In the north gate tower of the Guiyu capital, Zhu Hesheng, who was observing the enemy's situation through a window, saw the Qing soldiers outside the city setting up a "nine-in-ten-chain" square formation of 80 people, and his strong heart was lifted again. .
Because he found that the Qing army outside the city was not only equipped with a large number of muskets, but also used them very methodically. Instead of swarming forward and disrupting the guns, the approximately eighty shotgunners were arranged into ten rows and advanced neatly.
To the left and right of these eighty shotgun soldiers, there were eighty armored flag-bearers and infantrymen, each carrying a bow and arrow and a large knife with a long handle, walking neatly. Advance.
With this neat formation and this unhurried and unhurried pace, it can probably catch up with the European infantry phalanx of the same era, right? In later generations, the Eight Banners Shang Yong, who was beaten by Hong Jiaozhu, Yang Shenshen and others, could not compare with them.
This was just the "Green Flag Han Army" at the bottom of the Manchu Eight Banners System. According to Zhu Hesheng's memory of the Xushun Palace from the original Zhu Qipao's mind, these soldiers were carrying green flags and wearing ugly blue uniforms. The guy with the gray cloth face armor and the "lightning rod" helmet is an existence between the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Camp soldiers, and belongs to the vassal army in the banner army. The flag army of Xushun Gongfu was still at the bottom of the Han vassal flag army system of three kings, two princes and one princess (Kong Sizhen).
But even this kind of person at the bottom of the flag army... looks pretty powerful!
I don’t know if the “Secret Empty City Strategy” passed down by Zhuge Liang can defeat them?
Just when Zhu Hesheng thought of this, a "bang, bang, bang" sound of gongs suddenly came from outside. Before the sound of the gong stopped, the Zhuge military advisor with the feather fan and silk scarf suddenly stood up, turned around and pushed open the door to enter the tower. He didn't even want the guzheng that he had brought from somewhere, and led two followers. The boy borrowed by Lao Yu's family ran away.
Zhu Hesheng didn't understand what was happening, but he grabbed the sleeves of Zhuge Military Advisor's large robe, and with a squeaking sound, he actually tore half of it off, revealing his arm covered in chain mail!
When Military Advisor Zhuge saw that his clothes had been torn, he said distressedly: "Cannon Zhu, please be gentle... I only need a Taoist robe (not a Taoist robe, but a Confucian robe)!"
Zhu Hesheng didn't want to argue with him about the Taoist robe, but hurriedly asked: "Commander, why did you run away... Did your empty city plan work?"
Yes, how could "Zhuge Liang" run away when he was planning an empty city? If Sima Yi sees this, can the empty city strategy still work?
"Come on!" Zhuge Military Advisor glared, "Didn't you hear the sound of the gong? The Qing Dog Shotgun Soldiers advanced nine times into ten consecutive formations, and stopped with a gold medal. Then it was time to shoot shotguns! Although my military adviser has a clever plan, but still Even if you haven’t cultivated an indestructible body, you’re still afraid of shotguns!”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of gunfire outside!
Zhuge Military Advisor and Zhu Hesheng were so frightened that they both flinched. However, there were only eight shotguns fired just now, and the distance was relatively far, so the shots were not accurate. None of them hit Zhuge Military Advisor and Zhuge Hesheng who had retreated into the city gate tower. Zhu Hesheng, all the bullets hit the city walls and crenellations. Because the city wall of Guiyu was just covered with bricks a few years ago and is very hard, bullets hitting it even spattered a lot of sparks.
Zhu Hesheng turned his attention to the flag army formation outside and found that the Qing army shotgun soldiers who had finished firing were all lowering their heads to reload ammunition. The row of shotgun soldiers behind them crossed them and became the first row, and then they raised their shotguns together!
At the same time, the archers next to this group of shotgun soldiers also began to draw arrows - this was about to throw a rain of arrows!
Compared with those shotgun soldiers who can only fire eight shotguns at the same time, these archers who shoot volleys of feather arrows are much more powerful!
After all, most of the more than one hundred men brought by the Zhu family and Mr. Yu's family and the two to three hundred strong men from Mr. Yu's family had no armor to protect their bodies, and could only rely on shields to protect their lives under the arrowheads.
However, Zhu Hesheng and Zhuge Military Advisor both have life-saving chainmails, and they are now wearing them.
"Avoid the arrow!"
Seeing the Qing soldiers starting to fire arrows, Zhu Hesheng hurriedly ran to the inner window of the city gate tower, stuck out his head and let out a loud roar.
Of course there is an ambush inside the city gate!
According to Zhuge's military advisor, "old troops" were also ambushed at the gate of Xicheng. What do you mean by "old troops"? He is the veteran who followed the former lord Liu Bei in many conquests and fought for the rest of his life! Although he is older, he is proficient in martial arts and is particularly good at using firearms!
Zhuge Liang not only ambushed the veterans, but also laid mines!
As long as Sima Yi dares to rush in, he will be exploded with landmines, shot randomly... and basically dead!
And this time Zhuge Sanhe also arranged according to the secret recipe passed down by his ancestors. The "old army" did not have it, but there were many muskets and landmines, all of which were prepared for Deng Guangming.
Deng Guangming was busy dispatching troops and generals and building equipment (ladders and shield chariots) outside the capital city of Guiyu for three days. Zhuge Military Advisor and Zhu Hesheng were not idle either. They were busy arranging the ambush part of the "Secret Empty City Strategy" in the city.
First, a small area of houses within the city gate was cleared, and a semicircular area was cleared.
