Wang Shitou will not let Zong Wang play tricks.
While attacking the cannon fodder filling the river, people shouted loudly, asking them to run along the moat, go around to the north of the city wall, and get rid of the control of the Jurchens.
Counting the surrendered troops of Wu Dynasty and Guo Yaoshi's troops, the number of Jurchens was only 200,000.
It's not impossible for an army of 200,000 to surround a Ming Dynasty, but it's just not necessary.
Zong Wang adopted the traditional method of surrounding three and missing one.
Surround the city walls on the east, south, and west sides, leaving the gate on the north side open to allow the defenders in the Ming Dynasty to escape.
The cannon fodder actually didn't want to rush up to fill the river.
But there is a Jurchen supervising team behind them. If they don't fill the river, they will die.
The Yun family army asked them to flee around the city, but almost no one obeyed.
Are you kidding me? The Jurchens’ war team is right behind them, with their bows and arrows ready. Who dares to run around?
However, the cannon fodder soon discovered that the Jurchens' supervising team seemed to be misfiring.
Just now, another crossbow arrow was fired from behind, knocking down those who hesitated.
It's been a while, why doesn't the supervising team shoot arrows?
As a result, many cannon fodders began to quietly observe, wanting to see what the Jurchens' supervising team was doing.
It's okay not to look at it, but at first glance, many cannon fodder almost cheered.
The Jurchen supervising teams are falling one after another!
Wang Shitou is not a vegetarian. Yun Chao handed Daming Mansion over to him, knowing that he was capable of guarding it.
What's the point of shooting cannon fodder filling the river? Wang Shitou hired a sharpshooter in the army to specialize in sniping the Jurchen supervising team.
The crossbow was two hundred meters away, its accuracy was very poor, and its probability of hitting was appallingly low.
Moreover, the target cannot wear armor, otherwise even if it is shot, it will not cause much damage.
The marksmen of the Yun Family Army are not marksmen in the traditional sense. Yun Chao has even built a steam engine, but how many guns can he make?
Because the function of the crossbow is pretty good, Yun Chao has not yet manufactured firearms on a large scale.
There is no way, the production task is too heavy.
Armor, various machines, every task is more important than making firearms.
With the Ta Zhang Crossbow still barely usable, Yun Chao only had a small number of guns built with a longer range and higher accuracy, the so-called front-loading rifled guns.
With Yun Jiajun's current mechanical level, it is not easy to draw rifling in the barrel.
With Yun Jiajun's current smelting level, it would not be difficult to make spring blades for use in flintlock guns.
The so-called flintlock gun is ignited by the sparks generated by the impact of flint when fired, rather than using a match rope.
If rifling is carved into the barrel of the gun, wouldn't a muzzle-loading rifled gun come out?
As for the bullets used in rifled guns, they were of course what later generations called Mini bullets.
As we all know, the biggest problem with front-loading rifled guns is the difficulty of loading.
The bullet is too big to fit inside.
If the bullet is small and the gap between it and the gun bore is large, a lot of kinetic energy will be wasted when fired, seriously affecting the range and power.
Mini bombs can just solve this problem.
The so-called mini bullet is a bullet with a cone-shaped warhead.
The diameter of the bullet is slightly smaller than the diameter of the barrel, which makes loading very convenient.
There is a conical cavity at the bottom of the warhead, and a wooden plug blocks the bottom of the hole. When fired, the gas presses the plug into the cavity, forcing the bottom of the projectile to expand, close to the rifling, sealing the gap between the projectile and the barrel, and allowing the gas to flow. It cannot be leaked, and it can make the warhead rotate at high speed under the pressure of the rifling, increasing the range and accuracy.
Mini bullets solve the problems of difficulty in loading rifled guns and low range accuracy of smoothbore guns.
However, mini bullets also have some drawbacks that cannot be solved and can only be made of very soft metals, such as lead.
Only soft bullets are easy to expand.
However, the warhead is soft and will deform immediately after hitting the target. The stopping effect is good, but the penetration power is too weak.
But it doesn't matter. The front-loaded minigun made by Yunchao is definitely a war weapon that spans the ages.
Not only does it have a long range, but it also has high accuracy.
In the hands of a sharpshooter, at a distance of three to four hundred meters, he can hit almost anywhere.
Coupled with the sight made by Yunchao, the lethality is simply unbelievable. If it is an enemy who does not know the inside story, he will die without knowing how he died!
Just like the current Jurchen war supervising team, they kept falling down one by one and died inexplicably. It took a long time for Zong Wang, who was commanding the battle from the rear, to notice the abnormality!
"Second Prince, I don't know what weapons the enemies in the city used. The Jurchen warriors supervising the battle team suffered too many casualties!"
A corpse with a bullet in the chest was carried to Zong Wang's horse.
Zong Wang jumped off his horse and leaned down to take a closer look.
After looking at it for a long time, Zong Wang couldn't tell what kind of weapon caused the bloody hole on the corpse's chest.
bass!
Zong Wang pulled out the short knife inserted into his riding boots and slashed open the corpse's chest!
"hiss……"
All the Jurchens who saw this scene, including Zong Wang, took a deep breath.
The chest cavity of the corpse had become a mass of rot.
The heart was broken, the lungs were in a mess, and the culprit that caused all of this was actually just an irregular piece.
"Does any of you know what this is?"
"Second Prince, it seems like this is iron..."
"Second Prince, I think this looks like lead..."
Zong Wang was stunned: "Lead?"
Of course Zong Wang knew what lead was. He heard that the despicable Wu Dynasty people tried their best to add this stuff when they minted copper coins.
The supervising team is so far away from the city wall. How did this thing get into a person's body?
Are there any martial arts masters among the defenders?
No matter how good a martial arts expert is, he can't take a hidden weapon two or three hundred steps, right?
At such a long distance, a hidden weapon can still be so lethal. What kind of master must he be?
However, when Zong Wang saw the same corpses again and heard that nearly 300 people in the Supervisory Team died in this way, he rejected his previous guesses.
It would be great to have one or two such powerful martial arts masters, but how could there be so many?
To be able to throw such a powerful concealed weapon within two or three hundred steps, even the most advanced martial arts master would not be able to throw it a few times.
What happened to the loss of his own war team that was so heavy?
Ahhhhhh...
Zong Wang is going crazy.
This is what scares the most about war.
The enemy knows you, but you don't know the enemy.
"Send the order, pull the people back, wait until we find out what is going on!"
It was obvious that this battle could not be fought. Without the deterrence of the supervising team, almost all the cannon fodder filling the river were gone.
They all ran around the moat to the north gate of Daming City. Some wanted to enter the city, while others ran directly north to escape from the battlefield.
After Zong Wang received the news, he did not send anyone to hunt down the cannon fodder who continued to escape north.
He wanted to give the garrison of Daming Mansion a false impression that he did not have enough troops and that the north of Daming Mansion was safe and they could leave from that direction at any time!
