Chapter 338: No War on the Northern Front

But even if Fan Guoshi was so guarded, he still couldn't stop the Humvee. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 With a group of experts in the Wolf Tooth Capital to guard against the camp, Li Deyi had to act carefully, but this only limited him from making trouble, but it could not restrict the Hummer from coming and going at will. Because the speed of the Hummer is too fast, even if it is the best Tuliao war horse, you can only watch his hind cheeks eat ashes. Li Deyi relied on the speed advantage of the Humvee, and every time he swaggered to reconnoiter for a while, and when your people went to catch him, he turned around and ran, and he couldn't catch up.

Under the vigorous patrol of the wolf's tooth capital, Li Deyi has no chance to make trouble, but he comes to shake under your nose from time to time every day, which is disgusting enough. You can't help but stare at him yet. If you don't send a master to take precautions, who knows what kind of immoral thing this kid will do when he takes advantage of the loophole.

Later, Fan Guoshi simply transferred most of the wolf's tooth masters back, and cooperated with the squad of golden wolf cavalry to expand the scope of inspection again, and patrolled day and night within ten miles of the outskirts of the Tuliao camp. In this way, Li Deyi's range of activities has also been narrowed to the extreme, and sometimes if he wants to see the movements of the Tuliao battalion, he has to take risks to go deeper. On several occasions, Li Deyi was even almost injured, but it was only with the fierce speed of the Hummer that he escaped.

However, Li Deyi also has a lot of energy, the more difficult it is, the more he must bravely rush in to reconnoitre. After many days of hard work, I finally got a feel for the situation of the Tuliao people.

Based on the military situation brought back by his junior disciples these days, Commander Xiao Liu accurately judged Fan Guoshi's intention to fight a protracted war, and immediately changed his strategic deployment to deal with it. The first is to send a letter to the rear of Beixian County, asking the master to open one more military food cache in case of emergency. Secondly, Dingbei County asked three generals to come forward, continue to recruit troops, train new soldiers, and send them to the front of the Dingbei garrison regiment camp in time. Then Li Deyi got a few parallel workshops to keep an eye on, step up the production of weapons and armor, and replace the battle-damaged ones.

Li Deyi is so big, although he has fought many battles, but he has never fought a protracted war, at most at the foot of Yecheng, and fought back and forth with 20,000 golden wolf cavalry for several months, but the total is less than a year. On this day, Li Deyi came to Senior Brother and asked curiously, "Senior Brother, what is this protracted battle like?" ”

Xiao Liu, the head of the group, was happy, but he didn't answer him, only said: "You'll know in two days." Li had to go back and wait.

After a few days, Li Deyi hurriedly came to his senior brother, his little face was full of anxiety: "Senior brother, it's been a few days, why haven't the Liao people made any moves?" The Li family in Luodu City also did not move. The two emperors were not in a hurry, one was more stable than the other. Even the colliding army didn't come to trouble us, and I was about to get sick after staying in the camp for the past few days. These two emperors are really, hurry up and fight, divide the winners and losers as soon as possible, or go back to live their own lives, they are always so consumed, and now they are all scared, how uncomfortable. ”

Xiao Liu, the head of the group, said happily: "You are not stuffy with green hair, right?" Didn't you ask me the other day what a protracted war is? Here it is. ”

"But now the two families of the Pingtang Kingdom and the Tuliao Kingdom are staring at each other every day, and they are not fighting. You look at me, I look at you, can you win? What kind of war is this? Li Deyi muttered dissatisfiedly.

"Why the Tuliao people are not in a hurry to attack the city at the moment, I can't say it yet. But the Li family must be willing to drag on the war slowly, their family is backed by Shangjin Province, and they have the support of the Yellow Turbidity River waterway, soldiers, horses, grain, grass and equipment, which are continuously transported into the city every day, so it will not be a problem for Luodu to defend for ten or eight years. Commander Xiao Liu said to Li Deyi while sorting out the various military situations in front of him.

"Li Jiaping's soldiers of the Tang State are not as elite as the Tuliao people, and the field battle is not an opponent. The only advantage is to rely on the strong walls of the high city of Luodu. I think Li Si Nai probably saw that the Tuliao people would only graze cattle and not produce, and if the war dragged on for a long time, he felt that he would have a great advantage over the Li family. ”

"Senior brother, did you say that Fan Guoshi is holding back and stealing the boulder cannon again. I've been to see it several times in the past few days, and the huge stone cannons of the Tuliao people haven't moved, which is a little wrong. Li Deyi said in confusion.

"There is a lack of mountains and forests around the city of Nado, and there are no trees that are more than 100 years old in the mountains. Thinking about it, with the ability of Fan Guoshi, it is difficult to conjure such a giant tree empty-handed. If the cannon was built with unsuitable wood, it would not be able to fire a huge stone projectile, and it would be useless. You once said that Ding Zhuang, who was captured in large numbers by the Tuliao people, rested on the road behind him, if you guessed correctly, this should be preparing for the future transportation of giant trees. This megalithic cannon was a siege weapon, and with it, the Golden Wolf Cavalry did not need to climb the tall walls of Naluodu. Fan Guoshi will never easily abandon the boulder artillery, he must be transporting the giant wood and rebuilding the boulder artillery regiment. Head Xiao Liu analyzed.

"If Fan Guoshi is waiting for the giant wood to arrive, he can make enough boulder cannons to attack the city. Then the current unhurried and unhurried combat method of the Tuliao people can also be justified. It's late autumn and winter is just around the corner. In order to transport grain and grass in the rear, Fan Guoshi gathered a large army to spend the winter and vigorously rested the roads, which is also one of the reasons. You should go to the rear of the Tuliao people to reconnoiter and see if you can do something on the grain route of the Tuliao people. Head Liu said, giving instructions to Li Deyi.

