Guan Longxiang's worries are actually not unreasonable, Bailiyan has a lot of fights with the Divine Power Heavenly King, this person does not play cards according to common sense, and his strategy is better than the thunder of self-righteousness by half a point, which is on par with Guan Longxiang. But Guan Longxiang is not good at leading troops, and he and Ye Xin just happened to be a pair, and the thinking integration ability of the two people is obviously not as good as the brain of a person, and it is a tie after playing for more than half a year.

It is not impossible for him to boldly set up an ambush to attack Baili Yan, but Guan Longxiang ignored the flying feather under Baili Yan's crotch, if he really escaped, it would be a ride without chasing. Of course, if it really comes to this point, Bailiyan's first reputation can be regarded as washing the floor.

The shelling lasted for two hours, and the earth wall was not collapsed, but the area of the shelling was basically finished, and it only took a day or two to bombard the wall of the target area, and if the dead soldiers could attack under the city wall to carry out the blasting, the effect would be better.

After returning to the city, Bai Liyan invited Guan Longxiang and Zhao Anling to his accommodation to discuss:

"Mr. Guan Long, do you know where the rebel general Chen Hanxin is now?"

"Chen Hanxin, ......" Guan Longxiang frowned and pondered, thought for a moment and said: "There is news in the first month of the new year, Chen Hanxin is in Mengcheng, Shangguan County, and now I don't know where he is. What does the deputy marshal mean? ”

At this time, Zhao Anling said:

"Hou Ye came here to attack the city as the bottom, and the heart as the top, so he planned to persuade the rebels to surrender by recruiting and accepting rebellion. Brother, look, this is a sign sealed by Yongxing City, what does my brother think? ”

Guan Longxiang took the flyer and looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but be taken aback:

"Obediently, 5,000 inches of silver, this is a sky-high price."

Bai Liyan said disapplausively:

"Now that the treasury is not short of gold or silver, but only land and population, the king is determined to spare no cost to forgive the sins of all the rebels who surrender to the rebellion, and give them a great deal of money."

"But five thousand inches of silver is still too much, it's not a small amount."

"If it weren't for the heavy money, how could it shake this group of outlaws."

5,000 inches of silver is equivalent to 670,000 yuan of old Xianguo currency, which is equivalent to 5,000 yuan of new currency.

Therefore, the purchasing power of gold and silver is still much higher than the equivalent of copper coins and new coins, and Guan Longxiang was naturally shocked by this huge amount when he heard that a 10,000-man was worth 5,000 inches of silver.

"Mr. Guan Long, do you think you can use this to impress the rebel generals?" Bai Liyan asked.

"But yes, but these outlaws will never be willing to give up their military power, and this leaflet does not mention military power, so why do so?"

"This matter can be used to make the lobbyist and the rebel general face to face, and the matter of military power can be discussed. But it is by no means an unlimited blackmail of the commander, if he is not sincere, the commander will crush the city with a large army, and then they will not be able to bear it. ”

"So, is the deputy marshal going to Gongcheng, Yin Qu and other places for this matter?"

"It was Ben Shuai who printed a million copies of these leaflets, and then dropped them in a hot air balloon over the city."

As the saying goes, money can make the devil grind, gold and silver are things outside the body, life does not bring it, death does not take away, the meaning of money only cares about the economic effect produced by the continuous flow, and the buying policy can also produce huge political and military value.

The last thing that Xianguo lacks now is gold and silver, and money can only be productive when it is most needed, and hoarding it in the hands can be of no use except to satisfy greedy desires.

The composition of the Black Turban Army is complex, from outlaws to poor-born slaves and generals, and in the face of huge temptations, nine times out of ten, those who are tempted.

Taking a step back, the superstitious deification of the Black Turban Army is now gone, and the war-weariness of generals and soldiers at all levels is widespread, and now they don't know why they are fighting, nor why they are fighting, and who they are fighting for, and such an army has no other way to survive than to resist to the death.

The next day, Bailiyan led more than 24,000 Ye Xin cavalry to Gongcheng in the north, carrying three hot air balloons and 10,000 copies of a single pass, and the military battalion stayed in Lintai to train the battle, and Tian Peng and Fang Liang went to Gongcheng with the army.

After Tian Peng and Fang Liang became naturalized, they successively married wives and had children, and were placed in the military camp. Like all the new vassals, they did not have a strong sense of identity with the Central Plains, and although five or six years later, the new vassals were still very independent, resisting the cultural traditions and customs of the Central Plains, and sometimes causing trouble.

Tian Peng is used to being lazy on weekdays, in addition to exercising to eat and drink, he has not even recognized the original Chinese text, in addition to having few eyes and brute force, it is really difficult to find other advantages.

Fang Liang's situation is slightly better, but he is not worry-free, he is keen to beg his wife and have children all day long, and now he is the father of five wives and nine children, so he simply has gold and silver deposits and low-income land to eat interest, otherwise he will not be able to support him at all.

It was only one hundred and twenty miles from Lintai to Gongcheng, and it only took one day for the cavalry to gallop. There are more than 10 county towns under the territorial rule of Gongcheng as the core, and now all the population has moved to Gongcheng to hold on, and the land passed is barren and uninhabited.

Not long after Bailiyan arrived in Gongcheng, the news was sent to the Shentong army:

"Respect the Heavenly King, Bai Liyan, the deputy commander of the Xian Army, arrived twenty miles south of Gongcheng yesterday and yesterday."

The scout said quickly, the supernatural power was not surprised, as if expected, and then asked:

"How many soldiers and horses are with you?"

"About 24,000 cavalry, it should be all the cavalry of Lintai."

"No foot soldiers?"

