Thief Emperor

Chapter 693 King Wu breaks the city!

Two days later, the siege equipment was basically ready, and the logistical supplies of Li Yun's troops, including gunpowder and thunder bombs, had also been delivered. Li took Su Zhan with him to personally count the logistics. After a brief look, Li Yun couldn't help but frowned.

"Who escorted this logistics?"

Su Zhan immediately went down to look for him. Not long after, a captain came running over, bowed to Li Yun, and said with a smile, "Sir, I was escorted here."

Li Yun took a look at him and saw that he was an old acquaintance from the anti-theft team, named Feng Sheng.

He stepped forward, kicked him lightly, and scolded him with a smile: "These logistics are almost twice the standard logistics of our Jiangdong Army. You really know how to be considerate."

Feng Sheng was a bearded man, about the same age as Li Yun, one year older than Li Yun. However, all the members of the anti-theft team respected Li Yun and regarded him as their backbone. When he was kicked, he was not angry but smiled happily and said, "Sir, Mr. Xue is in charge of transporting the logistics and supplies for Shannan East Road. They are quite sufficient. General Zhao also told me before he left that this is the main battlefield and the task of attacking the city is heavy, so he asked me to send more."

Li Yun glanced at him and said calmly, "If I remember correctly, you have been in charge of logistics for quite some time, right?"

"Yes."

Feng Sheng quickly said, "When you first arrived in Nanjing, I started to take charge of logistics, and it has been several years now."

In this era, logistics work was generally done on a special basis, but Jiangdong’s logistics work was full-time from the beginning, and those who were responsible for logistics escort have always been responsible for logistics escort.

Logistics work is very important to Li Yun. In fact, logistics work is the key to whether the battlefield can be maintained. Therefore, when selecting logistics personnel, Li Yun chose his confidants from the anti-theft team to be responsible for this area.

Li Yun put his arm around Feng Sheng's shoulders, looked at him and asked, "Have you made money in the past few years?"

Feng Sheng raised his head cautiously and looked at Li Yun. His beard trembled with fear. He shook his head and waved his hands, saying, "Sir, when you assigned me to do logistics, you saw that I was honest. I...I will not do such a thing."

He said with a sad face: "I found a wife last year and got married. When I bought a house, I borrowed money from my comrades."

Seeing him like this, Li Yun narrowed his eyes and said with a smile: "Look at you, you don't know how to be funny."

"This kind of thing will never happen again."

Li Yun patted his shoulder and said calmly: "From now on, whether it is me or other generals, logistics will be issued according to the standard. Unless there are special circumstances, additional logistics will require written application. Do you understand?"

Feng Sheng immediately bowed his head and said, "I understand!"

"Good job."

Li Yun smiled and said, "In two years, the Privy Council will add a Logistics Department, which will be on par with the Inspection Department and will be responsible for military logistics. By then, those of you who work in logistics will most likely be promoted."

Regarding the Privy Council, Li Yun defined it as a military institution, and the highest military institution at that.

At present, there is only one Inspection Department under the Privy Council, and in the future there will be departments such as Logistics Department and General Staff Department.

To put it simply, it means separating some of the duties of the Ministry of War and assigning them to the Privy Council. In the future, the Privy Councilor will be the person closest to Li Yun, or it will be a nominal position that he will hold himself, while the Deputy Privy Councilor will be experienced generals such as Su Sheng and Zhao Cheng.

In this way, while the military generals will be restrained by the court, the situation where civil officials completely overwhelm the military officials will not occur, and the military fortune will not decline.

Of course, the personnel authority of military officers should still be placed in the hands of the Ministry of War, otherwise the power of the Privy Council would be too great.

After hearing what Li Yun said, Feng Sheng was overjoyed and said with his head down: "I will remember your words, remember them in my heart!"

Li Yun patted his shoulder and said, "Go and get busy."

Feng Sheng took two steps back and suddenly bowed to Li Yun and said, "Boss, please take care of yourself on the battlefield."

After saying this, Feng Sheng took a deep breath and walked out.

"Boss" is the old name of the anti-theft team. No one has called Li Yun that for a long time. Li Yun was stunned, looking at Feng Sheng's receding figure, thoughtful.

Maybe he was thinking too much...

These old brothers, at least so far, are mostly good.

Thinking of this, Li Yun turned his head to look at the pile of gunpowder and thunder bombs in front of him, then looked at Su Zhan behind him and said with a smile: "Boy, tell me, if it were you, how would you plan to fight?"

