In the faint and fluttering rain, I held a green paper umbrella, stepped on the somewhat slippery stone steps of the mountain road, and climbed Zhongshan with three or five retinues, which was the top of the Purple Mountain in later generations.

The last time I lived in Jiangning, I didn't regret it, but I made up for it this time.

Although the altitude is not too high, but overlooking it, the mountain is steep and winding like a dragon, the stone town and Jiangning city on the bank of the river, as well as the camp around the periphery, are all in sight, even under the shroud of rain, can not hide that breath of slaughter.

Because when the Sui destroyed the Southern Chen, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, who was the commander at that time, played a good role in the style of a loser, and demolished and filled in all the buildings and palaces of Jinling City, which was the ancient capital of the Southern Dynasty, and abandoned it until the establishment of the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, the relatively simple and heavy old city - Stone City, surrounded by Jiangning City on three sides, is a city wall rebuilt in the Tang Dynasty, but it has a history of hundreds of years, but it is also an authentic brick and stone city with a height and a thickness of several zhang

Although large sections of the wall have been blackened or mutilated by siege artillery fire or other firearms, they still look solid. Because of the rain, the fortifications were temporarily stopped, and even the ant-like defenders on the head of the city were sparsely packed.

Even the hot air balloons that are watched every day are too lazy to take off.

In the past, the former site of the stargazing platform established by Chen Guo of the Southern Dynasty on the top of the mountain, and the Dengxiao Tower where banquets were invited, and other historic sites were vague, but there was one more predecessor of the traverser, which was obviously plagiarized from the Taizu body of the Red Dynasty.

"Zhongshan is stormy, and millions of heroes have crossed the river. If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life

To cope with this current situation, not to mention how joyful it is. As the army of the Great Liang, there is even a special regiment of soldiers and horses stationed here to protect the handwriting of the ancestor of the dynasty, Liang Gong.

At the foot of Zhongshan Mountain, the Kaishan Temple built by Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty was our temporary station, so it seemed that I was going to be a neighbor with the bald heads again.

Time goes back to not long ago, I went to the east to command, and stepped on the situation of the White Army to control the Xuqing garrison

"The arrogant and arrogant fools of the sailors, it doesn't matter how many people die, our deployment is the most damned ...... if we fall short for no reason."

When I stepped into the flag gate of the Chinese army, I heard a loud voice almost from afar.

"The New Army? , which part of the people ......"

"The Seventh General's Weapon Force? ……”

A slightly normal tone replied

"Magrabar, what is the use of my gun......"

"I want a cannon, and the bigger the opening, the better the siege cannon...... Even if it's a crossbow or a stone cannon......

"What do the people of Shuaiji think......

"It would be nice if it was a striker or a right striker from another department...... At least there are the equipment to attack the fortifications"

"Even if it's a horse team on the right side, it can be useful at the perimeter guard post......"

"That's the one who was sent here...... A Gun Team ......"

"Come to the front to play bird hunting......"

"Please be cautious, the other party is the direct subordinate of the Frontier Military Division, and it is not something we can peck lightly."

Hearing this, I smiled a little helplessly, it seems that the reputation and impression of the weapon of the national dynasty in the Yanbian army are really not very good.

Immediately, the secretary in front of the tent, Marquis Yu, began to sing my official name and title in a loud voice, and an official dressed as a scribe hurriedly greeted him.

"My army is a little informal......"

He smiled apologetically at me and led me in

"Please don't take it to heart......"

What I saw was a huge siege sand table, and more than a dozen figures who obviously belonged to the counselors were surrounding the edge of the sand table to carry out various demonstration operations, and they whispered to each other, exchanging the results of calculations and deductions, and they did not change because of my arrival.

"Well, since you are under my command for the time being, please bear with me......"

The only thing that didn't move was a figure standing in front of the sand table with a helmet and armor, as one of the famous veteran powerhouses in the army of the National Dynasty, stepping on the white army to control Xu Qing, slowly turned around and faced me.

"Otherwise, my military law will not be forgiving, and it doesn't matter what your background is......"

Only then did I see clearly that he was a short man with a square face and thick eyebrows, a short figure, and a muscular body, but between his gestures and words, he had a strong and fiery taste.

"The guard of Zhongshan North Road in the east of Stone Town will be handed over to you......"

He gestured with his hand on the big sand table and said in an unquestionable tone.

"I wouldn't have counted on anything else,"

"I hope you will do it yourself......"

Then it was a wave of the end, and this somewhat awkward and delicate meeting ended.

To be honest, I hurried over, but I was idle and arranged to play soy sauce outside the battlefield, which made people feel a little helpless.

Even Xin Jiaxuan and the others were a little indignant, and they each planned to go to the front line of the military department to appeal, or find someone to present something, but they were persuaded by me.

This war has just begun, and the north-south duel has just taken shape.

So I was able to go to Zhongshan privately on the pretext of distraction and personal reconnaissance of the enemy's situation, and take a tour of the mountains and rivers in disguise, as a self-regulation of leisure and relaxation on the battlefield.

Carefully step on the mossy stone steps that have not been walked for a long time, and walk up to the stargazing platform where half of the wall has collapsed and the main part remains.