After listening to his senior brother's words, Li Deyi immediately went a few times and found that this grain road was really well defended, and the masters and golden wolf cavalry of the wolf tooth capital were patrolling back and forth along the road, and Fan Guoshi obviously attached great importance to this grain road.

Captain Xiao Liu didn't misunderstand Fan Guoshi this time. Master Fan is a master of using soldiers, how could he ignore such an important matter as the grain road. After Fan Guoshi saw that Luodu was eager and difficult to break, he immediately adjusted his strategy, began to accumulate strength, stockpiled military food and equipment, expanded the scope to capture Ding Zhuang to work, and at the same time slowed down the battle ahead.

According to Fan Guoshi's plan, at least a year later, Luodu City will be captured by the Tuliao State. What needs to be done now is to repair and protect the roads in the rear, smoothly transfer the rations in the rear, transport the huge trees cut down in the mountains, and make enough boulder cannons.

The key to these things is the safety and smoothness of the grain road, of course, Fan Guoshi will send a large army to focus on protection, how can Li Deyi take advantage of it. As for the front-line battle, with 50,000 golden wolf cavalry in charge, it was enough to suppress the Li family's soldiers and horses who couldn't get out of the city and couldn't move.

Seeing that he couldn't find a chance to do it, Li had to report the matter to his senior brother, and Xiao Liu, the head of the group, couldn't come up with any good way to deal with it. Even if Wang Zhuangbiao is allowed to follow him to kill for a while, it is just to kill some scattered cannon fodder, and it will not interfere with the grain transportation of the Tuliao people. If it is a big trouble, as soon as the Golden Wolf Cavalry is dispatched and Fan Guoshi appears, the Dingbei Garrison still does not dare to engage in battle.

In the end, Commander Xiao Liu had to give up the idea of attacking and harassing the grain route of the Tuliao people. Now Li Deyi has nothing to do, no fighting, and he can't catch the Tuliao scouts, so he can only hold back at home every day, wanting to come out with some bad water.

Now Fan Guoshi is also fine, and he will no longer send detective cavalry to death, he saw that the Dingbei garrison regiment did not dare to take the initiative to provoke the golden wolf cavalry, so he simply no longer sent reconnaissance cavalry to the Dingbei garrison regiment, but built a number of small villages on several key roads as beacon towers. At that time, once the Dingbei garrison regiment has made a move, it will ensure that it can be warned as soon as possible.

There was nothing else to do, and Li De began to fiddle with the iron egg in his hand as soon as he was idle. At the end of last summer, Luo Youyou finally dug another pit of high-quality iron seedlings in a place hundreds of steps away from the original high-quality iron seedlings. This pit of iron ore is also accompanied by a lot of fire stones, only slightly less than the first one.

This made Li Deyi's stock of iron eggs in his hand finally increase. But quantity alone is not enough, we have to further improve the quality of iron eggs. Not to mention anything else, Li Deyi is very dissatisfied with the way the iron egg is detonated now. So Li Deyi had nothing to do in the past two days, so he just sat down to study and ponder this iron egg, and wanted to improve it.

The current detonation method of this iron egg is still the same as before, there is a fine iron jaw inside the firestone, and it will release when it is violently impacted, and then the firelinstone will fall down, and it will be shaken and cause an explosion. The problem with this detonation method is still the same, the iron egg transportation process can not be subjected to violent vibration, otherwise it is very easy to have an accident. So far, only Li Deyi can touch this iron egg, and it is all up to Li Deyi to carry the basket full of straw on his back.

But it's not a little bit of improvement. It turns out that the iron egg can only be made by putting in the fire lin stone first, fixing the jaws, and then installing the last piece of iron eggshell, pouring it with tin juice, and sealing it. But this method is very unsafe, and he almost injured Li Deyi himself several times. Later, Li Deyi summoned three blacksmith masters, as well as Wang Yigao, to jointly design an iron egg that could open the lid. Out of secrecy, Li Deyi still did not let Wang Yigao know the specific purpose of this iron egg.

After making this kind of open-lid iron egg, it is much safer to put the iron egg into the fire linstone at the end. Because after putting in the fire stone, just pin the lid on the line, and there is no need to fix it with a hammer and pour tin juice to seal it.

Now Li has to think about how to better detonate this iron egg. It's not a long-term solution to detonate by throwing stones on your own, and if you miss any time, this iron egg will fall into the hands of the enemy, which will be a big trouble. Li Deyi frowned, sitting there every day, trying to find a safe way to detonate.

Thinking about it, Li Deyi didn't come up with anything famous. This kind of inventive and creative work basically belongs to creating something out of nothing, and it is the most difficult category. If Li Deyi hadn't relied on the support of the picture in his dream several times, where would he have been able to do it.

This time during the day, he didn't come up with a way, and Li Deyi began to count on dreaming at night again, and those pictures appeared in the sea to help. As a result, this night, Li De dreamed back and forth, and he didn't dream of going out of the doorway. The pictures that appeared in the sea of knowledge were messy, and Li Deyi dreamed all night, only to see his head buzzing and his headache until he woke up, but he didn't dream anything.

Li Deyi was not discouraged, anyway, there had been no war recently, so he was stuffy in the tent thinking about it, and he was just on the iron egg!

There was no war for a few days in a row, and Commander Xiao Liu was also happy to be idle, training the soldiers every day, and pulling the Yiren cavalry out for a walk, which was completely routine.

After the colliding army suffered a loss at the hands of the Dingbei garrison regiment, no one dared to come to intrude. Only Li Sinai sent someone to send a cart of cow wine from time to time to reward him. Captain Xiao Liu did not refuse every time he came, and accepted all the orders.

(To be continued.) )