Chapter 74, Jizhou's Urgency
When Zu Zhao returned to the camp, the entire garrison was very busy, and Wang Lin, the assassin of Youzhou, wanted to watch the combat effectiveness of all the cavalry. Especially Zu Zhao's ghost cavalry was what Wang Lin paid the most attention to.
"Mark the Governor of Beiping County, Zuzhao, I've seen my lord!" Zu Zhao was majestic in a silver robe, and behind him were eight hundred cavalrymen with high morale.
"Hehe, I have long heard that there is a phantom rider who has won a hundred battles in Jixian County, I didn't expect it to be so young, and you, the little general, are so young, it really makes the old man open his eyes!" Youzhou Thorn Shi Wang Lin had an approving expression on his face.
Behind him was a person that Zu Zhao was very familiar with, Wen Chou. At this moment, Wen Chou also came to Jixian County with nearly two thousand people, with a trace of tiredness on his face. He looked at Zu Zhao thoughtfully.
As soon as Wang Lin came to the camp, he took the lead in coming to Zu Zhao's station, watching Zu Zhao's response, at this moment, he was orderly, the soldiers were even calmer and abnormal, and there was murderous aura in both eyes, this is definitely a tiger and wolf division.
"This official came here to watch the strong crossbow of the post and the extremely powerful assassination technique, and made a special trip, hoping to see it so that the old man can also open his eyes!"
Assassin Wang Lin positioned the topic on the strong crossbow.
The biggest reason why the current Youzhou Yellow Turban thieves do not dare to provoke the officers and soldiers at all is that the officers and soldiers are equipped with a series of strong crossbows, which can shoot through the flesh of three people under the stimulation of this kind of strong crossbow, and the lethality is extremely amazing.
Hearing that the strong crossbow was Wen Chou, he also drew his attention back, and the officer who followed Wang Lin also looked at Zu Zhao with a concerned expression.
This is a new weapon in the Three Kingdoms era, which completely reversed the war situation in Youzhou.
Zu Zhao still asked people to bring a group of war horses that were about to die of old age, let them go out at a distance of two hundred meters, and then ordered his army to attack with strong crossbows.
As the hard-textured wooden spears on the crossbows were issued, all the horses were nailed into hedgehogs.
"That's the penetrating power of our crossbow! Everyone, please see that the war horses in the distance are nailed to the ground, if it is a person, it may be directly nailed, or directly broken at the waist, our strong crossbow has almost a thousand catties of attack power! ”
Zu Zhao generously introduced.
All eyes were on the crossbow.
"Zu Zhao is simply a wise and martial artist, I heard that it is a set of magical workmanship, and it is passed down by the immortal master of General Inspector, so it has such amazing power?" Beside Wang Lin was a goatee-bearded master, saluting to Zu Zhao, he was not interested in how powerful the crossbow was, but he was interested in the legendary immortal master.
Zu Zhao hurriedly nodded, admitting that he was a disciple of the so-called immortal master, otherwise in this Three Kingdoms era, it really can't be explained, can't you say that you have crossed over from the next life?
The so-called strange power is chaotic, as soon as he heard the name of the immortal master, he went up to Wang Lin, the assassin of Youzhou, and then to Wen Chou, who had been looking at Zu Zhao unpleasantly. Immediately turn the topic to the core of the immortal master.
"I don't know where this immortal master lives?" Youzhou Thorn Shi Wang Lin still couldn't help but ask, not minding that this was a military mobilization meeting.
"The family master said that he lived in the eternal night in the far north, where it was in darkness all the year round, but the rotation of the sun and the moon may be in the eternal day, which is very mysterious, and the immortal master told me a lot, but unfortunately it is dull in the lower place, and what can be obtained is only the skin!"
Hearing the land of the far north, Na Wenchou couldn't help but ask, "Isn't it very cold somewhere?" Where can someone live? Is it inappropriate for the immortal master to live there? Even this ugliness didn't hold back the gossip.
"Yes, the extreme north is ice and snow all the year round, and everywhere you pass is ice, where the residents don't have to build a house at all, but use ice to make a house, called an igloo, wearing a bearskin coat, spit out a mouthful of phlegm and turn into an ice lump in an instant, ordinary people can no longer survive in that extreme environment, even if they are in the bottom, they are also retreating, and they have been frozen and shivered in the far north several times in their dreams!"
Zu Zhao instilled the geographical knowledge of these turtles in the Three Kingdoms like a stick. Libao Immortal Master is more mysterious, making people believe, don't debunk it.
