Chapter 644

Dingxiang is not the real capital. Shi Hu came here during the strategic retreat. The scope of the palace city is incomparable with that of the normal capital.

The walls of the palace city are neither high nor thick. There are not many palaces and towers in the palace city, but there is a large square with a large area.

In fact, it is not a real palace city. There are 10000 or 20000 troops stationed in it. Where there are troops, there must be squares for practice.

The Han army who entered the city saw the bloody picture like the Shura field. Many people with low bearing capacity were already vomiting, but those who had long adapted focused on the possible counterattack of the enemy.

The roar of horse hoof trampling sounded as the general expected in advance. Looking at the center of the palace city, there was thick dust and smoke, and the roar of horse hoof came from the dust and smoke.

The remnants of the Jie people tried to break through repeatedly, because the Han Army arranged many traps for cavalry outside Dingxiang city. The armor and riding equipment of the Dragon Guard often lost a lot, but the results were small. The main force of the battle became heavy infantry.

When the Han army broke into Dingxiang City, the two armies fought in the ruins everywhere, and the irresistible garrison retreated into the palace city. A wave of heavy infantry was lost while guarding the palace city wall, but the loss of armor and riding equipment was limited.

"I knew I wouldn't wait to die." At this moment, ran min led the generals to the shattered city wall, looked at the dust and fog from a distance, and listened to the roaring horseshoes: "hanging the crossbow on the city wall early is to wait for this moment."

The boom had existed in the pre Qin Dynasty. I don't know why it disappeared in the Han Dynasty. According to normal history, it won't be made again until the Song Dynasty. Isn't there Liu Yan?

The standing army of the state of Han has been in combat for many years and has fought more with Hu Lu. It has enough experience in how to deal with cavalry.

When they found that the enemy's cavalry was coming, the leading generals and schools did not order their soldiers to meet them. The infantry retreated to the city wall to form a dense formation, and the cavalry units began to cruise.

It is reasonable for the infantry to retreat towards the city wall. The cavalry originally need enough space to be flexible. The infantry are afraid that the cavalry will attack from the front and back by relying on their own speed. The existence of the city wall is the support behind. The lack of a position where the cavalry can swim is equal to the lack of a threat.

At the same time, the cavalry unit is also a correct consideration. The area in the palace city is limited. It is unwise to launch a face-to-face attack with light and sudden riding to the armour and riding equipment. If you really want to cruise and pull the enemy scattered, it's best to pull the enemy scattered. You can't pull the enemy scattered, or you can find time to make a surprise attack from different positions.

"Should there be nearly a thousand?" Li Tan is a general of the northern expedition. It is a necessary skill to judge the number of enemy forces by listening to the news: "bronze guns and stone throwing vehicles throw explosive bags fiercely. How about bed crossbows?"

There should be more than 200 bed crossbows suspended on the city wall. They have been busy debugging since they were lifted up, and most of them are ready for launch.

"The size of the explosive package used for the bed crossbow is small, and the explosive package without the riprap truck is powerful." Ran min is telling the truth. The firing tension between the bed crossbow and the stone throwing car is really different: "it's enough to deal with the enemy of flesh and blood."

In fact, at the beginning, the idea of throwing explosive bags by riprap trucks was not simply to bomb people. It was more about destroying fortifications built by the enemy and using the power of explosive bags to clean up obstacles.

"Oh?" Li Tan installed the crossbow in the bed crossbow operation group. He saw the explosive bag tied on the thick arrow rod of the crossbow: "will it affect the range?"

Ran min nodded and simply replied, "nature."

The billowing dust and smoke trampled by the horse's hoofs are getting closer and closer. The Dragon Guard on the horse's back must be shouting while charging, but it is covered up by the roaring sound of the horse's hoofs.

"Four hundred steps!"

"Three hundred steps!"

"Two hundred steps!"

"Preparation -"

"Fire!"

"Shoot!"

The heavy hammer struck on the huge trigger, the sound of bow string banging rang through, and the sharp roar broke through the air.

Li Tan thought of something and said, "if the volume is reduced again, the bow and crossbow can also launch explosives."

Of course, there was such an idea. There were bow and crossbow troops in the Five Dynasties and ten countries to carry out such operations. That is, the gunpowder at that time could only sound and smoke. It was really harmless.

