Chapter 106: The Long River Freezes Hu Manchuan (4)
"How is it possible, I heard that he is only sixteen years old."
"I heard the rumors in the market that this son was born with Su Hui, and I thought it was the absurd words of the village husband, but today I think about it, or my generation despises him too much. In recent years, there have always been people in the DPRK who have tried every means to secretly stumble on the festival marshal, Secretary Gao Zhang and Yan Kongmu sometimes suspect the prince and Yang Guozhong, and sometimes suspect Gao Xianzhi, Ge Shuhan and Wang Zhengjian, but for no reason they feel that the slightest strand is related to this son. Tian Chengsi was suspicious.
"This ......" Tian Qianzhen was suspicious: "Why should Brother Cheng rack his brains to guess, as long as the shaft is captured alive, the truth will be revealed?" ”
"One force will drop ten times, what Ah Hao said is true." Tian Chengsi laughed: "This son is very smart, but he has an Achilles heel, which can be broken today!" ”
When others suddenly listened to Tian Chenghe's words, they might think that he was an arrogant person, but Tian Qianzhen knew that Tian Chengsi had always done what he said and never believed it.
There are few strategists in the three towns of Fanyang, Pinglu and Hedong, but there are many military generals. Shi Siming, who had the highest prestige before, was the same brother as Jieshuai, but after An Jieshuai stepped down from the official position of Pinglu Jiedu envoy, the relationship between Shi Siming and Fan Yangjun became delicate.
In addition to Shi Siming, Fan Yang also has five generals with very different personalities, who can be called An Jieshuai's heart and humerus, and Secretary Gao Zhang gave them nicknames with famous words in "The Art of War": "Its speed is like the wind" Li Guiren, "its Xu Rulin" Cai Xide, "immobile as a mountain" An Shouzhong, "invasion as fire" Cui Qianyou, "difficult to know as yin" Tian Chenghe, "moving as thunder" Wu Lingxun.
As a young general, Tian Qianzhen is still difficult to compare with the five major generals, but he is deeply respected by An Lushan, and he has won the respect of Fan Yangjun by his own strength. Tian Qianzhen and Tian Chenghe, one of the five major generals, had a bad relationship, not only because they had the same surname as Lianzong, but also because Tian Qianzhen admired Tian Chenghe's way of governing the army and his mental strategy.
A few years ago, An Jieshuai deliberately chose a snowy day to inspect the military camps, and many of the battalion soldiers were slack, loose and indulgent, which greatly annoyed An Jieshuai.
When he approached the military camp in charge of Tian Chenghe, he saw that the camp was silent, as if there was no one. He could enter the camp to inspect the soldiers' records and check the soldiers and horses, but found that none of the officers and men of the army were not in the camp.
Tian Chengsi not only governed the army very strictly, but also made decisions on the spot. He is silent and gloomy by nature, and his own mind is impermeable, but he can see through the desires of others at a glance, find the weakness of the enemy's army, and then make plans.
Tian Qianzhen is known for his courage in battle and prudence, but he is not a person who is good at calculation, so he likes to cook wine with Tian Chenghei on weekdays. Tian Chengsi also liked Tian Qianzhen, who was serving An Lushan, and took the initiative to connect with him, occasionally giving him some pointers.
"Brother Chenghei, but you have to use ......" Tian Qianzhen thought for a moment and guessed Tian Chenghe's plan.
"Exactly! The deployment of the defenders has been touched, and there is no need to waste the lives of the sons. Tian Chengsi nodded approvingly, and shouted loudly: "Pass a certain military order, get on the shield car!" ”
The chariot Peng Peng moved his flag, and his shields were stacked forward.
When the sound of killing in the northern city of Heyang shook the sky, on the watchtower of Zhongcheng, which was nearly a thousand steps away, Xue Yage, a trainee physician of the Suye Army Medical Battalion, held a telescope and looked into the distance, only to see a large array of enemy troops outside the northern city outside the range of the Divine Arm Bow.
Thick swordsmen and shields and pikemen formed the middle of the crescent, and many soldiers carried ladders and sandbags on their backs, roaring and shouting towards the city, but most of them died on the way; The fierce cavalry stood at the tip of the crescent moon, like the wings of a bird, ready to attack. There are still a lot of people behind the big array, and it should be the place where the rebel generals are.
"The light riders on both sides are all dressed in strange clothes, probably what Xiao Fei said about the Khitan, Xi, and Murwei scattered horses. There seem to be two enemy generals, both riding cyan Liaodong horses. Xue Yage was concentrating on watching the battle, when he suddenly saw dozens of strange-shaped carts pouring out of the rebel array where ants gathered and swarmed.
She dragged the lens tube and adjusted the focus according to the method taught by Liu Xiaofei, and was surprised to find that the cart was actually transformed from a four-wheeled carriage built by Su Yeju. There were no horses in front of the cart, and it was presumably propelled by human power. Wide and tall planks were erected above the carriages, and the front of the carriages, that is, the planks, seemed to be covered with thick cowhide.
The ballista regiment at the head of the northern city was obviously aware of the threat of the cart, and the crossbow arrows of the Divine Arm Bow shot at the cart with ten thousand powers, and although the crossbow arrows pierced through the cowhide, they could not break through the board; The stone bullets thrown by the Tingzhou cannon clanged on the wooden plank, but they could not hurt the enemy in the slightest, except for the front wheels of a large cart that happened to be smashed by the stone bullets and could not move.
"Could it be that there is an iron plate under the cowhide?" Xue Yage, who had just met Bingge, was amazed.
