"Report!"

On the wilderness, the scout dismounted in front of the tent of the commander of the middle camp, and before he had time to salute, he said: "Report to the prince, seven hundred steps ahead, there is a team advancing. ”

Zhu Huan, who was sitting by the bonfire to warm his hands, heard this, and immediately got up and said, "Tell me in detail, where did the army come from?" ”

"Back to the prince, the number of people in that team is not too much, about six or seven hundred people, escorting dozens of carriages, it should be from Xuzhou." The scout replied.

Wu Qi pondered for a moment and said, "Lord Wang, this should be the grain team sent to Huai'an and Yangzhou." ”

"Indeed, this king thinks so, too." Zhu Huan bowed slightly.

"Lord Wang, do you want to fight?" Wu Qi asked.

"Of course you have to fight, do you want to watch this batch of grain and grass be sent to Huai'an? Our army doesn't have much food and herbs, so I'm really hungry and send steamed buns. Zhu Huan immediately ordered: "Pass the order, Yan Gang will lead the former army to follow the white horse and detain this grain team to this king!" ”

"No!"

……

"Kill!"

On the wilderness, thousands of light horsemen in white robes and white horses charged in the word "one", holding the banner of the king of Qizi, and Yan Gang, the leader, took the lead and rushed to the front.

When the grain team from Xuzhou saw this dense white horse righteous servant, they were so frightened that they almost didn't know where to fly, so they ran away.

"Enemy attack, garrison!"

The grain transport officer raised his arms and exclaimed, and was thinking about lining up the troops, but when he looked around, he found that his hundreds of soldiers had already run away.

"Run, so many cavalry, stay and wait for death?"

"Run!"

"Wait a minute, my foot is twisted!"

"Run, run!"

Grain Officer: ......

In the blink of an eye, Bai Ma Yicong surrounded the grain cart, dozens of carts of grain and grass, and only one grain transport officer was left.

"General, do you want to chase or not?" From Bai Ma Yi, someone asked Yan Gang.

"What are you chasing, tie up that grain transport officer!"

Yan Gang was a little painful, he finally met a living person, and he was about to kill it, but he found that the enemy army had run away.

"Tow the grain cart back!"

……

"Get on your knees!"

Yan Gang kicked over the grain transport officer and forced the grain transport officer to kneel in front of Zhu Huan.

Zhu Huan looked at the grain transport officer with a smile and asked, "What's your name?" ”

The grain team ran away, but the grain transport officer had backbone, and he stood in front of the grain truck alone, preferring to die rather than retreat.

"Whew!" The grain transport officer was tied hand and foot, so he spat at Zhu Huan, but unfortunately the two were too far apart, and the old yellow phlegm of the grain transport officer only fell in front of Zhu Huan's toes, and he said viciously: "Qi thief!" I'll grass your uncle! ”

"There's a kind!" Zhu Huan admired and beckoned to Cao Xiu: "Go, drag this person down and skin him." ”

"Command!" Cao Xiu smiled and grabbed the placket of the grain transport officer's clothes, and dragged it out, saying as he dragged it: "Good boy, grandpa, my skinning skills are also the number one in the army, this time you are blessed!" ”

The grain transport officer was dragged by Cao Xiu, but he still didn't forget to scold Zhu Huan.

"Tsk." Zhu Huan suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly shouted to Cao Xiu: "Ask his name clearly, and when you turn around, this king will punish his nine clans by the way!" ”

"No!"

After finishing this, Zhu Huan put his hand in front of the bonfire, enjoyed the warmth brought by the flames, and asked, "How much grain and grass did you pay this time?" ”

"Back to the prince, a total of 50,000 stones." Yan Gang replied.

"50,000 stones, a lot, enough for our army to eat for two months." Zhu Huan said with a smile: "This Xuzhou prefect is really intimate, knowing that the king is short of food, so he sent charcoal in the snow and made up grain and grass for the king." In order to repay him, then our army marched at full speed, and tried to reach Xuzhou within two hours, and the king wanted to 'thank you' the prefect of Xuzhou in person. ”

……

The disease of the torrent, as for the drifters, the potential is also; The disease of the bird, as for the destroyer, the festival also.

The tactics adopted by Zhu Huan were modeled after the German blitzkrieg during World War II.

Blitzkrieg refers to the rapid and unexpected attack of the army through mobile forces, breaking through the enemy's weak links, and then annihilating the enemy, and capturing the enemy's strategic depth in a short time.

However, the German blitzkrieg in World War II used a range of vehicles, including trains, automobiles, and armored combat vehicles, to improve the transportation and functional capabilities of the army, to deliver fatal strikes to enemy weak points at unprecedented speed, or to quickly fill defensive gaps in certain theaters.

Zhu Huan did not have trains or cars, let alone armored combat vehicles. So he can only complete the "blitzkrieg in the era of cold weapons" from another aspect.

Abandon the complicated baggage and travel lightly.

One artillery can be pulled by one horse, but Zhu Huan has the luxury of using three horses. This was not to show how rich he was, but to increase the speed of the march.

Xuzhou was an important town of the Southern Army, so Zhu Huan joined forces with Yanwangfu and used the 100,000 troops of Yanwangfu to force the Southern Army to shift its focus to Huai'an, so as to weaken the Xuzhou defense line.

When the Southern Army was raising troops and horses and fortifying the Yanwang Mansion in Huai'an, Zhu Huan's army was like a deadly poisonous snake, biting the soft underbelly of the Southern Army and pulling out a strategic depth.

And Zhu Huan played so hard to increase the marching speed of the army, and the effect did not disappoint him. In less than a day, his army had already broken through in front of Xuzhou!

Outside Xuzhou City, Zhu Huan's tens of thousands of troops lurked, ready to go up and take a bite at any time.

Zhu Huan looked at the head of Xuzhou City, the defenders on the head of the city were lazy, and the long-term peace made them think that Xuzhou City was a calm Mount Tai and could never be attacked.

Anyway, there are Yangzhou and Huai'an in the way, what are you afraid of?

However, what they didn't expect was that Zhu Huan's army had already touched under their noses.

"Qi Jiguang?"

"The minister is here!"

Zhu Huan thought for a while and said, "Push down your artillery battalion seven hundred steps southwest of Xuzhou City, and see that there is no poplar forest, it is there." ”

"No!"

Fifty thunderbolts were disconnected from the carriage and were propelled by the gunners with manpower. It stands to reason that the obstacles outside the city should be cleaned up, but the prefect of Xuzhou didn't know what to think, so he let such a large forest grow outside the city.

Under the tall poplar trees, the artillery and the bushes and foliage seem to blend together, making it difficult to identify.

The defenders at the head of Xuzhou City probably couldn't imagine that just seven hundred paces away, the chambers of artillery were already aimed at them.

"Artillery battalion, reload!"

The gunner's deputies fed solid steel shells into the barrel and pulled the lead, while the main gunner adjusted the gun position and aimed in the direction.

Zhu Huan pinched a little in his heart, and said to the communication soldiers: "Go, tell Qi Jiguang to let the artillery battalion aim at the head of the city, first use solid bullets to hit two rounds, and then change the blasting bullets to blow up the city gate." ”

"No."

Behind the fifty thunder guns, Qi Jiguang saw that the time had come, and stretched out his hand and shouted: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom—"

The muzzle of the continuous thunder cannon spewed out tongues of fire, and the huge roar even the sky seemed to collapse, and dozens of steel cannonballs tore the air, roaring like a meteor and flying towards Xuzhou City!

In this way, it is called "the sound is like thunder, and the momentum is like a tiger's roar"!