Zhao Min was most of the otaku in his previous life, although he had some special interests in the Three Kingdoms, but that was limited to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and he was not familiar with the real history. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoSince the crossing, most of his mind has been spent on dealing with all kinds of intrigues against him, and he has no time to understand the customs and customs of various places. Therefore, when he saw the scene in front of him, he felt a little crying and laughing.

Zhao Min's location at this time was located on the river about two miles northeast of Feiguo County, and both ships were at anchor, waiting for Zhao Min's order. But Zhao Min himself is also worried at this time!

The captive who was familiar with the roads of Tai and Yi was named Ma Qier. Although such a name is weird, Zhao Min finally knows that Zhu Yuanzhang is still famous. But it is said that the Ming Taizu was named because he was born with eight catties and eight taels. If this guy was born only seven pounds and two taels, which is equivalent to a modern weight of just over three pounds, he would be lucky to be alive until now.

According to Ma Qier, Feiguo is a city built on water. It is not surprising that there are many cities built by water in this era, but Zhao Min never expected that this city by water would be so dependent!

The city of Philadelphia is not very high, like most cities in this era, it is mainly based on earthen ramparts, and it is no more than three zhang high. The difference is that there are many rocks on both sides of the water, so a circle of pebbles is superimposed on the base of the city wall. That's not unusual, but the point is that half of the pebbles used for the foundation of the city were built directly on the riverbank! That is to say, the city of Feiguo, the southeast city wall is basically equivalent to standing upright directly from the river wall, standing at the top of the southeast city wall, and the nearest position in the middle of the river is only less than ten zhang away! If you want to pass by two big ships here, it is equivalent to clinging to the walls of the Fei country. Unless all the people in the city are blind, there is no way to sneak past the edge of the city!

In fact, it's not a big deal to get closer, at most, there are no people on the deck when passing under the city wall, just rush over with full sails, anyway, there is no gunpowder zha ammunition in these years, and with long-range weapons such as crossbows and crossbows on the city wall, these two large ships that add up to more than 300 tons cannot be stopped.

The problem is that Feiguo's city defense seems to be more than just a few archers standing on the city wall, and on the head of the city on the water side, you can see several long masts-like things towering over it in the distance. The poles are probably made of wood, in pairs of twos; One of them is slightly longer and completely erect, the other is slightly shorter, intersecting straight rods at the base, but at an angle somewhat inclined to the outside of the ramparts; The short rods were more than ten zhang long, and the top was covered with something like a mallet; The two wooden poles are connected by long ropes at the tops, and there are also fishing net-like things between them, layered on top of each other. This thing may not be clear to others, Zhao Min happened to see something similar to this thing on a forum in his previous life, but it was not installed on the city wall but appeared on the warship - this is obviously the legendary "slap stick"!

Through the slightly blurred lenses of clairvoyance, Zhao Min sighed faintly. As the situation has evolved, the number of sighs has increased lately. He couldn't remember when the beat rod appeared, but it probably didn't appear before 100 AD. As for why it appeared here, I can probably only sigh that I am unlucky-this kind of large-scale killing weapon against ships can be encountered by myself in the inland hundreds of years in advance, isn't it luck?

Fortunately, he had a clairvoyance, a weapon that was ahead of his time, and he noticed that the situation was not good early when he was out of sight, and stopped the ship in time. If you don't know the bottom line, Zhao Min doesn't want to experience for himself whether the legendary slap stick has the effect of "breaking the dang".

Of course, this matter can't be blamed for not being investigated in advance, after all, the captives, including Ma Qier, were ordinary farmers and miscellaneous laborers earlier, not to mention that they would not pay attention to whether there were any city defense facilities; Even if you see it, you probably think it's a flagpole or something else and you don't care. Only Zhao Min, who happened to have heard of this thing, could know how fierce this thing was against the ship.

It's really hard to ride a tiger now. Seeing that as long as you break through Fei Guo, you can jump out of the sphere of influence of the red scarf, but who wants to be stuck here and can't retreat. It is definitely not possible to retreat, the Yishui fork is blocked to death, and after yesterday's test, it will definitely not be able to rush through, at least with only their own two broken boats; Needless to say, it's not safe to stay where you are. Now that the sky is bright, it will inevitably be people entering and leaving the city when it is a little brighter, and how abrupt and abrupt will be on the empty water; Even if no one enters or leaves, the rout of last night's Broken Intestine Beach may report their whereabouts in two or three hours, and by that time there may not even be room for maneuver!