The stretcher team and first aid team of the medical battalion are all in Beicheng, but the medical camp is located in the safer Zhongcheng, not far from Wang Fei's Chinese army tent. The battle went smoothly, and Xue Yage, who was concentrating on studying "A Thousand Golden Fangs", was pulled to the watchtower by his bored classmate Liu Xiaofei to watch the battle.
"I'll see." Liu Xiaofei, who was anxious, took back the binoculars and scanned the battlefield: "It's not good, the rebels have found a way to deal with the ballista regiment!" The cart must be followed by the rebel daredevils, and once the cart approaches the city, the enemy will be in trouble. ”
"Isn't there a moat?" Xue Yage said timidly. is different from Liu Xiaofei, who loves to dance knives and guns, she studied medicine in Su Yeyi, and has the ambition of hanging pots to help the world, saving lives and helping the wounded.
"The carriage must be full of sandbags, and if our army can't stop the cart, the moat will be filled in half a day." Liu Xiaofei was in a hurry: "Unless you use fierce oil fire, Beicheng will definitely not be able to defend it." ”
As if sensing the worries of the two of them, the head of Heyang Beicheng flew up with overwhelming rockets and dense oil bombs, and several large cars immediately burned.
"Great!" Xue Yage couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw the smoke billowing out.
"Damn!" Liu Xiaofei, who was holding a telescope, suddenly changed color and said: "The rebels actually drove the people to put out the fire!" ”
"What?!" Xue Yage took the binoculars and took a look, only to see that on the battlefield where snow and fire blended, dozens of thinly dressed and cowering Qianshou people were coerced by the rebels to come to the side of the cart and desperately use dustpans to raise sand. A few of the people tried to flee to the city gates, but in the blink of an eye, they were met by the rebels. Shoot with a crossbow. The raging flames were crushed by the sand, and they suddenly became listless. Seeing this, the soldiers of the ballista regiment had to stop firing.
"Huaizhou has been fortified and cleared, they must be the people arrested from Huazhou!" Liu Xiaofei trembled with anger.
"What should I do?" Xue Yage, who is quiet on weekdays, is also anxious and angry: "I hope that Fei Langjun has a way to crack it." ”
When the two were pondering how Wang Fei could save the people, the sound of gold suddenly sounded near the big tent of the Chinese army and the sound of collecting troops and returning to the camp.
"Retirement?! Do you want to give up the North City? Confused, Liu Xiaofei tied the rope and went down the rope: "Ya Ge, go and ask Fei Langjun, I can't accompany you down the stairs slowly, you be careful." ”
"It doesn't matter." Xue Yage shook his head with a wry smile, cautiously climbed down the ladder and looked at the watchtower, looked at the big tent of the Chinese army and pondered: "Fei Langjun is definitely not a person who is afraid of difficulties and retreats, but I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd......"
The cold snow fell one after another, and the strong city confronted Jin Ji.
In the evening of the same day, after carefully inspecting the northern city of Heyang, Tian Chengsi changed into the clothes and armor of ordinary soldiers, stood on the tower of the southern city and looked down at the narrow wooden bridge that had been burned, and sighed: "Although the northern city has been captured, it is a pity that the enemy army retreated without chaos, and was unable to take advantage of the victory to capture the middle city and the southern city, let alone capture Wang Fei alive, which is really a certain fault!" ”
"Why should Brother Cheng blame himself, you are so pedantic that Wang Fei'er is pedantic, and he uses the four-wheeled cart and the people captured in Huazhou as the vanguard, and takes the northern city of Heyang without much effort, which is ten thousand times better than the foolish brother." Tian Qianzhen said with a smile: "I have obeyed my brother's orders, sent a team of flying horses to cross the river in Huazhou, and reported the method of defeating the enemy with the shield car to the marshal, and the marshal will be overjoyed when he knows it." ”
"I don't know what the battle situation is on the side of the Jieshuai, counting the time, Qingzong Langjun should have gone south to attack Jiangzhou......" Tian Chengsi was not limited to just a Heyang City: "What I am worried about is that Feng Changqing has already obtained sharp weapons such as fierce oil fire and giant crossbows from Su Yejun, and the steepness of Wujiao Pass is not comparable to Heyang City. ”
"If our army breaks through Heyang and attacks the military prison from the rear, Feng Changqing will die without a place to be buried, and Luoyang City will be at your fingertips."
"Unfortunately, the snow is still too small." Tian Chengsi stretched out his palm and took a few snowflakes: "In the past few days, I have sent people to test the thickness of the river ice every day, but this winter is warm, and the ice cannot carry the passage of the army. ”
"A certain view has been cold in recent days, wait a few more days......"
Before Tian Qianzhen finished speaking, he heard a loud rumbling sound from the south.
"How can there be thunder in winter?" Tian Qianzhen looked stunned.
"No, it's the enemy smashing the ice." Tian Chengsi snatched the torches of the tooth soldiers with his hand, and looked southward, only to see hundreds of cannons in the middle city of Heyang, and waves of stone bullets smashed the ice hundreds of steps away around the city into thousands of holes.
"Nearly 800 steps, really powerful, fortunately, the two cities in the north and the middle are separated by more than 1,000 steps. It was precisely because of the inability to figure out the fineness of the stone cannon that the whole army was wiped out during the daytime siege. After Tian Chengsi silently calculated the range of the stone cannon, he returned the torch to the tooth soldiers, and then hid in the shadows again: "A certain Guan Wang Fei'er behaves quite methodically, and if he wants to come to the south bank of the river, there must be a forest of watchtowers and stone cannons, even if the weather turns cold, the long river is frozen, and it is difficult to cross the river!" ”
"How's that to be?" Tian Qian was really anxious.
"It's useless to be anxious, it's better to sleep first." Tian Chengsi was not depressed: "Tomorrow, I will carefully look for the flaws of the other party." ”