CHAPTER XX: Borrowing Grain 4
He is a martial artist, and when he sees this situation, his hands are naturally a little itchy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoAlthough Wujiabao looks strong, if he leads the troops, it may not necessarily be impossible to attack. It's just that the casualties are unpredictable.
Ritsu Kagawa looked at Xu Huang, shook his head and said, "I came out this time, and I wasn't prepared to fight with anyone at all. I'm not going to do anything with anyone if I'm not ready. What I'm going to do this time is just to scare people, if I can't scare them. That's it. ”
It turned out that he came out to borrow food, and the means were to deceive and scare, and he didn't think of using force at all! Xu Huang was secretly speechless in his heart.
But just like that, he was stunned to get him tens of thousands of catties of food, this guy was really lucky.
"Then this time, Ritsuma-sama didn't seem to scare them! Are we going to retreat? Xu Huang asked again.
Ritsu Kagawa smiled: "I didn't scare them, where did you start with this?" I've never started to scare people at all! How can it be said that it did not scare them? ”
Xu Huang said: "Isn't Lord Law scary? So what's the matter with so many people in front of someone else's house? ”
Of course, a large number of people can be considered a kind of intimidation, but Ritsukagawa said, "I am just showing others our power when there are many people. Others are scared to see so many of us, do you blame me for this? Is it that they themselves are cowardly, okay? ”
He was so quibble, Xu Huang really couldn't talk about him, so he asked: "What does Master Nalu have to do to scare others?"
Ritsukagawa said, "If you want to know, then I'll let you take a look!" But I'm going to have you to help me with this, do you see that big rock over there? Please ask General Xu to help me throw this stone into Wujiabao and kill a few of them, to see if they are afraid. ”
While speaking, Ritsu Kagawa is not far from his fingers. Xu Huang followed his instructions and looked over, and found that the place he was pointing to was at least two or three hundred catties in the big stone.
Such a big stone, of course, can move Xu Huang. But he said that he would be asked to throw such a big stone into Wujiabao, which was four or five feet high. That's a bit of a joke.
Looking at Ritsu Kagawa, Xu Huang said, "Ritsu-sama's scary method is a bit special!"
Ritsu Kagawa said, "Isn't General Xu willing to help?"
Xu Huang said: "You play with me as a stupid boy!" Who can throw such a big stone? ”
Ritsu Kagawa himself laughed and said, "It's true that no one can throw it."
Xu Huang said: "Then what is Lord Law going to do?"
Ritsukagawa put away his smile and said, "If you want to throw this big stone, let's cut down a few trees for me first!"
Everyone didn't know what he said he was going to cut down the trunk of the tree, but since Ritsu Kagawa said it, Liu Zhi and the others naturally did it. It didn't take much effort to cut down several large trees several feet high and drag them over.
Ritsukagawa also instructed Yanagi Nao and others to build a shelf with this tree, and then used the thickest trunk as the main arm to make a simple catapult.
The catapult uses the principle of leverage, and Xu Huang looked at the wooden frame he had erected, not knowing what Ritsu Kagawa was going to do. It wasn't until Ritsu Kagawa checked around and felt that it was basically firmly tied that he said to Liu Zhi:
"Now go and speak to the people inside, and order them to give food quickly, or we will be unkind to them."
Ryu Nao looked at the simple lever shelf that Ritsu Kagawa had set them up, and didn't know what he could do with it. However, he still had to listen to Ritsu Kagawa's words, so he went to the gate of Wujiabao to call for battle.
But soon he was shot back again. Since this is the case, Ritsukagawa is no longer polite. Wujiabao dared to ignore them like this, didn't he just rely on the depth of his fort and think that these people in Ritsukagawa couldn't break them?
He is going to tell the people of Wujiabao now that it is actually possible for them to break through the high walls of Wujiabao, and see if they are afraid or not.
So he ordered Liu Zhi and the 500 soldiers to push the simple catapult to a suitable distance from Wujiabao, and then asked everyone to move the boulder to the stone trough of the catapult.
