Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 298, no gap

"How is it possible? How did the wall become so much higher all of a sudden?"

Chi Jin was dumbfounded. When he went south last year, the city wall was only half as high as it is now. Although it is still difficult to break through, it is not that there is no chance.

But now, the city wall was more than ten feet high, almost as high as the mountains on both sides. It was like an incomparably tall cliff lying in front of him, and he couldn't think of challenging it.

"How high are the city walls of the people of the Ming Dynasty?"

Beside Chi Jin, the young warrior also widened his eyes, looking at the tall city wall in front of him and said.

He had long heard that the people of the Ming Dynasty were good at building city walls. The city walls were very tall and the city was very prosperous. He had also heard that although there were countless treasures in the city, it was difficult to capture them.

But looking at the tall city wall in front of him, he felt very small, and he felt like a mayfly shaking a tree.

"How is it possible? If the walls of the people of the Ming Dynasty were so high, how could we possibly get in."

Chi Jin came back to his senses and said.

Then he bravely rode his horse to the foot of the huge city wall, but before he got close, a series of arrows shot towards him rapidly, but the accuracy was too poor, so he dodged very flexibly, but he had to Back again and again.

"It's not easy to handle this time. In the past, the arrows of the Ming Dynasty couldn't shoot very far."

Chi Jin retreated beyond the range of the bow and arrow, and his face became ugly.

He had attacked this Datong with the army before. Although the Tatars were nomads on the grasslands, their bows and arrows were farther and more accurate than those of the Ming army.

This is something I really have to complain about.

It is reasonable to say that the dynasty is an agricultural civilization, and the Tatars are a vagrant civilization. The productivity and technological level of this agricultural civilization must be higher than that of the vagrants. In terms of bows, swords, and armor, the quality must be higher.

But the facts are quietly contrary. The quality of the weapons of the Ming Dynasty army is extremely poor. Whether it is swords, bows, armor, logistics food, etc., they are far inferior to the Tatars.

This is not because the Ming Dynasty produced good and high-quality weapons, armor, bows and arrows, but because the civil servants were in power and kept suppressing the nobles of the generals. This military expenditure can be saved if it can be reduced, and it can be reduced as much as possible. As for the disarmament.

Another aspect is that before the Tumu Fortress Change, the commander of the Ming Dynasty army belonged to the emperor, and the emperor was directly responsible for the armament, and neither of them was under the control of civil servants.

After the Tumu Fort change, not only the military power was under the control of civil servants, but also the head of the military department, and everyone knew that the corruption problem in the Ming Dynasty was extremely serious.

Allocating [-] taels of silver to make swords requires the manufacture of [-] handles. It may be that after layers of deductions, only less than [-] taels of silver fell into the hands of the craftsmen, but [-] swords still have to be made. The quality can be imagined. And I got it.

The low military expenditure itself, coupled with corruption, also led to the very poor quality of the bows, swords, armors, etc. in the hands of the Ming Dynasty army. Even the firearms troops built by Zhu Yuanzhang were completely abolished. Musketeers would rather use Swords are not willing to use muskets, because they may be blown to pieces.

The frontier soldiers of the Ming Dynasty did not dare to go out to fight the Tatars. This was not because they were afraid of death, but because the guys in their hands were useless. When they went out, they were still delivering food, and they could only rely on the city walls to defend and counterattack. .

Therefore, when the Tatars attacked the city, the Tatars habitually used the advantages of bows and arrows to suppress the city to facilitate the siege.

The bows and arrows of the Tatars can hit the people on the city wall, but the bows and arrows of the Ming army on the city wall are condescending, but they cannot shoot the archers of the Tatars, and they are suppressed by long-range firepower.

But now, because the city wall of Datong has been raised by several feet, the situation has changed. Shooting arrows from a higher place has a great advantage. Bows and arrows can be shot farther and are more lethal.

It is even more difficult for the Tatars under the city wall to attack the higher Ming Dynasty army, because the attack process of the bow and arrow is a parabolic process, and it is difficult to attack more than ten The city wall is ten feet high.

This means that if you want to attack this Datong in the future, it is impossible to rely on archers to suppress the archers of the Datong defenders. On the contrary, they will be suppressed by the archers of the Ming Dynasty, and there is no way to provide assistance. .

This is also the reason why Chi Jin's face turned ugly, because he is a carving archer himself, good at bows and arrows, and he is too familiar with this aspect.

"Are the people of the Ming Dynasty crazy?"

"Building the city wall so high, can they afford it?"

Chi Jin rode a horse and looked at the Ming Dynasty people on the high city wall. Although he was still very cowardly, he only had a few horses, but no one on the other side dared to come out.

But he saw the sarcasm in the eyes of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

"I don't believe it. They were able to build such a high city wall in such a short period of time. Maybe it was all made of mud."

Chi Jin drew out his own bow and arrow, and it was full in an instant. The bow and arrow shot towards the city wall like a shooting star. He wanted to try to see if the city wall was strong or not.

"Keng~"

On the tall city wall, the arrows of the bow and arrow collided with the hard concrete wall, sparking, and then the bow and arrow fell weakly towards the city wall.

"This?"

"Is it all made of solid stone?"

Chi Jin was dumbfounded again. He thought it might be a tofu project, but who knew it was so hard, and the bow and arrow shot it as if it was shot on a rock.

"how can that be?"

Chi Jin shook his head again and again, he is Dayan Khan's guard, and he is a knowledgeable person who follows Dayan Khan. He knows that building a city wall is very costly in terms of money, material and manpower, and the Ming court is already poor. It is impossible to uncover the pot, and there is not much strength to build such a huge city wall.

"Go~"

Although he couldn't figure it out, Chi Jin didn't give up on continuing to spy.

Hard attacking Datong has always been a choice when there is no other way. On the long line of defense, they can always find an easy gap to break through. Many parts of the Great Wall have long been rotten. Chi Jin remembers several places that are easier to break through. place.

I took my men on horseback to a place where the line of defense was weak in my memory, and it was also a pass between two mountains. It is easy to open the breakthrough.

"This~"

It's just that when Chijin came to this pass, he was dumbfounded again, because the Great Wall at this pass has also been repaired. The key is that the building is very high. Five feet high.

The terrain here is far less open than that of Datong, and it is not suitable for large-scale army operations. It is enough to build four or five feet high.

"What exactly is going on?"

Chi Jin felt his head buzzing, and then looked at the endless Great Wall on the top of the mountains, winding to the end, as if he saw an insurmountable moat lying on the top of the mountains.

"Go, I don't believe it anymore."

Chi Jin continued to gallop towards the next gap, but still did not disappoint him. A tall gray-white city wall also blocked his way.

"There is no gap~"

Chijin galloped through pass after pass, passing one gap after another that was easy to break through in his memory, but all the gaps were blocked, with cement walls, so that he couldn't even find a gap.

He was completely dumbfounded and couldn't believe all of this. He even tried to test these city walls with bows and arrows many times, but the result was the same. The hard concrete walls easily blocked his sharp bows and arrows.

"I'm afraid that this year's southward looting will be ruined~"

His head suddenly thought like this, the face is as high as a city wall, there is not even a gap in the defense line, I am afraid it will be difficult to come and go freely.

　Has anyone been to Shanhaiguan?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)