Return to Ming Dynasty as Prince Chapter 22: The Battle of Dawn

"Woo~~", Yang Ling was awakened by the agitated horn, and an agitated spirit jumped up. Because Han Youniang was with them, it was inconvenient to live with County Deputy Huang in the Datong shop on the floor above. Yang Ling slept in the Yuhuang Pavilion between the east and north gates.

　　Han Youniang rubbed his eyes and woke up. Yang Ling jumped to the ground and yelled as he ran: "Dazi has attacked the city. Stay here honestly. I'll take a look."

　　 There were shouts of killing everywhere, and the soldiers ran back and forth on the city wall, constantly slashing the hooks thrown under the city with their knives, and attacking the city with sharp arrows. Inside the city wall, a winch is placed every ten steps or so, tied with a thin iron rope, and in the middle is a log with a diameter of one foot and a length of about one foot. On the log, there are five-inch nails in the dense forest. Like a giant mace.

　　 Two officers and soldiers hiding under the battlements just lifted the wooden sticks and threw them down the city, they heard a scream, and then shook the winches at both ends, and then twisted the "Mace" back. .

　　 This kind of city defense tool, although a bit cumbersome and delayed, but there are also several archers at both ends to help, which is enough to make up for the defects, and the lethality is not small.

　　 He hurried to the wall stack, just holding on to the wall stack, a sharp arrow flew past his cheek with a whistle, and hit the door lintel of the Jade Emperor Temple with a "due", the arrow tail buzzed He trembled and stunned Yang Ling into a cold sweat.

　　Yang Ling settled, hiding behind the wall and looking down diagonally, I couldn’t help but be surprised, how come so many enemies suddenly appeared

　　? I saw Tartar soldiers everywhere under the city. The wall was as high as several meters. They used hook ropes and ladders to hurled up the city wall. They climbed up without fear of death. A large number of archers ran back and forth to shoot arrows to cover them. When attacking the city, the archers in the city continued to fire back their arrows, but the enemy was too few to raise their heads despite the convenient location.

　　Yang Ling cat hurriedly rushed to the south gate with his waist, and he was able to rush up to the tower, only to hear a loud bang, the land trembled, and the smoke was everywhere. Yang Ling was startled and looked down the city. A large pit exploded on the ground, and more than a dozen people fell down. A horse with a broken leg fell in a pool of blood still screaming.

　　Yang Ling is secretly speechless, and I can’t see that the artillery at this time is also so powerful. Is there an explosive bomb in this era? He thought the shells at this time were all solid iron balls.

　　 But the smoke on this cannon is really thick. The Yang Ling just ran over and was short of breath. After being choked by the fire and coughing, the smoke slowly dissipated, and County Deputy Huang appeared behind the bunker of the castle tower. He hurriedly waved to Yang Ling and said, "Nephew, come here, be careful not to get hurt by the stray arrow."

　　Yang Ling ran over with a waist, and saw three cannons in front of the tower, facing the city. Several gunners were nervously loading and filling the ammunition. The lead of the cannon on the left was already stunned. "The ground ignited, and several gunners covered their ears and closed their eyes. They only heard a loud bang. The guns were suddenly filled with smoke, and no one could see clearly.

　　Yang Ling was so smoked that his eyes were red. When the smoke slowly dissipated, I saw the cannon in front of the tower with a bracket mounted on the back seat of ten feet away. This is still fixed by iron anchors on the gun body. Otherwise, I don't know where the cannon is going to jump. Several gunners are pushing the cannon back to its original position.

　　 As Tartar under the city was scattered around, avoiding the front, although this gun shook the mountain, it killed only one person and wounded a few people. It felt like a cannon hitting mosquitoes.

　　Yang Ling asked loudly: "Master Huang, why did Tanzi suddenly come so much? Where is President Jiang?"

　　 County Deputy Huang pointed to the front side and said loudly: "Erlibanyi has fallen, and Dazi has increased his troops. President Jiang is in front of the war. There are only more than 100 soldiers in the city. If you lose the other, you go to the post office. Those who want the post office come up to defend the city."

　　 "Okay!" Yang Ling promised and turned and ran down the city. At this time, Liu Dianshi led more than two hundred civilians rushing up to the city, and was directed by a sentinel to scatter them all over the city wall. Ordinary people, all without military training, panicked, listened to the soldiers' explanations, and regardless of whether there were enemies in the city, they grabbed the rock and threw them down, making the soldiers stomped straight.

　　 These people don’t know how to protect themselves. A popping up Minzhuang was shot in the chest with an arrow. The Han Youniang who just ran over grabbed him, and the other Minzhuang was shocked when they saw him. Fearing his tail, although officers and men yelled at him, they refused to show up.

