Autumn north of the Qinling Mountains should come earlier than south of the Qinling Mountains. The weather is getting colder, the leaves are scattered, and there is a bleak appearance everywhere, only the millet seedlings in the field are getting more and more yellow, and the millet ears are heavy and cheerful. In the early morning of an auspicious day, the earth was full of hoarfrost, and before the frost was exhausted, the peasants would pick out the best ears of corn from the corn fields, break them and put them in dustpans. This is a custom passed down from ancient times, and the steamed corn rice must be sacrificed to the ancestors to tell them that the corn is ripe again.

Of course, Xiong Jing, the lord of a country, also has to try new things to pay tribute to his ancestors, but he can only sacrifice in the shogunate when he is outside the Yingdu. At the same time, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and sake were also transported from the rear to reward the generals in the army. On the day of the new taste, the whole army was drunk.

"The grain of the Qin people is connected." After the drunkenness, Xiong Jing was not drunk. Several sacrifices a year, he was neither happy nor unhappy about this, and during the war, he was thinking about how the Qin people were doing all the time.

"Although the millet rice is ripe, the Qin people cannot cut it all within 20 days, as long as our army enters the pass on the 20th, it is okay." Zhuang Wudi is also in the tent, he doesn't like to drink, and he is not drunk. There is also Nao Xin, he doesn't drink alcohol, at least during the war.

"It is reported that Wang Jian and Li Xinzhi's army have been harvesting corn and rice in Qi and Wei," Nao Xin said, referring to ......the news he had just received today. This is not surprising, whenever the Qin State is hungry and has no food, it eats in other countries and robs other countries of corn.

"How can you rob and cut?" Zhuang Wudi said with a smile. "The Qin army is nearly one million, and there must be two or three million people who work for the war. There are nearly a million officials and slaves in the country......"

The more Zhuang Wudi spoke, the more he shook his head. The Qin State is like a burning meadow, if the fire wants to burn vigorously, it must continue to expand outward, robbing other countries of resources, and once the expansion reaches the end, the fire will be quickly extinguished. In other words, the Qin state could not sustain itself. Officials rely on meager money to get the blame at every turn, and they can't support themselves; The common people bear heavy rents, do not fight or plunder, and are equally unable to sustain themselves.

Zhuang Wudi's words made Xiong Jing no longer think about whether the Qin people had grain or not, the Qin State warehouse was empty, and this year's autumn harvest would be the last grain in their hands. Even if the Chu army does not attack Guanzhong, it will be eaten until next spring and summer.

"The Qin people destroyed the stack hole, and our army was not allowed to enter for a while, I don't know when the Mandarin Crane Mountain will be captured?" He changed the subject and talked about the current war.

The Qin army's destruction of the Lantian Valley Road was really thorough. Not only did they burn the plank road, but they also built a dam at the mouth of the valley, and finally even the stack hole of the plank road was destroyed. The plank road is to dig holes in the stone wall, insert wooden beams, and then pave five-foot wooden boards on the wooden beams to think that the road. If in peacetime, the stack hole is destroyed, it is nothing, the re-chiseling is, the Chu army has cement, the repair is faster, but the cement also has a solidification time, at least seven days to use the stack hole, through the heavy artillery carts, baggage carriages will take longer.

Constrained by logistics, Yingshi could not go far when he entered Guanzhong. However, Guanzhong is in front of him, but he stops in Lantian Valley because the plank road is temporarily unworkable, which is inevitably unpleasant. Zhuang Wudi said: "Don't worry, the king thinks that the mandarin bird mountain will be pulled out today and tomorrow." ”

"The top of the mountain is also rugged, and it is easier said than done!" Xiong Jing is not as optimistic as Zhuang Wudi. He clearly knew that the mountain pass he was attacking was only the first obstacle to the top of the mountain, and there was a long ridge above the mountain. Only by breaking through the long ridge can we return to the flank of the Qin army, so that we can clear the sunken boats on the water and trace the water to the pass.

"Fu wants Marco to drag the heavy cannon up the mountain, why is the king worried that Qin's fortress will not be broken?" Nao Xin and Zhuang Wudi glanced at each other and said.

Once regarded as a chicken rib by Xiong Jing, Fermima has evolved into a disabled person. It can't do it on its own, but if it is given a fixed fulcrum, it can use its huge arm strength to drag the rope along, which of course can also be turned into a siege gun.

The Yingshi of Lantian Valley Road was only building roads, and the generals were trying to taste the new, and after the Chu army at the foot of Yuanhu Mountain stopped for seven days, a full-scale offensive was launched in the early morning before the white frost was exhausted. The Xi Division and the Xin Cai Division attacked the other two mountain passes. Lu Chan's siege brigade once again attacked the nearest corner of the col. Unlike the last time, the last time it was the soldiers rushing forward, this time it was the artillery bombardment.

"Putting ——!" Placed on the side of the artillery in front of the formation, the gun commander shouted with all his strength. The sound of 'boom, boom, ......boom' was endless, and the cannon shot at a zero degree angle flew for a distance before sinking to the ground, and after landing, it quickly bounced up and flew to the corner of the mountain pass with a roar.

In the last battle, the Ba people were not only defeated, but also lost the daughter of the Xi chieftain. After the Chu army retreated, the Xi people sent people to negotiate and were willing to redeem Xixian with a heavy amount of money, but the Ba people were one step late, and Xixian had already been harmed by Lu Gao. Lu Gao told the envoy that Xixian was already his beloved concubine, and that he was related to the Xi tribe, and he wanted to call the chief of the Xi tribe his uncle. These words made the messenger tremble with anger on the spot, and the messenger went back and changed the Xi tribe from chief to slave, and the whole tribe trembled with anger.

