Chapter 425: Huang Shilang's Choice
It is difficult to penetrate the leopard, and it is also difficult to pass through it, but at present, Lu Dongbin is more difficult.
He guarded Changzhou. It was a big city, but he had only a thousand men. The only thing that can reassure him is the two True Martial Emperors and the four Shi Dare to be. There are also dozens of trebuchets that throw thunder.
But these things seem like a lot, and an average is not much.
Han Shizhong and Wu Song came along the canal with 10,000 forbidden troops to grab grain, and the first stop was Changzhou.
They didn't have a loudspeaker to shout, and they had far more men and horses than the Guards Regiment, and they knew that there were very few Heavenly Master troops in Changzhou City, so Han Shizhong decided to surround them on all sides and go together.
There were many Song soldiers, and the Heavenly Division army was well-armed. Immediately, the scene became a pot of porridge.
Emperor Zhenwu placed on the city wall in all directions, and when he shot out, he killed a string of sugar gourds.
It really scared Han Shizhong a lot at first. Why has the Heavenly Division Army been upgraded again. Isn't it only the thunderbolt? Why is there still more artillery now.
It's really frightening to shoot so far. However, as the war gradually unfolded, Han Shizhong discovered the weakness of the enemy's artillery.
The artillery at this time was not the ** cannon of later generations. The cannonball does not explode in the air, it can only be a large iron ball that rushes forward in a straight line.
Although no shield can stop this iron ball, the iron ball will run out of energy and stop on its own.
This thing is actually not as lethal as the thunderbolt. And Han Shizhong also has a Heavenly Thunder Army in his hands.
He has been baptized many times, and now he has no sense of alienation, so his military talent has been brought into play.
Han Shizhong ordered the Tianlei Army to disperse, and the province was skewered with sugar gourds by the enemy, and then threw Tianlei on the city wall at any cost.
Now the ** level of the Song army is on par with the Heavenly Master Army, and the power of the imperial court is stronger than the power of the rebels - in terms of science and technology. Therefore, the Song army's heavenly thunder has a long range, and the heavenly thunder of the Heavenly Division army is relatively close.
This made Han Shizhong pull back a little bit of the situation.
The artillery of the Celestial Division Army was heavy and could not be moved, and it was all fixed on the city wall to fire cannons. Moreover, after the artillery has been fired several times, it needs a period of cooling and cannot be fired continuously.
This also gave Song Jun some courage.
The Song army is on the ground, the Heavenly Master army is on the city wall, and neither side enters the range of the other's bow and arrow, so it is like this.
Iron balls and iron cans are flying all over the sky, and the fight is beautiful. This is not an exaggeration, the visuals are indeed better now than in later generations. Whether it is an iron ball or an iron can, the speed is not fast enough, and the human eye can see it.
And the bullets of later generations** have surpassed the limits of human vision. If you can't see nature, it won't work.
Now you are flying iron back and forth in the sky, which makes Han Shizhong and Lu Dongbin both breathtaking. This was the first time the two generals had seen the battle of heavenly thunder, and they couldn't come up with a more effective way to kill and injure the enemy to save themselves for a while.
Then you can only carry it.
Han Shizhong hid outside the opponent's range and commanded his subordinates to throw the thunderbolt from afar.
Lu Dongbin couldn't hide. He stood on the wall, and when he stepped back, he fell. At this time, it can only be relied on luck. But luck is just another word for probability. If he stands in the middle of a thunder explosion like this, he will be unlucky sooner or later.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for Lu Dongbin to be injured.
His own army hurriedly protected him from the wall. As soon as the commander moved, the Heavenly Division Army was suddenly unstable.
The Celestial Master Army has always been proud of being ahead of others in its own weapons. Sky thunder, artillery, is their confidence. But now Song Jun also has a heavenly thunder, and it is no worse than his own heavenly thunder. At the same time, their artillery is too small, and there are only two Zhenwu Emperors on the four city walls, which are not enough.
Simen Shi dared to shoot too closely, and he couldn't hit people at all.
In fact, the scientific and technological level of both sides was pulled to the same starting line, and the Heavenly Master Army had no weapon advantage.
But the enemy has a clear numerical advantage. 10,000 to 1,000, even if the defending side has an advantage, but the ratio of ten to one, they can't bear it.
Changzhou City stubbornly held out for more than half a day, and finally couldn't stand it.
The main reason why they were able to survive for more than half a day was not that the Heavenly Master Army was stubborn, but that the trebuchet was really uncertain.
The sky is full of thunder, and there are not many that fall on the city wall accurately. Most of it fell into the city. Even if they had to run, they could have been blown up.
Now the Heavenly Division Army and the Song Army have some perceptual understanding of the *** battle, so they can hold on for a while.
Han Shizhong and Wu Song lost Jiang Ning so quickly because they were facing a new weapon for the first time, and they were not mentally prepared at all, and they were a little scared away.
