The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 256: Under Lord Ye’s rule, the army and the people were united, Zhu Yuanzhang felt ashamed, and the cannons fired at each other!

In the eyes of everyone in the command room,
When Ye Qing said this, he not only tapped his rice bowl with all the meat and vegetables with his chopsticks, but also looked like he was gloating about his misfortune.

Not only that, he also smiled a little hurtfully, as if his conspiracy had succeeded.

From Ye Qing's tone and expression when he said this, Wang Baobao must have looked like he was being beaten!

But in the eyes of Queen Ma and others, it made them laugh all of a sudden.

Because they know that Wang Baobao must not be eating badly, but he must be uncomfortable eating. This feeling of gloating about others' misfortune, this feeling of basing one's own happiness on the pain of others, is simply not very satisfying.

Soon, everyone started to eat.

Queen Ma looked at Ye Qing across from him, and she was getting more and more pleased with him.

Because she could see that Ye Qing was using this method to change everyone's mood. How could he dislike such a person with an unruly appearance but a delicate mind?
Because of this, she started eating again while thinking about a plan to protect Ye Qing!
In fact, Queen Ma's analysis was only half correct. The reason why he said such a sentence was not only to liven up the atmosphere, but also for another important reason.

For a person who has lived for hundreds of years in total, he really only has this hobby of playing with people. He likes to base his happiness on the pain of others.

Furthermore, even though there were 300 casualties, this victory was enough to pass through Mr. Guo and deepen his guilt in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart that "a man is not guilty, but he is guilty of having a jade".

As long as he thought of Master Guo's shocked look on the city wall, and then thought about how Zhu Yuanzhang looked in the direction of Yanmen Pass with murderous intent in his eyes after Master Guo went back to tell Zhu Yuanzhang, he felt quite a sense of accomplishment.

Just this sense of achievement is worthy of him eating another piece of meat to celebrate!
Just as Ye Qing expected, Wang Baobao was also eating in the Chinese army commander's tent six miles away from the central gate of Yanmen Pass.

As the saying goes, people are like rice and steel. You need to eat when you win a battle, and you also need to eat when you lose a battle.

In the handsome tent,

Wang Baobao and Nai'er Buhua were eating lamb legs around the heating stove, but they ate like chewing wax, as if they had completed their mission.

"Report!"

"The eight hundred copper guns and ammunition at the gate have all been transported out of the camp and are now moving forward!"

Wang Baobao and Naier Fuhua immediately put down the half-eaten mutton chops, quickly left the camp, and ran to the high ground that could barely be regarded as hills.

The heavy snow is still falling, and the cold wind is still blowing outside the Great Wall!
Both their cloaks and the fur that exposed the edges of their armor were fluttering in the wind.

The howling cold wind slapped my face, it was like an ice knife cutting me!

But in their eyes, the strongest soldiers selected by the entire army were all shirtless, pushing and pulling!
There was nothing they could do. Although their gate gun also had a wheel base that could be pushed around, the bottom of the wheel was not the black avenue of Yanmen County, but grass that had begun to show signs of freezing.

The strong wind was blowing and the wheels were slipping. If they were still wearing armor, their physical strength would be too much!
"What did they eat for lunch?"

Nai'er didn't even think about it, and loudly replied: "Soldiers should eat half as ordered!"

When Wang Baobao heard this, his eyes widened. He really wanted to kick this brainless guy down, but he really couldn't change it!

Can they also eat half the food as ordered?

But having said that, the order was given by him, Wang Baobao, and Nai'er Buhua absolutely carried it out without any problems.

All Wang Baobao can do now is to hope that these grassland warriors will send their cannons over as soon as possible to a position where they can bombard the stone wall maze array.

On the corridor on the third floor of the Yanmen Guanzhong Gate Gate Tower, one of the observers immediately went to the command hall on the first floor.

"General,"

"As Mr. Ye expected, Wang Baobao mobilized all their cannons to advance towards me, but their advancement speed was very slow."

General Li asked the observer to return to his post, and then said to the messenger: "Go and see if the ultra-long-range trebuchets on both sides have been converted into tower cranes."

"Don't forcefully urge me, just ask about the progress. Working on a shelf in the snow is enough to kill people!"

"Yes, General!"

After the messengers left, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes became profound again.

It can be said that he was shocked by the results of Ye Qing's aerial fire formation before the meal, and after the meal he once again experienced Ye Qing's command as if he had foreseen it in advance.

Yes,

He could also imagine that Wang Baobao would do this. After all, the stone wall maze formation was too great a hindrance to the Beiyuan army.

If it weren't for the stone wall maze formed by these three large stone walls and 25 small stone walls, their infantry and cavalry would not have suffered such heavy casualties.

But it always takes some time to analyze things!

But he, Ye Qing, was good. When the battle report was sent back, the orders were sent right away without even thinking for a moment!

