Chapter 141 Siege Equipment
Wei Ming Wowo said: "Before attacking Rongxian, there must be regular combat meetings, and then take the lives of the generals. Then bring troops to surrender."
Ouyang asked: "Who is your master?"
"The matter is confidential, and I dare not disclose it. Whether the matter is successful or not is unknown. The Lord just asked the humble official to come and explore the way first." Wei Ming Wowo said: "Since lord is so generous, I will wait for good news. Goodbye."
"Let's go slowly and see General Wei's famous."
As soon as Wei Mingwo left, Ouyang, Liu Qi and Li Han said in unison: "There is a fraud."
The three of them looked at each other for a while and laughed again. Li Han first said, "Weiming is the original surname of the Tuoba clan of the Western Xia royal family. The people of Xixia depended on the Tang Dynasty and were given the Li surname. However, over the years, some Tuoba clans have begun to turn back to the surname of Weiming to show independence. It is not impossible to betray Weiming, but the probability is much smaller. Look at Weiming Shouquan when the generals were about to bomb the camp, they would rather go back and be punished than follow the betrayal. So I feel something is strange. I think they borrowed Weiming Shouquan's surname to paralyze us."
Liu Qi said: "After many defections, the Xixia army sent 500 people from the remaining 1,000 troops to monitor the garrison troops, while the garrison troops monitored the central and rear troops to prevent defections. It is easy to escape one or two people, but it is probably not easy to hide such a big move from the 5,000 troops from the garrison troops. How did Lord Ou feel that the other party was cheating?"
Ouyang said ashamedly: "I didn't think so deeply about it. I feel that the other party should send at least someone who can sell a price-saving person. Not to mention the quote first, it's so refreshing... Just like doing business, most of these people are either robbing and scouting the spot or using counterfeit coins."
"I didn't expect that the wisdom of the Xixia people was even higher. In the war with Song, they used to make many plans of alienation and deception. Now they will rebel." Liu Qi smiled and said, "It's just that they are too inexperienced. At first glance, there are so many flaws."
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The next day, Zhang Bangchang asked someone to give me an explanation, and left Rongxian and returned to Beijing without hesitating. At the same time, Liu Qi's letter of letter was also sent to the court. He was responsible for the general, and it was his main responsibility to arrest the traitor. He explained that he would be much more powerful than Ouyang's statement.
In the past two days, the number of deserters from Xixia who came to Rong County increased a lot. Liu Qi was abnormal and suddenly said that even if everyone was willing, he would not be assigned to the Song army, but sent them to Qinzhou for transfer. After a while, it was time for the second negotiation.
The Xixia people only came to Li Renli. They talked for a long time and did not get to the point. Then Li Zongli began to taste the wine brought by Ouyang, and Ouyang also drank it with him. So the negotiation day passed like this.
More than ten days later, when Rongxian was waiting for news from the Han Dynasty, Zhang Bangchang, who returned to Tokyo, participated in Ouyang, Li Han, Liu Qi and Han Shizhong. The reason was very simple. The charge was to violate the imperial pen. Violating the imperial pen was a crime. Violating the imperial pen was a serious crime in ancient China, which was equivalent to deceiving the emperor. It makes sense to say that these people regarded peace talks as nothing, and detained the other party's peace talks and ignored the imperial edict for their own selfish interests.
However, at the court meeting, Chen Dong, a student of the Taizong, said that the people of Xixia did not dare to negotiate with Ouyang, so they bribed Zhang Bangchang to change the peace talks and lead the generals. Everyone understands this. The people of Xixia were afraid of Ouyang's money, and it was indeed difficult to negotiate with Ouyang. Liu Qi did not submit a statement to the emperor, but Chen Dong, a loyal and righteous man recommended by Dali Temple, the censor and Li Gang. As expected, the first two departments had no sound at all, and Chen Dong jumped out without fear. He also had a confession in his hand. The confession was provided by the shopkeeper of Yangping Bank in Qinzhou. It was proof that someone opened an account there not long ago, using Zhang Bangchang's name, with a 100,000 yuan account. Moreover, the accountants in the store could prove that this person carried the Xixia military talisman.
Zhang Bangchang cried out for justice and said that since he had sneaked into the Song Dynasty, why did he still carry military talismans to expose his identity?
Chen Dong scolded that it was because he could freely travel to and from the border between the Western Xia, because there were no military talismans and would be arrested during this period.
While speaking well, he made reasonable excuses. Zhao Yu was very troubled and asked all officials, but there was no unified opinion. So he followed the procedures to review Jiao Dali Temple. If it was innocent, it could mean that Ouyang and the others did violate the pen. If it was not innocent, it would mean that Ouyang and the others had made contributions.
Cai Jing asked at the meeting whether he would send another peace talks envoy.
Zhao Yu directly rejected it, and the Xixia people's plan of discord cannot succeed.
Zhang Bangchang only realized one thing after he went to the prison. His biggest mistake was to fight with money. His wealth was worse than Ouyang. But Ouyang was smashed by money. Everyone knew that this guy was a rich man, and his money was not smashed by the censor. He used 100,000 guan. Why didn't he expect this person to use such a method?
