Huang Xiaoniu and the soldiers drank a bowl of mung bean soup. They were poisoned by the barbarians yesterday.
Although they promptly covered their noses with wet towels and wet handkerchiefs, it was still inevitable to inhale a small amount, and some soldiers even suffered from diarrhea.
Zhao Ping ordered Dongfang Qilong to add a bowl of mung bean soup to each soldier's three meals, which was a good antidote and folk remedy.
While Huang Xiaoniu was drinking mung bean soup, he looked at the Guanqian Hu people and almost dropped the bowl in his hand.
"Report to the general, a hill suddenly appeared in front of the pass." Huang Xiaoniu came to Feng Yongcheng's public house, bowed his hands and said.
Feng Yongcheng couldn't help but frown. He walked around the case and asked, "Little mountain? How did it appear?"
"They seem to be barbarians, they are carrying soil." Huang Xiaoniu thought for a while and replied affirmatively.
What did the Hu people want to do? Feng Yongcheng brought Song Fei and Tan Xing to the gate tower.
The sun shone on the Han River, and the sparkling water reflected the sunlight, making Feng Yongcheng squint his eyes.
About one foot away from the pass, a small hill suddenly appeared on what was originally a flat land. There are many people up there.
Upon closer inspection, it turns out that they are indeed a group of barbarians who suddenly transformed from soldiers to farmers.
Some of them used dustpans to pick up the soil, some used chicken carts to push the soil, and some of them stepped on the bases desperately.
Feng Yongcheng covered the sun with his hands, narrowed his eyes and said: "The Hu people seem to have received guidance from experts, so they will not attack hard for the time being and change their tactics."
"Once the fortification is successful, the advantage of the city wall will be lost." Tan Xing couldn't help but frown, with as much worry as possible in his eyes.
Song Fei bowed his hand to Feng Yongcheng and said, "General Feng, don't hesitate to report the matter to Commander Cao and Envoy Zhao."
Cao Ke and Zhao Yun summoned Zhang Hong, Xi Xing, Zheng Ding, Zhou Jixun, Qingshan, Xiao Yuwen and others, and said, "Now that the Hu people have received instructions from experts, they want to build up soil and attack the city. Do you think so?"
"The barbarians' archers and infantry failed to please them, and the poisonous smoke lacked substantial effect. Now they have no choice but to resort to the method of attacking the city with earth bases." Xi Xing expressed his opinion on behalf of the literati.
Although his talk was clear and logical, he did not find a solution to the problem.
Xi Xing and Zhang Hong were both chief clerks, and both were elected officials. However, they had been here for a relatively long time, so they took the lead in speaking.
Both of them were literati. They were not attracted by the Song Dynasty's use of literature to control military affairs, and they also had the desire to control the two armies.
However, in the security group and the Sichuan Protecting Army, the chief clerk was only responsible for life and logistics, and the two of them were more than capable.
Fortunately, Zhao Ping allowed the two of them to participate in military discussions, and also had some power in personnel matters, so that their desires could be slightly satisfied.
Zhang Hong thought for a moment and expressed his opinion: "Xixian County controls Yangping Pass, which is one of the three passes. For the Song Dynasty, it was the gate that controlled Sichuan, and it must be guarded to the death. For the Hu people, this It is Hanzhong Prefecture (called Xingyuan Prefecture by the Hu people) that is a thorn in the side and must be removed. We must be prepared for a long-term war."
"Xixian County is far away from Chengdu. Not only does it take thousands of miles to transport all the grain, fodder and weapons here, but it is also difficult to transport. Tofu here also becomes the price of meat. This must be taken into consideration." Xi Xing went on to express his worries.
Cao Ke and Zhao Yun looked at each other and said: "The Hu people sent out 300,000 people this time, which is about ten times as many as us. If we don't use weapons, how can we fight this battle?"
