Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 558 Air Force bombing!

What Wang Bi could not imagine was that Tuo Huochi outside Taiyuan City was actually very anxious at this time.

On the first day when the army began to attack the city, almost as soon as he started to attack the city, he received an urgent message from the horsemen from behind.

Xu Da, who was stationed in Shuntian, did not rush to help Taiyuan as he expected. Instead, he led [-] troops in two groups and went straight to Helin!
Surround Wei and rescue Zhao!I had forgotten that the Han people had such a method of war!
"Prime Minister, is it really okay if you don't go back to your Majesty's aid? What if Xu Da attacks my Dayuan Ancestral Temple..." Aza Shili asked beside the red horse that was taking off fire.

"...It doesn't matter." Tuo Huochi gritted his teeth and pretended to laugh freely. "I have already expected this, but the grassland is vast and His Majesty's royal tent is patrolling in the north. Xu Da only has tens of thousands of people, so it may not be possible to find His Majesty's traces."

"It doesn't matter if we capture the Ming Emperor's son and then return to the grassland."

Although the Yuan Lord Aiyou Shili Dara temporarily lived in Helin after escaping from Dadu, the conditions in Helin were poor, and the Yuan Lord did not often stay in Helin.

When Tuo Huochi left this time, Aiyu Shili Dara went on a tour to the north.Maybe he can just avoid Xu Da's soldiers.Even if you can't avoid it, you can delay it for a while if you think about it.

Another reason why he couldn't withdraw his troops was that Tuo Huochi didn't have enough prestige after all... As we all know, the system on the grassland is only a loose tribal federation after all.In the past, when the Yuan Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, it was fine. He could issue orders in the name of the emperor, and few tribes dared to disobey orders.

But now that the emperor has been beaten in Beishou, Dayuan's dominance has already plummeted.Although he is a prime minister in name, he is far less prestigious than the former King of Qi Wang Baobao.Being able to coordinate the leaders of all the major tribes to attack the Ming Dynasty together was more because the major tribes themselves were not in a good situation and urgently needed to enrich their pockets by entering the customs and plundering.

If he turned around and returned to his army without gaining anything, his prestige as the prime minister would be lost in an instant, and he would never be able to monopolize power again.

In order to gain power, he must also capture Taiyuan and win at least one victory for Dayuan.This is why he fought hard to attack the city as soon as he came up.

"One day...one day, I will take Taiyuan." Tuohuo Chihao said.His words were not all groundless. There were only tens of thousands of defenders in Taiyuan City. Even if the Ming Dynasty and Jin Dynasty sent the strong men to the city, they would definitely not exceed 3 in a short time.

And he now has a total of 18 people under his command. Even if he uses human lives to pile them up, he can still pile up Taiyuan City.Taiyuan was already rich. He captured Taiyuan and captured the Ming Emperor's son. He could then return to his army and attack Xu Da with the royal court.

"Our army has repaired its artillery and will attack the city tonight! I will personally lead the men to storm the north gate."

"If we don't capture Taiyuan, we swear we won't return to our army!"

Tuohuo's eyes were already red.

While scolding the generals to light torches, he began to prepare for a night attack on Taiyuan.Aza Shili found an opportunity to retreat quietly, and Boyan also followed behind him.

Just now, Boyan also heard Tuo Huochi's arrogance.Seeing that he was far away from the Chinese army's tent at this time, Azasili asked Boyan: "Boyan, Tuo Huochi has fallen into madness. If he fights hard, I'm afraid this Taiyuan City can really be conquered."

"What do you think we should do now? Should we continue to sit back and watch, or should we participate in the siege and capture Taiyuan together?"

"If you don't participate in the siege, after the city is defeated, the property in the city will definitely..."

"Your Majesty!" Boyan Surong interrupted Azasili.

"Your Majesty has also met the King of Wu of the Ming Dynasty...Does Your Majesty think that King Wu's elder brother, King Jin, really only has this kind of ability?"

"However, the number of our Yuan army is more than ten times that of Taiyuan City..."

"With more people, can we win the battle?" Boyan said. "In the past, when our ancestors came from the grasslands, they fought many tough battles in which the few defeated the many!"

"Since your Majesty is determined to help the Ming Dynasty, he must not lead the way. The grass that will fall when the wind blows is fragile. I, the thousands of households in Shanyang, cannot make grass, but want to make bright and clear lakes on the grassland."

"Moreover, doesn't your Majesty think that there are some strange things about Ming Dynasty..."

