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Chapter 116
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"Dog slave, idiot! Did you forget that the Jinzhou barbarians have Hongyi cannons? As long as the Jinzhou barbarians' cannons hit this kind of slope cart, the ice on this slope cart will not be smashed?" Nuerhachi irritated The siege cart smashed into Fan Wencheng's face, and the enthusiasm that had been burnt up with great difficulty disappeared.Fan Wencheng, however, was not in a hurry, and said with a sly smile in a low voice: "Khan, of course this slave has considered the threat of the Manzi's Hongyi cannon, but did Dahan ever know that the Manzi's Hongyi cannon actually has a serious weakness!"

"What weakness?" Nuerhachi became a little interested again.Fan Wencheng replied with a sinister smile: "Fort! The Hongyi cannon is powerful, but it also has a strong anti-shock force, so if you want to use the Hongyi cannon, you must put it on a hard ground or a stone fort, otherwise it will be like Ordinary rammed earth city walls, Hongyi cannons can knock down the city walls by themselves after only a few shots! The slaves have already learned from the scouts that the northeast and southeast corners of Jinzhou City are stone forts, which are extremely strong, so we Every time we attack the east gate, we have to suffer from the Hongyi cannons; but because our Dajin army came too fast, Zhang Haogu was caught off guard and had no time to finish repairing the forts, so the two forts in the southwest and northwest corners of Jinzhou, Only the middle and lower half are made of stone—while the upper half is made of rammed earth! Big Khan, you can think about it, if we destroy those two tofu dregs forts first, and then use the siege ramp to attack the fallen With the west gate of Jinzhou protected by two forts, isn't Jinzhou City within easy reach?"

"Really?" Nuerhachi was surprised and delighted at first, then slapped his thigh fiercely, and shouted regretfully: "Oh! I forgot so much? The scouts also reported this matter to me. I just saw Zhang Hao Gu used the method of splashing water to freeze the fort to strengthen it, which is almost as hard as a stone fort, so he didn't think of starting from there! If you really want to break the ice wall, there is no way!" After a moment of joy, Nuerhachi was worried again He asked: "If Zhang Haogu finds out that we are attacking the fort, and moves the Hongyi cannon out of the fort in advance, and transports it to the front of the west gate of Jinzhou to continue firing, what should we do?"

"Please rest assured, the Hongyi cannon is extremely heavy and inconvenient to carry. Even if Zhang Haogu moved the Hongyi cannon to the front of the city wall to fire, it would not be able to rotate as flexibly as on the fort. He could bombard every position at will, let alone It may quickly destroy every one of our siege ramp vehicles. Moreover, during the battle, the defenders on the city wall are densely packed, and it is even more difficult to carry the Hongyi cannons. Moreover, without the forts to protect the gunners, our bows and arrows are also expected to suppress their gunners. "Fan Wencheng first explained in detail the various weaknesses of the Hongyi Cannon after it lost the protection of the fort, and then said with a grinning smile: "There is a more important point, Dahan, you think the Hongyi Cannon in Zhang Haogu's hand is really real. Is it the Hongyi Cannon?"

"What do you mean?" Nuerhachi's eyes showed joy.Fan Wencheng replied darkly: "Khan, you don't know. Among the barbarians' national army, there are actually only 31 real red barbarian cannons salvaged from the sea. Among these 31 red barbarian cannons, one of them was accidentally blown up. The remaining [-] cannons were placed in Manzi’s capital, and the other ten were in Ningyuan City—the [-] red barbarian cannons in Zhang Haogu’s hands were actually fakes imitated by Manzi’s craftsmen! It is not as big as the real Hongyi cannon, and the range is not as far as the real Hongyi cannon! It’s just that Zhang Haogu’s little barbarian and Gao Di’s barbarian didn’t know this, so they were deceived by the insiders of the barbarian army and regarded the counterfeit as a fake. We brought the real ones to Jinzhou! Otherwise, we wouldn’t dare to set up camp within ten miles of Jinzhou!”

"Thank goodness, it's a good thing that Zhang Hao Gu Manzi didn't get the real thing, otherwise our Dajin army would have been really miserable." Nuerhachi was dripping with cold sweat as he heard it, and shouted thankfully.Fan Wencheng grinned again and said, "Khan, I have some great news to tell you. When the barbarian craftsmen imitated the first batch of Hongyi cannons, they were extremely easy to blow up because of their unskilled workmanship. Therefore, most of these Hongyi cannons have been refurbished, and only a few were exiled to Liaodong, and were not transported back to the capital of Manzi for re-forging. The barbarians brought them to Jinzhou City! Judging from the siege battles these days, the two forts in the northeast and southeast corners of Jinzhou City that fired the most guns did not explode, so I am sure that the five problematic Hongyi cannons, It is on the two forts at the southwest and northwest corners of Jinzhou City! Think about it again, even before the forts were destroyed, Zhang Haogu moved the Hongyi cannons to the densely guarded Jinzhou City Wall, and our army attacked the city What kind of scene would it be if the Hongyi cannon suddenly exploded?"

