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In front of He Guan, Guan Sheng's face was red and ashamed. When he entered the hall of the county government, he simply bowed to the ground and said: "Grace is above, it was Guan Sheng's negligence, which caused the second general Zhang to be captured, and a certain one is willing to accept the guilt." ”

He Guan has anger and love for Guan Sheng in his eyes. The loss of Zhang Qing and Zhang Zhongxiong made him lose a lot. But Guan Sheng is strong in martial arts, and he looks like an ancestor in rebirth, who doesn't love it? And today he also has to rely heavily on Guan Sheng. At the moment, he personally helped Guan Sheng up, and said good words to persuade him. also gave a banquet and invited Hao Siwen and Tang Bin to enter. Yu Guansheng gave enough face.

After the feast, the five returned to their lodgings. Hugh said that Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen's feelings about He Guan were extremely good, even Tang Bin and the three of them couldn't say half a bad word about He Guan. As a lieutenant, he treats everyone with such courtesy, what is the identity of the latter? Or after their defeat, no one can say half of it.

It's just that when Taiwei He looked back, how he really looked at them in his heart was another story.

The Liangshan military camp five miles away from Fan County.

Zhang Zhongxiong looked at Lu Qian in front of him with a different color, is his father and brother really alive? Isn't the land thief trying to trick him? He knew the temperament of his father and brother. And his father has caused a lot of trouble to Liang Shan, can Liang Shanbo's nest of bandits really endure it and not kill it?

"Whether it's true or not, you will know when you see it when you get to the cottage. What good shall I do you in deceiving you in such matters? ”

Lu Yi looked at the person in front of him, his eyes were full of certainty. Don't look at this guy who is begging for death when he opens his mouth and closes his mouth, but in essence, he is afraid of death. On the official history, his father Uncle Zhang committed suicide at night, and he was not a golden person; His eldest brother Zhang Bofen also did not reproduce the historical materials after the bloody battle of Jingkang, and he thought that he would be dead. Only this Zhang Zhongxiong, first the pseudo-Qi, and then the Jin Dynasty, was a traitor through and through.

Yes, Lu Qian is very sure. As long as he left him with hope for life, and his father and brother as the lead, Zhang Zhongxiong would honestly explain the layout of the Song army inside and outside Fan County.

On Lu Qian's right hand, there is a bird's-eye view, which is a schematic diagram of the Chengchi of Fan County and the military barracks of the Southern Song Dynasty in the city. But no matter how high the bucket watchtower stands, no matter how far it looks, it is only a lookout, just a general look. In the end, there is no clarity from the insider's story.

The Liangshan cannons in the camp are already being assembled, and in another three or five days, Lu Qian will be able to pull up twenty Liangshan cannons. At the same time, there were already more than 1,000 mud bombs made by the rear battalion with water and mud. These things cost almost nothing, and the labor required is minimal, and the bigger question is when they will freeze completely in the cold of winter.

Each of the mud bombs weighed 100 pounds. was thrown out by the Liangshan cannon, how could the fragile city of Fan County withstand it? As mentioned above, the castle at this time was not a brick castle in later generations, but a brick castle at most in places such as Tokyo Castle and the Daimyo Mansion. In a small county town like Fan County, it is still a soil city, a rammed earth city. I am afraid that it will not take long for such a small county town to be broken.

The elite of the Lu family who fought for the rest of the battle in Xiangyang City in the official history couldn't withstand the bombardment of the counterweight trebuchet, not to mention a group of Northern Song soldiers in Xiaofan County?

Nature. Under such a sharp weapon, many of the new protective measures in the Song army camp will not have any effect.

Under the mud bomb, whether it is a fence or an earthen wall, everything is powder.

There are few outsiders in the big tent, Lu Qian and Zhang Zhongxiong, and then there are Wu Song and two personal guards. Zhang Zhongxiong glanced at the bird's-eye view hanging on Lu Qian's right hand, twitched his cheeks, and nodded heavily. His life was saved, his father and brother did not die, and Zhang Zhongxiong himself did not have a reason to ask for death immediately.

Invest in peach and repay it. Since Liang Shanbo is so interesting, it is also appropriate to help them a little by himself.

Anyway, Uncle Zhang has been being treated like that for a while. After Zhang Zhongxiong left Jeju, he always waited in Dongchang Province, except for asking his wife to serve his old mother and return to his hometown. It was not only to verify the exact news of Uncle Zhang, but also to wait for Tokyo's reaction.

Yes, Zhang Shuye was dismissed from his official position before he was unlucky, but this does not mean that the imperial court will ignore Zhang Shuye. It's like a retired veteran cadre in later generations, when he really goes to see Taizu, the government department will also organize a memorial service.

