Chapter 312 Knowledge determines destiny

"Master Ye, why are you here? The general attack has two hours left, so it's too early to watch the fun, right?" Ye Tao brought the Central Military Camp to the forefront of the battlefield, which surprised Cheng Chi, who was preparing to gnaw the first hard bone. But Cheng Chi was relaxed and obviously prepared very well.

"I'm always worried. I don't doubt you will definitely be able to take Qingtian, but I'm worried about the damage. After all, this is the first time that my Yunzhou army has fought head-on after the full training." Ye Tao sighed a little.

"Don't worry, Marshal Ye." This was the first time Cheng Chi was alone and would never dare to ignore any details. The nine battalions in his hands cut off all the contact between Qingtian and the outside world in less than a day, and reached a battle against Qingtian's periphery one day ahead of schedule. Although he could not force the landing in Qingtian, he expected that more than 20,000 regular troops and miscellaneous troops would not be able to make any tricks. "This time, the two heavy equipment battalions are in, and there is also a fighting infantry battalion... The lineup is strong. There is absolutely no reason to fill it with human lives. There is enough time, so the last general will not dare to miss the arrangements of the adults."

Ye Tao shook his head and said, "The schedule is nothing. It really can't keep up with it. At most, fight a few days. The soldiers are eager to fight, and they all want to fight faster, as soon as possible. These days they have been pinched soft persimmons. It is good to grind out morale, but don't take it lightly. As the main general of this battle, you cannot always follow everyone's temperament, and you should strengthen your constraints. I know that you are not a general who climbs up by the lives of soldiers, so you are relieved to let you command this battle. But you also want everyone to know that you, and I, will not tolerate those who use the lives of soldiers to add glory to themselves. Soldiers are also lively lives. We should take them to win and share glory."

"Yes." Cheng Chi bowed deeply to Ye Tao. "The last general will take the order."

"Okay." Ye Tao nodded, "You can continue to arrange military affairs. I'll go down and take a look, and wait and watch the battle on the hillside over there."

Ye Tao did not intervene in Cheng Chi's arrangement, but just when the Zhongjun Battalion came to the front line and erected Ye Tao's commanding flag, it suddenly raised everyone's morale a step-by-step approach. Since the war started, everything has been done. The Zhongjun Battalion has not yet played the role of an on-the-scene decision, but is just an intelligence center that integrates the military information of all parties and Ye Tao's camp. Until now, Ye Tao has not issued any military orders to adjust the combat arrangements. Is the battle plan perfect? ​​It is naturally impossible. It is just that the situation where Ye Tao needs to make changes has not yet happened.

Qingtian is an important town in the southeast of Zhenbei Army Office. It is located in the middle section of the Hejiang River. On the south bank of the Hejiang River, the only one known as the Qibao of Zhenning is Qingtian. Because it is built on the mountain and on the other hand on the water, Qingtian is indeed steep and mighty, and can be regarded as a majestic city. Once Qingtian is captured, it will expand to the two wings with Qingtian as the center, and it will be very stunning and silenced. At least, if you want to obtain supplies from Taizhou, you must take a long way to go. If you control Qingtian, you can cross the river here and directly attack the core area of ​​Zhenbei Army Office.

While Cheng Chi was making the final preparations, Ye Tao inspected the military camps that were sharpening their knives, the two heavy equipment camps and several other officers were gathering together. These people were all officers from other borders in Dongping and came to Yunzhou to take charge of the army, and brought the heavy equipment camps that Tan Xiaopei had paid for themselves, and even the Tan family's generals. These people gathered together not to discuss new things, but to make final preparations.

"Listen to me, this time we have to shake our mighty power. Our heavy equipment battalion has been running hard for so many days, and we haven't even caught a fight, and our legs have run thin. Now, those bastards are laughing at. We all come from all over Dongping, why can we come here? Isn't it just that Lord Ye thinks that we are good at gunfire and can discipline those arrogant soldiers? We must fight hard and let everyone see that it makes sense that Yunzhou has returned to Dongping. If we can lead these battalions, it is definitely not that Lord Ye must use Dongping officers to mix sand and cultivate their confidants. None of us is worse than anyone else. Among so many good men in Yunzhou, we can also count it.

No. 1!" Li Yang, the battalion chief of the heavy equipment battalion, said eagerly. Their officers were placed directly in the battalion. It was indeed because of their identity and origin. The local soldiers in Yunzhou had never been too picky about them. Although they were usually polite, they always seemed to feel that they had a higher status and were not on the same path with them, and they were not as brave as they did. But for these soldiers, this kind of politeness and respect became a burden, making them unable to integrate with everyone. But in the battle, the most direct idea of ​​these soldiers. They wanted the people in Yunzhou to see that they, the people on the Middle Earth, dared to fight desperately.

Li Yang's words aroused a lot of consent, but Ding Shi, the battalion officer of the heavy equipment camp supported by the inner government, smiled faintly and said, "Old Li, don't be so anxious. It's not our turn to live a desperate life. Even if the people in the city dare to rush out, can they run so far to rush to us? I have died a lot of times. I'd better do the support for the siege, which is more realistic than anything else."

