In the era when the atomic bomb was not a fool's weapon, the first step in siege warfare was to suppress firepower. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The era of thermal weapons was naturally suppressed with machine guns and cannons.

In the era of cold weapons, that was the world of trebuchets.

When more than 300 trebuchets lined up in front of the city wall of Zezhou, except for the occasional neighing of war horses, it could be said that everything was quiet on the battlefield.

Never before had the soldiers of both armies ever invested so many trebuchets in a single war.

The posture of the newly appointed young commander of the imperial court was to smash the entire city of Zezhou with a trebuchet.

Tan Fengyi glanced at the trebuchets lined up in three rows in front of her with a surprised gaze, one hundred in each row lined up along the city wall of Zezhou, the huge trebuchet rack was really shocking, and she eased her mind and asked Wen Wen, who was sitting on the handsome seat, "You learned this trick from those bandits of Yan Shen?" ”

Wen said with some contempt: "Those stupid people, how can they be with Ben Shuai........ I'm on par. They're just putting up a dozen trebuchets, and I'm three hundred! Wen stretched out three fingers, his expression was still immersed in the excitement of creating a peerless weapon, seeing that Tan Fengyi's eyes were not good, he coughed and immediately changed the name of Ben Shuai.

Tan Fengyi said contemptuously: "I don't see any difference. ”

"Feng Yi, you don't have to worry, you will know that there is an essential difference between them in no time." Wen He smiled.

When manpower is poor, material resources are inexhaustible.

In Wen's opinion, just attacking a city and stupidly filling it with tens of thousands of lives is simply an unforgivable sin.

Today, there are only 30 million people on the vast territory of China, and if the population of a nation falls below 10 million, there will be a danger of extinction at any time.

"Even if you have so many trebuchets, you don't have a few days, you don't want to capture Zezhou City, won't the rebels go out of the city to attack and destroy your trebuchet?" Tan Fengyi asked.

"The conditions are different from before, and if they hadn't experienced the fierce siege battles before, the rebels would have sent troops to attack and destroy our catapults, but now they can only wait to be beaten, and there is nothing they can do. The imperial court lost more than 50,000 soldiers, do you think the rebels' losses are not serious? In the east and west, the rebels have taken the initiative to give up their fortifications and withdraw all their troops and horses into the city of Zezhou.

Now the rebels still have more than 10,000 soldiers to fight, it is very good, to deploy troops on all four walls to defend, I am afraid that the soldiers are already scarce. I'm willing to bet they've already started to recruit the people of the city to help defend it. Wen said in a heavy tone.

"Even so, your time is running out, not even two days are enough. Why didn't you start preparing for the siege earlier. Tan Fengyi said a little depressed. In her opinion, the method of using trebuchets is very good, and the most important thing in Zezhou is stone, which is as mountainous as Yanshen County.

"I wanted to start earlier, but there were only about thirty trebuchets in the camp, and most of them were overused. Now these trebuchets are all new, and the old trebuchets are not very efficient, but these new trebuchets have been redesigned by me to increase the counterweight, stretch the arm length, and double the distance of throwing. Wen explained a little proudly.

Tan Fengyi shook her head slightly and said: "You are making wedding clothes for others, and when the deadline for the military order comes, your head will be cut off, and the general who will succeed you will be blessed." I really didn't expect that you also have times when you harm yourself and others. ”

Wen was speechless and said: "Since I entered the WTO, everything I have done has been to the detriment of myself and others, but I will teach the people all good things for free, listening to your tone, it seems that I am so selfish."

If you're not convinced, I'll count them for you, such as the delicious new method of Lu cuisine, the unlimited efficiency of movable type printing, the new tables and chairs that are so comfortable that you can moan and straighten your legs, and the new stove that you don't have to worry about carbon poisoning........"

Tan Fengyi interrupted Wen's narcissism and said, "Stop! You don't have much time, you have time to talk this nonsense here, so hurry up and prepare for the siege, you must know that what you lack most now is time. "What time is it now, and there is still time to think about these little things, Tan Fengyi really can't stand it. The head on this neck has begun to count down, and there is leisure and time to talk about these idle stories.

Wen said leisurely: "Don't worry. ”

A black healthy horse in the distance was approaching rapidly, Tan Fengyi glanced at it, and said in a slight voice: "Shi Shouxin." ”

Wen turned his head to look at the black horse that was rapidly approaching in the distance, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Shi Shouxin, who was close to the handsome man, stopped the horse, rode on the horseback, and took a deep look with sharp eyes at the armor all over his body, sitting on top of the handsome man, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Then he waved his hand and drew his sword, standing in front of him with the imperial sword in his hand, and shouted loudly with a cold face: "Son of Heaven order, supervise the war!" ”

Hearing this, he got up, looked at Shi Shouxin, and said steadily: "Wen, the commander of the Zezhou battalion, is leading the forbidden army of the Son of Heaven to meet the rebel Li Yun's department today, and the orders announced are all orders. Outside, the king's order is not subject to it, and the battle can be supervised, and the order is killed. ”

Hearing this's answer, Shi Shouxin's face suddenly turned blue.

The two looked at each other for a long time, and Shi Shouxin finally got off the horse and stood beside the car, silent and silent.

Tan Fengyi asked in a puzzled whisper, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Wen shook his head slightly and whispered: "I don't know what it means, just cooperate with him, in a word, I am the commander of the three armies, and my momentum cannot be weakened." ”

The momentum between the two just now was quite domineering, but when I heard that it seemed that it was just to fight for a breath, Tan Fengyi suddenly said angrily: "Can you not be so naïve." ”

"Don't fight for steamed buns, it's so naïve between big shots." Wen pouted.

Tan Fengyi directly ignored Wen's boasting, and asked straight to the point: "When are you going to attack the city?" ”

Wen glanced at the head of Zezhou City, and then chuckled: "The town is quiet." ”

After speaking, he gently lay back, closed his eyes and began to sleep. Wen sat in a huge car that only the commander in the army could ride, and the triangular brocade black border handsome flag hanging on the car was fluttering in the air in the wind.

Tan Fengyi, who was standing on top of the car, frowned slightly, glanced at the smell of lying on the seat and pretending to sleep, and stopped talking.

The situation on the entire battlefield was rather eerie, with only a few neighing sounds of horses occasionally heard. In May, the wind is slightly stronger, and the breeze slowly blows the military flag and makes a fierce sound. In the moat, the slight sound of the blue water seems to have been infinitely amplified.

No one said that tens of thousands of troops from us and the enemy were just in array.

The oppressive atmosphere in the battlefield is getting stronger and stronger, and everything seems to be waiting for the shocking announcement.

The noonday sun quietly watched the two military horses in the air, and then slowly glided across the clear sky to reach the line where heaven and earth intersected.

The afterglow of the setting sun began to sprinkle over the entire battlefield.

I kept my eyes closed and pretended to sleep, opened my eyes, got up, and waved the brocade flag in my hand gently.