Chapter 256 Zhou Lang

After receiving the report that An Yunao had launched an attack, Sun Jie was a little uneasy, so he immediately rushed over.

Although he already knew halfway through that An Yunao's department was quite damaged, Sun Jie was still surprised to see hundreds of wounded people moaning in pain and hundreds of corpses in the distance that had not yet had time to be buried in the ground. However, he did not blame An Yunao for his unauthorized actions, but praised him with kind words.

The reason why Sun Jie is like this is because, first, he can fully understand the concerns and thoughts in Leader An's heart, and his starting point is undoubtedly good; Second, strictly speaking, regardless of how his identity as a Zhenxiong Tusi came about and how much water was mixed in it, An Yunao's allies should still be united on the premise that there is no difference in principle; Thirdly, after all, he captured this fortified military facility, which had never been seen before, and gained extremely valuable experience for the army at the cost of nearly a thousand lives...... If you are yourself, you will have to pay a considerable price in the face of such an unfamiliar challenge. In addition, there is a fourth article that cannot be said publicly: the dead are the elite of the Zhenxiong native soldiers - no matter what, these people are barbarians, aren't they? In the eyes of Sun Jie, who is an imperial general, there are the Yang Rebellion in Banzhou, the Rebellion of Lu'an in front of him, and the small troubles in the southwest border that have not set off any storms but are endless...... These are always hidden dangers for the Empire, and it is certainly not a bad thing to have fewer potential threats.

After entering the watchtower and taking a turn, Sun Jie also felt very tricky: there were also some small compartments with bluestone that were less than five or six feet long and wide, and each compartment had a window hole for external shooting. Of course, this is not conducive to the defenders to support each other in time, and the firepower output density is also limited, but the overall structure is extremely strong (the Wenchuan earthquake, most of the main buildings of the watchtowers that have been abandoned for hundreds of years are intact, and its solidity can be seen)!

The door is as thick as a foot. Although the fire burned all night, the door was not completely burned down, apparently made of fire-resistant, non-flammable fatless hardwood, which would be difficult to deal with. The latches were missing, but from the marks on the walls, there were at least two latches inside, and the thickness of the single body was five or six inches. A door-blocking stone of about 200 catties was pushed aside - even on flat ground, in the face of such a structure, it would take a lot of effort to collide with an ordinary car.

Listening to An Yunao, the Zhenxiong soldiers risked their lives to climb into the interior from the window hole and exchanged their lives for the results of the battle, Sun Jie specially went to the window hole to take a serious look. In order to prevent fire, the lower two floors of windows are open high inside and low outside, while the upper floors are all built with diametrically opposite external heights and internal low. Seeing this situation, Sun Jie's heart was full of condescending: the defenders were condescending, and each window could have an internal firing angle of about 30 degrees, and the attacker, even if it was a crossbowman, could not do anything about it - even if the crossbow arrows were fired through the window hole, most of them would be blocked by the stone wall, and there would be no threat to the defenders! I measured it with my hand, and the window hole was only half a foot square, not to mention wearing armor, and people who were slightly taller would also be stuck. Sun Jie subconsciously turned his head to look at An Yunao and his soldiers, and secretly thought in his heart: This kind of fighting style is these thin and lean Miao soldiers.

Although the fire did not extend to the top two or three floors, the scorching fire wave had completely burned the wooden stairs on each floor, and An Yunao had already asked someone to build a temporary ladder. Climbing to the top of the building, Sun Jie paced a few laps, and the traces of the piling of guards such as rolling logs and stones were still there. Because of the limited area, there are not too many of them. Having said that, you can't force human lives in exchange! "It's hard to attack the first floor than to conquer a city!" Sun Jie sighed heartily in his heart. A gust of mountain wind blew, Sun Jie took a deep breath of clear air, and said in a deep voice: "Pass on Su Yinghui and Liu Tieniu." He turned around and got off the watchtower.

Soon, the two were ordered to run.

"Look at this watchtower, can you break it with the method of attacking with acupoints?" Sun Jie asked Su Yinghui with a split face.

