The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 187

Lines of red beacons soared into the sky, from Fanyang County in Youzhou to Zhangwu County, and then to Bohai County.

This stretch of red smoke is like a rising red fire dragon, rising over the northern land.

"This wolf smoke is red, right!" At this moment, Gao Zhan raised his head and looked at the beacon fire wolf smoke with some surprise.

"It's red. Is this the beacon that General Zhao An lit after we saw it?" asked the scout beside him.

Gao Zhan couldn't help but narrowed his eyes, but he said, "Let me know, we will rob the grain road this time no matter the cost."

To be honest, because Zao Song came up with a plan to evade the enemy, Gao Zhan felt like he was in a lottery when intercepting food. He was ambushed by the opponent several times. If Gao Zhan was not familiar with this terrain, he would have arranged his escape route more carefully. The plundering army is afraid that it will suffer a lot of losses.

But now, Gao Zhan looked at the red smoke floating in the sky. Although he didn't know what Zhao An's overall plan was, Zhao An told himself before he left that when he saw the red smoke, he would stop the king at all costs. Dredging the grain road!

"Let us know, unless our entire army is wiped out, not a single grain of enemy food will be transported through the enemy's food road!" Gao Zhan took a deep breath and gave the order decisively.

To be honest, Gao Zhan knew very well that this was perhaps the most elite thing about his army. When they needed to fight hard, they would really fight hard, and they could make the soldier's loss rate reach the fifth level without retreating.

At this moment, not only Gao Zhan could see such smoke, but Wang Jun in the camp could also see it clearly.

After being reported by the messenger, Wang Jun quickly walked out of the camp and saw the continuous smoke in the sky. This scene made Wang Jun frown, and the soldiers under his command who saw the smoke started talking about it.

Wang Jun was confused and asked Zao Song beside him, "What are these?"

"It looks like wolf smoke." Zao Song also frowned and said, "Something happened over there in the north, so I sent the news here.

However, for such a large-scale wolf smoke, even if it is just a one-time event, I believe it took a long time to prepare!

We don't know what it is, but using such smoke, the message must be crucial! "

The changes in the north at this moment made Wang Jun frown, and his heart was full of uneasiness.

But when you think about the fact that Wang Chang is stationed in the north and the city of Youzhou is even stronger and taller, even if Liu Tai gets a cavalry to rush to Youzhou City, as long as the gate of Youzhou City is closed tightly, it will not be easy to win.

When he thought of this, Wang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, but he was looking forward to waiting until the next wave of food and grass arrived, and then asked carefully.

Just when Wang Jun breathed a sigh of relief, Zhou Ping came to Liu Tai's tent with a look of joy on his face and pulled Liu Tai out.

Zhou Ping pointed at the red wolf smoke floating in the sky and said, "My lord, it's time for us to attack!"

"Great! It seems to have been successful!" Liu Tai looked at the red smoke and couldn't help but show a bit of joy on his face.

However, Liu Tai came to his senses and asked Liu Ming, "How are your mechanical troops prepared?"

Originally, Liu Tai wanted to bring the troops specially trained by the medicine to operate equipment for Tian Tian to attack Youzhou, but Tian Tian refused.

Because Tian Tian said that these mechanical troops are better at operating crossbows and catapults, and this kind of catapult equipment cannot hit city walls. The catapults of this era can only hit arrow towers instead of city walls.

Therefore, for Tian Zhen, if the slinging weapon is basically useless during a storm, it will naturally be left to Liu Tai.

For Liu Tai, this group of people is not so much used to operate slinging weapons, but it is more convenient to use them to operate crossbows.

After all, weapons like crossbows appear on the horizon and are very effective in containing enemies attacking from the front.

"Already ready!" Zhou Ping showed a bit of excitement when he heard Liu Tai's words.

"Let them take the lead and smash down the sentries established by the other party." Liu Tai said to Zhou Ping.

Liu Tai's catapult was inferior to Wang Jun's Thunderbolt Chariot in terms of distance, accuracy, and even reloading power.

But Liu Tai's catapult unit has two advantages. First, it is operated by more elite and professional soldiers.

As for the second point, it is standardization. Even if the catapult is damaged, as long as the rear parts can be delivered in time, these catapults that have been smashed to [-] can be repaired the next day.

At this moment, Zhou Ping heard Liu Tai's order and knew what Liu Tai meant, which was to use catapults to open the way, and the army was waiting for the opportunity.

If the opponent comes out to fight to the death with you, then defeat the opponent directly. If the opponent sticks to the camp, then use your own catapult to smash the opponent directly.

This kind of trick is simple and crude, and there is no sense of trickery. It just depends on the opponent's response.

