Battle at Dawn
Chapter 22:Battle at Dawn
"Wow", Yang Ling woke up in the sound of the trumpet, a spirit jumped up.Because there are Han young girls around, it is inconvenient to live in Huangxian, where they live in the Datong shop of the Viet Building, Yang Ling sleeps in the Jade Emperor Pavilion between the east and north gates.
Han's young mother rubbed her eyes and woke up, Yang Ling jumped down to the ground and shouted as he ran: "The Tartar has attacked the city, you stay here honestly, I will see."
Everywhere there was shouting and killing, and the soldiers were running back and forth on the city wall, constantly cutting off the hooks thrown under the city and returning to the city with sharp arrows.Every ten steps or so in the city wall, there is a winch, tied with a thin iron rope, in the middle is a diameter of a foot, about a foot long round wood, the round wood exposed about five inches of iron nails, a bit like a giant wolf tooth stick.
The two officers and soldiers hid under the battlement only to lift the wooden stick and throw it down to the city, heard a loud voice, and then shook the hanging wheel at both ends, and then hanged the "wolf tooth stick" back.
This kind of city-keeping tool, although some bulky and delayed, but at both ends of the two ends also have a few archers to assist, enough to make up for the defects, the lethality is not small.
He hurried to the wall stack, just held the wall stack, a sharp arrow spit on his cheek flew over, "the" shot on the jade emperor temple door lintel, the arrow tail humidly trembling, the Yang Ling out of a cold sweat.
Yang Ling set a fixed god, hid behind the wall and looked down, couldn't help but be surprised, how to suddenly appear so many enemies.
?I saw that the city was full of Tatars, the walls were high, and they threw the walls with hooks and ladders, climbing up the wall without fear, and behind them, there were a large number of archers running back and forth to shoot arrows, covering them to attack the city, and the archers in the city kept firing arrows back, but the enemy and me, although the convenience of the land, was still suppressed and could not lift its head.
Yang Ling cat rushed to the south gate with his waist, rushed up to the city building, only to hear a loud noise, the ground trembled, smoke, scared Yang Ling, looked down to the city, only to see the ground blown a big hole, upside down more than ten people, a horse that broke the leg fell in the pool of blood and constantly mourned.
Yang Ling dark tongue, can not see the artillery at this time is also so powerful, this era has an explosion?He thought that the shells at that time were all solid iron balls.
But the gun fired a cigarette was too thick, Yang Ling just ran over, breathing fast.Coughed by gunpowder, the smoke slowly dispersed, and Huang County, who appeared in the bunker of the city building, he waved to Yang Ling anxiously: "Xian nephew, come quickly, be careful not to be stabbed by the stream."
Yang Lingha ran over with his waist, only to see three cannons standing in front of the tower, facing the city, several gunners are nervously loaded, fill the medicine, the left of a cannon lead has been "crypy" ignition, several gunners have covered their ears and closed their eyes, only to listen to a loud noise, the position of the cannon suddenly filled with smoke, a person can't see.
Yang Ling was smoked eyes are red, waiting for the smoke in front of the smoke slowly dispersed, only to see how far the cannon with a bracket in front of the city building, this is still the gun has an anchor fixed, otherwise I do not know where the cannon is going, several gunners are pushing the cannon back to the same place.
Because the city's tallets wandered away and avoided the front, although the gun shook the mountain in a sound, it only killed one person and injured several people, which had a feeling of shooting mosquitoes with artillery.
Yang Ling asked loudly, “Mr. Huang, why did the Tatar suddenly come so much?”“What about Jiang?”
Huang County pointed to the front of the side and shouted: "Two and a half miles lost, the Tatar has increased its troops, the river is always in front of the war, there are only more than a hundred soldiers in the city, take care of each other, you go to the post office, you want to the staff to guard the city."
“All right!”Yang Ling promised to turn around and run down the city, at this time, Liu Shi led more than 200 people to the city, commanded by a sentry commander scattered throughout the city wall, these people are just ordinary people, all without military training, panicked, listened to the soldiers' explanation, and regardless of whether there is an enemy under the city, they threw down the ring stone, and the soldiers were stomping their feet.
These people do not know how to protect themselves.
A man who came out of his head was shot in the chest by an arrow, and the Han young lady who had just run away held him, and the other people suddenly saw that he was scared and scared, although some officers and soldiers shouted and shouted, but he refused to show up.
