Qian Song

Chapter 135 Li Cun: Prepare for Firepower Coverage (Ask for a Monthly Ticket!)

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After the bet was agreed upon, all the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City put up all their strength and prepared to fight a big battle.

——Although they won’t be punished by the Huben army if they lose, but in case Li Cunyan doesn’t believe him, the key point is that if they win, they will solve the ant thief’s harassment once and for all, and they can also get a reward from the court. So of course they still have to strive to win the Huben Army.

The officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City wanted to come. Since Li Cun brought hundreds of thousands or even millions of troops, he must be engaging in crowd tactics. Give them a continuous attack for three days and nights. Rest, compete with them for physical strength, endurance, and willpower, and exhaust them.

Song Zhaonian, who had predicted that the ant thief would be like this, even had someone come up with a schedule of rest.

But Song Zhaonian and the others didn't see the ants thieves coming to attack the city, and they didn't see the ants thieves coming to attack the city either.

How is this going?

Oh!
Understood!
Soon it was wise to think that the Huben army must be preparing to attack the city at night. After all, night is good for the attacker and bad for the defender.

Quickly arrange for more people to rest.

No.

What if the ant thief is using their mentality to create a contrast?
Never relax!

The time passed bit by bit while the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City were nervous...

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In Li Cun's large tent of the Chinese army.

At this moment, Li Cun was playing Go with Yuwen Huang Zhong, beside him, including Wang Yuan and Han Shizhong, dozens of Song Army generals who had not yet joined the Huben Army were watching the chess around Li Cun and Yuwen Huang Zhong.

This made Yao Xing, Yan Xiaoguang, Cao Cheng and other generals of the pro-guard army and the supervising army feel like they are facing an enemy!

——They were really afraid that these ferocious generals of the Song army would come together and attack. The thief would be the first to capture the king, and they would capture Li Cun!
In that case, it would be a joke, and the key Huben Army's good situation will definitely disappear.

Therefore, Yao Xing, Yan Xiaoguang, Cao Cheng and other generals discussed and ambushed five hundred Swordsman and Axemen. Whenever these generals of the Song Army dared to make any changes, the Swordsman would immediately rush in and chop them into pieces.

After Yuwen Huangzhong dropped a chess piece, he said: "The governor really has the demeanor of a general. He made a bet like this, and he is still calm. Whenever there is a major event, he has a calm air. After being calm, he can be at peace. After being at ease, he can worry about it. Then you can get it, and the person who said it is the governor of the capital."

Li Cun ignored Yuwen Huangzhong's use of words to lure himself to the generals, but said while placing the order: "I have made arrangements, and the subordinates can complete what I explain according to my instructions. If they wait until they are completed, I will automatically lower the promotion." Reward, if he can't finish it, I will punish him for his crime, why is it so hasty?"

Yuwen Huang Zhong tentatively said: "The governor is really not worried that the city will not be captured within three days?"

While studying how to beat Yuwen Huangzhong, Li Cun said, "If I surround this city with a thousand trebuchets and bombard it non-stop, can I take it? Liangchen, tell Shutong."

Not long after being captured alive, Han Shizhong and other generals of the Song Army realized that Li Cun was going to recruit them, otherwise, he would either kill them directly or put them in prison. The "corporate culture" of the army.

To be honest, as soldiers, none of these generals of the Song Army disliked the atmosphere of the Huben Army. It is simple and fair. All control, there is no respect for civility, no insulting tattoos, no literati or eunuchs pretending to understand during the war, respected by the people, and their social status is very high. It is not an exaggeration to say that in these Song Dynasty In the future, the Huben Army is a paradise for soldiers.

Soon, those generals who had nothing to worry about surrendered one after another. After being trained and educated by the Huben Army, they were assigned to the army.

Moreover, the system of the Huben Army is very humane. It did not allow these generals of the Song Army to start from the bottom of the soldiers. Instead, they fully considered the original positions and abilities of these generals, and only appointed these generals. Many of them were buried in the past. The generals who even entered the Huben Army were greatly promoted.

