So he was worried and said loudly: "This exercise is not right at all! No one's city can be broken so easily, even with artillery! Don't forget that when you are besieged, the defending side will always The city gate is blocked! The city gate hole is filled with rocks and sandbags. Even if the door is blown open, you can't get in!"
Upon hearing this, the nobles all looked disdainful! The civil servants repeatedly agreed and said that this exercise was too childish! Emperor Wanli, on the other hand, looked confused, as if he didn't know who to believe!
Hearing this, Liu Haojia slapped the railing and said loudly: "Fuck you! What do you know? You..."
As soon as he said this, he found Zhang Juzheng waving his hand at him, meaning to ask him to stop! So he could only stop angrily and swallow the second half of his words!
The reason why Zhang Juzheng stopped Liu Haojia was because he knew that what he said next would be extremely unpleasant! The civil servants have already been disrespected once. If they are disrespected again, they won't have to stand up straight in front of Emperor Wanli!
When everyone saw Zhang Juzheng raising his hand to signal, they all fell silent knowing that he wanted to speak! Even the nobles who were preparing to make a fuss with the civil servants were honest! .
At this time, Zhang Juzheng said kindly: "Yuan Jing, come and explain to everyone!"
If it weren't for Zhang Juzheng's orders, Qi Jiguang wouldn't want to explain to these people at all! Because this is simply an offending job! No matter whether you can explain it clearly or not, these civil servants have lost face! And now he relies on civil servants, so he might be retaliated against someday!
But his benefactor spoke, and he had no choice but to pretend that he could not see other people, and said to Zhang Juzheng with a slightly louder voice: "Sir, when the city is besieged, it is not a last resort. When life and death are at stake, the city gate It must not be blocked! Because once the city gate is blocked, reinforcements and supplies from outside will not be able to get in! If reinforcements happen to arrive but cannot open the city gate, they can only watch helplessly as the reinforcements are surrounded. , destroy it! The morale in the city will be completely depleted!"
Zhang Juzheng twirled his beard and said, "You look like you are still unfinished, is there anything else you want to say?"
Qi Jiguang continued: "Also! In fact, when defending a city, the most important thing is not only supplies, but more importantly, morale! Therefore, when defending a city, you must not block the city gates. You must often go out to fight against the besieging party, and maintain Morale must not be lost! Otherwise, once there is no morale in the city, no matter how abundant the supplies are, it will be useless! It will only be a matter of time before it collapses!"
Zhang Juzheng nodded and said, "That's it! It seems there are many things I don't know about in this world! I really learned a lot today!"
At this point, he turned back to Liu Haojia and said, "Marquis Wu Ning, you just said this was the first way to attack the city, so there must be a second way! Why don't you demonstrate it now to your majesty and me?"
Liu Haojia saw that Zhang Juzheng had already come forward to smooth things over, so he didn't say anything else, but directly ordered his soldiers to wave flags and issue orders!
The soldiers who had rushed through the door immediately retreated quickly under the command of the officer to regroup! This time it was still the same as before, with some fire gun soldiers carrying out suppressive shooting outside the city under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers. The artillery also carried out shotgun attacks to suppress the counterattack force on the city head as much as possible.
But the difference is that the mortar that has not fired just now finally started to show its power! Following the dull firing sound of the mortar, the huge spherical barrel swayed into the sky, and then fell down and smashed into the city wall!
Only then did the civil servants realize that this kind of mortar was used for shooting in a curve! So they all stared at those shells to see if they could hit the city wall!
As a result, all the cannonballs missed the target! One exploded outside the city wall, and the other four fell behind the city wall! But the huge explosion and the rising smoke are still frightening!
At this time, Qi Jiguang continued to explain to Zhang Juzheng in a slightly louder voice: "Sir, don't look at these cannonballs that didn't hit the top of the city, but they landed inside the city wall. Because in order to avoid arrows and cannonballs, The soldiers inside the city wall all stood close to the wall. After all, arrows and cannonballs couldn't turn! But this kind of explosive bomb was different. Looking at the places where the smoke rose, it should be that the cannonball exploded close to the city wall! Now
If there were any defensive soldiers under the city wall, they would have suffered heavy casualties! "
Everyone shuddered when they heard this! If you look at it this way, as long as there are mortars, there will be no safe place inside or outside the city wall!
Then the mortar fired again, and this time it was much more accurate! Two rounds of explosive shells exploded at the top of the city. How much higher was the smoke rising than the city tower? Everyone can imagine how the dense soldiers on the city wall were blown to pieces! At the same time, they also knew that the other cannonballs falling inside the city wall would not be useless and would also take away the lives of a large number of soldiers!
Then a series of explosive bombs exploded on the city wall, blowing up that small section of the city wall into smoke! Everyone knows that the soldiers on this section of the city wall are probably dead or injured! They thought that maybe the second way of attacking the city mentioned by Liu Haojia was to blow up all the people here, and then they could climb the wall! ..
The reality was just as they had guessed. After firing ten rounds of explosive shells, a large number of sword and shield soldiers carried hooks and ladders and ran towards the city wall with shouts and shouts!
At this time, Liu Haojia explained: "Your Majesty, during a normal siege, there are not only hooks, but also ladders, goose carts and other siege equipment! This time we are in a hurry, so we can only use hooks and ladders to demonstrate briefly!"
Many people think that aerial ladders are just ordinary ladders, but in fact they are not that at all! Real ladders are heavy siege engines! The ladder is based on a huge base with four wheels. There is an extremely wide wooden ladder on top, which is no different from a normal staircase, allowing soldiers to rush all the way to the top of the city!
Moreover, there is an iron hook at the top of the ladder. Once it is set up on the city wall, as long as the soldiers push the ladder in the opposite direction, the iron hook will be firmly hooked on the wall, making it impossible to push it down! The hook ladder is much simpler. The hook body is just an ordinary long ladder, but there are still two iron hooks at the top! The iron hook was hung on the city wall, and the soldiers below pressed it hard. It was difficult to overthrow the hook ladder from the city wall!
To push away the ladder and the hook ladder, a strong man must hold a heavy hammer and smash the hook flat, and then several strong men must work together to push the support pole to push the ladder down! So once the city walls are approached by cloud ladders and hook ladders, it will take a lot of effort to deal with them!
