Chapter 0239 Song people who can't hide their secrets
Cao Wei left, leading one hundred thousand soldiers to leave Baozhou City on a freezing morning.
He drained away almost all the elites in the camp, leaving behind a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people for Kou Ji, Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing.
Kou Ji nominally led nearly 150,000 soldiers and horses, but after taking into account the damage from previous battles, as well as the wounded soldiers injured by swords, guns, swords and halberds, and the wounded soldiers with frostbite, the number of soldiers and horses in his hands was less than 90,000 capable of fighting.
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After careful investigation by Kou Ji, he found that during the ancient wars, the number of soldiers was seriously attrited. A large part of the reason had nothing to do with the war. It was purely due to insufficient logistics, which led to the attrition of the soldiers.
Insufficient medicine for injuries, insufficient leather clothing and boots, and insufficient food and grass have all become crucial reasons for the attrition of soldiers.
Insufficient wound medicine resulted in corpses being frequently carried out of the medical facilities in the camp.
The lack of leather jackets and boots caused many people to freeze to death in the camp.
Kou Ji distributed some leather coats to the soldiers, but it was not enough to meet the needs of all the soldiers.
His leather jacket was given to the soldiers of the Baosai Army, but now Cao Wei left him not only the soldiers of the Baosai Army, but also the soldiers of other Xiang armies.
A group of soldiers wearing thin clothes shivered in the cold wind, clinging to each other for warmth. Frostbites could be seen everywhere on their bodies.
Kou Ji didn't understand military affairs.
So the moment Cao Wei left, he decisively handed over the military affairs to Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing.
He also told them righteously that whenever there was a war, if he won the battle, he would follow Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing to take the credit together; if he lost the battle, he would run away first, while Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing would stay and die with the soldiers.
This is extremely irresponsible.
But neither Li Zhaoliang nor Di Qing felt anything was wrong.
Li Zhaoliang just told Kou Ji not to run away from the battlefield.
The military affairs were left to Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing.
Kou Ji once again took up military supplies.
He once again sent Cao Yi and Liu Heng out of the mountain to ask for help in Bianjing City.
Anyway, there are enough cotton-padded clothes eliminated by the imperial army, which are left to mold in the warehouses of Bianjing City, or are sold to the common people for profit by corrupt officials. It is better for him to come over and distribute them to these poor soldiers.
However.
Just when Kou Ji made up his mind and prepared to invite Cao Yi and Liu Heng out of the mountain, a big problem occurred.
Liu Heng disappeared.
Kou Ji searched the camp but couldn't find Liu Heng.
Finally, after forcing Liu Heng to ask about Liu's family history, he finally found out Liu Heng's whereabouts.
Liu Heng actually took a few people and followed Cao Wei to sneak attack on the Liao army.
After Kou Ji knew the news, he almost scolded Liu Heng to death.
He wanted to send people to chase Liu Heng, but he didn't know where to chase him.
In order to prevent the news of his sneak attack on the Liao army from leaking, Cao Wei never disclosed the march route to others.
Kou Ji knew only one Fei Hukou.
There are hundreds of roads leading to Feihukou, and no one knows which one Cao Wei took.
No one knows how Cao Wei will march after passing Feihukou.
Kou Ji scolded Liu Heng in the camp for a day, and finally had no choice but to send Cao Yi back to Beijing alone to escort him with cotton-padded clothes and medicine for his wounds.
In addition to sending Cao Yi back to escort the cotton-padded clothes and wound medicine.
Kou Ji also took Chen Lin, who was leading the families of the Xiang army to make a fortune, and wrote a letter to Lu Yijian, who was investigating corruption in Zhending Mansion, asking him to prepare some cotton-padded clothes and wound medicine.
After Lu Yijian got the letter from the two of them, he did not refuse. He immediately gathered people and got a large number of cotton-padded clothes and sent medicine to Kou Ji.
With this batch of cotton-padded clothes and wound medicine, the death rate of Xiang troops in Baozhou City was greatly alleviated.
The military supply problem of the Xiang army in Baozhou City was somewhat alleviated, and Kou Ji finally felt relieved and climbed onto the wall of Baozhou City again.
In the city gate tower.
Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing are discussing the defense issue of Baozhou City.
But the two people obviously encountered problems.
After meeting Kou Ji, Li Zhaoliang raised this issue decisively.
"Kou Ji, the city wall of Baozhou City has become dilapidated due to repeated attacks by the Liao army. Now, a large number of civilians are needed to repair the city wall as soon as possible.
But after the two of us discussed it, we found that the Liao people might not give us a chance to repair the city wall.
As long as we let the civilians climb the city wall, the Liao army will launch an attack at that time.
When the time comes, the army and the people will mix together, and chaos will inevitably break out on the city.
The Liao army has not launched an attack for a long time, probably because it is waiting for this moment."
Kou Ji looked at Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing for a moment and asked, "Is there no proper way?"
Li Zhaoliang pondered for a moment and shook his head. Computer::/
Di Qing said in a deep voice: "If we delay sending civilians to repair the city wall, the Liao people will become impatient and will launch an attack. As long as the Liao people cannot attack the city with enough damage, we may not be able to defend Baozhou City."
Kou Ji looked a little solemn when he heard this.
"Is there no way to build the city wall without using civilian labor?"
Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing looked at each other and shook their heads together.
Kou Ji thought for a moment and said in deep thought: "Although I can't lead the troops to fight, I can still turn Baozhou City into an iron wall."
Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing's eyes lit up.
Li Zhaoliang asked: "Do you have any idea?"
Kou Ji nodded slowly and said: "There is a way...but if I come up with this method, you two may not be able to make any achievements."