"Haha, okay, since you are a disciple of the Immortal Master, no wonder there is such a powerful crossbow that shocks the sky! It's just that now our Youzhou has stabilized, but General Huangpu Song in Jizhou is extremely difficult, after he heard about you, he asked Yicheng to send urgent documents overnight, intending to let you go to Jizhou to support, I don't know if you are willing! ”
Wang Lin pondered his words, and felt that he was relatively sincere, so he said his request to Zu Zhao, of course, it was only a request, not an order, and there are only two teams in the entire Youzhou that can go to Jizhou, one is Wen Chou's team, and the other is Zu Zhao's team.
"I am willing to go to Jizhou to fight, please allow me!" As soon as Zu Zhao heard that there was a battle, he was naturally happy, the Yellow Turban thieves in Youzhou were scared, and Cheng Zhiyuan seemed to really follow his advice, and marched to the beach with his soldiers, it is estimated that Cheng Zhiyuan's combat effectiveness has dropped to the extreme, and there is no major military merit in Youzhou.
"Okay, this assassin likes a soldier like General Zu Zhao, you are brave in fighting in Youzhou, I will protect you as the fifth doctor, I have already asked for credit for you, I hope you can make great contributions in Jizhou, and then you can make a steady progress!" Wang Lin said with a smile, originally he was worried that his Youzhou would have no soldiers to send, but now Zu Zhao can come out to make him feel more faced.
Wen Chou, who was standing next to him, also stood up: "My lord, General Ben is willing to lead troops to Jizhou to share your worries!" At this moment, when he saw Zu Zhao come out, he naturally understood that this was the time to express his position, and he still had the strength to mix eyes all year round.
"I have prepared the grain and grass for the two of you, there is basically no major war in Youzhou at the moment, and Jizhou is in dire straits, and the two generals will go quickly!" Wang Lin finally said his core goal.
Zu Zhao and Wen Chou were not ambiguous, and they respectively received grain and grass all the way south to Jizhou.
Entering the ground of Jizhou, I saw that there were displaced people fleeing in all directions, and I asked the displaced people to know that the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was in Jizhou, among which Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang were all near Jizhou, and the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was out, and Zhang Jiao planned an uprising for many years, and he was surrounded by powerful soldiers and horses.
Just in the small county town of Guantao in front of Jizhou, a yellow turban thief blocked the way of Wen Chou Zuzhao's two armies.
Guantao County is two hundred miles away from Jizhou, and the flag fluttering in the wind has Zhang Liang's name written on it, and it should be Zhang Liang's soldiers and horses here.
"General Wen Chou, let's go to Guantao County to inspect the terrain?" Zu Zhao came to Wen Chou's camp and invited Wen Chou to survey the terrain and discuss the battle strategy.
Wen Chou naturally agreed, since he knew that Zu Zhao had an immortal master, his jealousy of Zu Zhao disappeared completely, and if someone had an immortal master, it was naturally a blessing from God, and there was no way to compare this, so he simply cut off the source of pink eye.
"This time, the post supervisor is going to show his majesty, so that my generals also know what is outside the sky, this time my brother is a blessing to follow you, you know that when we set off that day, the eight hills of the Youzhou Army were jealous that my brother could come out with you, and they all said that they were with you, but the military exploits with their eyes closed would fall on their heads!"
"Hey, that's the love of the generals of the Youzhou Army for my younger brother, but if there is a younger brother for these things in this battle, there is naturally a brother, and our two brothers have been in the same boat all the way, and they should share the merits when they are in trouble!" Zu Zhao first gave Wen Chou a reassurance.
Since there was explosives, Zu Zhao's eight hundred ghost cavalry combat power can be said to be an anti-heaven existence in the Three Kingdoms era, but Zu Zhao also understands a truth, that is, Mu Xiu Yu Lin. Don't be too ostentatious.
It is also okay to have military merits to pull Wen Chou, and the sedan chair carries people, which has been the same since ancient times, and those who eat alone are strung to death.
There is a yellow turban thief stationed with 3,000 people in Guantao County, there are 2,000 cavalry, 1,000 foot warriors, and there are a number of family members.
"Brother, you see that there are four city gates in Guantao County, these four gates are in disrepair, tonight my brother will use the immortal recipe passed down by the immortal master to blast open the north and south city gates, let's attack the city at midnight, how about taking this Guantao County in one fell swoop?"
