Luoshui Dongliu

After noon of the next day, Li Jifang and Huiming's disciples counted the basin offerings from the camp, and they were summoned by Pei Yu and said to him, "If you feel a little better, then come back to the camp with me."

Li Ji said: "Sir, don't you wait for the Yulan Festival?"

Pei Yu raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer: "In the eyes of the great monk, I caused all the disasters in Luocheng. The implication is so obvious, and I still recite mercy in front of the Buddha in front of him. Isn't it too disrespectful?"

Li Jidao: "Sir, why do you have to say that? I think the masters are not disrespectful to you. Take a step back and say, since he is outside the Three Realms, how can he comment on the affairs of the secular world? Besides, he has received all the gifts and pretends to be picky. It can be seen that he is just Arrogant."

Pei Yu said: "Neither humble nor arrogant, this is the character of an outsider. If he is really flattering or deliberately high-minded, he will be contemptible instead." Jing, it is also blasphemy in front of the Buddha, that's all." Then he said, "I have already met the great monk, so I don't need to wait for an answer, let's go."

Li Ji saw that his expression was not very good-looking, and he also knew that he had always had such a temperament, so he stopped answering.There was nothing to say for a while, but when they walked to the gate of the mountain, they saw Huiming and the abbot waiting there. When they saw Pei Yu, they didn't say anything, they just clasped their hands and saluted.Pei Yu smiled slightly, and replied: "The mage will meet later." After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, his coat fluttering in the wind, only to hear Huiming softly say "Good job" behind him.

Walking in the mountains, you can see the siege camps from a distance.Pei Yu stopped and stood there, suddenly called Li Ji, pulled out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to him, "Look."

Li Ji took it, and was taken aback when he saw the handwriting on the white paper.Only Pei Yu said, "You recognize it too?"

Li Ji hesitated for a moment and said, "This handwriting looks a bit like Youzhi's. How did you get it?"

Pei Yu said, "Zhao Shen gave this to the abbot of the White Horse Temple."

Li Ji immediately knew what Pei Yu was guessing, but although he was secretly surprised when he saw Lu Youzhi's handwriting for the first time, he didn't take it seriously when he turned his head and thought about it.He only knew that there is no such coincidence in this world, and he guessed that Pei Yu still couldn't get over his feud with Lu Youzhi after all these years, so when he saw this handwriting, he remembered the past suspicions again, and it was unavoidable. masterpiece.But he didn't dare to say too much, he pondered over how to respond, and said: "Sir, don't worry too much, even if the handwriting looks like you, I don't know when it was copied, so I can't say anything. Besides, the other side They were all chopped up and hung on the top of the city, and there were people to witness it.”

Pei Yu said coldly: "You say that I am suspicious, but I tell you that there are no ghosts and gods in the world, and this ghost that has returned is the most terrifying."

When I got down the mountain, I saw the guards waiting at the foot of the mountain from a distance, and seeing Pei Yu and Li Ji coming, someone led the horse up.Pei Yu saw that it was Min Yu, so he asked, "Why are you here?"

Min Yu smiled and said, "I didn't dare to come here before. I didn't come to report to my husband until I finished everything my husband ordered this morning."

Pei Yu glanced at him and said: "Okay, let's go back to the camp to have a look." After saying that, he took the reins and got on the horse, then turned around and said, "Let's go." Everyone also got on their horses, and followed Pei Yu to the camp without haste. .Pei Yu didn't speak all the way, and when he was about to reach the gate of the camp, Fang turned his head and asked Min Yu, "Where are the things?"

Min Yu said: "It has been dispatched to the battalion. The soldiers have been intensively practicing these days."

Pei Yu urged the horse to the gate, got off the horse and handed the reins to the guard in front of the gate, saying, "Lead me to have a look."

