Chapter 119: Yiyang City, with an Iron Wall of Bronze Walls
A new day came as scheduled, and the snow that had been accumulating for several days had put on layers of snow-white coats on the towering buildings in Xianyang City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe winter sun did not accumulate much blazing power, and it was sprinkled softly on the body.
I didn't feel the slightest warmth, but the snow in front of me shone brightly, the Qin people of Wodong, walked out of their residence, their eyes were squinted, and after a while, they could see their existence clearly in the snow-white world, compared to the wind and snow in the previous two days, such weather was already very clear.
The people in Xianyang City originally planned to take advantage of the good season of Wo Dong to sleep beautifully for a winter, raise a fat body, go to the battlefield in the coming year, kill a few more Orientals, and win the title of military merit, so as to glorify their ancestors.
The young juniors have already practiced, dancing the weapons in their hands whirring, counting the nine cold days, all of them sweating like rain.
The streets and alleys are still talking about the strong man who plucked the horns of the bull and passed on his deeds to the gods. Those injured were also forcibly arranged by the imperial court to be treated in their respective hospitals, although there were some complaints, but what can be done, if this disease is not treated, if it can be cured, it is estimated that everyone will stay up at home until they are cured.
Qu Ling got up early in the morning, although he slept late last night, he slept quite soundly. After getting up, seeing that Ziyang didn't come over, he thought to himself, it is estimated that this Li Er did not make any trouble, otherwise, the designation would have been made a fuss a long time ago.
Seeing that the weather was sunny today, Qu Ling was reluctant to wear the heavy fox fur anymore, so he chose a simple winter coat, with an emerald green lining and an azure coat, which made the white and pink skin flawless, looking from afar, like a petite pearl in a jade plate.
The purpose of this trip, whether it can be carried out as scheduled, Qu Ling's heart is also uncalculated, think about Meng Shuo has now become the favorite general of King Qin, when he came out of the palace that day, Meng said that he seemed to have something to say to himself, but he didn't pay attention to it at that time.
"Forget it! Still not out of the house, still! Qu Ling comforted himself.
Not all people are as comfortable as Qu Ling, Steward Li is an example, from last night to dawn, all night long, he spent most of his time squatting in the toilet, if not in the toilet, it must be on the way to the toilet.
King Qin Wu didn't sleep all night last night, not because he didn't want to sleep, but because of the severe back pain, it was difficult to sleep. Mrs. Wei helped massage for a long time, but there was no effect. So last night's bonfire dinner, naturally, I didn't attend. After tossing for a night, when it was almost dawn, I closed my eyes slightly.
After dawn, Meng said that he had come to ask for instructions on whether to return to the city.
"King Qiqi, when will you leave?" Meng said knelt on the ground outside and asked.
"General Meng's affairs, you can arrange it! The king has just fallen asleep, just wait for you to arrange your departure! Mrs. Wei said inside.
"No! The end will be arranged immediately! The end will be retired! Meng replied.
"Good! Let's go down and prepare! Mrs. Wei said.
"Who is it?" King Qin Wu asked in the tent.
"Your Majesty, you're awake, it's Meng who said! Came to ask if you want to go back to the city! As she spoke, Mrs. Wei walked to the side of King Wu of Qin, poured a bowl of hot water for him, and handed it to Yingdang's mouth.
King Wu of Qin, Yingdang, took the water handed over by Mrs. Wei and asked:
"How did you answer?"
"I'll give him full responsibility for arranging for an immediate return to the city!" Lady Wei walked over to King Wu of Qin and sat down.
"Why don't you stay a little longer? How boring it is to go back! King Qin Yingdang said. Mrs. Wei Guo saw that Yingdang said sincerely, and she was not perfunctory, and said straight to the point:
"The concubine wants to stay for a few more days, frozen for thousands of miles, the sky is clear, and it is much more interesting than in the palace!"
"Why don't you stay a few more days?" King Qin Wu said with a smile on his face.
"It's not because of the king! I didn't sleep all night last night, and if I stay any longer, I guess it's troublesome! Mrs. Wei Guo said as she stroked Yingdang's waist with her hand.
King Wu of Qin Yingdang stretched out his hand to take the hand of Mrs. Wei Guo, and looked at the woman in front of him affectionately, he wanted to live with her all the time in this carefree outdoors, but it was a pity that he was born in the emperor's family and had to give up the happiness of ordinary people. I couldn't help but hold Mrs. Wei in my arms and said softly:
"Madame, how nice!"
"What's so good?" Mrs. Wei was also overwhelmed by Yingdang's mindless words.
"It's good to have you! If there is no crown, you and I will live in seclusion here, enjoy flowers in spring, watch birds in summer, play chrysanthemums in autumn, accompany cold plums in winter, and give birth to a lot of children, so happy! King Qin Wu Yingdang opened his mouth and said, his eyes full of anticipation.
"The king is in the world, how can he put all his thoughts on the concubines, the foundation of the Great Qin is still waiting for the king to open up!" Mrs. Wei said. Hearing Mrs. Wei Guo say this, Yingdang's heart is also extremely heavy.
