Chapter 158 Three Gift Packs

If the Tartars really landed from the sea, attacked Maojiatun, and entered Fushan City, then destroying the two pig-bearded boats of the Tartars would be a very critical link. As long as the Tartars were destroyed or occupied, the Tartars would have no way out. What awaited them was the fate of annihilation of the entire army.

Of course, this task is very arduous. Nothing else, the sailors currently have only one warship without artillery, and less than twenty armed sailors are armed. The sailors are equipped with short muskets. However, there are two pig-beard boats in the hands of the Tartars. Although everyone's ships themselves are not armed, from the perspective of number of people, the pig-beard boats still have a complete advantage.

"What are some good suggestions do you have?"

Zhang Zhun asked calmly.

Both Yang Guohua and Zhou Zhengyu remained silent.

They only have one boat, and it is too difficult to kill the two boats of the Tartars. However, if they cannot kill all of these two boats, the Tartars will be ambushed on the shore and will inevitably retreat quickly. Even if the guards pursue, they will only hurt the Tartars' fur at most. If they want to cut off the Tartars' stretched out hand, they must kill the Tartars' warships.

However, the rapid response of the Tartars must not be underestimated. When the Tartars landed, it is impossible for people to stay on the warship to defend. The Tartars' arrows, range, lethality, and accuracy are quite high. The sailors approached rashly, may not be able to wipe out the Tartars. If the Tartars see the opportunity and retract back to Tianheng Island, they will not be able to achieve the goal of cutting off their fingers.

Zhou Zhengyu thought for a while and said slowly: "Sir, I have an offer, don't know if it's feasible?"

Zhang Zhun said: "Say."

Zhou Zhengyu said cautiously: "Can you please temporarily transfer Ma Yi, Zhong Wuying and others to our sailors? Their shooting skills are good and the range of the Hu Ben gun is long, so you can effectively kill the Tartars' sailboats! As long as you kill the Tartars' sailboats and make their ships unable to move quickly, our chances of winning will increase a lot."

Zhang Zhun turned his head to look at Yang Guohua.

Yang Guohua's eyes lit up, he thought for a moment, and then said, "That's right! That's true! As long as we kill the sail drivers of the Tartars, we will basically win! If the Tartars' pig-beard boat cannot effectively control the sail, it will either capsize or stand. We can win without fighting!"

For sailing warships, how to effectively apply wind power is a very profound knowledge. Those who master this profound knowledge are sailing masters. On a sailing warship, the status of sailing masters is very special and important. Basically, in addition to the helmsman and the navigator, the sailing masters are the most important.

In the fierce battle, the main task of the sailboat is to adjust the angle of the sail at any time according to the wind direction and the captain's requirements, so that the warship can move flexibly. Without the cooperation of the sailboat, the warship's actions will have major problems. Don't say that you cannot successfully seize the upper hand, or even cause fatal accidents such as capsized ships.

Due to the special working position, the sailboat is the most vulnerable group when facing external attacks. They usually work on the mast and its cross beams. On the mast and on the cross beams, there is no cover or cover. The enemy's attack can directly hit them. The chain bullets used in naval battles often make the sailboat into two sections.

Yang Guohua's pirate ship does not have cannons and cannot use chain bullets. Zhou Zhengyu then thought of Ma Yi, Zhong Wuying, Yang Weiguo, Liu Jixiang and others. They are snipers with good shooting skills. They train on the sea boat for a few days and master the basic shooting elements. In naval battles, they can directly shoot the enemy's masts and find opportunities to kill the enemy's sail drivers.

"Of course, it would be great if the adults could transfer our squad of troops."

Zhou Zhengyu thought about it and said tactfully.

The snipers in the Guard had only a few people, and their firepower was a bit weak. On the floating sea, the hit rate of the Hu Ben Gun was more than twice as high as that on land. If there were more than fifty warriors shooting together, the power would be quite great. Fifty Hu Ben Gun Guns shot at the opponent's mast position together, and they would definitely kill several sailboats. Without the sailboats, the Tartars' pig-beard boat would be a real "pig"-beard boat.

Zhang Zhun thought for a moment, felt that Zhou Zhengyu's suggestions were feasible, and said decisively: "Okay! I will transfer Ma Yi and the others to you for command and use! In addition, I will transfer Zou Ming and the team to you! They will also obey your dispatch!"

Yang Guohua and Zhou Zhengyu were very excited and ready to fight, and their confidence soared.

