Looking at the resolute appearance of the little soldier, he took the cloth suspiciously, but after a few glances, Han Jin's hands trembled with excitement, and he quickly put it into his arms, and looked around, as if he was afraid that it would fall. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Captain, remember this soldier's name, I have a big reward!" Han Jin's voice seemed to tremble a little.

The little soldier was immediately overjoyed, and the general said that there was a heavy reward, which was at least more than two hundred yuan, so he hurriedly signed up to thank him and left, but he was thinking in his heart, don't rush too far today, otherwise he will not be able to spend his life if he has a heavy reward.

At this time, Han Jin's heart was apprehensive, he hoped to win Luoyang Pingmen today, and he hoped to collect his troops early today.

Of course, whether to withdraw troops or not is not subject to Han Jin's will, and it is not even up to the general Han Hu to have the final say, because at this time there is Gongsun Ji in the army, and he is a big celebrity before Han Jun is on the shelf.

Seeing that it was almost noon, and it was estimated that there were serious casualties, Han Hu opened his mouth several times, but in the end he couldn't say what he wanted to say. Finally, when the sun stretched to the highest point, Gongsun Qi looked up at the sky, and then spoke, "Let's stop here today, the heat is unbearable, I can't bear it, let alone the soldiers?" Today's battle situation, I will explain it to the king, general, please rest assured! ”

After finishing speaking, Gongsun Qi arched his hand and said that he would leave first. Han Hu naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly jumped out of the car to send him off.

Sure enough, after walking two steps, Gongsun Qi's latest order came down, "General, this summer is scorching, the general's body is precious, how can he stand it, why not let people build a pergola here for shade?" ”

Han Hu nodded hurriedly, and after sending Gongsun Qi out of the military formation, he ran back and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.

The sound of gold finally sounded, and the Korean army wiped the sweat from his face and quickly gave the order to withdraw his troops. On this day, it was so hot that I sweated when I moved, and I don't know how the soldiers could stand it.

Without thinking about it so much, soon, tens of thousands of corpses left on the ground quickly retreated.

Everything is as usual, and it is another 2,000 Korean soldiers and civilians who collect the corpses.

At the time of dinner, the statistics were sent to Zhou Bian, and the Korean army fought extremely resolutely in today's battle, resulting in the loss of more than 3,000 troops in the royal family, and at the same time, the death toll of the Korean army also reached 10,000. Is the Korean army going to consume the royal family's troops, but with a mortality rate of one to three, can they consume it? Zhou Bian was puzzled, in fact, Zhou Bian was more worried about the Han army playing other tricks, if it was a simple hard attack like today, with the help of catapults, Zhou Bian was really not afraid.

And soon, Zhou Bian's attention was diverted, Ning Yue sent the latest report in Luoyang City, there were some conflicts between the soldiers and civilians in the south of the city, the riots were not big, but there were many times, and they were all caused by the corpses of the fallen soldiers, which could not but arouse Zhou Bian's attention.

Obviously, after each major battle, there will be a lot of soldiers and people who died in battle, at the beginning, the royal family still collected it uniformly, piled it up in the open space in the southwest of the city, and disposed of it with lime, and later, gradually some family members wanted to understand it, and the royal family agreed, asking them to deal with it themselves, not to let the corpses rot, so as to cause the plague in the city. And for those unclaimed corpses, they are burned in a centralized manner, and no one in the city has an opinion on this.

But recently, especially after the heavy rain, when the soldiers of the Supervision Department were patrolling the city, they could smell the pungent stench when they walked to the south of the city, and when they checked, they found that many families had put their dead men in their homes like this, and some of the suburbs who poured in from outside the city even slept with the corpses, and there was no treatment at all, so that the soldiers had to cover their noses when they approached, and carefully avoided the corpses and insects all over the ground, which was really disgusting as much as it was.

So the conflict arose, and a very small number of the old people in the family, especially the old lady, resolutely refused to let the pawn take away his son's body, and the pawn did not dare to do it due to the restrictions of the rules, so he had to persuade him with good words. In the end, there was no way, so this report was handed over to the king's desk as an emergency, after all, the king had already ordered that in order to prevent the plague, the corpses in the city should be disposed of properly.