Walking to the camp, I heard the soldiers shouting chant, and when I got to the front, I saw a group of more than ten people lined up in two rows, holding their shields above their heads.When I took a closer look, I found that there was a row of soldiers under the cover of the shield, carrying thick battering rams.Soldiers one after another shouted orders in unison, and this group of people advanced and retreated together.A conductor shouted beside him: "Run in a straight line with your feet, and those who lift the mallet should not use force in the opposite direction!"

Pei Yu stood still and squinted. Min Yu had already called a small school and took a shield.Pei Yu took it in his hand, and saw that although the shield was big, it was not heavy when he weighed it. He looked at it carefully and asked, "What is it made of?"

Min Yu said from the side: "This is made of old vines and thorns in the mountains. To cover the siege, the shield must be able to block the arrows on the city. Although the iron one is strong, it is too heavy, and the soldiers cannot hold it for long. Even though the vines are made of wood, if they are tightly woven together, the arrows will not be able to shoot through them, and the arrows will all get stuck in the gaps, which not only protects the soldiers under them from injury, but also earns a lot of arrows in the city."

Pei Yu said, "Is it fireproof?"

Min Yu said: "If you soak in water, you will not be afraid of fire."

Pei Yu asked again, "What if a stone is thrown into the city?"

Min Yu said: "The rattan shield is strong, it won't break, and it has good elasticity. Half of the force dropped on it will be relieved in a short time. It is also made into a slope shape, no matter what is dropped, it will slide down immediately." He saw Pei Yu just looked at him, and hurriedly said: "I have tested all these with others, so I dare not lie."

Seeing his uneasy expression, Pei Yu smiled slightly for a while and said, "Very good."

Min Yu originally looked at Pei Yu secretly, not knowing whether he would be satisfied, but now he heard the word "yes", so he couldn't help showing his face.Pei Yu saw that he was so happy, and he was still a young man with no grievances. He wanted to say a few words, but he grinned with ease, and finally he just said lightly: "Don't get carried away, you are with me. Get ready here."

However, it is said that the Xiyan army camp is preparing these siege weapons, Yu Chiyuan has been patrolling the camp for days, and everyone everywhere is gearing up and eager to try.On the eighteenth day of the seventh month, all the weapons in the camp were ready, and the soldiers had practiced all kinds of tactics in the siege. The fortune tellers in the army also said that this was an auspicious day.The generals lined up outside, Yu Chiyuan rode to the high slope in front of the formation, and the generals followed behind.

Yu Chiyuan reined in the reins, saw the neat team in front of him, and then looked back at the lonely city, he felt infinite confidence in his heart.Raising his hand and pointing in the direction of Luo City with his whip, he said, "Where do you see that?"

Everyone said: "It's Luocheng."

Yu Chiyuan said: "That's not only the city of Los Angeles, but also the key to the hinterland of the Central Plains. We will be happy if we get this pass!"

When all the soldiers heard the words, they all raised their weapons and shouted, their voices were majestic, and they had been heard for miles.Yu Chiyuan waited for the shouting to stop, he picked up his horse and took a few steps forward again, only to see the wind blowing the flag fluttering, he couldn't help but feel a fierce and fierce aura in his heart, he said: "On this day, Zhu Erlang will move forward enthusiastically, so that he can kill Blood flowed like rivers in Luo City, causing his city to fall apart!" Seeing that the crowd couldn't hold back after the agitation before, they raised their arms high and shouted in a long voice: "Let's fight!"

On the side, Yu Chizhong saw from a high place the black army and all the soldiers shouted "Kill", the sound shook his eardrums, even though he had experienced battles before, the scene at this moment couldn't help but shake his heart.Only Yu Chiyuan whispered to himself: "Son Zhao Shen, this encounter is your doom, don't even think about running away again."

The soldiers on the west side of Luocheng had already seen the enemy troops coming down to the city, and they also saw people passing by the wooden frame on the dirt hill to the west, and piled up stone throwing machines.Zhao Shen had to report to the city, and saw the formation of the Xiyan army approaching the ground. The soldiers who sent the message hurriedly reported: "The enemy army has three thousand troops in the front and five thousand troops in the rear, five miles away from the city." After a while. Another report: "Three miles away from the city."

