Wei Xuezeng not only thought so, but also did so.

One day, he sent a more eloquent person from his staff to the city to lobby Liu Dongyang and Li Bai. Unexpectedly, Liu Dongyang and Li Bai were a little crazy because they were surrounded on all sides. They directly proposed to be the general of Ningxia to guard Ningxia. The government was not allowed to enter, and the Ming court was not allowed to send people to replace their positions. This directly exposed the ambition to secede Ningxia to ensure safety. This persuasion of surrender was equivalent to cutting Ningxia out of the situation without persuasion. How could it be possible?

This made Wei Xuezeng furious.

However, in order to have a glimmer of hope for a peaceful resolution, Wei Xue once again ordered people to enter the city, visit Li Bai and Liu Dongyang respectively, and tried to provoke the two of them, using the saying that Li Bai was originally a Mongol and Liu Dongyang was a Han Chinese to encourage Liu Dongyang to kill Li Bai and surrender. As a result, Liu Dongyang and Li Bai were beaten together. Li Bai was actually in Liu Dongyang's mansion. This poor lobbyist was pushed to the top of the city and fried in front of Wei Xuezeng...

Wei Xuezeng was so angry that he almost turned his back. Ye Mengxiong had a tiger-faced look and ordered the Ming army to shoot the city, bombarding Liu Dongyang and Li Bai back to the city, but the Ming army's morale was frustrated, and Wei Xuezeng was very angry.

Time passed slowly. No matter what strategy Wei Xue used, it could not cause any blow to the rebels. The method of feint attacks and once once more effectively reduced the losses of the Ming army. More than 3,000 people died in the siege in half a month. Here, the disinfection method offered by Xiao Ruxun played a great purpose.

Xiao Ruxun brought the doctors in Pinglu City and each castle to form a rescue camp. All the soldiers who were less injured were disinfected with strong alcohol and bandaged them properly. The injury and condition stability was very high, and the mortality rate was greatly reduced. This made Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong feel a little surprised in their depression.

In early April, the imperial edict from the court arrived. The emperor ordered the promotion of former Ningxia general, Xiao Ruxun, the garrison of Pinglu City, as the governor and the magistrate, to serve as the general of Ningxia, to control all the troops and horses, obey Wei Xuezeng's dispatched battles, and rewarded Xiao Ruxun with the title of honor and money. He even specially asked the official general of the army to send an edict to lead a message, saying that if the war is pacified and then make great contributions, there will be a great reward.

Mei Guozhen smiled and said that the emperor personally ordered the general to send a message. General Xiao, this is the first time since Wanli!

Xiao Ruxun immediately showed his loyalty, and his solemn expression was unquestionable.

Ma Gui was promoted to Deputy General of Datong again for his military merits, but there was not so much preferential treatment. Xiao Ruxun's Pinglu Army was also required to test the heads because of the 9,000 people. The reward silver was given according to the heads, which was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor himself.

This can only be said that people are more angry than others. Anyway, Ma Gui is envious and jealous. His second brother Xiao Ruhui is a little guilty and doesn't value it. His younger brother became a general at the age of 22 and became the leader of all the big head soldiers and officers here. He will communicate with civil servants on behalf of the big head soldiers here, but he has only been promoted to guerrilla general... If he doesn't work hard, he will be completely surpassed by his younger brother!

Mei Guozhen also brought a Shangfang sword and gave it to Wei Xuezeng. Xu Wei Xuezeng first and then reported the power, and the generals were shocked.

In the next strategic meeting, Ningxia General Xiao Ruxun was allowed to participate, and the other generals, even Li Bing, did not have such treatment... It made the generals dissatisfied, but they were helpless. Their performance was very strong, especially the record of annihilation of the three thousand cavalry of the Zhenglitu Division was enough to make these officers shrink their heads and behave like humans.

"What? Buried gunpowder in the ground and blew up the city walls? The gunpowder barrels I saw on the road were for this?"

This is the first news that Mei Guozhen learned after becoming the military supervisor! This is the reason why he saw Wei Xue recruiting gunpowder from various places?

