Chapter 26: Encounters
I don't know how many people have been bullied by the government, officials, and squires and wealthy families, but society is like this, since ancient times, the powerless and powerless ordinary people are always easy to bully, and this era is more direct and common. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info sympathy, this Li Tianwang's experience, the most can arouse the sympathy and resonance of the people, there is such a similar experience, everyone will faintly regard him as a fellow traveler, and his resistance to him will drop significantly.
"Daddy, don't be sad, one day, we will definitely be able to kill Wang Shiqi's dog official." The woman named Wan Niang comforted. When it comes to being oppressed by the gentry, there are a few who have not experienced it, and even some of their families are ruined, and everyone feels the same for a while, only Xu Zhengze has no feelings, his time is also a lot better, although there are many angry things on the Internet, but he has not experienced it personally after all, it is unthinkable to empathize.
"It's not easy." Listening to his daughter's words, Li Tianwang was not comfortable, and still sighed, "This person doesn't have much ability, he is greedy and perverts the law, and he is a good hand at bullying the good, but Puzhou City is high and deep, and the **** is a turtle character, he hides in the turtle shell and can't live or die, but we can't do anything about him." ”
"Heavenly King, the Wang Shiqi you are talking about, but the governor of Puzhou?" After listening to the conversation between the father and daughter, Wu Yong couldn't help but interject and ask.
"Naturally, it's him! What, does Brother Wu have a way to lure him out? Hearing Wu Yong interject, Li Tianwang hurriedly asked, "To tell you the truth, I have been crisscrossing Pu, Jie, Ze, and Lu, but I haven't met an opponent worth seeing." If he dares to come out, I will let him come and go. ”
“…… Heavenly King, I don't know the inside story, but there is nothing to do. Wu Yong said embarrassedly, he didn't know anything, what could he do? Wang Shiqi's local official reputation in Puzhou is not good, and the greedy merchants in the city are jumping around, although ordinary people can't reach him, it doesn't prevent everyone who has been bullied by the squires and officials from putting the accounts on his head.
"Can you try a storm?" Xu Zhengze interjected next to him. He naturally knew about Puzhou and Jiezhou, but Ze and Lu were not clear, but he estimated that it should be Changzhi and Jincheng in the south of Shanxi. He hasn't seen exactly what kind of field combat ability Li Tianwang's sons are, so it's hard to say, but Li Tianwang boasted so much, at least in the Puzhou area, he is still a leader. With an elite field force with above the level, many things will be easy to do.
"Hmph, that's easy. Do you know how tall Puzhou City is? Do you know what time is the week in Puzhou City? Do you know how deep the moat of Puzhou City is? My father managed to save two or three hundred elite cavalry, and he really attacked the city, how many people do you think it will take to take it. After listening to Xu Zhengze's words, the woman couldn't help it, jokes, they are mostly elite soldiers, and the field battle is extremely powerful, but the siege? Forget it, although the hundred and ten old men who followed Daddy, whether they got on or off, were all first-class elites, but they couldn't withstand the consumption of siege warfare.
Sure enough, it was a scholar's opinion, self-righteous.
"Why do you have to get the elite under the command of the Heavenly King to storm the city? Can't we recruit any more soldiers? Xu Zhengze asked with a smile.
Li Tianwang had enemies, hiding in the state city, although his troops were invincible in the field - we have the right to think so, but there are really few people, and the siege will give the defenders a great advantage, so that the rabble of defenders will also bring huge and unbearable casualties to the besieging side. But can't you just be hiring? Or to put it more bluntly, can't you find some cannon fodder ants to attack the city? Xu Zhengze didn't believe that these people couldn't think of such a way.
"It's useless." Li Tianwang was unmoved when he heard this, he was born in the army, he had seen the strong and warlike border army, and he still pursued the principle that "soldiers are not more expensive" -- he ran rampant in Jinnan, relying precisely on the soldiers, but he would not refuse some obviously useful methods, and he should use the courage of the people to separate the inside and outside.
"It's good to take advantage of it." Xu Zhengze excitedly came up with an idea, "Keep the elite soldiers in the back to press the formation, and you are not afraid of losing the battle in front." Even better, as long as the city sends pursuers, then lure them into pursuit, and then set up an ambush to annihilate them. ”
"And then pretend to go out of the city to pursue the officers and soldiers to visit the city, right?" Before Xu Zhengze finished speaking, the woman had already unceremoniously interrupted Xu Zhengze's words and sneered, "We have used this trick a long time ago, and I thought you had any good ideas, but it turned out that it was just picking up people's teeth." ”
Xu Zhengze immediately stood there, his face full of embarrassment, this woman is so mean, she doesn't know how to save some face for others, she is far worse than his old man. Li Tianwang also felt bad when he heard this, glared at his daughter, praised Xu Zhengze and said: "You have a way, you are a diligent brain, how can you be like my daughter......"
