"If you made a mistake in design, you shouldn't have sealed the camp gate with a knife cart if you knew it......

Zhao Hongrun thought hatefully.

With the gradual evolution of the battle situation, the chief general of the Chu army, Zaifu Gan, had invested more than 15,000 Chu infantry, excluding the 5,000 people who were killed by the Chu army's longbowmen themselves in the first round of attack, and in the second and third rounds of the offensive, Zaifu Yan invested 5,000 infantry respectively.

Among the 10,000 Chu infantry that followed, more than 7,000 people have been shot to death by the Wei army's crossbowmen so far, and they have fallen forever on this territory belonging to the Wei State, and have become the souls of the dead in a foreign country.

The casualties of the Wei Junshui soldiers are only more than 600 so far, including the Wei soldiers who were killed during the first round of the Chu army's offensive during the 10,000 longbowmen and 10,000 arrows, in other words, from the second round of the offensive of the Chu army's main general Zaifu to abandon the trick, the number of Wei casualties is only more than 400.

The casualties of more than 400 Wei soldiers were exchanged for more than ten times the number of Chu soldiers killed, which was the result of Zhao Hongrun's proposal to strengthen the defense of this camp, and the effect was indeed extraordinary.

However, this favorable situation for the Wei army has gradually disappeared with the advance of the Chu army and with the 10,000 Chu army longbowmen entering the battlefield again.

I have to say that the suggestion put forward by Baili Ba, that is, to lead an elite group out of the camp to attack the longbow phalanx of the Chu army, can effectively curb the bad thing, Zhao Hongrun previously used a giant knife car to block the exit of the camp in order to strengthen the camp.

If it weren't for this, the general of the Junshui battalion, Bailiba, would have been able to lead this cavalry of 800 people to quietly leave the camp from the camp gates on the east and west sides, and sneak attack the Chu army after a roundabout.

After all, the Chu army is currently very risky to put the 10,000 longbowmen in the forefront, and when they turn their attention to the Wei soldiers on the wall of the Wei camp, Bailiba leads the 800 cavalry team, with the speed of the war horse, there is a great chance to disrupt the 10,000 longbowmen. so that the latter could not effectively suppress the Wei soldiers on the wall of the Wei camp.

Unfortunately, due to Zhao Hongrun's design mistakes, although the giant knife cart could greatly strengthen the defense of the camp, it could not make the war horses pass, which meant that the tactics of Baili Ba were difficult to implement.

Could it be that an infantry was sent to attack the 10,000 archers of the Chu State? It was no different from sending you to death.

"Demolition!"

Zhao Hongrun thought for a moment, and immediately said, "General Baili." On the east and west sides, which side are you going to attack from? ”

Bailiba thought for a moment and replied, "Let's attack from the west, you can use horsepower more to attack from the west." ”

Zhao Hongrun nodded, he naturally understood what Baili Ba's words meant, it was nothing more than that when attacking from the west, his position was in the northwest direction of the Chu army, in the northwest wind that prevailed in winter. Wind obstruction can be greatly reduced.

"In that case, there is General Lao Baili in this matter."

"Don't dare." Hearing this, Bailiba arched his hand, and immediately hesitated and said: "However, after demolishing the Yingmen knife cart on the west side, you must be vigilant against the movements of the Chu army......"

"This king will immediately call the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works to recover it." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and immediately advised: "However, after leaving the camp, this king hopes that General Baili will not attack the Chu army first...... This king will find a way to counteract the longbowmen phalanx of the Chu army, and then the general will attack again. ”

Bailiba glanced at Zhao Hongrun in surprise when he heard this. He nodded slowly.

After the two agreed, Bailiba immediately said goodbye to Zhao Hongrun. He went to the depths of the camp to temporarily form cavalry, after all, the eight hundred horses that pulled the chariot were all without saddles, and he needed a little time to think of other ways to replace the saddles, and it also took time to gather the temporary cavalry.

And Zhao Hongrun also left the vicinity of the camp wall with Zhang Biao at this time and went to Zhongying.

At this time in the middle camp position. Meng Kui, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, and the other officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry are commanding a large number of Yanling soldiers, and they are in full swing to build the well car required by Zhao Hongrun.

Speaking of which, Meng Kui didn't hear the shouts of killing coming from the direction of Nanying, but he was a non-combatant. There was nothing he could do to help, and the only thing he could do was to constantly motivate the craftsmen around him to speed up the construction and build the two well cars that Zhao Hongrun asked for as soon as possible.

For this reason, Meng Kui, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, and the rest of the officials of the Ministry of Works, all went into battle in person, holding hammers and chisels, and together with craftsmen and many Yanling soldiers who assisted in building them, they rushed to make these two giant siege weapons.

And just when Meng Kui was inspiring the craftsmen around him to speed up the construction and participating in it himself, or a nearby Yan Ling soldier reminded him: "Lord Meng Kui, His Royal Highness King Su has come down." ”

I saw that Meng Kui, who was so busy that he was sweating, raised his hand and wiped his forehead with his sleeve, glanced back, and sure enough, he saw that Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, was leading Zongwei Zhang Biao to walk quickly to this side.

