Chapter 4: Defending the City
After the introduction of Sima Lin Pu of the other department, Yang Zhao knew that the captain was the future general Pan Feng.
They walked down the city tower and came to the barracks, and finally saw Pan Feng, beside him, and several generals, who were studying the strategy of defending the city next, and directly ignored the arrival of Yang Zhao and the others.
"Let's wait!"
Lin Pu pulled Yang Zhao and stepped aside, waiting for them to finish their discussion before speaking.
"Captain, the envoy is here."
At this time, a general walked in and preached.
As soon as the words fell, Wang Fen, the assassin of Jizhou, walked into the barracks.
"Envoy, the situation is not optimistic."
"The four gates of Yecheng have been attacked once, and the battle damage is very serious, and the grain and grass in the army can only support seven or eight days."
"Arrows, wood, and other things defending the city, at the current rate of consumption, can be used for another three days at most."
"Of the gates of the four-sided city towers, only Fengyang Gate is in slightly better condition, and the others are not optimistic."
"Guangyang Gate in the south was almost lost."
"The rebellion of the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves came too suddenly, and we were unprepared, and we were already under the city."
Pan Feng first reported on the current situation.
Fengyang Gate has Yang Zhao to lead the defense, which can be regarded as an outlier in this war.
After listening to Pan Feng's report, Wang Fen felt a headache and asked, "Pan Duwei, do you have a way to retreat from the enemy?" ”
Pan Feng said helplessly: "I have ordered to demolish some of the houses in the city, use the wood and stones of the houses to defend the city, and make arrows as much as possible, hoping to hold out for two more days, when will Lu Zhonglang's reinforcements arrive?" ”
"According to the latest news, Lu Zhonglang brought 80,000 troops to help, and it will take seven days at the earliest to come to Yecheng."
Wang Fen frowned.
The weapons to defend the city were only enough for three days.
After demolishing the houses in the city, it can last for another two or three days, but the time is still not enough, and if the Yellow Turban Army outside the city launches another onslaught, they estimate that they can support it for a shorter time.
And that's just the wear and tear of the weapons, not the battle damage of the guards.
In the next two battles, the number of guards in the city will be more dead, and they will have a harder time.
The main area of activity of the Yellow Turban Army, as well as its base area, is in Jizhou, and they will definitely not let go of Yecheng.
"Seven days!"
Pan Feng felt a lot of pressure.
The other counties are all fighting against the Yellow Turban Army within their own range, and they can't spare troops to support Yecheng.
"I have a plan to delay the enemy for another two or three days."
Just as Wang Fen and Pan Feng fell silent, Yang Zhao's voice broke the silence.
He spoke suddenly, which startled Lin Pu, and quickly glanced at him to signal not to mess around.
Pan Feng looked at them curiously, and finally remembered Lin Pu's matter, and asked, "Lin Pu, he is the little soldier on Fengyang Gate, the person you recommended?" ”
"Yes, Fengyang Gate can be defended, all thanks to Yang Zhao's ability."
Lin Pu briefly talked about the whole thing, especially emphasizing Yang Zhao's ability, and said: "Our officers have died several in battle, and their subordinates are worried that there will not be enough people to command, resulting in a discord in the army. ”
"Oh!"
Wang Fen suddenly became a little interested in Yang Zhao and asked, "You said that you can delay for a few more days, is there any way to delay?" ”
Yang Zhao was not restrained, and took two steps forward and said: "You only need to make Jun collect gold juice and fire oil in the whole city, and if there is no fire oil, collect tung oil, sesame oil, and animal fat, and you can delay it for a few more days." ”
"Using fire oil is fire attack, and this plan may work."
Pan Feng pondered and said: "Yecheng is so big, there should be a lot of fire oil, sesame oil and tung oil that can be collected, and when the enemy is attacking the city, it will have a certain effect if it falls down and then ignites it, but I can't think of this by negligence, but what is the use of gold juice?" ”
Golden juice is dung, dung, dung.
"There are two kinds of uses for gold juice."
"First, boil it and burn the besieging enemy, this wound is extremely difficult to heal and can make the enemy incapacitated."
"Second, in fact, before our Han Dynasty, when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, there was a practice of soaking arrows, swords, etc., in gold juice."
"There is a toxin in the gold juice, as long as it touches the wound, it will turn the flesh near the wound into rotten flesh, which in turn will cause the injured person to have a fever, get sick, and finally die."
"We have already confronted the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves today, and the Moth Thieves who came to attack the city have some wounds on their bodies, and the effect of the golden juice can be brought into play."
Yang Zhao explained.
The fecal water is full of all kinds of bacteria and viruses, there were no antibiotics in ancient times, and the wound touching the fecal water will cause inflammation and even tetanus, and the medical conditions of this era can only wait for death.
Gold juice is simply an ancient biochemical weapon.
Lin Pu was stunned, he thought that Yang Zhao was just a little brave, but he didn't expect that he still had some skills and knew how to resist the enemy.
Pan Feng and Wang Fen's eyes lit up, using the toxin of the golden juice to kill the enemy, they knew this practice.
There are similar records in some ancient books.
This little soldier knows a lot!
Yang Zhao continued: "The golden juice can not only repel the enemy, but also make the Yellow Turban Moth thief centrifuge the Taiping Dao. ”
"How to centrifuge?"
Wang Fen instinctively asked.
"Zhang Jiao and the others were able to gather hundreds of thousands of troops to make a rebellion because of his Taiping Dao, which could give the Yellow Turban Moth Thief a kind of faith, if the Yellow Turban Moth Thief who was drenched in gold juice went back and died of illness, wouldn't their faith collapse?"
Yang Zhao said.
Pan Fengdao: "Isn't Zhang Jiao preaching, believing in the Taiping Dao, you can use Fu water to cure all diseases?" ”
Yang Zhao asked rhetorically: "Do you believe that Fu Shui can cure diseases?" ”
Pan Feng: "......"
He certainly didn't believe it.
Wang Fen felt that it made sense, and now there was no other way, so he decided to adopt Yang Zhao's suggestion, and said: "Arrange people to go down and collect gold juice and fire oil in the whole city, you must be fast!" ”
Several subordinates were ordered to hurry outside to make arrangements.
"Yang Zhao, do you have anything to do with Hongnong Yang?"
Wang Fen looked at Yang Zhao for a while, this person's ability is not weak, and he has a little knowledge, maybe he is a child of a certain scholar clan, so he will end up like this.
If there is a family behind it and the ability, it can be reused.
Yang Zhao said: "The subordinate is just an ordinary person, and he happens to be surnamed Yang. ”
Hearing this, Wang Fen was quite sorry, and said: "I will go and issue an order, mobilize the people of the whole city, collect fire oil and gold juice to the military camp, and Pan Duwei will be responsible for the rest." ”
"Congratulations to the envoy!"
Together, they watched Wang Fen walk out of the door.
Pan Feng said: "If the fire oil and gold juice work, Yang Zhao can be regarded as saving Yecheng, now you are just a chief, I will make an exception to promote you to the army, responsible for defending the entire Fengyang Gate, Lin Pu I will arrange to Zhongyang Gate, are you competent?" ”
Military Hou, second only to Sima.
Yang Zhao calculated the level, but he was still promoted three levels in a row, and it was not temporary, and he said in a loud voice: "The subordinates will not let the captain down!" ”