Zhou Mengxiong's wife, concubine and youngest son have already been brought to Wuchang.Shortly after he became the commander of the new army, his wife Zhou Li and others moved into the Zhou Mansion, which was newly resettled in Wuchang.
It was late one night again, and it was almost three o'clock when Zhou Li heard the maid say that the master was going home.
But after waiting for a while, I didn’t see the master coming to the bedroom. What else do you have to do if you don’t go back to your room to sleep?
She soon thought that the master might have gone to the vixen concubine's room, and she felt uncomfortable and asked her girl to go and see.
Unexpectedly, the girl came back and said that the master was still in the living room and was still talking to a man.
What should I do when I was late at night?
Zhou Li then put on his clothes and went out of the inner house to pick up the master.But thinking that there was a male guest and it was midnight again, she was not convenient for her to appear rashly, so she went in through the back door and listened to what was going on behind the curtain.
Sure enough, there was a man talking, and Zhou Li heard it, it turned out to be Liu Mazi.
Liu Mazi followed Zhou Mengxiong's old subordinate for many years and came to the Zhou family more than once. Occasionally, she just spent the night in the mansion because the man's original wife had never started a family after her death, and she didn't even have a family...
He is an acquaintance.
Liu Mazi's voice said: The lord's current situation is no different from roasting on the fire, so I need to think more about it.You have been slow to send troops, and both the people in the Chu Palace and inside and outside the court are so careless!
After hearing this, Zhou Li thought of the person in the Chu Palace, Yao Ji.
Zhou Li had just met him not long ago. This in-law looks very young, but he is definitely not a good person. Somehow, when his in-laws meet, Zhou Li is inexplicably afraid of Yao Ji.
Zhou Mengxiong's voice said: Whether the new army can win is a big deal!I will never send troops before I defeated the North Road of the Official Army in one fell swoop!More attentive, more attentive?After the new army was destroyed, there was no soldiers to adjust. I see what else they could think at that time.Throughout history, most people who have lost their mistakes are the bad things that only care about specializing in!
Having said that, Jiujiang has been trapped in an isolated city for more than a month, surrounded by an army of 100,000!
Liu Mazi said, no wonder everyone was anxious. If Jiujiang is broken, King Xiang is inside, and Yongdingying Camp is inside... Not to mention the importance of King Xiang, Yongdingying Camp is recognized by the court as the first elite of the Suzaku Army. He was the backbone veteran in the battles in the south and north at the beginning, and he dared not lose it...
Zhou Mengxiong did not answer.
Liu Mazi lowered his voice and said: "The last general has heard some rumors. Many people use you to exchange for generals in the new army to talk about the matter, saying that the lord party is the same and the different, and cultivate party members in the new army.There is another thing, I will wait for you all night to talk about this, Yao Fang has arrived in Wuchang.
Monk Yao? What did he come to Wuchang to do? Zhou Mengxiong walked a few steps behind his back.
Liu Mazi said: It should be that the imperial concubine, Mrs. Yao, came back after speaking, otherwise he would be a little hard to say, a general who led the troops, and he would run back by himself.Does Mrs. Yao want Yao Fang to replace her lord’s military power?
he?
Zhou Mengxiong sneered, I only heard that Monk Yao would pretend to be a ghost, but I didn’t know that he could suddenly manage the army and set up a formation to fight.I will never hand over military power to him unless there are at least three of the five ministers in the cabinet who explicitly ordered me to hand over military power.Yang Shiqi should understand the importance of it. Zhu Heng is also a soldier. How can he not understand?
Liu Mazi said: I will say something bad in private. You have offended everyone inside and outside. What are you trying to do?King Xiang was surrounded in Jiujiang. It has been more than a month since then. Even if you send troops now, you will not be able to attack Jiujiang for one month without a month. King Xiang will be surrounded at least three months.After a few months of worry, even if you get out of trouble in the future, once someone slanders him, for example, if you replace you with the false words of "cultivating party members"? Will the King of Hunan be too cautious?Instead of doing this, it is better to give the military power to Yao Fang and his son and let them clean up the business.
