When Xiao Ruxun climbed on the east city wall, Zhao Hu, Chen Xie and Wang Hui were already on the east city wall to check the battle situation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xiao Ruxun waved his hand: "When will the rebels come to attack at night?" Who fought the rebels back? ”

Zhao Hu took a step forward: "General, it is the last general, three o'clock in the hour, the last general led the guards to inspect the city wall through the east city wall, and was about to leave the east city to go to the south city to inspect, when the rebels suddenly attacked at night, and killed fifteen soldiers of our army with a bow and crossbow, and then climbed the city with flying claws, our army according to the general's orders, after the enemy army landed in the city, suddenly lit up the torch and set off the sentry arrow to break its guts, and then quickly killed the rebels in the city, and then shot under the city with a bow and crossbow, but unfortunately the light was too dim, the crossbowmen could not aim and shoot, I don't know how many rebels fled back, The other three walls were not raided, but were accompanied by the firing of arrows and torches to deter the enemy. ”

Xiao Ruxun stepped forward to check on the dozens of rebel soldiers killed by Zhao Hu, and then nodded: "Deputy General Zhao has a good command of the troops, and the soldiers of Dongcheng bravely killed the enemy, and they are credited!" ”

Zhao Hu and all the soldiers thanked him together.

Xiao Ruxun looked at the fifteen soldiers who died in battle, and sighed: "These fifteen fallen soldiers died in battle, and they were given multiple pensions and buried generously!" ”

The generals commanded.

"Our army only defeated the rebels the day before yesterday, and it will take time for the remnants of the rebels to escape back, it will take at least two days to attack the army, and there will be no three to five days, and the main force of the rebels will never be able to come to the city again, and now, only two days, it can be seen that the rebels are coming, and they will come from day and night for the light cavalry, and they want to take advantage of the fatigue and carelessness of our army's victory to attack and capture the city at night, and break through the city at the minimum cost.

It is very likely that the army led by Wei Zhitai has begun to counterattack, and the rebels have to mobilize the elite main force to resist, and they cannot divide their troops more to entangle with us in Pingyu City, and now our army will repel its night attack again, which will greatly deter the rebels, so that they have to divide their troops and fight, at least take the initiative, so as not to face the attack of the two-way army, even so, I will definitely contain the rebels and reduce the pressure on Wei Zhitai's counterattack against the rebels. If we can hold on until the Wei Zhitai counterattack is successful and the reinforcements arrive, we will be a great contributor to the great work of the generals! ”

When the soldiers heard this, their confidence and morale were doubled.

Zhao Hu is an old man who has followed the Xiao family, seeing that Xiao Ruxun is becoming more and more mature, he can actually say that the danger of fighting alone in a lonely city is a great opportunity, not only does not make morale low, but can also double the morale of the generals, full of confidence.

General, grown!

Xiao Ruxun inspected the city again, and only left the city after inspecting the whole city, while instructing the three generals around him: "The general estimates that in another day or two, the rebels will have a division of the main force to arrive at the city of Pingyu to start attacking, at that time, they should first persuade to surrender, besiege but not attack to deter our army, our army can drag on, can not fight without fighting, the longer we drag on here, the longer it lasts, the greater the pressure on the rebels, if necessary, it is okay to deceive the rebels by deception, only when they have to fight, can they let go of a battle, This is of vital importance to our army. ”

Xiao Ruxun's prediction has appeared more than once, and Xiao Ruxun in the past has also anticipated the enemy's actions and made achievements on several occasions, so the three generals who followed all trusted Xiao Ruxun's words very much, and said that they would definitely obey the order.

It was about late at night in the second half of the night that Xiao Ruxun returned to the mansion with his tired body, calmed the worried Yang Caiyun, and fell asleep.

Early the next morning, on the seventh day of the third month, Xiao Ruxun routinely took care of himself and went to learn about last night's attack.

After dawn, according to specific statistics, twenty-one rebels were killed in the city, fifty-six rebels were shot dead in the city, and a total of seventy-seven rebels were killed......

After understanding the situation, Xiao Ruxun ordered the city defense to remain, and then rode to the barracks to train the soldiers, yesterday's three-stage rotation attack method still needs to be practiced, and the fifty auxiliaries are mainly diligent practice loading ammunition, increase proficiency, the battle together, first of all, the ammunition in the four hundred and seventy-eight bird guns are loaded, and the one hundred and seventy-eight bird guns in the hands of the fifty auxiliary soldiers can also be used for logistics, forming a continuous strike at the beginning, which greatly kills and deters the enemy.

With the medical conditions of the rebels, if you are hit by a lead bullet, you will basically die, and you don't want to die, there is only one way to amputate your limbs, which can be regarded as not hitting the vital point of the body, if you hit the vital point, it is still comfortable to die on the spot.

While inspecting the three-stage rotation shooting technique of the guns, Xiao Ruxun mentioned to Wang Hui: "If the thief army comes later, it must be persuaded to surrender first, and the persuasion cannot be used to attack the city with a large army, so there are at most three days for you to train, within three days, these three hundred gunners must be trained, and they will be pulled up to the city to fight with the enemy, in my plan, after this battle, I will continue to expand the number of the bird guns, and finally my idea is to combine the bird guns and sword and shield soldiers to meet the cavalry in the field." ”

Wang Hui was surprised: "Since the existence of firearms, whether it is King Mu's southern expedition or Chengzu's northern expedition, they are all assisted by firearms, and although Chengzu's northern expedition to Mongolia won a big victory, there are a large number of cavalry as the main force, fighting in the field, only cavalry can fight against cavalry, and the general has mentioned it more than once!" ”

Of course Xiao Ruxun knows, but the power of firearms is definitely not limited to this!

