"The Korean army is collecting a lot of timber?"

When this news reached the palace, it immediately attracted the attention of a minister. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It was the Taishi who was sitting in the palace, and after carefully questioning the spy brought by Jiang Ping, he waved his hand and let him leave.

It seems that the royal family's defense in Luoyang has finally attracted the attention of the Korean army, and a large number of siege equipment has been built. You must know that yesterday, the Han army did not use any equipment except for the ladder and the collision of wood, and of course the Han army also paid the price for his arrogance.

But since then, I am afraid that the Korean army will never rush under the city wall like this again, in addition to having an absolute advantage, it is only a matter of poor army or rogue parties, and the Korean army finally recognized the situation. And this is naturally bad news for the royal family, extremely bad news.

At present, although I don't know what kind of equipment the Han army is going to make, but looking at its movements, it is not small, a forest has been cut down, naturally it will not be a small thing, I am afraid that after a few days, it will bring great trouble to the royal family.

No, this news must be known to the king as soon as possible. Suddenly, the pressure skyrocketed, and the Taishi couldn't sit still, so he hurried to the inner palace.

However, when he walked to the door of the inner palace, the Taishi stopped his steps, the Han army just started cutting down trees today, and tens of thousands of people started working together, even if it was made into equipment, it would take several days to work, after all, there were so many craftsmen in the army, and ordinary soldiers could only work hard. Is it necessary to run to report to the king in such a hurry? You must know that it is just past noon, and the king is still just a child, and he is tired all morning, so he should still be resting, so why bother now.

Thinking that the Taishi hesitated for a while, he actually went around the door of the hall under the scorching sun.

I didn't think about it for two turns, and then I heard a child's voice sounding at the door of the hall, "I heard that the Taishi is coming to the inner palace, but I don't know what's going on, I didn't think that it was the Taishi who drew a circle here, hehe." ”

When he turned his head, he saw that the king was standing at the gate of the hall with his bare feet in a robe, looking at himself with a smile, looking very good.

The Taishi hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand, "King, I thought that the king was still taking a nap, so the old man hesitated for a while, not knowing whether to disturb the king, but he didn't think about it and alarmed the king." ”

"Hehe, as soon as the king woke up, he heard the guards report that the Taishi was coming to the inner palace, but he didn't think that the Taishi didn't come in, so he asked. The Taishi can come at any time if he has something, so why worry about the king taking a nap? Come, let us go into the temple and speak, and the sun is shining outside. ”

Saying that, he invited the prince into the hall, and after the ministers sat down, a maid immediately brought ice water. In fact, Zhou Bian governed the palace and naturally controlled the strict management, so as soon as the Taishi approached the inner palace, a guard immediately reported in.

"The king, in fact, it is not a very important matter, and the king is tired during this time, and it is important to rest, so the old man hesitated outside the palace, but he didn't think that before he could make up his mind, the king came out."

"Being able to come in person is naturally a big deal, please talk about it quickly." Zhou Bian waved his hand.

"King, it was Jiang Ping's people who came back, and Jiang Ping brought them into the palace, it turned out that in the morning, the Han army left tens of thousands of people undispatched, and they were cutting down trees. Although the spy didn't see what equipment he was making, judging from the fact that he cut down a forest, it must have been a large number of equipment made by the Han army, which should be used for siege. Taishi leaned forward slightly, obviously this news was still attention-grabbing.

Zhou Bian nodded, "Yesterday the siege of the city, the Korean army lost more than 10,000 yuan, if every siege is like this, even South Korea can't afford to pay such a price, so this king has long guessed what measures the Korean army will take, but he didn't think that he was making equipment." Well, it will take a few days for the South Korean army to build up, and the South Korean army will definitely not attack on a large scale before then, but we can ease up for a few days. ”

In fact, what Zhou Bian was most afraid of was not that the Korean army was building siege equipment, but that he wanted to think of other methods, using equipment to attack hard or making a strategy, and some tricks were too difficult to guard.

"What the old man is worried about is that when the Korean army comes to attack next time, it must be an all-out blow, but he is afraid that the offensive will be fierce, it is better than yesterday, and the old man also knows a little about the military, and now the Korean army wants to build, it is nothing more than a boxcar, a rushing car, a lookout platform, etc., and when the time comes, the arrows of our army will not be able to hurt the Korean army."

"That's true, this king will order a large number of catapults to be built in the city, more than a dozen are really not enough, and there is still some wood in the city, and there are also some trees in the old palace in the north of the city that have grown barren, which can be cut down and used, and then, such as stones, etc., should also be prepared more, in addition, the king has thought about it, and he will make some flammable materials such as grass balls, which can be lit and thrown out, although one or two are useless, but more should still be able to burn some Korean military equipment, these things will be done by the king of Bai Gui and Shin Bulaw. Taishi should rest assured, although the arrows are useless, the catapult is always useful. ”

"The power of the catapult, the old man knows, I'm afraid that the Korean army has a secret agent in the city, and the appearance of the catapult can be detected, and a large number of copies will be made, but it will suppress the troops in our city." Taishi's face was full of sorrow.

Zhou Bian was silent, the technical content of the catapult is not high, and it is inevitable that it will be imitated, but it will not be so fast.

"Taishi, this king has ordered Shen Bufa to keep it a secret, and the catapult was only used on the day of the Han army's siege of the city, even if there are Han army spies who find out, I am afraid that this will not be able to send out the city. And at present, we can only count on the construction of catapults to kill and injure a large number of South Korean troops. Zhou Bian nodded, although he didn't know what would happen to the enemy, but this was already the best we did.

Taishi still nodded sadly, and the two said something else, and Taishi said goodbye.

After sending the Taishi away, Zhou Bian immediately recruited Bai Guishen and others, and now he can only gather a large number of people, cut down trees to build catapults, in the past, it was to prevent leakage, so only Shen Evil's subordinates made dozens of people, and now where can I manage so much, naturally the more the better, the more things that are imitated, it is better to leave it for later, if the city can't be defended, what is the use of guarding this secret that is not easy to keep.

After sending off a minister, Zhou Bian fell into contemplation alone, if the Korean army's offensive is really difficult to resist, then should the gunpowder come out in advance? Sighing, Zhou Bian still shook his head, gunpowder, once the formula flows out, I am afraid that it will definitely be a disaster for this era, and at present, it should be enough to have a catapult.

In the blink of an eye, it was the third day, and after the sun rose, as yesterday, it was another 50,000 Korean troops in the rear, and Su Rui led 5,000 soldiers to the city, wanting to lead the royal family out of the city to fight. However, unlike yesterday, Su Rui learned smartly, and as soon as he came up, he showed that if he was a real warrior, he would just go down to the city to fight, and those who put arrows in the city were cowards and would be insulted by the world.

Zhou Bian in the city only smiled when he heard it, this Su Rui came to scold again, but he explained his words as soon as he came, afraid that the Zhou royal family would order the archers to shoot him, it seems that Su Rui is not afraid of death.

However, there are naturally people in the royal family who scold back, and today there is no need for the young master to come forward, and a few men with thick voices such as Liu Yun were specially arranged, and a doctor who understands etiquette is teaching and scolding full-time. Moreover, there were not so many soldiers in the city, only 2,000 men were left to guard the city walls, and the rest of the thousands were resting or training behind the walls.

Anyway, there is nothing else to do in the court now, Zhou Bian still stays in the main hall of the city tower, sitting and chatting with the young master, a circle of young guards or lieutenant generals and colonels to accompany him, if he can do this every day, it will be leisurely. After the roof of the palace was smashed on the first day of the Korean army's attack, the craftsmen made up for it, and there were people outside the hall who were reinforcing the doors and windows outside the hall to avoid being shot through.

And after experiencing yesterday's events, the soldiers in the city today are obviously not as impulsive as yesterday, although Su Rui scolded hard under the city, but the royal family's response was also sharp, anyway, it was scolding, you said that I didn't go out of the city was a turtle, I scolded you for shouting that it was a fly that didn't dare to attack the city.

Just like yesterday, before noon, Su Rui and the others, who had been scolding for two hours, retreated, and it was naturally the sound of ridicule on the head of Luoyang City to see him off. Seeing that the Han army was slowly retreating, Zhou Bian stood up and stretched, and held on for another day, it was not easy!

In the afternoon, there was still a lot of work in the city that Zhou Bian should pay attention to, the recruitment situation in the city, the training situation in the west of the city, the wood cutting situation in the north of the city, and so on. No matter how good it can't be, there should be no problem in holding Luoyang City.

In the past few days, every day the Korean army has come to scold the battle in the morning, but the generals who scolded have changed a few, the young and the old ones have been in battle, and the royal family naturally still has no signs of going out of the city, even the Korean army commander Han Hu has to sigh, the Zhou room is really calm.

Of course, in the past few days, in addition to scolding, both sides have also played some other tricks, such as the Han army ordered the soldiers to take off their clothes and bask in the sun to show contempt, and the royal family ordered the soldiers to sit on the women's wall to drink water and chat, and for example, the Korean army ordered the soldiers to fight each other for fun in the city, so the royal soldiers in the city followed suit, obviously watching the excitement.

