Chapter 215: A Million Siege, Offensive and Defensive Battle (6)
When Chen Pang sent the urgent report from Po Nucheng to the Baishan command post, Zhang Ping'an was sitting quietly beside Zhu Yin's body, burning paper money in an iron basin and whispering to her in a low voice. It seemed that Zhu Yin was just asleep, listening quietly to Zhang Ping'an's lightly talk. In this cold and bone-black cellar, Zhu Yin's body was well preserved, with a strand of black hair neatly covering her destroyed face.
Hao Yidao took the urgent report from Po Nu City and gently knocked on the wooden door of the cellar. When Zhang Ping'an heard the sound of the door, he knew that something must have happened, otherwise Hao Yidao would not disturb him at this time. He sighed lightly, helped Zhu Yin close the corner of the quilt and opened the door.
After reading the urgent report quickly, Zhang Ping'an did not rush to go upstairs, but slowly walked and thought about countermeasures. Zhang Ping'an was not optimistic about this kind of temporary cramming project. Because Tiecran City was working overtime to make fake men and fake armor. If all the people were transferred to catapults, the task of attacking the group would be postponed.
He kept thinking about walking back to the study room, but he didn't come up with any good idea. Gu Xin in the war room saw Zhang Ping'an passing through the war room without stopping, so he went directly to the study room. He had read the urgent report sent by Chen Pie, thinking that what Chen Pie and the others said was very reasonable.
But he was familiar with Zhang Dashuai's habits and did not dare to disturb Zhang Ping'an's ideas. So, he and Hao Yidao followed Zhang Dashuai one after another and entered the study.
Zhang Ping'an, who was sitting behind the desk, thought about it over and over again, and saw that there was no good idea. So he pushed open the table, took out two hand guns, and walked out the door. He wanted to take a rest by shooting the target and sort out his thoughts. He looked up and saw Gu Xinxun's gaze, and shook his head at him with a bitter face. Gu Xin still had great eyesight. He saw that Zhang Dashuai was patronizing with the hand gun but not the ammunition. So he grabbed a box of bullets from the table and followed quickly.
When Gu Xin took the bullet and chased Zhang Ping'an to the platform where he usually practiced targets, it was strange that Zhang Dashuai was fascinated by the personal soldiers practicing crossbows, holding a hand gun in one hand and holding his head, squatting on the ground.
Soon, Zhang Ping'an stood up, turned around and looked at Gu Xin and asked, "Have you figured out a solution?"
Gu Xin shook his head blankly. Zhang Ping'an pointed to the crossbow: "Stupid! Do you think of something?"
Regarding Zhang Dashuai’s reminder, Gu Xin shook his head quickly in confusion. Zhang Ping'an despised Gu Xin with a look of regret: "So stupid! There are so many crossbows in Ponucheng. Just let Uncle Li make the mold of the crossbow shell, and use the mold to make ice bombs!"
After saying that, Zhang Ping'an turned around and walked back. Gu Xin then realized and ran to write a reply.
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After receiving the urgent report from Zhang Ping'an, Chen Pie in the Po Nu City war room immediately handed it to Lu Xiangsheng. After reading it, Lu Xiangsheng nodded in admiration and said: "The Grand Marshal is amazing! Why didn't we expect such a simple method!"
Chen Pie did not accept Lu Xiangsheng's words, put on a bearskin windbreaker and ran to the craftsman's house. He found Li Tie, the master craftsman who was busy rushing to make a catapult, and immediately told him what Zhang Ping'an thoughts. After hearing this, Li Tie nodded repeatedly: "Ping'an is still my family is powerful! You will know how to come up with bad ideas!"
Chen Pie did not dare to talk back to Li Tie's complaints. He knew that Li Tie and his other masters were Zhang Ping'an's closest people. Except for Zhang Ping'an, no one in Ponucheng dared to talk back to them, even Lu Xiangsheng could not do it. Chen Pie could only smile and bow to Li Tie to blame him.
After receiving the latest guidance and suggestions of Zhang Ping'an, Li Tie quickly stopped the production of all the catapults in the wooden workshop. Li Tie's craftsmanship was really unspeakable. He personally led his apprentices to quickly make five ice-bombed wood molds. After filling the oil paper lining with hot water, he froze half a stick of incense in the drying ground outside the house when water drips into ice, opened the two molds to polish the burrs and obtained a complete ice bomb. Chen Pang used a crossbow made in the scholastic room, and after testing the three guns in the training ground of the Golden Wolf Camp, the effect was very good.
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng, who had just arrived at the training ground, was also very satisfied with the effect of the ice bomb after watching the ice bomb test shooting exercise. He bowed to Li Tie gratefully: "The master craftsman has trouble!"
Li Tie was very helpful to Lu Xiangsheng's kindness. Who is Lu Xiangsheng? He was the Jinshi master who came to the earth from Wenquxing. Even the Jinshi master bowed to him. Li Tie was so happy that he waved his hands repeatedly, saying that he didn't dare to say that he didn't dare.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiangsheng, who was very common in his opinion, made Li Tie and the others use their blood. They happily worked overtime overnight and made more than 500 molds. Chen Pear asked Xu Yian to arrange three thousand young men to make ice bombs overnight. At the same time, he sent two hundred molds to the outer castles and delivered a large amount of stock of oil paper to the front line castles.