The old Zhao family is really good to Wenchen. Even the Wenchen, who was knocked to the ground, would be given preferential treatment after they died of illness. Just like Su Shi, because of personal political problems, he was not allowed preferential treatment in the Huizong Dynasty, but when Zhao Gou took the throne, Song Huizong's small team had been swept away, and Su Shi was posthumously presented as a Taishi, nicknamed "Wenzhong".

This Uncle Zhang is also a person who has entered the sequence of senior officials in the court. Zhang Bofen and Zhang Zhongxiong both have fatherly official positions, and they are idle and empty, and they are not counted. The Song Dynasty implemented the system of dispatching, and Zhulang had already become a false title, although there were officials, they did not receive the affairs of the department unless they were edicted. But the current Zhang family is different from the past. Unless someone in the court is obstructing, there will be no indication so far.

That is to say, Zhang Zhongxiong already harbored a grudge in his heart.

Lu Qian looked at Zhang Zhongxiong, who was sketching on the bird's-eye view, and smiled silently at the bird's-eye view that was gradually enriching the content. This Zhang Zhongxiong was the breakthrough point for him to drag Uncle Zhang into the water at night. Missing only these few words, the crimson on the air pillar above this guy's head has faded a lot.

Of course, Wu Song on the side looked at Zhang Zhongxiong's gaze very coldly. This is not because Wu Erlang looks down on Zhang Zhongxiong and thinks that this person is unkind and unjust, nor is it because he already knows the resentment in Zhang Zhongxiong's heart, but because Zhang Zhongxiong is extraordinary in martial arts.

Right now, in this big tent, if there is no him, Lu Qian and the others are probably not Zhang Zhongxiong's opponents. He has to beware of Zhang Zhongxiong breaking out and hurting people.

Outside the tent were guarding Guo Sheng and Lu Fang, and the two stood in front of the tent, but their ears listened to the movements inside from time to time. The second Zhang was captured, and Zhang Qing was very tough and was put into prison by Lu Qian, only this Zhang Zhongxiong was met by Lu Qian. Neither of them knew what was going on inside, but in their hearts, they looked at Zhang Zhongxiong differently.

At this time, the Manichaean people were talking more about Guan Sheng's martial arts. They also couldn't help but think of Shi Bao, these two people are one south and one north, the same big knife, they collided together, but they are good opponents.

Naturally, not everyone is thinking about martial arts. For example, Pang Wanchun and Gao Yu, these two people are very interested in the trebuchet that is being assembled in the rear of the Liangshan army.

The former is a Manichaean general, very good at shooting, so he pays a lot of attention to long-range weapons. The latter is a rare scribe in Manichaeism, and Gao Yu's little force is not important to Manichaeism. Fang La needed his brains even more.

The trebuchet was hit by Gao Yu at a glance.

In the land south of the Yangtze River, there are not many fortified cities, but there are many wide moats.

Whether it is Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Huiji, etc., there is no wide moat outside the city of Fuchengzhou?

Normally, such a place would inevitably be a major obstacle to the Manichaean army's sweep of Jiangnan. In addition to making people sneak into the city first, wait for the army outside the city to come, and then join forces to seize the city, there is only a desperate fight, and the ants are attached to the siege of the city, and Gao Yu can't think of anything else.

So the former is fine, but again and again it is difficult to repeat. Such methods can be used, but they cannot last long, and the court officials are not all stupid. The latter is a huge casualty. Whenever Gao Yu imagined that when the army attacked Suzhou and Hangzhou like this, the last thing left in his eyes was overwhelming blood and corpses.

Therefore, this method of making stone cannons was urgently needed by Manichaeism.

The only thing he still has to be sure about is that this so-called Liangshan cannon is a new type of stone cannon, and the way of launching is unheard of. Gao Yu didn't see the actual effect with his own eyes, so he didn't want to open his mouth easily.

In the following days, Lu Qian called Lin Chong, Wang Yin, Lu Zhishen and other generals to invite them to fight under the city every day.

When dealing with the generals of Guan Sheng and Huarong, every time they can't fight, they rush up. Even though the Song army at the head of the city scolded every day, bullying the more and the less, he was not a hero. Liang Shanbo only did it and didn't hear it.

He Guan was also happy to be like this, because Liang Shanbo bullied more and less again and again, although he won the scene, but it also aroused the hatred of the Song army inside and outside the city. Recently, he has felt that the morale of the soldiers has increased a lot.

Until this day, it was just dawning.

"Hey......, hey......"

"Hey......, hey......"

A loud and sonorous trumpet sound resounded outside Fan County, and towering stone cannons and heavy shield carts were pushed out of the Liangshan Military Fortress Gate in the loud and neat sound of the trumpet.

