"Woo~~", Yang Ling woke up in the excitement of the horn, and jumped up. Because Han Youniang followed her, it was inconvenient to live in the Datong Shop of Yuelou with Huang County Chief, Yang Ling slept in the Jade Emperor Pavilion between the east and north city gates.

Han Youniang rubbed her eyes and woke up. Yang Ling jumped down to the ground and shouted while running: "The Tartars have attacked the city. Stay here honestly, I'll go and have a look."

There were shouts of killing everywhere. The soldiers ran back and forth on the city wall, constantly wielding their swords to cut off the hooks thrown by the city, and fought back with sharp arrows. Every ten steps inside the city wall was a winch with thin iron cables tied with a diameter of one foot and a length of about one foot. On the log was exposed with dense iron nails about five inches long, which looked like a giant wolf's mace.

The two officers and soldiers hid under the battlements and just raised the wooden stick and threw it to the city. They heard a scream, then shook the winch at both ends and twisted the "mad" back.

Although this kind of city-guarding tool is a bit bulky and delayed, there are also several archers at both ends to help, which is enough to make up for the shortcomings and is quite lethal.

He hurried to the wall. As soon as he held the wall, a sharp arrow flew over to his cheek with a "stern" sound, and shot on the lintel of the Yuhuang Temple. The tail of the arrow buzzed and trembled, which scared Yang Ling in a cold sweat.

Yang Ling calmed down and hid behind the wall and looked down. He was shocked. Why did so many enemies suddenly appear? The city was filled with Tartar soldiers, with the city walls several meters high. They used quilts and stairs to throw up the city walls, climbing upwards without fear of death. Behind them, a large number of archers were running back and forth, shooting upwards to cover their attacks. The archers on the city continued to fire arrows, but the enemy was large and we were few. Although we had the advantage of the geographical advantage, they were still suppressed and could not raise our heads.

Yang Ling hurried to the south city gate with his waist and rushed up to the city tower. There was a loud bang, the ground trembled and smoke filled the gunpowder, which scared Yang Ling. When he looked down at the city, he saw a large pit exploded on the ground, with more than a dozen people coming down, and a horse with broken legs fell in a pool of blood and was still crying.

Yang Ling was secretly shocked. He couldn't tell that the artillery at this time was so powerful. Did there be bombs in this era? He thought that the shells at this time were all solid iron balls.

However, the smoke from the cannon was so thick that Yang Ling had just run over and breathed rapidly. He was choking and coughing because of the fire. The smoke slowly dissipated. County Magistrate Huang behind the city tower bunker appeared. He waved to Yang Ling in a hurry: "Nephew, come here quickly, be careful not to be injured by the trap."

Yang Ling hugged and ran over, and saw three cannons in front of the city tower, facing the city. Several gunners were nervously loading bullets and filling medicines. The lead of a cannon on the left was ignited at this time. Several gunners covered their ears and closed their eyes. There was a loud bang, and the position of the cannon suddenly filled with smoke, and even a figure could not see clearly.

Yang Ling's eyes were red due to the smoke. When the smoke in front of him slowly dissipated, he saw that the cannon with a bracket below the city tower was more than ten feet away. It was because of an iron anchor on the cannon. Otherwise, I didn't know where the cannon was going to jump, and several gunners were pushing the cannon back to its original position.

Because the Tartars wandered around in the city and avoided the front, although the cannon was shaking, it only killed one person and injured a few people, which felt like a cannon was hitting a mosquito.

Yang Ling asked loudly: "Master Huang, why did so many Tartars suddenly come? Where is General Jiang?"

County Chief Huang pointed to the front and shouted loudly: "The two-mile and a half post office have fallen, the Tatars have increased their troops, and the Jiangmaster is supervising the battle in front of him. There are only more than one hundred soldiers on the city. You can go to the post office office and ask the post office to come up to defend the city."

"Okay!" Yang Ling agreed and turned around and ran to the city. At this time, Liu Dianshi led more than 200 civilians to the city and was commanded by a whistle commander to scatter all over the city walls. These civilians were just ordinary people, all of whom had not received military training, and were panicked. After listening to the soldiers' explanation, he regardless of whether there were enemies under the city, grabbed the rock and threw it down, which made the soldiers stomped their feet in anger.

These people didn't know how to protect themselves. A Minzhuang who was rising up was shot in the chest with an arrow. Han Youniang, who had just run over, held him up. The other Minzhuang was frightened and timid when they saw it. Although some officers and soldiers scolded him loudly, they refused to show their heads.

