Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

These guys in Goryeo have never seen the terror of the Ming army.

Their impression of the Ming Dynasty was still that of the rebel forces in the late Yuan Dynasty. Although they were strong, they were not completely hopeless.

In the Ming Dynasty, apart from arming the elite troops of the imperial court, all the firearms produced by the arsenal were used in the war against Japan.

Or due to insufficient steel production, the number of Hongwu rifles and artillery produced by a Yangzhou arsenal alone was limited, and it was not possible to arm the entire Ming army in a short period of time.

This is also the reason why Yang Xianda set up a steel plant.

Therefore, the soldiers inside Tieling captured by Li Chenggui and others were still using old-fashioned firearms.

The Ming Dynasty's army pressed directly over them like dark clouds.

Li Chenggui, who was standing on the city wall, looked at this and his heart tightened slightly, knowing that the Ming Dynasty was about to attack the city.

The next attack must be extremely ferocious.

Li Chenggui asked his soldiers to prepare the equipment to defend the city, and even prepared for the worst, if he could not defend the city, he would have to fight hand-to-hand on the city wall.

But at this moment, artillery carts were pushed in front of Tieling.

Li Chenggui frowned: "Is this an artillery piece?"

Li Chenggui was no stranger to this thing. Koryo was different from Japan. Their biggest advantage was that they were close to the Central Plains, so they had seen all kinds of firearms very early on.

The power of firearms is obvious to all. In order to make their own firearms, the Koreans also racked their brains. Cui Maoyi, who was the judge of Goryeo's Ordnance Supervisor (the department in charge of weapons under the military officer) at that time, advocated self-control of firearms and searched for methods of firearms everywhere.

Except for supporting Goryeo in its fight against Japan, the Ming Dynasty insisted on an arms embargo policy against Goryeo, so firearms technology would naturally not be exported. However, trade between the two countries remains frequent.

Cui Maoyi took advantage of this. "Whenever Maoyi saw merchants coming from the south of the Yangtze River, he would ask about the method of gunpowder." Later, he met Li Yuan, a Jiangnan businessman who worked as a flamesmith during the Yuan Dynasty. Cui Maoyi deliberately treated the virtuous corporal and met Li Yuan After the Yuan Dynasty was established, he "stealed his skills and asked several children in his family to practice them and try them out, and then built Baiji Xiu" (Volume 133 of "History of Goryeo").

After finally acquiring the gunpowder technology, Cui Maoyi suggested to the King of Goryeo that he set up a special fire barrel governor to specialize in the manufacture of gunpowder and firearms, with Cui Maoyi as the promotion officer.

That is what happened not long ago last year.

According to the original history of time and space, the Koryo Kingdom began to mass-produce various firearms next year.

At present, their technology is still limited and they are not yet able to build artillery.

But you’ve never eaten pork, and haven’t you seen a pig running?

Regarding artillery, Li Chenggui believed that he still had a certain understanding.

Isn't this thing used for defense?

Even if it is an attack, it is occasionally used in field battles, but if it is used to attack a city, this is somewhat nonsense, right?

Are you, Ming Dynasty, bullying us for not seeing artillery?

Li Chenggui felt a little slighted.

However, this artillery seems to be a little different from Li Chenggui's impression. Is it a bit too light? It can be pushed to the front of the formation so easily.

next moment.

Li Wenzhong raised his arm and then waved it fiercely.

boom! boom! boom! boom!

Hundreds of cannons erupted with violent roars at the same time, and then, in Li Chenggui's eyes widened, the terrifying shells hit the city head directly.

How can these artillery guns have such a long range?

How could a cannonball fly so high?

These two thoughts just emerged in Li Chenggui's mind.

boom!

Cannonballs landed directly on the top of the city. A terrifying explosion erupted, soil and gravel splashed, and the terrifying air wave directly shook the soldiers on the top of the city one by one.

He fell to pieces.

One of the shells landed not far from Li Chenggui. Mud and gravel fell on him, making him miserable, but he had no time to care.

The huge sound wave produced by the explosion just now made his entire left ear still buzzing. At this moment, he was still confused.

Regarding the third point about the Ming artillery, something he couldn't figure out also came to his mind.

How could the artillery be so powerful?

Zhu Fan, who was riding a tall horse and lined up with coach Li Wenzhong, looked at this scene, his eyes narrowed slightly, and there was a strong excitement in his pupils.

The previous battle to pacify Yunnan had already inspired Zhu Fan's fierce and arrogant temperament.

