Chongzhen Undergraduates

"What are they doing?" Da Tao pointed to a cavalryman who ran out of the Houjin army formation, ran to the gate of the city and seemed to be yelling something loudly, but the defenders on the city did not respond for a long time, as if they didn't exist at all.

"That's persuading surrender. It was like this before the war. It's a show of benevolence and righteousness. Why don't our village and the next-door village grab water and do it." Datao's squad leader sneered at this.

Before the conversation here was finished, the cannons outside the city rang.

Da Tao obviously watched a black object fly straight through the air, and finally hit the city wall. A few bricks flew randomly on the city wall.However, the city wall remained motionless.

"Such a big cannon won't knock down the city wall, right?" The comrade-in-arms seemed a little worried. The sound of the cannon was so loud that the soles of his feet were shaking.

"No, the city walls of our central capital are very thick. With just a few cannons, it can be bombed for many days. If a hundred or ten cannons bombarded together, it is possible to collapse." The squad leader replied while observing.

"Squad leader, you know a lot."

"I've never seen such a big cannon. The teacher said it. I thought they were bragging before, but now, what they said is true."

"Since it can't be defeated, why do they still have to shoot?"

"This is called intimidation!"

Da Tao couldn't hear the squad leader's words very clearly. The voices of the people here were not as loud as before, so he simply looked at the war seriously.

"Look, there are thousands of people coming towards us. Could it be that they are here to attack us?"

This frontier observation post is still very hidden, and the cover is very good. From a distance, there is no such mountain at all.The main task of Da Tao and the others is to observe the military situation on Dongshan.

"Everyone, hide quickly, and be careful not to be discovered by the enemy." The squad leader sternly yelled.

In the distance, a group of thousands of enemy troops quickly rushed towards Dongshan.The enemy passed directly at the foot of Da Tao's mountain, and surrounded the two hills of Dongshan on three sides without paying any attention, leaving only the side near Fengyang that no one dared to go.

The situation is obvious. Duduo is old in war, and he can tell what's going on on the battlefield at a glance.

"There must be an ambush in Xishan, but it's not worthwhile to attack Xishan. The Ming army's ambush will not be weak, and we have no advantage in attacking us in the mountains."

Doduo knows too well about fighting, that is, to use all his advantages to attack the opponent's disadvantages.There is no such thing as reckless fighting, and reckless fighting is just the most impossible option.

"Huang Degong actually put himself on Dongshan Mountain, and he saw the terrain of Dongshan Mountain. This battle is obvious. If you directly attack Fengyang City, you may not be able to win it in ten days and a half months.

After defeating Dongshan, you can directly bombard Fengyang City, which is equivalent to breaking Fengyang City.Don't bother with the ambushes in the Western Mountains, as long as you block it, how long can the people inside have no supply? "

"My lord is brilliant, in this way, we can take down Dongshan with the least force, and everything will be logical."

There are so many tricks in a battle of tens of thousands of people. The competition is about strength, weapons and combat power, and the general's wisdom in coordinating the entire army.

"Let the people from Bozhou go first, the heavy infantry will guard the west mountain, and the cavalry will follow me to guard the main formation. You arrange some people for the Bozhou soldiers to raid the formation."

"twitter!"

After Duoduo finished speaking, the enemy army that Da Tao saw came towards Dongshan.

The cannon didn't stop, but the interval was very long, and one shot was fired after another, as if reminding the time.

The battle in Dongshan is not fierce, and both sides are testing.

The equipment of the Bozhou soldiers has not been greatly improved. Apart from wearing an extra golden cotton armor, they still hold the weapons that Li Benshen issued before.These weapons are not as good as the Hezhou Army, and the team that is not as powerful as the Hezhou Army has charged several times, and each time they were quickly beaten back by the defenders on the mountainside.

Da Tao's mood was constantly tense and relaxed with the battle on Dongshan.

"Can you see clearly from the other side?" A magnetic and concerned voice sounded from behind, and a young general in his 30s came to this small outpost.Da Tao turned his head and saw that the squad leader was saluting the person who came, so he was so frightened that he half-knelt down quickly, not daring to speak.

"This is General Liu. He came to see the situation on the opposite side. You all get up, don't affect the business." A man behind the young general spoke, and Li Datao recognized that this was their battalion commander. He didn't see much, but the official Already big.

