On the military hall in the mighty city, Wang Jing was wearing a military uniform embroidered with green gold thread and a jade belt around his waist, standing under the erected map and watching, his fingers were comparing on the map, silently calculating and analyzing the battle situation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Yue sat aside a little bored, his eyes unconsciously following Wang Jing's fingers, looking lazy. Feng Qianhou and Li Chuyun sat behind Zhang Yue and muttered something in a low voice.

"I don't know if Zhang Jianxiong can cross Qinzhou, his troops are a little less, only 5,000 people. Xiang Xun and Murong Yanzhao in the east don't know where they are, this Shu road is difficult to walk, and the military intelligence transmission has to make a big turn from the rear. Wang Jing said with some concern.

"Who knows? It's easy to say anything if you take Fengzhou......," Zhang Yue replied indifferently.

At this time, a herald ran in quickly, stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and arched his hand: "Report to the king!" Yanei failed to attack Huanghua Valley, and now retreats to rest at the Wuli intersection in the south of the city, please show the marshal! ”

"Hahaha...... Actually defeated? Zhang Yue was stunned for a while, and actually laughed heartlessly, it wasn't his own soldiers who went to fight, of course he didn't feel anything.

Wang Jing glanced at Zhang Yue deeply, his old face slowly turned the color of pig liver, and his nose was crooked. Thinking that I have been following the road these days, running tired and tired, and no benefits have fallen, I was about to make a fight, but there was a big oolong, and the old face didn't know where to go.

"How can it be!" Wang Jing grabbed the teacup and slammed it on the ground, with a bang, the tea porcelain pieces splashed, startling Zhang Yue, and he heard the old man shaking his white beard and roaring: "The old man wants to go out in person to see how capable this Zhao Chongpu is." ”

Wang Jing rushed out of the military office angrily, and Zhang Yue hurriedly followed, shouting: "The prince should be cautious!" You're old, it's safer to sweep the formation! ”

"You junior is very excited, and you will sit in the mighty city and see how the old man captures the Yellow Flower Valley." Wang Jingzhen was angry, strode loudly, and rushed straight towards the camp.

"The old handsome man is out, he should be able to take it down before dark, and now it's almost noon, let's wait for the news!" Feng Qianhou raised his hand and gently twisted the goat's whiskers, smiling optimistically.

Li Chuyun nodded, and asked again: "Do you want to send someone to the rear to urge the grain and grass again, and by the way, inquire about it, and see where the envoy is?" ”

"What is there to ask, the Baochuan Road is similar to the Chencang Road, it is as difficult to walk, they have fewer military villages along the way, and they have to build their own logistics supply lines, which will not be much faster than us." Zhang Yue estimated and replied.

A few people went to the military office and sat down, calculating the various possibilities of the development of the war, thinking that the siege of the city all the way seemed to be smooth, but in fact it was very lucky. If it weren't for the Shu army's poor tactics of defending the city, I am afraid that it would not be able to fight mightily, and according to Song Lingguang's intelligence, the Fengzhou city wall was raised to two zhang by the Shu army, and it was difficult to knock it down without heavy equipment.

Two hundred craftsmen have been idle since they were brought, at most they are building siege ladders, which is too wasteful. Thinking of this, Zhang Yue found a pen and paper and drew a sketch of a stack of light trebuchets.

There are many kinds of trebuchets, also called ballistas, among which there are the most primitive human trebuchets that appeared in the Warring States Period, which required three or five hundred people to pull at the same time, which was too laborious. There is also a torsion trebuchet, which requires the production of a winch, and the parts are a bit complicated, and it is estimated that it will take time for a craftsman to create it.

Therefore, Zhang Yue drew a sketch of a counterweight trebuchet, which only required a large wooden frame, on which a long lever was horizontally placed, one end was counterweighted with weights such as stones, and the other end was equipped with a rope net bag, in which the net was loaded with a stone projectile.

