37. Yangzhou City

On June 20, the wind is light and the clouds are light.

It's slightly rainy and sunny on the top of the magnose, and the tide is born in Guoli, Yangzhou

War is unexpected.

On this morning, Zhao Ze came to the foot of the Koi Mountain in the southeast of Yangzhou. The accompanying personnel were Yang Wenguang, Zhe Xiaolan, Mu Yunhan, Lu Jun and Zhang Zai. The security personnel did not count.

There are two hundred musketeers and one hundred axes hidden in the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, which are under the control of Shangguan Mei and Zhe Xiaolan's own captains respectively.

The monocular in Zhao Ze's hand gradually showed the whole picture of Yangzhou's red blue. The rebel flag was flying high. There were many defenders on the top of the city, most of whom had armor, and even their faces could be seen clearly. Those tall soldiers knew at a glance that they were from the Yizhou Tiger Wing Army, and now most of them have become officers. They are leading their brothers to guard all the important roads in the city.

The patrols are frequent, and there are army shadows everywhere in the city. It is impossible to make a surprise attack. There is about one-mile of open land on the southeast and northwest sides of Yangzhou City, and a rabbit will be found, not to mention heavily armed people.

Another point is that the city of Yangzhou is indeed tall and powerful. Even Zhao Ze is doubting how Wang Lun led his brothers in. How many people will die? If it were him, he would never dare to take this risk, because once he was defeated, he would face the danger of the collapse of the army.

"I saw it, I saw it. Yangzhou City is really extraordinary. What's the plan for everyone!" Zhao Ze put down the telescope in his hand and turned around and asked.

"Your Excellency, can you lend me a look?" Zhe Xiaolan blinked her single eyelid and asked curiously.

"Of course" Zhao Ze stretched out his hand and handed the telescope to Zhe Xiaolan's hand.

Yang Wenguang stared at Xiaolan and said, "Xiaolan, you are too presumptuous. How can you borrow what you love?"

"If you take care of it, the adults didn't say anything." Zhe Xiaolan raised her monocular, squinted her eyes and looked at Yangzhou. Suddenly, she screamed, "Oh, no, they pulled out the catapult."

"What?"

Zhao Ze hasn't recovered for a while. Yang Wenguang grabbed the telescope, stared at the tiger's eyes, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. "Oh, my God, fortunately my head is deflected"

In the field of vision, three huge catapults appeared, one big and two small, which seemed to be very familiar, but for a moment, he couldn't remember what to call it. Yang Wenguang quickly looked for the dusty memory in his mind. After a moment, a few words stopped in front of him.

"Tiger squat gun, it's a tiger squat gun, withdraw quickly, withdraw your lord!"

"Give it to me, who told you to see it?" Zhe Xiaolan was about to reach out to grab the binoculars when she heard Zhang Zai shouting behind his back: "Hide quickly, hide quickly, the stone is coming, the stone is coming, oh!"

Things suddenly changed. Several pieces of stone bullets of different sizes fell from the sky and fell under his feet with a swish. Several pieces just fell in front of Zhao Ze. He was so scared that he shrank his neck and sweated coldly. He said that he almost opened his head.

"Run, teacher" Zhang Zai was forced to retreat on the way down the mountain by several stone bullets, and was shouting to remind Zhao Ze to pay attention. However, Zhao Ze didn't hear it at all, because Zhe Xiaolan was hit in the leg by a stone, and Yang Wenguang fell down again. Mu Yunhan and Lu Jun were still on the top of the mountain and had no time to come down.

"Mom, spell it"

Zhao Ze shook off his arm and dodged left and right to Zhe Xiaolan's side. Seeing that her face was pale and trembling all over, he knew that the injury was not light, and he didn't care about any personal safety. He quickly took off the outer coat, wrapped Xiaolan's injured leg tightly, and fixed it, and then picked her up and fled down the mountain.

On June 20, the spying operation was frustrated, and Xiaolan was seriously injured. Yang Wenguang's head was bleeding, and several soldiers suffered minor bruises. Zhao Ze was simply surprising that he was unscathed.

After that, Zhang Zai said to Zhao Ze, "Teacher, you can finish it a little slower. You just left the shade of the tree, and the stone bomb arrived, smashing a hole in the place where Captain Xiaolan was lying. It's too dangerous. How could it be exposed!"

"Hey, I don't know how to be a teacher. Maybe..."

Just as Zhao Ze mentioned his guess to everyone, Yangzhou laughed a lot.

