Chapter 23 Destroy the City (Part 2)
The sketch not only shows how to arrange troops, but also many people seem to be extremely familiar with it, but they don’t know why they draw the utensils here. Although in order to facilitate everyone to understand their plans, Zhang Qian drew the picture very carefully and added many notes at the key points.
Except for Luo Huaizu, he only saw him stroking his beard, closing his eyes slightly, and nodding repeatedly. It seemed as if he had seen the enemy troops in Talas City, which were destroyed by Zhang Qian's series of killing moves.
"After all, he is the head uncle, and you can see the mystery of this picture at a glance!" Zhu Maolin, who joined the army of Mingfa, was stunned by Luo Huaizu's nagging appearance, and secretly sighed in his heart. However, he was even more afraid to casually explore the mystery of the "formula" so as not to be laughed at by others for being laughed at for being shallow in his knowledge and being in a simple way.
However, Si Cang was never afraid of embarrassment when he joined the army to defend the road. Relying on his familiarity with Zhang Qian, he smiled and asked: "Guardian, your first round of attacks mentioned the use of horse manure, artemisia toxic, heartbreaking grass and wild hemp to make poisonous smoke. What is the purpose? The effect can be verified. Please forgive me for being ignorant..."
"Of course the purpose is to smoke the defenders to death." Before Zhang Qian could respond, Luo Huaizu explained first, "After the wet horse manure caught fire, the smoke could smoke cattle and sheep, not to mention that the guards also added a lot of materials to it. Although this recipe has not been recorded in military books, people who have lived outside the border for a long time should know it."
"There are indeed shepherds outside the border who use wet horse manure to make fire and drive away mosquitoes, which is very effective." Zhou Jianliang thought for a while and whispered to testify beside him. "And the smell of toxic artemisia, heartbreaking grass and wild numbness can make people dizzy without ignition. Adding it to horse manure will probably double the toxicity of the smoke."
"So that's it!" Fu Sheng, Zhu Maolin, Fan Wujin, Qiu Ruofeng, Huang Jingyu and other civilian staff members looked shiny and nodded repeatedly.
However, Wei Dao still felt confused in his heart. He shook his head and continued to ask: "Whether you use poisonous smoke to kill people or drive away mosquitoes, the place needs to be narrow and poisonous smoke cannot easily float. Although the city of Talas is only four or five miles in a radius, the poisonous smoke will be blown by the wind when it floats to the top of the city? It may not be able to kill people. What's more, if the defenders see the smoke floating on the top of the city, they will immediately avoid it? Can we still let the poisonous smoke chase him?"
"If the defenders scattered and avoided it, wouldn't that be better? We just took the opportunity to take the ladder to seize the city!" Qiu Ruofeng, a soldier in the examination, responded quickly and immediately gave the answer.
However? As soon as he finished speaking, he shook his head again and again. "No? There must be something wrong, I am reckless. If the poisonous smoke surges, even if people cannot stand on the top of the city, our brothers can't suck the poisonous smoke and set up a ladder to attack the city."
"What's the use of smelting poisonous smoke?" The other students who came from Chang'an were all frown. They turned their eyes to Luo Huaizu, hoping that he would solve the doubts for everyone.
"After all, I'm a scholar, I think it's all in mind!" Luo Huaizu felt so depressed that he continued to stroke his beard. The old god was talking nonsense? "My unique skills in Mohism have always been linked together. Poisonous smoke is just the first step? If the defenders do not hide, they will be smoky to death. If they hide, they will naturally have the next move waiting for them. If you don't believe it, you can continue to look down."
"Oh—" Everyone nodded again, and their eyes continued to look at the "format map" behind them? But they felt more and more like falling into clouds.
"Even if the guard commander gives orders, I will only follow your leader. As for these things, we may not understand them even if you explain them!" Zhou Jianliang suddenly felt a move in his heart and smiled and bowed his hand.
"The guards do not need to explain, even if they give orders, we are willing to go through fire and water for you!"
"We will do our best despite orders!"
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The other brigades who followed Zhou Jianliang from Shuofang also expressed their opinions that they did not want to spend their thoughts on the formation map that made everyone extremely troubled. Anyway, in the Shuofang Army, every time they fought, everyone just followed the command of the commander and never asked questions.
"Even if the guard commander gives orders, we will do our best!" Seeing that Zhou Jianliang and other military generals were like this, Zhang Xu, Wei Dao and other civil servants looked at each other, and suddenly, they also had a deep understanding and bowed to Zhang Qian one after another.
The reason why everyone has such a consistent attitude is not that they lack curiosity about new things or that they retreat, but that they are misled by Luo Huaizu and Zhou Jianliang.
Everyone thinks that Zhang Qian is an ancient and modern weapon-making master. He said that if he has a way to break the city without bloodshed, he will never deceive everyone. As for the things displayed on the "Formation Map", it is mostly secrets that the Mohist school has not passed on. Luo Huaizu understood it himself, but he was unwilling to let everyone understand it. It is normal to deliberately talk nonsense.
