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Standing in his palace, he looked at the stars in the sky and was speechless for a long time. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Fan Man is not Fan Jun, he does things without leakage, and without waiting for Blameless to make countermeasures, he replaced the guards in the Blameless Palace, and Fan Man's confidant Li Yuan also became the blameless palace general, and the blameless plan was naturally stillborn, to this point, he had no other way to think of except to lead Cui Qian into the city according to Fan Man's instructions.

He couldn't even show a hint of dissatisfaction, because he was very suspicious that the guards who were not far from him now were all arranged by Fan Man.

Wu Blame's heart was extremely bitter, and he always thought that Jin Chenguo could exist until now because of his suppleness and his cleverness, but now he found that those were all unreal illusions, and there was only one reason why Jin Chenguo could exist until now: Fan Man needed him to exist. Once Fan Man felt that he didn't need it, then Jin Chenguo could become a county in Funan at any time.

That's all.

Although he was very ashamed, he had no other choice but to follow Fan Man's request to see Cui Qian again, and "sincerely" invited Cui Qian to enter Dunsun City and help him defend the city, of course, it was inevitable to present Jin Chenguo's scepter and map.

Cui Qian sat arrogantly, sipping tea, while squinting at the blameless, he touched the scepter and map on the case, and laughed proudly: "King Jin Chen is sincere, if I don't accept it, King Jin Chen must not be able to sleep peacefully, since this is the case, I will take care of it for a few days, and then make plans when I defeat the Funan people." ”

Blameless smiled bitterly, he could hear that Cui Qian, like Fan Man, had no intention of letting Jin Chenguo exist anymore. They are all wolves, only he is a sheep, and it is his fate to eat the weak, the difference is only which wolf is eaten.

"If there is a general to escort me, I will be safe." Blameless said gratefully, his eyes moistened a little.

Cui Qian dismissed, paused for a moment and went straight to the point: "How many troops did King Funan bring, how many were Funan people, how many vassal countries were there, and where were they stationed, please also ask King Jin Chen to elaborate, and we can also have a preparation." ”

"Dare to disobey." Wu Yi nodded again and again, raised his head, looked at Cui Qian with inquiring eyes, and gestured to the map of Jin Chenguo in front of him. Cui Qian nodded proudly and said with a smile: "King Jin Chen, please come forward to speak, come here, give the king a glass of stone honey wine." ”

Stone honey wine is not wine, in fact, it is sugarcane juice, sugarcane is a specialty of the countries around Funan, Jin Chen naturally has a lot, Cui Qian drinks the juice of sugar cane produced by Jin Chen, but now he borrows flowers to offer Buddha, and uses it to entertain King Jin Chen. No matter how poor he is, he is also the king of a country, sugarcane juice is naturally often drunk, and if someone else invites him to drink, he will definitely be unhappy, but Cui Qian invites him to drink, he must drink it happily, and he must show a very grateful look.

However, as soon as he received the cup, he was taken aback, the porcelain cup containing sugarcane juice was very cold, and as soon as he started his hand, a cold air spread all over his body along his arm in an instant, and there was a lot of dew on the outer wall of the cup. He glanced at the sugarcane juice in his hand in surprise, looked at the familiar pale yellow liquid, and asked curiously, "Is this......?" Is it really stone honey wine? ”

"Of course." The corners of Cui Qian's mouth hooked up with a touch of pride, and he stretched out his hand to signal Wu Blame to taste it: "It's just a little chilled in the ice." King Jin Chen, take a sip and take a look, this is the best quality to cool off. ”

He took a sip tentatively, the cold sweet liquid slipped into his abdomen, a cool breath made him feel all the heat, and he couldn't say how happy he was, he hurriedly took another sip, this time the cool air was more obvious, a glass of stone honey wine in his stomach, he couldn't help but shiver, and then smiled: "Happy, happy, dare to ask the general, what is this ice, why does ordinary stone honey wine become so sweet?" ”

Cui Qian laughed, waved his hand, and a personal guard turned around and went out, and soon brought a basin up, and in the basin were a few pieces of crystal clear crushed ice. Born in Jin Chen, he has never seen ice, and at a glance, he doesn't know what it is, he reached out and touched it tentatively, and it was cool in his hand, he was full of praise, and the envy in his eyes was undisguised.

"Where is this ice?" Wuyi looked at the water trail on his hand, and reluctantly twisted his fingers.

