Chapter 18 Success in Heaven
The news of the annihilation of more than 100,000 troops of the Star Sect in Qin'an Mansion became another bombshell after the burning of the expeditionary fleets of the three major empires, and exploded in the Boer Empire Expeditionary Force, the Yugoslav Expeditionary Force and the Western Continent Expeditionary Force. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThe commanders of the remaining tripartite expeditionary forces are all worried, although they all boast of being extraordinary, thinking that Mo Hankang is a wine bag and rice barrel obsessed with women, but the Dayan Empire can defeat the more than 100,000 musket army of the Star Sect with less than 50,000 troops, which is enough to show that the Pingxi general Song Zhenhai's superiority, cutting off the sea route, sealing the three passes, and cutting off grain and grass are all deadly tricks, and the tripartite army was originally here to go through the motions, threatening the Dayan Empire to get war reparations and complete the purpose of opening unilateral treaty ports with artillery fire, With more than 100,000 troops dispatched to press the border, he thought that he could quickly occupy the border five provinces of the Dayan Empire, and even reached a partition agreement, just entered the territory of the Dayan Empire, such as entering the realm of no one, unstoppable, but after the ship was burned, the situation suddenly reversed, and there was a posture of all the border provinces being wiped out, how could these commanders of noble backgrounds not panic.
After the tripartite consultation, it was decided that the Bir tribe would join hands with half of the small and medium-sized tribes to capture the three passes and open up the connection with the Western Continent, and the Wokotai tribe would join hands with half of the small and medium-sized tribes, as well as the Boer Empire Expeditionary Force and the Yugoslav Expeditionary Force to launch a siege on Qin'an Mansion, focusing on attacking Song Zhenhai's direct troops, and fighting a quick battle!
The nomadic tribes of the Western Continent still use this cold weapon, while the North Continent and the South Continent have popularized muskets and artillery, and invested a lot of money and manpower to develop ironclad combat equipment, these muskets and artillery are extremely powerful, which has made the soldiers of the Dayan Empire suffer from it, but there are also restrictions, which require the consumption of customized gunpowder, and cannot fight on rainy days. However, on the first night of ascending to the Five Mansions on the border of the Eastern Continent, they were completely lost under the joint efforts of the Seven Great Sects, and the few mortal-level cultivators were guarding the commanders from being assassinated. Now that the Boer Empire Expeditionary Force and the Yugoslav Expeditionary Force are in danger of running out of ammunition and food, they must defeat Song Zhenhai while there is still gunpowder, capture Nujiang City, and build ships for them to return to China to gain time.
Song Taiping also learned about the advantages and disadvantages of muskets through the "Apocalypse of Modern War", and had more ways to deal with this inferior firearm, carefully digging pits and waiting to bury the muskets and artillery of the northern and southern continents. Song Zhenhai and Ai Senwenhao walked into the conference hall, Aisen Wenhao rudely interrupted Song Taiping's arrangement, directly pulled Song Zhenhai and Song Taiping into the inner hall, and blocked Shangguan Yi outside, closed the door, and forbade anyone to approach the door of the inner hall.
Aisen Wenhao looked around nervously, and said in a low voice: "General Song, Song Taiping little prince, the Mo Hankang you captured was a chess piece secretly placed by Emperor Tuob Changzhi, when I was sorting out a case, I accidentally found this object that restricts Mo Hankang, Mo Hankang's own confession and the secret meeting with the Pope's many favorite concubines, cuckolded the Pope, and even the Pope's eldest son and third son are his species. There was this bastard's own handprint, and since the adult who was in charge of this at the time had died at the hands of the rebellious Cult of the Dead, this matter was forgotten by everyone. I was curious and kept it for a while, but I didn't expect it to come in handy. ”
Song Taiping and Song Zhenhai looked at each other, Song Taiping said indifferently: "Lord Aisen Wenhao, you should go and see the residential area of Tingtao City, where I asked the sergeant to stay as it was, you had better live for this Mo Hankang after reading it, this bastard's subordinates are all brutes, it turns out that this origin is this." ”
Ai Senwenhao's face twitched, in Sanjiang Mansion, he had already witnessed the atrocities of the Yugoslav army soldiers against the people of the Dayan Empire, presumably this Mo Hankang's command was more than equal, but the prince of the prison country, Tuob Yuanqi, issued a secret order to himself, requiring that when the invading enemies of the northern and southern continents were eradicated, a few high-ranking generals would be left, and they would be secretly exchanged for heavy artillery and muskets for the purpose of ascending the throne to suppress the rebellion.
