The next morning, staff Shen Chenzhou and another staff member took over the shift. Each of Liang Chongyi's three staff members took turns in charge of military affairs, changing every half a month. It was Wu Qiong for the first fifteen days, and today it is Shen Chenzhou's turn.
Military matters are relatively complicated, such as recruiting soldiers, arranging for retirement, ensuring logistics and ordnance supply during war, handling pensions for fallen soldiers, arranging city defense and night watch during non-war times, etc.
As a staff member, he was even responsible for raising military salaries and rations. Liang Chongyi would not care about such complicated and troublesome matters and left them to several of his staff.
Wu Qiong turned in her shift today and was relieved.
In the lobby, Wu Qiong handed over the token and account book to Shen Chenzhou, and said with a smile: "Mr. Shen will have to worry about raising the military salary for the next two months."
Shen Chenzhou frowned, "Isn't it solved yet?"
Wu Qiong laughed and gloated: "How can it be so easy to solve? It's hard for a clever woman to make a living without rice! Money and food were already tight, but now Mr. Shen proposes to build a palace and pays such a high salary, how can there be money for salary? Since it is Shen The ideas proposed by Mr. Shen will naturally be solved by Mr. Shen."
Shen Chenzhou said coldly: "I know, I will find a way to use the money-making furnace in Dengzhou to increase the amount of money made."
Wu Qiong sneered in his heart. Without copper ingots, no matter how many stoves were erected, it would be useless. He did not say anything and signed the handover book. The next thing had nothing to do with him.
At noon, Shen Chenzhou came to Qingfeng Tea House for tea and dinner as usual. He sat down in front of the second floor window. The shopkeeper ran up to say hello with a smile. Miao Qi, the former director of the intelligence station, was transferred to Luoyang and became the director of the Luoyang intelligence station. Zhou Ji, the original deputy director, has now been promoted to the director of the Xiangyang Intelligence Station.
Shen Chenzhou ordered two dishes and a pot of tea, took out a handful of copper coins and gave them to the shopkeeper. There was a note in the coins.
Shopkeeper Zhou went down and found a quiet place to open the note. There was only one sentence on it, 'Starting from today, I will be on duty for military duties.'
Shopkeeper Zhou nodded, he would send someone to notify Lei Wanchun immediately.
Han River, hundreds of large ships slowly move north along the east bank of Han River.
Although the northern part of Jingxiang was Liang Chongyi's territory, Liang Chongyi's power did not control the Han River and the Yangtze River. The Han River and the Yangtze River were the territory of Wang Ruxiao, the commander of the navy, and Wang Ruxiao was loyal to Li Ye.
Therefore, the water surface from the west of Poyang Lake was controlled by Li Ye.
Five hundred large ships loaded with 30,000 elite Helong troops under the command of Lei Wanchun were marching towards Xiangyang City.
The time is set at three o'clock tomorrow night. Thirty thousand elite troops will launch an attack on Xiangyang City. There is no warning in advance and there is no large-scale march. Instead, they board the ship in Ezhou and sail to Xiangyang silently.
But Liang Chongyi was not incompetent. In order to prevent the navy from sneaking into Xiangyang, he set up patrol boats on the river outside Xiangyang City. Once he found a large number of navy warships approaching Xiangyang, he would immediately notify the Xiangyang defenders.
At this time, Shen Chenzhou's role emerged. After he took over the military affairs, one of his very important functions was to arrange military defense. This was Shen Chenzhou's power. He used this power to cancel the nighttime patrol on the water outside Xiangyang City. patrol.
The reason is that it is unsafe to sail at night, which will lead to ship collisions. Just two days ago, two patrol boats collided inexplicably at night, causing more than a dozen people to fall into the water and two soldiers to drown.
This gave Shen Chenzhou a basis for making decisions, but the decision usually had to be approved by Liang Chongyi, otherwise he would offend Liang Chongyi. But once or twice, Liang Chongyi didn't care, so Shen Chenzhou hit him once or twice. On the sidelines, he did not arrange night patrols on the water tonight, it was just a temporary decision.
Not only that, he also arranged for Wang Dian's army to be on duty in Beicheng tonight. This is the reason why he waited for Shen Chenzhou to be on duty before attacking.
