Zhao Sui couldn't control his anger and shouted loudly: "If you have the ability to attack the city with real swords and guns, what kind of skills do you have to use these dirty tricks?"
As soon as the words came out, Zhao Sui himself felt that he was arrogant. The other party was attacking openly and openly with real swords and guns. It was just that his equipment was not strong enough, and he could not fight back after being hit on the head by others.
"Zhao Sui, originally my Marquis said that he admired you a little. After all, you are different from the reckless people. You understand strategies and understand the overall situation. But as soon as you say this, it shows that you are no different from a reckless rogue. Ridiculous, ridiculous.
Ji. Look at you, a dignified man of seven feet, with his head hidden and his tail shrunken, like a mouse." The man from the city laughed loudly.
Zhao Sui couldn't help but stood up and yelled at the city: "I don't need to comment on who I am, you bunch of thieves."
There was a "boom" gunshot, and Zhao Sui's shoulder seemed to have been bitten by a poisonous snake. He screamed and fell to the sky.
The surrounding generals were frightened and came forward to inquire and check. Zhao Sui's shoulder was bleeding profusely and he cursed: "These gang of thieves provoked me to show up and wanted to shoot me. I'm fine, I can't die yet. Everyone
Don't show your head. Those firearms are really overbearing."
The general beside him quickly bandaged Zhao Sui's wound. An iron bullet penetrated the shoulder armor and hit the shoulder socket. Blood gushes out of the wound, and Zhao Sui could no longer move half of his arm. One of the generals stretched out his fingers and dug out a cat's eye.
Large and small iron marbles, plus a few broken bones and slag.
Zhao Sui was hard-pressed, breathing heavily and gritting his teeth. He was sweating all over in pain, but he didn't groan any more.
"Crazy Zhao, my Marquis wants to ask you, are you okay?" Another angry shout came from the city, with a hint of joking and a hint of ridicule in the voice.
Zhao Sui shouted sternly: "You are a despicable and shameless person who only dares to use these tricks and conspiracies. Your Mr. Zhao is living a good life, but you can kill me with your little tricks? My fate is determined by fate."
Because of his excitement, he pulled at the wound, and immediately grinned and sucked in the cold air.
Outside the city, Zhang Yanling heard Zhao Sui's shout. He looked at the sniper rifle in his hand with some regret and smacked his lips: "This thing is still not accurate enough. I clearly aimed at his head, but it was a pity that I missed it and didn't kill this guy."
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A gunman next to him said: "Master Hou is already very accurate. From such a long distance, only a little bit of the upper body is exposed, and it hits the target with one shot, which is already very good."
Zhang Yanling said with a smile: "There are specialties in the art. This thing requires diligent training to understand the ballistic sinking and the impact of wind. It seems that this sniper gun has to be used by you. I don't have time."
I practice shooting every day."
Zhao Yuancheng smiled and said: "Although Zhao Sui is not dead, he is probably scared to death. He is injured, and we can continue to attack the city."
Zhang Yanling looked up at the sky and saw that the sun was setting in the west. He thought for a while and said, "Send the order and withdraw the troops."
Zhao Yuancheng said in astonishment: "Withdraw your troops? Don't you take the opportunity to attack the city?"
Zhang Yanling frowned and said: "Didn't you understand? Do you want me to repeat the order? Retract the troops and stop attacking. By the way, you shout and tell Zhao Sui that we will fight again tomorrow morning. Call him."
Zhao Yuancheng couldn't figure out what his brother-in-law was thinking, so he had to step forward and shout loudly: "Zhao Sui, my Marquis said that it is getting late, so we will be here today. Let's fight again tomorrow morning."
When Zhao Sui and the generals around him heard the news, they felt relieved. If they launched an attack at this moment, their own troops would have to go to the city to defend, and another round of bombardment would form an endless cycle.
It's impossible that Zhang Yanling didn't know this, but he didn't attack. What did that mean? Zhao Sui felt lucky, but also very confused.
Not only was he confused, but after the order to stop the attack was given, the generals in the regiment were also confused. Everyone was gearing up to fight, but in the end, the Marquis ordered to stop the attack. What does this mean?
The soldiers had been prepared in formation, and the siege vehicles and ladders were ready, but now they have stopped, which is really disappointing.
Zhang Yin, Meng Liang and others chased Zhang Yanling into the tent and asked Zhang Yanling why.
"Master Marquis, in this situation, why don't we attack? After the soldiers immediately go out, their people will not be able to stand on the city at all. We can capture the city tonight."
Zhang Yanling smiled and ordered someone to make tea.
"What does it matter if it's a quarter earlier or a quarter later? I think tomorrow morning, this city will be ours. We can achieve our goal without expending energy, consuming ammunition, killing and wounding brothers, so why bother to risk our lives?"
Zhang Yin said in astonishment: "How does the Marquis know that this city will be ours tomorrow morning? Will they escape tonight?"