At this time, the street was empty, the people were really staying at home under the scolding of the soldiers and did not dare to run around, just ran to the intersection, Yang Ling saw the horse and the horse led more than ten postmasters, rushed to meet the three carriages, Yang Ling stood up and shouted: "Mr. Ma, the city under the tartar is scattered to attack the city, the soldiers are not enough, Huang County, Huang County, please send all the soldiers."
Ma Yi jumped off the horse and said: "Where there are people, there are also a large number of Tatars attacking the city in the East Gate, they have insufficient equipment to attack the city, they scattered around climbing the wall, my people have been sent out, there are these, are sending guns to the Jiang adults."
Yang Ling heard that there were still cannons, not a happy heart, but think about the effect of the iron guy, and some disappointment, he said: "Now the Tartar blossoms on all sides, mainly the sergeants of the city can not take care of, I am afraid that the cannon is of little use."
Ma Yiyi commanded the two carriages to drive to the east and west, and took a carriage to continue on its own, saying: "The wise nephew is wrong, this is not a general gun, this gun is a "throw god machine pomegranate cannon", "Weiyuan stone cannon".
"All men's enemy lychee cannons", used to guard the city is the most spiritual."
Yang Ling heard inexplicably, Ma Yu saw that he did not understand, and the head of the city told him to explain it to him.The gun mentioned by the horse is actually a bomb, and the "thriller god machine pomegranate cannon" is somewhat similar to modern grenades.Casted with raw iron, shaped like a ripe-looking pomegranate.
"Weiyuan stone cannon" is made of stone, containing gunpowder, each stone bomb is also doped with 100 small stones, the explosion is extremely destructive.The "10,000 enemy lychee cannons" is the largest, the pottery canisters are filled with gunpowder, as well as gravel, broken iron, thistles, blasting shrapnel and hundreds of steps, injuring the enemy.
Yang Ling said with great joy, remember to see the "burning of the Yuanmingyuan", the Qing and the eight-nation coalition war, that is to use the sea tactics of the spear and spear and the Japanese, can not think of the Ming Dynasty firearms actually so developed, with this kind of thing even if it is a book student, to a person to keep a wall is easy to fight, can not help but be happy to rub the fist.
The shipment of these bombs did have a great effect, the use of cold weapons of the Tatar cavalry although fearless, but can not fight with explosives, with the sound of explosions everywhere, the city died and injured countless, the siege temporarily stopped.
There were more than 40 Ming soldiers killed and injured on the head of the city, and the people who did not know self-protection were strong, about 100 people, and the civilian Langs who were temporarily recruited were busy treating the wounds everywhere.
Jiang personally killed several Tatar soldiers, killed them, and shouted at the soldiers for teaching them how to fight with two bloody sabres.Huangxian Yu and Liu Shishi and others ran to the two cities to inspect the casualties.
Yang Ling climbed the head of the city, saw the Tatars retreat to the three arrows, is brewing the next round of attacks, the east and west of the two cities outside the Tartars also began to gather there, to see the number of more than 3,000 people.Han's young lady from the familiar army to come a sentry, standing next to him carefully guarded, although the size is small, but there is a beautiful and handsome position.
Yang Ling saw that there were still so many enemy forces outside the city, even if it was pure consumption, it was unknown whether the remaining defenders could hold the second round of attacks, and the most powerful city guard, those bombs were only less than 20, not to worry.
But now the Ming army to give him the feeling has been a surprise, he did not expect the Ming Dynasty in the morning military technology has been so developed, in his impression of the Ming Dynasty has been weak and vulnerable, the emperor is not in business, eunuchs for the world, the rest do not know.
However, for an ordinary person who is more familiar with the Qing Palace opera, he can only know so much, if it is not that he knows that the prince is called Zhu Houzhao today, and happened to have seen the film "Dragon Opera Feng", he does not know who is the emperor after the current Hongji Emperor, let alone more understanding of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the Ming history was established by the Qing people, the hidden feelings are self-evident, and what drama and interpretation derived from it are of course even less trusted.A "Yangzhou Ten Diary", a "Jiading Slaughter", actually annihilated in mainland China for more than 200 years, more than 200 years later found out from Japan, which shows the thoroughness of the Qing Dynasty's written prison.
In fact, the morning is not far from capitalism.Iron production is the sum of the whole of Europe, one-third of the world's silver because of trade flow to China, industrial production accounted for more than 60% of the world, and the so-called Qianlong world, production accounted for only 6% of the world.
