National Luck: Angry Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Not to mention other things, Hou Shilu himself can't leave his cigarette now, and he wants to have a pot from time to time. If he doesn't smoke, he feels uncomfortable all over his body, and he doesn't even have an appetite for eating.

After selling goods, they originally only brought back some gold, silver, cattle, horses, and furs, but after winter Hou Shilu found out that the merchants also brought back a large amount of meat.

In addition to the fresh meat frozen in the cold weather, there is also a lot of cured meat. As a family of generals, they rarely eat cured meat in their daily diet. The so-called jerky is used as snacks or dry food for going out.

But he who has been in the border town for a long time knows that the Tartars outside the Great Wall are actually very miserable, because there is not enough salt, the cattle and sheep must be eaten as soon as possible in summer and autumn after slaughter, otherwise a stomachache will kill people.

It is not cost-effective to slaughter cattle and sheep in winter, and the animals that have lost fat do not have much meat. They often slaughter the old and weak animals after freezing and freeze them for the winter, but it is especially difficult in spring.

But with a lot of salt, it is different. Salted and then smoked, the jerky made in this way can be preserved for several years.

This kind of business dealings made Hou Shilu's net worth rise rapidly, but he was told by Zhao Desheng in the first month of the fourth year that he should take the battalion of Chinese troops out of the fortress to fight a battle.

Talking about Hou Shilu, a Chinese soldier in this battalion, was a little embarrassed. In addition to paying his salary to change soldiers, Zhang You also sent hundreds of people in for drills.After nearly a year of training, this battalion of the Chinese army has shown the appearance of a strong army, but the key is that they don't listen to his greetings very much.

He also understood in his heart that since ancient times, whoever pays the soldiers will listen to them, but even though he is rich now, he is reluctant to pay and eat like Zhang You. You must know that the battalion not only has enough food and horses, but also immediately Meaty meal.

Apart from being reluctant to raise soldiers, he didn't dare to offend Zhang You. As the commander-in-chief of Datong and the general of the Nine Frontiers, who knows when Jiannu will come to join the bandits again.

The previous time, he understood that Jiannu could never be stopped by his soldiers alone, not only him, but even the soldiers from the Nine Sides would not be able to do so, and he would have to rely on Zhang You for help.

He pinched his nose and let Zhao Desheng's Chinese army go out of the fortress. He even gave Zhang You a large number of gifts on the occasion of the Chinese New Year.

I never thought that this trip to the fortress would actually call him a prince and Shaobao. You must know that this time the Chinese army went out to fight the elite of the headquarters of the tiger squatting rabbit in Zhangbei. Nearly three thousand prisoners.

It was this battle that caused the tiger to squat and the rabbit to send envoys to sue for peace. Everyone agreed on the rules for buying and selling in Tucheng. This time also made Hou Shilu fully understand that no strong army can say anything for nothing.

Qin Jun's artillery did not pose much threat to the city wall for the time being, but it scared the people in the city enough.

Chen Hao didn't dare to mobilize the soldiers near the southern city wall, so he mobilized 5000 soldiers from other directions and the [-] Chinese troops who were already maintaining order in the city, a total of [-] troops. The gentry and common people who went there were appeased.

No matter how careful the front-mounted smoothbore cannon was, it could not be prevented because the ground was not flat enough to cause the angle of upward firing to be slightly large. The shells crossed the city wall and entered the city. In just one day, the people in the southern city of Fuzhou dared not live except those near the city wall. up.

Although Fuzhou is not a big city, it is also a famous city in the world. Compared with ordinary prefectures and counties, the repair of the city wall must be more complete.

The bombardment on the first day not only frightened the people in the city, but also the part where the city wall was bombarded did not dare to attack people. Some shells flew over the city wall, and some hit the battlements. Death is injury.

Looking at the city bricks that were only slightly crumbled, Chen Hao didn't know why the rogue army below the city bombarded the city wall with artillery.
The time passed slowly under the bombardment of the Rogue Army. The Rogue Army didn't seem to be in a hurry. They got up to fire at dawn and returned to the camp to rest at night.

In the middle, Chen Hao also saw the pattern, the artillery below the city seemed to stop for a quarter of an hour every six or seven times, and the soldiers around the artillery had to be busy for a while during this period.

It seems that artillery is similar to firecrackers. After firing a few rounds, it always stops to cool down the barrel.

It took only two days for the gentry and common people in the city to get used to living amidst the sound of cannons, because no shells fell from other directions except Nancheng.Down
The absence of shells from other directions did not mean that the artillery crews there were more accurate. Except for the first day of calibration, the artillery crews in other directions did not shoot at the city wall again.

On the third day, Chen Hao was still a little relieved, because there were nearly 20 people in the city at this time, in addition to those who lived in Fuzhou, there were also gentry people who had fled from other places in Fujian.

Prices in the city are high, but there are more than a dozen gentry who have started to sell food at a low price after the bandits bombarded the city, and two of them are well-known gentry in the city.

The deeds of these gentry moved Governor Chen badly. At such a time, someone is willing to open a warehouse to sell grain at a low price, which is a great comfort to the people in the city.

The actions of the gentry also surprised Chen Hao. Every commoner who came to buy food was only allowed to buy three-day rations, and was given a piece of paper. If he wanted to buy food next time, he had to take out the piece of paper.

In addition, for the refugees who fled to Fuzhou, they also set up thirteen porridge sheds, which provided a bowl of thick porridge every day. If they were not full, they would not starve to death.

The actions of these gentry made Governor Chen extremely ashamed. These should have been done by the government, but all the government offices in Fuzhou City are now empty, and apart from the military salary, they can't give anything to help the people.

On the fourth day of the bombardment, Chen Hao finally understood what the bandit army was going to do, because after three days of bombardment, the dozens of paces of bricks covering the walls of Nancheng began to fall off in large pieces.

Looking at the city wall gradually revealing the rammed earth, he knew that if he didn't do something, the city wall would eventually be bombarded by the thieves with artillery.

When the rogues were digging trenches outside the city, he didn't send troops out to harass them, because there were too many rogue soldiers and horses outside the city, so going out of the city to fight with the rogues would not be enough for him.

But now when he wanted to go out of the city to destroy the artillery of the Rogue Army, he found it was already too difficult!

In addition to Nancheng, the Qin army's own engineering soldiers commanded other refugee troops to dig ditches and set up barriers. Now there are three places in the east, north, and west of Fuzhou where the city gates can come out.

These are all things that can be seen, and there are many bridles and thorns on the ground that cannot be seen.

Chen Hao dispatched eight bed crossbows to Nancheng of Fuzhou, hoping to use the bed crossbows to influence the cannons of the bandits.

This approach is successful, because even at 400 meters, the bed crossbow can threaten the artillery position.

But once the accuracy of the bed crossbow was too bad, as long as there was a bed crossbow on the city wall, all the artillery from the thieves below the city would bombard it.