"Now that Huang Taiji's Houjin army has not yet reached the city of Beijing, we can do some work outside the city during this time, instead of completely limiting the method of consolidating the defense to the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Xiao Mu said.

"What do you do outside the city?" Lin Yi continued to ask.

"Of course, it would be best if Huang Taiji could be intercepted by Yuan Chonghuan and them, but if he really hit the capital, he would definitely have to set up camp, and he couldn't let his army sleep directly on the ground, right?"

"And then?"

"So, we can completely explore outside the city from the perspective of siege when the Houjin army has not yet come, and see what place is the most suitable place for the besieging side to set up camp, and then bury a large amount of gunpowder in that place in advance, and wait for Huang Taiji's Houjin army to arrive, and really camp in the place where the explosives are buried, only need to detonate the gunpowder that was buried before, can't you send them directly to the sky?" Xiao Mumei said with a flutter, as if Huang Taiji and Houjin's armies had all been blown up into the sky by gunpowder.

"Didn't you just say that Huang Taiji is not an idiot?" Lin Yi asked helplessly, "Why did he have to set up camp in the place where you buried the gunpowder?" The city of Beijing is so big, there must be many suitable places around the city to camp, can you bury all the places with gunpowder? ”

"Even if the city of Beijing is very large, there must not be any place around it that is suitable for camping, right?" Xiao Mu was still obsessed and said, "I will bury the gunpowder in the most suitable place to set up camp, if Huang Taiji really camps there, it will be the best, if he does not camp in the place where the gunpowder is buried, we will have nothing to lose." ”

"Then if you want to bury gunpowder, you have to dig a pit and fill in the earth, right? The ground where the gunpowder has been buried, even if it is well camouflaged, it will definitely be different from the normal ground, how could Huang Taiji camp in a place where it can be clearly seen that it has been dug? Lin Yi immediately threw out another question.

"Well, this is really a problem......" Xiao Mu frowned again, realizing that things were not as simple as he imagined.

Lin Yi felt that the question she had just asked could finally persuade Xiao Mu to give up this unrealistic idea and spend her time on some other things, but it backfired, and her question not only failed to stop Xiao Mu, but made Xiao Mu think more deeply.

"It's not entirely impossible to solve this problem." So after thinking for a while, Xiao Mu continued, "I can dig pits and fill in the soil everywhere outside the capital, and most places don't bury gunpowder, just to confuse Huang Taiji, so that he can't find a piece of ground that has not been dug up to camp. In that case, since everything has been dug up, Huang Taiji will choose a place where other aspects are more advantageous to set up camp, and I will focus on burying gunpowder in that place. ”

"Are you digging everywhere outside the capital?" Lin Yi was undoubtedly very surprised by Xiao Mu's "grand plan", "The capital is so big, how can it be dug up?" ”

"I've thought about it just now, but if you think about it, it's not really a big deal." Xiao Mu looked confident, "No matter how big the capital is, it is not as large as the surrounding farmland, and the farmers of Daming can plow all the vast farmland every year, why can't we dig some soil pits around the capital?" Besides, the tens of thousands of soldiers in the Beijing camp were already lacking in drills, and before Huang Taiji came to the capital, let them dig and dig the soil, which could be regarded as pulling them out for practice. ”

Xiao Mu's crooked reasoning made Lin Yi a little speechless for a while, "It is said that the ancient emperor had to have hundreds of thousands of people to build a project at the same time, I have never understood why so many people are needed before, and now you will need tens of thousands of soldiers to dig pits and fill in the soil, thanks to you, I can finally understand those huge projects now." ”

"Anyway, the soldiers in the Beijing camp are idle, and the imperial court still has to give them a stipend every month, how can there be a reason to receive money for nothing but not work hard?" Obviously, Xiao Mu is more inclined to regard the soldiers of the Beijing camp as the labor force he hired rather than the army in the real sense - after all, the poor combat effectiveness of the Beijing camp has basically become the consensus of all high-level people in the Ming Dynasty, although Xiao Mu does not know much about the Beijing camp, but he also has little confidence in their combat effectiveness under this subtle influence.

"And I can also use some 'true and false, false and real' strategies." Xiao Mu said that he had another plan in his heart, "You can find a place that is very suitable for the besieging party to set up camp, bury the gunpowder and carefully arrange the camouflage, make it look like it has not been dug up, and then dig around this place, digging beyond recognition, so that after Huang Taiji came, he found a place that had not been dug up and was very suitable for camping, maybe he would camp there directly." ”

"But no matter how you arrange it, it can't be exactly the same as the undug ground, right?" Lin Yi continued to question.

"That's why we have to dig around and dig around, to judge whether a place has been dug up, it must be compared with other normal places to judge, now there is no normal place around there, but there is the most normal place to look, how should they judge?" Xiao Mu answered Lin Ye's question very smoothly.

"That gunpowder is the most afraid of water, right?" Lin Yi had no choice but to choose another angle, and continued to question, "If you bury the gunpowder in the ground, the gunpowder will definitely get damp, and the damp gunpowder can't be ignited, won't all the previous work be done in vain?" ”

"Who said you had to bury gunpowder in the ground?" Xiao Mu's thinking was quick, and he immediately replied, "You can find some containers, put the gunpowder in them, and then bury them in the soil, for example, make some large boxes out of wood, and then use the lead to pass the gunpowder buried in the ground directly to the ground, and then choose the right time to ignite." ”

Lin Yi's current state is very uncomfortable, because she clearly knows that Xiao Mu's so-called "plan" is not feasible, but she can't find an effective way to stop him, but every question she raised has been resolved by Xiao Mu - in short, it is like knowing that one plus one equals two, but there is a person who has to point to the deer and say that one plus one equals three, and can prove it from various angles, and reject all the questions you raise.