Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

Chapter 1056 Breaking through Shouchun City

Looking at the Xiang family steward who has always been known for his loyalty and has always been trusted by everyone including Xiang Yan, Xiang Yan's mood is extremely complicated.

"When did you become Wu Xinjun's person?"

Xiang Yan couldn't help asking.

The steward smiled: "From the moment I set foot on the land of Chu State."

More than ten years ago, Zhao Kuo, who had just won the Battle of Changping, founded Nightingale.

Under Zhao Kuo's order, the first batch of nightingales set off secretly to various countries.

Every nightingale didn't have a fixed task, they were just told the names of some families before they set off, so that they could enter these families and hide in them when they had the opportunity.

The steward met a woman by chance, and then got married with the woman. It just so happened that the woman's father was one of Xiang's stewards, so under the support of the old man, he also made progress step by step. From Xiang's ordinary handyman to a steward.

A Xiang family steward who is so trusted that even the task of looking after the future heir of the family will be entrusted to him.

Xiang Yan was in a mixed mood, not sure whether she should be grateful for someone's help, or should be afraid that there is such a deep hidden person in the family.

The steward didn't give Xiang Yan too much time: "Young Master, the Patriarch has already started gathering the team at home. No matter what you want to do, I'm afraid there is only half the night left."

When Xiang Yan heard this, she immediately became alert.

Yes, this is not the time for him to hesitate, something has to be done.

Xiang Yan didn't act immediately, but after thinking for a while, she said, "Do you have any other helpers in this city?"

"Yes, young master."

"Can they find a way to help me?"

"Of course, young master."

Xiang Yan was taken aback by such a brisk answer: "Aren't you worried that I will betray you?"

The steward was silent for a moment, then smiled: "I believe in the master's ability to judge people, and I also believe in the young master."

This answer made Xiang Yan's heart suddenly touched.

Xiang Yan is a young man, and young people are very easy to get impulsive. For them, often a word or a positive look is enough.

Xiang Yan also laughed: "Then what are you waiting for?

Hurry up and ask someone to get some delicious food, and when you are full, you can do great things! "

While Xiang Yan was devouring the food, Xiong Zhengze, the newly appointed commander of the Chu army, was patrolling the Shouchun city defense in the dark with great interest.

As Xiong Zheng was walking, he said to the many Chu generals behind him with a very stern expression: "Everyone should be vigilant to the old man, and the positions of the city walls where everyone is stationed have been memorized. If anyone is attacked by Zhao Jun , the old man will punish whoever is guilty!"

After these Chu generals heard Xiong Zheng's words, they were all submissive.

But in fact, they really want to complain. After all, everyone in the middle of the night knows that Zhao Guoren will not come. It's fine for you, Xiong Zheng, to come here for a show. You dragged us here to blow the night breeze. Is it interesting?

It's better to let everyone go back to sleep, and have a game with Zhao Kuo tomorrow morning in good spirits.

After all, Xiong Zheng was an old man, and he felt tired after walking for a while, so he hammered his back and said, "Okay, let's stop here today.

But you must remember that no one can relax. Your Majesty asked the old man to take up this position just to let you know the responsibilities on your shoulders! "

After reprimanding the Chu generals present, Xiong Zheng returned home satisfied.

After returning home, Xiong Zheng's wife and children who got the news naturally came up to celebrate together, which greatly satisfied Xiong Zheng's vanity.

The youngest son who is most loved by Xiong Zheng asked: "Father, can we block Zhao Kuo's attack this time?

He is the famous No.1 general in the world. "

Xiong Zheng stared at him, and said in a deep voice, "No.1 general in the world?

Hmph, that's because he has never touched the old man before!You all watch, just a few days later, when Chun Shenjun's army returns to help, the old man will let this Zhao Kuo know what failure is! "

Zhao Kuo, who was told by Xiong Zheng that he was about to fail, looked at Sima Shang in front of him at this time, and said with a relaxed tone, "Is everything ready?"

Sima Shang nodded: "Everything is ready.

The current preliminary plan is to directly fill the wagons seized from several nearby manors with explosives, rush directly to the gate of Shouchun City and detonate them. "

Zhao Kuo thought for a while and said, "Can you guarantee success?"