Half an hour later, twenty tall Liangshan cannons appeared on the battlefield for the first time in their lives. Directly in front of them were a group of larger, taller, heavier shield carts. The wooden shield erected high, the wooden shield that was only thicker than the barracks fence, and the wooden shield tied vertically and horizontally, only covered most of the Liangshan cannon behind him. Twenty Liangshan Cannon Fan County Dongcheng and Chengsong Song Battalion, each divided into ten, neatly lined up in front of the Song army. They were accompanied by 3,000 elite foot soldiers wearing heavy armor, armed with bows, crossbows, long cards, broadswords, and spears.

"Da Da Da, Da ......"

Thousands of cavalry also rushed out from behind the Liangshan military camp. Thousands of horses galloped, like a dark cloud wrapped in rolling thunder, quickly moving from the edge of the sky to the front of the formation.

Based on the location of twenty stone cannons that were very strange in the eyes of the high-level generals of the Song army, four thousand Liangshan rode on foot, lined up left and right, and waited for the battle. Swords and guns shine together, and the sun shines. Song Jun was stunned.

"This ......, this stone cannon can't hit this far, right?" Tang Bin looked at the mighty array posed by Liang Shanbo's soldiers, and his convincing to Lu Qian did not weaken in his heart, but he admired it even more. Is this still a litter of grass bandits? Look at other people's armaments, look at other people's battle robes, look at their momentum, and stand with the officers and soldiers, which is more like the official army than the official army.

But are the cannons too far away?

Guan Sheng and Hua Rong didn't speak. Cui Wei whispered: "Brother, we are afraid that the stone cannon on the opposite side can really hit so far now." ”

Liang Shanbo can become today's momentum, how can Lu Qian and others be mortals? They wouldn't have made such a mistake. In other words, most of the stone cannons outside the city can hit the city.

He Guan also made up his mind early and ordered the bed crossbow to shoot at the Liangshan cannon. But most of them were stopped by the shield car. The shield cart was covered with a layer of raw cowhide, and it was poured with muddy water, and the fire crossbow shot from the city's head did not have much effect.

"Captain." Liu Zhen's heartbeat accelerated, and the towering stone cannons were like a black cloud pressing on people's heads, and every time they looked at it, they could make people feel a palpitation and a dullness.

An endless haze condensed in the air. An oppressive atmosphere permeated the city.

He wanted to listen to He Guan's instructions, so he was so deadlocked, and the Liangshan army under the city was a little bit ready. It's better to choose an elite soldier first, choose a fierce general to lead, and burn those tools.

"The old man has never seen such a stone cannon in his life. Let's see how it can shoot so far. ”

Ordinary stone cannons only have a range of 150 paces, and even super-heavy trebuchets such as nine-tip guns and thirteen-tip cannons can only reach 200 paces, unless they are flicked lightly and pulled by more labor. At present, the stone cannon of the Liang Mountain Thief is two hundred and fifty paces away. It was the treadmill arrows shot from the bed crossbow that flew so far away, and they were all exhausted.

And at the moment, the stone cannon of the Liangshan thieves is big, but there are few people to manipulate it. There were only thirty or forty people per cannon, as straight as a small cannon. He Guan didn't believe that such a stone cannon could emit such a powerful cannon. I don't believe that the artillery shells sent from the opposite side can destroy the city and cause much trouble for the Song army. That is, the camp in the south of the city may have trouble, but Fan County is not.

The Liangshan thieves did this, more to create panic and chaos. so that they may take advantage of the opportunity. With his right hand raised slightly, He Guan stopped Liu Zhen's words, and looked ahead indifferently.

He did not look at the soldiers standing at the head of the city in terror.

It's also good to be beaten. Only on the battlefield can the real elite soldiers be trained, and the strict training on the school field cannot train a real elite soldier, they can only be called a piece of jade at most. What's more, He Guan also knows how lax the training of the current Jingshi Forbidden Army is.

It's good to fight and defeat the battle. Even if he will be punished a little, he can also wake up the court. 800,000 forbidden troops, millions of soldiers and Tuyong are many generals, and the Beijing Forbidden Army should be the elite of the million army, but such an elite army, but it can't even beat a nest of bandits, what is the use of so many soldiers?

To know. Since Tong Guan's envoy to Daliao, he has brought back a Guiren from the north. Born in a big family of Liao, he also served as Guangluqing of Liao, this person is Ma Zhi, and now he has changed his name to Zhao Lianghei.

