Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 765
Slowly advance, the stone bullets in the city are only launched at this time, and the approximate range can be judged almost. The stone bullets of the trebuchet are projected in an open field with a range, cross the city wall, and take a parabola with a relatively large angle to project it out. This is another range.

Stone bullets are no better than cannons. When they roar and fly out, the soldiers below can see the trajectory of the stone bullets. They have chosen to be smart and agile characters, and they have cleared a large enough space behind them. It is easy to dodge Soon, the soldiers dropped their weapons and dispersed.

The stone bullet fell heavily, and after landing, Wang Tong discovered that the range of the stone bullet may be closer than he expected, because it did not fall into the open space, but hit the house instead, destroying several dilapidated shacks.

The subsequent demolition was much more careful. An iron hook was hung in front of the thick rope, the iron hook was thrown out, and hung somewhere in the shack or house, and then everyone pulled and pulled these buildings down one by one.

If it is a house outside the Daming City, there are also many deep houses, large courtyards, and masonry buildings. If you want to dismantle them, you need to use big wooden hammers and other equipment, but here, they are all wooden shacks covered with grass, which is really simple. very.

The only thing the soldiers of the Ming army had to be careful of was the stone bombs that came from the city from time to time, but the firing intervals of the catapults were very long. After the round, it didn't stop much.

At the south gate and city wall of Guihua City, more than [-] steps to the south, the shacks and buildings were all demolished, and the debris and hay were also piled aside, and a rather large area was cleared out. In the open space, the teams of the Ming army began to enter this open space to form arrays.

The rear team is still busy, making the area where the army is located as flat as possible to facilitate the activities of the army. Gradually, this side is no different from yesterday's battlefield, except that the battlefield was still covered with snow yesterday morning. It is a wasteland.

The pawns cleaning up in front gradually became bolder, and the speed of demolition and cleaning gradually accelerated, but at this time there was an accident, and there was another whistling sound.

Six or seven stone bullets were thrown out of Guihua City, and the soldiers below naturally dispersed in a rush. After the stone bullets landed, they would not bounce too far. If they escaped early, they could still run away, but after the stone bullets landed this time But it didn't bounce, but exploded violently, and debris shot out.

Some soldiers of the Ming army thought they had run far away, but they didn't expect debris to shoot out. Many people fell down screaming. In this round, more than a hundred people were killed or injured.

Under the general's order, the soldiers quickly retreated to a safe distance, and the debris was immediately delivered to Wang Tong. Wang Tong was quite surprised at first, but he understood after seeing the debris.

This is not a stone bomb at all, nor is it ammunition with gunpowder, but a mud bomb. This is the first time Wang Tong has seen it. He understands it because Yu Dayou told him about it back then.

Catapults launch mud bombs outside the city. This is a city defense technique passed down from the Song Dynasty. The mud bombs are made of dry mud and wet mud to form fist-sized projectiles, which are then aggregated into larger projectiles after drying slightly. After landing, the mud bombs exploded, and those fist-sized mud pellets scattered, and those who were hit were either killed or injured.

"Push the scull cart to cover, continue to clear the front, if there is any movement, don't use the scull cart, people withdraw first!"

Wang Tong gave the order again, and the messenger went to pass the order. Wang Tong passed the clay bomb in his hand to the people around him, and said with a sneer:

"Yesterday, the captives were interrogated, and they said that this time the cannon was made by craftsmen invited by their prince from the Western Regions. This mud bomb technique is our Ming's method of defending the city, and it was also learned by the Tartars. What is this Sengge Dugulen? Lalik, the picture is not small!"

Catapults are mainly for destroying cities, and mud bombs are for defense. The vast grasslands range from the great forests in the extreme east to the deserts in the extreme west, which is a decent city like Guihua City. Why do you want to master these technologies? Raiding the cities of Daming, the first generation of Altan Khan invaded Daming several times, burned, killed and looted, and killed and injured more than one million soldiers and civilians. But at that time, they rarely attacked any cities. Now with these technologies, their intentions are clear.

Yang Jin was silent for a while, then said:
"This time, if the commander-in-chief hadn't led the army to the city of Guihua and forced the Tartars to reveal their family background, it would have been a catastrophe if they had beaten them to Daming. But with this trebuchet, if we attack the city, I'm afraid There is also trouble, it is difficult to break the city in two days!"

Wang Tong shook his head and smiled, and said:
"Why do you always feel that it takes two days to break the city? Today is the day to break the city. Everyone, return to your team and listen to my commander's orders!"