For example, Xie Yuan, Wang Sheng, Yue Chao, Hu Yantong, and Xu Shian, the small school under Han Shizhong.

After joining the Huben Army, all of them transformed into acting commanders who commanded an army of 500 people.

Do you think this is over?

No.

Xie Yuan and the others commanded the acting commanders of the newly established pro-guard left army, pro-guard right army and pro-guard central army.

What kind of army is the pro-guard army?
That is the army under the command of Li Cun himself, the ace of the trump cards in the Huben army. All the soldiers in his army are elites drawn from the various armies of the Huben army!
Moreover, the pro-guard army has another name - the cradle of the generals of the Huben Army!
——Any soldiers who have been in the Guards will generally be promoted by one level, or even directly by two or three levels.

Acting commanders of the pro-guard army like Xie Yuan and the others, if they become regulars and are released to the outside world in the future, they are likely to be senior officers who can control and be able to take charge of their own.

That may be a high position that Xie Yuan and the others, the low-level generals of the Western Army who have no heels, can't reach in the Western Army for ten lifetimes!
Soon after Xie Yuan and the others took office, they joined hands to visit Han Shizhong, the old boss, and advised Han Shizhong not to stand up anymore, and to vote together, so that everyone can work hard together.

Hu Yantong was a vulgar man. After drinking some wine, he said bluntly: "When I serve as a soldier, I don't sell my life for someone. Promote me to an important position, know that we are not married, give me a beautiful concubine, do not doubt that we will surrender, take me by your side to guide carefully, how can we not work for the governor, but for Song who has done meritorious service and is not rewarded? ?”

Hu Yantong is the descendant of Hu Yanzan, the famous founding general of Zhao Song. Because of the decline of his family, he can only be a small school under Han Shizhong. It is conceivable how dark Zhao Song's army is.

It's no wonder that after Li Cun gave too much, these low-level generals of the Song Army surrendered one after another.

Yue Chao said: "The Emperor Zhao and Song were incompetent, and corrupt officials were rampant, so that the people in the southeast were living in dire straits, and it was hard to see for a long time. It's time to change the emperor."

Xu Shi'an said: "The chief governor is also a Han. How can he not be the emperor? You must know that the Zhao family was added to the yellow robe by Chen Qiao's rebellion. If the Zhao family is allowed to take the Chai family, naturally the Li family will be allowed to take the Zhao family."

Wang Shengdao: "In the land under the jurisdiction of the great governor, every family is full of grain and warehouses, the people live and work in peace and contentment, the society is stable, and the world is governed."

Xie Yuan, who has been with Han Shizhong the longest, is very straightforward: "Liangchen, I don't want to wait any longer."

Xie Yuan is 33 this year, and has been in the army for [-] years. He is proficient in the art of war and martial arts, especially good at riding and shooting. He is really a general, but he is still just a small school.

Han Shizhong was also very moved when he heard the words of the Yuan family, especially after hearing the words of Yuan. You must know that Han Shizhong is 31 this year and has been in the army for 13 years. It's just a general of a general.

Moreover, Han Shizhong found that Li Cun was very optimistic about him.

Let's put it this way, Li Cun spent more time and thought than Wang Yuan in enticing him.

The reason why Han Shizhong is still hesitating is mainly because he has a wife and children in the Western Army, which is different from Xie Yuan and the others who have nothing to worry about at the bottom.

However, Li Cun has recently proposed a solution for those who have family backgrounds, that is, to let them enter the army under a pseudonym first, and when there is a chance in the future, the Huben Army will exchange their families with prisoners or other things .

Therefore, Li Cun asked Han Shizhong what would happen if he used a thousand catapults to bombard Xiuzhou City non-stop. Han Shizhong, who had already moved Li Cun's mind, combined the defense of Xiuzhou City, and said truthfully: "It will definitely be effective, but... ... may not be able to go down to this city."

Li Cun did not deny Han Shizhong's judgment, dropped a son, and said: "What if I supplement it with five hundred bed crossbows?"

