This time, Kublai Khan's camp on the north bank of Zhangshui was very formal - after all, the confrontation with Chen Dexing was likely to last several months, and the 65,000-strong army had to have a comfortable nest. With 65,000 people and nearly 200,000 cattle gathered together, if there was no comfortable and clean camp, once the plague broke out, there would be no need for Chen Dexing to bother.

Kublai Khan also used old soldiers, and he understood this truth better than anyone else. His camp was very large, and felt-fur yurts were erected. This yurt, made of two or three layers of wool felt covered with a hana (a wooden support for a yurt), was probably the best marching tent of this era. It is the warmest in the ice and snow, and it can also prevent rain. These large tents were arranged in a circle, spread out in circles, and ditches were dug for drainage, and special places were designated for water intake. The camp was surrounded by a wooden fence with a moat outside it and a breastwork inside – the Mongols of this era were actually very good at learning, especially in military affairs!

Any advanced and effective military technology and military experience will be absorbed by the Mongols at the first time! The Mongolian Tatars reacted much faster than the Southern Song Dynasty, which was headed by scholars. So it is not surprising that the breastwork of anti-artillery is now present in the Mongolian camp.

Due to the overwhelming superiority of the artillery of the Northern Ming, how to defend against artillery has become the top priority of the Mongolian army at the moment. The matter of anti-artillery is easy to do when guarding the camp, and it is enough to build up a chest wall more than a foot wide, which is nothing more than a little sweat. But it's not easy to do it in the field, Chen Dexing's cannon doesn't wait for anyone, and it is impossible to give the Yuan soldiers time to dig trenches slowly.

Fortunately, there are also some capable people in the Meng Yuan army. The way soon there was a man named Saidianchi. The Semu officials of Justin presented the "Sand Shield Car Plan". The so-called "sand shield cart" is a two-wheeled cart with a pouch filled with mud and sand, and a thick wooden shield is installed in front of the pouch - even if the cannonballs of the bronze cannon can penetrate the giant shield. It will also plunge headlong into the mud and sand bag, so that it will not be able to exert its power. As for the Heavenly Thunder Arrow. Even if it exploded on the giant shield, it would not hurt the Mongol generals behind the shield cart due to the storage of the shield and sandbags.

However, this "sand shield car" also has a fatal weakness, that is, it is too bulky! How heavy is a car full of sandbags and a large wooden shield!

"How many people do you need to push this kind of car?" Kublai Khan stood outside his golden-roofed tent and pointed to a cart that had just been built by a plundered Han Chinese craftsman.

"Back to the Great Khan, this car needs ten strong men to push."

The one who replied was a native of the Western Regions, with sunken eyes and a towering nose. However, the skin is not very white, and the hair is still black. He is about fifty years old, and he still has a big beard. This person is the Khorezm man Saidianchi. He was an old man from the era of Kublai Khan's Golden Lotus River Shogunate - although Kublai Khan trusted Han Confucianism, he also reused Semu people. In Kublai Khan's civil bureaucratic system, Han Confucianism and Semu have always been used together. The Han Confucians were mainly responsible for making suggestions, while the Semu people were mostly responsible for financial and handicraft management. This Saidianchi. Before Kublai Khan succeeded to the Great Khan, he was in charge of managing the craftsmen and finances of Yanjing Road, and after Kublai Khan's accession to the throne, he and Ahma managed the finances and was responsible for the issuance of Zhongtong banknotes. He is the general manager who is responsible for the management of the artisan camp and the grain camp. The idea of this sand shield cart was obtained from the grain truck.

"Ten strong men?" Kublai Khan frowned, "Where did the strong man who pushed the cart come from?" ”

"Great Khan, you can go and catch the strong men of the Han people!" Tou Yuan Brother built yì road. "If you break the Han people's village again, you don't have to kill them all, give them a chance to serve the Great Khan."

This period. The Mongols who followed Kublai Khan could be regarded as open and tossed and came from the Jingcheng Pass. Burn, kill and loot all the way, and all the Han villages near their path will be broken! Men and old and young were slaughtered. The women plundered for the pleasure of the warriors, and completely tossed the land of Hebei as the land of the enemy.

Because of the fulfillment of the long-cherished wish of the Mongolian warriors for many years - the warriors have always had some opinions on the management of the Han land, and they are eager to plunder all the wealthy women of the Han land at once! Therefore, the morale of Kublai Khan's army has picked up again these days, and the big guys are not in a hurry to go to Henan or return to the grassland. After all, Henan will be regarded as a native of Dayuan for the time being, and if it is to be plundered, more than 200,000 warriors will only have to eat grass in the coming year! As for the grassland, there is nothing but snow at this time, and there may be murderous Eight Banners soldiers in some places, so don't go back for the time being......

"Yes, just use Han'er's strong man, it's exactly what I want!" Kublai Khan smiled and nodded. Now there is no Han army in his hand to drive, and it is really not easy to start a war, so he can only temporarily catch some Han Ding Zhuang.

"Great Khan, the minister also asked someone to make this kind of train." Saidianchi. Justin pointed to another wooden vehicle.

