Daming: Stealing Chen Yuanyuan at the beginning

Chapter 15 Incompetent and furious, I won the first battle
Li Guo and Gao Yigong felt suffocated when they saw the ceramic mines falling on the city wall, their own soldiers falling down, and the tragic sea of ​​corpses.

In addition to being brave, Gao Yigong was more irritable, and he jumped into a rage on the spot: "Zhi Niang, where did the Ming army get so many explosive bombs, who can tell me, who can explain it!"

Blooming bombs originated in the Song Dynasty. They are another name for explosive shells. They are named for their shrapnel when they explode, like flowers blooming.

On the battlefields of the Ming Dynasty, flowering ammunition was widely used, especially as a weapon for defending the city.Reluctantly, in the Qing Dynasty, it was mysteriously lost.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang recovered the northwest frontier, and excavated more than a hundred bullets from a Ming Dynasty fort site. sigh!"

As the commander-in-chief of the army at that time, Zuo Zongtang was in a high position, and even if he didn't know how to shoot bullets, you can imagine the ignorance of the ordinary people.

And all of this is thanks to the obscurity policy of building slaves.In fact, not only bombs but also countless advanced technologies have been lost in the past 300 years. Even the famous book "Tiangong Kaiwu" disappeared, and was finally brought back from abroad.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong, as rebel generals in the late Ming Dynasty, fought on the battlefield, so they naturally knew the existence of flower bombs and their power.

But they didn't know that after Li Cunming's improvement, these ceramic mines were different from those used by the Ming army in the past.

Li Cunming suggested that Qi Tianming shorten the firing line of the ceramic mine, and stuff the porcelain jars with sharp objects such as iron nails and gravel. At the same time, during the ten days, he carefully selected bombers to practice, so as to ensure that the ceramic mine can be one meter above the enemy's head. The left and right places exploded.

Because the flower bomb exploded in mid-air, the most lethal!
Li Guo was calm, calm, resolute and resolute than Gao Yigong. He looked up at the sky and said, "It's getting dark, let's fight for the last time. Anyway, the team has finally reached the edge of the moat and has made great progress."

"Pass down the order to form a death squad and blow up the city wall!"

By this time, the rebels had already become red-eyed and fell into a state of madness.

The general gave the order to die, and the soldiers were numb to death. They had only one thought, and they rushed under the city wall at all costs.

Again mobilized [-] soldiers, desperately built the Hao bridge, and transported the ladder to cross the river.

The Ming soldiers on the city wall were slightly intimidated when they saw the desperate posture of the rebels.Wang Yi muttered with trembling lips: "Crazy, these thieves are all crazy!"

Li Cunming shouted: "This is the last madness of the enemy before defeat, hold it against me!"

"Remove the shield formation, and use all artillery to bombard the enemies far away. If they reach the city wall, use rolling logs and rocks to greet them!" Zhou Yuji issued the general order.

The shield formation was withdrawn, and the general guns and tiger squat guns on the tower opened fire at the same time, blocking the enemy hundreds of meters away.The shells flew randomly, and the sound of explosions was all around, deafening.

The enemy withstood the artillery fire, at the cost of countless lives, finally built three Hao bridges, and began to push the ladder car forward.

The moat is just under the tower, and the trebuchet is no longer working.Li Cunming was quick to wit, picked up a ceramic mine, lit it on fire, and when he guessed that the fire wire was almost burning, he threw it down suddenly.

"Throw mines with your hands!" he shouted.

Seeing that the emperor risked his life to kill the enemy himself, and the effect of throwing mines was excellent, the soldiers followed suit after being moved and admiring.

Li Cunming reminded: "After igniting the fire, don't rush to throw it down. Wait until the fire wire is almost burned before throwing it, so as to ensure that the ceramic mine explodes above the enemy's head."

The soldiers learned everything and got started quickly.Porcelain mines were thrown under the city and beside the moat one by one, and they exploded, killing the enemy's souls and returning them to hell.

Except for the people hiding in the cabin of the ladder truck, the rebels once again tasted the taste of explosive bullets, and their crazy momentum dropped sharply.The ladder car and the bumper stopped on the Hao bridge, unable to move forward.

As for the enemy who ran under the city wall, they could neither climb the wall to attack the city, nor break through the city gate, so it was useless.They can only run away with their heads in their arms, and some people simply jumped into the moat.

Li Cunming was already used to everything on the battlefield at this time, and even had the pleasure of killing the enemy with his own hands.He was throwing ceramic mines down with great joy, when he suddenly saw a change in the enemy.

I saw more than 100 strong and powerful rebels, braved the hail of bullets, quickly ran across a bridge of Hao, and rushed to a remote place on the city wall.

They held hoes and shovels in their hands, and carried heavy cloth bags on their shoulders. More than 20 people held a strange thing together, which seemed to be sewn from several pieces of cowhide.

"Pay attention to those people, what are they going to do?" Li Cunming asked.

Zhou Yuji glanced at it, and hurriedly said: "No, the enemy is going to blow up the city wall! Quick, prepare tung oil, and concentrate the firepower on them!"

It turned out that this was a common trick of the peasant army. Because the weapons and equipment were outdated, when the peasant army was unable to attack an extremely strong and tall city for a long time, it would form a death squad to bomb the city wall.

They sent the warrior Mao Shishi to dig out the bricks of the city wall at the location selected in advance, and then dug a large hole more than ten feet deep and ten feet wide.Then cavalry and infantry were deployed at the entrance of the cave, ready to charge into the city in one fell swoop when the city wall collapsed.

When excavating the city wall, they relied on the huge piece of cowhide in their hands as cover.More than a dozen pieces of cowhide are carefully sewn together, and there are poles underneath, which form a big airtight umbrella when propped up.

This large cowhide umbrella can effectively block arrows and thunder fragments, and is a magic weapon for the peasant army to attack the city.

You have Zhang Liangji, I have a wall ladder.

Unfortunately for Li Guo and Gao Yigong, they met Zhou Yuji who had experienced many battles in Ningling, and Li Cunming who was cheating. All their plans were doomed to fail.

The mixture of tung oil and human excrement boiled on the city wall was prepared for this purpose.Tung oil is mixed with human dung and burned hot, which is the most effective at restraining cowhide.

As soon as the enemy's wall-exploding death squad arrived under the city wall, they opened their big leather umbrellas, and the soldiers on the city spotted it and poured the hot mixture over their heads and faces.

The cowhide was pierced in an instant, and black air was blowing out.The enemy hiding under the big cowhide umbrella was immediately scalded with blisters all over his head, crying for his father and mother.

The mixture of the three iron pots was poured down, and the Death Squad was really dead!

Seeing this situation, the enemy's last hope was shattered like a pop of soap bubbles.

The traitor was in despair, Gao Yigong was helpless and furious, jumping up and down like a mad monkey, but he could do nothing.

"Mingjin retreat!" Li Guo looked up to the sky and sighed.

"The enemy has retreated, Your Majesty, the enemy has retreated!" Wang Yi raised his arms and cheered.

"Long live my emperor!" The soldiers of the Ming army jumped and shouted.

In their eyes, the emperor fulfilled his promise, never retreated a step, and was brave and fearless from beginning to end.

Such an emperor is worth admiring and following to the death!

The setting sun is like blood, and cold smoke drifts in the distance; war horses neigh, and blood flows across the city.

Li Cunming's eyes were moist, and he muttered to himself: "I won, the first battle I traveled to Daming, and I won!"

(End of this chapter)