Chapter 31: Vertigo
After the defeat of Yi'an in October, the Qin army, which had been attacking for twelve months, finally stopped its operations. Taking advantage of this gap, Wu'an Hou Li Mu, Sima Shang and other generals were summoned to Handan, and Yu Taimiao was named uncle. Because of Xiang Yan's precedent, this time Feng Bo is no longer the kind of feudal monarch who has no food in Wu'anhou, and the Queen Mother generously gave him a piece of food: Yi'an.
In this era, there is no one who is not the Zhao family and has a food estate, but Li Mu, who is envied by everyone, does not have much joy.
"If you want to depose the king, please hurry." In the Xiangbang Mansion, Li Mu and Zhao Liang drank each other, and the rest of them went down, including Ge De.
"When will I say goodbye to the king?" Zhao Liang, who was pouring wine again and again, put down the wine in his hand and smiled. He immediately changed the topic, and the smell of wine in his mouth sprayed directly on Li Mu's face: "When does Ziyou think the Qin army will attack me again?" ”
Last month, Zhao Liang was still showing the Queen Mother's underwear in public, but now he is smiling like no one. Li Mu stared at him for a long time, not understanding why he was so obsessed with that queen. It is understandable that the husband is obsessed with women, and a former crown prince who holds the authority of Zhao and decides the survival of Zhao is obsessed with women, which makes Li Mu unable to figure it out.
“…… I know that the king of Chu and Ziyou want to attack Qin, but I don't know when the Chu army will attack Qin? Zhao Liang talked about this secret.
"I have an appointment with the King of Chu about this matter, and I must not tell anyone else." Li Mu has never been knighted, he didn't come to Zhao Liang to drink. There were very few things that could attract his attention, and the attack on Qin was one of them.
"Am I someone else?" Zhao Liang smiled lightly again. "No, I'm someone else. However, I know the heart of Qi Chu, and he gave me gold, silver, grain, and armor, so that I could sit on the wall and watch the Qin people attack me. Since the Qin people have cut down me, they should not cut down Chu, Wei, or Qi. ”
Zhao Gong's conspiracy is not less, and Zhao Liang is the victim of the conspiracy. When he was just left by the Qin people, he even thought that he would not survive. Li Mu looked at him again and didn't speak, although the news sent back by the fox baby from Yingdu said that the three kingdoms would not send foot soldiers, but he still thought that the king of Chu had no intention of sacrificing the Zhao state.
“…… Qin Xiang will not give up, and Ziyou failed to pull out the well but sent troops in the clouds. Zhao Liang continued to drink, talking while drinking, drinking to himself. The clouds are the border counties of my Zhao country, what does the loss in the clouds have to do with the overall situation? If the Qin army goes east again next year, will Ziyou be able to win again? If Ziyou can't win and the Three Kingdoms don't save me, Zhao will die! ”
"Zhao Guo will die, Zhao Guo will die......" Zhao Liang seemed to be drunk, and he pointed at Li Mu forcefully across the case. What is the use of abolishing kings and establishing kings? I can walk, but I am a good wanderer, talking about the ear of death. ”
"Jun Shang is drunk." Li Mu rarely went back to Handan once, he wanted to talk to Zhao Liang thoroughly, but he didn't expect that he was already planning to talk about it until his death. "Come on, help you go to bed." He shouted in disappointment.
Li Mu wanted to leave, but Zhao Liang, who was supported by the servants to go down to rest, didn't want him to go, and he continued to ask the previous question in his mouth: "Can Ziyou win again?" Can Ziyou win again? If the Three Kingdoms don't save me......"
"Zhao Jun will win." Li Mu dropped such a sentence expressionlessly, turned around and left without saluting, Zhao Liang was still shouting something in his mouth at the end, he didn't have the heart to listen.