Zu Zhao looked at the pure adobe city wall in Guantao County, full of confidence. What is called soil cultivation is the city wall that is all watered with soil, and there are faint cracks on it, not to mention blowing it up with explosives, Zu Zhao suspects that a heavy rain may make such a tofu scum city wall fall.
"Okay, as long as the superintendent uses the immortal fang to open the city gate, I will lead the soldiers and horses to kill it! I'm waiting for the good news of the poster! Wen Chou bit the word Xianfang extremely hard. He really couldn't think of how to blast the city gate open, if he wanted to blast the city gate open, in his eyes there was only a siege crossbow, but unfortunately he didn't have it here, and Zu Zhao didn't have the legendary existence.
Cold weapons were swept through one by one in his mind, and later he could only be classified as "immortal formula".
"Okay, there are three thousand yellow turban thieves in this Tao County, and we will divide the military merits equally!" Zu Zhao first set the tone, so as not to quarrel over military merits in the future.
"There is no problem, as long as the superintendent uses the immortal square to open the north and south gates, of course the military merits will be divided equally!" Wen Chou said with a smile, he is full of cavalry in his hands, and he is really not good at attacking cities, but if Zu Zhao opens the two city gates, then he can give full play to the advantages of cavalry, invade the fire like the wind, and naturally have no problem in capturing a Guantao County.
The two of them fought back.
Wen Chou sat in the barracks and couldn't think of how to relax, so he opened the north and south gates of Guantao County, and thinking that Zu Zhao's face was calm and relaxed, and he looked confident, he finally sighed, and had to admit that this young and weak Zu Zhao had hills and valleys in his chest, and he was not an ordinary person.
Zu Zhao returned to the barracks and fiddled with twelve explosive bags with Gong Yuhong, each of which weighed thirty pounds, in order to have enough explosive power to not only blow up the city gates, but also blow up all the city walls.
To ensure that the safety measures such as the lead were in place, he led Zu Ping, Han Dang, Hou Yong and the three of them in the middle of the night, carrying explosives bags and quietly feeling out of the big tent, and entered the vicinity of the north and south city walls of Guantao County.
Put the explosives bags in turn, and then connect them in series, the distance between the north and south city walls of Guantao County is not far, and the twelve explosives bags are densely arranged, connected in turn with leads.
At midnight, when the soldiers were at their most tired, there was even a slight snoring from the city gates.
"When the time comes, take advantage of the fatigue of the Yellow Turban Thief and ignite the explosives!"
Zu Zhao ordered, everyone lit the fuse separately, and quickly evacuated on the periphery.
The lead has the glow of a firefly in the dark night, but it burns extremely quickly.
Rumble!
A loud bang was followed by a series of explosions.
Zu Zhao looked at Shangguan Tao County, where is there any city wall? The real city collapsed, and as soon as the twelve explosives bags rang out, the adobe city wall flew directly into the sky, turning into lumps of dirt.
It is not too much to describe it in one sentence, and it is wiped out in a snap of a finger.
Wen Chou sat in the big tent, and after hearing Tongtian's voice, he was immediately excited: "Immortal Fang, this is Immortal Fang, Zu Zhao didn't lie to so-and-so!" Immediately order troops to kill Shangguan Tao County! ”
When Wen Chou took the cavalry to Guantao County, he was still shocked, and the entire county was flattened, which made him feel that the fairy fang was really an immortal party, and the heart of befriending Zu Zhao in his heart was becoming more and more firm, and there were no more dirty thoughts before.
"Kill!" Wen Chou butcher knife waved, killed into the county seat of Guantao County, living here is naturally a yellow turban thief, regardless of men, women and children will kill the head of the owl, with the head to convert military merits.
When Wen Chou rushed into the county seat, Zu Zhao took eight hundred ghost horses to slowly enter the dilapidated Guantao County, and the bad deeds of the officials and soldiers at this time were fully exerted, that is, burning, killing, and plundering, which Zu Zhao did not want to see. None of his subordinates dared to do so.
At dawn, all the three thousand yellow turban thieves were killed, and there was no one alive, and Zu Zhao's eight hundred ghost horses did not do it at all, because he didn't want to kill these defenseless peasants, but Wen Chou assigned the 1,500 heads to Zu Zhao's military exploits, which could be regarded as a free gain.
The first battle of Guantao County, the battle was easy and smooth, Wen Chou and his cavalry were excited, by then Zu Zhao's cavalry had already seen victory, calm and sophisticated, and disdained such a battle in front of him.
The only thing that made Zu Zhao happy was the seizure of an anti-grain grass in Guantao County, which could solve the worries of his and Wen Chou's two teams.