"Damn, they're coming up. Copycat, hurry up, get the axe, you pig-headed fool, didn't you realize that those Japanese pirates were all wearing armor, why didn't you put down your muskets?" Li Hui was going crazy, these Japanese pirates Come up.
Although their Rumi gun has a foldable scimitar hidden in the butt, it is not a bayonet and is very awkward to use. The gun body is curved and the knife is also curved, with two arcs. It is not generally difficult to use. use.
The soldiers from the Ningyuan camp dropped their Rumi guns one after another, picked up long-handled axes, maces, and flails and rushed towards the entrance of the watchtower on the first floor.
At this time, the pirates also used big axes to chop down the wooden door. The half-foot-thick wooden door was chopped with sawdust, and a big hole was quickly cut out.
Hu Laoqi's eyes widened and he raised his bones, ready to smash his arm to pieces when the Japanese pirate reached in and pulled the crossbar door bolt.
However, he didn't wait for the arm that stretched out, but instead saw several smoking black iron lumps.
Several grenades were thrown in. The pirates outside immediately ducked to both sides of the door.
boom! boom! boom!
There was a violent explosion and fireworks burst out from the broken door. The wooden door that had been cut with a big hole collapsed directly, turning into a piece of wood and spiky wood, which sprayed out far away.
The outer shell of Yang Fan's grenade is made of pig iron that is extracted from high-phosphorus-containing ores during steelmaking. Moreover, horizontal and vertical ravines are prefabricated during the casting of the shell to facilitate crushing. High phosphorus pig iron is very brittle and can break into many individual pieces.
This thing can't do anything, it's not strong enough and it's too brittle. But it is only suitable for bomb casings because it is particularly easy to produce a lot of shrapnel.
The grenades are not filled with black powder, but with earthen explosives made from sawdust and chemical fertilizers. This stuff can reach 60% of the power of Kick En Kick. It's enough for this era.
The farmers and craftsmen of this era had a lot of energy due to the lack of machinery and long and hard labor. The arm strength and waist strength far exceed those of modern people. They generally threw grenades fifteen to twenty meters further than modern humans.
Yang Fan safely divided the grenades into three types: defensive, offensive and heavy.
What is used now is the heavy grenade used to attack the fortress.
This kind of grenade does not need to be thrown too far, because street fighting takes place behind corner houses and in nooks and crannies of alleys. As long as you hide behind a right angle, you can ensure safety. You can make the grenade very big.
The four thrown in just now are heavy-duty grenades with one kilogram of powder. If it weren’t for the fact that this watchtower was made of thick city bricks and glutinous rice juice triple soil, I wouldn’t have dared to throw away so much.
The violent explosion directly blew away the flesh and blood of a layer of Liao soldiers waiting for melee combat. Countless limbs, armor fragments, broken swords, flails, and iron bones also spurted out from the door opening.
What's even more amazing is that the floors of ancient watchtowers were not made of concrete, but were made of three-inch-thick pine boards plus beams and columns.
These two small watchtowers are both hexagonal and three-story structures. Each of the second and third floors has a general flag of fifty men, who use eight shooting ports on each side to shoot outward.
Three heavy hand grenades contained three kilograms of explosives, equivalent to 2.4 kilograms. This charge is almost equivalent to a modern medium-caliber artillery shell.
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After the four heavy grenades exploded, they directly destroyed the wooden components like rotten wood and penetrated all three floors. Li Hui had already run to the top platform and directed the soldiers to shoot down through the female wall.
The explosion went straight from the first floor to the top floor, and thick smoke and flames erupted from the middle, like a volcano. Because the hexagonal walls are made of huge city bricks, they are more than one meter thick and very strong. This big explosion directly blew the watchtower into a shaft.
Li Hui happened to be leaning on a corner at the time and was not affected by the shrapnel, but others were not so lucky. Many people's stumps and fragments of weapons and armor were sprayed out from the top of the shaft mixed with floor slabs and wooden components. Then it fell back to the surrounding ground like rain.
