Chapter 427: Secret Weapon

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Just on the other side of the river, Zhang Xuansu watched the Xia army quickly pass through the pontoon bridge and plunge into the offensive on the north bank.

1,000 heavily armored soldiers gained a foothold on the north bank, and then 2,000 people dressed in red jackets and yellow turbans crossed the river one after another, armed with spears and bows and arrows.

Zhang Xuansu saw it and said to Dou Jiande: "Your Majesty, the enemy army has been deployed in Yishui for a long time, if we capture the beachhead so lightly, then in the opinion of the minister, there must be deception." โ€

Dou Jiande listened and asked, "Zhang Aiqing, where do you think the enemy's tricks are?" โ€

Zhang Xuansu was speechless, thought for a while, and said: "This Weichen still doesn't know, but he just thinks it's inappropriate." โ€

On the side, Song Zhengben sneered and said: "Our army has fought bloodily on the riverside and has gained an advantage, Zhang Huangmen will not make our army give up in vain and return to the river because of a sentence that is inappropriate." โ€

Dou Jiande nodded and said: "Zhang Aiqing, what Song Nayan said makes sense, the current battle situation is a tailwind for our army, if we suddenly retreat across the river, I am afraid that the army's heart will be shaken." โ€

After Dou Jiande finished speaking, several generals said one after another: "Our army is five times larger than the Youzhou army, even if there are ambushes on ten sides, why be afraid." โ€

Zhang Xuansu stopped talking at the moment, as a courtier, as long as he fulfilled his responsibility to advise, as for whether His Majesty listened or not, it was his decision.

At this time, on the bank of the river, Wang Fubao led the Xia army to begin a counterattack, with the sword and shield soldiers outside, the spearmen in second, and the archers behind, arranged in a conical formation. Later, more and more Xia troops who crossed the river joined the round formation.

Wang Fubao held an iron spear and assaulted in front, unstoppable, and no one in front was his triad. And he was also followed by twenty or thirty veterans of the Xia Army, these veterans were heavily armored, and each of them was a battle-hardened and brave fighter who protected each other with his life around Wang Fubao.

At that time, Wang Fubao was like this, he took the lead in leading hundreds of elites of the Xia army, and successfully attacked Xue Shixiong's left imperial guards, blocking a hundred and breaking 30,000 elite government troops.

Wang Fubao is brave, but the Youzhou army is also desperate resistance, the soldiers on both sides fight with their lives, the weapons are thumping in the air, the bowstring collapses, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air are intertwined. The short blades of the steel knives stabbed each other, and the soldiers tried their best, and at the edge of the two armies, like a huge meat grinder, they wrangled the soldiers who were jumping around, turning them into a pile of lifeless flesh and blood.

The corpses were stacked layer after layer under their feet, and the two sergeants and soldiers were still walking on the mud at first, and then they were stepping on the stumps and broken flesh, and they couldn't tell whether the pile of meat under their feet was an enemy or a comrade. The soldier considered in his heart that he should stand firm first, otherwise he would be unstable and eat the opponent's knife, and he would become a part of this mountain of corpses and blood.

So far, with the courage of Wang Fubao, it is only twenty steps forward, and it will be difficult to advance further. He waved his spear, secretly frightened, this Youzhou army is not only tenacious, but also well-trained, and cooperates with each other very tacitly, far better than the court officers and soldiers he dealt with in the past, and even the government soldiers that Xue Shixiong had trained at the beginning were not so strong.

Not only Wang Fubao in the battle, but even the soldiers of the Xia army who watched the battle by the riverside were also stunned, this is how long it has been since such a hard battle, in the past few years, the Xia army has swept the south and the north, and there is no disadvantage, even Xue Shixiong has been defeated in their hands, and the army that has been winning the battle will have arrogance and look down on other opponents.

But now the brave and good fighting of the Youzhou army surprised the Xia army. Who is Wang Fubao, the first general of the Xia Army. He and his soldiers are the first-class elite of the Xia army, but they are on par with the enemy army on the opposite side, but the well-trained and tacit tactics of the Youzhou army are deeply imprinted in their minds.

Dou Jiande was also silent, and Ling Jing on the side saw the solemn look on Dou Jiande's face, and said: "Yan Zhao is a generous and sad man, this is the legacy of Yan Dan, the soldiers are comparable to the sharp soldiers in Guanzhong, and they are the heroes of the world, and Li Chongjiu's government soldiers are more different from the imperial court soldiers, if the imperial court soldiers have no war or on the occasion in peacetime, chun cultivates in summer and autumn, and conducts military parades in winter, and the training is less than 100 days at most, and I heard that the soldiers of the Youzhou Army are usually not producing, and they practice for more than 300 days every year, so they are so elite. โ€

Listening to Ling Jing's words, Liu Heimin and other generals couldn't help but be shocked and asked, "Li Chongjiu raised so many tooth soldiers, where did he have such a large amount of expenses?" โ€

In the eyes of the generals of the Xia Army, the standing army that is completely out of production is only possible with the personal soldiers and tooth soldiers around the generals. With such a general like Liu Heimin, there are only a few hundred soldiers who obey him.

Ling Jingyan said: "Li Chongjiu has the wealth of Youzhou and Taiyuan counties, as well as Huaihuang, the money and grain income of the two towns of Yuyi and the Fanren market, and also borrowed from the people, so that he can have such a lot of money and grain to raise soldiers, and even so, the soldiers in the entire Youzhou are only more than 30,000 people. โ€

Dou Jiande glanced at Ling Jing and said, "But my Xia army has 100,000 horses, and there is only one Wang Fubao." โ€

As the war progressed, Wang Fubao, who was praised by Dou Jiande as one of the 100,000 troops, was also caught in a bitter battle.

