Chapter 277: Strengthening the Great Wall's Defenses

But Li Wenyuan didn't know much about it, and when people in this era were also exploring new tactics of artillery, Zhuang Fudi had a bold idea in his mind. How to use the 300 guns that these three legions dragged along the way. Zhuang Fudi had already made up his mind in his heart, so he came to the army on the third day after receiving the order, ready to count the men and horses and set off immediately. Although he is a conservative in terms of war tactics, the blood in his bones unabashedly reveals his character as a war fanatics. In Zhuang Fudi's heart, the best life should be to fight on the battlefield, and on the way to the battlefield to fight.

After Zhuang Fudi came here, he called together the main generals and deputy generals of the three legions, as well as the staff officers of the legions, and met together for a short meeting. What the meeting mentioned was very simple: the three legions set off from Wuwei County and crossed the border directly into Lingwu County by the north, central and southern routes. The Middle Route Army was responsible for besieging the county seat of Lingwu County, and the remaining two armies were divided into two parts in the north and south of the county seat of Lingwu County, each responsible for attacking the prefecture capital county in the allocated land. Of course, it is best to get these towns and villages to surrender, and if they do not surrender, they can also choose to forcibly attack the city. In short, everything but the people can be destroyed and harmed. After all, this war is different from the previous Western Expedition against the Western Turks, no matter what, they have to be pressed step by step, and the Western Turks have always been in their last breath and have not been completely knocked to the ground. Therefore, the Western Turks did not use the momentum of a desperate battle to the death. However, the Liang divisions were different, the Liang divisions did not have the breadth and depth of the Western Turks, and the major cities under his rule were all gathered together, and once these major cities were captured, his Liang state was equivalent to destruction. Therefore, before he perished, Liang Shidu would not engage in those so-called final madness, and launched an attack on Li Wenyuan with his own army, which no one knew. Therefore, compared with the time and casualties required in the face of strong resistance, the most effective way is to use brutal killings to deter the enemy's will to resist. After the strategy is settled, it is inevitable to demolish and rebuild, so instead of bothering the people and money to demolish the original city defense buildings, it is better to take the opportunity of the war to bombard the place directly with artillery.

If it is still unknown where the three legions stationed in Wuwei County will attack before, then when Zhuang Fudi led the army to set off, the goal of these three legions has been completely exposed. And Zhuang Fudi himself has no intention of covering it up, this is a conspiracy to rely on the sharp weapons of his army and the soldiers' lives, clearly telling you that I am going to beat you, but you are powerless to resist, no matter how you struggle, the final result is the same.

Just after Zhuang Fudi led his troops to the front foot, Liang Shidu's side also got accurate information: these three legions gathered in Wuwei County were indeed their own Liang State. Liang Shidu sat on his throne in the palace inside the county town of Shuofang County, staring straight at the empty court hall in a daze. Li Wenyuan's army set off straight from Wuwei County, crossed the Great Wall, and drove straight in the direction of his Lingwu County. The spy in Wuwei County came to the same conclusion. Therefore, no matter what, these armies under his command and Li Wenyuan's army will inevitably collide, but Liang Shi is very clear about how many catties and taels his army has. These stinky fish and rotten shrimp under his command usually oppress the township and sometimes have to suffer, let alone pull them out to fight with the elite troops under Li Wenyuan who can only fight with the Turks for more than a month.

But this is a helpless thing, just like an anecdote about the Three Kingdoms spread by the people. It mentions that when Cao Cao led his army south and was preparing to pacify Eastern Wu in one fell swoop, Sun Quan, the emperor of Eastern Wu, once asked his closest minister, Lu Su, to his closest confidant. Sun Quan said that all the ministers in the court are now persuading me to surrender to Cao Cao, saying that after I surrender, I can still enjoy the glory and wealth I enjoy now. It's just that I don't know what to do now, so I'm looking for you to talk to you late at night. Do you think I should surrender to Cao Cao as the courtiers said?

After listening to Sun Quan's words, Lu Su shook his head like a rattle, and then said Your Majesty, what they said about surrendering can still enjoy glory and wealth, in fact, they are talking about themselves. After all, it doesn't make any difference to them who is their immediate boss and their emperor. They are still able to do what they have to do in their current positions and receive their dues. Therefore, whether it is as my minister of Eastern Wu or as the minister of Northern Wei, there is no difference for them. But you are different, you are the emperor of Eastern Wu, if you surrender to Cao Cao, even if he can keep you from dying, then what about Cao Cao a hundred years later? Will Cao Cao's descendants still fulfill this promise? Cao Cao himself is a generation of traitors, and if you can't keep it until the world is peaceful in the end, you will suffer from a strange disease and die at home. When the time comes, after your immortal death, Cao Cao will also take the opportunity to give you countless official positions and give you a lofty status to show his benevolence. Things like this will emerge endlessly, so anyone in the Manchu Dynasty can surrender to Cao Cao, and anyone who surrenders can enjoy glory and wealth, but you can't, they can retreat, you can't.

Lu Su's words of persuading Sun Quan were widely spread among the people, and Liang Shidu, who had been in the folk for a long time when he was a child, naturally knew about this matter. Therefore, at this time, when facing the pressure of Li Wenyuan's soldiers, he also felt a little headache. For a moment, there is a feeling of weakness emanating from the bone marrow, making people drowsy, and just looking for a place to get rid of these troubles completely. But after all, Liang Shidu is also a hero among people, otherwise, how can he be the emperor? These negative feelings only appeared for a short time, and they were actively driven out of his mind by Liang Shidu. Now that the matter has happened, it is necessary to find a way to solve it, and the thing that remains here to sigh and sigh and pity the heavens and pity the world is something that only those women do. So after Liang Shidu calmed down a little, he began to mobilize his troops with the help of his home advantage on the battlefield, and quickly assembled in the direction of Lingwu County, trying to use the city wall of Lingwu County and the defense line of the Great Wall to strike hard at the Western Regions army that attacked this time, so as to kill their sharpness and increase their prestige.

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