Chapter 15: One of the Four Great Inventions
It was Zhang Biao who spoke, this person was a real martial artist, and he was a typical military general.
"Spank a fart!"
Sima Tao said with a smile: "The 100,000 army of the Western Zhou Dynasty, this time it is their Royal Highness the Crown Prince who leads the troops, and it is the Xu family of the Western Zhou Dynasty who is in charge of the army. ”
Hearing the Xu family in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Luo Wei's face was a little stunned.
"General, the people of the Xu family are here, they won't really fight, right?"
Sima Tao took a cup of tea, took a sip lightly, and then said, "Impossible!" ”
"The prince of the Western Zhou Dynasty, his target is the eldest prince of the Western Zhou Dynasty."
Luo Wei frowned and said, "General, His Royal Highness sent Mr. Zhu here, but it was also for the sake of the eldest prince!" ”
Sima Tao's gaze froze slightly, and then the smile on his face deepened.
"These things are not for us to worry about, and how can we speculate on His Highness's thoughts."
Zhang Biao and Luo Wei both nodded, and the three of them began to discuss again, after all, the 100,000 army of the Western Zhou Dynasty was outside the city, even if they couldn't really fight, they had to be believed.
Yang Zhi rested in the inn, and the heat flow in his body would continue to flow along the meridians, which was a strange feeling, not only would he not be sleepy, but he was also very energetic.
Yang Zhi was awakened by bursts of shouting and killing, and when he opened his eyes, he was covered in sweat.
Just when he woke up, Uncle Chen also happened to knock on the door.
"Young master, the army of the Western Zhou Dynasty has begun to attack the city!"
Looking at the chaos on the streets outside, and the bursts of shouts and killings, the outside of the city was already full of wolf smoke and corpses.
"Uncle Chen, are all the things I asked you to prepare?"
Yang Zhi was not worried at all, the war had nothing to do with him, yesterday he gave all the remaining silver to Uncle Chen, and asked him to go to the city to buy the things he needed according to his own requirements.
"All set!"
Uncle Chen said with a smile: "The young master is really like a god, most of the people in the city are thinking about escaping, and those things don't cost much silver." ”
Bullshit is like a god, it's going to be a war, and those things are not important in normal times, and they are even less valuable when they are fighting, and they are not food and medicinal materials.
"Good!"
Yang Zhi was very satisfied, fighting a war was a disaster for ordinary people, and some businessmen who knew how to grasp the opportunity could seize the opportunity and make a war fortune.
Yang Zhi doesn't have much capital and is not qualified to do any big business, but he is opportunistic, and Yang Zhi is a little confident.
I came with the intellectual wealth of the 21st century, and if I didn't make some money, I would really be blind.
There are not a few people left in the inn, even Xiao Er has run away, and there is only one older owner left, and he can't run.
Yang Zhi rented him a small courtyard behind the inn yesterday, and there are all kinds of things that Uncle Chen bought yesterday.
Yang Zhi had already asked Uncle Chen, there are no weapons such as red-coated cannons in this world, and the siege weapons are generally trebuchets, and the long-range attack weapons are strong crossbows.
Why don't you say that the four great inventions of ancient times have benefited the whole world?
What Yang Zhi has to do is gunpowder.
Gunpowder, as long as you study chemistry by heart, can be configured using all kinds of unremarkable things.
Of course, Yang Zhi didn't have to make real gunpowder, as long as there was one-third of the power of gunpowder, it would already be able to shock the world.
Uncle Chen didn't know what his young master was going to do, even the things he bought were messy, but he rarely saw the young master so attentive.
Yang Zhi didn't ask Uncle Chen to help, not that he didn't believe Uncle Chen, but he wasn't sure about this thing himself, if there was an accident when configuring, Uncle Chen's body would be gone all of a sudden.
During this day, Yang Zhi was using the method in his memory to configure gunpowder, and the progress was not fast, but it was not completely useless.
In the afternoon, Yang Zhi successfully fired the first cannon.
Chen Bo, who was standing by the door and guarding the door for Yang Zhi, was taken aback, and when he saw Yang Zhi's black face, he was about to step forward, but Yang Zhi laughed loudly.
"Haha... If you succeed, Lao Tzu is a genius. ”
Looking at the small pit on the ground, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Yang Zhi's mouth.
Nima's gunpowder is worthy of being a weapon of war, and this kind of invention that hurts heaven and harmony should not exist.
Fortunately, there is chaos in the city, even if there is a little noise, no one will care, and the amount of Yang Zhi's configuration is not large.
As for the Western Zhou army outside the city, Yang Zhi was not worried at all, the 100,000 army attacked Daizhou City, and if he wanted to capture Daizhou City in a short time, it was absolutely impossible.
There are 20,000 soldiers in Daizhou City, plus 20,000 troops of the Right Tiger Guard, and the people temporarily formed in the city, these people alone exceed 30,000.
Although the combat strength of the people is not high, in terms of numbers, it is not much different from the 100,000 army outside the city.
As long as the person commanding this war is not a straw bale, it is no problem to hold out for a few days.
After Yang Zhi successfully configured, he began to make fire and thunder one by one according to the configuration he had just made.
There is no way, the industrial conditions in this era are too poor to make exquisite containers.
In the evening, the shouting outside the city finally stopped.
But this day's battle is definitely sad for Daizhou City.
At the end of the day, the Western Zhou left thousands of corpses, and Daizhou, as the party defending the city, also suffered heavy losses.
As for the reason, only Sima Tao, the Acting Governor of Prefecture, knows.
At this time, in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of Daizhou City, Sima Tao was losing his temper, and had just smashed a valuable ornament, and it was not his two lieutenants who were standing on the side, but Daizhou Assassin.
"Lord Tang, what do you mean by this, do you suspect my generals?"
Tang Ren, that is, the history of the Daizhou Thorn, from the second grade of the Daizhou Thorn History, this is already a big official of the Dasheng Dynasty, and then up, that is, the members of the six departments, the marquis worships the prime minister.
The mechanism of the Dasheng Dynasty is that the assassin history is great, that is, under normal circumstances, the metropolitan governor also has to listen to the assassin history.
However, in ordinary states and counties, there will be no configuration of the military commander of the metropolitan governor.
A place like Daizhou is a little special, and Sima Tao will definitely not wear the same pants as Thorn Shi.
"The Metropolitan Governor, this official is not here to hold him accountable, but to ask the Metropolitan Governor, how to defend the next city."
Tang Ren said lightly: "I heard that the Western Zhou is mobilizing their leopard division, 200,000 leopard divisions, within ten days, they will rush to the city of Daizhou, if Daizhou is lost, even if you and I can save our lives, in the court, I am afraid it will be difficult to explain!" ”
Sima Tao's face was ugly, he never thought that Xizhou's side would really fight, didn't he say that it was easy to behave?
So far, how can Sima Tao not understand that he has fallen for the conspiracy of His Royal Highness the Prince of the Western Zhou Dynasty, if Daizhou really loses it, even if he has the support of His Royal Highness the Prince of Dasheng, I am afraid that he will have to lose some things.