Nanming Engineer

Chapter 225 The person who knows the current affairs is Junjie
That night, the three of them were so drunk that at dawn, the soldiers of the old guard waited for a long time and no one came out, and they dared not go in to see. The door of the side hall opened a gap, only to find that the three people in the hall rolled into a ball, hugged a bunch, and fell asleep like a muddy mud, the room was full of alcohol, and a dozen wine jars were rolling around on the ground, God knows How much did the father and son drink last night?

After seeing the sergeant carrying out the corpses of Zhang Xianzhong's wife, concubine and young son from the inner courtyard, the governors were surprised and felt that a catastrophe was imminent. Their eyes were full of complicated expressions. Perhaps it was time to consider their own escape route. up.

The mountains and rains are about to come, the wind is full of buildings, and the black clouds are pressing down on the city and the city is about to be destroyed.

The chaos and panic in Guangyuan shrouded the entire Daxi Kingdom in the shadow of annihilation. Ma Yuanli, who lived in the Baoning Mansion across the mountain from Guangyuan, could clearly feel this dangerous situation.

The news of Hanzhong's defeat, like the spring breeze blowing across the grassland, quickly spread throughout the land of central Sichuan with a strong smell of blood. Teahouses, restaurants, streets and alleys in various states and counties, in the next few days, everywhere It's a panic-stricken crowd gathered to discuss, and there are many good-natured people who are telling vividly about the Tatar soldiers, all of whom are gods descending to earth, Shura reincarnated, and taking human life is as easy as picking something out of a bag, and there are demons to help, and shamans to accompany each other. withstand.

The fragile rule of Daxi Kingdom in central Sichuan collapsed almost immediately. Except for Chengdu, which was still under control, there were landlords, gentry, and old Ming dynasty rebels everywhere who rebelled. Like a prairie fire, it burned all over the land of Tianfu. I can't even eat the rice.

In addition to these, what disturbed him even more was that the dragon had seen its head but never seen its tail. The Kuizhou army who had infiltrated Baoning Mansion more than a month ago has not been found yet. After a lap, it disappeared into the vast mountains.

Impatiently, Ma Yuanli slapped Tie Ruyi on the table heavily on his thigh. There was an old wound there, and it would itch unbearably at the turn of winter and spring. It had to be beaten hard to relieve it. No matter how many famous doctors he hired , making him helpless.

The double mental and physical torture made Ma Yuanli upset, and he was about to go out for a walk, maybe he would feel better after getting some air, when he stood up, he heard a noise outside the door, as if someone was shouting loudly.

How can there be any noise in the important place of the governor's mansion!Ma Yuanli suddenly felt that he had found a punching bag, and the hostility in his heart soared three points. He stood outside the door glaring, and cursed: "Who the hell doesn't have eyes? What are you arguing about! Do you want to eat a whip?"

A group of soldiers escorted a ragged and frightened refugee into the courtyard. The soldiers pushed, rubbed and cursed, and kicked the man in front of Ma Yuanli.

Ma Yuanli frowned and asked, "Who is this person?"

The leader of the soldiers hurried forward to report: "Captain, this man is yelling outside the gate of the mansion, saying that he is an envoy of the Ming Dynasty who came to recruit the governor of An. Seeing that he is crazy, I wanted to beat him to death with a stick, but unexpectedly Man is a fool, yelling and disturbing the peace of the governor."

"Envoy?" Interesting!The hostility in Ma Yuanli's chest suddenly went away. He became curious, and first sized up the man who had just got up from the ground to wipe his nosebleeds. He felt that this man's eyes were dull and his expression was numb. Where is the minister?

He knocked on the man's head with Tie Ruyi in his hand, and asked casually, "Who asked you to be an envoy?"

"Lord King Kuizhou asked me to come." The idiot said blankly, "He gave me three steamed buns, and said that as long as he meets the high officials here, he will give me more steamed buns."

Lord Wang?Ma Yuanli suddenly became uneasy. He already knew the name of Wang Huan of Kuizhou. He heard that this man was both civil and military. With such a number one person, and being so close to Ma Yuanli town, how could Ma Yuanli not care?

