The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 258 Only Mr. Ye can make the decision, intercept the giant arrow and show his power, Zhu Yuanzhang's veterans return to the battlefield!
"Quick, move fast!"

"Weapon boxes must be stacked accordingly, so that our artillery, crossbowmen and archers can turn around and get what they need!"

"Pay attention to the text and pictures on the box, make sure you don't make a mistake!"

"Especially when intercepting giant arrows, never stack them behind a crossbow bed that has been modified with three arrow slots. It must be placed behind a crossbow bed that has been modified with one arrow slot!"

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The general in charge of carrying the banner on the city wall led the soldiers and civilians to carry it back and forth while giving various instructions.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was under the eaves of the Zhongmen Gate Tower, looked at everything on both sides and felt that he only saw the words "positive" and "rules".

The heavy snow and biting cold wind were still raging, but the soldiers on the city wall were still moving quickly.

This scene is very familiar. It can be said that everyone will see this scene during the city defense war, but the expressions on the faces of the civilians are different.

When he was the commander-in-chief of the Red Scarf Army, although the civilian men who assisted in the transportation were relatively efficient, the expressions on their faces were not positive, but more helpless.

The city is in his hands, Zhu Yuanzhang, and the people can still live like human beings, so they act quickly, but they are also helpless!

But the civilian husbands here are different. Even the prisoners who are taken out of the prison to be transported give people the feeling that they are fighting for themselves!
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that what this meant was that the life and political environment here were far better than those under the imperial court.

And all of this is thanks to their county magistrate, Ye Qing, the county magistrate in the hearts of the people!
Looking at the city wall that spans a thousand meters and is more than four feet (14 meters) wide at the top, the side facing the outside of the city can be said to be lined up with various long-range weapons and archers!

On the side closer to the city, there are various corresponding weapon boxes stacked up. The defenders can literally turn around and take two steps to get the cannonballs, kerosene cans, and various types of arrows they need!
The civilians were very considerate. After putting down the box, they used a crowbar to loosen the lid, which really covered the snow and made it easy for the soldiers to quickly access it!
Between various types of long-range weapons and various types of ammunition boxes, there is an orderly back and forth on a passage nearly four meters wide!
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at this scene, and his thoughts couldn't help but run in another direction.

He thought that if one day he and Ye Qing were on opposite sides, if this powerful long-range firepower and strong logistical support were all moved to the south gate wall of the county to deal with the imperial army he came to suppress the rebellion, the consequences would be disastrous. It’s really unimaginable.

Thinking of this, he frowned again. He could not let Ye Qing continue to develop here. If Ye Qing was allowed to serve here for another three years, he, the emperor, would really not be able to sleep!
After the war, regardless of whether Ye Qing is corrupt or not, he will get Ye Qing to the capital. If he is not corrupt, he will be an official in the capital. If he is corrupt, he will be killed in the capital!

But overall, he still hopes that Ye Qing will not be greedy for agricultural taxes!

In this way, if he gets Ye Qing to be an official in the capital, the people of Yanmen County will think that Ye Qing has been promoted and will be grateful to him as the emperor, and he, Zhu Yuanzhang, can also tie Ye Qing under his nose. Win-win!
After making up his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang went straight to the nearest box with the words "Yanmen Arsenal, intercepting giant arrows" written on the side.

After walking only a few steps, he suppressed his curiosity and stopped.

Now that the decisive battle is coming, everyone is very busy. If he asks about this and that now, he will be completely unhelpful and appear ignorant.

Anyway, it has its place, it doesn't matter this moment.

But he was still itching. He really wanted to see this giant arrow used for attack earlier. How could he intercept it?
"They're here!"

"General, just as Mr. Ye expected, they gave up their war horses and replaced them all with infantry. After the first row of infantry, there were many crossbows and carriages."

"The flying snow was so big that all I could see was snow dust all over the sky."

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After hearing the report from the observer, General Li, Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang immediately supported the parapet with their hands, stood on tiptoes, squinted their eyes and focused on looking into the distance.

