Chapter 13: The Bloody Battle in Hanzhong 3

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Most of these materials are disposable materials that are easier to consume.

For example, the kind of rough-processed oil bags, a large number of arrowheads, and so on.

Of course, if Zhang Jiashi hadn't avoided any accidents, he wouldn't have chosen this method of transporting the unusable recovered arrows back to Xianyang for forging.

This is because this process can be re-forged in the barracks.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi knew such a thing, and for him, it was not a big deal for these materials to be repaired in the barracks, but he didn't want the barracks to have problems because of fires.

Besides, some iron arrowheads can't be made of charcoal that is simply made.

And this charcoal itself is already a hidden danger.

If the coal is transported, Zhang Jiashi might as well transport two more truckloads of finished products.

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The matter of material supply was no longer a problem, and Zhang Jiashi again summoned the main civil and military officers under his command to discuss the offensive against Nanzheng the next morning.

Li Zuoche believed that there was no need to pay too much attention to the casualties of civilians in the city for the attack on Nanzheng City, because once this was done, their offensive would be much more restricted.

After Li Zuoche said this, many people expressed their approval of Li Zuoche, but Sun Po had to nod after sighing softly.

Because Li Zuoche's suggestion is indeed a thing that must be clarified. And Li Zuoche is also right in this regard, that is, once they have to take into account the casualties of civilians, many of their siege equipment cannot be used.

Like the dozens of packing trebuchets, those oil bags are powerful weapons that can cause a large range of casualties.

Sun Po and the others even saw the new type of fire oil bag used in this expedition at the test site near Xianyang Military Construction, which can shroud a range of tens of meters in flames or poisonous smoke.

What's even more terrifying is that the burning time of this oil is much longer than the tung oil used in Hanguseki.

None of them considered this weapon to have no use value. On the other hand, if you can lighten the weight of the bulky packing trebuchet and install it on a combat vehicle, it can even play a good role in the field.

However, the destructive power of this weapon in siege warfare may not have much effect on some relatively solid buildings, but for the private houses in Nanzheng County, it can completely burn a large area.

That is to say. This weapon poses a greater threat to the city's homes and civilians.

Of course, it's not that this kind of fire oil bag didn't have much effect on the defenders of the city walls. It's the precision of this oil bag......

Zhang Jiashi himself felt a little embarrassed to say it.

After all, the quality of the oil bag itself is a little off, and the launch position of the baler and some other aspects of the influence, even a veteran knows that it is impossible to accurately throw this oil bag into the aisle of the city wall.

And Zhang Jiashi planned to use an unprecedented raid on the city gate this time.

Their equipment looks similar to that of ordinary rushing troops. But the biggest difference between the two types of troops is that these raiders are equipped with iron carts, which contain bags of black powder bags made mainly according to the size of the bricks of the city wall.

Of course, this kind of iron car itself can also be detonated as a large black powder bag. But the effect is ......

Zhang Jiashi planned to use the special ability of this army to blow up the small city wall of Nanzheng County, of course, their main target was under the passage of the city gate.

In the corresponding tests, this unit showed good combat ability, and the black powder bag was able to exert corresponding power in addition to the unstable factor of throwing.

And Zhang Jiashi used a new type of ladder truck this time. In fact, this kind of ladder truck was also a kind of siege equipment in the Tang and Song dynasties.

Because of the prototype of this ladder truck. It's a variant of a trebuchet.

Zhang Jiashi did not think that this kind of ladder car had no effect, and he knew that this kind of ladder car could avoid a problem, that is, when climbing the ladder, many officers and soldiers did not have the ability to fight back against attacks from the city wall.

As for why Zhang Jiashi didn't use this weapon when attacking those cottage camps? The main reason is that this kind of ladder truck cannot walk on too steep mountain roads.

And these ladder trucks themselves have a disadvantage that is not a disadvantage. That is, the length of these ladder trucks is also a little longer, and they usually walk on some passages, but more often they can only be towed by horses.

Zhang Jiashi's most important thing about this weapon is that these ladder trucks are well adapted to the height requirements of the city wall, as long as they are not shorter than the first passage as the basic horizontal height, these ladder trucks can still play a corresponding role.

Of course, like the height of Xianyang City...... Zhang Jiashi said. The ladder truck is not for this job.

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And Li Zuoche's statement was agreed by almost all the personnel under Zhang Jiashi's command. As for Zhang Jiashi himself, he doesn't have much concern about such a situation. After all, this is a battlefield, and there are no innocents on the battlefield.

Since Gongsun Zao has made this choice, he can only apologize to the residents in Nanzheng City.

But Cao Shen said at this time: "Your Majesty, we also have a way to obtain Nanzheng at a relatively small cost, without killing and injuring the civilians of Nanzheng City too much. ”

Cao Shen's words made Li Zuoche and Sun Po look at each other, because he knew very well that with Zhang Jiashi's current configuration, it was not easy to do such a thing.

Zhang Jiashi was very interested in asking Cao Shen: "Cao Changshi, I don't know what your plan is?"

