Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1116, Explosive pack showing off its power
On the Western European side, the situation is tense and swords are on the verge of breaking out.

The conflict between England and Spain and Ming Dynasty, the conflict between Spain and France competing for the top brother in Europe, and the conflict between Portugal's expansion in West Africa and North Africa and Spain.

The conflict between France and Spain in the Mediterranean Sea and Italy; the conflict between France and the Holy Roman Empire, and the conflict between Ming Dynasty and the Christian world dominated by the Holy See.

It can be said that the situation in Western Europe is becoming more and more tense, and the invisible smoke has begun to fill the air.

On the other side, in Eastern Europe, on the vast Eastern European plain, the Tatars are wreaking havoc on this vast plain.

Outside Ryazan City, more than [-] Crimean cavalry surrounded the city.

Ryazan City is the capital of the Principality of Ryazan. It was this Ryazan City that was first conquered when Batu went west, and the Principality of Ryazan was the prince who was entrusted by the ancient Rus in the early days and the principality that was entrusted by the Rus in the Middle Ages. Daoist Rus country.

Also because it is inevitably the Crimean Khanate, it has always been one of the targets of the Crimean Khanate's plunder. The Crimean Khanate Tatars used this kind of plunder and captured slaves This behavior is called 'the Harvest of the Prairie Nation', and it is a traditional behavior with a long history.

It was the coldest winter, and it was the saddest time of the year for the prairie people. Just like before, the prairie people began to forage grass on the vast Slavic steppe.

Outside the city of Ryazan, Saldat is riding on a tall horse. He is the commander of the Crimean Khanate army this time. There are many people around him, and one of them is a slave in the Crimean Khanate. Haji, a businessman who buys and sells.

Haji is regarded as the golden-top businessman of the Crimean Khanate, not doing business for himself, but for the Great Khan of the Crimean Khanate, and at the same time doing business for the great nobles of the Crimean Khanate Business.

Specially sell the slaves captured by the Crimean Khanate to the West Pole Port of Daming in the South Caucasus, and then buy back the commodities that everyone needs.

"Haji, I heard that a Slav can be sold for thirty taels of silver in Daming?"

Sardat was riding on the horse, looking at the Ryazan City in front of him. This is a big city with tens of thousands of people in it. If they can be captured and sold to Daming, it will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Bought a lot of supplies and came back.

"Yes, my lord~"

"The people of Daming are very rich. The silver they have has a very strong demand for slaves. No matter how many slaves there are, they can eat them all."

Haji quickly nodded and replied.

"That's good. Pass down the order. After breaking through the city, try to catch as many alive as possible. One person is worth thirty taels of silver. Let's watch them all."

When Sardat heard this, he nodded in satisfaction.

The life of the Crimean Khanate is actually not easy. The Tatars are nomads, they can only destroy, they are not good at management and production, and they mainly live by plundering and grazing.

In the past, they often plundered the surrounding Slavs, Lithuanians, Poles and Hungarians, and then sold slaves to the Ottoman Empire.

But since the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire this year, the Crimean Khanate, which has been subject to the Ottoman Empire, also took the opportunity to break away from the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Turning around, he sold the slave to the Ming people, not only because the price was higher, but more importantly, the Ming people had everything to buy, as long as they had money, everything was easy to talk about.

Armor, weapons, gunpowder, artillery, food, tea, and salt are all sold by the Ming people, and they can even be shipped directly to the Crimean Khanate through the Black Sea.

In the past, when sold to the Ottoman Empire, a slave was only five or six gold coins, and if converted into Ming currency, it was less than ten taels of silver, but now sold to the Ming people, it can be easily sold for a high price of thirty taels of silver.

This greatly stimulated the nobles of the Crimean Khanate to plunder their neighbors and capture slaves.

Soon, with the blaring of horns, the Tatars surged towards Ryazan City like a tide. Suddenly, the entire Ryazan City became a bloody place of fighting.

"Dong Dong~"

The artillery purchased from the Daming people let out bursts of roaring, one by one artillery shells were attacking Liangzan City, and the roaring iron balls slammed down heavily, causing the city walls to shake slightly.

The siege city shot out a blazing fireball. The fireball dragged a long tail flame in the sky, fell heavily into the city, and burned quickly at the point of impact.

Under the city wall, wave after wave of Tatar archers kept suppressing the defenders on the top of the city, and brave warriors continued to climb the city wall to fight through the siege ladder.