Sure enough, there was another 'snow and dust explosion' across the two mountains, coming at a steady speed from the Beiyuan Chinese Army Camp.

The infantry without cavalry just walked at a constant speed, and the wind alone raised snow dust two to three feet high, which was enough to show how many people there were.

The unified march of a hundred thousand troops was enough to make the already numb feet of the soldiers arrayed in the city feel the tremor of the earth.

And the feeling of trembling in the earth gradually became stronger as they moved forward!

But even so, the Yanmen soldiers just stared with both eyes, without any hint of timidity!

People live just to fight for a breath, and the Northern Barbarians can still risk their lives. As the guardians of their country, they should be even more unafraid of death!
Seeing this scene, General Li just gave a serious order: "Come down to the city and prepare for battle!"

After receiving the order, the civilian husbands showed disobedience for the first time.

"General, let us also join the battle!"

"My son is standing in formation in the city. As a father, I have no reason to go home. He is protecting our family and country, and I am going to die in front of him."

"General, I am a Mongolian from the Ming Dynasty, but I am even more from the Ming Dynasty. This is my home. My son is working as a shield soldier below. I am not smaller than him. I will go to the top first. I will kill him. Go for it again!”

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Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang looked at this scene and were once again amazed by the cohesion of Yanmen County.

But at this moment, General Li had a cold look on his face, and he gave a forceful order: "Everyone go down to the city. If you continue to mess around here, I will arrest you all for delaying the military plane."

"Soldiers, drive these unruly people away from me, General!"

In this way, these civilian husbands were persuaded and bombarded to invite them.

Immediately afterwards, General Li looked at General Guo in front of him and said: "It seems that the people's sentiment is too good, and it is not necessarily a good thing. General Guo, don't you think so?"

Zhu Yuanzhang just forced a smile and said: "You are right!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was very reasonable to say that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. General Li was also led astray by Ye Qing. He always pretended to be so annoying.

Just when Zhu Yuanzhang secretly frowned, the observer immediately issued an order for a super long-range trebuchet bombardment.

Under the bombardment of thousands of enemies, arms and legs were still flying in the distance, and black smoke was billowing!
But there was no chaos in their formation, they still maintained their formation and continued to advance at a constant speed!
"This is the advantage of not using cavalry. People will be able to hide. Although there will be casualties, the formation will not be disrupted."

General Li sighed as he looked at the scene in front of him.

Soon, they were about to enter the maximum range of the cannon.

"Artillery, prepare to fire!"

But just when the observation men were giving orders, their front row of infantry actually stopped and couldn't move.

Not only that, they also seemed to have agreed upon it. When the front row of infantry stopped, all the people behind them stopped, and there was no stampede at all.

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and the other three, the Beiyuan infantry who had stopped moving began to give way, and the crossbow beds that had not been destroyed by ten thousand enemies all came to the position of the front row of infantry.

The artillery officers looked at this scene and looked at the observer with torches, but the observer did not give the order to fire.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately frowned and said: "They are at a disadvantage because they are smart!"

"General Li, you see, their coach Wang Baobao's intention is very clear, which is to pave the way with human lives."

"Anyway, the ten thousand enemies thrown by the ultra-long-range trebuchet can't kill many people, nor can they blow up many crossbow beds. They just advance outside the range of my cannon and wait."

General Li asked in confusion: "What are they waiting for?"

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his head and said: "Wait for the wind!"

When General Li heard this, he suddenly realized and understood all their intentions.

These people were really smart at taking advantage of the disadvantages, so they deliberately stopped before the maximum range of the artillery array.

In this way, they will only be bombarded by ten thousand enemies, and will not be hit by artillery arrays, crossbows, and aerial fire sea formations.

Now they have moved the remaining crossbow beds and archers forward!

In this way, their crossbow beds and archers, the only long-range forces, will be in a relatively safe zone that cannot be exploded by ultra-long-range trebuchets or cannons!

