Chapter 500: Plotting to Pacify Jiangdong (29)
As the southernmost county of the Han Dynasty, Yuzhang City was not a big city. Even if Sun Ce planned to use this as a base to forbear and plot against Jiangdong, he paid most attention to the affairs of military governance and civil affairs, and the repair of Yuzhang County was only a simple rest, and it is estimated that he did not expect that one day, his own army would really "fall" to the point where it is now.
But even so, there will be casualties in the siege, and the last thing Qin Xu wants to see now is that after several wars of the original 30,000 Qingzhou soldiers, only more than 23,000 people remain, although after experiencing the war and training, the Qingzhou soldiers are like a peerless sword, and they have finally been sharpened out of the blade, and the combat power of the soldiers has reached a very dazzling height, but Qin Xu really doesn't want such elite soldiers to be so easily lost in the meaningless siege consumption. Of course, even if you take a step back, the Danyang soldiers who have just been subdued will not be able to. The first army is attacked, the second is the enemy, the second is the army, and the last is to attack the city. Attacking a city with the most elite soldiers is itself a violent action that will be punished by heaven. Qin Xu had to think of other ways to attack this city that was almost related to Jiangdong's belonging.
The first thing Qin Xu thought of was the soil explosives sent by his eldest brother and left over from the battle with the Danyang soldiers in Guangling City. This thing almost accompanied the growth of Qin Xu's forces, and it always played a role, big or small. Whether it is against Cao Cao or the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, they have made great contributions. However, there are also a lot of disadvantages of this thing. Because this thing is just a common-sense sentence from a black-and-white movie mine warfare when Qin and Lu Bu were cornered by Cao Cao when they were cornered by Cao Cao at the beginning, a common sense sentence from mine warfare when they were children flashed in their heads. I got the inspiration to make this thing that is not small but can be used to light a fire on dry wood, and other things that are almost negligible. Although in the Nameless Valley or outside the city of Beihai. This kind of silver-like pewter spear head treasure has helped Qin Xu a lot several times, but Qin someone, who no longer dares to doubt the wisdom and vision of the ancients, has become more and more cautious in using it.
In the first battle of Guangling, in fact, the bomb of the eldest brother of the "sister's cause" was not so much a weapon, Qin Xu always felt that it was more ornamental than that. Facts also proved that the morale of the soldiers at that time was unstable. The Danyang soldiers, who were taken advantage of, were also a little frightened at the first time, but they quickly recovered. It is enough to prove that the impact of an unknown object will gradually weaken as the number of occurrences increases. At least until a more powerful enhanced version is developed. Qin Xu is right in the matter of Yuzhang. To be honest, I don't have much confidence in whether this thing can work on the wall that is not too thick. Especially in Yuzhang City, there is also the Jiangdong Zhou Lang who has excellent wisdom and calculation, and his heart is even more bottomless.
But one can't be suffocated by urine. As early as the beginning of the siege, Qin Xu had already begun to have the problem of maximizing the favorable resources at hand to reduce unnecessary casualties, and studied it with Sima Mao, Lao Xu and other people around him who knew little information about this thing. In the end, it was the words of the Shanyue girl Wumei who listened to it, which made Qin Xu have some plans.
The unknown is the scariest. Even if it is prepared according to rumors. In fact, it is difficult to be thorough. So far, Qin has a hand that can thunder on the battlefield. The great killing weapon of the shining light, with Qin Xu's ascension to the high position, is no secret. Presumably, Zhou Yu will never have heard of it, and there must have been corresponding measures to counteract such a big killer weapon that is difficult to understand its "principle". After all, with the rise of Qin Xu's identity, it is inevitable that some previous things will be circulated, if you have the heart, it is estimated that it is easy to conclude that the most effective means of this thing is actually deterrence, so that the other party can make achievements from the chaos. This can't be hidden from Zhou Yu's exquisite thoughts. The worst thing is that Zhou Yu only needs to order the soldiers to guard the city, not react to the abnormal movements in front of him, and only survive the first round without shocking scenes, the deterrent power of this thing will plummet, and in the end, it will inevitably take the old way of exchanging the lives of the sword soldiers.
This is the last thing Qin Xu wants to see. Just when Lao Xu and Sima Mao and others were also blind and at a loss. Wu Mei, who had been pretending to be Qin Xu's personal soldiers, expressed her disdain for the helpless appearance of these old men, and just said lightly: "You Han people are really cowardly, I heard that there are no good shooters in your army?" Yuzhang County is not big, only a few rounds of projectiles, will it be solved soon? β
Kong Er has always been stunned and has never dealt with Wumei, plus he has destroyed "good things" several times, and he can't control the big mouth, but he is very afraid of Wumei's spirit snake, and the contradiction between the two has become irreconcilable in just a few days. Kong Bin is a person, and he is bullied by the articulate Wumei on weekdays, so it's easy to catch the opportunity, so it's not good to show off?
Kong Bin sneered at first, expressing his contempt for Wumei's range of activities being trapped in only a few mountains, so he was lonely and unheard. In a condescending tone, he explained to Ume in public the simple truth that arrows are not omnipotent. Even if it is a rocket, as long as Sun Ce's soldiers cover the vital point with a soaked straw mat on one side, all the rockets are even if they are hit, but in fact, they are not of much use at all except for the enemy.