Liu Taize turned to look at Xi Jian and said, "Go to Xi Jinping's army and collect all the slogans of "Youzhou has been broken, surrender without killing" that military historians have been writing for the past two months.

If they defend the city, we will crumble these into paper balls and throw them directly at the opponent's camp! "

Xi Jian couldn't help but frowned when he heard Liu Tai's words, and said, "Most of the soldiers at the bottom are illiterate.

Even if these paper balls are thrown into their hands, I'm afraid they won't be of much use! "

"These paper balls are not for the low-level soldiers, but for the children of aristocratic families who can read!"

Liu Tai said, "Wang Jun's way of leading troops is different from ours. The soldiers under their command are grassroots soldiers who actually do not have a strong will to fight.

As long as there is a stalemate, they are afraid that they will be defeated first, but if those aristocratic families who have placed big bets on Wang Jun know that Youzhou City has been breached, then they will probably have only one choice! "

Xi Jian couldn't help but worry when he heard Liu Tai's words, "But you are forcing the other party into a desperate situation.

Now that Youzhou City has been destroyed, as long as you send people to guard the pass and consume the opponent, under the heavy pass, the opponent will definitely lose over time.

In this case, why take such a big risk! "

"I have thought about it, but if so, the other party will make a desperate move and break out directly towards Qingzhou!" Liu Tai shook his head and said,

"Don't underestimate Wang Jun, no matter what, he is a famous general in the world.

If he takes the initiative, he may not be able to defeat us, but it will be quite easy to make us embarrassed.

Therefore, it is safest to fight head-on and defeat him! "

When Xi Jian heard what Liu Tai said, he knew clearly that Liu Tai had made up his mind, so he said no more.

After it snowed, Liu Tai's army, which had been in the military camp, began to move. Waves of smoke rose, and the soldiers surged back and forth. Liu Tai couldn't hide such actions even if he wanted to, and besides, Liu Tai couldn't hide them. There is no intention of hiding it.

When the smoke from Liu Tai's army rose, the soldiers ate as quickly as possible, put on their armor, and picked up their weapons. They quickly found the troops, lined up directly in the barracks, and then pushed down the walls of the barracks. Step on this wall and set off.

Of course, as handsome as these regular soldiers were when they marched on the wall, it was difficult to see how embarrassed the soldiers responsible for repairing the city wall looked after these soldiers left.In Liu Tai's army, the total time from getting up to going out was only half an hour, but the movement of Wang Jun's soldiers was much slower. Some of them didn't even have time to eat breakfast when they heard that their barracks posts were occupied by Liu. The Thai army was devastated.

Naturally, Wang Jun could no longer let the soldiers eat, but asked his soldiers to quickly put on their armor and line up to wait.

But these soldiers are not like Liu Tai's subordinates, who emphasize reading and literacy, and pay more attention to collectivism.

It would be great if these soldiers can prepare for defense before Liu Tai's army attacks the camp.

In fact, one of the reasons for this is that the number of soldiers in this camp exceeds Wang Jun's command.

Now the number of soldiers in the camp has reached about 15, but for Wang Jun, it is very difficult for him to command 10 people, let alone the number of soldiers in the camp now reaching 15.

This caused Wang Jun's command efficiency to drop a lot, and the information transmission process was constantly being worn down.

To be honest, if there were 6 people in the camp, Wang Jun would be able to use his fingers like an arm. When Liu Tai arrived at the camp, Wang Jun would arrange a force to respond, and subsequent orders could be issued calmly.

But the problem is that there are too many people in the military camp and the organizational structure is too bloated.

Not to mention that there are many soldiers who have joined the military camp one after another. Some of them even have generals who don’t know the soldiers, and soldiers who don’t know the generals.

In this way, Wang Jun was forced to send the troops he could command to key positions first. As for the vast majority of ordinary soldiers, they formed formations on the spot in the military camp. With the help of their own defense system, they first moved the troops of their own army. Command and straighten out.

To be honest, when it comes to commanding ability, when a person doesn't really reach his limit, he thinks that Han Xin can easily do what the more the merrier.

But the problem is that the difference between people is greater than the difference between people and dogs.

For example, Liu Tai clearly knows that his limit is ten thousand people, and Liu Tai can accept the fact that his command has limits.

Then start training your own subordinates to see who can command and reach the threshold of 10 famous generals in ancient and modern army operations.

Liu Tai first tried Zhao An, but Zhao An was not the material, so he chose Zhou Ping.

At least Zhou Ping can still command his [-] soldiers in an orderly manner, so Liu Tai does not plan to change.

But Wang Jun does not accept the fact that his command ability has an upper limit.

Now he is commanding an army of 15 soldiers, and he only feels that he has every advantage.

Liu Tai actually dares to bring such a small number of people to stroke the tiger's beard. This is Liu Tai's own death!

