Chapter 664 Khotan's Victory
In the first month after Brother Guo Xing arrived in the city of Khotan, he and the craftsmen built the first cannon, using a cannon cast by Buddha statues, which weighed 2,000 kilograms.
The tiger squat cannons brought from Dazhou are all gadgets worth hundreds of pounds, and this cannon weighs just as much as twenty tiger squat cannons.
Brother Guo Xing presided over the test gun. The twenty-pound projectiles weighing tilted across the sky and fell heavily on a piece of sand and gravel, and dust filled the sky.
The soldiers of Khotan ran over. After seeing it, they burst into tears in excitement, danced and started to dance.
The range of this cannon was a thousand steps, and the heavy projectile left a large pit more than two feet deep on the ground, shattered sand and gravel, and a mess.
If it falls on people, what kind of result will be? I can't believe it!
But the people of Khotan all knew that they were saved.
These people from the Great Zhou Dynasty are life-saving Bodhisattvas and Arhats!
Many people knelt on the ground, kowtowed and kept bowing. The monks who were still training also stopped. After the old monk saw the crater, tears flowed.
He called his disciples to return to the temple. They opened the underground palace and took out the last collection... In the underground palace, there are many more precious Buddha statues, magic tools, gold, silver and jade, and countless scriptures and treasure scrolls...
Buddhism has been prosperous for hundreds of years, and almost everyone worships the Buddha, and dozens of eminent monks and great masters are accompanied by Li Shengtian.
The monks were not in conflict with the world, but they knew that the Black Khanate would not allow aliens to exist. If they came, the Buddhists in the Western Regions would suffer a catastrophe.
Many monks hid Buddhist scripture treasures in the underground palace, trying to keep these priceless treasures... No one knows how many things they hid, no one knows how many treasures were damaged, and how many monks were killed. It was only a thousand years later, by chance that people discovered the sutra cave in Dunhuang, thus establishing a science - Dunhuang School!
You don’t need to hide your treasures like a mouse, nor do you expect to shine thousands of years later, take out everything, fight to the death, and fight to make a way out!
Monks in the Western Regions were fully mobilized, from Khotan to Guiyi Army, from Shazhou to Liangzhou, every temple was donating bronze ware, from tens of thousands of kilograms of Buddha statues, to bronze cymbals, bronze chimes...large pieces were smashed, and each monk carried them on his back, traveled through mountains and rivers, and rushed to the city of Khotan.
After handing over the bronze ware, they immediately picked up their weapons... In many temples, only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, and slightly younger monks rushed to the city of Khotan.
If I don’t go to hell, who will go to hell!
The monks trained hard with tragic emotions without a moment of rest.
I was used to holding Mu Yu's hands and picked up the sword. It was a little awkward at first, but it quickly became smoother.
At the critical moment of life and death, you have to fight, and you have to fight!
In order to pass on Buddhism, you can become an evil ghost and fall into hell forever, without any complaints!
Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
The arrival of the Great Zhou people changed the state of the Han people in the entire Western Regions. Although there were only one thousand people, they were like a stabilizing needle! They were firmly stuck to the ground.
In the past, the enemy was strong and we were weak, and we would die. Some people hid their treasures, some escaped, and some tried to surrender... The biggest threat to the Han people in the Western Regions was not from the outside, but from the internal instability.
Under strong pressure, they may be divided at any time, giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.
However, with the arrival of reinforcements from the Great Zhou Dynasty, people no longer hesitated or confused, and they became full of confidence.
The Black Khan Kingdom was supported by the Great Food Empire, and behind them was the stronger Great Zhou.
Almost no one would suspect that the Great Zhou would be defeated by the Great Shi!
Come on, let’s see who is the real king!
The high morale infected everyone. The craftsmen of Dazhou worked day and night, and took less than two months to create thirty cannons. In addition, they also made one million kilograms of gunpowder.
In order to cope with the subsequent battle, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Yutian City, implemented a strict distribution system, and the excess food must be handed over to the government for unified allocation. No one can eat a grain of food!
These measures that will be strongly resisted in the Central Plains are implemented. The implementation of the measures is extremely smooth and the people will cooperate unconditionally.
Chen Shi had several long talks with Li Shengtian, and he finally convinced Li Shengtian to give up his plan of taking risks. With a firearm in hand, he could wait for his work, so he would win the battle with the Black Khanate!
It won’t take long before Shu Road is fully built, and the people of the Great Zhou will be continuously opened, as many as you need!
When competing for strength, Dazhou has never been afraid of anyone!
The days of preparing for war were busy and short. It was an afternoon when a wolf smoke suddenly jumped from a distance and rushed straight into the sky. The soldiers guarding the city were briefly surprised and immediately beat the war drum.
Enemy attack!
The Black Khanate is here!
The city of Khotan quickly entered a state of combat. After countless drills these days, the people outside the city retreated into the city, their houses were burned down, and the wells were filled to death.
The soldiers on the top of the city were on guard, and everyone entered the battle position.
