Dingxiang is not the real capital, Shi Hu came here during the strategic retreat, and the scope of the palace city is incomparable with its normal capital.
The walls of Miyagi are neither high nor thick, and there are not many palaces and towers in Miyagi, but there is a large square with a large area.
In fact, it is also like that, it is not a palace in the real sense, and there are 10,000 or 20,000 troops stationed in it, and where there are troops, there must be a square for drills.
When the Han army that entered the city saw the bloody picture like the Shura field, many people with low mental tolerance were already vomiting, but those who had long been accustomed to it were focusing on the possible counterattack of the enemy army.
The roar of the horses' hooves was as expected by the Shogun, and when he looked into the center of Miyagi, there was a thick smoke of dust, and the sound of horses' hooves came from the dust.
The remnants of the Qianren repeatedly tried to break through, because the Han army set many traps for the cavalry outside Dingxiang City, and the armor and cavalry of the Longteng Guards often suffered great losses but small results, and the main force of the battle became the heavy infantry.
When the Han army broke into the Dingxiang city, the two armies fought in the ruins everywhere, and the defenders who could not resist retreated into the palace.
When guarding the walls of Miyagi in the back, another wave of mounted heavy infantry was lost, but the loss of armored cavalry was limited.
"I know I won't be shutting down."
At this moment, Ran Min led the generals to the smashed city wall, stared at the dust and mist swept in from a distance, and listened to the earth-shattering horses' hooves: "Hanging the crossbow on the city wall early is just to wait for this moment." ” The boom was there in the pre-Qin period, and I don't know why it disappeared in the Han Dynasty, according to normal history, it will not be re-created until the Two Song Dynasty, but isn't there still Liu Yan The standing army of the Han State has been in a state of combat for many years, and has fought a lot with Hulu, and has enough experience in how to deal with cavalry.
When the enemy's cavalry was killed, the leading generals did not order their corporal to meet them, but the infantry retreated to the edge of the city wall in a dense formation, and the cavalry began to parade in detachments.
It makes sense for the infantry to retreat in the direction of the city wall, the cavalry needs enough space to be flexible, the infantry is more afraid that the cavalry will rely on its own speed to attack from the front and back, the existence of the city wall is the support behind it, one less position that can allow the cavalry to roam, which is equivalent to one less threat.
At the same time, the cavalry detachment is also a correct consideration, the area in the palace is limited, it is very unwise to launch a head-on attack with light cavalry and assault cavalry, it is really necessary to disperse for cruising and pulling, it is best to be able to pull the enemy army around, and if you can't pull the enemy army around, you can also find an opportunity to take the time to raid from different positions.
"There should be nearly a thousand" Li Tan is the general of Zhengbei, and it is a necessary skill to judge the number of enemy troops by listening to the movement: "The bronze cannon and the catapult throw explosives package is fierce, how about the bed crossbow" There should be more than 200 bed crossbows that were hoisted up the city wall, and they have been busy debugging since they were hoisted, and most of them are ready to be fired.
"The explosives bag used for the bed crossbow is smaller, and it is more powerful than the explosive bag of the catapult."
Ran Min was telling the truth, the firing tension of the bed crossbow and the stone throwing car was really different: "It's enough to deal with the enemy army of flesh and blood." ” In fact, the original idea of the catapult throwing explosive package by the catapult was not just to blow up people, but more to destroy the fortifications built by the enemy, and also to use the power of the explosive package explosion to clear the obstacles.
"Oh" Li Tan was watching the crossbow operation group install the crossbow arrows, and saw the explosive bag tied to the thick arrow shaft of the crossbow arrows: "It will affect the range."
Ran Min nodded and responded simply: "Naturally." ” The billowing dust and smoke trampled by the horse's hooves were getting closer and closer, and the dragon guards on horseback must have been charging and shouting, but they were muffled by the roaring sound of the horse's hooves.
"Four Hundred Steps" "Three Hundred Steps" "200 Steps" "Prepare" "Ignition" "Shoot" The hammer struck the massive trigger, the bowstring rattled and a sharp whistling burst through the air.
Li Tan thought of something and said, "If the volume is made smaller, the bow and crossbow can also fire explosives." ” Of course, there is such a concept, and by the time of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there were bow and crossbow troops to carry out this kind of operation, that is, the gunpowder at that time could only be heard and smoked, and it was really not lethal.
It was precisely because the lethality of gunpowder was not very large, and the practice of tying gunpowder to arrows as an explosion was abandoned, and the arrows boosted by gunpowder were specially developed, and a nice name was given to a swarm of bees.
