Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 324 All the Elite Out of Weizhou City (Two in One)

Weizhou town general Wang Shouye looked at Wu Guoer suspiciously, looked up and down for a long time, but still couldn't believe what Wu Guoer said.

"According to you, this Sikong is really a descendant of Zhang Taibao who belonged to the six Hexi counties in the past?"

"It should be true. I saw in those troops that, except for the Yuanzhou party item, all the soldiers and officers had their hair tied to the right lapel, and their daily speech and orders in the army also used Tang accents.

Although Zhang Sikong was young, he was quite knowledgeable and familiar with history books. He talked about the previous emperors of the Tang Dynasty, especially Emperor Taizong Wen and the Great Sage Empress. If not for Tang Er, he would not have known about it. "

Wu Guo'er thought for a while and said, luckily he has read a few books, if he passed by illiterate, he would definitely not be able to observe so carefully.

Wang Shouye nodded. If it was true as what Wu Guoer said, then the outside of the city must be the Guiyi Army who was trapped in Hexi in the past, but if this was the case, he was even more puzzled.

"As you said, since this Sikong is very young, he can lead soldiers. Hexi Lanzhou is about [-] miles away. On the way, all the Shatuo and Dangxiang are not easy to get along with, and even Yuanzhou Dangxiang surrendered. Served in the Hexi Army.

From this point of view, it must be the master of action!If it is so easy to deceive, how can you bring the army here? "

Uh.!Wu Guoer was stunned, he scratched the bun on his head, thought for a moment, then suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Someone knows, this guy must be trying to coax us to open the city gate, he has thousands of soldiers, if we enter the city, we will be fish on the sticky board.

At that time, don't say congratulations to soldiers and horses to send their wealth, even our own gold and silver will not be able to keep it. "

After Wang Shouye listened, he was silent for a moment, first nodded slightly, and then shook his head slowly.

"What you said is not unreasonable. You have come from a long distance, and as a foreign vassal to obey the orders of the imperial court, if you don't want anything, it's suspicious to think about it.

The lands of Lanzhou and Liangzhou in Hexi were enslaved by Tubo in the past, and now they are full of husks. They are far away from China, so it must be quite bitter and cold.

However, we have thousands of strong men in our hands, and our relatives are all inside and outside the city, so we may not be invincible in fighting.

Forgive this Sikong, it's not that he has already said to surrender a certain class, but he needs to fight with swords, but I'm afraid that all the goods brought back by He Bingmashi and others will belong to him. "

Wu Guo'er nodded, feeling that Wang Shouye's analysis was more accurate, "If you only want money, you might as well give them the looted goods from He Bingmashi."

"Give it to them, to put it lightly, if he doesn't enter the city, it's okay to give him half of it, but what will happen once he enters the city? Anyway, my grandson dare not bet his life on others to follow the rules."

General Sun Shi on the side snorted, of course Wang Shouye and Wu Guoer would agree, and the goods He Chuan and the others looted did not have these two shares, it was completely generous to others.

But Sun Shi generals and Sun Du are different. At least thousands of pieces of property here belong to their Sun family.

Wang Shouye was a little annoyed by Sun Shijiang's words, and he walked back and forth for two steps.

"According to you, what should we do? There are thousands of soldiers in the west of Hexi outside. Now that we haven't attacked the city, it means we really have thousands of soldiers.

If they get angry and attack desperately, how long can those united soldiers last?At that time, if you show your timidity and are killed, you will come in, and talk about property, and your family will not be able to save it! "

Sun Shijiang obviously thought about it before, he pulled Wang Shouye to sit down, and said calmly.

"Since this Sikong wants to trick us into opening the city, we might as well pretend to be fooled. Didn't he give us a ten-day deadline? Let's take this opportunity and send more horses out of the city to congratulate them."

"What if after ten days, there is still no news from He Bingmashi and them?" Wu Guoer asked.

"You don't need to wait until the tenth day. On the ninth day, there is no news from the congratulatory envoys, so we will send people out of the city to bargain, saying that we can give goods, but we will not open the city gate.

It doesn’t matter if you beg or cry, if you wait another three to five days, if there is still no news, then open the city gate, then we will be worthy of others, and if the congratulatory soldiers and horse envoys come back victorious, you can’t blame us for waiting! "

Wang Shouye stood up again and continued pacing, thinking back and forth for a while, although Sun Shijiang's original intention was to keep the property, it was undoubtedly correct.

