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Volume 3 Chapter 175: Siege Plan

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    Qi Yufeng started his light body kung fu, and walked quickly for most of the day. He was so excited that he used the "Flying Divine Walk" stunt, which was like a flying swallow grazing the waves or a meteor flying across the sky. The wind was blowing in his ears and his feet were silent.  I was happy, but I saw a big mountain in front of me. I saw strange rocks, jagged rocks, steep mountains, and vast green mountains. It stood across the fortress, towering and majestic. It was at the foot of Hengshan Mountain among the five mountains.  He has a good relationship with the Hengshan sect, and knows that on the Hengshan Mountain, there are two peaks, Tianfeng and Cuiping, cliffs and green belts with distinct layers, as beautiful as a picture scroll, and landscapes such as hanging root pine, Zizhi Valley, Bitter Sweet Well, and Hanging Temple.  , and should be regarded as a wonder in the world.  "However, although he has feelings of admiration, at this moment, the Hengshan Sect has not yet been established, and his military situation is urgent, but he does not have the leisure and elegance to come here to patrol the mountains and explore the attractions.  According to the previous deployment of the Xiliang Army, one of the 100,000 soldiers and horses belonging to Natian Zaibiao was stationed in the Golden Dragon Canyon of Mount Heng.  The Jinlong Gorge, located between Tianfengling and Cuiping Peak, is a deep canyon with side cliffs and blue sky between rocks. The narrowest point is less than three feet. It has been a natural barrier and a transportation hub throughout the ages.  During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Daowu sent tens of thousands of troops to cut through the mountains and dig roads here as a gateway to advance and retreat from the Central Plains.  In the Song Dynasty, Yang Ye and his son defended this place with great danger to resist foreign invasion.  Now if the army were to attack the capital, someone would have to firmly guard this pass so that the Mongolian and Yuan troops in the Central Plains could not connect with the Mongolian reinforcements in the desert.  In Jinlong Gorge, there is an ancient plank road winding in the middle of the cliff, which is called "Yun Pavilion". The location of Na Tian Zaibao is in this Yun Pavilion.  Qi Yufeng came to the Cloud Pavilion and saw Tian Zaibiao.  Tian Zaibiao hurriedly saluted to greet him.  Both of them were used to a military life, so they didn't gossip immediately.  He sat in front of the map and studied the military situation in detail.  Most of these cities are currently under defense.  It was the Taiwei Zhongshu Zuo Prime Minister Qingtong who was in charge. He had two subordinates: Zhang Kangbo, the right prime minister, Manchuan, the censor Zhongcheng, and Zhang Shouli, the governor who participated in the political affairs. This formed a team to guard the capital.  ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????¡­  In addition, those who stayed in Dadu included the princes Xuanrang, Zhennan, Weishun, etc.  Among them, the most prestigious one is Timur, the king of Huai, who was the governor of the country. He was eighty-three years old and was originally the king of Xuanrang.  The town is located in Luzhou.  Twelve years ago, he fled to Dadu due to the fall of Luzhou. His direct troops had been destroyed with the fall of Luzhou.  The rest of the Zhennan and Weishun princes who stayed in Dadu were based in Yangzhou, Wuchang and other places. The above-mentioned places had already been lost in the war and were now in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, so there were no direct troops to call upon.  "However, although these people lost their towns and soldiers, they were all from the Yuan Dynasty clan.  Everyone is very arrogant, and most of them are in crisis now. He is waiting for everyone to point fingers and make endless noises every day.  Qingtong, the Prime Minister of Zhongshu Zuo, was so noisy that his head was so loud that he sighed: "I know where I will die, so what can I say?" This capital city is strong.  After hundreds of years of repairs, it is extremely difficult to attack.  Therefore, Yang Yuanhai discussed with Tian Zaibiao and others, and Tian Zaibiao was led as the vanguard.  The two armies first captured Bao'an and Zhigu, which later became Zhuolu County and Tianjin in Hebei Province. These two places were the gateways to the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Once captured by Xiliang, the capital was directly exposed to the Xiliang army.  .  They then planned fences and peach trenches for each guard post to prepare for field battles with the main force of the Mongolian and Yuan armies.  In "Marco Polo's Travels", he once praised the prosperity of the capital; developed industry and commerce, bustling markets, gorgeous and cheap silk brocades, magnificent capitals, perfect and convenient post road transportation, widely circulated banknotes, etc.  , this foreigner of unknown origin, praised Dadu so much that he even got dizzy, saying that it was paved with gold and the palaces were all made of gold.  