It was the god who helped his army to attack the city, but he actually fled. The dead soldiers who were recovered by the cavalry were confused. All of these people were taken away by the Xianshang, waiting for them to be judged by the military. Although the soldiers who did not run were a little scared, they did not run away after all. Seeing these king soldiers being taken away by the Xianshang, some laughed happily.

"The God of Thunder helps me, and the common people will naturally be frightened. Please punish them lightly." The two teachers and commanders pleaded with Xiong Jing at the same time. It is impossible for the Dongcheng army to be all nobles, and many of the soldiers are servants of each clan.

"Light punishment?" Xiong Jing was unhappy. Over the years, he gradually understood the temperament of the Chu people and gradually discovered the shortcomings of the Chu army from many battle examples. For example, in the battle between Chu and Jin, Xigong, who fled to Jin, helped the Jin people to make plans: "The Chu army is light and easy to shake. If there is a lot of drums and jun, the Chu army will escape." The Jin people followed it and the Chu army collapsed at night.

"Chu army is light and slim" is a shortcoming of the Chu army and a shortcoming of the Chu people. And it can easily remind him of being surrounded by enemies. Although he is not familiar with that history, it seems that the morale of the Chu army is greatly affected. "Flim" is not a fear of death, but the Chu people are never afraid of death, but the Chu people's mentality is easy to fluctuate and restless. Anger is angry, sorrow is great, and joy is ecstatic. Being a person is not a disadvantage, but a human temperament, but the army must not do this.

"The army has military rules, why did it run away during war?" Xiong Jing looked at the two division commanders who were begging for mercy. "And you wait, you will be defeated when you hear the thunder sound. Is this the number one Ying army in Chu?"

"My name," I was originally helping to plead for mercy, but I didn't expect that I would even get in. The two of them said, "I am guilty, please punish me."

"You will naturally be guilty." Xiong Jing was very resentful. "She collapsed in front of Mount Tai and her expression remained unchanged, and the tiger was not surprised when it came to behind. Ying's army was too slim, so it would be fine to win the battle, but how about defeating the battle?"

"Please give advice from the king." The disadvantages not only appear on the Dongcheng Division and the Xicheng First Division, but also on the entire Ying Division. Deng Sui, the general of Ying Division, also led him in and asked Xiong Jing for instructions.

"I don't think that the Chu people are less steady than the Zhao people, and they are not as ruthless as the Qin people. There is no joy or anger in military affairs, and they are cautious in following the military laws and regulations, and they can show calmness only when they are rigid. If they win, they are not arrogant, they are not discouraged from defeat, and they are not in a state of shock. The Ying army has not deviated from the nature of the Chu people, and they can win and cannot be defeated, and they can be inspiring and not in amazement. How can such a army be fought?" Xiong Jing pointed directly at the essence of the Chu army. It would be fine if he didn't say such a thing. Deng Sui immediately felt that he was poured into a bucket of ice water, and it became cold from head to toe.

"The deceased soldiers should not be killed, but the soldiers of the entire army should know that the deceased soldiers run the entire army, and the deceased soldiers are the timidity of the entire army. The rest are fifty steps and a hundred steps laughing." After Xiong Jing said his opinion, he ordered the artillery to fire again, and the bombardment was more violent than the catapult, causing wood chips and mud to splash everywhere in the north gate of Shaxian. Standing on the warship, you can even see the sky in the city through the broken city gate.

"Why is this?" Xiong Jing pointed to the sky inside the city gate and asked. "The Qin army did not even block the door hole?"

"No." Several generals also saw the sky inside the city gate. They thought the Qin army had completely blocked the city gate, but they didn't expect that they only stuffed half of the city gate, and there were still about two meters left. Because the catapult was shooting rather than flat shooting, they usually hit the lower part of the city gate. After the smashing, they saw that the city gate did not move, and the artillery began to smash the rammed earth wall. They did not find that the city gate was only blocked with half of the city gate and the upper half was blocked.

"Please order the siege of the city." Yang Wei didn't want to let go when he saw the opportunity.

"How do you say the siege regulations?" Xiong Jing asked back.

"This," Yang Wei was puzzled why Xiong Jing asked about the regulations. "King, this must be the negligence of the Qin people. There are not many houses in Shaxian City."

"What if it was the Qin people's plan?" Xiong Jing originally wanted to say that according to the combat regulations, but the regulations were not complete. The existing regulations were all about defending cities, field battle regulations, and few siege regulations.

"I thought I could give it a try." Yang Wei insisted on seizing the opportunity. "The Qin people were really hasty, not intentionally designing it."

"What do you think?" Xiong Jing asked Xiang Laocheng. He came from the military academy and Xiong Jing wanted to see what he had learned.

"The Qin army in Jiangbei cannot save it, I think it is not urgent." Lao Cheng said. "By the regulations, when the city collapses, attack without seeing a gap."

Even if the twelve artillery shells only take a few minutes, they were still continuous. With the hammer of the catapult, the sound of "boom, bang" was endless. After all, the artillery was a test, and the bombardment stopped after a while, and then the artillery held up the shield to measure the actual effect of the artillery shells breaking the city, and then recorded them one by one. What was disappointing was that in the middle of the afternoon, the twelve artillery was dragged back to the big boat. Seeing that the Thunder God did not help him attack the city, the morale of the entire army could not help but sank.

"How?" Xiong Jing asked, Kong Zheng reported to him the effect of the shelling.