As the original time and space, its strength, not to mention compared with other vassal kings, is among the top among the nine great Sai kings. When he was young, he even suppressed Zhu Di for a time.

If Zhu Fan had not died early, Emperor Jianwen might have prioritized Zhu Fan as his biggest imaginary enemy for reducing the vassal state.

Of course, with Zhu Fen's tough character and strong strength, it will not be easy for Zhu Di to win the throne.

Hundreds of artillery vehicles fired a salvo, immediately erupting with astonishing power.

If it were based on Li Wenzhong's previous experience in siege warfare, ladders and siege vehicles would have been waiting here long ago.

Because of the emergence of Yang Xian, these new firearms he invented directly changed these traditional tactics.

Li Chenggui, who was hiding behind the shield guard on the city wall, felt cold in his heart.

The Ming Dynasty's artillery suppression was too fierce.

At this time, the soldiers guarding the city wall did not dare to show their heads. God knows when the next cannonball will hit them.

But if you don't take the lead, you can't know the situation below the city. What if the Ming army takes the opportunity to attack the city?

At the moment, Li Wenzhong could only rely on his hearing and the sound of artillery to judge whether the Ming army was attacking the city.

Because if the Ming army attacks the city, the first thing to stop is the bombardment. It is impossible for them to kill their own people.

the other side.

Under Li Wenzhong's worried eyes, the third prince Zhu Fan led a main force and headed straight to Tieling City.

At Zhu Fan's request, the gunfire did not stop.

There were just hundreds of artillery pieces, and most of them were firing at unrelated places on both sides.

A safe passage was opened for the main force led by Zhu Fan.

Not far from the gate of the city wall, Zhu Fan stopped. He raised his hand. Immediately there were soldiers behind him. They carried several large bags full of gunpowder and piled them directly in front of the city gate. They waited until the gunpowder piled up like a small mountain. .

Zhu Fan in the distance directly ignited the gunpowder with rockets.

boom!

The huge explosion immediately overwhelmed the artillery.

Li Chenggui, who was on the city wall, felt as if the entire city wall was shaking at this moment.

Li Chenggui was dumbfounded?

What's going on? !

He immediately withdrew the shield soldiers protecting him, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and found that the artillery on the opposite side was not aimed at this direction at all.

Li Chenggui suddenly thought of something, his face changed drastically, and he looked down.

Under the tall city wall, a huge hole was blasted out directly connected to the city gate.

Oops!

That explosion just now must have been gunpowder!

Damn!

How could Ming Dynasty's gunpowder be so powerful?

Li Chenggui was also involved in Goryeo's independent research and development of gunpowder. However, the gunpowder they developed based on the method provided by the Jiangnan businessman was completely different from the power of the gunpowder he had just seen. Too much.

"Stop the shelling!"

When Li Wenzhong in the distance saw Zhu Fan's success, he let out a loud roar and immediately ordered the soldiers to wave the flag. The entire artillery battalion immediately stopped shelling after receiving the order. Orders and prohibitions.

This is the discipline of the master of the Ming Dynasty.

the other side.

Zhu Fan pulled out the sword from his waist with a "chang" sound, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, follow me to attack, let these Goryeo bastards understand the consequences of irritating our Ming Dynasty!"

Then they took the lead and the army rushed towards Tieling City.

When Li Wenzhong saw this scene in the distance, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

The sons of Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma, and their cousins, let alone anything else, all inherited the advantages of their fathers in terms of military ability.

It's a pity that almost all of Queen Ma's advantages were given to Zhu Biao.

Li Wenzhong recovered his divergent thoughts and followed up with the commanding army.

At this moment, Li Chenggui was dumbfounded.

The coach was dumbfounded, and the people under his command were naturally even dumber. They were still in shock when Li Wenzhong and Zhu Fan's army came to kill them.

"Are you kidding me?" This was what Li Chenggui thought.

Although from the beginning, Li Chenggui believed from the bottom of his heart that they could not win this war with Ming Dynasty.

Even if you lose, how can you lose if you have to divide?

Li Chenggui never expected that Tieling, which he had just captured not long ago, would be lost in this way, which seemed to him like a fantasy.

However, Li Chenggui was also a famous Korean general. After a few slow shots, he finally reacted.

Now this iron ridge cannot be defended.

Then you can only retreat!

Return to the Yalu River!

Li Chenggui led the main force and began to retreat. After a bloody battle, he finally broke out of the encirclement.

