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Chapter 383 Is it that simple to fight?
The results of the Battle of Zhenjiang Fort spread rapidly in all directions.

Fast horses, fast boats, the fastest tool for message delivery in this era, spread the results of this epoch-making victory to all directions.

Forbidden City.

A few days ago, Yang Reform received Mao Wenlong's determination to defend Zhenjiang Fort. Yang Reform hesitated for a while, whether to stop Mao Wenlong from doing so. Being trapped in an isolated city does have a great impact on the situation of the battle.After much deliberation, I felt that since Mao Wenlong used his mortal determination to lure Donglu, then he might as well try it himself, maybe Mao Wenlong would give himself a surprise.Therefore, Yang Reform did not recall Mao Wenlong as hoped in many memorials, but ordered to make more preparations. If Mao Wenlong fails, he can fish out Mao Wenlong, or add some ammunition to Mao Wenlong.

When the news arrived, it was already after noon.

Yang Reform has already "off work" and is relaxing by the Taiye Pool.

"Your Majesty, Dongjiang Great Victory, Dongjiang Great Victory..." Wang Chengen waved the seven hundred miles to rush over while waving.

"Big companion, what's the matter, so happy? Dongjiang? Mao Wenlong has only guarded Zhenjiang Fort for a few days, so this is a great victory?" Yang Reform was concentrating on fishing, and he heard Wang Chengen shouting from afar, so he said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, it is really a great victory from Dongjiang. Mao Wenlong reported that he killed a thousand or two thousand Tartars in Zhenjiang Fort, and cut off nearly a thousand heads alone. It is really a great victory that I have rarely seen in the past few years Ah..." Wang Chengen said happily while holding up the newspaper.

"Really?" Yang reformed instantly. Donglu was his mortal enemy. In order to deal with Donglu, he had put in a lot of effort and thought of many ways. Now he finally heard some good news.

"Indeed, Your Majesty, Mao Wenlong said in his letter that he lured the Tatars to his Zhenjiang Fort with fake letters, then killed the envoys to anger the Tartars, lured the Tartars to attack the city, and then suddenly hit the enemy with thousands of hand grenades. More than 1000 Tartars were knocked down, and the Tartars wanted to retreat. Mao Wenlong hung the corpses of the Tartars on the top of the city, and used this to anger the Tartars, so that the Tartars had to attack the city again. After two blows, they were killed Nearly [-] Tartars, nearly a thousand of them were cut off from the heads alone, and all of them were young and strong, and Mao Wenlong begged His Majesty to send someone to inspect them..." Wang Chengen said while spitting, dancing with his hands and feet, saying It's as if I have experienced it myself.Wang Chengen, who accompanied the emperor through many hardships, knows how important this news is to the emperor, and it is all poured out of the emperor's hard work!

After hearing Wang Chengen's brief mention of the fake letter, Yang Reform already knew the whole story of the incident well.

Mao Wenlong's "fake letter", that is, the "rebellion letter", is still in his own hands. It is conceivable that Mao Wenlong used such a letter to deceive the leader of the Donglu. With this beginning, Yang Reform You can also roughly guess what Mao Wenlong wants to do.

"Hehe, this Mao Wenlong! You have courage!" Yang Reform felt emotional. This time, nearly a thousand heads were obtained, which is already the sum of the heads of Donglu in recent years. This Mao Wenlong is very useful for dealing with Donglu. It's still quite possible!Mao Wenlong's courage was indeed quite great, and Yang Reform had to "admire" Mao Wenlong in his heart.

Just as he was talking, Sun Chengzong also came, and he shouted from afar: "Your Majesty, good news, good news from Dongjiang!"

Yang Reform followed the voice, and Sun Chengzong, regardless of etiquette and image, took big strides and "flyed" towards him.

"Hehe, Master Sun, what's the good news!" Yang Reform was also amused to see Sun Chengzong so disregarding his image, and he rarely saw this old man like this.

"Your Majesty, good news, good news... Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty..." Sun Chengzong said with a smile, seeing that Wang Chengen was already by the emperor's side, he reckoned that the emperor must have known the news, and said again: "... Your Majesty must have known that the Dongjiang victory, in which Mao Wenlong killed two thousand enemies and cut off nearly a thousand heads of the Dong captives, is indeed a rare victory in my court in recent years! In this way, the morale of my court has been greatly boosted!" Sun Chengzong's old face, Already laughed.

"Oh, hehe, Master Sun also received the news? It's so fast! I just heard from my companion..." Yang Reform said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, Mao Wenlong has done a marvelous feat this time. With less than [-] soldiers, he killed [-] elite Donggai soldiers under the command of [-] elite men from the East. Your Majesty, it can be described as a remarkable achievement..." Sun Chengzong's rare smile blossomed, and this "flower" was even rarer and never "faded".