"It's better to throw a stone weapon." The air is not very satisfied with the effect of shelling. "The shells break the city are 100 kilograms, and the shells break the city are 5.44 kilograms. The shells break the city are slow and the shells are fast. Therefore, the shells break the city can destroy the city, and most of the shells break the city..."

Whether it is Jing crossbow, catapult, or artillery. He has actually fought in the air, and he feels that the shelling effect is not as good as the catapult. Xiong Jing is not surprised by this. Rammed earth is not rock. The shells hit one pit at a time, which is indeed not as good as the city-breaking bombs fired by the catapult. One blow to one another, a large piece of rammed earth splashed down.

Xiong Jing said nothing for a long time, not that the cannon could not break the city, but the key was that the gunpowder was limited. After several test shots, there was not much left. The new gunpowder was thousands of miles away, and it would not take until the next year that Hu Dansao's branch would send the second batch of sulfur.

"Please give me advice." Kong didn't know what to do, should he continue bombarding or stop bombarding.

"Go back to Ying." Xiong Jing finally made a decision. "The remaining gunpowder will be used later."

"Which." Kong was a little disappointed when he heard this. The artillery had ended in vain for the first time.

"How much gunpowder is there?" Xiong Jing asked afterwards before he went out.

"There are more than 450 pieces." Kong replied.

All gunpowders are installed, and more than 450 rounds mean that there is still half a ton. The power of black gunpowder is one-eighth of the weight of Nobel explosives and one-thirteenth of the volume. Because saltpeter is impure, the power of these gunpowders is one-fifth more. In other words, five hundred kilograms are only relative to the power of twelve kilograms of Nobel explosives.

Xiong Jing, who came up with this number, was very disappointed. He waved his sleeves and asked Kong to retreat, and began to think about whether he was too anxious. Gunpowder could not guarantee quality or quantity, so it was a waste to build cannons in advance. In other words, the sound of gunpowder explosion could scare people, but its actual effect was not as good as a catapult and a crossbow.

Instead of using it to scare people, it is better to make some primitive grenades and throw them out when the two armies are fighting to cause chaos in the enemy. Now it depends on the Red Ocean Fleet. India produces saltpeter. If it can bring saltpeter and sulfur back from India, the artillery may be able to continue playing, if not...

The catapult smashed the Shaxian city wall in a hurry. Xiong Jing looked quietly, thinking of the Shangui and Taotie in his mind. The last time he received the pigeon news, they had arrived in Aceh, north of the Strait of Malacca. It has been almost a month now. Even if they missed Sri Lanka, they should have gone to the Persian Gulf or the Gulf of Aden.

The disadvantage of a carrier pigeon is that it can only be collected but not sent, especially the other party has no fixed residence. Xiong Jing really wanted to remind the fleet to find saltpeter and sulfur, but it was impossible. The only expectation was that the leader and the commander of the city did not quickly follow the map and did not forget this matter.

*

On the south bank of the Yangtze River under the north wind, there was constant sound of catapults siege. The Red Ocean Fleet under the north wind had arrived on the east coast of the Indian subcontinent and found Sri Lanka, but unfortunately, there were no cities or villages on the east coast of Sri Lanka.

The fleet thought it could only travel westward across Sri Lanka, and then head north to the mouth of the Ganges when the monsoon turns next spring. At this time, the Shangui suddenly discovered a current heading north, and the fleet immediately fell down the current and headed north along the current. The current was not fast, but it was very close to the shore. The fleet could just use the Lu Li Mirror to observe the coast.

The coastal vegetation was continuous and uninhabited, and there was no exotic feeling. After two days north, I observed the lookout hand in front of me and found out that he saw a sea boat coming along the coast.

The sea boat is similar to the single-slurry large wings of the boat master before, but not that long, with only fifteen oars on one side. The old-style large wings of the boat master had twenty-five oars, and the boat was about fifteen or six meters long. A short mast was erected on the boat, hanging with extremely dirty square sails. The monsoon from the northeast blew up the sail and pushed the sea boat forward.

"What?" Wu Gou Chang looked at the sea boat getting closer and closer, not knowing how to deal with it.

"The boat comes from the north, there should be cities." Lu Zhuo is an envoy. Without the head of the gou, he only has the power to defend the fleet and has no power to rob, unless Lu Zhuo allows it. "Maybe you ask how far the city is?"

"I can't speak with them, this..." Shi Lingbuji also looked at the oncoming foreign sea boat. The biggest problem now is language. He came forward to ask, maybe the other party thought it was malicious.

The fleet headed north slowly, and the sea boat sailed south faster with the wind. Both sides were curious about each other, and for a moment, people stood on both sides' decks. However, the decks of the Shangui and Taotie were both higher than those of each other, and one side looked upward and the other side looked down. Seeing that the two sides were getting closer, an Ouluo Yue man shouted a few Yue words to the other side. Unfortunately, a bearded man on the opposite deck looked like a boatman, shaking his head while spreading his hands, indicating that he understood everything.

"Jiringjia!" Seeing that the sea boat had passed by from a distance, Wu Gou Chang shouted.

Jielingjia is a Sanskrit word repost. This time the bearded man understood it. He pointed to the north with his fingers, made a very long position with his hands, and then replied loudly: "Zhu Luo."

"Zhu Luo?" This may be a place name or a country name. Seeing that the other party was getting farther and farther away, Wu Gou Chang hurriedly asked again, and pointed his hand to the north at the same time. From afar, the bearded man nodded repeatedly, indicating that Zhu Luo was also in the north.

"Maybe you can ask him to lead the way." Lu Zhuo said this when he saw the other party being kind. "It's a reward."
Chapter completed!