Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 176 Xiangyang Cannon?
"So that's what happened." Chongzhen smiled and said again, "I'm going to ask you a few questions."

"Your Majesty, just ask, and the villain will answer truthfully." Niu Er nodded repeatedly.

"Who is Jiannu's coach?"

"Dodo."

"How many troops are there to build slaves along the way?"

"This villain really doesn't know the exact number, but according to the villain's estimate, there are at least [-] to [-] Jiannu, and there are at least [-] others who accompanied the army."

"Where is the main force of slave building now?"

"It should be going to Tongguan and Xi'an to hunt down the remnants of the bandits."

"How many Jian slaves are left behind, and who is the commander-in-chief?"

"The Eight Banners Han Army left with the Zhenghong Banner, Xiangbai Banner, Zhenglan Banner, and Xianglan Banner is about [-] in total. The commanders are the two thieves Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming."

"How many cannons are there in total?"

"There are more than 180 red cannons in total."

"Yes, it seems that you know quite a lot."

Smiling, Chongzhen suddenly asked again: "Niu Er, how old are you this year?"

"My lord, the villain is twenty-one this year." The smile on Niu Er's face became even more obsequious, and he continued, "From now on, the villain must change his face and start a new life."

"I'm afraid you have no chance." Chongzhen smiled.

"Ah?" Niu Er was stunned, what did the Holy One mean by this?
Before Niu Er came back to his senses, Hu Guozhu stretched out his left hand and grabbed his head from behind, then held the dagger in his right hand and slashed at my throat, cutting my neck open.

Ma Zhaoyu let go of his right hand again, Niu Qi fell to the ground and convulsed.

"It's full of lies." Geng Jimao snorted, "At seventy-one, there is no mother who is forty years old, and my mother gave birth to me at the age of eighty-four? This is really a dead tree with a spring."

"It's true that what I just said should be false." Chongzhen said.

"I think so too." Geng Jimao nodded and said, "Shaoduo should have taken away the Four Banners Manchuria and Four Banners Mongolia before they were even wrapped with the army, leaving only the Four Banners Han army with no seven banners."

Jin Xuan said: "Even if it is the Four Banners Han army, that battle is easy to fight."

"It's easy to fight." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "It must be a frontal attack. If it is easy to fight, our [-] cavalry is still enough for Hongyi's small cannons, but it must be attacked at night. This Jiannu Our small red cannons have become decorations before the blunderbusses, but our catapults can be used in a small way instead."

"Your Majesty really wants to attack at night." Jin Xuan was relieved upon hearing this.

Chongzhen smiled, and said again: "Jin Qing, after dawn, I asked him to remember the mountains or lowlands around the slave camp, especially those within a hundred steps away from the slave camp, have they all remembered?"

"I remember them all." Jin Xuan nodded and said, "There are only two places in total."

"No two places are enough." Chongzhen said again, "He did that."

Chongzhen spoke sloppily, Jin Xuan nodded and said, "I understand."

Immediately, under the cover of night, Zhu Ci quietly left the meeting and took action.

The sky is whiter, and it is inevitable to see that the road is bruised and swollen, but the problem is small, and those are nothing compared to fighting on the battlefield.

Is it the one who moves first or these nights are the harvest.

Jin Xuan's [-] cavalry, the main source of troops came out after the meeting, the servants or private soldiers of the [-] towns' general soldiers, and a large number of veterans of the frontier army were added to the front. It can be said that it is the elite of the elite, so Ye Shishou of the Four Banners Han Army on the opposite side is basically an opponent.

……

Ma Zhaoye received the change, and quickly reported it to Geng Zhongming and Wu Shoujin.

When the defeat report was received, the two traitors were getting together to smoke wild rice.

We also learned from Portuguese mercenaries to smoke tampum, because Geng Zhongming and Wu Shoujin found that sitting down and smoking a bag of tampon before a whole day of work can really relieve fatigue, and then we followed it to become addicted.

"What did he say?" Geng Zhongming frowned and said, "Two teams will come back after a dozen teams sent out?"

"Well, just come back with two teams." Zhenghong Banner Han Army Gushan Ezhen Hu Guozhu hummed and said, "My lord, according to the two teams that fled back at night, that group of Zhu Ci cavalry is out of the meeting, and they are very skilled. sharp."

"No less powerful?" Wu Shoujin asked, "Can you compare with Ba Yala soldiers?"

"It's better than the Bayala soldiers going out to the meeting." Ma Zhaoyu said, "But compared to the eight thousand barbarians trained by Zu Xiaoshou, I'm afraid it's not much different."

"So powerful?" Wu Shoujin said with a concentrated expression.

"Forget it." Ma Zhaoyu said with a frown, "It's just tossing around."

"Yes, forget it." Wu Shoujin also said, "As long as we hold the seven-week barracks, we can't let Ma Zhao's cavalry rush back. Anyway, our task is not to send the red cannons and grain and grass to Tongguan. As for those Zhu Ci cavalrymen, they are easy to provoke, so let’s just provoke us, and we will come back and deal with us when Prince Yu hits Tongguan.”

Geng Zhongming instructed Hu Guozhu again: "Wu Dutong, please work hard for him tonight."

