Daming Junior Scholar

"Xu Jiuling? Him?" Ning Wang never expected that the candidate he heard from Li Shishi was actually Xu Jiuling. You must know that Xu Jiuling had just defected to him not long ago. If he was promoted to such a high position all at once , Will it chill the hearts of those soldiers who have followed him for many years?

After hesitating for a moment, King Ning shook his head slightly and said, "Did Li Aiqing have other candidates?"

"This...not anymore." Li Shishi shook his head, saw the hesitant expression on King Ning's face, and continued: "Your Majesty, although General Xu has just joined His Majesty not long ago, he has always been loyal, and he has studied hard since he was a child. The art of war is also a rare and fierce general, compared to real people, he is really much stronger."

"Paju is just around the corner. If we don't select a strong general who can fight well as soon as possible, I'm afraid there will be no way to fight this battle."

"This..." King Ning hesitated again and again, and finally looked up to the sky with a long sigh: "Okay, that's him."

Chapter 1508 Unknown Signs

Chapter 1508 Unknown Signs

"Wang Lun is dead?" He Jia'an was startled when he heard the news, stared at Tang Xiao carefully, and asked again in disbelief: "Have you confirmed it? "

Tang Xiao nodded firmly: "Sir, don't worry, that person must be Wang Lun. I've seen him so many times in Paju, why don't I even remember him? You didn't see the tragic death of him. Gotta be like a hedgehog."

This perverted method was also thought up by Tang Xiao. He was also inspired by seeing the branches flying all over the sky after the last explosion, so for this, he simply found a place with many trees and buried gunpowder. When the person came to the side, he ignited the fuse himself.

I really didn't expect that the think tank who had been staying with King Ning was killed by Tang Xiao so easily, and that letter was full of loopholes. He Jiaan couldn't help showing a wry smile: "This Wang Lun is really dead enough!" Wronged."

"Tch, such a duplicitous person deserves his death." Tang Xiao curled his lips, as if he deserved his death.

"Okay, I'll say double-faced." He Jiaan smiled, looking into the distance, it seemed that there were countless smoke and dust rising in front of his eyes, and he seemed to have realized that the war was not far away.

Wang Lun died, and King Ning's army was really flustered for a while. After all, everyone knew the importance of Wang Lun to this army. He is a new defector, except for his own subordinates, how many people can listen to him, it's just obedience and obedience.

For the current situation, King Ning also has a headache. The key is that the battle is imminent. With so many troops without a leader, wouldn't it be a sure-fire fate?

Therefore, no matter how bad Xu Jiuling was, he could only grit his teeth and let him go.

Wang Lun's death also had a lot of impact on the morale of the army. They thought they would be able to reach the city of Paju before noon and launch an attack immediately. Fortunately, it was already past noon and they were still dozens of miles away from Paju city. the distance.

The soldiers complained, and even Xu Jiuling had no choice but to discuss with King Ning and let everyone rest for a while, otherwise, even if they arrived at the city of Pazhou, they would be a group of exhausted troops, unable to attack.

Well, it hasn't been smooth since yesterday. King Ning seems to have a premonition of an ominous sign, but he doesn't have a good solution. Since he said stop, let's stop first.

When they stopped, He Jiaan was also stunned. His artillery and gunpowder were ready, but King Ning's army stopped. Since he was inspired by Tang Xiao, He Jiaan was in many places outside the city. The gunpowder was buried, and I thought it would be a good start for King Ning, but now I started to worry about whether the gunpowder would get wet, and it would be impossible to ignite it.

After resting for an hour, the soldiers under King Ning finally stood up lazily. Xu Jiuling finally exerted his authority as the general. After killing several people in a row, the atmosphere of the whole team finally changed slightly. After the army was sorted out, they walked cautiously towards Paju.

Being bombed by gunpowder on the road twice in a row, anyone would be on guard. By the time the team moved slowly outside Paju City, the sun had already begun to set. With a sigh of relief, as long as he takes down Paju and collects He Jiaan's warship and Fran's cannon into his hands, then he will no longer be afraid of the army in the world, and he will be in charge of Dabao just around the corner.

"Xu Aiqing, in your opinion, when is the best time to attack?" Unknowingly, King Ning had pinned his hopes on Xu Jiuling.

Hearing King Ning's words, Xu Jiuling slapped his chest and said triumphantly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I don't think so when others try He Jia'an as the god of war. He is just relying on the advantage of the artillery. Now we also have the Franc machine gun in our hands." , why would you be afraid of him, just bombard him directly, if His Majesty allows, I am willing to bring troops and horses to prepare now, and rush in after the Fran cannon opens a gap in the city wall."

"Okay." King Ning is most willing to listen to Xu Jiuling's words. He really needs a big victory to boost morale and prepare for the next battle with Zhengde. Since Xu Jiuling asked for a fight, he naturally agrees.

Perhaps it is because Paju is just a tiny place, and with King Ning's current strength, taking Paju should not be a big deal, not to mention that there has been news that He Jiaan is planning to transfer all the people of Paju to other places. I'm afraid that the strength of the counterattack should not be much.

