Chapter 199 Question

Yang Jie, who was sighing on the wall of Beijing, found that the wall of Beijing was not as high as the height of the four-story building. If you asked yourself to climb up with a ladder, Yang Jie would probably be a little brave, let alone attacking this city. He had to hold a knife and a shield to resist the bricks thrown from the fourth floor. This is really not ordinary. It requires human life to fill it!

Yang Jie stroked the battlements of the city walls, made of large blue bricks, which was quite sturdy.

With such a high city wall protecting, the Ming Dynasty was actually destroyed. It has to be said that it was rotten and was extremely useless. Yang Jing was sighing infinitely.

The Zhang Baihu who gave way just now also came to serve: "Zhang Weiyi, a hundred households on duty at Xiaguan Dongbianmen, saw the upper and lower numbers, listened to the upper and lower numbers." This Baihu was also a wise man. When he saw that the posture of this group of people was not like that of ordinary people, he even took the Jinyiwei Qianhu's waist tag. It was reasonable and he should come to say hello, or if he came to serve, he might meet a noble person.

The "bodyguard" was about to scold him and drove away this guy so as not to disturb the emperor's interest.

However, Yang Jingwei was indeed a little interested in this person. He was missing someone who knew the details of the city wall. He wanted to see what the officers and soldiers on the front line had in the defense had on the future war. So he said, "Zhang Weiyi? Baihu? Come here, I have something to ask you."

When several bodyguards saw that the emperor wanted to see this person, they stopped stopping him. However, they took away Zhang Baihu's knife. Although Zhang Baihu was very surprised, puzzled, and even a little angry, they seemed to think that it was reasonable to confiscate his knife, without any unnaturalness. Zhang Baihu was also worried. How good is the person who was to say a few words to others and would take away other people's knife? It was still on his own land. Thinking of this, Zhang Baihu became frightened and even more happy. This noble man is of great rank!

"The subordinate has seen the best man." Zhang Weiyi felt that the leader was not an ordinary person. Li Zubai, who was very familiar with him, didn't even dare to say anything in front of this person. He was very respectful, which means that this person's grade was very high, so high that Li Zubai dared not breathe. Zhang Weiyi felt that his opportunity had come.

"Haha, the best? By the way, Zhang Weiyi, since you are a hundred defenders in this section of the city wall, you should be very familiar with this section of the city wall?" Yang Jing planned to inspect the city wall on site, and there was a shortage of individuals to explain to himself.

"I'm going to go back to the upper class, and the lower officials patrol the city wall every day. If you want to say that you're familiar with this city wall, you're very familiar with it." Zhang Baihu answered Yang Jing's words very well.

"Then tell me, how high is this city wall? How thick is it?" Yang Jing planned to test this person. Although he had a rough estimate of the city wall, there was no actual number.

"It's easy to say, and it's complicated," said Zhang Weiyi.

"Simple and complex? How do you say this?" Yang Jingwei asked.

"I want to talk about the walls of the entire Beijing city, which are not the same height. The walls are divided into inner cities and outer cities. The heights are different. The heights of the walls in the four directions of southeast, west and north are different, so they are quite complicated. But to be simple, the walls guarded by the lower officials are three zhang, seven feet and six inches high, five zhang, eight feet and three inches thick, and three zhang, nine inches thick, three zhang, nine inches thick..." Speaking of data, Zhang Baihu came at the right time.

Yang Jie thought this guy was pretty good, at least he knew some data and situations about where he worked, but he was not yet at the point of not knowing it all.

"Well, it's right. I won't ask about other city walls. Since you are the patrol here, I'll test you a few questions to see if you can answer them."

"If you have any questions, just ask me if you have any questions, and the lower officials will answer questions." Zhang Baihu was very happy to be able to speak to this noble man. This noble man seemed quite humble and easy to talk to, but he didn't know what his specific identity was. He didn't disclose it, so he didn't ask, because the noble man was too "expensive".

"If someone comes to attack the city now, what do you think?" Yang Jie wanted to ask the guy who guarded the city how he saw the enemy's siege and what he thought.

After hearing the question of Yang Jing's noble man, Zhang Weiyi laughed and said, "Hehe, isn't you a joke? Attack the capital? I think this capital is the center of the world and the emperor governs all directions. Who is so brave to come to attack this city? This, the emperor, I am so scared that I dare not speak." Zhang Weiyi was shocked by the question of this man, who came to attack the capital? Who was brave enough? At the foot of the emperor, the imperial city, came to attack this place? Who has too many heads? Is this going to lose my head when talking about such things!

Yang Jie was a little depressed when the question failed. It seems that it is not easy to get this first-hand information today!

"This, hasn't Your Majesty severely investigated spies recently? Do you strictly prevent access control? That is to say, the defense of the city wall attaches great importance to it, so I came to ask about the city wall... This is the one who asked the on-site inspection and the soldiers stationed in the field. So, I asked you, even if you say it according to the facts, don't be afraid. If you are reasonable, reliable, and constructive, once you are adopted by the top, your success will be here. Of course, if you talk nonsense, just talk nonsense,

If you don't match what others said, then what is waiting for you is losing your head. Do you understand?... Now I know why I made such a speculation? The superiors are interested in asking about the city wall defense of the capital to see if there is any loss, and to see if there is any omission. So, I came to you. Do you think I will run to the city wall casually and ask a small Baihu? Haha, I think you are quite happy, I hope you can seize this opportunity..." Yang Jing used a fool and tried his best to fool Zhang Baihu.

Zhang Weiyi and Zhang Baihu felt that he had really met a noble person today and was really going to make a fortune. According to what this noble person said, this is the above request to check the city defense, ask about the shortcomings of the city defense, and ask about the situation on the spot. The noble person is all sent by Qianhu. Then, isn’t the emperor? Zhang Baihu’s heart is so "bang bang". He is really lucky. When he meets such a noble person, it seems that the ancestral tomb is really smoke.

"The little one understands, the little one understands, everything must be true reports..." Zhang Weiyi wanted to tell the master everything he knew so that the master would value him and his suggestions. In this way, it would go directly to the emperor! If the emperor could talk to him, he would have benefited a lot.

Li Zubai, who was standing aside, looked envious and looked so envious. He knew that Zhang Weiyi was working in time and had a relationship with the emperor. In the future, he would be really successful. He was envious and jealous in his heart. He thought, when will he be able to get out of this "official prison" like the Imperial Heaven Supervision!

"Well, it's great, that's great. Then tell me, if there are enemies who come to siege the city, how will this matter develop?" What Yang Jing wants to know most is the view of the war on the front line of the defense. This kind of information will be very helpful for fighting against wild boar skin and Li Zicheng in the future.

Zhang Weiyi did not immediately answer Yang Jing, the upper-level man, but frowned and thought for a while before saying, "It is difficult to draw a conclusion to the assumption! You know, the entire Beijing city is about sixty miles in circumference. If one person and one battlement are used to defend, there are no 20,000 or 30,000 people, I am afraid that even the battlement will not be satisfied, let alone the attacking city. Therefore, I think that if the number is less than 100,000 people, I may not even be able to surround the city. If the emperor rewards the king, he will write an edict, and the troops in the world will definitely gather in the capital. In the following view, this attack on Beijing city is simply seeking death!" Zhang Weiyi still had some ideas. After calculating it in a hurry, he came to such a conclusion.

Yang Jing nodded, feeling that this guy still has something in his stomach, at least he is not talking nonsense and knowing to make a difference with numbers. This is right. In this Beijing city, there will be 20,000 or 30,000 people standing under a battlement, let alone attacking the city? You can't even surround the city. At that time, the emperor's imperial edict will be issued, and the world's soldiers will gather. At that time, it will not be you who will attack Beijing city, but the world's soldiers will attack you.

Yang Jie looked at the endless battlements, extending to the distance, and sighed, thinking that Zhang Weiyi was basically very reliable. It was probably the first time that the wild boar skin entered the pass in the future. There were less than 100,000 people coming to attack Beijing. As a result, he didn't even find the walls of Beijing. In this Beijing, hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered. Although the wild boar skin could be fought, he could not resist the rush of the king-supporting troops from all over the world! Finally, he robbed and retreated. After entering the pass several times, he didn't even look at Beijing City, and just robbed. This well shows how powerful the city defense of Beijing City is.

"Zhang Baihu, you are right. Then let me ask you, what if the soldiers are less than 100,000 but they are all elite soldiers, they come to attack the city?" Yang Jie wanted to ask him what he thinks about the future siege of wild boars.

Zhang Weiyi did not hesitate or think too much this time, and said directly: "Back to Shangqi, this is not a small person who is talking big. The number of people is not enough for 100,000. The capital has more soldiers than him. In terms of number, he does not have the advantage. With a city wall as high as the capital, such as the small one defends, it is also three or four feet high. The small one can just throw a brick down and smash the people below, let alone rocks and rolling wood? If you continue, you will get hurt when you wipe it, and you will die next to it! Besides, there are arrows, boiling oil, and other defensive weapons. Even if he comes with elite troops, so what? Can you still survive if you are hit by a rolling stone? The small one admits it, and Shangqi says it is right?" Speaking of this, Zhang Weiyi has strong self-confidence.

Yang Jie felt that this passage was reasonable. If a flower pot fell from the fourth floor, it would kill people, or make them bleed, let alone rolling stones and wood. These dozens of kilograms, one or two hundred kilograms of things were all gone at once, unless they were indestructible bodies of Vajra.

"Well, it's reasonable. Then let's talk about it. If the enemy comes with an army of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, what's the situation?" Yang Jing asked about the situation of the wild boar skin siege, and asked Li Zicheng's siege. He was ready to see what this officer and soldier on the front line of defense thinks about the battle to defend the city.

This time, Zhang Weiyi thought for a long time before saying, "As far as offensive, if there are really hundreds of thousands of people to siege, it will be a bit troublesome. First of all, the gates of the capital will definitely be guarded to death. In this way, the traffic in the capital will probably be cut off and contact with the outside world will not be easy. It is not easy for the soldiers who are serving the king to contact the capital! If it is more than 100,000, it is not scary. What is scary is that there are hundreds of thousands. If there are 500,000 soldiers and 600,000 soldiers and horses to siege, it is too dangerous. The enemy can attack the city at will at will. The defense in this city will definitely lose sight of one thing and run away. When the soldiers and horses in the city are exhausted, it will be time to break the city!..." Zhang Weiyi expressed his concerns.

However, he quickly added: "However, the worst... the smallest estimate is really unreliable. This world is the world of Your Majesty, this court is the court of Your Majesty, and this Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty. Apart from Your Majesty, who else can send 500,000 or 600,000 troops to the capital? This is impossible..." Zhang Weiyi also felt that his assumption was too outrageous. Could this be the king's land besides the king's land? Who can send 500,000 or 600,000 troops to besiege the capital?

Yang Jing nodded, thinking that this guy was right. There were really 500,000 and 600,000 people coming to surround him. It would be better to hang him in advance. There is no force or country around that can send 500,000 and 600,000 people. I won’t talk about wild boar skins. Even if there were bandits like Li Zicheng who were holding people, there were only 200,000 people when he besieged Beijing.

"Well, it is indeed unlikely that 500,000 and 600,000 people. Then tell me, what would the situation be like if there were more than 100,000 people, or just over 200,000?" Yang Jing turned to ask about the specific number. This number was not much different from that of Li Zicheng when he siege the city, and there was still a certain margin.

"If there are more than 200,000 troops to attack, the small ones think it is almost impossible." Zhang Weiyi answered very simply this time, looking very confident.

"Oh? Then tell me, why is it impossible?" Yang Jinge asked.

"Back to Shangqian, the same is true for the situation when tens of thousands of soldiers attacked. It's just that you can guard more city gates. It's impossible to guard any of the city gates in the capital. You know, the circumference of the capital is sixty miles long. If you want to surround the capital, the force will be extremely thin. As long as the defenders in the capital are rushing in one direction, and even if you want to come to rescue the other directions, it's impossible! When they run over, the battle will probably be over! Shangqian said, right?"

