Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 312, cement is really an artifact
"Khan, let's retreat~ If this continues, we will never be able to break through the pass in front of us, and our ladders will not even be able to reach the top of the city wall. How can we continue?"

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and the battle was very tragic. Under the tall city wall, corpses were scattered all over the field, and blood flowed like rivers. However, the attack of the prairie army was still like a tide, and there was no intention of stopping.

Dayan Khan was very strict in running the army. He would rush across the mountains of swords and seas of fire at the first order. The attack must not be stopped until the troops are withdrawn.

A tribal leader looked at the miserable scene in front of him, couldn't help but came to Dayan Khan's side, and said unwillingly, they had never fought such a grievous battle.

The city wall is too high, and many methods have been tried in turn, but they have no effect at all. The ladder to realize the preparation is too short, not high enough, and it is even short of the city wall.

The archers had no way to provide suppression, and there were heavy casualties in the confrontation with the Ming army. This has never happened before. Only a few archers can cause certain damage to the Ming army's archers.

The attacks of the cloud chariot and the ramming wood also had little effect. Without the suppressing banquet of the archers, the Ming army on the city wall easily smashed the cloud chariot and the warriors carrying the ramming wood to pieces with stones.

"Mingjin withdraws troops~"

Dayan Khan naturally saw all this in his eyes. If he continues to fight like this, he will undoubtedly die. The effect of the tentative attack has already come out. He clearly realizes that it may be difficult to go south to plunder this time.

"Hmm~"

Accompanied by bursts of dull howls, the prairie soldiers receded quickly like a tide, even before the corpses could be restrained, a large number of injured prairie warriors continued to cry.

"Haha, retreat, retreat~"

On the city wall, the Ming army began to cheer.

This battle was fought very easily, and their own losses were minimal. There were only a few dozen people who died, and most of the injured were minor injuries, and they received timely treatment. However, the results they created were incomparably brilliant. Everyone couldn't help but look at the corpses all over the ground under the city wall. There were at least thousands of them, not counting them.

There are still a large number of injured and unable to move, and they are still crying. This is an unprecedented victory.

"General system ~ great victory!"

Beside Liu Yu, the subordinates all said with smiles on their faces.

"Haha, it's a great victory. It's all thanks to the bravery of the whole army. I will definitely write down everyone's contributions. Everyone just wait for the reward from above."

Liu Yu smiled all over his face, he won the battle, and it was indeed a great victory. There is no need to have any moisture, just write it up according to the number.

He has already figured it out in his heart, and with the credits of last year, is he expected to be promoted from the local area to the capital, and then he will look for his fellow villager Liu Jian, and then have activities with his immediate superior Sima Wensheng, Activities, this promotion is absolutely impossible to escape.

"This cement is really an artifact~"

Liu Yu in a good mood walked on the wide city wall, couldn't help stamping the hard concrete wall under his feet, and exclaimed in admiration.

Without this thing, in the face of the attack of the [-] prairie army, let alone making meritorious deeds, they don't know how many people would die. It would be very difficult to stop the attack of the prairie army.

Because of the cement, their frontier army easily built the city wall several feet higher. When they first attacked the city, he could see clearly that the ladders of the prairie people were not as high as the city wall, and some prairie soldiers climbed up When I looked up at the top of the ladder, I suddenly found that there was still some distance from the top of the city wall. I could only watch a big stone smash myself down, and I would die with regret.

"It is indeed an artifact~"

The other generals also nodded.

Since ancient times, the construction of city walls has been extremely labor-intensive, material and financial. They naturally wanted to build the city wall higher, but conditions did not allow it, and the funds allocated by the imperial court were limited, so it was impossible to build it too high.

But with cement, it is completely different. It is very simple and easy to use cement to build the city wall. Mining sand and gravel, adding cement to mix, can easily and simply increase the height of the city wall, and the speed is fast. And very strong.

