Chapter 320 Treasure
Beigong Jing was helpless: "You are so angry about what I said to you? If this continues, you will sooner or later cause a big disaster!"
Li Rui didn't care: "There are only two of us here, what are we afraid of? By the way, why did that old turtle question our record?"
Beigong Jing said: "He thought our army had completely defeated the Hulu. The Hulu would give up the city of Yiyang in a hurry and flee in Wangbei. As long as he sent troops, he could easily recover the lost land. So he brought 20,000 imperial guards to fight out of the city excitedly. He wanted to get the bargain, but he didn't want to give up Yiyang at all. He wouldn't be able to pick up the bargain, so he was so angry."
Li Rui curled his lips: "If he has the ability, he will defeat Yiyang by himself and defeat the Hu people. He always thinks about how much is it to get a bargain? He is still embarrassed to question other people's achievements? It's so big!"
Beigong Jing said: "Who made him the Grand Marshal of the current dynasty? His face is so big."
Li Rui asked with some concern: "Major General, you didn't suffer any loss, are you?"
Beigong Jing said: "No. The Sheep Master is not bad to me and protects me everywhere. He is a popular man in front of the emperor, and the Grand Marshal dares not easily break up with him. With him protecting me, I will naturally be fine."
I just suffered a lot of anger.
Li Rui said: "Shi Zhong Yang is quite interesting."
Beigong Jing said, "Well, he cherishes talents very much." He looked at Li Rui deeply: "It can be seen that he loves you very much. You must show off to let him know your ability. After this battle, he will turn around and recommend it to the emperor. Your life will not be far away when you have achieved success!"
If it were ordinary people who heard this, they would definitely be very happy, but Li Rui knew clearly that the Western Jin Dynasty had only a few months left before the server was turned off. At this time, it would be useless to get the emperor's appreciation. Maybe it would make him die faster. He said: "I don't want to be successful. I just want to find a place that will not be affected by the war to spend a few days of peace."
Beigong Jing sighed: "There will not be affected by the war? Now from Liaodong to Jiangnan, from Guanlong to Bohai, there are wars everywhere. Where can I find a place that will not be affected by the war? Li Rui, I know you don't like war, you just want to find a peaceful place to hide and live your own life, but... this doesn't work, how can you get the eggs when you collapse the nest? If you don't destroy these Hu people, no matter where you hide, the war will follow you like a shadow!"
He is the truth. Now in Liaodong, the Xianbei tribes attacked each other; in Hebei, warlords such as Wang Jun fought with each other, and in addition, the militant armed forces of the Qihuo Army were wandering everywhere; not to mention the Central Plains, the Huns and Han Kingdoms had to attack the Central Plains every year. Wherever the troops were heading, the prosperous towns were razed to the ground, and countless people turned into dry bones; in Shandong, Cao Yi and Gou Xi were tug-of-war, and they fought hard to separate; in the Jiangnan area, in the
In the civil unrest, the peasant uprisings completely delayed the military forces of the Western Jin Dynasty in the Jiangnan region and could not free up his hands to rescue Luoyang; in Shanxi, Guanzhong, Longyou, Xiongnu, Qianghu, Dihu, Wuhuan, Dingling... A large number of people who could not name were fighting in a big battle, and the Hu people and Han people, Hu people and Hu people were fighting! Looking at the entire Western Jin Dynasty, there was really no pure land that could make people get rid of war and live a peaceful life!
Li Rui also sighed: "Eliminate the Hu people? How easy is it? Even the great Jin can do something that even the great Han cannot do? What's more, the great Jin is still in ruins and internal struggles continue!"
Beigong Jing was silent for a while and whispered: "Do your best and leave your destiny."
Obviously, he himself did not have the confidence to destroy the Hu people, clear the sea and end the troubled times. This was really too difficult. The Jin army repelled the Hu people's attacks again and again, but the Hu people could always quickly accumulate more powerful forces to launch more fierce offensives. Hu generals such as Shi Le, Liu Yao, Hu Yan and other generals also matured rapidly in the war and became increasingly difficult to deal with, while the Western Jin Dynasty was getting weaker and weaker. The future was dark, and no one knew where the road was. To pacify the Hu people's rebellion and return the world to peace? This may only be a beautiful dream.
The two of them stopped talking and just sat in the wind, watching the craftsmen work hard, pouring buckets of crude oil into the hilariously simple equipment, and processing cans of hot turbulent oil.
From time to time, howling came from afar. The Hu people were using whips to drive out the captured Jin soldiers and the people to work overnight to strengthen the fortifications. From morning to now, the poor people have been busy for at least sixteen hours and are exhausted, but they cannot stop. As long as they are slowing down their hands, the thick and long whip will immediately whip with the wind, tearing up the thin clothes on their bodies, and sweeping away a large piece of flesh. People are constantly falling to the ground due to hunger, coldness and overwork. When the Hu people go up, whether they are dead or alive, they will be cut on their chests, and then let the prisoners who are almost exhausted throw the person out, as if they are dealing with a piece of domestic garbage.