You underestimate King Xiang too much.He dares to reuse people like Yu Qian... Zhou Mengxiong pondered for a long time, and I have never seen the King of Xiang urging reinforcements.Even if Jiujiang is surrounded, it is not difficult to send one or two messengers to sneak out and urge troops. At least you can send a good water quality to the Yangtze River at night.I have never seen a letter before, which proves that King Xiang knew what to do with the new army.If I only care about self-protection and compromise now, then who is Zhou?
Just as Liu Mazi was about to continue speaking, Zhou Mengxiong raised his hand to stop him: No need to say much, my intention has been decided.This battle is not only related to the overall life and death, but also a rare opportunity. The key to victory and defeat is only once.There is nothing to hesitate about!
Zhou Mengxiong finally said: I will go to the cabinet tomorrow morning and ask the court to impose additional taxes. If the military supplies are insufficient, it will be nonsense that people’s hearts cannot be won on the battlefield!
……
The people in Wuchang were not wrong. Zhang Ning was really not very happy in Jiujiang City.With a sword hanging on his head, the city breaks out at any time, and he can't get out and blocks it tightly, so it's normal that he can't sleep or eat.
Worries will cause people to feel nervous. The enemy soldiers are separated by a wall. He is always worried about some omissions and will be broken through, so he personally inquired more and more, which has aggravated the degree of hard work.
Every day before dawn, he got up first and took the roster file, went around the city wall, asked the name of the generals on duty and how to arrange defense, and then reviewed the list of generals in the city tower according to the archive records on the file.
Then watch the mobilization of personnel in the enemy's fortifications, and then make some complicated analysis and guesses.
There is less and less gunpowder and lead.
Charcoal and saltpeter have little problem. Since a few months ago, the Governor's Office has consciously arranged to use manure to pile up nitrate, so a certain amount of materials can be continuously supplemented; but sulfur is a big problem, and the inventory is reduced and there is no other way to grow.
It is also difficult to replenish lead. It is not a big problem to scrape iron in cities, but lead is not commonly used among the people, so it is also difficult to replenish. As long as there is lead material, it is simple to process the projectiles. They can be cooked with open fire, and they can be used with a clamp of the bullet and repair the edges and corners. The soldiers can process them themselves.
There is also food. Zhang Ning ordered the officials in the headquarters to count the total number and the time it can last. As a result, these people could only report about the approximate amount, which was based on rough calculations and estimated data.
Zhang Ning remembered that the granary was made of cylindrical containers, which were made of bamboo mats to form a cylindrical container, which contained grain; such a regular container was very easy to calculate the volume.
After asking, I found out that the clerks in charge of statistics do not have a simple formula such as multiplying the bottom area by height.
This must be the problem of the clerk himself. It was impossible for ancient China to have no mathematical development of calculating volume. Last time he discovered in a book that someone recorded infinite theory and performed integral calculations in the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Ning asked the clerks to ask Yu Qian for advice to calculate the accurate weight of the food.
A few days later, I finally got the report. It seems that Yu Qian can not only calculate the volume, but also calculate the density and convert the weight.
These scholars who rely on literature and ink to make a living are not as good as those of the few warriors in the army. Some generals of the artillery battalion even remember parabolic calculations and Newtonian kinematic formulas...
This is used to formulate various gun rules for artillery.
There was a rumbling sound of cannons outside the east city again. Zhang Ning wanted to see the damage to the city wall, but was pulled by Li Zhen and others, so he had to listen to the movement outside the gate of the governor's gate.
After a while, he climbed up to a loft inside the gate, and saw shells flying directly into the city from time to time, hitting the roof and slamming the sound of wood breaking. Some houses near the city wall were bombarded for a long time, and from a distance, they looked like ruins after an earthquake.
There are still some people in the city who have not escaped, and there are very few people.
In the early stages of the war, many people stayed at home and couldn't come out. A month passed and the war was not over yet. People could not bear it in hunger and fear, and were successively released by the Suzaku Army.
