Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 128 Offense and Defense ([-])

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On the golden sands.

Seeing that the civilian husband sent back a batch of wounded, the people around Hu Yanqing hurriedly directed the civilian husband to send the wounded to the wounded ship, waiting for unified treatment.

Soon Hu Yanqing saw that Cheng Ziming also appeared among the wounded.

Hu Yanqing stepped forward and said, "General Cheng, who is this?"

Although he was sweating profusely from the pain, Cheng Ziming still forced himself to calm down and said, "I don't know what the hell those bandits have concocted, the noise is so loud, and they can scatter hidden weapons everywhere, the Sa family accidentally caught the way of that ghost! "

Hu Yanqing helped Cheng Ziming walk to the wounded boat, and asked, "But that loud noise just now?"

Cheng Ziming said: "Not bad."

Hu Yanqing thought for a while, and said: "I once heard that there is a gunpowder weapon called Hongtianlei that makes a loud noise, could it be it?"

Throwing firearms were produced with the production of black powder. At this time, the earliest throwing firearms in the world, the Thunderbolt, was invented. This can also be regarded as the prototype of grenades, which is earlier than the production of artillery and firecrackers. for nearly 200 years.

It's just that the explosive power of gunpowder in the Song Dynasty was limited. To increase the lethality of thrown firearms, the only way to increase the gunpowder was to mix some iron pieces into it.

Throwing firearms are thrown entirely by manpower, and the increase in weight also makes it difficult to throw them far. If you use a mechanical thrower such as a stone throwing machine, it is too troublesome and difficult to master. Therefore, Hong Tianlei was developed early, but Because no one uses it, it is not obvious.

After being reminded by Hu Yanqing, Cheng Ziming also thought of such an unpopular weapon as the Thunderbolt, and then said: "It seems that the Thunderbolt is really, but... its power is much greater, and it is not as bulky as the rumors .”

Hu Yanqing said: "I don't know about this... Have you ever conquered the first pass?"

Cheng Ziming said: "It has been captured. When I came back, General Hu Yan and the others had already marched towards the second pass."

Hu Yanqing frowned and said, "Cavalry are useless in siege battles, so why go up?"

The road up Liangshan was rugged, and the officers and soldiers had to attack from their backs. In such an environment, the horse army lost all its advantages. It would be better to leave the horse army at the foot of the mountain so that they could guard the ships.

Cheng Ziming said: "General Huyan and the cavalry are only guarding in front of the first pass. The Sa family guesses that General Huyan should be guarding against the first pass being taken back by bandits."

Hearing what Cheng Ziming said, Hu Yanqing probably understood what Hu Yanzhuo was thinking—the drop between the first pass and the second pass was tens of meters, and after breaking through the first line of defense, he had to face the heavy burden of the second line of defense. Attacking is not easy to defend, that's why Hu Yanzhuo brought the horse army up to help defend, so as not to be taken back by Liangshan army's attack. In that case, their whole day and half night would be wasted.

Although he understands Hu Yanzhuo, Hu Yanqing still has a bad feeling!

After thinking about it, after placing Cheng Ziming in place, Hu Yanqing asked his followers to invite the other four commanders of the Dengzhou Navy to come over.

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"Hmph! He really regarded himself as the commander, and asked me to discuss things, but he didn't come over, but called me to wait over!"

"That's right! If it wasn't for the fact that the leader of the army this time is from their Huyan family, it would be the turn of him, a newcomer, to issue orders instead of Mr. Zhou. Brother Zhang would be more or less the same!"

"The Sa family doesn't have a good grandson like General Huyan, let alone born among the generals!"

"What about the people from Huyan's family, they only came to my Dengzhou Navy for a few days, and they want to order me to wait?"

"Then he invited me to go to discuss matters, and I will go or not?"

"I want to go to you, Sajia is sleepy and needs to rest!"

"Xiao Ke is sleepy too."

"Want to point fingers at me, who does he think he is?"