"Okay! Just as you said, I will hold on to the city and wait for ten days before we talk."

. . .

On the top of Weizhou City, the plans of the officers in the city will of course not be known to these small soldiers.

They only knew that the captured Wu family Erlang was released, and that the people outside the city were not Gamo people or Dangxiang people, but Tang'er, a Guiyi soldier from Hexi. They also sent envoys to the city to meet General Wang Zhen.

At the same time, the Hexi people outside also stopped filling the trenches, even if they were only two trenches short of filling them all, they did not continue.

The atmosphere of war immediately eased. Even earlier today, the Hexi people retreated half a mile from the more than [-] people guarding the south gate.

"Ouch! What kind of smell is this? It smells so good! It smells so good!"

On the west gate of Weizhou, among the dozen or so soldiers on duty, a tall and thin man suddenly twitched his nose rapidly, and stood on tiptoe to look around.

Huo Chang on the side grinned, "You are stunned by the plague. Hey! It smells so good, who is stewing meat? Or stewing beef!"

Huo Chang wanted to make fun of it, but suddenly, he also smelled a smell of meat.

"Yes! Yes! It's beef stew, oh! This is terrible! It must be so fragrant with salt and bay leaves, nutmeg, and pepper.

A certain man was working at General Sun Shi's house last month. The mutton stewed by his family had this taste after adding spices. "

Another stronger soldier interjected, he still stood up and squinted his eyes, kept twitching his nose and shaking his head, trying to determine where the scent came from?

"Could it be that the general Wang Zhen in the city showed kindness and wanted to reward me and invite everyone to eat beef stew?"

A little soldier with blue fluff growing on the corner of his mouth smirked a few times. He looked at Huo Chang, his eyes full of desire to eat meat.

Huo Chang was a little terrified by his gaze, raised his hand and slapped him on the head.

"Being your mother's dream in spring and autumn, if you have time to think about this, why not think about how to make you marry a mother-in-law for you!"

Seeing this silly little soldier being slapped by Huo Zhang on weekdays, all the soldiers would definitely want to make fun of it, but this time, everyone was aroused by the smell of meat, and no one was in the mood to make fun of it.

"Damn it! It's those Hexi people who are eating stewed meat!"

Everyone searched anxiously for a while, and finally found that those Hexi people were eating stewed meat a few hundred steps away from the city.

All the soldiers quickly threw away their knives and guns, put their heads out of the crenel to have a look, and sure enough, they saw the voices of people in the Hexi barracks outside the city.

Hot water vapor rose from the gulping iron pot, and the Hexi soldiers sitting around were dancing and dancing.

Because they are close to them, and they are on the city wall, they are in a high position, so they can see clearly and smell very real.

"Damn it, is the officer of the Hexi Army going mad? It's only past noon, what kind of stew are you eating, and you're eating soy food so early, and you farm slaves will starve to death by the end of the day!"

Seeing that the stew was really not for him, Huo Chang couldn't suppress the anger in his heart. He was afraid that the people in Hexi would hear it, so he retracted his head from the crenel before he started yelling.

All the soldiers also nodded in agreement, retracted their heads, and cursed along with the chief of fire, as if this would make them feel better.

Amidst the swearing, all the soldiers endured the fire of hunger, and those with knives and guns had no energy. They only hoped that the Hexi people below would finish their food quickly, lest they be roasted by the fire of hunger.

In this way, in the torment of hunger, the soldiers finally ushered in the time for them to eat.

At this time, people generally eat two meals. The meal at the beginning of Sishi (nine o’clock) is called Chaoshi, and the meal at the end of Shenshi (after four in the afternoon) is called Qianshi. Of course, there are also three or even four meals, but they are basically the same as ordinary people. Missed.

On Zhang Zhao's side, under the constraints of productivity, he has no intention of changing this habit.

But there is one exception, that is, when the army is marching, although it also eats two meals, in wartime, it usually eats three meals.

Huo Chang poked his head out of the crenel to take a look, and sure enough, the Hexi people outside the city were not eating.

A sense of superiority in IQ arose spontaneously, and Huo Chang spat out of the city, as if he wanted to spit out the depression of the afternoon.

