Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 816 Ah San's Fantastic Idea

Daming Dongnan was appointed as the Minister of Political Envoys to protect the defense line of the Duke's government.

Lu Xiangsheng stood on the high fort, turned his binoculars and scanned the camp of the Mughal Empire, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Although he couldn't see the specific situation behind the Mughal Empire's army, he could vaguely see that their camp was continuously extending to the north.

This proves that they are constantly increasing their troops, and they still want to detour to the mountains in the north, wading across the river, and attacking the rear of the defense line.

Otherwise, people wouldn't bother to cut down all the woods in the north to build a big camp.

To be honest, the line of defense he built was basically impossible to break through from the front, and the only way for them to bypass the line of defense was to attack behind it.

He knows this in his heart, and others must know it too.

The problem is that he only has so many available soldiers, and he can only hand over less than [-] cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion to guard the rear of the line of defense.

Because the [-] soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were scattered very sparsely on the defense line that was more than a hundred miles long. On average, there were less than a thousand people stationed on each mile-wide city wall.

He couldn't leave an empty line of defense and not send people to garrison, but transferred the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion behind the line of defense, and cooperated with the soldiers of the Shenwu Battalion to block the infantry who made a detour.

Then his defense line was built in vain. Facing the defense line that no one is stationed, he can easily cross the river.

There's no way, he can't let go of the line of defense he built with great difficulty.

There is no problem with less than [-] cavalry from the Shenwu Battalion behind the line of defense to resist more than [-] infantry, but it is not known how many infantry the Mughal Empire will organize to detour for a sneak attack.

If the enemy's infantry reaches more than 20, it will be difficult to stop the cavalry of Shenwuying with less than [-].

He glanced at the camp of the Mughal Empire, then at the north side of his line of defense, and then ordered decisively: "Order Chief Minister Li Qing to lead 30 young men to continue building the city wall along the river to the north. Watchtowers with a radius of ten feet must be built on the top of the mountain.”

Originally, he didn't want to continue to build the defense line to the north, because the north was full of mountains and forests, and the enemy's army couldn't get through at all, so it was useless to work hard to build the defense line.

However, at this moment, he can't control so much. Even if it's just an early warning function, he must continue to build the defense line to the north.

In this way, he could at least know in advance how many people came to carry out the sneak attack. If the number of people exceeded 20, he would have to consider sending some soldiers from the Shenji Battalion to help.

Otherwise, Sun Zushou's less than [-] cavalry would definitely not be able to carry it.

Alas, I just don't know when the emperor's reinforcements will arrive.

He has received a telegram from the Ministry of War, and the emperor has led his army to set off from Wubei City.

The problem is that Wubei City has to bypass New Jinling City and cross the Strait of Malacca to get here.

Such a detour would be at least two to thirty thousand miles, and it would be considered good if the emperor could come here within a month.

The army of the Mughal Empire gathered more and more. According to the investigation of the Navy Clippers, their camps stretched for fifty or sixty miles.

Such a long camp is still expanding northward, so there must be at least a million people!
His judgment is correct, the Mughal Empire has indeed gathered millions of people at this moment.

Of course, most of them are young and strong who have never been on the battlefield. These people are not even as good as the young and strong who Dongnan Cheng announced to be recruited by the political envoy to build the city wall.

However, Shah Jahan didn't think so. In his opinion, as long as he has the strength to wield a knife and a gun, he can be regarded as a soldier who can go to the battlefield!
At the moment he is full of ambitions, just wait for the anti-Habsburg alliance to send him the second batch of muskets and artillery, and then he will launch a general attack on the defense line of the Ming army.

Lu Xiangsheng also guessed a little wrong.

This guy not only wanted to send people to detour for a sneak attack, he also wanted to attack Linhe's line of defense head-on, to contain the strength of the Ming army, so that the Ming army could not take care of both ends.

It has to be said that there is no problem with this strategy, but he still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the elite Ming army.

Just kidding, even if the 50 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are on flat ground, their [-] to [-] troops may not be able to do it, let alone the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion are all on the Linhe city wall at this moment.

He sent people to attack the city wall of Linhe, that's courting death!

Of course, he is not an ordinary person, and his thinking is also different from ordinary people.

The thinking of the three ordinary people is really quite strange.

He even believed that as long as enough giant siege equipment could be built, it would not be impossible to capture a section of the Ming army's city wall.

As for what kind of giant siege equipment, ordinary people can't imagine it.

He has already thought of a lot of giant siege equipment in his mind, but he has not ordered anyone to start building it, because he has not yet determined who will command the army to attack the city.

If there is no other candidate, then of course there is no need to think about it, just let the third son Aurangzeb command the army to attack the city.

Question, now that his second son, Shahshuja, also came to support him, he was a little hesitant.

Shahshuja's ability to command troops is also good, and his ambition does not seem to be as big as Aurangzeb's. He can't favor one over another.