"We still have to use the weapons that should be used. We can't let the soldiers fight the barbarians with bare hands." Zhang Hong looked at Cao Ke and Zhao Yun. "As for the weapons, the little saint has arranged for craftsmen to make them in Xixian County and Dingjun Mountain. I believe it can be solved." Most of it is just that we don’t produce much grain here, so most of it has to be shipped from Chengdu.”
"You can mobilize merchants to use colored glaze to intoxicate the spring breeze and fine nectar and jade liquid to obtain grain. These are luxuries that only nobles can have in the Hu people." Xi Xing thought for a while and put forward his own idea.
"The problem of grain, fodder and weapons has been solved. Now that the Hu people are attacking the city with earth, we might as well consolidate the city gates and raise the city wall." Zheng Ding put forward his own suggestion, "Use a high city wall to deal with the barbarians' earth attack."
Zhao Yun and Cao Ke looked at each other, nodded, and said, "This is settled for the time being. Fei Ge will report to the little saint for approval."
Le Debao and Yu Kejiu are captains of thousands, so naturally they don't need to be farmers themselves.
The two of them now feel a great sense of accomplishment, because they have built a hill in front of him.
You know, yesterday it was still flat land.
Looking at this small hill, it is already half the height of the city wall. If you persist for one day, you can reach the height of the city wall, which means you can attack the city again.
He looked towards the city wall and saw many people walking around on the city wall.
Didn't Nanman react? This is strange. "Is there any reaction among the Nanman people?" Le Debao asked Chao Che.
"Nanman blocked it with a table, and it's still not clear yet." Chao Che looked inside, shook his head and said with a flag, "But there are many people walking around, I wonder what they are doing?"
"Then you must be careful. Nanman can see it and there is no way there is no movement at all." Le Debao warned.
Yu Kejiu thought for a while and said: "This strategy was thought up by the Han man. Let him come out and see if he can become a military advisor. Just in one fell swoop."
Zhang Liang had a gauze tied around his neck. His collarbone was injured by a Nanman arrow yesterday, and he looked a little embarrassed.
However, the foreigner looked at him curiously and was attracted by something else. This object was none other than a feather fan.
He still held the feather fan, no matter it was already after the Mid-Autumn Festival.
He looked at what was in front of him, thought for a while, and said, "I heard that the Nanman's current city walls are built with a substance called immortal cement. I heard that this substance condenses depending on the weather and temperature. Could it be immortal cement?"
"They are coming and going, they must be using fairy cement to build the city wall, and the table is just a cover-up." At this point, he said to Le Debao: "The progress must be accelerated, otherwise they will raise the city wall."
"Is it true that fairy cement is so magical?" Le Debao found it unbelievable and asked dumbly.
Zhang Liang looked him over and said, "Don't underestimate Zhao Ping. The glass he invented, the drunken spring breeze, and the nectar and jade liquid wine, naturally also have fairy cement."
When Ledebao heard this, he couldn't help but became furious. He grabbed Zhang Liang, his eyes widened, and asked viciously: "Since the Nanman are fully prepared, what's the point of attacking the city with a fortress."
"Of course it makes sense. The fairy cement needs some time to solidify. Can't we attack before it solidifies?" Zhang Liang turned pale when he saw Le Debao's murderous gaze and hurriedly defended.
"Listen up, you Han, you are wasting more than a thousand of my troops. If it doesn't work, I will kill you before I die." When Le Debao said this, he didn't care about Zhang Liang's injury, and then his body shook a few times. Down.
Zhang Liang's injury was not yet healed, and this shake immediately opened his wound and caused it to drip with blood.
He was also stubborn. Although his face was pale, he remained silent. He was cursing the barbarians in his heart and biting his lips tightly.
"Papa, papa" Ledeburg suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and then he was very unwilling to hear the sound coming from behind.
It turned out to be the voice of Captain Haderage: "Let him go."
"You're lucky." Le Debo shook him again and threw him away hard.