The gunpowder formula made by Liu Yan was correct, and it was also specially processed into granular gunpowder, although the explosion power was not as great as the yellow gunpowder, the lethality was not bad.
The bed crossbow was fired, and soon there were bursts of explosions in the billowing dust and smoke, and the loud noise was accompanied by the neighing of war horses and the wails of people.
In the sound of the explosion, the dust and smoke were a column of smoke rising into the air, and the explosion of air produced by the explosion rolled away the smoke trampled by the horse's hooves, and a puff of smoke from the explosion quickly covered it.
It's hard to see the smoke behind you, but from Tokyo, the sound of horses' hooves isn't so loud anymore.
"Look."
Li Tan pointed to the scattered enemy troops: "Let's just say that the loud noise will frighten the war horses and cause the phenomenon of startling horses." ” A large number of cavalry galloping together will roll up thick dust and smoke, and although a small number will trample on dust, it will not cause a large area of smoke.
Standing on the city wall and watching from a high position, the Dragon Guardian who was hit by a wave of explosives was completely chaotic, it was the kind of scene where even if people were not frightened, their mounts would not obey the call after being frightened.
"The king has come up with an amazing weapon."
Ran Min was talking about gunpowder, although he was happy that he had such a sharp weapon, he inevitably had a kind of depression: "This weapon appeared, and the battle no longer relied on martial arts." ” Not to mention that it is flesh and blood, even if the boulder is blown up, it will be shattered, and personal martial arts are not completely useless, but because of the appearance of firearms, the effect is infinitely reduced.
"The Great Han also has a large number of cavalry."
Li Tan frowned and asked, "Do you want to be all piercing and deaf?"
The scene of the war horses being frightened by the sound of explosions was staged below, and it was supposed to be a huge cost to fight with them to eliminate, but they lost their order after just one wave of explosions, and they were being wantonly pursued by the Han cavalry who were approaching again, and even the Han infantry could besiege and kill those armored cavalry that were left alone because of the startled horses.
Of course, Ran Min also thought about similar problems, and what he thought of was the same as Li Tan, that is, it might make the war horse deaf, or it would really be useless.
In the early days of gunpowder weapons, whether in the East or the West, the first thing to consider was really to deafen the war horses.
I don't know how it developed later, but I developed a set of training techniques, and it was proved that the trained war horses were no longer afraid of explosions, and the cavalry was able to be put into large-scale use in World War I, and even the cavalry in World War II still had a place.
How to train war horses to adapt to the sound of explosions Liu Yan used to be a marine, but not a cavalryman, and then he didn't specifically consult the relevant information, and he really didn't understand, so he had to study it slowly.
"That" Ran Min said with some uncertainty: "There will be flashes of light in the explosion, and the scene is really terrifying, I'm afraid it's not just the harshness that can avoid startling the horse." ” The scene is the shock wave generated after the explosion.
I don't know how long the cavalry has been the king of the land battlefield, and the Central Plains Dynasty is because it does not have enough war horses, so it will be passive when it fights with the steppe nomads.
In fact, the advantage of cavalry is really not simply in the engagement, their real advantage is that the speed of movement is fast enough, even if it is only a short-distance advantage, when the battle can not be beaten and run, the infantry is basically unable to catch up.
In addition, cavalry can often choose combat targets more flexibly because of its mobility advantage, which can often make the infantry exhausted and wait for the infantry to launch a surprise attack when they are tired.
The two of them were able to chat so leisurely, but the counterattack of the remnants of the Qiang tribe was disintegrated, and they didn't need the bed crossbow troops on the city wall to fire a second round, and only the cavalry and infantry solved the counterattack of more than 1,000 armored cavalry, and even more troops had already entered the palace.
Waiting for the lower-level generals to report that they had taken control of the situation, Ran Min and the generals entered the palace.
They found that even at the end of the road, the extremely extravagant nature of the Qian people remained unchanged, and the various chapters and pavilions of the palace were not very large, but the interior was very richly decorated.
"This is Chief Hu" Ran Min didn't even want to say Shi Hu's name, pointing to the corpse lying on the bed: "It's all stinky, and it's full of maggots, how to identify it?"
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After Shi Hu was killed, his son and the ministers really left it alone, it is currently the Xiaoice River period, the summer is not so hot, but the body should really swell for three or five days, and it will only rot if it lasts longer.