After hearing Wang Tong's words, everyone immediately bowed and returned to their own team. Wang Tong has been watching the advance of demolition ahead, and another mud bomb was fired from the city, but the burst of mud bombs did a lot of damage to people However, the front of the scull cart is covered by a thick iron-clad wooden plank, and it is only a little tremor if it hits it.

However, the next round was stone bullets. To deal with this, the officers and soldiers turned their heads and ran away. A few carts were smashed, and the buildings in front were gradually cleared away.

When the clearing was almost done, Wang Tong looked around. There was enough space in front of and behind the army array to move around. This situation was extremely beneficial to the Ming army, but it was not beneficial to the Tartar cavalry, who needed more space. Activities, these buildings are natural obstacles to them.

"At the front of the cleared space, set up guns [-] steps away from the city, with three guns at each end, firing flat from the muzzle."

Wang Tong's order was spoken, and the messenger listened attentively, and was still holding a pen to quickly record it. This order is complicated and must be taken seriously.

There are quite a few of the messengers who are educated, and their family backgrounds are all good. In addition to practicing martial arts, the family also hired a gentleman to teach them to read and write. The traditional pen, ink, paper and inkstone are not suitable for recording on the battlefield. They are all hard pens, which imitate the quill pens of Furang Robot, and the ink is placed in a porcelain pot.

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The Tartar officers and soldiers guarding the city were also confused by the arrangement of the Ming army below the city. Just now they had demolished the dilapidated buildings under the city, but now they placed several artillery pieces at a safe distance.

The three doors on the right are side by side, and the three doors on the left are side by side. The distance between the left and right cannons is [-] steps, and the cannons are all placed flat. Such a placement of the cannons will not be effective at all.

The flat-firing artillery can at most knock down the bottom of the city wall. Apart from the city bricks, there is thick rammed earth there, so they are not afraid of the shells at all. Moreover, the caliber of these cannons is not large, and their power must be nothing. It can have any effect, but they dare not be careless, this Ming army is unexpectedly strong, they have already experienced it yesterday.

Behind the walls of the city, there were loud curses and screams. Tartar soldiers were urging the captured Han peasants to load stone bombs with whips. After yesterday's defeat, everyone was depressed and irritable. If they moved a little slowly, they would immediately A whip was whipped, and even the back of the knife was used to beat him violently, all of which were naturally crying.

"Ming Dog is going to attack the city!!"

There was a shout from the top of the city, and the trebuchet side immediately became more busy. The people on the top of the city wanted to report down the position so that they could adjust it through counterweights and so on.

"Damn Minggou, they use our people!!"

Surprised and angry shouts came from the city, and some people in the city cursed.

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The open space between the cannons was crowded with the Tartar prisoners captured yesterday. Some of these people looked terrified, some looked ashamed, and some were indifferent and desperate. They all held bricks, stones and wood in their hands. They were all taken from the demolished building just now. Someone behind them shouted in Mongolian:
"Fill up the trenches ahead, you still have a chance to survive, those who run away, those who don't work, will be killed, move forward now!!"

In the past when the Tartars attacked the city, they often used the captured people to rush forward, and they followed behind on horseback. If the defender did not dare to make a move, they would take advantage of the situation and rush over. If the defender made a move, it would only damage their morale and consume themselves. How could he not pay for his own strength, but he did not expect that the Ming army would use this method today.

"Don't dawdle, go, go, drop something at the ditch, and then go back, you fucking, why are you still dawdling!!"

After a few words of driving away, everyone knew that the city was a place of death, and no one dared to move, but the general of the Ming army who was driving behind was impatient. The prisoner of the Tartars was stabbed to death immediately, and died screaming.

When one person dies, the other captives move forward immediately, and they die here immediately. There may be a ray of life under the city, and there may be a chance to escape in such a wide open space. The spear thrust forward, stabbed deservedly, and stabbed hapless.

The captives were driven faster and faster, carrying earth, rocks, bricks and wood, and ran forward. As soon as they left the main formation, the gunmen and archers immediately followed. The captives were thinking of running for their lives. When the army was in formation, they dropped the things in their hands and wanted to turn around and leave. There was such a cheap thing within the range of bows and arrows and firecrackers. Hearing the continuous roar, people died there immediately.

Threatened by the death behind them, the captives could only run forward, and there were also smart people who ran in the front with their things in their hands. After calculating the range of the firecrackers and bows and arrows, they dropped their things and ran in other directions.
With a loud "boom", the artillery lined up behind opened fire, and the captives clearly saw the escaped smart man, whose body was broken by the shells.Blood and minced flesh splashed all over the faces of those around him.

Everyone finally knew what the arrangement behind them was, and the captives no longer dared to move rashly, and ran towards the trench with earth and stones.
(End of this chapter)