Chapter 63: Equipment Replacement
"Li He."
Just as Li He and Zhai Hu were standing at the top of the city and looking at the Qin army station in the distance, a crisp female voice sounded behind him.
The two turned their heads and then saw Liang Ji walking along the way.
Today, she is still wearing the small leather armor that fits her body, her hair is tied with a girl's bun, and her petite and lovely appearance makes every soldier passing by with an inexplicable smile.
Although the soldiers knew that the only thing this young master could do was to stand in front of the city gate tower as a mascot, this did not damage their love for the young master at all. First, Liang Ji was cute, and second, she would cry for the sacrificed soldiers, and would also blush with her face to play the folk songs that depicted the love between men and women.
Therefore, the soldiers in the city liked this young king very much, whether it was the soldiers of Shaoliang or the soldiers of Wei.
Even some soldiers noticed the young master's innocence and deliberately teased her about the love between men and women, making the girl's face flushed.
Of course, this matter cannot be seen by Dong Liangjun.
"Li He, Li He."
Calling Li He's name, Liang Ji quickly walked to Li He, put his hands on Li He's left hand, and said with a look of longing and excitement: "I heard that you attacked the Qin army's commander's tent last night. Two hundred and six people went, and two hundred and six people returned. No one was damaged but killed at least hundreds of Qin soldiers. It's really amazing, so amazing..."
He was looked at by a beautiful and cute girl with admiration. Even Li He couldn't help feeling inexplicably comfortable. He actually wanted to reach out and touch Liang Ji's head. Unfortunately, Dong Liangjun, who followed Liang Ji, was staring at him fiercely at this moment.
"Two, let's discuss it in the city gate building."
Dong Liangjun walked up and quietly pulled Liang Ji's hand with Li He's left arm down quietly.
A moment later, Dongliang Jun, Zhai Hu, Xiayang Jun, Li He and Fan Hu sat in the city gate tower, while Liang Ji sat in the main seat.
No one cared about Li He's position being just a 500 general. After all, everyone present understood that this young man would be on an equal footing with them sooner or later, and the time would not be too long.
Just look at Liang Ji's attitude towards this young man.
"Everyone."
With a light cough, Dongliang Jun came to an opening remark: "Thank you to the young master's efforts, the morale of the soldiers in the city is still very strong, but Dongliang is still facing a major crisis. According to the soldiers on the city's city's observations of the Qin army's income, the Qin army is stepping up the construction of siege equipment. Once the construction is completed, it will be difficult for our Dongliang to be safe. I wonder what are the corresponding strategies you have?"
"Retract troops if necessary."
Zhai Hu glanced at Li He and said in a deep voice: "I have discussed this with Li He many times. The purpose of defending Dongliang is to let the Qin army know my Shaoliang's determination and cheat some supplies from Wei State. There is no need to have to fight the Qin army here..."
“With that being said…”
Dongliang doctor Fan Hu frowned and interrupted, "But the terrain of the old Liang is not much better than that of Dongliang. If Dongliang is abandoned, I am worried that the Qin army will march straight into..."
If Dongliang was the first line of defense discussed by everyone, then the old Liang was the second line of defense. The defenders of Jieshi relied on the Qingshui and the old Liang to resist the Qin army. If even this line of defense was broken by the Qin army, they could only defend the last city Shaoliang City.
This is the biggest problem that small countries cannot stop the invasion of big countries - there is almost no depth to speak of.
"Drag a little longer."
Li He pondered for a moment and said, "Tonight, I will take the surprise troops to attack the Qin army again to see if I can destroy the siege equipment built by the Qin army."
Hearing this, everyone turned to look at him. After a while, Fan Hu said with some hesitation: "General Li Wubai is willing to lead the surprise troops to the Qin army's garrison to take risks. I admire him, but... please be careful."
Li He nodded slightly.
Everyone knows that Li He led a surprise troops to attack the tent of the 200,000 Qin army yesterday, causing the Qin army to lose face. How could the Qin army not beware of this tonight?
At this time, it undoubtedly requires great courage to attack the Qin army.
After the meeting, Zhai Hu and Li He walked on the city wall.
He reminded Li He: "Don't underestimate Ying Qian. The reason why you were able to touch the Qin camp yesterday was that Ying Qian didn't expect you to swim around the Dongpo. Now that he has suffered a loss, he must have some precautions... As for you who said you wanted to destroy those siege equipment, I think Ying Qian had expected this matter, and would definitely send heavy troops to guard those siege equipment, and even set up ambush in advance... Don't force it."
"I understand." Li He nodded slightly.
In fact, he understood the truth about Zhai Hu, but he thought he could not sit still and wait for death.
Didn't he do nothing and watched the Qin army build siege equipment that could capture Dongliang?
If you don’t even dare to take this risk, then what else can you do to resist the Qin army?
Of course, even if he had decided to take risks, Li He would not do it blindly. After saying goodbye to Zhai Hu, Li He got off the city and summoned Li Ying, Han Yan, Wu Heng, Xu Wu, Gao Yun and Hou Yun in the city, and prepared to discuss the tactics.
"I'll talk about it first this time."
When Li He asked everyone to express their opinions, Han Yan spoke first. He glanced at Li Ying and said with a smile: "If our deputy general spoke, we might have to nod."
Li Ying smiled and said, "General Han Bai looked down on Li too much."