The past few days have not been salty or light, and from time to time there are spies outside the city to report the movements of the Korean army, and sure enough, they are still building boxcars and lookouts, of course, two or three spies of the royal family have died. And the work in the city is also going smoothly, not only 30,000 soldiers were recruited, but when the total number of recruits was 40,000, Zhou Bian called a halt, after all, the war still needs a large number of people, and the rest of those who are interested in serving the royal family are all people, so that the total number of people who serve the royal family has reached 40,000. In this way, more than half of the men in the entire Luoyang Wangji land were involved in this war.

However, after the royal family had been weak for many years, it was impossible to find so many weapons for the recruits to use, so the training could only use long wooden sticks instead of spears, large stones to practice the arm strength of drawing bows, and then practice queues and basic methods of defending the city. However, the most popular among the recruits is the stone moving competition, that is, each team of ten people, running back and forth, moving a stone from this end to that end, and back from that end, so repeatedly, comparing one to which team runs faster, and adding a cake to the night when running fast, which greatly improves the training enthusiasm of the recruits.

In addition, the people are also divided into two categories, one is to transport weapons under the city wall, rescue the wounded soldiers and pull the catapult, this type is more dangerous, and the other is to cut wood in the city to build catapults and prepare stones and other things, this category is much safer, and the royal family does not force it, within the scope of permission, but let

In a blink of an eye, it was the sixth day after the first attack of the Korean army, but an unusual thing happened on this day, it turned out that it was nearly noon surrounded by the guards, Zhou Bian went down the city tower, but there were guards to report, a thousand commanders asked to see, and the thousand commanders who asked to see were called Li Ding.

Zhou Bian frowned, this Li Ding is a native of Gongyi, and he made a contribution when Zhou Bian first won Gongyi, so he was promoted by Zhou Bian from a centurion to a thousand-division commander, guarding Mengjin for the royal family, and not long ago when Zhou Bian ordered to evacuate Gongyi and return to Luoyang, Li Ding actually led more than 2,000 people under his command to disobey the order, and wanted to resist the enemy in Mengjin alone and share the pressure for Luoyang. His idea is good, but how can Zhou Bian tolerate sand in his eyes? So after Li Ding saw the sword of the Son of Heaven, he obediently led the army to withdraw to Luoyang. After Zhou Bian returned from Gongyi, he seized the military power of Li Ding, and handed over his soldiers to Tu Ping to lead, but Li Ding himself was ordered to think about it at home.

So when he heard that Li Ding asked to see him, Zhou Bian couldn't help but be confused, didn't he teach him a lesson that was not deep enough, although he did not deprive him of the post of commander of a thousand years, but staying at home at this time was already a great punishment for a general, and now he was going to jump again, and he came to see the king again, did he want to say good things and beg him to use him again?

Thinking of this, Zhou Bian waved his hand, "I don't see." With that, Zhou Bian got into the car.

I didn't think that the car had walked a few steps, but was stopped by the guard, "King, General Li said that he is not here to intercede or anything else, but to report something important." Listening to his tone, it didn't look like a hypocrisy, and the villain didn't dare to slack off, so he disturbed the king. ”

"Okay, just let him come to the car." After thinking about it, Zhou Bian nodded.

After a while, I saw Li Ding, who was dressed in plain clothes, bowed his head and ran over, went straight to the carriage of Wang Jia and knelt down, kowtowed and said, "Li Ding, the criminal minister, didn't dare to disturb Wang Jia, but he really has something important to report, please forgive the king!" ”

Lifting the curtain, Zhou Bian waved his hand impatiently, "Say it." ”

Li Ding knelt on the ground and moved a few steps forward, until he fell down in front of the carriage, and then said in a low voice, "King, the villain has been idle at home recently, I didn't think that this morning there was a middle-aged man dressed as a businessman came to visit, saying that there was a rich and noble send-off, and the villain had nothing to do, so he allowed him to say, but he was shocked when he didn't think about it, it turned out that the guy was actually a Korean secret agent, and persuaded the villain to contact the old department in the city, open the city gate, and let the Korean army enter the city, then I can be rewarded with ten thousand dollars and the position of a Korean doctor, the villain was immediately furious, the royal family is the lord of the villain, How dare you betray? So the villain caught him on the spot and locked him up at home first, leaving it for the king to dispose of. The villain also knew that this matter was very important, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he hurried over, and he didn't dare to say it until he saw the king. ”

I didn't think that there was really a Korean spy in the city, Zhou Bian was shocked when he heard this, he couldn't help but stand up, turned his head and said, "Fan Yu, you take a team of people and horses, and follow Li Ding to escort that guy into the palace, and this king will personally torture him." ”