Yongjie is tall, broad and powerful, and he is considered to be one of the few in the Yong family except Yong Kai who can fight.
The most rare thing is that he has also read the art of war and has some wisdom.
After all, it is a family that has been passed down for hundreds of years since the time of Emperor Gaozu. Although it has never been reused by the dynasty due to its past misdeeds, it has always been far away from the center of power and has never produced any important figures.
But after all, the foundation lies in that place. The Yong family has a lot of books, and because of its wealth, there is no shortage of capable people to follow. If you really want to learn, there are still a lot of things you can learn.
Yong Jie was practicing bow shooting at this time. He bent the bow and set an arrow, took aim for a moment and then shot out!
Boom!
"Ah! General, spare your life, General, spare your life!" A man was tied to a wooden stake. At this time, Yong Jie shot an arrow three inches above his head, scaring him so much that he wailed.
"Tsk, I don't feel good today." Yong Jie looked a little annoyed and took a few steps closer.
His target was one of the Cunqi County officials appointed by the prefect Zhengang.
In fact, there was little resistance in Cunhuang County. After the Yong family's uprising, they quickly surrendered.
However, this person once advised the county magistrate to wait for help, saying that the Yong family would never succeed.
As a result, he and his family became Yong Jie's target. All his family members were dead long ago, and he hated Yong Jie in his heart, but after all, he was just an ordinary person, not a hero.
When death is about to come, I still can't help but cry and beg for mercy.
It's just that when Yong Jie heard these sounds, they were just to help him practice his archery.
He nocked the arrow again, but before he could shoot it, a soldier suddenly came to report.
"General! General, the enemy is attacking the city!"
However, Yongjie still took aim with his bow unhurriedly, which was in sharp contrast to the panic of the soldier. It really looked like he was facing the collapse of Mount Tai without changing his expression.
"Humph, why are you panicking?" Yong Jie said with a look of disdain, "Then Deng Fang is coming to die, which is a good time for us to make new achievements. The master of the family will definitely be richly rewarded by then. How many people did they come this time?"
"General, at least ten thousand people are watching!"
"What?!" Yong Jie, who had not changed his expression when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, suddenly lost his expression along with Mount Tai, "How many, more than ten thousand people?! If this is a joke, I will behead you!"
As soon as he let go, the arrow flew out immediately, but it was no longer accurate. It missed the target and almost hit the guard guarding it.
The soldier who was grabbed by Yong Jie hurriedly said: "I have no lies. The general will know it as soon as he climbs up the stairs."
"Then where did Deng Fang get more than 10,000 troops?!"
The soldier was almost crying, cursing in his heart, "You XXOO, how the hell did I know?" !
The furious Yong Jie naturally didn't expect to get an answer from him. After venting his emotions, he pushed the soldier away and hurried towards the tower.
"Deng Fang must have run out of soldiers and drove the civilians to die! Yes, that must be the case. A group of ragged rabble dared to..."
Yong Jie, who kept thinking in his mind to anesthetize and comfort himself, fell into depression again after climbing the tower.
Rags? mob?
I saw soldiers outside the city wearing armor, their swords and guns shining brightly, their ranks in order, and their flags fluttering.
The war drums were beating, and the military formations were mobilized quickly and orderly.
The horn sounded, and the sound of men roaring and horses neighing was loud.
A large flag was erected in the military formation, fluttering, with the character "Liu" written on it.
Yong Jie: "..."
The horses running in his heart at this time were much more than the hundreds of horses outside the city...
It was obvious that Liu Bei's army had arrived...but how could it be so fast? From the time we get the news, to the deployment of troops and generals, to allocate all the necessary supplies, and finally to the large army, it will take at least two months, right?
Liu Bei's men can shrink to an inch, and how can they travel thousands of miles in a day? !
Or is it that the enemy generals who come to attack will also be able to spread the beans to form an army?
For a moment, Yong Jie felt that there might be a strange sorcerer with great power among the enemy troops...
Perhaps after staying here for a long time, they became more and more convinced of those strange things.
…
"Who is the guard of this city, and what is the strength, food, and defense situation?" Liu Chan asked Wang Meng beside him.
Wang Meng replied almost immediately: "Guardian Yongjie is a younger brother of the Yongkai clan. He is proficient in martial arts and has a little bit of tactical strategy. There are more than 1,800 defenders in total, including more than 800 original soldiers from Cunhuang County and more than a thousand Yong family soldiers. There are still more than 2,000 young men who can fight as private soldiers.
"There is sufficient food and grass in the city. As Cunqian County, the northern gateway to Yizhou County, the Yong family has stored a lot of food and grass in the city. The city's defense materials such as wood and wood are all available. The soldiers may have suffered heavy casualties if they forced their way in. However, the city walls and gates have been in disrepair for a long time. , is no longer very strong..."
Wang Meng reported every piece of information to Liu Chan in detail.
Yong Jie would be shocked if he heard this. Who is this? Why do you know better than me?
Liu Chan smiled and said, "Well done, I should be credited with it."
Wang Meng bowed and held his hands in his hands: "These are all matters within the scope of my duties."
