Let people extinguish the fire in the pot, Jiang Qian still had palpitations and said:

"The Black Turban Army has such a fierce fire, why did I not know anything before the military?"

Luo Songting frowned tightly and looked at Wang Jiu:

"Wang Jiu, the lord has not received any news about fat water before?"

Wang Jiu shook his head:

"No, not even the Divine Fire rumors."

"That's weird." Luo Songting was suspicious: "The spies of the Gongfu have not found out the news, and Qin Han's spies have not found out the news, isn't it a strange thing." ”

At this time, Jiang Qian guessed:

"Could it be that the head of the Black Turban Army will use this thing, which was not known to the outside world before?"

Luo Songting shook his head:

"Wei Xianfeng and I think that the previous defeat of Sun Guo is very likely to be defeated because of this thing, but if you want to say that there is no news at all, what Gongzi said also has some truth, but I always feel that there is a huge strangeness in this."

Luo Songting is confident that the secret agents of the Duke's Mansion are well-informed, and the Black Turban Army uses fat water on a large scale, so it is said that they should know in advance, but now it seems that either the spies of the Duke's Mansion have a problem, or the spies do not know the fat water and are deceived by the Black Turban Army.

But if there was a mistake in the news along the way, Qin Han shouldn't have problems along the way. Qin Han is a businessman, with such an almost invincible resource, doesn't he want to find a fortune on the spot?

The most incredible thing is that several batches of spies have reported one after another, all of them say that they are witchcraft, but they have never brought back some physical objects for identification, so it is not strange.

Thinking of this, Luo Songting's instinctive reaction said:

"Childe, immediately revise a letter to remind the county lord and Yunfeng, be careful that there are changes in Guangxin City."

Jiang Qian was puzzled:

"What does Mr. Luo mean?"

"There is a strange situation in this, in case Guangxin is taken advantage of by traitors, I am afraid that I will regret it."

Intuition told Luo Songting that there must be something wrong in Guangxin City. To say that the information of the Gongfu and Qin Han is blocked, then the spies, meticulous work, and scouts of the Xianjun army have not been able to learn about the fat water in advance? Apparently impossible.

There is no impermeable wall unless the enemy has concocted a lie of great proportions to envelop all forces. As a result, official, unofficial, and even black market news are all interrupted, and it is impossible for an opponent with this kind of energy to set off a monstrous wave in Guangxin City?

Guangxin City has a population of hundreds of thousands, and once it mutinies, it is said that Jiang Min is finished, and the entire Xianguo will be wiped out. Luo Songting didn't dare to think about it anymore, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a chill on his back, as if someone had always been pressed behind his back with a knife.

On the morning of the same day, the Black Turban Army sent people across the river to write a war letter, and someone claimed to be on the holy order of the Holy King of Shengyan and came to challenge the tyrant's army. Asking the Xian army to retreat 50 miles to the east and vacate the battlefield for the two sides to fight, or the Black Turban army to retreat 50 miles to the west and the Xian army to cross the river to fight, this is clearly humiliating the Xian army.

The black turban soldiers were numerous, and the Xian army retreated fifty miles east to fight the dignified battle because of their brain illness. What's more, the soldiers who crossed the river in a decisive battle were not tired of deceit, throwing oil into the river and setting fire to it halfway, and they did not burn the Xian army to the end.

Zhao Xun refused, and personally wrote a war letter to reply to the Black Turban Army, asking the Black Turban Army to cut their necks and sacrifice their heads, and the Xian Army retreated fifty miles to the east to make the grave of the remnants of the Black Turban.

At this point, I finally know who the commander of this black turban army is, but I still don't know who this Shengyan Heavenly King is, and who his surname is.

In the afternoon, the Chinese officer Xue Sheng sent Zhao Xun's order to move the defense, ordering the Guangxin Army to rush to Wuping for reinforcements within three days.

