Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 875 Cold Cannon Warfare (Two in One)

Zhu Cunji had no chance to inherit the title, but Zhu Cunshu, the eldest son of his brother and concubine, died in the second year of Chongzhen and had no son.

In the same year, Zhu Cunji, the second son of the concubine, was named the son of Qin, and three years later he became the king of Qin.

Now in her forties, she has only one daughter.

Now that the army of hammer bandits gathered outside the city of Xi'an, King Qin was inevitably a little terrified.

He had also heard of He Jinzhao's name.

After all, it occupied the whole of Shanxi, and captured all the lines of King Jin and King Lu.

Now that He Jinchao is taking advantage of the lack of troops in Shaanxi to attack Xi'an, King Qin's claim that he is not afraid is a lie.

Yang Lin first talked with Lu Zhiqi, the chief minister of Shaanxi, and Huang Jiong, the inspector, to ask His Royal Highness the King of Qin to allocate funds to reward the soldiers.

Strong enemies are outside, and they need to be rewarded for fighting with their lives.

He Jinzhao's reputation is great, even if he defeated Governor Hong when he was just a fledgling.

Immediately afterwards, he slaughtered all directions in Shanxi, defeated generals Cao and Cao, and even rumored to have defeated the Houjin Tartars.

If such a tough opponent treats my soldiers of Ming Dynasty harshly, I am afraid that they will open the gate of the city immediately and welcome the hammer bandits into the city.

That's when everything will stop.

Why not take out some silver to reward the soldiers first, let them guard well, and not be tempted by the conditions offered by the hammer bandits.

Relying on the solid city of Xi'an, our army has a chance to wait for the trilateral governors to come back for help.

Otherwise, Taiyuan City will be the fate of Xi'an City!

Both of them are in high positions, they don't think that the little postman He Jinzhao will greet them with courtesy.

Therefore, they decided to join hands to persuade the King of Qin to give out a small part of the nine cows to boost morale, so that the soldiers can resist the hammer bandits with their lives.

Although King Qin Zhu Cunji was terrified, when he heard that he was asked to pay, he immediately stood up and asked:

"The country is at war, why should the king pay for it?"

Faced with the question of the chubby King Qin, the two senior officials in Shaanxi were stunned.

Daming belongs to the Zhu family, and you, the king of Qin, will be hereditary.

Of course, as long as you work harder and give birth to a son, the title of King Qin will be passed on to you.

Besides, after breaking through the city of Xi'an, what good will it do you?
You just wait until your body dies and your family is wiped out. By then, all wealth will become a hammer bandit. Now you only have a hair, and you don’t want to.

If you don’t pay, who pays?
These words really made the two of them very angry!
They had known for a long time that the king of Qin was very picky, and was coaxed and deceived by the governor of the three sides Hong Chengchou to donate some money and food, and then he became the king of Qin from the prince.

In the later period, Hong Chengchou wanted to get some money and food from him for emergency, but King Qin was unwilling.

We have successfully become a regular, and we still need to provide you with money and food?
Wouldn't that be taking His Highness as a fool!
Whoever wants to be taken advantage of by this person will be the one who will be the one. Anyway, I am not the one.

Seeing that the king of Qin questioned the two of them, he immediately shouted loudly:
"There is a saying from the ancestors that the vassal king is not allowed to control the army. If the king sends money to the soldiers guarding the city, His Majesty will pursue it at that time, what should we do?"

Lu Zhiqi couldn't help but took a step back, he couldn't pass this test, and he still had to think about the future?

How can you have a future?

"His Royal Highness King Qin, after the golden tartars attacked the Datong Mansion last year, they still took out silver taels to reward the city defenders on behalf of the king. They have always participated in the battle of defending the city and often boosted morale. This is how Datong County was saved."

Huang Jiong paused and said, "Your Majesty also boasted about acting as the king."

"You don't want to lie to me!" King Qin shouted, raising his arms, "Is that a compliment? The king of Dai was almost sent to guard the mausoleum in Zhongdu."

The two looked at each other.

After all, the power is urgent, someone pleads with Daiwang, and foreign invaders invade every year, and it is really frightening every day.

"His Royal Highness Qin Wang, is it possible that you really want to dig coal in the black coal kiln in the future and live that kind of dark life?"

Since we cannot be persuaded by internal factors, we should persuade them from external factors.

Hearing Huang Jiong's question, King Qin Zhu Cunji shivered subconsciously.

There was no look of being frightened on the fat and white King Qin's face.

All in all, his face was pale, except for the dark circles under his eyes.

At first glance, it is excessive wine.

It might be difficult for him to work hard to have a son now.

According to King Qin's current age and his obese physique, he may have to hold his concubine's hand and chat for more than an hour after taking the medicine, but he might not be able to get hard.

The heart is more than enough.

"Your Highness Qin Wang, you should be able to tell which is more important, right?"

Lu Zhiqi hastily added another sentence to encourage him to make up his mind.