The supernatural power asked again, and the scout replied:

"Within a radius of fifty miles, I didn't see the Xianjun infantry and the heaven-shaking fire following."

"Command the tribute city, hold the city and not go out of the city to face the battle."

"Yes!"

After the scouts withdrew, Captain Shen Duchi said:

"Heavenly King, it is rumored that Baili Yan is Wei Xian who fought with us in Shaoping back then, during the southern expedition, he killed Jin Xuedi's soul, and now the Xian army is full of food, and Baili Yan is cunning and cunning, I'm afraid it is very tricky."

"Hmph, Jin Xuedi is just a group of barbarian thieves, who knows that my Central Plains strategy is broad and profound, and I just have the power of a martial arts. In the eyes of this Heavenly King, it was not surprising that the barbarian was defeated by Baili Yan, but if he wanted to deal with this Heavenly King in the same way as the barbarian, then he was very wrong. ”

Shentong said disdainfully, Shen Duchi was still worried:

"Heavenly King, those who come are not good, and those who are good are not coming, it is better to be careful. Bailiyan came alone with cavalry, and he must have relied on the crossbow of the Xian army, if he broke through the direction of our army and plunged straight into the hill and Xuping, the consequences would be unimaginable. ”

"General Shen is too worried, Baili Yan has just come to Changyin, and he will definitely not go alone. Even if he wanted to catch me off guard, he didn't have the guts. ”

The divine power concluded that Baili Yan was here to reconnoiter the terrain this time, and it was definitely not interspersed with going deep into the hinterland to disturb the rear.

"Even so, the two battles of Shao Ping and Beihai back then showed that Bailiyan's methods were difficult, and now that he is in charge, he must be determined to win, and we have to guard against it."

"General Shen rest assured, the more anxious Bailiyan is to fight a decisive battle with our army, the more beneficial it will be to our army. Now that the Changsun army is in a hurry to go south, and is caught off guard by our army, if Bailiyan dares to seek battle, he will definitely have no return.

Immediately pass on the military order of the Heavenly King, and all places will strictly guard the city, no matter how the Xian army attacks, no battle will be allowed to go out, and let it pass. ”

"Yes!"

After two years of rearmament and training in 635 and 636, the cavalry of the Xian army was generally equipped with repeating archer crossbows, fine cowhide armor, steel extended horizontal knives, horse lances, and spears, which posed a major threat to the black turban light cavalry.

Shen Duchi was defeated in several confrontations with Ye Xin's cavalry, and was forced to retreat into the infantry formation, suppressing the Xianjun cavalry with the cover of a heavenly crossbow, a swarm of bees, and a spear array.

The range of the Chaotian crossbow is often more than two hundred steps, and a swarm of bees has also reached the two hundred steps away from the frenzy, and at the same time it is equipped with spears and bows and crossbow arrays, which has a great coverage rate of the battlefield.

A swarm of bees is similar to the Ming Dynasty's divine arrows, both of which use gunpowder kinetic energy as a boost to achieve the gliding flight of arrow clusters.

Usually with needle-shaped crossbow bolts as the body of the projectile, wrapped in gunpowder, packed in a square wooden box, each box contains fifty, with a lead in series, a salvo of 400 or 600 boxes, 30,000 arrows in a salvo, each battle only a swarm of arrows fired between 200,000 and 1 million, the efficiency is extremely considerable.

According to the amount of gunpowder, the arrow cluster was pushed to between 100 and 500 meters, which caused great damage to the dense infantry line, so that the infantry army was greatly restricted from charging and killing, so that the enemy army did not dare to easily launch a dense charge.

In addition, a swarm of bees can also be used to defend the city, strike at the enemy troops gathered within a mile, or pile up in the gap in the city wall, and inflict intensive casualties on the enemy troops rushing into the city, and in general, the appearance of gunpowder weapons greatly aggravates the cruelty of the war.

However, the use of gunpowder is not a universal magic weapon, Bailiyan stayed in Gongcheng for two days, and was attacked by a swarm of bees outside Yinqu City, and the power of the arrow cluster was profound. Ye Xinren picked up the cluster of arrows inserted into the ground, pointed to the needle-shaped arrow, and said:

"Lieutenant Marshal, this arrow is no thicker than a chopstick, no more than a finger long, but it is very powerful, and can easily pierce most of today's leather armor and wooden shields, and if it is close enough, it will also be effective against iron armor and chain mail. Every time our army attacks the city, the rebels use this swarm to fire this arrow at my front, which makes our army very passive, if only I could build this swarm of bees in Yongxing City. ”

Bai Liyan took the arrow cluster and carefully inspected the arrow, the arrow was about two feet long, three-quarters of the length of the arrow shaft had serious burn marks, and the arrow was fine iron, which was very powerful.

However, the gunpowder formula of the black turban army is not as good as that of the eldest grandson, and the amount of black powder required is more, and the arrow cluster must be sent to a distance of 300 meters, and the amount of gunpowder used is not a catty, but half a catty, and 200,000 arrows are less than 100,000 catties.

After a moment's thought, he said:

"General Ye, have you ever estimated the swarm of the rebels in every battle?"

"No, but according to the confessions of the rebel prisoners, there are more than 100,000, or even 200,000 bees, in every battle."

"This is not a small number, it is okay to use hundreds of thousands of guns in one place and one war and one army, but if it is to be used on the four fronts in the southeast, northwest and northwest at the same time, how can the Black Turban Army get so much gunpowder."

"Sun has saltpeter and sulfur, and it is not surprising that the Black Turban Army has gunpowder."

"But with so much gunpowder, it's very problematic."

Note: The form of war will inevitably change gradually and iteratively because of the changes in the technology and weapons of war, and the forms and tactics of war will change because of the emergence of technical weapons.

(End of chapter)