Chapter 35 Petition II

"How is Fu Zonglong's standard battalion combat power? Is there a cannon? Do you know? Zhang Xuan asked a big man behind him.

This big man is dignified, with a long beard on his chest, and he is such a beautiful man. However, in terms of temperament, there is no trace of Guan Erye's demeanor. He bowed his head and said: "I don't know, but because of the march, most of the artillery can't be moved, and the firepower of the rear battalion should be just these few guns." ”

This person's name is Wang Jincai, an officer among the guards, and among the soldiers, he can be regarded as having some prestige. Everyone believed in him. Zhang Xuan wanted to win over the hearts of the army, but he couldn't blindly use the strong, so he also found Wang Jincai from among the soldiers and reused Wang Jincai.

The officers and troops led by Fu Zonglong almost numbered four or five, and Wang Jincai was just a junior officer, and his connections could not reach the back camp.

"Go write a letter, shoot it in, let Fu Zonglong tie himself up and surrender, and don't blame the past, otherwise under the burning of jade, what will happen to them, let them think for themselves." Zhang Xuan knew that it was probably useless, but he didn't have any siege equipment, ladders, trebuchets, artillery, siege vehicles, or even scaffolding. Zhang Xuan decided not to attack the city today, but to build siege equipment first, although this is a small village, but with Fu Zonglong, the famous governor, Zhang Xuan definitely does not dare to underestimate the other party.

The so-called city is not high, the pool is not deep, and there are generals who are strong. And Fu Zonglong is Zhang Xuan's official with the biggest official rank in this era.

"Yes." Wang Jincai said.

He secretly said in his heart: "Most of Fu Du's subordinates are Sichuan soldiers, I don't have any friendship with them, even if I write a letter, it's just a piece of waste paper, what's the use?" But he didn't dare to disobey Zhang Xuan's order after all. Immediately wrote a letter and ejaculated in. Like a stone falling into the sea, there is not the slightest news.

Zhang Xuan did not rush to attack, but there was no pause in the camp side, thousands of horses pressed the formation, and the Qin prisoners rushed towards the camp one after another.

Zhang Xuan stopped to watch from afar, but saw that most of the Qin army was blocked in front of the ravine, under the camp, bursts of arrows rained down, and from time to time there were one or two cannon sounds, and the Qin army fell to the ground one after another. He didn't even get out of the way and stepped back.

It didn't take long for him to regain his strength under the supervision of the camp. This time they were prepared, but what they prepared was just a long ladder, and the long ladder was erected on top of the deep ditch, facing the rain of arrows of the Sichuan army, which was quite embarrassing.

While they were attacking, suddenly the gates of the two camps were wide open. The Sichuan army suddenly came out of the camp. The gates of these two battalions are opposite each other, not far from each other, and it is the area covered by the firepower of both sides, as long as they are not fools, they dare not insert themselves into the middle of the two villages. At this moment, they quickly formed a formation in this clearing and rushed towards the Qin army.

These Qin army prisoners were forced to attack the city under the condition that the siege equipment was not complete, and their morale was naturally not high, and they were killed for a while. The brigade of men and horses fled down, if it weren't for the elite cavalry that pressed the formation behind. This is a big defeat.

Fu Zonglong was very wise, knowing that it would be a suicide to now confront a cavalry several times his size on flat ground. Therefore, when he saw that it was good, he accepted it, retreated, and looked at the appearance of the camp, I am afraid that he will not be willing to be defeated, and will attack the camp again. It's just that Zhang Xuan has no interest in continuing to watch the battle.

Looking at the fate of the Qin army's attack on the village, Zhang Xuan became more and more sure of one thing, that is, there were not enough siege equipment, and fighting a tough battle was just a death in vain.

Zhang Xuan was about to go down to prepare, but was called over by Luo Rucai.

On the side of the camp, he has already done it with a real gun, but Zhang Xuan's side is still calm, which makes Luo Rucai's face a little unbearable. called Zhang Xuan to inquire about the situation.

