Chapter 788: Blasting technology, I can’t tell you for the time being! [Please give me a monthly ticket!]

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Zhang Zhun did not have much instructions for the Liaodong Army's siege operation, so he let the three generals handle it himself. He wanted to see how the Liaodong Army attacked the city. The Hu Ben Army's siege has always been a method of blasting, and he has basically never trained other methods. It is good to observe it now, and maybe it will be used at any time.

Because they did not carry siege weapons, Huang Degong, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao all gathered together to discuss how to enter the city as soon as possible. There was no ladder around them, which was really a headache. This is a very fatal thing. Without siege weapons, you cannot enter the city smoothly. If you cannot enter the city smoothly means that their surprise attack is completely meaningless. After dawn, the rebels' defense must be strengthened.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it was a period of alternating cold and hot weapons, and the methods of siege were also very complex and diverse. The most common ones were of course ladders, well railings, cloud ladders, and then chariots, siege hammers, trenchers, and occasionally digging tunnels, digging water backflows. More advanced ones were artillery.

The problem is that they can't do all the above methods. In a short period of time, they can't find equipment for siege from other places. Even if they are rushing to make cloud ladders, it will take time. As the sky is getting bright, where can I have time to make cloud ladders?

At this time, they regretted that when they set out, they forgot to carry siege equipment at all. At the beginning, they felt that this was Zhang Zhun's fault. If Zhang Zhun had not been urging him desperately, they would not have forgotten. They would need two days to prepare, isn't they just to prepare siege equipment?

But then they thought about it, and they felt that it was their fault. As general officers, they knew that the purpose of coming to Xingshan Fort was to attack Xingshan Fort, which was a typical and clear battle, but they didn't expect to bring siege equipment. If such a thing was spread outside, they would be laughed to death. If there was no siege equipment, how could you attack? How did you, the general officer? Do you have to ask about such a small matter? Why don't you ask about the general officer and the general officer?

"Governor, how did your Hu Ben Army enter the city?"

Finally, Huang Degong came helplessly and asked Zhang Zhun for advice that he was looking forward to.

In fact, there is no way to ask Zhang Zhun for help. The three of them agreed that in the face of such a situation, Zhang Zhun should not have any good solutions. Zhang Zhun is a human being, not a god, and he could not drive out the siege equipment in such a short time. However, with the idea of ​​treating a dead horse as a living horse, Huang Degong still came to Zhang Zhun.

"Breaking open the city gate."

Zhang Zhun said confidently.

"How to blow it up?"

Huang Degong asked in a little confusion.

"I can't tell you for the time being."

Zhang Zhun smiled and kept it a secret.

Unless you are willing to put on the uniform of the Hu Ben Army and fight for the Hu Ben Army, the secrets about blasting technology will not be told to you. If you explore yourself and blow yourself up, don't blame me! The black explosive is an absolute dangerous item in this era. Although it is not as powerful as TNT explosive, if it is not done well, it will be fine to blow a person into pieces and the bones are gone, and there is no problem.

"Then... Governor, we didn't carry siege equipment and could not enter the city quickly. Time is tight, so it's too late to rush to make siege equipment. Can you order the Hu Ben Army to blow up the city gates and then we will solve the remaining battle?"

Huang Degong said tactfully.

In siege, breaking the city is the most critical step. The battle to break the city is the most intense, cruel, bloody, and the most challenging the commander's nerves. The victory or defeat of the siege depends on whether the city can be broken. As long as you can successfully break into the city, the next battle will be easy. Huang Degong is confident that as long as the Hu Ben Army explodes the city gate, it will be completely fine if the three of them end the battle.

At the same time, Huang Degong also had a vague desire to make a fool of himself. Because last night's urgent march made the three generals feel very shameless and wanted to find an opportunity to regain some dignity. Your Hu Ben Army is arrogant and walks fast, but it is not necessarily arrogant when fighting. We have to see how long it takes for your Hu Ben Army to open the city gate. If your Hu Ben Army only says nothing but practices fake style, we don't mind despising you.

"We are only responsible for opening the city gate?"

Zhang Zhun stared at Huang Degong with a bright look and asked with a smile.

