golden scales

"General, the general has an order." The messenger Tang Ma found Oboi's flag, and said loudly: "Xuan has ordered the general: the first person to climb the earth wall will be promoted to two ranks, and there will be a Ding Bian village and 200 taels of silver as rewards." Five pieces of cloth! Those who climb the city wall of Tianjin first will be promoted to three ranks. When they stop at Angbangzhangjing, they will be rewarded with two Zhuangzi, 500 taels of silver, and ten horses! Whoever breaks through the city of Tianjin first, all Shenmeng, Dinghan and Han people will raise their flags and hoist their flags. The fourth level, up to Baylor, will reward Zhuangzi five times, a thousand taels of silver, and bestow post on the world! Anyone who shrinks back will be executed regardless of his post, and his whole family will be enslaved..."

Aobai listened with his eyes narrowed, and saw the generals around him gearing up, thinking about getting a world job.Since the first emperor changed the official system, one must have military merits to get a world job, which is no longer as easy as it is in the hands of Lao Khan. Now even the lowest "half the future" is not easy to get.

"Since everyone has the wish to receive meritorious service, we must work harder to take down this city of Tianjin!" Obai shouted loudly.

Although everyone had never seen such a complicated city defense, since the two yellow flags ran across the pass, there was no city that could not be conquered, so their morale was not weakened, and they shouted the order to march, even if it took their lives to fill up these trenches.

The vulnerability of the Ming army for many years also led to a decline in the combat effectiveness of the Manchurian soldiers and a misunderstanding of themselves.According to the old chief Nuer Hachi, the reason why the Kingdom of Jin was able to defeat the barbarians in Liaodong was because the Kingdom of Jin "built the city", "defended the city", and "sieged the city".

In terms of building a city, the "capital" of the Jin Dynasty was not even comparable to the larger prefectures and counties in the south of the Yangtze River. As for the defense of the city, it was because the Liaodong Yi tribe did not even have iron tools, let alone siege equipment.Even in the era of Huang Taiji.Amin defended Yongping, but was still defeated by the counterattacking Ming army. He didn't even defend for a day until he was abandoned.This also gave Huang Taiji the excuse to imprison this cousin to death.

The Manchu siege was even more benign.All the castles that were brought down in Liaodong and Liaoxi were nothing more than two methods: one was to dig trenches and besiege them, and when the people in the city starved to death, they would naturally be taken down.The second is that the traitor offered the city.Especially the second one is almost the only way for Nuerhachi to attack the city and pull out the stronghold.

In fact, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has never really captured a large city with superior forces since it took over the country.In the original historical time and space, as long as the guard commanded properly, the soldiers and civilians in the city would guard it wholeheartedly.Even a small city of Jiangyin can hold for 81 days.

These less glorious histories have been forgotten by the new generation like Oboi.In their memory, there is only one big victory after another.

On the other hand, although the Ming army was rampant with city and fortress tactics, it was the Crown Prince's East Palace Army that really pushed this tactic to its peak.

From the transformation of the village to the anti-curved city wall.Abundant labor force exploits limestone in large quantities.Calcined cement is used as a new type of binder and filler.Greatly increased engineering progress and defense strength.Although the scale of hundreds of thousands of workers has been likened by some people to the construction of the Great Wall by Emperor Qin and the opening of canals by Sui Yang, the actual effect and rigid demand made Zhu Cihong willing to be called a tyrant and would not reduce the scale.

Even if the mechanical trial production of steam power is successful in the future.It will also take a long time to replace large-scale human labor.

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"These Eastern captives are really like bats." Cao Ning said: "They say they are beasts in front of birds, and birds in front of beasts. They use my Ming Dynasty's fighting methods to beat Mengtar and Donghu, saying that they are good at attacking cities. Hit us with the cavalry of Mengta and Donghu, and say that we have established a country with bow horses. In fact, both ends are three-legged cats."

Xiao Donglou looked at the captive soldiers below who looked like scattered ants, and agreed: "This is obviously someone who can't attack the city, and he is taking human lives to fill it. Just get some shield vehicles and want to break our artillery formation? It's too small. Let's go."

"This is still a forward, and the artillery probably followed the Chinese army." Cao Ning said: "According to the information sent by the general staff, the artillery that Donglu can use now, not counting the city defense artillery in Beijing, there are a total of 43."

"All? 43?" Xiao Donglou laughed loudly and said, "My Second Guard Division has hundreds of cannons! What will he use to fight me!"

Cao Ning gave Xiao Donglou a blank look, and said coldly: "A dog is crazy and shit, but a maniac is no good. Besides, are the [-] cannons here for us? They are used to defend Tianjin! They are all Firearms Battalion."

"Never mind him, it's mine if I use it." Xiao Donglou didn't pay attention at all, and suddenly said: "By the way, scholar, these seven reforms are battalion-owned artillery. Now the whole country does not know how many doors have been cast, one Counting the five camps, there are not so many camp leaders."

"There will be more and more camps. Tell you secret things, don't spread them to the outside world." Cao Ning lowered his voice and said, "One time His Highness blurted out a poem, saying: 'Millions of heroes cross the river'! Tsk tsk, you really have courage ... Cough cough, later His Highness said again: The world is so big, there is no army of more than one million is not enough. So the staff of the General Staff are all saying, His Highness estimates that the army will expand to one million in the end. Do you calculate how many battalions this is? ?”

