Chapter Twenty-Three: Pretending to be a Ghost and Borrowing Arrows from a Straw Boat
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The sun hung lazily in the sky, shining on people without a trace of heat. The snow from the other day has basically melted, and some snow can still be faintly seen on the shady side of the hillside.
Centaurs and ruts walked by, and the black mud could already reach the instep.
The army slowly and leisurely finally arrived at this ambush city.
No one would have thought that such a city would be built on the shores of this great lake, on the endless grasslands.
As far as Changsun Tang observed, the length of one side of the wall of this city must have exceeded one kilometer, and it may have been about one and a half kilometers. Such a city cannot be compared with Chang'an, Jinyang and other Tongdu Dayi, but it is not far from Fucheng.
The height of the city wall is definitely more than ten meters, probably about four zhang, that is, the height of twelve meters. Seeing that there is a large city tower on this city wall, the width of this city wall will definitely not be low.
Duan Zhan, who had been following the eldest grandson for the past few days, gasped: "There is such a city wall here!" ”
The eldest grandson shrugged his shoulders and said, "The city is there, not big or small; The walls are there, neither high nor low. ”
The eldest grandson, who was going to continue to sarcastically say a few words, found that this period of Zan actually went to the Chinese army tent where his father was located without looking back.
The camp was a mess.
But the city is even more chaotic.
Tuyuhun can be said to have been peaceful for a long time, and it is the first time that this royal city has been besieged.
Although the high-level leaders of Tuyuhun knew the news early on, except for some nobles who fled early in the morning, not many people were willing to travel far in this harsh climate.
Ordinary people always keep a proper fluke mentality about the impending danger, and until it does happen, they will regret why they didn't finish it sooner.
The gates of the city had long been closed, and the walls were full of banners and soldiers.
Changsun Tang really wants to ask, do you stand on the city wall to help us block the wind and cold? After thinking about it, it was a bit too arrogant to pull hatred like this, so I gave up.
In order to capture the city as soon as possible, the eldest grandson has a new position: the god stick.
Three days later, the eldest grandson stood on a high platform about 20 meters high made of wood, wearing a set of black robes, and his mouth was full of words: "Eat grapes without spitting out grape skins, and if you don't eat grapes, spit out grape skins......
In fact, Changsun Tang really wanted to change some more fashionable words, but this made others reveal their stuffing when they heard it, and didn't let others hear it clearly, and I spent so much effort thinking about what the lines were for.
Well, mind you, it's really a line, and it's not what the line is pronounced on a platform more than twenty meters high.
The Tang army began to attack, without exception, the first to start was the bed crossbow, followed by the strong bow, and the shield soldiers escorted the crossbowmen to a place not far from the city wall, and also began to fire.
Their purpose was not to prepare fire, but to suppress the few Tuyuhun archers on the city walls.
From the side of the high platform, a siege vehicle slowly walked out, which was also the only siege vehicle in Duan Zhixuan's army.
When I walked to the base of the city wall, there were four people inside, constantly carrying bags of things - gunpowder.
It all started when the army had just arrived at Fu Qi City three days ago.
Duan Zan went quickly, and he came back after a while.
Duan Zhan, who looked in a hurry, shouted at Changsun Tang from afar: "The general has an order, please ask Sun Tang, the Hou of Xinfeng County, to go to the camp of the Chinese army. This was still a few tens of meters away from Changsun Tang, so he turned the horse's head and ran towards the way he came.
Xiao Nuxia, who was standing on the side of the eldest grandson, was unhappy: "What is the stinky fart, he gave the order so far away, who does he think he is." ”
The eldest grandson smiled bitterly: "He is the order, I still have to go now, otherwise I can cut off my head, and even my imperial uncle won't say anything." ”
Xiao Nuxia's eyes were full of incomprehension, but the horse of the eldest grandson had already started.
The eldest grandson opened the big tent and found that he was the latest, so he greeted a few people first: "Meet the general, I've seen the generals." ”
Duan Zhixuan started the standard poker face again, and the whole person only opened and closed his mouth up and down, and said, "The eldest grandson is here, please take a seat." ”
The eldest grandson asked knowingly: "I don't know why the generals are gathering today?" ”
Li Junxian didn't wait for Duan Zhixuan to speak, and said with a big grin: "It's not your business in Fuqi City." Who would have thought that there would be such a big city here......" Liang Luoren glared, and Li Junxian immediately stopped talking.
