Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 269 Don't Be Careless
At this time, an intelligence officer hurried in and whispered something in Hu Sanguang's ear. Hu Sanguang nodded slightly, and after the intelligence agent left, he said to Xu Fangyi: "Fucking Wu Yanrou asked Ran Linfeng to go up to discuss matters tonight, I don't worry The others followed, and I dressed up as Ran Linfeng's personal soldiers and followed."

Xu Fangyi said: "Okay! You go to prepare now, predict all kinds of possibilities in advance, think of a plan, and don't be careless."

Hu Sanguang clasped his fists and said yes, got up and left.

It was raining heavily in Guizhou today, and a group of soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Southern Han Army were begging at the gate of the northern city, asking the generals guarding the gate to let them into the city.Because Ye Chen had few soldiers, in order to prevent the guards of Guizhou City from leaving the city for a sneak attack, he simply concentrated all the troops at the east gate. The other three city gates also sent cavalry patrols in the past few days. Couriers to other state cities.But it was raining heavily today, and the Song Army did not send out rangers to patrol except for the necessary sentries.That's why these remnants of the Southern Han Dynasty who seemed to have escaped from Shaozhou and Yongzhou City found time to come here.

The general Ran Linfeng who was stationed here showed a sneer, and he said to the soldiers guarding the gate: "They are not allowed to enter the city, it has been ten days since Shaozhou City and Yongzhou City surrendered to the Song Army, these people suddenly came to vote at this time, their intentions are unpredictable. "

All the generals under Ran Linfeng showed no mercy to these remnant soldiers, a commander nodded in agreement, and shouted to the city: "Get out of here, I will shoot you to death if you get close to the city gate."

A commander under the city cursed back: "Fuck you, I escaped from Shaozhou City after a narrow escape, and I'm still angry with you. You want to force us to join the Song Army."

Ran Linfeng ordered to the left and right: "Shoot a few to death."

A few soldiers immediately raised their bows, and when they were almost full, they shouted angrily from behind: "Let them all be put down by the commander."

When Ran Linfeng heard Wu Yanrou's voice, he turned his head and saw Wu Yanrou striding up to the city, followed by his opponent Jiang Xin, several other generals and a group of soldiers, he quickly saluted: "Commander, Outside the city are some disintegrated soldiers from Shaozhou, who claimed to have escaped after being arrested for several days, there may be a conspiracy inside, and the general is about to expel them."

Wu Yanrou walked to the side of the city plate, looked at a group of broken soldiers in ragged clothes, and said to a general behind him who had escaped from Shaozhou City a few days ago: "Come and see if they are the people who escaped from Shaozhou City."

The general inspected it carefully and replied: "The commander is indeed a subordinate of Chen Shouyi, the guard of Shaozhou City, and the rest cannot be fully recognized."

At this time, Jiang Xin said suddenly: "Commander, the general thinks that it is not easy for these people to escape. It is also a heart of loyalty to hear that the commander-in-chief has come to vote. They should be allowed in, but after the city gate is checked one by one. , put it in again."

"How can General Zhang Shen do this!" Ran Linfeng said angrily to Jiang Xin, "Since ancient times, in the battles of sieges, I don't know how many people and remnants of soldiers were sent into the city. Now the Song army is stationed outside the city, but as far as I know, the Song army has no reinforcements to expect. We only need to hold on to the city, and when the morale of the enemy army is low, we can look for opportunities to go out of the city to attack and defeat the Song army. Before that, Never let anyone suspicious enter the city."

Wu Yanrou nodded lightly. What Ran Linfeng said was exactly what he thought in his heart. Ran Linfeng is usually nothing special, but now it seems that he still has a few abilities and knowledge, and the most important thing is a heart of loyalty to the country.It is more reassuring to hand over the North Gate to him.

However, it would be bad for his reputation to use guesses and suspicions to prevent these remnants from entering. After a little thought, Wu Yanrou said: "As far as I know, the army led by Ye Chen is now a northern soldier, and the accent is similar to mine. Nan is completely different. If you want to prove that you are all soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, you will have to be interrogated when you come in, and you must answer in the local dialect. This is to prove your innocence."

As soon as Wu Yanrou finished speaking, the group of disabled soldiers below suddenly turned around and ran away.After Ran Linfeng pretended to be stunned for a moment, under the urging of Wu Yanrou and others, he ordered the archers to shoot, but because it was dark and hard to see, they didn't shoot a few people.

"Hahahaha... Ye Chen's child is nothing more than that. After waiting for several days without attacking the city, it turns out that he wanted to use this little trick. Hmph! Now the plan is exhausted. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'm afraid we will attack the city." Wu Yanrou laughed. One sound, said.

The people next to him echoed and said yes.Ran Linfeng echoed while thinking that the scene just now killed two birds with one stone.On the one hand, it can make myself a reassuring person in Wu Yanrou's heart, without too much precaution or suspicion.After all, with the surrender of Shaozhou and Yongzhou defenders, Wu Yanrou, as the coach, will inevitably be vigilant and suspicious of the generals below.On the other hand, it also gave Wu Yanrou the illusion that there was no one from Ye Chen in Guizhou City.

