Biogas, this is the method used by Zhao Hongrun to solve the problem of lack of firewood in the Wei army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As early as the night when Zhao Hongrun arrived in this land and took advantage of the night to call the Yanling army, the Shang Shui army and tens of thousands of Chu troops in Nanmenyang to build the ice city, he ordered another group of soldiers to dig dozens of deep pits in the ice city, and after tamping the inner walls of the pits, he ordered the soldiers to dump excrement into these deep pits.

At that time, Wei Jun could not understand the true purpose of these deep pits, thinking that His Royal Highness the King of Su thought that they were not clean, who would have thought that after more than 20 days, they would actually be able to rely on some kind of gas generated from these deep pits to cook and keep warm.

Because of this incident, the generals of the Yanling Army and the Shangshui Army certainly admired and longed for Zhao Hongrun more and more, and the tens of thousands of soldiers under the command of Nanmenyang also became more and more in awe and fear of Zhao Hongrun because of this incident.

Why awe and fear?

Because in order to facilitate the co-optation of the Chu people, the generals of the Yan Ling Army and the Shangshui Army spread all kinds of rumors in private that gave Zhao Hongrun a headache, some said that he was the messenger of the God of Fire, and some simply said that he was the incarnation of the God of Fire, which made the unknown Chu people more and more in awe of Zhao Hongrun.

After all, the god of fire Zhurong and the god of water work together, and they are the most prestigious gods of the Chu State, and the status of these two gods in the minds of the Chu people is no less than that of the Heavenly Father and Earth Mother in the minds of the Wei people.

In this regard, Zhao Hongrun was very helpless, even if he didn't expect it, because he tended to attack with fire, and used fire to attack the enemy army almost completely annihilated, so that many soldiers under his command from the Chu State had a relationship with the legendary god who controlled the flames in the Chu State.

But he still can't deny it - because of this rumor, more and more Chu troops have gathered under his command, and more and more people believe that the Wei soldiers led by Zhao Hongrun are really the messengers of the gods who came to save the people of Chu, thus greatly weakening the rebellious psychology of those surrenderers.

For example, this time, Zhao Hongrun used biogas instead of firewood, which seemed to him to be just a very ordinary thing, but it caused a strong shock to the Wei soldiers under his command, to be precise, the former soldiers of the Chu State who were born in the Chu State.

Because in the eyes of these soldiers, Zhao Hongrun is like lighting a flame out of thin air, how can this be achieved by manpower?

However, for this reason, Zhao Hongrun always felt that the generals from the Chu people under his command looked at him a little strangely, as if they wanted to kowtow and bow down.

This made Zhao Hongrun finally understand the power of superstition - since ancient times, there are many people who use this to recruit soldiers, and it is really the strange talk of gods, ghosts and monsters that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Alas, after returning to China, I don't know what kind of crime those officials of the Ministry of Rites want to punish me......

Zhao Hongrun sighed in his heart.

But thinking about it, if this can be used to hit the morale of the Chu army in the area of Juyang County, Zhao Hongrun will not let it go.

So, he summoned the crows and the crows, and instructed these two hidden thieves to spread rumors among the Chu army while performing their respective duties, probably because the Wei army had the support of the gods behind them, and the Xiong clan of the Chu State had tyrannized and had been abandoned by the gods, etc.

Thanks to this, the Chu soldiers in the area of Juyang County can be said to be fluctuating and panicking, because they can't figure out how the Wei army can cook rice without firewood.

After thinking about it, they couldn't come up with a clue, so many Chu soldiers recognized this rumor as a fact, and began to believe that the Wei army was blessed by the god of fire and came to rescue the people of Chu this time.

How can man contend with the gods?

As a result, the morale of several Chu troops in Juyang County was greatly reduced, and even when the Wei army was mentioned on weekdays, there was a faint meaning of talking about the tiger's color change.

Of course, this refers only to those illiterate ordinary soldiers, for Chu people like Shouling Jun Jingshe, who are full of poetry and books, how can the rumors of the Wei army shake their minds?

But the embarrassing thing is that even if Shouling Jun Jingshe wanted to break his head, he couldn't understand what method Wei Jun used to make a fire to cook rice.

Because he couldn't think of a strong basis, even though Shouling Jun Jingshe had ordered a strict ban on the army under his command from spreading the rumor about Wei Gongzi Ji Run, the soldiers in the Zhulu Chu army in the area of Juyang County were still secretly discussing this matter in private.

In this regard, Shouling Jun Jingshe has no other good way, after all, he can't kill all the Chu soldiers who are talking about this matter, right? Wouldn't this push these Chu soldiers to that Wei Gongzi Ji Run's side?

As a result, he only strengthened the control of his subordinates.

It's the middle of November and the weather is getting colder.

Because of the weather, the war between the Chu army and the Wei army seemed to be a bit of a well water not a river water.

Even if the scouts on both sides bumped into each other in the snowfield, they would just turn their heads and pretend not to see it, and then continue to patrol on their own.

It was so cold that the two sergeants were not happy to have any clash in such cold weather.

Having said that, the situation on the Chu army's side is quite good, because the guy Juyang Jun Xiong Carp is too greedy for money and afraid of death, so he made up his mind to defend Juyang County early, and he has already prepared a large amount of food and firewood in the city.

The only thing missing was the cotton clothes that were distributed to the soldiers to keep them warm.

However, even if the Chu State is also rich in cotton, Juyang Jun Xiong Carp will not spend a huge amount of money to purchase and prepare a large number of cotton clothes for the soldiers at the bottom, after all, in the Chu State, the soldiers are just consumable war props.