Su Zhan had been with Li Yun for a long time and was already very familiar with the various weapons in the army. He looked at these firearms and said with a smile: "Master, with so many firearms, we can charge down Ruyang by force."

Li Yun narrowed his eyes and said softly: "If that's the case, I'm actually a little unhappy."

Previously, Zhao Cheng had been in Yuzhou, fighting with the Zhongwu Army for about a month. He had a lot of troops under his command, and the logistics were also good. Zhao Cheng's ability to lead troops was not bad...

Thinking of this, Li Yun took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Go up to the tent to discuss matters. Tell them to attack Ruyang City early tomorrow morning!"

Su Zhan immediately lowered his head: "I obey your command!"

…………The next morning, the Jiangdong army, fully equipped, lined up neatly outside Ruyang City.

Li Yun also put on the armor that he hadn't worn for a long time. He stretched his body, then looked at Ruyang City in the distance, waved his hand, and shouted: "Attack the city!"

Many years ago, Li Yun had already become famous in Jiangdong, and his reputation in the Jiangdong army had reached an unprecedented level. At this time, Li Yun personally went to the battlefield to command. Although he did not charge into the battle line himself, his boost to the morale of the army was beyond compare.

The morale of the Jiangdong army was high.

A row of Jiangdong soldiers, pushing catapults, arrived in front of Ruyang City. A pitcher then skillfully lit a thunder bomb with an extended fuse and placed it in the basket of the catapult. He looked in the direction of Ruyang City, calculated the time, and then waved his hand and shouted, "Fire!"

As the catapult was fired, the thunderbolt flew high and landed on the Ruyang city wall.

On the top of Ruyang City Tower, bursts of explosions were immediately heard.

The Zhongwu Army defenders in Ruyang City were all stunned.

They had seen thunder bombs before, but had never seen them used in this way.

Fortunately, they had seen the thunderbolt beforehand and understood its characteristics from all aspects. Now they all knew how to deal with it. When they saw the thunderbolt explode above their heads, a lieutenant immediately shouted, "Get down, get down, keep your head down!"

At present, the main ability of the Thunder Bomb is to injure people by exploding fragments. As long as you lie on the ground, the lethality of the fragments will be greatly reduced.

This is the reason why firearms still cannot dominate this era. Without high-explosive gunpowder, the lethality of black gunpowder is really not enough.

If the explosion is powerful enough, there is no need to rely on fragments to hurt people, the target can be directly blown to pieces.

But no matter what, it can have a certain suppressive effect on the defenders, which is considered a magic weapon on the battlefield of this era.

Throwing thunder bombs is at least much more useful than throwing stones!

And this is enough.

Zhang Ai, the captain of the Jiangdong Army, was now standing within an arrow's reach of Ruyang. He was looking at the catapults behind him, counting as he watched.

"Six...seven...eight..."

"Nine…"

When he counted to the ninth time, he put on his armor and shouted in a deep voice: "Get ready!"

As the tenth round of catapults ended, Zhang Ai shouted angrily: "Follow me!"

Upon hearing this, the thousand men under his command immediately rushed towards Ruyang City.

At the same time, several other battalions of the commanders also rushed forward.

A captain chased after him, grabbed Zhang Ai's sleeve, and shouted, "General, charging into the battle is too dangerous. Please retreat a bit, and I will take over the command!"

The rank of captain is already a senior general in the Jiangdong Army. At least at this stage, he is an absolute top leader in the Jiangdong Army.

It would not be particularly difficult for any captain to meet Li Yun.

Under normal circumstances, they would most likely not directly participate in dangerous military operations such as sieges, but now is not an ordinary time.

Captain Zhang glared at his subordinate captain and cursed, "Fuck you!"

"The one in the upper position is watching from behind! Do you want to replace me?"

Captain Zhang shouted angrily and rushed forward at the lead.

His subordinate lieutenant had no choice but to wave his hands behind him and shouted, "Hurry up, soldiers, hurry up!"

The soldiers of the five duwei camps rushed towards Ruyang City in a mighty force.

The battle lasted for two hours. Five battalions of the duwei were withdrawn and another five took over. Coupled with the long-range coverage of firearms, after a day, Ruyang City was already on the verge of collapse.

In the evening, Li Yun, who had been watching the battle, raised his head and took a sip of wine, then threw the wine bag aside and shouted, "Su Zhan, bring me my gun."

Su Zhan took small steps forward and shook his head, saying, "Master, you cannot charge into the formation again no matter what."

Li Yun glanced at him, then turned to look at Ruyang City with a burning gaze: "Silly boy, the city is about to be breached!"

"Let me go kill for a while and have fun!"

(End of this chapter)