Chapter XXXVII: Deliberate Delays

"This ...... This...... This ...... "can be the guard of the Taiping Dao general, and he is naturally a brave person." But he stuttered, repeating the same word.

Bian Xi turned his head to look, but saw that the brother was talking, watching the brothers jump down from the height that was originally destined to fall to death, and then fall to the ground safely. Thinking of the guard's horror at this time, Bian Xi suddenly felt a strong sense of pride in his heart, and he said in a calm voice as much as possible: "This brother, you wait here first, and I'll go and ask Qu Shuai to come down now." ”

Leaving behind the guards, Bian Xi continued to walk forward. Only then did he notice that Qu Shuai didn't blindly let everyone jump down from a height of several feet. As usual, there were several places to practice next to it, from a few feet to a zhang, and at a height of one battle five, two long bamboo poles were tied with ropes, and the brothers put the ropes on their bodies on the ropes, and then jumped down, with bamboo as a buffer, and the brothers slowly fell to the ground with great elasticity.

There are also officers in charge of the troops' drills, commanding everyone to jump. It was a difficult posture to describe, the whole person turned sideways, and the legs were also very strange. Whoever does not do well, the training officer just points at it and scolds him. While scolding, he also made a corresponding demonstration.

Up the hillside, Bian Xi didn't care about the guards below, but ran over and grabbed a big umbrella first. It turned out that there was a shelf tied with bamboo strips inside the umbrella, just like a kite. Only then did Bian Xi understand why this silk-faced umbrella could be opened.

After reading the freshness, Bian Xi told Zhang Luo that a guard came to deliver the military order. After Zhang Luo listened, he took Sima Ju down the hillside. At this time, the guards finally regained their strength, and while glancing at the parachuting brother, they handed over the military order to Zhang Luo.

Military Order: Hurry up and return your troops! Lead your troops to harass the Han army and go north to reinforce the army!

General Liang.

After reading Zhang Liang's military order, Zhang Luo replied: "Please also ask this brother to go back and tell the people, and after a little battle of Jijia Town, he will return to the army." ”

"Da Qu Shuai, is this really okay?" The guards followed Zhang Luo's side, looked at the parachute in the carrying, and then looked at Zhang Luo, who was calmly commanding next to him, and finally asked nervously.

Everything in front of him was completely beyond the imagination of the guards, and even after seeing many successful landings, the guards still couldn't believe that this method of falling from the sky could succeed.

"You'll know when you're done with this battle." Zhang Luo did not make any evaluation, he had participated in paragliding training in his previous life, and he was well aware of the possibilities that existed. For the herald guard who often made a fuss around him, Zhang Luo wanted to ask him to leave quickly.

It's just that after seeing this method of fighting from the sky, the guards completely gave up their duty to hurry back and report it, and they had to see the results before leaving. Zhang Luo could only go with him.

The tent of the commander of the Chinese army was set up in the camp four or five miles away from the gate of Jijia Town, and the cloth surrounded the marshal tent. There were nine people seated, and a simple bamboo folding shelf with a wooden board was the table. The map board is simpler, as soon as the bamboo pole is set up on the shelf, a piece of bamboo is fixed upward, and the map is nailed upwards with a long thumbtack, and this is the end of the matter.

Among the nine commanders, Zhang Luo was the supreme commander, and the rest were Zhou Cang, Bian Xi, Sima Ju, Li Ji, Li Jun, Wu Lu, Lan Wei, and Zhang Shao.

Li Jun, whose name is Xiaru, was the tun chief of the tun established by the young and middle-aged people in Lijia Village, leaving Pei Yuanshao, Wang Zhen and Duan Rui, Feng Zhang, Cao Kun, and Wu Pei to be responsible for defending the Pingyuan City camp, and transferred several tuns composed of recruits. In order to let them see the world and get familiar with the battlefield.

Zhang Luo asked: "Xia Ru, how did you do to harass the enemy army?" ”

"Three days and three nights, no interruptions." Li Jun's face was tired, he harassed the enemy for three days and three nights, and he himself was not well rested, and it was normal to be tired.

It has been three days since the herald ordered the guards to rush to Jijia Town to Zhang Luo's confirmation of the start of the battle, and in the three days, the troops did not only conduct airborne training. In accordance with the principle of "the enemy is stationed and we are disturbed," Zhang Luo made several feints during the day and sounded trumpets from time to time at night to disrupt the enemy's rest as much as possible.