After staring at the towers up and down for a while, Su Yinghui shook his head: "I'm afraid it won't work." Wait a minute. Turning to several auxiliary leaders, he pointed and ordered: "Here, there, and there, dig and see." ”

After less than two teas, Su Yinghui came back to his life: "The handsome forgive the sin, the acupoint attack will not work." The lowly dug a circle, and as expected, the foundation of the building was directly built on the solid stone, which was connected with the mountain, which was really not something that could be shaken by manpower. ”

Sun Jie nodded: "That's what I think too." Iron Bull, give it a few looks! ”

When Su Yinghui was planing the corner of the wall, Liu Tieniu had already transferred two artillery crews up, and set up the artillery fifty steps away from the watchtower.

"Boom, boom" two loud noises in succession, two iron pellets roared out, smashed at the bottom and middle of the watchtower successively.

Sun Jie led everyone to the front of the building again, only to see that only a small piece of the stone wall at the place where the bomb was dropped was collapsed. Liu Tieniu stretched out his hand and touched the bullet marks, turned to Sun Jie and smacked his tongue: "Dashuai, our cannon is too small." To deal with such a two- or three-foot-thick stone building, he felt that he had to use at least five thousand catties of big guys. Or, humble position to cast a door for the handsome? ”

Sun Jie was angry and scolded with a smile: "Get out!" Don't think that your careful thinking can fool Ben Shuai! Casting such a big cannon is a moment of beauty, what use can you use except listening to a sound? Do you carry it on your back when you march? ”

Sun Jie asked someone to erect a few wooden planks in the window hole of the watchtower, and then asked Liu Tieniu to aim and cast them with a shotgun. Tie Niu personally calibrated the cannon, and after five or six shots in a row, only a shallow bullet mark was left on one wooden plank, which seemed to be caused by a bullet that happened to hit the wall of the window hole and flew in. Although he was a little disappointed, this result was also expected by Sun Jie: in an era when there were no sights, rifling, and basic knowledge of ballistics, casting a small window based on experience, relying on probability, and a shotgun dozens of paces away to hit a small window with accurate accuracy of a foot and a half is tantamount to a fantasy*.

It doesn't work either.

Looking at the watchtower that seemed to never be able to be shaken, Sun Jie said to Liu Tieniu without a beating: "Try a few more shots to the top of the building." ”

Unexpectedly, there was a breakthrough this time: "If the cannon hits the roof, you will go to a few stones"!

Restricted by the structure of the building, and in order to facilitate the downward throwing of stones, and the commanding heights themselves have not been threatened for hundreds of years, the retaining wall of the roof platform is only made of gravel, and the wheat straw, hemp stalks and other materials are cut into inches and then mixed with yellow cement as a binder. Ordinary bows and crossbows were naturally helpless against the stone wall, but a huge iron ball smashed over with huge kinetic energy, and the thin stone wall burst into full swing in an instant, and the broken stone burst out in all directions, and the wooden plank on the roof of the building that served as an experimental object was hit by the fierce stones. It seems that as long as you take a blow or two, the defenders on the roof platform will no longer be any threat.

However, Rao is so, how to completely uproot the threat of the watchtower Sun Jie is still at a loss.

"Let's take down Qingyan Village first." Sun Jie decided to put this problem aside for a while. Liu Tieniu and the watchtower for half a day, Changjie Battalion, Huben Camp and Liu Chaobu have all opened up one after another. Without the cover of this watchtower, a Miao village will not be difficult to fight.

"General An, you have just made great achievements in a hard battle, tell the brothers to take a break, how about giving this village to a certain and Vice Marshal Liu?"

An Yunao couldn't help but warm his heart when he heard Sun Jie's thoughtful words, and learned the etiquette of the Han generals and bowed heavily to the young chief officer and hugged his fists.

"Handsome! The last general is willing to lead the headquarters to be the pioneer and uproot the rebel village for the commander. Liu Chao, who had just arrived, asked Sun Jie for battle.

"Liu Shuai, don't worry." Sun Jie laughed and said, "This battle is about to be greatly helped by Liu Shuai." However, there are some arrangements, and we are like this...... Then a certain and Liu Shuai broke the enemy side by side! Liu Shuai, General An, what do you think? ”

Liu Chao and An Yunao glanced at each other, clasped their fists together and said: "The handsome tiger is mighty, and the last general is impressed." ”

After Sun Jie walked away, Liu Chao was about to pull An Yunao into the watchtower to take a look, when he suddenly heard someone shouting: "Liu Shuai and other students are waiting, can you go together?" "Following the prestige, it was Shang Wenchang, the master of Sun Jie's army, who was struggling to come along the mountain road.

