Chapter 259: On the City Wall
As I stepped onto the city walls, I saw a lone general standing in the tower not far away.
This man was wearing an iron helmet, holding the sword at his waist with his full armor, and stared motionlessly at the protoss army camp in the distance.
This general, who looks like he is in his forties, has a mighty appearance, and has a serious face, is none other than the cabinet elder, the Qingfeng soldier and horse envoy, and the war envoy of the outer city.
I smiled and raised my hand to signal Chen Qinglong and Hu'er to stay on the city wall.
Walking into the city tower, I smiled and said, "Lord Fang is so interested, this juncture is at an early stage, and I am still in the mood to see the scenery." ”
Fang Chenghe was unmoved, and only shook his head slightly.
I handed over the city lord's order in my hand, but he didn't take it, only turned around and walked to the Eight Immortals table in the middle of the city tower and sat down, lifted the teapot and poured two cups of tea.
I smiled, walked over and sat down, and took a sip of a cup of tea.
Fang Chenghe took out another cigarette, handed it to me, and then took one in his own mouth, lit it and smoked it.
I smiled and lit a cigarette, and said, "What did Master Fang teach me about this peace?"
Fang Chenghe shook the ashes of his cigarette, but he said left and right: "Linzhi has indeed been wronged when she enters my house, and I have already found someone to send the divorce letter to Taoyuan." ”
I smiled slightly and said, "Thank you, Lord Fang." ”
Fang Chenghe took a sip of tea, stood up and walked to the railing again, looked at the Protoss military camp in the distance and said, "The Protoss army has not attacked the city for three days. ”
After saying this, he closed his mouth and turned to look at me, his eyes blazing.
I chuckled and said, "Lord Fang suspects that there is a Golden Horde in the inner city, but how did they send the information from the inner city out of the city?"
Fang Chenghe still didn't speak, just smiled slightly.
Fang Chenghe said that the Protoss Army had not attacked the city for three days, which was obviously suspecting that the Protoss Army had known in advance that Qingfeng City had a tendency to negotiate peace. So who leaked the information? There are two possibilities.
One is that there are fine works in Qingfeng Castle. Then the notice posted by the cabinet outside the city lord's mansion let the inner city know that the cabinet was going to discuss the matter of peace.
Another possibility is that the peace was negotiated between the Golden Horde and someone. Then whoever proposes to negotiate peace will be most suspected of colluding with the Golden Horde.
At present, only Taoyuan General Xu Jinyue is the most suspicious.
First of all, Xu Jinyue has a motive. This motive is Chaoyang Ling, as long as the peace negotiation is completed, then from Sunset Mountain to Taoyuan Town, from Wolong Mountain to the southern foot of Liangjie Mountain, this nearly 20,000 square kilometers of land will become Xu Jinyue's.
Secondly, most of the Taoyuan Army hoarded Sunset Mountain, instead of rescuing Qingfeng City, which can only be explained by supporting the self-respect of the army. Not to mention that this army has already annihilated hundreds of thousands of Protoss troops, and it is completely an elite army.
In the end, it was Xu Jinyue who went to Qingfeng City these days, and he not only curried favor with Tai Academy, but also fought with everyone in the cabinet, which was obviously the work of traitorous ministers.
And my answer was just one sentence, but I threw the pot to Fang Chenghe.
You must know that the outer city is now under martial law, and the entry and exit are controlled by your Lord Fang, who supervises the war, and if you want to say that I made peace with the Golden Horde, then you Lord Fang will not be able to escape the responsibility of lax supervision.
Fang Chenghe listened to my answer, but he was noncommittal, turned around and looked out of the city again.
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent, and the sergeants outside also stopped moving, and even a speck of dust falling on the ground was so quiet inside the city tower that there was a sound of earth.
After a while, Fang Chenghe said leisurely: "Gao Haibo has signed an agreement with Qianyuan Country privately, and the Jingdong Army is currently standing still, just waiting for you to go to peace talks!"
Although he had long expected that there was a problem with the Jingdong Army, what he didn't expect was that Gao Haibo actually dared to sign a peace agreement with the Qianyuan Kingdom privately, except for the 50,000 troops sent to support Qingfeng City earlier, the remaining 150,000 troops actually dared to sit back and watch the Protoss Army besiege Qingfeng City.
I was about to ask Fang Chenghe how he knew, but when he looked back, since he was a soldier and horse envoy, there must be hidden clothes in all armies, just like the golden eagle was the hidden suit of Taoyuan.
He immediately smiled and said, "That's why Lord Fang acquiesced in my peace talks?"
Fang Chenghe said: "It's good if you want to talk about peace, but whether people talk to you or not, these are two different things." ”
I know that he is talking about my "bad deeds" of annihilating 400,000 Protoss troops in the Fengwu Plain and at the foot of Sunset Mountain, and it is very likely that I have become a heinous person in the heart of the Golden Horde, and it is even more likely that now the officers and soldiers of the Protoss Army have listed me as a great villain that everyone can condemn.
Hehe smiled, and I said, "He doesn't want to talk? ”
Fang Chenghe turned his head sharply, looked at me deeply, and then said, "I only have 150,000 soldiers and horses at present, and it is still difficult to defend the city, so I can't give you more support." ”
I smiled and said, "I don't need your support, I'll just attack with my own troops." ”
"Just your eight thousand musketeers?" Fang Chenghe asked in surprise.