Zhao Shen asked: "Are the earth bags piled up under the city gate?"

Gu Yanbin said: "Okay."

Zhao Shen nodded when he heard the words. At this time, the soldier who sent the letter ran up again, he was a little out of breath, and said intermittently: "The enemy... is one mile away from the city!" : "So what if it's a mile and a half, let them come." Turning his head, he said, "Ready the shield and bow."

For a while, the Xiyan army under the city had stopped in place, there was a sound of drums, and there was a shout on the earth hill, several trebuchets worked together, and big stones came one after another.I saw the stone smashing on the city wall, making a loud noise.But when it comes to the catapult, not to mention the skill of making the catapult, but only the usage on the battlefield, there are countless details.Ordinary people use this object mostly to greet the top of the city, meaning to injure the defenders and create chaos, so that the city can take advantage of the chaos to attack the city.But this time, the Xiyan army threw all the stones on the city wall halfway up. This was not because the pitchers were inaccurate, but because they had another intention.In ordinary cities, although the city walls are also built of bricks and stones, under the repeated hammering of stones, there will always be weak points that are damaged and collapsed.If the damage is in the middle of the city wall, the masonry on it will not be able to support it, and when it collapses, it will naturally pile up towards the bottom of the city to form a slope.Such a rush forward, without the need to carry fortifications, can move like a broken bamboo with light equipment, and the defenders in the city are often at a disadvantage immediately, making it difficult to deal with it.

But at this time, seeing the high walls of Luo City, Ren Feishi hit hard, even the ground was shaking, but the city walls did not shake at all.The stones fell, and only white spots were seen.The bricks and stones used in the construction of the city walls of Luocheng were all chiseled and fired from stones quarried in Longhua Mountain.The stone of Longhua Mountain is limestone, which is solid, and when mixed with clay, the brick is extraordinarily hard.After leaving the kiln, it is soaked with tung oil, and there is a sound of gold and stone when knocked.It is said that a piece of brick is worth five baht, which can be equivalent to a person's daily ration.

Seeing this scene, Pei Yu couldn't help sighing inwardly. He had only heard that Luo City was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Now he opened his eyes to see such a fortified city. Zhao Shen was determined to defend it, but he had some capital.

Besides, on the city, there were occasional throwing stones flying down, and the soldiers on the top of the city hurriedly lowered their heads and curled up, and some were knocked to the ground when they couldn't dodge in time.Even so, several generals stood still on the spot, Gu Yanbin shouted: "Avoid the stone throwing, keep your position, don't panic!" Seeing this scene, the soldiers calmed down.Bows and arrows with crossbow arrows in hand, all leaning against the battlements.Some soldiers dragged long iron rods, and several people pushed the stones that fell on the city to the crenels of the city wall, and then pried them up with iron rods and dug them back to the city. riot.

The confrontation between the city and the city lasted for a moment, and then a drumbeat was heard below the city. The formation of the Xiyan army changed, and the army swarmed forward. The first battle to storm Luocheng began.

At this time, more than [-] people in the city left one part for mobile preparations, and the rest guarded the four gates.Of the [-] men outside the city, Yu Chiyuan dispatched [-] to attack the city from the west.The thousands of infantry troops in the lead all held rattan shields, three people and one team took care of each other, and there was nothing they could do with bows and arrows in the city.In just a moment, hundreds of people gathered under the city, but they didn't see any more movement, but they rushed to the sides and made a passage.A line of soldiers in the rear rushed in, and when they reached the city gate in a blink of an eye, they retreated a few steps. The soldiers on both sides suddenly shouted in unison, and the line rushed forward.There was a loud "bang" under the city, and everyone in the city felt their feet tremble.Gu Yanbin shouted: "Quickly ask the city to build up earth bags to hold up the gate, it's a battering ram!"