Seeing that everything was set up, Ritsukagawa called a few strong soldiers and asked them to pull the arm on the other side of the lever. Ritsukagawa said to them, "Everyone must act in unison and use force quickly. Listen to me. One, two, three, pull! ”
With a snort, everyone pulled down the long arm violently, and the short arm suddenly lifted up. Under the action of power, the boulder of more than 200 catties flew out of the stone trough and flew straight to the top of the Wujiabao wall like a cannonball.
Boom......
Syllable......
Crash......
The boulder flew over the high wall and fell into Wujiabao. Liu Zhi and the others only heard a burst of exclamations inside, as if there was a commotion.
Ritsukagawa didn't care about so many others, and after sending a boulder, Ritsukagawa said again: "Send a few more to see if the people inside can still hold on."
The others looked at such a wooden shelf, and they actually lifted such a large boulder, and they all came to the spirit at once. Soon, another boulder was found.
After putting the stone into the Anshi trough, everyone pulled the long arm of the lever under the unified order of Ritsukagawa. Whew, the boulder was still thrown into the high walls of Wujiabao.
"Come again!" Ritsu Kagawa shouted. Throw a few more of these big stones into the fort, and the people inside will not be frightened.
Sure enough, when they tried to throw stones into the fort for the third time, the people of Wujiabao on the wall raised a white flag.
"Adults, stop throwing big stones. It is appropriate for us to have eyes that do not know Mount Tai, and we do not know the angels. Knowing that the adults are the people around the emperor, they want us to send it personally, and we will also send the food to the saint! Just ask the angels to forgive us this time! I don't know how much food the adults want? ”
It's good to say that earlier, if others scare them, they will be afraid. Ritsu Kagawa thought to herself. Walking to the gate of Wujiabao, Ritsu Xiangchuan said: "The saint only needs a little food for emergency relief, so borrow a hundred stones from your place first!"
"Angel, wait a minute." Humanity inside. After a while, the men inside hung the grain from the high wall with ropes. Liu led the people to the foot of the wall to fetch food. The crowd was overjoyed.
Xu Huang took a closer look at the simple shelf erected by Ritsu Kagawa, and imprinted everything deeply in his mind. Catapults were not popular in this era, and they could throw such large stones, which made Xu Huang feel amazed.
Who is this Ritsukagawa, how can he make such a delicate and practical tool?
Others, of course, are also impressed by this. However, they were given another hundred stone of food, which made them even more excited. Now they have borrowed about 400 stone of grain.
With so much food, if they only supply themselves, it will be enough to support them for a while.
"Then borrow a hundred stones from Jian Jiaji, and even if our mission this time is completed, we can go home." Starting the trip again, Ritsukagawa said to Liu Nao.
The group dismantled the simple lever catapult, destroyed it, and went on the road again, rushing to Jian's house. The Jian family in the neighboring county is also a big family, borrowing a hundred stones of grain, the Jian family is not so stingy!
After walking for almost two hours, everyone arrived at this Jane's house. The things on my back are getting heavier and heavier, and of course the speed of travel is getting slower and slower.
Seeing that the time was almost noon, Ritsu Kagawa and others came to borrow food. Maybe the people in this county are stronger than Anyi, and the Jian family even ignored them and didn't plan to borrow grain.
With experience this time, Yanagi Nao didn't wait for Ritsu Kagawa's order to cut down the tree. He still didn't believe it, so he threw seventy or eighty big stones into it, and Jian Jiabao didn't believe that he would not be smashed to pieces.
However, seeing that they were going to build a catapult again, Ritsu Kagawa said, "Let's rest, everyone!" This Jane's family does not borrow food now, and after a while he will send it to us himself. ”
Is there such a thing? Liu Zhi, who was stopped by Ritsukagawa, looked back at Ritsukagawa, full of suspicion. However, he also knows that Ritsukagawa has many things that others find difficult to understand. Therefore, although he had doubts in his heart, he did not open his mouth to ask.
Although it was a trip in vain, this place was much closer to the deserted village where they were stationed, and the journey of dozens of miles was not completely in vain.
In the middle of the afternoon, their group rushed back to the deserted village where Emperor Xian was located.