Chapter 19: Worry
When the gunpowder exploded and the city wall flew up, Wang Qian's pupils contracted sharply, and his eyes narrowed into a slit. Although he didn't shout like Qin Shu, his mouth was still open, and his head wearing an ordinary leather jacket began to raise until the dust in mid-air fell, stirring up a puff of smoke.
"The power of this ghost and god!" He muttered, and at this time, the soldiers shouted 'Long live Daqin' again, and the soldiers at the forefront of the trap began to storm the breach of the city wall, and they poured into the city from the breach like the wind.
"King Jing is to the king, the people of Jing and Zhao should be united inside and outside, this battle is ......" Wang Jian was not in a good mood. The King of Qin had already ordered him to prevent the Zhao people from breaking through, and he had to calculate the number of troops consumed to block the attack, and if he lost, the newly acquired Lord of the Great Princess, who had not been able to keep it.
"Uh-huh——!" Thinking that there was a chance that he would lose in this battle, Wang Jian made a heavy slap. He didn't say anything, but the gourd scoop in his hand kept slamming the water until it turned into pieces. The sorrow of the Qin army generals is that they cannot be made marquis, once a general is promoted to the rank of grand commander, the national lieutenant's mansion will let him complete the most difficult task. Don't go, cut the knight; went, lost money, or cut the knight.
If you want to be a marquis, you can only do it with miraculous feats. The Battle of Changping was a miraculous feat, with 500,000 or 600,000 beheadings at a time; The battle of Yanying was also a miraculous feat, not only beheading hundreds of thousands, but also occupying hundreds of miles of cities in the Chu State. Even so, you must be cautious at ordinary times, otherwise you will follow in the footsteps of Wu Anjun.
"It is a great sin to let Zhao people go; If you don't indulge in Zhao people and go dead, you will be killed, what should you do? "There is nothing that cannot be talked about between father and son, Wang Jian retreated from the left and right servants to discuss things with his son.
"There is news in the palace, what does the king want?" Wang Jian didn't answer another question.
"No news." Wang Ben shook his head, "However, with common sense, it will be very good." This has been under the Jing people to descend to Jinghua. ”
"Daliangzao?" Da Liangzao is the sixteenth rank of the lord, Wang Jian was silent for a while, and finally said: "No, the prime minister has fallen, and there is no one in the court, so I can only go to the left chief." If it is too high, the king will condemn him. ”
"Zuo Shuchang?!" Wang Ben was dumbfounded, he knew that this battle required a strong man to break his wrist, but he didn't expect that he would reach the tenth rank of the knight as soon as he broke it.
"Alas!" There are people in the DPRK who are good officials, and it is common for them to tend to be inflammatory. Wang Jian relied on Xiong Qicai to stand out from many generals, but Xiong Qi was already in Xianyang last month because of his knowledge. The vast majority of officials in the DPRK and China who were Chu were implicated.
"The only way to fight to the death is to fight to the death." Wang Jian sighed helplessly, and his eyes suddenly sharpened. Shrewd, he worries not only about his title, but also about his life. Only by fighting with your life can you gain the trust of the king, otherwise......
It was early autumn in Handan in September, and before the sun came out, the area beyond the river was covered with a layer of hoarfrost. There was such a hoarfrost in early autumn, and the weather must be cold today. Xiong Jing, who was standing on the deck of the Chaos, couldn't help but shiver and was a little lucky, he was glad that the boat came early, if it was more than half a month or even a month late, the Yellow River and Zhangshui might have frozen.
"King, the Qin people will open ravines and walls, and the Zhao people may not be able to get out of the encirclement." The location of the Chaos is already in Zhangshui, and there are no other boats in the river area where the water flows into Zhangshui. Zhuang Wudi couldn't help but be worried when he saw the Qin army on the west bank of Zhangshui and the north and south of Fushui. 300,000 Qin troops, as long as they are properly commanded, more than 400,000 Zhao people will come out.
"When will the Zhao people leave the city?" There was no longer a look of joy on Xiong Jing's face. In addition to the 100,000 Zhao troops in the city, at least more than half of them are women and children, and these people are thankful not to talk about fighting and not dragging down the whole army.
"When will the Zhao people leave the city?" Xiong Jing's question turned into an order, passed to the flagbearer on the mast, who waved the flag and asked the Zhao army in Handan City.
Zhao Zu on the ridge of the main bed was excited again, and the drums sounded again, but this time it was not shouting, but recording the signal, and the flying officer who was brought into the city by the Fu Kai translated the message.
When to break out? Where to break through? How do the two armies respond? This is a question that Chu Jun has to figure out in advance.
The whole line of Fushui was blocked by the Qin army, and the boat went retrograde along the Fushui for four miles at most, and the river suddenly narrowed after four miles, planting trees, turning bridges, and rolling cars full of earth and stones, these things were not big or small and filled with thirty miles of river. Clean-up is feasible, but the width of the water is only one or two hundred paces, and the banks of the water are covered with trebuchets and thorns, even if the crossbow is stretched, it can endanger the armor on the cleaning ship, and the water cannot be cleaned up until the gunboat appears.
Now that there are gunboats, if the cleaning time is too long, maybe the big river will be frozen in October, and the water will be very shallow in this season, and the Qin army can build a dam to intercept the flow of water in the west of Handan City, and then the river will only be left with tidal flats. Zhao Ren could only get safe by walking out on his own and walking to a position about five miles away from the gunboat's gun.
The standard-bearer on the gunboat asked a question, and the answer came out of Handan City after more than half an hour, and the airsignal officer interpreted the message from the city and said: "The king, Xiang Bo, and Zhao people said, today they are all over the city, and they are in Zhangshui...... Thirty-five miles above ......"