Zhang Yanling said: "Everyone, it is not our purpose to kill them with cannons and blunderbuss. Our purpose is to counter the rebellion. Counterinsurgency is not about killing all the people. It is not only about defeating the enemy, but also about calming people's hearts. You are thinking of killing the enemy and doing meritorious service.
I can understand your mood, but those soldiers and horses on the other side are actually ordinary people."
Zhang Yin stared blankly and was about to speak. Zhang Yanling interrupted him with a wave of his hand.
"Brother Zhang, I know what you are going to say. They are enemies with weapons. Naturally, we cannot be kind to women. But we cannot avoid the fact. As long as there is a livelihood and a way to survive, how can the common people become thieves? This
The court is responsible for this matter. It is easy to quell the rebellion. Kill them? Is this considered quelled?
?When you kill a person, the whole family behind him will hate the court. How to calm down this hatred? Just like Brother Chen, someone killed his wife back then, and he has been hunting down his enemy for more than 20 years. So.
, to truly quell the rebellion, we must not calm the matter superficially, but try to calm people's hearts and give people a chance to turn back."
Some of the generals understood it, but some did not take it seriously.
Zhang Yanling actually doesn't care whether they understand these principles or not. Sometimes things like patterns are not available to everyone. Generals just want to kill the enemy and seize the city and perform meritorious service. There is nothing wrong with this. But as for himself, his status is not just ordinary
He is just a thief general. He needs to think more.
"Everyone, I'm not saying don't kill people. There's no way to kill people in a war. I'm just saying that it's best to kill as few people as possible. I'm not speaking for these thieves, let alone sympathize with them. My methods have always been
Act vigorously and resolutely, without any compromise to the enemy. But that is
To the stubborn enemy, to the bandit leader, not to the people who are trapped in it. I promise you, if they are still stubborn tomorrow, we don’t have to think about this. That is their own fault. But I think that tomorrow, in Baoding Prefecture,
It can be broken without telling anyone." Zhang Yanling said with a smile.
"Is the Marquis so sure?" Meng Liang said.
Zhang Yanling said: "The sharp steel knife hanging above the head is the most intimidating thing. If it is really cut down with one knife, it will be death, so it doesn't matter. They know that we have the ability to annihilate them all, but we don't take action.
Give them a buffer time. I think as long as they are not stupid, they will make their own choices. Although Zhao Sui is stubborn, he may not dare to go against everyone's will, because it will make them die."
"What the Marquis means is that they will have civil strife tonight?" Zhang Yin said.
"It's unlikely that there will be civil strife. Maybe Zhao Sui is waiting for the people below to tell him about the retreat, so that he can give up the city. His current status is very embarrassing. Yesterday he made a bold statement to defend the city, even if it means risking death.
Liu Qi's murder actually had nothing to do with him. It was entirely due to Liu Qi's own stupidity. But I am determined
His life and death were related to him, and he was blamed for not saving his life. He must be criticized in the army now. If he voluntarily gave up the city, wouldn't Liu Qi's death be in vain? How could he explain it? So as long as he gives up the city
Someone under his command will bring up the matter of abandoning the city, and I think he will agree. There will be a reason afterwards."
Everyone was stunned. Only now did they understand why the Marquis took Liu Qi to the city to perform such a scene yesterday. He knew that it was impossible to exchange Liu Qi's life for Baoding Mansion, but he still did it. That was a surrender without any reason.
Zhao Sui takes the blame. This move is really cruel.
"Okay, then we will wait patiently for tomorrow. But we were not able to enjoy ourselves as much today, so the brothers are a little disappointed," Meng Liang said.
Zhang Yanling said with a smile: "We are going to fight, but don't forget that there are more than 20,000 bandit soldiers in front of you, and Liu Liuyang Hu's 50,000 army is marching south. Are you afraid that you won't be able to enjoy it to the fullest?"
Meng Liang bowed and said, "That's what the Marquis said."
Zhang Yanling picked up the tea cup and took a sip, as if talking to herself or talking to everyone.
"When the cannon fires, there are ten thousand taels of gold. The cost of one cannon shell is more than ten taels of silver, and we have lost thousands of taels of silver in one afternoon. There are still so many blunderbuss and ammunition, which is a huge consumption. The imperial court can lose a penny.
I didn’t give you any money, but these are all my money. I’m feeling a little sick. We have to save some money. We can’t waste all Jin Gui’s ammunition here.
In order to kill some people, we fired them all. When we encounter Liu Liuyang and Hu's army later, are we going to use the clay balls as cannonballs? You just shout to fight and kill, but all this is based on the existence of people.
On the basis of the threat of firearms. This batch of artillery and ammunition cost me 180,000 taels of silver. Who can I ask for this money? Hey, I'd better save it if I can."
Everyone rolled their eyes and were speechless. Perhaps this was what the Marquis really thought. He felt sorry for the money and was unwilling to resort to siege methods to kill the enemy with artillery shells. He only hoped that the enemy would give up on their own.
Perhaps none of the explanations he mentioned before are as credible as this one.