Zhang Zhun immediately called Ma Yi and Zou Mingjia to explain the task in person.

Ma Yi and Zou Mingjia naturally had no objection. They immediately packed up their own items, followed Yang Guohua and Zhou Zhengyu, and temporarily moved to the pirate ship. What they had to do next was to explore the basic principles of sea shooting as soon as possible. As new snipers, Dugu Lie also followed Ma Yi and the others.

After arranging the mission of the sailor team, Zhang Zhun called Hou Shanping, Wang Mingyu, Liu Hang, Yang Liren, Liu Baoyu, Mao Sanye and others to discuss how to secretly retreat the people in Maojiatun. It is still a bit difficult to set up a battlefield in Maojiatun without letting the Tartars notice it in advance.

It was not Zhang Zhun's purpose to defeat the Tartars. Only by letting them land and cutting off at least half of the Tartars would it be considered that they could barely achieve some results. In fact, Zhang Zhun's ultimate goal was to make no one of the Tartars left Tianheng Island could go back.

How much to come, how much to eliminate!

If you have the ability, you will come back next time!

In addition to keeping a large enough battlefield in Maojiatun, there is another very important issue, which involves war damage. As long as the Tartars landed in Maojiatun and the guards attacked head-on, the battle would inevitably be very fierce. After this battle, all the houses and other fixed assets in Maojiatun might be destroyed. Not to mention, just hundreds of thatched huts and some newly built brick and tiled houses will be destroyed.

"Yulin, don't worry, the old man personally presided over this matter and will never cause trouble for you!"

"We don't have any conditions to kill the Tartars!"

Master Mao San patted his chest and promised.

Zhang Zhun's heart felt a little warm.

"We don't have any conditions to kill the Tartars!"

What a simple but heroic language.

If everyone in the Ming Dynasty could do this, how could the Tartars be arrogant?

"Since that's the case, I won't say much, I hope the villagers can understand."

"After the battle, compensation will be implemented according to the specific circumstances of the damage to the house!"

"The retreat operation was carried out secretly on the night of twenty-seventh."

Zhang Zhun pondered for a moment and began to make arrangements in an orderly manner.

After studying some details, Mao Sanye and others left.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhun came to the craftsman's workshop.

In order to welcome the arrival of the Tartars, he wanted to prepare several big gift packages for the Tartars.

A gift bag that is bigger than an explosive bag.

“Mine?”

"Sir, the mine you mentioned..."

After listening to Zhang Zhun's description, Zhou Shiwen and Luo Dashan asked in certain uncertainty.

The weapon Zhang Zhun wanted to manufacture was indeed called a landmine, the most primitive landmine.

In fact, China had already used landmines a long time ago. In 1130 AD, the Jin army attacked Shanzhou, and the Song army used "gunpowder cannons" buried on the ground (i.e., iron-shell mines) to win the Jin army with major anti-injury. This is the earliest record of mine use. By the early Ming Dynasty, real landmines using mechanical fire devices appeared in China.

According to the book "Fire Dragon Sutra" written by Jiao Yu in 1413, "The bombing is made of pig iron, and the medicine is cast on an empty stomach, and the medicine is solid, and the pestle is solid, and the fire is penetrated inside. The long line is used to penetrate the fire trough. The enemy must go through the way. Dozens of burying it in succession. The medicine trough is connected to the steel wheel and the soil is covered, so that the thief does not know. He stepped on the engine and shook it up, and the iron blocks are like flying, and the flames soared into the sky."

From this document, we can see that "bomb bombing" is not only the earliest landmine suppression, but also similar to today's "serial mines", and the term "landmine" also emerges from this. Unfortunately, this technology of manufacturing a landmine suppression has been lost, and ordinary craftsmen do not know how to make it. Zhou Shiwen and Luo Dashan naturally do not understand it.

By the eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1580 AD), when Qi Jiguang was stationed in Jizhou, he created a "steel wheel fire" mine. When the enemy stepped on the motive cable, the steel wheel rotated and flint and fired, causing landmines to detonate. This was also the world's first non-artificially detonated trigger mine. In Ming Dynasty documents, there are detailed records of various mines, which shows that China's mines had developed to a certain level at that time, and landmines began to appear in Europe during the fortress defense war at the end of the 15th century.

However, after Zhang Zhun discussed with the craftsmen, he regretfully discovered that the craftsmen knew nothing about the manufacturing process of trigger mines. If Zhang Zhun wanted to create a mine, he could only create a fuse. That is to say, bury the mine, then pull the fuse out, and ignite the fuse when it is about to detonate. The explosion principle is actually the same as the explosive pack.