Tong Guan made Liao, and Ma Zhi offered the strategy of "Lianjin to destroy Liao and recover Yanyun", which called Tong Guan Daxi and changed his name to Li Liangsi. Because His Majesty Shenzong left an edict: to recover the king of Yanyun. Tong Guan's generation is very ambitious, not only to make immortal achievements, but also to 'go down in history'. Crowned as a eunuch, the Han and Tang dynasties controlled the government, and the eunuchs who regarded the emperor as all things could not do it.

Ma Zhi has returned to the Song Dynasty for more than four years, and the real-time changes are in line with the policy he offered: "The Jurchens hate the Liao people and cut their bones, if they move to Zideng and Lai to the sea, they will marry the Jurchens, and attack Liao with an appointment, and the country can be rejuvenated." "Now called Huizong is also very happy, give his surname Zhao, serve as the Zhilong Pavilion, and add the blessing of the Wendian to repair.

The folk have called the straight dragon pavilion as a false dragon, the dragon pavilion service system as a small dragon, the straight bachelor as a big dragon, and the bachelor as an old dragon. Ma Zhi had just returned to the Song Dynasty for a short time, and he easily became a middle-level official in the court. If you are willing to be released as an official, you can become the governor of the state capital.

Lianjin's strategy of destroying Liao and recovering Yanyun was denounced by countless people as nonsense and absurd remarks when it first circulated in the upper echelons of the court. But with the defeat of the main force of the Liao army at the beginning of the year, this strategy has risen. Even Liang Shicheng, Yang Jian and others, who were reluctant to go on the Northern Expedition at the beginning, have now changed their attitudes. But this is not the case.

The Great Liao is a great power in the world, and even if it suffers a great defeat, it will not be easily destroyed. He Guan served in the border areas in his early years and knew the courage of the Liao people. Even if Da Song is shameless and comes to take advantage of the fire, he must have a good figure. Otherwise, it's a fire!

It's just that now there is a lot of heated discussion in the court about Zhao Liangsi's policy, and the policy of Lianjin to destroy Liao is more and more recognized, and the emperor has approved it, but it is not He Guanyi's guards who are pro-army and infantry and military divisions are all waiting to be stopped.

Now that he is at a disadvantage, tens of thousands of officials and soldiers are embarrassed by a nest of grass, and when the news is transmitted back to Tokyo, I don't know if it will alert the emperor and the important ministers in the court.

Of course, although Taiwei He is dedicated to the country and sincere, he can't always be selfless and sacrifice small interests for the sake of righteousness.

He was reluctant to use his fame and fortune to 'wake up' the court, and He Guan was only willing to 'lose slightly'. And this is the kind of thought, which was also born in him recently. In the early days, Taiwei He was bent on exterminating Liang Shanbo and sweeping away Qing Shuikou.

People are going to become. will change as events develop.

He Guan saw that his thoughts of defeating Liang Shanbo became more and more slim, and Fang had such thoughts. In this way, you can not only 'wake up' the court, but also find a good cover for yourself.

Who made this man so incapacitated?

A traitor who fled from Liao to the Great Song Dynasty, a legendary and mysterious figure, and one of the very few senior staff members who can play a decisive role in Tong Guan's huge staff group.

Hugh saw that Zhao Liangsi's reputation has risen recently, and he has been called a person with lofty ideals, and he has almost become a representative of not forgetting the Han family and remembering the old master. The fame is in the reputation of many doctors in the court and the field.

But in He Guan's eyes, this is just a despicable villain who only has glory and wealth in his eyes.

Ma Zhizu was a high-ranking Liao official in the previous generation, and he was a family of Han bureaucrats who were under Khitan rule and thanked the Khitan for helping the Khitan rule over the vast Han people in the north. Xu can see them as the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty during the Manchu Dynasty. To the rulers, they are slaves; For the vast number of the ruled, they are also the masters.

Ma Zhi grew up in such a family, and He Guan sneered at what he said about not forgetting the Han family and remembering the old master.

He Taiwei has many philosophical keys in his heart that there are no later generations, such as the objective environment of society determines the level of people's thoughts, or the butt determines the head. But he knows what it is: those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

In his opinion, saying that he does not forget the Han family and remembers the old master is just a gimmick released by Ma Zhi to elevate himself. Anyone who wants to sell himself to someone else - whether his ancestors sold himself to the Khitan nobles, whether he himself turned around and sold himself to the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to having a little ability to serve the new master, he also needs a glamorous appearance.

Just like many traitors in later generations, when they serve their Western masters, they also have to put on a glossy shell like a well-known/boiled fighter?

When human society began to have transactions, advertising was invented at the same time. Zhao Liangsi's label is his advertisement.

He Guan looked at Ma Zhi like this. Who told this guy to climb to Tong Guan when he lost his position. In this case, no matter how well Ma Zhi sings, he is just a villain who repeatedly drives profits.