Zhao Min was helpless, and couldn't think of a way, so he simply gathered everyone together to discuss. Although I know that these people are not necessarily better than me, it is better than pondering by myself. Zhao Min first explained to them in detail the horror of the clap, and then explained the difficulties and dishes, and then glanced at the people present with an inquiring eye.

Several people looked at each other and stared at each other for a while, but Shao Qi spoke first: "Fourth master, you said that this 'slap stick' is really powerful, so there is no flaw?" ”

Zhao Min rolled his eyes when he heard this, how did he know about this thing? Knowing that the clapper is still due to the developed consultation of later generations, I am just curious for a moment and take a cursory look, but who will explore its advantages and disadvantages! "I'm only famous for this thing, but today I see it in its entirety, and I really can't guess what flaws there are."

This was said as if they were not spoken, and everyone fell silent for a while. After a long time, Shao Qi spoke again: "No matter how powerful the equipment is, it must be operated by hand!" Our army has a lot of strong crossbows, so we use strong crossbows to suppress the head of the city on the boat, so that it cannot be operated, is it possible? ”

Zhao Min thought for a while, shook his head and said: "It's daylight now, and the enemy can see us from a distance, so he will definitely prepare in advance." If we have a strong crossbow, we will know that the enemy army will have no bows and arrows? At that time, the city will be attacked, condescending, and covered by battlements, the effect is far better than our army, and I am afraid that it may be suppressed...... "A city with tens of thousands of soldiers, no matter how peasant army, hundreds of bows and arrows can still be found, right?" When the time comes, an arrow rains down on the city, and when the ship travels under the city wall, the pole falls—that's what a shot and two scatter!

At this time, Zhang Han, who had been staring at the bull's eye, suddenly interjected: "It is naturally impossible to shoot from under the city to the city." If you can rush to the head of the city, you will not be afraid of him! ”

Shao Qi pursed his lips disdainfully: "Not to mention how to rush to the city, even if you go up, how do you come down?" ”

Zhao Min was moved when he heard this. The biggest disadvantage of his side is that there are too few soldiers, and the advantage is the strong quality of individual soldiers, plus excellent armor. If you fight in the open field and are attacked on all sides, even a rabble like the Red Turban Army can drown itself with a sea of people. But if it is in a narrow and favorable terrain, it may not be able to play the role of a husband, even if there are thousands of people on the other side, you can only stare dryly if you can't come up! The Battle of Broken Gut Beach fully proved this point. And the city wall of Fei Guocheng is also a small place, which meets the conditions of being a husband?

It's not difficult to enter the city, I observed it for a long time just now, and the gate of Fei Guo was not closed, just pretend to be a rout and mix in. But it's one thing to sneak into the city, it's another thing to occupy the walls. Although the quality of the soldiers of the Red Turban Army is not high, no matter how bad they are, they know that the city wall is the key point of defense, so they will not be too neglectful. If you want to occupy a section of the city wall, the necessary condition is that there are not many soldiers in the city, maybe you can create some chaos in the city?

As for what Shao Qi said about how to leave, it is really not difficult. The deck of the big ship that Zhao Min and others are riding is more than one zhang from the water, and the height of the Fei city wall is only three zhang, as long as the timing is well mastered, it is not a big deal to jump from the city wall to the ship - more than one zhang is converted into a modern length of more than three meters, and jumping from this height will definitely not kill people, at most it is only a matter of one foot. Anyway, when I was young, I didn't do anything like jumping off the wall!

Of course, the so-called easier said than done, and there are still many detailed problems that need to be solved in specific operations. Zhao Min didn't know if this was the best solution, but he knew very well that if he didn't make a decision, it was likely that this would really be the place where these hundred and ten people would be buried.

The so-called continuous judgment will be subject to chaos. Zhao Min didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered the two boats to retreat two miles, find a river to turn and hide, anchor and anchor, and then gather Shao Qi and others to discuss secretly for half an hour. When everything was arranged, twenty of the best men were selected from the guards, and they got off the ship and quietly came to the west of Philadelphia City.

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Feiguo County is rectangular, long from east to west, narrow from north to south, this side of the water is the south city, the total length is only 20 zhang. There are no gates on the north and south sides, only two gates on the east and west. The water is not a conventional waterway, and Feiguo County is a small city, and the city gates are usually open. Therefore, when the Red Turban Rebellion broke out, it happened suddenly, breaking into the almost defenseless county town and taking it in one fell swoop. But even if the Red Turban Army took the county seat, firstly, no one in the northern official army had time to suppress the bandits, and secondly, for the Red Turbans, Fei Guo was only a temporary place to live, and it was not worth any defensive investment, so there was no city defense so far, only some soldiers and sentries were sent to the city gate and the four city walls, and even the city gate was still wide open.