Because time is urgent, Zhang Zhun had no way to carefully test the manufacturing of trigger mines with the craftsmen, and could only use this kind of ignition mine. The manufacturing process of this mine is simple. It doesn’t matter if there is no iron shell. Have you ever seen the largest water tank? It is the large water tank that can hold more than a dozen buckets of water.

The water tank is filled with black gunpowder. The surroundings of the black gunpowder are filled with various bricks, gravel, tiles, iron nails, etc. to enhance lethality, then cover it with a cover, pull out the fuse, and then buried it deeply underground. This is an extremely large landmine.

Such a full tank of black gunpowder is 40 or 50 kilograms. If a little copper oxide is added, it will definitely be fine if it blows out a large pit with a radius of five zhang (about 15 meters). However, its greater lethality is still a powerful shock wave. Once such a super-large landmine explodes, people with an explosion range of twenty zhang will be seriously injured even if they do not die.

Zhang Zhun made three such large water tank mines.

It’s not that I don’t want to do more, it’s because there is not enough black gunpowder for spares.

The Gunpowder Bureau of Fushan Institute originally had a lot of gunpowder. It was a little bit of money to save, so there was no need to worry about not being able to supply it. Because, just a little bit of gunpowder was used to fire Minnie bullets, which was much more than other muskets. Each soldier could use it for a long time as long as he carried a pound of granular gunpowder.

However, once used as a landmine, most of the inventory of the Gunpowder Bureau would have been consumed immediately. If Zhang Zhun hadn't come to extract the gunpowder himself, Chen Yongxin, the manager of the Gunpowder Bureau, would have thought something had happened. Such a whole tank of black gunpowder was enough for the 500 Hu Ben guns of the entire guard to last a day of battle.

It’s really a bit of a spendthrift!

But in order to kill the Tartars, it is worth it to spend the money even more!

Looking at the three super-large mines made by himself, Zhang Zhun was full of confidence. These three big guys were enough to send hundreds of Tartars to the Buddha of the West. It seems that it is necessary to focus on developing a pressurized mine. This thing is a very good killer weapon against the cavalry of the Tartars! Even if there are only two of the three mines exploded, it is enough for the Tartars cavalry to drink a pot. The population of the Tartars is there, one less death, and one more death, and the Tartars will be finished by themselves.

On July 27th, Sun Lingjin came to say goodbye.

In the past few days, Mo Yu has obtained a lot of information from him. Basically, it is certain that Sun Zhixiu really wants to use a knife to kill people and use the Tartars to destroy Fushan. As for what agreement he and the Tartars have reached, it is still unknown. With him, a seventh-rank promoter, such a core secret will definitely not be accessible.

Sun Lingjin sincerely expressed that he asked Zhang Zhun to wait for his good news, and he would return in three days. He repeatedly emphasized this point, obviously, this is what Sun Zhixie meant. Sun Lingjin said: "In three days, whether it succeeds or not, I will come to Fushan City again."

Zhang Zhun said enthusiastically: "Three days later, I will welcome Lord Sun here."

Sun Lingjin's eyes flashed lightly, a hint of sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth, and then she said goodbye and left.

Zhang Zhun nodded to Mo Yu and expressed his approval.

That night, all 150 soldiers from the First Guards Association entered the combat post. The rest of the Guards were waiting for battle in Fushan City and were at their disposal to reinforce at any time. Before that, the people of Maojiatun were scattered to other towns after dark. Now Maojiatun is completely empty, and all valuable items have been cleared.

The next day, during the day, everything was normal in Fushan City, and no one could notice any abnormal situation. After nightfall, Zhang Zhun came to Maojiatun in person. According to Zhang Zhun's inference, the attack of the Tartars is very likely to be today and tomorrow. If you don't come today, you will definitely come tomorrow. You will definitely get something when you wait for the rabbit.

On the night of July 28, the moon could no longer be seen, only the vague starlight. The starlight fell on the sea, as if it was covered with a faint cold light. The sea breeze kept blowing, and the sea surface was a little strange. Dozens of pairs of eyes closely monitored the movements on the sea surface.

In the second half of the night, two black dots suddenly appeared on the sea east of Maojiatun. As the black dots gradually expanded, they eventually turned into two ships. The outlines of the ships became clearer and clearer, and they were two pig-bearded boats that looked a bit strange.

Tartars!
Chapter completed!