Xu Zhengze was unwilling, he wanted to take care of the paperwork and be a strategist - of course, the ability should not be qualified, so it was good to take care of logistics, he was not willing to go to the battlefield and be a fighter, in order to stay away from the battlefield, he also fought: "Does the king of heaven know about trebuchets?" Looking for craftsmen to make some trebuchets and bombard them with stone bullets, I don't know how long Puzhou City can support it? Now that the walls have collapsed, it is not difficult to break through. ”
"Hiss......" Listening to Xu Zhengze's words, Li Tianwang immediately took a breath, immediately stopped, stopped, like an arm, and those who followed him also stopped, the team was quiet, only the sound of horses sneezing. However, the people who followed were caught off guard, and immediately there was some confusion, but a silent mountain stood beside it, and everyone was intimidated by its momentum, and it quickly became silent, and the commotion only calmed down in an instant.
After seeing the performance of the people, Li Tianwang nodded secretly, at this time the road has been four or five miles away, this group of people Zhuang still has a clearer queue, you can know that its queue training is still possible, the heaviest queue of marching formations, although most of his commands are cavalry, but they are also very familiar with foot combat, and it is a lie.
"Brother Xu can make a stone thrower?" Li Tianwang thought for a few seconds, then led the horse slowly forward, he beckoned Xu Zhengze to his side and asked carefully. In fact, the stone throwing machine has long existed, there are many ancient siege techniques, Xu Zhengze can't remember too much, compared to the ant siege that is purely filled with human lives, he still likes long-range attack weapons, and the stone throwing machine, anyone who has read a little bit of fiction knows, is nothing. This Li Tianwang is almost like this.
"Uh...... No. Xu Zhengze was embarrassed, and the woman snorted coldly on the side, but there are many skilled craftsmen in the world, this stone thrower should not be very complicated, and it should not be difficult to find some skilled craftsmen. How could Li Tianwang, who has been in the world for many things, not understand this, Xu Zhengze didn't believe that there was not a single craftsman in his team.
"However, I have a way of making the catapult a little more accurate." If he can only come up with ideas and move his mouth, he will inevitably be seen clearly, so Xu Zhengze still added a bargaining chip to himself, or thanks to the blessing that he liked to read novels in his previous life, he knows such a little skill, it is not difficult to say, and anyone who has been in junior high school understands it. It's mainly the blessing of the big bang of knowledge, if it weren't for the experience of his previous life, with his brain, he wouldn't have thought of these things at all.
"Oh, is that really the case?" After listening to the other party's question, Xu Zhengze nodded affirmatively.
Yesterday he was interested in recruiting him because he discovered Wu Yong's strong martial arts, and that night he took people to the camp with half of them and half of them to drink, and he drank with the old brothers all night, so he kept this talent, and even allowed these people to be strong - with his old temperament, he didn't like such a rabble, he couldn't bring benefits to himself, and he had to cause trouble, of course he didn't like it very much.
It's just that I didn't expect that there were two talents, although the real skills of these two people still need to be verified in actual work, but even if their talents stop there, it is a profitable business.
A group of people set off very late in the morning, plus mules and horses, the wounded, the old and weak, in fact, an hour can not go far, at noon, Li Tianwang saw that the hour is not early, so he ordered a temporary rest, eat dry food and then set off, this place is still seven or eight miles away from the camp, and there is no hurry to go back, plus there is no urgency, but there is no need to worry.
There are many streams flowing down Zhongtiao Mountain, as a new member, they are more valued, Xu Zhengze and Wu Yong and their group also gave dry food and dried meat, and they will eat some, but it is still delicious, Xu Zhengze has seen dry food, which is all ground with grain - I don't know whether it is coarse grains such as sorghum, or fine flour, maybe they are mixed. He hadn't eaten food for a long time since he came here, and now he had eaten food for the first time in three or four months, and he almost burst into tears.
The people on Li Tianwang's side didn't take care of their own food first, they all took food from the blanket under the horse's neck, spread it in the palm of their hands and fed the horses first, seeing Wu Yong's sad look, Xu Zhengze looked at it curiously, Wu Yong quietly told him that these horses eat the best bean cakes, mixed with salt, which are better than what they eat.
People are not as good as animals, Xu Zhengze understands that horses can make the troops under the command of Li Tianwang have extraordinary mobility ability, he can't do it, how much value he has, how much he will be paid, it is normal. He doesn't care, in troubled times, survival is his first goal.
The crowd was lazily scattered along the stream, some munching on dry food by the water, some feeding the horses, and some busy cleaning - mainly the woman, who loved the smell and beauty, did not know that she had fed the horses first, but she left her mounts and ran to the stream to wash.
Suddenly, a flock of birds flew up in the distance, and Li Tianwang stood up when he saw it, and looked at Li Tianwang and the people on their side stood up one by one, looking around vigilantly, Xu Zhengze didn't know why, but he also felt the tense atmosphere, and quickly stood up.
"There is a police, there is an enemy ahead." Seeing that Xu Zhengze didn't know why, Wu Yong whispered, and he immediately realized, so it was so, he still understood.