Chapter 16: The Big Deal (1)
Just when the southern army was struggling to attack Dongping City, Zhu Di did not appear in Jinan, which should have appeared, but appeared in a village only thirty miles southwest of Dongping, accompanied by the generals Zhang Wu, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and the like, if Qin Yu was here, he would definitely be surprised, and the top of the entire Yan army system was all here!
Dao Yan once said that Zhu Di is in the next big game of chess! Now it's just beginning to appear!
Zhu Di said lightly: "Now that the movements of the Southern Army have been clarified?" ”
Zhang Yu arched his hand and said: "Back to the marshal, at present, the main force of the southern army has all left Dongchang, leaving only 20,000 insufficient men and horses to garrison, including 280,000 troops, led by the main attack on the east gate, a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses at the north gate, 40,000 soldiers and horses at the south gate, 40,000 soldiers and horses at the south front gate, and 40,000 soldiers and horses at the west gate!" ”
Zhu Di nodded, his heart was settled, and he said with a sneer: "Now that the Southern Army has bitten the hook, notify it, and the original plan will not change!" Let's go tonight! In addition, send the former army Meng Shan to contact Liu Wen, the defender of Jinan, and try to persuade him to surrender! ”
...
At the same time, Zhang Lin, who was bent on going down to the West Gate, was not idle, and kept convening meetings with the generals to think about how to break the strategy of the fire oil array.
After a while, everyone lost their attention in their hearts, Zhang Lin was furious and reprimanded: "Don't you all shout about how powerful you are on weekdays? Why is it that when things come to an end, they have no idea? Yes! Tell me about it! You Jun, as a lieutenant general, you speak first! ”
You Jun, who was a ghost and a ghost, rolled his eyes and hurriedly said: "General, with the encounter of his subordinates, fire is afraid of water, although the northern army has the help of fire oil, it is also afraid of water!" ”
Zhang Lin glanced at You Jun and said disdainfully: "Who doesn't know that fire is afraid of water?" But now the weather is dry, there is no rain, and there is no river to draw water from, do you say?"
You Jun smiled incomprehensibly, and then said: "The general is wrong, why do you have trebuchets!" Find more bottles and cans, fill them with water, and launch them with trebuchets, won't you put out the fire? Although the bottles and cans thrown out will cause some casualties to our army, it will not be too much, and from the perspective of subordinates, this plan is completely feasible! ”
Zhang Lin suddenly realized, and the generals also applauded, You Jun's face was full of pride, and he looked smug.
Zhang Lin nodded with a smile and said, "Without further ado, now you go and collect bottles and cans, fill them with water and send them to the trebuchet array, I will go to the south front gate now and ask Lao Liu to borrow a few more trebuchets!" ”
Zhang Lin ran out with a team of horses, and You Jun was not idle, and hurriedly went to do things.
Looking at the Southern Army, which had not launched an attack for a long time, Qin Yu muttered in his heart, what did this pole man do?
Zhang Lin borrowed the trebuchet very smoothly, the southern army's supplies were already very sufficient, and the attack on the south front gate had begun to enter the city, in order to avoid accidental injury, these things were naturally useless, but just in case, Lao Liu still left twenty trebuchets and lent Zhang Lin thirty. In this way, Zhang Lin has more than seventy trebuchets in his hands.
However, trebuchets are also large siege machines, and it takes a lot of time to borrow them. Dismantled and transported, and had to be assembled when it arrived at the place, so that the time had come to the next day, and the entire Dongping Sixth Gate, that is, the West Gate, was the most leisurely, and Qin Yu also slept all night without heart and lungs.
As soon as the sky dawned the next day, the war drums of the southern army were ringing, and Qin Yu knew very well that the reason why the southern army had not attacked for so long must have been holding back a big move!
...
After suffering a lot of casualties, the southern army rushed through the huge crater and entered the range of the fire and oil array, and Qin Yu naturally ordered the fire.
The sky-high fire was still as dazzling as yesterday, but at this time, Zhang Lin, who was standing on the top of the mountain, showed a sneer, waved his hand and said, "Launch!" ”
The jars full of water were fired directly by the trebuchet array.
And after Qin Yu looked at the things launched by the other party's trebuchet, the corners of his mouth also hooked up a sneer, just by virtue of this, he also wanted to break my oil array?
The painstaking effect is not as Zhang Lin intended!
"Bang! Rumble! ”
The huge bottles and cans smashed on the ground full of gunpowder and firewood, and instead of extinguishing the fire as expected, the fire became more ferocious as if it was pouring oil on a fire!
No one can survive such a fire, as long as a little oil is stained, it will be like a ghost possessed, no matter how hard you struggle, there is no way to extinguish such a demonic fire! And it is precisely because the southern army launched a water attack, which was originally just burning with huge flames, but now it is still rolling a huge thick fog rising into the sky, and the west gate at this moment is covered with smoke, and the people on the mountain in the distance can't see the situation in front clearly, but everyone knows that this attack failed again!
Zhang Lin is too late to get angry at the moment, in his cognition, how can there be a fire that can't be extinguished by water? Could it be that the Qin Imperial Envoy would make a demon law? Thinking of this, Zhang Lin suddenly felt creepy!
In fact, Zhang Lin didn't know at all, what was Qin Yu using, in fact, it was completely out of the limitations of the times, and it could even be said that it was modern gasoline, and it wanted to be extinguished just by water? Joke!
And when the two armies confronted each other, everyone didn't expect that Zhu Di's plan had already begun to be implemented as early as last night!