It is precisely because gunpowder has little lethality. The practice of binding gunpowder to the arrow as an explosion was abandoned. Later, the arrow propelled by gunpowder was specially developed, and it was named a swarm of bees.

The gunpowder formulated by Liu Yan is correct and has been specially processed into granular gunpowder. Although the explosion power is not as strong as yellow gunpowder, the lethality is not bad.

The bed crossbow was fired, and soon bursts of explosion came from the rolling dust and smoke. The loud noise was accompanied by the neighing of war horses and people's wailing.

In the sound of explosion, dust and smoke is a kind of smoke column rising in the air. The gas explosion generated by the explosion rolls up the smoke trampled by horseshoes, and a smoke caused by the explosion is quickly covered.

Because of the smoke, it is difficult to see the specific situation, but the sound of horses' hoofs is no longer so loud.

"Look." Li Tan pointed to the scattered enemy: "just say that the loud noise will frighten the war horses and cause the phenomenon of frightening the horses."

A large number of cavalry riding together will roll up thick dust and smoke. Although a small number will trample on dust, it can not cause a large area of smoke.

Standing on the city wall, the Dragon guards who were hit by a wave of explosives were completely disordered. It was a scene in which people would not listen to orders even if they were not frightened.

"The king has made a great weapon." Ran min was talking about gunpowder. Although he was happy that his side had mastered such a sharp weapon, he could not help but have a bleak feeling: "when this weapon appears, the battle will no longer rely on military courage."

Not to mention flesh and blood, even if a boulder is blown up, it will be crushed. Personal martial courage is not completely useless, but the role of firearms is infinitely reduced.

"The Great Han also has a large number of cavalry." Li Tan frowned and asked, "should they all be harsh and make them deaf?"

The scene where the horses were scared by the explosion was staged below. It was armor and riding gear that needed to be fought at a great cost to be destroyed. Only one wave of explosion lost order. They were being chased by the re approaching Han cavalry. Even the Han infantry could surround those armor and riding gear that were left alone because of the shock of the horses.

Of course, ran min also thought about similar problems. What he thought was the same as that of Li Tan, that is, he might make the war horse deaf, or it wouldn't work.

In the early stage when gunpowder weapons were put into battle, the first consideration, whether in the east or the west, was to deafen the war horse. Later, I don't know how to develop a set of training skills. Facts have also proved that trained horses will no longer be afraid of explosions. Cavalry can be put into use on a large scale in World War I, and even cavalry still have a place in World War II.

How to train horses to adapt to explosions? Liu Yan used to be a marine, but not a cavalry. Then he didn't specially consult relevant materials. He really didn't understand it. He had to study it slowly.

"That..." ran Min said with some uncertainty, "there will be flashes in the explosion. Moreover, the scene is really terrible. I'm afraid it's not just harsh to avoid startling the horse."

The scene is the shock wave generated after the explosion.

I don't know how long the cavalry had been the king of the land battlefield. The Central Plains Dynasty was passive when fighting with the grassland nomads because it didn't have enough horses.

In fact, the advantage of cavalry is not simply in fighting. Their real advantage is that they move fast enough. Even if they are only short-distance, they can run when they can't fight, and the infantry can't catch up.

Moreover, because of their mobility, cavalry can often choose combat targets more flexibly, which can often make infantry tired and wait for infantry to launch a sudden attack when they are tired.

The two can chat so leisurely that the counterattack of the residual organization of the Jie nationality has been disintegrated. They don't need the bed crossbow troops on the city wall to launch the second round. Only the cavalry and infantry have solved the counterattack of more than a thousand armor and riding equipment, and the troops have been killed in the palace.

Waiting for the subordinate generals to report that they had mastered the situation, ran min and a group of generals entered the palace.

They found that even at the end of the road, the extremely extravagant nature of the Jie nationality has not changed. The chapter platforms and pavilions of the palace are not very large, but the interior is very gorgeous.

"This is Hu chieftain?" Ran min didn't even want to say the name of Shi Hu. He pointed to the body lying on the bed: "it's smelly and covered with maggots. How to identify it?"