After a battle.

The originally claimed 10 strong soldiers were now less than half left.

When the Jurchen tribe saw this attitude, they directly tore up the alliance and abandoned them.

They didn't fight directly with these Goryeo soldiers. It was considered that these Jurchen tribes had a good temper.

But the most important reason is that the Jurchen tribe was not strong at this time, and had even been suppressed by Goryeo in recent years.

Tieling City.

If two armies meet in the wild, and the losing side really just runs away, there will generally not be many prisoners that can be captured.

Siege warfare is completely different.

Most of the enemies are in the city.

It was God's blessing that the main force was able to fight its way out through other city gates.

Therefore, Li Wenzhong and others directly captured tens of thousands of prisoners in this battle.

After Li Wenzhong entered the city, he handed over the job of cleaning the battlefield to Zhu Fan, while he himself entered the city and began to understand the situation of the people in the city.

By the way, he reassured them that although the Goryeo army occupied Tieling for only a short period of time, in Li Wenzhong's view, it must have caused harm to the people.

This was normal in ancient wars.

The massacre of the city did not happen just once.

But Li Wenzhong led his guards along the main streets of the city. Looking along the way, they found that the houses in the city were intact and almost undamaged.

The people in the city also walked out of their houses one after another after seeing the Ming sergeant.

Li Wenzhong patiently asked these people one by one, and the more he asked, the more surprised his face became.

He never thought that after the Goryeo army captured Tieling, they only confiscated a certain amount of food, wine and meat from the people in the city, and had no concern for their personal safety.

A soldier even violated military law and raped a civilian girl, and was executed in front of the entire city.

This was completely beyond Li Wenzhong's expectation.

What kind of medicine did these guys sell in the gourd?

When did war become so civilized?

Li Wenzhong just kept this matter in mind, and planned to record these things in detail and report them back to the court.

There will naturally be people who can't understand things that he can't understand.

Just when Li Wenzhong was preparing to take a closer look at the situation in the city and what the Goryeo army had done in the past few days after occupying Tieling, a partial general ran over in a hurry and said anxiously: "General, it's not good, Your Highness the Third Prince. , prepare to execute those Korean prisoners directly."

"what?!"

After Li Wenzhong heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately changed direction and walked back.

On the other side, Zhu Fan had already commanded his soldiers to gather the tens of thousands of Korean prisoners in the inner city.

Thousands of archers were already drawing their bows and ready to go.

In Zhu Fan's eyes, the lives of these prisoners were not even worth a round of ammunition, so he executed them with bows and arrows.

Zhu Fan stood on the high wall, looking indifferently at the Korean prisoners below, raised his hand and gave the order coldly.

"put!"

Suddenly arrows rained down.

A wailing sound below resounded over Tieling. This painful wailing and screaming spread through the air and could be heard in most of Tieling City.

Li Wenzhong, who was halfway there, also heard the sound.

Li Wenzhong's face was ashen and he quickened his pace, but when he arrived at the battlefield, he saw a picture.

Zhu Fan held a knife in his hand and personally cut into the pile of corpses of Korean prisoners.

The way he used the knife was ruthless and clean.

The bright red blood splashed up and dyed his handsome face red.

The description of Zhu Fan in history can be summarized in the following twelve words: handsome, young and wise, ruthless and cruel.

In the original time and space, Zhu Fan went out to work as a vassal, and his cruel nature that had been suppressed for many years was exposed.

On the way to the vassal, a small incident happened. When the food delivered was not to his taste, Zhu Fan whipped the cook in public, almost beating him to death.

After hearing the news, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict overnight to reprimand Zhu Fan. In the imperial edict written to Zhu Fan, he did not forget to teach:

"When I was conquering the world, I would punish anyone who made a mistake. But chef Xu Xingzu has been with me for 23 years, and I have never humiliated him. Just because resentment does not lie in the size, but in whether you will meet a villain. If you offend the chef , don’t you want to live?”

Zhu Yuanzhang's teachings had no effect on Zhu Fan. After arriving in Taiyuan, Zhu Fan became more arrogant, moody and did many illegal things.

In terms of suppressing Zhu Fan, Zhu Biao was even better than Zhu Yuanzhang.

Later, after Zhu Biao returned from his inspection tour of Xi'an, he specially passed by Taiyuan and brought his third brother Zhu Fan back to Nanjing. After Zhu Biao's persuasion and education, Zhu Fan restrained his violent emotions and changed his mind. (End of chapter)