Qi Yufeng unfolded the light body kung fu, galloped for most of the day, for a while rushed to the delight, to use the "flying gods" stunt, really like the flying swallow sweeping waves, meteors across the sky, the wind next to the ears, the soles of the feet are silent, is running happy, but meet a big mountain in front of the meeting, only to see the strange rocks saga, steep and dangerous, reckless and firm, across the plug, towering, majestic, it is to the foot of Heng Mountain among the five mountains.

He has a lot of fate with this Hengshan faction, and knows that above this Heng Mountain, there are two peaks of Tianfeng and Cuiping, the cliff green belt, the layers are distinct, and the scenery such as the hanging root pine, Zizhiyu, bitter sweet well, and hanging temple is the wonder of the world.

However, although he cherishes admiration, at this moment, this Hengshan faction has not yet been founded, and his military situation is urgent, but he does not have those leisure and elegance, and he comes here to patrol the mountains and explore the victory.

According to the previous deployment of the Xiliang Army, one of the 100,000 soldiers and horses to which Tian Zaidao belonged was stationed in the Golden Dragon Canyon of Heng Mountain.

That Jinlong Gorge, dwelling between Tianfeng Ridge and Cuiping Peak, the canyon is deep, the cliff stands sideways, the stone sandwiches the blue sky, the narrowest place is less than three zhang, it is the absolute natural danger of the ancient and modern times, and the traffic is rushing.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Daowu sent tens of thousands of troops to split mountains and dig roads here as a gateway to advance and retreat from the Central Plains. In the Song Dynasty, Yang Ye and his son guarded here with danger to resist the invasion of foreign tribes. Now, if the army is sent to the capital, someone must firmly guard this pass, so that the Mongol and Yuan armies in the Central Plains and the Mongol reinforcements above the desert cannot be connected.

In the Golden Dragon Gorge, there is an ancient plank road coiled in the middle of the cliff, named "Cloud Pavilion", where the field is dart, is in this Cloud Pavilion.

Qi Yufeng came to the top of this cloud pavilion and saw Tian Zaidao.

Tian Zaidao hurriedly greeted him. Both of them are used to their careers as horses, and they don't gossip immediately. He sat down in front of the map and studied the military situation in detail.

Most of these are currently defended cities. It is in charge of the left prime minister Qingtong of the Taiwei Zhongshu, and his two subordinate ministers, the right prime minister Zhang Kangbo, the imperial history of the middle Cheng Manchuan, and the political governor Zhang Shouli, so they constitute a team to guard the capital.

Of the two Pingzhang, one of them is called Park Sai Yin Buhua, and the other is called Die'er Biwan...... There's something really bad about this mouthpiece.

In addition, there are also Xuanrang, Zhennan, and Weishun princes who stayed in the capital.

Among them, the most prestigious was Timur, the king of Huai, who was eighty-three years old at the time, and was originally the king of Xuanrang. The town is located in Luzhou. Twelve years ago, he fled to Dadu due to the fall of Luzhou, and his descendants have been wiped out with the fall of Luzhou.

The rest of the princes of Zhennan and Weishun who stayed in the capital were originally in Yangzhou, Wuchang and other places, and the above places had already fallen in the war, and now they all fell into the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, so there were no descendants to call.

However, although these people have lost their towns and generals, they are all from the Yuan Dynasty clan. The shelves are very big, and now most of them are in crisis, and he waits for all to point fingers, making noise every day. Only the head of the left prime minister Qingtong of the Chinese book was noisy, and he sighed: "I know where I die, what can I say!" ”

The capital is strong. After a hundred years of repair, it is very difficult to attack. It was Yang Yuanhai who discussed with Tian Zaidao and others, and Tian Zaidao was introduced as the pioneer. The two armies first captured Baoan and Zhigu respectively, that is, Zhuolu County and Tianjin in Hebei Province in later generations, these two places were the gateways of the Yuan capital, and once they were obtained by Xiliang, most of them were directly exposed to the Xiliang army.

Then they drew up fences and peach trenches for each guard to fight in the field with the main army of Mengyuan.

Marco. In Polo's Travels", he once praised the prosperity of Dadu; The developed industry and commerce, the bustling and lively markets, the gorgeous and cheap silk brocade, the magnificent capital, the perfect and convenient post road transportation, and the widespread circulation of paper money, etc., this foreigner of unknown origin praised most of them and even fainted, saying that it was paved with gold, and the palaces and other palaces were all made of gold.

