"General, that military fort is only so big, and there can't be many people inside." Zishan sneered: "I'm just a poor man, the garrison can only be five or six hundred at best."
"If there are only a few people, then what are you waiting for? The brothers swarmed forward, no matter how many guns he had, they couldn't resist it!" shouted a school captain from behind.
"Hey, I wish I could do this." Deng Zhongjun smiled bitterly: "I heard from the brothers that the road to the ferry is getting narrower and narrower, with woods on both sides.
There is only a palm-sized area at the ferry, and every time there are at most a thousand people on it, it is full. Therefore, the previous rounds of general guns and fire guns caused so many casualties that it is impossible to escape! "
"Then divide into five teams and take turns to attack!" Yin Tuo said with a cold face: "The fire gun will explode if hit too much. I don't believe he can use it non-stop?
Furthermore, the brothers were ambushed just now because they were unprepared, so let’s take precautions! ” He stretched out his hand and pointed backward:
"Go to the village behind to collect door panels, firewood, and baskets. Immediately build ladders, shields, firewood, and baskets filled with soil to fill the hole and pave a road! There are many ways, and a living person can still hold back his urine. die?"
The whole army immediately took action and went to the fields to cut the soon-ripening rice. Some people led a team and rushed towards the village.
"These dogs are going to harm the people!" On the mountain, Zhao Jingzi was shocked and angry when he saw the village on fire. Everyone was also very angry and asked for a fight.
Li Dan gritted his teeth and said calmly: "Keep the word going, the ministries are not allowed to reveal their targets! Everyone remembers this debt, they will have to pay it back when the time comes!"
In less than an hour, they had made arrangements again.
Yin Tuo had three generals and six lieutenants under his command. In the second attack, he decided to let his deputy general Wang Xi lead the army. The whole army was divided into five teams, consisting of five lieutenants: Zhu, Xiu, Lu, Lin and Feng (the other one was the one who died earlier). Chen Bandou) led the attack.
Wang Xi personally supervised the battle. The group led by Captain Zhu were mainly civilians. They threw straw, firewood, and bamboo baskets filled with soil into the long pit. After filling it, they laid door panels on top, allowing the second team to come up and step on the door panels. Cross the ditch.
The civilians were also afraid of being fired from the opposite side, so they made shield carts out of large beams and pushed them forward, protected by shields made of bamboo or wood, until they reached the edge of the ditch. Then they threw things out from behind the cart to fill the ditch.
The ditch was six feet deep, seven feet wide, and sixty paces long. Thousands of people worked feverishly for more than half an hour, and finally part of the ditch was filled. But for some reason the other side didn't fire a cannon.
"Perhaps they were short of gunpowder, so they decided to save money?" Priest Zishan guessed.
But he didn't know that in addition to the gunpowder transported when he came out, Li Dan took advantage of the opportunity to make wine and glass, using the sulfur and saltpeter provided by the Hengfeng kiln, plus the carbon powder produced here, in a ratio of 10:75:15 New gunpowder was made, and Li Dan called it gunpowder.
He used sulfur purified by evaporation and pure nitrate boiled by adding plant ash water.
After mixing the dry powders of the three, mix them with nitrate solution to form a "cake" and dry it in a crucible. Then grind it with a grinding disc, sieve it, and mix it with black lead (graphite) powder to shake it.
In Chen Sanwen's records, Li Dan called this the "Arabian Gunpowder Preparation Method." So the gunpowder they use now is dark wheat color, not the pure black in the common impression.
Compared with the black gunpowder originally used, the gunpowder obtained by this pharmaceutical method can easily shoot to 230 steps with the same amount of gunpowder, and can basically reach the same distance as the full black gunpowder with 60% of the gunpowder.
This means that a gunman carrying the same weight of gunpowder can shoot more times.
After the ditch was filled, the first team withdrew, and the second team led by Lieutenant Xiu quickly stepped forward.