At this time, the street was empty. The people were indeed staying at home and dared not run around under the scolding of the yamen runners. As soon as they reached the intersection, Yang Ling saw Ma Yizheng leading more than a dozen postmen, rushing toward him, three carriages were coming in a hurry. Yang Ling hurriedly stopped and said loudly: "Sir Ma, the Tartars scattered under the city, and the defenders are not enough. County Magistrate Huang asked you to send all postmen to the city to help defend him."

Ma Yicheng jumped off the horse and said, "There are no manpowers? There are also a large number of Tartars siege cities at the east gate and west gate. They lacked enough equipment to siege the city, so they scattered around to climb the city walls. My people have been sent out, and only these are left, and they are sending cannons to Lord Jiang."

When Yang Ling heard that there were cannons, he couldn't help but feel happy. However, thinking about the effect of the iron guy just now, he was a little disappointed. He said, "Now the Tartars are blooming around, mainly because the soldiers guarding the city cannot take care of them. I'm afraid the cannons are not very useful."

Ma Yicheng commanded two carriages to drive to the east and west gates, and took a carriage to continue moving forward, saying, "My dear nephew is wrong. This is not a general's cannon. This cannon is a "threatening thief-killing machine pomelo", "Weiyuan stone cannon", and "10,000 enemies lychee cannon", which is the most convenient way to defend the city."

Yang Ling was puzzled. Seeing that he didn't understand, Ma Yicheng rushed to the city and explained it to him. It turned out that the cannon Ma Yicheng was actually a bomb. The "thief attacking machine pomelo" was a bit similar to modern grenades. It was cast with pig iron and shaped like a mature big pomegranate.

The "Weiyuan Stone Cannon" is chiseled with stones and is filled with fire. Each stone bullet is mixed with 100 small stones, which is extremely lethal when exploded. The "10,000-person lychee cannon" is the largest in size. The clay pot is filled with fire, and there are also gravel, crumbs, and iron caltrops. The explosion is shrapnel flying to hundreds of steps, hurting many enemies.

Yang Ling was overjoyed when he heard this. I remember that when I watched "The Old Summer Palace", the Qing Dynasty fought with the Eight-Nation Alliance. It was a tactic of the sea of ​​people and a big sword and a spear to fight against the Japanese. I didn't expect that the Ming Dynasty's firearms were so developed. With such things, even if I had a scholar, it would be easy to have to guard a city wall alone. I couldn't help but be happy.

The shipment of this batch of bombs did have a great effect. Although the Tatar cavalry using cold weapons were fearless, they could not fight against the medicine at all. With the explosions everywhere, countless casualties were killed and injured in the city, and the siege stopped temporarily.

There were more than 40 Ming soldiers killed and injured on the top of the city, and there were about a hundred people in the civilians who did not know how to protect themselves. The army and the civilian doctors who were temporarily recruited were busy treating the wounds.

Jiang Bazhu killed several Tatar soldiers with his own hands, and he became very angry. He carried two bloody sabers and shouted to Minzhuang for being stupid. He kicked them on the butt from time to time, scolding the soldiers to teach them how to fight. Huang County Chief, Liu Dianshi and others ran to inspect the east and west cities to observe the casualties.

Yang Ling climbed the city and saw the Tatars retreating outside the three arrows, brewing the next round of attacks. The Tatar soldiers outside the east and west cities also began to gather there, with a total of more than 3,000 people. Han Youniang asked for a whistle stick from the familiar yamen runners and stood beside him to take care of him carefully. Although she was petite, she had a cool and heroic posture.

Seeing that there were so many enemy troops outside the city, even if it was purely for consumption, it was unknown whether the remaining defenders could defend the second round of attacks. Moreover, the most powerful weapon for defending the city was less than twenty bombs, and they were a little worried.

But the Ming army now gave him a very unexpected feeling. He did not expect that military technology was so developed during the Ming Dynasty. In his impression, the Ming Dynasty was always weak and vulnerable. The emperor was not doing his job properly, and the eunuchs were harming the world, and they didn't know anything else.

However, for an ordinary person who is more familiar with Qing palace dramas, he can only know so much. If he hadn't known that the current crown prince is Zhu Houzhao and had happened to have watched the movie "Dragon and Phoenix", he would have no idea who would become the emperor after Emperor Hongzhi, let alone know more about the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Ming Dynasty was compiled by people in the Qing Dynasty, the hidden truths were self-evident, the romance and legends derived from this were of course even less acceptable. A book called "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" and a book called "A Brief Record of the Massacre of the City of Jiading" were annihilated for more than 200 years in China, and it was only found from Japan after more than 200 years. This shows how thorough the Qing Dynasty was.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty was not far from capitalism at that time. Iron production was the sum of the entire Europe. One-third of the world's silver was flowing to China because of trade, and industrial output accounted for more than 60% of the world. During the Qianlong period, the output accounted for only 6% of the world.

