Chapter 64                                                             �

Zhaozhou is a small and old city.

It can only accommodate five thousand soldiers, but it won’t be enough if there are more.

This is also why Zhaozhou is so important, with only 5,000 soldiers stationed.

At this moment, Zhu Yi stood above the city wall, watching the green wheat fields outside being stepped on by countless people.

There is always not much food, so Zhu Yi opened hundreds of hectares of land near Zhaozhou City. Although he can only harvest one season a year, it is better than not.

But his painstaking efforts have now been destroyed by the entire city of Wastu.

A large number of siege equipment were pushed out.

The Northeast has never been short of wood.

Even among the siege equipment, Zhu Yi saw a lot of firearms, although the number was not large.

This is already the only inventory of Watts.

This was the spoils of war in the 14th year of Zhengtong. Although Zhang Zongzhou was determined to develop firearms in Wats, Wats had been in turmoil for many years and even cut off tribute.

Under the difficulties, Zhang Zongzhou had no choice. After all, from the perspective of later generations, firearms in this era were quite simple, but in this era, a large number of firearms were also needed to support the national strength.

The national strength of Wats is too weaker than that of the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of firearm manufacturing and large amounts of firearms equipped with the army, the performance is particularly obvious.

Therefore, the firearms that can be used by thorns are just some spoils.

Zhang Zongzhou could only use more siege equipment to offset the Ming army's firepower.

Moreover, as the first to land, it was not the Watshu army, but the nearby Jurchen tribe.

These Jurchen tribes wanted to escape in the face of the Watshu army, but they would not let them go.

In particular, Yesen discovered that his prestige in various Jurchen tribes was almost collapsed. He even realized that this kind of collapse was probably irreversible. His attitude towards the Jurchen tribe also made a big turn of 180 degrees.

Before, Huairou was trying to win over, but now it is used as a disposable item.

Now that control of the Northeast is about to be lost, Yesen would rather have the entire Songhua River basin become a white land and an uninhabited area than leave these people to the Ming Dynasty.

I can't get it first, and I don't want the Ming army to get it.

Therefore, it is natural to expel them to attack the city.

Even Zhu Yi and his brother-in-law were among them.

A long horn sounded, like a wolf howled.

Wats were preparing to attack on three sides. All units were ready to be in place.

It is not that the tile thorns surrounded three and one missing, but that the Songhua River is south of Zhaozhou City. Even during the Yongle period, Zhaozhou was one of the Northeast Water and Land Stations of the Ming Dynasty.

The army cannot be spread out in the south of Zhaozhou City.

Zhu Yi walked over the city wall and looked at the soldiers, saying nothing, just walking by them calmly, which was enough for the soldiers below to cheer up.

Zhang Fu's evaluation of Zhu Yi was just right.

Zhu Yi is not as good as his father in terms of military talent. After all, although Zhu Yong was not safe in his later years, he really came out of the bloody storm when he was young.

He has seen big scenes and fought, and he has also presided over big military operations. Although he was defeated in the Battle of Maoerzhuang, he cannot deny Zhu Yong's military talent just because of a failure.

Zhu Yi is far inferior to him.

After learning from his mistakes, he wholeheartedly grabbed the soldiers below. Although the Duke Chengguo family had already declined, the centipede of the worm died without being stiff. Even if the Duke Chengguo family did not have a duke, it was still a difference between heaven and earth compared to ordinary soldiers.

Zhu Yi has many resources that ordinary soldiers can never imagine.

Silver and other things are relatively low-level. Not to mention anything else, Zhu Yi promoted one or two low-level officers in one sentence. Just like the various academies established by Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Yi could send people in with a letter of recommendation.

Although this kind of residual shade will only become less and less.

But within a few years, it will not be defeated.

Therefore, Zhu Yi used various means to help his soldiers, and he could get the soldiers' death power, which was also one of the bargaining chips that Zhu Yi dared to stay in Zhaozhou.

Zhu Yi himself may not be outstanding, but she is definitely qualified.

So, he just walked around the city wall, and every soldier he saw couldn't help but straighten his chest.