It is precisely for this reason that the strategy of the Chu army at this stage seems to be much more conservative, except for sending soldiers to reconnoiter the enemy situation in the area of the ice city, almost no army will brave the cold to go out of the city, all hiding in the city, or hiding in the barracks to warm up.

And the Wei army is roughly the same.

Because of the lack of wood, Zhao Hongrun built many mud huts in the ice city using mud and stone as military tents, and even simply dug cellars underground for soldiers to live in.

In the same way, cotton clothes are also very scarce materials for the Wei army.

It's not that Qi is stingy and stingy, and he didn't prepare cotton clothes for the soldiers in advance, but now the army under Zhao Hongrun has far exceeded the 55,000 people when he arrived with the army, and has already skyrocketed to nearly 150,000; Second, during this period, heavy snow fell in the sky, which made the roads blocked by ice and snow, and the transportation was inconvenient, so that a large number of materials transported from Qi to Gongxian County are still halfway through.

But having said that, in terms of cotton clothes, the situation on the Wei army's side is much better than that of the Chu army, at least those soldiers who go out on patrol, or those who stand guard on the wall of the ice city, will have a cotton coat on their bodies, and on the Chu army's side, Juyang Jun Xiong Li is simply not prepared at all.

And in these days, Zhao Hongrun also received the news of 50,000 northern Sichuan archers and thousands of ranger cavalry, according to the news that the green crows came back from the investigation, these two Wei cavalry because of the weather, retreated to Xinyang, and there is a Xinyang in front of them defended by Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, which is negligible in the short term.

The cavalry is like this, it is undeniable that he has great lethality, but it is also too affected by the weather and environment, like the current weather, the more than 50,000 cavalry under the command of Bosil and You Ma can be directly ignored.

It will be until the beginning of spring in February and March next year that this cavalry will be able to once again exert its due strength.

And for Zhao Hongrun, this is equivalent to not having this army for the time being.

Because God knows what this battle will look like in February or March of the following year?

"You still have to take the initiative!"

At the military meeting the next day, Zhao Hongrun said categorically.

You must know that some time ago, Zhao Hongrun stuck to the ice city, that was because the biogas fermentation could not supply the daily needs of the soldiers in the city, and now, this problem has been solved, and the Wei army can be regarded as gaining a firm foothold here in the real sense.

Now that he has gained a firm foothold, Zhao Hongrun hopes to take a step closer and make progress.

I have to say that with Zhao Hongrun's prestige in the army at the moment, it is like a word, since he has made a decision, the generals under his command will naturally obey it.

Only Yan Mo euphemistically objected: the weather was cold and frozen, which was not conducive to the exchange of troops.

It is undeniable that Yan Mo's suggestion is very pertinent, after all, more than ten or twenty days ago, the reason why Shouling Jun Jingshe gave up attacking the ice city and decisively chose to withdraw his troops was because the weather was too cold, and now, the climate is close to the deep winter wax moon, and it is not a wise move to send troops at this time.

If Juyang County is forcibly attacked, it is not possible that the 100,000 Wei troops in Bingcheng will have to be buried under Juyang County.

Of course, Zhao Hongrun can't be so ignorant, what he said is to take the initiative to attack, and it is not Juyang who is attacking, but Cai Xi.

After all, as far as he knew, Cai Hou, the prince of Caixi County, led 30,000 county divisions to support Juyang, and at this moment he was stationed in a mountain pass more than 20 miles southeast of Bingcheng.

Therefore, Zhao Hongrun decided to send an elite army over the hill to attack Caixi.

Unexpectedly, the elite soldiers he sent out had just climbed the hill and were discovered by the Chu army who had long been stationed on the hill.

It seems that Jingshe has been guarding against me for a long time......

After learning about this, Zhao Hongrun thought about it, and instead of ordering the elite army to retreat, he sent reinforcements.

On 16 November, the Wei army attacked the barracks of the Caixi County Division.

On the same day, Shouling Jun Jingshe directly sent troops to attack Bingcheng, but was ambushed by the Wei army and returned defeated.

At the same time, Zhao Hongrun calculated that Shouling Junjingshe would send troops to attack the ice city where he was located, and also wanted to take the opportunity to attack Juyang County, but he did not expect that Shouling Junjingshe also ambushed an army outside the city in advance.

On the same day, the two fought a draw, and they tacitly withdrew their troops and stopped the war, after all, neither of them was a person who would fight a senseless war.

On November 18, Shouling Jun Jingshe made contact with Xiang Mo of Fang Zhong, and deliberately exposed the route of transporting grain to Fang Zhong under the noses of the Wei army, in an attempt to lure the Wei army to come and attack the Wei army, so as to flank the Wei army before and after Xiang Mo, who led an elite army of soldiers and horses.

The Wei army really hit the plan, and the Wei soldiers of the Yan Mo Department were ambushed thirty miles south of the Hun River.

However, when the general under the command of Shouling Jun Jingshe cooperated with Xiang Mo to pursue Yan Mo's department, they were ambushed by Wu Ji's department.

Seeing this, Xiang Mo and Wu Wei retreated decisively, but when they came back, they could take a look, well, the more than 100 carts of grain and grass had already been burned by the Wei army that came out of nowhere.

So, Xiang Mo had no choice but to take the grain truck that he had finally rescued and returned to the room clock depressed.

That month, the battlefield on the west side of the road can be said to have fallen into a stalemate.

During this period, Zhao Hongrun and Jingshe both tried to expand their advantages, but unfortunately there was no progress.

The West Road battlefield in November seems to have become a stage for Zhao Hongrun and Jingshe to play their respective strategies, but it is a pity that these two people, one has seen people and has insight into opportunities, and the other has been on the battlefield for a long time and has rich experience, so that no one can help anyone.

In this way, the battlefield of the West Road ushered in the cold winter of Layue. (To be continued.) )