"Xiyan, what do you think of ......"

I suddenly felt something, to the people who followed.

"Jiangning is a rare fortified city, and there are many people who gather,"

A clear voice replied.

"There is enough food and there is no shortage of foreign aid in the short term......"

"Therefore, even though he dies, he is especially alive......"

"Therefore, the opportunity to defeat the enemy and win is not outside the city, but in the ...... inside"

"It's nice that you can see this step......"

I turned to look at him in some surprise and nodded

"The general, first of all, must have a good sense of the overall situation...... Be observant of the enemy and the subtleties,"

"And not limited to the appearance and signs of gains and losses......"

He is my new follower Yao Pingzhong, whose name is Xiyan, is a junior general of the Fuping Army, a typical descendant behind the scenes, and also one of the few students who are more interested in firearms theory and tactics when I was teaching in Jingwu.

Therefore, after I became an army alone, I also issued some kind of invitation to these more optimistic students as an official, but for various reasons, in the end, only three people gladly accepted, and the status of a military trainee of martial arts students was made a Yu Hou who listened to the left and right under my account, and Yao Pingzhong was the oldest among them.

According to a certain convention, after having the initial art teaching and military support, he can also be regarded as half my protégé, even if he is not much younger than me.

In addition, after he saw and came into contact with the power of the firearm after joining the army, he seemed to have found some kind of goal and direction, completely let go of the reserve and self-satisfaction of the senior students of the Armed Forces Academy, like a sponge absorbing water, greedily learning and absorbing what he saw and heard.

He even did not hesitate to let go of the relatively superior environment as a battalion member, and took the initiative to ask to participate in the training of the gun team in his spare time, and soon got a rather cordial "Yao Datou" as a nickname.

However, in private, he and Du Shiyi, who was also born in Jingwu and was responsible for the management and production of the sand table of the atlas and seals, known as the "little counselor", were quite deed-worthy, and they had some common language and friendship in their daily lives.

Such self-motivation is naturally easy to be encouraged and valued. That's why I started to cultivate and test him a little bit.

After all, compared with Zhao Long, Lu Wuguan and others, who already have their own life experience and value orientation, and need time to run in and cultivate tacit understanding, and even have accommodations and trade-offs, it is much easier to train Yao Pingzhong

Occasionally mention and guide the direction of hard work, it is easier to get the sense of accomplishment of carving and polishing a new work from the original blank, and the loyalty and goodwill of subordination. I'm also looking forward to what kind of results will be the result of the wild road that I can train with a miscellaneous military history.

I suddenly looked up, and the rustle of dripping on the oil-paper umbrella seemed to disappear.

Well, the rain stopped, and a trace of gold was slowly projected in the clouds, which also meant that the tragic siege battle would be staged again under the wet city walls.

As the clarion call for the battle, it was the artillery corps of the Shenji Army that had been removed from the canopy and poncho and began to be loaded and fired, but because of the problem of transportation efficiency, I still did not have a short tube siege gun with a thick and heavy machete, but some field guns with a long barrel, which played the role of attacking and suppressing.

With a rumbling sound, a bright red, gray and white splash hole suddenly cracked on the battlements, but it was a gathering point of archers at the head of the wall that was hit, and the hot and bouncing projectiles bounced in the relatively narrow space, and immediately turned into a bloody Shura Hell.

Feeling the ringing sound of his ears, Gu Laosi, the Jiangning army general who was kneeling on the ground, was once again slipped by the flesh and blood of his comrades, and he was a little numb and stuck to his arm, I don't know if it was an organ or something else, and wiped it on the wall.

At least he survived again, and the huge iron ball that shattered the battlement mouth was buzzing in front of him, turning everyone and object he encountered into debris or rags, whether it was a row of several layers of skin, or a big axe and iron gun, they couldn't escape the fate of crushing and breaking.

Then, with a slight miss, he swept through his head, and smashed a figure who fled away straight down the tower, which he remembered should be the officer who ran away in a panic.

"Liang Bing is up again......"

A hoarse broken gong shouted

"There is no ...... to live"

He glanced at it unmoved, those gathered like ants, holding up their cards, pushing long carts and ladders with shutters, slowly pressing up the Liang army, and they were all draped, just trampling and crushing the corpses all over the ground, calmly and resolutely walked to the range of the bow and arrow of the city wall.

This was a tiring and desperate battle, although the Jiangning army had enough towering walls and a lot of reserves, but it was faced with almost endless attacks like waves and waves, and he was too lazy to count the first few siege banners.

Before, they could at least drive the remnants of those who held back to fight to the death, but when those Jiangbei soldiers also entered the city, the host and guest suddenly shifted, and even they, the local Jiangning people, inevitably became the objects of being driven.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have a trace of hatred on his face

Behind him, the city of Jiangning was also full of smoke, only a few of which were damaged by the Liang army during the siege of the city, and the rest were the masterpieces of the Jiangbei soldiers who came to help.

With those unruly! According to the words of the Huainan people, Lao Tzu hung his head on the waistband of his trousers, risked his life to cross the river to rescue you, slept and killed a few people, and raised some money by himself, which is a big thing.