Ai Senwen Hao squeezed out a smile and said flatteringly: "Little Master Song Tianping, since this person is a tumor and a scourge, he should keep it and send it back to the Star Sect, so that he can harm the Star Sect well." ”
Song Taiping spread his hands and said calmly: "Lord Eisenwenhao, I will remind you once again that this Mo Hankang is very dangerous and evil, don't be careless, you can't believe any of his words, how to deal with this person, hand it over to my father and you to discuss, boy, I am just a staff member to give advice, I guess that the Boer Empire Expeditionary Force and the Yugoslav Expeditionary Force will jump over the wall in a hurry, and unite the nomadic cavalry of the Western Continent to attack them!" ”
Ai Senwen Hao got up and said in a lost voice: "Song Taiping little boy, can there be intelligence to corroborate?" If that's the case, we can't hold it, no, I'm going to urge those bastard reinforcements to speed up! ”
Song Zhenhai stroked his long hair, smiled, stopped Ai Senwenhao, and said calmly: "Lord Aisenwenhao, don't be too nervous, the expeditionary forces of the North and South Continents are already at the end of the crossbow, as long as we resist their fiercest attack, they will be lambs to be slaughtered, for the nomadic barbarians in the Western Continent, after trying the fire, I will let them taste the flooding again!" ”
Aisen Wenhao suddenly stared at Song Zhenhai and asked with some uncertainty: "General Song is saying that the monsoon that swept Qin'an Mansion, Sanjiang, Beihai Mansion, and Jianghai Mansion is coming?" ”
Song Zhenhai didn't speak, just nodded, and Song Taiping strode out of the inner hall, Ai Senwenhao hurriedly summoned the 30,000 soldiers under his command to visit the residential area of Tingtao City, after a visit, needless to say, the 30,000 soldiers, that is, Ai Senwenhao looked at the prisoners of war of the Star Sect and had the urge to dismantle the eight pieces, and the residential area was no longer a tragic word that could be described. Eisenwenhao's impromptu speech added another fire to the 30,000 soldiers under his command, made their fighting spirit even higher, and healed the psychological wounds that had just suffered defeat.
Song Taiping's request to the commanders of the six towns of Qin'an Mansion is to swear to stick to the city, people are in the city, people are dead and the city is destroyed, and not a grain of grain will be left for the enemy! After explaining in detail the strategy of defending the city and the tools that could be used, Song Zhenhai supplemented and perfected it, and instructed the communication disciples of the Seven Great Sects: "Please also convey it to the warriors guarding the underground granaries in the sect as soon as possible, and at noon the day after tomorrow, when the tide is rising, pay attention to sealing the gate of the bunker with sandbags in the granary, and it can only be opened at night." ”
Although these disciples were inexplicable when they heard it, they did exactly what they did. In the seven towns of Qin'an Province staged an unprecedented offensive and defensive battle, the artillery of the Yugoslav Federation and the Boer Empire bombarded the city wall, from time to time will blow up a section of tofu scum project, the iron ball tumbling at the head of the city caused a lot of casualties among the officers and soldiers defending the city, after the fierce shelling, it was a mixed siege formation of musketeers and nomadic tribes, which was suppressed by musketeers with muskets, and those sturdy nomadic men hooked the edge of the city head with siege ladders, and a team of nomadic men rushed to the city head with scimitars and heavy hammers.
The soldiers defending the city set up a basin of boiling dung water, cut the rope, and pressed down under the gravity of the stones, and poured a basin of dung water on the other end of the lever on the nomadic men who were climbing the siege ladder.
The soldiers defending the city re-pulled down the support part of the lever, fixed it with a rope, placed a basin of fire oil to ignite, cut the rope, and poured a basin of burning fire oil on the ground and siege ladder under the city, and heard the miserable screams of nomadic men, some panicked, jumped into the moat and choked to death, and some were burned alive to charcoal.
