Great Eunuch of the Ming Dynasty

"My lord, Zhiming Space is a disciple you have single-handedly cultivated!" A senior official who had a good relationship with the warrior leader Zhiming Space came out and said.

General Momotaro Ashikaga glanced at the important minister, and said: "Do you think I have the heart to push my disciples out? There is no way to do this. You don't even know how powerful the Ming Dynasty's expeditionary army is. That's not true at all. Our small Xiaku City can resist it, and for the sake of the people of Xiaku City, I, Ashikaga Momotaro, can only reluctantly give up, if Zhiming Space knows, it will definitely understand me."

"My lord! You can't do this!" the minister exclaimed.

General Momotaro Ashikaga saw what this important minister wanted to say, so he widened his eyes and shouted angrily: "Come here! This person is an accomplice of the traitor Zhiming Space, put him in prison quickly! We will talk about it later." !"

Hearing the words, the samurai outside the door immediately came in and dragged the high-ranking minister out. The high-pitched roar of the high-ranking minister was still echoing outside, making the elders and senior ministers in the room break into a cold sweat, for fear that the lord of the castle, General Ashikaga Momotaro, would be angry. I will kill this important minister, after all, they are old friends, and they still know the reason why their lips are dead and their teeth are cold.

"Do you think I want to treat my cronies like this? I did this to save his life! The reason why I locked him up was to prevent him from sending messages to the warrior leader Zhiming Space. I did this to save everyone. Everyone, go down to calm down the emotions of your subordinates, and then lead your officials to follow me to the gate of the city to wait for the arrival of the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army. My poor apprentice in Zhiming Space!" General Ashikaga Momotaro said with a smile on his face. With a sad look on his face, he said in pain.

The family elders and important ministers below also stepped forward to persuade, and it took a long time to appease General Ashikaga Momotaro's mood, which also gave each of them a better-looking step down. There is no grievance about the sacrifice of Zhiming Space, as if Zhiming Space, the warrior leader of Xiawa City, has nothing to do with them.

The minister who was dragged by the samurai outside towards the prison suddenly stopped and looked at the samurai coldly.

When the samurai saw that the minister did not leave, he was furious and said, "Please don't embarrass me, Ozawa-sama, otherwise the samurai sword in my hand is not a vegetarian." Then he pulled out the samurai sword at his waist, With a cold light, he put the samurai sword on the neck of the minister.

This important official of Xiawa City, who was called Ozawa, did not show a timid look, but looked at the samurai coldly, and asked: "I wonder if the old man can trust you? Are you still under the samurai leader Zhiming Space?" ?”

The samurai's expression changed, and he said: "I will always be Master Zhiming Space's subordinate, it is Lord Zhiming Space who has trained me to be an excellent warrior in the realm of second-rate masters, Master Zhiming Space has kindness to me."

The important minister of Xiawa City named Ozawa nodded, and said: "Now the warrior leader, Zhiming Space, has been abandoned by the city lord, and now only you can save him. The old man wants your help, to help deliver the news." Give it to him, let him run away quickly, leave here far away, and give up sniping the expeditionary army of the Ming Dynasty."

Chapter 561 The Archer Blooms

Chapter 561 The Archer Blooms

"Warriors! Below are the invaders from the Ming Dynasty, and behind us is the Xiawa City where our relatives are. If we take a step back, the elders in our hometown behind us will be massacred by the invaders. You can bear to watch yourself Were your parents and family members killed?" Zhi Mingkong, the warrior leader of Xiakuo City, looked at the more than 1000 troops in Xiakuo City in front of him, and asked loudly.

"No! Never allow it! Protect Xiaku City! Resist the intruders!" The samurai and ashigaru infantry below all roared excitedly after hearing this.

The leader of the samurai, Zhi Ming, nodded in satisfaction, knowing that as long as he mobilized the morale of his troops, he would be able to complete the task of his master, his mentor, General Ashikaga Momotaro.

Seeing the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army coming in a triangular form in a team of three, the warrior leader Zhiming Space was obviously taken aback, wondering: "The enemy army is so scattered, isn't it afraid that I will lead the warriors down to charge? "

The archers of Xiawa City on the high slope have all bent their bows and set their arrows. As long as the expeditionary army of the Ming Dynasty comes within range, they will immediately release their arrows and never allow an enemy to step into their territory.