"This Ye Chen is really impeccable in his work. I just heard that there were civil strife in the Southern Song Dynasty. I am afraid that the Southern Tang Dynasty has something wrong with the Great Song Dynasty. This Song Dynasty can really destroy the Southern Han Dynasty." Ran Linfeng thought to himself, with a trace of hesitation deep in his eyes Gone.Hu Sanguang, who was dressed as his guard two steps behind him, didn't notice it.

On the second day, the sky cleared up. The rain last night did not last long, and there was not much water on the ground, which did not affect the siege.

Therefore, early in the morning, the soldiers in the Song Army camp came out in full force, set up their formations, and drums burst out. After eight days of siege, they finally began to attack the city.

On the top of Guizhou City, Wu Yanrou sneered when he saw this, thinking that it was so.While ordering the generals to be in place according to the defenses of the past few days, commanding the troops to prepare for the battle, and at the same time ordering the [-] cavalry who have followed him in Dali and South Vietnam over the years to prepare to leave the city. Blindly guarding, as long as the Song army suffered a large loss in the siege and the morale was lowered, he would let the cavalry go out of the city to attack the Song camp.

But to Wu Yanrou's surprise, the Song army didn't attack the city with all their strength, but just formed an army formation outside the east gate ready to attack the city.And in the southeast corner of the city, not more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, there are more than 30 catapults of a kind that I have never seen before, arranged in three rows.

Could it be that you want the catapult to attack from a distance first, and then attack the city?
Wu Yanrou has also seen the power of the catapult with his own eyes, and it is also in his army.When stone bombs and mud bombs weighing tens of kilograms fall from the sky, even if they miss, the whistling momentum is quite intimidating, but in fact, veterans know that the accuracy of the catapult is extremely poor. There is still a lot of lethality, but it is impossible to smash the city wall with this accuracy when used to attack the city.

In addition, there were more than 30 soldiers busy around more than [-] catapults in total. On average, they got on a catapult, but only talked about six or seven people.This is far fewer than the usual number of people operating a catapult.

As far as Wu Yanrou knows, even a small catapult requires more than 20 people to pull the cable, and as the size of the more than 30 catapults outside the city, it stands to reason that there are no three to fifty people working together, how can the shells be thrown far? go out?
And the biggest problem with the catapult is that there is no way to guarantee the accuracy of each catapult.Dozens of people pulled on the pole like pulling fibers, and the previous effort and the next effort hardly remained the same.The last time I hit the target, but the next time I could miss it thirty or fifty steps away.At the same time, in order to make the slingers act consistently when pulling the rope, they have to be trained, which takes a lot of time.Therefore, the catapult generally only plays an auxiliary role on the battlefield.

It's just that Wu Yanrou always felt that something was wrong, and the Song Army's siege deployment was also a little abnormal. Just as he was about to observe and think further, he saw that the Song Army's catapult had already reacted.

No one pulled at all, but the slightly pushed down lever suddenly rose.As if rounding his arms, one of the small black dots flew up from a catapult in the middle of the position outside the city, crossed a perfect parabola, and crossed a distance of 150 steps. Ten steps to the front of the city wall.

This is exactly what Ye Chen told the person who operated the catapult, first measure the distance and accuracy with one catapult, and then adjust all the catapults based on this.

Then, I saw that more than 30 catapults moved forward in unison for a distance of ten steps, and then more than 30 lower poles were suddenly raised at the same time.

More than 30 small black spots flew up from the catapult position outside the city, crossed more than 30 perfect parabolas, and crossed a distance of 140 steps. Or it was thrown in front of the city wall, and two stones were also thrown in the city.

Until she gained a firm foothold on the trembling city, Wu Yanrou still looked at the more than 30 catapults outside the city in disbelief.

A few small but deep cracks stretched out on the outer city wall more than ten steps to his left, and more than a dozen defenders on the top of the city were smashed into meatloaf on the spot when they couldn't dodge.In addition, there were dozens of defenders, whose heads were bloodied by the splashed gravel, scurrying around with their heads in their arms, and screaming in pain. The morale of the defenders at the top of the city was affected for a while, and some people's faces appeared Panicked, the morale that Wu Yanrou had managed to mobilize these days showed signs of collapse.

"Those who leave their position without permission! Cut!"

"Wounded and screaming continuously! Slash!"

Wu Yanrou's face turned pale with anger, and he shouted sharply, one of his personal soldiers went up and cut off the head of a defender who had only his own wound on the head but was screaming like a pig being slaughtered.The rest of the injured people suppressed their voices, no longer screaming, just moaning.

After the throwing distance of the catapult was set, with such accuracy, the morale of the Song army was like a rainbow, and Ye Chen was also very happy. With an order, the flag was flying, and the drums were thundering. Under the cover of chariots and archers, the siege began.

Before Song Jun ran a few steps, and before Wu Yanrou completely stabilized the defenders on the Guizhou city wall, he saw the more than 30 poles raised again, and more than 30 stone bullets flew from the tip of the poles. When it came out, it was still the same as before, hitting the city wall of Guizhou City accurately, and it was still that piece.Without Ye Chen's instructions, the ones that didn't hit just now were also adjusted according to their respective positions, either front or back.

(End of this chapter)