It was past two o'clock, and Wang Dian stood above the water city gate, staring at the wide moat outside the city.
Liang Chongyi thought he was lucky enough to get a brave, strategic and loyal general like Wang Dian, but little did he know that such a general was highly valued by every army and would not easily become homeless among the people.
He would not even know that Wang Dian's real name is Zhang Dian, and his true identity is that he is the commander of the Helong Army Scouts, and his military rank is the second-class Tiger Ben Lang General. After this success, he will be promoted to the first class Tiger Ben Lang General, and the next One step will make you a general.
The two thousand troops under Zhang Dian were all elites selected from the Helong Army. They came to Xiangyang under the cover of various identities to build the palace, and were recruited one by one by Zhang Dian.
Zhang Dian's two thousand men were deployed at the head of the North City. The North City Gate was controlled by him, and the Water Gate was also controlled. The large ships transporting the Helong Army could enter the city through the Water Gate and directly arrive in front of the North Military Camp gate. The other part came from Enter the city from the north gate and go straight to the south camp.
About a hundred steps away from the gate of Jiedushi's mansion, a carriage hiding in the dark was staring at the gate of Jiedushi's mansion. There were two rows of wooden shelves placed on the steps on both sides of the gate. Currently, the wooden shelves were empty. Yes, but it will be filled with weapons during the day, and the weapons will be taken away at night, leaving only two wooden shelves.
At this time, there was a huge wooden box placed behind the wooden shelf. It was not there just now, but now it was placed silently behind the wooden shelf. It was very large and dark, so no one would notice it at night.
Someone on the carriage had a crossbow ready, waiting for that moment to arrive.
The time finally reached the third watch, and a mighty fleet appeared on the Han River. One by one, they sailed into the wide moat and headed towards the Shuicheng Gate. At this time, the Shuicheng Gate opened wide and the fleet began to sail into the Shuicheng Gate. , another group of huge ships sailed towards the north gate. They were too big to enter the water city.
These huge fleets pulled over one after another as they approached the North City Gate. Seven or eight boats were set ashore. Countless soldiers rushed off the boats and quickly gathered next to the South City Gate. Above their heads were Zhang Dian's men. They had already The south city gate was opened.
More than three hundred ships entered the city gate and soon arrived at the North Military Camp. Twelve thousand soldiers rushed directly from the ships and rushed into the military camp dozens of steps away.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!" The sentry discovered the enemy situation and sounded the alarm urgently, but it was too late. Countless Tang Army soldiers rushed into the military camp.
The 18,000 Tang troops at the North City Gate were also assembled. Under the leadership of Lei Wanchun, they rushed into the North City Gate and rushed towards the South Military Camp. This was the most dangerous step. There would inevitably be a conflict, so we could only do our best to avoid it.
Seize the moment.
Liang Chongyi received a notice that an unidentified army had entered the city. This shocked Liang Chongyi. He didn't even have time to put on his armor, so he put on a coat and ran towards the gate.
There were more than a hundred soldiers standing in front of the gate, waiting with their horses. Soon, Liang Chongyi walked out of the gate in a hurry.
At this moment, a carriage rushed towards us. "There are assassins!" the soldiers shouted and blocked Liang Chongyi with their bodies.
In the darkness, a rocket shot with a "whoosh!" and hit the big wooden box in the middle. The big wooden box burst into flames, followed by an earth-shattering explosion. Countless people were blown away, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Unfortunately, when the carriage came, the soldiers blocked Liang Chongyi with their bodies and pushed Liang Chongyi backward, so that Liang Chongyi was closest to the big wooden box.
The explosion caused the ground to tremble, and the whole city trembled. The gate and gate tower of Jiedu Mansion were also blown down and collapsed. The ground was covered with rubble and broken wood, and there were corpses all over the place that were collapsed under the gate tower.
Only a dozen of the more than a hundred soldiers survived. Most of them were killed by the shock wave. Even if they survived, they were completely deaf. More than 500 kilograms of gunpowder exploded with extremely terrifying power.
Liang Chongyi was blown to pieces and no bones were left. Finally, his identity was confirmed from a severed hand with a ring.
(End of chapter)
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