Chapter 43: The Negotiating Messenger

As mentioned last time, Zhu Bao made two moves in a row and dispatched a hot air balloon of the air force, but just two simple moves made Bu Qi and a cadre of officials anxious.

Before they could get free, Zhu Bao's third move followed. Zhu Bao's third move was shelling.

Liu Hou transferred 10 artillery pieces to Zhu Bao, but unfortunately they were all small-caliber copper cannons, which had little effect on the city wall. Zhu Bao gathered them together and bombarded the four city gates in turn, so frightened that Bu Qiu hurriedly ordered people to block all the city gates with earth and stones.

In order to save gunpowder, Zhu Bao smashed the four city gates, and did not shell other places further, of course, he did not take advantage of the gap between the city gates being bombarded to enter the city, because he knew that he only had 20,000 reserve troops, and now he was just bluffing.

When the Eastern Wu army blocked the four city gates, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw that the Shu army had stopped shelling. But before they could completely relax, they found that there was a new movement in the Shu army, which made their hearts hang again.

This time, it was the soldiers at the head of the city who saw the Shu army outside the city launch five stone throwers. Due to the incident of being blown down by the Shu army in Cangwu City last time, now Buqi does not dare to climb the city wall, does not dare to go up to observe the enemy's situation, and does not dare to go up to command the battle.

It would have been nothing if it had been five stone throwers, but after the next day, five more were pushed out. During this time, Zhu Bao collected the surrounding craftsmen, ordered them to build stone throwers day and night, and dispatched a large number of soldiers to cut down big trees as raw materials.

The speed at which the Shu army made stone throwers was neither fast nor slow, five per day, five per day, five per day, but unconsciously enough to save 100.

The Eastern Wu army was frightened when he saw the increasing stone throwing machine outside the city, and when he got to the back, Bu Qi also ignored the danger, and personally climbed the city wall to take a look, and saw that the corners of his eyes were beating more than once.

They knew that since the siege of the Shu army, the biggest crisis they had faced was coming. However, knowing that these stone-throwing machines pose a great threat to them, there is nothing they can do.

If it was before, with Buqi's temper, he would definitely send a team of elite soldiers to find out of the city at night and sneak attack and burn these stone throwers. But he didn't dare to make any moves now, he had seen the terrifying attack power of the Shu army's vine armor soldiers and the efficient killing speed of the musketeers, and he knew that no matter how many people he sent out, the meat buns would fight the dogs and have no return.

Besides, he also suspected that the Shu army was luring him out of the city to sneak attack, otherwise how could there be such a launch, five cars a day, five cars a day. The siege was not to first build all the stone throwers in the back, and then suddenly launch all of them at a certain time, and launch a surprise attack on the city, so as to catch the defenders off guard.

Where is there such a siege weapon as the Shu army, which exposed this kind of siege weapon early, doesn't this make people take precautions in advance? Are the generals of the Shu army so stupid? If the generals of the Shu army are not fools, then the remaining possibility is to lure themselves to a sneak attack, and then come to a counter-encirclement and swallow their own sneak attack troops.

Bu Qi thought that he had seen the strategy of the Shu army clearly, who knew that Zhu Bao really didn't think so, he just figured out that Guò kept increasing the number of stone throwers, giving the Eastern Wu army a kind of continuous pressure, so that they did not dare to act rashly.

The Eastern Wu Army was afraid to come out and fight the Shu Army head-on, but in fact, the Shu Army was even more afraid of coming into direct contact with the Eastern Wu Army. Therefore, it is a matter of doing everything possible to attract the attention of the Eastern Wu army and put appropriate pressure on the Eastern Wu army, so that they think that the Shu army has been preparing to attack the city in full swing, so that they do not dare to go out of the city lightly.

Fortunately, Bu Qi was frightened by the previous two battles with the Shu army, and did not dare to send the elite out of the city to sneak attack, otherwise he would have known that these Shu troops were nothing more than paper tigers, and they were fish belly troops that were defeated in one blow.

But not going out of the city to sneak attack does not mean that he is not ready to deal with it, since the Shu army has already shown out the hole cards, he is not welcome. He also ordered the craftsmen in the city to be concentrated to make stone throwers day and night, and also gathered all the bed crossbows to prepare for a long-range strike arms race with the Shu army.

When the number of stone throwers accumulated to a hundred, Zhu Bao didn't dare to wait any longer, in order to accumulate these stone throwers, they had not made any major moves for many days. Zhu Bao was worried that if there was no further action, I was afraid that Bu Qi would be suspicious.

So, Zhu Bao ordered to start throwing stones. These days, stones of all sizes collected from the neighboring towns are thrown onto the city walls and into the city by hundreds of stone throwers.

The Eastern Wu soldiers who braved the stone rain to guard the city wall seemed to have returned to Cangwu City at that time, those days when they were bombed by hot air balloons. There were constantly Eastern Wu soldiers who were stoned to death, some of the battlements of the city wall were also smashed, and even some houses close to the city wall were also smashed down.

The Eastern Wu army was not idle, they also had nearly fifty stone throwers, as well as dozens of bed crossbows, and at this time they also launched a fierce counterattack, and the two sides fought evenly and suffered losses from each other.

The two sides continued to have stone throwers being smashed, and soldiers were constantly being stoned to death, this round of confrontation, in general, the Shu army suffered a little loss, after all, the Eastern Wu army relied on the protective ability of the city wall, and condescendingly attacked.

The advantage of the Shu army is that it is backed by the vast woods outside the city, it can be said that there are endless materials and resources, if one is broken, another one will be built, and two bad cars will be made a pair, and the manpower is sufficient, so there is no need to worry about the stone thrower being smashed and not replenished.