"Okay, hurry up." Li He waved his hand and interrupted everyone's flattery.
Seeing this, Han Yan immediately looked calm and said in a deep voice: "I'm not bragging about our surprise soldiers. For now, my surprise soldiers are the only one who can threaten the Qin army. Last night's multiple sneak attacks, my surprise soldiers killed hundreds of Qin soldiers without any damage, and even attacked his commander's tent. Logically speaking, the Qin army had no chance to let us go... Since he did not build a camp today, it means that he will definitely send heavy troops to guard the siege equipment tonight. What's more, it is very likely to use these siege equipment to lure us..."
Although Han Yan's words were almost exactly the same as Zhai Hu's warning, Li He nodded with approval.
He has always advocated that the surprise soldiers should have their own judgment ability, and at present, his decision was correct. After several separate battles, Han Yan's horizons gradually broadened and he began to learn to think like a general.
Some people say that soldiers do not need their own judgment ability and just obey orders. This is actually true, but this is about ordinary troops and is not suitable for Shaoliang's soldiers.
In Li He's vision, he hoped that every Shaoliang soldier could think about the problem from the tactical and strategic level like the general, so that he could pose the greatest threat to the enemy and the enemy country.
Maybe in the future, a few surprise soldiers can paralyze a city and play with several times or dozens of times the enemy troops in applause.
Following Han Yan, Xu Wu also spoke: "We can try to distract the Qin army from the attention of the Qin army... Since the Qin army will most likely prevent us from destroying its siege equipment tonight, then we will not move these siege equipment for now and continue to hunt down the patrolling Qin soldiers. When the Qin soldiers can't hold back, we will suddenly take action and destroy the siege equipment in one fell swoop!"
"Um."
Li He nodded thoughtfully, thinking Xu Wu had a good idea.
From the side, Li Ying, who had not made any noise for a long time, raised a very critical question: "When hunting Qin soldiers, I think we should change to a more worry-free and labor-saving method, such as using a crossbow."
"crossbow……"
Li He touched his smooth chin, and countless imaginations of ambushing Qin's soldiers with powerful crossbows flashed through his mind.
The problem is...
"This brother hasn't learned it yet." Gao Yun said with a frown.
That's right, although the crossbow gear is also in the training course of the surprise soldiers, the war broke out so suddenly that the surprise soldiers have not yet started training on the use of the crossbow gear.
As the saying goes, sharpshooters are fed with arrows, and this is true for both bows and crossbows. Although the threshold for crossbows is slightly lower than that of bows, they are not easy to master skills.
Fortunately, Li He also has some personal experience in this to teach the surprise soldiers, such as three points and one line, which is also applicable to crossbow tools, and it is easier to concentrate targets than general shooting methods.
However, this required him to say hello to Mo Jian and ask the Mo family disciples to help transform a batch of crossbow tools and add a sight to the crossbow tools.
"I'll find a way to do this."
After clapping his palms, Li He disbanded several people, and then took Li Ying to find the giant Mo Jian.
When Li He found Mo Jian, this juzi and a group of Mo family disciples were repairing weapons for the soldiers guarding the city.
Li He talked to Mo Jian about his thoughts, and Mo Jian suddenly felt his eyes lit up and said repeatedly: "This is easy, let's try to transform a pair of crossbow tools immediately."
So he called a few Mo family disciples and modified a crossbow according to Li He's request.
It's just adding a sight to the original crossbow tool, and it will be done in a moment.
Li He tried with this crossbow, and then took everyone outside the house to find a target and tried a few arrows. He was not very satisfied: "The accurate head... was a little worse than I expected..."
Mo Jian was a little embarrassed. He took the crossbow tool from Li He's hand and checked it a few times. He quickly found the reason. He pointed to the groove on the crossbow tool and said to Li He: "It should be a problem with this arrow groove. After being used for a long time, it has been worn a little harder. It should be fine if we replace the newly built crossbows."
As he said that, he asked several Mo family disciples to transform their newly-made crossbow.
Sure enough, the new crossbow has excellent accuracy, and the modified sight is simply what it means to shoot wherever it is.
Even Li Ying, who had never been in contact with crossbows, quickly mastered the shooting skills and shot the straw man as the target in succession of cheers from everyone.
In addition to being happy, Li He said to Mo Jian: "Juzi, I want such a crossbow. Before nightfall tonight, can you prepare two hundred pairs of crossbows for us..."
"no problem."
Mo Jian promised to come down with confidence.
Although the military promised by the Wei State had not yet been transported to Shaoliang, during this period, the Mo family disciples worked day and night and had already built a lot of crossbow tools for the Dongliang defenders. If the materials for making bowstrings were not enough, more could be made. Just two hundred crossbows were nothing to these craftsmen.
After nightfall that night, Li He removed more than 20 severely injured soldiers and asked them to stay in the city to recover from their injuries. He took more than 180 other strange soldiers and left Dongliang City again and headed towards the Qin army's garrison.
Compared to yesterday, each of them carried a pair of modified crossbow tools and fifty arrows.
Although the weight of each person has increased a lot, every surprise soldier seems excited because he has obtained new equipment.
puff--
As the first Qin soldiers patrolled soldiers walked, they suddenly fell to the ground and became victims of the first use of crossbow tools by surprise soldiers. Nearly 200 surprise soldiers launched a more fierce hunt on this land than last night.
Chapter completed!