Sima Shangdao: "Shouchun City has six gates, and we have prepared twelve carriages, each of which contains more than [-] catties of explosives. It should be no problem at all."

Zhao Kuo said again: "What if the Chu people shoot horses?"

Sima Shangdao: "We will put Chi Youjun's horse armor on the horses pulling the cart. Although this will make the horse's burden very heavy, we will increase the number of horses pulling the cart to eight, and the most outstanding guards will wear them. Chi You's army is heavily armored to drive the carriage.

In this way, these horses only need to gallop all the way from the position to the city gate, which is a distance of about five miles.

The real need to deal with the Chu army's arrows is within five hundred steps. It is basically impossible that the explosive cart cannot reach the city gate because the horse pulling the cart is shot down. "

Zhao Kuo continued to ask: "Then how can the safety of the guards be guaranteed after arriving at the city gate?"

Sima Shang said: "At that time, we will chase the cavalry and shoot under the city wall in advance, and suppress the Chu army on the city wall.

According to Li Si's information, the Chu army in the city can truly be called capable of fighting at most 4 people, of which only about [-] archers died, and it is no problem for our [-] cavalry to suppress them. "

Zhao Kuo was completely satisfied now, nodded and said, "That's right, what we want is this kind of spirit of excellence.

Every step must be considered and implemented in detail in peacetime, so that it can truly play a role on the battlefield, so as not to fall into the enemy's strategy. "

Sima Shang said respectfully: "My lord, don't worry, this time it will be absolutely safe."

After Sima Shang left, Zhao Kuo breathed a sigh of relief and lay down on the bed.

Marching these days is actually not a small burden for Zhao Kuo. After all, it has been a long time since he has been riding on horseback every day, and he has been riding for a whole day.

So Zhao Kuo also needs a good rest.

Until tomorrow, Zhao Kuo will have to witness it with his own eyes, to see how Zhao Guo's army broke through Shouchun City!It's dawn.

The next day, morning.

After waking up, the energetic Zhao Kuo rode a horse, surrounded by many Chi You troops, and stared at Shouchun City not far away.

"It's really small."

This is Zhao Kuo's evaluation of Shouchun City.

Although Shouchun can be regarded as one of the best cities in Chu State today, this city is located in the Huaihe River Basin. For a long time, it was the front line of the war between Chu State, Wu State, and Yue State, until the Yue State was wiped out in recent years. After that, it slowly became prosperous, but it still couldn't be compared with the Central Plains cities such as Handan, Daliang and even Chencheng.

Looking at Shouchun City, a figure suddenly appeared in Zhao Kuo's mind, so he turned his head and smiled at Li Si beside him, "Li Si, after Xiang Yan returns, can King Chu listen to his words?"

Li Si hesitated for a moment, and then said: "After all, the Xiang family has served the Chu State for hundreds of years as loyal ministers, even if the King of Chu does not believe everything, he will still believe some of his words.

Chen actually thinks that he should not be let go, because doing so will cause unnecessary trouble for us to attack Shouchun City next time. "

Perhaps because of his achievements, Li Si was obviously more courageous in front of Zhao Kuo than before.

Zhao Kuo glanced at Li Si, suddenly smiled and said, "Do you not like Xiang Yan?"

Li Si was stunned for a moment, unable to answer for a while.

The reason why Zhao Kuo said this was because he knew that Li Si was a smart man.

Why would a wise man misjudge?

The answer is actually very simple, because emotions have dominated his brain, making his judgment no longer objective.

So Li Si's ability to say what he said just now can only prove that he is very malicious towards Xiang Yan.

Li Sidao: "To tell the truth, my lord, after he left the lord's tent yesterday, he told me that he would repay his kindness in the future, so I really don't like him."

Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"It's okay, if there is such a day in the future, remember to come to me, I will make the decision for you!"

While speaking, Sima Shang galloped over and reported loudly: "My lord, everything is ready!"

Zhao Kuo nodded with a smile: "Since everything is ready, let's start!"

Zhao Kuo gave an order, and a loud arrow shot into the sky.

Then more arrows took off following the first arrow, and the air was filled with the whining of arrows.

After hearing the sound of these loud arrows, one hundred thousand Zhao cavalry began to move out one after another.