　　 At this time, the street was empty, and the common people stayed at home under the scolding of the servants and did not dare to run around. Just when they ran to the crossroad, Yang Ling saw Ma Yicheng leading more than a dozen postmen and driving three cars. The carriage was approaching in a hurry, Yang Ling hurriedly stopped and said loudly: "Sir Ma, the Tartars under the city are scattered to attack the city, and the defenders are not enough. County Deputy Huang asks you to send all postmen to the city to help defend."

　　Ma Yicheng jumped off the horse and said: "Where there are manpower, there are also a large number of tartes at the east gate and west gate. They have insufficient siege equipment, so they scattered around and climbed the city wall. All of my people have been sent out. These are sending guns to Lord Jiang."

　　 Yang Ling heard that there was a cannon, and I couldn’t help feeling happy, but thinking about the effect of the iron guy just now, and a little disappointed, he paused and said: “Now the Tartar is blooming on all sides, mainly because the defending sergeant can’t take care of it, I’m afraid Cannons are not very useful".

　　Ma Yicheng commanded the two carriages to drive to the east and west gates respectively, and brought a carriage to move on, saying: "Xian Nephew is wrong, this is not a general cannon, this cannon is a "pomegranate cannon" , "Weiyuan Stone Cannon" and "Ten Thousand Enemy Lychee Cannons" are the most convenient way to defend the city."

　　 Yang Ling heard it inexplicably, Ma Yicheng saw that he didn't understand, Bian Chengtou hurried to explain to him. Dare to love Ma Yicheng's cannon is actually a bomb. The "Pomegranate Cannon" is a bit similar to modern hand grenade. Cast from pig iron, shaped like a mature pomegranate.

　　 "Weiyuan Stone Cannon" is hewn out of stone, and contains fire yao inside. Each stone bullet is mixed with 100 small stones, which exploded with great lethality. The "Ten Thousand Enemy Litchi Cannon" has the largest volume. The clay pot is filled with fire yao, and there are gravel, iron fragments, and iron tribulus. Shrapnel exploded and flew hundreds of steps, hurting many enemies.

　　Yang Ling was overjoyed when I heard the words. I remember that when I watched "Burning the Old Summer Palace", the Qing Dynasty fought with the Eight-Power Allied Forces. It was a battle with devils with a sea of ​​tactics, swords and spears. I never thought that Ming Dynasty's firearms were so developed. With this kind of thing Even if you are a scholar, it is easy to guard a wall by yourself, and you can't help but gear up for joy.

　　 The shipment of these bombs really produced a great effect. Although the Tatar cavalry using cold weapons was not afraid of death, they could not resist the zha drug at all. With the explosions everywhere, countless deaths and injuries under the city. The siege stopped temporarily.

　　 There were more than forty soldiers of the Ming Army who died and wounded on the city’s head, plus the Minzhuang who did not know how to protect themselves. There were about a hundred people. The army and the civilian doctors who were temporarily recruited were busy treating their injuries.

　　jiang personally beheaded several Tatar soldiers. He was able to kill him. He carried two **** sabers and yelled at Minzhuang for his stupidity. He kicked them in the **** from time to time and berated the soldiers for teaching. How they fight. County Deputy Huang, Liu Dianshi and others ran to the east and west cities to inspect the casualties.

　　Yang Ling climbed to the top of the city and saw the Tatar retreat outside Three Arrows, and the next round of attacks was brewing. The Tatar soldiers outside the east and west cities also began to gather there. There were more than 3,000 people. . Han Youniang asked for a whistle stick from the acquaintance he was acquainted with, and stood by him carefully watching over him. Although he was petite, he had a sassy and heroic posture.

　　Yang Ling Seeing that there are so many enemy troops outside the city, even if it is pure exhaustion, it is still unknown whether the remaining defenders can defend the second round of attacks. Moreover, the most powerful weapon for defending the city, only those bombs are left. With less than 20 pieces, I feel a little worried.

　　 But now the feeling the Ming Army gave him has been unexpected. He did not expect that military technology was so advanced at the time of Ming Dynasty. In his impression, Ming Dynasty has always been weak and vulnerable. The emperor is not doing his job, and the **** is doing harm to the world. Others I don't know anything about it.

　　 But for an ordinary person who is more familiar with Qing palace operas, he can only know so much. If he hadn’t known the current prince’s name is Zhu Houzhao, and happened to have seen the movie "The Dragon and the Phoenix", he I don't know who will become the emperor after the Hongzhi Emperor, let alone know more about Ming Dynasty.

　　 Since the history of the Ming Dynasty was compiled by the Qing dynasty, the hidden meaning is self-evident. Of course, the narratives and romances derived from it are of course even more unacceptable. One "Yangzhou Ten Days" and one "Jiading Tucheng Notes" were annihilated in mainland China for more than two hundred years, and they were only found out from Japan more than two hundred years later. This shows the thoroughness of the Qing Dynasty.

　　 In fact, Ming Dynasty was not far from capitalism at that time. Iron production is the sum of all of Europe. One-third of the world's silver flows to China due to trade. Industrial production accounted for more than 60% of the world's total. In the so-called Qianlong period, the production only accounted for 6% of the world's total.