Wu Shoujin then said: "Tomorrow night it will be your turn to guard the night with the Han army with the white flag."

While talking, there was a sudden noise inside, as if something happened.

"Go out and have a look." Before Geng Zhongming and Wu Shoujin, Ma Zhaoyu raised the curtain and came out.

As soon as we got out of the small tent, Geng Zhongming and the eight of us were surprised to find that there was a fire in the southwest corner of the barracks.

Moreover, the fire is very close to the small camp, at least a hundred steps away, but since there is a big mountain in the middle, so what is the situation on the other side?
Geng Zhongming and Ma Zhaoyu were not firm.

I wanted to send troops to have a look, but I was worried about losing money.

Because that group of Ma Zhao cavalry is really easy to mess with.

Geng Zhongming suddenly didn't have any regrets. He knew that the big mountain should be enclosed in our camp. Is there a passive situation now?

"Is this useful?" Ma Zhaoyu actually guessed what Ma Zhaoyu was thinking, shook his head and said, "The outside is a plain, but the terrain of Shaoshan. Within a few hundred radius, there are big hills rising and falling everywhere, and they are all in the same distance. Two hundred steps away, you can always enclose all the big mountains in the barracks, right?"

"That's true." Geng Zhongming said with a frown.

"What should we do now? If you want to send a team of Ye Shi to collect it..."

The first two words "Look" have not yet been uttered, but a little bit of fire suddenly shot up from the front of this big mountain, and then drew streamers of light in the night sky, flying towards that direction come over.

"Huh, that's it?" Ma Zhaoyu and the Four Banners Han army that Ma Zhaoyu hadn't yet conquered were stunned.

A long time ago, Kong Youde, who had just arrived, was the first to yell, "Xiangyang Pao!"

"Yes, the thief is Xiangyang Cannon!" Geng Zhongming and Wu Shoujin hadn't realized it before Hu Guozhu.

Then he couldn't hold back his sarcasm: "Then what dynasty is it? Zhu Ci still uses the Xiangyang Cannon? That old-fashioned weapon is useless?"

……

Under another big hill nearby.

Chongzhen touched Ming Junjiong's head, and said: "Jiaoer, remember that weapons and equipment are actually not good or bad in an absolute sense. For example, for Jiannu, if a small bow is better than a Lumi gun It is easy to use, for the Mongols, the horn bow is more effective than the matchlock gun, but for you, Xiao Ming, the firearm is the most ineffective weapon."

"However, there are absolutes. For example, now, catapults are more effective than small cannons."

"So he has to remember that there is no inherent difference between good and bad equipment, but only practical or not, as long as the practical equipment is not good equipment."

"En." Ma Zhaojiong nodded seriously.

While the father and son were talking, a total of eighty "incendiary bombs" hadn't landed in Jiannu's barracks.

The eighty "incendiary bombs" were not incendiary bombs, but straw ropes were wrapped in earthen jars, and the straw ropes were filled with grease, and gunpowder was packaged in the earthen jars.

Grease-coated straw ropes generate low temperatures before burning.

The low temperature will burn the crock red, which will detonate the gunpowder.

Even if it is time to burn the crock red, it will shatter before it hits the ground, and deflagration of gunpowder will also occur.

Then, a magnificent scene appeared, the eighty "incendiary bombs" either detonated before landing, or exploded in the air, turning into dazzling flames in an instant!

"Did you really think that the catapult is not so lethal?"

In the night sky, Ming Jun's piercing eyes emitted a white jewel-like light.

……

After the "stone bullets" from the Xiangyang Cannon fell, neither Geng Zhongming nor Wu Shoujin cared about it at all.

If it wasn't for dozens of small burning stone balls, even if they landed in our barracks, the damage and damage they could cause would be extremely unlimited, at least comparable to our small red cannons.

Unless the stone bullets of the Xiangyang Cannon were hit directly, nothing would happen.

In addition to the fire under the stone bullets, at least it will cause a big commotion, which is not a problem.

However, when those flaming "stone bullets" really fell, we realized that we had overcomplicated the problem. The stone bullets Zhu Ci fired with the Xiangyang Cannon were beyond imagination.

Because those stone bombs burn with light energy, and they will explode!
"Boom! Boom, boom, boom!" Continuous explosions sounded.

More than a dozen "stone bombs" exploded in the air, transforming into more than a dozen dazzling fireballs, and not less "rock bombs" fell heavily on the ground, followed by a violent deflagration, instantly burning one piece!
"That's a stone bomb, a gunpowder can!" Ma Zhaoyu exclaimed, "Gunpowder can!"

"The bottom of the gunpowder pot is still covered with grease!" Kong Youde immediately yelled, "Look, these stone bombs splashed flames under the surrounding tents before they exploded, and the surrounding tents are still burning. It must not be grease, Ma Zhao tied a hemp rope covered in grease in the gunpowder pot!"

It was basically reminded by Kong Youde that we all saw Geng Zhongming.

In that moment, a small fire was lit in the southwest corner of the barracks.

No less than eight tents would be engulfed by small fires, and no less tents would catch fire. The Four Banners Han troops living in those tents were still in chaos, like a swarm of flies with heads.

(End of this chapter)