But at this time, a problem arose, because everyone had heard that there were firearms on the opposite side, and everyone was afraid of being hit and wanted to hide behind others. This resulted in a situation where thousands of people were huddled together.
Lieutenant Xiu peeked his head out from behind the wooden shield to observe the movement on the other side. All the people crowded behind him were his close subordinates. When he turned around, he was horrified to find that people behind him were crowded and bumping into each other.
"Damn it, you don't want to die. There are so many people crowded together in one place? Spread out, spread out quickly!" He waved his hand vigorously, but his subordinates hesitated and did not move.
Just when he was about to yell a few words, the general on the opposite side spoke first.
The two projectiles rushed out of the muzzle, and the huge kinetic energy shattered the wood of the wooden shield, and the fragments flew in all directions.
The person injured by the sawdust screamed in horror, but the projectile still rushed forward with inertia, and did not stop until it knocked down a knife player in the rear team.
"We can't stop, charge! Come on, or we'll all die in this hellish place, charge!" Captain Xiu shouted, and his cronies also pushed and hit the soldiers around him.
These people had no choice but to scream and jump on the door panel, resisting the soft feeling under their feet (there were dead bodies underneath) and rushed across the ditch.
When they saw someone passing by, they became bolder and rushed out with their eyes closed, shouting, and more and more people came out from behind the shield car.
A hundred steps was not far, and in a blink of an eye they were at the bottom of the wall. But when you touch the smooth wall, you look at me and I look at you, and you don’t know what to say.
Someone knocked on it with the handle of a knife several times, and then shouted in a panic: "What the hell is this? It's not mud or bricks. Is it all made of stone?"
As more and more people gathered below, suddenly two packages the size of melons were thrown from the tower, and they fell to the ground with a "clack".
"Hey, what is this?" Someone noticed and looked down.
This thing looks like an enlarged drumstick, but the wooden handle at the back is thinner. It exploded with a "boom" sound. The one with his head lowered flew four feet away, his left eyeball fell out, and he kept vomiting blood.
There were four or five other people lying around the explosion point. Others who were knocked down but survived were stunned, wondering what happened.
But soon, there were several "boom, boom" sounds in succession, which made people's ears buzz. They could not hear clearly what their colleagues were shouting, and they could not stand still. When I could see clearly again, I found that there were more dead and injured people on the ground.
Wang Xi was shocked when he heard such a movement, and hurriedly led a dozen soldiers to check. I saw half of the people still hiding and shaking behind the broken frame of the shield car. I couldn't help but get angry: "Where is your captain? Where is the one named Xiu?"
"The captain, the captain is in front...ah!"
After swinging his sword and hacking the shivering soldier to death, Wang Xi glared and shouted, "Whoever is behind Captain Xiu, I'll chop him first!"
Everyone was frightened by his hair and beard, and they all got up and moved forward. The method of killing chickens to scare monkeys works everywhere.
"Come on, charge me, put the ladder up on the wall! Two more teams over there!" Wang Xi almost took over the command himself.
Under the supervision and coercion of him and his soldiers, these people began to flock to the wall, regardless of whether there were dead or injured people on the ground, and even set up ladders to climb up while stepping on the corpses.
At this time, the "crack, crackle, crackle" sound of muskets continued to sound, and the crossfire from the tower began to shoot downwards, and the musketeers hardly had to aim.
Because the distance was too close and the people were densely packed, most of them were not armor-piercing, and some projectiles even penetrated two people and injured a third person.
There are three people in each group in the tower. The first person is responsible for charging, the second person loads the ammunition, and the third person shoots.
The fire blunderbuss posed a great threat, and people kept being knocked down, but the "thunder" thrown out (guessed to be some kind of trumpet that could kill thousands of people) became less and less.
That's because time was short, and Chen Sanwen only made a hundred or so in total. He didn't dare to use too many, and he had to accumulate strength for the future.
The attackers thought that the opponent's strength was insufficient, so they became complacent and climbed up at the risk of being hit by fire guns.