As for what happens people will encounter after they go out, Zhang Ning and others can't control it, but they can think that women and children are fine; Zhang Fu was a nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, and he dared not and was willing to kill innocent people of his clan indiscriminately. Of course, women and children cannot be deserters.
Every ten or eight days, the official army artillery array will be subjected to a long and intensive artillery attack. At this time, they may have repaired the damaged heavy artillery or received firearm reinforcements from the waterway.
Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhanji gave up his money for this war and sent him a steady stream of supplies. It was indeed the territory of the two capitals and 13 provinces that were more confident.
However, the performance of heavy artillery of the official army is not good, especially the heavy artillery of the large general. The wall of the gun is too thick and the heat dissipation is poor. It takes nearly an hour to cool it down after two or three rounds. Even if it is used continuously, it is easy to damage.
Dozens of cannons continue to bombard the city walls, and the city walls will be broken and collapsed in many places. At this time, the Suzaku Army will gather troops at the collapsed place ready to counterattack the army that is ready to attack the city at any time, and then take turns to repair the city walls day and night.
The tug-of-war between the two sides will be held for ten days.
Fortunately, Jiujiang City is also a major city with tall and thick walls. If it were in ordinary prefectures and counties, the city wall would have been bombarded with artillery.
Outside the fortifications outside Jiujiang City, sparse battles were also being carried out, and both sides were fighting for consumption.
The Suzaku Army and the Jiujiang Army were naturally unable to launch a high-intensity counterattack, and the government army had not made intensive attacks for a long time; perhaps because the tactical value of the fortifications had been reduced a lot, it was not worth sacrificing too much force, and perhaps the government army could not bear the death of one death, and even hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The government army learned how to dig pits and build walls. They started digging trenches from outside the fence, and then dug trenches horizontally at about a hundred steps. People hid inside and dug the trenches, and then built barriers with sacks of soil.
One hundred steps can barely reach the maximum range of the firearm, hide behind and set fire guns or shoot with strong bows and heavy arrows to hit people in the military fortifications.
At the same time, you have to pay the price of being killed by the other party.
However, the trenches dug by the government army have problems with their design and are difficult to drain. When it rains, the trenches are filled with water. It is impossible to do it without sending people to clear them.
So after the rain, the official army would not run into the trench for many days.
……
Because the defenders began to control gunpowder, the cannons on the earthen castle rarely fired, and the Hui cannons of the official army became increasingly rampant, and they continued to shoot poisonous substances and flowering bullets in the fortifications.
However, the deployment of the defenders in the first fortification is decreasing, and they seem to be no longer willing to defend the fortifications in front of them; if the official army once again attacked with intensive troops, it should be defeated in one attack.
People were covered in dust and exhausted, struggling in the soil to wait for the days to change defense and go to the city to rest.
One day, a soldier took out a musket from behind the earth wall, climbed up the ditches and was stunned. He fired at the trench of the government army with his gun, and then stood there as if nothing had happened and took a stick to clean the barrel and wanted to load it. Soon, it attracted crackling sounds of guns, and the arrows flew over, and the man finally died in front.
Perhaps this is the result of his own willingness to choose.
Many soldiers began to miss the way of hedging in the field, and they could enjoy it if they had to live or die, but at this time the strength of the Suzaku Army was exhausted and it was difficult to organize a large-scale counterattack, and it could not afford casualties.
People can only waste and endure it in the soil, just like long-term struggle for survival, expecting a glimmer of small hope in despair.
Outside the dilapidated city wall in the distance, two tall cloud cars stood, but there was no one on the top.
It was a large equipment transported by the official army on one day. It had wheels under it, protected by thick wooden boards and iron armor, and pushed to the edge of the city. The soldiers above took muskets and attacked the defenders on the city wall from a high place.
However, the cloud car was soon bombarded by artillery large and large. The deck on the bottom floor and the wheels were bombarded by the cannons. After the soldiers above ran away, the big thing could not be removed and left there for many days.