Zhang Xuan said: "Attacking the city without siege equipment is just a futile death, please marshal, give me a day, this time tomorrow, I will definitely attack in a big way, let the officers and soldiers see the ability of my Cao camp to attack fortifications." ”

Does Cao Ying have the ability to attack fortifications? Luo Rucai didn't even know about it. But this doesn't matter to Luo Rucai, anyway, he didn't take the three thousand guards to heart, these people are just temporarily in Zhang Xuan's hands, and as soon as the war is over, Luo Rucai will select those who can fight on horseback and enrich the horse team, and the rest will be in Zhang Xuan's hands as people's husbands.

Die a little more, a little less, Luo Rucai doesn't care. However, since Zhang Xuan said so, Luo Rucai always wanted to give his son-in-law a face, and said, "Okay." Leave it at that, but if you can't make it for me tomorrow, just wait. ”

"Please rest assured." Zhang Xuan said: "I don't dare to say that the city will be broken tomorrow, but it is definitely better than them." ”

For people who love face, sometimes it doesn't matter if you can't do it, the important thing is that you must do it better than others, Zhang Xuan's words won Luo Rucai's heart. Luo Rucai didn't embarrass him.

For Zhang Xuan, he was in charge of the craftsman camp for a period of time, and he knew the technical level of the craftsman. I, a Chinese carpenter, can play with wood, as long as Zhang Xuan proposes it, most of them can be made. And to attack this small village, you don't need any artillery, it's enough to want to go back and forth.

"Can't you get a counterweight trebuchet out of it?" Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

A day and a night passed quickly.

Zhang Xuan only slept for two or three hours last night, but the craftsmen in Cao Ying's camp almost didn't sleep all night. Early in the morning of September 7, Zhang Xuan took advantage of the cold morning light to look at the things that these craftsmen had created overnight, the most important thing was the shield car.

These shield carts were repurposed from the usual carts, and a thick baffle was placed on the front, which was at least an inch or two thick, and even the artillery fire above the official barracks could not penetrate it.

The shield array is easy to build, there are about a dozen cars, this camp covers a small area, there are many shield cars, and it is useless.

Zhang Xuan's energy last night was focused on the heavy trebuchet.

The crooked one was built yesterday under the guidance of Zhang Xuan, and at the beginning Zhang Xuan had problems communicating with the craftsman. After this trebuchet was made, these craftsmen understood what Zhang Xuan meant, and built five of them overnight. And when put together with the one under Zhang Xuan's guidance, it looks a lot smoother, as if it was created by Zhang Xuan, but it is just ugly, and these five are beautiful men.

When Zhang Xuan was busy last night, several people under his command were not idle.

Cao Zongyu didn't know what he had done, at least the hundreds of people he had just transferred to his command had been straightened out. Deng and the kid found a few thorns in the guards, and personally let the others see what a thousand knives are, so that one by one under his command trembled, and he didn't dare to speak loudly in front of Deng He. However, Luo Dai picked out a few good men who were assigned to him, beat them one by one, and then selected several of his defeated generals to serve as grassroots officers, and he still led the remaining horse team of only fifty or sixty people.

And Wang Jin is the most neat in the whole army.

"You built these things yesterday, what's the use of them?" Luo Rucai also brought many generals under his command to see Zhang Xuan and said.

Zhang Xuan immediately said: "This is a return artillery, which was used by the Mongols when they broke through Xiangyang City." ”

In fact, Zhang Xuan didn't know whether the trebuchet used by the Mongols to break through Xiangyang was designed by him, but Zhang Xuan's self-taught sales ability made him give his trebuchet a famous name. Luo Rucai was noncommittal, but secretly remembered in his heart, "Return to the artillery." "The name.

Many things that are thunderous to modern people are actually recreated through the history of later generations. And these records are scattered in the details of many history books, Luo Rucai has been robbed by everyone since he was a child and college, how to mess around in the green forest, these vast history books, he don't say that he has read them, he has not read them. All of Luo Rucai's ability to lead soldiers is to learn war from war, that is, he read some books within a year or two of being appeased by Xiong Wencan, and they are all military books.

But I really don't know about the return cannon or something. But Luo Rucai decided not to show his ignorance in front of everyone, and snorted coldly: "What is the return cannon, the color cannon, whether it is a good cannon to fight some will know, less nonsense, let me see what you have prepared for a day and a night." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Yes." ”