Chapter Ninety-Three: Changsha Offensive and Defensive Battle IV

There is no need to mention the strangulation after dawn, but in an hour or so, Zhao Yinxuan's department was wiped out.

At the same time, the scouts followed the traces of Zhao Yinxuan's army and quickly found the tunnel.

After all, the actions of thousands of people are not traces of hundreds of people, and it is difficult to hide the past.

Zhang Xuan even came over in person to investigate this tunnel.

Zhang Xuan didn't go into this tunnel, he just checked from the exit, but he also saw that there was moss all over, and there was a stone paving on both sides and on his head. It looks extremely sturdy, and it has been around for hundreds of years.

Zhang Xuan didn't know that this tunnel was in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period in later generations, when the Qing army and the Taiping army were fighting, it played a great role, when there was a shortage of food in Changsha City, it was from this tunnel that a lot of grain was transported into the city in one go, and the heart of the army and the people was guaranteed, so that Changsha City persisted under the siege of the Taiping Army.

The details of history are never known to ordinary people.

But when Zhang Xuan saw this tunnel, something jumped in his heart. That's the acupuncture attack.

Siege cannons such as Hongyi cannons appeared, and many siege techniques with various tricks withdrew from the stage of history for various reasons. Of course, it is not useless, but because of time-consuming, labor-intensive and other reasons, such as cave attacks. A long tunnel is to be dug. The time consumed is enough to blast a gap in the city wall with the Hongyi cannon.

Not to mention that the walls of Changsha City have traces of rookie repairs, which are easier to blast open.

But there is a tunnel now in front of Zhang Xuan, and Zhang Xuan has one more choice.

"Immediately set up a village in this place, guard the exit of this tunnel, and send someone to detect the situation of the tunnel." Zhang Xuan said.

"Yes."

Zhang Xuan didn't leave at all, just waiting for the camp here to be built.

Longwu's counterattack was not useless, at least in the middle of the night, disturbing the Xia army, the intensity of the siege on the second day was reduced a lot, but in a place where they could not see, a small group of men and horses were walking cautiously in the tunnel.

The leader's surname is Zhang, a native of Linying. It's called Zhang Sanlang. doesn't even have an official name, and this name is the third oldest in the family when it sounds, and it's called by the way.

However, it doesn't have much to do with the Linying Zhang family, otherwise it wouldn't have been mixed up for so many years, and he is still a big-headed soldier, to be precise, not a big-headed soldier. can be specially sent to investigate, which means that he is also the best among the scouts, probably just a captain, with a few people under his command, most of whom are still lacking.

Because Scouts are different from other classes, they have a higher degree of freedom and a higher mortality rate, so the number requirements are not so strict.

In the midst of this scout, there was an outsider. It's Hu Quede.

It seems to be a cheap life.

The camp was destroyed, although many people remained. But Hu Quede is a person who is safe and steady, and there is not a lot of hair, and even because of his old qualifications, there are many postures of relying on the old and selling the old between his words.

I coaxed some people.

It stands to reason that with Hu Quede's qualifications and abilities, he should have been promoted a long time ago, but everyone despises tomb robbers, and the social atmosphere is like this, plus Hu Quede can't do anything other than digging holes, so he will be raised as an idler, and as for the promotion and fortune, he has nothing to do with it.

But Hu Quede didn't feel anything, in his own words, he did this indiscriminate hookup, and he had already exhausted his wealth, officialdom and nobility, in this life, don't think about being promoted and getting rich, but life has the benefits of being cheap.

That is, you can't die easily.

At this moment, Zhang Sanlang protected Hu Quede into the tunnel.

As soon as Hu Quede entered the tunnel, he took a deep breath, his eyes closed slightly, with a feeling of intoxication, as if he was suddenly intoxicated on the spot.

