Chapter 189 - Civil Operations
The Mandate of Heaven Army does not have a tradition of slaughtering prisoners of war, and General Liu and Zhang Chengye have already promised that Huo Cun will never embarrass them, so they will do what they say, after all, people in this era still value credibility very much.
Unlike Huo Cun's imagination, he was not tied up, nor was he guarded like a thief, but at the first time, a group of soldiers in white clothes came up to him and bandage his wounds, and even the dirty and torn armor on his body would be replaced with a new Heavenly Mandate Army uniform, dry and comfortable.
After a while, bursts of cooking smoke rose from the position of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and a gust of wind blew, bringing bursts of the fragrance of food, making the soldiers of the Zhu Wen Army couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
After a day of tossing, they were indeed hungry.
And those Tuntian soldiers who rushed to support also set up camp on the spot, while watching the soldiers who were surrounded in the middle, they also began to light a fire and cook.
Instead of being bullied by the soldiers except for the loss of their weapons, they changed into clean clothes, bandaged their wounds, and sat by the campfire, holding bowls of hot food - lamb ramen, which is unique to the Mandate of Heaven.
Looking at the steaming and fragrant noodles in his hand, Huo Cun only felt a lot of emotion in his heart, and the soldiers under him also let down their guards, and under the deliberate accosting of the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, they began to talk and laugh after a while.
The two groups of people who were still fighting for life and death just now suddenly came together, like old friends for many years, eating the delicious food in their hands together, and teasing each other from all over the world.
No one mentions the people who just died, maybe those people also have their brothers, friends, and comrades-in-arms, but in this chaotic world, these big-headed soldiers have long been conscious, and they don't know when they will die on the battlefield, and the death of their comrades-in-arms is even more commonplace.
After all, no one is wrong or right on the battlefield, everyone is just in different camps, each with its own master.
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Under the city of Xuzhou, Zhao Fan was holding a shovel and observing carefully, only to see that the shovel was short and narrow, which was very different from the shovel used in this era, but it was somewhat similar to the sapper shovel in the future, and there was a sharp edge on the short and narrow shovel body.
"Your Majesty, you asked your subordinates to build thousands of shovels, I don't know what your intentions are?" Zhang Ji glanced at Zhao Fan, who was excited, and said with some puzzlement. Isn't it just a few shovels? What is there to be happy about, is it necessary to arrange for the soldiers to cultivate on the spot and subsidize the military? It's not the right season...
"This shovel is a treasure, whether this Xuzhou City can be obtained or not, it depends on whether this treasure is good or not."
Zhao Fan's words attracted everyone's attention, and all the ministers of civil and military affairs looked at the shovel in his hand with some curiosity, but they never understood how this small iron lump could determine the gains and losses of Xuzhou City.
"Civil engineering, fixed-point blasting." Zhao Fan glanced at the puzzled crowd, smiled lightly and said, "Everyone, look at the map!" ”
Everyone's eyes shifted to the map with Zhao Fan's fingers, and found that the place Zhao Fan pointed to was the main gate of Xuzhou City.
"This time, we will enter Xuzhou City from here, and all the obstacles that stand in our way will be dug up little by little by our little shovel." Zhao Fan looked around at the crowd and smiled a little proudly.
"Your Majesty, aren't you joking? With these iron lumps, can you still dig down the enemy's city walls? Zhao Wei swept the shovel in his hand and said with some disapproval.
Ma Jianying and the others all showed a look of disbelief, but Zhang Ji looked at the shovel in Zhao Wei's hand thoughtfully, and there was a glimmer of light in his eyes.
Zhao Fan saw that everyone didn't believe it, but he was not angry, after all, in this era, civil engineering operations were basically not popular, and in the era of cold weapons, the role of trenches was obviously not large, rather than wasting time and effort to dig trenches, it was better to dig a few traps.
"My idea is this, let's start digging from this position, we only need to dig a tunnel that can accommodate three people in parallel, and there is no need to dig a hole in the ground, so that the difficulty of the operation will be smaller, after the tunnel is dug, then lay a wooden board on the top of the tunnel, cover it with soil, in case the enemy fire, arrange the soldiers to dig the tunnel until the city of Xuzhou, and then bury explosives under the city, and directly blow up the city wall of Xuzhou City."
Zhao Fan knocked on the table, pointed his finger at a point on the map, raised his head and said slowly to everyone.
The generals were slightly stunned in the lead, and then quickly reacted, although they had not been exposed to such tactics, but years of experience in the battle quickly made them understand the tactical points that Zhao Fan said.
"Your Majesty, if the enemy goes out to attack the soldiers in the tunnel, what should we do?" Ma Jianying was first overjoyed, and then asked with doubts.
"If the enemy goes out of the city to attack, isn't that in the hands of His Majesty?" Zhang Ji smiled and explained softly.
Zhao Fan nodded, gave Zhang Ji an appreciative look, and said in a deep voice, "The current situation is not clear, so we must speed up our pace and take Xuzhou City as soon as possible, and then threaten Zhu Wen's nest and force Zhu Wen to withdraw his troops, so as to relieve Li Ke's side pressure so that he can concentrate on dealing with the Xiongnu who entered the Central Plains." ”
"Your Majesty is wise!"
The generals praised and soon went down to prepare for their own departures.
Zhao Fan walked out of the camp tent and looked at the majestic Xuzhou City from a distance, and suddenly had an indescribable emotion in his heart, if he hadn't suddenly thought of the trench advancement method in the war film in the later generations, I am afraid that it would be difficult to take Xuzhou City, but this time I don't know how many soldiers will die on the battlefield and how many people will be displaced.
The barracks were lively, and countless soldiers, under the organization of the generals, had already picked up shovels and began to dig up in the safe area formulated by Zhao Fan.
Zhao Fan patted the dust on his body, smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and suddenly had a feeling of loneliness, he had seen a lot in his previous life, every traverser turned his hands into clouds and covered his hands for rain, no matter whether men and women can mix the wind and water, but for the loneliness of a traverser, who can understand it?
If he was an orphan, then it would be fine, but before Zhao Fan crossed over, he had a beautiful family, and even a harmonious family, a loving mother and filial piety, so the pain and suffering he endured were by no means imaginable to ordinary people.
Zhao Fan silently glanced up in the direction of Chang'an City, thinking of the two wives who were waiting for him to go home, Zhao Fan suddenly felt a trace of warmth rise in his heart.
End the war as soon as possible and come back to accompany my wife......
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