When it is time to fire, the trigger is knocked off with a sledgehammer, the counterweight naturally falls, the lever at the other end is naturally raised, and the stone projectile is ejected. Since it is a projectile, there is naturally a projectile elevation angle, which needs to be calculated in wartime, just like the early artillery, it is also necessary to measure the elevation angle with a ruler, otherwise it will not be accurate.

As soon as the sketch was drawn and Zhang Yue explained, Feng Qianhou and Li Chuyun understood. Feng Qianhou said with a smile: "When Emperor Zhu Quanzhong of Liang, the forbidden army used ballistas on a large scale, and there were also in the Later Tang Dynasty, but it was much less, and local marshals were not allowed to imitate them, but when Shi Jingjiao ascended the throne, the ballistas were lost." By the end of the Emperor's reign, the forbidden army was scattered, and there were no craftsmen who knew what a ballista was. ”

"It's so sad! In the Tang Dynasty, the Mo knife, light cavalry, and strong crossbow were draped, and now only the horned bow and crossbow and the wooden single crossbow still exist in the world, and the forbidden army in front of the palace is used in a small amount, and the Fuyuan crossbow in the range has not been seen at all. Zhang Yue said regretfully.

"It's not easy to build a Mo knife, and the current Pu knife is changed from Mo Dao. As for the crossbow! Tokyo will be a poor regulatory system, and it will be difficult to build a large number of superintendents and juvenile eunuchs who have changed several prison orders and young eunuchs, and countless people have benefited from it. Feng Qianhou obviously knew something, and his tone was slightly disdainful.

"Don't talk about these far away, let's go to the craftsman camp to have a look, it's best to make a sample first." Zhang Yue was a little expectant, and took Feng Qianhou and the two to the camp.

The camp was in the northeast corner of the city, and the forbidden army stayed in the barracks to rest except for those who defended the city. As for the craftsmen, in the open space behind the barracks, they are building siege ladders, which are considered expendable tools, built every day, and scrapped every day.

The craftsmen who went out with the army were all organized and managed according to the army, and the carpenters were all named Suo Keda, about 30 years old; The blacksmith's name is Xu Pingzhong, who is in his forties and knows some martial arts, and the two were quickly found by Zhang Yue.

"You two, have you ever heard of a ballista? Counterweight ballista? Zhang Yue asked straight to the point.

The two glanced at each other, and Suo Ke laughed and said, "General Huizhang!" The little grandfather will build it, and there is a model of this thing in the family, but no one pays attention to it, and the small one has never been built. ”

"You know...... That's great! This is the drawing, can you see if you can build it? Zhang Yue asked his soldiers to hand over the drawings.

Suo Keda took it and looked at it carefully, he couldn't help frowning, the picture was very clear, but there were some strange symbols on it, he couldn't understand it a little, but he soon found that there were notes at the bottom, explaining the meaning of various symbols.

"I can make it! How much does a general want? Is it okay for 10 days? Suo Ke asked cautiously.

"No! 10 days...... The daylilies are cold! You can build me a mold this afternoon and put it together, and see if it works. If it can be made in batches, the army is in a hurry to use it, understand? ”

"The little ones understand, but the apprentices don't understand, so they will be slower, and the manpower is not enough." Suo Keda said with some difficulty.

"Don't worry! Whatever you need can be solved for you, now...... You go down and get to work! The two craftsmen were sent away, and Zhang Yue left Feng Qianhou to supervise the construction in the craftsman battalion, and returned to the military office to wait for the battle report of Huanghua Valley.

Wang Jing angrily led 2,000 troops, carried 30 siege ladders, and hit the city hammer two poles out of the city, to the south of the city to meet Qi Wang Tingyi 3,000 defeated soldiers, Hao Tianying 1,000 soldiers drove to the Huanghua Valley again, first personally inspected the terrain, and then arranged troops to shout and scold, angering the Shu army, so that they could come out to counterattack again, but unfortunately Zhao Chongpu was very cautious and could not retreat behind closed doors.