The flying officer reported a strange number, and the accompanying strategists immediately unfolded the map, thirty-five miles above Zhangshui, which was no longer the Feixiangyi where it was now, but Cheng'anyi in the upper reaches of Zhangshui. Zhangshui exited the Taihang Mountains to the south, and after reaching the north of Yecheng (now Linzhang) just south of Handan, it flowed northeast at 45 degrees, and finally joined the tributaries of the Yellow River near the south of Julu.
Because the Zhangshui flow is 45 degrees through Handan, it is not the shortest route to go out of the city due east, and the shortest route is to go out of the city to the southeast, which is the shortest route. The calculated number will be thirty-two miles. The corners of the capital city of Handan are opposite, and the southeast corner is where the Qin army besieged the city, and this triangle has enough space to list the circle formation with a diameter of 1,000 people, and the encirclement of the Qin army is also far away from three miles, counting the five miles of gunboat fire support, the distance that the Zhao people really have to walk is only twenty-four miles.
"Tell the king, Xiang Bo, Zhao people's favor, our army pulled out the following people." The Flyer reads the last message. Lierenyi is on the west bank of Zhangshui and is now under the occupation of the Qin army.
"Please lead the division to pull out the following people." Xiang Chao stood beside Xiong Jing. There is only one division in the Ying division, three divisions in the Xiang division, and one division in Yangxia County, for a total of four divisions. The people are Xiaoyi, the Western Han Dynasty only set up the county of the people, the city is not three miles wide, the city is only two feet four feet high, such a city does not know the Yingshi dispatch.
"Great King," Zhuang Wudi had other opinions. "This city should be uprooted by the Yingshi."
"Yes." Lierenyi is in the north of Fushui, and the Zhao people asked the Chu army to pull out the following people's yi, the meaning is self-evident, and Zhuang Wudi suggested that it be pulled down by Yingshi, which is also in accordance with the meaning of the Zhao people. Xiong Jing did not hesitate, but said: "Summons the order to raise the beard and pull out the following people." ”
The flagbearer on the top of the mast is responsible for communicating with Handan, and the flagbearer on the deck transmits orders within the army. Soon after the order was delivered, the 1st Ying's division's war boats turned around in the river and turned to the northwest of the confluence of the Fushui and Zhangshui rivers. Wang Qian, who knew that the Chu army had witch weapons, did not order the Qin army to garrison along the Zhangshui coast, he only left enough grain, grass and soldiers in waterfront cities such as Lieren and Feixiang, and defended the city.
The communication between the Chaos mast and the flag on the roof of the main bed of the Handan Wangcheng could not escape the eyes of the Qin army, but they could only stare at this encoded flag, and they did not know the information contained in it. It was not until the Yingshi Division made a quick turn on Zhangshui and prepared to land on the west bank of Zhangshui that the military report reached the banner.
"Jing people land and want to pull out the people?" Wang Jian on the Rong car had been watching Handan before, but now he turned one hundred and sixty degrees and looked at the people more than thirty miles away. Under the light of the morning sun, one after another the winged warships rushed to the banks of the Zhangshui and Fushui rivers, and the Chu soldiers on the warboats jumped into the half-human-high river water and quickly landed on the shore.
"King Jing's pawn." Wang Jian looked at the soldiers of Chu, and Wang Ao noticed the three-headed phoenix flag fluttering on the warboat. Refusing information, only the royal pawns directly led by King Jing can hang the phoenix flag. "King Jing is going to pull out the following people and answer the Zhao people. Zhao people also went north. Wang Ao said with certainty.
Before he could finish speaking, there was a thunderous roar, and a Chaos-class gunboat anchored near Lieren Yi suddenly opened fire. The roar of the thirty-two pound cannon was low, and the flames and smoke were intertwined in the cannon, and the generals who had never seen the artillery fire were taken aback, and at this time someone exclaimed: "Witch weapon!" Witchcraft! Jing Ren Witch Weapon ......"
The order of the witch weapon is widely spread in the Qin army, even if the Dachu news has clearly told the order of the artillery, many people still can't change the name of the witch weapon. The cannon continued to roar, and Wang Qian, who was holding the landing mirror, suddenly looked back, and the county lieutenant who shouted the witch weapon saw him glaring angrily, and couldn't help but stop his voice and cover his mouth.
'Boom, boom, boom......'
The landing place of the 1st Yingshi Division was very close to Li Lierenyi, and when they saw the Qin army at the head of the city shoot the crossbow, the two gunboats immediately approached and opened fire. Gunboats, unlike artillery, fired a salvo of guns after guns in order not to damage the keel and hull. After the twelve guns on one side were fired, the gunners on the ship immediately reloaded and fired again.
The Red Flame of the Qi Army was merciful and did not use shotguns, and the first shot was loaded with shotguns.
Bullets rain! The Qin army who was accidentally exposed was either killed or wounded, and the rest could only shrink under the female wall. But bad luck followed, and just when they thought the six-foot-high female wall could protect them, the two gunboats fired a third salvo of solid bullets.
Solid and shotgun bullets are staggered. The solid bullet smashed the female wall, and the shotgun swept the city in anger, and the Qin army, who was shrinking under the female wall, was caught off guard, crying and wailing, and some people even jumped off the city in a panic and jumped into the city. But it was too late, as the shotguns burst through their thin leather armor, and by the time they landed, many of them had become bloody corpses.
The blood flowed from the city, and the Qin army close to the city wall hurriedly crossed the deep trench behind the city wall and hid in the earthen wall on the inner side of the deep trench. The divisions of the Chu army outside the city had never seen the gunboats fire, and even the artillerymen in the Ying division shook their heads again and again when they saw the salvo of gunboats.