The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 226 Mr. Ye is really a clumsy person. Zhu Yuanzhang will remember the crime of deceiving the emperor again. They are all hard-core!
"Don't look up, keep moving forward!"

After seeing this scene, Bolji Jin. Wulihan immediately lowered his head and just tried his best to urge the horse forward.

At the same time, he also gave heart-breaking orders with red eyes.

In fact, he also knew that at this time, no matter how loud his voice was, no one would hear him. He was just giving the order to himself and emboldening himself.

He must embolden himself. Only if he does this, will his people follow suit.

Only if everyone does this, will it be possible to rush to the city wall!

And on the city wall at this moment,

Mao Xiang had already put his hands on the female wall of the city wall, and his eyes widened with fear.

In his eyes, the twenty shells from the second echelon also fell between the front row of riders.

He saw wet soil flying all over the sky, he saw stumps and broken arms all over the sky, he saw pieces of flesh and blood flying across the sky, and he also saw the overturned men and horses knocking away the men and horses behind them, causing trampling injuries. .

Immediately afterwards, the artillery shells from the third, fourth, and fifth echelons also touched the ground and exploded!

The twenty shells of each echelon were fifty steps closer to the impact point of the shells of the previous echelon, and they always exploded on the same waterline.

Not only that, but he also always attacked the front row of Beiyuan's charge cavalry!

The principle is very simple. The opponent keeps charging, and the range of each echelon of cannons is reduced by fifty steps!

Counting the gun speed and horse speed, this has the effect of always hitting the enemy's front row of cavalry!

"The elevation angles of each artillery position remain unchanged, and we are preparing for the second round of artillery bombardment against the enemy's infantry formation."

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At this very moment,
Standing in the middle of the corridor on the third floor of the city gate building, General Chen, the commander-in-chief of the East Gate Defense, issued such a military order.

As the warrant flags were waved at both ends, the gun commander Baihu on the city wall received the order and began to give the same order to the gunner at the top of his lungs.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang, who were standing under the tower, naturally understood what this meant. This was to temporarily give up attacking the enemy's cavalry and wait for the enemy's infantry to come over, then consume the infantry in the same way.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, the smoke had basically cleared at this moment, and he only saw the Beiyuan cavalry rushing out of the artillery array.

Finally, after Zhu Yuanzhang saw the Beiyuan cavalry rushing out of the artillery array and the traces of bombing behind them, there was some shock in his eyes!
Because he saw that the total number of cavalry rushing out was reduced by nearly half, and there were almost no heavy armored cavalry to break the formation.

The heavy armored formation-breaking cavalry who were still charging were less than a hundred in total!
Looking at the bombing traces behind them, a hundred black gun craters on the green grass were very obvious, and they were basically emitting green smoke.

And the edges of these artillery pits were full of corpses of men and horses that had been blown to pieces, as well as many corpses of men and horses that had been trampled to death!
Of course, these are not the main point. The main point is that the positions of these gun pits are very regular.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately looked back at the 'regular wavy lines' composed of black cannon muzzles on the city wall, and then immediately looked at the regularly positioned cannon pits with a comparative attitude!

The five gun pits form a diagonal line from far to near. Twenty such diagonal lines are neatly arranged there!
From his vertical perspective, he could see that the hundred rounds were still in a horizontal line, and they were all about three feet (ten meters) apart!
Combined with what he had seen before, where the enemy's heavily armored formation-breaking cavalry were basically wiped out, he immediately understood the ingenuity of Ye Qing's tactics.

"We understand, this is his 'matrix dislocation' artillery array!"

"Our previous method of fighting was either to have all the cannons within the same range and fight in a line, killing as many as they could, or to use a chessboard layout of artillery formations."

"And with his style of fighting, while the enemy cavalry is charging, he can also concentrate on watching the consumption of their heavy-armored formation-breaking cavalry."

"We were bombarded all the way during the charge. Even if we were lucky enough to survive, the best soldiers and horses would be scared out of their wits!"

"Not only that, those overturned soldiers and horses can also trip up the soldiers and horses that follow, causing immeasurable trampling damage!"

"Wonderful!"

"Not only can Ye Qing make such a good cannon, but he is also a tactician?"

"Where does he have the dignity to say that he has never led a soldier?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned again, because in his opinion, Ye Qing had never led an army.

In other words, Ye Qing had only simulated the battlefield in his mind and had only a little experience in talking about war on paper, but there was a huge difference in nature between his talking about war on paper and Zhao Kuo's talking about war on paper.

Zhao Kuo's talk on paper means losing, but Ye Qing's talk on paper is not only a win, it can also be said to be an innovation in tactics and an example of successful tactics.

At this moment, Mao Xiang suddenly said: "General Guo, I already know the beauty of Master Ye's matrix dislocation artillery array."

"The beauty of this matrix-dislocated artillery formation is..."

Zhu Yuanzhang just stared, and Mao Xiang immediately shut his mouth because he knew he was wrong.

How could the former Marshal Zhu not see things that he could see!

