please make me king

Chapter 1455
"Your Highness, Your Highness, have pity on my Geng family, all of whom died at the hands of the Tartars!" Geng Zhongming, the new "King Huaishun" of the Great Qin Dynasty, brought his sons back to Shunhou and Geng Jimao, and held his grandsons Geng Jingzhong, Geng Shaozhong, and Geng Jizhong with three heads and three heads. , cried out in agony.

"I beg Your Highness to let my father and son act as pioneers, even if we die a hundred times, we will not regret it!"

Although Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao's eyes are broken, but the situation is stronger than others, but relying on the abilities of the two of them, how can they avenge their enmity?
That Zhang Shun also knew this well, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "Fu Hongtai, the thief of the world, the world will attack him together, how can we distinguish between you and me?"

As soon as Zhang Shun said this, not to mention how grateful Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao were to Dade, but also to say that Xu Ziyuan immediately winked at Zhang Shun after hearing this.

My lord, now that the city is built as a mountain, and the artillery can't reach it, how can we defeat the enemy?

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun shook his head lightly, and then seriously said to Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao: "Although it is said that ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, I don't think you two can wait so long."

"In this way, the two are too emotional now, it is inevitable that they will be reckless, and they will be taken advantage of by the captives."

"The two of you should go down and rest for a while to regroup your emotions. This king will also make some arrangements in advance before attacking!"

"Okay!" Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao were also veterans in the battlefield, and they couldn't help but nodded their heads cautiously because they didn't know the danger of the war.

These two teenagers have seen and experienced too much. They have rebelled against Ming from Jin, rebelled against Jin from Ming, and then rebelled against Jin. They have lost many relatives and relatives along the way. Iron in general.

The pain was over, the sadness was over, the emotions were vented, and the reason quickly recovered.

When the two had just left, Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, the Art of War says: The Lord must not be angry to activate the army, and the general must not be stunned to attack the enemy. Now that the rebel army's artillery can't catch up, how can they defeat Jianlu?"

"Who said the cannon is not enough?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wondered, "Whether you can hit it or not, you have to try it to know!"

"Is it worth trying? Didn't you try it just now?" Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but wondered.

Previously, dozens of cannons from the rebel army fired at once, but they couldn't do anything to smash the city wall of the mountain castle. How else would they try?
"The ballistic trajectory is straight and curved, and the field artillery and the golden cannon shoot directly, so Jianlu can hide behind the city wall to avoid the shells." Zhang Shun couldn't help explaining, "But the flying biaogun's trajectory is curved, and it may be able to defeat the enemy!"

To put it bluntly, the strategy that Kong Youde offered to Mrs. Hong is not worth mentioning, it is just the back-slope tactic commonly used by later generations.

Of course, neither Zhang Shun nor Kong Youde had the concept of reverse slope tactics at this time, but it did not prevent them from using artillery for a long time to conclude that shells can only be fired directly, which is also the basic principle of reverse slope tactics.

However, the anti-slope tactics of later generations are tactics designed directly based on artillery ballistics, which are still different from the rough tactics adopted by the rebels and Kong Youde based on daily experience.

The so-called "reverse slope tactics" in later generations is a tactic in which bulletproof tunnels are set up from the back of the mountain, and then the ridge is used as the line of defense.

The strategy that Kong Youde offered now seems to be the same as Fang Buddha, and there is no way to crack it.

However, based on Zhang Shun's many years of experience and deduction, he decided that Mrs. Hong's set of tactics would definitely not be so perfect.

If what he expected was correct, Mrs. Hong would definitely not open a tunnel facing the opposite side behind the "ridge", so that the rebel army would have an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun hurriedly called Li Shi'an, and asked, "If you use the Feibiao blunderbuss to attack the Jianlu behind the city wall, can it be done?"

"Let the gunners try it!" Li Shi'an hesitated and said, "Compared with designing the tunnels of the Ming Army Road, it is more difficult because the landing point cannot be seen, but it is not impossible."

"Well, let's try it first. Xu Ziyuan will explain the tactical arrangement to you later. Be sure to listen carefully. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask the king directly." Zhang Shun nodded and said.

"As for observing the enemy's movements, we don't have anything to do for the time being, but after a few days, maybe there will be a way!"

If you can do something, you can do it, if you can't do it, you can't.

Li Shi'an was not the kind of person to deal with empty words, and Zhang Shun couldn't help but feel relieved when he saw that he agreed.

After finally explaining to Li Shi'an, Geng Zhongming, Geng Jimao and his son also put on their clothes, and came to see Zhang Shun in full armor and said, "Your Highness, the guilty minister has selected five hundred good players, each of whom is wearing double armor. You can go!"

"Double armor? No, no need, this time you only need to put on a layer of iron armor. Do you father and son dare to go into battle?" Zhang Shun shook his head when he heard this, and asked.

"What, it's not." Geng Jimao blurted out when he heard the words, and said that Zhang Shun wanted to "borrow a knife to kill someone".