A series of Franco cannons have been set up, and the black muzzles are aimed at the direction of the city wall of Paju. Xu Jiuling personally led the cavalry to stand behind the cannons, waiting for the cannons to open a path, and immediately led people to rush in .

It's just that he didn't know that all his preparations were under He Jiaan's sight.

Standing on the highest point of the city wall, He Jia'an looked at the actions of King Ning's subordinates in surprise, thinking that King Ning didn't take himself seriously at all.

You must know that the shells of the Franco cannon shoot out in an arc, and the shells go downhill with a distance. This means that whoever puts the cannon higher will hit the farther in a straight line.

At present, King Ning's cannon is placed within the range of his own cannon in order to hit the shells on the city wall. What does he mean?Does he really think that they have too many cannons, and he needs to blow up a few for him?

At this moment, Tang Yi had already hurried over, pointing to the outside of the city with abnormal excitement on his face: "Sir, let's fire, all the enemy's artillery is within our range, and they are all clearly our targets ah."

He Jiaan had a strange smile on his face, seeing that the opponent's battle was almost complete, he nodded himself: "Let's shoot first to measure the distance."

"Yes."

Tang Yi quickly went down, came to the middle position, adjusted the muzzle, then picked up the torch and lit the fuze, when the spark penetrated into the gun body, a huge ball of flame rose from the muzzle , the city wall trembled slightly, and a shell was fired immediately.

'boom! 'The first shot went wrong.

It landed a dozen or so steps away from the opponent's position. In addition to kicking up a large piece of soil, Xu Jiuling was also taken aback. Only then did he realize that not only did he have the Franco cannon in his hand, The other party also has a Franco cannon in his hand.

The enemy is at a high place and you are at a low place. Doesn't this mean that the enemy can hit you but you cannot hit the enemy?

Although the shot just now was crooked, it can only prove one thing. The shot just now was only for aiming, and it was time to meet the opponent's shells.

At this time, it was too late to retreat, Xu Jiuling shouted hoarsely: "Attention everyone, aim at the city wall, drive..."

Before the word cannon fell, puffs of thick smoke suddenly rose from the slopes of Paju, and then dozens of shells fell from the sky, as if they had eyes, and landed on the artillery positions.

Chapter 1509

Chapter 1509

Facing the rain of shells, Xu Jiuling obviously underestimated He Jiaan, and at the same time overestimated himself.

After firing two rounds of artillery shells, Tang Yi had already waved the flag to stop the artillery firing. These opponents really have no combat experience at all. If he knew that the shooting range was not as good as the opponent, he would attack in the dark.

There are people like them, swaggering in broad daylight, what a bunch of idiots.

Not only the Fran cannon pushed to the position was blown into the sky, but also the prepared shells and gunpowder were also ignited, and some shells even fell back into the position behind him.

It took a long time for the fire on the artillery position to be brought under control. King Ning looked at the tragedy in front of him with a livid face, wishing to hack Xu Jiuling to death with a single knife.

For such a guy who doesn't know anything, he actually worshiped him as a general, he was really blind.

After the fire was extinguished and the army was retreated ten li, Xu Jiuling, whose face was covered with black ashes, walked into King Ning's big tent from the outside. His appearance made people look a little distressed, and he kowtowed heavily: "I know that I have made an unforgivable mistake, and I don't expect your majesty to forgive me, but I am unwilling, can your majesty wait until I break the city?" Day, and then cut off the minister's head? The minister died without regret."

Hearing this, King Ning was moved. After thinking about it carefully, Xu Jiuling couldn't be blamed for today's incident. inevitable.

Besides, I have so many Franco cannons in my hand, and there are dozens of them. As long as Xu Jiuling can learn experience and win the next battle, isn't it all right?

Thinking of this, King Ning said comfortingly: "Xu Aiqing please hurry up, today's defeat can't all be blamed on you, if it's to blame, He Jia'an can only be blamed for being too cunning, if Wang Aiqing is not dead..."

After a pause, King Dunning sighed again, then smiled and said, "General Xu, have you ever thought about how to attack Pazhou City next?"

Just as I thought, as long as I was willing to bow my head, King Ning would spare my life.

Xu Jiuling let out a long sigh of relief, and deliberately showed a trace of gratitude on his face: "Thank you for your majesty's grace of not killing, I will definitely take this Pazhou city and dedicate it to your majesty."

After finishing the respectful words, Xu Jiuling said again: "Your Majesty also saw today that the enemy's guns are mounted on the high wall, not only can you see our deployment, but also shoot farther than ours. If you attack during the day , I am afraid that it is only for the sake of being beaten, so, in the opinion of my humble minister, it is better to secretly push the Fran cannon to the enemy's city in the middle of the night, and when the enemy is not paying attention, first bombard it with artillery, and it will surely kill the enemy. Most of the opponent's city wall was damaged, and after dawn, we will rush into Paju, and we will surely win the battle."

"Yeah." After listening to Xu Jiuling's words, King Ning nodded slightly. Xu Jiuling's words did speak to his heart. He did suffer a big loss in fighting during the day, but it was much easier at night. If you fire again within the range, you can win the battle.

"Xu Aiqing really has a clever plan. Let's go down and prepare now, and strive to win the first battle tomorrow morning."

"Yes."