Walking in the streets and alleys of Zezhou City, there are traces of smoke and fire everywhere, and all kinds of unpleasant burning smells from time to time from various places into the nostrils of the smell. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The lamentation of hearing it is made from time to time.

Regarding Wen Huang's compassionate, Tan Fengyi snorted coldly: "The cat cries for the mouse, fake compassion." All these are your iniquities. "Now I know what to do before the war.

Wen Surong said: "Fengyi, you must know that in order to capture Zezhou City, the soldiers on both sides sacrificed as many as 70,000 people, even if I burn Zezhou City, the loss is only some property, do you think that human life is important, or property is important." ”

"When Zezhou City was burned, didn't anyone die?" Tan Fengyi said with disdain.

After hearing the silence for a long time, he smiled bitterly and said, "Fengyi, if you were asked to choose, what choice would you make?" ”

If you want to capture Zezhou City at the lowest cost, the only way is to make the city chaotic. When the dynasty lost more than 50,000 soldiers, this already accounted for 50 percent of the number of an army, and such an army has basically lost its combat capability.

If the forced siege continues, the consequences are really unpredictable.

Whether to choose to end the war as soon as possible at the cost of harming the people, or to let the war drag on indefinitely, and in the end, the world is full of smoke, and thousands of times more people die who should not have died, is a multiple-choice question placed in front of a general, either/or, there is no other choice.

Perhaps if the war drags on, it will be the rebels who will hurt the people, because the rebels have suffered very heavy losses and have already begun to drive the people to help defend the city.

Shifting the blame for harming the people to the rebels will not be infamous for Wen, but it will lead to more serious consequences across the country, and more people will die in the meantime.

Tan Fengyi frowned slightly and snorted lightly, and stopped answering.

Wen sighed lightly and continued: "I have chosen the duty I should have as a general, but after all, I am not a real soldier, and I can't be an innocent person, and I can die in front of me without changing my face. In short, I owe the people of Zezhou, and I need to make up for them. ”

"Of course, you have to pay back the sins you have done." Tan Fengyi said silently.

"Feng Yi, you're right." Wen agreed, and casually shouted to the soldiers who followed behind: "Someone." ”

"See the marshal." A soldier who had been following behind trotted a few steps from behind to see the road.

"How's the trebuchet going?" Wen asked.

"Report to the commander, three hundred trebuchets, after three rounds of fire, one hundred and twenty-eight of them were completely disbanded. Another eighty-three were slightly damaged and lost their crosshairs. The rest of the trebuchets are intact," the soldier reported immediately.

In order to capture the city of Zezhou more efficiently, Wen's initial plan was to build thousands of trebuchets, but the swing arm of the new trebuchet has extremely high requirements for wood. The whole swing arm must be composed of a complete solid wood, two feet long, one foot three, at least three years of wood dry, in order to achieve the best load-bearing tension. Only such trebuchets and stones can pass over the tall walls of Zezhou and directly reach the most important places in the city.

The current riveting process cannot meet the requirements of stress at all, and there is no way to splice wood.

The soldiers searched for a hundred miles of land, but only found more than 300 qualified logs, for which more than one uninhabited house was demolished, just to use the main beam of the house as a swing arm.

Fresh trees, as swing arms are not qualified, in the presence of moisture, the trebuchet in the process of stretching the projection, will deform and lose focus.

Five days to build 300 trebuchets, obviously in the quality of construction, will not be too bad, can only ask for five rounds of continuous shooting, when building, completely pursue speed, but as a throwing swing arm, require excellence, in case in the process of projection, the trebuchet deviates from the throwing target, collapses, and explodes on their own positions, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Passing on the commander's military order, all the trebuchets were demolished and used as the main beams for the construction of houses." Wen commanded.

"No."

The soldier clasped his fists and saluted. Then he turned around and quickly ran away to deliver the military order.

Tan Fengyi was surprised: "Those trebuchets were all built by you with great difficulty, and the distance of throwing them is several times that of ordinary trebuchets, so you demolished them like this?" ”

The throwing distance of this new type of trebuchet can almost catch up with the range of the earthen cannons of later generations, and the farthest can even reach three miles.