After the stone tiger was killed, his son and those ministers really just left it alone. It's the little ice age. It's not so hot in summer, but the body really needs to expand for three or five days. If it takes longer, it will only rot.

Looking at the corpses covered with maggots will not have any psychological burden on ran min and the generals. Each of them is a corpse coming through the sea of blood. No one sees all kinds of corpses. The reason why they frown one by one is that they can't recognize whether they are stone tigers or not, and how to ask for credit from their own kings.

It's a big trouble to be unable to identify whether the stone tiger is dead or not from the body. In that way, it's impossible to really confirm whether the stone tiger is dead or not. Even if there are more witness cards, the witness cards can't be used as hard evidence for such an important thing.

Well, anyone, including ran min and Li Tan, let alone ask Liu Yan for credit, their future will be good without being affected.

Many emperors of the last dynasty, or some powerful heroes, would rather burn themselves than be captured or killed alive. In addition to knowing that they really can't live, they are also causing trouble to the enemy generals before they die.

How can a general who commands a battle assure his king that the enemy chieftain is dead when he is dead and has no recognizable body? They will worry about whether their kings will suspect that they are running away from the enemy chieftains. Even if the effective kings are magnanimous, they can't prove that the enemy chieftains are dead. The credit must be discounted, and even there is a gap between kings and officials.

"General..." Li Tan asked, "can we conduct a comprehensive search and identification?"

This is a necessary process. The problem is that they have just met the descendants of Shi Hu, and some surviving ministers of Shi Jie Zhao state have also met. What they hear from their mouth is the verbal oath that Shi Hu is definitely dead or was poisoned by his son and the minister.

"Escort Hu chieftain's son to the king." Ran min's face was unusually gloomy: "those who know the process will be escorted together."

No one could laugh at the rotten corpse covered with maggots.

If ran min really wants to catch the stone tiger, naturally he can't kill it, but he will dig a pit in front of the stone tiger, throw some people he knows into the pit and bury them alive. Then it's his turn to the group of dragon guards, and finally ordinary Capricorn people. Now, of course, he can't do it. Not only can he not kill, some important people will set out to escort immediately, and others will be detained for interrogation.

After the collapse of the Dragon guards, Dingxiang's non Han Army voluntarily surrendered or was surrounded and forced to land. Disarmament was inevitable, but ran min ordered all to be tied up. Obviously, he didn't want to have any more accidents.

On the night after the war, since he won, he deserved a reward. He took turns on duty and let go of his food. However, those senior leaders, including ran min, were not happy. It was that the middle and lower level soldiers were not affected.

When we should laugh, the Chinese Army's big account seems dull.

"All recognized." Li Tan pulled a very ugly smile: "whether Shi Hu is dead or not, he didn't find it anyway."

Zhong Xing put down his fork and said dully, "they dare not lie about it. The rotten body should be a stone tiger."

Li Tan looked at Zhong Xing like a fool and said angrily, "we all know that it's rotten. Even if it's true, it's false. Anyway, the general doesn't dare to write that the stone tiger is dead in the war report."

Zhong Xing found that he was really stupid. Some things rely heavily on evidence. If there is no evidence, you can't talk nonsense, especially about the enemy chieftain.

"Don't comment, just write what you know." Ran min's face was not so gloomy. He pulled a reluctant smile and said, "it's up to the king to judge."

Wang Ji, who followed ran min, said cautiously, "maybe we should... Start missing."

For a moment, everyone in the account looked at Wang Ji, many of whom did not hide their anger.

"If you don't catch it, the body can't be identified. You should have the courage to admit that you won't lose the loyalty of your ministers. You shouldn't trouble the king." Wang Ji endured the fear of public anger and said from another angle: "the stone tiger may have fled to Rouran, Ding Ling, or even anywhere. The big man can hunt down the ends of the earth. If he can't hand over the stone tiger, he is an enemy country?"

Ran min didn't turn around yet, but Li Tan patted his thigh.

"Although the big man wants to attack where he doesn't need a reason..." Li Tan appreciated Wang Ji a little, took a look of appreciation and said to ran Min: "but it's also very important to be famous!"

According to ran min's real idea, as long as it is strong enough, you can hit whoever you want. What do you want to do for so many reasons?