No wonder the Ming Dynasty missionary Ricci, the Chinese diary, recorded China as follows: "Here, the material production is extremely rich, everything, the sugar is whiter than Europe, and the Buby is beautiful in Europe... People are decorated with beautiful clothes, style, people are happy in spirit, polite and polite, and talk about elegance."The British envoy to Qianlong, where he was visiting, said: "There is amazing poverty everywhere... many people do not have clothes to wear ... the army is as dilapidated as a flower."
Ming Dynasty China, some like the future generations of Japan, their own invention, the invention can not spend a lot of money to buy foreign goods after research imitation, then Beijing's "God machine camp", each battalion of 5000 people, with thunderbolt guns 3,600, Dalian beads 200, handcrop 400 poles, this is what a modern equipment ah!
However, economic, cultural advances, and political and military irreconcilability have allowed a more backward culture to become a relatively civilized China, time has miraculously turned back, scientists have disappeared, and advanced firearms have been buried.
The musket was dismissed as "strategy and obscenity" to be abolished, "Jacquesa War", the Qing army seized the take-up of the attack-type pyrotechnics, Kang Xi only left two to play, ordered the Qing army to prohibit the use of this new type of musketeer, the reason is "must not interrupt the bow and arrow spears given by the predecessors."By the time of the Opium War, the Qing soldiers armed with large knives and spears had become completely unfamiliar with firearms, and actually regarded them as evil spirits, thinking that they could break it with dog blood.
These things, Yang Ling naturally did not understand, but saw that the weapons used by the Ming Army were too unexpected, and remembered that the eight flags later swept China, and could not think of the reasons for it for a while.
The king's book and the old man of the hometown, led the people to send food to the city, "the boss of the geese building" specially killed a big fat pig to reward the general, Han young mother used to take two bowls of rice, a bowl of fat pork stew, called: "Dong, eat."
Yang Ling woke up from his imagination, rushed to take the meal from the hand of Han young mother, resting on the snowy wall, and the two people stood by the wall to eat.Yang Ling was also really hungry, pulled into most of the bowl of rice, only to find Han young mother eating food, smiling at herself, can not help but strangely ask: "Look at what I do?" 」
Han's young mother smiled and said softly, "I see the public eating incense, and my heart is happy."
Yang Ling eyes a little wet, he saw Han young mother and herself grabbing food, the meat left in the bowl, the weather is cold, are fast buckling, busy two pieces in her bowl ordered: "Quickly eat the meat, the father does not like to eat fat pork, you know?"
Han young mother sweetly agreed, with chopsticks to break the meat, thinly sent to Yang Ling bowl, their own pick-up rice, eyes from the edge of the bowl, flashing look at him, Yang Ling grinned helplessly, obediently pulled the meat into the mouth mouth chewing, Han young mother to see him eat fragrant, a pair of big eyes and satisfied into the crescent.
After eating Han's young lady obediently snatched the bowl to send it back, Yang Ling saw her mouth with a grain of rice, can not help but amusedly stretched out her finger on her lips scraped, Han young mother, saw his fingers stick to a grain of rice, can not help but be embarrassed.Farewell Yang Ling did not throw the rice off, but put the rice into his mouth, and suddenly his face was red.
She looked around and found that no one paid attention to the husband's almost laughing behavior, because of the nervous and shoulder-off, it collapsed at ease, and when she saw that the public was still smiling at herself, she could not help but look at him shyly and white, and hurriedly took up the bowl and turned away.
Yang Ling saw that although she was also wearing a men's robe, but the waist was still full of slenderness, there was a moving rhyme between the models, did not feel the heart, thinking that one day she would give her own gentleness and love to another man, her heart was suddenly full of jealousy: "Now the atmosphere is so, the young mother will not remarry it?Would I be able to...”
He suddenly turned around and grabbed a white snow and rubbed his cheeks: "God killed, what did you think?"If there is too much emotional input, will it not make her more painful?If you haven’t tried it, how do you know you can’t make her fall in love with someone else?”
“In love with someone else?”As soon as this thought sprang up, he found it more unbearable than the loss of her.The balance of love began to oscillate between selfishness and “greatness,” and the snow on her face was like tears.
"Wow", the bullhorn sounded unsuitable, Yang Ling hated to wipe a face of snow water, bent over and picked up a more than 20 pounds of rubble.
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