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"A few years before the attack on Qin, I should send the Hu people who were close to me to the south to attack the Yan Yan and the Rong of the river meander. The nature of the Furong people cannot be subdued unless they are soldiers, and they cannot be made relatives without huge profits. "Yingdu Da Sima Mansion, a few days ago, the fox baby, who opposed the battle of 30,000 cavalry and demanded that the attack on Qin must join the foot soldiers, changed his personality and turned to give advice to the combat department.
"Years ago?" I don't understand. "I once said that Hequ Qiangrong and Yan Yan are all subservient to the Qin people, if the Qin people send troops, what if?"
"It is necessary to make the war in Henan not stop, but this is a small chaos, and the Qin people should not care about it for a long time. Yin made the Hu people who were close to me go south and occupied important places along the way, so that the cavalry army could sneak outside the Yan clan. And ...... into the plug," the fox baby shook his head again, "It's difficult!
Guanzhong is the place of the four fortresses, and the Yanshi fortress is the fortress in the north, and Hangu, Wuguan, and Longguan are side by side. It has been fortified since Qin Mugong, and there have been countless passes, pavilions, and barriers for four hundred years, and the cavalry has no siege equipment, and there is no tool to break the city, and I really don't know how to enter the fortress. ”
"Outside Hangu, Wuguan is vulnerable." The difficulty of attacking the Yan's Fortress had long been expected by the Operations Division, and although Xiang Yan knew this, he still responded unconvinced.
"You don't have to worry about how the cavalry will break through the Yanshi Fortress." Xiong Jing had seen the map of the northern county of Qin and the equipment map of the Great Wall brought by the fox baby. Compared with Lu Gao and Lu Chan's one-time exploration, Zhao Guo has collected Qin State intelligence for more than 100 years, and most of the cities and forts marked on the map are not marked by Lu Gao and Lu Chan, and some of them cannot even be found on the map provided by Xiong Qi, which should be the reason why the Qin State Governor's Mansion deliberately did not provide it to the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Dare to ask the king how to break the level?" The fox baby saluted Xiong Jing. Yan's Plug is not Muling Pass, Muling Pass is only two city walls, a pass, Yan's Plug is located on the Loess Plateau, it is convenient to take soil, because the mountain is on the ground, the wall is more than ten meters high, and there is a high platform on it.
"You don't have your own way to break the barrier." Xiong Jing smiled. "Skip this matter and discuss other things."
"Yui." The new weapons of the Chu State are the same one after another, although the fox baby can't think of how the Chu army can break the blockage, but Xiong Jing doesn't say anything, so he has to wait and see. However, Xiang Yan looked over unconsciously, the mansion was the private property of the royal family, although he didn't know what was being built in the mansion, but he didn't know how to do it.
From the Yan clan to Qin, the fox baby gave a detailed account of the situation along the way according to the information obtained by Zhao Guo, and then the meeting ended. The remaining problems are mainly: if the pro-Zhao Rong people are sent to capture the land of the river meanders several years in advance, or to buy the Rong people at the river meander, these need to be supported by further intelligence; And then how can you kill Zhao Zheng in the Zhangtai Palace on the south bank of Weishui? If you can't kill that, how can you destroy the Qin State to the greatest extent?
These issues are all things to be considered by the Operations Division, and the fox baby is only providing intelligence and some suggestions, and he cannot participate in the formulation of the combat plan throughout the process, even if he has the ability. It's just that no matter how the Operations Division formulates the battle plan, it doesn't know how to break through, and while Xiong Jing is waiting, Xiang Yan finally came to ask for advice with Li He on this day.
In the open space of the mansion in the north of Yingdu City, a horizontal hole was dug out under the tall and thick rammed earth wall, and the large wooden box like a coffin was carefully stuffed into it by several armor soldiers. Xiang Yan didn't understand why Xiong Jing had brought him here, nor did he know what was in that wooden box. Of course, this is related to breaking the level, but how to break the level with this small wooden box? Does the king want to practice witchcraft?
