Chapter 779: A Visitor from Hebei
A few months ago, Chang'an sent them a batch of iron fire mines through secret freight channels, including three large iron fire mines and ten small iron fire mines, and several soldiers from the firearms battalion.
This kind of powerful weapon will never be used by Zhang Yun unless it is absolutely necessary.
The fleet was moored at the foot of the cliff where the Big Buddha was located, the chasing army here could not pass, it was relatively safe, there was no army protection, everyone did not dare to continue to move forward, maybe there was a chasing army waiting for them in front!
As a senior scout, Zhang Yun is best at surveying the terrain, he quickly found the most ambush place, against the two thousand army, he does not need to ambush, against three thousand, a little ambush, he can guarantee a complete victory, against the five thousand army is not too sure.
It is said that it can be defeated by one against five, that refers to the state of stragglers, once the opponent forms a formation, with a formation against the type, he has absolutely no certainty of victory, and ambush is the best way.
The place he chose was good, with low hills on both sides of the official road, and large woods on both sides of the hills, and they were ambushed on the north side.
More than a dozen soldiers of the firearms battalion lay in ambush on the top of the hill a hundred paces ahead, and below was a steep mountain rock, without shrubs and trees.
Zhang Yun was very experienced, he knew that the enemy army would inevitably send spies into the woods to investigate, and he had already sent people to catch a batch of flying birds to confuse the enemy army.
An hour later, the chasing soldiers appeared more than ten miles away, and this time the chasing soldiers were also the Shence Army, and the whole army, 5,000 people, was commanded by Meng Shenwu, the general of the Shence Army.
Meng Shenwu was about thirty years old, and he was the youngest general in the entire Southern Tang Dynasty.
This time, on Huo Xianming's orders, he led his army south to capture the fleeing Guan Long family, and demanded that all of them be captured back to Chengdu.
Meng Shenwu also knew that the other party had a very powerful army, although there were only a thousand people, but it was very strong, he didn't dare to be careless, and marched cautiously all the way.
The team marched at a high speed, with low hills on both sides, the river surface appeared and disappeared from time to time, and a dense forest appeared far ahead, the dense forest seemed to cover a large area, which was more suitable for ambush, Meng Shenwu immediately shouted: "Go to the forest to explore!" ”
The team stopped moving forward, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed towards the woods, and a frightened bird suddenly flew in the woods, and only for a moment, the commander of the first brigade ran back and said: "General Qiyu, no enemy situation has been found in the woods!" ”
Meng Shenwu nodded, just now a frightened bird flew in the woods, which already showed that there was no ambush in the woods.
With a wave of his hand, he ordered, "Continue the front army!" ”
The army of five thousand marched southward, passing between two steep hills, and in front of them appeared a large wood, and a field of birds fluttered.
Meng Shenwu was puzzled, he didn't send spies, why were there flying birds? Something is wrong.
He immediately shouted, "Stop!" ”
The team stopped advancing again, and the running team quickly contracted and assembled, and Zhang Yun was trying to create the effect of the enemy's assembly.
At this moment, suddenly a large iron egg rolled down from the eastern hill, like a large urn containing wine, and green smoke sneered from it, and the soldiers dodged one after another, and the big iron ball rushed directly into the ranks.
At this moment, red light burst out in the team, only to hear an earth-shattering explosion, a large iron fire thunder exploded in the dense crowd, flesh and blood flew sideways, and a huge shock wave lifted hundreds of people into the air.
Fragments of iron flew and the screams were drowned out by the explosion, followed by a puff of smoke, and the soldiers finally reacted, crying for their fathers and mothers, and fled in a hurry.
At this time, another large iron fire thunder rolled down the hill and rolled into a dense crowd again, the iron fire thunder exploded violently again, the earth trembled, the human body was torn to pieces, and a large number of soldiers were shocked to the heart.
This is the experience of the soldiers of the firearms battalion, you can't push two iron fire mines down the mountain at the same time, the iron fire thunder cannot explode at the same time, the iron fire mine that explodes first will blow up the next iron fire mine, maybe it will fall into your own army.
This is the tragedy that occurred when they were testing a series of iron fire mines, an iron fire mine was thrown into the test crowd by the shock wave and exploded, killing more than 20 people.
The two huge explosions were clearly audible dozens of miles away, everyone on the ship covered their ears one after another, and more than a dozen family heads saw the black smoke from a distance, and their eyes showed a look of horror, could this be the most mysterious fire and thunder weapon in Guo Songjun's army?