Of course, such a statement is a fallacy, but at this time, Dadu is the largest city in the world, and the city defense is strong, but there is no doubt about it.

Qi Yufeng this way to the north, has also seen the Great Wall of the early Yuan Dynasty building ruins, look at it endlessly, very spectacular, but this Great Wall has not been repaired for decades, and most of them are made of civil engineering barriers, and now it is in disrepair for a long time, dilapidated.

However, the city wall in the area of Dadu is based on the golden Great Wall (also called the Jinjie moat) of the brick and stone structure established by the Jin State in that year, and then gradually expanded.

It can be said that in front of the world's largest giant cities such as Dadu, what cloud ladders, rushing cars, building cars, stone throwers, digging tunnels, irrigating water, etc., have almost completely lost their meaning, and now only the "return cannon" can come in handy and be of great use.

As early as the Tang and Song dynasties, the use of artillery in the army has been common, and the types of cannons are divided into dozens of types, which are roughly divided into three categories: light, medium and heavy. The light one is operated by two people; Dozens of them; As for the heavier ones, they are as high as several zhang, send 100 catties of stone bullets, and hundreds of people hug each other at every turn, and the pomp and circumstance are extremely spectacular.

The old rules of the Song Dynasty wrote with emotion in the "City Guard Record" that "offensive and defensive weapons are as good as cannons." If the attacker obtains the art of artillery, the city will be unstoppable; If the defender has the art of artillery, he can defeat the enemy. ”

But it is the primary thing in this kind of army, in fact, the effect is like that, when the Jin State was quite sinicized, and the Song Dynasty Wen Tian Wu Frolic, very disdainful of craftsmanship, so the Jin State received a lot of Han cannon-made craftsmen.

When the Jin Kingdom attacked Bianliang in Tokyo, "the Jin people lined up the stone cannon,...... There were more than 100 artillery blocks, flying stones like rain, hitting the guards of the city, and no less than 20 people were killed or wounded. ”

"There are more than 200 artillery blocks under the city, seven cannons, star cannons, and stone cannons, and more than 1,000 strong crossbows to help them, and the arrows and stones on the city are like rain, so that the guards can not survive,......"

From this point of view, the cannon of this Jin man only killed more than 20 people, and the Song army was already beaten to the point that they did not want to climb the city wall, and the combat effectiveness of this "weak Song" can be seen......

The use of artillery, in fact, was not until the rise of the Mongols, which produced revolutionary changes, and the Mongol iron cavalry swept the world and established this unprecedented and probably the last huge empire, and the huge artillery of the Mongols can be described as meritorious.

The Mongol cannon came from Persia, and it was this "return cannon", which was elaborately improved by the Persians. Not only is the power several times enhanced, but it also saves manpower. The accuracy of shooting has been greatly improved.

When Kublai Khan attacked Xiangyang, he couldn't attack it for a long time. Later, someone offered this time back to the cannon, and finally a round of salvo fire, the city wall of Xiangyang was destroyed, and the battle of Xiangyang, which lasted three years, was finally settled in the roar of the "return artillery".

The most legendary feature of the Mongolian artillery is that it "personally practiced" the first large-scale chemical warfare and biological weapons attack in the history of warfare.

During the Battle of Warsaw during the Mongol expedition to the west, the Mongol army used artillery to shoot a large number of poisonous smoke balls, which filled the whole city with arsenic and wolf poison smoke, and the defenders were unable to resist. had to surrender.

When the Mongol army attacked Constantinople, it could not be attacked for a long time, and the plague epidemic in the army was a bad news for the Mongol army.

But a handful of merchants from the city escaped by boat, bringing the Asian plague fungus to Europe, triggering the Black Death, which turned the minds of Europeans. It took the lives of a third of people in Europe at that time.

Now under Qi Yufeng, there are quite a lot of craftsmen who make cannons, and in the northwest, saltpeter is produced. There is no shortage of this gunpowder, as long as the two armies are combined, there will be nearly a thousand cannons.

But this time the artillery. In the eyes of others, it is naturally an earth-shattering weapon. In Qi Yufeng's eyes, he felt that the power was still not enough.

None of them. It was only because he had walked through this trip with his own eyes that he discovered a problem, which was too big......

The warfare of this era of cold weapons is nothing more than field warfare and siege, the field battle is divided into infantry, cavalry, mountains, and grasslands, and the siege of the city is to fight for the city and the camp.