"Ume is right!" Just when Kong Bin rarely had a sense of superiority over Wumei, who always had the upper hand in quarrels and arguments on weekdays, and who was poor in reasoning and words, he put a spirit snake to scare people, and at this moment, he saw that Wumei was "speechless" by himself, and he was about to talk about it rarely, Qin Xu suddenly popped out of a sentence, but it made all the words prepared by Kong Bin stuck in his throat, and then looked at Wumei's appearance of squeezing his eyebrows at him, and his face darkened. It's just that with Qin Xu on his side, Kong Bin, who was already by Qin Xu's side when Lu Bujun went to Chang'an, really didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Qin, so he could only stare at Wumei with hatred.
Qin Xu didn't care about the small friction between Kong Bin and Wumei. I was just scolding myself in my heart, could it be that I was really assimilated by this era, how could I not even think of such a simple thing. I only saw that the power of home-made explosives in siege warfare was not enough to blow up the city gate or city wall for various reasons, and if it was cast at a distance, the deterrence caused was limited. How far can a soldier's arm be thrown? Second, the range of the archers on the city wall is not simply a matter of calculation. If you are far away, you can't make effective damage, and if you are close, you will be within the range of the enemy, and so on, but you don't have the heart to find a way to solve it. The range is easy to handle, and if the deterrent is not good, just send it to them, and you are afraid that these people will not give in? I didn't think of such a simple method, it's really embarrassing for the traverser.
Wumei's inspiration to Qin Xu was actually near the barracks. Jiangdong has many mountains and rivers, the climate is warm and suitable, and it is very suitable for the growth of crops, especially because of the climate, even the military rations are two seasons a year near the mountains of Yuzhang, and there are large acres of bamboo forests with the thickness of sea bowls. Most of the bamboo forests produced in these bamboo forests were made into bows and arrows for soldiers to use, Zhou Yu was confident that he could hold Yuzhang and wait for Sun Ce to come back to help, a big reason is because in addition to the food in Yuzhang City, the second place is arrows, countless arrows. And these materials for making arrows now have a different use in Qin Xu's eyes.
There were still a hundred and ten of the remaining explosives in Guangling, but they were enough. Each of these killing weapons is the size of two fists on average, and I don't know how Mi Zhu thought, so he ordered someone to make all the clay pots containing such dangerous goods in such a balanced size, and I don't know how much thought it took to make these in one night. However, this action that was slandered by Qin Xu was a great favor to Qin Xu at the moment.
Qin Xu didn't explain in detail to the people around him, and ordered to go down in the confused eyes of everyone, and ordered someone to divide the giant bamboo into four pieces, synthesize the width of the mouth slightly larger than the caliber of the Mi pottery bottle, and fix it with a thick hemp rope to tie it up, and it became a simple throwing tube, although this thing looks simple and unbearable, and it was created in a hurry, but the power has been verified by "history", and even, in the history of Qin Xu, in addition to exerting extraordinary combat power on the battlefield of foreign races, this kind of improvised weapon has a very domineering nameββ" No conscience cannon"! The only difference is that the time and space era has been changed, the target object has been changed, and the most important thing is that the "main weapon" has been replaced with a Mishi clay pot with only less thunder.
Qin Xu wasn't worried about what kind of suspicion this thing would lead to after it was discovered by Zhou Yu in the city. In fact, the more Zhou Yu cared about his Qin someone's "new weapon", the more excited Qin Xu actually became. What you want is such an effect, in a highly tense situation, you can't guess the unknown things at first glance, if you can still react without being shocked, then no one will be mixed up these days. For this reason, in order to make the generals of the Sun family in the city take the bait, Qin Xu also specially placed a lot of "enlarged versions" of the defective products of the conscienceless cannon at the gate of the camp, and "sent" them to Yuzhang City for free.
Qin Xu's military order, each department performed its own duties, and the entire military camp was calm on the outside, but on the inside, it was ready to start a war against the Yuzhang soldiers who were cowering in Yuzhang City at this moment, and no one dared to go out of the city.
At four o'clock in the morning, it was probably less than five watches, it was the "auspicious time" of Qin Xu's decision to raid Yuzhang, and all departments and departments had already made preparations, that is, Kong Bin made a mistake again, and he had to come to pick up Qin Xu, so he made such a joke. The soldiers in the army who were greeted by a fierce battle, although their faces were as usual, but they made people feel a trace of nervousness in their breathing, calmed down a lot. Finally, Qin Xu, who was dressed in soft armor, appeared in front of the Qingzhou soldiers who were at the forefront of the queue and had a long spin tube in front of the dozens of Qingzhou soldiers who had been trained by Cao Xing before, Qin Xu was also proud in his heart, and looked at the faint white Xu wheel in the sky far away, and there was only one word left in his heart. Qin Xu took a deep breath and looked at the gloomy Yuzhang County in front of him with a clear gaze, his tongue trembling like spring thunder, highlighting two words.
Offensive! (To be continued......)