"This is a thing from the North Sea, my merchants from Yue have traveled thousands of miles to present it to my king, and my king Nian General Nian has worked hard to fight and rewarded a box." Lin Yizhi smiled faintly and said: "King, the general cherishes this thing, but he never shows it, only King Jin Chen can have this kind of eye blessing." ”

Wu Blame secretly smiled bitterly, remembering that Fan Man wanted to use Cui Qian to bait Sun Shao, the king of Yue, and couldn't help but admire Fan Man's unique vision, and calculated that the king of Yue would come to save Cui Qian. He thanked again and again, hurriedly stepped forward, pointed to the map and explained the formation of the Funan people. Of course, in his mouth, although there are a lot of people in Funan, in fact, they are not on the surface, the soldiers are very war-weary, and the indigenous soldiers of Funan are very reluctant to fight with the king of Yue, even those subject countries are also detached, so as long as Cui Qian is willing to settle in Dunsun City, he will definitely be able to stop the king of Funan and let him return in vain. And the weight that King Funan carries is limited, and once he can't conquer Dunxun to replenish it, he will be in trouble.

Cui Qian smiled when he heard this, nodded again and again, asked a few more questions, and finally slapped his thigh, promising to enter the city immediately to help defend the city without blame. After hearing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and after thanking him repeatedly, he hurriedly went.

As soon as he left, Cui Qian immediately summoned his generals, left hundreds of people to guard the ship, and he personally landed with the main force and went straight to Dunsun City. After entering Dunson City, the first thing he did was to take over the city defense of Dunson City, and then send people to take over Dunson Port and the big city.

As soon as the Han merchants in the big city heard that the Yue team had entered Dunxun City, they immediately rejoiced and congratulated each other. They had already heard the rumors that Cui Qian, the general of the Yue Kingdom, was negotiating with Jin Chen, and once it succeeded, Jin Chen would be the same as the local Yue Kingdom, and the taxes would be greatly reduced, and they could save a lot of costs and make more money. They had long pricked up their ears and paid attention to the progress of the matter, but after the matter dragged on for two or three months, they all felt that there was little hope, but they did not expect that suddenly the dream would come true, and they couldn't help but be very unhappy. On the same day, some Vietnamese businessmen put out preferential rewards to celebrate the alliance between Jin Chen and Vietnam, and after a short time, the news spread throughout the city, and several businessmen took the lead, raising pigs, sheep and wine to rush to the gate of Cui Qian's camp to ask for labor. There are many Han merchants in Dunxun, not only Yue merchants but also Wei Shu and Wu merchants, but at this time, no one cares about those differences, although everyone has different accents, but they all speak Chinese, and they are naturally a family.

Cui Qian was very happy, personally went out to greet him, and then issued a word of thanks, to the effect that this time Jin Chen and Yue Guo formed an alliance, we are here to help King Jin Chen defend the city to deal with the Funan people, as long as the city is defended, everyone will have benefits in the future.

Long live the crowd, they toasted some soldiers in front of the camp gate, and the soldiers did not dare to drink more because of the military order, so they could only taste it, but their hearts were beautiful. Most of them turned out to be pirates, robbing merchants for a living, and the merchants laughed when they saw them, but they knew that behind that smile was a vicious curse, when had they ever enjoyed such a heartfelt gratitude from the merchants? In that moment, they all stood up and felt the glory and self-esteem of being a protector.

When Jin Chenguo's soldiers and Li Yuan and others who were hiding in Jin Chen's soldiers saw this scene, they all felt a little uncomfortable. Li Yuan felt that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, if the attack was successful this time and the Yue people were hit hard, then everything would be fine, if it failed, let the Yue people gain a firm foothold in Jin Chen, I am afraid that Jin Chen will no longer be Funanguo. As long as these 5,000 sailors are in charge, these merchants will automatically consciously become a huge baggage team to ensure the lifeline of these sailors.

Li Yuan didn't dare to slack off, he immediately asked people to send a letter to Fan Man, Cui Qian had already entered the city, and asked Fan Man to immediately surround Dunsun City, and at the same time, he reported Cui Qian's actions after entering the city to Fan Man, reminding Fan Man that he could not ignore the financial and material resources behind these merchants. When Fan Man received the news, he immediately raised his army, surrounded Dunxun City on the one hand, and sent people to the sea on the other hand, trying to seize Cui Qian's fleet. When the remaining Vietnamese troops saw that the situation was not right, they immediately set sail and avoided the sea and disappeared without a trace.