However, the Russians in Ryazan City were also extremely brave. They used bows and arrows, swords, hammers, shields, etc. to fight fiercely with the Tatars.

It has always been plundered by the Tatars. The Russians also hate the Tatars. They will attack Ryazan City almost every year, but they have rarely been able to break through Ryazan City. There are only a few times in history. .

They are also very familiar with the Tatars' routines and have many ways to deal with them.

The long spears stabbed at the outcropping Tatars, and the hot oil pans were poured down the city wall one after another. Stones and rolling logs were their weapons for counterattack.

Everyone is very brave, because they know that once they are breached by the Tatars, the Tatars will either massacre the city or sell them as slaves to some corner of the world.

At this moment, not only the men took up weapons to defend their homeland, but even the women also took up weapons, extremely tough, even fiercer than men.

"My lord, use the dynamite pack and blow the city gate open."

Haji has been watching the battle in Ryazan City. Although the Tatars are very brave and climbed to the top of the city several times, they were quickly beaten down by the Slavs. They resisted very tenaciously.

After thinking about it, Haji also suggested to Sardat.

"Dynamite packs are really as useful as you say?"

Sardat thought for a while and asked.

Dynamite packs are a weapon sold to them by the Ming people. It is said that they are extremely powerful and can directly blow up city gates and even city walls. It is a sharp weapon for siege.

"I'm not sure, but it is said that the Ming people blasted more than a hundred cities of the Ottoman Empire with explosives. I think it's not just for nothing."

"The people of Daming also strongly recommended this kind of thing to me, saying that it will help us break through the Slavic cities, so that we can have more slaves to sell to them."

Haji thought for a while and said not very sure.

To be honest, it has not been easy to siege cities since ancient times, and the city gates have always been the focus of everyone's attacks, so the gates of every city are very strong.

And at critical moments, the city gate will be filled with stones and blocked with explosives, which seems a little unbelievable.

"Try it~"

Sardat didn't care and ordered.

To be honest, the quality of things that the Ming people sold to them was good, whether it was armor, weapons, or bows and arrows, they were all very good, which allowed the Crimean Khanate's military strength to grow rapidly.

It's just that it was the first time he used the explosive kit, and Daming boasted very much.

Soon, a group of Tatars quickly came to the city wall of Ryazan City. A dozen packs of explosives were piled directly under the city gate, and they quickly evacuated after lighting the fuse.

"Boom~"

It didn't take long. Accompanied by an earth-shattering loud noise, the ground seemed to be shaking slightly, and a billowing smoke and dust could be clearly seen rising from the gate of the city.

In the billowing smoke and dust, it seemed that the city gate was flying, countless gravels were flying, and the city wall seemed to be shaking.

Sardat, Haji and others opened their eyes wide, staring at the gate of the city.

I saw that the original tight city gate completely disappeared, and was directly blown to pieces, even the stones of the Ducheng Gate were blown away, and the city gate was opened, as attractive as a girl without clothes.

"Rush in and kill!"

Sardat excitedly pulled out the scimitar in his hand and roared loudly.

Immediately, the surrounding Tatars rushed in like a tide.

The gap had been opened, and the Tatars rushed directly into Ryazan City, and the brave Russians were dumbfounded.

They had never encountered such a thing before. The strong city gate was blown up at once. Looking at the Tatars rushing in, the Slavs knew that it was over.

The battle quickly moved to the city. Without the protection of the city, the Slavs were no match for the Tatars. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the entire Ryazan City was completely occupied by the Tatars.

"Haha, it's really a good thing. I should have used it earlier if I knew about it."

Sardat rode on a tall horse and walked slowly into Ryazan City. His eyes began to shine as he watched his subordinates thread these captive Slavs into strings and tie them together.

These are all silver, white money, one person is worth thirty taels of silver, if Liangzan City is captured, at least tens of thousands of people can be captured, this time hundreds of thousands of taels of silver can be collected.

"My lord, I have already said that the explosive kits of the Ming people are very useful. They used this explosive kit to capture more than a hundred cities of the Ottoman Empire, including the city of Erzincan."

Haji was also smiling all over his face, looking at the captured captives with eyes full of silver, including countless grains, salt, tea, weapons, equipment and so on.

"All these captives are handed over to you. Hurry up and sell them to the Ming people for more explosives. I will sweep the Slavic grassland all the way. I will capture Moscow and turn all the Slavs into slaves."

Sardat couldn't help laughing happily immediately. With the explosive kit, the siege of the city became an extremely simple matter.

(End of this chapter)