Hearing this number of bed crossbows, all the generals present felt their scalps go numb!
It is good to have a few pieces of this magic weapon in a city, even in big cities like Hangzhou City and Jinling City, there will never be more than a hundred pieces, but Li Cun saved five hundred pieces.

Just imagine, how difficult is it for the people in Xiuzhou to defend themselves when five hundred bed crossbows are fired at? !

Li Cun dropped another son and said, "What if I send another [-] troops, [-] per wall, to attack the city under the cover of trebuchets and bed crossbows?"

Han Shizhong was silent for a long time before he said, "It's hard to prevent."

Li Cun dropped the chess piece, his own dragon was completed, and Yuwen Huangzhong lost.

Li Cun stood up and said: "If you don't calm down, you can't beat me."

Yuwen Huangzhong, who is very familiar with the current situation of the Huben army, knows that Li Cun, who has taken down Fujian, is already invincible. Now Zhao Song's only chance in the two Zhejiang areas is to rescue Xiuzhou City first with the Huben army. Until now, Song Jun has not been seen, so Xiuzhou City is basically unable to keep.

Under such circumstances, how could Yuwen Huangzhong's heart be calm?
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Seeing that it was getting dark, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City couldn't help but raise their hearts, especially when the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City saw that there were indeed more than 20 civilian husbands who moved in a large number before dark. After the siege equipment surrounded Xiuzhou City.

But what puzzled the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City was that they had never seen the regular army of Ant Thieves, at least until it was completely dark, only civilian husbands were busy working under Xiuzhou City.

Could it be that I plan to attack the city in the middle of the night when I am in trouble?

Although someone raised this possibility, no one dared to be negligent, especially when there were dense clanging sounds and countless people shouting from all around the city.

There is no way, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City can only force themselves to be sleepy, and be careful to guard against the siege that may come at any time.

But what made the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou vomit blood was that they guarded against it all night, and the Huben army did not come to attack at all.

After dawn, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City looked down the city, and saw that overnight, countless gun mounts and countless arrow towers appeared densely under the city, and a large number of gun stones were piled up next to each mount. , and both the gun mount and the arrow tower were blocked by wooden curtains.

Only now did the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou know that the Huben army hadn't planned to attack them last night, and they were just preparing for the siege under the cover of the night.

The next day, the Huben army still did not attack the city, they were still making siege equipment in the city.

Someone suggested, otherwise we rush out and kill a wave of civilian husbands.

As soon as this person finished speaking, someone immediately objected: "How do you know that this is not a plan by the ants to lure our army out of the city?"

When everyone heard it, it made sense.

What the Huben army did was probably luring them out of the city, killing their vital forces, and then attacking the city.

Thinking of this possibility, no one proposed to leave the city anymore.

At night, the Huben army still built gun mounts and arrow towers as they did the first night, and it seemed that they had no intention of attacking the city.

But the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City still didn't dare to be careless at all. What if the Huben Army gave them a fake and a real one?

There is no way, the officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City have to continue to guard against death despite their sleepiness.

As a result, the Huben army really didn't come to attack the city.

On the second day, when the sky was bright, the faces of officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City turned pale.

I saw that the Huben army had built more gun mounts and more arrow towers, and the gun stones beside the gun mounts had piled up like mountains.

Many officials, soldiers and civilians in Xiuzhou City are thinking, don't the ants want to rain stones and arrows in Xiuzhou City?

By the third day, all the thousand gun mounts and trebuchets had been equipped, and the bed crossbow had been moved to the arrow tower (there was a large number of god arm bows on the arrow tower). The siege equipment such as rolling carts, watchtower carts, ladders, trench bridges, folding bridges, tower carts, and wooden curtains have also been put into place.

By this time, the siege strategy of the Huben army had become clear, that is, relying on its superior manpower and material resources, it was preparing to bomb the city of Xiuzhou overwhelmingly, and then seize the city with crowd tactics.

Seeing this, Chen Yun thought to himself: "If this is the case, we may still have a chance to win..."

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(End of this chapter)