He was stunned on the spot, and he didn't recover for a while - you haven't made any progress in the past ten days, and are digging tunnels to bomb the city wall? Mei Guozhen seemed to have heard a fantasy. Looking at Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong, who looked like they didn't seem to be fake, he realized that this was indeed true, and he also learned that this tactic was proposed by Xiao Ruxun.

"Men Mei, please see, this is the entire map of Ningxia city walls. At the four gates, there is a urn city in front of the gate and two city walls behind the gate. In other words, if you include the urn city, one city gate has four city walls to guard. We will not count if we attack one. We must break four in a row. During this period, we must always be wary of the thief army not setting up an ambush on the city and attacking us from a high point. At the end, the one that will break the rebels in Pinglu City is two city walls, and Ningxia has four.

Our army has only 40,000 soldiers, and the bandit army has at least 20,000 soldiers. With a strong city, our army has no advantage in military strength. In the previous period, our army attacked Ningxia City with a large army. Within three days, we lost 1,000 soldiers, but we did not even take down a urn city. The loss of soldiers was too great, so we really couldn't accept it. Therefore, attacking Ningxia City is the only way to do so."

"I also know that military strategy is the best to attack the city, and attack the heart is the best. It is also right not to attack such a strong city. However, what kind of tactic is this to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall? This military supervisor is also familiar with the history of war. He has appeared in the Song Dynasty and has never had such a tactic. Who would have thought that gunpowder could overturn the city wall? What is the significance of the existence of the city wall?"

Mei Guozhen was quite confused.

Xiao Ruxun said: "No one has used it before, which does not mean that this is not feasible. Moreover, the predecessors did not understand the power of gunpowder. Perhaps a single cannon is not very powerful, but the development and fire of hundreds of cannon platoons is quite terrible. Although the cannon cannot do anything to the city, gunpowder may not be indispensable. We blew it up with gunpowder from under the foundation of the city wall. The key point is to seal the entire space!

After studying the firearm in depth, I found that the reason why gunpowder is powerful is not that it can explode itself. In fact, if a pile of gunpowder is placed on the open space, the gunpowder will only burn and smoke, not explode. Please see the military supervisor.”

Xiao Ruxun squatted down, poured a handful of gunpowder on the ground, and then lit it with a fire sniffle. Sure enough, the gunpowder just emitted a dazzling light and smoked, making a sound, and no explosion occurred.

"However, if the gunpowder is placed in a confined space, completely sealed and only the leads are left, it becomes a firearm."

Xiao Ruxun took out a small bamboo tube, which contained gunpowder and leads. This was a special demonstration firearm. He lit the leads and covered a wooden bowl on it. Everyone stayed away a little. With a bang, the wooden bowl was blown up to the sky and then fell down again.

"This is the principle of the tactic that I thought about. Put a large amount of gunpowder in a confined space to ignite it. The entire space will surely explode. This space is located directly under a city wall. So, what should the city wall be when it explodes?"

Mei Guozhen was stunned when he looked at the wooden bowl rolling around on the ground. Wei Xuezeng and Ye Mengxiong had already seen Xiao Ruxun's demonstration, so he was confident.

"In this way, this is really a feasible way?" Mei Guozhen frowned and thought carefully: "But this is an action that has never been done by his predecessors. General Xiao, how sure do you think you are?"

Xiao Ruxun decisively cut off the railway: "80%!"

"80%..." Mei Guozhen looked at the extremely strong Ningxia City on the map and shook his head slowly: "But I don't know how long it will take for us to renovate the city wall after blowing up the city wall? It is not easy to build the Ningxia city wall. Once it is blown up, will there be huge losses?"

Xiao Ruxun shook her head.

"There will be losses. After all, this is a war. Since ancient times, there has been no war without losses. However, Mei Jun, the military officer has the least rights to the two evils. No matter how good the city wall is, it is now in the hands of the rebels. It is the obstacle to the Ming Dynasty's suppression of the rebellion. As long as it is an obstacle, it will be removed! If the city wall is gone, it can be repaired again. If the soldiers are gone, it will be really gone. If the city wall is destroyed, the soldiers are still there. It can still deter the trap. If the soldiers are gone, the thicker the city wall is used, what's the use?"
Chapter completed!