lined up about [-] steps below the city. They did not attack the city, but they did not have such vehicles."

Thing nods:
"Give me an order to strengthen the defense of the other three city gates, and the Ming army must not be allowed to climb to the top of the city."

"Yes"

Just when Hassan ordered to strengthen the defense, the Ming army had already assembled the two-wheeled car just now, and there were pieces of copper and iron objects knocked down on the car.

"What the hell is the Ming army doing?"

The people in the city could only watch the Ming army work. This distance made them powerless. Neither bows nor crossbows could hit the Ming army.

After about an incense stick, the Ming army finally assembled the thing. A thick iron pipe was aimed at the city wall of Turpan. It was the Chongzhen cannon that fired the flowering bomb.A row of thirty Chongzhen cannons, all pointing at the Turpan city wall.

Hassan has never seen a rifled gun, but he has seen Lao Maozi's Hongyi cannon. When the Chongzhen cannon he saw was installed, he immediately judged it from the thick barrel.

Looking down at the earthen walls of Turpan, although they are very thick, can they withstand the bombardment of cannons?It seems that all the preparations were in vain. The Ming army never planned to use soldiers to storm Turpan City.

"The cannons of the Ming army are here, what should we do now?"

Hassan trembled from the shock of the Ming army's artillery, and his mind went blank.

He had known for a long time that Ming had cannons, and he thought that the cannons would not come to the Western Regions with the army for such a long and difficult distance. He did not expect that the cannons of the Ming army could be disassembled. They are so powerful...

Hassan's general may have guessed what the governor is worried about, he smiled coldly:
"Don't worry, Governor, it should be the cannon of the Ming army! The thickness of the Turpan earthen wall is simply not enough for solid bullets to penetrate..."

"Rumble..."

"Boom bang bang..."

Before that guy finished speaking, the three cannons of the Ming army suddenly spewed out anger, and three solid bullets bombarded the city wall, shaking the entire city wall. Looking at the city wall of Turpan, there were only three and a half feet of pits, yes The three-meter-thick city wall had almost no impact on the whole.

The general who spoke just now stretched his head to look at the place where the shells hit and laughed loudly:

"How about it, Governor? The last general will explain that the army cannons can't penetrate the walls of Turpan!"

(End of this chapter)