Thanks to the degree of "severe humiliation" of the hammer bandit He Jinzhao to Zhu Ming's clan, Qin King Zhu Cunji thought for a long time:

"This city of Xi'an is not owned by me alone, so I can't be the only one who pays for it.

If you want to go out, everyone has to go out together! "

Lu Zhiqi and Huang Jiong breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as King Qin is settled, wouldn't it be great to recruit in the city for a while.

The two of them thought to themselves, don't look at King Qin eating, drinking, whoring and gambling on weekdays, but he still has the brains he should have.

Qin Wang must want to drag everyone into the thief boat.

In case the hammer bandit only dealt with him alone after the city was broken, he gave up dealing with the rest.

In this way, the interests of the whole city were tied together by King Qin's actions.

But Qin Wang didn't think about it so much at all, he was only searching because of his temper, and he couldn't bear this loss by himself.

If you want to lose money, everyone will eat together, so that it will be easier for him to balance in his heart.

In the name of the King of Qin, Shaanxi's chief envoy and the inspector joined forces to persuade the gentry in the city to donate some money and food to the soldiers guarding the city, waiting for the trilateral governors to come to rescue everyone.

Out of their trust in Hong Chengchou, many officials and gentry in Xi'an City understood the meaning of King Qin's asking everyone to raise funds. Isn't it just to tie everyone to this boat to prevent anyone from surrendering.

They all know the great reputation of the Hammer Bandits, and some people want to surrender.

But I heard that He Jinzhao beat up the local tyrants to divide the land, and distributed the money of the rich to the group of bastards, which made them hesitate.

The relationship with fellow villagers is not as important as Chi Guoguo's interests.

They really didn't understand why the hammer bandit He Jinzhao didn't join them. They could help him start his career with money and people.

The gentry helped him conquer the world even more, but He Jinzhao decided to go against them!
When the chief envoy, the inspector and others want to raise money and food to encourage everyone to defend the city, everyone contributes money and effort to help defend the city.

Without him, there is no confidant on the city wall to inquire about the news in time, and they can't sleep well.

No one wants to be sold by others.

On the contrary, the soldiers guarding the city were very excited when they heard the news.

Moreover, the city wall of Xi'an is tall and strong, and the moat is extremely wide. It is very difficult for the hammer bandits to conquer it.

Even if it's hot weather, the artillery of the hammer bandits outside the city is always firing, but who doesn't want to make money?
Policies are issued in a direction that is beneficial to everyone.

But when it comes to the implementation level, it's not just that.

The subordinate officials took this opportunity to collect fees from the merchants and common people in the city.

This move caused the low-level people to complain, especially once the city gate was closed, it would be difficult for them to eat and drink for a long time.

The price of food is really one price per day, rising again and again.

But who cares about them?
Chickens and dogs jump in Xi'an city.

He Jinzhao had already ridden around the city of Xi'an several times.

have to say.

The city of Xi'an is really much bigger than the city of Taiyuan.

No loss is the ancient capital of the thirteen dynasties!

"My lord, is our army going to attack by force?"

Yang Wenyue fanned the cattail fan and wiped the hot sweat off his face.

He Jinchao dismounted from his horse, walked to the side and sat down in the shade of a tree.

He did not immediately answer Yang Wenyue's words.

Since June, there has been no rain in Shanshan.

The crops all over Shanxi are being harvested in an orderly manner.

On the other hand, in various parts of Shaanxi, most of the land is barren, that is, there are large-scale crops planted near Xi'an Prefecture.

Now all of them have been harvested by the Hammer bandits, and some of them are used as army rations.

The other part uses the farmers' association cadres to organize the registration of household registration, and distributes it to the people of each family according to the head, and organizes some people first.

Then it's time to fight the landlord and fight the landlord, and it's time to measure the field and measure the field.

Let them rent it out in the name of hammer bandits first, and tell them to farm to catch up with Xia Zhong's wave.

"What is the attack doing?"

He Jinzhao snatched the cattail fan and fanned it himself:

"The city of Xi'an is so solidly built that it can't be seen broken by artillery.

If you dig a hole, you have to prevent water seepage. How deep is the stone foundation under the city wall? "

"My lord, let's just besiege the city and do nothing?"

Yang Wenyue felt that the whole of Shaanxi should be captured in such a swift manner that Hong Chengchou would never have a chance to come back.

"You still seldom go to the grassroots. The last time you measured the land in Shanxi, you were not there. This time in Shaanxi, you followed to see how those small officials do things."

Hearing He Jinzhao's order, Yang Wenyue nodded in agreement.

Even in terms of military strategy, Yang Wenyue also has his own unique understanding and experience, which can crush other people.

But he didn't stay at the grassroots level for a while, he just observed the lives of the people in Shanxi.

Ji Gui, Zhang Fuzhen and others did not have a clear understanding of how to do things after capturing a place.

The combined suits of hammer bandits targeting poor people have been tempered extremely maturely in Shanxi.