As a result, Geng Jimao hadn't finished speaking, but Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming interrupted him long ago: "Why don't you dare, as long as His Highness orders, we father and son will go through fire and water, and we will not hesitate."

My dear son, there are only three families of Ming and Jinshun in the world today, and our father and son have offended Ming and Jin to the death. If we don’t express our loyalty quickly, the world is so big, there is no place for us father and son to stand land?

"Okay, with this courage, you are worthy of revenge!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, "In this case, you two, father and son, and the five hundred elites under my command come with me, and this king will personally demonstrate the siege tactics for you!"

Not to mention Zhang Shun's arrangements, let's say that after Hou Jin repelled Bai Guang'en, Hong Tai only entrusted the defense to Gu Shan Ezhen of each banner, and he just hid in the fort, lest one accidentally be shot by the artillery of the rebel army. killed.

At this time, just after midday, people from Gushan Ezhenpiangu hurriedly rushed back and forth to report: "Piangu saw the movement of the 'Shun Bandit' on the city. Could it be that he is attacking the city again? Special report and Your Highness will know. .”

"Understood, it's not that there is no way, let Piangu do things with heart!" Mrs. Hong nodded, a little carelessly.

It's so easy for me to "figure out" this method, how could it be possible for you, a "smooth thief", to break it for me in a few hours?
That Mrs. Hong was thinking like this, of course Pian Gu, who was in charge of keeping the success, was also thinking like this.

Not long after, seeing that the rebel army sent another group of troops to attack the city, they asked their soldiers to set up artillery early, but when the rebel army approached, they opened fire.

"Hey, is 'Shun Thief' jumping over there?" Just as the battle between the two sides was about to break out, a group of people who had never wanted to leave the camp of the rebels, after crossing the moat, fell to the ground one by one, like Like a maggot, wriggling there, it's almost laughable.

It turned out that this squirming group of people was none other than the "King of Huaishun" Geng Zhongming, the "Marquis of Guishun" Geng Jimao, father and son, and the [-] elite soldiers under their command who were trusted by the rebel army.

Of course, the reason why they "crawl on the ground" is not that they have any hobbies, but that they are using the "creeping forward" method "invented" by Zhang Shun.

"Crawling forward" is just an ordinary tactical move, but it is quite effective in avoiding bullets.

Zhang Shun originally planned to introduce this tactical move into the rebel army, but found that due to the limited tactics of this era, two problems would arise.

One is lying on the ground, and it is easy to be trampled to death by marching in an array.

The other is that after the soldiers lie on the ground, they like to pretend to be dead and not get up.

However, this time using this tactic to attack the city, there are no above two problems.

Because, one is that everyone is lying on their stomachs, which is naturally the so-called trampling, and the other is that tens of thousands of people behind are watching. If that person is lazy and slippery, he will be recorded later, and he will be dealt with by military law.

Of course, the father and son Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao didn't know the key to it, they just dubiously followed Zhang Shun's method and climbed up the mountain castle step by step.

"Shoot!" Just as they climbed for an unknown amount of time, and gradually approached the top of the Fanshan Castle, they heard a sound of gunfire and cannons from the city, and an unknown number of arrows flew towards them. Geng Zhongming was frightened, Geng Jimao and the others quickly lowered their heads.

And just as they bowed their heads, the flying giant guns behind them sounded at the right time.

The heavy "blossom bomb" was shot out by the dull artillery, and then hit hard on the wall of Fanshan Castle.

Except for the ones that exploded in the air, most of the flowering bombs hit the back of the city wall, but a few of them fell on this side, and then rolled down the steep slope, which immediately scared Geng Zhongming, Geng Jimao and others into a cold sweat.

Fortunately, the flowering bullet bloomed on the spot before it rolled very far, and a lot of lead bullets could not help splashing out at once.

However, don’t tell me, it’s precisely because Geng Zhongming and others are prostrate on the ground that most of these lead bullets are useless. harm.

However, just when the rebel army was almost unscathed, the Houjin soldiers who hid behind the "ridge" were miserable this time.

The bullets fired by the rebel blunderbusses weighed [-] jin, and were charged with [-] jin of powder. Quicklime was added as additional damage, and it was extremely powerful.

After that, how did Jin Bing expect the rebels to have such methods?
In order to reduce the amount of work, Houjin did not dig a hole behind the city wall at all, but simply dug a trench.

As a result, quite a few shells fired by the rebel blunderbuss fell into the crowd, and only one of them exploded. Immediately, three or five soldiers were killed and seven or eight soldiers were injured on the spot.

And just when the Hou Jin soldiers were in chaos, Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao remembered Zhang Shun's teachings, they couldn't help shouting and jumped up, leading the soldiers under their command to charge forward.

That's why Zhang Shun asked them to remove the cotton armor covering the iron armor, one is to facilitate "creeping forward", and the other is to facilitate timely charging.

Otherwise, the clothes are too bulky, neither crawling nor rushing into the enemy's line quickly.

(End of this chapter)