Li Hui was immediately frightened. A stream of warm liquid soaked his crotch. Is this really something a human being can do? He spread his legs and sat there with blank eyes, looking at a huge figure in front of him. There are many holes, and you can even see the mess on the third, second, and first floors.
He did not remain dazed for long, as the watchtower to the west also erupted. It was also like a volcano, with flames and thick smoke erupting, and residual limbs, weapons, armor, and wooden components flying all over the sky. The explosion over there was worse than here.
The squadron leader over there, fearing that it was not powerful enough, directly threw an explosive bag into it.
Yang Fan and others also saw two big explosions in the backyard. Knowing that the first battalion of the pirate regiment has controlled the situation behind.
Soon the Order Battalion and the Pirate Battalion met in the Garden.
Everyone knew that there were a lot of Rumi guns in this big castle. For a while, everyone hid behind the obstacles, not attacking, waiting for the next order.
The battlefield fell into silence for a while.
Yang Fan took Lin Yueru and Sakurai Tao to hide behind the fortifications made of rice bags brought by the regiment, and carefully observed this large watchtower with binoculars.
Engineers were digging trenches on all sides with marching shovels, and the soil was flying in every direction.
Taozi also knew that she must have encountered some tough problems now. If we attack by force, the opponent's weapons are sharp and we don't know how many people will be lost.
She was a little reluctant to give up. With all the money she had now, she couldn't spend it all here.
"The first floor of this fortress is made of bluestone strips. It's not easy to do. If we use engineers to blast it, it will be more time-consuming." Yang Fan said to himself.
After a while, He Kui came with the captured Li Hui.
"Master, we caught a big fish. This old bastard is the Hundred Household Officer of the Ningyuan Firearms Battalion. Commander Yuan sent a whole battalion of firearms soldiers to garrison here, and they were all equipped with Lumi guns." He Kui reported. .
"What, Lumi Gun, how can I shoot so accurately? Huh, Yuandu is really good. Such an elite force is not placed on the front line of Ningyuan, but it is actually here to guard Dong Lin's lair."
Yang Fan looked at the frightened Li Hui and asked, "Why are you so unlucky? Why were you sent here?"
Li Hui looked at Yang Fan who was wearing a grimace mask and felt a little scared. There was a Japanese girl in a kimono next to him. He knew that among the so-called Japanese pirates, there were many people from the Ming Dynasty, and there were not a few Japanese pirates who could speak the Ming dialect. They were all engaged in international trade, so it was normal to know several foreign languages.
"Little one, little one, because there was a mutiny in the first month and the situation was not handled well, the supervisor sent him here." He said tremblingly.
"The handling was not good, huh, I guess you are the mastermind behind this. Why didn't Inspector Yuan kill you?" Lin Yueru snorted coldly.
Li Hui suddenly thought, this girl is so powerful, she seems to have the ability to read people's hearts at a glance. The Ningyuan Mutiny was indeed a conflict between different factions within the Donglin Party. The new governor of Liaodong, Bi Zisu, who was captured and beaten by the rebels, was a good and upright official. He was persecuted to death because he was actually going to his brother Bi Ziyan.
Bi Ziyan was a very powerful financial expert in the late Ming Dynasty. He was just appointed as the Minister of Household Affairs by Chongzhen this year. Responsible for the national finance.
After the Donglin Party returned to Dabao, its first goal was to control finances. Unfortunately, Chongzhen was suspicious by nature and handed over financial power to Bi Ziyan, who was not a member of the Donglin Party.
Last year, after the victory of Ningjin, the then governor of Liaodong was Wang Zhichen of the eunuch party. Lin Yueru had a very clear understanding of the situation on the Ningyuan front line.
At that time, Yuan Chonghuan was the governor of Liaodong, and Wang Zhichen was the governor of Liaodong.
One of them is an eunuch, and the other is a Donglin cadre who is being chased and beaten by the eunuch. It is surprising that they can cooperate well.
The feud between Wang Zhichen and Yuan Chonghuan was brought to the court. For the sake of the overall situation, the court put Yuan Chonghuan in charge of the outside of the pass and Wang Zhichen in charge of the inside. Soon, Wang Zhichen was transferred to the Ministry of War as Minister of War.