"Counting the battalion head of Bird Feather! According to divisions, there will be hundreds of them!" Xiao Donglou was very excited: "Do you think we have caught up with the good times! In the future, we will bring dozens of divisions If you go out to fight, that's hundreds of thousands of troops!"

"But I'm thinking," Cao Ning came from a logistics background, "how much is the military salary and rations? Unless there is a garrison like the Liaodong Division in the million-dollar army, and a military station. Otherwise, how to support it?"

"I don't think..." Xiao Donglou hadn't finished speaking, when suddenly two cannon shots were heard from the battlefield.

The sound of this cannon was darker and thicker than that of Yiqigai, which made the earth tremble, which was extraordinary.

The larger shells brought out an invisible aura in the air, and flew straight towards the big banner behind the Qing army formation.

Oboi was also shocked by the sudden thunder, and immediately saw two black shadows coming towards him.As a general in front of the battle, he couldn't lose his dignity, he sat stiffly on the horseback and didn't move, but his heart beat like fifteen buckets fetching water, up and down.

Finally, one of the shells missed the head and hit a shield cart blocking the front, smashing the shield cart immediately, and then crushed the green battalion soldiers on the cart next to it, covered with blood and muddy meat before stopping. down.

The aim of the other artillery shell was much higher, and it still went straight towards General Oboi's flag.

A Meile Erzhen stepped forward and grabbed Oboi's bridle, his palms were already sweating.

Ghoshha around him held iron shields and stood in front of Oboi, waiting for God's final judgment.

To them, the ticking seconds seemed to last hundreds of years.

Boom!

The shell fell to the ground, stirred up dust and jumped up at the same time. It was half a person's height, and hit a Goshha's iron shield.

Nagoshha was wearing triple heavy armor, with his front legs bowed and his back legs stretched, and he tried his best to block the shell.Hearing the clanging of gold and iron, Geshha let out a scream, flew backwards for more than ten steps, and landed heavily on the ground, spitting blood, obviously his internal organs had been shattered.

The cannonball rolled innocently to the side, and finally stopped spinning under the horrified eyes, quietly dissipating the scorching heat from his body.

Obai was so frightened that his inner armor drenched.

As long as the shell misses two more positions, even if he is stopped by Goshha, he will be knocked off his horse by Goshha who was knocked into the air.

"General, the shield chariot is almost exhausted, we should withdraw first, and reorganize the troops and horses before charging." Mel Zhangjing's voice was wailing.

Aobai took a deep breath, pretending to be indifferent, and said, "I don't think the Ming army's cannons are going to hit really far. Let's retreat first."

Meilezhangjing immediately felt relieved, and sent an order to call Jin.

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A staff officer ran up the city wall in a small step, saluted the two officers: "Master, Chief of Staff, the enemy has retreated, please show us the strategy!"

Xiao Donglou and Cao Ning leaned on the parapet to look at the battlefield and confirmed that the Qing army was not pretending to retreat, so they ordered: "All battalions clean up the battle area and clear the ditches."

"Obey!" The staff officer saluted and retreated.

Xiao Donglou continued to talk to Cao Ning: "Didn't you see that His Highness even withdrew the guards? If you want to set up military settlements, why withdraw the guards?"

"That's true..." Cao Ning took out his fan, opened it a few times and put it back, saying: "But even if we want to pacify the world, we don't need a million troops. According to our combat power, there are over ten divisions , enough to calm the world.”

"It's unrealistic based on our combat power." Xiao Donglou raised his chin: "You have too high demands on them. But even with the combat power of the first and third divisions of the Imperial Guard, ten divisions should be enough."

"Can you be more shameless?"

"I'll give it a try." Xiao Donglou touched the scar on his face, pretending to be calm and serious, but his heart was trembling with laughter.

Under the city of Tianjin, the auxiliary soldiers took the civilian husbands and slaves nervously to carry the corpses.

Because the Ming army guarded behind the earthen wall, even if there were casualties, they were carried to the rear hospital immediately.

According to the plan, the depressions outside the line of defense were natural corpse pits.After simply recording the number of corpses, these corpses were all discarded in these depressions, mainly for the sake of epidemic prevention.Moreover, once these depressions are filled in the future, it can be regarded as a layer of base fertilizer.

The corpses in the trenches are easier to deal with, as long as they are sprinkled with kerosene, they can be burned up when the Qing army next attacks and become a wall of fire.The trouble is those earth bags, but fortunately there are not many, and they can be cleaned up slowly when the truce is at night.

Xiao Donglou and Cao Ning divided into two groups. He went to the field hospital to visit the wounded soldiers, while Cao Ning went to the front to understand the battle situation and count the number of casualties.

Because of the special origin of the second division, Cao Ning has always been the training officer, so at the moment it is quite a bit lacking in skills.This was originally the East Palace's Huairou strategy, but the second division has been integrated into the Donggong system. This kind of Huairou is not only unnecessary, but has become a burden.

While dealing with the data reported by each battalion, Cao Ning was thinking about how to report to the General Discipline Department, please send a serious "Teacher Discipline Officer" over.

He went to trainer training, and he found it more and more difficult to be a trainer.In the past, it was only necessary to teach people to read and write wills and letters, but now it is not only that, but also "think about what soldiers think" and "worry about what soldiers worry about"... What a shame!I know which village girl those big soldiers are thinking about? ! (To be continued..)

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