It’s not like Zhu Di never thought about using explosives in war.
But it is completely different from firearms. Although firearms have obvious shortcomings, they can always make up for the shortcomings of firearms through array adjustment.
Explosives are different. They are completely useless on the battlefield.
The most realistic point is that Zhu Di didn't even know how to use this explosive. Apart from using it to bombard city walls in siege battles, there seemed to be no use for it.
Zhu Di has been in Yandi all year round, facing the Yuan people who are attacking on the flat grassland.
Just imagine, if Zhu Di's soldiers and horses carry explosive packs and face the extremely mobile Yuan Ren, how should he use them?
If thrown, it will definitely not cause any damage, because human arm strength is limited, and no matter how stupid the enemy is, they will not just wait there while the explosive package is thrown over.
Either the Ming army would have strapped explosives on their bodies and charged directly into the enemy formation to explode themselves. However, the conditions for this approach were also very harsh.
If the two armies were not in close contact, and this person rushed towards the enemy with a pack of explosives, let alone whether he could reach the ground position, he would probably only reach a few dozen steps before being shot down by the enemy.
Furthermore, if you use explosive packs during hand-to-hand combat, you can really hurt the enemy.
But in addition to the enemy, you will also hurt your own people, which is not worth the loss.
Now, Zhu Di looked at the explosive packets as high as a hill next to his eldest nephew. There was only one way he could guess, which was to transport these explosive packets under the city wall and detonate them together.
Then, the transportation task is the most arduous and difficult. Naturally, he has to lead his own troops to do it. After thinking of this, Zhu Di immediately called his generals and said,
"Zhang Yu! Zhu Neng! Batu! Follow me!"
The three generals' eyes lit up and they said in unison,
"Yes! Your Highness!"
They are not afraid of death now. What they are afraid of is that they have no choice but to wait to die.
After hearing His Highness King Yan's confident tone, of course he felt confident in his heart, and he quickly called on all the troops to follow King Yan back to their formation.
Zhu Di looked at his eldest nephew with a smile on his face, and led his troops to withdraw. Suddenly, a parabola flew over Zhu Di's head, and the speed was extremely fast, like a bullet, causing a roaring wind.
There was a muffled bang,
Zhu Di followed the landing point of the parabola and turned around blankly. He saw an explosive pack being smashed directly into the ice wall from a distance of nearly a thousand steps.
Zhu Di turned his neck stiffly, then looked at his eldest nephew Zhu Xiongying, rolled up his sleeves, held an explosive pack in one hand, and threw it out again.
Two bangs sounded behind Zhu Di,
Two more explosive packets were stuffed into the city wall!
Zhu Xiongying noticed his fourth uncle rushing back, frowned and asked,
"Fourth uncle, what are you doing back here?"
Zhu Di opened his mouth wide and couldn't make a sound for a long time. After waiting for a long time, he stumbled and replied: "Eldest nephew,
"I want to help transport explosives."
Zhu Xiongying picked up an explosive bag and weighed it in his hand a few times, then smiled helplessly,
"Uncle Fourth, do you think I need your help?"
Zhu Di shook his head repeatedly.
"No need! No need! Shall I go then?"
Zhu Xiongying smiled and continued,
"Fourth uncle, after I throw all these explosive packets under the city wall, you organize your troops to replace them with rockets and fire directly at these explosive packets. I am going to blow them up in one wave."
"I know, I know."
Zhu Di called to the other three generals who were already stunned, and shouted in a deep voice,
"What are you doing standing still? Let's go!"
General Zhu Neng reacted and rushed back to the city wall with King Yan. They came and left quickly. They didn't even fully digest what happened in front of them.
In short, they just lie down completely and that's it.
The appearance of His Highness Shengsun has completely changed the style of play in the cold weapon era.
Zhu Di and Mengxu Timur had been fighting back and forth for a long time before, but were directly rushed away by Zhu Xiongying on his own, breaking through all the methods with one force.
This proves a theory that if great force cannot work miracles, there is only one reason,
That means you are not strong enough,
Zhu Di had a vague feeling. If there was such a thing as his eldest nephew, it seemed that all the military techniques used in marching and fighting could be burned away.
Now Zhu Di is even more firm on this idea!
Damn it, he really didn’t expect that siege warfare could be fought like this!
Moreover, the overall appearance of the eldest nephew is still that of a handsome young man. There are muscle lines on his body, but it is definitely not as explosive and conspicuous as the second and third brothers.
It’s hard to imagine how someone with this body could throw an explosive package a thousand steps away. This was completely beyond Zhu Di’s understanding.
Zhu Di's soldiers and horses paused at the extreme position of their crossbows under the city wall, and then turned back to look at His Highness Shengsun.
I saw His Highness Shengsun showing the ultimate beauty of strength under the sunlight. Every posture and every movement was extremely beautiful. The heads of all the soldiers were dizzy, and the admiration for His Highness Shengsun in their hearts was even greater. Talking endlessly,
But what they didn't know was that Zhu Xiongying didn't want to pretend to be X with his own hands.
He could have exchanged it for a cannon, stuffed the explosives into it, and then blasted it under the city wall, but Zhu Xiongying chose to do it himself.
Ultimately, it’s because of poverty.
He didn't want to spend any more money to exchange for cannons, so he might as well throw them all away.
Zhu Xiongying went from rescuing the King of Yan on a single horse to throwing explosives with his hand. This period of history was clearly written in the history of the Ming Dynasty passed down to later generations.
However, even if this period of history has been recorded in detail by historians, and it still bears the official seal of the Ming Dynasty,
However, historians of later generations basically remain skeptical, and only think that the ancients at that time attached a filter because they worshiped Emperor Shengwen too much.
No wild historian dares to be so wild! Do you really think that the thirteen-year-old state governor is a humanoid Gundam? ! Even because of this incident recorded in Ming history, a historical trend began to question the authenticity of Ming history!
Of course, these are all things for later, and Zhu Xiongying doesn’t know these things behind his back either.
He is now focusing on accurately throwing the explosive packets in an area, so that he can easily wait for the volleys from Uncle Four and the others.
At this time, on the wall of Kohevo City, Kao Xian's personal general Varoko glanced at his soldiers with pride,
A group of Timur soldiers understood and flattered,
"With the general here, Akito has absolutely nothing to do."
Varoko also had great military exploits. Because he was the best at defending the city, he was jokingly called General Turtle by Kao Xian.
But instead of being ashamed, Varoko was actually proud to be entrusted by Kaoxian to guard one side of the city wall alone. This shows that Kaoxian also trusts Varoko's ability.
Varroko laughed and said,
"Hahaha, they are also at their wits' end!
After several rounds of volleys, we shot down many enemies, so we just need to build up our momentum. If they provoke us and start shooting again, we can refuse to fight and save arrows.
They can't shoot down this majestic city with just archery. Now, it's time to rest. We need to arrange our heavy troops at night.
Save these rats from having their own ideas! "
Varroko felt that his arrangements were foolproof, and he was just about to boast a few more words.
boom! boom! boom!
Continuous muffled sounds sounded under my feet!
Varroko exclaimed with wide eyes,
"what sound?!"