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Cao Shen's position was transferred by Zhang Jiashi to the head of the palace, and the original head of the palace, Li Zuoche, was transferred to the internal history.

It is impossible for Zhang Jiashi to hand over the dangerous position of internal history to someone who is not his cronies, even if it is the first emperor Yingzheng.

Not only that, but after the Qin State had the internal history directly in charge of this place, the personnel in charge of the internal history were basically the cronies of the incumbent monarch of the Qin State, which was absolutely unexpected.

Therefore, Li Zuoche's original position as the governor of the palace was held by Cao Shen.

In fact, Neishi is directly in charge of this position, and Zhang Jiashi also asked Chen Ping's opinion. The talent recommended by Chen Ping was beyond Zhang Jiashi's expectations, that is, the candidate that Chen Ping thought of was not Li Zuoche, nor Sun Po, but Yu Ziqi.

Zhang Jiashi was a little incomprehensible as to why Chen Ping chose Yu Ziqi to take this position.

Although Yu Ziqi is indeed his cronies, in Zhang Jiashi's thoughts, the position of internal history. It will serve as an important foundation for the rectification of the Guanzhong region for a long period of time.

Does the Yuzi period have such an ability? Zhang Jiashi himself was relieved of Yu Ziqi. But the Yuzi period did not have the courage to overcome all difficulties.

Zhang Jiashi did not directly express his doubts, but tactfully proposed a candidate for his intentions. That's Li Zuoche.

In terms of Li Zuoche's ability and courage, the position of internal history is unyielding.

And after Chen Ping heard Zhang Jiashi's opinion, he secretly thought in his heart, that is, he was indeed negligent because Zhang Jiashi would choose Li Zuoche.

The position of internal history is not so easy to take, and several people who have served in internal history, including Meng Wu, have a bitter smile for this position.

The ability of Yu Zi Qi is naturally undoubted, but whether Yu Zi Qi will make some people feel embarrassed or whether Yu Zi Qi dares to use cold-blooded means to solve some problems, Chen Ping himself can't help but sigh in his heart.

Thus. Zhang Jiashi has obviously grown a lot in this area.

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Cao Shen said to Zhang Jiashi: "Wang, according to the investigation of Xizuo, the person who is now in charge of assisting Gongsun Zao in defending Nanzheng seems to be a young man surnamed Meng. Otherwise, let's talk to each other first, and then make a decision. ”

When Zhang Jiashi heard Cao Shen's words, he couldn't help but have some doubts in his heart: "The young man surnamed Meng, could it be such a coincidence?"

But he didn't think it was very likely that Cao Ying would say such a thing at such a time. Cao Shen is quite sure of this kind of thing, so he will say such a sentence.

For Zhang Jiashi, if the situation is really as Cao Shen said, it may also be a good direction.

He glanced at Li Zuoche and Sun Po with his eyes, and asked, "I don't know what the two gentlemen think?"

"If this matter is as Cao Changshi said, it is indeed a better ......"

Before Li Zuoche could finish his thoughts, there was a sudden commotion outside the camp.

Zhang Jiashi frowned. Then he motioned to Yu Yong around him to see what was going on.

Li Zuoche didn't continue, because this situation is not a trivial matter.

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After a while, Yu Yong returned to the camp.

Behind him was a messenger with several arrow wounds and an emergency bandage.

"Your Majesty, this man is a messenger under the command of Captain Li. ”

After saying this, Yu Yong quickly took the messenger who was half-kneeling on the ground. The bamboo slip that he held in both hands above his head and brought it over.

After checking the bamboo slip a little to see if there was any problem, Yu Yong handed it to Zhang Jiashi.

Zhang Jiashi opened the bamboo slip and saw that Li Xin had sent this messenger over, mainly to inform him that Fengxian had been captured by him. And now Li Xin should have led the army to support.

Zhang Jiashi first showed a hint of joy at this news, but soon, he closed the bamboo slip, and then handed the bamboo slip to the emperor, so that the latter could pass the bamboo slip to Li Zuoche and them.

He looked at the messenger for a moment, then asked, "Are you?"

"Returning to the king, his subordinate is a scout commander under Li Duwei, whose name is Jin Hao. ”

Zhang Jiashi nodded, because there was nothing wrong with the other party's outfit. But Zhang Jiashi knew very well that what he wanted to ask was not this, but ......

"Captain Li captured Feng County, I don't know the geometry of the defenders of Feng County?"

"Back to the king, if the post knows that it is correct, the defenders of Fengxian County are about 3,000 people. ”

After Zhang Jiashi heard Jin Hao's words, he couldn't help but quickly think about it in his heart.

But the results he got made him a little confused. Because he found that the number of officers and soldiers who disappeared in the Hanzhong Army seemed to be increasing instead of decreasing. Such a thing is not a good thing for Zhang Jiashi.

After a moment of silence, he said to Yu Yong, "Take them to the medical staff for a good treatment." In addition, Jin Hao and others gave hardware. The other deceased will be given corresponding bereavement benefits in accordance with the regulations!"

"Whoa!"

