Chapter 43: Zhang's Perennial Dream
The yamen of QY County was changed to a temporary combat headquarters, and Tian Hu sat in the hall with blazing eyes towards the people below, and almost asked: Ru Zhinai!
"Military advisor, according to the scout's report, the five thousand Song troops have set up camp thirty miles away from QY County, ......what do you think?" Tian Huxi asked.
Chen Fei sorted out his thoughts and said, "Accounts, let's talk about the situation of our army first." ”
A middle-aged man with a small beard hurriedly stood up, took out a notebook and introduced: "Our army currently has 1,000 new troops, with complete weapons and armor, but only half of the 3,000 auxiliary troops are equipped with broadswords and spears. There are 150,000 taels of silver left, and the grain is enough to last for a month. ”
Many captains and fire chiefs all smiled, such a lineup of equipment can be called luxurious compared to the cottage, when they were bandits, most of them still used sickles as weapons!
Tian Hu frowned and asked, "But we have captured the garrison camp and the arsenal of the guards in the city, and we don't even have three thousand knives?!"
The account office was stunned, and said cautiously: "General, the Song army not only eats empty salaries, but even secretly sells weapons and pretends, so ......." ”
"Alas~. Chen Fei sighed.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was rotten to the root from the center to the place, otherwise it would not have been removed by the Jin people and even the emperor!
The account office flipped through the account book and added: "In addition, the gunpowder requested by the military advisor was also bought for 500 catties after many twists and turns. ”
Chen Fei nodded with satisfaction, in the war of the ancient battle array mode, a large piece of explosives exploded, it was simply a big killer!
This strategy came up with when looking through the strategy, and explosives were already used on the battlefield at the end of the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, it was constantly improved, such as earth-shaking thunder, flying muskets and so on.
Although the effect is estimated to be not much stronger than that of the Sky Monkey, it is also good to scare people. If the opponent's war horse is frightened and the battle array is scattered, isn't it like cutting a melon to clean up?
At first, Chen Fei was also worried that the Song army would be equipped with artillery, just like the artillery of the two sides in the TV drama, so that his own casualties would be large.
Fortunately, through the strategy, I learned that the earliest metal barrel artillery would not appear until the Yuan Dynasty, and the current artillery of the Great Song Dynasty was still similar to a catapult, and it could not fire a big iron egg to break through the city wall.
"Where is all the gunpowder?" Chen Fei asked with interest.
The bookkeeper twisted his neck and pointed, "It's next door." ”
"What!next door?!"
Chen Fei seemed to have a rocket under his buttocks, and he jumped up with a whoosh, and his soul was scared away when he looked at the room across the wall.
The gunpowder of this era is unstable, if you accidentally touch the fire......
There's no need to complete any more tasks.,Anyway, Tian Hu's gang has been served in a pot! The protagonist is gone.,Still playing yo-yo!
Chen Fei was speechless, he didn't want to die like this!
Hurriedly shouted: "Move away, hurry up and ask someone to move outside the city gate!"
......
In the middle of the night, dozens of trained craftsmen followed the bright moonlight, dug a pit fifty meters away from the city wall and buried it, and 500 catties of gunpowder were divided into 2 catties and buried in the pit.
Fortunately, the weather has been dry recently, so if you replace it with explosives buried in the pit during the rainy season, you will have to get wet.
Tian Hu stood on the city wall and looked at the potholes, frowned, and said: "Military advisor, it's too obvious, right? When the Song army came, he knew that there was fraud, and he would definitely be on guard." ”
Indeed, a large piece of flat land suddenly with hundreds of pits is bound to arouse suspicion.
The solution is simple, the best way to hide a tree is to move into the woods.
Since the potholes in the ground seem abrupt, it would be nice to dig a little more holes.
Chen Fei snapped his fingers and ordered: "Pass the order to go down and start digging a pit from the city gate, and stretch it all the way to a mile away!"
The ground is full of potholes one mile away from the city gate, and even if the Song army comes, at most they think it is just a trap for blocking siege equipment.
The next morning, the weather was clear and cloudless.
A long and mighty one appeared in sight, Zhang Changnian rode on a tall horse and was full of spirit, and he didn't take a group of bandits and bandits in his eyes at all.
He was even happier when he heard that the other party did not flee back to the mountains but occupied the city, and the head of the bandit would be a stepping stone for him to enter the forbidden army!
If you don't want to do a good bandit, you want to capture the city with the official army, isn't this death!
"Report~!" A scout approached quickly and reported: "There are potholes everywhere a mile outside the city gate, there may be fraud!"
"It's okay, it's just trying to stop the siege. Zhang Changnian waved his hand indifferently: "Keep going!"
The standing army stopped 5 miles away from the county seat of QY, and the siege equipment was moved to the front for final preparations.
Zhang Changnian summoned a scout and ordered: "Go, tell the bandits in the city to surrender quickly, otherwise the day of the city will be the time when they are in a different place!"
"Yes!" the scout commanded, and rode towards the county seat.
Zhang Changnian's idea is good, it is best to surrender without a fight and let the other party take the initiative to disarm and surrender and then kill!
Thousands of beheadings, zero casualties, this credit is great!
It's beautiful ...... to think about it!
Unfortunately, the reality is cruel, the scout was shot by a barrage of arrows before he could get close to the city gate, and if he didn't run fast, he would have been pierced into a hedgehog!
"Kill yourself!" Zhang Changnian was annoyed and angry when he saw this, waved his hand violently, and shouted: "Attack!"
Knock knock~
The drums of war were beaten, and groups of soldiers pushed siege engines and raised large shields to resist the flying arrows advancing towards the city gates.
The standing army had approached the city gate and was ready to speed up to ram open the thick city gate with siege engines, and in the chaos no one noticed that the fuses were burning in the thin ditches underground.
Boom Boom Boom~!
A continuous explosion rang out, and dust splattered.
Chen Fei didn't want to kill too much because of his own ideas, the gunpowder was buried almost on both sides, and there were not many unlucky people who were killed and injured by the explosion.
However, the indiscriminate bombing frightened the standing army besieging the city, and many people threw away their weapons and shields and ran to the meeting with their heads in their hands, and the orderly ranks immediately became chaotic.
Chen Fei raised his right hand and pressed down gently, and the soldiers guarding the city who followed him immediately raised a small flag and shook it regularly.
"Kill~!"
There was a shout of killing, and a large number of ambushers rushed out of the woods on both sides of the city wall, and chased and killed the siege army with large blades. There are even people who don't even have a knife, and they have a flat weapon in their hands!
Zhang Changnian's face showed disdain, not surprised!
The bandits took the initiative to send them to the door if they didn't defend the city, and they were with him!
At the sound of an order, the phalanx of the standing army also pressed up.
Because the bandits' weapons were too poor, they could only barely fight, but they were faintly defeated.
Zhang Changnian almost suppressed the standing army, intending to eliminate this gang of bandits in one go.
"Kill~!"
Suddenly, there was a louder shout of killing behind him!