Yuan Zongdi finally supported him, and Wang Long compromised, believing that such an arrangement could indeed be fought again.

After you win, you can enter Suining City for fun.

If you can't get it down, you won't hurt your muscles and bones. You can retreat to another place.

For a time, under the orders of several large leaders, each battalion raised four people. Under the protection of a group of horses, they collected door panels everywhere, cut down trees, and vigorously made shields and other armors.

They had been busy for three days, searching dozens of miles around Suining, and found more than a dozen door panels with a thickness of eight inches. The temple gates that could be found were all demolished by them.

Some temple door panels are even more than ten inches (thirty or forty centimeters) thick, and the outer room is wrapped with thick iron sheets, made of very hard wood such as elm, which is very heavy.

There is also a shield cart, so the trees are cut down and tied together one by one to become a large shield with two steps wide. When two wheels are installed, it becomes a shield cart.

In order to improve the protection, several layers of logs were tied together, at least twenty inches thick. Obviously, Li Guo and others fought.

After all, in the Qing army, their most exquisite shield car, the front guard and roof plate, were only eight inches thick.

Li Guo and others asked Si Yang to make fifty two-wheeled structures like this.

There are also fifteen car models, similar to carriages, with four-wheel structures, and can be concealed both on the front and above.

There are also three pointed wings, seven feet high to accommodate six people, and they are covered with wet cow skin to rush to the city gate.

Finally, there are five trench bridge vehicles, which are specially used for trench construction. There is no need to throw away mud and mud. The trench bridge vehicle is forced to the front of the moat and the wooden bridge can be passed by.

China has a history of thousands of years, and various types of siege equipment are very rich. Li Guo and other camps have 4,000 people, including a large number of craftsmen. They have created so many powerful tools for siege in just three days.

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Yang He was always paying attention to the movement outside the city. On that day, the bandits retreated. He ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and killed the thief's heads at the highest level.

You should know that these are not the heads of hungry people, but the pure heads of the bandit camp. Only one battle to defend the city, killing so many people, can be said to be another great victory after the ambush a few days ago.

Seeing these heads, all the officials, military and civilians were laughing from ear to ear, starting from the magistrate Gao Qifeng.

They also rescued more than 600 hungry people, young and old women, which was also a merit. According to the fourth year of Wanli, in each border, those who regained the captured population to 100 people will be promoted to the first level of the garrison, and those who are above the garrison will be promoted to the first level of the garrison, and those above the 300 people will be awarded the first level of the rank. Although there is no such high reward in the hinterland, it is also a result.

In this battle, the casualties of our side were not high, so the soldiers followed them out and each made a lot of money by touching their pockets, and the morale of the military and civilians was very high.

The whistle cavalry discovered the movements outside, and it seemed that the thief was unwilling to fail and was still planning a battle, especially creating a large number of siege equipment.

Some servants were arrested for torture. As a result, they cut down a large number of trees and made shields, all of which were extremely thick, at least twenty inches (66 cm) thick.

This news made Gao Qifeng and others quite worried. After this battle, they were very confident in Yang He's firearms. However, no matter how confident they were, the shield car that was as thick as 20 inches might not be able to penetrate it.

Yang He also frowned. The breech Xin'an gun under his command had a range of more than 60 steps, with a range of 100 steps of bird guns, and could penetrate two layers and one inch thick, which was a wooden board with a thickness of 66 mm in total, and could penetrate four or five layers in thirty-four steps.

But it is only fifteen or sixteen centimeters, which is too far from sixty-six centimeters.

Even if you shoot ten steps, you can only shoot through seven or eight inches or twenty-six or seven centimeters, which is still far from it.

The distance is meaningless. No matter how fast the fire is, it is not as fast as the bow and arrow. When the crowds of people come, they will pose a serious threat to their own low walls and trench defense lines!

He sighed in his heart that Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi and others are worthy of being thieves and found a way to deal with it so quickly.

Zhou Mingyuan suggested that the trench was dug again in front of the low-wall trench and dig a few more to stop their shield chariots from moving. Yang He shook his head. This move was only effective in field battles between the two sides. This battle to defend the city was just to delay their speed and had no real meaning.

"Only use cannons."

During discussion with the officials, Yang He finally decided to use cannons. The 20-inch thick shield car could not stop the cannons at a distance of 100 steps. The five Falcon Cannon-type Little Falcon Cannon he placed in the West Gate was the No. 3 Little Wolf Machine gun, with a bullet weighing 5 taels, which is 187 grams.

Some people in the Ming army used the big turtledove-legged gun, which actually bought or imitated the heavy Western smoothbore gun. They claimed that they could penetrate all shield cars, but the bullet weighed only one tael or eight cents, just sixty-eight grams. The smallest small Folang machine cannon here weighed almost three times that of them.

However, the artillery is not accurate at a long distance, the firing rate is slightly slower and the amount is small. If you guard the low walls and trenches, it may be a little bit unlucky.

"Abandon the outer earth wall, the whole army withdraws from the dike wall, and lets the bandits enter the second earth wall, so that they can concentrate within the range of more than thirty steps and concentrate on shooting!"

Yang He made a decision. He had two earthen walls in the low wall trenches outside the city. The first one was fifty steps away from the city and more than thirty steps away from the city. Then he let the bandits enter, crowded within thirty steps between the second earth wall and the dike, and firecrackers and cannons attacked violently.

At such a close distance, they were condescending, and they had to attack the city, so they could only walk out of the protection area of ​​shield cars, etc., and their sharp artillery could cause harm to them.

Another great victory, Yang He had unprecedented prestige, and no one objected to the tactics he arranged.

Moreover, this is the best arrangement, and everyone can't think of any good idea.

The magistrate Gao Qifeng also believed that whether to transfer the artillery from each door of the Yuzhemen to the west gate?

This proposal made the chief clerk Zheng Shixin and county magistrate Liu Zunhe change their faces. They guard the east gate and the north gate. If the thieves attack, they do not have artillery, how can they resist?

Yang He was a little moved, but he was just thinking about it.

These places are not easy to fight and cannot gather troops. The official road in front of each gate is only two or three steps wider. Even if the bandits push the shield cart, they can only walk straight when they come over.

But the defenders in these places have little combat power. The military soldiers still use bows and arrows. Even if the bandits come to attack one or two hundred people, they push a shield chariot to cover them, I am afraid that the bows and arrows on the city will be powerless to them.

The artillery of each sect should be placed. Yang He was worried about the attack of the times. Although the Ximen must be the main attack of the bandits, the other sects might also have a feint attack.

Each of them has six small Folang machines. Even if the thief pretends to attack and pushes the shield cart, they can destroy their armor.

Everyone discussed the defense carefully. Regarding the arrangement, Yang He believed that it was unlikely that the thief would use the cloud ladder method, and this tactic was lagging behind in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period because the targeting was too simple.
Chapter completed!