"There is no one who eats like this at noon, you will be so hungry that you will feel dizzy at night!"

Huo Chang laughed a few times, but the noodle cake mixed with a lot of wild vegetables in his hand was quite dry and hard to swallow!

At the end of Youshi (around [-]:[-] p.m.), Huo Chang, who had eaten enough and had some strength, cheered up and started to be on duty. They need to be on duty until the sun rises tomorrow before someone will replace them.

Out of curiosity, maybe he also wanted to see how the people of Hexi were starving, so Huo Chang stuck his head out curiously.

A little fire light in the distance aroused his curiosity, and he took a closer look, and found that the fire light came from the stove that had been set up.

He even saw with his own eyes a long-haired cow being stabbed to death by a butcher. There were people on the left and right, those who received blood received blood, those who shed their fur, and those who divided their flesh.

"Your mother? You still eat beef! Aren't you afraid of being overwhelmed?"

Huo Chang suddenly had an impulse, he wanted to jump off, become a Hexi native, and wanted to eat some beef stew.

The tall and thin man next to him who first smelled the smell of meat sucked his saliva, looked out of the city and said with a fascinated face.

"If you can have a bowl of stewed beef for a certain person, plus two catties of soup cakes, that taste, tsk tsk! I haven't eaten it for many years."

"How are you going to live tonight!" The burly man with the sharpest nose slumped on the ground and lamented.

Just now one person and two wild vegetable noodles, he was not full at all, and now they are eating stewed beef, they have to patrol until dawn, smelling the smell of meat, they can't eat it, the hunger is almost burning people, this time How do you spend the night?
. . . .

As the sun rose, the soldiers who had been on duty all night were wrapped in blankets and slept in disorder on the cold city wall.

Huo Chang woke up suddenly, he got up in horror, and waited until he saw that the silly young man was still on duty, and then he put his heart back into his stomach.

At this time, the same robe who changed the defense also came, and a scar-faced fire chief came over with a dozen soldiers, and the two groups began to chat on the city wall.

Of course Huo Chang and the others will not leave this meeting, they are still waiting for the Sishi Dynasty meal, and if they can eat in the army, they can save another meal for their family.

"Li Dalang, how was it last night?" The scar-faced Huo Chang came over with a smile. It turned out that the Huo Chang who was on duty last night was surnamed Li.

Li Huochang suddenly remembered yesterday's beef stew, and couldn't help swallowing, feeling a little dissatisfied in his heart.

"Nothing happened, it's very safe! The town generals and ten generals slept with their mother-in-law and aunt in their houses, but they insisted on patrolling carefully. Those Hexi people have already retreated far away, and they are happy to eat meat. .”

"Huo Chang, people from Hexi are coming." The two were chatting, when suddenly the thin and tall man pointed to the outside of the city and shouted loudly, and the two Huo Chang hurriedly ran over.

But then the two of them breathed a sigh of relief. The Hexi people on the opposite side did not come to attack the city, but picked up a few burdens with long bamboo poles, and finally put them under the city wall.

The twenty or so soldiers on the city wall looked at each other, wondering what the Hexi people were throwing at them.I don't know what they want to do?
"Huo Chang, ask someone to go down and have a look, these Hexi people don't seem to be trying to do anything bad!"

The tall and thin man offered to go down to have a look. The two fire chiefs looked at each other, and one of them took out a length of rope, and asked the soldiers to untie their belts and other things to make a long rope, and let the tall and thin man go. down.

After a while, the tall and thin man brought up two baskets, and there was a note and a few words on the baskets.

It's a pity that all the soldiers didn't know the words 'please eat cake'. They just picked it up and sighed a few words that the Hexi people are quite knowledgeable, and they couldn't wait to open the basket.

In the basket, after a layer of white cotton cloth was removed, round pancakes were revealed.

The so-called cage cakes are actually steamed buns. The Tang Dynasty was different from other dynasties. All pasta were called cakes. Although they were also called steamed buns, they were more called cage cakes.

Li Huochang swallowed sharply, he wanted to eat it very much, but he also thought how could the Hexi people be so kind and would give them snow-white pancakes to eat, it must be poisoned, right?

Thinking of this, Li Huochang took out a steamed pancake that was still warm, and handed it directly to the silly young man.