"Prince, we don't have many soldiers and horses. Even if the city gate is not strong, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties under a strong attack..." Zhang Yi was quite worried.
They only have more than 10,000 people, so if they want to capture the entire Yizhou County, they don't actually have enough troops.
If we advance step by step like this, although we are solid, it is hard to say how much strength we will still have when we reach Dianchi Lake.
"It would be better if we feign an attack for a while and then withdraw our troops, causing the enemy to be careless. However, our army changed its route by water, passed through Tu Shui, bypassed Cunjiang, and rushed directly to Dian Lake! Our soldiers are elite, and the Yong family and Meng Huo were unprepared. The Yizhou County commander It can be won in one fell swoop!”
Liu Chan was quite surprised. He had previously thought that Zhang Yi was an anti-war faction, but the more he came into contact with him, the more he discovered that this was not the case.
In fact, this was something he didn't know fully. Zhang Yi did oppose Jiang Wei's frequent Northern Expeditions in the later period, believing that the country was small and the people were tired, so force should not be abused.
However, he also followed Zhuge Kongming in the Northern Expedition. When he was the governor of Lajiang, he was known for his iron fist, and he was not an anti-war faction.
What he advocates is to accumulate strength first, and if you want to fight, you must be able to really conquer the territory.
"What Bo Gong said is also a quick victory method." Regarding his subordinate's proposal, Liu Chan first affirmed its positive side, and then said with a smile, "But what if Dian Lake cannot be captured for a long time?"
"this……"
He was still young at this time and had plenty of impulsiveness and enthusiasm, but he was not thoughtful enough. He had never really led an army in a war and lacked experience.
"If the enemy soldiers refuse to surrender and stick to Dianchi Lake, and the defenders in the counties behind us cut off our food routes, we will eventually form an encirclement..."
Zhang Yi broke into a cold sweat when he heard this. He cupped his fists and said, "I didn't think carefully and was too hasty."
Liu Chan waved his hand: "Bo Gong is flexible and resourceful. This is a good thing. Those who use military force should not leave victory or defeat in the hands of others easily."
That is to say, when formulating a strategy, try not to bet on uncontrollable variables such as the enemy's reaction.
What if Yong Kai and Meng Huo ate too much tiger penis that day and they were stunned and not afraid?
[Zhang Yi favorability +5] (70)
[Zhang Yi's favorability is 70, military management talent +8×2, strategy talent +8×2]
"I have been taught. I will immediately lead my troops to attack the city. I am willing to attack the city first for the prince!" After Zhang Yi said this, he was about to lead his troops to attack the city.
Liu Chan's good impression of this person increased even more. The Zhang family is now the most popular among the local families in Yizhou. If he, the eldest son of the Zhang family, wants to be promoted, he does not need to do the rough work of being promoted first.
"Bo Gong, wait a minute."
In Zhang Yi's confused eyes, Liu Chan said again: "Gu Yi knows that our troops are limited, how can we let the soldiers attack with their flesh and blood?"
Zhang Yi was completely confused at this moment. He was going around but not detouring, attacking but not attacking by force. What was the prince's plan? You just said that the other side has enough food and grass, so the prince doesn't want to besiege the city, right?
Liu Chan smiled mysteriously and called Ding Feng over: "Take out the gadgets we prepared and let that Yong Jie see them."
"Yes!" Ding Feng, who was lucky enough to see this thing, immediately became excited and called some Red Star Army soldiers to go to the rear team's ox cart and unload the goods to get busy.
"What are they doing? What are those..." Yong Jie waited in fear for a long time, but did not see any further movement from the enemy troops outside the city.
Just looking from a distance, it seems that a group of people are unloading a pile of strange-shaped wood from many oxcarts at the back and are... assembling it?
"Prince, this thing is... a stone cannon?" Zhang Yi was also puzzled, why does it look so different...
Can this weird-looking thing throw stones?
Liu Chan smiled and said: "It is a stone cannon, but it is slightly different. It is a slightly improved thing that Zhuge Military Advisor and I recently made based on Cao Jun's Thunderbolt Chariot, and named it 'Lei Gong Cannon'."
In fact, the so-called thunder cannon is a counterweight trebuchet.
First put a weight on the end of the gun arm, and then use the pulley group and the rope to pull down and bend the arm spoon where the stone is placed, and jam the mechanism. After placing the big stone, move the mechanism to fire.
Traditional man-made trebuchets require at least dozens or hundreds of people to operate, while counterweight trebuchets use pulleys. Only a few people need to hold the handle and turn the wheel to bend the huge cannon arm.
Not only does the operation save manpower, but the range and power are not comparable to human trebuchets.
However, it is impossible to make such a complicated thing from raw materials.
But for Bashu, which has already started the "rigorous Zhuge craftsmanship" of standardized and modular production, it only needs to produce standard parts and assemble them on the battlefield.
Zhang Yi opened his mouth wide and looked at the wooden machine that was gradually taking shape in front of him: "Is this...a gadget?"
Liu Chan said with a smile: "It's time for people in Nanzhong to understand the power of knowledge."
(End of chapter)
