Chapter 392: The cannon outside Huai'an Town is in a hurry
Don't be a captive to someone who owes the Han a lot of blood debts, as long as he has a head.
The issuance of such an order by Liu Xing means that Li Qianshun, who has been besieged in Huai'an Town for nearly a month, will face only one outcome at the last moment when he is sleepy and short of men and horses, and there is no food and grass, that is, death.
For Zeng Weijie, the miracle doctor who saved his family's life as a teenager is no longer just his benefactor, but also the most loyal person in his life.
Since following Liu Xing, he has changed from a petty official of the Ma Army all the way to becoming a privy counselor and a fellow advisor of the Great Song Dynasty.
Although most of the time he was engaged in transporting grain, buying grain, buying iron, and collecting gold and silver. Although now he can actually only be in charge of the patrol troops in Shanxi Province and all over the country, but for Zeng Weijie, this is enough, enough for him to make Liu Xing die.
Because if there was no Liu Xing, Zeng Weijie knew that with his talent, even if he didn't die in a hundred battles in the next battle, and the horse leather shrouded was returned, like his father, he would eventually die on the battlefield, but he was just a low-level petty officer.
Because if there is no Liu Xing, Zeng Weijie knows that with his ability, he is afraid that for the rest of his life, even if he does not die in battle, he will definitely have a sad official rank of five or six grades, and he will grow old and leave no children and grandchildren.
But now? He was the governor of Shanxi in the Great Song Dynasty, he was a counselor of the Privy Council, he was the same governor of the front of the palace, and he was the commander of the patrol department of the Great Song Dynasty.
I don't dare to say that the power is for a while, but he is also a dignified second-class member of the Great Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as a complete glory for his family.
Thanksgiving, always holding gratitude to Liu Xing, this is also the biggest reason why Liu Xing will not really fully believe it, but dare to let go of Zeng Weijie anything.
The Lord believes that subordination will be successful, and subordination is grateful.
This is the relationship between Liu Xing and Zeng Weijie at this time. It was precisely this relationship that made Zeng Weijie, who received this order, immediately issue an order to launch an all-out attack on the four towns and defeat Li Qianshun within three days without thinking much about it.
After giving the order, Zeng Weijie did not sit in the handsome tent like a Confucian general, playing chess, and being elegant. This time, as soon as the order was given, he himself ran to the position of the artillery wagon battalion.
"me, me!" One station to the high post behind the position of the artillery battalion. Zeng Weijie shouted rudely.
As soon as the shout fell, Zeng Weijie immediately said to the messenger beside him: "Go, tell all the pipe bands of the artillery cart battalion that if you don't run out of shells for three days, you will throw all the shells into Huai'an Town." If Huai'an Town was not blown to the ground, Grandpa removed them from their posts and kicked them to the Martial Arts Hall and the Military Preparation Academy to become teachers. ”
If you don't run out of shells, you will become an instructor, and those pipe bands will suddenly be anxious when they hear such an instruction from the messengers.
The pipe bands were in a hurry, and the orderly order that they had managed to develop during the weekday drills became gone forever when the artillery riders opened fire.
All on the gun carriages. Desperate reloading. All the artillery drivers began to round their arms to load the shells, and threw the shells into Huai'an Town one after another.
According to the regulations of the "Great Song Dynasty Wubei Chronicles" written and determined by Liu Xing, each cannon is routinely equipped with five shells on weekdays. Aren't these artillerymen not afraid of running out of shells, and they have all become spectators who are destined to be forever remembered in the history books of the battlefield?
The answer is no, who is Zeng Weijie? He is Zeng Weijie, the privy counselor of the Great Song Dynasty and the supreme commander of the Patrol Division.
Zeng Weijie's patrol power was not held in vain, and he did not report to Liu Xingtong for nearly a month. In the past, he used to take care of heavy matters. Privately, patrols had been secretly mobilized from the Hunter Valley, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan to bring a large number of ground shells to the artillery wagons.
Now the artillery of the four towns under his command is reported and retained in Liu Xingna, with an average of five shells. In fact, each gun had a reserve of hundreds of shells.
With such abundant reserves, once the bombardment begins, the artillerymen will naturally not save shells and effort.
As a result, this made the horse army and infantry army who were at the forefront and ready to charge dissatisfied.
Groups of generals of all levels of the horse army and infantry army rushed into the position of the artillery carriage battalion after half an hour of frantic and continuous shelling.
Originally, these generals had asked the artillery truck commander to come to Xingshi for his guilt, and wanted to ask him why he had not stopped shelling. Give the soldiers in front the opportunity to charge into battle and kill the enemy.
But when they saw Zeng Weijie on the high post dancing excitedly, pointing to Huai'an Town, which was shrouded in artillery fire, happily talking to several military envoys and subordinate schools beside them, all the generals were dumbfounded.
This is what Zeng Tongzhi asked the artillerymen to do! What does that mean?
All the generals were dumbfounded, they didn't understand why Zeng Weijie, who had always been calculating and cherishing every shell. How can you be so profligate with cannonballs today, to the extent that you can use it to be poor and extravagant?
is still bold, it is a commander who stood in Taiyuan City with Zeng Weijie and rushed into the Golden Dog Formation with him that day, and was born in the old Western Army.
He strode up the hill, rushed to Zeng Weijieman, and immediately shouted: "Fourth brother, you look happy here, what do you want us to do." The people in this town were killed by the artillery, and you didn't let our brothers kill the enemy. ”
was questioned by his old brother for many years, Zeng Weijie was not annoyed, but smiled "hehe" and said: "You are a bird and a ball, then Li Qianshun is not a fool!" A few days ago, our army's artillery bombardment was so vigorous that he had already learned to dig holes and drill pits to avoid the shelling. If you want to kill the enemy, don't worry, when I run out of 120,000 shells, you will naturally have to kill them! ”
"Ahh As soon as he heard this, the veteran of the Western Army was stunned.
120,000 rounds of shells, he didn't know when Zeng Weijie smuggled in so many shells. 120,000 shells, if they were really all thrown into the small Huai'an Town, which originally had only 300 households and less than 2,000 people, would not have been blown up to the ground!
"Don't bluff me!" When the veteran thought of the scene where all the 120,000 shells were fired, he screamed with a black face and grabbed Zeng Weijie's arm.
Like a splash in the market, the veteran of the Western Army said in a tricky manner: "I don't care, I don't care, you can let the artillerymen reward for two hours at most." I'm the front team, not the corpse collection team. You've got to leave me alive and let those recruits under my command see the blood. ”
"Release!"
"If you don't agree, I won't let go!"
The two men who were thirty years old on the high post were like two children who were holding on to each other, and the other pretending to bare each other with wide eyes. This scene directly caused the entourage beside Zeng Weijie to laugh and hide their faces and smile. (To be continued......)