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Chapter 244 Anyone who has studied geometry in elementary school will not fall for this trick
While Li Zicheng sent Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang to organize a siege against Shangcai County, the officers and soldiers in Shangcai County were also full of confidence and admired Shen Shuren's strategy.

Because in the past two days, they had just learned that Li Zicheng had sent more troops to Ye County.At that time, the Chuang army had not launched a full-scale siege of the city, and the scout battle was still going on, and the scout battle of the cavalry of the Shen family army was extremely powerful, so it was no problem to inquire about the military situation within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

So after learning the news, several generals who stayed in Shangcai City came to congratulate Shen Shuren one after another:

"Your Excellency is really a fortune teller! Li Zicheng was able to divide his troops to guard against Zuo Liangyu at this juncture."

"Zuo Liangyu, an unfaithful and unrighteous person who raises his own self-respect and only knows how to divide himself, needs to be on his guard. Li Zicheng was also deceived and blinded, and it was the adults who planned the strategy and played with the intruders in his hands! "

Facing the compliments from the generals, Shen Shuren didn't put on airs, but was kind and humble, and that attitude was very refreshing:
"You don't need to give too much credit, it's just some trivial tricks, do it casually, do it casually. I am a scholar, and I don't have the strength to restrain a chicken. I will rely on you all to fight the enemy in the future.

Li Zicheng can't exhaust us. Yesterday he started to assume the stance of a comprehensive siege, so there may be an attack at any time. The preparations for defending the city must be strict. "

During the conversation, Shen Shuren could see that even Huang Degong, a new subordinate who was originally rebellious and had not cooperated with him in depth, became completely convinced.

Before the battle, the effective force of an enemy army was transferred away to show one's love for the soldiers, and the effect of improving morale was so obvious.

Military heart is available!

You know, among all the generals, Huang Degong is the one who is most likely to have pimples about the matter of "working hard for Shen Futai".It's not that Huang Degong is so rebellious, but because when he was in a high position, he had come into contact with Shen Shuren, who was only a scholar.

At that time, Huang Degong only thought that "this scholar has a background and can be received by Mr. Yang Ge", so he didn't dare to offend him, but he definitely didn't think that "this kind of person should climb on my head in the future".

For a collaborator who was much lower than himself three years ago, but rocketed to become his boss, this is the easiest way to leave a heartache.And even if such a person can be completely subdued, other generals are no problem.

Shen Shuren and the generals were discussing eagerly in the county office, and the enemy really cooperated. Suddenly, a scout messenger rushed to the lobby and reported an urgent military situation to the generals:
"Reporting Futai! The vanguard of the burglars has already arrived outside the city, and there are still ladders rushing into the trenches. The leading general is holding the banner of Tian Zi, and seems to be planning to attack the city."

Shen Shuren was stunned for a very brief moment, almost insignificant, and then immediately became excited, and greeted Huang Degong and others: "Tianzi Banner? Then it should be Tian Jianxiu. Let's go, Mr. Huang, go to the city with me , today the commander of the defense of the city, there will be the general town of Laohuang."

Huang Degong proudly cupped his hands: "Don't worry, my lord! If Li Zicheng fights with us with an army of 30, the general will have to weigh it up. Now that he dares to attack the city, we will teach him whether he will come back or not!"

Shen Shuren's army was divided into several divisions step by step, so as to have a strategic depth and protect the grain road.

Therefore, he claims to have a total force of 3 troops, and in Shangcai County on the front line, there are only about [-] troops.

The commander-in-chief of each town under his command is also led by Huang Degong, Zuo Zixiong's 3 people stay in Ruyang County in the middle, and Liu Guoneng's troops are further behind to form a strategic reserve team.

Of course, Huang Degong's headquarters did not have [-] troops, so Shen Shuren also dispatched a general from Zuo Zixiong and more than [-] troops to come over and be temporarily controlled by Huang Degong.

In addition, because Shen Shuren had long been prepared to spend time with Li Zicheng and tease the other party to advance aggressively because of the lack of food, Shen Shuren had also made temporary reinforcements in the city defenses of Shangcai and Ruyang counties recently.