Finally, a few people who were fast and fierce climbed up first. Just as they were shouting proudly, they suddenly discovered that the crenellation was a bit immoral.
Unlike ordinary battlements, the distance between these battlements is a bit narrow. How narrow is it? It looks wider on the outside, but there is a narrowed corner on the inside, and the distance between the two corners is only two punches.
Let's put it this way, if a grown man wants to climb to the top of the city from here, he has to turn sideways and be careful not to touch his crotch. If this guy is wearing armor, it's best if he takes it off and tries it again.
So when the first few people who climbed up were hesitating about what posture or method to adopt, suddenly the light of swords and guns flashed in the wall, and then
Then a shrill scream was heard, and the first climbers fell off the city wall one after another, dying or being injured.
"Officers, there are officers and soldiers on the city!" A series of exclamations came, which surprised Wang Xi.
But he immediately calmed down: "Don't be afraid, what's wrong with the officers and soldiers? I killed a lot of officers and soldiers, come up here, I'll give you a reward of ten taels for whoever gets there first!"
When I heard about the reward, I immediately became greedy and excited, desperately pushing forward to get ahead of others. The battle began to get intense.
At this time, Chen Sanwen had already arrived at the No. 2 Tower (numbered from east to west) from the big gun tower, and began to observe the movements and results of the fire gunners. Suddenly a group of people ran into the tower.
"Mr. Chen, get out of the way, borrow it, borrow it! Get up, get up quickly, there are dozens of people on each roof!"
Chen Sanwen looked back and saw that it was Dou Saner, an old acquaintance. "Hey, didn't you go to Guangxin?" he asked immediately.
"Just came back! Looks like there's still time to make a meritorious service!" Dou San'er pulled him to the side, and several archers in navy uniforms rushed up the stairs from them with crossbows in their hands.
"As soon as we arrived in Guangxin, there were three hundred archers sent by Shuizhai to reinforce us. Sun Shoubei sent two hundred men to the ferry without saying a word. I brought half of them here in a carriage, and the other half are on the way!"
"Great! With this combination, our strength will be stronger. It seems that we can defend this place without any problem!"
At this time, I suddenly heard the sound of gold ringing from the opposite side. The people under the wall turned around and ran back after hearing this. From time to time, someone was hit by arrows or projectiles fired from behind and fell to the ground. Eventually they disappeared behind the Broken Shield vehicle.
"Hey, why did they run away as soon as I arrived?" Dou San'er said angrily.
"Don't worry," Chen Sanwen looked out from the side of the perforation, pointed and said, "Look, their third wave is coming again. Yin Tuo wants to start a round of fighting and prevent us from resting!"
On the second gun platform, Liu Hongsheng told the platoon leader to let the aimer continue to smash the shield truck to prevent the opponent from dragging it back for repairs. He turned his face and saw Sheng Huaien walking up to the gun stand.
"My lord." He stepped forward and put his fist on his heart and saluted. Sheng Huai'en had long been accustomed to this way of saluting in Li Dan's team. He nodded and asked, "Is there enough gunpowder?"
"Enough!" Liu Hongsheng nodded: "I prepared a lot during those days on Nanshan, and there are plenty of stone bullets."
It turns out that the "medicine cakes" made in the factory are brought to the firearms camp, where they crush, sift and shake the particles themselves. This not only makes use of their labor, but also allows the team members to use it. Realize the power of pills and even suggest improvements.
Although large guns, bird guns and grenades all use gunpowder, their recipes are not exactly the same. Among the medicine used for big gun, pure nitrate accounts for 75%, bird gun is about 73%, and grenade is 71%.
The original purpose of making gunpowder powder in different proportions was just to test their different effects. Unexpectedly, it was finally concluded that at 75%, the same dose of gunpowder can make the shooting accuracy and distance of the big gun significantly better than the other two;
When the 73% type is used for bird gun shooting, compared with the 75% type, it does not increase much vibration and sound, but it can greatly increase the distance and accuracy of projectile shooting.