The mixed team of the siege team was withdrawn, and the Boer Empire and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia continued to bombard the city walls, and some of the city walls were also equipped with artillery, but the gunners of the Dayan Empire had not practiced all the year round, and they were not accurate at all.
The siege battle is scorching, the city defenders of the Dayan Empire have dozens of people dying under the artillery every minute, and the defenders who can still fight are sharply reduced, and the cities have sent pigeons to Tingtao City for help, Song Zhenhai, Song Taiping, and Aisen Wenhao looked at the roaring enemy artillery under the city, and there were 60,000 musketeers and 60,000 nomadic cavalry in the distance, and they could not send reinforcements, and even looked at the scattered people of the Dayan Empire who came to support them under the city, and were shot and killed by the enemy muskets, they also knew that they closed their eyes and sighed, The cruelty of the battle taught the young Song Taiping a vivid lesson.
Song Taiping's strategy of defending and locking the enemy is undoubtedly correct, even so, a large number of soldiers and people who came to support died tragically under the enemy's artillery and muskets, and even an effective attack was not displayed, the price of this victory made Song Taiping unbearable, several times he wanted to rely on his invulnerable body, only afraid of damaging the enemy's artillery position, and was firmly watched by Song Zhenhai, and was not allowed to leave his sight for half a step, if Song Taiping dared to go out of the city, Song Zhenhai then followed, and asked Song Taiping to collect his body, even if it was a mortal-level cultivator, Nor can you use flesh and blood to block musket attacks.
Song Taiping had to give up the plan to go out of the city to kill the enemy under the threat of his father's death, and with his father treating the wounded in the city, he gave the soldiers who were wounded by gunshots clear carrion, pus and blood, replaced the clean boiling boiled cloth strips, and gave the wounded Chinese medicine to reduce fever.
Song Taiping was shocked to see it, and he was considering the production of medicines and some medical equipment recorded in the "Apocalypse of Modern Warfare" to save as many lives as possible.
When Song Zhenhai was inspecting Tuobu Yuanzheng's injury, he accidentally found a fiery red fluff hanging from his neck, and asked with some emotion: "Brother Tuobu Yuanzheng, what is your relationship with Qianhu Mountain?" ”
Tuo Buyuan raised his lowered head, looked at Song Zhenhai, and said proudly: "General Song, I can't hide it, my father was born to a maid of the Yan clan who was fortunate to be spoiled by my grandfather after drinking, and he grew up in bullying, and met the third lady of Qianhu Mountain, Linghu Xiaomei, fell in love at first sight, and had me." When I was a child, my father was plotted to death by his half-brother, and my mother took me to live in Qianhu Mountain. ”
When Song Zhenhai heard this, tears were already flashing in his eyes, and he continued to ask, "Is my mother's health good?" ”
Tuobu Yuanzheng's expression stiffened, and he said: "The holy woman is old, there is no hope of breakthrough, and her lifespan is less than ten years. ”
Song Zhenhai looked at Song Taiping and shouted, "Son, I don't care what method you use, I must give your grandmother an extension of her life for twenty years." ”
Song Taiping suddenly frowned, what his father said lightly, the difficulty of manufacturing these medical devices is no less difficult than the difficulty of manufacturing weapons, and I don't know if my grandmother suffered internal injuries or if it was caused by practicing poison exercises like Tuob Aiqing, if these two situations are so easy to treat.
Suddenly, the shouts of the sergeants came from the top of the city: "The thieves have withdrawn!" The thieves have withdrawn! ”
Song Zhenhai and Song Taiping hurriedly rushed to the city to check, only to see that the musketeers of the Yugoslav Federation and the Boer Empire quickly retreated in the north and south directions, and those light and heavy artillery were abandoned on the spot, and the cavalry of the Wokotai tribe retreated in the direction of Anxi Province with a rapid contraction, and they did not see any panic, the men and horses of the Wokotai tribe looked indignant, and the musketeers of the Yugodai and Boer Empire actually hummed the ballad of their hometown excitedly.
Song Taiping realized that something was wrong, and rushed up with Song Zhenhai to rush up the city tower that had been cut off, and saw a large number of small sampans and occasionally a few dilapidated building ships moored along the coast of the North Sea from a distance, and the fire from the muskets could be seen from time to time on the tidal flats. Keep an eye on the small sampans coming and going, bringing more and more boats of all kinds, densely packed with the coastline.
