Please ask me to be the emperor

"Your Highness, Your Highness, I have pity on my whole family of Geng family, all of them died at the hands of the Tartars!" Geng Zhongming, the new "Huaishun King" of the Qin Dynasty, brought his son Geng Jimao, the surrendered marquis, and held his grandsons Geng Jingzhong, Geng Shaozhong and Geng Jizhong in their arms. , cried loudly in pain.

"I beg Your Highness to let me, father and son, serve as the vanguard. Even if we die a hundred times, we will never regret it!"

Even though Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao's eyes were completely torn apart, but their situation was stronger than theirs, how could they avenge themselves with their own abilities?

Zhang Shun knew this well and couldn't help but nodded and said: "Mrs. Hong, you are the thief in the world. The whole world will fight against you. How can we distinguish between you and me?"

As soon as Zhang Shun said this, not to mention how grateful Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao were, Xu Ziyuan quickly winked at Zhang Shun after hearing this.

My Highness, now that the city is surrounded by mountains and artillery cannot reach it, how can we defeat the enemy?

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun shook his head gently, and then said seriously to Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao: "Although it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, ten years is not too late, but I don't think you two can wait this long."

"In this way, the two of you are too excited now, and it is inevitable that you will be reckless and be taken advantage of by the captors."

"You two go down to rest for a while and regain your emotions. I will make some arrangements in advance before attacking again!"

"Okay!" Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao were also veteran generals on the battlefield. They didn't know the dangers of military battles, so they couldn't help but nodded cautiously.

These two young men have seen and experienced too much. They rebelled against Ming from Jin, rebelled against Jin from Ming, and rebelled against Shun from Jin. Along the way, they lost many relatives, and their hearts were as early as the essence. Iron-like.

The pain was over, the sadness was over, the emotions were vented, and the sanity was quickly restored.

When the two of them had just left, Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, the art of war says: The Lord must not be angry and raise an army, and the general must not be angry and attack the enemy. Now that the rebels are out of artillery, how can they defeat Jianlu?"

"Who said artillery is inferior?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but wonder, "Whether it can be shot or not, you have to try it to know!"

"Does this still need to be tried? Didn't you try it just now?" Xu Ziyuan couldn't help but wonder.

Previously, the rebels had fired dozens of artillery pieces, but they could not attack the walls of Fanshan Fort. How else to try?

"The ballistics are straight and curved. Field artillery and golden cannons shoot straight, so Jianlu can hide behind the city wall to avoid the shells." Zhang Shun couldn't help but explain, "But the flying Biao gun's ballistic trajectory is curved, so it may be able to defeat the enemy!"

To put it bluntly, the strategy Kong Youde presented to Mrs. Hong is not worth mentioning. It is just a counter-slope tactic commonly used in later generations.

Of course, neither Zhang Shun nor Kong Youde had the concept of anti-slope tactics at this time, but this did not prevent them from using artillery for a long time and came to the conclusion that artillery shells can generally only be fired directly. This is also the basic principle of anti-slope tactics.

However, the anti-slope tactics of later generations were tactics designed directly based on artillery trajectories, which were different from the rough tactics adopted by the rebels and Kong Youde based on daily experience.

The so-called "reverse slope tactic" in later generations was a tactic of setting up bulletproof tunnels from the back of the mountain and then using the ridge as the line of defense.

Nowadays, the strategy proposed by Kong Youde seems to be the same as that of Fang Buddha, and there is no way to solve it.

However, based on Zhang Shun's years of experience and deductions, he decided that Hong Tai's tactics would not be so perfect.

If what he expected was correct, then Hong Tai would definitely not open a tunnel with its head facing the opposite side behind the "ridge", which would give the rebels an opportunity to take advantage.

Thinking of this, Zhang Shun quickly called Li Shi'an and asked, "If we use a flying gun to attack the Jianlu behind the city wall, can we do it?"

"Let the gunners try it!" Li Shi'an hesitated and said, "Although compared with designing the Ming Army Tunnel, it is more difficult because you can't see the landing point, but it is not completely impossible."

"Let's try it first. Xu Ziyuan will explain the tactical arrangements to you later. Be sure to listen carefully. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me directly." Zhang Shun nodded after hearing this.

"As for observing the enemy's movements, we have nothing to do for the time being, but in a few days, maybe we will be able to do something!"

If something works, it works, and if it doesn't, it doesn't work.

Li Shian was not the kind of person to deal with things with empty words. Seeing that he agreed, Zhang Shun couldn't help but feel relieved.

After finally explaining to Li Shian, not long after, Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao, their father and son, also finished dressing up and came to see Zhang Shun in full armor. He said: "Your Highness, the guilty minister has selected five hundred good men, each wearing double armor, ready to go at any time." It’s time to go!”

"Double armor? No, no, you only need to wear a layer of iron armor this time. Do you two, father and son, dare to go into battle?" Zhang Shun shook his head after hearing this and asked.

"What, this is not..." Geng Jimao blurted out after hearing this, and said that Zhang Shun wanted to "kill someone with a borrowed knife."