And the siege of the city has always been the most difficult thing, before the birth of the return artillery, the side defending the city, either no fighting spirit, or no grain and grass, otherwise the siege of the last three hundred and fifty-eight years, are commonplace, the siege of Diaoyu City and the siege of Xiangyang between the Song and Yuan dynasties, is the proof.

Under the leadership of the general Wang Jian, in front of the murderous Mongols, it resisted for 36 years, and finally when there was no trace of territory in the Song Dynasty, the people of Diaoyu City laid down their arms and voluntarily terminated the resistance on the condition that they could not kill a single person in the city.

It is precisely because of this legend that this humble Diaoyu City is known as the "Mecca City of the East" and "God's Whip Place" by Europeans

And today's Qi Yufeng is in a similar situation like the Mongolian emperor Meng Ge back then.

But although he knew that most of them were difficult to attack, far better than the cities he had attacked in the Western Regions before, he also knew that most of them were difficult to attack.

Now the revival of the Han people, the decline of the Meng Yuan, the victory of this war and even the demise of the country are all marked by the fall of this capital.

Once the capital is conquered, the righteous flag is spread, and it spreads all over the world, this great cause of revival will be within reach, but if the capital is not conquered, it will always make people feel that no matter how absurd and declining the Mengyuan is, but at this time, the world is still the world of the Mongols.

Although Qi Yufeng and the others have nowhere to go in the face of this, they still have to fight, if they defend the city, he may still have some ideas, but this attack is such a huge city, and the side attacking the city is inevitably too tragic.

He and Tian Zaidart repeatedly deduced, from the storm, earning the city gate, ladders, holes, shelling, to the final siege and water attack, and even Qi Yufeng thought about digging a tunnel himself, filling up the city with explosives, but he gave up under the persuasion of Tian Zaidang.

He went straight to the point, not to persuade Qi Yufeng to take care of his useful body, but to say that most of this is too big, even if you transport a few ox carts of explosives, it is just a drop in the ocean.

The two discussed for a long time, only feeling that if the city was forcibly attacked, the first few waves of attacks were not fought, and then it would be a long-term siege, otherwise the troops would suffer too many casualties and deal too much damage to morale.

And now that the two powerhouses are competing for the world, if his soldiers will sink into the sand and fold in most of the capitals and fall into a bitter battle, then in the future, in the face of those heroes who are eyeing the south, as well as the remnants of Mengyuan in Mobei, how can they fight?

There has never been a shortage of generals in history, who were proud of the spring breeze along the way, attacking the city, and winning a hundred battles, but the siege losses were several times greater than the defensive losses.

Qi Yufeng sighed at this time, and exclaimed: "No wonder this Marshal Yang told us to prepare for a field battle, but it turns out that most of this capital can't be attacked." ”

Tian Zaidao said with a smile: "But it may not be, the two of us are here for a long time." It's all about preparing for the worst, even being prepared. But the discipline of the Yuan soldiers was corrupt and their morale was weak. When you really want to fight, it may not be so unbearable. ”

He looked down at the sand table, and sighed: "The lord really loves soldiers like a son, in fact, it is worth it to conquer the capital with such a military consumption." ”

Qi Yufeng shook his hand and said, "Get out, how old am I, I don't have anything." ”

Immediately he walked all the way, exhausted. It was arranged by Tian Zaidang, led by the servants, and went down to rest.

He walked around a few circles in the mansion on the Hengshan Cloud Pavilion before he walked into the room arranged for himself, and was about to go straight inside, sleeping comfortably, and as soon as he stepped into the door, he felt the fragrance of flowers.

When he looked at the room, his ears couldn't help but feel hot. It turned out that the room was embroidered with brocade quilts. Beaded curtains are soft, large red roses are woven on goose-yellow carpets, and women's toiletries are placed on the table by the window, and there are delicate pendulums everywhere

Establish.

Qi Yufeng said in his heart. It seems that this is a girl's dwelling, and it is not appropriate for me to stay here. Just as he was about to exit, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the door. A girl's sigh was heard.

Qi Yufeng said in his heart: "I just came to this Cloud Pavilion today, and I broke out at this time. happened to meet this woman, and her voice became open, and her face was not good-looking. ”

At that moment, he flashed and disappeared behind a screen with a picture of a beautiful peony. When the door opened, I heard the sound of two maids leading a woman in.