Relatively speaking, the Eastern Wu army was much lacking in resources, and to build a stone-throwing machine was not an ordinary firewood could do the job, and a large whole piece of wood was required.

In the back, the wood stored in the city was almost used, and the fierce Eastern Wu soldiers rushed into the houses and demolished the beams of many people's homes to build stone throwers. They even ripped down some people's houses and threw bricks and tiles out of the city as throwing stones.

The entire Panyu City was complained by the Eastern Wu army, and the people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Unexpectedly, these brick and tile bombs were thrown with surprisingly good results, because after being thrown into the air, these things scattered and fell down one after another, covering an area countless times larger than a single stone.

Such a thing is like a shotgun, although the lethality of the trebuchet against the enemy is reduced due to the dispersion of power, but the lethality of the enemy soldiers on the ground is increased countless times.

The Shu army outside the city also faced the problem of insufficient stones. Later, Zhu Bao ordered people to dig up the soil, form large mud balls with the water, and then burn them to brittleness.

Such a big mud ball or a big pottery ball was thrown over, smashed on the ground and was smashed to pieces, these smashed pottery shards were splashed everywhere, and also played the role of group killing, which could cause damage to a certain range of Dongwu soldiers nearby, although this damage was not necessarily fatal, but it was enough to make him lose his combat effectiveness.

In addition, the ceramic pieces all over the ground are simply demonic for those Eastern Wu soldiers who only wear straw sandals or even shoes, and they will be stabbed in the leg if they are not careful.

The Shu army's loss was so angry that he screamed, but what he didn't expect was that Zhu Bao was also angry at his brick shells.

After brick and clay bombs, the two sides invented flame bombs, feces and urine bombs, wolf smoke bombs, and so on. In the end, the city and the outside of the city stink.

If there is an annual inventor award, this year's winner is definitely not a researcher in Liu Hou's major research institutes, but Bu Qi and Zhu Bao, two insidious and disgusting guys.

After a long period of long-range artillery fire, the firepower of both sides gradually weakened, mainly because the catapults on both sides were almost destroyed.

Although there was a lack of large wooden beams to make a stone thrower in the city, the large trees near the city were also cut down, and it took a long time to build a new stone thrower.

Although the Shu army did not take advantage of this stone throwing machine battle, Zhu Bao's purpose was not at all to kill and injure how many Dongwu soldiers and how many Dongwu city defenses were smashed. His purpose was to delay the arrival of the prince's army.

Bu Qi was involved in all his energy by this stone throwing machine battle, and he could no longer use other strange tricks, and he lost the last chance to defeat the Shu army.

When the last stone throwers on both sides were smashed down, the regular army led by Liu Hou finally arrived at the foot of Panyu City.

Bu Qi finally survived until the end of the stone throwing battle, and just breathed a sigh of relief, ready to make up for the sleep he hadn't slept for many days, and listened to the report of his subordinates, saying that there were reinforcements from the Shu army outside the city, and the scale was no less than tens of thousands of people.

Bu Qi was shocked when he heard this, he knew that he was gone. Originally, the Shu soldiers and horses outside the city were already exhausted, and now tens of thousands of people are coming, how can this city be defended?

And he knows that the Shu army still has more powerful weapons that have not been used, and he has already learned the power of these weapons, even if the opponent's strength is weaker than his own, he can't beat the Shu army, not to mention that the strength of the Shu army is still more than his own.

He believed that even if the reinforcements of Eastern Wu arrived now, it would be impossible to defeat the Shu army outside the city, the combat effectiveness of the Shu army was too strong, and the killing efficiency was too high.

When the entire army and civilians in Panyu City, including Buqi, were panicking, a hot air balloon was raised in the Shu army camp, yes, this time there was only one hot air balloon.

The hot air balloon floated slowly to the city gate, dropping a small parachute the size of a tray, under which a scroll of letters was tied with a red ribbon.

The Eastern Wu soldiers were frightened by the bombing, and when they saw this thing floating down, they dodged one after another. After the parachute landed for a long time, seeing that there was no movement, a soldier under the coercion of the officer, trembling over, picked up the parachute, and found that it was a letter and not something terrible that would blow people up, the soldier who had escaped death finally relieved himself and untied the letter and presented it to the officer.

The officer immediately presented the letter to Bu Qi. This letter was written by Liu Hou to Buqi, and there was nothing new, but it was just to analyze the situation he was currently facing and the general trend of the world, and finally persuaded him to surrender.

"Alas!" Buqi sighed, wanted to step into Buzi Mountain by himself, from a poor family, by planting melons for a living, but he never gave up, practicing martial arts during the day to stay up the body, reading at night with candles and nights, and studying the classics.

In the end, he was appreciated by Sun Quan, and became an official, starting from a small master, to Haiyan Chang, the general of the Che Cavalry, Dong Cao Peng, Zhizhong, Poyang Taishou, and finally Jiaozhou Taishou.

Over the years, although it can be regarded as a prosperous official fortune, it is all through Guò's own efforts and step by step.

Thinking of his struggle for so many years, thinking of the majestic scene where he once controlled thousands of troops and horses and opened up territory for the lord Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, and then thinking about being forced to such a point by a Xishu child, I can't help but feel sad.

After a long time, he finally came to his senses, he has always been a resolute and resolute character, and he didn't think that he also had such a weak and helpless side. After he came to his senses, he immediately straightened his body, forcibly lifted his spirits, and shouted:

"Someone, please Miss Zhou come over and talk."

Immediately, there were pro-soldiers who promised and went out to ask for someone. Soon, a beautiful girl appeared in front of Buqi.

After Bu Qiu invited the girl to take a seat, he respectfully saluted her and said, "Zishan wants to invite Miss Zhou to Shuying as a negotiation envoy." ”

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