Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 223 Abandoning the Gun Platform
"The scholar who supervised the construction of Shanyang city defense is your classmate?" Duoduo was a little surprised.

"That's right." Hou Fangyu said, "This person's surname is Mao, and his name is Xiang. His ancestors are said to be Mongolians. Xiaosheng and him are both tribute students of the Imperial College, and they have a very good friendship."

"Oh?" Duduo was even more surprised, "Is the friendship still very good?"

"Yes." Hou Fangyu said with a smile, "We and the other two friends are collectively referred to as the Fourth Prince of Jinling, because the four of us have similar family backgrounds, roughly the same talents and learning, and even similar hobbies..."

"Stop." Duoduo interrupted again, "My king asks you, did this person join the scholar camp?"

"Yes." Hou Fangyu was a little embarrassed, "When Maoxiang was incited by the Chongzhen dog emperor with a few words, his blood went up, and he really believed the nonsense that Chongzhen said that he took the world as his own responsibility."

Duoduo asked again: "Then Maoxiang was sent by Chongzhen to Shanyang to train troops and defend the city?"

"Yes." Hou Fangyu nodded, and said again, "But besides my classmate, there is another scholar. This person was once a Jiangyin classics historian, and it is said that he once fought against pirates."

"Pirates?" Dodo and He Luohui looked at each other and laughed.

Having fought pirates, what kind of war is that?It's just kids playing house.

After a long while, Duoduo went on to say: "It's really God helping me this time, Chongzhen actually sent two scholars who didn't understand anything and only knew about reading to Shanyang to train soldiers and defend the city, hahaha!"

The nobles of the Eight Banners respect prestigious and capable celebrities, such as Hong Chengchou.

But let's forget about two unknown scholars. What's the use of two scholars?

Duoduo and these Eight Banners nobles didn't know that Suining County, Taoyuan County and Qinghe County were also guarded by scholars from the Scholars Camp. If they knew this, they probably wouldn't think so.

It's a pity that Duoduo and the nobles of the Eight Banners didn't know this at this time.

"Master." He Luohui licked his lips and said with a smirk, "What if the city is broken this time?"

"You don't need to be reminded by this dog slave." Duoduo said with a chuckle, "After breaking the city, the knife will not be sealed within three days! All the wealth, goods, people and livestock obtained during this period will belong to Banner Ding!"

"Master Shengming!" He Luohui was overjoyed for a moment.

"My lord is holy!" The rest of the nobles were also overjoyed.

At this moment, Fan Chengmo, who was following Duoduo, suddenly let out a light snort.

"Huh, what's the matter?" Dodo turned his head and stared at Fan Chengmo and said, "You son of a bitch, my king hasn't hit you for almost half a month, so your skin is itchy, right?"

"Uh, no." Fan Chengmo hurriedly said, "Master, didn't you find out?"

"What did you find?" Duoduo raised his whip fiercely, as if to slap Fan Chengmo in the face again.

Fan Chengmo did not dare to hide, but closed his eyes and said, "Master, there is no one on the gun platform outside the city."

"Huh? There's no one on the blunderbuss platform?" Duoduo cast his eyes on the Ming army blunderbuss platform in astonishment.

Almost at the same time, Jing Ni Yaha, who was temporarily photographed with a white flag inlaid with a white flag, also galloped back.

When he came to Duduo's horse, Niyaha's eyes suddenly went dark, and he almost fell off the horse's back.

But fortunately, he reacted quickly, and Niyaha quickly reached out and grabbed the saddle bridge, which prevented him from falling off the horse.

"Niyaha, are you okay?" Duoduo frowned, "You look very bad, do you want to take a break?"

"Return to the master, the slave is fine." Niyaha didn't want to miss the good opportunity to make contributions, so he shook his head and said, "The slave has already found out the situation outside Shanyang City."

……

At the same time, Yan Yingyuan and Maoxiang had already boarded the northeast corner tower of Xicheng.

Standing on the northeast corner of the West City, you can just look down at the army of slaves coming from the north along the canal, and you can see the army of slaves in darkness covering the ground, extending from the near to the end of the field of vision.

"Brother Boheng, can you tell how many people Jiannu have?" Mao Xiang asked.

"The exact number is uncertain, but the approximate number can still be determined." After a pause, Yan Yingyuan said again, "If there is no accident, the number of slaves should be between [-] and [-]."

"Seven to eighty thousand? They're all cavalry!" Mao Xiang's expression was heavy.

Yan Yingyuan said: "The Holy Majesty said that Jiannu will wear their coats when they go to war, so out of the [-] or [-] people, half should be coated slaves, and the real Jiannu is more than [-]."

Mao Xiang said: "More than [-] Jian slaves are too much."

Having said this, Maoxiang asked again: "Brother Juheng, do you really want to give up all the gun platforms outside the city?"

"Really give up." Yan Yingyuan said with certainty, "Sun Tzu's art of war has a saying, soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Although the Holy Majesty's blunderbuss tactics are sharp, they are harmful and useless to our Shanyang city defense."

The defensive strategy adopted by Yan Yingyuan in Shanyang City is very different from the defensive strategy adopted by Huaxia in Suining County and Lu Xiangtong in Taoyuan County. Although there are more gun towers outside Shanyang City, Yan Yingyuan does not Instead of dividing troops to guard these blunderbuss platforms, they decided to concentrate their forces on the east and west cities.