As a result, before Geng Jimao finished speaking, he was interrupted by King Huaishun Geng Zhongming: "Why don't you dare? As long as His Highness gives the order, we, father and son, will go through fire and water, and we will do it."

My good son, now that there are only three families of Ming, Jin and Shun in the world, we, father and son, will be offended by Ming and Jin. If we don’t express our loyalty quickly, how can we, father and son, have a foothold in the world in such a big world? land?

"Well, only those who have such courage are worthy of revenge!" Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing when he heard this, "In that case, you two, father and son, and the five hundred elite men under my command will come with me, and I will personally demonstrate the siege tactics for you!"

Not to mention how Zhang Shun arranged it, but after Hou Jin defeated Bai Guangen, Hong Tai only entrusted the defense to Gushan Ezhen of various banners, and just hid in the fort, for fear of being accidentally shot by the rebel artillery. killed.

At this time, it was just after noon, and people from Gushan'e Zhenpiangu had already rushed back and forth to report: "Piangu saw the movement of 'shun thieves' on the city. Could it be that they are attacking the city again? The special report will be known to His Highness." .”

"I understand, it's not like there's nothing we can do. Just let Pang Gu act with his heart!" Hong Tai nodded, a little carelessly.

I finally "came up" with this method, can I still let you, a "submissive thief", defeat me in a few hours?

If Mrs. Hong is thinking like this, then Pang Gu, who is responsible for keeping it safe, is also thinking like this.

Not long after, he saw that the rebels had sent another group of troops to attack the city, so he asked his soldiers to set up artillery early, but when the rebels approached, they opened fire.

"Hey, are the 'Shun Thieves' dancing there?" Just when the battle between the two sides was about to break out, a group of people who had never wanted to leave the rebel camp crossed the moat and fell to the ground one by one, like It was like a maggot, squirming there, which was almost laughable.

It turned out that this squirming group of people was none other than Geng Zhongming, the "King of Huaishun", Geng Jimao, the "Marquis of Guishun", and their five hundred elite men whom the rebels trusted.

Of course, the reason why they were "lying on the ground and squirming" was not because they had any hobbies, but because they were using the "creeping forward" method "invented" by Zhang Shun.

In the previous life, the "Creeping" move was just an ordinary tactical move, but it was quite effective in dodging bullets.

Originally, Zhang Shun planned to introduce this tactical move into the rebel army, but found that due to the limitations of tactics in this era, two problems would arise.

One is lying on the ground and can easily be trampled to death by the marching array.

Another thing is that after the soldiers lie on the ground, they like to pretend to be dead and not lie down.

However, this time when this tactic was used to siege the city, the above two problems did not exist.

Because, one is that everyone is lying down and is naturally trampled, and the other is that the tens of thousands of people behind are watching. If that person is lazy and slips, he will be penalized and will be punished by military law.

Of course, the father and son Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao didn't know the key. They just followed Zhang Shun's method with dubious belief and climbed up the Fanshan Castle step by step.

"Shoot!" Just as they had been climbing for an unknown amount of time and were gradually approaching the Fanshan Fort, they heard a sound of cannons and artillery fire from the city, and an unknown number of pellets flew towards them. Geng Zhongming and others were frightened. Geng Jimao and the others quickly lowered their heads.

And just when they lowered their heads, the flying gun behind them sounded in time.

The heavy "explosive bombs" were shot out by the dull artillery, and then hit the wall of Fanshan Fort heavily.

Except for those that exploded in the air, most of the explosive bombs hit the back of the city wall, but a few fell to this side, and then rolled down the steep slope. Geng Zhongming, Geng Jimao and others were suddenly frightened and broke into cold sweats.

Fortunately, the explosive bomb exploded on the spot before it rolled very far, and a lot of lead bullets flew out involuntarily.

However, don’t mention it. It was precisely because Geng Zhongming and his men were prostrate on the ground that most of these lead bullets were in vain. Even if a few of them hit the soldiers, they did not cause much damage due to the obstruction of the iron armor. harm.

However, just when the rebel army was almost unscathed, the Houjin soldiers hiding behind the "ridge" were in trouble this time.

The explosive bullets shot by the rebels' flying cannons weighed one hundred and fifty kilograms, were charged with three kilograms of powder, and added quicklime as additional damage, so they were extremely powerful.

Then how did Jin Bing expect that the rebels would have such a method?

In order to reduce the amount of work, Houjin's party did not dig a hole with the hole facing backward at all behind the city wall, but simply dug a trench.

As a result, many artillery shells fired by the rebels Fei Biaojun fell into the crowd, and only one exploded. Three or five soldiers were killed on the spot, and seven or eight soldiers were injured on the spot.

Just when the Hou Jin soldiers were in chaos, Geng Zhongming and Geng Jimao remembered Zhang Shun's teachings, and couldn't help but shouted and jumped up, leading their soldiers to charge forward.

This is why Zhang Shun asked them to remove the cotton armor covering the iron armor. One was to facilitate "creeping forward" and the other was to facilitate timely charges.

Otherwise, the clothes will be too bulky, making it impossible to crawl and rush into enemy lines quickly.