Now after arriving in Shaanxi, it is natural to take it and use it.

The only thing that needs attention is the relationship between locals and foreigners.

Whether it is accepted by the local people or controlled by the new local profiteers is uncertain.

But now with the iron fist of the hammer bandits, the local forces have basically been disintegrated.

In other words, He Jinzhao's hammer hammered the vested interests of Daming, and then gave the benefits of the hammer to a group of "fart people" who acted like cows and horses, uniting them in the hammer bandit's interest system.

When Yang Wenyue was dismissed, Ji Gui came up to him fanning his cattail fan: "My lord, we still use the old method of besieging the city."

"Yes, we can't get in, and they don't want to get out."

He Jinzhao also had experience in besieging such strong cities. Since they would not surrender, they would choose to besiege for a long time.

After a while, there will be civil strife in the city of Xi'an.

Ji Gui cupped his hands slightly, and ordered the messengers on the side to continue digging trenches after the sun lowered a little.

He Jinzhao thought for a while and said, "Zhou Da is not here, call Wang Kexing over."

Without making him wait for a while, Wang Kexing trotted all the way: "Marshal."

"Although our artillery can't damage the city wall, we just aim at people to hit them. From time to time, we get cold feet and shoot the Ming army on the city wall so that they don't dare to stay on it."

"Yes."

Wang Kexing left with the order, he understood what the commander meant.

It is when the two armies confront each other for a long time, they carry out the tactics of cold guns and cold guns.

This is all learned in the advanced lecture hall.

Hammer Bandit's artillery aiming technology, in the environment of the entire late Ming Dynasty, no one dared to say that it was number two.

Before Huang Taiji attacked the Daling River, he had already built the red cannon, why didn't he bombard it?
Zu Dashou surrendered directly, but Hou Jin had to spend a long time, causing people in Daling City to eat people, Zu Dashou couldn't stand it anymore, so he chose to feign surrender?

It's not a question of not being able to shoot.

On a peripheral tower outside the city, they used several Hongyi cannons and more than [-] general cannons to bombard them for three days before conquering them.

If Huang Taiji concentrated all the artillery to bombard Dalinghe City, tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder would be used up, and few of them would be able to hit the city wall.

Tutu made Ming soldiers laugh at him.

To put it bluntly, the artillerymen of the Houjin Tartars suffered from being uneducated!

Artillery is a technical job.

A group of post-Gold Tartars are illiterate, and those who can read and write are considered outstanding talents.

As for learning mathematics knowledge, I still choose to kill people with a big knife!

Because you can't do mathematics, you really can't!

The literacy rate of the Eight Banners soldiers is too low and mathematics knowledge has not been popularized. The artillery hit rate depends on luck.

The gunpowder consumption of shells is huge, and the barrel of the gun is extremely easy to wear, so the performance of the artillery can't be exerted at all.

This is also a group of people headed by Kong Youde. After surrendering to Huang Taiji, they brought excellent gunners and cannon-casting craftsmen, who were valued by Huang Taiji.

Experience can sometimes make up for lack of knowledge.

After all, if you shoot a lot, you are also a skilled worker.

As a result, because of Huang Taiji's expedition to Datong, many of Kong Youde's outstanding gunners died on the grassland during the battle with He Jinchao.

Kong Youde was forced to attack the artillery position by the desperate Mongols, and almost couldn't bear it, and the whole line collapsed.

If they were still in the Ming army, if they were not sure, they would just flee.

However, after Kong Youde and others changed their identities and became the post-Jin army, their ability to resist pressure has been strengthened, and they forcibly resisted the impact of the Mongols.

On the other hand, when He Jinzhao was in Shanxi, he didn't read the Four Books and Five Classics at all, and he didn't engage in the imperial examination system. He completely popularized education.

Start with the Hammer bandits first, and then there are various elementary enlightenment schools to lay the foundation for young children.

Even night schools were held to popularize it for some farmers who wanted to make progress.

The literacy rate of the soldiers of the Hammer Bandit Army can surpass all forces.

Based on a thousand characters, learn simple mathematical calculations.

I don't understand my own allowance when I get it.

The Hammer Bandit soldiers with a little bit of brains were thrown into the artillery squad by He Jinzhao to further study mathematics, so that they could display a stable artillery output on the battlefield in the future.

Back then, Shino picked up all kinds of artillery in the Northeast, but the reserve artillery was not enough.

In the early stage of the battle, it was true that beggars fired cannons, and they just listened to the sound happily, and even less hit the target.

After all, the number of artillery owned in the past was really pitiful. How many qualified artillery can be trained?

He Jinzhao also knew that it was unrealistic to attack the city with artillery.

At least until the time of the Civil War.

In the West, there are few examples of Napoleon destroying fortresses with artillery.

Most of today's artillery is to cover the people below to attack the city, and then kill and injure the defenders on the city wall as much as possible, so that they dare not resist with their lives.

Now is the time for outstanding gunners to show their strength and make contributions.

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