Chapter 17 Two Feet
Lu Gao was not depressed at all, but Lu Qi was sad. This was the first time he surrendered in his life. After serving the two, Qianzhe left after saluting them, and only Gui Jing, Lu Gao and Lu Qi were left in the shogunate.
"Aren't you a genius doctor? Why did you become a spy from Qin?" Gui Jing looked at Lu Gao with a smile on his face. He also heard that Lu Gao was not careful for a moment and insisted that the King of Qin would go west.
"Today is the same as that day, and when you go out, you don't even look at the sun." Lu Gao sat in the far seat in the desk. Seeing that there was wine on the short table, he turned around and poured wine for himself. He was so open-minded that Gui Jing smiled.
"Sit." He made a gesture to Lu Chuang, asking the servant to pour wine for him.
The wine in Gui Jing's tent was to regain the sake brewed from the old Ying and cut the new buds. The sake brewed three times, which was refreshing and refreshing. After Lu Gao finished his first sip, he said good wine. He drank five cups of wine before he wiped his mouth and talked about today's affairs. "I watched the artillery soldiers in counting the guns, and the labor soldiers broke the city. It was stupid. It took time and effort. If I use my method, I would get twice the result with half of the effort."
"What if?" Gui Jing asked curiously.
"Don't dig a wall. Use cannons to suppress the city, and soldiers climb the city with ladders." What Lu Gao said inevitably disappointed Gui Jing. Cannons can indeed suppress the city, but suppressing this way will definitely hurt his soldiers.
"It's not what you think." Lu Gao knew Gui Jing's thoughts and denied them before he could say them.
"What if that?" Gui Jing couldn't imagine any other way.
"When will our army set the city..." The speech was not as good as actual combat, and Lu Gao directly asked the time of the siege.
Yunyang is the migration place of Yun people in Anlu Yuncheng, Jingling Yuncheng, but before the Yun people moved, it was the capital of the Jianguo Kingdom. The Chu army had to pull out this small city that was only two thousand steps in order to continue to advance. In the early morning, the military formation had been lined up under Yunyang City, and the main general Cheng Tong was holding up Lu Lijing to watch the cannon soldiers pulling the city. If this method was done, the gunpowder consumption in the future would be one-fifth or even less than before.
"Are you ready?" Lu Gao ran to the spear-stroke led by Lu Qi, and looked at Lu Qi and the soldiers of the Soldiers.
"Shangke." Lu Chuang had a dead face. He didn't look at Lu Gao, but only looked at the ten siege ladders made last night. This was just a siege ladder, not a ladder truck. Once the Qin soldiers on the city wall pushed the ladder out with a hook sickle, and the ladder fell backwards, and the people on the ladder would fall to death.
"How can it be done?" Lu Gao was unhappy. "If you want to make military achievements, you must destroy the city. General Cheng said that if you deprive this city, you can give you three more soldiers."
Lu Chuang dreamed of making contributions, but he was the commander of the soldiers and heard that after he drove the city, he could have more than three soldiers and horses. His eyes suddenly shone. He shouted: "The Qin people's native chickens and dogs, kill this court and eat!"
Lu Chuang yelled, and the soldiers under his command also yelled. Only those strong soldiers who resisted the ladder wanted to yell but didn't dare.
"Good!" aroused Lu Chuang's determination to win, and Lu Gao was very happy.
Lu Chui ordered the flag to fly above his head, and the workers who built the bridge and the artillery soldiers who had already set up all waved their flags to indicate that the headquarters had prepared. Seeing that the head general Cheng Tong was waving the flag, the artillery soldiers battalion leader shouted: "Let it go--!"
"Let's go!" The rumbling sound of cannons sounded, which was the familiar voice of the soldiers of the entire army. Every time this time, the commander of the soldier would order the soldiers to sit down and watch the performance of the cannons. The climax of the performance was a grand fireworks: the entire city wall was blown into the sky by gunpowder, and before the mud chips landed, the Chu army rushed in from the city wall. However, the familiar way they would change completely today, so that they would always regret that there would be no fireworks when recalling the siege in the future.
Lu Qi was covered in sweat. He recalled the Battle of Jucheng eight years ago. At that time, he wore only a thousand sets of armor in the entire Chu State, and the stench of leather used as pads seemed to be between his nose. Eight years later, the young man turned into a young man. The sons who were studying with the king at that time became doctors due to their family background. Only he and Lu Gao were also honorary soldiers, and only one soldier under his command.
"Report to the chief soldiers," the sound of cannons came one after another, and two long-range people rushed over to report. Lu Feng couldn't hear clearly what he was saying.
"Use the spear?" Lu Qi shook his head immediately after hearing this. He raised the big shield offered by his servant, pulled out his short sword and knocked the shield on the spine, and said, "The city is narrow, what's the use of the spear? Are you afraid?"
Using his brain is not Lu Qi's strength, but he is not stupid, he is just too lazy to think about it. Last night, he ordered all soldiers to abandon the Yi Spear and change their swords and shields. Now that he is about to fight, he comes to report that he wants to use the Yi Spear, which is only because he is afraid.
"No, no." Among the Chu army, fear is a more terrifying word than death, let alone the long-term who is a valuable scholar. The long-term who is called Shengri said hurriedly: "We will never be afraid of war!"