Arrows rained down on the city, and large and small stones were thrown, but the soldiers of the Xiyan army were holding on to the rattan shields tightly, and the soldiers who crashed into the city under the cover were unmoved. Ramped forward again.

Someone in the city said anxiously: "If they slam into it like this, I'm afraid the gates below the city will not be able to withstand it sooner or later."

Zhao Shenchu ​​didn't take it seriously when he saw the rattan shield raised by the Xiyan army, but now he saw that the black rattan shield was as straight as a tortoise shell, protecting the siege army tightly, it was helpless.He thought to himself how to lift the turtle's shell and turn out the turtle's belly. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and said: "Let the city gate stand against the city gate, and quickly go and bring two bags of beans."

Gu Yanbin thought he heard it wrong, and couldn't help asking: "Two bags of beans?"

Before the words were finished, Zhao Shen stopped shouting: "Go!"

At that moment, a soldier brought up two bags of beans, Zhao Shen stepped forward and swung his sword to open the mouth of the bag, and black beans gushed out.The black bean man ate diarrhea, and on weekdays he only squeezed oil and made bean cakes from bean dregs to feed the horses.Seeing that the bean grains were plump, round and black in color, Zhao Shen nodded and said, "That's it." Then he pointed to the soldiers and said, "Carry it to the crenel, open the bag and wait for orders."

At this time, the enemy army that had crashed into the city was retreating again, and when it was ready to move forward again, Zhao Shen looked at the opportunity and suddenly shouted: "Fall!"

The soldier who was holding the bean bag turned his hand, and the mouth of the bag was facing down, and he saw the black beans falling down the city like rain, and when they landed, they spread out in all directions.At that time, the Xiyan army was running forward, and suddenly they stepped on the black beans, and their feet were like a mirror, and they couldn't stand still, and fell down one after another.The rattan shield weapon fell far away, and the battering ram also hit the ground.The soldiers who fell down couldn't stand up the harder they kicked and planed. The arrows were thrown like rain, and the soldiers under the city couldn't even stand up. The cry suddenly rose.The soldiers on both sides of the road just now were waiting here to attack inwards just waiting for the city gate to be smashed open. Seeing the sudden turn of the situation, they couldn't help but turned their heads and wanted to escape, and they also stepped on the beans in panic. , pushing each other for a while, the scene became even more chaotic.

In just a moment, there were soldiers under the city who were shot with arrows all over their bodies, some had their arms, legs and feet broken by throwing stones, and some had their heads all broken, and the blood and brains were mixed with the soil.The dead described it horribly amid the blood and blood everywhere, and the wounded cried out.The scorching sun was in the sky, and the bloody smell lingered in the hot air, but in the daytime, watching the scene was piercingly cold, as if falling into hell.

The generals of the Xiyan Army who were watching the battle from a distance couldn't help being dumbfounded, and some even burst into tears in the formation.In the city of Luocheng, there was no sound of joy from the crowd.This one saw such a tragic scene on the first day of the match, thinking about how long the confrontation will be in the future, I don't want to think about it again.Zhao Shen's expression remained firm, but he lowered his eyes slightly, and a pair of dark eyes were hidden in the shadow of his eyelashes.He is not unmoved by his heart of stone, and he knows that the tragedy of the Xiyan Army at this time may be imposed on himself in the near future.However, at this time, whether he, Yuchi or Peiyu on the opposite side, have already stepped onto the single-plank cable bridge, and there is a cliff under their feet.

The author has something to say:

The stalk of Douzi was used by Chen/Ming/Ren Shou Siping, and the source seems to be the "Scattering Beans into Soldiers" of the 19th Route Army in the Song/Shanghai Battle.The battle in Siping was quite miserable. Anyway, the four battles in Siping, the first three battles were the rhythm of torture Lin/Zong to death...

Throwing stones into the middle of the city wall is a stalk shot by four wild cannons. It may be a bit weird to apply it to siege warfare in the Middle Ages...