Although Fan Man felt a little regretful, he didn't have much hope for capturing Cui Qian's warship itself, Cui Qian was a pirate and a general under Sun Shao, so it was impossible for him not to leave a back hand, so people could easily copy his back road. He left a guard force on the seashore, turned around and surrounded the city of Dunxun, and built siege equipment outside the city, making a posture that he would never stop until the city was broken.

The Great War is on the verge of breaking out.

Cui Qian methodically arranged the task of defending the city. He was originally a pirate, not paying attention to defending the city, but Sun Shao's subordinates have many people who are very experienced in defending the city, under Sun Shao's arrangement, they often learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, learn from each other, and it is normal to hold a drill in peacetime, and when he was in Wancheng, he had already practiced the battle of attacking and defending the city, and he was confident about defending such a small city as Dunxun. Although his subordinates are all sailors, they have gone through large and small battles, and now they are qualified amphibious combat units.

Although Dunxun is the royal city of Jin Chenguo, the scale is not much different from a county town in Wu Yueguo, with a radius of only seven miles and a population of more than 10,000, Cui Qian brought 5,000 sailors, plus more than 1,000 guards of Jin Chenguo, more than enough manpower. Cui Qian let Wu blame guard the south gate, Cui Yan led 1,000 people to guard the east gate, Cui Wu led 1,000 people to guard the west gate, and he led 3,000 people to guard the north gate facing the Funan people. When they came, they removed the thunderbolts and crossbows from the ship, and brought with them a large number of artillery stones and crossbow arrows, which were installed on the low walls of Dunsun as soon as they entered the city.

These sharp weapons brought Fan Man a lot of trouble. Although the purpose of Fan Man's siege of the city was to use Cui Qian as bait to lure Sun Shao to take the bait, he also wanted to beat Cui Qian to death before Sun Shao arrived, lest he still have the strength to go out of the city to attack after Sun Shao came, so the attack was not entirely a joke, he still put his mind to it. It's just that the newly installed thunderbolt cannons and strong crossbows at the head of the city caught him by surprise, and the news sent back by Li Yuan did not include these, as a result, as soon as he went into battle, the war elephant that was strong in front of the battle had just stood firm, and before he had time to launch a demonstration charge, two crossbow arrows like spears roared from two hundred paces away, and accurately shot the war elephant in the middle, blood spurted out from the blood groove of the special arrow shaft, and the war elephant screamed twice, fell to the ground with a plop, convulsed a few times, and soon lost his breath.

The soldiers on the elephant's back were dizzy and dizzy, and they rushed to the side of the elephant, looking at the elephant's eyes, which had lost their lustre, and were inexplicably frightened. War elephants are large in size and easy to hit arrows, they all know this, but war elephants have thick skin, and ordinary arrows will not be immediately fatal when shot on two branches, and today's situation is beyond their imagination. Looking at the two iron-core crossbow arrows that were more than a foot long, and looking at the streams of blood that shot out of them, they were caught off guard.

Fan Man was also startled when he received the report, he raised his head and looked at Dunsun City two hundred steps away, and shivered. He heard that the Han people have strong crossbows, the range is very long, the farthest is said to be 300 steps, but he has never seen it with his own eyes, he has not experienced it firsthand, and today before the war, he was beaten by this legendary sharp weapon, which is really something he did not think about.

"Pull the war elephants back." Fan Man's face was as cold as water, and he waved his hand: "Prepare some thick wooden planks as shields to cover the war elephants to come forward and knock on the door." Let the soldiers disperse and pay attention to defense. ”

Fan Ru passed the order, and the originally energetic battle array quickly moved into action, and more than a hundred war elephants were transferred to the rear formation, except for the assault team that was preparing to attack the city gate, everyone else stood up a little looser, in order to reduce the power of the Yue people's crossbow arrows. It's just that in this way, before the battle is fought, the momentum has been lost a little, and the morale is a little low.

Although Fan Man didn't want to break the city immediately, he knew that he had lost the opportunity, and if he couldn't gain the upper hand immediately, this battle would be very difficult, so he immediately ordered that the first person to break the city would be rewarded to arouse the murderous spirit of the soldiers.

The first assault team was assembled, and under the cover of the thick planks carried by the two war elephants, they approached the city gate steadfastly.

Cui Qian stood on the gatehouse, looked at the Funan soldiers in the distance, and pursed his lips disdainfully: "War elephants? It's a big piece of meat. ”

"Jianzhong, don't be careless, although the war elephants have a big target, but they also have great strength, now there are planks as cover, although our giant crossbow is powerful, but it may not be able to shoot through such a thick plank, even if it crosses, it may not be able to hit the war elephants hard, and the situation just now is unlikely to happen."

"It's fine." Cui Qian bared his teeth, "Isn't there still a thunderbolt, pass on my order, the target of all the strong crossbows and thunderbolts is these war elephants, and the rest will be dealt with by the crossbowmen, first use the thunderbolt to blast, smash their planks, and then use the city crossbow to shoot, I don't believe it, those rabbit cubs practice every day, and they can still hit such a big piece of meat." ”

Cui Wen smiled and nodded repeatedly, Cui Qian's method should be very effective against these war elephant commandos.

At the sound of the order, all the thunderbolts and crossbows began to adjust their direction and aim at the war elephants moving towards the city gates. The movement speed of war elephants is slow, far lower than the speed of the soldiers, and they have to be consistent, in order to cover the soldiers in the middle, the speed is even slower, for these artillery and crossbowmen who practice every day, if such a target cannot be aimed, they will have no shame to gain a foothold in the army in the future, and they will definitely be laughed to death by other battalions if they spread it.

The moat in front of Dunsun was about ten steps from the city walls, and the war elephants had to either wade across the river or fill it in first. In any case, this section of the road is the most dangerous, and Fan Man ordered people to fill the river in order to prevent the war elephants from being delayed when wading in the water and become a stationary target hit by a strong crossbow.

Nearly 1,000 Funan soldiers carried bags of dirt on their backs, rushed forward in a lazy line, ran to the moat, threw down the bags and ran. Cui Qian had no interest in these Funan soldiers who were as fast as monkeys, and he was not interested in wasting arrows, so he was even exempted from blocking, so he watched Fan Man fill the ditch, which made Fan Man breathe a sigh of relief.

Half an hour later, the moat was filled with a few mounds of seven or eight zhang wide, threw a few wooden planks, and the temporary bridge became a temporary bridge, Fan Man sent ten commandos at the same time, except for the war elephants facing the city gate, the others were all rushed down by the soldiers holding wooden planks to the city gate, the city of Dunxun was not high, the city tower was only two zhang, and the ordinary city wall was about one zhang and five, and it could be climbed up with the help of a simple ladder.

Seeing that the Funan soldiers began to charge, Cui Qian put away his smile and ordered to prepare for a counterattack. The low drums sounded at the head of the city, and the soldiers of the Yue Kingdom, who had been holding their arms to watch the busy work of the Funan soldiers, also became serious, and the crossbowmen stood behind the city wall, each looking at the target, ready to shoot, while the gunners and crossbowmen held their breath and focused on the dirt slope on the moat. Warriors with swords and shields stand behind, ready to fight as they come.

The war elephant roared, and under the drive of the soldiers, they slowly walked towards the city gate with a huge shield made of thick wooden planks. Under the giant shield, dozens of soldiers pushed a battering ram, carefully cooperating with the footsteps of the war elephants, moving forward step by step. They had just heard that the Yue people had shot a war elephant from 200 paces away, although they had not seen it with their own eyes, but the war elephant was invincible in their minds, but today they were easily shot to death, and they couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in their hearts, for fear that the indestructible giant arrow would fly over at once, and even the wooden shield could not stop it, and directly shot their lives.

Fortunately, they were not attacked along the way, and seeing that the city gate was in sight, their steps began to quicken, and one by one they encouraged each other and ran forward with their battering rams.

Fan Man watched from afar, very uneasy in his heart. After the other party gave him a dismount, he didn't make any more moves, just watched him fill in the moat, if it was before, he would definitely think that the other party was a stupid person who didn't know anything, and he didn't know how to seize the most favorable opportunity to attack, and actually let him fill in the passage so smoothly, but now he didn't dare to think so, the more Cui Qian ignored him, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, and instinctively regarded this as Cui Qian's confidence.

