[165] Attack Muzhou
Qin Hui is a five-year jinshi of Zhenghe, and now he is a professor in Mizhou, and he has not yet made a career, so he is remembered by Zhou Yi.
In fact, the things he did were all done in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it had little to do with the Northern Song Dynasty, and it was also the Southern Song Dynasty to recruit Yue Fei, but modern history proves that he was just a prime minister, and Yue Fei was a general at that time, one was the first civil official, the other was the first military attaché, and he couldn't kill Yue Fei if he sent Qin Hui two guts. So there is only one truth, Gaozong Zhao of the Southern Song Dynasty conceived to kill Yue Fei, and then pushed Qin Hui out to be a black cauldron. In this way, it seems that Zhao Gou should not like Qin Hui very much.
So when people are unlucky, anything can really happen, Zhou Yi has been in the Northern Song Dynasty since the past two months, and the idea of killing corrupt officials has been germinated. Take the risk of strangling in the cradle those who are not yet bubbling or who are too famous.
Wang Hao and Liang Shicheng can't move, now that both of them are already extremely powerful ministers, if they suddenly disappear, they will definitely be shocked by the government and the opposition, and then track it down, it will be difficult for Zhou Yi to get rid of it. A magistrate like Qin Hui is much more relaxed.
In this way, it seems that there is also Zhao Gou, that guy is in cahoots with Qin Yu, and he is not a good bird, but it is the most difficult to trip him, after all, he is the prince, the first emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is too difficult to want him to die an unnatural death.
Despite this, Zhou Yi still hid these plans in his heart, once he had such an opportunity, he would not hesitate to implement these plans, Yue Fei must be saved, and the emperor could not stop it!
Having said that, after just half a month of training. Zhou Yi led the trained 50,000 people who met the requirements from Zhending Mansion.
He went out. The one who worries him the most is Tang Huan. Zhou Yi is Tang Huan's greatest hope, if it weren't for Zhou Yi, she might still be in front of her own Oiran now, worrying about her younger brother. And now, Zhou Yi's appearance has lifted her out of the predicament and let her know that her brother is still alive.
"Don't worry, girl, the young master will definitely come back soon, he is auspicious. God blesses you. Tang Huanwu was worried in the gazebo in the courtyard, so Yu'er came over to comfort her. It's the New Year in a few days, girl, let's go buy New Year's goods and pray for the young master. ”
Speaking of Zhou Yi, Hangzhou has been a rich place since ancient times, after the Sui Dynasty built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, it brought development opportunities to Hangzhou and became a global metropolis. Zhou Yi had to give thirty-two likes to his wit.
But it's not good if it's too prosperous, for example, someone else has occupied Sichuan. The transportation in that place is inconvenient, the Shu road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky, but in the face of the encirclement and suppression of the imperial court, he can hold out for decades. But Hangzhou is different, Hangzhou has canals, roads and sea routes, and as soon as the imperial court gets serious, it can be attacked from several sides and directly hit him without friends.
On November 22, the second year of Xuanhe, the Fang La thief army annihilated 5,000 permanent officers and soldiers on the Liangzhejiang Road in Xikeng, Qingxi County, and the soldiers and horses were all killed to supervise Yan Tan, and continued to capture Qingxi, capturing the county lieutenant Weng Kai, at the beginning of December, Kemu Prefecture, and then Shezhou, and went straight to Hangzhou, which was the command center of Huashigang at that time.
Huo Chengfu, Chen Hoop and others all joined the battle, and the Manichaean organization in Quzhou also responded with troops. At its peak, Fang Lajun established a regime that included 52 counties in six prefectures including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi.
Fang La is menacing, fortunately Zhou Yi has already disintegrated Liangshan, otherwise these two teams will fall apart decisively as soon as the two teams go south and north, and then as soon as the Jin soldiers go south, the Great Song regime will burp directly.
Of course Zhou Yi wouldn't let this kind of thing happen, otherwise wouldn't his years of hard work be in vain? To say that this Fang La really has nothing to do, the official family has already stopped shipping Huashigang (in the second year of Xuanhe in history, Song Huizong ordered the suspension of Huashigang, and Tong Guan was the Xuanfu envoy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Tan Zhi was appointed as the envoy of the Liangzhejiang Road. So what else is he making a fuss about?
But in fact, he has already happened, so he must face it positively, the 50,000 people brought by Zhou Yi are obviously not enough, but not only him, but there are other state capitals, each government sends 50,000 troops, which is enough for Fang La to drink a pot.
In fact, it is exactly like this, Zhou Yi came to Muzhou, and met several people, the most important thing is that he saw Tong Guan again, Tong Guan led 100,000 horses to Hangzhou, and found that a team had come outside Muzhou, and rushed over to see that it was Zhou Yi.
I still remember that the first thing the two said when they met was: "It's really a place in life where they don't meet." ”
So Tong Guan and Zhou Yi merged together again, and a total of 150,000 people were stationed outside Muzhou City.