Wen smiled and said: "Take it from the people, use it for the people, the swing arms of these trebuchets are almost all the main beams on the people's houses, and now they are still building houses for the people, isn't it a matter of course." ”

Tan Fengyi asked angrily: "Are the swinging arms of those trebuchets all from you who demolished people's houses?" ”

Wen Shen sighed and said: "After decades of war, the real ten rooms and nine emptiness!" There are no people's villages everywhere, many houses have collapsed, and ordinary people's homes naturally do not have such good wood as the main beam, these timbers are basically taken from some wealthy families, and even they are difficult to save their family business and even their lives, let alone ordinary people, this world. ”

The land of Sanjin has always been a battleground for soldiers, there are countless minerals here, the population is more dense, the terrain is complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack. This has also caused the people here to suffer from war.

Since it is an ownerless house, Tan Fengyi doesn't care too much, and now she cares about another issue: "These trebuchets are all ordnance now, and you can dismantle them privately for civilian use, which is against the laws of the army." ”

Wen snorted lightly: "As a commander, especially a commander with outstanding military achievements, if you don't do a few things that violate military discipline, how can you create an excuse for those bastards in the court to impeach me." ”

Tan Fengyi said a little speechlessly: "This is the first time I've seen someone who is uncomfortable for myself." ”

"That's what makes me so good as a manager." Wen said domineeringly.

The two checked the construction of Zezhou City and chatted while walking. There were a few children in front of them, frolicking and playing in the streets, circling around their busy mothers, and the annoyed mothers frowned and scolded: "Go home, don't make trouble, be careful that the general will arrest you all and put you in a dark room." ”

A few children, as soon as they heard the name of the confinement general, immediately became birds and beasts.

I had heard of the name of the confinement general, and when I heard the mother's words to scare the child, I was speechless.

Tan Fengyi smiled: "It is indeed extraordinary. ”

“.........“

Today's Zezhou City is a huge construction site, especially in the south of the city, where it is basically a slum-like existence, most of the houses are made of wood, and a fire in Zezhou has suffered the most damage there.

Now, in just half a month, the place has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the latest houses have been built on the original site. Rows of brick and stone embryo houses, neatly arranged, each with a small courtyard.

Although the newly built houses are still a little damp, it is almost June after all, and the weather has warmed up, so there is no problem in living in them. The army is a violent organ, especially in wartime, and it never needs money to raise materials, and it is a shame for the army to pay money.

In order to kill the bandits, Wen Zai Yan Shen spent 3,000 yuan to buy gunpowder raw materials. Zezhou's army also made gunpowder, but instead of spending the usual money, it made thousands of pounds. The thorns of the army dug out uninhabited houses with countless coins and gold and silver.

For the ancestors' habit of burying money in the ground, Wen is really speechless. The rules in the army are divided into half when they meet, although the money is turned out by the soldiers, but as a marshal, it is natural to take the lion's share.

It is easy to destroy and difficult to build, which refers to the high-rise buildings of later generations, and for ancient houses, it is easier to build than to destroy, although there is no Shenzhen speed of later generations, three floors a day. But a three-day one-story bungalow, which could still be done in ancient times, especially with the participation of the army.

Under the auspices of the army, which is a violent organ, the materials are requisitioned without compensation, and the people only need to pay manpower, which is a just battle for the ordinary people of Zezhou.

Looking at the newly built rows of houses, Wen sighed: "A war has put everyone on the same starting line, but after a few years, some people will still have thousands of family properties and a group of beautiful wives and concubines. There are also some people who may not even be able to keep the newly built house. ”

"This is the law of the world, and no one can change it." Tan Fengyi sighed softly.

"There is a word called subsistence allowance, which refers to the minimum subsistence guarantee for a person's life, with the old being depended on, the young being supported, free medical treatment, and free money for education. Such a day will come, albeit with countless hardships and hardships. Wen said in a tone full of hope and confidence.

Tan Fengyi was silent for a long time, and muttered, "Isn't that the Kingdom of Heaven." (To be continued.) )