Ping An Biography

The dead leaves on the side of the street were covered with a thin layer of white. It was the frost that fell last night. A group of accompanying people rode through the streets of the city, and there were few people along the way.

"According to the mouth of the three rivers, the city of Jiujiang, which is connected with merchants from seven provinces on all sides", suddenly seems to have become a house in which people live in an empty city, with the doors tightly closed. At this moment, Zhang Ning has an illusion. It seems that archaeologists have suddenly discovered a forgotten ancient city. The streets are covered with dead branches and leaves, which is extremely desolate; street sweeper

The dew on the trees on the side of the road has not yet dried up, and water droplets fall from the leaves from time to time, hitting people's faces and necks head-on, so cold that they can make people shiver. , Zhang Ning thought to himself: Today is a sunny day, and it should be warm when the sun comes out.

When a group of people walked to the front of the Fuya, suddenly many people appeared in front of them. A group of soldiers squatted in a mess on the square in a very narrow passage, some of them were wearing the gray uniforms of the Suzaku Army, and some were wearing the self-made clothes of the Jiujiang Army. A, even the wide-brimmed iron hats of the Suzaku soldiers are not wearing. They seem to be preparing to dry the gunpowder there.

These people looked like a mess at first glance, but if you pay more attention, you can see that some people have their own division of labor, and some people are pouring black powder into the stone pound. The container looks like something that ordinary people process rice, and then Add water to the stone pound and smash it with a wooden stick. Some people rub up lumps of black mud-like things and put them in the bamboo cover to cool the "black mud" that has dried in the shade before they are ground. In order to sieve the bamboo sieve, sieve it several times, first sieve out the too fine ones and add water to the stone pound, then remove the too thick ones left in the sieve and continue to grind, and the black grains left by the sieve are uniform in size, just like sesame seeds It’s just as beautiful, put it in a bamboo vessel and spread it out to dry in the square

There are still some people by the wall, some are sitting on wooden benches, some are sitting cross-legged on the ground, next to them are processed gunpowder, which are being carefully filled into bamboo tubes, including gunpowder and lead. When these short bamboo tubes were full, they would be plugged and tied into a string and put aside, waiting for someone to collect them. , which has this bamboo tube

Everyone worked silently, and finally someone saw Zhang Ning passing by, so he stood up and saluted. Zhang Ning immediately raised his arms, returned the salute solemnly, and said, "Excuse me, you all should perform your duties."

He met a small group of soldiers on the road. They knocked on the door, most of them answered, and then they lifted the wooden pillars and smashed open, and found the iron from inside. They carried away pots, pans, shovels, kitchen knives, shovels, and everything.

Zhang Ning and his group went to the east gate and ordered to open the city gate and put down the suspension bridge. When everyone rode out of the city, the atmosphere suddenly became lively. They saw that a large number of soldiers had gathered in the earth wall of the fortifications that had just been completed, and the generals shouted back and forth. On the flat ground in the distance, there are more people, densely packed army infantry, jogging knights, flags are also floating above the crowd, as many as clouds and sails In this era, wars have to be done early, and the sun has not yet come out. It's almost gathered together, I guess they can see the stars when they get up to cook [

Zhang Ning rode his horse in through the opening next to the city wall. The soldiers behind the earthen wall looked very excited, and they cast their eyes on a young general and said loudly: "Brothers will beat them until their mothers don't recognize them!" Zhang Ning waved his hand and said, "Good job." There was an old pawn with gray hair beside the horse and said, "My lord, you have to be careful, the brothers are counting on you." There were people in the distance who wanted to talk to Zhang Ning, and he Respond one by one, "I will be on the wall of the bunker above, and everyone will see me when they turn around."

"What kind of officers and soldiers know how to scare people? Didn't they lose their nests just a few days ago? Why don't we bully them and beat him up!" someone yelled

At this time, a familiar voice shouted: "You know nothing, why don't you come to be a prince!"

Zhang Ning followed the sound, and it turned out that it was Zhang Chengzong and the gang of warriors who were hard to be taboo about speaking. If you really lost, Zhang Ning naturally didn't care, and immediately explained to the people nearby: "There are fortifications to reduce casualties. There are more officers and soldiers." , we have to take care that there is still a battle behind our own troops, brothers, don’t worry, all the meritorious service will be recorded in the notebook, and when the fighting is over, the money will be distributed!"