Xiang Yan was suspicious, and Li Ji blinked and watched, he knew that the king hated him very much about what happened last time, so not only did he endure not speaking, but even Xiong Jing's gaze dodged from time to time.
"Your Majesty, it's ready." Sora ran over to pray, and his face was full of reluctance.
"Ignition." Xiong Jing covered his ears while ordering, and Xiang Yan covered his ears even though he was puzzled, only Li He was still looking closely.
"Ignition!" Idling around, he shouted a command to the armor soldier in the distance, and the flag bearer waved the red flag.
The order to ignite the fire was issued for a while, and there was still no change in the wooden box, Xiang Yan lowered his hand and said, "Dare to ask the king this ......"
Xiang Yan turned his head to speak to Xiong Jing, before the word 'this' fell, there was a sudden loud 'boom' on the flat ground, and a thunderclap exploded, and his whole person trembled irrepressibly, and his face suddenly turned pale. When I looked back, I saw only a cloud of white smoke hanging under the rammed earth wall for a long time.
What happened to Xiang Yan didn't know at all. Standing beside him, although he didn't cover his ears, he could see the scene clearly: the large wooden box suddenly burst into a dazzling fire, and the rammed earth exploded in all directions, and white smoke shot out of the ghost in an instant, hiding everything behind the smoke. He didn't know what it was, but it wasn't what the world should be.
"To the king," Sora came to report again, "the wall, that wall......"
"How?" After talking and stopping, Xiong Jing asked directly: "Is it not collapsed?" ”
"Yes, yes." Sora breathed a sigh of relief. Gunpowder was precious, and in the end, more than 450 rounds of propellant were used up at one time, and he was very reluctant.
"Take a look." Xiong Jing stepped forward, and at this time, the white smoke gradually dissipated, and the horizontal hole where the wooden box was placed just now should have been blown away by gunpowder, so that all the rammed earth on it shook off and collapsed half of the wall. However, the bottom layer of the rammed earth wall is ten meters thick, and although half of the wall has collapsed, there is still another half of the wall left.
"Tell the king, the minister thinks that the hole may be sealed with cement." Gong Yin Dao is no longer a stranger to gunpowder, he thinks that blowing up the wall is the same as firing artillery, the fire and smoke are coming out of the hole, and if the hole is sealed, the effect will be different.
"Hmm." Xiong Jing nodded slightly, and then blamed: "Then why didn't you say it beforehand?" ”
"The minister is mistaken!" Gong Yin Dao hurriedly pleaded guilty, but at this time, Xiong Jing had already stepped on the collapsed rammed earth, and after he saw it, he said: "Measure quickly, calculate the gunpowder geometry needed to blow up the city wall?" ”
Xiang Yan and Li Yan, who were accompanying them, only then did they know that the thing was called gunpowder. Xiang Yan, who had always been serious, changed his face from the pale just now, and he held a piece of broken rammed earth with a red face and said excitedly: "If there is such a thing, what city in the world will not be broken?" ”
"Ahem......" Xiong Jing held back a smile, and deliberately pulled the tone after a dry cough: "It's a pity!" This is a private property, which is expensive to manufacture, so the quantity is very small. The queen mother and the empress dowager will not be grounded, and there will be gunpowder, and it will not be sent to Yan's stopper. ”
"This!" Xiang Yan didn't understand Xiong Jing's meaning at first, but he didn't realize until Li He pulled him and whispered a sentence: The king is going to take him out of the plug to attack Qin by himself. "The King's ......"
It is a big deal to take the king out of the fortress, and when he comes back, he will be blamed by the Queen Mother Zhu Ao; If you don't take the king out of the fortress, this kind of artifact called 'gunpowder' may really not be able to be used to break the fortress. And if 'gunpowder' can break the blockage, can it also break Xianyang City?
Thinking of Po Xianyang City, Xiang Yan, who was short of breath, suddenly felt dizzy.
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