Chongzhen Undergraduates

"General, we are looking for a place to pee." Zhu Youjian bent down, put his hands between his legs, pretending to be unable to hold back.

"Aren't there urine buckets in the camp?" the officer said angrily.

"The place where I sleep is closest to the urine bucket, and if I pee in it, how can I sleep at night?"

"Hahaha." A soldier who was not asleep in a nearby tent laughed out loud.

"Asshole, find a place to solve it quickly. If I see you running around again, I will kill you."

"Alas! Alas!" Zhu Youjian heard this, and immediately ran away with his legs crossed in small steps.

Qian Sudian behind him was even more exaggerated, covering the chrysanthemum with both hands, farting while running.

Several officers saw them along the way, but they didn't ask any more questions.It is estimated that looking at their postures, it is hard to say much.

Almost approaching the cannon, Zhu Youjian gave Ji Biao a wink, Ji Biao and the others nodded, and then got into a tent together.

"What are you doing?" There was a row of enemy soldiers sleeping in the tent, and there were about a dozen of them, all naked.

"The general asked us to come over and squeeze." Zhu Youjian walked in while talking, and the few behind him followed.

"Go out, what's the crowd? Didn't you arrange a tent?" Naturally, the people inside were unwilling, and some of them planned to get up and push people.

It's a pity that their actions were too late.With the skill of these emperor's guards, how can they give them a chance to fight back.

Zhu Youjian felt that he had practiced before. After he killed the first person, he found that everyone else was cleaning the tent.

Lifting the curtain, after seeing a fire in a tent opposite shake a few times.Zhu Youjian's heart has settled down, and everyone has come in.

"What should we do next?" Qian Sudian was very excited, it was the first time he did such an exciting thing.

"Wait for dawn." Zhu Youjian replied lightly.

"Ah!" Qian Sudian almost yelled, if the other party was not the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, he would definitely suspect that the other party would join the enemy.

"Sleep first, and do it when it's darkest."

"Here?" Qian Sudian pointed to the corpse beside him, and there was a strong fishy smell in the tent.

"Turn out the fire, close all the curtains, and don't let the smell out." After Zhu Youjian finished speaking, he kicked the corpse on the ground, found a place without blood stains, and fell asleep.

Qian Sudian sat on the ground all night with his eyes wide open, he didn't close his eyes in a daze.He always felt that those few dead people would suddenly get up.

When it was darkest in the morning, a few dark shadows came out of the tent and quickly touched the cannon. Several guards guarding the cannon were already leaning crookedly on the cannon and sleeping.

Soi Ying raised the knife and dropped it very neatly.

Two bundles of gunpowder are stuffed into the muzzle of a cannon, and then the muzzle of the cannon is turned towards the ground.

After doing this, the horse-stealer rushed over with a dozen horses, followed by a group of pursuers.

"Light it up!"

After a few muffled noises, Zhu Youjian and the others were already riding a horse together, and they were galloping all the way.

There is no scene of blowing cannons into the sky like in film and television dramas, black powder does not have that kind of power, and the descriptions in novels are all deceptive.

The enemy is not made of mud, and there are many chasing soldiers.

Fortunately, I brought enough gunpowder, ran all the way and lost it all the way, and returned to the city safely under the chaos of the enemy camp.

Chapter 224: Battle of Haizhou

Looking at the cannons lying on the ground, Li Suitai was so angry that he directly chopped off the officer who was guarding the cannons last night.

The post-gold cannon technology is temporarily stronger than that of Ming Dynasty, but it is only a little stronger, it is not an advanced technology, they still use the clay mold lost wax method.

The success rate of the lost-wax clay casting method in the casting process is not high, less than half, which means that these cannons cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is equivalent to the annual salary of [-] soldiers.

With such a huge loss overnight, it's no wonder that Li Sutai didn't get nervous.

However, this sneak attack exposed Haizhou City's weakness of being afraid of cannons. Li Soltai decided to continue bombarding Haizhou with warships at all costs.

A dozen warships were lying across the river, bombarding the cannons above Haizhou City.For a while, the smoke filled the air, and the entire river was shrouded in smoke.

Standing on the city wall, Zhu Youjian could barely see the hull of the ship, only seeing some sudden lights and tall masts.

The Ming army's cannons rang for a long time without sinking an enemy ship, at most they hit the ship's side several times.Later, Jin's cannons either hit the city wall or entered the city, and the casualties in Haizhou City continued to increase.

There is no way, the strengths of the two sides are not on the same level, and Daming is the one that gets beaten.If you want to use a few cannons to fight against a fleet of others, you are looking for a beating.

Another day passed, and a crack had been clearly blasted in the city wall of Haizhou City. Zhu Youjian reckoned that if the enemy bombarded him for another day, the city wall would definitely collapse.

Late at night, Haizhou Yamen.

"The enemy's elite troops have arrived. According to the investigation report, the total number of the enemy's infantry exceeds [-]. Our reinforcements can only be gathered in the Muyang area. One is that Haizhou City cannot hold so many people; the other is that we are afraid The enemy adopts the tactics of encircling the points and attacking reinforcements.

The enemy's tactical purpose is already obvious, they just want to capture our Haizhou City.My cannon defending the city has been damaged, and only one can still be used normally.If the enemy continues to bombard the city wall tomorrow, Haizhou City will definitely collapse.I suggest abandoning Haizhou and preparing to evacuate. "

Zuo Maodi had already arrived in Haizhou City, analyzed the whole situation, and was waiting for Zhu Youjian to nod.

In the artillery battle, the cannons on Haizhou City couldn't resist the cannons on the Houjin Warship.People retreated after fighting for a while, and then switched to another ship to continue firing; but Haizhou had to keep firing in order to prevent the warship from getting too close to the city, which greatly reduced the service life of the cannon.

"What did Zheng Chenggong say?" Since Zuo Maodi had rushed over from Nanjing, there was no reason why Zheng Chenggong didn't have any news.

"He returned to Fujian last month, saying that he was preparing to take the imperial examination in September. The Ministry of War has sent the letter from the emperor, but there is no reply yet."

Well, Zhu Youjian forgot that Zheng Chenggong always wanted to be a scholar in his heart. He was originally a supervisor of the Imperial College, and he also worshiped Qian Qianyi as his teacher.

"Then prepare to retreat and make a retreat plan." Zhu Youjian was very helpless, Haizhou City was obviously unable to defend, and the row of cannons came, and Haizhou's small body couldn't hold it at all.

"My minister's plan is: after dawn tomorrow, let the people in the city evacuate from the south gate first. The Xuzhou army is responsible for covering, and the Haizhou garrison is responsible for blocking; after thirty miles south, Muyang will have reinforcements to respond."

Zuo Maodi had already thought up a retreat plan, and there were basically no loopholes in the whole plan. After several battles, his staff level gradually improved.

"Just do it like this." Zhu Youjian made a decision.

In the early morning of the second day, the whole Haizhou city was already noisy.Zhu Youjian and others silently glanced at Haizhou City, then walked towards the crowd waiting to evacuate.

When the first ray of sunlight rose from the sea, golden waves immediately filled the surface of the Linhong River.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" A distant, small rumbling sound came from the east.

At first, this sound did not attract everyone's attention. The crowd was too noisy, and some special sounds were normal, such as wheels running over.

Then, the booming sound became more and more loud, until it became a sound, and it began to become irregular and chaotic.

"What's the sound?" Zhu Youjian raised his hand and stopped in his tracks.