Zhang Ning jumped off the horse in front of Zhang Chengzong, said a few words to him, and the two of them looked at the officers and soldiers on the opposite side for a while, "In case something is breached later, don't hold it here, you can order Back behind the second wall," Zhang Ning whispered to Zhang Chengzong

They wandered around for a long time, only to see the officers and soldiers pulling the cannons forward, Zhang Ning left the earthen wall and led a group of people to climb up the earthen castle

A general on the wall of the bunker shouted "Get ready", Zhang Ning didn't bother to pretend to be afraid, and covered his ears with his hands, and the others did the same, everyone looked a little confused at this time The funny thing is that Yu Qian stared straight ahead, Zhang Ning kindly reminded: "Slightly open your mouth to protect your ears"

The general of the artillery team drew his knife and shouted: "The first team all fires in volley, let it go!" In an instant, the loud bang made the bunker seem to be shaking, and the thick gunpowder smoke flew quickly. After pouring it over, the dust was flying, Zhang Ning accidentally inhaled a mouthful into his lungs, and couldn't help but groan. can't see

Someone below shouted: "Turn it up one degree, move the second and third guns from the left to the right for a moment." Unexpectedly, Zhang Ning immediately ordered: "Call the artillery team to stop firing for the time being."

The Suzaku Army has simple rangefinder gun gauges and special observation posts for spotting targets, but at this time it is also very difficult to accurately strike smaller targets with artillery bombardment at long distances. The shock absorbing device, like the turret on the earthen castle, should be a little more stable, but it needs to be tried repeatedly, which is too wasteful

Sure enough, the artillery bombardment didn't make the official army's artillery lose their counterattack power at all. When the smoke cleared and the artillery formations in the distance were almost set up, the sound of heavy artillery was very threatening. It was close to two miles away from the earthen fortress. I can still feel the earth-shattering loud noise; but the lethality is not so terrifying. After the previous sparse counterattack, it seems that there are no dead people on the side of the fortification. The iron balls fell from the air, and most of them hit the wide soil surface. Doesn't do anything except kick up dust.

But soon the officers and soldiers had a solution. More and more heavy artillery were pulled up with mule carts and ox carts, and they were set up and loaded everywhere. After a rough count, there were as many as forty or fifty guns in total. The emperor's favorite ministers, the equipment they got was really rich. The general's heavy artillery, in Zhang Ning's opinion, should be classified as a thick-walled mortar. The barrel is thick and short and can only be thrown heavy. tube field artillery more complex technology

The more targets there are, the greater the chance of hitting them. At this time, Zhang Ning ordered another bombardment.

After this round of shelling, it seemed as if a hornet's nest had been stabbed, and the next battle would be disastrous. A big drum sounded in the distance, and then dozens of heavy artillery roared together in the thick smoke. Zhang Ning saw flames flickering everywhere, and for a while he I feel that the sky seems to be covered with dark clouds. Countless dark clouds collide together, and continuous lightning and thunder are roaring overhead.

Screaming, exclamation, horse neighing came out of the thick clouds, and someone was faintly heard shouting: "Don't run! Where can a dog|day go!" sound[

After a while, in the faint smoke, I saw some cavalry soldiers rushing over sparsely, and soon the neighing of the horses came, and the horses led the people into the pit constantly, it was too far away, Zhang Ning couldn't see clearly However, such a scene subconsciously appeared in his mind: the horse stepped on the pit, the wood chips and loose soil were turned over immediately, and the horse and man rushed in, hitting heavily on the sharpened wood and hard bamboo in the pit , the blood is soaring, maybe the person is not dead yet, he is screaming in pain and calling for help

There are pits everywhere on the battlefield. The rangers who came running like Sahuan before quickly became honest. Some people dismounted and walked away, all of them cautiously. While searching on the ground and waiting for those people to approach the fortifications, there were sporadic gunshots from here.

After a long time of tossing on the battlefield, the officers and soldiers fired the cannons again. Fortunately, after all their cannons were fired, it was very slow to reload.

Near noon, a large number of infantrymen of the officer's army bullied up. After firing another cannon in the distance, the crowd in front of the infantry of the officer's army slowly entered within a hundred paces. Most of them are light infantry, with firearms in front and archers in the back

Zhang Chengzong waved his shining knife and shouted something, and then heard many people echoing and shouting "Dong Dong Dong..." The cowhide drum made a dull percussion sound, and countless musket gongs were placed on the curved earth wall. As soon as the sound was heard, a Suzaku flag leaned forward, "Papa..." A whole row of white smoke rose from the officers and soldiers, many of them fell to the ground, and some people could still be seen crawling on the ground and scattered on the dry soil. A lot of things were lost, including weapons, and some wooden stands. The matchlock guns of the officers and soldiers were relatively heavy, and they had to be fired with brackets.

After a while, a lot of smoke rose from the crowd of officers and soldiers. After the sound of the guns, dust splashed on the dirt wall. Obviously, the loss of the Suzaku Army was much smaller.

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