A maid said, "Does the young lady rest in peace, or do you want to read the book for a while?" ”

Qi Yufeng said in his heart: "It's the middle of the night, let's go to sleep quickly, don't look at the books of what you are doing!" ”

The woman hummed, sat on the couch, her voice was very delicate and cold, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Burn some incense, right?" ”

The two maids agreed according to their words, and after a while, the green smoke was thin, sweet and faint, and Qi Yufeng only felt tired and sleepy.

After a while, the woman said, "Go out, all of you, and I will rest in a while." ”

Qi Yufeng was slightly surprised: "Why is this voice so familiar?" He looked through the screen and vaguely saw the woman with her back to him, but he never remembered.

But when he saw the two maids, he said goodnight and bowed and left the room. At this time, the room was silent, but there was an occasional sound of sandalwood in the incense burner gently splitting, and Qi Yufeng didn't dare to move.

I saw that the woman was motionless, lying in front of the table, and it took a long time before she sighed lowly. Qi Yufeng listened to her delicate voice, she was a very young girl, but this sigh, the voice was extremely low, if it weren't for her sensitive ears and eyes, she would almost not be able to hear it, and at the same time, she felt more and more familiar with her voice.

But this is just a sigh, there are many similar people in the world, no matter how high Qi Yufeng's martial arts are, he can't tell who this person is.

He thought about it for a while, and then felt funny: "I am reckless in the rivers and lakes, and the girls I know here are all grinding, how can I ever see such a beautiful woman." It's always her accent that is a little similar to someone I know! ”

An hour had passed, and it was already midnight, but the woman had no intention of sleeping, but occasionally tossed and turned, and sighed for a long time, but as if she was afraid of frightening others, she did not make a loud noise.

Qi Yufeng wondered in his heart, looking carefully in the room, the door was obliquely closed to the woman, and the bead curtain in front of the window was lowered.

After a long time, I heard the woman stretch her waist, stand up, and whisper to herself: "Since you are here, why don't you see me, am I so annoying?" ”

She paced a few steps in the room, and said quietly: "You hid in Xiliang and didn't see me, and you didn't come to see me in Chang'an, now I arrived at this Hengshan Mountain, and waited for you outside the door all night, but why are you still avoiding me, in your heart, isn't there a moment of worrying about me?" ”

When Qi Yufeng heard this, he suddenly realized, and said in his heart, I am really confused, why did I forget the fragrance of this "Ice Sword Orchid".

It turned out that this woman was not an outsider, but Shi Xiangling, the daughter of Shi Yunbao of the Ten Thousand Beasts Villa of Black Wind Village.

This Shi Yunbao has a lot to do with Mingjiao, the current ancestor of his historian's family, the white ape king Shi Mengda, was originally called Xiliang, and received the favor of Sect Master Zhang back then, and later joined Mingjiao, and is now one of the four major guardians of Mingjiao.

Back then, Qi Yufeng and Peng Yingyu's cottage grass creation once borrowed troops from Shi Yunbao on Helan Mountain, but inadvertently, in the hands of a group of Western monks, saved the Shi family.

At that time, there was a mother-in-law of the Shi family, who wanted to marry Shi Xiangling to Qi Yufeng, thinking that the condition of borrowing troops was rejected by Qi Yufeng on the grounds that he had a marriage contract earlier, but six or seven years have passed, and the legendary marriage contract woman has not appeared, so no one takes this seriously.

But later, the Xiliang Yiyi rebel army attacked the city and pulled out the village, and the progress was rapid, and the Shi family's military horses were also expanding day by day, and now there were 200,000 horses and horses, becoming an independent one, and the Shi family was very busy.

Six years ago, this Shi Xiangling was just a seventeen-year-old girl who was as beautiful as a pearl, well-behaved and cute, but now she has become slim and has become a big girl waiting for the boudoir.

When Qi Yufeng saw that it was an acquaintance, he immediately put his mind at ease and coughed lightly: "Hey, why am I here?" ”

That Shi Xiangling turned around suddenly, and saw Qi Yufeng smiling, and walked out from behind the screen, he was wearing a gray cloth robe and a small tank green belt, smiling at himself.

Shi Xiangling saw Qi Yufeng at first glance, her face was bloodless, her body trembled, she reached out to support the back of the chair, as if she wanted to faint, and then a burst of red clouds covered her cheeks, she buried her head and looked at the ground, and asked in a low voice like a mosquito and fly: "Gongzi Qi, what I said just now...... You...... Did you hear it all? (To be continued......)