Then the fortifications were built on the edge of the semicircle - that is, a low wall was built with straw bags filled with soil, and then door panels were placed on the low wall to form an arrow-proof fortification.
In the end, of course, the landmines were "buried"!
The so-called landmines are those copper chamber pots filled with sweet gunpowder. The largest of them is now placed in a wooden box half buried in the earth, filled with hay and sprinkled with gunpowder.
In order to prevent the rockets launched by the Qing army from igniting the sweet gunpowder chamber pot, Zhu Hesheng also had a wooden lid covered only with copper to prevent arrows and fire.
There is also a thick hemp rope tied to the lid, and the other end of the rope is held in the hand of Zhu Tianwang Zhu Jushan.
Just wait for the Qing army to rush in, King Zhu Tian will pull off the lid, and Zhu Hesheng will join the two generals under King Zhu Tian, Su Yong, known as "Yong Meng Su", and Zhao Zhongyi, known as "Zhongyi Zhao" They will launch rockets together, trying to use rockets to land mines!
In addition, Zhuge's military advisor also ambushed his troops on the city wall. There were not many of them, only thirty or forty people in total, but they were all musketeers, half of whom were subordinates of King Zhu Tian and half of whom were from the Lao Yu family.
These musketeers are not equipped with light shotguns, but heavy muskets called turtledoves!
The projectiles fired by this heavy-duty musket weigh one to two to eight dollars! Because its weight is too great, the recoil when fired is greater, so it is usually mounted on a stand that looks a bit like a turtle-dove's foot and fired, so it is called a turtle-dove's foot gun.
This turtle-dove foot gun was introduced to Guangdong and Fujian through Portuguese and Spanish traders decades ago. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Foshan in Guangdong and Anping in Fujian (Zheng Zhilong's hometown) were able to mass-produce such firecrackers. However, the Ming court was not a buyer of this kind of turtle-dove-footed muskets, so the turtle-dove-footed muskets produced in Foshan and Anping were sold not only to Zheng Zhilong's army, but also to powerful pirates in Guangdong and Fujian.
Moreover, these muskets were built to be sturdy and should last a long time if properly maintained.
Therefore, the thirty or forty firecrackers placed on the city wall by Zhuge Military Advisor are still very powerful!
Therefore, the secret empty city strategy passed down by Zhuge Liang is still quite powerful, but whether it can defeat the Qing troops outside the city depends on luck!
Seeing that the ambush soldiers in the city had already huddled up to avoid arrows, Zhu Hesheng finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then he began to chant "God Zhuge bless me" while preparing to shoot the rocket... But how should I shoot the arrow?
Zhu Hesheng took a Kaiyuan bow that had been placed on the inner wall of the city gate building for a long time, took out an arrow wrapped in a grease-soaked cloth strip, glanced at the brazier that had been lit nearby, and began to work hard to inherit the Come and search for content related to archery in your memory!
He clearly remembered that Zhu Qipao was a good shot, and he always hit the mark!
But now he really can't remember how to shoot this arrow?
Be anxious!
While he was thinking hard about how to shoot an arrow, the Qing soldiers outside the city were also firing volleys of rifles and feather arrows one after another.
That was really like a rain of arrows! Zhu Hesheng had his back against the city gate tower and was in a safe area where arrows and guns could not reach him, but others were not so lucky. Especially those Da Nanshan martyrs and Yu family heroes who were hiding under the door panel... From time to time, someone would let out a scream. It seemed that they had chosen a door panel made of too thin a material!
Fortunately, the rain of arrows from the Qing soldiers did not continue forever. After ten rounds of shooting, it suddenly stopped, leaving only the endless roar of serial guns and the continuous screams and wails on the battlefield.
Zhu Hesheng hurriedly looked at the box containing the mine... Fortunately, although there were many "white hairs" stuck around, those "white hairs" were not rockets, and it seemed that they did not break the thick and Strong twine.
At this moment, a rapid drumbeat suddenly sounded, and then there was a cry of death!
"Kill! Capture the third prince Zhu alive! Capture the third grandson Zhu alive..."
The infantry of the Qing soldiers have launched a charge!
Zhu He is in a hurry!
He hasn't figured out how to shoot an arrow yet?
Why can't I remember it?
The Qing infantry soldiers did not give him time to think slowly. They shouted slogans, formed two rectangular infantry formations, and rushed through the wide open city gate like a tide and rushed into the city.
"Living alone in the Eight Wastelands of Danan Town, this mountain was opened by the King of Heaven..."
Zhu Hesheng heard his father reciting poetry again. This was not because of his poetic nature, but to remind Zhu Hesheng and others to set off rockets!
Because Father Zhu is about to open the copper cover!
But Zhu Hesheng hasn’t remembered how to shoot an arrow yet!
He didn't think of it, but Yongmeng Su and Zhongyi Zhao had already remembered it. They both rushed out from their hiding places, each with a Kaiyuan bow. When they were rounded, they fired a rocket... but they didn't even hit it. !
Zhu Hesheng's heart skipped a beat when he saw two rockets, one hitting the wooden box and the other missing and landing on the edge of the box.
The Qing soldiers will rush to the box soon!
Thinking of this, Zhu Hesheng took another look at the brazier and found two burning butter torches in the brazier!
So he stopped shooting arrows, threw away his bow and arrows, picked up two torches in each hand, shouted "Zhuge Liang, bless you", and then threw the torches one after the other into the wooden box!
I don’t know whether it was Zhuge Liang who was really protecting him, or whether the original artillery Zhu had practiced “throwing bombs”. After the two torches drew an arc in the air, they both hit the wooden box, and the hay in the wooden box was ignited. , the fire suddenly burst out!