The silly young man was stunned, not as naughty as the soldiers around him, he thought it was Huo Zhang being kind to him, so he took it immediately, a fist-sized pancake, and the silly young man ate it in three bites.

"How does it taste? Is it... um, is it delicious?" Li Huochang suppressed his saliva and carefully observed the silly young man's every move and every detail. All the soldiers also looked at him in unison, still swallowing. saliva.

Silly young man frowned suddenly, he covered his stomach forcefully, his cheeks twisted immediately, grinning as if in pain.

It is indeed poisonous!

Li Huo stood up immediately, his face covered with cold sweat, if he couldn't help eating just now, he might die.

The people around were also shocked, and they were about to curse.

At this moment, Silly Youth suddenly swooped in, took several cage cakes from the bamboo basket with lightning speed, and then ran towards the corner at an even faster speed.

"Mother thief! How dare you!" Li Huo growled and cursed, completely unaware that he would be tricked by a fool.

The soldiers around were stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that they were being deceived, and started to grab the bamboo basket in a swarm.

Li Huochang really wanted to run over and beat the silly young man, but when he turned his head, if he beat the silly young man in the past, he would definitely not be able to eat the cage cake in the end.

Thinking of this, Li Huochang didn't care about Huochang's face, howled and rushed over to grab it.

Whoooo!This is also delicious!At the moment when the cage cake was put into his mouth, Li Huochang suddenly wanted to cry.

The pancakes are soft and glutinous, and the filling inside is syrup. Li Huochang only tasted that kind of honey-like sweetness when he was young.

At that time, my grandfather got a bit of wild bee nest, and he was going to sell it to buy medicine to treat the disease, but he ate most of it.

Other than the sweetness, he only remembered his mother beating him crazily, but he was holding on to half of the honeycomb and not letting go. He finally tasted that painful sweetness again.

"It's worth dying in battle today, how can there be such delicious cage cakes in the world?
This is not something that can be made from icing in Jiangnan Road or Lingnan Road, it must be the Hexi white sugar that those merchants talk about!
These Hexi people are lucky!The officials feel sorry for them, and Chao Shi can eat such cage cakes! "

The scar-faced Huochang had some knowledge. After eating three pancakes, he leaned on the battlement, sighing in vain.

But he is the chief of the fire, and he just grabbed three of them, so of course he can feel full now, but among these soldiers, the worst one even only grabbed half of them, because he was so full of anger that he had nowhere to vent.

Stimulated by this delicious pancake, no one cares about military discipline anymore, all the soldiers are looking everywhere for a stupid young man who took several people and ran away.

It seems that this silly boy will have to be beaten.

. . . . .

On the nest cart outside Weizhou City, the nest cart is a kind of watchtower specially used to observe the enemy's situation. There are four wheels on the bottom that can be pushed to move around. On the top is a wooden house covered with cowhide that looks like a bird's nest.

The prefabricated house has four sides, and each side has three observation holes, which can be used to peek at the layout of the city, and can also use simple flags to inform the direction of the enemy's attack.

The tallest nest car can be ten feet high, that is, more than thirty meters high. Of course, Zhang Zhao doesn’t need to be so high, only five feet is enough.

Zhang Zhao and Fanquan raised the nest car to the highest point, and kept recording the conditions of the buildings and main roads in the city.

When they returned to the ground, Wu Yuan'er, who went to the city as an envoy to interview General Wang Zhen and others, also came back.

General Wang Zhen and others thought that by arranging Wu Yuan'er in the closed carriage, Wu Yuan'er would not know the situation in the city.

But they didn't expect that Wu Yuan'er had already been trained thousands of times in this situation.

With the evidence of Zhang Zhao and others combined with the observation of the nest car, Wu Yuan'er quickly restored the general road of the entire Weizhou City.

Including the most important Weizhou Town Military Government Office and Pingliang County Government, as well as the specific locations of arsenals and military camps.

The elites who participated in this raid were also selected, led by Zhang Zhao himself.

Man Xiong, Dunzhu, Wang Tongtong, Li Ruotai, Hu Guang, Fanquan Fanshun, Shanzhuer, Lu Sanlang, Xue Shouli, Pei Tongyuan, Zhao Cunyi, Guo Guangcheng, Murong Xinchang, Li Cunhui, Zhang Liecheng, Cui Huxin, Du Lun Chixin, Zhe Bu Jia Shi, Wen Chongle, Yue Sao Nu.