In a fit of rage, the Xi clan was still stationed at the bottom corner, attacking the camp at night in a vain attempt to regain Xixian. You can also guess what the Ba people will do, and the Ba people who attacked the camp were all cleaned up by him, and then there were more obedient slaves around the concubine who was tied with a huge iron.

For the eldest daughter of the chieftain, the Xi tribe guarded at the front of the mountain col, and at this time, the Chu army suddenly opened fire and bombarded it, even if they hid behind the corner of the mountain pass, they were frightened and panicked. The forty-five catty cannon is only forty-five chujin in the name, and the actual weight of the shell reaches forty-seven chujin (11.75 kg). With such a heavy shell, the chamber of the cannon was filled with gunpowder, and each time it was fired, not only the gun carriage of the gun body, but also the ground under the gunner's feet would jump suddenly.

The corner is 400 meters away, and as long as the jumping cannonball hits the target, the mountain ridge will be cut off a thick layer of earth and stone; If it hits a tree, no matter how big the trunk is, it will be directly broken, and the whole tree will fall down with a clatter, not to mention the non-commissioned officer, the human body will be like a berry falling to the ground in anger, and the flesh and blood will be blurred on the earth and stones, which is terrible to see.

Women are not taboo in the Chu army, and Lu Gao is standing behind the artillery with his concubine. It was the first time for this tall and fair-skinned woman to watch the artillery fire so closely, and for a moment she forgot that she was in the enemy formation, and she forgot that she was wearing huge iron shackles on her hands and feet. Like the servants beside her, her face was full of horror.

The artillery roared incessantly, and Xiong Jing's impression of a forty-five-pound cannon that could pierce a five-foot-thick plank within a hundred yards broke all the trees near the corner, and the grassy hillside exposed several feet of rock under the dirt, and the rocks were potholed and cracked. Every time a shell hits a rock, debris flies in the air.

At this time, no Ba people dared to show their heads, they were hiding behind the corner with shields, squatting low, and the whole person shrank behind the shields.

"Tell me." Lu Gao turned his head to look at his frightened 'concubine', who was speaking to a Ba man who knew Yayan. "Our army will attack again today, and we will attack the mountain pass, if the Xi tribe wants to retreat at this time, I can order the artillery to cease fire, otherwise it will ......"

After Lu Gao finished speaking, the Ba people spoke to Xi Xian in Ba language, and Xi Xian turned his head and cast a hateful gaze at Lu Gao. Lu Gao seems to be showing his benevolence, but it is actually a disguised persuasion. Xi Xian spoke in Ba language, and the more she spoke, the more anxious she became, but unfortunately she was unable to move, and she did not have weapons by her side, so she could not kill this Chu person who humiliated her every night on the spot.

"Since you don't want to," Lu Gao was indeed persuading him to surrender. The night is long and there are many dreams, and he doesn't want to attack under the mountain pass tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. "Tell the gunner: the Pakistani people are unwilling to retreat, so they should be attacked!"

"The False King has an order: Artillery Quander! The false monarch has an order: the artillery is warped ......" the military officer gave the order loudly. In order to break through the mountain pass, Shen Qing's artillery battalion was temporarily placed under the siege brigade and commanded by the siege brigade. Lu Chan is the brigade leader, but the real commander is Lu Gao, who is directing the operation, not Lu Chan commanding.

If it is flat ground, it is difficult to have any effect on curved fire, but in the mountains, the target is a col - the shell will inevitably fall in the col, then the effect is different. The prepared gunners paused their firing and dragged the artillery into the prepared pit. When the cannon was fired again, the shells that had previously flown almost parallel to the ground were fired high into the sky, and then quickly fell from the sky and smashed into the col behind the corner.

Once a direct hit turns into a curved hit, even if it falls a live bullet that cannot explode, it will also hit the Ba people behind the corner and cry wolf. Some of them abandoned their crossbows and fled with wooden shields, and then as soon as they lost the protection of their corner bunkers, they were swept away by the shotguns fired by the artillerymen. The battlefield was four hundred meters away, and Xi Xian and the Ba people around Xi Xian could see the battlefield clearly. Xi Xian, who wanted to kill Lu Gao just now, had no choice but to watch Lu Gao speak and ask him to let his people go.

"You swear to Ba Snake that you will be the concubine of this monarch in this life, and this monarch will let your people go." Lu Gao was confident, but Lu Yu frowned suddenly when he heard this, and he warned: "If this matter is known to the courtiers, you and I will not escape the crime. ”

"What about knowing? Meat eaters despise!. Lu Gao disdainful. How to attack Mandarin Crane Mountain, the general has given you and me full authority, how can others say more. Hour! The most important thing at this time is the hour, and the war must not be delayed until tomorrow. ”

When Lu Gao said this, he turned around and glanced at Xi Xian with questions. Xi Xian, who understood what he meant, knelt down to worship the sky with tears, and made an oath in the name of the snake. Seeing her swear, Lu Gao ordered the artillery to cease fire, and a Ba man from Xi Xian's side was also sent over. Soon Lu Chan saw that all the Ba people around the corner had retreated and guarded the second corner.

Seeing that he was a little stupid, Lu Gao said strangely: "The Ba people have retreated, why don't they give an order?" ”

"Herald! Enter. Lu Chan was not stupid, but felt strange. As soon as he died, the soldiers who had already had swords and shields in hand stepped forward quickly and seized the corner where the Ba people retreated.

"Why did the Pakistani people retreat?" Lu Chan was puzzled.

"It's just a matter of retreating in the face of difficulties, and you can't defend the corner." Lu Gao pointed to the Ba people on both sides of the col, "It's just that the col is retreating, not the whole army retreating." If I drag my cannon forward, they will surely shoot the horse. ”