Yun Zheng planned to be a standard Song Dynasty official, listening to everything from above, he didn't follow, the emperor made a cheap will to Wu Shengjun, and the documents of the Privy Council were vague about his own attribution, but the military order was clear, to put it bluntly, Wu Shengjun was not allowed to escape, and the battle that should be fought was to be held on.

It just so happened that Yu Jing gave Wu Shengjun an order to defend the hot spring pass, which is very good, the closer to Nong Zhigao's old nest Guangyuan Prefecture, the more Yun Zheng likes it, there is still time to rest the army in the hot spring pass, and it is very beneficial to the growth of Wu Shengjun to meet Huang Shimi, if you face a fierce person like Nong Zhigao as soon as you get started, the casualties must be very large, which Yun Zheng does not want to see.

Chen's 8,000 army was beaten by 3,000 elites, and suffered heavy casualties, so Huang Shimi thought that an army like Yun Zheng would also be vulnerable, he was not busy opening up the back road, but wantonly looted in Yizhou, not only robbing the government and rich households, but also the poor people. Wrapped in countless people, Huang Shimi's team became huge in an instant, and the army of more than 50,000 people rushed to the hot spring pass with a vast amount of goods, thinking that as long as their army arrived at the hot spring pass, they would scare the guards there to death, such a scene is not uncommon in Guangnan.

The honest Yun Zheng stayed at Hot Spring Pass to prepare for defense, neither harassing the place nor making excessive demands on the officials, which made Yu Jing, an old minister, have a much better view of Wu Shengjun.

At this time, the Wu Shengjun was digging a trench in front of the Hot Spring Pass, there were three in total, that is to say, the Wusheng army planned to rely on these three trenches to consume Huang Shimi's army with a large number of crossbow arrows, and the Guangnan pacification made Pan Yue very satisfied with Wu Shengjun's arrangement, thinking that this was the old Cheng's method.

Standing on the pass, Pan Yue pointed to the soldiers of the Wusheng Army who were digging a trench and said to Yun Zheng: "Yundu Supervisor, the life of the Wusheng Army is difficult, and your Wusheng Army is especially difficult. The old man admires the ability to lead the army to such a point. ”

"Ming Gong praised falsely, since His Majesty has a will, no matter how many mountains and rivers or swords, guns and arrows rain can not stop Wu Shengjun's heart to serve the country with a fist, the so-called lord humiliates the ministers to death. Now is the time. ”

Yun Zheng is also wearing linen clothes, this is the clothes of Wu Shengjun when he is working, from the general to the soldier are exactly the same, Yun Zheng's clothes are cleaner, as long as the clothes for work are strong, so the style is very simple, not much different from the work clothes of later generations, and a thick layer of linen is specially sewn on the shoulders, knees, and elbows. So it looks ugly.

Yun Zheng felt that there was no need to explain these things to Pan Yue, and there was no need to tell Pan Yue that all the soldiers had removed their armor, and the good-looking, clean clothes were all in the camp tent, and the Wusheng army was a box army. If Yu Jing knew that Wu Shengjun's equipment was better than that of the forbidden army, God knows if he would get Wu Shengjun back to attack Yongzhou and be cannon fodder for others.

Pan Yue put down the grain and left in a hurry, as a supervisor, he didn't even enter the military camp of Wusheng Army, but just watched the city defense and fortifications and hurried back to Pennsylvania, Di Qing was about to arrive, and came down with the sword of the Son of Heaven. Don't let yourself be neglected.

Wu Jie got out of the trench, shook the mud on his feet, grabbed the rope on the edge of the city wall and climbed up the city wall, picked up his own kettle and drank a big mouthful of water and said to Yun Zheng: "The trench can only be dug one zhang deep, and if you dig it down, water will come out of the bottom, if there is more water." It will collapse the trench here, and then it will become a quagmire......"

Speaking of this, Wu Jie jumped from the city wall into the mound below, and shouted, "Continue digging down two feet until the spring water is dug out, Lao Tzu." I didn't think just now that this was to stop the enemy from attacking, and the muddy quagmire was better. ”

Yun Zheng chuckled and left Wu Jie's defense area, and went to Liang Ji's defense area to observe, he was different from Wu Jie's here, Wu Jie's defense area was defense, his defense area was to attack, the cavalry assault was led by him and Peng Jiu, Xiaolin with three hundred cavalry was the final blow, and it was time to test the effect of the cavalry three consecutive hits that he had never hidden from Pang and Qingyi Jiejie Ghost Zhang.

"Pull it up! This drawbridge is not only to be used as a bridge, but also to be used as a shield for the brothers behind the city gate who are ready to attack, and it must be pulled high enough! Yes, that's all, put! ”

As Liang Ji shouted, a wooden suspension bridge fell suddenly on the soft mound of dust, the suspension bridge just fell, Liang Ji, who was dressed in sackcloth, rode out of the gate on a horse, ran out of the horse after more than ten zhang before returning the horse, and scolded at the military head: "Old dog, can you remove the soft soil at the bridgehead, the soft soil is trapped in the horse's hooves, if it wasn't for Lao Tzu's superb riding skills just now, he would definitely throw a dog and eat, are you framing Lao Tzu?" ”

When the veteran heard this, he immediately kicked a young soldier in the ass and shouted: "Just know how to eat, but don't know how to clean up the tail of your hands when you work?" ”

Seeing that they were arguing, Yun Zheng didn't plan to ignore it, Wu Shengjun had no experience in fighting in large corps, and only by experimenting over and over again could we find out the best, most trouble-free, and most effective way, and Liang Ji did a good job.

