Taiping Inn

The generals on the top of the city subconsciously held the hilt tightly, and the hands holding the hilt were slightly cold. read

Wu Guang curled his smile and said solemnly: "Are the food and silver in the treasury ready?"

A civil servant who had never worn armor replied, "It's all ready."

Wu Guang said: "Download all of them. This is a critical moment of survival and death. There must be no mistakes. If someone dares to reach out at this time, don't blame me for being ruthless."

The head of the Yuguan Branch of the Ministry of War, who was in charge of money and food, looked slightly stern and said, "Yes!"

Wu Guang said to another civil servant behind him: "Call the gentry in the city and ask them to generously help defend the city, and tell them that there is no end to the collapse of the nest."

As a military center and strategic location, Yuguan was specially established as a military department in the Great Wei court here, which was the only branch office of the Ministry of War. As the Great Wei court recovered the three prefectures of Liaodong from the Jinguan, Yuguan became the key to the connection between the inside and outside the pass, Yuguan City gradually became a prosperous commercial town, so there were also people and gentry in the city.

The prefect of Yuguan City also answered.

Wu Guang pondered for a moment, turned to the gangster general beside him and said, "Call the young and strong in the city to help defend the city at any time. At the same time, he sent people to demolish the houses in turn from the south of the city to make wooden rolling stones."

The general whistled up and turned to the city.

After arranging all this, Wu Guang seemed to have been a few years old and whispered: "Everyone, it's time to be loyal to the court."

A desolate whimpering horn suddenly rang out, followed by a rumbling drumbeat.

Wu Guang'an's hand trembled slightly at the hilt of the knife. If the golden tent goes south, he will still have some confidence in defending Yuguan City. After all, the golden tent is longer than cavalry wars in the wild, but weaker than siege. For thousands of years, the Central Plains have relied on the heroic passes to block these grassland cavalry. Outside the door.

But this time the opponent is different. This time the opponent is the Liaodong army, the most elite border army of the Great Wei Dynasty. They have the most advanced firearms, so it is not difficult to attack the city.

Since ancient times, all offensive and defensive weapons have been better than cannons. If the attacker gets the art of cannon, the city will be pulled out; if the defender gets the art of cannon, the enemy can be defeated.

This time, Qin Qing used thirty new cannons to aim at the walls of Yuguan City.

Thirty artillery cannons, not more or less. If you attack a majestic city like the Imperial Capital, you may not be able to achieve your strength, but you can attack Yuguan City, which is enough.

Thirty cannons lined up in sequence, each cannon is about one meter long, and the inside of the muzzle is about three inches wide, and the whole is more than 4,000 kilograms. If it is an ordinary marching, it needs to be pulled by mules and horses, and the speed is slow. Therefore, during the Qin and Qing Dynasty's Northern Expedition, they were also These heavy artillery were not carried.

Qin Qing and Jing Xiu came to the cannon camp. Qin Qing looked at the thirty new cannons that had just been released and asked, "Are these all the works of Yin and Yang Sect?"

Jing Xiudao: "That's right. Compared with our previous old artillery, the entire artillery consists of a large and small double-barrel composite multi-layer gun body, with rifled in the small tube, which changes from front loading to rear loading, and the loading time is shorter . Overall, the Yin-Yang Sect's artillery is lighter in weight and has a longer range. The shells are not solid bullets, but flowering bullets improved with "Phoenix Eyes", which are filled with fierce gunpowder, which can trigger them after landing. A violent explosion."

Jing Xiu paused for a moment and lowered his voice slightly: "When the Pin Nu Sect bombarded the Xuan Nu Sect and the Yin Yang Sect bombarded Shangqing Town, this kind of cannon was used, and its power was very impressive."

After all, they are all allies now, and Jing Xiu must also be concerned about the influence.

Qin Qing smiled and said, "The artillery of Yin and Yang Sect and the ammunition of Taiping Sect, I would like to thank Sect Master Shangguan and Mrs. Lu of Taiping Sect for me."

Jing Xiu nodded and responded.

Qin Qing turned around and returned to the central army's tent. Before leaving, he said to Jing Xiu who was staying here: "Let's start."

Jing Xiu, dressed in military uniform, pressed the handle of the knife with his hands and said in a deep voice: "Yes."

Yuguan City is the gateway to the imperial capital. Qin Qing, who personally led the army to fight, was determined to win the first battle against the Liaodong army. His request was to fight one battle and make sure to exert the momentum of the Liaodong army.

Jing Xiu personally supervised the battle.

Jing Xiu called his commander and ordered: "Send someone to shout, and limit the defenders in the city to open the city and surrender within an incense stick of time. Otherwise, it would be too late to regret after the city was broken."

The sentry officer took the order and left.

Liaodong is still following the Great Wei military system, divided into the Wei system and the battalion.

The so-called "Guard" is the two levels of guard and guard. One government has a station, and several governments have a guard. The guards set up commanders, commanding 5,600 soldiers. There are thousands of households under the Guard, and 1,120 soldiers are commanded. There are hundreds of households under the thousand households and 112 soldiers are commanded.

The prefectures, counties and garrisons are under the jurisdiction of the commander commander of each prefecture, and the commander commander of each prefecture is under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies of the Court. There are two types of guards in the imperial capital: one is the three major camps of the capital army, which are the elite of the national army; the other is the emperor's personal army, the former is under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office of the Five Army, and the latter is often led by eunuchs to obey orders directly to the emperor.