Wuping has an open terrain and no danger to defend, because the land is black and high-yielding, so it is named Wuping. Bailiyan (Wei Xian) led 500 horsemen to open the road ahead of the army, entered the territory of Wuping, and personally inspected the soil of Wuping.

The so-called black land, in fact, is very fertile black soil, it is no wonder that the yield per mu of Wuping can reach four or five stones, and even five or six stones in good years, which is derived from this black soil. However, due to poor management and continuous natural disasters, the originally abundant black soil now yields only about three stones per mu.

Wuping is active and wide, in addition to cultivated land, to the east and south is a large area of primeval forest, the foot of the forest is still black soil, the total area is more than the scale of two Guangxin City territories, under the jurisdiction of the capital circle of Chenling, the grain field has been developed about 700,000 mu, a large area of black soil extends to the east and south, is covered by forests, not to mention the potential of 10 million mu or even more arable land.

It is no wonder that the Black Turban Army insisted on taking down the Lingling, and they had long been eyeing the high-yield Wuping grain-producing area under the rule of the Lingling.

In the early years, Xianguo was also a big power in the Central Plains, although the country was small, but it was located in the subtropics, with abundant grain production, a standing army of 280,000, but nearly one million manpower to be prepared. These more than a million people were undoubtedly armed with abundant produce and food stored in storehouses.

Once wartime strikes, when a large number of young and middle-aged people leave the fields and join the army, the reserves in the warehouses will make up for the drastic decline in productivity in the short term, and provide for the army's food and drink expenses.

The Black Turban Army marched eastward, intending to seize the grain-producing areas, and even cut down all the forest orders in Wuping in the future, and it was possible to use them for cultivated land.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan began to worry, worried that the behind-the-scenes promoter behind the Black Turban Army was too strategic, and he knew the national conditions of Xianguo so well, even if the opponent didn't know that this was the black land, but the goal was so clear, it was difficult to believe that the Black Turban Army did not have a high-ranking and powerful inside line within Xianguo.

Baili Yan (both Wei Xian) led the army to arrive at the Wuping Zhongheng defense area half a day before the Guangxin Army, Zhong Heng fought with Zhao Xun for many years, and the ability to unify the army was in the upper middle, but it was not outstanding, the biggest advantage was that Lao Cheng had rich combat experience, if it were not for the serious attrition of the army, he would not be able to sit in the position of the governor of the right capital.

"Hehaha, Governor Zhong, the last general will be polite." Baili Yan gave a slight salute and said very enthusiastically

"You and I are friends of life and death, why do you come to these politeness." Zhong Heng picked up Bailiyan, looked north, and continued: "Yesterday, Zhao Shuai sent a military order, the Guangxin army will arrive today and tomorrow, I don't know where the Guangxin army is now, can it arrive tonight?" ”

"Don't hide it from Governor Zhong, the Guangxin army will be able to arrive in half a day. Guangxin Gongshang is still in Chenling, and the leader of the army is his son Jiang Qian, and his staff Luo Songting. ”

"I heard that the Guangxin army is strong and strong, and the equipment is elite, but Wuping has no danger to defend, and the Guangxin army is stationed in the south, I don't know if there is a strategy?"

Zhong Heng immediately became worried, it was rumored that the Black Turban Army had 500,000 horses, but it was just a rumor that the main force of the Black Turban Army had arrived one after another in the past two days, which was terrifying. 500,000 soldiers were only a lot more, and on the other side of the Wuping River alone, 50,000 or 60,000 black turban troops had been found on their way.

After the Guangxin Army was stationed in Wuping, Zhong Heng's 20,000 horses and horses were going to take away 10,000 people, and a total of 30,000 people were stationed in Wuping.

"Governor Zhong can rest assured, he has been thinking about it for many days, and our army will definitely fight him head-on, but it is more than enough to hold Wuping."

"Oh, in this way, Wei Xianfeng already has a plan?"

