The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 227 Mr. Ye sacrificed the near and sought the distant and returned to his ancestors. What kind of general is Zhu Yuanzhang? Empress Ma was shocked!
After Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang greeted General Chen, the commander-in-chief of the East Gate Defense, they quickly walked to the nearest crossbow bed.

General Chen looked at the backs of the two men and felt that they were wearing armor and looked like that from head to toe. Whether it was their vigorous and resolute steps or the demeanor of their gestures, they all had the demeanor of a general.

But looking back on what they did after coming here, they don't look like generals.

"Admiral?"

"Where is the ginseng?"

“It’s just to see something rare”

General Chen just complained secretly in his heart and pulled him down, just because General Guo was the general invited by Mr. Ye.

He knew that Mr. Ye was a very purposeful person and had his own purpose in everything he did, but he really couldn't figure out what the point of inviting them here was.

But again, General Guo is the person invited by their Lord Ye. As long as this person doesn't do anything too outrageous, he will treat him politely.

Thinking of this, General Chen was too lazy to care about them and continued his command.

And at this moment,
Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang also came to the nearby bow and crossbow bed. When they saw the bow and crossbow bed, they also looked at it as an antique.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been fighting for so many years, had never seen such an antique in kind!

He knew that the three-bow crossbow was widely used in the Tang and Song dynasties as well as during the Mongolian and Yuan Western Expeditions. Its role in that era was just like today's cannon.

The longest range of 1500 paces ([-] meters), the amazing power that is enough to shoot through several people, and the accuracy that can almost ignore the influence of wind. When used as an arrow, it can kill enemy chiefs from a long distance, and it is tied with incendiary bullets. It was that era. cannon.

The Battle of Chanyuan in Song and Liao Dynasties ended because the giant arrow fired from the crossbow bed killed the general Xiao Talin!
After the fall of the Song Dynasty, the Mongolian and Yuan armies occupied all the crossbow beds for their own use, and made many achievements during the Western Expedition.

Hulagu Khan used these Song-made crossbow beds to directly beat them out of nightmares when he conquered Maimendis Castle on Mount Alborz.

The locals’ thoughts after watching this: “When the Mongolian soldiers had nothing to do, they pulled out a type of crossbow made by the Han. Its range was 2500 steps, and the projectiles were like meteors, burning and killing the devil-like pagan soldiers!” (From "History of World Conquerors", 2500 steps in Arabia are approximately 1000 meters)
But the Mongolian Yuan expedition to the west was the last glory of the crossbow bed!
After a large number of various types of firecrackers were equipped with the army, these crossbow beds were no longer taken seriously. In order to clear out the arsenal, Qianyuan directly dismantled them and used them as firewood.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang had never seen such a real crossbow bed.

As early as the beginning of the rebellion, he did not have cannons, but he also thought about building a crossbow bed and tying incendiary fire bombs to use it as a cannon.

But after making it, he realized that what the craftsmen made according to historical data and illustrations was not the case at all. Either the range was too short or the accuracy was too inaccurate.

In this way, the manufacturing technology of the crossbow bed was lost!

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the crossbow bed with 'Made in Yanmen Arsenal' and the responsible team number and craftsman number information engraved on the beams. He couldn't help but admired: "This bed is really well made. It’s the same, with my own modifications, the arrow trough is easy to replace, and the buckle is secure, but I don’t know whether the range, power and accuracy have the effects recorded in historical materials!”

Mao Xiang nodded after looking at it and said: "You'll have to fight to find out. I don't know if it's as powerful as recorded in historical records, but it should be stronger than what we originally built. After all, the cannons are much stronger than those made by the Imperial Arms Bureau! "

"Ok?"

Mao Xiang looked at Zhu Yuanzhang who suddenly stared at him with a pair of bull's eyes, and immediately knew that he had said the wrong thing again.

There is no problem in using metaphors, but comparing Yanmen Arsenal and the Imperial Arms Bureau is equivalent to comparing Ye Qing and Zhu Yuanzhang. Saying that Yanmen Arsenal's manufacturing is better than that of the Imperial Arms Bureau means that Ye Qing is stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang.

Although Mr. Ye is indeed better than Emperor Zhu in some aspects, he cannot say it openly. After all, the emperor's face is the most important thing.

Thinking of this, Mao Xiang only felt very lucky. Fortunately, he said the wrong thing here. If he had said the wrong thing in the palace far away from Ye Qing, then he would have to face the decisive Zhu Yuanzhang, not Zhu Yuanzhang here. Uncle's gone!

"Well, aren't you here to intercept the giant arrow?"

After Mao Xiang's reminder, Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he had completely missed the point.

Of course, it's not his fault, it's just that the crossbow bed here is indeed much better than the crossbow bed he tried to make in the first place. Even if the actual effect has not been seen yet, the appearance alone can be said to be worlds apart.

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly took a look at the various arrow boxes beside the crossbow bed. He saw the giant trample arrows that were shaped like javelins, and the armor-piercing arrows that were half as long and thick as the trample arrows, but he didn't see the so-called 'Interception of giant arrows'!
He can be sure that there is no interception giant arrow here!
Although he didn't know what the giant intercepting arrows were, he knew they were definitely not arrows he could recognize!
"Where's the interception giant arrow?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the soldier who was preparing armor-piercing arrows.

The soldier was a little confused by the question. If he hadn't seen the purple flower hood that represented his identity as a general, he would have started to be rude.

But precisely because the person who asked this question was a general, he felt even more baffled.