Qin Delu sat alone in the county hall with a faint uneasiness in his heart.

Since the second incident of the red scarf, the Taishan and Langya branches have gathered more than 20,000 people in just over half a month. Langya County is okay to say that due to the Yishui and water barriers, Kaiyang and Zhangcheng counties are not in a big deal for a short time; NC County, on the other hand, is almost surrounded by mountains, so it has little strategic value, so it is not necessary; Only Fei Guo is located between the Yimeng Mountains and the Taishan Mountains, controlling the main road, and is closest to several big cities such as Fenggao and Lu in the north, so the red scarves of the two counties are generally piled up in Fei County.

At this time, spring ploughing has just ended, and it is already green and yellow; Being so troubled by the red scarf, the farmers in the countryside either fled from the land or were coerced into the red scarf team. And there are only four counties in the hands of the red scarf. The army of 20,000 men in four counties was obviously a little stretched in terms of food and grass, so it was necessary to assign most of the men to the countryside. One is because the county town is too small to pile up these many people, and the other is to let these people take food nearby, and by the way, they can also collect grain from the four townships to feed the Chinese army. Of course, there is a third point, because most of the Red Turbans in the two counties are Taishan thieves, these guys are not very obedient to discipline, and they always want to get some benefits, so they simply scatter them all out of sight. As for whether these people will burn, kill and loot after they go out, no one cares about this question, but because this reason is not suitable for publicity, everyone tacitly avoids talking about it. Therefore, the only people who are really stationed in the city of Philadelphia are the more than 3,000 farmers who are entrapped locally, as well as the 800 descendants of Qin Delu, the general of Tianpeng.

Qin Delu was sitting in the hall of the county office, it was already spring and summer, the weather was not very hot, and the ventilation in the hall was also good, but beads of sweat could still be seen oozing from the head of the supreme leader of the red scarf of the two counties. At present, the development of the Red Turban Army on the eastern Thai side is good, the number of troops has exceeded expectations, and the work of collecting ships on the surface is not bad, and more than 200 large and small ships have been obtained in four or five days. According to this progress, at most another seven or eight days will be able to gather enough boats, and then go down the river, take Tanxian and Xiapi in one fell swoop, and open up the passage of the red scarves in the east and south, and the situation will be very good. At present, although there is a shortage of grain and grass, if it is cleaned, it will not be a problem to maintain it for ten days and half a month. But for some reason, since yesterday, he has felt faintly uneasy.

Yesterday, news came that two merchant ships on the Yishui River were blocked, and according to the strategy of the Wu'an military division, they were intercepted at the Broken Gut Beach as usual. Unexpectedly, the men and horses who went to receive this batch of goods were defeated by a team of dozens of people in one fell swoop. Although he also knew that the men and horses sent to receive it were a rabble, it was really a bit surprising that such a disparity of a number of dozens versus three hundred could still be defeated. The point is that the news that this group of people is well-equipped and well-trained, and they are the elite of the standard officer and army, which makes him have some ominous premonitions in his heart. But no matter how elite he was, he had no intention of sending a large army to exterminate him. After all, there are only a few dozen people, and it is enough to have a thousand people stationed in Yiting to exterminate them, not to mention that there are two hundred soldiers in Yiting's team.

Qin Delu stood up a little irritably, walked to the patio and looked up at the sky. At this time, it was past sunset, and it was not too far to see from the outside, only the cries of a few old crows on the old trees in the courtyard seemed extremely depressing, which made the already somewhat irritable mood even more depressed. It stands to reason that the army left yesterday, and the round-trip journey plus the time of the battle, there should be news coming back by noon today at the latest. But for some reason, there is no news until now.

When I was in a hurry, I suddenly heard a noise outside, as if someone was shouting something. Qin Delu couldn't help but be furious, and shouted: "What's the trouble!" Is the sky falling? ”

A junior colonel hurriedly came in, his expression was slightly panicked: "General, there is a fire in Dongcheng, most of the grain and grass materials are in Dongcheng, and the battalion sergeants are worried that the materials will be on fire, so they are all shouting to fight the fire, and they are making noise for a while." ”

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