After saying that, he called the other leader who was Buzhi, but he smiled foolishly. Buzhi did not dare to admit that his subordinates were indeed a little worried, but they did not want to deceive the commander, so they could only smile foolishly.
"Everything has its beginning. If you pull the city up like this, why do you regret death?" Lu Qi couldn't say such a truth. This was what Lu Gao convinced him. In one sentence, not only were the two more long, but the soldiers in the soldiers also instantly became hot and almost rushed to the top of the cap.
"Are you afraid of the Qin people?" Lu Chui said that the two long-term men rushed directly to the soldiers and asked loudly.
Yunyang City is three feet high and six feet high. The south city wall facing the opposite side is more than 400 steps long. Sixteen 15-jin cannons are sweeping across the outside of the city head. The female wall on the inside, and the not-so-wide head of the city came out. Lu Qi asked all the soldiers and soldiers with his back to the city wall. The soldiers only saw the mud chips flying behind him, and were breaking inch by the cannon.
With such a passionate background, and he will be the protagonist of the stage, the soldiers couldn't help but shout: "Why are you afraid of the Qin people? The Qin people fear me!"
"Why fear the Qin people? The Qin people fear me!" The poor man who had no money could not afford to equip cavalry, only a few pure infantrymen used to command the old horses had only 300 people. The three hundred people shouted violently, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"This soldier is still OK." Because he was a Song Di Army, Cheng Tong was a little picky about Lu Chuang's soldiers, so that it was not a place to go to a strong army.
"Thank you for your praise." Lu Gao knew Lu Chuang's ability. As long as there was no mistake, only one Lu Chuang could take Yunyang.
He said this, and the battalion commander of the artillery battalion who was pounding the city wall rushed over, "Report to General, the female wall on the city has been swept away..."
Cheng Tong saw that the female walls on both sides of the city were cleaned up. There were no canals on the city, no women's walls, corner buildings, marquis towers, and wooden pavilions. All the annexes on the city were destroyed. Only some remaining wooden tables, orange cushions, and stones, rolling wood, gravel, and grain that were exposed on the city were piled up on the city.
"As long as the orders." The pre-war battle had already made it clear that this time Bacheng was different from the past. The reason why Cheng Tong agreed to Lu Gao's new Bacheng Law was because he learned about the highest secret of the Chu army a few days ago: insufficient gunpowder.
"Don't harm your comrades." When the artillery battalion commander Shen Qing was about to turn around and leave, he gave another advice.
The deafening sound of cannons suddenly stopped. When the Qin soldiers hiding in the west city wall stood up and looked around. However, two cannons were each facing the two sections of the city wall. When they showed up, they fired their guns and knocked them down again. But this time the cannons seemed sparse. When they bombarded, the other three companies moved from the front of the south city wall to the side of the south city wall. With the officer's "Architecture", all the twelve cannons were set off, and the muzzles were aimed at the front side of the south city wall.
This is Lu Gao's cleverness, or improvement. He knows how to shoot a line of cannons, and he will not intersect the shells shot from the cannons vertically with the city wall, because in this way, the cannon can only bombard a certain point in the city wall.
He wanted to come over and aim the artillery at the front side of the city wall. The trajectory of the shells fired was parallel to or even completely overlapping with the city wall. The city on the cannon killing line could not stand at all. Basically, whoever stood at the station would die. At this time, if soldiers were sent to carry a ladder to climb the city without a person, wouldn't it be easy to pull out the city?
Lu Gao's new siege method simply means that artillery suppresses the city head horizontally, and his soldiers take the opportunity to climb the city. In theory, this is completely feasible, but the artillery guards completely oppose it - Lu Gao is not an artillery soldier and does not understand the certain rules of the landing points of the shells. The reason why the artillery guard battalion commander Shen Qing opposed such a siege is that the level of the shells was spread more than 1 zhang, which is the standard data for the fifteen-pound cannon test at a distance of 350 meters. In fact, due to the superposition of various factors on the battlefield, the level of the shells was spread even more powerful.
Yunyang is not a big city. The city wall is three and six feet high. The width of the city head is only 18 feet wide, and the shells are scattered between 1 and 2 feet and 16 feet. In other words, even if the cannon soldiers aim at the innermost side of the city wall, if they are not careful, the shells will fly out of the outside of the city wall and kill the Chu soldiers who are climbing the ladder. There must be accidental injuries since the artillery was used for combat, but this time, it is the first time that it is consciously aimed at the soldiers at their own side only two feet apart.
"Report to the commander, my company is ready!" The air was full of anxiety, and the cannon company commander slapped his left chest and gave a new military salute to Shen Qing.
"Report to the commander, I'm a company!" Another company commander ran up and urged the order to fire the artillery, and the last company commander also ran over.
"Fire!" The sound was squeezed out of the throat, dry and hard.
The sound of cannons came again. This time the shells did not hit the city wall, but the landing point was at the top of the city. Most of the shells hit somewhere on the top of the city, but the second landing point was wrong. At least half of the shells had landed on both sides of the city wall, and the third landing point still hit even fewer ones on the top of the city.
"Adjust the firing angle!" Shen Qing's face turned pale. He glared at the cannon leader who had knocked the shells off. After a while of rushing, the cannons fired again. This time it was better than the last time, but it was very limited.
Chapter completed!