The crossbow barracks is Zhou Tong's world, he is arranging the position of the Eight Bull Crossbow according to the firing range drawings, this is the farthest range of weapons in the Wusheng Army, Yun Zheng used to plan to install gunpowder on the crossbow gun, and then gave up because he could not calculate the time of the explosion, and only when the bed crossbow with a standard range was manufactured could it be further installed.

The small trebuchet is the secret weapon of the Wu Shengjun, they throw not stones, but gunpowder jars, in order to be able to bring the gunpowder from Chengdu safely to this Yun Zheng tried his best, this thing will explode if it collides violently, and it will spontaneously combust after being irradiated by the sun for a long time, and it is even more terrible to encounter open flames, so Yun Zheng distributed the gunpowder evenly to each ship, and packed it in sealed wooden barrels, and each ship specially sent four of the most careful soldiers to take care of it along the way, which brought it over, and now, Zhou Tong has calculated the coverage of the crossbow gun, the coverage of the trebuchet, and the projection range of the crossbow arrow, and planned the area according to each design angle, so as to ensure that every shot can be effectively hit.

Peng Jiu is in the back camp, he exists as the last reserve of the Wusheng Army, Yun Zheng faced the first large-scale battle in his life, he didn't dare to have any carelessness, in the final analysis, defensive warfare is the most suitable tactic for novices to learn. It is also the whetstone that can test a coach's thoughtfulness and meticulousness.

Peng Jiu pulled Yun Zheng to a hidden place and whispered, "We lost ten pieces of bread and half a bag of rice. ”

Yun Zheng was taken aback and said, "Here? Didn't the brothers eat it themselves? ”

Peng Jiu shook his head and said: "If it was before, there were too many such things, and there was no way to check it at all, but now, the brothers no longer have this habit, and it is impossible for you to let a person who can eat and drink enough to steal flatbread and rice." I specifically asked the brothers who went in and out of the baggage camp if anyone ate it, and you know that eating is not a sin in our camp at all, and if anyone eats it, they will definitely admit it.

Lao Shao, the head of the fire, also said that it was definitely not for the brothers, he baked two hundred flatbreads in the morning, and put them in the basket, which was the lunch of the brothers, but when it was time to eat at noon, he found that ten flatbreads were missing, and after careful checking, he found that half a bag of new rice was missing, and reported it to me. ”

Yun Zheng looked at the barren grass outside the hot spring pass, pointed there and said to Peng Jiu: "Have you checked there?" ”

Peng Jiu nodded and said, "I checked, a few brothers who had learned tracking techniques with Lang Lige have checked, and no trace of anyone has been found." ”

Yun Zheng took a long breath and said, "Could it be that we are the hell?" The camp of more than 10,000 people is heavily guarded, who can take some food without knowing it? We must find out, we must find out before the arrival of Huang Shimi's army, and we must find this ghost by digging three feet into the ground, if we don't find it, our overall defense will have loopholes, and all the previous things have been done in vain. ”

Peng Jiu gritted his teeth and went to arrange, Yun Zheng quickly returned to the military tent, and ordered the monkey to find Su Xun, Zhou Tong, Wu Jie, Liang Ji, Sun Dazhi, Hou Dayi, all these Yu Hou, looking at the map and wondering what went wrong.

After all the generals arrived, Yun Zheng threw the map in his hand on the table and said, "Hell, someone can touch our back camp and take away the food, but we don't know anything. Peng Jiu is now investigating this matter, and I just want to know what went wrong with our defenses! ”

"It can't be!" Sun Dazhi categorically denied that he was presiding over the defense of the barracks, so he was the first to stand up and oppose it.

"But the flatbread and rice are lost, this is a fact, if the brothers are hungry, just ask the firehead army to eat, there is no need to steal it, the flatbread is still said in the past, and there is no way to explain the rice." Zhou Tong picked up the map and looked at it again.

Hou Dayi suddenly stood up and said, "Suppose I am that spy, what am I doing in the barracks?" First, assassinate the general, second, spy on the military plane, and third, hide in the shadows and wait for Huang Shimi's army to arrive and create chaos!

None of these three assumptions require stealing food from the barracks, and the likelihood of poisoning is higher than stealing! ”

Sun Dazhi continued: "Most of the brothers in my camp are the old brothers of the Jiazi Battalion trained earlier by Lang Lige, and there is no doubt about their loyalty, our sentinels around the Hot Spring Pass have been released for at least thirty miles, and the commanding heights around the Hot Spring Pass are also under our surveillance, from the barren grass outside the pass to the wall, they are all shrouded by the range of crossbow arrows, and there are our sentries and secret agents in the barren grass, I can't believe that anyone can enter the barracks without knowing under such circumstances." ”

Yun Zheng sighed and said, "Gao Tansheng is fine!" Don't underestimate the enemy, brothers, this is our first battle, we must be careful, careful, careful, we are all our own brothers, we can't afford to make mistakes! ”

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Chapter I