"Hehehe..." Yang Reform has never been so straightforward, 2000 people, but [-]% of the population of Donglu.

"Your Majesty, here is the report of Mao Wenlong's staff. Do you want to have a look at it?" Sun Chengzong said with a smile as the "flower" on his face was still intact.

Yang Reform took it over and took a look. In addition to the written report, there were also a few "sketches", a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood, and the feeling of the city of hell rushed over his face. This is a skill that staff officers must master. Maps can draw combat maps, defense maps, etc. Therefore, drawing a map of a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood is probably drawn casually, in order to increase the sense of reality.

Just as he was talking, Shi Fenglai, the first assistant, led the cabinet, and some ministers also arrived.

Shi Fenglai complimented and shouted from afar: "Your Majesty, Dongjiang Great Victory, Congratulations to Your Majesty, Congratulations to Your Majesty..."

The three sets of teams around him, the Chief of Staff, the General Staff, and the Cabinet, were all present, and Yang Reform kept laughing. In addition to killing a large number of Eastern captives, he also verified the feasibility of defending the city with grenades. It is more valuable than the 2000 heads, which is to prove that no matter the size of the fortress in the future, as long as there are enough grenades, if the Eastern Captives want to attack the city without cannons, there is no other way except to take human lives, that is to say In the future, they will basically not be afraid of the eastern captives attacking the city. That is to say, they will basically be invincible in the war. With this guarantee, the morale of the Ming Dynasty will definitely have a huge improvement.

Yang Reform sighed in his heart. In order to deal with the nomads in the north, he had thought of countless ways. Weapons that are outdated by weapons are in line with the scientific development concept and historical laws, and should not be wrong. Therefore, they did not take the path of "shopping" with the enemy, using spears against cavalry, and queuing up to shoot them. , Now it seems that this path of mine has gone through. At least, the cities of the Ming Dynasty are no longer afraid of wild boar skin attacks. At least wild boar skins without artillery will not work. If wild boar skins want to develop cannons For firearms, Yang Reform has to look up to the sky and laugh, what is the Cold War, and how the Soviet Union was dragged down. If he wants to do this with the population and economic strength of wild boar skin, Yang Reform will laugh until he cramp.

"Congratulations, congratulations, the great victory of Zhenjiang Fort, not only my great victory, but also everyone's great victory, and it is also my great Ming's great victory, hehehe..." Yang Reform laughed from ear to ear, and cleaned it up once. 2000 people accounted for almost [-]% of the entire Donglu population. If this kind of battle was fought several times, I was afraid that the population of Donglu would not be enough to deal with.

"Your Majesty, why don't you call a group of ministers to share this grand event, why not celebrate it together?" Chief Assistant Shi Feng came to see the emperor with great interest and suggested.The great victory in Jinning back then caused the entire Ming Dynasty to rejoice for a long time. There were only more than 200 heads at that time, but now there are nearly [-] heads.

"Well, that's fine. Since it's a great victory, everyone should feel it. In this way, my companion, call the cabinet on the platform, and discuss matters with the nine ministers, big and small." Yang Reform thought about it for a while, and decided to agree with Shi Fenglai's proposal. It is a good opportunity to establish your own prestige by disclosing this great victory to the officials.

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Not long after, the ministers had already gathered on the platform. The news that Mao Wenlong had killed 1000 Tartars and won [-] heads had already spread throughout the capital, and many people got the news and were discussing it.

"Your Majesty is here..." the little eunuch gave a long shout.

The officials immediately knelt down and kowtowed to receive him.

"You're all up... Hehe, it seems that everyone knows the news..." Yang Reform said as he walked straight to the innermost part.

The officials waited for the emperor to pass by before getting up one by one.

"Congratulations, Your Majesty, Congratulations to Your Majesty... This is a rare victory in my dynasty in recent years... It just shows the glory of my Ming Dynasty, and it should be celebrated by the whole world..." As soon as a minister opened his mouth, he was flattered, and a thousand people The victory of the first team is indeed worthy of praise. You must know that last year's victory in Jinning was only 200 people.

Yang Reform is very fond of this flattery, but there are also critics.

"I want to report to Your Majesty, I think that what Mao Wenlong said is true, maybe it's because I have deceived His Majesty, I don't know, I think it's better to send someone to Zhenjiang Fort to examine the corpse first, otherwise, I will kill the good and pretend to be meritorious, and deceive the court." Once such absurd things like deceiving His Majesty happen, it will be a huge blow to the court's reputation, but it will bring His Majesty's face and reputation..." An official said extremely forcefully.

