Jiuyuan City has been repaired. The original rammed earth wall left over from the Tang Dynasty was covered with stones. These stones were mined from the Yinshan Mountains using explosives and then transported in caravans. Others were quarried from Ningxia and then transported by water on sheepskin rafts through the Yellow River.
From a distance, a majestic gray-white city wall stands on the north bank of the Yellow River.
The war was about to start, and Yang Fan didn't let them build wooden towers. That thing is beautiful to look at and has momentum, but it is of no use to the war. It is just a watchtower built.
After Yang Fanping secured Ordos, a rebellion broke out in Jizhen. The emperor was furious and mobilized soldiers from the four towns to the capital to quell the rebellion. Yang Fan came to Jiuyuan City with 50,000 Beijing troops, preparing to face the Mongolian army in the desert here.
Yang Fan has also been paying attention to the rebellion in Ji Town. He knew that in the winter of this year, the Jian slaves would be mobilized in full force, uniting all the eastern Mongolian tribes, with more than 200,000 troops, and marching south through the three passes of Zunhua.
He is now tied up in the northwest and cannot move at all. We can only watch the situation in Ji Town worsen.
After a long campaign in his hands, there were only 65,000 people left in the Beijing camp. Fortunately, some group training has been adapted. Can be supplemented. However, Yan Yingyuan was not a good person either. After several struggles, he finally mastered the skills. There were only 20,000 left out of 40,000.
Originally, Yang Fan planned to transfer the soldiers from the four towns. Now the soldiers of the four towns were originally called 40,000 people. After eliminating the vacant and old and weak soldiers, plus the battle losses, there are still 20,000 people left, about 5,000 people per army. look like.
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In this case, he can still gather 100,000 infantry. Used to confront the increasing number of Mongolian cavalry in Linhe.
However, the emperor didn't care about the situation here at all. Now that Ji Town was in chaos and the capital was no longer safe, he hurriedly transferred 20,000 people from the four towns. Go to support Tongzhou.
From Ordos Dongsheng City, even if we take the passage between Shanxi and Taihang Mountains and take a shortcut to the capital, it will probably take more than ten days. By then, the daylilies will be cold.
If Zhou Yuji loses, they won't be able to catch up. Zhou Yuji won, and they were no longer needed. Basically meaningless.
But it was impossible for Yang Fan to say this. The emperor was already anxious and wanted to transfer the 50,000 Beijing troops back. But Yang Fan refused. This is a joke. After all the people have been transferred, the regiments in Jiuyuan City will collapse, allowing the Mongolian army from the Desert to attack Shaanxi and Shanxi.
At that time, if it is delayed until winter, more than 200,000 slaves will come. The two families merged into one and attacked the capital. The Ming Dynasty did not have to wait until the 17th year of Chongzhen.
At least the city was repaired. Yang Fan is somewhat confident. The newly repaired city wall. The rammed earth is wrapped with cement and granite, which is very strong. Relying on the Yellow River water transport, food and reinforcements can continue to arrive. It is very difficult to conquer such a city.
A city must be besieged to death. If ammunition, food, reinforcements, and wounded are always coming in and out. Then there is no way to fight. It's just a meat grinder. A nightmare for the siege party.
Faced with this difficult situation, Yang Fan decided to practice some technology and hard work.
Now relying on the infantry of the Beijing camp, it is really impossible to win without cheating.
He did not want to reveal his cavalry and infantry corps just yet. These two troops have entered Yinshan Mountain to lurk. The early battles can only be fought with the Beijing infantry.
So, he sent a report to Xiao Niangpi, asking her to ignore the mess of the Jizhen mutiny and urge Chen Xi to get the rocket out for him as soon as possible.
At this time, a large number of rebels were passing through the western part of Yang Fan's territory and rushing to Da'ankou.
The Great Wall in Zunhua stretches for 138 miles along the Yanshan Mountains. It was first built in the Yan and Qin Dynasties and repaired by the Ming Dynasty. It has a total of 9 passes and 246 enemy towers.
Da'an Kou Pass is located 18.8 kilometers northwest of Zunhua City. The pass was named by the ancients based on the "Da'an" in Zhuge Liang's "Ma Qian Ke" hexagram. It was built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty.