Zhang Sanlang said: "Old Hutou, go quickly, there is still a letter waiting for the letter." ”

Hu Quede didn't open his eyes, and said: "I don't have to go in, I know that there is a vent here every half a mile, which seems to be a little blocked, but there is no problem with the movement of the team, and the exit on the other side of the wind has been bet, this is a dead end." ”

Zhang Sanlang looked at Hu Quede's chattering appearance and said, "Don't talk about these useless things. Just come with me. ”

Hu Quede didn't say much, he took a puff of dry tobacco, and walked behind as if he was walking, while the others had already dispersed, although the formation was not dense, but they had their own knives and guns in their hands, and a little fire on the firearm was constantly extinguished.

Always ready to shoot.

There was also a soldier at the front who held a torch aloft in the air, as if to detect the air circulation in the tunnel.

However, Hu Quede himself has some skills.

As he said, they had traveled several miles through the tunnel, and Hu Quede suddenly stopped in a very damp place and said, "This is probably a moat." Although Hu Quede said that it was probable, in his tone, he was very sure. Hu Quede is still very confident in his eating skills.

"Tick, tick." The sound kept remembering, there were water droplets dripping from the bluestone above the ground, and there were several puddles.

This is presumably in disrepair. That's the flaw of this.

Zhang Sanlang looked around, kept this place in his heart, and immediately lifted his spirits. If it is as Hu Quede said, it is already very close to the Changsha city wall, and it is not far from the tunnel to the sky.

As expected.

At the front is a dead end.

A large pile of earthwork blocked the tunnel, and the traces in the earthwork and the tunnel were different from the old and new, and it seemed that it had just been filled in, and it didn't seem to take much time.

Hu Quede stepped forward, stuck a little soil with his fingers, put it in his mouth, held it for a while, and said: "It's cooked soil, it should be the soil on the ground, and the earth qi has not yet dispersed." I estimate that there should be bluestone behind this pile of soil, and if you want to dig through this place, I'm afraid it won't be easy. After all, the underground movement is a little too big. ”

Zhang Sanlang couldn't help but ask: "Old Hutou, what should I do then?" Do you want to go back like this? ”

Hu Quede smiled slightly, and said to Zhang Sanlang: "That's it, kid, the people in Changsha City are still inexperienced, where can this tunnel be so blocked, let me tell you, just like this, it is enough for them to die." ”

Zhang Saburo didn't quite understand. Hu Quede didn't give him much to explain,

Hu Quede didn't stay underground for long, so he went out of the tunnel and came to see Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan had been waiting for him for a while, according to Zhang Xuan's original intention, in fact, he wanted to go down and have a look, but in a high position, everything was up to him. I can only wait for news.

When Hu Quede saw Zhang Xuan, his body was a little shorter out of thin air, and he nodded and stepped forward to salute.

Zhang Xuan asked, "What's next?" ”

Hu Quede told the situation underground one by one, without any embellishment.

Zhang Xuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "The tunnel leads to the city wall?" ”

Hu Quede said: "This villain is not sure, after all, the villain has not been to Changsha City, but according to the villain's estimate, there is no doubt that this tunnel has passed the moat." ”

Zhang Xuan sneered and said, "That's enough." ”

Fighting a war is often an empirical science.

If Longwu keeps this tunnel and sends people to guard it, it will just be a small battlefield for the two sides to fight. The battlefield is small, and it is impossible to spread out the troops. Even if the Xia army had an advantage, it would be difficult to attack the city, but he buried it here, and it was not yet well buried.

Let the tunnel lead to the moat, it is simply too Ah to hold it, and send the key point to Zhang Xuan's hands, Zhang Xuan is embarrassed not to start.

It's just that what Zhang Xuan didn't expect was that Longwu's own order was to fill in this tunnel, but it was passed down layer by layer, and the soldiers at the bottom were in the process of execution, spontaneously reducing the workload, after all, how deep this was filled, it couldn't be seen outside.

So there is the current situation.

A lot of times, that's it. Even if all the choices are right, the results may not be satisfactory.

Zhang Xuan didn't mean to be polite to Long Wu, so he didn't say a word, and let him mobilize enough gunpowder later. Prepare for the collapse of the city.