"The third brother really expected things to be like a god. Several dogs in the court really explored the situation in the city on the Magpie Mountain. If they hadn't brought people, our brothers could have taken the opportunity to kill them. Well, it's a trick," Wang Lun held up the bowl and said to the brother in the account.

"Not bad, big brother. I didn't expect that the day and night training would be a little effective. Those three tiger squatting cannons could resist the enemy." Zhou Wu could stand up and toast to the brothers, "Do it!"

"Do it!"

After taking a sip of wine, Qian Jingsheng was in a much better mood and said to Wang Lun, "Brother, we are a small victory this time. I hope we can win a big victory next time."

"Good brother, do it! I wish us a complete victory"

In the account, everyone raised their glasses and drank together again.

On the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Ze held a temporary pre-war meeting in the military camp in Elbow Town.

At the beginning of the meeting, it was presided over by Zhang Zai.

"Guys, everyone has seen what happened this morning. The anti-thief has a new trick. If we want to attack the city, we can only come to the hard, but we don't have the siege equipment and need to build it temporarily. What do you think?"

After Zhang Zai sat down, Yang Wenguang stood up and hugged his fist and said, "This is simple. I have always known how to build a siege in the army, but we did not bring a craftsman in the army on this trip, and we didn't even have a craftsman's camp. There is no way to create complex siege equipment, and the cloud ladder is still simple."

Mu Yunhan also stood up and said, "Your Excellency, I also know a little about the creation of siege objects. The problem is that we have too few hands. Even if we have complex equipment, how many people use it? It is unknown whether it will work."

"Yes, my lord, I also agree with Captain Mu Yun," Lu Jun got up and said.

After looking around at the people in the account, Zhao Ze looked at the sand table.

Pointing to a river in the northwest corner and asking, "How about there?"

Everyone walked in and frowned.

"Teacher, that's the Water Gate in Yangzhou. When there is a war, it will be closed, and you can't get in at all under the water."

"No, I didn't mean that"

Zhao Ze took out three small flags and planted them on the east, south and west sides of Yangzhou, and then ordered and said, "From tonight, Captain Yang, Captain Mu Yun and Lu Jun, the three of you will pull out several teams of people with war drums and go to a place outside Yangzhou City, ambushed here, here and here, and here respectively, and beat the drums at midnight. Jin blew the horn, beat the drums every hour, took turns to come to each team, and returned to the camp before dawn, and the rest of the people waited to build siege equipment during the day.

"Is this useful? "Teacher," asked Zhang Zai.

"Of course it's useful. This is called a tired trick, also called a suspicious trick. You play well. When the Yangzhou garrison neglects, it's time for us to show our faces," Zhao Ze said affirmatively.

"Your adult's strategy is good, so I'll go down and prepare for it. I'm going to toss the bastards in Yangzhou." Yang Wenguang gritted his teeth and said, hoping to climb over the wall immediately and cut off Wang Lun.

Mu Yunhan and Lu Jun also nodded in agreement and echoed, "Your Excellency, I admire you!"

Zhao Zeyang raised his hand and said, "Don't be in a hurry to admire it. You go down and go back to the camp to prepare for it. Come and report the results tomorrow. Let's all go."

"Yes, my lord"

After everyone left the big account, Zhang Zai also said goodbye to Zhao Ze and was about to turn around and leave, but he heard Zhao Ze say, "Zihou, wait a minute, I have something to tell you."

When Zhang Zai heard Zhao Ze call him, he quickly came to Zhao Ze and asked happily, "What's the teacher looking for Zihou?"

"It's not a big deal. I have something to trouble you to take someone to the water gate in the northwest of Yangzhou tonight and wrap this thing around the underwater iron fence like this. Remember to cooperate with the sound of drumming at midnight. Don't be careless. Wang Lun is more refined than a monkey!"

"Yes, students respect the teacher's order." After taking the package, Zhang Zai opened it and said with a smile, "Teacher, what's the use of this mud? Isn't it scattered as soon as it enters the water?"

"Hey, you don't know that this is not ordinary mud. Even if you encounter water, it's okay. There will be nothing to do in three months."

"This? That's all?" Zhang Zai blinked cunningly and said to himself that there must be an article in this mud.

"Yes, so you have to go and go back quickly. Don't let people find out. As a teacher, you don't want to say more. You are also a smart person to know. Go down. As a teacher, you still have to think about how to enter the city."

Zhang Zai saw that Zhao Ze was very serious, so he stopped asking more questions. After making a bow, he left the Chinese military camp and went down to prepare to sneak into the northwest water gate of Yangzhou tonight.