Wang Fubao is also a human being, when people are exhausted, now his wheezing is intensifying, and now he takes a few steps back, let the deputy general go up, and take a breath for himself. Wang Fubao was tired, and Xia Jun's impact momentum was also temporarily stopped.

Li Chongjiu, who was watching the battle as the commander, saw this scene and said: "The Xia army is tired of offensive, but there are already 3,000 people crossing the river. โ€

On the side, Ji Chuan said: "Exactly, although there is a plan for the Xia army to add more troops, I think General Wang can't fight anymore, otherwise our army will retreat again, and the eight cannons will not be able to reach the pontoon bridge of the Xia army." โ€

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "In the main room, immediately blow the trumpet and order Zhou Shuzuo to make them shรจ stone fat bullets." โ€

Two hundred and fifty steps away from the river, Zhou Shuzuo and Li Zuojiang were leading hundreds of soldiers to stand in front of the eight gates and eight cannons.

Zhou Shuzuo was in front of several new craftsmen in the workshop, and said: "The last time I attacked Taiyuan County, I used this big guy to break through the city tower!" Don't panic, isn't it a little bloody here, just do it on weekdays when you are in school, and if you get it right, you will have a heavy reward. โ€

Several of the new craftsmen nodded their heads, but their faces were still bloodless pale, and those who had just experienced the battlefield were all so ordinary.

Zhou Shuzuo looked like he had been on the battlefield for a long time, and snorted and said, "Don't embarrass me." โ€

A craftsman said: "Shuzuo, I really want to put on the stone fat bomb for a while, this is our workshop, it was developed only two months ago, because it is too precious, and it was only from the merchants of the Western Regions that we bought fifty catties of stone grease with a lot of money." At the beginning, Shuzuo said that it was too expensive, and in the past two months, I have only tried shรจ three shots, and now we want to really shรจ out of the remaining fifteen rounds, and I am afraid that something will go wrong. โ€

"If there's any mistake, I'll kill you," Zhou Shuzuo roared angrily, "At the beginning, on the school field, you didn't see it, this time you hit it, it burned a large piece of land, you want to shรจ far away, I don't blame you, if shรจ is close, burn my sergeant, mess up the formation, you and I have to take it and ask a hundred times is not enough." โ€

This young craftsman was so intimidated by Zhou Shuzuo that he almost fainted with fright.

Li Zuojiang is a good man, and said at the moment: "Don't worry, just do it step by step according to what you said." โ€

Although Li Zuojiang said this, there was also a young craftsman who complained and said: "This thing is so dangerous, why did Shanggu Gong ask us to make a craftsman's workshop in the first place, and in a few months, let us master the skill, and now I am sharpening the gun, in case we hurt ourselves." โ€

Zhou Shuzuo's eyes narrowed, and he said: "What do you know, what kind of character Shanggu Gong is, and it is also something that you stupid donkey can speculate." Who would have thought that this stone grease would be used as an oil lamp on weekdays, and it would be stinky, but it would be so powerful as a weapon, what a prescient it was, and what was it to take this risk compared to it? โ€

Everyone knew the power of the stone fat bomb, and nodded at the same time.

This stone fat burns with a strange smell, it is not used to light the lamp on weekdays, nor is it to cook, and it is also a fan of the Western Regions on weekdays, so I don't dislike it, but I don't need to wait for leisure. But one day, when Li Chongjiu saw this thing in Youzhou City, he called it crude oil, and ordered Zhou Shuzuo to buy all of it and use it to refine it into oil bombs.

Zhou Shuzuo was skeptical, but he heard Li Chongjiu say that in the Western Regions, the princes and countries used this thing to fight wars, burn ships, and it took three months to finally develop it.

"There is an order from the Upper Valley Public, shรจ stone fat bomb!"

"No!" Zhou Shuzuo agreed, and shouted at the moment, "Cheer me up, don't test the artillery, just shoot all the stone fat bombs for me." โ€

With Zhou Shuzuo's roar, the craftsmen of the workshop and hundreds of township soldiers and soldiers all started to work.

The eight-door and eight-tip cannon peeled off its artillery clothing, revealing its hideous face.

Dou Jiande, who was watching the battle from a distance, couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it, and asked Song Zhengben, Zhang Xuansu, and Ling Jing: "Three Aiqing, well-informed, what is this?" โ€

Zhang Xuansu looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "Back to Your Majesty, this is a stone thrower, but the Youzhou army is very large, so it can't be seen at a glance." โ€

Song Zhengben sneered and said: "The stone thrower of the Youzhou army is obviously going to throw stones to break our pontoon bridge, but unfortunately the river is so wide, with a few stone throwers, how to hit it, even if it hits, and then send soldiers into the water, it can be repaired without much effort." โ€

Ling Jing also said: "Yes, if the other party takes it out when our army crosses the river just now, there are still scruples, but now that the wood is in the boat, our army has already crossed the river with 3,000 soldiers, and it is useless to take it again." โ€

Dou Jiande nodded when he heard this, but there was a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart, the same Zhang Xuansu was the same, he knew that with the means of the Youzhou Army, it would never be untargeted, and this eight-tip cannon must have a wonderful use that he couldn't imagine.

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