The sound of hooves made the ground tremble, and the green grass that had just grown in spring was directly trampled by countless horseshoes. The billowing dust and smoke filled everyone's sight, making it impossible for Zhao Kuo to see clearly the Shouchun City not far away. .

In Shouchun City, Xiong Zheng standing on the top of the city trembled a little at this moment.

One hundred thousand cavalry launched a charge, and the feeling of incomparable oppression brought by it, unless one experienced it personally, one would never understand it at all.

Not only Xiong Zheng, but also the many soldiers of the Chu State who were beside Xiong Zheng also felt out of breath, and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

Fortunately, Xiong Zheng was an old man after all, and he had a lot of experience, so he recovered after a while, and said with a big smile, "So what if the cavalry from the people of Zhao are strong?

Could it be that they can climb over the city wall so many feet high and fly into Shouchun City? "

Xiong Zheng's laughter was loud, but it was still overwhelmed by the overwhelming sound of horseshoes.

But no matter what, Xiong Zheng's statement barely gave the Chu people a little more confidence.

Seeing Zhao's vanguard cavalry continue to approach, Xiong Zheng immediately left under the escort of the personal guards.

Next, there is a contest between the bottom soldiers of the two sides.

Unlike the previous siege battles, this time the main contest between the two sides was not focused on melee combat, but on long-range.

The Zhao cavalry rode their horses roaring back and forth under the city wall, and kept shooting arrows towards the top of the city.

On the city wall, the archers of the Chu army were also not to be outdone, and they fought back one after another.

But as Sima Shang reported before, there are only more than 4000 but less than [-] archers in the Chu army. On the other hand, everyone in the Zhao cavalry can draw a bow and everyone can shoot. The high-speed movement of the cavalry on horseback itself made the archers very uncomfortable, so Zhao Jun had an overwhelming advantage both in terms of quantity and "quality" hit rate.

After shooting each other for about a quarter of an hour, the archers of the Chu army were completely suppressed behind the city wall and dared not show their heads again.

Zhao Kuo looked at this scene with a satisfied expression on his face, and his evaluation of Sima Shang improved again in his heart.

It seems that Li Mu in history was able to choose Sima Shang as his lieutenant general, and it was indeed not without reason.

Zhao Kuo said to Sima Shang, "Now, let the explosives truck go."

Sima Shang nodded, and immediately took out three ringing arrows from the quiver behind him, and put them on the bowstring at the same time.

A few seconds later, three loud arrows flew into the sky at the same time.

Then, in the other three directions of Shouchun City, nine different sounding arrows also flew into the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the twelve carriages were divided into six different directions and galloped towards the six gates of Shouchun City.

Zhao Kuo watched this scene quietly, his eyes were all indifferent.

Zhao Kuo has actually seen similar scenes many times in the past few days.

A moment later, under the overwhelming long-range suppression of Zhao Jun's cavalry, twelve carriages arrived at the city gate respectively.

The guards who had been prepared for a long time jumped out of the carriage immediately, and then boarded the mounts of the comrades who came to meet them, and left the city gate in a hurry.

Then, a well-prepared "Rocket Team" took out rockets from behind, ignited them with fire knives and flints, and shot at the explosive vehicle at the city gate.

"Boom boom boom!"

Violent explosions began to sound from the six gates of Shouchun City.

Amidst a violent vibration, thick smoke billowed into the sky, and the smell of gunpowder filled the air.

Afterwards, there was a continuous sound of collapse, mixed with the screams of Chu soldiers.

Under Zhao Kuo's watchful eyes, a huge hole suddenly appeared in the gate of Shouchun City in the west, half of the gate was gone, and the remaining half was finally unbearable after persisting for a few seconds. The heavy load fell heavily on the ground amidst the creaking sound.

Countless soldiers of the Zhao army who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward in an instant, galloping with rolling horseshoes, and rushed into Shouchun City without stopping.

Looking at this scene, Zhao Kuo also let out a sigh of relief.

"Invincible, sometimes it's boring!"

For others, conquering a city is very difficult.

But for Zhao Kuo now, everything seems so simple, it will happen when conditions are ripe!

Chapter 1057

The palace city of Shouchun City is located deep in the entire city, so when the city gate is breached, the palace city side is actually relatively safe.