"How's the perimeter fighting?" Zhang Luo asked about Zhou Cang again.

After Li Ji Natun joined the siege array, Zhang Luo asked Zhou Cang to lead his subordinates to suddenly launch a feint attack on Jijiazhen's flank during the day.

"Mission accomplished." Zhou Cang replied calmly.

Jijia Town is said to have been standing in the local area for 50 years, and the city walls that have been built are quite meritorious. They dug up the source of the moat, and when they tried to cross the moat and storm, the firing position on the wall fired a salvo of crossbows. Fortunately, Zhang Luo ordered the troops to carry a strengthened shield, which was a large shield covered with several layers of grass and bamboo, and there were no casualties.

After several attempts, Zhou Cang and the others probably figured out the enemy's defensive layout in several seemingly weak places, and the attack also appeared to be fierce. Several times he successfully crossed the dry moat and put the ladder up the city wall. This next Jijia Town sent all the people who could be sent to the city wall to the city wall, and Zhou Cang naturally didn't want to have any unnecessary casualties, so he retreated from under the city wall very cooperatively.

The people in Jijia Town knew that it was powerful and strengthened the defenses on the city wall. Day and night were manned at the city walls, and patrols were one after another. This gave the opportunity to harass the troops, Li Jun was violently harassed, and every time he harassed, the chickens and dogs in Jijia Town jumped, and there was a big chaos.

Although the herald guards didn't know Zhang Luo's specific command, seeing such orderly arrangements and serious meetings, they really felt the taste of Nasen's serious killing in the army. There are also many meetings of great sages and mentors, but the subordinates are obviously divided into two kinds of people, those who can and those who cannot. The two kinds of people are mixed together, and when they are discussed, it is a pot of porridge. Nanhou can only forcibly suppress everyone and let them carry out the order to the letter.

Zhang Luo will completely forget about this guard because of the battle, this is a very simple battle tactically, with his ability, at this time he can only play the tactics that he knows as a sergeant. In order to ensure the victory of the battle, it is necessary to prepare every link very carefully and carefully.

"Bian Tunchang, how is the road to the back mountain opened?" Zhang Luo asked about the preliminary preparations for the airborne operation, the cliff on the back mountain is difficult to climb, Bian Xi was lightly armed when he first went up, and now with a lot of airborne materials, the difficulty of climbing has skyrocketed.

Bian Xi immediately replied: "The long ladder has been fixed, and the brackets and other things have been transported." Jijiazhen did not find out about our actions. ”

"Then harass for another night tonight, and prepare for a strong attack in the early hours of tomorrow morning!" Zhang Luo gave the order categorically.

All the officers who participated in the meeting stood up suddenly: "We will obey the general's order!" ”

However, in the early morning of the next day, Sima Ju, who was in charge of leading the team, sent someone to send a note to Zhang Luo, on which he wrote a paragraph crookedly: "The wind direction is not right, we can't fight now, and our department is waiting for the wind direction to change." ”

Zhang Luo immediately wrote a military order and ordered the herald to send it to Sima Ju: "The judgment is correct!" If the wind direction does not change after dawn, the guards will be left behind, and your troops will be withdrawn. ”

After sending out the military order, Zhang Luo couldn't help but ask Zhou Cang next to him, "Yuanfu, if the wind direction is not right, will you insist on airborne operations?" ”

Zhou Cang didn't see the wooden slip sent by Sima Ju, he smiled and said, "If you want me, you must try it." ”

Hearing this, Zhang Luo was very happy in his heart. Fortunately, the person in charge is a relatively calm and experienced Sima Ju, if Zhou Cang, who is more loyal and extremely brave, I am afraid that Zhou Cang will really dare to forcibly try to be airborne when the wind direction is completely inappropriate.

Zhang Luo hurriedly handed Sima Ju's wooden slip to Zhou Cang: "Yuanfu, you have to learn from Comrade Boquan." ”

Sima Ju, the word Boquan.

In the daytime, the herald guards saw that the battle did not start as scheduled, and couldn't help but ask Zhang Luo, "Qu Shuai, what's going on?" ”

"Ill-prepared for the war." Zhang Luo didn't care what the guards would think of him, and sent the guards away with a very bland sentence.

He clearly could not accept this explanation: "I can't wait any longer. Rengong ordered you to fight Pingyuan County, and you want to come to fight Jijia Town, but it is delayed. How long are you going to make people wait in Julu? ”