Although the city wall can't be changed drastically, you can do some other small tricks to make it look loose on the outside and tight on the inside, so as to better seduce the opponent to take the bait.

In addition, Shen Shuren also deliberately released rumors, saying that he would fight every step of the way, and had already hoarded a huge amount of military rations in Shangcai and Ruyang cities.

Only when Li Zicheng learned of this news, would he completely believe that "they are consuming each other, and his food consumption will definitely not be enough to consume Shen Shuren", so he will attack.And the food stored in the city is also a huge bait.

There are really not many literati advisers under Li Zicheng's command, and he can't see through this level of strategy, and he can't be blamed.The thieves are not playing tricks in the first place, they are counting on one force to reduce ten meetings.

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After a while, Shen Shuren, Huang Degong and others arrived at the north gate tower of Shangcai County.

Shen Shuren didn't show up, but just held a telescope and watched from a distance through the observation hole of the city tower. Tens of thousands of horses and horses were lined up outside the city. It was exhausted during the half-year siege of Kaifeng.

However, Shangcai is only a medium-sized county, and its defense facilities are even worse than Ruyang County.And Ruyang County is also lower than Fuzhi Xinyang.

In addition, the fringe areas of the Dabie Mountains were already poor, and compared with those core cities in the hinterland of Henan, the city defenses here were even less impressive.

Among the important towns such as Luoyang and Kaifeng, which city wall should not be two or three times higher than that of Shangcai County?
At this moment, the city wall under Shen Shuren's feet is less than two feet high, no wonder the Chuang army dared to attack the city.

If the five-to-six-foot-high wall in Kaifeng can't be taken down, can the wall less than two feet here be taken down?
Even if a pile of corpses is counted as five corpses and three feet thick, if more than twenty layers of corpses are piled up, it will be at the same level as the city wall!If those cannon fodder can carry two sacks or soil baskets to charge, rush to the foot of the city wall and die there, the efficiency will be even higher, one is worth three ordinary corpses.

It's a pity that Shen Shuren observed for a while, but he didn't see any particularly high-level Chuangjun generals, so he wanted to repeat the same trick, asking Huang Degong to speak out and scold the opposing coach.

Shen Shuren waved his hand: "Old Huang, go show your face, scold the eighteen generations of ancestors on the opposite side, and then find a group of loud scolding hands to spread the word, and see if you can force Li Zicheng to appear. We ambushed hundreds of turtledove guns here, Let's see if we can give Li Zicheng a break."

Of course, Shen Shuren has no martial arts virtues, if he has a chance to behead in war, he must use it. If he passes by, he can't miss it. It's the most enjoyable to shoot black guns.

Huang Degong was a little embarrassed and disdainful in his heart, but he obeyed the order of Futai, and stood arrogantly behind the female wall, patted the battlements with one hand, pointed at the city with the other and cursed:
"The old dog who broke the thief, Huang Degong, the chief soldier of Anlu, is here! When Xiong Wencan and Xiong Dushi were still there, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo was beaten by me to beg for mercy and surrender. If Zhang Xianzhong, the old dog, hadn't been coerced to surrender and turned back, they would have died two years earlier. The year is over! Li Gou thinks he doesn't die fast enough, so just come and attack Grandpa Huang's city!"

Huang Degong has no culture, and he talked about it like a thief, grandpa and grandson, but it was enough to scold Tian Jianxiu to death.

"Huang Chuangzi! You actually gave your life to a rich young man, and you still have the face to brag about your heroism. It was just a fluke that you made contributions with Xiong Wencan back then. Today, I will teach you how powerful Chuang Wang Tianbing is! If you enter the city, you will be killed!" Dogs don't stay!" Tian Jianxiu also led a group of people to scold wildly.

Huang Degong glanced back secretly, and asked for instructions: "It seems that there are no famous intruders. Do you want to open fire? Just kill Tian Jianxiu."

