Chapter 312: Knowledge Determines Destiny

"Ye Shuai, why did you come here? There are still two hours left in the general attack, so it's too early to see the excitement, right? Ye Tao took the Chinese military camp to the forefront of the battlefield at once, but Cheng Chi was relaxed and obviously very well prepared.

"It's always a little reassuring. I don't doubt that you will definitely be able to take Qingtian, but I am worried about the damage. After all...... This is the first time that the Yunzhou armies have fought a tough battle after the comprehensive training. Ye Tao was a little embarrassed.

"Ye Shuai rest assured." This is the first time that Cheng Chi has taken charge alone, and he will never dare to ignore any detail. The nine battalions in his hands cut off all contact between Qingtian and the outside world in less than a day, and completed the sweeping operation on the periphery of Qingtian one day earlier than the scheduled schedule. Although he was not able to make a forced landing in Qingtian, it was expected that the more than 20,000 regular troops and miscellaneous troops in it would not be able to make any tricks. "This time there are two battalions of heavy weapons, and there is also a battalion of combat infantry...... The lineup is strong. There is absolutely no reason to fill it with human life. There is also plenty of time, and the last general will not dare to miss the arrangement of adults. ”

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "The schedule is nothing, I really can't catch up with the schedule, at most I will play a few more days." The soldiers are eager to fight, and they all want to fight as fast as possible, and all the soft persimmons they have pinched these days are good, and it is good to grind out morale, but don't take it lightly. And you, as the main general of this battle, can't always be based on everyone's temperament, but should strengthen restraint. I know that you are not a general who climbed up on the lives of soldiers, so I am relieved to let you command this battle. But you also have to let everyone know that neither you, nor I, will tolerate anyone who uses the lives of a soldier to add glory to himself. Soldiers are the same as living lives, and we should take them to victory and share in the glory. ”

"Yes." Cheng Chi bowed deeply to Ye Tao. "The last general commands."

"Okay." Ye Tao nodded and said, "You continue to arrange military affairs." I'll go down and take a look, and I'll be on the hillside over there and watch the fight. ”

Ye Tao did not interfere in Cheng Chi's arrangement, but just the Chinese military camp came to the front line and set up Ye Tao's handsome banner, which suddenly raised everyone's morale by a level. Since the start of the war, everything has been in order, and the Chinese military camp has not played much of the role of making decisions at the right time, but only as an intelligence center and Ye Tao's camp to integrate the military intelligence of all parties and relay it. Up to now, Ye Tao has not issued any military orders to adjust the combat arrangements. Is the campaign plan perfect? Naturally impossible. It's just that the situation that requires Ye Tao to make changes hasn't happened yet.

Qingtian is an important town in the southeast of the Zhenbei Military Division, and is located in the middle of the Hejiang River, the second largest river in the Zhenbei Military Division. On the south bank of the Hejiang River, known as the Seven Castles of Zhenning, there is only Qingtian. Due to the help of the mountain, built by the mountain on one side and the water on the other, Qingtian is indeed steep and mighty, and it can be regarded as a majestic city. Once Qingtian is captured, it will be possible to cut off the connection between the eastern road of the Zhenbei Military Division and Taizhou with Qingtian as the center, and at least, if you want to get supplies from Taizhou, you must take a long detour. And if you control Qingtian, you can cross the river here and directly attack the core area of the Zhenbei Military Division.

While Cheng Chi was making the final preparations, Ye Tao was inspecting the barracks that were sharpening their knives, and several other officers from the two heavy weapons battalions were also gathering. These people are all officers from other frontiers in Dongping, who came to Yunzhou to take charge of the army, and the battalion leader who brought Tan Xiaopei to set up a heavy equipment battalion out of his own pocket is also the general of the Tan family. These people don't get together to discuss anything new, but to make final preparations.

"Listen to me, this time we are going to shake our majesty, our heavy equipment battalion has been desperately rushing for so many days, and we haven't even caught a fight, and our legs are thin. Now the bunnies can see the jokes. We are all from all over Dongping, why can we come here? Isn't it that Lord Ye takes a fancy to us and can manage those arrogant sergeants in the church? Let's fight hard, and let everyone see that Yunzhou has returned to Dongping, which makes sense. We can bring these battalions, and it is definitely not that Lord Ye must use Dongping officers to mix sand and cultivate cronies. None of us are worse than the other. Among so many heroes in Yunzhou, we can also be counted as the number one! Li Yang, the battalion leader of the first battalion of heavy equipment, said eagerly. Their officers are directly placed in the position of the battalion, it is indeed because of their identity and background, those local sergeants in Yunzhou have never been too critical of them, although they are usually polite, but they always seem to feel that their status is higher, not with them all the way, and not as dare to fight as they are. But for these soldiers, this kind of politeness and respect has become a burden, so that they are always unable to integrate with everyone. And performance in battle is the most direct idea of these soldiers. They wanted those Yunzhou people to see that they, the people of the Middle-earth Continent, dared to work hard.