Of course, even if they were in such a safe zone, they would not be able to shoot onto the city wall unless God helped.

And this so-called God is the south wind that goes straight south!
The east and west valleys and the north-south convection terrain make it very easy for southerly winds to blow from north to south!
As long as the south wind blows, their large arrows and the rain of thousands of arrows will go straight towards the city wall or the soldiers in formation in the city!

Thinking of this, General Li immediately ordered: "Get ready to intercept the giant arrow!"

After a while,

On the city wall, there are thirty modified arrow troughs distributed about 30 meters apart. On the arrow trough of the crossbow bed, which is specially used to launch giant javelin arrows, an intercepting giant arrow is placed.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang hurriedly looked with wide eyes, but the way they intercepted the giant arrow made them disappointed.

This so-called intercepting giant arrow can be said to have a very simple structure. It consists of two long ropes hanging from the tail of a javelin giant arrow, and a long piece of iron is tied to the ends of the two ropes.

It's just that these two long and flat iron pieces are not flat, and have some slight twists!

Just when the disappointed Zhu Yuanzhang was about to speak, Mao Xiang asked first: "General Li, is this the so-called interception of giant arrows?"

"This giant arrow is hung with two long ropes and two large iron pieces. Apart from affecting the accuracy and reducing the range, what else can it do?" "Are you going to use this thing to deal with the incoming arrow rain?"

Mao Xiang really couldn't help it!
He also knew that the things Ye Qing designed were very reliable, but this thing was too ugly!

He really couldn't understand how, apart from affecting the accuracy and reducing the range, this could be combined with the word interception!

But before General Li could answer, a south wind suddenly blew!

The heavy snow went straight south, and the flags at the top of the city and the cloaks of the generals were also fluttering south. They were not dancing much, which was enough to show that this was a very strong and very pure south wind!

Outside the stone wall maze array, around the Hundred Taipei Yuan Gong Crossbow Bed, which was in a relatively safe area, tens of thousands of archers who had already drawn their bows and arrows, their eyes suddenly lit up, as if they saw hope.

Because their battle flag is a large banner with many wolf tails hanging on it. The wolf tails are all facing south, as if someone is pulling them southward, and they don't swing much from side to side.

"The wind is coming!"

"Blessed by the immortal God, it's the south wind that's coming!"

"Shoot me hard and spread all your anger on the Yanmen defenders through the south wind!"

"My dear men, draw your swords for me!"

"As long as they are hit, charge me."

The voice of the leading general was heartbreaking and extremely exciting. As the order spread, all Beiyuan infantrymen roared with excitement.

They had been suppressed and beaten for too long, and finally got a chance!
They wanted to use the south wind to continuously shoot at the defenders on the city wall, making the Yanmen defenders overwhelmed and unable to continue to control long-range weapons.

In this way, their opportunity to launch a charge comes!

hum!
Tens of thousands of arrows rained down and a thousand armor-piercing arrows fired from the crossbow bed. It was as wide as the city walls were spread out!

Yes,

Their crossbow bed is equipped with ten arrow slots. One crossbow bed can fire ten armor-piercing arrows that are twice as long and twice as thick as the bow and arrow, but the effective range is greatly reduced.

This is why they, whether they are archers or crossbows, have to wait for the south wind.

With the help of the south wind, this rain of [-] arrows was able to hit the city wall.

Mao Xiang looked at the incoming arrow rain and immediately stepped out of the way to block Zhu Yuanzhang's path.

"Intercept the giant arrow and launch it!"

At this moment, the observer issued the order to intercept the giant arrow.

In Mao Xiang's widened eyes, thirty arrows shaped like javelins were fired from the crossbow bed at the same time.

Tens of thousands of arrows raining from north to south, and thirty giant javelin arrows coming from south to north, draw a parabola at the same time, and are about to collide at the high point.

But in Mao Xiang's view, this is undoubtedly a mantis mantis trying to trick the cart!

But the defenders on both sides of the city wall and the soldiers in formation were not worried at all, they just looked straight at the scene in the sky.