When Baili Yan came, he found that this Wuping is indeed a horse Pingchuan without danger to defend, but Wuping is surrounded by a river from northeast to southwest, the river water meets the Yongxing River, and the upstream of the river is a primeval forest, the timber is almost inexhaustible, and the timber is cut down and can go directly to the Wuping defense land.

Wood is an essential consumable item for almost all war materials nowadays, and it can be used in a wide range of applications. Presumably, Luo Songting also values the vast primeval forest in the east of Wuping, and wants to make a fuss about wood. It's no wonder that Luo Songting didn't say anything that day, thinking that there was no sense of mystery when he said it, and he couldn't whet others' appetites.

chatted with Zhong Heng for a while, and Bai Liyan introduced his Sikong Nan to him:

"Governor Zhong, this is the lower deputy general Sikong Nan."

"General Sikong."

Zhong Heng hugged his fists and gave a slight salute, and Sikong Nan replied:

"The last general, Sikong Nan, has seen Governor Zhong."

"If you want Wei Xianfeng to entrust the general with a heavy responsibility, there must be something outstanding."

"Most of the governors have won awards."

Although Zhong Heng does not have many advantages, he treats people generously, can listen to the advice of his subordinates, has self-knowledge, and is not arrogant and self-serving, otherwise there would be no Bailiyan and him robbing grain and killing the Jin army back then.

After some greetings, Bai Liyan and others inspected the Wuping defense line with Zhong Heng.

Previously, on Zhao Xun's orders, the garrisons of various passes relied on the coastal terrain to build fortress cities and prepare for long-term defense. As far as the eye can see, the low wall of rammed earth with stones for more than ten miles runs north and south, and there are still a large number of soldiers who continue to transport stones from farther away in the primitive way of carrying horses by people.

At dusk, Hu Mo led the cavalry of the front army to arrive first, and the middle army and the rear army arrived one after another after dark. The arrival of thousands of cavalry immediately increased Zhong Heng's confidence in holding on to Wuping.

After the two armies met, a military aircraft meeting was held overnight to hand over the defense affairs, and Luo Songting unsurprisingly proposed to use the giant trees of the Wuping Forest as raw materials to make a peculiar delivery device.

This kind of projection device is unheard of, at least in the history of mankind on Earth, there has never been such a war machine. Judging from the sketch provided by Luo Songting, it is not a throwing device, and the principle is more like a pendulum.

Use manpower to pile up two piles of soil with a distance of half a zhang or one zhang, and the height of the mound will directly determine the power and projectile distance of the throwing device.

After the huge log is processed as a beam, erected on two mounds, the throwing rod is perpendicular to the beam, and the throwing rod is raised about 80 degrees to the sky by using a winch, so that the throwing rod will not be overturned, and the throwing rod directly forms a huge inertia downward when used, just like a pendulum.

A rope is hung at the other end of the throwing rod, and the net bag full of stones is tied to the net bag at the end of the rope with a net bag, as long as the height and length of the throwing rod are calculated, two mounds are built on the enemy side, and a beam log is erected on the mound, and a horizontal guillotine is fixed under the log.

When the rope at the end of the throwing rod hits the guillotine, the rope cuts on its own, and the mesh bag containing the stones flies to the enemy's side on its own. And the throwing rod goes around the guillotine beam in front, turns over the rear beam, and then sets up a blocking cable on the outside of the throwing rod beam, so that you can use the huge inertia generated by the throwing rod to cut off the rope and reset yourself, without pulling back to the high position of 80 degrees by pulling the horse by manpower.

This structure is similar to the high and low bar loops in gymnastics, where people always use inertia to make loops on the high bars, but their feet do not hit the low bars in front of them.

Except for the first exertion, the subsequent ejection requires little human re-exertion, as long as the net bag containing the stones is hung by the person. Therefore, each of these trebuchets can be used by a maximum of twelve people, with a minimum of six people, and a hundred can easily be used by a thousand two hundred people.