He hurriedly put down his tools and greeted him: "His Royal Highness King Su." ”

Zhao Hongrun also returned the salute, and immediately smiled and said, "Lord Meng Kui, how are the two wells built?" ”

In fact, when he was questioning, Zhao Hongrun had already noticed the two well cars, after all, they were behemoths as high as three feet, how could he not find out.

"The lower officials have ordered the craftsmen to speed up, but it will still take two or three days to complete." After that, Meng Kui glanced at Zhao Hongrun with some confusion, obviously wondering how His Royal Highness King Su could come to his construction site here.

It stands to reason that at present, the Chu army is attacking the camp on a large scale, and His Royal Highness King Su should not leave the southern camp an inch, which is in line with the character of His Royal Highness King Su.

As if seeing through Meng Kui's thoughts, Zhao Hongrun smiled bitterly twice and said: "That's the case, Lord Meng Kui, right now, the Chu army is attacking our army camp, and the defense of the southern camp is quite tight, so this king is wondering if he can make these two wells put into use urgently." ”

"This ......" Meng Kui's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he subconsciously looked at the two three-zhang tall well cars not far from him.

What is the concept of a three-zhang well-up car?

You must know that the city wall of the capital of Wei is only more than three zhang high, and the county town in the rest of the places is generally only one zhang high, and even this military camp is only one zhang high.

The well chariot as high as three zhang means that this is an extremely large chariot, more than two zhang long and two zhang wide, and it will definitely not be smaller than a palace. After all, in Zhao Hongrun's design, this is a giant chariot that requires a full two hundred and fifty soldiers to slowly propel.

How could such a huge project be completed in just one or two days?

You must know that in Meng Kui's estimate, it will take at least two or three days to completely build these two well cars, and now, they have only built an underframe, and then preliminarily built a frame on the underframe.

How does this work?

Meng Kui looked at Zhao Hongrun with a dull expression, and only after half a sound did he say in a slur manner: "His Royal Highness King Su, the lower officials...... The lower officials have ordered the craftsmen to speed up, but ...... But it's still ......."

Seeing him talking in a hurry, Zhao Hongrun waved his hand and interrupted: "Lord Meng Kui's meaning, this king understands. …… This king also knows that more than a day's work is not enough to build these two wells, but the problem is that the defense of the southern camp is tight at present, and the more than 2,000 soldiers on the camp wall cannot take into account the suppression of the infantry attacking the Chu State and the phalanx of longbowmen in the distance at the same time......"

As he spoke, Zhao Hongrun briefly explained the battle situation pressed into by the Chu army to Meng Kui, and finally he said: "This king does not ask for anything else, only requires a place on the top where the crossbowmen can stand, at this time, even if there are one more than one hundred and two crossbowmen standing on a high place, this is good......"

"Top? Top? Meng Kui muttered a few words, and hurriedly shouted to the officials and craftsmen beside him: "Quick, nail the standing board of the top pavilion first." ”

The officials of the nearby Ministry of Industry actually heard their conversation, and they all went to the station board of the roof pavilion of the nail well to live.

However, there were also one or two officials who looked at the two unfinished wells with strange faces, and said to Zhao Hongrun in embarrassment: "His Royal Highness King Su, this is ...... The interior has not yet been built with a staircase, even if the top pavilion is nailed to the platform...... The archers can't go up either. ”

Meng Kui scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously when he heard this, but heard Zhao Hongrun say with a smile: "Or...... Let's build a long ladder first, nail it outside the well car, and make do with it? ”

Hearing this, Meng Kui was immediately overjoyed: "Good idea! Just do it, hurry! ”

After the order was completed, the nearby craftsmen and Yan Ling soldiers immediately became busy in a hurry.

It didn't take much effort, and the station board of the top pavilion above the two well cars was all ordered, and the long ladder was also built, fixed on the outside of the well car, although the appearance looked quite miserable, but it finally met Zhao Hongrun's requirements.

But looking at these two urgently modified well cars, Meng Kui is more and more awkward, after all, he is the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, and all the engineering operations have been perfected as the ultimate goal, especially the construction of this piece, the requirements of the Ministry of Industry are extremely high, often a carved plate as a building decoration, a knife carved and broken immediately re-carved, there is no shoddy.

But now, in order to meet the needs of the war situation, the two wells that have not yet been built have been put into use urgently, and the temporary parts such as long ladders that seriously affect the appearance have been modified.

And in this regard, Zhao Hongrun didn't feel anything, after all, he paid attention to practicality, as for whether the appearance was good-looking, it was just incidental.

Under Meng Kui's orders, many Yanling soldiers who participated in the construction gathered and slowly pushed the two well cars to Nanying.

At the beginning of the design, these two well cars were too large, so each one needed a full two hundred and fifty soldiers to push hard, but at present, because nearly seventy percent of the parts have not been built, therefore, each well car only needs forty or fifty Yan Ling soldiers, and these two huge giants can be easily pushed to Nanying.

However, the two well carts were put into use urgently, which also made the craftsmen in the vicinity have no work to do, and they stand there one by one with big eyes and staring, quite at a loss.

Glancing at these craftsmen, and then at the neatly stacked wooden planks nearby, Zhao Hongrun touched his chin, and a somewhat crazy idea jumped out of his heart. (To be continued.) )