"Since you're not going, then I'm not going either. Go to sleep! Go to sleep!"

"..."

After waiting for a stick of incense, and not waiting for the other four commanders of the Dengzhou Navy to come over, how could Hu Yanqing not know that they were giving him eye drops?

Hu Yanqing intends to resolve this matter, lest the bandits take advantage of it, but the time Hu Yanqing came to the Dengzhou Navy is too short, too short to convince the public, not to mention the other four battalions, it is his own rear battalion , it is still not completely smoothed out.

Moreover, it was rumored that Mr. Zhou would be transferred soon, and the new commander of the capital would be selected from among the five commanders.

And now he is temporarily acting as Lord Zhou's commander of the capital.

How could the other four conductors let go easily?

"Hey!"

After sighing, Hu Yanqing said: "Scatter a net of thousands of knots around the boats of our camp, so as not to be touched by others, and we will all be trapped to death in this Liangshan moor."

This thousand-knotted net is a naval defense weapon invented by Hu Yanqing. Spread this net around the hull of the ship, no matter how good your water quality is, you will not be able to reach the bottom of the ship. Not only that, no matter who touches this net It will be entangled by this net, and then it is difficult to get rid of, and then drowned in the water.

Listen to the words left and right, and immediately go to do what Hu Yanqing explained.

However, it didn't take long before the person who went out to do errands came back, and then he was filled with righteous indignation: "My lord, that guy surnamed Qian is yin and yang, and he only brought two thousand-knotted nets to deal with your lord!"

A trace of anger flashed in Hu Yanqing's eyes!
But soon Hu Yanqing concealed his true emotions, saying: "Then cast these two thousand-knotted nets around the two ships in our camp."

Listen to the order and do it immediately.

The battle on the mountain was still so fierce, and the wounded soldiers were still sent down from the mountain as before. Combined with what the people who went down the mountain said, Hu Yanqing could already imagine that the battle of attacking the second pass was by no means better than attacking the first pass. The pass is easy.

Seeing that people on the left and right had already yawned, Hu Yanqing said: "You guys take turns to rest."

One person persuaded: "Your Excellency, rest too. When it is close to ugly, the thieves should not come to touch the camp."

Another person also persuaded: "Even if we can break through the second pass tonight, we must not be able to break through the third pass. The villain speculates that those thieves must stick to the third pass. After all, they have no way to retreat. At that time, maybe If it takes three to five days, my lord can't stay without rest."

Another person said: "The villain heard that Commander Zhang made them fall asleep already, why should the adults work hard alone?"

Hu Yanqing said: "If the battle on the mountain is defeated, our navy will not make any mistakes, and General Huyan and the others still have a way out. If our navy is captured by the bandits, General Huyan and the others will be trapped on this island. At that time, the morale of the army will definitely be shaken, and our entire army may be wiped out. Therefore, although our navy did not participate in the battle, it has a great relationship, and tonight is the key to the outcome, and there must be no mistakes."

Looking back at the reed marshes that he had been paying attention to for a long time, Hu Yanqing said: "In those reed marshes, even a thousand boats can be hidden. If bandits and navy troops lie in ambush there..."

Someone said: "My lord, if you are worried, I will lead a few boats to the reed marshes to have a look."

Hu Yanqing thought for a while, and said: "That's not right, how about this, you take the people from Liangdu to take a small boat and burn those reeds for me..."

At this moment, cheers suddenly came from the mountain!
Hu Yanqing stood up abruptly, and said joyfully, "It should be General Huyan who broke through the second pass!"

"call out!"

"boom!"

A loud arrow suddenly lifted into the air, and then exploded!

Hu Yanqing's heart tightened, and he asked, "Take the ringing arrow coming from inside!"

One person pointed behind them with some uncertainty, and said, "It seems to be there..."

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

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Almost at the same time, muffled explosions came from all around Hu Yanqing!

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(End of this chapter)