"Stop!" A group of Xuanwu guards yelled loudly, and the Xuanwu guards behind them stopped their steps and stood there neatly, with their eyes focused on the front. As soon as an order is given, they will immediately charge to the front. forward.

"There are archers from Xiawa City on this high slope. Once our army charges forward, we will definitely be hit head-on by the enemy. Although the bullets of my Xuanwu Guard's killing rifle are sharp, the enemy is on a high place after all. Some natural advantages, the governor said that every soldier of my Xuanwuwei is incomparably precious, how can they be sacrificed so easily?" Baihu of the Xuanwuwei said: "Come on, let's get the mortar!"

Li Songwei, under the command of Xuanwuwei, has great confidence in their hundred households being assigned this charge mission. In his opinion, to take down the enemy army on this high slope, it only needs to send out one hundred households of Xuanwuwei. .Hearing the messenger saying that the Xuanwuwei Baihu in front wanted to use mortars, Dang even nodded in agreement, and asked two artillerymen to carry a mortar to the front.

At this time, the mortar has become the main combat weapon surpassing the Yidari cannon. After all, the mortar is easy to carry. It is damp and has the hidden danger of being prone to fire and explosion, so the Xuanwu Guards, who are now fully equipped, brought a new type of mortar when they went to Fusang this time.

The mortar of Xuanwuwei generally consists of four parts: the gun body, the gun mount, the seat plate and the sight.The gun body can be selected according to the distance of the shooting range. The length of the gun body is generally between 1 and 1.5m; the gun mount is mostly a bipod, which can adjust the height and direction according to the target position, and can be folded when carrying; The main components of the mortar, together with the bipod, play the role of supporting the mortar body; most of the sights are optical sights, engraved with direction divisions and height divisions.

However, the sights made by the mysterious research institute are not very good, but for the current Xuanwuwei, it is enough.

These mortars can be easily transported and used by only two artillerymen. They are usually placed on a carriage or can be carried by a horse. If the road is difficult to walk, the artillerymen or auxiliary soldiers can carry them on the road with two people. Marching is very convenient.

Since Wang Zhen knew that the mortar was simple in structure, easy to operate, easy to mass-produce, and low in cost, he asked craftsmen to supervise large-scale manufacturing so that the expeditionary force could fully utilize it.

The mortar made for Xuanwuwei is also very simple to operate and use. After finding and aiming at the target, slide the mortar shell from the muzzle into the barrel, and rely on its own mass to make the shell hit the firing pin at the bottom of the barrel; or rely on other Its own mass slides to the bottom of the gun body, and after the shooter releases the firing pin, it hits the bottom fire of the shell.After the primer is fired, the basic charge tube at the tail of the shell is ignited, and then the gunpowder in the additional charge bag bundled outside the projectile is also ignited.Although there is a certain gap between the shell and the barrel to ensure that the shell slides down, the air-tight ring outside the shell can still form a huge internal pressure, pushing the shell out of the muzzle and flying to the target.

The firing principle of the mortar determines that the mortar shell cannot fit tightly with the barrel, so the rifling cannot be used to rotate the shell to stabilize its flight direction, and instead the tail stabilizer is used to ensure its flight attitude.Therefore, all mortar shells have fins.In addition to the empennage, a typical mortar shell also includes parts such as a fuze, a detonator, an explosive, a projectile body, a closed gas ring, a basic cartridge, an additional cartridge, and a primer.

These principles are not difficult in the hands of the increasingly mature craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, but such talents are extremely closely guarded by Wang Zhen. Even the supreme Zhu Zhanji only knows that there are these people, but never knows. Where are these people, even if he asks, Wang Zhen will not tell, after all, these are all Wang Zhen's precious bumps.

"Aim at the camp of archers in Xiawa City hidden behind the mound on the high slope, and fire shells!" Xuanwuwei Baihu saw that the mortar had been erected, and gave the order to fire.

"Boom!" The mortar let out a roar, and fired a shell. The shell drew a parabola in the air, and accurately fell into the camp of the archers in Xiawa City.