Shen Shuren's personal guards came over and sent an order: "No need, I'm not sure about this distance, let's fight closer. The Chuang army had never fought against our army before. I don't know that our army's firearms are fierce. They frightened them, so the first wave will fight!" It doesn't work anymore."

Huang Degong didn't want to engage in assassination at first, but he accepted it immediately after hearing this. He still likes to bring the enemy close and beat him hard.

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"Kill!!! Charge into Shangcai City, don't seal the knife for three days! Everything you grab is yours!"

After Tian Jianxiu was enraged, the vanguard of the army rushed up quickly, carrying weapons and pushing the ladder, ladder and trench car.

In addition to regular soldiers and soldiers, there were tens of thousands of Henan cannon fodder men who had just been captured. They were forced by knives to carry broken sacks and soil baskets, and rushed to the bottom of the city with soil, preparing to fill some gentle slopes that would be convenient for rushing into the city.

Unwilling to die, some cannon fodder tried to retreat before the battle, but they were quickly chopped off by the army supervisor team. After killing dozens of their own people, the remaining cannon fodder were terrified, so they could only bite the bullet and charge forward.

Tian Jianxiu also waved his saber and shouted in the distance behind: "As long as you carry three loads of soil to the city, and you can come back alive, you can release them immediately! Release them as soon as possible, and you will never break your promise!"

His slogan is also the usual rhetoric of the thieves, and the generals of the thieves have also summed up their experience in the past ten years.

If the folks who transported soil to fill trenches or pile up slopes were too strict and did not see the slightest way to survive, these people would resist with poles or even fists even if they did not have weapons.
Although this kind of force is insignificant, if there is chaos in front of the two armies, it may also lead to an opportunity for the officials and soldiers in the city to counterattack.

Therefore, it is best to promise to transport a load of soil or at most two or three loads of soil to the city wall or the city river according to the degree of difficulty, and those who can escape without being shot to death by arrows will be released on the spot.

Only in this way can the weak have a fluke mentality, close their eyes and charge upwards, betting on their luck that they will not be shot to death within three loads of soil.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot these soil carriers back! The blunderbuss team is ready!" Huang Degong was on the top of the city wall, waving his sword and patrolling back and forth, shouting to encourage his soldiers to resist with all their strength.

For a moment, arrows rained down from the top of the city, killing some cannon fodder soldiers transporting soil, and forcing many cannon fodder soldiers to drop their bags of earth and return back out of fear.For a while, there was not much soil piled up under the city wall, but a long and even row of soil was spread out.

The soil slope of this temporary itinerary is very gentle, long and not high enough.The only achievement is to fill in the dry ditch outside the city to almost level a few gaps, at least you can walk directly on the slope.

Tian Jianxiu saw that these cannon fodder soldiers cut corners and materials, and the effect was not as good as expected, and she was also angry in her heart, but it was not easy to explode at this moment.Because if you make a promise on the battlefield and then pick on the "quality of completion", it is easy to provoke a mutiny.

People are full of desire to survive and think that they can survive after transporting three times. If capitalists jump out and say that they need to rework, they will definitely be overwhelmed by anger.

Huang Degong at the top of the city saw that the situation was getting more and more urgent, and was about to order all the firearms to fire to scare the cannon fodder soldiers away—Huang Degong knew that the loud noise of the firearms could not scare the thieves, veterans and bandits, but For freshly caught cannon fodder, the extra sound of firearms can be more damaging to morale than bows and crossbows.

But just as he was about to give an order, Shen Shuren also went up to the wall in person, came to Huang Degong's side, and said a few words: "Mr. Huang, I have no objection if you want to use firearms, but the cutting-edge firearms I transferred from the Wuchang Army can't be used." Don't use too much talent. These poor earth-moving people, just scare them off with firecrackers.

Tian Jianxiu felt that there was hope, and when the soldiers rushed up in a while, it would be sudden enough to kill a large number of people.The first batch in front of us is just Henan people, unfortunately they were caught, even though they worked for the thieves, we have to kill them, we can't have the benevolence of women.But if the situation permits, it is best to give priority to killing the old battalion thugs. "

Huang Degong didn't think that Shen Shuren was acting as a substitute, because Shen Shuren only asked for the firearms troops he brought, and didn't ask for Huang Degong's headquarters.Press down the trump card and bring it closer to hit, so as to kill bigger and more suddenly.