All the brave generals that can be counted by the Guiyi Army, except Yan Jin and Bai Congxin, who want to control the infantry and the other who want to control the cavalry, have all been recruited.

The only ones who were absent were Ma Shacai who guarded Lanzhou, Song Zhongyi who stayed in Ningyuan for the elderly, and Liu Zaisheng who guarded Yuanzhou.

Everyone wears two layers of cotton armor, and a composite helmet made of refined iron on their heads. A strong bear like a barbarian will also wear a layer of ring lock armor.

No long weapons such as rifles or long spears were brought, but mainly cooked copper maces, iron whips and long horizontal knives, and hand crossbows and spears were the main throwing weapons. Only about 100 people's sharpshooters brought bows and arrows.

Zhang Zhao chose Maoshi as the time to attack. With such a powerful armed force and so many warriors, there was no need to make a surprise attack in the middle of the night, as the night would limit their performance.

They just wanted to blow open the west gate at dawn, and then the big troops went to control the three places of the state government, the barracks, and the arsenal. After the small troops took control of the city gate, they enlarged the army and entered the city.

. . . .

On the first day of Weizhou City, the soldiers guarding the city watched the Guiyi Army below the city eat stewed beef, and they lived in peace.

On the second day, they ate the cage cakes sent by the Guiyi Army, and they spent the rest of the time looking forward to whether there would be delicious food delivered during feeding, so they were even more envious of the Guiyi Army's three meals a day , live in peace.

On the third day, the Guiyi Army released the pigeons of the Weizhou soldiers on the top of the city, and the soldiers on the top of the city were very depressed, and they lived in peace.

On the fourth day, the Guiyi Army sent them beef jerky and flax cakes, but they ate beef stew and grilled lamb chops.

On the fifth day, the tall, thin and courageous man with a scarred face couldn't stand the temptation of food. At the invitation of the soldiers of the Guiyi Army, the two descended from the city to the Guiyi Army barracks, ate and drank, and even drank. Wine, live in peace.

On the sixth day, more than half of the patrolling soldiers went down to eat and drink in the barracks of the Guiyi Army at the end of the You hour, and there was even a situation where there were not enough ropes to escape from the city.

On the seventh day, General Sun Shi, who knew the situation, led his men on the city wall and beat up some soldiers who had come down from the city.

Dissatisfied with the soldiers who were on duty day and night, they almost mutinied, and in the end General Sun Shi killed both of them with his own hands before suppressing them.

However, the soldiers and junior officers on duty in the west city were extremely dissatisfied, but they still lived in peace.

On the eighth day, Zhang Zhao knew that the opportunity had come. Not only the soldiers in the west of the city, but even General Sun Shi, who had come to suppress the murder, did not think that the Guiyi Army would suddenly launch a surprise attack.

He just thought that the Guiyi Army wanted to use this method to buy people's hearts, and the top and bottom had basically lost their vigilance.

Cao Shishi is also much more mature now, and he has a better grasp of the ratio of gunpowder. He has even begun to do some research on sugar gunpowder and granular gunpowder with egg white added, and the power of the wooden fire thunder that he equips is even greater. .

Shi Chongmin's sub-Gold Capital has also done better research on digging tunnels and burying fire mines.

After Zhang Zhao's young volunteers who are talented in mathematics joined, they even began to calculate the power of the explosion, and they were able to use simple geometry to model and calculate the location and charge of the mine. .

He also invented various detonation methods, including a one-time violent explosion, which was only used to blow open the city wall.

There are two-stage explosions, the main function of which is to kill soldiers who come to block the gap, and a small amount of charge serial mines used for warning.

So everyone has put on their armor and is waiting for the arrival of Mao Shichu.

　The day after tomorrow, there seems to be an event for the little girl. For all the book friends above the apprenticeship, you can draw a lottery every time I update [-] words, and the prize pool is not bad. Maybe some book friends will get lucky.

　　So Tiger decided not to update tomorrow, and put tomorrow's update until the day after tomorrow.

　　Add another update the day after tomorrow, with a guarantee of more than [-] words for five updates, so that everyone can draw three prizes, and the two updates that are still owed will be added as soon as I code it out.

　　
　
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