The Summoning World of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 1711 Unexpected, Reasonable

Zhou Shi came in from outside the military tent, cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, I have asked clearly, it is indeed for gunpowder. As for how many people there are, it is not very clear. Each of them has been assigned individually. I don't even know each other."

"This method of keeping secrets is a good one. Learn it, and we will use it in the future." Fu Su said with a smile. He himself didn't care about this incident at all.

"Then, how should His Majesty deal with these people?"

Fusu thought for a while: "It would be too wasteful to cut it down, so just drag it to the construction site to work, and tell the people on the construction site to keep a close eye on it, and kill as soon as there is any sign of it."

"Here!" Zhou Shi nodded and stepped back.

This was just a small episode. When he was in the capital, Fusu had met countless times with people who came to steal gunpowder.

"Order Zheng He to come over, Jin Yiwei is very good at doing these things." Fu Su ordered.

The guard on the side cupped his hands and said, "Here!"

Without Zheng He by his side, he is still not used to it. After all, as long as Zheng He is around, Zheng He can find out what Fu Su wants to know immediately. This is definitely better than Zhou Shi and Su He. .

The Shu army who used trebuchets to smash the towers in the distance required a huge amount of various stones.

When the first battle started, Fusu and others watched the battle from a distance on the earth hill formed by building up soil. Now the earth hill was pushed forward abruptly and was directly exposed within the range of the trebuchet.

But the people on the construction site are not stupid. Whenever a rolling stone is thrown in the city, they will run back. Anyway, as long as there is a person with a big brain problem, and the terrain is open, they cannot avoid the rolling stone falling from the sky. , that really deserves to be smashed to death.

Therefore, a very funny side appeared. After the catapults flew over from the city, the people on the construction site shouted and ran outside. After a while, a large piece of rolling stones would appear here. Just move them away and leave them to the army use.

The Shu army in the city is also very depressed now. If they don’t use the catapult to attack, they will just watch the Qin army outside the city build the earth mountain. Then the Qin army can stand on the earth mountain, which is the same height as the city. Attack.

For the Shu army in the city, this is a very passive situation, but if they launch it, the cleanliness outside the city is like a rogue, and they can't hit anyone at all. It's like helping the other party build a mountain of earth.

After Li Shimin found that this was not feasible, he ordered the city wall to be raised again. Outside the city, a large group of cement workers worked day and night to strengthen the city wall. The only thought was to have a full meal every day.

When Fusu led the courtiers to stand in the distance, they all had a specious illusion. Never thought that the battle could be so big?
I pick up earth and build a mountain outside, and you reinforce the city wall in the city, and continue to strengthen the city wall toward the higher place?

Five days later, more than [-] Qin troops hollowed out the nearby mountains, and a man-made mountain range lay outside Beicheng.

"Your Majesty, going on like this is really not a long-term solution. The Chu army is strengthening the city wall, and there is no need to work as hard as we do, picking soil from far away." Jiang Shangjin said.

Fusu stepped on the soil under his feet, and pondered: "Almost, it's meaningless to continue doing this, and I'm afraid that the history books of later generations will treat this as a joke. The stones mined are enough for a period of time, and the heavy crossbow is also worth it." Lift it up."

You can see the scenery in the city, the houses have been demolished in pieces, and people are like animals, surrounded together. Every day at noon, the Shu army in the city will distribute gruel uniformly. , regardless of men, women and children, all joined in the work of strengthening the city wall.

In the entire Jiangyang City, only one kind of person is qualified to rest forever—the dead!
With Fusu's order, the comprehensive building of soil began to stop. The defenders in the city also set up high platforms on the city wall, so that the entire construction site of the Qin Army could be seen very clearly. The Qin Army stopped here. , the water army in the city naturally stopped.

All kinds of city defense equipment were transported to this section of the city tower.

Looking at it from a distance is also very awkward. This section of the tower seems to have grown half of its height suddenly, and the others are still short.

Fusu and other courtiers pushed down the distance, and the roaring stones slammed into the opposite tower.

This kind of shooting has never stopped, and the heavy crossbow is also the most destructive to the tower. The newly built tower has only withstood five or six days of random shooting, and many broken places have already begun to appear.

Originally, Fusu wanted to go all out and shoot a shot, but he never thought that the supply of stone bullets in the army was seriously insufficient, and the surrounding mountains had been hollowed out, so the stone bullets had to be transported from fifty miles away.

"Then hoard it again, I want to see what Li Shimin can do to stop it." Outside the city wall riddled with holes, Fusu said with a cold face.

Jiang Shang and others knew that the emperor's mood was extremely bad, so no one dared to speak.

In the city, the Qin army stopped attacking, and Li Yuanba began to lead people to repair the towers. During this time, more people starved to death in the city, mostly old and weak, women and children, and their bodies were thrown into the Yangtze River every day.

Qin State's attack was blocked, and Chu State's attack was even more difficult. More than ten warships mobilized from the Yangtze River had already been sunk by Li Jing.

At this time, Xiang Yu began to seriously think about a question, was he being played by Ying Fusu to some extent?

But when Jiang Shang told Xiang Yu that the Qin army had to go fifty miles away to transport the stones to the outside of the north gate, he felt psychologically balanced again.

Half a month passed quietly like this. First of all, the Chu army could not bear the huge consumption of military rations, and began to withdraw quietly back. It claimed to have an army of 50, but in fact only 30 remained.

Fusu did not withdraw his troops. One-third of the army was on the top of the earth hill, throwing rolling stones and fire oil at the city day and night; one-third was mining and transporting these things; people, working with the local people to open up wasteland and build terraced fields.

These military men mixed with the common people, and they would definitely not be embarrassed if they could eat a meal. After all, it was their own food, and if they could save a little, they would never eat it from their own army.

When the local people heard that the reclaimed land would belong to them in the future, not only did they not object to this practice, but some wealthy families even sent some meat, food, and wine to the army from time to time.

(End of this chapter)