"Trains?" Kublai Khan looked intently, and what he saw was of course not the train running on the railroad tracks in later generations, but a two-wheeled cart with a small copper cannon on the door, which was much smaller than the sand shield car, and could be pushed by one person.

Unlike Chen Dexing's Military Affairs Department Weapons Bureau, which now only produces large-caliber three-inch guns, the Mongol gunsmiths mainly produce light small cannons. Because the Mongol craftsmen could not bear the consequences of the failure of cannon casting - the Mongols had strict laws and did not treat the Han craftsmen as human beings, and once the big guns they cast exploded, they would be beaten with a rod and beheaded at the worst.

Therefore, Han craftsmen generally chose to cast the barrel very thickly, and the weight and cost of large-caliber artillery reached an unbearable point.

As a result, the Mengyuan military could only retreat to the second, not for the powerful heavy artillery, but for the flexible and mobile small guns. Usually it is a copper gun that can be transported by mules and horses, but the use of this copper gun on the battlefield is a troublesome matter. Because the effective range of this copper gun is too close, it is far away from the bow and arrow, and it is not as good as the three-bow bed crossbow. There was little room for it to be erected on the battlefield, so he simply did not show up in the Battle of Jingcheng.

Therefore, Kublai Khan also instructed the artisan battalion to build a small cart that could fire while pushing the copper gun.

Kublai Khan circled around the "little train" and laughed: "Good! Saidianchi, you really know how to do things. ”

He pointed to the "small train" and said with a smile to the heavy generals on the left and right: "You can use it to use it with the sand shield car, the shield car is in front, the train is behind, and when the enemy train is approaching, it will go around from behind the shield car and bombard the steel armor soldiers of the thief!" In this way, it can destroy its armor, disrupt its military formation, and then cover it with infantry and cavalry, and there is no reason to be invincible. ”

It seems that this is the case, the cannons of the Shadun car Keming Army, and the artillery car Keming Army's steel armor. The two major reliance of the Ming army have been exhausted, and there is still a reason to be undefeated? The Mongolian generals were also proud when they thought of this, and they all echoed it.

"The Great Khan is wise, with shield cars and trains, the Chen thief will be captured by the Great Khan!"

"Not only is it Chen Thief, but Li Pu and the weak Song Dynasty will also be bulldozed by our Great Mongolia sooner or later! My great Mongolia will dominate the world, just around the corner! ”

"If the north is leveled this time, the Han people must no longer be called to have force, even the kitchen knife must be bought according to the household registration, at most one per household, no, it should be one for three households......"

"Well, what's the trouble? From a certain point of view, it is better to slaughter the Han people in the north and turn both sides of the Yellow River into the steppes of Great Mongolia! ”

"That's right! Kill all the Han people to be safe! ”

Later, I somehow turned the topic to slaughter the Han people in the north! I don't know if it's because of Chen Dexing's rise to hit the confidence of this group of Mongolian Tatars, and now this group of Tatars are all shouting and shouting to kill, and they are going to slaughter the Han people in the north!

Kublai Khan's eyes swept away, and everyone's expressions were taken into view, and every Mongolian general present seemed to have reached an agreement on this issue! It seems that this is the hearts of Mongolians......

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At the same time, in the various military camps within the Daimyo Mansion City, the Tiandao Taoist people who were temporarily appointed as the righteous instructors of the various departments of the newly formed army were also shouting and shouting and killing to incite ethnic hatred...... Chen Dexing's characteristic brainwashing has been staged on a large scale again.

Needless to say, the rules are still the same as before, closed and brainwashed, religious myths and national righteousness together, intensive information bombardment and indoctrination. In addition, there are also accusation meetings held every once in a while, and some activists who have been bullied by the Mongols are found to come to the stage to complain about the crimes of the Mongol colonists, and so on. At the same time, it is supplemented by a certain amount of political pressure, such as claiming that there are traitors in the army and Mongolian spies Yunyun.

And Chen Dexing, who is already the king of Ming and has the personality of a demigod, will inspect the battalions whenever he has time, gather the soldiers together, and make an incendiary speech!

After repeated mobilization, the Ming army in Daming City has now increased to 100,000 people! However, the vast majority of them have neither decent equipment nor time for rigorous training.

The new army, which was incorporated into the main force and prepared for battle, was only equipped with paper armor, spears, bows and arrows, and a round shield that could be worn on the head. And the more than 70,000 people who were responsible for staying in the Daimyo's Mansion simply didn't even have a piece of paper armor and a stronger shield! Even the one-color battle jacket is not evenly matched. can only wear the clothes of ordinary people, wrap a red cloth on their heads, and have a tattered spear or a wooden bow at the root of their hair, even if they are Ming troops.

If such an army does not have a little spiritual armament, it will simply be a rabble, and if it does not do well on the battlefield, it will be scattered in a hurry. Even after washing the brains of these new soldiers, Chen Dexing did not dare to take them all out of the city.

According to the plan, the battle that will break out in the middle of winter (lunar calendar) in November, the scale of the Northern Ming army's troops is only more than 28,000 people. However, in Chen Dexing's view, this battle is sure to win! (To be continued......)