It is of course a fallacy to say this, but at this time, Dadu is the largest city in the world, and there is no doubt that the city defenses are strong.  On his way north, Qi Yufeng also saw the ruins of the Great Wall built in the early Yuan Dynasty. It stretched endlessly and was very spectacular. However, the Great Wall had not been repaired for decades, and most of it was made of earth and wood. It was now old.  It was in disrepair and dilapidated.  However, the city walls in the Dadu area are based on the masonry-structured Jin Great Wall (also called the Jinjie Moat) built by the Jin Kingdom. They were later gradually expanded. Moreover, troops were used every year and repairs were made every year. At this time, the damage was not  serious.  It can be said that in front of the largest city in the world such as Dadu, ladders, rush vehicles, building trucks, trebuchets, tunnel digging, water irrigation, etc. have almost completely lost their meaning. Now only "return artillery" can be deployed  Use it, put it to great use.  As early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, the use of cannons in the army was already very common. There were dozens of types of cannons, which were roughly divided into three categories: light, medium and heavy.  The light ones are operated by two people; the medium ones are operated by dozens of people; as for the serious ones,It is several feet high and fires hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets. Hundreds of people are shouting in front of and crowding around at every turn. The scene is extremely spectacular.  Chen Gui of the Song Dynasty wrote with emotion in "Cheng Shou Lu", "There is nothing better than a cannon for offensive and defensive weapons. If the attacker has the skill of cannon, the city can be conquered; if the defender has the skill of cannon, he can defeat the enemy." But that's it.  Waiting for the most important thing in the army, in fact, the effect is just like that. At that time, the Jin Kingdom was deeply Chinese, but Wen Tianwuxi of the Song Dynasty despised craftsmanship, so the Jin Kingdom accepted many Han craftsmen who made cannons.  When the Jin Dynasty attacked Bianliang, Tokyo, "the Jin people lined up stone gun mounts There were more than a hundred gun mounts, and flying rocks rained down on the soldiers defending the city, killing and wounding no more than one or twenty people every day." "Under the city, there were more than a hundred gun mounts.  There are more than 200 artillery seats, seven cannons, star cannons, and stone cannons. They are also assisted by more than a thousand powerful crossbows. The city is raining arrows and stones, making it impossible for the guards to stand" "It seems that this golden man  The cannons only killed more than 20 people, but the Song army was already beaten to a pulp and no longer dared to climb the city wall. The combat effectiveness of this "weak Song" is evident The use of cannons has actually been used in Mongolia.  The rise of man brought about revolutionary changes. The Mongolian cavalry swept across the world and established this unprecedented and probably unprecedented huge empire. The Mongols' huge artillery can be said to have outstanding achievements.  The cannons of the Mongols came from Persia, which is the "Huihui artillery". This kind of cannon was exquisitely improved by the Persians.  Not only the power is increased several times, but also manpower is saved.  It greatly improves the accuracy of shooting.  When Kublai Khan attacked Xiangyang, he could not capture it for a long time.  Later, someone offered this cannon, and finally a volley destroyed the city wall of Xiangyang. The battle of Xiangyang, which lasted for three years, finally came to an end amidst the roar of "Huihui cannon".  The most legendary thing about Mongolian artillery is that it "personally practiced" the first large-scale chemical warfare and biological weapons attack in the history of war.  During the Battle of Warsaw during the Mongolian army's western expedition, the Mongolian army used cannons to shoot a large number of poisonous smoke balls, which filled the whole city with arsenic and wolfsbane smoke, making the defenders unable to resist.  Had to surrender.  Later, when the Mongolian army attacked Constantinople, it could not be conquered for a long time. The plague was prevalent among the army. This was bad news for the Mongolian army. The Mongolian army did not want to taste the sweetness and threw the bodies of the soldiers who died of illness into the city with cannons, causing  The plague broke out in the city, and the city went down.  But a few merchants in the city escaped by boat and brought the Asian plague bacteria to Europe, triggering the "Black Death" that made Europeans think about it.  It claimed the lives of one-third of the people in Europe at that time.  Now Qi Yufeng has quite a few craftsmen who can make artillery, and the northwest is a native place producing saltpeter.  There is no shortage of gunpowder. As long as the two armies merge, there will be nearly a thousand cannons.  But this time the artillery.  In the eyes of others, nature is an earth-shattering murder weapon.  But in Qi Yufeng's eyes, he felt that the power was still not enough.  There is no other.  