So Huang Degong just fired the old-fashioned firecrackers for a while, and the cannon fodder soldiers below heard the sound of firearms, but they completely ignored them and rushed back like a tide.Even Tian Jianxiu's war supervisors frantically beheaded and suppressed, but they couldn't pull them back. Instead, they rushed down and trampled dozens of war supervisors to death.

After all, beheading with a knife can only be seen by people nearby, but the loud noise of muskets can be heard within a hundred paces. It is self-evident which one is more frightening.

Seeing that it was impossible for Tian Jianxiu to completely pile up the earth slope directly up to the top of the city wall, he felt a little regretful.

But at the same time, he also seized the opportunity to let the main fighters take advantage of the opportunity when the soil-carrying cannon fodder soldiers had not completely retreated, take advantage of troubled waters, and climb up the city with ladders - if after a while, the soil-carrying cannon fodder soldiers completely After withdrawing and fleeing, the officers and soldiers can concentrate all the long-range firepower on the main fighters of the rogues, and now they can take advantage of the chaos to share the firepower.

A group of ferocious old camp thugs waved their sabers and rattan cards, directly attached to the bottom of the city, found the places that had been filled with soil sacks and built ladders, and then quickly climbed up in a few steps.

The distance is only more than ten feet high, and soldiers with good skills can climb the wall in just three or four steps.

"Fire! Franji and Turtledove all fire!"

But at this moment, on both sides of the protruding horse faces on the city wall, countless heavy-duty turtledove guns using shotguns, and even ordinary Franglers of three to five hundred catties, and heavy-duty Franglers of one thousand catties all began to fire violently. Fire at a lateral angle.

If the artillery fires at the enemy in the front, it will plow a hole in the middle of the line at most. With the low accuracy of artillery in this era and the shells will not explode, it will not kill a few people.

But if it is a horizontal crossfire, sweeping directly at the base of the city wall, the killing effect will be extremely terrifying.Because it is easy for people to get together under the city wall, it is possible to cover a whole row of shells on the longitudinal projection line.

At first Tian Jianxiu took advantage of the chaos to attack the city, the troops rushed too fast and lost command, so he made a relatively low-level mistake by not focusing on attacking the horse faces protruding from the city wall.

But this kind of mistake can't be entirely blamed on him, because the walls of a small county like Shangcai are actually relatively dilapidated, and the number of horse faces on the walls is relatively small. There is only one horse face protruding from the wall every two to three hundred steps. Can provide side fire.

When usually covered with bows and arrows or ordinary firecrackers, the crossfire between the two horse faces and the most middle position is often already weak, reaching the limit of the range.Therefore, when attacking the city, in order to quickly deploy a large number of troops, it is also possible to choose to attack the equidistant points between the horse face and the horse face at the same time.

I just didn't expect that Shen Shuren was so rich that he directly used the Frang machine to provide side-firing firepower - you must know that the movement of the cannon is very clumsy, even if it is only a Flang machine, it will be fixed at an angle before firing, and the battle will start. It is difficult to maneuver temporarily afterwards.

Shen Shuren's ability to use all the Franglers for side-firing firepower meant that when the enemy charged from the front, these Franglers would not be able to exert their firepower at all, and they had to wait until they rushed to the corner before they could suddenly burst out with maximum combat power.

This tactic of sacrificing frontal shots and purely side-fisted shots brought the magic of trigonometric functions and geometric planning to the extreme, but it also exceeded the blind spots of thieves' IQ and science knowledge.

After being bombarded for a long time, Tian Jianxiu finally realized the change of formation, and quickly ordered: "Order all the troops to concentrate on attacking the horse faces defended by the officers and soldiers! Do not attack the main city wall! Official Shen Dog's heavy artillery is all horizontal Put it on!"

(End of this chapter)