Chapter 14: Hidden talents are widely accepted, and the reckless heroes are widely recruited

When the sun rises another day, the shouts of killing resounded in the vast new city. This is the Dongsi army that besieged the palace. Under the command of the temporary commander Kurefaru, it struggled to conquer the palace.

This Dongsi army is mainly the soldiers of the Grand Duchy of Kiev. Shataniev left them with the purpose of letting their country control the palace in order to achieve the purpose of occupying the huge wealth in the palace. The ignorant boy Grand Duke Sviatoslav is very agree with this, which is a rare agreement with his uncle. Of course, the ignorant boy is purely driven by greed and does not know the master of his uncle's brilliance - he transferred the troops of Kiev's potential strong enemy Lithuania to the front line to fight and try to deplete them, but let his fierce general Kurefaru work hard to attack the New City Palace.

Shataniev manipulated the brave and resourceless Kurefaru as a fool, but he did not expect that Kurefaru now has a smart wife Utita! Utita saw through the intentions of the Kiev people and let her husband be passive and lazy, that is to say, don't take risks, just let the Kiev soldiers charge; it's his own credit, and if he can't defeat it, he will push the fault on Cheryev - this is really a wonderful plan!

Cheryev and Kurefaru are vicious and do not support each other. But I didn't expect that a major crime would fall on me like this.

But what these people didn't expect was the generous ability to guard the palace. Kuo Gan has only two or three thousand women under his men. These women are relatives of Mongolian soldiers and their combat effectiveness is not high. If you face the siege of the palace by tens of thousands of East Sisi troops, I'm afraid you can't defend it even though the palace wall is high and solid. So he was willing to judge the situation and make a decision immediately. He gave up the outer palace and only guarded the inner palace. Before giving up, remove the most important weapons from the outer palace arsenal, especially thousands of well-made crossbow machines. In this way, the defense density has almost doubled, and the weapons and food are sufficient. I swear to be loyal to the King Khan and will fight to the end with my life!

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Geng Gong led hundreds of soldiers to guard Shule City in the Western Regions and held it under the siege of hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops for more than a year! The reason for this is that in addition to the loyalty and tenacity of Han soldiers, the terrain is very important and weapons are also important. Due to the world's leading foundation in mathematics and material science, China's crossbow technology has been developed early. Chinese crossbow can be regarded as the supreme weapon for defending the city in ancient times. In the era of cold weapons, no other countries can surpass it. Compared with the bow, the crossbow has a long range, strong penetration and high accuracy, and because it is launched by a pulling mechanism, it can also be used by people with weak arms. To say that it is insufficient, there are two problems: first, the launch speed is slower than the bow. Second, create difficulties.

Now, for guarding the palace, the manufacturing problem no longer exists. There are many ordnance craftsmen in the new city, who have been building crossbows before. Ordinary crossbow machines are collected in the outer armory, and thousands of them collected in the palace are made by skilled craftsmen, with superior performance and reliable quality.

As for the launch speed, as long as the enemy's attack speed and density are not high, there is time to block it. Now the enemy's troops surrounding the palace are limited, and the high palace wall with a moat limits the enemy's attack speed. These thousands of crossbow machines are completely enough to defend.

So the Dongsi army attacked for a day and suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of people were killed in the battle alone, and they did not get any results. Under his wife's call, Kurefaru has realized that Shataniev is uneasy and kind to himself, so he can rest assured to drink and eat meat and don't care at all. Let their soldiers in Dongs die! If you really can't attack it, you will push it to Cheryev's pig, hehehe...do it! So Kurefaru was drunk with his wife and his own soldiers, and soon he couldn't even open his eyes. He can't see what his wife and some handsome soldier secretly did next.

Cheryev was very gloating when he heard that the siege of Kurefaru had been frustrated. Unexpectedly, strange people are coming to trouble themselves again...