The more relaxed the other party is, the more nervous he becomes, knowing that this mentality is very bad, but he still lingers, in a trance, Fan Man feels that he seems to be back to when he first entered the battle formation, but he has stood a little longer, and the soreness in his legs will remind him that he is no longer the brave young man he was back then.

Fan Man leaned forward, almost crouching on the elephant fence, staring at the head of the city with his eyes, looking at the commandos who were getting closer and closer to the moat. The assault team had already stepped on the dirt slope, and at this moment, a drum suddenly sounded at the head of the city, and several black dots flew out at the same time, smashing at the assault team. Fan Man was surprised, those black dots were definitely not crossbow arrows, he thought about it for a while, and then remembered the stone ball that Fan Jinsheng had talked about, and an ominous feeling suddenly came to his heart.

"Boom!" A piece of artillery stone slammed into the wooden shield, bounced back, and smashed into the dirt behind it, and the earth trembled, but the soldiers under the wooden shield did not have time to understand, and the loud noise made by the wooden shield when it was hit by the cannon stone frightened their hands and feet, and the moaning sound attracted everyone to raise their heads and look at the wooden shield.

Immediately after that, another cannon stone hit the side of the wooden shield, and the wooden shield shook violently, and the huge impact force made the elephant a little unstable, and the support of the wooden shield swayed, making an ugly squeak, making the soldiers very worried about whether they could withstand the next blow.

"Quick! Come on! ”

The leading commando leader shouted loudly, and they didn't care to look at the wooden shield above their heads, pushed the battering ram, drove the war elephant, and approached the city gate as fast as they could. Now it is only ten steps away from the city gate, and as long as you rush to the city gate, the other party will be beyond the whip. The soldiers who can enter the commando team are all experienced people, and they don't need to be reminded that they also know what to do, so they shouted at the moment and rushed forward in unison.

After only two steps, their good luck came to an end, eight thunderbolts were aimed at this assault team and bombarded, the distance was close, and the attack point was fixed, they had already aimed for a long time, and now they were like thunder as soon as they launched, and in a breath, eight artillery stones flew in succession, three of which hit the wooden shield, although the wooden shield was not smashed, but was staggered by the impact, revealing a protective gap.

These gaps provided an excellent opportunity for the twenty bolts that flew in later.

Twenty spear-like giant crossbows shot at the wooden shield one after another, and the wooden shield that had been hit hard was staggered, and three giant crossbows broke the wooden shield successively, and then, a giant crossbow passed through the gap, easily penetrated the thick skin of the war elephant, and pierced the body of the war elephant, blood gushed out along the blood trough, and sprinkled the soldiers next to him, the war elephant suffered pain, and struggled violently, the wooden shield revealed a larger gap, and another giant crossbow passed through the gap and shot on the battering ram, and the arrow with a barb shot into the battering ram, The soldiers couldn't bear the strength of the remaining strength, and took two steps back.

The soldiers were stunned by the trembling crossbow arrows, but greater doom followed, the wounded war elephants were cut by the sharp ridges of the arrows in their bodies, and they were furious in pain, and rushed to the side regardless of it, and the soldiers on the elephant's back could not control them even with all their strength, and watched the two war elephants walking side by side parting ways, tearing the huge wooden shield to pieces, and the soldiers hidden under the wooden shield were unconcealed in front of the crossbowmen who were waiting at the head of the city.

"Shoot!" Cui Wen waved his hand expressionlessly.

The Funan soldiers pushing the battering rams did not even have time to be surprised, and were soon knocked down by the whistling rain of arrows, and only a few of the soldiers were terrified, they threw down the battering rams, cried, turned around and ran. Arrows from the head of the city followed them like shadows, knocking them down one by one, and in a matter of moments, dozens of corpses fell in front of the battle.

The wounded war elephant screamed and ran along the city wall, rushing to the ground of the Funan soldiers who had just crossed the moat and were about to set up a ladder to attack. The soldiers of Funan were suddenly in chaos, some climbed up, some ran back, no one dared to face the crazy war elephants, and those who could not dodge were knocked to the ground by the war elephants, or pierced through the chest and abdomen by the ivory holes, or trampled by the war elephants to the intestines and stomachs, which was miserable.

Cui Qian leaned on the city wall, poked his head out to look at the crazy war elephant, and pouted: "War elephant? It's just a piece of meat. ”

(To be continued)