There is nothing bad, only worse. The Royal News never criticized the officials of the court, and at most it was to say that gossip news was a little eye-catching. But this time, it was out of the ordinary and violent news: Zhang Bangchang was suspected of a traitor, and he participated in the fight on the front line and reported successive reports of General Han, General Liu, Lord Ou and Lord Li. The description was very detailed, saying that Liu Qi caught a Song army scout who colluded with the people of Xixia. The scout accidentally revealed that the people of Xixia were afraid of Song's offensive and wanted to make a plan of alienation. Then the people of Xixia transferred money in Qinzhou and transferred tickets from nearby states to Zhang Bangchang's name. Of course, the newspaper also said that the matter was still unclear, and it is not ruled out that it was possible that the Xixia people deliberately framed Zhang Bangchang for 100,000 yuan. The newspaper was still very objective and only explained the facts. Of course, some of them were fake facts of the interview.
The excuse for saying that the people of Xixia framed Zhang Bangchang was a bad one, and no one knew that Zhang Bangchang had no value in framed him. According to this inference, the charge of traitor was almost confirmed. Public opinion interfered with the judiciary, and Dali Temple had preconceived ideas from whether there were any problems to what was wrong with the investigation.
Zhao Yu from the palace received a secret copy from Li Han. After reading it, he was silent for a long time. Then he sighed and stopped interfering in the matter. He ignored any ministers who submitted an imperial envoy and sent someone to Li Gang to allow the mobilization of logistics supplies from Lizhou Road, and also approved the procurement plan for Ouyang Military Factory.
As an emperor, Zhao Yu still has at least political awareness. Needless to say, Song Zhengjun has two articles, Han Shizhong and Liu Qi are both promoted by themselves and entrusted with important tasks. The purpose of her negotiations is very simple, just stop when she gets along. Now these four people have expressed that they can continue to fight, and she can only support her.
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According to spies, the large-scale siege equipment in Xixia has been in place, including torsional crossbows, ladders, cannon cars, siege cars, collision cars, and buses. There are also rides, hook cars, trains, goose falcons, etc., and all the belongings of Xixia were taken out.
Originally, the defenders could change five or even ten cities by relying on cities, but the appearance of these equipment changed this fact. Liu Qi felt very stressed. Don’t underestimate these. For example, the ladder truck can be raised higher than the city wall. It can not only overlook the city, but also suppress the city with bows and arrows, and can climb directly. The weakness of these equipment is that it is afraid of melee combat and must be protected by soldiers. In the past, the tactics were to use infantry to suppress the equipment, which means that large-scale combat was to start.
Liu Qi said: "According to detailed information, these equipment are now assembled in the rear battalion, and with the coordination of various departments, it is expected that it will be pushed to the front battalion in three days and then attack. If these equipment cannot be destroyed within three days, Longxian may not be able to defend it."
Ouyang shook his head: "The enemy distributed more than 10,000 garrison troops to protect it. It may be very difficult to attack and buy it. In fact, it may not be impossible to defend it. The artillery range is very long. Most of the equipment is made of wooden structure this time, and the road surface is messed up by General Liu, so it should be suppressed."
"We have talked about this matter earlier. If the Western Xia army cannot charge decisively, our army will definitely win, but if these equipment are equipped with decisively and decisively, it is probably dangerous for the county to be in danger." Liu Qi said: "My defenders have many enemies and are not very morale, and they must seriously undermine the enemy's spirit to reverse the whole situation."
“How to do it?”
Liu Qi said: "Contact our Xixia soldiers who surrendered and bring explosives into the enemy camp to ignite..."
"No," Ouyang shook his head and said, "These people are just greedy for money. They are unlikely to take such a big risk to help us transport explosive packs. And it is not enough if they are small, and they are easily noticed by the enemy when they are large."
Liu Qi smiled and said, "I don't understand the meaning of the last general. There are many people, and there are not so many people willing to sacrifice their lives for money. But what if I only send one explosive bag? I even only send one hand-swinging cannon? My dear, these equipment must be coordinated by various departments. At this time, there must be many generals gathering. If I can come to the center to bloom and kill a few, the attack time will definitely be postponed. Now our advantage is that all the troops in the Xixia Army have spies we have bought. Forget it, if these people are willing to take risks for money, it means that these people value money. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. I believe there are still some people who are willing to take risks."
The Western Xia army was mixed with all the units, except for the Proton Army and the garrison troops. It was normal for these people to get together and not know each other, which provided a good environment for the Song army to send bribes. Ouyang shook his head: "If you want to talk about other units, this central army tent is composed of 500 Proton Army. Everyone saw that after this Proton Army was captured by all of us, they rebelled one of them. They were very loyal, and it might not be easy to get in."
"Let Xizuo grab Zhanglan and break Zhanglan's legs. Use a car to push Zhanglan to the enemy camp to seek credit. When he arrived outside the central army, the Proton Army advanced to the central army. Zhanglan convinced Wei Ming Shouquan. When the generals heard that Zhanglan was captured, they would definitely come to watch. At this time, the explosive pack hidden in the car was lit..."
"That chapter of the general turned into dust." Ouyang said firmly: "Don't agree."
Liu Qi said: "Sir, this is the battlefield, there is no kindness of a woman. General Zhang will definitely not refuse..."
Chapter completed!