Whenever the sun rises, you can see the sun hanging on the wooden rack, like an ancient scenery.
It was late one night again, and it was almost three o'clock when Zhou Li heard the maid say that the master was going home.
But after waiting for a while, I didn’t see the master coming to the bedroom. What else do you have to do if you don’t go back to your room to sleep?
She soon thought that the master might have gone to the vixen concubine's room, and she felt uncomfortable and asked her girl to go and see.
Unexpectedly, the girl came back and said that the master was still in the living room and was still talking to a man.
What should I do when I was late at night?
Zhou Li then put on his clothes and went out of the inner house to pick up the master.But thinking that there was a male guest and it was midnight again, she was not convenient for her to appear rashly, so she went in through the back door and listened to what was going on behind the curtain.
Sure enough, there was a man talking, and Zhou Li heard it, it turned out to be Liu Mazi.
Liu Mazi followed Zhou Mengxiong's old subordinate for many years and came to the Zhou family more than once. Occasionally, she just spent the night in the mansion because the man's original wife had never started a family after her death, and she didn't even have a family...
He is an acquaintance.
Liu Mazi's voice said: The lord's current situation is no different from roasting on the fire, so I need to think more about it.You have been slow to send troops, and both the people in the Chu Palace and inside and outside the court are so careless!
After hearing this, Zhou Li thought of the person in the Chu Palace, Yao Ji.
Zhou Li had just met him not long ago. This in-law looks very young, but he is definitely not a good person. Somehow, when his in-laws meet, Zhou Li is inexplicably afraid of Yao Ji.
Zhou Mengxiong's voice said: Whether the new army can win is a big deal!I will never send troops before I defeated the North Road of the Official Army in one fell swoop!More attentive, more attentive?After the new army was destroyed, there was no soldiers to adjust. I see what else they could think at that time.Throughout history, most people who have lost their mistakes are the bad things that only care about specializing in!
Having said that, Jiujiang has been trapped in an isolated city for more than a month, surrounded by an army of 100,000!
Liu Mazi said, no wonder everyone was anxious. If Jiujiang is broken, King Xiang is inside, and Yongdingying Camp is inside... Not to mention the importance of King Xiang, Yongdingying Camp is recognized by the court as the first elite of the Suzaku Army. He was the backbone veteran in the battles in the south and north at the beginning, and he dared not lose it...
Zhou Mengxiong did not answer.
Liu Mazi lowered his voice and said: "The last general has heard some rumors. Many people use you to exchange for generals in the new army to talk about the matter, saying that the lord party is the same and the different, and cultivate party members in the new army.There is another thing, I will wait for you all night to talk about this, Yao Fang has arrived in Wuchang.
Monk Yao? What did he come to Wuchang to do? Zhou Mengxiong walked a few steps behind his back.
Liu Mazi said: It should be that the imperial concubine, Mrs. Yao, came back after speaking, otherwise he would be a little hard to say, a general who led the troops, and he would run back by himself.Does Mrs. Yao want Yao Fang to replace her lord’s military power?
he?
Zhou Mengxiong sneered, I only heard that Monk Yao would pretend to be a ghost, but I didn’t know that he could suddenly manage the army and set up a formation to fight.I will never hand over military power to him unless there are at least three of the five ministers in the cabinet who explicitly ordered me to hand over military power.Yang Shiqi should understand the importance of it. Zhu Heng is also a soldier. How can he not understand?
Liu Mazi said: I will say something bad in private. You have offended everyone inside and outside. What are you trying to do?King Xiang was surrounded in Jiujiang. It has been more than a month since then. Even if you send troops now, you will not be able to attack Jiujiang for one month without a month. King Xiang will be surrounded at least three months.After a few months of worry, even if you get out of trouble in the future, once someone slanders him, for example, if you replace you with the false words of "cultivating party members"? Will the King of Hunan be too cautious?Instead of doing this, it is better to give the military power to Yao Fang and his son and let them clean up the business.