"Dog slave, how do you know?" Nuerhachi asked in surprise.Fan Wencheng replied respectfully: "The eighth elder brother told the servants. The eighth elder brother only knew about it when he received an urgent insider report from him in the barbarian army yesterday. It's just that the eighth elder brother asked to see the sweat twice today, and both It was rejected by the Great Khan, so the slaves took the credit for the eighth elder brother."

"Eighth brother?" Nuerhachi regretted rejecting Huang Taiji's request to see him twice during the day, but Nuerhachi lowered his face and admitted his mistake, and just hummed: "He just doesn't learn his lesson and likes to associate with barbarians! You go back Make a detailed siege plan with him, and then bring him to see me."

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The New Year's Eve was passed safely, and the expected sneak attack did not come, which made Young Master Zhang a little surprised. Even Kuanuer Hachi had grown up, knowing that he knew how to advance and retreat, and could choose between.But what surprises Young Master Zhang is still to come. Since the last siege of Huang Taiji on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, 29th, New Year’s Eve, and the first day of the first month of the second year of Tianqi, for three consecutive days, the Jiannu army did not come to attack the city. The slave army has also suddenly evolved to learn how the Han people celebrate the Spring Festival-you know, with the manpower and material resources of the Jiannu army, three days are enough to manufacture three to four hundred iron-wrapped and chiseled vehicles that are the most threatening to the Jinzhou city wall.As a result, the suspicious Young Master Zhang inevitably harbored something in his heart...

"Brother Zhang, Jianu must be afraid of being beaten by you, so he dare not come to attack the city." When Young Master Zhang consulted the generals of the Ming army, Hei Yunlong and other strong generals thought that Jianu was afraid of being beaten by Young Master Zhang, so Don't dare to attack the city again.Mao Yuanyi, Zhao Ratejiao and Wu Xiang will be more sophisticated. Of course, they will not believe that there is any enemy in this world that can scare the old Jiannu Nuerhachi, who is invincible in the Southern and Northern Wars, but he can't say a reason. Come.Only Ma Shilong raised a possibility, "Could it be that Jiannu found out that Ningyuan is reinforcing Jinzhou and is planning to besiege the city and fight for aid?"

"There is no reinforcements, and I have no intention of asking for reinforcements." Young Master Zhang shook his head resolutely, and said in a deep voice: "Generals, I repeat, you should not expect reinforcements to help us. Now our Daming army is not as good as Jiannu in field battles. Reinforcements If we come here, we won’t be able to enter the city, and we will only let them die in vain, so I have never asked Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan City for reinforcements from the beginning to the end. Whether we can hold Jinzhou or not, until Jiannu takes the initiative to retreat, we can only rely on ourselves.” All the generals in Jinzhou nodded together, expressing that they were aware of this.Ma Shilong asked unconvinced: "Brother Zhang, even if we never asked for help, the Ningyuan garrison found that we were surrounded by Jiannu, wouldn't they take the initiative to rescue us?"

Young Master Zhang couldn't help laughing. Only then did he understand why Ma Shilong was played so badly by a traitor who pretended to surrender - there are still such naive people in this world?However, Young Master Zhang did not want to disclose his conflict with the Ningyuan garrison, so he just said lightly: "There will be no reinforcements, and even if there are, they will not come from the south. We still count on the Mongolian Lindan Khan in the west and the Pidao Maoda in the east." Handsome is more reliable. Forget it, let's not talk about this topic, let's discuss what Jiannu will do next. I can be sure that Jiannu, who is short of military supplies, has not come to attack the city for three consecutive days. It must be something important. Prepare to win the battle of Jinzhou!"

Young Master Zhang’s Crow’s Mouth has always been effective. At noon on the second day of the first lunar month, the sky cleared after several days of heavy snow, and the sight was no longer obstructed by the wind and snow. After careful observation and the help of binoculars, the Jinzhou Ming Army finally discovered Jiannu. A little change in the army - a large number of slave soldiers were cutting wood on the nearby mountains, and most of them were transported to the slave camp west of Jinzhou City for storage.After receiving this news, Young Master Zhang hurriedly led the generals of Jinzhou to the West Gate Tower, and raised the binoculars to observe the enemy's situation. Looking through the binoculars for a long time, apart from seeing that the Jiannu army was transporting a large amount of wood to the Xiangbaiqi barracks, all that was left was that some craftsmen were rushing to make wheels and some wooden frames, and many soldiers were chopping firewood. The nearby firewood was almost piled up. It became a hill.

"What is Jiannu doing? Chopping so much firewood? It doesn't take so much to keep the soldiers warm, right?" Young Master Zhang looked confused.On the contrary, Song Xiance, Young Master Zhang's dog-headed master, had sharp eyes and shouted, "Boss, have you noticed? The trees that the slave soldiers chop firewood seem to be all pine trees!"

"Pine trees?!" Young Master Zhang shuddered in his heart, and quickly raised his binoculars to take a closer look. It turned out that the wood materials used by the slaves to chop firewood were all pine trees without leaves!Lu Wanling next to him is a master of stereotyped essays, and he doesn't know much about tree classification, so Fox asked: "Brother Zhang Nian, what's so strange about pine trees? What kind of tree is not a tree?"

