Shen Mingzhu said: "We sent people to specifically contact the people in those villages and camps, and asked them to organize a certain amount of armed forces to protect themselves, and to hide their food and grass well, so that the people from Yizhique would not find it.
Although Zhique's army has brought food and fodder, it is limited after all. With 300,000 people, he is afraid that he will run out of food and fodder if he cannot last for more than a month. At that time, he will still have to send people to sweep around, and even if they don't run out of food and fodder, we will
They will find ways to destroy their food and grass. In short, if they are short of food and grass, they will definitely go to the nearby people to replenish their food and grass. Let's block this possibility for him in advance and let him rush to nothing, then he will not be able to get his food and grass.
Supplies. It is up to us to decide how the war will be fought."
Yizhique was approaching with great force, and he must have felt confident that he would capture Mianyang in about ten days. The food and grass supplies might not even be enough for twenty days.
As long as Mianyang holds on for ten days, the situation will be reversed later. She has the final say on how to fight.
When the enemy comes in force, there is no need to confront them head-on. After all, although your own numbers have been replenished and there are more civilians than the enemy, your combat effectiveness is not as good as the enemy's.
Head-on conflict will only lead to disaster.
But her preparations were not in vain. Today, there are plenty of guns and ammunition, as well as pikemen and cavalry, and the baggage troops have also arrived.
The arrival of the baggage troops means that they have a pipe and artillery team.
The artillery team came from the Qin army after Xiao Xian left the court. First a team officer came, and later some artillerymen came, and some followed He Xingzhang, bringing his family with him, so he no longer had any worries.
Xiao Xian naturally reused them.
They have been staying with Father Jiang's craftsmen camp, and everyone is discussing how to modify those artillery pieces.
Shen Mingzhu even let Tao Zhiqian secretly contact the Qin Army's Equipment Bureau, first bribed the chief of the Equipment Bureau, and then purchased many firearms at low prices.
She doesn't need muskets, the ones she bought are basically some artillery pieces.
Qin had purchased some artillery pieces from overseas before, and later made many of them himself, but for some unknown reason, they were later discarded and thrown into the Equipment Bureau.
After Shen Mingzhu heard what Father Jiang said, she asked Tao Zhiqian to send someone to contact them secretly and found that the artillery could still be used as long as it was tidied up, and it could also be improved.
They had bought thirty cannons and some large rockets a long time ago. The head of the Equipment Bureau felt that they would not be used for many years without counting them, and they would use the money to do other things.
So they got a bargain and bought a lot of iron by the way!
After these cannons arrived, Shen Mingzhu had people improve them, and they were far more powerful than the red cannons. The Tiger Zun cannon was very practical to put on the top of the city wall to defend the city. There were also rockets, and some mines were also modified!
Simple mines, stone mines, earthen mines, pig iron mines, bamboo tube mines... there are many names. Anyway, whatever is easy to use and save costs, just make them.
The pursuit of maximum lethality and simple operation methods is the lifelong wish of craftsmen.
Many of these weapons were shipped in components and then assembled. For example, the various landmines were assembled in Mianyang City and then taken to places outside Mianyang City in batches.
