Chapter 74: City of Miracles
The night breeze is very pleasant. "Words * love * first * hair But in this good season of spring flowers, many people have no intention of enjoying the flowers peacefully, but are doing things that spoil the scenery.
Yun Qing is like this at the moment. He stood on top of the wooden raft, holding a bamboo pole, and was working with the other soldiers to control the wooden raft full of supplies.
If it was daytime, he would have seen the endless rows of wooden rafts on the river and the high-spirited soldiers on the rafts.
After Lin Yanhui came up with this good idea, she made a little preparation and began to implement the plan the next night.
Yun Qing directly led 20,000 soldiers to prop up wooden platoons down the river in order to build a walled city.
Of course, the number of wooden rafts originally prepared by Lin Yanhui was not enough to allow so many soldiers to pass. But Yun Qing directly ordered the soldiers to cut down the trees for a day, so that there were a lot of wooden rows.
However, Rao is like this, and the wooden platoon is actually not enough, but many soldiers directly hold a large wooden stake and float on the water like that, so they can barely let 20,000 soldiers go together.
At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, Yun Qing had already stopped at his destination and dragged the wooden raft ashore.
With the disembarkation of a soldier, the construction of the walled city also began rapidly.
The first thing to be built was a perimeter fence enclosed by wooden rafts.
Others dug moats outside the fence, while others hauled the excavated earth over to cast earthen walls.
Among the materials brought by Lin Yanhui, except for grain, grass and equipment, the others were all semi-finished products and materials for the purpose of casting the walled city.
Large blocks of burned bricks and lime for building the wall were moved by the soldiers to build a city wall, and a layer of earth excavated from the moat was piled on the outside of the city wall, and then covered with a layer of river mud and compacted, forming a simple section of the city wall.
After the completion of the walls, the scaffolding outside the walls was removed, but the scaffolding inside the walls was not removed, but unused wooden rafts were placed between the two scaffolding, so that archers could stand on them for defense and set up siege crossbows and trebuchets.
After the completion of the city walls, buildings such as barracks and stables began to be built.
By this time, the outer moat had been completed. In order to save the construction period, the moat directly used a section of the Yuan River and the Mo River.
Since the walled city was built at the confluence of the two rivers, the section where the two rivers met was directly used, and the excavated moat only needed to be connected to the river to calmly divert water.
As the water level of the moat rose, all the soldiers let out a cheer of victory.
The moat is definitely the top priority of the city's defense, and the smooth storage of the moat means that the city has a preliminary defensive force.
After a night, a walled city large enough to garrison 70,000 or 80,000 troops appeared at the confluence of the two rivers.
Yun Qing watched the soldiers pull up the wooden bridge used to enter and exit, and finally relieved his heart.
Although the strange strategy of building the city this time was very unexpected, after all, the Eastern Navy was not a fool, so how could it not send someone to investigate
Therefore, Yun Qing released the Lightning Falcon to monitor the movements of the Eastern Navy, but although many spies from the Eastern Navy were found, none of these spies came to check on the place where they originally planned to camp. On the contrary, many spies actually found the location of the coalition forces.
"That's right, no one would have thought that the coalition forces would rush directly at this time, let alone build a walled city." Looking at the direction where the Eastern Navy was located, Yun Qing couldn't help but look forward to it, not knowing what kind of expression the Eastern Navy would have after seeing the walled city here
"Lord Viscount, the soldiers have been arranged to rest in turn." Jia Lin climbed on the scaffolding to give a report.
"Very good, the spies of the Eastern Navy have already noticed that the situation on our side is different." Using the lightning falcon's eyes in the sky, Yun Qing saw the actions of the Eastern Navy spies very easily.
Hearing this, Jia Lin sneered: "Lord Viscount, I'll go out and arrest them." ”
"I'll go with you." Yun Qing nodded when he heard this: "It's not easy for you to catch them silently by yourself." ”
Putting down the drawbridge, the two rode out of the city, and then Yunqing took Jia Lin around the road towards the location of a spy.
When they were about to approach, the two jumped off their horses and quietly touched it.
The spy that the two were eyeing was hiding in a tree in a daze, looking at the sudden appearance of the walled city and the banner of the coalition forces on the walled city, rubbing his eyes again and again, which was really unbelievable.
The two touched his back, and he didn't notice it.
As Yun Qing shot an arrow at his buttocks, he let out a scream and fell down the tree.
"Jialin, tie him up for me." Yun Qing commanded.
Jia Lin forced a smile and tied up the hapless spy, and the two took him back.
Throwing that spy off the horse, Yun Qing only threw down a sentence and after you said hello, he attacked again with Jia Lin.