The soldiers in the garrison have military status and are hereditary to the army, and are usually stationed in the fields or stationed in the army. The expedition, garrison, training, etc. were obeyed the Ministry of War. When there was a war, the Ministry of War transferred the army according to the emperor's order, appointed the commander, sent a letter to the army, and led the army dispatched from the garrison to go to war. At the end of the war, the officers led the troops to hand over the seals to the court, and the officials returned to the guard station. This system of separating military power from military transfer and distributing military power, and generals without specializing in military power, aims to ensure the emperor's control over the national army.

The 30,000 troops left by Qin Qing in Liaodong belonged to the garrisons of the three prefectures and prefectures. They usually focus on military farming, but are not completely out of stock.

The soldiers in the garrison were of military origin and were hereditary to the army. They usually had military farming or garrisoning, some of which were similar to the military system and were similar to the military system of the government.

In addition to the garrison, there are border troops, which are not hereditary, but implement a recruitment system. When Mr. Bai Lu explained to Emperor Tianbao, he once said that he used Liao pay to recruit troops from various places to rebuild the Liaodong border army, which is recruiting troops.

In addition, the military system is becoming increasingly abolished, and the recruitment system has begun to become an important source of troops. The recruited soldiers will not join the army for life, and this is the battalion.

Because of this, the garrison and the battalion have two completely different official positions.

The garrison office is the commander, commander, commander, commander, commander, commander, thousands of households, hundreds of households, general banner, and small banner.

The battalion soldiers are general officers, deputy general officers of the coordinator, generals, guerrilla officers, chief officers, garrison officers, garrison officers, captains, and commanders. If several generals and officers fight together, the court will send a governor to the center to dispatch, also known as the Strategic or Supervisor.

If an officer is on his own, he will hang a seal. The Great Wei ruled the law. If there is any conquest, the governor will be ordered to wear seals in the past. The Xuanshi will be the one who wears the seals in the court. There are three seals of the general, namely: the General of the Conquest, the General of the Pinglu, and the General of Zhenshuo. The Qin Dynasty was then Xiang was the left governor who went to the northwest to fight, and he was given the seal of the Pinglu General. Due to its own needs, Liaodong has added several other generals with names.

Now the Liaodong army led by Qin Qing is in a battalion system. Qin Qing has a special status and no clear official position. Jing Xiu serves as the general officer. Qin Xiang led an army alone and put the seal of the General of the Southern Expedition, and could open a vassal and establish a government, which was extremely powerful. Therefore, Qin Xiang can be called a general, but Jing Xiu cannot be called a military sect.

Unexpectedly, Wu Guang was unmoved by Jing Xiu's persuasion to surrender. A stick of incense passed in a flash. Jing Xiu narrowed his eyes and looked at the top of Yuguan City, and ordered to the whistleman beside him, "Start attack the city."

Not long after, I suddenly heard a dull tremor like a summer thunderstorm, endlessly.

In an instant, the head of Weiyuanmen City facing north was shrouded in thick smoke. Among the rolling white smoke, flames were burning.

When the smoke cleared, the entire city gate tower had turned into ruins.

Through the "Thousand Miles of Look" in his hand, Jing Xiu saw many soldiers guarding the city who fled in panic, broken walls and ruins burning with flames, and corpses everywhere. These corpses were either blown in half or burned into charcoal. Occasionally, those who survived by chance were missing their arms and legs, their faces were covered in blood, and they were very miserable.

Jing Xiu was completely unmoved, and this was the case when fighting, so there was a saying that kindness would not control the army.

At the same time, a group of Liaodong soldiers were quickly clearing the gun barrel and refilling the bullets.

"Recharge is complete."

"Recharge is complete."

"Recharge is complete."

The gunner's voice rang out continuously.

The sentry officer in charge of the shelling waved his hand: "Let it go!"

Thirty cannons roared again, and red flames that were more than a foot long were spit out of the gun's mouth, and the huge wave of air radiating from the tail of the cannon rolled up a piece of grass-clad soil.

A whistling sounded in the air, and thirty rounds of projectiles seemed to be a meteorite falling from the sky, drawing a curve that was hard to see in the naked eye in the air and fell into Yuguan City.

The projectile fell to the ground and exploded immediately. The huge air waves, the explosive fire, and the scattered iron pieces were all powerful tools for killing people. At the same time, a cluster of smoke and clouds formed. These smoke and clouds were connected in a blink of an eye, almost completely covering up the north gate of Yuguan City. The blown-up soil, stones, building debris, limbs, and corpses were constantly thrown by air waves. In the air.

Everyone in the city felt the tremor of the earth, his ears were filled with the sound of wind and thunder, the entire Yuguan City was trembling, and countless dust fell between the beams and pillars of the buildings in the city.

Last night's artillery used old-style cannons, front-mounted loadings, solid-bombing, and the power was far less powerful than the new-style cannons of the Yin-Yang Sect. It only destroyed the battlements and the city guarding equipment, but did not really hurt the city wall. At this time, the power of the new artillery was far beyond the imagination of the soldiers in Yuguan City.

The whistleman raised his palm again, his voice a little hoarse: "Three-hair loading."

During the half incense stick, thirty cannons poured 150 "phoenix-eyed animals" into Yuguan City. They "ploughed" the northern walls and urns of Yuguan City back and forth like diligent old farmers. After. The rumbling cannon sounded throughout Yuguan City, causing the northern wall of Yuguan City to be covered by rolling smoke and clouds, and also fell into a sea of ​​fire.

When the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the northern city wall was broken, with countless casualties and injuries. The air was filled with smoke and burning smell, which made people disgusting.

Jing Xiu put down the "thousand-mile look" in his hand and murmured, "How can we be undefeated by being firm and keeping our shortcomings? Only by being pioneering and enterprising can we take the lead."