At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang only had a flash of anger between his eyebrows because he thought of a joke.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, Ye Qing stood on the field and said sincerely: "I, Ye Qing, am just a clumsy person."

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly felt like he was being played like a monkey.Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the charging cavalry of more than 2000 with almost no heavy armored cavalry, and at the Beiyuan infantry suffering in the artillery fire in the distance. While biting his back molars, he thought to himself: "What the hell are you talking about?" If you are a clumsy person, I will remember you for 'deceiving the emperor'!"

"clumsy?"

"If you have spent several lifetimes on the battlefield to gain the skills you have now, then you can just call yourself clumsy!"

"But you're not. You're just treating me like a monkey. You're obviously talented but you're pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger. You're just trying to show off in front of me!"

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Zhu Yuanzhang was really angry, so angry that he remembered the new word "pretend" that he had just learned!
But then, the scene in front of him made him lose his temper. It could also be said that he shifted his attention from Ye Qing to these 'hard bones'!
In his eyes, the remaining 2000 Bei Yuan light cavalry were still charging, and the Bei Yuan infantry, which had only been half bombed, were also charging desperately.

The 'lucky man' who was lying in the gap between the gunfire just now stood up immediately after the gunfire stopped, and rushed forward stepping on the corpses of his tribe members.

Yes,

Their cannons reduced only half of the [-]-step cavalry, and almost destroyed all the heavy-armored formation-breaking cavalry.

You must know that without the heavy-armored formation-breaking cavalry in the front row, even if they no longer block the attack, they will definitely be able to break through the contradictory horse-resistance formation below the city!

But they still wielded their scimitars, still tried to maintain their formation, and still charged desperately!

"These Beiyuan soldiers are so tough!"

"After being bombarded like this, you still have such courage, you really feel like a steppe wolf!"

"They can't destroy Song Dynasty without being tough. If they are tough, we are even tougher!"

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Zhu Yuanzhang heard the sounds coming from around him and felt that this was the case.

Although he is an enemy, Zhu Yuanzhang will never be stingy in praising his enemies.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that even at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, they were definitely not soft!

The world only knows that Xu Da's Northern Expedition was successful, but they don't know what price the Northern Expedition army paid!
The reason why the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry founded by Genghis Khan were called 'iron cavalry' was precisely because they were well-trained, hard-working and unafraid of death!

Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately remembered the lesson Ye Qing once taught him.

Ye Qing once told him that the characteristic of the soldiers of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was that they were "undeterred even after defeat", which was also like the grass on the prairie, which grows again in the spring breeze.

The only way to completely defeat them is to find a way to unite them all, and then defeat them with a huge advantage on the frontal battlefield.

A tribe in the east and a tribe in the west cannot be completely conquered!

The reason why they fought for more than 1000 years was that they only fought from the Xiongnu to the Turks and then to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. This is the reason!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded firmly again.

Just to achieve this strategic goal, it is absolutely impossible to rely only on the [-] Yanmen garrison, and we have to wait for Xu Da's army.

Only Xu Da's army can successfully bypass and appear!

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang looked towards the sky and earth in the north with such hope, he immediately heard General Chen's order.

"All artillery, hurry up and adjust the minimum elevation angle. After the enemy's infantry and cavalry come over, fire freely and bombard at will!"

"All crossbow beds are modified with three arrow slots, and armor-piercing arrows are used to target the enemy's cavalry and ignore the infantry!"

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As soon as General Chen finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately heard the mechanical sounds of various mechanisms on the city wall.

The gunners in front of one hundred cannons are skillfully operating the elevation adjustment mechanism!

The defenders beside the twenty crossbow beds (three-bow crossbows) were also skillfully changing their arrow troughs!
The arrows fired from the crossbow bed are made of hard wood as the arrow shaft and iron pieces as the feathers. They are shaped like a javelin and are known as "one gun, three swords and arrows" in the world. They can accurately kill enemy generals at long distances, with an effective range of up to More than 900 steps (1500 meters).

They can be fired in rows and staggered within a distance of [-] steps, and can also be nailed directly into the city wall. Soldiers who know how to make light bodies can directly attack the city wall with these giant javelin-like arrows.

Therefore, it was named 'Talking Arrow'!
During the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties, this kind of crossbow bed was the main long-range weapon on the battlefield!

It was precisely because Ye Qing had seen the miraculous effects of this weapon that in the Ming Dynasty, when everyone had abandoned this weapon, he modified it and made it a battlefield weapon again!
Soon, the arrow trough that could only hold one large catapult arrow was removed and replaced with an arrow trough that could hold three arrows.

The length and thickness of these arrows are only half of the large stilt arrows, but even with half the range, they can still shoot through men and horses.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that this was not Ye Qing's combat order, but the on-the-spot commander's improvisation.

Originally!
The commander's order is just an outline, the real battle depends on the generals on the spot!

Zhu Yuanzhang was not surprised by this style of fighting. He just wanted to go to the battle position on the crossbow bed to watch.

Because the 'interception of giant arrows' that puzzled him had to be fired from a crossbow bed! .
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