Da'an Pass is the main road leading to Xinglong and Chengde, and the terrain is dangerous. There is a plain 1,000 meters south of the city, which people call the "teaching factory" and is a place for military training. Five kilometers south of the city is "Da'ankou Camp" (Xixiaying). At this time, a large number of follow-up escapes
The incoming rebels and their families gathered here.
Huang Tengyuan sent people to gather the rebels here. In this military camp, a large pot was set up and porridge was being cooked.
The rebels who had fled for their lives came in dejected and disgraced one by one. They were already tired and hungry, and were drinking porridge and eating pickles from big bowls.
This place is very close to Yang Fan's territory. However, no one came to attack them. Only the car battalion that defeated them was chasing after them. But the road conditions in this era are really difficult to describe, and these loaded carriages cannot go very fast.
Because there were too many rebels, the cavalry was sent out to surround the rebels on all sides. They could escape here without the cavalry chasing them.
At this time, Xiao Niangpi was at the firearms testing site with Lin Yueru, Chen Xi, and Yao Guang. Also present were the heads of arsenals and research institutes.
Xiao Niangpi was wearing a loose robe and was sitting on a chair, learning about the test situation.
Yao Guang sat on the right side of Xiao Niang Pi, and Chen Xi sat on her left side. Lin Yueru and others came to see the fun, but they do not serve in this project team.
"Madam, what we are testing now is our imitation of the Kangaroev rocket. It is mainly used to set fire, but it can also be used as a high-explosive rocket to break up cavalry and infantry formations." Chen Xi introduced.
Xiao Niangpi squinted her eyes and looked at the strange weapons carried by the two people in front.
I thought to myself, this is a crappy thing, it looks so ugly. A two-foot-long iron tube with a thick mouth and a streamlined fairing on the head. A three-meter-long bamboo pole was tied to his butt.
"Chenxi, did this thing light the fuse, and the soldiers held bamboo poles and stretched them in front of the enemy to blow him up?" Xiao Niangpi asked doubtfully.
Yao Guang laughed out loud, and the little girl gave her a white look.
Although Yao Guang was invited by Yang Fan's telegram to be a consultant for Chen Xi's project team, to prevent Chen Xi from coming up with some weird and weird things. But she had no interest in the rags. I feel like this is a waste of time and boring. Might as well go back to class.
"This bamboo pole is used to stabilize the flight trajectory of the rocket. Without it, the rocket would fly around without direction. It is the same as the arrow shaft of a bow and arrow." Yao Guang said.
Chen Xi quickly nodded in agreement, speaking very clearly.
Yao Guang is her idol. There are many things that she can't solve, or when she has no ideas, Yao Guang will come over and take a look and know what to do.
Yaoguang usually teaches students and has little interest in her research and development work.
Xiao Niangpi nodded and said: "Understood, let's start the test firing. I will also see what is so good about this thing. Why does the master pay so much attention to it? If the test is successful, let us start production immediately, and we will ship it there that month. Thousands."
Chen Xi nodded and said, "Madam, let's go to the bunker and take a look. This thing is somewhat dangerous."
Chen Xi didn't dare let his wife sit here and watch the launch. The propellant of this thing uses ten pounds of maroon granular gunpowder. The warhead weighs five kilograms and contains one kilogram of fertilizer and explosives.
Don't tell me about the accident, even if it scares the lady, she can't take responsibility.
The master just asked Xiao Niang Pi to catch this matter, and did not agree with her coming to the testing ground at all.
But for a project that Yang Fan valued so much, Xiao Niangpi was full of curiosity. How could you not come and see the excitement? She and Lin Yueru are very interested in all new things.
Whether it is trains, locomotives, steam cars, cast steel cannons, or clipper ships, try to experience it yourself.
She is coming, who can stop her. I had to let her provide on-site guidance.
Several people had just entered the concrete bunker and were observing through thick, modern bulletproof glass. Then I saw a whooshing sound, and the rocket placed sideways on the slide ejected white gas and flew into the sky.
About a minute later, there was a loud noise on the ground in the distance, the warhead exploded violently, and the prefabricated steel slag flew randomly, blowing a group of sheep to pieces.
Xiao Niangpi suddenly became excited, clapped her hands and said, "Okay! This large flying monkey is really good."