Many frontier generals have deeply realized the benefits of cement, and even use this cement to build their own houses and build spacious, neat and clean cement roads.

There is no difference between the current Ming army and the previous Ming army. They have the same low combat effectiveness, the same slack armaments, and the same corruption. But because of this cement, the city walls were built higher, and they won easily. The grassland army blocked the grassland.

Above the city wall, Liu Yu and others were happily discussing how to report victory to Emperor Hongzhi. Under the city wall, the heavy city gate slowly opened, and the frontier soldiers began to clean the battlefield.

They have already confirmed with binoculars that the prairie army has really retreated. This retreat has been several miles, and they have set up camp at the foot of a mountain. It seems that they are still not reconciled to today's failure.

Not afraid that the prairie army would come back with their carbine, they naturally had to seize the time to clean up the battlefield. The thrown stones and rolling logs needed to be recovered and moved to the city wall, good things that could be reused.

Arrows can also be retracted. The grassland army retreated wisely, leaving countless arrows on the battlefield, which cannot be wasted.

Of course, the most important thing is the heads of the prairie soldiers. To announce the good news to the imperial court is based on the number of heads. Each of these heads is a great contribution.

In addition, the sheep jacket worn by the prairie people is very warm, and it is the favorite of the frontier soldiers. This thing looks ugly and has an unpleasant smell of sheep, but it is a real jacket, very The warmth is even warmer than that of cotton-padded jackets. For the impoverished frontier soldiers, it is no different from a good thing for winter.

Of course, if you are lucky enough to find a few coppers, a little silver or something from the prairie soldier, it will be an extra income, and you can have a few drinks at night.

"Haha, let you be fierce~"

Sweeping wars is the favorite thing for frontier soldiers, but in the past they rarely had such an opportunity to clean up the battlefield, because basically they were defeated by themselves, so there is no chance for you to clean up the battlefield, teams of frontier soldiers are under the city wall The cleaning was very clean. From time to time, he would curse and stab the corpse a few times.

"Haha, brothers, come on, come on, there are still a few alive here~"

Like a cat clawing a mouse, the frontier army cleaning the battlefield surrounded the injured grassland soldiers and began to play.

If they were to fight against the strong prairie soldiers in this wild place, not many Ming soldiers would have such courage, but they are still very good at bullying the injured prairie soldiers.

"President, do you want all of these wounded prairie soldiers~"

On the city wall, Liu Yu and others looked at what happened below with a smile. Some generals said with a smile. When they spoke, they also made gestures on their necks.

"No, pass down the order, the injuries are not serious, all of them will be captured alive, some prisoners will be taken and sent to the capital, this should be better than sending their heads."

Liu Yu thought for a while and shook his head and said, he suddenly had a premonition that he should be able to capture many grassland captives this time, and he also thought in his heart to overwhelm these grassland captives to the capital and hold a captive offering ceremony or something. It's also good to let the people above take a look, which may help you get promoted.

"Yes~"

When the subordinates heard this, they immediately sent orders.

As soon as the people cleaning the battlefield below heard this, they immediately understood what to do. Those who were seriously injured would be stabbed, and those who were slightly injured would be arrested and tied up with iron chains.

Originally thought that there would not be too many prisoners, but when the battlefield was cleaned up, more than [-] prisoners were caught.

People are greedy for life and afraid of death, and the grassland people are the same. Many people simply pretend to be dead when they are injured during the siege, and they are going to wait for Mingjin to retreat before sneaking back, or wait for their own side to break through the city wall. Come out and get the warrior treatment.

Anyway, on the battlefield, there are all kinds of people. Not everyone in the prairie is not afraid of death. Not everyone is a brave warrior. There are also cowards, and some are afraid of death, especially when fighting against the wind , will also be like the Ming army, secretly playing tricks.

It's just that they were unlucky, they didn't keep up with the retreating team, and their side lost again, so they became prisoners.

　Can these captives write something?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)