Women, including women, need to carry stretchers and wait for rescue at any time.
The Great Zhou brought not only advanced technology to Khotan, but also a management method. The whole people are soldiers and tapped out the greatest combat potential!
Khotan will win!
The Great Zhou will win!
The roaring artillery first broke the silence, and the projectiles crossed the sky, fell into the middle of the dense crowd, and set off blood alleys.
The limbs were flying all over the sky, and the blood dyed the yellow sand red... The black sweat soldiers didn't even know what was going on. Could it be that the gods were angry and came to punish them?
Soon someone discovered the black muzzles on the top of the city... What is that? Is it a devil?
Damn Khotanites, they traded with the devil, and they all wanted to die!
The black sweaters were overwhelmed and rushed towards the city. They were even more crazy than they were at first!
The cannon did not scare them, but instead aroused the fanaticism in the blood vessels. Chen Shi was not surprised. If a little lesson was taught, it would be too easy to wake them up.
But don’t worry, I have some ways to make you fully awaken!
"Get on the tiger's squat cannon and change the grape bullet!"
The original solid projectile was a line, while the grape bullet was a large area. Although the range became closer, the coverage was wider. After one shot, dozens of people were covered in it and could not escape. After the baptism of the bullet rain, only a group of sad and screaming wounded soldiers were left.
Some people broke their arms and legs, some people had their brains broken, some people had their intestines gushed out, and some war horses were dragging half of their bodies and running around...
There is no doubt about the lethality of the artillery. The only disadvantage is that the firing speed is too slow. It takes three minutes for the heavy artillery to be fired, so there are not too many Black Sweat soldiers who actually die under the artillery.
But the shock caused was unparalleled.
What grew at the same time as the fear of the Black Khan soldiers was the courage of the Khotan people.
The cruel siege began, and the two sides fought with each other. The fierce black sweat soldiers climbed up to the top of the city. The monk soldiers were the first to kill them. They waved the spear in their hands and decisively pierced the other's chest. The moment the blood splattered, they knew that they would not have the chance to be in the Pure Land in this life.
Since that's the case, then kill it!
The old Li Shengtian also carried a sword and supervised the battle at the top of the city.
Wherever the king passed, there were roaring excitedly everywhere.
More popular than Li Shengtian was Chen Shi. He led the musketeers to become firefighters. Wherever there were the most enemies, they rushed up and shot a lot of guns.
The Great Zhou warfare opened the eyes of the people of Khotan. They never dreamed that war could still fight like this!
In addition to artillery and muskets, they also built many trenchers.
Every household has a pot of pottery or hollowed stone, stuffed in gunpowder, thrown out of the city wall, and fall into the crowd, which can cause terrible damage.
This is the principle of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If you can solve it with a firearm, you will never try your best.
There is absolutely no shortage of saltpeter and sulfur in the Western Regions, and there is one thing in the Western Regions, that is, tinea oil!
With the help of the Ministry of Works, the officials of the Ministry of Works, they found the place where the tincture oil was produced. They dug three large trenches in the city for storing tincture oil.
This time it was all used.
The City of Khotan is really not high, only 100 to 500 feet high, incomparable to the giants that are often three feet tall in the Central Plains. The City of Khotan even has no moat... But such an inconspicuous small city has become a nightmare for the Black Khanate.
On the first day of the battle, more than 3,000 people were killed.
They were unwilling to give up and continued to attack, and more than 2,000 people were still killed the next day.
The bodies of the Black Khanate soldiers were scattered under the city and nothing was obtained.
On the third day, the Black Khanate tried to continue to attack the city, but when gathering troops, they found that the soldiers of the tribe had fled in the middle of the night...
This is not a good phenomenon. The Black Khanate is still a tribal system. To put it bluntly, it is more like a robber group. When it is found that it is unprofitable, escaping becomes a natural choice.
The offensive on the third day was half an hour later than usual and ended half an hour earlier.
"They are going to run!"
Zhao Kuangyi smiled and said, "It turns out that all nomadic peoples are similar. If you can win, you will fight. If you can't win, you will run away! What kind of heroes are you?"
"You can't let them go!" Guo Xingge said with his teeth. After his fourteenth birthday, he became more and more mature. A faint fluff came out of his mouth. The little guy seemed to be infected by the Khotan people. He did not need mercy for the robbers of the Black Khanate. As the Khotan people said, hatred was innate.
That night, Ye Zhong and six others led their soldiers to pounce on the Black Khanate camp. They first fired rockets into the camp, ignited the military tent, and caused a fire.
Then, from all directions, suddenly entered.
The Black Khanate had never seen firearms before, and they were fooled.
The generals argued endlessly, some advocated going back to ask the king for his will, while others said that the king asked them to take down Khotan. If he retreated in a hurry, he would only capture the king and feed the lions...
Just as they were arguing, the attack came.
The Black Khanate Camp was in chaos, and the crowd fled in fear by cannons, one tribe, another, disappeared into the night.
Chapter completed!