"Now and the past is different, in the past, Taizu Northern Expedition, Chengzu Northern Expedition, King Mu's Southern Expedition, the firearms used are all tubular firearms, directly ignited and launched at the fire gate, aiming and firing and loading requires several people to work together, not like the bird guns we use today, such a person can do it, since you can change from the fire guns to the bird guns, the bird guns may continue to grow stronger in the future, even if it is just like this now, three hundred guns are not to be feared, what about three thousand? What about thirty thousand? ”

Xiao Ruxun's words called Wang Hui was so surprised, anyway, Wang Hui never imagined that Xiao Ruxun, who was full of disdain when he mentioned firearms in the past, suddenly turned into a firearms supporter, and Xiao Ruxun repeatedly emphasized not to rely on the power of firearms when he was defending and conquering in the past, and strictly required the army to complete tactical training in accordance with the regulations, and to use swords, bows and horses as the foundation of his life, but this time he uncharacteristically began to support the use of firearms and even expand the scale of the use of firearms, and also proposed to use firearms against cavalry.

The generals of the nine sides have a distrustful attitude towards firearms, in addition to the common use of artillery, individual firearms such as bird guns are basically not used, not only the operation is troublesome, but also the rate of fire is slow, there are few generals like Xiao Ruxun who specialize in teaching soldiers to use firearms, everyone thinks that this is too troublesome and the results are few, so the land of the nine sides is still dominated by bows, horses, swords, and swords, supplemented by artillery, and there is an army of bird guns in the army, which basically does not exist.

"But, general, the subordinates have a lot of words, no matter how many guns, no matter how fast the launch, it is a dead end that cannot be solved if it cannot be used in rainy days, and the range is also very limited, such a short distance, the horse team gallops up and will be cut in an instant, and the guns are almost defenseless to resist, and they should not be put on the plain to compete with the Mongolian cavalry!"

Wang Hui's face was very anxious, as if he saw a misguided child anxious to correct it.

"So Ah Ziheng, I proposed to combine the sword and shield soldiers, spearmen and gunmen to form a military formation, in the past, no one should have thought of using an infantry army formation combined with a gunner, this is different from a bow and crossbow, the field is outside, the number of bows and crossbows is limited, and the bows and arrows are even more limited, and it is not easy for an archer to train, if you encounter a large force of cavalry, the crossbowmen combined with the military formation can only protect themselves, but the guns are different.

Whether it is gunpowder or lead or arquebus, it costs very little to build, a gunner carries two gunpowder canisters, three hundred rounds of lead bullets, enough to support two hours of battle, and the gunners are easy to train, as long as there are guns, they can quickly pull up a skilled bird gun, the number is also considerable, after mastering the method of three-stage rotation, supplemented by infantry formations, the gunners are protected in the military formation.

If you encounter the Mongolian horse team in the field, the horse team will not dare to face the charging army formation, only slow down and entangle with the military formation, or fight with me with the bow and horse pawn, at this time, you only need to protect the gun with the copper wall and iron wall formation, let the gun shoot the horse team in the formation, the distance is so close, the enemy cavalry will be hit hard by the gun, and the Mongolian horse team can not help me with the copper wall and iron wall formation, after a long time, the horse team has suffered heavy losses, will not retreat? ”

Wang Hui frowned and pondered, but could not find a sufficient basis to refute, indeed, as long as the infantry formed a tight military formation, with spears into a hedgehog formation, no horse team dared to face the charge to death, the current Mongols are not the Jin people of the year, there is enough iron to engage in iron floating, it will inevitably divert and slow down to fight with the army formation on the horse, or directly bypass the encirclement, but at this time, it is necessary to face the aiming and shooting of the guns with sufficient ammunition in the formation, which is different from the bow and crossbow team, an archer carries a very small amount of bows and arrows, and it may not be able to shoot, If the battle situation is urgent, all the bows and arrows can be consumed in two or three moments, and when the Han army attacked the Xiongnu, Li Ling's army was unable to return to the Han realm.

And the most important thing is that lead bullets are really able to leave a violent psychological shadow on the enemy and extremely disgusting bullets, according to statistics, a direct hit by a lead shot at a distance of 100 meters will kill 90 percent of people who hit the head, 20 percent of the limbs will die, and the rest will all be amputated, 100 percent of the left chest near the heart, 70 percent of the right chest will die, and 70 percent of the abdomen will die.

Therefore, if you are hit by lead bullets, you will be injured, and the lightest injury will be amputated, which is equivalent to being directly abolished in this era, as long as you are hit once, the cavalry will be abolished, for the nomads, it will be fatal, equal to death, and a cavalry from training to the amount of resources consumed is enough to train five soldiers, the value of a cavalry is the collection of the value of five soldiers, even if you use four soldiers to fight, as long as you kill a cavalry, it is also earned.

With such a lucrative business, why not?