The person who came was obviously bigger than the battalion commander, because even the battalion commander could only stand far behind him.

"Who has the best eyesight?" Zhu Youjian asked with a smile.Observing the enemy's situation in this era depends entirely on a pair of eyes. This kind of frontier detection post is not qualified to be equipped with a telescope.

"Li Datao, half of his ears are not good, but his eyesight is surprisingly good." The squad leader pointed to Datao and replied proudly.

"Okay, take this, take a look at the situation on the other side, and tell me in detail." Zhu Youjian handed a telescope to Li Datao, and taught him how to use it by the way.

"Oh!" Da Tao picked it up and looked at one eye, startled, why the other side suddenly ran in front of him.

"Don't worry, take your time." Zhu Youjian didn't mean to blame him, but still encouraged him with a smile.

The blurry battle situation before was clearly seen through the telescope. Da Tao didn't watch the battle at first, but he tried his best to look for his brother's figure.

But the friendly troops on the opposite side basically hid behind the stone wall and fought, and they couldn't find where my brother was after searching for a long time.

Halfway up the mountain, in some potentially dangerous areas, the Hezhou Army built stone walls one after another.The enemy's firearms hit the stone wall one after another, but the effect was not obvious. Even some cannons like the Frang machine just hit stones flying around.

The entire foot of Dongshan was filled with smoke, almost covering the enemy's position.

"How?" Zhu Youjian held another telescope and asked Da Tao.

"Report! The enemy is attacking our army's position with a large number of firearms, but the effect is not great. When the enemy is charging, our army is also using firearms to fight back."

"Hehe, I want to ask you whether the firearms of our army on the opposite side are effective. I can see what you said clearly." Zhu Youjian smiled. The entire battle situation Li Datao said can be seen clearly with a telescope, but it is specific to some In terms of weapon use effect, his eyesight is not as good as Li Datao's.

"Then, let me take another look?" Da Tao tried to ask, he didn't expect this general to be so easy to talk to.The squad leader was on the side, his eyes were about to kill with anxiety.

"Half of our army's firecrackers and iron cannons didn't fire, and they needed to be fired two or three times in a row. The power is also not enough. The firecrackers can shoot fifty or sixty steps, the three-eyed cannons are closer, and the iron cannons can shoot one hundred paces.

Mainly, the Fran cannon was the most effective, but the enemy used iron shields, and a few people carried them all the way to the front of the stone wall.A position over there has already begun to fight with swords and guns, and the enemy seems to be unable to defeat us..."

Da Tao kept talking, Zhu Youjian's expression changed from a smile to a serious one, and then his whole face turned black.

The squad leader and the battalion commander's faces were stretched, but Da Tao didn't see them all. He was trying his best to recount the details of the entire battlefield.

A full half hour passed, and Li Datao's mouth was dry. He had already described everything that could be seen from this position to Zhu Youjian in detail.

"You really gave birth to the best pair of eyes. This will be rewarded to you, give him a credit!"

Zhu Youjian patted Li Datao on the shoulder, with a forced smile, encouraged him a bit, then walked away in silence with his black face.

Chapter 179: Logistics

Zhu Youjian gave the telescope to Li Datao, and returned to the temporary command post with anger.

"Crack!" A horsewhip was slammed on the wooden stool, and Zhu Youjian became angry: "What do the people in the craftsman camp do for food? Can such poor weapons be used for war?"

Seeing Zhu Youjian's expression, Zuo Maodi quickly asked Ji Biao who had just gone with him, and roughly understood the whole story.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. You can't blame the Craftsman Camp for this matter."

"Then who can I blame?"

"The Weapons Bureau is managed by the Ministry of War, and the Artisan Battalion is only for making weapons. There is a problem of fire consumption. After the silver is distributed, the money that the craftsmen get is deducted from the fire consumption, and there is not even enough money for iron materials. Plus How can we guarantee the quality of the weapons?"

Zuo Maodi was quite familiar with these things, after all he had also been in the Ministry of War.After the three major expeditions of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, weapons and equipment entered a period of reform.The army paid special attention to the manufacture of firearms such as cannons, but paid less attention to ordinary weapons.