The soldier just asked: "General, don't you know that the east gate is not equipped to intercept giant arrows?"

"What I know, but you don't know?"

Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't expect such an answer.

But then, he casually said a few words without losing his style, and went to the city gate tower with Mao Xiang.

At the same time, he looked in the direction of the county government again, with a hint of less obvious anger in his eyes!

"Admiral?"

"After today's battle is over, you must explain to me clearly what kind of general is this general who is kept in the dark about everything?"

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang made up his mind, General Chen's voice came from behind him.

"The flag message reports to Mr. Ye, on the east gate battlefield, he used his 'matrix dislocation' artillery formation to annihilate half of the enemy's cavalry. There are less than a hundred heavy armored cavalry left in the front row, and half of the infantry has also been annihilated!"

"The general will now ask all the artillery to adjust the minimum elevation angle, and have all the three arrow slots on the crossbow beds be replaced to prepare armor-piercing arrows. We plan to be [-] steps outside the city and do our best to consume the enemy's infantry and cavalry." "After the enemy breaks through [-] steps, in Between four hundred and two hundred steps outside the city, we will use archers to stop the attack with rain of arrows."

"The general thinks that in this way, we can consume the enemy's troops to the greatest extent before the close combat, thus reducing the casualties of our close combat officers!"

"I also want to ask Mr. Ye, the enemy's transport troops are about to enter the range of the artillery. Will they be bombarded?"

As soon as General Chen finished speaking, the flag-calling soldiers began to signal toward the watchtower in the direction of the county government office.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that these flags would be conveyed through these watchtowers to the highest watchtower in the central square of the county government.

Immediately afterwards, the flag soldiers on the tower communicated orally to the messengers below, and finally reached Ye Qing's ears.

Zhu Yuanzhang was just curious. After the enemy's baggage troops entered the range of the cannon, they just opened fire. What was there to ask?
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at General Chen and asked politely: "General Chen, there is nothing wrong with reporting the results of the battle and the strategy you came up with."

"But the enemy's siege troops are about to enter the shooting range. We can just deploy some of the artillery to bombard us. Is there anything to ask?"

General Chen also knew what General Guo in front of him meant.

Yes,

This is a common sense. According to common sense, it is really enough to just start bombing.

If you still have questions about this kind of rational play style, he is too worthless as the on-site commander.

But that's just common sense when facing other generals, and for them, Mr. Ye, common sense basically doesn't apply.

General Chen didn't want to answer this question, but because of the respect of Mr. Ye, he patiently replied: "General Guo doesn't know something. Common sense is completely worthless to us, Mr. Ye."

"His initial order was to use a crossbow bed to fire slug arrows tied with kerosene bullets. Although I think cannons are more convenient, I still have to ask."

"What if he has some strategic or tactical purpose that we didn't expect?"

Hearing this answer, Zhu Yuanzhang just nodded doubtfully, and then looked in the direction of the county government office.

In his opinion, cannon is the best choice!

Instead of using such good cannons to blast the baggage, we would rather use old antiques to attack them.

He couldn't figure out what strategic and tactical purpose this "returning to one's ancestors" approach could serve.
Is it possible that this old antique can be more powerful than the new Hongwu cannon?

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe it and couldn't figure it out, but he could only wait for Ye Qing's reply.

Of course, if Ye Qing still insists on his "returning to his ancestors" style of play, he will open his eyes and become a supervisor.

If the tactical effect was not as good as the artillery bombardment, he would have to re-evaluate Ye Qing's combat ability!

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's gaze towards the county government became profound and complicated again.

At this very moment,
General Chen's words have been conveyed to the combat command room through flag language.

"Master Ye is so awesome!"

"Just one round of artillery bombardment directly destroyed half of the enemy's infantry and cavalry. The key is that it also destroyed almost all of the enemy's heavy armored cavalry."

"With the formation-breaking cavalry gone, it will be much easier for our melee soldiers."

"Master Ye must have great tactics. This is a tactic of staring at the front row of cavalry!"

The sand table operator responsible for playing with the models was talking excitedly while taking away half of the enemy's infantry and cavalry models like autumn leaves.

Not only that, but the ten young men in Jinyiwei standing on the right side wearing pro-military armor also started whispering to each other.

Judging from the distance, Ye Qing couldn't hear their voices, but Queen Ma behind them could roughly hear them.

Of course, not only did they think it was awesome, but Queen Ma also thought it was awesome.

She knew the bombardment effect of the imperial artillery. It was more than twice as powerful. The key was that Ye Qing's tactics were very successful!

Queen Ma just used her peripheral vision to look at Ye Qing, who was sitting on the commander's seat!
In her eyes, after hearing these rewards, Ye Qing just looked at the sand table with concentration in his eyes, as if the compliments around him didn't exist.

Seeing Ye Qing like this, Empress Ma just smiled with satisfaction and began to record General Chen's reward.

In her opinion, no matter how powerful Ye Qing is, he still has to think about it for a while.

After all, these few words from General Chen included staged results reports, on-site command and tactics instructions, and subsequent tactical requests.

Thinking of this, she couldn't write so fast!
But at the moment she finished recording, another messenger came to report the situation on the Ximen battlefield.

The phased results of the Yanmen Pass Ximen battlefield were similar, the on-site commanders came up with similar tactics, and the subsequent tactical instructions were exactly the same.

As soon as the messenger finished speaking, Empress Ma quickly picked up a pen to record it, but before she could finish recording it, Ye Qing immediately made a decision!
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