Looking at the corpses full of reptiles and maggots will not have any psychological burden on Ran Min and the generals, each of them walked over in the sea of corpses and blood, and no one saw all kinds of corpses, and the reason why they frowned one by one was just because they couldn't identify whether it was Shi Hu or not, and how to ask their own king for credit.
It would be a big trouble to be unable to identify whether Shi Hu was dead from the corpse, so it would be impossible to really confirm whether Shi Hu was dead, even if there were more witnesses, in such an important matter, human witnesses really could not be used as ironclad evidence.
Then, any person, including Ran Min and Li Tan, let alone asking Liu Yan for credit, it would be good if their future would not be affected.
Many emperors of the last dynasty, or some powerful heroes, would rather self-immolate than be captured or killed alive after they were cornered, in addition to knowing that they really couldn't live, and before they died, they were also causing trouble to the enemy generals.
There is no one alive, there is no recognizable body when they die, how should the generals who command the battle assure their king that the enemy chief is dead, they will worry about whether their king will suspect that he is letting the enemy chief go, even if it is the generosity of the king, but there is no way to prove that the enemy chief is dead, and the credit must be discounted, and even more seriously, there will even be a gap between the monarch and the minister.
"General" Li Tan asked as a dead horse: "Can we conduct a comprehensive search and identification?"
This is a necessary process, the problem is that they have just met Shi Hu's heirs, and some of the remnants of the Zhao State of Shi Hu who are not dead have also met, and what they heard from their mouths is a verbal oath, saying that Shi Hu is definitely dead, or was poisoned by his son and the minister.
"Escort the heirs of Chief Hu to the king."
Ran Min's face was unusually gloomy: "Those who know the process will also be escorted together." ” Looking at the corpse that was so rotting that it was crawling with maggots, no one could laugh.
If Ran Min really wanted to catch Shi Hu, it would naturally be impossible to kill him, but in front of Shi Hu, he would dig a pit and throw some people who Shi Hu knew into the pit and bury them alive, and then it would be the turn of the group of Dragon Teng Guards, and finally ordinary people.
Now, of course, he can't do it, not only can't he kill them, but the more important ones will be escorted at once, and the others will be held for interrogation.
Dingxiang is not the Han army, after the collapse of the Longteng guards, they took the initiative to surrender or were surrounded and forced to land, disarming is inevitable, but Ran Min ordered all of them to be tied up, obviously not wanting to have any more accidents.
On the night after the end of the war, since it was a victory, it should be rewarded, and they took turns on duty to let go of eating, but the high-level leaders, including Ran Min, were not happy, but the middle and lower-level soldiers were not affected.
The moment when there should be a laugh, but the inside of the Chinese army's tent is dull.
"Recognized."
Li Tan pulled an ugly smile: "It doesn't matter if Shi Hu is dead or not, I didn't find it anyway." ” Zhong Xing put down the fork in his hand and said sullenly: "They don't dare to lie about this matter, that rotting corpse should be Shi Hu." ” Li Tan glanced at Zhong Xing like a fool, and said angrily: "Everyone knows that it is rotten, even if it is true, it will become fake."
Anyway, General Ben didn't dare to write in the battle report that Shi Hu died. ” Zhong Xing found that he was really a little stupid, some things were extremely dependent on evidence, and he couldn't talk nonsense without evidence, especially when it came to the enemy chieftain.
"Don't comment, just write what you know."
Ran Min's face was no longer so gloomy, he pulled a reluctant smile and said, "It's up to the king to judge for himself." ” Wang Ji, who came with Ran Min behind, said cautiously: "Perhaps, it should be Qi Yue missing." ” In an instant, everyone in the tent looked at Wang Ji, and many of them did not hide their anger.
"If you don't catch it, the body can't be identified, and you have the courage to admit that you don't lose the loyalty of your courtiers, and you shouldn't trouble the king."
Wang Ji endured the fear of the anger of the people, and said from another angle: "Shi Hu may have fled to Rouran, or Ding Lingren, or even to anywhere, the Han can be hunted down to the ends of the earth, and Shi Hu is an enemy country wherever he is."
Ran Min hadn't turned a corner yet, but Li Tan slapped his thigh.
"Although there is no need for a reason for the Han to attack anywhere" Li Tan admired Wang Ji a little, glanced at it appreciatively, and said to Ran Min: "It's also very important for the teacher to be famous."
According to Ran Min's true thoughts, as long as he is strong enough, he can hit whoever he wants, and he wants so many reasons to do something: