"There are enough manpower to prepare the siege equipment from tomorrow. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Zhao Shiwu said: "Of course, this is the bright line, and the dark line is to cover the shooting city with a large number of artillery, so that the northern captives do not dare to take the lead at all, and then take the opportunity to attack it." ”

Tang Wangzong stepped forward and said: "You can test the artillery tomorrow morning, but my subordinates have observed, Qingcheng is all made of bricks, and the wall base is made of stone, such a city is very strong, even if the artillery keeps bombarding, at most it will damage the city wall and bombard the city tower. Only in the first round of bombardment may achieve significant results. ”

With Tang Wangzong's words, Zhang Han also looked at the city. Qingcheng is really small and strong, just by artillery bombardment, it may make countless deep pits in the wall, but it is indeed impossible to bombard the city.

The artillery of this era is still too small in terms of power.

"The artillery will do its duty." Zhang Han bowed his head and didn't care.

"The problem is still the fear of lack of water." Zhao Shiwu frowned and said: "The northern captives refused to defend the city, in addition to not knowing what was going on with the siege and defending the city, it may also be the reason why I felt that our army could not stay in the Qingcheng area for a long time. ”

Judging from the map, Heihe is only a short distance away from Guihua City, but this short is only the gap on the map, the actual distance is more than ten miles, and the distance of the gray river flowing from north to south is even farther. There are only these two rivers in the Qingcheng area, there are not many residents in the city, and most of them are scattered grazing, for the Mongolian herdsmen, ten or twenty miles of land is not a matter at all, a day can run a few back and forth, there must be well water in the city to quench thirst, it really doesn't work, there is no water source where the herdsmen can survive by drinking goat's milk or mare's milk, these methods are definitely not good for the merchant army, when the army comes, every soldier is filled with water, and the wagons of the cooks are also filled with large buckets of water, but if the war drags on for ten days and eight days, Water is a big problem.

"Altan Khan was able to dig wells, and of course we can." Li Dongxue, who has always been silent and only focuses on practical work, said with a smile: "This matter will be handled by the Military and Political Department, and after a while, I will take people to survey suitable places and dig wells overnight." ”

"80,000 people, a few wells can't solve a big problem." Li Shenming frowned and said, "We still have to hurry up and use manpower to quickly capture the city." ”

"There is no doubt that the Northern Captives will be defeated." Kong Minxing also spoke: "But starting from the actual situation, I think it is still necessary to find a way to break the city quickly, even if it cannot be broken immediately, it is necessary to make the northern captives in the city lose fear and force them to surrender." ”

Zhang Han subconsciously said: "Force him to surrender? Qingcheng is full of northern captives, and there are very few Han people, which is not as good as Bansheng City. ”

Kong Minxing smiled: "According to the summary of the situation I saw last year's war, there are also many contradictions within the Beiyu, Xi Lingse is incompetent and steals power, and the Taiji have long been dissatisfied, and now our army is pressing, if they can hold the city, they can still cooperate, if they see that the city will be broken, and they are desperate day by day, I am afraid that civil strife will arise from this." When the time comes, it is likely that the city will be taken without a fight. ”

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up.

A general smiled and said: "Mr. Kong is really powerful, not only is he a master, but he can also farm, and he can also understand the things of war." ”

The crowd laughed.

Kong Minxing shook his head and said: "I just provide an idea, how to do it, then it's not something I can participate in, if I want to talk about it, it's really just a piece of paper." ”

Zhang Han smiled and nodded, a really smart person is like this, he knows how to advance and retreat.

In this era, those who can be admitted to the examination and can make achievements in miscellaneous studies are undoubtedly the top talents.

Kong Minxing is one of the representative figures, he may have dabbled in military science before, and those who have pursued it in these years will look at military books and history books, and prepare in advance when presiding over military and political affairs in the future, of course, those who can do this are the top readers, those who only know the four books and five classics, and those who are dumbfounded and ignorant are the normal state of normal readers, and Kong Minxing was not obvious before, and after stepping in at this time, he also tried his best to make suggestions, today's matter, making an idea is just a gesture, but to show his heart to all the people in the inner circle.

"Xiping, what do you say?"

Zhang Han set his sights on Xia Xiping, the young man he was most optimistic about, although he was no more than two years older than Xia Xiping.

"My subordinates have some ideas." Xia Xiping's eyes are still very calm and calm, without feeling flattered or too stressed, his attitude is calm and calm, as if a few friends are chatting under the lamp.

"Since there is, let's say it quickly." Zhang Han scolded with a smile: "Everyone is hungry and waiting to eat." ”

Sun Jingting said speechlessly: "Wen Lan, please be cautious, what kind of identity are you, what kind of pass is this, what do you care about at this time." ”

Zhang Han hurriedly arched his hand to apologize.

This uncle, who is separated by two floors, has become more and more temperamental recently, and Zhang Han vaguely understands Sun Jingting...... It's like a person from a small family suddenly made a fortune, or someone in the family became a big official, ordinary people will become arrogant and arrogant when they encounter such a situation, and Sun Jingting is the opposite, the family is big, but will be more cautious, and even the personality will change, this mentality is like someone won millions of lottery tickets, after receiving the money, they will suffer from gains and losses, and even psychological imbalance, Sun Jingting is also a kind of imbalance, but it is a good change to the good side.

It's Li Shenming, Zhang Han feels that this old friend does often show a look of pride on his face, but fortunately, Li Shenming has not exceeded the scale, and Zhang Han is not willing to worry about some small things.

Only in the city of Bansheng, Zhang Han and Wang Yong both felt that something was wrong, faintly there was a feeling that there was some internal struggle for power and profit, and Zhang Han asked Wang Yong to force Liu Quan to commit suicide, so as to cut off the mastermind behind the scenes, and warn Liu of the possible black shadow behind his body. At this time, everyone rode under Qingcheng to discuss the seizure of the city, everyone was gossiping, the atmosphere was very harmonious, and Zhang Han also asked himself faintly: Is he too suspicious?

In the laughter of everyone, Xia Xiping also smiled, and then said: "From the perspective of subordinates, the best way is to seal the mound and attack. ”

"You mean," Zhang Han mused, "the mound of earth is higher than the city wall, and then leaps into it?" ”

"Yes, my subordinates think that in addition to our advantages in firepower and soldiers, the strength of our soldiers is far above that of the northern captives, and the sappers and soldiers are also forces that cannot be ignored. In addition, there are 20,000 people available, and in terms of manpower, we are far superior to the Beiyu, and we have long-range fire to suppress it, and it is not difficult to pile up a mound two hundred steps wide and higher than the city wall on the opposite side of the Beiyu city wall. Maybe it's just a day or two. ”

"This is not a small amount of work......," Sun Jingting said, "but it is a feasible method." ”

Zhang Han thought for a while and said, "It's really a good way, it's much stronger than the ant annex attacking the city." ”

In fact, Zhang Han considered the method of bombing the city with explosives, anyway, there was firepower to suppress the Beiyu who couldn't raise his head, so he asked the sappers to dig tunnels calmly under the city, bury thousands of catties of explosives, and teach you how strong Qingcheng is, and will definitely blow up half of the city wall, Li Zicheng seems to have used this method in attacking Kaifeng, since the ancients can use it, and Yusheng's gunpowder is there, bombing the city is a good way.

But Xia Xiping's suggestion seems to be more appropriate, it takes a long time to dig a tunnel, and if the effect of bombing the city is not ideal, you have to come again, not like piling up the mound to seal the mound is Yangmou, piling up the mound in front of you, which is a serious damage to the spirit of the defenders in the city.

For this method, there should be a moat and corresponding auxiliary facilities to defend the city, such as arrow towers, several moats, with a large number of antlers and horses, plus arrow towers, moats, one by one protection so that the besieging side has no way to immediately pile the earth under the city wall, and the amount of work is too huge to give up. However, there is only a bare city wall here in Qingcheng, and it may not have been thought that Altan Khan would build this city at all, and there would be a day when the Ming people attacked the city.

As soon as he thought of this, Zhang Han said conclusively: "That's it, seal the hill and attack the city!" ”

"Yes!"

Everyone present bowed down on their horses.

……

Zhang Han woke up early the next day.

The barracks were very noisy, and the cooks began to cook while it was still dark, and when Zhang Han got up, there were still many soldiers and people squatting on the ground to eat.

Everywhere is eaten according to the squad's meal, each squad has a big iron bucket of soup, of course, what is drunk in the morning is not broth, it is rice soup made of millet, and each person is given two large meat steamed buns, and the hands are full of oil.

If you are stationed in the camp normally, there is usually a table of small dishes in the morning, such as pickled radish strips, sauerkraut, pickled beans, pickled cucumbers and other side dishes, accompanied by two steamed buns or wheat cakes, and rice porridge, which is the favorite food of every soldier in the army.

At noon and at night, there is generally meat food, and the ration of two taels per person per day, if there is an important project to rush work, it is three taels or four taels, and the soldiers have a ration of four taels a day, if there is meat in the morning, noon and evening in wartime, regardless of the ration, let go of the belly and eat tightly, as long as the stomach is stuffed.

Regardless of the soldiers and soldiers, every day will be given eggs, sometimes duck eggs, sometimes eggs, recently because the scale of duck breeding has expanded dozens of times, duck eggs are increasing, but duck eggs are not like chickens laying eggs have a fixed place, picking up duck eggs is very troublesome, fortunately it is also considered to be a supply.

Now that the soldiers have eaten, they should be dispatched to carry out the guard mission, and most of the soldiers have eaten, only a small number of soldiers and civilians have eaten in the second round.