I smiled and replied, "It's 5,000 musketeers and 100 guns, plus two battalions of 10,000 horsemen." ”
Fang Chenghe was shocked: "Your artillery is not used to defend the city?"
I smiled and didn't answer, which was kind of a tacit acquiescence.
Jokes, there are artillery muskets, and there is an army formed by modern training, and Lao Tzu still guards a bird's feather city.
Fang Chenghe was silent, and after a while, he asked again, "Which side are you going to fight?"
I smiled and said: "This is a war, of course, pick soft persimmons and pinch them first, I will fight the silver horde army in the south, after all, there is still a lot of grain in the eleven towns in the south." ”
Fang Chenghe thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll give an order right away and let Nanmen cooperate with you." ”
I stood up and said, "No need to cooperate, you can just let the south gate open in the afternoon." In addition, I wrote a letter to the Golden Horde, saying that I would visit His Royal Highness the Golden Horde in three days, and talk about the ransom of his eldest son Kudor and the 20,000 Divine Army. ”
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Outside the south gate, under the leadership of Huang Youliang, the industrial battalion has formed five parallel phalanxes with flags as a unit, and a hundred cannons pulled by mules and horses followed.
I took Hu'er Te and Chen Qinglong immediately after the artillery carriage, and behind us were 10,000 cavalry troops of the two battalions of scouts and guards.
The Silver Horde Army on the opposite side had already discovered us, but they were in a position unhurriedly, and a mile in front of the Taoyuan Army, three orcs and 10,000 troops were already in full array.
The Silver Horde Army was also lined up in a phalanx, and the flags behind it were waving, obviously still being dispatched.
Chen Qinglong said: "General, can you start?"
I smiled and said, "Let's go." ”
General Erte waved the big flag in his hand and shouted: "Taoyuan Army, advance!"
The drums sounded, and the musketeers of the Five Banners stepped on the drums and marched forward in parallel.
Chen Qinglong arched his hand at me, and with the scout battalion, moved to the left, guarding the left flank of the musketeers.
He handed the banner to one of the guards, and said to me on his horse, "General, I'm going." ”
I nodded and said, "Go ahead." ”
Led the convoy to the right, and soon joined the musketeers, guarding the right flank of the musketeers.
At a distance of five hundred meters from the Silver Horde, the musketeers stopped and began to form a formation.
The musketeers of the Five Banners were all lined up in three rows, and the artillery convoy broke through from the middle of the road, and after reaching the front, it dispersed to both sides, and arranged positions on the left and right of the musketeers, with fifty cannons on each side.
I sat on the horse, looked at the formation that Huang Youliang had painstakingly arranged, smiled, and said to the guard carrying the flag next to me: "Bonuer, wave the flag." ”
Bonuer, the first batch of graduates from the teaching battalion, is the son of the first settlement of Chaoyang Temple, and the first batch of officers who grew up in Chaoyang Temple, and is now the flag commander of the first and first small flags of the guard battalion.
As Bonuer waved his flag clockwise, the artillery positions on both sides roared at the same time.
The hundred-millimeter solid bullet rushed straight towards the orc phalanx in front, setting off a bloody storm in the orc phalanx.
In the blink of an eye, the orcs were in chaos.
The Silver Horde officer on his horse kept wielding his sword to drive the headless orcs back into the phalanx.
However, when the next cannonball hit, the orcs began to run wildly again.
After firing ten shells from each cannon, a total of a thousand shells fell on the orc phalanx, the orcs finally all went into disarray, most of the orcs retreated, and a few rushed towards the musketeers with swords and guns, but they were knocked to the ground by a volley.
I smiled and raised my hand, Bonuer waved the flag, and the artillery stopped firing.
Soon, three infantry formations of the Silver Horde came up from the opposite side and stood where the orc phalanx had just been.
Immediately afterwards, two more cavalry formations accelerated towards the artillery positions from the left and right.
However, Chen Qinglong and the cavalry of Juerte made way at the same time, allowing the opposing cavalry to face the artillery position.
The opposing cavalry did not understand the situation, but the speed of the horses had already increased, so they had to wave their sabers and go straight to the artillery position.
However, in front of the two artillery positions, ten iron cylinders had been erected each.
If the people who have ascended to the human realm can see at a glance that this is a heavy machine gun.
Yes, the military factory led by Li Xuefeng finally developed a repeating heavy machine gun.
This heavy machine gun, similar to the Maxim heavy machine gun of World War I in the human world, is a shell-throwing water-cooled machine gun powered by gunpowder gas, with a rate of fire of about 500 rounds per minute.
For this reason, military factories even invented bullets with metal shells and homespun supply chains.
When I received this batch of heavy machine guns for experiments three days ago, I laughed and said, "Now the brothers on the grassland have to become a nation that can sing and dance." ”
In the blink of an eye, the muffled sound of the heavy machine gun rang out.
I watched the cavalry of the Silver Horde fall off their horses one after another, or fall to the ground with their horses, and I couldn't help but smile, turned to Bonuer and said, "Okay, let's go make tea, the outcome of the day is decided." ”