You underestimate King Xiang too much.He dares to reuse people like Yu Qian... Zhou Mengxiong pondered for a long time, and I have never seen the King of Xiang urging reinforcements.Even if Jiujiang is surrounded, it is not difficult to send one or two messengers to sneak out and urge troops. At least you can send a good water quality to the Yangtze River at night.I have never seen a letter before, which proves that King Xiang knew what to do with the new army.If I only care about self-protection and compromise now, then who is Zhou?
Just as Liu Mazi was about to continue speaking, Zhou Mengxiong raised his hand to stop him: No need to say much, my intention has been decided.This battle is not only related to the overall life and death, but also a rare opportunity. The key to victory and defeat is only once.There is nothing to hesitate about!
Zhou Mengxiong finally said: I will go to the cabinet tomorrow morning and ask the court to impose additional taxes. If the military supplies are insufficient, it will be nonsense that people’s hearts cannot be won on the battlefield!
……
The people in Wuchang were not wrong. Zhang Ning was really not very happy in Jiujiang City.With a sword hanging on his head, the city breaks out at any time, and he can't get out and blocks it tightly, so it's normal that he can't sleep or eat.
Worries will cause people to feel nervous. The enemy soldiers are separated by a wall. He is always worried about some omissions and will be broken through, so he personally inquired more and more, which has aggravated the degree of hard work.
Every day before dawn, he got up first and took the roster file, went around the city wall, asked the name of the generals on duty and how to arrange defense, and then reviewed the list of generals in the city tower according to the archive records on the file.
Then watch the mobilization of personnel in the enemy's fortifications, and then make some complicated analysis and guesses.
There is less and less gunpowder and lead.
Charcoal and saltpeter have little problem. Since a few months ago, the Governor's Office has consciously arranged to use manure to pile up nitrate, so a certain amount of materials can be continuously supplemented; but sulfur is a big problem, and the inventory is reduced and there is no other way to grow.
It is also difficult to replenish lead. It is not a big problem to scrape iron in cities, but lead is not commonly used among the people, so it is also difficult to replenish. As long as there is lead material, it is simple to process the projectiles. They can be cooked with open fire, and they can be used with a clamp of the bullet and repair the edges and corners. The soldiers can process them themselves.
There is also food. Zhang Ning ordered the officials in the headquarters to count the total number and the time it can last. As a result, these people could only report about the approximate amount, which was based on rough calculations and estimated data.
Zhang Ning remembered that the granary was made of cylindrical containers, which were made of bamboo mats to form a cylindrical container, which contained grain; such a regular container was very easy to calculate the volume.
After asking, I found out that the clerks in charge of statistics do not have a simple formula such as multiplying the bottom area by height.
This must be the problem of the clerk himself. It was impossible for ancient China to have no mathematical development of calculating volume. Last time he discovered in a book that someone recorded infinite theory and performed integral calculations in the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Ning asked the clerks to ask Yu Qian for advice to calculate the accurate weight of the food.
A few days later, I finally got the report. It seems that Yu Qian can not only calculate the volume, but also calculate the density and convert the weight.
These scholars who rely on literature and ink to make a living are not as good as those of the few warriors in the army. Some generals of the artillery battalion even remember parabolic calculations and Newtonian kinematic formulas...
This is used to formulate various gun rules for artillery.
There was a rumbling sound of cannons outside the east city again. Zhang Ning wanted to see the damage to the city wall, but was pulled by Li Zhen and others, so he had to listen to the movement outside the gate of the governor's gate.
After a while, he climbed up to a loft inside the gate, and saw shells flying directly into the city from time to time, hitting the roof and slamming the sound of wood breaking. Some houses near the city wall were bombarded for a long time, and from a distance, they looked like ruins after an earthquake.
There are still some people in the city who have not escaped, and there are very few people.
In the early stages of the war, many people stayed at home and couldn't come out. A month passed and the war was not over yet. People could not bear it in hunger and fear, and were successively released by the Suzaku Army.