Although in Liu Tai's opinion it was fifty thousand versus one hundred thousand, because Liu Tai really didn't know that Wang Jun was secretly hiding someone.

But even after knowing about Liu Tai, I wasn't afraid at all. I even felt that I really had the advantage in this war.

After all, war is not just a game of outnumbering people. Especially in large-scale decisive battles, if you cannot effectively command everyone and let everyone exert their fighting power like Han Xin ordered troops, then 10 people are not as good as [-]. pig.

If at least 10 pigs advance suddenly, Liu Tai and the [-] elites may be overwhelmed, but if there are [-] pigs, they may fight each other fiercely, and the weak ones will be killed first.

In fact, the situation at hand is also the same. Although Liu Tai's army did not make much steel, they all started out wearing leather armor. The soldiers had military history to boost morale. They also flaunted the spirit of reviving the Han Dynasty. The death rate of [-] soldiers was reduced. Can reach the fifth floor without being defeated.

And if Wang Jun's army were all former veterans, the loss rate of the [-]-strong army would be enough to reach two levels.

But after he used the so-called plan to hide the truth and increase the number of soldiers, even though the number of the entire army now reached 15, the overall resilience of the army is now at a level that no one can guarantee.
After all, recruits themselves are an unstable factor on the battlefield.

At this moment, Liu Tai's army, under the command of Zhou Ping, quickly assembled the catapults. In about half an hour, the catapults were built one after another.

At this time, Zhou Ping listened to Liu Tai's order and couldn't help but said, "Is the first wave of offensive really just throwing paper balls?"

"Throw it!" Liu Tai waved his hand and said, "Let the mechanical troops throw these paper balls to different corners as much as possible.

In this way, some fish will be caught, and Wang Jun will not be allowed to take back all the paper balls.

And you ask the mechanical troops to push the ballista up first and prepare for the war.

As long as Wang Jun's mind is clear, he should understand that the only way he can take the initiative next is to defeat us, otherwise he will just wait to die when these news ferment.

In the final analysis, they never care about what the soldiers really need, they just need these soldiers to be obedient. "

Zhou Ping nodded when he heard Liu Tai's words, and quickly threw paper balls wrapped with stones one by one from Liu Tai's catapult.

The sky fell into Wang Jun's military camp like a goddess scattering flowers at this moment. Although the paper ball was wrapped with stones, it had paper as a buffer, so it didn't hurt the soldiers' faces when they hit it. pain.

At this time, these soldiers saw the words on the paper balls, and instinctively picked up the paper balls one by one and opened them. There were only eight words written on them: "Youzhou has been broken, surrender without killing."

To be honest, there are only eight characters. Even if these soldiers are illiterate, they still know the last two characters.

After all, for these low-level soldiers, these two words are related to their lives.

No matter how low the literacy rate in the army is, as long as you reach the official position of centurion or above, you will still be able to read, not to mention that some collateral members of the aristocratic families may also join it, and even some ordinary soldiers may There is also a small probability of literacy.

After all, the word Youzhou is seen every day when entering and leaving Youzhou City.

Of course, there were even more heartless guys who untied the paper and read out loud, "Youzhou has been broken, surrender without killing!"

As long as one person in Wang Jun's army reads this word, the soldiers present will immediately panic, especially recalling the continuous smoke yesterday. With so many soldiers present, there are naturally some smart people who understand basic reasoning.

They thought that after yesterday's war, Liu Tai took the initiative to attack and even threw such paper balls. This really didn't look like a lie.

Wang Jun couldn't help gritting his teeth after reading the words on the letter.

To be honest, if Wang Jun just rushes out in one wave regardless of the situation, there is a real possibility of sinking the boat.

But the problem was that knowing that his way out was cut off, Wang Jun hesitated in his heart. He decided to wait patiently for two more days.

Because in two days, your food delivery team should come to deliver food. If no one comes to deliver food to you, it will be too late to fight again. As for now, let's collect these paper balls first, and then let them The soldiers pushed up the thunderbolt carts they had built these days.

What a shame for them, how dare they play such tricks with me!
For a time, although a direct war did not break out between the two sides, the catapults on both sides began to display wonderful attacks.

Liu Tai's catapult was almost completely damaged by the force of the opponent's thunderbolt chariot, and there was not much left of Wang Jun's thunderbolt chariot.

Liu Tai could only retreat temporarily with the soldiers of the mechanical army, but Wang Jun's army had no intention of pursuing them!
The next day, Liu Tai's mechanical troops reassembled a new catapult to take revenge. However, Wang Jun's Thunderbolt Chariot was not assembled as quickly as Liu Tai's catapult. In this continuous exchange, it quickly became more effective. It's a bit out of control.

(End of this chapter)