"The first king died suddenly, Daqin is in danger, in recent days, the scouts have come to report, and Gongsun Yan is organizing some bullshit 'conniversal'!" King Qin Wu said angrily.
"It's not that the thunder is heavy and the rain is small, one person fights a tiger, and a thousand people eat meat, it won't last long!" Mrs. Wei persuaded her.
"This time is different, they elected King Chu Huai as the 'Chief of Hezong', and the scout came back to report that Yin Zhaoyang of Chu State had already arrived in Luoyang! Eight achievements are for this! King Qin Wu Yingdang sighed a little helplessly.
Zhaoyang is like a magic spell, tied to his head! Although he can carry the tripod, this platoon is arranged, and the distance between himself and Zhaoyang is real. War is not child's play, let alone something that can be solved alone.
"This world is united, and it is bound to enter the Great Qin, how will the king decide?" Mrs. Wei asked.
"Attack it unprepared, take it by surprise. The widow has decided to take the lead in pulling out the nail of Yiyang in the spring of next year! King Qin Wu said.
"The king means that he wants to take advantage of the fact that the vassal states have not yet been assembled, and take the lead in launching an attack to capture Yiyang! This Yiyang is a famous iron-smelting center in South Korea, and most of the good bows and crossbows are produced here! South Korea's crossbow machine shoots farther and more accurately than Qin's crossbow!
This is not very powerful, the most powerful is this Yiyang City! "Lady Wei described Korea for King Qin Wu's Yingdang, such as a number of treasures, no wonder! This Han Zhao Wei was originally a family, although it was divided into three kingdoms, but the weddings and funerals in the past few hundred years have long made it difficult for the three kingdoms to distinguish each other. Especially the two countries of Han and Wei, there are constant marriages, and as the princess of Wei, she naturally knows a lot.
Hearing Mrs. Wei's description of Yiyang City, King Wu of Qin became interested, held Mrs. Wei's hand tightly and asked:
"Madame! What's so great about this city? ”
"King! You've hurt your concubine! Mrs. Wei said shyly. Only then did Ying Dang realize that he was patronizing and asking, how much strength he had to firmly hold the hand of Mrs. Wei Guo, who was just a petite woman, how could she stand such a rude grasp.
"Madame! I'm sorry, but I don't know what is at stake in this Yiyang City? King Qin Wu asked curiously.
"Does the king know about the process of iron smelting?" Mrs. Wei asked rhetorically. When King Qin Wu Yingdang heard that he really didn't know anything about this, he shook his head blankly, and when he saw King Qin Wu Yingdang shaking his head, Mrs. Wei Guo then said:
"King! This iron smelting is not a simple matter, the miners need to put the iron ore in the pottery, the outside of the pottery is smeared with grass mud, which plays the role of thermal insulation, the inside of the pottery is coated with a refractory mud layer, and then the iron ore and charcoal are directly put into the furnace to heat, and when the temperature is extremely high, the iron ore melts, and then the craftsmen take out the Tao Zun, pour the molten iron into the mold, the iron at this time is like a face, it is impossible to build weapons with thousands of holes, it needs to be smelted back to the furnace many times, and after cooling, it will be tempered thousands of times. Only then can the pores be knocked out, the iron becomes dense, and the weapons needed can be crafted.
In this way, a lot of Tao Zun is needed, but this Tao Zun cannot be reused, and to create a weapon, it often takes countless Tao Zun.
Yiyang is the center of iron smelting in South Korea, and there are naturally not a few Taozun, these Taozun have become extremely hard because they have been filled with molten iron, and they cannot be broken at all.
So over the years, this Yiyang has accumulated countless Tao Zun, when Yiyang built the city, I don't know whether it was a lack of materials or deliberate, and countless Tao Zun accumulated in the city of Yiyang.
Whenever the sun rises, the city glows with a dark light, stone thrower! There is no way for a crossbow machine to treat such a city wall, and it is not a lie to say that it is a copper wall! ”
King Wu of Qin listened attentively, and the iron walls of Yiyang actually appeared in his mind, and the soldiers of Great Qin fought hard under Yiyang City, but they couldn't shake Yiyang City at all.
Arrows rained down on the city, and the soldiers of Great Qin died tragically under the feathered arrows like flying locusts, and King Wu of Qin's heart was broken, no matter how his soldiers charged, they just couldn't get close to Yiyang, let alone take Yiyang.
At the beginning, Zhang Yi told himself that in this Yiyang City, there is enough food for soldiers, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers alone, and the food is enough to support several years.
These are secondly, if you can't take Yiyang quickly, and take advantage of your main forces to fight on the front line, the eastern countries will naturally not give up, such an excellent opportunity to destroy the Qin State, especially the Chu State that is close at hand.
The state of Chu was like a sharp sword hanging over the head of King Wu of Qin, which could fall down at any time and penetrate his body.
