After Tang Ding heard this, he looked at Han Du with some shame. To be honest, he had never thought that gunpowder could be used in this way. He thought Han Du's idea made sense.
"Brother Han, this is indeed a good idea. This method is feasible."
"Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and order the troops to withdraw and let people build the van." Hearing Tang Ding's approval, Han Du said happily.
Han Du was about to give an order to the people around him, but Tang Ding grabbed his arm and stopped him.
Looking at Han Du's puzzled eyes, Tang Ding could only sigh and explain: "If Brother Han had said this method before the war started, then we could still give it a try, but it won't work now. Once it goes strong, it will fail again, and then it will fail again." exhaust."
"If we start building the van now, I'm afraid it will be delayed until tomorrow. The city should be broken after at most three rounds of attacks. There is no need to change methods."
Han Du was very puzzled as to why Tang Ding wanted to stop him and said: "But if we attack for three more rounds, how many more people will die? We can easily break the city in just one day. There is no need to waste the lives of these people, right?" "
These are all navy soldiers who follow Han Du. Han Du will be heartbroken if one more person dies.
Tang Ding insisted on not changing, looked at Han Du with a sneer and said: "Brother Han, the defenders in the city are at the end of their strength, and their counterattack against the city will not be strong now. But if it is delayed for one day, let them take a breather. With the opportunity and morale restored, even if we can use gunpowder to break the city, the losses will be greater than now, do you believe it?"
Han Du was speechless. He still knew too little about battles like siege. However, Han Du believed that Tang Ding would not lie to him about this matter.
Seeing that Han Du remained silent, Tang Ding said nothing more. Time was running out and he immediately turned around, drew his sword and shouted, "The entire army attacks the city!"
"kill......"
Sure enough, Tang Ding's prediction was correct. Jinshan City failed to hold on even for three rounds of attacks by the Ming army. In just the second round, the city wall was captured, and then the city gate was opened from the inside.
The shouts of killing suddenly became louder, and a large number of Ming troops attacked the city from the city gate.
Jinshan City was destroyed!
It only took one day from the time the Ming army began to attack the city to when it was defeated.
Tang Ding led the army into the city to encircle and exterminate the remnants. Han Du walked toward the city wall step by step in despair. A group of soldiers surrounded Han Du.
I saw corpses of different shapes scattered all over the ground under the city wall. Swords, guns, and arrows were all over the ground, and there were straight blood stains everywhere on the stone bricks of the city wall.
Han Du did not enter the city, but stood under the city wall looking at the dying Ming army soldiers.
After Tang Ding cleared away the remaining Yuan in the city, he came to Han Du. Laughing loudly, he said to Han Du: "Brother Han, we have won a complete victory in this battle. Except for a small number of people who escaped early, this time we killed more than 10,000 enemies and captured 14,000, including sheep, horses, Donkeys, camels, grain, grass, gold and silver are countless, we will become rich."
"How many casualties do we have?" Han Du was not at all excited by Tang Ding and just murmured.
Seeing that Han Du looked sad and not happy at all, Tang Ding's heart skipped a beat and he didn't hear Han Du's words clearly, "Brother Han, what did you just say?"
"I said, how many casualties do we have?" Han Du was furious, took a deep breath, and yelled at Tang Ding word by word.
"Let's kill eight thousand people and injure ten thousand people." Tang Ding spit out two numbers casually, without any attempt to hide it, but he thought it was a great victory.
"The casualties are all about the same." Han Du sighed. Sure enough, 'kill ten thousand enemies and lose eight thousand to yourself' is a wise saying. As long as there is a war in this world, even if it wins, the winning side will not suffer small losses.
"This is already a rare victory." Tang Ding was not as pessimistic as Han Du. Instead, he looked very happy, "Brother Han, you have to know that this is a siege. The main reason why we can achieve such results is because of you. They had the foresight to bring the cannon over at all costs. If the cannon hadn't destroyed their morale, this battle wouldn't have been so easy."
"Then what should we do now?" Han Du was not familiar with land warfare at all, so he had to ask Tang Ding.
"Clean the battlefield, repair the city walls and gates, and prepare to defend the city." The news that Jinshan was breached will definitely reach Naha's ears soon. Once he returns to the army and wants to defeat Jinshan again, , it was a hard battle for the Ming army.
"In addition, we must find a way to pass the news to the general that Jinshan City has been breached by us." After Tang Ding finished speaking, he looked at Han Du.
If you want to deliver the news to Feng Sheng, you will definitely not be able to take the land route. In that case, you will have to pass through Naha's territory. This is asking for death. Therefore, only sea routes are possible.
Han Du also nodded with deep understanding and said: "Instruct Li Zengzhi to send someone by sea to bring the news to Song Guogong. He is proficient in longitude and latitude measurement and will not go to the wrong place."
"good."
Tang Ding also felt that Li Zengzhi was the best candidate, so he nodded and agreed without objection.
Moreover, although Li Zengzhi was not the eldest son of Duke Cao's family, after Li Wenzhong's death, the number of people in Duke Cao's family was thin. Being able to let Li Zengzhi leave here early could be regarded as leaving more of Li Wenzhong's family.
After all, this Jinshan City may become dangerous in the next moment.
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Feng Sheng led the army out of Songting Pass and built camps step by step along the way. He built the four cities of Daning, Kuanhe, Huizhou and Fuyu as a base, and then led the army to garrison Daning.
Li Zengzhi received the military order and immediately returned with a warship. In order to deliver the news to Feng Sheng in the shortest possible time, after crossing the peninsula by boat, he directly chose to dock outside the customs, and did not hesitate to risk passing through areas not yet controlled by the Ming Dynasty.
The journey was extremely dangerous, and we encountered small groups of Mengyuan Rangers several times. If it weren't for the sharpness of the revolver, none of them might be able to survive until now.
Fortunately, Li Zengzhi was lucky and got news about the Ming Dynasty's garrison in Daning.
Daning, Feng Shengshuai camp.
"Commander, good news."
Lan Yu opened the curtain and rushed in with Li Zengzhi. After conquering Qingzhou, Lan Yu returned with the capture. Not long after meeting Feng Sheng, he heard the news about Han Du, and he was naturally happy.
Feng Sheng was suddenly startled when he saw Li Zengzhi following Lan Yu, "Why are you here? Where is Han Du?"
"Li Zengzhi paid a visit to the general. The marquis arrived at Jinshan on March 28th. Taking advantage of the emptiness of Jinshan, he immediately attacked the city and descended in one day. Now I am afraid that Nahachu has received the news that Jinshan city has been broken. Please ask the general to lead his troops immediately. Keep Naha at bay, otherwise the Marquis will be in danger." Li Zengzhi bowed to Feng Sheng as soon as they met, looking at Feng Sheng with red eyes full of tears.