"Idiot!" Young Master Zhang scolded, and said coldly: "The trunks of pine trees usually have rosin and rosin, which are far more flammable and violent than other trees when they are ignited. Get up, even if all the fire hoses in Jinzhou City gather together, they won’t be able to extinguish it!”

"Jiannu wants to use fire to attack?!" Almost all Jinzhou generals screamed after being reminded by Young Master Zhang.Young Master Zhang nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the main battlefield of Jinzhou will be transferred to the west gate in the future." Speaking of this, Young Master Zhang said suspiciously: "No, the terrain of Jinzhou is open in the east and north. It is conducive to the deployment of the army, and there are the most mountains in the west, which is most unfavorable to the formation of the main army of Jiannu—the old Jiannu Nuerhachi is also an old loach on the battlefield, why did he choose to attack here?"

"The last general also finds it very strange." Ma Shilong scratched his head and said: "A few days ago, Jiannu has been attacking the east gate, and the moat at the east gate has been completely filled up, and most of the moat at the west gate is intact. If it works, why would Jiannu choose the easy and take the difficult, and transfer the main battlefield to Ximen?"

"What is easy and what is difficult?" Young Master Zhang's head is indeed not covered. When Ma Shilong accidentally reminded him of these four words, Young Master Zhang immediately thought of a major problem, and quickly turned his head to look at the red cannon forts on both sides of the west gate of Jinzhou—— As I said before, those two forts were bean curd dregs projects that were caught off guard. If the rammed earth hadn't been frozen to death by the severe cold, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to fire a few shots. The fort collapsed!After thinking about this point, it is self-evident why Jiannu specially saved pine trees and firewood and the main force of Jiannu chose Ximen of Jinzhou as the main battlefield.

"Give up the easy and choose the difficult? Wrong, Jiannu is choosing the difficult to obtain the easy!" Young Master Zhang gave a smirk, and ordered: "Brother Ma, go and arrange the manpower to transfer the small cannons gathered on the wall of the east gate Come to the city wall of the west gate and prepare more grape bullets for the Franji cannons. Once the slave soldiers start filling the river, they will use grape bullets to deal with them immediately. They must not be allowed to fill up the moat of the west gate quickly and comfortably. We buy time to respond."

"Decree." Ma Shilong agreed, and when he was about to make arrangements, Young Master Zhang added: "Wait a minute, in order to reduce the casualties of soldiers, Jiannu will fill the river at night in all likelihood. Brother Ma, you still have to do it." Ask people to prepare more torches, lanterns, and kerosene for lighting at night, and from this evening onwards, the number of troops on duty at night at the west gate of Jinzhou will triple!"

"Brother Zhang, don't worry, starting from tonight, we will take turns guarding the west gate." Ma Shilong, Zhao Liaojiao and the others reassured, patted their chests.Young Master Zhang nodded, cupped his hands to express his gratitude, and then turned to Mao Yuanyi, who was left by the eunuch Ji Yong and Sun Chengzong, and said: "Eunuch Ji, Master Mao, you two have to work harder, please go to the city to organize the people's husbands, ………, remember, between the walls, there must be……….”

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The night is dark enough to kill people, and the wind high enough to set fire to. In the evening, after two hours of clearing, the sky was covered with overcast clouds again.Faced with such a ghostly weather, the soldiers on both sides standing guard in the open air were naturally cursing, complaining that God did not allow them to have a better life, but Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, who had been worried all afternoon, cheered and rejoiced. It snowed heavily at night, effectively blocking the sight of the Jinzhou defenders.

"Hurry up, hurry up and fill the river." Fortunately, Huang Taiji, who managed to regain a little trust from Nuerhachi, immediately ordered to do it, and personally led more than [-] Jiannu infantry to fight against the sandbags and boulders, under the cover of night, Quietly touched the moat under the Ximen City of Jinzhou, and threw sandbags and boulders into the dry bottom of the moat, paving the way for the next siege operation.But just after throwing a few sandbags, there was a sound of gong on the west gate wall of Jinzhou, which was still silent and sparsely lit just now. Countless torches appeared on the city wall, and countless lanterns were placed in the middle of the city wall. One side should be transparent.Ma Shilong stood at the top of the wall, laughed and said, "Gou Jiannu, your actions were once again expected by our Jinzhou Military Guard Master Zhang. Fire!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" The more than forty Franco cannons that were transferred to the west gate of Jinzhou during the day ignited and fired together, shooting out hastily made grape projectiles, which were bundled with dozens of egg-sized stone balls. The resulting grape bullets naturally spread out in the air, turning into a rain of bullets one after another, overwhelming the panicked Jiannu infantry, and the desperate screams and howling of ghosts and wolves quickly filled the night sky.At the same time, densely packed musketeers and blunderbusses also appeared on the top of the city wall of Jinzhou, firing at the slave soldiers on the opposite side of the moat...

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