He knew very well what the people in Liaodong were thinking. They were still hostile to the Hu Ben Army. This hostility had no close connection with Emperor Chongzhen, and was purely a competition between the two major armies of the Hu Ben Army and the Liaodong Army. The Liaodong Army was generally very xenophobic. They indeed regarded Liaodong as their own Liaodong. Even if they did not surrender to the Tartars, they would not welcome outsiders, especially the arrival of the Hu Ben Army, a giant.

To be honest, Huang Degong and the others did not like Zhang Zhun's arrival. It was just that the combat power shown by the Hu Ben Army was indeed strong, and with the rebellion within the Liaodong Army itself, they had to accept Zhang Zhun's arrival. However, if they had the opportunity to make the Hu Ben Army look ugly, or if they had the opportunity to make the Liaodong Army win the Hu Ben Army, they would work hard to win. After all, this was a matter of the dignity of soldiers, and no one wanted to be worse than the other.

"Yes, just open the city gate, let's solve the remaining battles."

Huang Degong said hurriedly.

"Are you sure?"

Zhang Zhun said meaningfully.

He had long seen that Huang Degong had selfish intentions in doing this. The three generals were testing the Hu Ben Army, and at the same time they wanted to show their faces and save some face for the Liaodong Army. In their opinion, as long as they could enter the city smoothly, there would definitely be no suspense in the remaining battle. They happened to take this opportunity to beat Zu Da Nian hard to show their strength in combat. But is the fact really the case? Let's wait and see!

"certainly!"

Cao Wenzhao said loudly.

He is a typical militant and can't wait. He believes that as long as he enters the city smoothly, he will definitely beat Zu Dainian to death. Xingshan Fort relies on the high city wall, and nothing else is a problem. Without the protection of the city wall, how strong can Zu Dainian be?

"good!"

"That's all!"

Zhang Zhun nodded and said calmly.

"OK!"

The three generals turned around and left immediately.

"Huang Liang, blow up the city gate."

Zhang Zhun gave an order lightly.

"clear!"

Huang Liang agreed to go.

Just now, he had carefully observed that the north gate of Xingshan Fort was actually not very strong. It could explode smoothly with just about one hundred kilograms of explosives. Each soldier of the Hu Ben Army usually carries about two kilograms of spare explosives. As long as these spare explosives are concentrated, they can be tied into several large explosive packs for large-scale blasting operations.

"Wei Ran!"

"Zhao Yuchen!"

"Each team of you prepares two thirty kilogram explosive packs!"

Huang Liang gave a quick order.

"clear!"

"clear!"

Wei Ran and Zhao Yuchen were busy immediately after receiving the order. They concentrated all the black explosives carried by their team, roughly measured the weight, poured them into a dry cloth bag, then tied the cloth bag firmly and inserted a fuse outside. An original black explosive bag was made.

"Governor, what are your subordinates doing?"

Cao Wenzhao said curiously.

"Prepare the firecrackers."

Zhang Zhun's meaningful answer.

Cao Wenzhao, Huang Degong, Cao Bianjiao and others looked at each other but didn't understand what Zhang Zhun meant. Although the equipment of the Ming army in Liaodong was basically mainly firearms, with all kinds of muskets and cannons, they were really far from Zhang Zhun when it came to their deep understanding of black gunpowder.

The weapons production and use of weapons in the Ming Dynasty were completely isolated, and the two sides basically had no exchanges. As for news feedback, there was no such thing as the military battles and military weapons bureaus responsible for the production of firearms, they were typical characters who were responsible for killing and burying. They did not care much about the quality and performance of the weapons they produced.

The Ming army troops who used firearms basically passively accepted the quality and performance of these firearms. If there is anything they are not satisfied with, they have no feedback channels. They can only use any firearms when they are haired. As for studying more firearms, it is someone else's business. This severely lack of stimulation and power mode has led to the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, which has always been very slow.

The fastest development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty was the period of Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua. Because these two people were powerful ministers, they could use top-down methods to study more and more advanced firearms for the military battle and military weapons bureaus. They would actively learn from any advanced firearms outside and then imitate them. This made the gap between the Ming army's firearms and the advanced level of the world.

However, after both of these two people passed away, the research on firearms in the Ming Dynasty basically stagnated. Other ministers did not have the knowledge of Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua at all, nor did they have such interest. It seems that Zhao Shizhen and others did not receive any attention from others, and they did not even look at them directly. In this way, the development of the Ming army's firearms was getting further and further away from the advanced level of the world.