Liu Chao said with a smile: "Master Shang is careful of your step. You are well-informed, think you have figured out a way to break this stone building? ”

Shang Wenchang has been very familiar with several people for a while, and when he heard Liu Chao say this, he pretended to be mysterious: "Of course." I have a plan, how can I break this area? ”

Liu Chao and An Yunao were stunned when they heard this, Master Shang had already come to the front with a long robe and a shallow foot, and saw that the two generals were looking at him with a blank face, so he said with a serious face: "You only need to go to Zhongnan Mountain, please ask the old Taoist in Xuanqing Temple to draw a talisman and cast a five thunder Dafa, and it will be over if you split it!" ”

The second general stayed there for a moment.

Shang Wenchang couldn't help but smile: "The student has never seen such a thing, and he just wants to go in and open his eyes." Liu Shuai, who was invincible, actually asked the students what to do. Well, since you dare to ask, students dare to say! The question is...... Do any of you dare to believe it? ”

After a few words, everyone laughed and leaned back together, and walked into the watchtower together.

Liu Chao smiled and said, "Handsome so, so ...... Such a person, I can't imagine that Master Shang is so interesting. He really couldn't think of any words to describe Sun Jie.

An Yunao interjected: "That's good." ”

"Of course it's good, can't so-and-so say the word 'good'? I just think that a good word can't describe the handsome, and I can't find the right word......" Liu Chao patted the iron helmet with his hand and said.

"I think so too. It's, well, it's just to be with Dashuai, it makes people feel very comfortable......" An Yunao continued.

"Zhou Lang." Shang Wenchang gently spit out these two words from his mouth.

"Who?"

"What wolf? Where are the wolves? ”

The two will ask questions almost simultaneously.

Shang Wenchang glanced at the second general, shook his head and said, "Three Kingdoms, do you know?" Zhou Lang is Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin. ”

"Huh? The one who was to death by Kong Mingxian? It's not like it's not! It was Liu Chao who answered. An Yunao didn't know what the Three Kingdoms and Four Kingdoms were, so he simply shut up.

"Liu Shuai has heard about Mr. Storyteller's nonsense, right?" When the opportunity to show off his knowledge came, how could Master Shang let it go, "Zhou Gongjin is an amazing hero, what kind of fire to burn Chibi and borrow the east wind are all Zhou Gongjin's strategies, and he is also the commander of the Wushu coalition army." Most of the things that the storyteller talked about about Mr. Zhuge were actually the merits of Zhou Dudu. Even the straw boat borrowed arrows, which was also done by Sun Zhongmou, the lord of Wu, and it was completely out of line with Zhuge Kongming. ”

"Won't it?" Liu Chao was still a little incredulous.

"How not? The halberd sinks into the sand and the iron is not sold, and it will be washed and recognized by the previous dynasty. Dongfeng does not have a relationship with Zhou Lang, and Tongque Chun locks Er Qiao. The author of this poem is Du Muzhi (Du Muzhi), who is known as Xiao Du, a native of the Tang Dynasty. The grandfather is the prime minister, and he is a scholar in the Jinshi School, so he is not thousands of times more knowledgeable than the storyteller? Listen, this east wind is Zhou Lang, what is the matter with Zhuge Kongming? The more Shang Wenchang spoke, the more proud he became.

"One day, Master Shang will tell me about the Three Kingdoms in detail." I felt that there might be a new story to hear, and Liu Chao also came to the spirit, "Mr. said just now that Zhou Lang, what does it have to do with Dashuai?" ”

Shang Wenchang smiled: "You all said that you couldn't find the right words to describe Dashuai, so the student thought of the sentence in "The Biography of Zhou Yu in the Three Kingdoms": 'Having a relationship with Zhou Gongjin is like drinking mellow mash, and you don't feel drunk. 'You say, is this how it feels to be with a handsome? ”

"That's right!" Without waiting for Liu Chao, who felt the same way, to stroke his palm, An Yunao, who had been in the clouds, shouted out first, "That's too good, being with Dashuai is like drinking fine wine, and it just feels like that." ”

*Knowledge points in this article: Arabian Nights

Tang Wuzong's name is Li Yan, in order to avoid it, the words superimposed on the two fire characters must be changed (remember the allusion to "toilet"), and the word "talk" is replaced by "Tan". Over time, it became a habit, and after the end of the Tang Dynasty, this habit was maintained to a large extent by many literati. Another example is Caigen Tan, written in the Ming Dynasty.