That night, General Tent, Zhou Yi and Tong Guan, as well as several lieutenant generals, were urgently discussing the plan to attack Muzhou.
"Lord Guogong, I don't know if you remember the thing we used when we attacked Ulzhou, I called it an explosives bag at the time." Zhou Yi asked Tong Guan on the spot, and now Tong Guan is already the Duke of Jingguo, so Zhou Yi called him so.
Thinking of the battle at that time, Tong Guan was also quite emotional, he said: "Then how can you not remember, so do you mean that we still use the previous method?" "If you can break through the city gate, Muzhou can be captured! The scale of Muzhou is not large, but because it is on the same latitude as Hangzhou and is the gateway to Hangzhou in the west, it has become a battlefield for the two sides, nothing more.
The others didn't know what Zhou Yi meant, but Tong Guan understood Zhou Yi's thoughts, and he asked with a smile: "It seems that Zhou Governor's Mansion is still ready to do the same." ”
"No, no, no, how can I concoct it in the same way, I'm not a person who sticks to tradition, although it's still a dynamite bag, but I'm ready to play with a different trick, I don't know if Guogong is interested?" Zhou Yi smiled and took out a bunch of drawings and spread them on the table and said.
"What is this?" Everyone gathered around to look at it, and found that there were a lot of lines drawn on it, and there were all kinds of data, which was dazzling to see. Zhou Yi looked at it, immediately took it away and replaced it with one, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I took it wrong, it's this one." ”
On this drawing, Zhou Yi drew a kind of machinery, which was written as an artificial winch projection siege machine. Tong Guan looked at it, and immediately smiled and said, "Aren't you just a trebuchet." ”
Zhou Yi was suddenly greatly injured, he coughed lightly, and said: "Yes, it is a trebuchet, but I have adopted a new spring device that can increase the range a lot, this is a trebuchet designed only for distance, not for height." It's not so much about throwing as it is about shooting, shooting the explosives out like a bow and arrow. This way, there is no need for someone to plant the explosive bag, which is much safer. ”
Zhou Yi explained the principle of this trebuchet, after using the spring device, the same winch force, the ejection distance will increase a lot, which is equivalent to the joint effect of cow tendon and spring.
"Okay, then let's attack the city with explosives bags first, when will it be done?" Tong Guan asked, if you can bombard the city wall first, not only can you speed up the siege, but also can deter the rebels defending the city inside, maybe they can surrender directly.
Everyone else has no opinions, and Zhou Yi doesn't even know the names of these generals, which shows that the sense of existence of these people is too low. But this is not something that Zhou Yi cares about.
So that night, the unique "technical department" brought by Zhou Yi began to make these trebuchets, but it was not so much about making them as they were about assembling, except for the wooden components, such as cow tendons and springs, which were all made early by the factory in Zhendingfu.
By the morning of the next day, a total of eight trebuchets had been made, and the defending troops on the opposite side saw that the Song army had launched eight trebuchets, and they were naturally not to be outdone, and the trebuchets on the city wall were also pushed out, ready to have a confrontation with the Song army below.
In order to prevent accidents, the lead of the explosive pack is made relatively long, so that if there is an accident during the projection, it can be rescued. If there is no accident - throw it into the opposite corner and go down, will anyone on the other side dare to come out and see?
Zhou Yi and Tong Guan waited fifty zhang behind the trebuchet, and behind them were hundreds of thousands of troops, and once the trebuchet succeeded in breaking through the city gate, these soldiers would attack the city as fast as possible.
Except for Tong Guan and Zhou Yi, the others were completely at a loss for this kind of play, and whispered one after another, whether this would work or not.
"Is this going to work?"
"I don't know, look at it, since the prince didn't object, I think it should be useful, you see, the other side is attacking."
The trebuchet on the city wall took the lead in attacking, and the dozens of catties of stones were put on the winch, and then catapulted below, such a great force, plus it fell from the sky, and it was absolutely impossible to die on the person, even if it was hit, it had to hurt the muscles and bones. For a long time, trebuchets were used as a weapon of great destruction in the defense of cities. But Zhou Yi has already begun to put an end to this mass killing weapon, and the trebuchet that fires the explosive bag is the beginning.
But what discouraged the rebels defending the city was that the stones they launched had already fallen to the ground and lost their power before they hit the Song army, and even if they rolled near the Song army's trebuchet, they could not create any destructive power.
Finally, it was the Song army that launched a counterattack, and the explosive bag designed by Zhou Yi was round, placed on the trebuchet, put on the winch, and then ignited the fuse and threw it out. If it is made in a circle, it can be rolled over even if it does not run to the foot of the city wall.
Eight trebuchets were much smaller, and they were sparsely projected and landed in the corner, but there was no movement. However, before the people on the city wall could rejoice, they heard a loud bang, and then the earth shook, and the impregnable city wall began to collapse!
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Sure enough, it was not in vain that I traveled thousands of miles to transport these flammable and explosive materials." (To be continued......)