It was only because he had gone through this trip with his own eyes that he discovered a problem. Most of them were too big War in this cold weapon era was nothing more than field battles and sieges. Field battles were divided into infantry, cavalry, mountains, and grasslands.  Siege refers to fighting for the city and fighting for the camp.  Attacking a city has always been the most difficult task. Before the birth of Huihui artillery, the defenders either lost their fighting spirit or ran out of food and fodder. Otherwise, it would have been a common thing to besiege them for three to five or eight years. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties,  The siege of Diaoyu City and the siege of Xiangyang during the period are clear evidence.  At that time, Diaoyu City relied on the steep terrain and the return artillery was unable to work. Under the leadership of General Wang Jian, it actually resisted for thirty-six years in front of the ferocious Mongols. Finally, when the Song Dynasty had no more territory,  On the condition that they could not kill anyone in the city, the people of Diaoyu City laid down their weapons and voluntarily ended their resistance.  It is precisely because of this legend that this humble Diaoyu City was praised by Europeans as the "Mecca City of the East" and "The Place where God Breaks His Whip." But now Qi Yufeng has encountered someone similar to the Mongol Emperor Meng Ge.  situation.  But although he knew that this city was difficult to attack, and it was many times better than the cities he had attacked in the Western Region before, he also knew that it was necessary to attack this city.  Nowadays, the Han people are reviving and the Mongolian Yuan is declining. The victory of this war and even the demise of the country are all marked by the decline of this capital.  Once Dadu is conquered and the flag of righteousness spreads throughout the world, the great cause of rejuvenation will be easily achieved. However, if Dadu cannot be conquered, people will always feel that no matter how absurd the Mongolian Yuan declined, the world at this time is still the world of the Mongols.  Although Qi Yufeng and others had no idea what to say in the face of this situation, they still had to fight. If it was to defend the city, he might have some ideas, but in attacking such a huge city, the attacking party would be too cruel.  .  He and Tian Zaibiao repeatedly deduced that from a strong attack, they gained city gates, ladders, and caves.Qi Yufeng thought about the attack, the final siege and the water attack. Qi Yufeng even thought about digging tunnels himself and filling the city with explosives, but he gave up on Tian Zaibiao's persuasion.  He was straightforward, not to persuade Qi Yufeng to take care of his usefulness, but to say that most of them were too big. Even if you transport a few oxcarts of explosives, it would only be a drop in the ocean.  The two of them discussed for a long time, and they only felt that if they attacked the city by force, the first few waves of attacks failed, and then there would be a long-term siege. Otherwise, the troops would suffer too many casualties and the morale would be greatly affected. ?????????????? And now that the two powers are fighting for the world, if his soldiers are defeated in most of the sands and fall into a stalemate and bitter battle, then how can they fight against the heroes from the south who are eyeing them eagerly, and the remnants of the Meng Yuan in Mobei?  There has never been a shortage of generals in history who were so proud of themselves that they attacked cities and conquered every battle. However, the losses during the attack were many times greater than the losses during the defense. They lost all their troops in one attack and could only feel sad.  Exit.  Only then did Qi Yufeng sigh with emotion and said in admiration: "No wonder Marshal Yang asked us to prepare for field battles, but it turns out that most of them cannot be attacked." Tian Zaibiao smiled and said: "But that's not necessarily the case. We have been deducing here for a long time.  They were prepared for the worst, but the Yuan soldiers were in bad shape and their morale was weak. They might not be so unlucky if they were to fight." He looked down at the sand table and sighed: "My Lord.  If you love your soldiers as much as your sons, it is actually worthwhile to capture the capital city with such force." Qi Yufeng waved his hands and said: "Get out of here, how old am I?" He walked all the way and was tired.  Unbearable.  Then Tian Zaibao arranged for him to go down, and his servants led the way, so he went down to rest.  He walked around in the big house on Hengshan Yunge for several times before entering the room arranged for him. He was about to rush in and have a comfortable sleep. As soon as he stepped in the door, he felt a wave of sleep.  Floral.  When he looked at the room intently, he couldn't help but feel warm in his ears.  It turned out that there was a brocade embroidered quilt in the room.  There are soft bead curtains, large red roses woven on the goose-yellow carpet, women's toiletries on the table by the window, and exquisite furnishings everywhere.  Qi Yufeng said in his heart.  It seems that this is the residence of a girl. It is not appropriate for me to stay here.  Just as he was about to exit, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the door.  A girl's sigh was heard.  