Song Zhenhai saw this dog-eat-dog scene, without the slightest excitement, with a sad face, and said in frustration: "It's really a matter of man!" After thousands of calculations, I missed these damn pirates, who would not come sooner or later, but at this time, the thieves of the Boer Empire and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were able to escape. ”
Song Taiping observed for a while and said, "Father, don't you often say that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other? Although the thieves were able to escape, they left behind a large number of light and heavy guns, as well as a small number of shells, enough for us to crush the nomadic cavalry, and the artillery salvaged to the bottom of the sea could solve the problem of our shortage of smelted metal materials. Our pirates in the North Sea and the South China Sea have been sacked by these two expeditionary forces, and it is difficult for us to recover our ability to go to sea in less than a year, and it will also give the people of our border five provinces a time to recuperate. When you think about it, it's not necessarily all bad. ”
Song Zhenhai sighed and said: "Son, you still underestimate one link, this time the strength of the Star Sect has suffered a big loss, and the Boer Empire's losses are limited, the Northern Continent may be unified by the Boer Empire, according to overseas secrets, the forces of the Northern and Southern Continents are developing and upgrading muskets and artillery, and over time, when they come back, we will still use these spears and swords to resist, it will be a one-sided slaughter." The imperial court of the Dayan Empire does not trust any generals, and will not use the power of the whole country to do the same research and development, relying on the power of only one sect is too weak. ”
Song Zhenhai ordered the artillery and gunpowder on the battlefield to be collected into the city, and the cities were prepared to defend against tornadoes, and scouts were sent to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and the information obtained was: The Boer Empire and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had all withdrawn from the five border provinces, and before leaving, all the residents of the occupied towns were killed, and after robbing all the food, gold and silver, they were burned and burned to the whole city, and the nomadic tribes of the western continent abandoned the towns occupied by Jianghai and stopped the attack on the three border passes, and all of them shrank to the four towns occupied in Anxi Province.
Hearing this battle report, Aisen Wenhao laughed arrogantly and shouted: "My Dayan Empire's national prestige cannot be violated, even if these outsiders meet together, what can they do?" It's not like you're going back to your hometown! ”
At the time that Song Zhenhai said, the sky of the entire border Wufu was dark, and the tornado that reached the sky and the ground landed, and the turbulent sea water rampage, and the place where it passed was a mess, and there were even towns in Sanjiang Prefecture that were destroyed in the tornado, and the city was like a vast ocean, full of undulating seawater, and from time to time splashed on the empty city, in front of the power of nature, the power of man seemed so small.
Song Taiping stared at the Tianwei of nature with wide eyes, and knew why his father regretted the harassment of the pirates so much, if the nomadic cavalry led by the Yugoslav Expeditionary Force, the Boer Empire Expeditionary Force and the Wokotai tribe continued to attack the city in Qin'an Mansion at this moment, they would have been wiped out without any suspense and become the food of the creatures in the sea!
After the tornado, the sky cleared and the sea receded, leaving some fish and shrimp jumping on the ground and rampant crabs, so that the soldiers feasted and feasted on a seafood feast.
In the evening, messengers of the Ögedai and Bir tribes, carrying white cloths, begged to redeem their expeditionary force with furs, women, gold and silver, horses, and land.
Song Zhenhai and Ai Senwenhao carefully inspected the amount of goods and land they surrendered for redemption, and they both felt that these nomadic barbarians were too stingy, and they wanted to ignore them and continue to exterminate these nomadic cavalry, in Aisenwenhao's words: The dead nomadic cavalry is the best nomadic cavalry. It's just that such a major event is no longer up to the general and the overseer army to call the shots, Song Zhenhai ordered the nomadic tribes of the Western Continent to withdraw from the towns of Anxi Province, not to harass the people of Anxi Province, and wait for the approval of the Son of Heaven's holy will. It was decided by Ai Senwenhao to escort them to Kaiping City to meet the Son of Heaven of the Prison State, and by the way, secretly escorted Shang Mo Hankang and other generals of the Star Sect on the road together.