As for what happens people will encounter after they go out, Zhang Ning and others can't control it, but they can think that women and children are fine; Zhang Fu was a nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, and he dared not and was willing to kill innocent people of his clan indiscriminately. Of course, women and children cannot be deserters.
Every ten or eight days, the official army artillery array will be subjected to a long and intensive artillery attack. At this time, they may have repaired the damaged heavy artillery or received firearm reinforcements from the waterway.
Emperor Xuande Zhu Zhanji gave up his money for this war and sent him a steady stream of supplies. It was indeed the territory of the two capitals and 13 provinces that were more confident.
However, the performance of heavy artillery of the official army is not good, especially the heavy artillery of the large general. The wall of the gun is too thick and the heat dissipation is poor. It takes nearly an hour to cool it down after two or three rounds. Even if it is used continuously, it is easy to damage.
Dozens of cannons continue to bombard the city walls, and the city walls will be broken and collapsed in many places. At this time, the Suzaku Army will gather troops at the collapsed place ready to counterattack the army that is ready to attack the city at any time, and then take turns to repair the city walls day and night.
The tug-of-war between the two sides will be held for ten days.
Fortunately, Jiujiang City is also a major city with tall and thick walls. If it were in ordinary prefectures and counties, the city wall would have been bombarded with artillery.
Outside the fortifications outside Jiujiang City, sparse battles were also being carried out, and both sides were fighting for consumption.
The Suzaku Army and the Jiujiang Army were naturally unable to launch a high-intensity counterattack, and the government army had not made intensive attacks for a long time; perhaps because the tactical value of the fortifications had been reduced a lot, it was not worth sacrificing too much force, and perhaps the government army could not bear the death of one death, and even hundreds of thousands of casualties.
The government army learned how to dig pits and build walls. They started digging trenches from outside the fence, and then dug trenches horizontally at about a hundred steps. People hid inside and dug the trenches, and then built barriers with sacks of soil.
One hundred steps can barely reach the maximum range of the firearm, hide behind and set fire guns or shoot with strong bows and heavy arrows to hit people in the military fortifications.
At the same time, you have to pay the price of being killed by the other party.
However, the trenches dug by the government army have problems with their design and are difficult to drain. When it rains, the trenches are filled with water. It is impossible to do it without sending people to clear them.
So after the rain, the official army would not run into the trench for many days.
……
Because the defenders began to control gunpowder, the cannons on the earthen castle rarely fired, and the Hui cannons of the official army became increasingly rampant, and they continued to shoot poisonous substances and flowering bullets in the fortifications.
However, the deployment of the defenders in the first fortification is decreasing, and they seem to be no longer willing to defend the fortifications in front of them; if the official army once again attacked with intensive troops, it should be defeated in one attack.
People were covered in dust and exhausted, struggling in the soil to wait for the days to change defense and go to the city to rest.
One day, a soldier took out a musket from behind the earth wall, climbed up the ditches and was stunned. He fired at the trench of the government army with his gun, and then stood there as if nothing had happened and took a stick to clean the barrel and wanted to load it. Soon, it attracted crackling sounds of guns, and the arrows flew over, and the man finally died in front.
Perhaps this is the result of his own willingness to choose.
Many soldiers began to miss the way of hedging in the field, and they could enjoy it if they had to live or die, but at this time the strength of the Suzaku Army was exhausted and it was difficult to organize a large-scale counterattack, and it could not afford casualties.
People can only waste and endure it in the soil, just like long-term struggle for survival, expecting a glimmer of small hope in despair.
Outside the dilapidated city wall in the distance, two tall cloud cars stood, but there was no one on the top.
It was a large equipment transported by the official army on one day. It had wheels under it, protected by thick wooden boards and iron armor, and pushed to the edge of the city. The soldiers above took muskets and attacked the defenders on the city wall from a high place.
However, the cloud car was soon bombarded by artillery large and large. The deck on the bottom floor and the wheels were bombarded by the cannons. After the soldiers above ran away, the big thing could not be removed and left there for many days.
Whenever the sun rises, you can see the sun hanging on the wooden rack, like an ancient scenery.
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