As soon as the two left, several soldiers immediately rushed over like wolves, dropping the spy directly on the scaffolding, Han Zhen held the whip in his hand and looked at him with a sneer: "If you want to live comfortably, just be honest, you can say whatever I ask." If it's not what the other people we've caught, then I'm going to cramp you. ”
After most of the day's work, Yun Qing and Jia Lin directly arrested all the more than 20 spies found by the Lightning Falcon.
Even so, many spies were not caught, but reported the news to Donghai Gong.
Because Yun Qingtong Guò Lightning Falcon found that Donghai Gong's army suddenly increased its marching speed, this was enough to explain a qiē.
In the evening, Han Zhen handed over the sorted confession: "Lord Viscount, this is their confession. In addition, this part is the inconsistent part of their mouths. ”
Han Zhen didn't think that inconsistent confessions were lies, and recorded them all in great detail. Of course, the memory was written down, but those spies who had inconsistent confessions were still severely punished.
Yun Qing took the confession that was consistent with the narrative and read it, and then handed it to Jia Lin: "You can also take a look." ”
Then he read the inconsistent confessions again, and this time, he smiled bitterly: "It's really a headache, these words are true and false, it's really hard to tell the difference." ”
Hearing this, Jia Lin took the confession, flipped through it carefully, and picked out two of them: "These two should be true, and the rest is difficult to say." ”
"No big deal." Yun Qing put those confessions into a box, then sealed them and tied them to the feet of the lightning falcon: "Little guy, bring this thing to Kerr." Let her feed you something delicious. ”
The Lightning Falcon screamed and disappeared into the night sky. In addition to Yunqing, it was Ke'er who fed it. So it also remembered Kerr.
"Someone is better at analysing this information than we are, so we don't have to bother with it. If Old Thief Sun had a heart, his cavalry would have arrived tonight. Before they arrive, there is a good chance that we will fight the first battle first. Yun Qing said with a smile.
In fact, just as Yun Qing said, when the spies conveyed the news of the walled city, the entire tent was silent, and a needle could be heard when it landed.
It's incredible.
"You can see clearly, there is really a walled city," Sun Canghai asked again with a gloomy old face.
"Lord Duke, it is true, this morning as soon as it was dawn, I saw that something was wrong. I hid until dawn, observed for a while, and then came back to report. Indeed, a walled city suddenly appeared, and the banner on it belonged to the enemy. Lord Duke, Xiaoliu also saw it. ”
"Come on, call that little six to me." Sun Canghai immediately waved his hand and ordered, the matter is important, and it is absolutely necessary to ask clearly.
It didn't take long for the spy named Xiaoliu to come to the tent.
"Meet the Duke, generals." Xiaoliu came in and worshipped.
"Get up and speak. Let me ask you, have you seen the enemy's walled city," Sun Canghai asked.
"Yes, Lord Duke. It's true. As soon as Xiao Liu heard this, he immediately replied: "That walled city was definitely built overnight, because I passed by there yesterday afternoon, and there was nothing at that time." Oh my God, it's incredible, it must be a miracle. ”
"Shut up." Sun Canghai shouted angrily: "You must be dazzled, give me all of it." ”
Looking at the two spies who withdrew, Sun Canghai looked at the other nobles and generals in the tent with a gloomy face: "Everyone, what do you think. Is this really the walled city they built?"
"Lord Duke, I don't think that's possible. You know, according to what we've got, it's going to be days before they get there, and even if they were to go at full speed, they'd have to arrive half a day later than we do, let alone build a walled city. "The one who spoke was Count Canglan, who admitted defeat when he was competing with Yunqing in the martial arts arena.
"Count Canglan is right, this matter is too unbelievable. When pigs fly. A general next to him said.
"What you mean is that those spies are all wrong" Sun Canghai frowned: "No matter how it is, it is impossible for so many people to be wrong at the same time."
"Lord Duke." The man in black behind Sun Canghai suddenly spoke: "I think it's better to let the cavalry advance at full speed and go and see what is going on." Second, it can also prevent the opponent from occupying other favorable terrain. ”
"The master is right, come here, pass the order, and let the cavalry prepare immediately." Sun Canghai listened to the words of the man in black, and then ordered.
When the cavalry sent by Sun Canghai arrived at the confluence of the two rivers, they were all dumbfounded.
On the slightly higher flat ground at the confluence of the two rivers, there was really an extra walled city.
Moreover, this walled city is not a small camp as some generals had guessed before, but a real walled city that can accommodate 70,000 or 80,000 people.
Looking at the wide moat, the general who led the cavalry had a feeling of despair.
In the army, some soldiers secretly discussed: "The city really appeared overnight, God, they must have God's help, this must be a miracle." Could it be that the Valkyrie is on their side?"
"It seems that the rumors are true, our Duke is really rebellious."
"Be quiet, do you want to die?"
The discussion spread uncontrollably and quietly