"Where is this person?" Ma Yuanli yelled, grabbing the ragged skirt of the man's clothes.

The fool stared at him blankly, speechless.

Only then did Ma Yuanli come to his senses, he was a fool, so he could only hold back his anger and asked patiently, "Who gave you the steamed buns? Where is he?"

The fool shook his head and said with a smile: "The man has left. He said that if the officials here see me, they will be angry and grab my clothes. He is right!"

The fool reached out his hand to feel in his pocket, grinned and said: "He also said that to be an envoy, you must submit your credentials. Let me hand this over to the senior official. Is it you, the senior official? Here you are."

Ma Yuanli was almost going insane. He deeply felt that his IQ had been insulted. He threw the letter that the fool had found out on the ground fiercely, and roared, "Throw this guy out and beat him to death with a stick!"

Soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed up, holding up the cheerful fool, and were about to go out. At this moment, a huge roar sounded in the sky, and the whole city suddenly trembled, and the tiles on the roof slammed down. It fell straight, and the trees shook wildly, as shocking as a meteorite hitting Boryeong City.

Everyone was stunned. Ma Yuanli looked around in a panic, unable to understand what was going on, but he heard the fool laugh and shouted: "That man hit the mark again. He said that the high official is going to beat me, so he told me not to be afraid." , with Tianlei helping me, it's really like this!"

Seeing the fool's godlike appearance, the soldiers were a little scared and hesitated. The loud noise was too frightening to allow them to be indifferent.

Ma Yuanli regained his strength a little later, glanced at the fool, and shouted, "Take him down, lock him up, torture him, and ask where the person who gave him the letter is!"

Before the words were finished, there was a sound at the gate, someone broke in and broke in. When everyone saw it, it was a lieutenant general guarding the city.

The lieutenant's face was pale, he stumbled straight to Ma Yuanli, and shouted in panic: "Captain, something is wrong, the Ming army from the brigade has come, blowing down a section of the city wall outside the north gate!"

Ma Yuanli was startled, his face turned green, he grabbed the lapel of the lieutenant general reflexively, and shouted like an idiot: "Big Ming army? What are you doing, why did you only find out now?"

The deputy general was held tightly by him, and he couldn't breathe. He held his breath and shouted: "Captain, you'd better go to the city to have a look."

Ma Yuanli shook him angrily, turned around, and strode out of the yard. Halfway through, he turned around again, picked up the letter that was just thrown away on the ground, thought about it, and put it in his sleeve.

A group of people rushed to the north gate in a hurry. All the way, the people in the city were panic-stricken, and they rushed home one after another. The shops on the street were boarded up and closed, as if a catastrophe was imminent.

Ma Yuanli became even more anxious, and when he reached the north gate, before he could get close, he gasped.

Beside the north gate, a section of rammed-earth city wall that was four or five feet long was like a piece of tofu smashed by an iron rod. Although the city wall of Ning is not as strong as Chengdu, it is made of clay mixed with mortar. Generally, black gunpowder is buried under the wall without a thousand catties, so it is impossible to blow up such a big hole.

Ma Yuanli yelled at a group of soldiers standing beside him with a dark face: "Why are you standing there? Why don't you go find the thick wooden fence and wait for the Ming army to come in and chop off your heads?"

The soldiers left in a hurry, and Ma Yuanli walked through the mud all over the ground angrily, and came to the wall. Looking out of the city with fear, he saw a white army formation.

Five hundred paces away from the collapsed city wall, just at the limit of the firing range of the Fran's machine guns on the city, a Kuizhou military phalanx was firmly placed there. It looked like it was waiting for something.

Ma Yuanli touched the section of the wall with a pale face, and then stomped his feet on the ground. It was a bit inconceivable that this place didn't collapse due to digging a tunnel and planting explosives.

Immediately, his anger rushed into his brain again, and he pulled the deputy city guard who was with him over and cursed: "Are you fucking blind or are you hiding in the camp to drink? The Ming army transported all the explosives to the city. I know, believe it or not, I will chop off your head with the marching method!"