Wei Zhongxian was still in power at that time, and Yuan Chonghuan was in charge of the outside of the pass, commanding Ning Jin to achieve great success. This is what Duke Wei does not want to see.
Soon he was criticized, and all the credit was given to Wang Zhishen. Instead, he was forced to resign and return to his hometown in Guangdong. So Wang Zhichen was appointed as the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Liaodong.
Wang Zhichen immediately used Yuan Chonghuan's military achievements to be promoted to Minister of War, indicating that Wang Zhichen was a direct descendant of the eunuch party. After Yuan Chonghuan resigned and returned to his hometown, Chongzhen came to power and Wei Zhongxian fell.
The emperor was worried that the eunuchs would control Guan Ning's army alone. Bi Zisu, the younger brother of Bi Ziyan, the household secretary of the Donglin Party, was appointed governor of Liaodong. At this time, Duke Wei had already stepped aside, and everyone knew that Dong Lin was going to return to Dabao.
Governor Ji Liao is definitely someone Dong Lin is determined to get. The emperor also needed Donglin's support at this moment, but he could not let them fully control the military power of Guan Ning's army. It was only a matter of time before Wang Zhichen left. The emperor quickly replaced the governor with someone from another force.
Here, Yuan Chonghuan battled wits and courage with the emperor in the capital, boasted about the law, returned to Liao Dynasty in five years, and deceived the little emperor.
On the other side, Donglin took advantage of the personnel changes and financial difficulties in the court to incite mutiny among officers and soldiers. In the name of asking for pay, he attacked Bi Ziyan's younger brother Bi Zisu in an attempt to implicate Bi Ziyan.
The mutiny was a big deal, and Bi Zisu would definitely not get any good results. Unexpectedly, Bi Zisu wrote a letter to defend himself and explained the whole story. He had a strong temper and did not want to be taken advantage of by these villains, so he committed suicide directly.
Now, things got serious.
Donglin can't stop it.
It is no joke to force the second-grade governor to death.
The Bi brothers were from Zibo, Shandong and important figures in the Qi Party. This incident directly led to the complete break between the Qi Party and Donglin.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan was having fun with the emperor in the capital. Now that the governor was in hand, he was trying to prolong the restoration of Liao Dynasty. It was best to leave this matter alone.
As a result, he delayed leaving for more than a month and stayed alone in the capital.
Why didn't he leave? Was it because he wanted to regret it?
He is not a fool. Is it possible to go back on what he promised the emperor in front of so many people? Will the emperor agree?
What on earth is he waiting for.
He is waiting for Ningyuan to rebel. He is the core of Donglin. He has sources and knows many things. He stayed in the capital so that he could have evidence of alibi.
Donglin planned to overthrow Bi Ziyan, tear down Bi Ziyan, seize the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and control the central finance.
Shun Ben also cleared the obstacles for him.
Later, Yuan Chonghuan rode out of Shanhaiguan alone, with a horse and a man, to Ningyuan to quell the mutiny, without anyone.
Is he a lone hero? Maybe, after all, when he was the county magistrate and chief official, he once rode out of seclusion alone. He was very courageous, not ordinary, courageous, or extremely courageous and dared to poke trouble.
The main reason is that he knows that it was Donglin's people who did this. There is no danger.
When he arrived in Ningyuan, he didn't kill anyone. This was very strange. According to the usual practice, after making a payment, he usually killed a few leaders. Serve as a warning to others.
But he didn't deal with any of them. What does this mean? He brought these people to Zhangjiawan.
There is no need for heavy hammers to play drums. Lin Yueru does not need to explain clearly. Now Yuandudu is already the governor of Liaodong and the governor of Jiliao.
Yang Fan sneered and said: "It's really hard for you. I'm jumping up and down all the time, from the front line to the court, just for that military expenditure."
Li Hui said tremblingly: "It's none of the villain's business. The villain is just a hundred households. It's all the wishes of the princes in the court."
"In this shitty world, Mr. Bi is such a good official. He has done so many good things for the court and the people. It's you, the fools, who drove him to death. Push him to the front of the castle. Go ahead and chop it off.”