Who should we choose?
With no solution, he simply ordered people to recruit his two sons into the big tent, and said straightforwardly: "I am going to order people to command an army of 30 to detour through the mountains and forests in the north to attack the rear of the Ming army. The 50-strong army commanded by the people attacked the Ming army's defense line from the front, involving the Ming army's strength.

Which one of you wants to lead the army to attack from the front, and who wants to lead the army to sneak attack? "

This means, you can choose for yourself first, if one wants to attack from the front and the other wants to attack from behind, that is naturally the best.

Aurangzeb didn't say anything when he heard the words, because he didn't want to lead the troops to attack the Ming army's defense line from the front.

Just kidding, the walls of the Ming army are densely packed with artillery, what's the use of a 50 army?

Rushing up would be courting death!

It's different when you go around and sneak attack.

The Ming army has less than 30 cavalry in total, and he led an army of [-] to go around and attack, and he will win!

The reason why he didn't say anything was because he knew the virtue of the second brother.

This guy will definitely fight for more!

Sure enough, Shahshuja couldn't wait to be the first to say: "Father Khan, I am willing to lead the army to attack from the front."

His idea is very simple, 50 is 30 more than 20, he can't let Aurangzeb command 20 more troops than him!
Besides, he would have to travel hundreds of miles in the mountains and forests for a detour and sneak attack, and he would be exhausted to death, so he didn't want to go.

Shah Jahan thought he had no ambitions because he hadn't shown his ambition yet.

He is different from Aurangzeb.

That kid likes to pretend to be cool with a straight face when he has nothing to do, and his dissatisfaction with Khan's succession is written directly on his face.

He just smiled when he had nothing to do, as if he didn't have any dissatisfaction in his heart.

Shah Jahan really didn't see any ambitions of the second son, because Aurangzeb's ambitions were too obvious, and the light covered others.

Alas, this precious son, he really can't help it.

He is sorry for Mahara, because Mahara gave birth to him, and died of dystocia!
He sighed secretly in his heart, and then asked with a complicated face: "Aurangzeb, how about you, would you like to lead the army to detour and attack?"

Aurangzeb pretended to grit his teeth, and then said a little unwillingly: "Father Khan, when the anti-Habsburg alliance muskets are delivered, can you give us half?
After all, the Ming army is armored cavalry, and bows and arrows are basically useless to them. They just need to sweep away the arrows that are shot at them, and nothing will happen.

They definitely can't stop musket bullets, and this is quite good for dealing with armored cavalry. "

Well, that's fine, you don't need artillery.

Shah Jahan nodded slightly and said, "No problem, I can give you half of the next batch of muskets."

Aurangzeb heard the words, so he pretended to be helpless and said: "Okay, I will lead the army to detour and attack."

OK, no problem now.

Shah Jahan couldn't help but said gratifiedly: "Very good, you immediately lead your men to move the camp to the edge of the forest in the north, and try to open a road in the forest as much as possible to facilitate the passage of the army."

Aurangzeb said "obedience" seemingly helplessly and got up to leave.

Shah Jahan took out the sketches he had drawn and explained in detail: "Shah Shuja, look, this is a giant mobile arrow tower, which is higher than the opposite city wall, and a hundred people can stand on it.

You order people to build more, preferably several hundred, the more the better.

At that time, push this giant arrow tower to the river, and let the archers stand on it and throw rockets at the opposite city wall.

This is a giant cart with wheels all underneath.

You order people to check the approximate width of the river, and then connect the large wooden ladders to a length similar to the width of the river and place them on the giant cart.

This is used in conjunction with the giant siege raft.

In front of the giant siege raft is a thick wooden wall that is taller than a person, and a ladder slightly higher than the city wall is slanted on the wooden wall.

This kind of giant wooden raft must carry at least a hundred people, and you have to order more people to build it if you set things up.

At that time, as long as the wooden raft is pushed over with a giant cart, the people above can directly climb up the city wall through the ladder, and the people behind can also quickly climb to the wooden raft through the ladder to participate in the attack. "

When Shahshuja saw these "good things", he couldn't help being overjoyed and said: "Father Khan is wise, I will order people to make it."

Well, Ah San likes to make these weird "good things".

If they encountered a small indigenous country with similar equipment to them, they could indeed rely on these "good things" to beat them down.

The problem, what they encountered was the Ming Empire, which was much better equipped than them.

These things are a joke in front of Lu Xiangsheng!
Lu Xiangsheng has no one under his command at the moment, if he had hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, he would have beaten the gang of Ah Sans all over the place.

At this time, the fight is actually about speed, and it depends on whose support comes quickly.

The Mughal Empire was waiting for the muskets and artillery of the anti-Habsburg alliance, while Lu Xiangsheng was waiting for the reinforcements brought by Taichang.

If calculated by the distance, Taichang is actually a little farther away from the battlefield. If the Clippers were sent to inform him, and he led the army over, it would definitely not be as fast as the anti-Habsburg alliance.

Fortunately, the telegraph lines on land were basically laid at this time, so he only traveled one way, and the speed was still a little faster than the anti-Habsburg alliance.

(End of this chapter)