However, it turns out that they all thought too much. Zhang Qian was slightly stunned by their actions, and then smiled and shook his head, "You misunderstood. Since Zhang drew this sketch, he did not intend to hide his own personalities to you. What's more, there is no secret here. Most of the things needed for poisonous smoke are common poisonous weeds and wild numb in the wilderness and the Western Regions. I noticed it on the way to Talas, and it should be easy to find nearby."
"I have noticed it too. The guard commander just talk about the number. I will take people to collect poisonous weeds and wild erectus early tomorrow morning!" Luo Huaizu blushed first and quickly volunteered.
Zhang Qian knew that Uncle Luo wanted face, so he immediately nodded with a smile, "Okay, let me leave this matter to Uncle Luo. Just collect two or three thousand kilograms each, and don't have to be too much. I will spread it for one day tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and see what the wind direction is. If it is the east wind or the north wind, we will send poisonous smoke from the east or the north to attack the city."
"Get orders!" Luo Huaizu finally covered up the embarrassment of pretending to understand, and excitedly stepped forward to receive orders.
Zhang Qian grabbed a command arrow from the Shuai case and handed it to him, then turned his eyes to the sketch again, and explained with a smile, "The Gangjing was right just now. The defenders with legs long and will definitely not fight to the death on the top of the city. My purpose is not to smoke them all. But to smoke away the defenders on the city wall, especially the defenders on the face of horses, and to create a chance to escape for the Tang people above who were forced to act as meat shields."
"The guard commander is really kind!" Everyone finally realized it suddenly, and then nodded slightly in admiration.
As the saying goes, "Ci doesn't control the soldiers." How can someone else be the commander? Even if the Tang people who were driven to the horse's face as a meat shield, they would be replaced as if they were fake. When the Thunder Ye Jun should use gunpowder bullets to bombard him, he would not be ruthless. Otherwise, it would be an injustice to the soldiers participating in the war.
In order to avoid gunpowder bullets accidentally hurting the Tang people on the city wall, Zhang Qian actually spent a special effort to come up with a strange trick.
If the defenders could be smoked and ran away from the city head with poison smoke, the Tang people's flesh shields on the horse's face could naturally take the opportunity to escape. Next, the catapult of the Ye Jun could pour gunpowder bullets into the city walls and horse's face without any scruples, and put the stone army in place again, such as crossbows, nail slaps, cowhide shield chariots and other items, and all of them were blown up.
As expected, Zhang Qian pointed to the sketch and continued: "When the poisonous smoke made the people on the city and could not stand footing, our army's casting cart would throw gunpowder bullets and clean up the defense facilities on the city. This time, the task was handed over to the Shuofang Camp of Zhou's Shuofang Camp to perform. The ground was muddy after the rain. We will not attack the city tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The brothers of Shuofang Camp can take the opportunity to skillfully use stone casting carts and gunpowder bullets."
"As for the order!" Zhou Quji stepped forward quickly and saluted Zhang Qian with gratitude.
"Thank you for your help!" Zhou Jianliang understood Zhang Qian's good intentions and bowed beside him.
Regarding the skillful operation of catapults and gunpowder bullets, Shuofang Camp, which came from afar, was of course not as good as the teaching regiment of the Shattered Ye Army. However, Zhang Qian handed over the task of casting gunpowder bullets to Zhou Quji. It was obvious that it was to give Zhou Quji the opportunity to train the team so that when he was expeditioning the Turks in the future, the brothers of Shuofang Army would not be able to perform the best performance of a sharp weapon due to their unfamiliar operation.
"You two don't have to be too polite!" He grabbed the second command arrow and handed it to Zhou Quji. Zhang Qian then waved his hand with a smile.
The other generals looked at the sketch with eager eyes, and they were all itchy. On the one hand, they wanted to know what Zhang Qian's next arrangement was and what kind of magic weapon they used. On the other hand, they were the ones who were willing to be arranged to perform tasks, so that they could also show their power in foreign lands and shine their ancestors!
Seeing that his morale was available, Zhang Qian did not make any mistakes. He grabbed the drawings and issued orders while explaining. Soon, he sent the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh arrows, and also explained the entire combat arrangement and the equipment used.
He explained it easily and looked at the sketch. When the generals and civil servants who received the arrows basically immediately understood what they were about to do on the battlefield and how they needed to do it. Some people who reacted a little slowly, even if they had some questions in their hearts, they understood that as long as they did according to the arrangements of the guard commander, they would definitely not mislead things.
In order to make everyone smoothly complete the task, Zhang Qian specifically emphasized that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, he will only send a small number of brothers to intimidate the enemy. All generals who have just received the task do not have to go to fight. Just take the brothers assigned to them and practice the tasks in advance to avoid being killed on the spot.
The generals and civilian staff immediately increased their confidence and thanked each other again. Zhang Qianze waved his hands at everyone with a smile, grabbed the last arrow, and handed it to Zhou Jianliang solemnly, "Emperor Zhou, two days later, when the horn of the siege sounded, you immediately lead two regiments of cavalry to the west of Talas. Then, five miles away, block all the roads to Baishui City and Bahanna. Any nobles and great cannibals who escaped from Talas will be killed on the spot after being caught. Apart from Yihu himself, no one will be left!"
Chapter completed!