Chapter 501
Five days later, Li Mu and Jiang's 200,000 troops were forced to Anyang, only five miles away from Wang Jian in Anyang City.
Anyang City is under high alert. Wang Jian personally inspects the city defense every day. Whenever he finds a soldier dares to carry it, it will be dealt with immediately by military law.
What puzzled Wang Jian was that Li Mu and Master Jiang had been in Anyang for half a month, but they had just tentatively attacked the city several times. Each time they attacked the city, they retreated in just one hour, as if a huge conspiracy was brewing.
On the contrary, Li Xin's grain transport team and Li Mu's grain robbery team fought fiercely.
Three days ago, Li Xin's grain transport team arrived fifteen miles west of Anyang City and encountered a grain robbery team sent by Li Mu.
The two sides fought for a long time. If Wang Jian had not sent troops to rescue him temporarily, Li Xin's grain transport team would have been wiped out.
Meng Tian walked to Wang Jian, looked at the military camp five miles away from the city, frowned slightly, and said in confusion: "General, what are Li Mu and Jiang thinking? If you delay like this, it will be detrimental to Zhao State!"
Wang Jian was also very confused about this and said in a narrow voice: "Maybe they are waiting for something?"
Meng Tian said in confusion: "Is it because he is waiting for a victory or defeat between General Li Xin and Wei Zhuang? Although Wei Zhuang is the descendant of Guigu, he seems not very good at leading troops. This time it is his first time leading troops to fight. According to the grain transport team a few days ago, General Li Xin seems to have caused Wei Zhuang to suffer a big loss!"
Wang Jian said in a deep voice: "Weizhuang is the descendant of Guigu after all, so we should not underestimate it too much. By the familiar way of using troops, we will be able to stabilize our position soon."
"I have also seen Mr. Gai Nie from our Qin State, and he is indeed extraordinary!"
Meng Tian nodded, then looked at the military camp outside the city and asked, "Then this Li Mu..."
Wang Jian waved his hand, stopped Meng Tian's words, and said lightly: "No matter what conspiracy they are planning, we will lead 100,000 troops out of the city tomorrow to challenge the battle. Let's do it before Li Mu!"
Meng Tian bowed and said, "Yes!"
It has been half a month since the army arrived in Anyang, and Jiang finally waited for dozens of craftsmen who came from Dai County.
After receiving Jiang's order, Dai County naturally did not dare to delay, but the craftsmen had a lot of tools to bring, which delayed a lot of time.
On the school ground, Li Mu glanced over the craftsman camp and looked at Jiang and asked, "This is your craftsman camp. What ability do they have to help our army break through Anyang?"
Jiang Xiao said, "The General comes with me, this is not a place to display!"
Generals such as Li Mu, Jiang, Sima Shang, etc., brought 20,000 soldiers and craftsmen from the craftsman camp to a valley ten miles away from the military camp.
Twenty thousand soldiers guarded the important roads of all parties, and even if they kept a Qin scout, they would not be able to get in.
Jiang signaled to everyone in the craftsman camp and said, "Prepare it!"
Jiang ordered people to transport a set of catapult parts here in advance. After the craftsmen assembled it, they could demonstrate to Li Mu.
After waiting for a while, the craftsmen had assembled the catapult cart. Jiang pointed to a mountain wall in the distance and said, "Just hit there, try it!"
After saying that, Jiang said to Li Mu, Sima Shang and others: "General, generals, this is a catapult, and it is also a powerful siege developed by the craftsman camp."
Li Mu smiled and said, "That book will wait and see!"
The craftsmen adjusted the mechanism of the catapult cart, then placed a millstone on the catapult cart when they hit it, and then activated the mechanism. The huge rock was blasted into the air by the catapult cart, drawing an arc in the air, and smashed hard on the mountain wall with a "boom".
"What a great power!"
Sima Shang was shocked and said, "With this powerful weapon, Anyang can be broken just around the corner!"
Li Mu smiled and said, "Son, how many catapults have you brought here this time?"
Jiang said: "Due to the urgent time, the craftsmen only brought one test piece. However, the mountains are high and dense, the general can ask the soldiers to cut down trees and create a large number of catapults and stones. As long as the preparation is completed, Anyang City can be smashed into pieces!"
Li Muxi said: "It's indeed a good baby!"
Jiang thought for a while and suddenly reminded in a low voice: "General, our army can be slowly built, and the siege of the city is not in a hurry. Let's take a look at the victory or defeat between Weizhuang and Li Xin first."
"I finally gave the drawings of the catapult car to Weizhuang. As long as Weizhuang builds the catapult car, it will only be a matter of time before it defeats Li Xin!"
As long as Weizhuang defeated Li Xin with a catapult, Li Mu then defeated Anyang with a catapult and defeated Wang Jian.
In this way, the defeat of Qin State must be counted on Weizhuang.
This is a great reputation and a fatal danger.
But Li Mu didn't think so. Li Mu became angry when he heard Jiang Zhiyan: "Son, how can you hand over such a powerful weapon to Weizhuang? I will immediately send someone to quickly catch the drawings. If I can't catch them back, I will definitely deal with your military law!"
ginger:"……"
Jiang forgot that although he looked down on the catapult, people of this era have never seen any science. In their eyes, the catapult is a national weapon!
If the cannon is researched, these people would not think that it was a god who was infuriating?
Jiang Yijin ordered Baishen, a chemist in the Warring States Period, to start developing refined iron, and it is best to extract steel.
As long as the technology is mature, Jiang will immediately make large quantities of artillery.
Although Jiang knows technology and doesn't understand any science, Jiang has more than two thousand years of experience than he did in the era.
Jiang only needs to put forward one idea and give a general point of view, and the craftsmen will naturally study it according to Jiang's ideas.
In addition, Jiang is not short of money, so he can’t do anything to make scientific research!
If you invest huge amounts of money, the results will be very gratifying.
When Jiang attacked Qi, the catapult was still Jiang’s treasure.
But now, Jiang doesn’t feel sorry for sending the drawings of the catapult car to Weizhuang for free.
The white squid is really capable and has amazing talent in chemistry. He really wants to win over this person and even makes a promise.
After that, I will conquer the world and be named a marquis of the craftsmen.
Jiang has always believed that interests are the driving force that drives the world forward.
If you want the whole nation to worship science, the only way is to be granted a title. As long as the products you research can benefit the people or the military, you can be awarded the title.
Under such a policy, Jiang believes that even if he dies, the technology of Oriental will definitely be far beyond the world in the future.
Get back to the point!
Seeing that Li Mu was annoyed and even wanted to deal with his military law, Jiang hurriedly said: "General, this catapult is a powerful weapon for siege, but South Korea is an ally of our country after all. And the general ignored one thing. For us, the most important thing is not the catapult, but these craftsmen."
Chapter completed!