"What's weird?" Aza was stunned.

"Yes." Boyan nodded. "Your Majesty, you have also seen the terrifying fire blunderbuss used by the King of Wu."

"Even our warriors from all households in Shanyang will suffer huge losses when faced with those firearms."

"If such a sharp weapon is used to defend the city, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. But until now, such firearms have never been used in Taiyuan City."

"I heard that Taiyuan is an important defense town for the Ming Dynasty. It is impossible that there are no firearms in the city... but the Ming Dynasty has been hiding firearms and not using them. Why do you think it is, my king?"

"You mean..." Azasili felt his heart skip a beat. "Taiyuan City... still has the back-up force for counterattack?" "But the defenders in the city clearly only have more than [-] people, and the city is surrounded by Prime Minister Tuohuo Chi. What else can they do..."

Speaking of this, Azasili suddenly froze.He looked in the direction of the Taiyuan City Wall in surprise, his voice trembling because of the extraordinary things in front of him.

"Then... what is that?"

……

"Longevity God!"

In the Yuan army camp, the lights were brightly lit.Because Tuo Huochi ordered to prepare for a night battle, most of the soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty lit torches, lighting up the place as bright as day, and prepared to attack the Ming army on the city at night.

However, before they could launch their attack, they suddenly discovered that many round behemoths suddenly appeared on the walls of the Ming army.These behemoth objects are huge in size, but they have the ability to fly into the sky. They fly swayingly from the city into the sky.

"What are those? Flying balls?"

"Is it a trick of the Ming army? Why is this..."

"Could it be the Ming army's sorcery?"

The Yuan soldiers stared blankly at this unimaginable scene. Some superstitious Yuan soldiers even knelt down to pay homage to this big ball that could fly in the sky.Tuo Huochi looked at these things blankly at first, until he found these big balls swinging towards the Yuan army camp, alarm bells suddenly rang in his heart. "Come on, shoot! Shoot those big balls down!"

Although I don’t know what it is, just beat it and it will be over.

The Yuan army began to draw their bows and arrows, and countless arrows poured towards these big balls in the sky.However, the wind was blowing from the south today, and the Yuan army had the wind at their back. These big balls flew so high that the arrows could not reach them.

Tuo Huochi kept squinting at these big balls. When the big balls gradually flew closer, he found that there were baskets tied under the big balls, and there were even looming figures inside.He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Shoot! Get the cannon back and shoot!"

"Quick! Don't let these things get close to our army!"

The catapult immediately began to adjust its direction, and then stone shells were shot towards these big balls.However, the accuracy of these ancient catapults is not high, let alone used to hit these hot air balloons flying in the air.Several stone bullets passed by with a shrieking wind, but the "big balls" were intact.

There is no better way to kill mosquitoes than with a cannon.

"This... what exactly is..." The alarm bell in Tuo Huochi's heart became louder and louder.

"Arrive at the predetermined location...drop the bomb!"

As the Ming military flag on the leading hot air balloon was unfurled, countless black gunpowder cans were poured down from the hot air balloon.The Yuan soldiers were still staring blankly at something dropped from the sky, but in the next moment, they were blown into minced meat with a "bang".The dense camp of the Yuan army suddenly turned into a hell of gunpowder and flesh and blood. The long-lasting sound of "boom, boom, boom" turned the warriors on the grassland into mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

"Well, it went very well." Zhu Fan on the tower took down the telescope in his hand.Facing the bombing of hot air balloons, the panicked Yuan army even began to trample on themselves.I have already won this battle.

The troop strength is one to eighteen, but in the face of the difference in weapons, it is still not worth mentioning.This is science... No, this is the power of Ming Dynasty today.

Originally, due to limitations in productivity, these hot air balloons were far from being able to fully assemble the Ming army... But unfortunately, this group of Yuan people actually chose to attack Taiyuan.

There are many minerals around Taiyuan; Taiyuan has a large population in the north; Taiyuan has good roads and many industries.

Zhu Fan was willing to abandon his studies in Beijing and come to Taiyuan because of these points in Taiyuan.

Taiyuan happened to be the Ming Dynasty's latest arsenal chosen by Lao Zhu to manufacture new weapons.

And Zhu Fan was the vassal king who specially supervised the creation of these new weapons.

"Come to attack Taiyuan. Since you are here, there is no need to leave."

"You guys just hit the iron plate!"

Zhu Fan's face finally showed a happy smile.

(End of this chapter)