In this chaotic world, life is so worthless.
Although this practice of not treating prisoners as humans at all, it is extremely efficient. In just one day and one night, the defense system outside Yiyang was basically built. Two trenches, three layers of antlers, and several miles of fences made people feel a headache just by looking at it.
What is even more troublesome is that Yiyang is not an isolated city. It is backed by Phoenix Mountain. The Huns and Han army had already built extremely strong camps on Phoenix Mountain. Hu Yanyan only left 7,000 people to defend the city. The main force was deployed to Phoenix Mountain, forming a condescending momentum against the Jin army. When the Jin army attacked Yiyang, they had to beware of the thousands of iron cavalry swooping down from Phoenix Mountain and taking advantage of their own way. When attacking Phoenix Mountain... Not to mention how much chance of winning the attack on the mountain in this ghost weather full of thin ice and snow, the casualties alone are unbearable, not to mention that the defenders in Yiyang City are likely to take the initiative to attack and give you a shot from behind!
Anyway, it's a headache, very headache!
The Jin army was also actively preparing for this battle. A large amount of materials and equipment were transported by horses and chariots and handed over to the troops preparing to launch the attack. At this time, Luoyang City was short of food, medicine, firewood, charcoal, clothes to keep warm, and everything needed for normal life, but there were no shortage of various killing weapons. Because Luoyang was very close to Yiyang, and the road was flat and the transportation efficiency was extremely high, there were tens of thousands of bundles of arrows and thousands of ammunition used by trenchers in just three days.
Thousands of crossbow arrows for giant bed crossbows, tens of thousands of armor, countless powerful bows, swords, guns, swords, and food and fodder that people ate and chewed by horses were transported to the Jin army camp and stacked like mountains. Sima Yue rarely led his troops to fight, so he naturally wanted to show off his appearance to the people of the world, so he was not stingy in the allocation of materials. Even the Liangzhou army, which he had always disliked, received a large number of military supplies. They could finally take off the armor that was already covered with marks of knife-cutting arrows and replace it with a new one.
At the same time, he also received 200,000 arrows. It has to be said that the arrows equipped by the Jin army themselves, whether the long arrows used for the strong bows or the short arrows used for the strong crossbow, were much better than those seized from the Hu people. The arrows of the Hu people were too rough and they were not used to it.
The arrows seized by the Liangzhou army in the Battle of Xincheng were also transported over in bundles. Looking at the arrows, Beigong Jing looked in a difficult face, and she felt that it was not use or not.
Li Rui asked: "Major General, what's wrong?"
Beigong Jing pointed to the arrows with rough workmanship: "These arrows... seem to be useless for the time being, what should I do?"
Li Rui looked at it and said, "This is easy to deal with, I will cover it!"
Beigong Jing asked: "Do you have a way?"
Li Rui said: "I have a solution!"
Beigong Jing asked: "What are you going to do about it?"
Li Rui said: "Make a little improvement on the bed crossbow to let the enemy know what the real rain of arrows is!"
As he said that, someone made a bed crossbow and asked the craftsmen to bold the bow strings of the bed crossbow. This was not difficult. It was nothing more than removing the strings of the bed crossbow, adding one more string, and twisting the two strings into one before installing them. The craftsmen quickly prepared them.
Li Rui asked the blacksmith to knock out an iron bucket for him with iron sheet when the craftsmen were busy. This was not difficult, and the blacksmith made it for him in a few seconds.
Then, he asked the craftsmen to fix the iron bucket to the bowstring. This was still not difficult and everyone could do it easily.
When everything was ready, Li Rui brought sharp arrows and put them into the iron bucket one by one, filling thirty or forty pieces in one breath...
"emission!"
With his order, the crossbow was fired and the stirrup was trembling. The iron bucket, which had dozens of arrows in one breath, suddenly shot forward along the chute. When it reached the end of the chute, it stopped suddenly as the bowstring returned to a standstill. The arrows in the iron bucket were thrown out of the iron bucket at an extremely high speed, turning into a rain of arrows and flying into the distance. In an instant, a piece of "reed" planted a piece of "reeds" in an open space more than 600 meters away!
Seeing this terrifying firepower density, the craftsmen were stunned.
Beigong Jing's eyelids twitched: "Is this your solution?"
Li Rui said: "Yes, using this method, you can fire thirty or forty arrows at a time to cover the enemy's large-scale firepower. If twenty or thirty crossbows are fired at the same time, the power will be extremely amazing!"
Zhang Xiong said: "But in this way, it will be difficult to be accurate!"
Li Rui said: "Oh, it's said that it's covered by a large area, so it doesn't matter at all, right! Dozens or hundreds of arrows are covering your position at the same time. Unless you will move instantly, there will be only one dead end!"
Beigong Jing's eyelids twitched even harder: "It's really raining arrows..."
Chapter completed!