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Zhang Ping'an, who was in the study of Baishan Command Post, was paced back and forth in the room at this moment, thinking about the next trends of the Jurchen Alliance and the Mongolian Lindan Khan Alliance. After a long time, he asked Gu Xin to come and discuss ways to deal with the enemy. After Gu Xin entered the door, Zhang Ping'an pointed at him and signaled him to close the door.
After Gu Xin closed the door knowingly, Zhang Ping'an sat on the chair behind the desk and asked Gu Xin to sit down: "The Jurchen's aura has been extinguished, and I guess the old slave is thinking about how to break the deadlock. I predict that if the old slave launches another large-scale attack and fails to succeed, he will have to withdraw his troops!"
According to a series of performances of the Jurchen troops, Gu Xin agreed with Zhang Dashen’s analysis and judgment: “I think so too. The Jurchens have never won much since the beginning of this battle. At most, Song Hu’s mountain troops were destroyed, but Tian Peng and Liu Qingshan were not destroyed on the periphery. If Tian Peng’s mountain troops could destroy the periphery of the Jurchens’ grain storage points, then our slave army would definitely win!”
"Don't pin your hopes on Tian Peng's mountain troops. The current situation is beneficial to us. I guess Lin Danhan's food will last for two months. The most difficult time will begin!" Zhang Ping'an still has a clear understanding of the current grim situation.
He believed that the more this time, Lin Danhan's Mongolian coalition would be more crazy. If he led the Pou Nu Army in the short term, the greater the harm it would be to Pou Nu City.
Gu Xin saw Zhang Ping'an's face full of melancholy, took out the attack direction map from the vine box beside the desk, and pointed to the lake between Baishan and Zhennucheng. He asked Zhang Ping'an: "Boss, I think the Jurchen troops will attack in this direction next time. Then we will blow the blast of the pre-buried here, threatening me that the attack terrain that threatens me to Baishan and Zhennucheng will no longer exist!"
Zhang Ping'an, who was staring at the map, obviously disagrees with Gu Xin's view on the war. He pointed to the map and said, "What you said makes sense. The destructible lake terrain here. When our army attacked, how could silver chariots pass through this complex terrain?"
Gu Xin was confident about Zhang Ping'an's questions. He lay on the table and pointed his hand at the map of the direction of the Slave City: "We go to the junction of the Jurchens and the Mongolian army! Isn't this the plan we decided when we were in Slave City?"
Zhang Ping'an looked at the map with tired eyes and pointed to the southwest of Zhennucheng, Lin Danhan's Mongolian troops stationed: "The Mongolian troops have masters in tactical skills! You must not underestimate the Mongolian coalition, otherwise the Pound City would not have such great pressure. By the way, how long has this battle been fought, why still don't know who formulated the offensive plan for Mongolia? What is the intelligence department of the State Administration for food!"
When Gu Xin heard Zhang Ping'an's complaint, he looked helpless: "Yi'an was responsible for the information on Po Nu City. I've seen the notice from him. The scout team on their side captured several Mongolian prisoners, but after interrogation, no valuable information was found. It is said that the person who came up with an idea for Lin Danhan was a Ming Dynasty man. I don't know what his name was, but only knew that his official position was Da Nayan. You have seen all these information!"
Zhang Ping'an nodded with a wry smile: "I have read this information, but I think it is not this person. Because the tactics formulated by the Mongolian coalition are very targeted, it seems to be implemented specifically to deal with the characteristics of my Pou Nu Army. Therefore, this person must have dealt with the Pou Nu Army. The Ming people mentioned in the intelligence seem to be from Datong, who surrendered to Lin Danhan after the Datong city broke. This person probably has never met my Pou Nu Army, so it must not be him. Gu Xin, is there such a possibility? This person may have been in my Pou Nu Army. Or is it the officer who surrendered to my Pou Nu Army?"
The mountain troops gave General Niu Shuang's surrender to the enemy, which gave General Zhang Dashen a certain theoretical basis. After hearing this, Gu Xin shook his head for a while: "It must not be an officer of the Pou Nu Army. An officer who can formulate such a targeted and strong tactics must be an officer of the Pou Nu Army of Thousand General. The officers above the Pou Nu Army of Thousand General have not been captured yet, and if there are any, they can only be a member of the Song Hu Mountain Army. Boss, it is not right. Not to mention whether the old slave will hand over the captured mountain army officer to Lin Danhan, the time is not right. The Mongolian coalition forces bypassed the defense line of the Pou Nu City from the mountains. At this time, Song Hu's mountain army had not been discovered by the Jurchens."
They both thought about it, but they couldn't think of who had such ability. Gu Xin suddenly thought of a possibility, and then shook his head negatively. Zhang Ping'an discovered Gu Xin's expression and asked: "Say whatever you think! Maybe it's useful."
"Is it a grassland mirror..."
Zhang Ping'an immediately knew that Gu Xin was talking about the wood grid of the grassland pearl, and shook his head. He didn't think there was such a possibility.
Qi Muge was in Ponu City for a long time, and she did not completely lose her freedom during her time in Ponu City. But it was said that this girl who did not understand military could formulate such a targeted tactic. Zhang Ping'an didn't believe that he was killed. Because, those who could formulate such tactics must have been in the military for a long time, and they were military qualities that only veterans on the battlefield could achieve.
Chapter completed!