"Boom!!!" This shell was an explosive shell, and it was a disaster for archers who were not wearing thick armor.

With this loud noise, the scattered shrapnel pierced through the archers' bodies, and wiped out the group of archers as soon as the bullet exploded. It can be said that the warrior leader Zhiming Space who was not far away was frightened. .

For the samurai leader Zhiming Kongkuang who has always admired fighting with real swords and guns, this kind of visual and spiritual impact is terrible. Looking at the archer camp full of corpses, he was speechless for a while. .

At this moment, on the other side of the high slope, a samurai wearing a samurai robe ran quickly from the direction of Xiawa City.

"Leader! It's not good!" the warrior yelled, dismounting from his horse and running towards the warrior leader Zhiming Space.

Hearing the warrior's shout, Zhiming, the leader of the warrior, regained his composure. Seeing that his subordinates who stayed in Xiakuo City had come, he asked in surprise, "Aren't you guarding the Lord in Xiakua City? Why did you do that?" Come here? Could it be that Xiawa City was attacked by the enemy?"

Chapter 562 Heads Up

Chapter 562 Heads Up

"What? You said that my mentor, the city lord, actually pushed me out to protect myself? But the city lord told me to do this at the beginning!" Zhi Mingkong, the leader of the warriors in Xiawa City, looked confused. Said.

The warrior who came to report from Xiawa City looked at the distraught warrior leader Zhiming Space and said: "The Lord of the City means that it is enough for the leader to lead the navy to charge or ambush once, but it is just for the sake of going through the motions , in order to stop the people of Fusang from talking, so as not to say that I surrendered before I went down to the city, you only need one time, the leader, and you are not asked to act twice, the leader, you misunderstood the city owner Interesting, Ozawa Shigemi asked his subordinates to come and inform the leader, let the leader feel like running away!"

Zhiming Space, the leader of the warriors, let out a miserable laugh, shook his head, and said, "So that's the case, so the Lord City Lord won't give me a chance to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. If all my masters and mentors have abandoned me, then my life would be meaningless.”

"Boss! What do you want to do? Don't be overthinking it!" The samurai was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly persuaded him.

The leader of the warriors, Zhi Mingkong, looked at the Xuanwu guards who were already charging up in groups of three or three, with a ferocious smile on his face, and shouted: "Warriors! For Xiawa City! For the folks in Xiawa City!" Let’s charge!!!”

"Give it to the rabbit!!!" The warriors of Xiakuo City were wearing samurai armor, with the flag symbolizing Xiakuo City stuck on their backs, waving katana swords and shouting to meet the Xuanwuwei soldiers.

"Qingfeng Slash!!!" A samurai rushed quickly, shouted, and swung the samurai sword in his hand towards a Xuanwu guard soldier.

"Bang!" There was a shot from the killing rifle, and the samurai felt a pain in his chest, and then collapsed on the ground exhausted and unable to move.

"Small! It's stupid for a mere third-rate warrior to try to block the young master's killing rifle!" The soldier of the Xuanwu Guard smiled contemptuously, then pulled the bolt of the gun and pulled the trigger towards the next target. , issued a high-speed rotating bullet.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The shots from the killing rifles kept ringing out, and the charging warriors were all exhausted after a few rounds of bullets, and the ashigaru infantry who followed the charging were suddenly scared by the corpses of the warriors all over the place. .

However, the soldiers of the Xuanwu Guards carried out the military orders very thoroughly, and they would not give up shooting just because the enemy did not move.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

A massacre began. When the ashigaru infantry were hesitating, they were brutally attacked by the Xuanwu Guards. The number of them was constantly decreasing. The hot-headed and excited enthusiasm just now cooled down. Frightened.

"Mom! I want to go back to Xiaku City to find my mother!" A young ashigaru infantryman screamed in shock and threw away the weapon in his hand, turned his head and ran in the direction of Xiaku City. It doesn't matter if he runs, The few ashigaru infantry who were still alive on the side also followed him towards Xiawa City.

"Pingzhang Twelve Swords—Slash with Anger!!!" With the samurai leader Zhi Ming's shout, the samurai sword swept across the neck of the ashigaru infantryman who was the first to escape, and the young head flew to the ground. In mid-air, there was still a hint of relief and confusion on his face.