Finally, Zhu Yi stood on the north city gate.

There are only two gates in the entire Zhaozhou City, north and south.

The south gate faces the Songhua River directly, and the north gate is naturally the focus of Washi's attack.

Zhu Yi looked over at first sight, but saw countless flags waving in the north, and countless shields and chariots were mixed in the crowd, slowly coming towards the city gate.

Outside Zhaozhou City, there is only a shallow trench and no moat.

If the tile army was two or three months late, this trench would probably become a moat.

Zhu Yi has not been idle since he stayed in Zhaozhou.

The construction in the city needs to be maintained, repaired, or even rebuilt, which was the top priority he had to do last year. There was no other reason. If these houses were not built properly, how could the soldiers survive a harsh winter?

Then there is the renovation of the city wall, after all, this is a city that has been around for many years.

Many city walls seem to be OK, but the inside is already empty and cannot withstand the bombardment. Whether it is the cannon or the Huihuan, some city walls are more obvious, with cracks as big as a palm, and they wish they would fall down as soon as the wind blows.

This is not just a cannon bombardment. I am afraid that even the cannons cannon fire on them.

After the Chinese New Year, we have to plow again.

Speaking of which, Zhu Yi has been stationed in Zhaozhou for nearly ten months.

However, it took only five or six months to start construction in the long winter in Northeast China, so he had too many things that he had not had time to complete.

This battle is coming.

Zhu Yi slapped hard on the female wall and stared at the bottom.

Several miles north of Zhu Yi's place, Yesen also rode on his horse, looking at the abrupt highland standing on the Northeast Plain.

Yexian felt an illusion in his heart. It seemed that this was not on the grassland, but on somewhere on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty.

Ye Yi suppressed his random thoughts and waved his hand gently. Suddenly, all the horns rang out together, and for a moment, there was only one sound left on the entire grassland.

It's the sound of the horn.

The city of Zhaozhou was not showing any weakness, and all the drums were ringing at the same time. The rumbling drums became more and more urgent, and even at the end, they could not even hear the beat.

Both sides were like the roar of two beasts. It was their temptation before the fight.

"Kill." The various tribes of the Jurchen tribe were willing or forced to do so, and had no choice on the battlefield. They were already close to the range of artillery fire on the city wall.

One by one, they pushed the siege equipment hard and approached the city wall.

If they were going to attack Haixi City, such an offensive would not have any impact on Haixi City. First of all, the specifications of Haixi City are large enough. It is an authentic city, but Zhaozhou is different, which is far inferior to ordinary county towns in the Ming Dynasty.

There are enough cannons in Haixi. However, there are not too many cannons in Zhaozhou City.

It’s not that the rear did not want to send cannons, but that the cannons were too heavy. If you want to transport a thousand-pound cannon from the rear to Zhaozhou, you may not be able to survive in one or two months.

However, when the weather is suitable, the Ming army has never heard of the supply of Zhaozhou.

But artillery is important, but what is more important than artillery is food.

The soldiers without food turned into soft-legged shrimps. Therefore, heavy artillery was suppressed and transported, and most of the firearms at the city head of Zhaozhou were small artillery.

The power is not enough to destroy siege equipment such as cloud ladders, shield cars, goose cars, cloud towers, siege hammers in one shot.

Of course, it is not without heavy artillery. It is just not enough to cover the entire battlefield.

However, there were not enough firearms among the Ming army that made the thorns scared.

After Zhu Yiwass' army entered the range, with a command, only a few cannons opened fire first. The roar of the cannons was like thunder falling from the sky, and it immediately hit the attacking crowd, smashing a bloody alley.

Dozens of Jurchen warriors were so terrible that they did not even have a whole body left.

However, they quickly calmed down.

Because these cannons fire too slowly, the threat to the siege soldiers was limited. However, these cannons also made them think of the dangers on the battlefield and began to charge quickly.

Countless muskets, crossbows, swarms of bees and various cannons were waiting for Zhu Yi to get out of the order.
Chapter completed!