"Thank you. ”

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Jin Hao left Zhang Jiashi's camp, and Han Xin couldn't help but say after reading Li Xin's recital: "Since Li Duwei has already passed the Chencang Ancient Road and captured Fengxian, he will join his army in the near future, why doesn't the king like it?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, are you not surprised? How small are the number of soldiers under the command of our opponents?"

Zhang Jiashi said what he had been worried about a few days ago.

After Han Xin and the others heard Zhang Jiashi's words. also quickly revealed a trace of doubt. Because for them, Zhang Jiashi's statement is not unfounded.

What Zhang Jiashi said made many people think deeply, but neither Han Xin nor Li Zuoche, who had long known that Zhang Jiashi was worried, couldn't think of what was wrong.

Because the other party's disappeared soldiers are fully capable of launching a fierce offensive against one of their camps, even the commander's camp where Zhang Jiashi, who is relatively safe, is no exception.

But the fact that the other party has not done so is a problem that is inconceivable to them.

In their minds, the number of enemy troops may not be so large, but more people are thinking. What does the enemy army count to the chassis.

After all, more than 10,000 troops are not a completely negligible data, even if 10,000 pigs rush over, they will have to be embarrassed.

Zhang Jiashi shook his head, and then said to Cao Shen: "You go and arrange personnel to contact the man surnamed Meng." ”

"Whoa!"

Zhang Jiashi glanced at the seat that should have been Meng Wu, but the seat was vacant because Meng Wu was unwell. Zhang Jiashi said slowly: "I don't know how my father-in-law's body is?"

"Back to the king, General Meng's body occasionally felt unwell. After the judgment of the medical staff, there should be no major problem. ”

Cao Shen replied that he had received an answer to his inquiry before he came to Zhang Jiashi's camp.

And Zhang Jiashi nodded slightly: "Since this is the case, then it is very good." ”

After saying this, Zhang Jiashi looked at the people in front of him, thought for a while, and then said: "That's it." You better go back to your own troops and make arrangements, if the contact with the other party is inconclusive tomorrow, we will directly attack Nanzheng. ”

"Whoa!"

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Meng Guang is Meng Tian's eldest son. He has always held a grudge against the tragic experience of his Meng family.

What he didn't know was that Gongsun Zao had concealed a matter from him and his cousin Meng Xing, that is, Zhao Gao and Hu Hai had already died in the hands of Zhang Jiashi. And the monarch of the Great Qin Empire has already been replaced by Zhang Jiashi's son Yingxun.

Meng Guang didn't know such a situation, and thought that the Qin army that attacked the Hanzhong army this time was sent by Hu Hai and Zhao Gao in Guanzhong.

The three Mo family swordsmen arranged by Cao Shen to communicate with Meng Guang were ambushed by a large number of professionals before they could get close to Meng Guang's home.

Meng Guang didn't know that there seemed to be some abnormalities near his house, but he didn't pay attention to it after he asked the commander of the Hanzhong Army who was patrolling the night, and knew that it was just some "thieves" who were caught stealing.

Because for the current Meng Guang, whether the raid of his only relative, that is, his cousin Meng Xing, can succeed.

In fact, he didn't approve of such a risky move in his own area. You must know that the Qin officers and soldiers in Guanzhong are not comparable to these rabble, who don't even have a few county soldiers.

Perhaps Mengxing's surprise attack was indeed able to defeat one of the opposing troops, but once the other troops reacted, the fate of Mengxing's army was worrying......

So Meng Guang has always been worried.

In fact, Meng Guang should mainly focus on one thing, that is, the troops under Zhang Jiashi, but no one is a close confidant of Zhao Gao and Hu Hai. The banner of the generals is even less devoid of those people's surnames.

But Meng Guang thought that such a thing was mainly due to the fact that Zhao Gao and others had sent another person to attack Hanzhong, and since he was recruited by Gongsun Zao, he had to serve Gongsun Zao. It's as simple as that.

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And after Li Shang escorted the convoy away from the rear army camp where Meng Wu was located to the north, he also wondered if the scouts under his command seemed to have seen something strange in some mountains and forests about twenty miles north of Meng Wu's rear army.

He also sent people to search the nearby mountains and forests, but found nothing.

But what Li Shang didn't know was that Meng Xing was watching the scouts sent by Li Shang leave that mountain forest in another mountain forest further west.

He knew very well that if he hadn't seen a bad opportunity, there was a real possibility that a few idiots would expose the existence of the entire army.

Li Shang looked at the five hundred lords he sent to search, and after hearing the reply of the five hundred lords, he looked at the mountain forest suspiciously, he didn't think that his scouts would see anything wrong, but he didn't feel that there was really anything wrong around here.

Li Shang shook his head and said as if talking to himself, "Maybe we are really wrong?"

Li Shang, who did not send people to conduct a longer search again, may also be partially responsible for Meng Wu's death.

But for the current Li Shang, escorting the returning convoy is his more important task.

Five thousand knights escorted a large number of carriages and continued north back to Guanzhong.

None of this convoy and the knightly troops guarding it would have thought that just one day later, the Mengwu battalion behind them would be almost completely wiped out by Mengxing's troops...... (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )