Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

Guo Ye explained with a smile: "These people don't like to talk, and it has become a habit for Miji and the others to keep silent during the march. Manager Yu should not take it to heart."

Guo Ye received the letter and didn't open it in time. Instead, he waved to Xue Rengui who was not far away, and shouted, "Rengui, take Manager Yu first, and the brothers from Fengleitang to unload the mule cart, and then arrange for them to have a good rest." .”

Xue Rengui nodded in response,

Immediately afterwards, Guo Ye cupped his hands at Steward Yu and said with a smile, "Boss Yu, you are exhausted from traveling all the way, go to rest first. We will discuss business matters tomorrow. In a word, it is really helpful for you and cousin Fenglei to bring so many thunderbolts today." Guo Ye has done me a great favor."

Steward Yu said politely: "Master Guo is too polite, this is what we should do. The old man will take the brothers to unload the goods and rest first."

After finishing speaking, Steward Yu remounted his horse and gave an order, leading the brothers from Fengleitang to follow Xue Rengui, and walked slowly towards the center of the city.

After Manager Yu left, Guo Ye waved to a soldier beside him and shouted, "Bring the torch!"

The soldiers rushed to bring the torch, and by the light of the torch, Guo Ye opened the letter sent by Miji Tuoyu, and read it carefully.

After reading it, he realized that the letter was not written to him by Miji, but presented to him by Miji's hand in the dark night in Chang'an.

But the content of the letter is interesting. In the letter, An Ye not only explained to himself the real purpose of Miji going to the coastal area of ​​Quanzhou, but also told himself that after he went south to suppress the rebellion, a very, very incident happened in Chang'an. Interesting interesting thing...

Chapter 1068

With the dawn comes the long night.

At dawn, on the south gate tower of Qianzhou, soldiers took turns guarding the outside of the city, carefully watching the movement outside the city, preventing the Bailian bandit army from launching a general attack anytime and anywhere.

At this time, Guo Ye also appeared on the tower, accompanied by Xue Rengui and Guanshi Yu who brought Thunderbolt from Xichuan all the way.

After all, Guanshi Yu is a bit old, he has driven such a long distance, and because of the disharmony after arriving in the south, he didn't get up until now.

Even though he followed Guo Ye to inspect the city tower, Guanshi Yu's footsteps were a little slow and heavy, as if he was sick and weak.

Guo Ye inadvertently turned his head around and noticed that Manager Yu's expression was not right, and immediately asked with concern: "Manager Yu, if you feel unwell, you can go back to the city and get some rest. As for Thunderbolt, I will let Xue Rengui lead someone to go to you. Move it to the top of the tower."

"No problem, no problem."

Steward Yu waved his hands repeatedly, shook his head stubbornly, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Guo, for your concern. The old man is just old and lacking in energy, and his body is very strong. Besides, this thunderbolt has to be fiddled with by our Fenglei hall. After all, my lord The little general next to him has never been exposed to thunderbolts, so it would be wrong if he made a mistake."

Xue Rengui's ears perked up slightly, and when he heard Guanshi Yu calling him a little general, he said modestly with a little shame: "I can't be called a little general by an old man, the junior is just a captain of the Sword and Shield Battalion."

Steward Yu was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "Although I'm a captain today, I'm sure I'll be a good general during the holidays. Besides, Mr. Guo can bring you by his side to teach by example. How can you be so bad in the future? What? The old man sees that the little general has extraordinary eyebrows, full earlobes, and even more heroic face. He will surely be a great hero in the future."

Who doesn't like to hear good words?What's more, a young man like Xue Rengui who is arrogant and ambitious?

Hearing this, he had a happy expression on his face, and because of Guo Ye's presence, he had no choice but to say that he didn't dare, and praised him.

Guo Ye also smiled knowingly. He knew that Guanshi Yu was an old ghost talking smooth words, but he still had to admit that his good words were right. Xue Rengui's future is not just amazing?That is a great hero who has been famous forever and has been written and reprinted by later generations.

"Okay, okay." Guo Ye waved his hand with a smile, "Yu Guanshi, if you continue to boast like this, Xue Rengui should pout his ass and tail. He can't help boasting at such a young age, don't let him do it again." Starting from the old habit of being arrogant and supercilious."

Steward Yu stopped things in moderation and stopped talking in time.

But Xue Rengui was not happy, holding back his strength in secret, and said to himself, aren't you a few years older than me?Still looking like relying on the old to sell the old, hum, wait for me, Xue Rengui, to do another earth-shattering event for you to see, and see if you still dare to look down on me like this.

There was nothing to say for a while, Guo Ye continued to patrol around the tower until after checking that all the [-] bed crossbows were normal, Guo Ye looked at Cheng Erniu standing beside the bed crossbow, and said, "Er Niu, you Now dispatch a hundred cavalrymen from your battalion, and then go out of the city to patrol one mile away from the south gate. Within one mile, I don't want the opponent's scouts to appear."

Cheng Erniu bowed his hands to accept the order, then shouted away Bai Laiming's cavalry, and hurried down the tower.

In a blink of an eye, a hundred cavalry rode out of the city and patrolled away.

Just when Pang Feihu and others on the tower couldn't figure out why Guo Ye thought that one shot was one shot, Guo Ye suddenly asked Steward Yu who was behind him, and asked, "Old Steward, how many thunderbolts did you bring this time?" What's the number?"

Guanshi Yu nodded and replied like a few treasures: "Eighteen mule carts, each mule cart is loaded with about [-] wooden boxes, and each box should contain [-] Thunderbolt bombs. There are about [-] Thunderbolt bombs in total. But these Thunderbolt bombs It has been improved, and once it explodes, it will definitely be far more powerful than the previous thunderbolts."

Guo Ye thought to himself, enough, more than enough.

Then he asked again: "I want to use thunderbolts to send a minefield to the bandit army first, how about it?"

"Minefields?"

Yu Guanshi wondered, "What is this?"

Guo Ye thought so too, how could Guanshi know about landmines?Then he laughed dumbfoundedly, shook his head and explained: "First dig a shallow pit and bury a thunderbolt, and use the same method to arrange about a thousand thunderbolts in an area about one mile outside the south gate, and then use The soil covered the shallow pits as a cover. The pits were connected to each other with a fuze, that is to say, a very long fuze was used to connect the fuzes of the thousand Thunderbolt bombs at the same time. Uh... so Tell you? Have you ever seen what a calabash vine looks like?"

Steward Yu frowned slightly, and nodded his head half-understood.

Guo Ye explained again: "I said that the very long fuze is like a gourd vine, and the thousand thunderbolts are like the gourds on the gourd vine. If you think about it, as long as we ignite the gourd on the vine Can any gourd, uh no, any thunderbolt, be able to ignite the thunderbolts on other vines? Uh... Let me explain this way, Guanshi Yu, can you understand me?"

"understand!"

A cheery cry sounded one after another, but it was not Guanshi Yu who answered, but Xue Rengui.

I saw Xue Rengui shouting excitedly: "My lord is saying that we just need to expose a section of thunderbolt fuze on the ground in advance, and when the bandit army enters an area with a radius of one mile, we will use the bow and crossbow to accurately shoot Shoot a rocket and it'll detonate all the Thunderbolts buried in the ground, and send these sons of bitches to heaven, won't they?"

Guo Ye smiled and nodded, then asked Guanshi Yu: "Now, is there anything Guanshi Yu doesn't understand?"

Guanshi Yu has long been dumbfounded by Guo Ye's unconstrained ideas. He didn't expect that the thunderbolt bombs used to be thrown in the past could be buried in the ground to play like this.

He slowly calmed down from the shocked expression, nodded and smiled bitterly: "Master Guo, it's a pity that you don't play with gunpowder. The words are so clear, how can the old man still not understand? I'll go back here Get ready, I will take the brothers from Fenglei Hall to dig a pit outside the south gate to bury mines in a short while."

Guo Ye hummed, then motioned to Xue Rengui and said, "You take some people to help Steward Yu and them, dig holes and lay mines to arrange mine arrays, the people from Fenglei Hall can do it themselves, you are very unfamiliar with thunderbolts, Don't touch your hands recklessly. Just you guys are responsible for lifting and lifting."

Xue Rengui suddenly cupped his hands and begged: "So can you give me the job of shooting rockets and detonating minefields on the city tower?"

Guo Ye glanced around, it seemed that Xue Rengui was the best archer among the group.

So he was generous, spread his hands and smiled: "If you don't hand it to you, who will you hand it to? But the ugly thing is to say that if the Bailian bandit army is put within a mile outside our south gate, you will lose the chain for me, and you won't be able to detonate the mine. Well, then don’t blame me for being rude.”

"it is good!"

Xue Rengui puffed out his chest and promised loudly: "If I miss, I will twist my head and kick it for you."

After shouting, he hurriedly pulled Guanshi Yu down the south gate building, and returned to the camp of Fenglei Hall and Thunderbolt in the city.

Pang Feihu let out a rough breath at this time, and sighed: "So, brother, you suddenly let the second brother lead the cavalry out of the city to patrol, because you don't want the bandits to notice that we are setting up minefields?"

Guo Ye nodded and said: "That's the reason. Otherwise, if the bandit army knew about it in advance, wouldn't all previous efforts be wasted and unexpected results would not be obtained?"

Kang Bao yelled: "We have seen the power of thunderbolts in Xichuan before. But brother-in-law, although a minefield made up of a thousand thunderbolts is powerful, it will not kill many bandits after all. A radius of one mile The landmine arrays were laid inside, and it was ruthless to blow up 1 people? So what? Can’t hold back the bandit army’s hundreds of thousands and nearly a million swarming up, is it possible that the bandit army will be the second time? Even if the bandit The army will repeat the same mistakes for the second time. Didn’t Guanshi also say that just now? This time they brought only [-] Thunderbolt bombs. They still exhausted all the raw materials they had in Xichuan and spent a lot of time to make them. .”

"Hey……"

Guo Ye smiled, squinted his eyes at Kang Bao, and said cheerfully, "It doesn't matter how many people are killed. The important thing is the word 'potential'."

"Potential?"

Kang Bao exclaimed and asked, "Why?"

Guo Ye said leisurely: "This time the two sides are fighting, they are attacking, and we are defending. In the next first battle, the enemy will definitely use all its forces to launch a large-scale attack, and it must be overwhelming. So in the first battle It is very important who is in charge of the situation, and it is very important. This situation is not only related to the morale of the troops on both sides, but also related to whether the bandits can be afraid to move forward and delay us for a few more days."