Wang Jing seemed a little poor in donkey skills, so he actually let the soldiers sit on the ground for lunch, and sat for lunch, and after sitting at noon, the Shu army not only did not react at all, but was still preparing defensive equipment.

Until the late afternoon, the Fengxiang army waited for a long time, a little slack, Zhao Chongpu saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of, and repeated the old trick, and then expelled hundreds of war horses out of the city to attack, but this time Wang Jing was prepared, the order flag waved, the soldiers immediately stood up and scattered, to make way for the air, the war horse galloped through the gap, and was intercepted and captured by the Fengxiang army behind.

But the Shu army only let the war horses rush out, but the soldiers did not come out to counterattack, obviously Zhao Chongpu was just a temptation, but he didn't dare to play a fluke again. Wang Jing had a bottom in his heart, and immediately ordered his eldest son Wang Tingyi to lead his troops to attack, and personally beat drums to cheer.

Considering the defeat in the morning, Wang Jing changed his tactics, first sending 200 soldiers carrying rambling ramsticks to the door, 300 ironclad soldiers holding cowhide shields to protect the soldiers on both sides of the door, and two battalions of bows and crossbows on both sides to throw arrows at the wall. Of course, the sixty large ladders behind are ready, and they are ready to attack and ascend to the city at any time.

With a bang, two hundred soldiers carried a long iron tip and slammed into the door, and approached the city gate in the face of a rain of arrows. The stones on the top of the wall rained down, and there were shieldmen guarding them, and only a few were injured, but they were quickly replaced by the shieldmen, and the hammers slammed into the door without stopping.

Under a series of impacts, this military fort was not a big city after all, and the thickness of the city gate was not enough, and finally the hole cracked, and the bolt of the door was broken and flew away, but there were stone bars inside to resist, and it could not be opened for a while and a half.

This loud bang frightened the Shu army at the head of the wall, and Zhao Chongpu was also pale and helpless. Sun Tao stepped forward and said, "Zhao Dujian! The city gate can't be saved, so it's better to ambush the troops inside, wait for the Zhou army to rush in, and give them a head-on attack. ”

"Good...... Then you hurry down and arrange, the Zhou army is about to start landing in the city! Zhao Chongpu was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, and when he saw that the Zhou army under the city was approaching, he hurriedly hid in the city tower.

"It's time! Kill all these straight thieves for the old man! Wang Jing finally spit out a breath of old breath, and led the Chinese army to advance fifty steps up the slope, only one hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall.

Wang Tingyi took the lead, carrying a simple knife to climb the ladder himself, Feng Xiangjun roared angrily, carrying a big wooden ladder and rushing to the city wall to set up, holding shields in a formation and surging up.

At this time, the soldiers at the gate of the city cheered, rushing inward, Wang Jing saw the great joy in the rear, the city gate finally crashed open, and then an order, the soldiers waved the order flag, and divided the whole army into two parts, one continued to climb the city, and the other poured in from the city gate to attack.

Those who entered from the city gate were ironclad sword and shield men carrying hammers that hit the door, and when they rushed into the city, they saw more than a thousand Shu troops actually lined up in the open space in the city, with archers in front, sword and shield hands, and spearmen in the center, and they even planned to fight.

But the situation soon changed dramatically, as soon as the Zhou army poured in from the city gate, the Shu army archers threw down their bows and arrows and turned around and ran, this time the situation took a sharp turn, as soon as someone ran, the other soldiers immediately followed suit, and instantly ran away most of them.

Sun Tao yelled a few times, slashing and killing several people one after another, but he couldn't hold back the bullet at all, and before the Zhou army could rush closer, the soldiers were frightened and ran away one after another, leaving only dozens of personal soldiers looking at him hesitantly.

"The mother-in-law runs fast...... Naigong doesn't care! Sun Tao was helpless, and he had to run away after scolding a few times. (To be continued.) )