Zhang Liang was originally a scholar. He was thin and injured. He was unsteady and was about to fall to the ground.
There was a servant beside him who hurriedly stepped forward to support him so that he would not make a fool of himself.
Hadleki looked at the note and the city wall, lost in thought.
Yu Kejiu glanced at the note secretly and saw it said: "Build the plank road in the open and cross the Chencang secretly."
"Build the plank road in the open and cross Chencang secretly." Yu Kejiu read as he fell into deep thought.
After thinking about it for a while, he still didn't understand, so he shook his head and said, "Build plank roads openly and cross Chencang secretly. You Han people are not good at fighting, but you have one set of conspiracy after another."
Of course, he didn't dare to say this in front of the Captain, but after leaving the Captain, he said this because he couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart.
He felt that if he didn't tell him, he would go crazy.
On the second day, the Hu people's soil was finally as high as the city wall.
All the Hu people couldn't help but cheer. After two days of hard work, they finally completed this arduous task.
On the other hand, in Nanman, the city wall is still a table. Doesn't he know how to increase the height of the city wall?
Hadelaji couldn't help but be overjoyed and beat the war drum desperately to encourage his soldiers to attack.
After two days of rest, Hu Ren's spirit had recovered and his strength had increased, as if he had forgotten the failure the day before yesterday.
Tens of thousands of Hu people's rockets still flew up, and the Hu people on the top of Lu Gong's car also fired rockets with all their strength.
They desperately discovered the rockets in order to suppress the arrows in the city.
The trebuchets were also started in time, and they threw packages of gunpowder or kerosene into the city.
The gunpowder packets carried black smoke and flickering firelight, and the kerosene packets carried blazing fire, and flew towards the city one after another.
Rockets were scattered across the sky, as if meteor showers were constantly piercing the night sky.
Not to be outdone, the city fought back with arrows like rain and crossbows like spears.
Two thousand barbarians shouted, and Lu Gong's chariot, cloud ladders, flying ladders, etc. all went into battle.
While running, occasionally some barbarians fell down after being hit by arrows, but no one looked at them and continued running.
Because the barbarians know that hitting the arrow is purely a question of luck, and hitting the arrow only means that you are not lucky.
Do you stop here? That doesn't guarantee you won't be hit by an arrow.
A trebuchet shook a few times and suddenly disintegrated. It turned out that it was also hit by an arrow, not by Chengnu.
Immediately a trebuchet came to its original position and sent out gunpowder charges into the city.
The moat blocked the way, and the trench bridge came over immediately. The wheels at both ends were pressed into the soil, and the bees behind them swarmed up.
Some barbarians pushed the ladder, while some barbarians resisted the ladder and ran ahead.
The centurion shouted, and led the lower-ranking officers, holding swords and shields, to climb up the city wall on the flying ladder.
Yu Kejiu couldn't help but bite his lip tightly as he watched his men desperately attack through the ladders and ladders.
He devoted himself to the attack just to cover Ledeburg.
The hill is already as high as the city wall, and now the Hu people have added wooden bridges to the hill and the city wall.
This wooden bridge is very wide, about three feet, and can allow three people to cross quickly.
Ledebao pulled out his sword and shield, came to the hill, pointed his sword at the group of barbarians behind him and shouted loudly: "Go into the city, kill the Nanman, kill the Nanman."
When the barbarians behind him saw this scene, their blood boiled with excitement. They raised their shields and swords and shouted loudly: "Come into the city, kill the Nanman, kill the Nanman."
A barbarian led several captains of ten men and quickly stepped onto the wooden bridge.
This wooden board is indeed not comparable to the wooden board on Lu Gong's car, but it is much wider and thicker than him, and you can't feel much sway when you step on it.
He rushed across the wooden bridge that was more than a foot wide in one breath, brandished his sword, and slashed hard at the table on the city wall.
While he was chopping away with all his strength, he laughed loudly: "The Nanman is so cowardly that he doesn't even know how to move."