Hearing this, Yang Reform felt like eating flies. Starting from Mao Wenlong sending him a "false letter", Yang Reform roughly guessed what Mao Wenlong was going to do, although he didn't expect that Mao Wenlong would kill the envoy and hang his head on the city wall However, I also guessed that Mao Wenlong would use grenades to surprise Donglu, and it would definitely have a miraculous effect. What is the effect of throwing hundreds of grenades together? Yang Reform has seen it himself. Mao Wenlong threw thousands of grenades together. What effect Yang Reform can imagine.Now that his own ministers are suspicious, Yang Reform is upset.

"Your Majesty, I think that Master X is right. It's better not to jump to conclusions easily. If Mao Wenlong deceives the emperor and the court, it will be difficult to deal with it. I think it's better to go first." Send someone for an autopsy, and it won't be too late to celebrate..." Another minister said in a gentle manner.

Yang Reform sighed in his heart. It seems that Mao Wenlong has offended many people. It seems that there are not just one or two people in the court who have opinions on Mao Wenlong.

"Hehehe... the love ministers are right, and they are also mature seekers of the country. However, in addition to the report of Mao Wenlong, I also have the secret report of Jin Yiwei and the report of the staff department. Naturally, it cannot be faked. It's..." Although Yang Reform was upset, he still explained kindly.

"Your Majesty, I think it's too early to celebrate at this time. I heard that the Eastern prisoner is still outside Zhenjiang Fort and has not left. He intends to fight again. Your Majesty, I think it's not time to celebrate, but to celebrate." We should discuss the situation in Zhenjiang Fort, discuss the situation in Dongjiang, and prepare for the worst, just in case something happens..." Another minister also came out to pour cold water.Anyway, there are not a few people in the court who don't want to see Mao Wenlong.

Yang Reform was depressed, this was a great victory, as if his side suffered heavy casualties, and the wild boar skin won beautifully.

"Hehehe, what the Qing family said makes sense. Of course, we should prepare for the next battle. However, the previous victory can also be celebrated. You may not know how this battle was fought, so I would like to thank you. Mao Wenlong killed 1000 Eastern captives and captured [-] heads, he was a bit puzzled, hehe, Kong Youde..." Yang Reform was in a good mood today, and patiently explained to these people.

"Yes!" A sonorous and forceful promise shook the ears of some ministers.

"Kong Youde, Commander Mao, have you studied the battle in Zhenjiang Fort this time?" Yang Reform said.

"Return to Your Majesty, the students have seen the battle examples and know something..." Kong Youde was a young general sent by Dongjiang Town to the capital for "training". At that time, it was Sun Chengzong who was guiding them, and Sun Chengzong's staff department was set up on the platform. Therefore, Kong Youde was well informed about the news of the staff department. After reading the battle report, he knew roughly how the battle was fought.

"Okay..., my lords may not know how this battle was fought, you can explain it to your lords, let you understand the process of this battle, hehehe, I think, your lords understand the process of this battle , you will no longer doubt Mao Wenlong..." Yang Reform was in a good mood, and with the intention of curing diseases and saving lives, he began to "rescue" some people who only knew to attack Mao Wenlong all day long.

"Yes!" Kong Youde replied forcefully.

Some of the ministers were still ready to speak, but it was difficult to seize the opportunity to speak again when Kong Youde's yell interrupted his thoughts.

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"My lords, the course of the battle is like this. Following your Majesty's military order, you must hold back the Tartars and prevent the Tartars from going westward at ease. Therefore, Marshal Mao decided to take risks with himself, and with four or five thousand infantry, he was going Zhenjiang Fort held the Tartars back, so on the [-]th, he wrote a false letter to lure the Tartars to Zhenjiang Fort. On the [-]th, Marshal Mao tricked the Tartars into sending him to the town on the grounds that the rank of the envoy was too low. The more senior envoys, and then the commander killed the envoys, so that the envoy's body was hung on the city wall, deliberately angering the Tartars, and luring the Tartars to come to attack the city. The simple thing is like this... The next battle, my lords, Please also come to the sand table, a terrain of Zhenjiang Fort has been made here, so that you can see the course of the battle more intuitively..." Kong Youde explained while guiding everyone to the sand table.These days, they have used the sand table to deduce possible battles, so they are quite familiar with Zhenjiang Fort, and there is also a ready-made Zhenjiang Fort terrain sand table, which just comes in handy now.