Now Han Shizhong and the others are much calmer. The speed of the thunder is not as fast as the arrow, and for a master like them, they can run a distance when judging the landing point, not to mention that the place where they are standing is outside the enemy's range.
Of course, if you're unlucky enough to get a shot, don't mention anything.
The Song army had far more trebuchets than the enemy, and there were many more people than the other side, and they had a rare courage - the forbidden army still had some courage when they had a technical advantage.
Their trebuchets have a little longer range, and that's the distance they can live with.
The Song army, under the command of Han Shizhong, finally fought a real victory.
The Heavenly Division Army opened the gate to the south of the city, and the whole army gathered in one place and went south to kill it.
This made Han Shizhong feel very regretful. He misjudged the direction of the enemy's breakthrough.
Han Shizhong thought that Lu Dongbin would open the water gate and rush into the canal, or open the north gate and flee to Runzhou. So he placed heavy troops in these two directions.
I didn't expect the enemy to be so cunning that he didn't choose the waterway, nor did he choose Runzhou Jiangning, but fled in the opposite direction.
There weren't many people in that direction, so he couldn't resist the Heavenly Master Army. The final result was that Han Shizhong got Changzhou and Lu Dongbin escaped.
Either way, it's a big win and one to celebrate.
After the Song army entered the city, they once again gave Changzhou a big raid. Now the people of Changzhou really went to hell.
The Heavenly Master Army has already scraped the ground, and there is no floating wealth on the ground in Changzhou. Now that Song Jun is here again, it's really digging three feet into the ground.
Many families have even dug up food hidden in the ground.
Now the people of Changzhou really have no way to live.
Huang Siniang died in this raid. There was a jar of grain buried in the yard of her house, which was the real life-saving food, but it was snatched away by Song Jun even with the jar of grain.
This woman suddenly lost the courage to live, and died in a few days under the rage.
Huang Shilang's last relative in this world is gone. He wanted to cry without tears.
This world is really bad, my family farms honestly and works hard, but why can't I survive!
He couldn't figure out why, but he didn't have time to think about such a mysterious philosophical question—the constant rumbling of hunger.
If you don't eat, you die. At this time, the only thing he could think of was the Guards, they were so kind to the people, gave us food, arranged for us to work, and then gave us wages, so that they could buy so many good things.
Huang Shilang now just regrets why he is greedy for this broken family. If she had taken the old lady with the Guards Regiment at that time, the old lady would not have died of anger because of a vat of grain.
But it's too late to say anything. He wiped away his tears and sold his yard to a big family in the city - it was worth only ten catties of rice.
He wrapped the sack of rice around his waist, hid it carefully, and then took advantage of the chaos to sneak out of the city.
Huang Shilang didn't know where the Guards Regiment had gone, but he knew that the Guards Regiment had come from Weishan Lake. Because some of those goods have the mark of Weishan Lake.
The world is so big, where else can you go except Weishan Lake!
Huang Shilang didn't know where Weishan Lake was, he just knew a general direction, to the north, all the way to the north, he must go to Weishan Lake and find the Guards Regiment!
The people of Changzhou fled north, and Lü Dongbin fled south. He fled to Wuxi, and the Wuxi guard was He Xiangu. Tie Guan Li and Lan Caihe happened to be here.
Tie Guan Li walked to Wuxi, and he hadn't set off to fight Suzhou yet. Lan Caihe is going to take over Suzhou, and then hold Suzhou, and let Tie Guan Li go to fight Hangzhou again.
Now the four of them have unexpectedly gathered in one place. In this way, the strength of the Heavenly Division Army has increased a lot, and the artillery and heavenly thunder have also increased a lot.
Han Shizhong had to divide his manpower to guard Changzhou, and he had to transport grain to Runzhou, so there were not as many soldiers as before.
In this way, when the Song army attacked Wuxi, it happened to be in a balanced state with the Tianshi army.
The Song army couldn't attack, and the Tianshi army couldn't fight either, and the two sides were temporarily entangled in Wuxi.
This just gave Qin Mu a buffer time.
Originally, Qin Mu didn't plan to stop more in Suzhou. Suzhou is not the end, this time the end of the Jiangnan campaign is Hangzhou. Hangzhou is the starting point of the Grand Canal. Hit here, Qin Mu was ready to wave his army to Shanghai.
Shanghai is not a big place yet, and at the moment it is just a small fishing village under Songjiang Mansion.
The Guards Regiment wanted to go to Songjiang and leave Hangzhou for the Heavenly Master Army to ravage again, and at the same time, Qin Mu wanted to inspect the famous small fishing village to see if there were any conditions to build a shipyard in this time and space.
When these things are done, the Guards will return to Hangzhou and fight back the same way.
In this way, he popularized the wonders of ice and fire to the people of Jiangnan several times, Qin Mu believed that as long as he was not a fool, he would understand that only the Guards Regiment in the world was the intimate person of the people.
In this way, the hearts of the people of Jiangnan must have shifted to the side of the New World Group.
In the future, no matter what New World Group does in Jiangnan, it will get twice the result with half the effort.