But he also knows that there is no such thing as predicting it in advance. Only solid skills and rich experience can lead to such ability!
But where did Ye Qing get his solid skills and rich experience?
If he really has this ability on paper, it can only be explained by the word 'talent'.When he thought about Ye Qing saying that he was clumsy in front of him for a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but write him down with the crime of "deceiving the emperor" again!
Just when Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly annoyed, Mao Xiang asked General Li: "Although they are very slow, they are not far away after all. Can the east and west cannons and ammunition be transferred before them?"

General Li just looked firmly and said: "It must be possible!"

"Not to mention that we have built military roads between the three gates and the major warehouses. Just because our military and civilians in Yanmen County are united, we will be able to do it."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard these words, he instantly remembered the scene when he was arrested as a Beiyuan spy and was imprisoned for labor camp construction.

He remembered that he was building a section of military road near the military camp, and he wanted to sneak in and take a look.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel ashamed for scolding Ye Qingda for collecting tolls.

Yes!

If tolls are not collected, where will the broad roads outside the city come from, and where will these military roads that facilitate military deployment come from!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang walked to the city wall. He first looked at the military roads leading to the east and west gates in the city, and then looked at the Great Wall Watchtower on Yanmen Mountain.

He can't yet see how united the soldiers and civilians are in transporting supplies, but those who are responsible for watching the battle and reporting back to Zhu Biao will definitely be able to see this scene.

As he expected, two generals from Datong Mansion were standing on the top of the mountain, looking at the scene that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to see but couldn't.

On the military road leading from the east gate of Yanmen Pass to the middle gate, hundreds of soldiers and thousands of civilians are working together.

The packhorse pulled the artillery cart forward, two people pushed the wheels behind, and two people left and right ensured the direction and helped with the brakes.

As for the horse-drawn cart loaded with ammunition boxes, there were people on the left, right, and front!
When encountering an uphill road, both people and horses work hard in one place. When encountering flat roads and turns, they also perform their respective duties!
Here they don't see the soldiers working hard and then bullying the civilians. What they see is only cooperation and mutual help.

The two generals from Datong Prefecture were both soldiers, and they had even done things to oppress civilians. Except for the fact that people at the highest official level can be crushed to death, this applies to any situation. It is just human nature.

They never expected that this place would actually turn the slogan of military and civilian unity into a reality visible to the naked eye.

Looking at the scene in front of them, their eyes were shocked and ashamed!
But when they looked in the direction of the county seat, there was only admiration in their eyes!

At this moment, they immediately decided to focus on the scene of "Under Ye Qing's rule, the army and the people are united"!
They believed that no matter what Hu Weiyong would think after seeing it, His Highness the Crown Prince would definitely deeply approve of Mr. Ye!

This is the only thing they can do for Mr. Ye!
Not past half time ([-] p.m.)
One hundred new Hongwu cannons transferred from the East and West gates were lined up on the thousand-meter-long city wall that connected the two natural mountains.

Immediately afterwards, all of Wang Baobao's firearms belongings, namely the eight hundred copper blunderbuss at the gate, were also introduced to a location more than 200 steps outside the stone wall maze array.

The maximum range of the gate copper gun is two hundred steps (300 meters). Seeing that there are still dozens of steps before they can start bombarding, these strong Beiyuan big men are already exhausted.

On such a windy and snowy day, each of them went shirtless. The key was that they hadn't eaten enough. If it weren't for their fat, they would have to lie down halfway.

"Get up and continue!"

"In order to avenge the people who died in their fire, and in order to enter the city at night, get up!"

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Finally, they continued to push forward with difficulty, but these dozens of steps were as difficult as reaching the sky!

And at this moment,
On the city wall, not only the cannons were in place, but even the ammunition boxes were placed at the prescribed positions.

General Li personally went to calibrate the artillery and said: "The outermost part of the stone wall maze formation is a large stone wall, a thousand steps away from us, and the maximum range of their copper blunderbuss at the gate is two hundred steps."

"One thousand two hundred steps, our cannon can hit it, and so can our crossbow bed!"

"Pass an order from my general to have the crossbowmen equipped with an arrow trough tie two small kerosene cans to the arrowheads of the giant arrows and fire them together with the cannon."

At the same time that General Li gave the order, a copper blunderbuss fired from a gate opposite.

Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "They don't have special observers. They can only estimate a rough distance and then use a cannon to test-fire."

"Only after this cannon hits the target, the other cannons will advance to the same line and fire!"

General Li nodded and said, "Yes, the imperial army also fights this way."

As soon as he finished speaking, General Li continued to school the artillery.

But he didn't know that his casual reply shocked His Majesty the Emperor beside him.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not show any gnashing of teeth. After all, General Li was not Ye Qing, and he had no ability to easily anger him.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang felt that his face in the snow was a little burning and painful, as if he had been slapped by someone, he also knew that this was the truth that he had to admit.

Thinking of this, his eyes looking at the new Hongwu cannon also had a touch of greed that was not easy to detect.

"fire!"

At this moment, the observer gave the order to fire! .
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