Wanli 1592

Chapter 32 Blowing up the city wall? !

"Six thousand ranks! Six thousand ranks! Since Cheng Zu's Northern Expedition, how did the Ming Dynasty have such a big harvest? There are still three thousand captive cavalry! Good! Xiao Ruxun! Xiao Ruxun! Good! Good! I still have such A loyal and loyal general who dares to fight!! Good! Tell that traitor to suffer a lot! I want to bring both father and son to the capital, and personally watch them lose their heads!!”

Zhu Yijun's body was full of evil spirits, and Zhang Cheng was so scared that he was trembling!
After reading this memorial written by Wei Xuezeng himself for a while, Zhu Yijun reluctantly put down this rare good news, and turned his attention to the rest of the memorials, with a lot of thoughts.

I didn't know it before, but now there is good news that the general Xiao Ruxun insisted on defending Pinglu City and vowed not to surrender. He used firearms to defeat [-] bandit troops and beheaded [-]. Zhulitu, one of the leaders of the Taoist captives, destroyed three thousand of his cavalry, greatly increased the prestige of our army, and deterred the captives from entering the invaders easily.There is such a general who can fight in the Northwest!

Emperor Wanli was really surprised!Capture!Capture!The captive who caused the court a headache!Three thousand people were killed in one go!Three thousand!In the past, killing 100 or [-] enemies was a commendable victory!Now he killed three thousand in one go!This Xiao Ruxun!Xiao Ruxun!Who is it? !

Wei Xuezeng's military newspaper said that Xiao Ruxun had defeated the enemy army, and he could directly threaten the town of Ningxia, the home of the rebel army, and he would push the warlord army into the rebel army, attacking the rebel army on both sides, and he would definitely defeat the rebel army in one fell swoop. Please rest assured, Your Majesty, and then please reward Xiao Ruxun generously !
Did not say!Did not say!Then how can the general who gave me a face not be rewarded?Emperor Wanli immediately ordered Zhang Cheng to prepare for the drafting of the decree, to join the general Xiao Ruxun in a brave battle, defeating 1000 enemy troops in one battle, and greatly increasing the prestige of our Ming army. Wei Xue once defeated the enemy!The staff verified the number of heads, and then rewarded them according to the law. Xiao Ruxun was specially given 1 taels of gold, [-] taels of silver, [-] bolts of silk cloth, and the title of Lieutenant of Light Vehicles.

Rewards for generals are much more thoughtful than rewards for civil servants, because there are not so many twists and turns, generals have been squeezed out of the decision-making circle, and there are not so many tricks to use. The rank of the army, anyway, no matter how it is promoted, it is also a pawn of a civil servant. It is that simple.

In addition, Mei Guozhen was allowed to supervise the army, but the suggestion of dispatching troops from other places was shelved for the time being to see the effect. Then Zhu Yijun issued the military report and his own will to the cabinet, and the cabinet and the Ministry of War negotiated and issued it.

Zhu Yijun ate an extra bowl of rice that night.

Then on the morning of the third day, an even bigger surprise came——the latest military report came, and there was a major breakthrough in the counter-insurgency at the border!

Wei Xuezeng went to Shu, and around March 2000, Xiao Ruxun joined forces with the reinforcements sent by Wei Xuezeng before Magui, and joined forces to attack Ningxia Town. Within three days, they wiped out the rebel strongholds in the north and west of Ningxia Town, and beheaded all of them. More than two hundred in [-], seized all the strongholds in the north, and completely controlled the entire north.

By the evening of March 24, the cooperation route between the rebel army and the Guanwai captives had been completely cut off. The rebel army had shrunk their troops back to the town of Ningxia, surrounded on all sides, and became a turtle in an urn. Daming was already invincible!Wei Xuezeng wanted to give Xiao Ruxun another credit.

"Good! Good! Good! Hahahaha! Hahahaha! What a Xiao Ruxun! What a Xiao Jixin! How did I not know that there is a seed of a famous general in the northwest! Hahahaha!
To have the guts to run a long-distance raid and directly cut off the connection between the captives and the bandits, imprisoned the bandits in Ningxia, and surrounded the town of Ningxia with Wei Xuezeng on all sides. put down!Hahahahaha!It's only been a month, right?Ha ha ha ha! "

Zhu Yijun hadn't smiled so happily in several years, and Zhang Cheng felt very happy seeing Zhu Yijun's smiling face.

"Zhang Cheng! Immediately draw up an edict and issue it to the cabinet! The previous imperial edict has not been sent out, so it will be invalidated immediately. Xiao Ruxun was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Zuodu Governor's Mansion. Soldiers and horses, assist Wei Xuezeng to completely put down the rebellion! Give two thousand gold and ten thousand silver! If you make great achievements after putting down the rebellion, if you do both, I will still reward you! The rest of the rewards will be left to the Ministry of War!"

For dinner that night, Zhu Yijun was in a good mood and ate another bowl of rice.

Xiao Ruxun didn't know about Zhu Yijun's comfort, and Wei Xuezeng didn't know too well. Outside Ningxia city, after hearing Xiao Ruxun's astonishing words, Wei Xuezeng felt as if he had eaten a cannonball, and his throat felt a little astringent.

"Ji Xin, what are you talking about... blowing up the city wall?"

After a while, Wei Xuezeng came to his senses and looked at Xiao Ruxun in disbelief, as if he was looking at an alien. The rest of the generals looked at each other in blank dismay. After a while, no one came forward to say anything, they were also frightened.

"Yes! Blow up the city wall! Use [-] catties of gunpowder to avoid the city gate and urn, find a weak spot, and blow up the city wall of Ningxia!"

Xiao Ruxun knew that it would be difficult for people to agree, so if he didn't speak clearly, it would be even less likely to be recognized. No matter what, he must speak firmly.

"No! General Xiao! We all admire your ability to fight, but this strategy is really amazing. Not to mention that the city wall of Ningxia is used to guard against captives. It will not be repaired if it is blown up for a while. It is a question of your ability to blow up the city walls, we know that you are very good at fighting with firearms, but we have also used a lot of shelling these days, the city walls of Ningxia are too thick to be blown up at all!"

A middle-aged general stood up, his tone not so sharp.

Wei Xuezeng looked at Xiao Ruxun, feeling a little disappointed in his heart, shook his head slightly, Wei Xuezeng said: "Ji Xin's remarks are a bit exaggerated. The governor thinks that it is really difficult to blow up the city wall with the existing gunpowder."

Xiao Ruxun stood up, saw a book on Wei Xuezeng's desk, picked it up, put it in front of Wei Xuezeng, and said: "Please look at the platform, but the first thing to do when building a wall is to lay the foundation, put it in front of Wei Xuezeng, and put it in front of him." The foundation was laid firmly, and then a city wall was built with masonry, earth, wood and glutinous rice juice on it, and there was a magnificent city in front of us. With the strength of our army's current firearms, even if it was bombarded with solid iron bullets, at most it would smash a hole and it would not be possible to break through the city.

Therefore, we may not be able to break into the city by blowing up the city wall directly with gunpowder for a month. However, if we change our thinking and blow up its foundation directly from the ground, what should we do if we lift it up from the ground? "

Wei Xuezeng stared at Xiao Ruxun's movements with wide eyes, thinking quickly, while the rest of the generals were also shocked by such thoughts.

(End of this chapter)