Plans are good, but there are always changes. He Zhu's unexpected request made Qin Mu have to temporarily stop in Suzhou.
Do the bandits fight or not? In response to this problem, Qin Mu held a meeting.
After some gossip at the meeting, Qin Mu found that his subordinates were divided into two factions. These two factions are quite distinct.
Shi Yi and other military generals unanimously demanded that the bandits be cracked.
Bandits disturb the place, of course, to fight. At the same time, they also have their own careful thinking, that is, to fight more battles in order to truly train soldiers. Fighting siege warfare is one kind of battle, fighting bandits is another.
The Guards Regiment knew that Qin Mu's gaze was all over the world, even as far as the Persian Gulf. No one knows where the Persian Gulf is, but no one knows where it is.
Who knows what kind of situation will come your way along the way. Therefore, they believe that seizing every opportunity to fight a war and training troops with actual combat is the best way to grow.
Moreover, only by fighting a war can one make meritorious service, and only by making meritorious service can one be promoted. This thought is shared by every soldier of the Guards Regiment.
There are also many people who oppose it, and the leader is Jia Hongxian. In fact, most of the people on this economic front do not want to fight bandits.
Bandits are not ordinary people, they will not build their homes like ordinary people.
They only do evil and do not want to work at all. So in the face of bandits, Jia Honghong's set will definitely have no effect.
Since I came to Jiangnan this time to win the hearts and minds of the people, it is good to work the people. As for the bandits, it's entirely possible to talk about it later.
What Taihu Lake Sanjie is completely a joke. Three little loaches are about the same. One day, when the big things are done, take some time, and rely on the special operations team to clean them up.
Jia Hongxian opposes taking up the time of economic warfare to do something else. If the Guards Regiment went to fight the bandits, there would definitely not be enough people left. She took a bunch of female soldiers with her, and it was very dangerous to work in an unfamiliar city.
Of course, she herself is not in any danger, but if the Guards take away most of their manpower, the few remaining people will inevitably not protect the female soldiers well.
Jia Hongxian is also responsible for his own team. The New World Group has an accountability system.
Now there is no accident, if these female soldiers really have an accident, Jia Hongxian is the first person responsible. Then up is Qin Mu, she can't let her man take responsibility.
Both sides have a reason, and they also have their own careful thoughts, which makes Qin Mu a little undecided for a while.
He had not expected the Taihu bandits before crossing the river. The entire Jiangnan campaign did not include the suppression of bandits.
This time, if He Zhu hadn't been drunk and offered to let him help suppress the bandits, even if Qin Mu knew that there were bandits in Taihu Lake, he wouldn't have done it—the strategic plan didn't have this.
But now He Zhu has brought it up. If it were someone else, maybe he would ignore it, but Qin Mu was different.
Qin Mu's personality is rather eccentric, otherwise he can't have only one friend, Jinsha. Because of the family's forty-year-old limit, Qin Mu attaches great importance to everything in life.
He didn't have much time, so he didn't want to owe favors even more—he couldn't afford to pay it back. After the age of forty, I am gone, how can I still repay my favor.
After this character was developed, it did not change because he came to the Song Dynasty. In this time and space, Qin Mu still didn't want to owe favors.
He Zhu received him attentively and wrote him a letter of recommendation. This old man and his own Pingshui can treat himself like this, Qin Mu feels that he must return this favor.
And He Zhu is not for himself, but for the local fathers. This is exchanging his own favor for the safety of the people, and it is a noble feeling.
Because of this, Qin Mu was in a dilemma.
When Qin Mu was undecided, both sides naturally insisted on their own opinions.
Shi Yi is a general of the Jiangnan department, and he and Jia Hongxian are not in the same faction. They are the main ones who respect the good voice.
Liu Yunfei is not here, the two biggest leaders of the Guards Regiment now, one Shi Yi and the other Deng Cheng, are all people with Fang Haoyin, so they naturally don't sell Jia Hongxian's face.
Of course, Jia Hongxian can't lose face. She also has a good point. And she still wants to be a queen, how can she be dismissed by the generals in the army. So she didn't give in either.
The meeting was very lively, and only Chong Yanchong was dumbfounded.
Guards regiment, how can there be such an insider. If you want to have a good relationship with the Guards, who should you get close to?
It is said that Shi Yi is a soldier, and he should have a better relationship with him. But they are all soldiers, and Shi Yi will look down on himself - this is self-aware of this.
Along the way, he fully saw the strength of the Guards Regiment, which was a kind of strength that was not human, and no one in the world could resist it.
In this case, why should Shi Yi look up to the family army?
In this way, it seems that it is more advantageous to make friends with Qin Mu's eldest lady.
It's just that Chong Yanchong doesn't know Jia Hongxian well, and he doesn't know what kind of temper and mentality Jia Hongxian has, so he doesn't dare to contact him rashly.
Seeing that Qin Mu didn't speak, Chong Yanchong naturally kept his mouth shut.
It's safer to sit and watch the show!