The lieutenant general cried out, and called out to Qu: "You are wronged, Commander, knowing that the Ming army is haunting Baoning Mansion, the last general has been guarding the city, and he did not dare to slack off. The explosives that collapsed the city wall were not transported by the Ming army, but they smashed it." came."

"Smash it over?" Ma Yuanli was stunned.

The lieutenant general pointed his hand and said, "Look, Commander, they hit it with a return cannon."

Ma Yuanli looked in the direction of the lieutenant general's finger in astonishment, and he saw that in front of the white-robed Kuizhou army formation, three trebuchets were standing there, and a group of soldiers were busy loading something on the counterweight rack of the trebuchets. It's too far away to see clearly.

"Did they use a return cannon to hit the explosives here?" Ma Yuanli didn't believe it: "Are you fucking blind?"

Ma Yuanli can't help but believe that there are gunpowder weapons that can blow down the city wall, but it is definitely not the firearms thrown by the wooden throwing machines that are at most small return guns on the opposite side. Look at those return guns How big is it, can the top of the sky throw a thunderbolt ball the size of [-] catties, and [-] catties of black powder can blow down the city wall?Are you kidding me?
"Really, Commander, if you don't believe me, they're going to throw it away again!" The deputy general cried out happily, fearing that Ma Yuanli wouldn't believe it.

After the group of soldiers were busy, the trebuchet on the opposite side was thrown down again. It was obvious that something was about to be launched. Ma Yuanli didn't have time to scold the lieutenant for being an idiot, so he quickly lowered his body. Anyway, he had to be careful.

But luckily, only one of the three return guns shot out a dusty package-like thing, which was not very big, and the direction of the shot was also towards another section of the city wall dozens of steps away from the collapsed wall. Ma Yuanli breathed a sigh of relief.

Before he finished breathing, the dusty cloth-like thing landed on the edge of the city wall with sparks like "Puff", and three sides of the cloth bag seemed to be coated with thick black ointment. , very sticky, jumped a few times on the wall bricks, did not bounce off, landed at the root of the city wall, and exploded.

This time, Ma Yuanli witnessed with his own eyes what is called heaven and earth shattering. The deafening noise made him temporarily deaf. The three-foot-long earthen wall was completely wiped away, and the originally towering wall turned into fly ash and disappeared.

"Captain, Commander, the last general is not dazzled, the Ming army really threw the explosives!" The deputy general, who was probably dumbfounded by the bombing, yelled.

Ma Yuanli ignored him and stood there blankly, it took him a long time to recover from the shock.

Staring blankly at the Ming army in the distance for a while, Ma Yuanli suddenly remembered something, and tremblingly took out the letter sent by the fool from his sleeve, tore open the envelope with nothing written on it, and pulled out the letterhead.

There is only one line of writing on the white paper.

"Those who know the times are Junjie!"

The flamboyant cursive script is very chic, smooth and pleasing to the viewer.

However, in Ma Yuanli's view, it was as bitter as Chinese medicine that was difficult to swallow.

There are [-] soldiers in the city, about half of which are capable of fighting, and the Ming army on the opposite side probably has the same number of people.

The situation is very clear. The Ming army should show its power on its own, and Xin is here to recruit surrender. So, should we fight or surrender?
Ma Yuanli was originally from the Ming army and served as a garrison in Yulin. He surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong due to defeat.At this moment, I made some calculations, compared the strengths and weaknesses of each other, thought about the news from Hanzhong, and looked at the city wall that was blown into a fence, and made up my mind very happily.

"Go, take off your armor." Ma Yuanli swiftly took off the brocade robe he was wearing, and shouted to the people around him, "You all wear plain clothes, I will do whatever I want!"

Ma Xintian on the opposite side was very laid-back, but his expression was still that of a poker face that others owed him 300 taels of silver, serious and rigid, but when he saw a group of generals in plain clothes and green clothes coming over unarmed, the corners of his mouth still froze. There was a smile.

With the artifacts developed by adults, fighting is easy.

(End of this chapter)