The Guanlong nobles are relatively well-informed, they all know that there is a very powerful firearm in the Guo Song army, which can collapse the city wall and sound like a huge thunder, but they have never seen it with their own eyes, and now they have heard it and seen the smoke, and everyone immediately guessed that this must be a firearm that has been rumored for a long time.
The boatmen didn't know what was going on, they were frightened, knelt on the deck and kowtowed desperately, shouting, "Grandpa Lei spare his life!" Grandpa Lei spares his life! ”
The smoke of gunfire dissipated on the official road, and two large pits appeared, and the two sides of the official road were covered with corpses that had been blown up and shocked to death, as many as six or seven hundred people, most of the soldiers were stunned and could not react, and many soldiers were deaf and kneeling on the ground, unable to hear anything.
Extreme fear shrouded the hearts of every soldier, many people didn't even know what was happening, thinking that the thunder was coming, and suddenly someone shouted, jumped up and ran wildly, which was like pressing a button, the soldiers immediately reacted, turned around and ran wildly, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain.
At this time, Zhang Yun led a thousand soldiers to kill out of the woods, the army was in chaos, the soldiers lost their armor and ran for their lives, the scout army chased and killed more than 3,000 enemies all the way, Meng Shenwu collected the defeated soldiers, only less than 1,000 people remained, he was helpless, and had to flee to Chengdu in panic.
Zhang Yun ordered the soldiers to notify the Jiazhou government to come to clean up the battlefield, and he led the army to get on the boat, and there was no pursuit at this time, and the fleet sailed towards the Yangtze River.
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Chang'an Baqiao, a young man rode to Chang'an, followed by an old man riding a donkey, the young man was fast, he saw Chang'an City from afar, he was excited, he couldn't help but whip his horse quickly, the old man was so anxious that he shouted: "Childe wait for me!" ”
An old man and a young man came to Chang'an at a faster pace, they entered Chang'an City from Mingde Gate, the young man was deeply attracted, he looked at it for a long time, and then couldn't help but sigh: "This is Chang'an, it is really the capital of the world, it is worthy of its name, it is too spectacular!" ”
The old man looked at the root of the city wall strangely, and said in surprise: "How can there be a road here, and so many houses?" ”
"Uncle Yang hasn't seen this place before?"
The old man shook his head, "I have been to the capital many times, and I have never seen a road by the city wall, this should be newly built." ”
"This is the habitat that His Royal Highness the King of Jin has built for us poor!"
A man next to him walked by with a cart of old bricks, and when he heard the discussion between the two, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "This place is called Huangcheng Fang, but it is the largest square in Chang'an, where hundreds of thousands of poor people live. ”
The old man smiled and arched his hand, "Thank you for your advice!" ”
He said to the young man, "Childe, let's find a place to live first." ”
The old man and the young man are the master and servant, the young man is called Cui Feng, he was born in the famous Qinghe Cui family, the old man is his housekeeper, it doesn't matter what his surname is, everyone calls him Uncle Yang.
Cui Feng came to Chang'an for the first time, and his father was worried that he would lose on the road, so he asked the old housekeeper Uncle Yang to accompany him.
Uncle Yang has been to Chang'an many times, and he is already familiar with the road, he took Cui Feng to Feng'anfang and came to a Qinghe inn, which is Qinghe Cui's industry in Chang'an.
In fact, all the famous families in the world have industries in Chang'an, some are restaurants, some are houses, some are inns, but more are shops, Qinghe Cui's has shops, inns, and restaurants.
The innkeeper heard that it was the children of his own clan who came to stay in the inn, and politely welcomed them into the inn and invited them to sit down and rest, and the shopkeeper asked with a smile: "The two are from Beizhou?" ”
"We are from Zhaozhou, and my son-in-law is the son of Cui Tingshi of Zhaozhou."
Speaking of this, the old man took out a bronze medal from his luggage, which is the clan card of the children of the Cui family, with this family card, the children of the Cui family can be taken care of from the Cui family industry in various places when they walk the world.
The shopkeeper didn't ask any more questions, but arranged an upper room for them on the second floor, and arranged for them to eat.
Taking a chance, the old man asked the shopkeeper in a low voice: "My son-in-law has something to see His Royal Highness the King of Jin, is there any way?" ”
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