Seeing that King Wu of Qin's Ying Dang was thinking, Mrs. Wei stopped talking and quietly waited for Ying Dang to think.
"How can you let the state of Chu be a wall-watcher?" King Qin Wu asked rhetorically.
When Mrs. Wei heard this, she had already begun to think about her next move, and Mrs. Wei was worthy of being a hero in the world, and did not answer King Qin Wu's question head-on, but asked rhetorically:
"The king knows the story of taking care of himself!"
Seeing that Mrs. Wei asked herself, King Qin Wu thought for a moment and said:
This widow knew that when Confucius led his disciples to travel around the world, and when he passed by Chen, his disciple Ran Qiu came back from Lu and told his teacher Confucius that the temple of Lu Guo was on fire. Confucius said that the temple of Lu Huan Gong and Lu Xi Gong must have been burned down, and Ran Qiu was amazed, saying that his teacher Confucius was really like a god. Confucius said, 'Ji Huanzi has just died, and the Ji Mansion has long been in a mess, too busy to take care of himself, and there will be no time to save people!' ’
That's right! If you want to keep the state of Chu out of the matter, the best way is naturally to let the state of Chu have no time to take care of it, the country of Yue and the mountains and rivers of the state of Chu are connected, and the folk customs are not much different, and the monarch of the country of Yue has a covenant with the previous king, agreeing to deal with the state of Chu together.
As long as the fire behind the Chu State can be ignited, it is estimated that the Chu State will not have time to mix up the affairs of the Central Plains again! ”
"The king is wise, I don't know who to send to form an alliance?" Mrs. Wei asked.
"This matter still needs to be considered in the long run, and there is no suitable candidate in the hearts of the widows!" King Qin Wu Yingdang said a little helplessly.
"What did Meng say?" Mrs. Wei Guo suggested.
"No! Although this person's strength is extraordinary, the stakes are very high, and it still needs to be completed by a down-to-earth person! King Wu of Qin Yingdang expressed his opinion, and Mrs. Wei also felt reasonable, so it was naturally difficult to express her opinion again.
"King Qiqi! General Meng asks to see! The sentry outside the tent reported.
"What's the matter?" King Qin Wu asked inside.
"King Qiqi! The carriage and horses are ready, and I don't know when to start! Meng said that he reported outside.
"Oh! Good! Go down, the widow knows! King Qin Wu replied inside.
"No!" Meng said that the farewell was naturally not a problem.
A group of civil and military officials had already been prepared, and they only dared to open up after waiting for the order of King Qin.
"Brother, today's scenery is infinite!" Ren said on the side. Meng said that he brought his own Ah Jiu, picked up the snowflakes on the ground, and sorted out the long hair on Ah Jiu's body.
"Brother, don't make fun of it, you see that these people are also ruthless, a good horse, being beaten so badly, it's chilling to watch!" Meng said as he rubbed.
"Hey! Dude, I said you're such a weirdo! King Qin gave you a title, gold and silver are not rare, but you have a deep love for this horse! You won't be the reincarnation of Maxima in this life! After saying that, Ren laughed.
Meng Shuo didn't think it was wrong, but felt that what Ren said was reasonable, and muttered to himself:
"In the world of great contention, people are not as good as horses! I have never heard of horses starving to death anywhere, but there are no people starving to death in all the nations of the world! All the way from the country of Qi, there are thousands of miles of uninhabited places, wild wolves are everywhere, and the past business travelers, I don't know how many were mutilated by these beasts! ”
"Hey! It's not a war yet, if there is no war in the sky one day, it is specified that the knives and guns are put into storage, and the horses are put in Nanshan, do you say that it is better to be a man or a horse when the time comes? Ren said.
"No war in the world?" Meng said patted Ah Jiu's head and said:
"If there is no war in the world one day, I will ride Ah Jiu and return to the hometown of Qi to accompany my mother, and I will not go anywhere!" Meng said that although he said this, his eyes were already a little moist, his mother had died tragically, and he said this because he didn't want people to doubt that in fact, his true thoughts were to stay with his mother's grave and offer food to his mother sooner or later.
As he spoke, King Wu of Qin and Mrs. Wei had already come out of the tent, and hundreds of civil and military officials knelt down to greet them, and King Qin motioned for everyone to be flat, and then stepped into the carriage with the support of Mrs. Wei.
"King Qin, what's wrong?" Meng Shuo asked.
"Not a lot of mouths!" Ren Yan reminded on the side. Meng said that he felt that this general was not as good as he imagined!
The group walked down the winding mountain road! Unlike when he came, Meng Shuo at this time rode on Ah Jiu's back and was arranged in the first position! Leading the Imperial Forest Army of King Qin, coming to Xianyang! The back of the line was filled with the harvest of the trip.
The Elk King was tied to the back of a war horse, and the chariot behind him was piled with elk! Some of the team were excited.
Most of this excitement is still brought by gold, although the night has passed, but this excitement is difficult to contain, of course, those who have not received gold, do not know how much they look forward to participating in the next operation. (To be continued.) )