So in the end, these three types of gunpowder were applied to different weapons, which was an unexpected gain after the experiment.
Liu Hongsheng originally thought that Sheng Huaien came to the gun platform to supervise the battle, but unexpectedly he pulled his arm and the two of them got off the gun platform. Liu Hongsheng was feeling confused when he suddenly heard Sheng Huaien ask: "You and Li Sanlang are familiar with each other, right?"
"Ah, of course." Liu Hongsheng was about to add a few words when the big gun behind him made a "bang" sound, and then he heard cheers from above. It seemed that it had hit the target.
"Then let me ask you, do you know there is a man named Yang Dayi?"
"Teacher Yang, of course you know!" Liu Hongsheng didn't know why he mentioned this name, and his eyes widened.
"Oh, is it your instructor?" Sheng Huaien's face relaxed and became less serious.
"Qianhu has seen the Golden Flower Formation in the front camp, right?" Liu Hongsheng said loudly close to his ear. His ears were a little ringing, and he thought he spoke too softly and the other party didn't hear him clearly. "He and Saburo figured out the Golden Flower Formation together!"
"I'm telling you!" Sheng Huai'en pulled him a few steps further away.
He left the gun stand, and then said loudly in his ear:
"At first glance, that guy has been in the army, and he is definitely not a big-time soldier. But he insists that he is just a servant who delivers family letters to Li Sanlang's family. No matter how I look at it, it doesn't look like him!
If you say you don't know him, I'll have someone pull him out and chop him up (see Note 1)! "
"What, Yang Jianjie is here? Is he here?" Liu Hongsheng was shocked.
"He's sitting in the kitchen, but there's no way he can see Li Sanlang right away during the war." Sheng Huaien spread his hands and said.
"In that case, how about you send him to Song Zhenfu's place and let them meet after the war is over?"
"Okay, let's do it!"
Song Xiaoniu was very happy to see Yang Dayi, because he was worried about having no one to lead the team!
He and Mr. Bas went to find the surrendered leaders, and the result of the talks was very good. The most prestigious among them is a whistleblower named Xin Chi, whose nickname is A Mao. He is twenty-five years old this year and is from Nanping.
He used to serve as a flag general in the army, but was later convicted and sent to work in the mines. After Lou Shifan cursed the word "thief slave" that day, he was the first to attack him.
The other two sentry chiefs were named Wei Zhou'er and Lin Ziyang, and the remaining two were lower-ranking flag officers Zhou Tu and Liao Sanqing (this man was a Taoist priest). When they heard about Da Yin Tuo, they really didn't say anything and immediately called out five hundred people.
But most of these people were their former subordinates. Song Xiaoniu felt a little confused and didn't know what to do. Just at this point, Yang DaYi came, making him feel like he had found a treasure.
"It's good to have Coach Yang, otherwise I would be so worried!" Maverick immediately invited him to be the commander of the newly established camp: "At least you are a serious member of the 100 households, otherwise who else would be more suitable?"
"I didn't expect you and Sanlang to do such a big business here that they all came out of the team!" Yang Dali said with a smile.
Mavericks saw that there was no one around, and whispered to him: "You are here, I just want to ask you something. Saburo told me that after this mission, the regiment training master must be disbanded. It turns out that the civilian husband team is probably going to be dismissed and returned to their hometown.
He said that except for a few leaders and their personal followers among these surrendered troops, most of them would be recruited or replenished into the official armies in various places. "
"Well, that's right." Yang nodded carelessly, which was the usual practice of the army. "What, you can't bear to part with me? But you may leave some behind, depending on changes in the enemy situation and mission requirements."
"Note 1: Xizuo, sentinels and agents are different concepts. Xiuzao generally refers to battlefield reconnaissance personnel disguised as civilians; sentinels are scouts in military uniforms. For example, the Ming army does not collect at night; agents refer to local patrols. An espionage officer who has been lurking for a long time and operates under an open identity."