No wonder Matteo Ricci, a missionary in the Ming Dynasty, recorded in China in "Notes on China": "The material production here is extremely rich, with everything, sugar is whiter than Europe, and cloth is more exquisite... People dressed in a gorgeous manner, elegant manner, the people are happy, polite, and elegant in conversation." Macartney, a British envoy who visited during the Qianlong period, said: "There are amazing poverty everywhere... many people have no clothes to wear... the army is as tattered like beggars."

During the Ming Dynasty, China was like Japan in later generations. It invented what it could be, and spent a lot of money to buy foreign goods and researched and imitated it. At that time, the "Shenji Camp" in the capital had 5,000 people in each battalion, 3,600 thunder cannons, 200 Dalian bead cannons, and 400 hand guns. What a modern equipment!

However, the irreconcilability of economic and cultural advancement with political and military corruption has allowed a more backward culture to take over the relatively civilized China, miraculously turning back time, scientists have disappeared, and advanced firearms have been buried.

The musket was denounced as "strange tricks and lewd tricks" and abolished. During the "Jacsa War", Kangxi left only two trigger-firing mesh rope guns seized by the Qing army, and ordered the Qing army to prohibit the use of such new muskets, on the grounds that "the arch and arrow spears given by the predecessors must not be interrupted." By the time of the Opium War, the Qing soldiers holding large swords and spears were completely unfamiliar with the firearms and actually regarded them as evil things, thinking that they could be broken with blood.

Yang Ling naturally didn't know much about these things. He just saw that the weapons used by the Ming army were too unexpected. He remembered that the Eight Banners Army swept across China later, and he couldn't figure out the reason for it.

The boss of Wang Zhubu and the old man from Reed, the village led the people to the city to deliver food. The boss of "Hongyan Tower" deliberately killed a big fat pig to reward the soldiers. Han Youniang went over and took two bowls of rice and a bowl of fat pork stew and called out: "My husband, let's have a meal."

Yang Ling woke up from his shock, quickly took the food from Han Youniang and put it on the snow-covered city wall. The two of them stood by the wall and started eating. Yang Ling was really hungry, and pulled in half a bowl of rice. Only then did he find Han Youniang eating the food in small mouthfuls, looking at herself with a smile, and asked strangely: "Look at what I'm doing?"

Han Youniang smiled with a pursed lips and said softly: "I feel happy when I see my husband eating delicious food."

Yang Ling's eyes were a little wet. When he saw Han Youniang rushing with him to eat vegetables again, leaving the meat in the bowl. The weather was cold and it was almost condensed. He hurriedly took two pieces of it and put them in her bowl and ordered: "Eat all the meat quickly. My husband doesn't like eating fat pork, do you know?"

Han Youniang agreed sweetly, and used chopsticks to cut the meat and sent it to Yangling's bowl with thinness. She snatched the rice herself, her eyes exposed from the edge of the bowl, and looked at him with flashes. Yang Ling smiled helplessly and obediently pulled the meat into her mouth and chewed it in big mouth. Han Youniang saw that he was eating very deliciously, and her big eyes were bent into a crescent moon with satisfaction.

After the meal, Han Youniang obediently snatched the bowl to send it back. Yang Ling saw a grain of rice on the corner of her mouth, and couldn't help but stretch out her fingers to shave her lips. Han Youniang was stunned. Seeing a grain of rice sticking to his fingers, she couldn't help feeling embarrassed. When Yang Ling didn't flip the rice off, she put the grain of rice into her mouth, and her pretty face suddenly turned red.

She hurriedly looked around and found that no one paid attention to her husband's almost teasing intimate behavior. Her shoulders, which she raised because of her nervousness, collapsed with confidence. Seeing that her husband was still looking at her with a smile, she couldn't help but give him a shy look, then quickly picked up the bowl and turned around and ran away.

Yang Ling saw that although she was wearing a men's robe, her waist was still slender, and there was a moving charm in her swaying. She felt aroused in her heart. Thinking that one day she would give her gentleness and love to her to another man, her heart suddenly became full of jealousy: "The current atmosphere is like this, the young mother will definitely not remarry, right? Then can I?"

He suddenly turned around, grabbed a handful of white snow and rubbed his cheeks: "Heavenly, what did you think? If you invest too much in your relationship, wouldn't it make her feel even more painful? You haven't tried it, how can you know that you can't let her fall in love with others?"

"Fall in love with someone else?" As soon as the thought jumped out, he found that it was even more unbearable than losing her again. The balance of love began to sway between selfishness and "greatness", and the snow melted like tears on his face.
Chapter completed!