Li Yang's words aroused a chorus of approval, but Ding Shi, the battalion leader of the heavy equipment battalion supported by the Inner Government, smiled faintly and said, "Lao Li, don't be in such a hurry. It's not our turn to work hard. Even if the people in the city dared to rush out, how could they run so far and rush to us? I don't know how many times I've died early. It is better to do a good job of siege support, more than anything else. ”

Ding Shi made sense, Li Yang also nodded, and said, "It's the same thing every time I bombard him for a while, it's really not fun." Really those of us who play ballista catapults, it's still fun to defend the city, play that kind of deflagration effect, blow up one piece, and there is no sound at all after the explosion, that's too tasteful. The siege will be fought for a while, and then you will have to watch later. Watching Xiao Xu and their battalion rush up and work hard, is it very tasteful? ”

"That's not necessarily ......," Ding Shi smiled playfully, "Didn't you notice what kind of material Qingtian's city wall was made of?" ”

"Isn't it a stone? And stucco...... Isn't that all? Li Yang seemed to think of something.

"Yes, but not exactly." Ding Shi took out a sketch from his arms. Point to the sketch and show it to everyone. "The middle gate tower of Qingtian is indeed made of stone, but the inside is a huge wooden shelf. That's it. The other walls were later expanded. Qingtian is not a newly built city, where is it so simple to move so many big stones back then? In fact, the later city walls were built with huge trees as the base, and then the city walls were piled up on the shelves with stones and mortar, and then they were continuously added. Do you know why the castle walls of Gyeongda look so new? Every few years, the outside of the walls had to be renovated to cover the cracks. When everything is done, paint it with a thin layer of stucco. Don't look at the city wall of Qingtian is so thick and high, the bottom is really scummy. What's even more interesting is that I don't know which Zhenbei Military Division or Qingtian City Guard it is, probably just because there is more money to burn, and I have used a lot of brown sugar and glutinous rice juice to make up the city wall. …… It should be, this is the paragraph. It is true that these things can make the walls very hard, but they are not used in this way. ”

"Brown sugar? Glutinous rice? Li Yang was agitated for a moment, and suddenly thought of something. Brown sugar...... I guess I can burn it. ”

Everyone suddenly understood. The combination of brown sugar, glutinous rice juice and ash is indeed a very strong material for repairing the city wall, although brown sugar can indeed burn, but such a mixture, the ignition point is very high. In the past, catapults were used to set fire to the city, and most of them were rattan balls poured with grease and stuffed with sawdust rags, which was convenient to extinguish the fire, and the ignition point of the flame was not high enough, and the corrosive nature of burning was not good enough. Plus there are multiple layers of lime and something like that outside, so it doesn't affect it at all. But now, they have enough Fire Oil Bomb Type 2 in their hands. It's really hard for that thing to burn, especially because of the corrosive nature of the flames...... The heavy equipment battalion is a big expert at arsoning, and they are particularly fond of watching the extremely violent scene of wood and other materials burning from the inside out, peeling off layer by layer and quickly turning into ashes.

"Yes, there is brown sugar, there is glutinous rice juice, naturally, in order to prevent insects, there are a lot of other poisons or something." Ding Shi smiled gloomily.

"I really know the glutinous rice juice, what can I do with brown sugar?" Li Yang asked again.

"In the early days, the north here believed that things must have spirits. The cities, especially the military towns, were built to the fullest slaughter, and the spirits that were attached to the walls of the walls were not nourished and died. In order to nourish these spirits, a group of people put things like brown sugar and glutinous rice in jars at the earliest, and sealed one inside every other section of the city wall to nourish these spirits. Now there are similar customs in the north, such as Yunzhou, some large families build houses, bury a jar of millet in the foundation, and even bury a jar of copper coins in the rich. But this old habit of building city walls has long been out of shape. Glutinous rice juice does mix the plaster better, but brown sugar doesn't actually do much more than attract bugs. But after the rumor was out of shape, there was no choice from those descendants. Directly mixed glutinous rice juice, brown sugar and plaster. ”

Ding Shi's explanation made everyone present awe-inspired. Li Yang sighed: "A person who is worthy of being the head of the country's family is knowledgeable." ”

Ding Shi said modestly: "Where is it, my family used to build a house, and then under the care of His Majesty's family, I began to have some knowledge, and there are other ways out, but I don't dare to forget this business." This is not the time when General Cheng convened everyone to discuss the military a few days ago, there was a document to prepare the historical evolution of Qingtian, and seeing this paragraph reminded me of this matter. ”

"Okay, then I'll listen to you, you talk about it, what should I do?" Li Yang nodded and said, "You are knowledgeable, listen to you." Coincidentally, this section of the city wall happened to be attacked by Xiao Xu's battalion. This military feat, we just happen to divide it here. ”

Xiao Xu, who had been shrinking to the side, was silent, smiled, and did not say anything. Naturally, if things can be done, he will definitely return this favor. Not only for military merit, but for a combat infantry battalion like theirs, having such an opportunity means that there will be fewer casualties and many brothers.

"We can't do anything else, burn." Ding Shi smiled and said, "But you must also burn with skill." We now have several different things that can be burned. Mars bomb type 3, that is made of gunpowder, not very easy to burn, but the explosion is strong enough, just used to loosen the city wall, although the temperature of the Mars bomb is not very high, but there is a good point, that is, the semi-liquid ointment in it, can stick to the city wall to burn, and the grease burns, the erosion is enough to see. Then there's the oil bomb, just go and light it. We used these three bullets, taking turns, to peel back the walls layer by layer. Of course, it is impossible to come all of them, so we will concentrate twice the firepower on this section and attack repeatedly. It's a pity that we don't have enough oil bombs, otherwise, if we can break through a hole in the city wall, smash it into it and light it, and set fire to the old wood that has been sealed in it for I don't know how many years, then it will be strong enough. ”

"Hahahaha, should you burn the ground and warm the house for the rich man's house in winter?" Li Yang laughed.