　　 It’s no wonder that Ming Dynasty missionary Matteo Ricci’s "Chinese Notes" recorded China as follows: "The material production here is extremely rich, and there is everything. The sugar is whiter than Europe, and the cloth is more refined than Europe... People are beautifully dressed and elegant, The people are happy, polite, and elegant in conversation.” While the British envoy Macartney who visited during the Qianlong period said: “There is an astonishing poverty everywhere...Many people have no clothes to wear...The army is as tattered as a beggar. ".

　　 China at the time of Ming Dynasty was a bit like Japan in later generations. Whatever was able to be invented was invented by itself, and what was not invented was researched and counterfeited by buying foreign goods at a high price. 5000 people, with 3,600 thunderbolt guns, 200 Dalian bead guns, and 400 handlebar guns. What a modern equipment!

　　 However, economic and cultural advancement, irreconcilable with political and military corruption, allowed a more backward culture to take over the relatively civilized China, miraculously turning back time, extinction of scientists, and advanced The firearms were buried.

　　 muskets were reprimanded as "wonderful skills" and abolished. In the "Yaksa War", the Qing army captured only two trigger-fire arquebuses. Kangxi only left two for his own use and ordered the Qing army to ban the use of this new type The reason for the musket is that "the bow and arrow taught by the predecessors must not be interrupted." By the time of the Opium War, the Qing soldiers armed with swords and spears were completely unfamiliar with firearms. They actually regarded them as evil things, thinking that they could be broken with dog blood.

　　Of these things, Yang Ling didn't know much about it. It just saw that the weapons used by the Ming Army were too unexpected. When I remembered that the Eight Banners Army swept China later, I couldn't figure out why.

　　 The master book and the old man from Xiangli De Gao Nianzhao led people to the city to deliver food. The owner of "Hongyanlou" specially killed a big fat pig to reward soldiers. Han Youniang used to take two bowls of rice and a bowl of fat pork. Stew, calling: "husband, let's eat".

　　Yang Ling only woke up from a daze, and quickly took the food from Han Youniang, and placed it on the snow-covered city wall. The two of them stood by the wall and ate. Yang Ling was really hungry too. He pulled into half a bowl of rice, only to find that Han Youniang was taking a small bite of the meal, and looking at himself with a smile, couldn’t help asking strangely: "What do I do?"

　　Han Youniang pursed his lips and said softly: "I think husband is delicious and happy in my heart".

　　Yang Ling's eyes were a little wet. He saw that Han Youniang was rushing to eat vegetables with himself, leaving the meat in the bowl. The weather was cold and it was almost condensing. He hurriedly took two pieces and put them in her bowl and ordered:" Eat the meat soon. husband doesn’t like fat pork, you know?"

　　Han Youniang promised sweetly, he used chopsticks to break the meat, and sent it to the Yang Ling bowl. He was picking up the rice and his eyes appeared from the edge of the bowl~IndoMTL.com~ Looking at him flashingly, Yang Ling With a helpless smile, he pulled the meat steak into his mouth obediently and chewed. Han Youniang saw him eating quite fragrantly, and his big eyes were bent into crescents with satisfaction.

　　 After eating, Han Youniang cleverly grabbed the bowl and wanted to send it back. Yang Ling saw a grain of rice sticking to the corner of her mouth and couldn't help but stretched out her finger and scratched her lips amusedly. Han Youniang was taken aback and saw his finger sticking to it. The next meal, I can't help but feel a little embarrassed. Goodbye Yang Ling didn't bounce off the rice, but put the grain of rice into his mouth, and his pretty face suddenly became red.

　　 She hurriedly glanced left and right, and found that no one paid attention to her husband’s intimacy, which was almost ridiculed, and her shoulders raised because of tension collapsed safely. Seeing husband still looking at herself with a smile, she couldn’t help being white. Glancing at him, he quickly picked up the bowl and turned and fled.

　　Yang Ling saw that she was also wearing a male gown, but the waist was still slender, and there was a moving charm between the swings of the models. I didn’t realize that one day she would give her tenderness and love to another man. It’s possible, my heart is suddenly full of jealousy: "Now that the atmosphere is like this, Youniang will definitely not remarry? Then can I..."

　　 He suddenly turned around and grabbed a handful of white snow and rubbed his cheeks: "Goddamn, what did you think? If you put too much affection on her, wouldn't it make her feel more painful? You haven't tried, How do you know you can't make her fall in love with others?"

　　 "Fall in love with someone?" The thought jumped out, and he found it more unbearable than gaining and losing her. The balance of love began to waver between selfishness and "greatness", and the snow melted like tears on his face.

　　 "Woo~~~", the horns rang out inconsistently, Yang Ling bitterly wiped the snow from his face, bent down and picked up a rock weighing more than 20 kilograms.