After reading this report, Zhou Bian let out a long sigh, alas, defending the city now is not only to fight with the Korean army, during the day, at night, all kinds of defense, but also to fight with the army and people in the city, to prevent internal moles, to prevent people's hearts, and now to prevent the plague. If it is allowed to continue, I am afraid that the plague is really not far away.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Bian ordered Ning Yue and Dr. Xin to call in Luoyang, and after some discussion, he decided on a strategy and handed it over to individuals for implementation. And after arranging all this, it was already dark.

As a king, although you don't have to do everything yourself, but just like that, it's really tiring.

After a night of silence, I slept until dawn and the sun was rising.

When I asked, I found out that the Korean army did not attack the city today, so Concubine Liu was in charge and let herself sleep more.

Zhou Bian did not dare to take it lightly, and after breakfast, he convened the ministers to discuss the stability of the city and how the Korean army would attack next until noon.

Unexpectedly, after lunch, the spies from outside the city sent the latest news, and the Korean army began to cut down a large number of trees, and it was not known what they were making.

Han Jun is going to make equipment again, do they still think that the lookout platform and the boxcar can play a role? Zhou Bian was also a little puzzled, but before the updated news, he couldn't make more guesses. It's just that the Korean army did not come to attack, but gave the royal family time to deal with the affairs of the city.

And the Korean army stopped for more than ten days, during this period, Zhou Bian had to use the new barracks to deter, before all the corpses in the city were collected again, in view of the fact that many of the corpses have been seriously decomposed, Zhou Bian had to order them to be cremated, although the family members are not very happy, but this is also no way, fortunately, this era is not very resistant to cremation, especially the lowest slaves and civilians.

To the surprise of Zhou Bian and others, the Han army was particularly well guarded this time, and many squads were arranged on the periphery, and the spies of the royal family paid for ten lives, but they never approached, even if they looked at it from a distance, so the royal family never knew what kind of equipment the Han army was making. In the end, Zhou Bian had to order Jiang Ping's people not to get too close, after all, the loss of human life for no reason could not be drawn, and Zhou Bian was also confident that with the catapult, any equipment of the Han army would be just a pile of wood.

This situation lasted for fifteen days, and on the fifteenth day when the South Korean army stopped attacking, before dawn, it was reported by the spies who ran back desperately, and the South Korean army moved and approached Dingdingmen.

Is this the equipment of the Korean army made? Zhou Bian jumped up from the bed, dressed neatly and went straight to Dingdingmen. When the soldiers and horses of the Imperial Forest Army arrived at the Dingding Gate, the sky was already slightly bright, and there were already many figures on the Dingding Gate at this time.

When I climbed the tower to take a look, I found that the junior master, Pang Xing, Tu Ping, Wang Sunjian and other senior officers in the army, and even doctors such as Bai Gui were present. Indeed, although the Han army has also made big moves in the past, it has never shied away from the spies of the Zhou royal family, perhaps out of contempt for the Zhou family, but this time it is extremely abnormal, and no outsiders are allowed to approach, but people have to wonder what novel weapons the Korean army has created.

While thinking about it, he walked up to the castle tower, and the original people in the city hurriedly saluted and gave up the central position to the king. Soon, Zhou Bian approached the women's wall, accompanied by the ministers and generals led by the young master and Bai Gui. Looking forward from the crack in the buttress of the women's wall, I saw a black army in the distance, slowly coming.

In the field of vision, the army was getting closer and closer, and the sound of vibration came from the ground, which could already be clearly felt from the female wall that was holding on to it. At the same time, the red arc directly in front of him also climbed up from the horizon.

This is not the first time Zhou Bian has seen the sunrise in this era, but it is definitely the most shocking, because as the sky gets brighter and brighter, dozens of tall instruments slowly appear in the black cloud-like army opposite.

What kind of siege equipment is this, how come it has never been seen by the South Korean army? In deep doubt, the generals on the city tower, connected with thousands of royal soldiers on the city walls on both sides, didn't care about anything else, thousands of pairs of eyes, staring ahead without blinking.

It's getting closer and closer, the sky is getting clearer and clearer, with the red sun as the background, and the army of tens of thousands of black clouds as a foil, the figures of dozens or even hundreds of tall machines are becoming clearer and clearer. Finally, I don't know who exclaimed, and suddenly there were intermittent exclamations, and even whispered discussions, which were particularly harsh in this quiet summer morning.

At this time, it is obviously not the time to investigate, everyone on the city gate, even the king Zhou Bian is also fascinated by his eyes and looks forward, but the quality of people's eyesight is not related to the level of status, dignity and position, obviously the eyesight of this group of generals and doctors on the city gate is not as good as the group of ordinary soldiers who spoke just now.

And just after a dozen or so breaths, a general finally let out an exclamation at the city gate, obviously involuntarily, but no one made a sound. After a few more breaths, finally the exclamations grew more and more, and someone began to arouse the king.

Zhou Bian still squinted his eyes and looked forward, and finally saw clearly what the huge instrument was, and when he saw it clearly, even Zhou Bian couldn't help it, and couldn't help but gasp. It turned out that the new siege equipment of the Korean army was actually a catapult!

Who would have imagined that the Korean army actually withdrew from the catapult, and no one wanted to believe that the royal family's advantage was gone, but the facts were in front of him, the tall figure, the wide base, and the long catapult all showed their identity, an epoch-making invention, a weapon that could change the offensive and defensive situation of the current era, and it was clearly a catapult.

No wonder there were so many exclamations, no wonder some people whispered, no wonder even the generals couldn't bear it, even Zhou Bian couldn't help covering his mouth, who could accept his advantage and be caught up by the opponent like this, who could bear the weapon he relied on The other party also took it out, no wonder Han Jun hid so deeply, I was afraid that he would let Zhou Bian desperately destroy it in a half-finished state.

"King!" "King!"

Finally, a shout sounded in my ears, and when I turned my head, I saw the pessimistic and expectant gazes of the generals around me.

And a little farther away, more and more soldiers on the city walls on both sides saw clearly the tall equipment surrounded by the Korean army, and the exclamations rang out, and the whispers gathered together, gradually becoming noisy.

Looking at the change in the situation, Zhou Bian took a deep breath, he can't be chaotic at the moment, especially if he can't mess up first, no matter what, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and now the Korean army has just launched a catapult, which does not mean that they have mastered the battlefield, we still have more than 30,000 soldiers, 40,000 people, and we still have the city wall.

So after thinking for a while, Zhou Bian spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, although I don't know how the Han army made the catapult, although I don't know how powerful this catapult is, and whether it will suppress us, but the fact is that the Han army also has a catapult. The king asks you not to be discouraged, and I believe that no matter what, victory will still belong to us and to the royal family. Ladies and gentlemen, this king has always been here and has never retreated, are you willing to fight to the death with the Korean army? ”

"We are willing to fight to the death with the Korean army, the royal family will win, long live the king!" The neat slogan sounded over the city gate, and it immediately overwhelmed the noisy chatter on both sides. Zhou Bian smiled with satisfaction, this will allow him to take out all the words at the bottom of the box, but fortunately, this tone from the future is still extremely effective.

Nodding, Zhou Bian pursed his lips to make his expression more serious, and then said, "First of all, this king asks you to personally go down the city wall, boost morale, and strictly enforce military discipline. ”

"Second, immediately order the people to prepare chain bullets, that is, tie two bricks with ropes, tie them strongly, this kind of chain bullets are extremely effective against tall instruments, in the Rang Minfu today, we have more than a hundred catapults next to the Dingding Gate, and we can also transfer some more, even if they are thrown against the enemy, they will be overwhelmed."

"Third, Dingdingmen will add troops and people, and the casualties in today's battle will be large, but we must not give up."

"Fourth, open the blocked Gaomen, prepare 3,000 death squads, and if necessary, go out of the Gaomen to attack the enemy's catapults directly, and destroy them at any cost. Guys, is there anything else you'd like to add? ”

came up with an idea so quickly, and the generals couldn't help but cast their admiring eyes on the king, the king is really the king, although he is young, but he is also destined to be respected by everyone.

However, naturally it will not and cannot be perfect, and after the generals saluted, they listened to Wang Sunjian arch his hand and said, "My lord, I thought that I could prepare more flammable things, one can be thrown with catapults, and the other can be carried by the dead soldiers who are preparing to leave the city, so as to burn the enemy slings." What does the king think? ”

This is not bad, Zhou Bian nodded immediately, "Then prepare flammable things, and hand them over to Bai Qing, it seems that some have been made before, so they should be prepared quickly." Ladies and gentlemen, although the enemy army also has catapults, we still have the city walls, relying on the walls to defend them, the enemy army will pay more than twice the price, and the victory will be ours in the end! ”

"No!" The generals arched their hands, and after shouting in unison, they quickly ran away, the situation was urgent, and there was no room for slackness.