Originally, Cheryev was not completely unprepared, and he did his best. Previously, because of the robbery of the magic field, Cheryev personally chased and lost face. He was afraid that there were still serious troublemakers like strange people in the city, so he sent his subordinates to search the whole city! They broke thousands of large urns to look for strange people and got under tens of thousands of beds to see what was going on. It was hard work! However, this is the only weirdo, and it can't be prevented. The search of the whole city, on the contrary, helped the strange people become famous, making the whole city more heard. It turned out that there was a strange man here, who was haunted and powerful.

This evening, there was a labor camp in the new city. In a relatively spacious and comfortable house, an oil lamp is lit. Zhao Jin hid on the beam and carefully observed the people below.

There are several outstanding leaders living here, because they are extraordinary and organized, and receive some preferential treatment, lighting, and even wine and meat, which is already unpreparable to ordinary craftsmen and coolies.

Zhao Zhen peeked from the top and down and carefully distinguished: "The tallest one should be Wuda; the two brothers who look like him should be Lu and Lu Xiang; the remaining one who is not amazing should be He Anping, who compares him to 'Wang Meng's rebirth and Zhang Bin's rebirth'!"

These are all what Li De told Zhao Jin. Li Lu has always liked to make friends with reckless heroes and is very familiar with the capable people among the craftsmen in the new city.

He Anping is a native of Changle in Fujian. He is a scholar with excellent talent and is very easy to learn. He has studied architecture, machinery, elixir, pharmacology, metaphysics, etc., and even military tactics, but he is not proud of the imperial examination, and even a minor official can do it. When the country of the Southern Song Dynasty was in crisis, He Anping came to the front line and wanted to make suggestions for the generals, but he was ignored because of his humble background. He Anping repeatedly hit the wall, but he was only appointed as an ordnance craftsman. Later, the Song army was defeated, and He Anping was captured by the Mongolian army and exiled to the new city after several twists and turns. The construction plan of the new city is nominally presided over by a group of noble officials, but in fact, it often adopts He Anping's opinions.

Wuda is a real woman in Liaodong. When she was only eleven or two years old, she was seven feet tall and opened two stone bows. The people of the clan were very surprised and thought she was a strong general. However, at that time, the Jin Dynasty had perished, and several of Uda's ancestors died on the battlefield against Mongolia, so Uda refused to serve in the Yuan Dynasty. He was famous for being a carpenter and was requisitioned by the government and sent to Far West. Uda is burly and strong, speaks loudly, has strong limbs, thick hands and feet, but his work is very dexterous. What's more rare is that although Wuda is strong, he is not fierce, fierce and righteous. I don't know how many people have been saved, so he has a high reputation among craftsmen and coolies.

The Lu and Lu Xiang brothers are mixed descendants of the Dian and Han ethnic groups. They live in Deyang, Sichuan, a family of craftsmen, and are good at iron smelting and forging weapons. The two brothers look alike, but their temperaments and preferences are very different. Lu Yi is rough and active, and he can only read a little bit; Lu Xiang likes to be quiet and read, and usually asks He Anping for teaching questions.

Zhao Jin listened to their conversation and saw that they were very worried about how the craftsmen would live under the rule of long hair in the future. He sighed and couldn't help jumping off the beam and laughing, "Why is it difficult to live?"

Four people were shocked! Wuda stared roundly and quickly clenched his fists with both hands; Lu Yi and Lu Xiang were about to copy the guy; but He Anping did not move - I don't know whether he was calm or slow to react.

Zhao Jin was afraid that they would make a fuss and immediately arched his hand and said, "Don't be surprised! I am the one who robbed the court the day before yesterday! Just because of the guidance of General Li, I came here to visit the position.

If the weirdo doesn't fight, it turns out that it is the robbery that caused a lot of storm in the city! As soon as He Anping heard this, he immediately stopped Wuda, Lu Yi and Lu Xiang and returned the salute to Zhao Jin: "It turned out to be a strange man! He was so talented that he saw the strange man save General Li the day before yesterday and ran away, but he didn't know if General Li was safe or not?

"General Li is safe!" Zhao Jin smiled and said, "There are also Xiao Yu, Yan Shizhong and so on. They all asked me to greet you."

