Ningyuan.

After months of intense construction, the reconstruction of the city has been completed. More than 20 red cannons have been laid out, and the black muzzles pointed out outside the city.

But this is not over yet. The fortifications of the trench chest wall outside the city are almost completed, and all the facilities for sheltering rain were built, and the outer edges were trenches, picket piles, and deer villages were densely packed.

Xiong Tingbi held up the telescope from the imperial gift and looked around the city tower. After a while, he put down the telescope and sighed, "If Guangning City had such a layout, the Donglu would probably have blood flowed into a river."

The weather is already hot, He Kegang's armor is neat and he is completely unslack.

Hearing Master Jinglei's feelings, he bowed and replied, "What the Lord said is very true. If the Eastern Barbarians come to attack again, he will definitely be killed and injured and returned in a defeat."

Zu Dashou wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "The Eastern Barbarians Yu Guangning have already lost their fortunes, so I am afraid they will not dare to attack Jiancheng again."

Xiong Tingbi shook his head gently and said, "As my official expected, the Donglu will definitely attack again in the late winter."

After pausing, Xiong Tingbi's eyes swept over the generals and aides beside him, and said in a deep voice: "In the battle of Guangning, the Donglu have obtained very little, and it is probably difficult to support it. Don't they come to attack and loot, are they waiting to go hungry?"

After the fall of Guangning in history, the Later Jin Dynasty calmed down for several years.

Among them, there are reasons why the Ming court replaced the Liaodong governor and strengthened the military, and there was also enough robbery in the Battle of Guangning, which was not short of food and clothing for the time being, and the need to rectify internal relations.

But now, according to Zhu Youxiao's words, if he did not grab it, he would fall into an economic crisis.

Just like the nomadic peoples in the north, when encountering natural disasters, they usually go south to plunder to overcome difficulties.

"Sir." He Kegang bowed and asked, "If it was a loot, the target of the Donglu might be Juehua Island, right?"

Zu Dashou blinked his eyes and shook his head and said, "The Donglu has no ships, how can he attack the island?"

Xiong Tingbi also had this idea, but the defense facilities on Juehua Island were well-built and solid. The emperor also reminded him in a secret letter that the sea water could freeze, and he did not dare to take it lightly.

"I will transfer another two thousand musket soldiers to strengthen the guards of Juehua Island." Xiong Tingbi glanced at He Kegang and said, "Can General He be willing to defend Juehua?"

"I will be willing to go in the end." He Kegang bowed without hesitation to receive the order.

Xiong Tingbi nodded, stroked his beard under his jaw and smiled: "General He also needs to continue training the army on Juehua Island, and the same goes for General Zu. Four months later, it should be no problem to train another 6,000 musketeers, right?"

He Kegang and Zu Dashou looked at each other and bowed to accept the order.

The two returned to Ningyuan with 500 New Army. So far, the new army has been used as the backbone and expanded to 2,000 people. As the court gradually increased the supply of muskets, training is not a big problem.

Xiong Tingbi was very satisfied. Five thousand musketeers guarded Ningyuan, three thousand guarded Juehua, and supplemented with various artillery, it should be foolproof.

After watching Ningyuan's city defense arrangements, martial arts "Infantry Practice" and the New Army's drills, Xiong Tingbi was very shocked.

Over the past few days, he has also studied and analyzed with the generals and formulated the most suitable tactical style.

Some of the original strategic ideas also changed a lot in Xiong Tingbi's mind.

For example, Jinzhou, which only sent a small number of troops to guard the police, was originally just a warning and call the police. But now he wants to send three or five thousand troops to attract the Donglu to attack.

According to Xiong Tingbi's vision, the chest wall of the trench and the picket trenches were added to the position defense with musketeers, and the artillery at the top of the city was supplemented. The Donglu would never be able to attack without paying more than one or two times the price.

That's right, Xiong Tingbi was not prepared to reinforce, but wanted the defenders to defend and use the cities and fortifications to consume the living power of the Donglu.

In other words, the three or five thousand troops stationed in Jinzhou are abandoned sons and dead sons. If they guard the death squads alone, they still have to fight to the end. The mission is to fight at least equal Donglu troops.

Based on the population of the Donglu, if tens of thousands of people were killed in such a battle, they would almost lose their mobile forces.

Daling River, Jinzhou, and Ningyuan, with the consumption of these three siege battles, coupled with the three arrangements in Liaodong and southern Liaoning, the Eastern Barbarians could only retreat and lose the power to take the initiative to attack and fight.

Of course, this idea is more ideal and cruel.

Letting friendly forces be surrounded and attacked, even though they knew that the final result might be annihilation, they only hoped to fight for people and exchange their lives for their lives to achieve the goal of consuming the enemy. This is really unspeakable.

However, Xiong Tingbi had secretly reported his ideas to the emperor. As long as the emperor agreed, the infamous old Xiong was willing to bear it.

Moreover, this kind of fighting method also requires the cooperation of the Donglu. If the Donglu adopts a long-term siege, it will test the accumulation of food, grass and materials in the city and the strong will of the defenders.

However, Xiong Tingbi still believes that the price paid by the Donglu to siege the lonely city was much higher than that of the defenders, and the burden of material consumption and transportation was greater and could not be implemented for a long time.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi insisted on his own ideas and believed that this was the best way to weaken the Donglu.

Now, no one knows Xiong Tingbi's idea. Ning Yuan's strong city defense gave everyone enough confidence, just waiting for the Donglu to come and get bloody.

Accompanied by everyone, Xiong Tingbi got down the city wall and went outside the city to inspect the fortifications.

There are many wooden shelves behind the chest wall trench. After careful observation, you can see that this is a relatively simple and miniaturized counterweight trencher.

Although it is small, the operator needs fewer people. They can throw about ten kilograms of stones out of 150 or 60 meters!

Of course, this kind of catapult now has a powerful name, called a grenade car. There are wooden wheels under it that can be pushed and moved. When used, it is nailed to the ground and fixed.

Since it is called a grenade truck, it is definitely not a stone thrown, but a mine filled with new-type granular gunpowder, or "Boom Thunder".

The Ming Dynasty's thunder used rough sand pottery as a carrier, which was about the same size as a football. However, its surface was not round, but had many pointed protrusions, like an enlarged thornweed.

After the Sky Thunder was replaced with granular gunpowder, its power increased greatly. It not only showed its power when defending the city, but also used a grenade car to throw it out as a flowering bomb to bomb the enemy.

You should know that even the long-body cannons at that time could not fire flowering bullets.

To be precise, it is not that it cannot be, but that it is too dangerous to launch a leaded shell without a reliable signal tube.

A short-body mortar can fire flowering shells, but based on the manufacturing level at that time, it was not easy to cast hollow shell shell shell shell shells and the cost was too high.

Therefore, after listening to the introductions of experts such as Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Zhu Youxiao decided to promote the use of this seemingly primitive weapon in the military.
Chapter completed!