Qi Yufeng thought to himself: "I just came to this Cloud Pavilion today, and now I'm breaking out. I happened to meet this woman, her voice was loud, and her face must be ugly." At that moment, he ducked and hid behind a screen with a painting of beautiful peonies.  .  The door opened, and two maids were heard leading a woman in.  A maid asked: "Miss, should you rest in peace, or should you read some more books?" Qi Yufeng thought to himself: "It's late at night, so go to bed quickly and don't read any of Lao Shenzi's books!" That woman um  He made a sound, sat on the couch, his voice was very delicate and cold, and after thinking for a while, he said: ""Would you like to burn some incense?  " The two maids agreed. After a while, the green smoke was thin and the sweet fragrance was faint. Qi Yufeng felt that his eyes and bones were tired and he was quite sleepy. " After a while, he heard the woman say: "You all go out.  I'll take a rest in a while.  " Qi Yufeng was slightly surprised: "Why does this voice sound so familiar?  "Through the screen, he vaguely watched the woman with her back to him, but he still couldn't remember it. But when he saw the two maids, he said good night, bowed and left the room. At this time, the room was silent, except for the occasional sound.  The sound of sandalwood cracking in the incense burner made Qi Yufeng even more afraid to move. He lay motionless in front of the table. After a long time, Qi Yufeng sighed softly.  Wan Zhuan was a very young girl, but her voice was so low that if she didn't have sensitive ears and eyes, she would hardly be able to hear it. At the same time, her voice sounded even more familiar.  Everyone, no matter how high Qi Yufeng's martial arts skills are, he still can't tell who this person is. He thought for a long time and found it funny: "I am from Jianghu Caoman. The girls I met here are all abrasives, so how can I meet them."  Such a graceful woman.  Her accent is always similar to someone I know!  " An hour passed like this, and it was already midnight. The woman had no intention of sleeping. She only tossed and turned occasionally and sighed, but she didn't make a loud noise as if she was afraid of scaring others. " Qi Yufeng was puzzled. He looked closely at the room.  The door facing the woman had been closed, and the beaded curtain in front of the window was low. No matter how good his martial arts skills were, he would not be able to get out except by forcing his way in. After a long time, he heard the woman stretch her body, stand up, and whisper.  Said to himself: "Now that you are here, whyIf you don't see me, am I so annoying?  " She walked a few steps in the room and said quietly: "You avoided seeing me in Xiliang, and you didn't come to see me in Chang'an. Now that I'm here in Hengshan, I've been waiting for you outside the door all night, but why are you still hiding?  Looking at me, don't you miss me for a moment in your heart?  " When Qi Yufeng heard this, he was suddenly startled and thought to himself, I am really confused, how could I forget the fragrance of this "Ice Sword Orchid". "It turns out that this woman is not someone else, but the daughter of Shi Yunbao of Ten Thousand Beasts Villa in Heifeng Village  Shi Xiangling. This Shi Yunbao has a lot to do with the Mingjiao. His current ancestor, the White Ape King Shi Mengda, originally dominated Xiliang. He received the favor of Master Zhang and later joined the Mingjiao. Now he is one of the four current Mingjiao Dharma Kings.  One. Back then, Qi Yufeng and Peng Yingyu's Shanzhai founder borrowed troops from Shi Yunbao on Helan Mountain, but inadvertently saved the Shi family from the hands of a group of Xifan monks. At that time, the Shi family's mother-in-law wanted to marry Shi Xiangling.  Qi Yufeng thought that the condition of borrowing troops was rejected by Qi Yufeng because he had been engaged for a long time. However, after six or seven years, the woman he was said to be engaged to had not shown up, so no one took his words seriously. But later on, all the way to Xiliang.  The rebel army is making rapid progress in attacking the city. The Shi family's army is also expanding day by day. Now it has a total of 200,000 troops and has become an independent force. The Shi family is very busy. How can such things be done again?  Mention? And six years ago, this Shi Xiangling was just a seventeen-year-old girl who was as cute as a pearl. Now she has become a tall girl in the boudoir. Qi Yufeng is an acquaintance at first sight.  He immediately felt relieved, coughed slightly and said, "Hey, why am I here?  " Shi Xiangling suddenly turned around and saw Qi Yufeng walking out from behind the screen with a smile on his face. He was wearing a gray cloth gown and a small green belt. He was looking at himself and smiling. " When Shi Xiangling saw Qi Yufeng at first sight, there was no trace of emotion on his face.  Blood-colored, her body was trembling, she stretched out her hand to hold the back of the chair, as if she was about to faint, and then a burst of red cloud covered her cheeks. She lowered her head and looked at the ground, and asked in a low voice like a mosquito: "Mr. Qi, what I just said  Youyou heard everything?  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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