Ding Shi made sense, and Li Yang nodded and said, "Every time I always hit him, there is nothing fun. It's really a matter of being a match for us who play with crossbows and catapults. We are still fun to defend the city, and we have to play the explosive effect. We explode one after another, and there is no sound at all after the blowout. That's too good. We attacked the city for a while, and then we have to look behind us. Seeing Xiao Xu and his camp rushed up to fight to the death, is it very interesting?"

"That's not necessarily..." Ding Shi smiled playfully, "Didn't you notice what material is made of Qingtian's city wall?"

"Isn't it stone? There is also plaster... Isn't that all?" Li Yang seemed to have thought of something.

"Yes, but not exactly." Ding Shi took out a sketch from his arms and pointed to the description for everyone. "Qingtian's Zhongmen Gate Tower was indeed stone, but inside it was a shelf of giant trees. It was this section. The other city walls were later expanded one after another. Qingtian was not a newly built city. How could it be so simple to move so many big stones back then? It was also a Zhenbei Military Office that was created while fighting. In fact, the later city walls were built with giant trees as the foundation, and then they used stones and plaster to pile the city walls on the shelf, and then they continued to build them.

Why does Qingtian’s city wall look so new? Every few years, some renovations have to be carried out outside the city wall to paste the cracked areas. After all, paint them with thin plaster. Although Qingtian’s city wall is so thick and high, it is really bad at the bottom. What’s even more fun is that I don’t know which Zhenbei Military Office or Qingtian City Guard is probably burned with too much money. I used a lot of brown sugar and glutinous rice juice to repair the city wall... It should be this paragraph. The ancient books say that these things can make the city wall very hard, but it is not used like this."

"Brown sugar? Glutinous rice?" Li Yang was shocked and suddenly thought of something. "Brown sugar... can be burned."

Everyone immediately understood. Brown sugar, glutinous rice juice and ash soil are indeed very powerful wall repair materials. Although brown sugar can be burned, the ignition point is very high after this blending. In the past, when siege, using catapults and other garnishes, most of them used balls of rattan stuffed with grease and stuffed with wood chips to extinguish the fire. The flame ignition point is not high enough, and the erosion of the burning is not good enough. In addition, there are multiple layers of lime and other things outside, which cannot be affected at all. But now, they have enough turbulent bombs in their hands. That thing is really not accurate when burning, especially the corrosion of the flame... The heavy equipment camp is all experts in setting fires. They all like to see the extremely violent scenes of wood and even other materials burning from the inside to the outside, peeling layer by layer and turning into flying ashes.

"Yes, there is brown sugar and glutinous rice juice. Of course, in order to prevent insects, there are a lot of other poisons and so on." Ding Shi smiled sinisterly.

"I really know the glutinous rice juice, what can I do if I put brown sugar?" Li Yang asked again.

"At the beginning, the north was believed that things must have spirits. Cities, especially military towns, were built extremely sternly. The spirits attached to the stones attached to the city walls were not nourished and would die. In order to nourish these spirits, a group of people first put brown sugar, glutinous rice and other things in jars, and sealed one in every section of the city wall to nourish these spirits. There are similar customs in the north, such as Yunzhou. Some wealthy families built houses, buried a can of millet in the foundation, and even burying a can of copper coins, which were derived from this custom. But the old habit of building city walls has long been distorted. Glutinous rice juice can indeed mix plaster better, but brown sugar is actually useless except to attract insects. But after the distortion, no young people chose it. They directly mixed plaster juice, brown sugar and other plasters with them."

Ding Shi's explanation made everyone present feel awe-inspiring. Li Yang said, "It's worthy of being a member of the lord's family, it's just knowledgeable."

Ding Shi said humbly: "Where is it? My family used to have a house. Later, with His Majesty's family's care, I started to have some knowledge and other ways out, but I dare not forget my career. This was not the case when General Cheng summoned everyone's military discussion a few days ago. When General Cheng summoned everyone's military discussion, he prepared the historical evolution of Qingtian. Seeing this reminded me of this matter."

"Okay, then I'll listen to you. What should I do?" Li Yang nodded and said, "You have knowledge and listen to you. It's a coincidence that this section of the city wall happened to be attacked by Xiao Xu and his camp. Our military achievements are just divided here."

Xiao Xu, who had been huddling around, was used to being taciturn, smiled without saying a word. Of course, if things could be done, he would definitely repay this favor. Not only for military merit, but for a fighting infantry battalion like theirs, having such an opportunity means that many brothers can be killed or injured.

"We can't do anything else, just burn it." Ding Shi said with a smile: "But it also requires skill in burning. We now have several different things that can be burned. The third type of Mars bomb is made of gunpowder, which is not very easy to burn, but it explodes strongly and is just used to loosen the bones of the city wall. Although the temperature of the Mars bomb is not very high, there is one thing that is, the semi-fluid oil paste can stick to the city wall, and when the oil is burned, the corrosion is also good. Then the turbulent oil bomb is directly lit. We use these three types of bombs, take turns to peel the city wall layer by layer. Of course, it is impossible to all of them. We concentrated twice the firepower repeatedly in this section. Unfortunately, we did not have enough turbulent oil bombs. Otherwise, if we could break a hole in the city wall, smash it in and ignite, and light the old wood that was sealed in for many years, that would be strong enough."
Chapter completed!