At this moment, Duan Zhixuan spoke: "I invited everyone here today to discuss the siege of the city. ”
No one thought that the first person to speak at this military meeting was Huang Changshi: "This "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and "Plotting to Attack" said: Therefore, the army is attacked, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city. Zhuge Liang's Southern Expedition also has: use soldiers to attack the heart and attack the city below; The saying that psychological warfare is the top, and military warfare is the bottom. Now that our army is facing a fortified city, it is better to attack the heart. ”
No one takes this stubble, it is the credit of others who pick it up, and it is yourself who makes a fool of yourself if you don't pick it up; What's more, this Huang Changshi proposed that it is the most correct nonsense.
Generally speaking, the most correct words are nonsense, such as: study hard and make progress every day. I wanted to, too, but I couldn't.
After being silent for a while, he had no choice but to speak: "This siege is a big deal, don't be sloppy, you might as well talk about what you think." ”
Changsun Tang was waiting for this opportunity, and said: "I think Huang Changshi's statement is good, but this attack still needs some means, you can go and invite Changsun Xu Duwei to know." ”
When everyone waited for the eldest grandson Xu to come over, they made some harmless jokes, and this was naturally the eldest grandson Hou Ye who had recently hidden Jiaojiao in the golden house.
Changsun Xu came in, and Changsun Yu suspected that there was something wrong with Changsun Xu's spirit.
The eldest grandson Xu with a straight face said loudly: "Give me the first merit for this attack on Fu Qi City." "There are two kinds of situations in which you say credit before you do something, one is bragging, and the other is confident; The difference between the two is the end result.
"I don't know what the opinion of the eldest grandson Duwei is." Duan Zhixuan asked. Today, Lao Duan is also unlucky, he can't get off the stage several times, the key is that this is still a military meeting that should be led by him, and what's worse is that he can't vent this fire on the spot.
The appearance of Changsun Xu meant that gunpowder was put into actual combat for the first time, and the stakes were very high, and there were only three people who could stay and listen to it and perfect it: Duan Zhixuan, Changsun Tang and Changsun Xu.
That's why the scene just happened.
The soldiers slowly withdrew the gunpowder under the base of the wall, sprinkling a large puddle of oil on the head of the fuse as they left.
The rest is for the eldest grandson to perform.
The eldest grandson had a word on the stage every year, until he was really a little annoyed by himself, and according to the agreement, when the consumption of arrows reached a certain level, the rocket would be fired.
In fact, I thought of this idea completely because of Huang Changshi's remarks about Zhuge Liang.
In the process of waiting for Changsun Xu, Changsun Tang told everyone this paragraph: Yu was jealous of Liang, wanted to harm him, supervised Liang to make 100,000 arrows in ten days, set up a military order, Liang Yun Zhou Yu for three days, borrowed Zi Jingchuan 20 Shi 30 grass to put more than 1,000, and Qingbu avoided it. On the third day, before the camp, the fog hung down the river, and the drill was suspicious, and the arrows hit it; Su said: Wolong's big thing is not good, and the rocket is coming. In the same year, Liang and Su Gu died in Jiangzhong.
As soon as this paragraph was said, Li Junxian actually laughed: "This Zhuge Liang is really stupid, he actually died like this." This simple appearance made everyone laugh even more happily.
It was this later joke that reminded the eldest grandson of the method of igniting gunpowder.
Originally, Duan Zhixuan didn't agree to anything. Every time the army attacks another country, some of the death row prisoners will be used as death squads, of course, there is no shortage of such existence in this army, but Changsun Tang still can't bear it, so he adopts such a rather Shinto idea to complete the task of gunpowder.
As soon as Changsun Tang's rockets came out, hundreds of rockets ran towards the base of the city wall from behind.
The reason for this is not to increase the momentum, but that Changsun Tang's archery skills are too difficult. (To be continued.) )