Even compared with the Tartars, they were gradually lagging behind. After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he was very encouraged to study and manufacture artillery. A special artillery casting workshop was built in the south of Shenyang, which was quite large. After Kong Youde surrendered to the Tartars with a large number of Portuguese technicians and artillery craftsmen, the level of artillery casting was already above the Ming army. In fact, the number of red-clothed cannons that the Tartars currently owned was much higher than that of the Ming army.

The use of firearms within the Ming army was very contradictory. They wanted to use firearms to defeat the Tartars, but they felt that the performance and quality of the firearms were not satisfactory. At some point, firearms were even less useful than traditional swords, guns, swords and halberds. It was like Cao Wenzhao and others who refused to use gunpowder weapons. His troops were only equipped with some tiger squat cannons, and the number of muskets was very small. Most of the soldiers still used traditional swords, guns, swords and halberds.

As for gathering all the explosives and making them into huge explosive packs, they really don't understand. They even haven't heard of them. In fact, if they knew the blasting technology, the Liaodong Army would not be so difficult when siegeing the city. The Liaodong Army failed several times to recover Dalinghe Fort, but they failed under the siege. To be honest, the Tartars' arrowheads were really powerful. If they could not enter the city quickly, there would be too many people who died outside the city.

Soon, Wei Ran and Zhao Yuchen each prepared four large explosive packs of thirty kilograms. The charges of the four explosive packs together were 120 kilograms, which was almost the same. However, for safety reasons, Huang Liang prepared one himself, a total of five.

At this time, the defenders of Xingshan Fort were still sleeping. Except for the sentries, no one else woke up. The sentries on the top of the city did not notice that many enemies had come outside the city. The entire Xingshan Fort looked very quiet.

"superior!"

Huang Liang shouted in a low voice.

Two blasting teams immediately flew up.

For such blasting training, each association of the Huben Army, and even each squad, is quite frequent, and basically it needs to be trained every three days. This is the most skill of infantry, and of course it requires the most professional training. In fact, each infantry team of the Huben Army has at least two blasting teams. Each blasting team is organized with three people, and can carry six large explosive packs at a time.

"Who?"

"stop!"

The sentry at the top of Xingshan Fort found someone rushing up outside the city and yelled quickly.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Some of the guard sentries began to fire their guns to warn them.

The Ming army in Liaodong was equipped with basically all Thunder guns. This is an ancient mezzanine. It was equipped in the early stages of Wanli. It had a diameter of more than 20 mm and the weight of the projectile was more than 25 grams. Its power was quite good, and it could basically reach seventy or eighty meters away. If it was hit at close range, the consequences would be very serious. The 25 grams of projectile would be more than half a tael.

However, as an ancient smoothbore gun, the accurate head of the Thunder gun is indeed desperate. If hundreds of Thunder guns were not shot together, there would be basically no effect. If the Thunder gun was shot alone and the projectile hit the target accurately, it would not be that the shooter's level was high, but that God was blind.

When they heard the gunshot, Huang Degong, Cao Wenzhao, Cao Bianjiao and others were immediately nervous. They all felt that the Hu Ben Army had just stepped forward and was easily knocked down. It should be noted that there were thousands of rebels in Xingshan Fort. Fortunately, everything in front of them made them feel quite comforting. Although the number of Hu Ben Army was small, it was very fast, like a rabbit, and rushed towards the north gate of Xingshan Fort.

The defenders of Xingshan Fort obviously did not expect that the arrival of the Hu Ben Army would be so fast. They did not recognize the famous Hu Ben Army at all. They thought they were, so they did not pay much attention. In the end, they found that there were only a few people, and they did not take it seriously. Therefore, the gunfire on the top of the city was not very fierce.

Soon, the two blasting teams successfully arrived in the city gate. They placed explosive packs, lit the fuse, and returned smoothly. When they came back, there was no burden of the explosive packs, and their movements were obviously faster. After a while, they had returned to the starting point. Apart from some dust splashed on their bodies, there was no damage.

“Huh?”

"No response?"

Huang Degong and others looked at Zhang Zhun in surprise.

Didn’t you say you wanted to blow up the city gate? Why did a group of people have no reaction after going up? Did they fail? Or did they show us a look?

"immediately!"

Zhang Zhun replied with a smile.
To be continued...