"Well, it's right, it's almost impossible to cover everything in the capital!"

"That's right! The best man, since it is impossible to block any city gate, the connection between the capital and the outside world will not be interrupted. The imperial edict of the king, the king-supporting troops in the world will not be madly coming to the capital? These 200,000 troops have no advantage in an instant! I think there are tens of thousands of troops in the capital, so why should I be afraid of the same number of enemies attacking? As the saying goes, ten times of surround and three times of attack. As long as the people coming are more than three or four times that of the troops in the capital, it is basically safe!" Zhang Weiyi summarized that about 200,000 troops attacked, and the result was similar to tens of thousands of troops.

"However, if 200,000 troops are not surrounded and attacking each day? So what?" Yang Jing nodded, feeling that it makes sense, and asked again.

"Haha, this is the best. The city wall of the capital is so high. Even if he attacks for a strong attack, he doesn't have to be afraid. He can kill him by throwing a brick at any time. What are you afraid of if he does?" Zhang Weiyi replied easily.

"Others are not fools. They must have tactics and siege equipment, such as ladders, siege cones, digging tunnels, etc.." Yang Jing raised a problem.

"It's simple to defend this kind of siege equipment. If the enemy uses a ladder, it's simpler. As long as a small person takes a pole and pushes one side of the ladder forward, the ladder will turn over. Once the ladder is turned over, the people on it will fall off, and even if they don't die, they will peel off the skin! You can also pour oil on the ladder, ignite the fire, burn them, or roll down the ladder with a sieve, guarantee that he will die as much as he comes... Don't talk about this siege cone, just let him fight, and it's impossible to smash such a thick city wall in less than ten days and half a month! It's said that there are several meter thick stones under the city wall. Let him dig it. If it's a year or two, I'm afraid he can't dig a hole!..." Zhang Weiyi said this and was quite confident.

Yang Jing nodded, the attack method of siege and the authentic way of dealing with small cities has no effect on such large cities.

"What if the enemy uses artillery to bombard it? What should we do?" Yang Jie asked again.

"This... you don't have to be afraid of going back to the top. There were red and barbarian cannons in the Ming Dynasty. It is said that they fought accurately and farther. We stood on the city wall three or four meters high, and they were definitely farther than the enemy, so there was no need to be afraid, right?" Zhang Weiyi thought for a while before giving this answer.

"What if the enemy uses dozens of red cannons or one or two hundred red cannons to bombard them? What should we do?" Yang Jie asked again. This time, it was not about the Ming Dynasty, but about the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Eight-Nation Alliance forced the city of Beijing, relying on cannons.

Zhang Weiyi was stunned and stupid, dozens of balls, one or two hundred red cannons? This number has exceeded Zhang Weiyi's imagination.

Seeing that Zhang Weiyi looked dementia, Yang Jie did not disturb him. He planned to see what the city defender thought of the force of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

"Back to the past, this is really hard to say. I think the red cannons imitated by the Ming Dynasty are said to cost as much as one or two thousand taels of silver. Are these hundreds of red cannons too many?" Zhang Weiyi thought for a long time and felt that the question of the past is too difficult. How much money does it cost to make!

"No, don't worry about whether there are more or not. Tell me, what will happen." Yang Jingwei wanted to know the answer.

"I'm so brave, there are really hundreds of red barbarian cannons bombarding the city wall. On this city wall, there is no other way except to use similar numbers of red barbarian cannons to bombard..." Zhang Weiyi said his answer.

Yang Jing laughed. The cannons at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century were far more powerful than the cannons of this era. More than a dozen or dozens of cannons could reach or exceed the power of hundreds of cannons in this era. If you want to rely on the city wall to resist the power of cannons, the effect is very limited. This proposition has exceeded the limits that should be considered in this era. However, this guy’s idea is basically correct. He used the same number of cannons to fight against the enemy. Yang Jing’s favorability for Zhang Baihu has deepened a little.

Zhang Weiyi looked at the noble man for no reason and laughed loudly. I don’t know what he was laughing at, laughing at himself for being ignorant? Or laughing at himself for being overestimated? Or laughing at himself for being brave?
Chapter completed!