"If you want to defend the city, you must first deter the enemy. Qu Duan considered this problem, and said in a very positive tone: "The Western Xia occupies a favorable position, and naturally they will take advantage of our unstable foothold to have other plans, and the cavalry moves very quickly, if we attack me, it is not impossible." ”

"It's just a hundred-legged insect, and it's vulnerable. Sun Ang's face was proud, his eyes showed disdain, and the angry face on Qu Duan's face flashed, but seeing that Zhang Suo did not express his position, Qu Duan did not say more. Zhang Suo groaned for a while and said, "It's better to be cautious, so as not to stumble." ”

Sun Ang is a little dissatisfied with Zhang Suo's attitude, can't you see that Qu Duan is dissatisfied with our dominance of attacking Xingzhou, we are the ones who sit on a bench, you are the commander-in-chief, you always help the other side to speak, and you will overwhelm the people below. Qu Duan and these people are all Yang Zhi's diehards, if they don't have other plans, they will definitely do bad things when they are fighting, and only by staring them to death will they not go wrong.

Li Heng didn't speak, he was always thinking about what Yang Zhi told him, talk less and watch more, now Li Heng can basically conclude that Sun Ang is arrogant and has no one in his eyes, and sooner or later he will make a big mistake. Liu Ziyu and Li Heng had similar opinions, but from his standpoint, he couldn't just watch Sun Ang be isolated in the end, stood up and asked: "Zhang Shuai, have the thunderbolts in Taiyuan and Yanzhou arrived?"

Zhang Suo knew that Liu Ziyu was asking himself, and said casually: "The Taiyuan side is preparing for the war preparations in Yunzhong and Hedong, and the Yanzhou side has sent a thousand thunderbolts, I asked Yue Fei to see the power, Yue Fei said that it is similar to Qinzhou's, but Yue Fei believes that the gap between us in the use of thunderbolts lies in the use of tactics. Ziyu, do you have any good ideas?"

Liu Ziyu looked at Qu Duan and said: "The Shaanxi army has a siege tactic, which is to use explosives to blow up the city wall and enter the city, otherwise we can try." ”

Zhang Suo was overjoyed, and Sun Ang was also very excited, and said loudly: "Zhang Suo, transfer those people into my army, and I will attack the city." ”

Zhang Suo also thought so, and was about to ask, but suddenly found that Qu Duan and a group of other Shaanxi veteran generals had cold faces, even Liu Ziyu did not smile, and his face was full of strangeness;

Cai Suitian whispered: "Those who used those tactics were all dead soldiers, either killed by their own explosives, or killed in the first batch of rushing into the city, how could anyone survive." ”

Zhang Suo was speechless, he also understood that there are always those who survived, but those who survived should be officers in the army now, who would send such people to other troops as substitutes for the dead; the scene suddenly became cold, Liu Weifu, who was in charge of the Zhonghu Army, frowned secretly, he was a veteran in the army, originally a soldier and horse supervisor under Zhang Shen, and later was transferred to Taiyuan, and gradually became Zhao Kai's confidant general. Liu Weifu came to listen today, but he didn't expect the opinions of the generals in the army to be so different, and Sun Ang's appearance was too ugly, which caused the generals in Shaanxi to be angry.

Liu Weifu coughed and asked, "Lord Liu, are you familiar with the method of siege?"

"Familiar. Liu Ziyu said with certainty: "This has been trained in all armies in Shaanxi, but none of the archers and stonemasons who cooperate have ever been on the battlefield, and it is not the thunderbolt that blows up the city wall, but the master who needs to be responsible for gunpowder to configure it on the spot, so only Yang Shuai and Yue Fei have such combat effectiveness." ”

Liu Weifu gasped, he understood the key, archers and stonemasons are just that, maybe a master with such gunpowder can almost support a gunpowder workshop, who is willing to send such a person to death on the battlefield casually; besides, the sword and arrow have no eyes, and if three or five such masters die, they may not be able to take a city. Yang Zhi dared because Yang Zhi himself was a master of gunpowder, but in this way, Yang Zhi only gave Yue Fei such equipment, which showed that the cost was high.

Zhang Suo could only end the meeting in a hurry and let Sun Ang send troops to Xingzhou City first, as for whether to adopt such a siege technique, Zhang Suo could only let Liu Weifu go to Zhao Kai to report, after all, it is not a trivial matter to arrange a gunpowder master on the front line, and Zhao Kai needs to nod and be transferred from the gunpowder workshop. That night, Liu Weifu met Zhao Kai and handed over Zhang Suo's letter; after reading the letter, Zhao Kai was almost annoyed and asked Liu Weifu: "Do you need to transfer Yue Fei to the front line in Xingzhou?"

Liu Weifu pondered and said, "You can transfer this part of Yue Fei's infantry to Sun Ang below, even if it is one or two thousand." ”

Liu Weifu is wishful thinking, he doesn't care about the number of soldiers and horses, but cares about the gunpowder master and stonemason; Cao Qianli said with a wry smile on the side: "When Yue Feidong aided Lingzhou, he and Yang Yizhong led 50,000 cavalry, including the Poxi Army and the Thunderbolt Battalion, but all the infantry troops were handed over to Sang Zhong sent by Yang Zhi, and now Sang Zhong is cooperating with Yang Yizhong to attack Liangzhou, at this time, he has to transfer people and horses, not to mention what Yang Yi and others think, and he will not be able to reach Xingzhou for more than half a month. ”

Let Zhao Kai wait here with hundreds of thousands of troops for one or two thousand people, I am afraid that the world will laugh and lose his teeth if it is passed out, Zhao Kai categorically vetoed: "The order to go to Liangzhou is still to be issued, but Sun Ang must immediately send troops, gunpowder and craftsmen I will first transfer from Yanzhou and Fuzhou; ”

Liu Weifu's words to the front line shocked Zhang Suo and Sun Ang, if Zhao Kai really changed, even if the two of them were famous, even if they were in vain, what was more serious was that their opponents would take this opportunity to fall into the ground, and if they didn't get their official positions, they would lose their positions. Zhang Suo was secretly shocked, and Sun Ang's face was even more pale, and he was silent for a long time; in the minds of the two of them, a thought passed through their minds, this was a pit that the generals of Shaanxi had known for a long time.

"Such a powerful means, no wonder Qu Duan, Li Heng and others are so relaxed, it turns out that Yang Zhi was ready when he left, wanting to stop us from attacking Xingzhou. Sun Ang finally couldn't help it, Zhang Suo said angrily: "What nonsense, no one wants to calculate us; Yang Shuai was resolutely opposed to attacking Xingzhou, so he was transferred by King Yun, because we looked at things simply, and came to invite General Liu Ziyu to come over." ”

Zhang knew that the burden on his body was heavy, and once he failed to stabilize the front line, and the Dingbei Army collapsed under the city of Xingzhou, it would cause the entire northwest region to fall into chaos, and then affect the overall situation of the Dingbei Army; if Sun Ang's words were spread out, the troops on the front line would immediately be suspicious of each other, and there would be no need to fight at all. Liu Weifu saw that the wind was not in the right direction, and found a reason to go to Zhang Shen's big tent, but out of sight was clean.