The next moment, Zhu Yuanzhang pushed Mao Xiang away because Mao Xiang blocked his best viewing angle to witness another miracle.

Zhu Yuanzhang only saw the two ropes hanging behind the javelin and the giant arrow. Suddenly the left and right parts separated and began to spin.

As the giant arrow flew faster, the two ropes holding the iron pieces rotated faster and faster, until the ropes and iron pieces were invisible to the naked eye.

He could only see a giant arrow shaped like a javelin, flying in the air dragging a round translucent giant shield!

Thirty so-called intercepting giant arrows are thirty giant arrows, dragging thirty translucent round giant shields, heading straight towards the enemy's tens of thousands of arrows!

But before they collided, the enemy's tens of thousands of arrows began to deviate in large areas, and even were blown away.

Finally, they collided.

In the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang, who were full of horror, the rain of thousands of arrows that originally hit the city wall either fell powerlessly or turned back, and no arrows continued to hit the city wall.

Before the wide-eyed Beiyuan soldiers could react, their archers were killed by their own arrows, killing about a thousand people.

"how can that be?"

"What the hell is this?"

"What the hell is this!"

In the Beiyuan Archery Army formation, there were voices of despair everywhere.

Because they know that their only long-range weapon is useless, they can only continue to pave the way with their lives!
On the city wall of Yanmen Pass, there were cheers and cheers. The soldiers also experienced the joy of "building happiness on the pain of others"!

The only people on the city wall who were not cheering were Zhu Yuanzhang and Mao Xiang, because they were in the shock of intercepting the giant arrow.

Finally, they came to their senses.

Zhu Yuanzhang could no longer hold back his curiosity and immediately asked General Li: "General Li, what is going on?"

General Li looked at General Guo in front of him, because General Guo reminded him that the enemy was waiting for the wind, so he gave the order in time.

Because of this, he knew everything.

General Li said politely: "Master Ye said that this is the product of using the 'wind spiral'!"

"But I don't know the specific technology. It's all in the hands of Mr. Ye and the arsenal's technical department!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he felt that what he said was in vain.

"Kill!"

"My sons, as long as you rush into the city, the wealth, food, and women will all be yours!"

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At this moment, General Beiyuan issued the final military order. He asked everyone to give up their bows and arrows and crossbow beds, and charge without risking their lives!

Finally, they reached the farthest range of the cannon.

After another round of hundreds of artillery salvos, the cannon also started firing in three stages.

After being baptized by thousands of enemies and artillery arrays, the oncoming 'snow dust explosion' was almost half narrowed.

After General Li saw this scene, he frowned slightly and said: "Ten thousand enemies and artillery cannot be completely consumed after all, and we have to rely on the aerial fire sea formation."

A moment later, Bei Yuan's front row of infantry rushed into the stone wall maze array.

At the same time, the crossbow bed modified with three arrow slots also started their free shooting.

The trebuchet array in the city is also ready to launch the aerial sea of ​​​​fire array. They only need to give an order to launch all of them.

The soldiers knew that in terms of the number of enemies, the long-range weapons could not be completely exhausted no matter what, and there would eventually be a contradictory horse-resistance formation in which the Beiyuan infantry attacked the city.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Contradictory Horse Formation and the sword and shield soldiers behind them who were arrayed outside the city were also very energetic.

But at this very moment,

Those more than 1000 veterans who did not dare to take the main road and could only take the forest trails because they were afraid of being known by Ye Qing, all appeared outside the gate of the Yanmen Pass Zhongmen Camp.

At the same time, a soldier rushed to General Li and said, "General, all the veterans in the county are here."

"They want to fight, but our people can't stop them. Several of them have been knocked down."

When General Li heard this, he was also the first and the second.

Why are those ancestors who either live in almshouses or receive subsidies at home here?

"There's nothing I can do against these ancestors, so I'll report back to Master Ye quickly with a flag."

"Only Mr. Ye can make the decision on this matter!".
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