The reason is also very simple, because Sanyang does not have a sufficient number of tiger crouching cannons.

There are more than [-] gun platforms outside Shanyang City. According to the standards of Xuzhou, Xiazhen, and Pizhou, at least [-] tiger squat guns are enough, but in reality there are only [-] guns.

On average, there is less than one tiger crouching cannon for four gun platforms.

However, a blunderbuss without a tiger squat gun is soulless.

Without the Tiger Crouching Cannon, adjacent blunderbuss platforms would not be able to provide mutual support, and Jiannu could freely come and go in the trenches between the blunderbuss platforms without worrying about being attacked by the blunderbuss platforms.

Jiannu didn't even have to walk through the ditches between the blunderbuss platforms, but could go directly to the canal.

Because the ice layer of the canal is more than one foot thick, enough for the army to pass through.

In view of this, Yan Yingyuan simply gave up the blunderbuss outside the city and concentrated his forces to defend the east and west cities. As long as Jiannu did not transfer Hongyi cannons from Xuzhou, he was still very sure of defending Shanyang City.

After all, Sanyang's city defense facilities are much stronger than those of a small county like Suining.

"Okay, I'll listen to you in terms of military affairs." Maoxiang nodded, and asked again, "Brother Juheng, I always feel uneasy in my heart, why don't all the townsmen go to the city bravely now?"

On the first day Jiannu arrived in Xuzhou, he launched a sudden attack, trying to catch the Ming army by surprise.

Chongzhen has sent messengers to inform the townspeople of Xiazhen, Pizhou and Huai'an about this matter, in order to make Xiazhen, Pizhou and Huai'an be more vigilant and not repeat the mistakes of Xuzhou.

Chongzhen had a scholar camp in Xuzhou as a backup, but Xiazhen, Pizhou and Huai'an prefectures did not have scholar camps.

"No need." Yan Yingyuan said calmly, "Brother Pijiang, don't worry, Jiannu won't rush to attack, not to mention that even if Jiannu does launch a rush attack, it's okay."

Shanyang City is still different from Yunlong Mountain.

After a pause, Yan Yingyuan said again: "Let's see how Jiannu will set up camp first."

Mao Xiang said: "Does it matter? Jianu will definitely live in the blunderbuss platform we built outside the city. It's so cold, how warm it is inside the blunderbuss platform. Jianu doesn't need to set up a tent."

"I think so too." Yan Yingyuan smiled slightly.

Mao Xiang's expression moved slightly, and he asked, "Brother Wu Heng, do you have any ideas?"

"It's a bit of a vague idea." Yan Yingyuan nodded, then shook his head and said, "But I haven't fully figured it out yet. I have to think about it later and think about it."

Mao Xiang suddenly sighed and said, "If we had known earlier that we would have to give up the blunderbuss towers outside the city, and Jiannu would be stationed in the blunderbuss towers, we should really make a fuss about these blunderbuss towers, such as burying sulfur and fire under the blunderbuss towers in advance. Wait for the fire starter, and then wait for Jiannu to settle in, then light the gun platform, and burn these barbarians to death."

"It's definitely not possible." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said.

"Jianu is not stupid, let alone blind."

……

On the other side, Duoduo asked Niyaha, "Is there anyone on the Guntai?"

"Yes." Niyaha nodded and said, "We checked more than twenty gun stands, and found that they were all empty, not only these gun stands were empty, but also the villages outside the city were empty!"

Duoduo said: "So people are hiding in the city."

He Luohui said: "People can enter the city, but what about cattle, sheep, and goods?"

"I didn't find it either." Niyaha said, "It was probably brought into the city."

He Luohui laughed, and said to Duoduo: "Master, this turned out to be a good thing."

"Yeah." Duoduo also grinned grimly, and said, "The surrounding people have hid in Shanyang City, which saves us from going out to plunder. We only need to seize Shanyang to get all the cattle, sheep, and goods. .”

He Luohui asked Duoduo again: "Master, why don't you camp at the gun platform built by the Ming army tonight?"

"Yes." Duoduo nodded and said again, "However, we still need to check the gun platform carefully to see if the dog has left any secret passages in the gun platform, or hidden fire ignites such as sulfur and fire."

"Master, don't worry." He Luohui said with a smirk, "Don't try to escape my slave's eyes, even if it's just a mouse hole, I will be caught by the slave, at least the sulfur and fire will not escape the slave's nose. "

Although He Luohui said so, in his heart he didn't think the Ming army could have such a brain.

Didn't you hear what Hou Fangyu said, there are two scholars in charge of guarding Shanyang.

It's just a scholar, not Zhuge Liang, who can have such a clever plan?

However, I think that Gui Xin thinks that He Luohui still personally took a team of flagmen, and carefully checked ten of the blunderbuss, and found that there was nothing wrong with them, and then reported it to Duoduo.

After receiving the report, Duoduo immediately ordered the army to enter the battalion camp.

……

The sky darkened quickly, and Yan Yingyuan smiled when he saw teams of Jiannu entering the blunderbuss platform.

"Brother Pijiang, go back and get a good night's sleep." Yan Yingyuan said, "The next period of time may be ten days, maybe half a month, or even longer. I'm afraid it will be rare for you to get a good night's sleep."

"It makes sense." Mao Xiang thought deeply, and the two bowed to each other to say goodbye.

Yan Yingyuan is in charge of military affairs and has to live on the tower from tonight.

(End of this chapter)