When the four heard that Li Du and others, who had taken care of them before, were all safe. The strange people came here to show kindness and should not be malicious. They couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Lu Yi and Lu Xiang put down the stool that was about to smash Zhao Jin and arched his hand and said, "It turns out that he is a strange man under his feet. Disrespectful and disrespectful!"

Uda used to help sick and overworked craftsmen, often thanks to Li Da and others for their advice to noble officials, he has always been grateful. Now that I heard that Qixia saved Li Tu and others, Wu Da was also happy. He quickly picked up his fist and laughed and said, "Qi Xia was originally the benefactor of General Li, and that is also our benefactor. Don't be surprised!"

Zhao Jin held his fist and smiled, "No wonder. In fact, it's me who wants to apologize. It's not strange to jump off the room like this.

We have been polite to each other for a while. He Anping asked the topic again: "Qixia just said, 'What's the difficulty of living?' Do you dare to say that Qixia has a good strategy? I hope you are enlightened!"

Zhao Jin nodded, went to the table and sat down rudely, saying, "I have a big plan!" It can save the suffering people of the whole city, and from then on, the slaves will turn over! I don't know if you would like to listen to me?"

All four of them arched their hands and said, "May Wen Qixia see the teaching!"

Zhao Jin greeted all four people to sit down and talked to them in detail. At the beginning, he was inevitably told that he was a disciple of immortals, practiced in a fairy mountain far away from the world, had subdued the three demons, and now the nine-day Xuannu has made herself experience in the lower world... and so on. The four were shocked, hurriedly left their seats to worship, and called "fairy heroes".

When ancient people do great things, they often have to borrow some magical names to attract people and inspire people. Since ancient times, there have been countless examples of such cases - Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, saying that there was a fox called "Great Chu Xing, King Chen Sheng"; Liu Bang said that he beheaded a white snake and was the son of the White Emperor, and he himself was the son of the Red Emperor; Liu Xiu fought the world and always claimed that he was the true son of heaven who should astronomy and the lower whisper, and also said that he His 28 generals are the 28th of the upper world...

Even after the Yuan Dynasty, such things still emerge one after another. The White Lotus Religion and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gathered millions of people and dominated the world. The former led to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and the latter almost ruled with the Qing court.

If there is no magical name as a call, it is not so easy to do big things; but Zhao Jin doesn't want to be too magical... Because it's not a way to always pretend to be a ghost!

Therefore, Zhao Jin quickly modestly said that he could not be called a "fairy hero", so he turned the topic to serious matters and explained a series of plans between himself and the 22 riders to the four leaders.

The four leaders were fascinated and forgot to answer for a moment. Do it vigorously, change your fate and make achievements from now on! Not only for yourself, but also for the people of the world! Why don't they get excited when they encounter such an opportunity?

Zhao Jin was still afraid that they would hesitate and said, "Wuda leader, Lu brothers! Seeing that you are so majestic, if you don't do your career, won't it be in vain for God to give you this good body? Mr. Anping, you know, Zhang Bin's camp and Wang Meng's lice are all based on opportunity! I would like to entrust the heavy responsibility to you. I wonder if sir can condescend to serve me?

He Anping's meditation was settled, so he arched his hand: "If you are not a depressed wandering soul, why do you have it? How dare you compare with Zhang Bin and Wang Meng? However, if the lord does not give up, he will not be the power of dogs and horses!" After saying that, he stepped back a few steps and bowed down.

It turns out that He Anping not only worships the art of faith, but also admires the immortal disciples, and is also alert. He estimates that there is such a lord, Li Da and others have fallen in love with him. If he follows him and takes him as the leader to launch a craftsman and bitter uprising in the whole city, there is much hope for success. Therefore, after thinking about it, He Anping changed his mind to call Zhao Jin "Lord" and worship respectfully.

Wuda, Lu Yi and Lu Xiang also listened unbearablely, just because they respected He Anping and had to wait for him to make a statement first. He Anping was resourceful. Now that he had decided, the three of them were happy to follow each other and followed the Lord.

(to be continued in the next section)