A group of ministers were still very interested in the emperor's sand table, and many people gathered around the sand table with great interest, ready to see what happened.

"... Zhenjiang Fort is surrounded by a big river to the east, and high mountains to the north. Only the south and west can be attacked. The walls are all over three feet long, and there is a moat outside the city. It is an important place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack..."

"...The Tartars attacked the city for the first time. They didn't know anything about my Ming Dynasty's tactics. They thought that our court would fight to the death like before. Therefore, they still used the method of ant-possession to attack the city. What I want to say here That is, the Tartars don’t have cannons, so they can only attack the city in this way, that is, use ladders to climb the city wall, and then use elite bows and arrows to suppress it. However, this time, Marshal Mao’s tactics were unprecedented... until When the Tartar soldiers approached the city and climbed the city with ladders, and there were quite a few Tartars gathered under the city wall... my Dongjiang army suddenly threw thousands of grenades, and thousands of grenades exploded at the same time. My lords, imagine that the Tartars How serious were the casualties... Therefore, what Marshal Mao said in his letter that he killed one or two thousand Tartars at a time is absolutely not a lie. You know, our Dongjiang Army threw thousands of hand grenades One grenade wounding one person is enough to cause this effect... What's even more rare is that our Dongjiang army hardly injured a person. This has to be said that it is an unprecedented war in history..." Kong Youde came from The one who came from Mao Wenlong in the town worked very hard to explain the record of his own general, and directly omitted a lot of things. He just said that thousands of grenades flew from the city wall in Dongjiang Town, killing one or two thousand siege soldiers. Tartar, let me introduce that I didn't die alone...

The ministers are ignorant, is war so simple?Throwing a few grenades can have such a big result?One or two thousand Tartars died like this?I haven't died alone yet?Although I don't really believe it, everyone has seen what a grenade is. If you say that thousands of grenades were thrown out suddenly, and the Tartars who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties, this is definitely not a lie.

"It's that simple?" A minister who had been opposing Mao Wenlong just now asked in a daze.

"My lord, it's really that simple. The difficulty lies in how to get the Tartars to attack the city..." Kong Youde explained with a smile.

"I heard that Donglu is good at riding and shooting, so you are not afraid of their bows and arrows? It is said that Donglu can also hit a hundred shots a hundred steps away. How could no one die..." The minister asked persistently, It seems that Mao Wenlong's rhetoric must be questioned to find a flaw.

"Returning to my lord, it's actually very simple, because my Dongjiang army didn't show up at all, and they all rested against the city wall. Only when the commander gave an order, did they throw grenades behind the city wall. Maybe it can penetrate the city wall, right? So, my Dongjiang army is not afraid of the Tartars shooting arrows at all, so how could there be losses..." Kong Youde explained with all his might.

"If you don't show yourselves, how do you know how Donglu attacked the city and how can you see what's going on outside?" The minister continued to ask persistently, as if he wanted to find a flaw in order to expose Mao Wenlong's lies.

"Returning to my lord, it's actually quite simple. There are periscopes in the headquarters and hundreds of households. They can hide behind the city wall to observe the enemy, and the enemy can't even see a person on the city wall. They can't figure out our reality at all. My Dongjiang Army, on the other hand, saw the Tartars clearly, and when the Tartars arrived at the city wall and were about to climb the city, they threw grenades, and the battle is actually as simple as that..." Kong Youde commented on his own commander's achievements. That was full of confidence. While talking, he also showed a periscope to the ministers.

The minister finally figured out how Mao Wenlong fought, and after being dazed for a long time, he said, "It's that simple? In other words, Mao Wenlong killed one or two thousand Tartars in just a few breaths? In other words, Killing two thousand people and capturing nearly a thousand heads is not a lie? I haven’t killed a single person..." The minister finally figured out how Mao Wenlong did it, and he also imagined that Mao Wenlong killed one or two thousand people. After a few breaths, he figured this out, and the minister was speechless, and could only remain silent in a daze.

When did fighting become so "easy"?
When did fighting become so "easy"?
The minister was obsessed with it for a long time, sighed softly and said: "This world has changed!" Then he stopped talking, with a silent look, and the expression of severely guarding against Mao Wenlong just now can no longer be seen, such a simple thing , he can do it, not to mention Mao Wenlong, such a simple thing, if he goes, it only takes a few breaths, and he can get nearly a thousand heads.

The other ministers also understood how Mao Wenlong did it from the explanation just now, and they all felt jealous that Mao Wenlong got 1000 heads in a few breaths. This battle is too easy, who wouldn't?If it were us, we could be so relaxed, and we could do better than Mao Wenlong.

(End of this chapter)