Li Zhaoliang hurriedly said: "If you have a way, just come up with it. As long as we can protect Baozhou City, we will have made a great contribution."
Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded and walked out.
Seeing this, Li Zhaoliang asked: "Don't you want to tell us something?"
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "There's nothing to say. You'll all know it after a while."
After saying this, Kou Ji left the city gate building and climbed down the city wall.
A group of soldiers who were resting in the camp were gathered together. Each man carried a water bag and went to the water source closest to Baozhou City.
Then each person was asked to carry a water bag of water.
When the soldiers were carrying water, Kou Ji warned: "In the future, you will be responsible for carrying water to the city wall."
The soldiers agreed, cut through the thick ice, began to fetch water, and carried it to the city wall.
When the water reached the city wall, Kou Ji had the soldiers piled up under the crenellations of the city wall.
When night fell, Koji asked the soldiers to pour water along the city wall.
Wait until the next day.
The city walls are covered with a thin layer of ice.
Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing were shocked when they saw this.
Li Zhaoliang chased Kou Ji and said, "You want to freeze Baozhou City?"
Kou Ji spread his hands and said, "Besides this method, do you have any other ways to build the city wall?"
Li Zhaoliang shook his head.
After hesitating for a while, he added: "This method of yours can easily destroy the wall of Baozhou City."
Kou Ji said seriously: "The city wall is destroyed and can be rebuilt. But if the Liao people invade Baozhou, it's hard to say whether Baozhou can become our territory of the Song Dynasty."
When Li Zhaoliang heard this, he kept silent.
Kou Ji directed the soldiers to continue watering the walls of Baozhou City.
When the sun rises, it shines on Baozhou City, and Baozhou City shines with a layer of light.
The entire Baozhou City seemed to be shrouded in a layer of crystal, looking extremely dazzling.
Naturally, the Liao people inevitably saw the situation in Baozhou City.
After hearing the news, Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty rode to the front of Baozhou City.
Looking at Baozhou City, which seemed to be shrouded in crystal, he gave the order to attack with a gloomy face.
Originally, he planned to wait until the Song people were building the city wall and take the opportunity to make a sneak attack.
But now the Song people actually planned to freeze Baozhou City, so he could no longer wait any longer.
At the moment, the ice surface in Baozhou City is still a thin layer. In a few days, it may not be as simple as a thin layer.
"Woooooo~"
Following the order from Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu to attack Baozhou City, the order was issued.
The horns sounded one after another in the Liao army.
One after another, Liao army officers and soldiers, carrying siege equipment, pushing siege chisels, crossbows, and catapults, approached the gates of Baozhou City.
On Baozhou City.
The moment I heard the horn blowing in the Liao army.
Li Zhaoliang and Di Qing immediately ordered the soldiers of the Xiang army to go to the city wall to fight.
When Kou Ji saw the Liao army charging fiercely, his heart beat wildly.
As a newcomer on the battlefield, when I see hundreds of thousands of enemies rushing towards me like a dark cloud, I will really feel panic in my heart.
On weekdays, Kou Ji saw tens of thousands of people, but he didn't feel any trouble at all.
But when these hundreds of thousands of people have the word "enemy" hanging on their heads, everyone will feel panic.
That heavy feeling of oppression is indescribable.
Kou Ji resisted the urge to escape and asked Zhang Yuan to quickly leave the city wall and carry all the things he brought up to the city wall.
Not long after, Zhang Yuan took the guards and servants of the Kou Mansion and carried the boxes brought by Kou Ji up to the city wall.
Kou Ji only left a small box with him, and the rest of the boxes were distributed by the guards and servants of the Kou Mansion to the soldiers guarding the crenel.
Kou Ji didn't make any excuses at this time.
He asked someone to open the box, took out a black, round thing from the box, lit the fuse, and threw it into the open space behind the city wall.
After the round thing fell to the ground, it exploded instantly, and then burned into balls of flames, burning everything in sight.
It wasn't until everything that could be burned in the open space was burned that it was slowly extinguished.
"What is this?"
Li Zhaoliang asked in surprise after witnessing the scene of the round thing burning.
Kou Ji whispered: "Phosphorus fire bomb..."
Li Zhaoliang stared and said, "This is a sharp weapon on the battlefield."
Kou Ji glanced at Li Zhaoliang and asked, "What next?"
Li Zhaoliang said hurriedly: "This thing should be reserved for critical moments."
Kou Ji shook his head, "I think now is the critical moment."
Li Zhaoliang was stunned for a moment, sighed, and muttered, "How afraid are you of death..."
Kou Ji was too lazy to pay attention to him.
After he demonstrated the use of phosphorus fire bombs, he immediately asked the guards and servants of the Kou Mansion to teach this method to all the soldiers in the army.
Then he secretly opened a small box alone, took out something with a round tube and a handle, secretly filled it with gunpowder and iron beads, and held it tightly in his hand.
Then he took out two things with big heads and thin bodies from the small box and stuffed them into his waist.
With these two things to protect his life, Kou Ji felt a little more at ease.
People in the Song Dynasty would not know these two things.
Later generations can clearly identify what they are.
gun!
Grenade!
Some people may question it.
I question whether Kou Ji can get these things, why not make them in large quantities and equip the entire army.
Kou Ji also had this idea, but he rejected it.
Once these two things are promoted by his hands, not only will they not be able to help the Song Dynasty, but they may accelerate the demise of the Song Dynasty.
Why is this so?
Because Kou Ji stayed in Bianjing for a long time, he discovered that the Song Dynasty did not seem to keep any secrets regarding military armaments.
For example, the production methods of the most sophisticated walking armors, bed crossbows and other items in the Song Dynasty do not need to be sent to spy on. You only need to find detailed production methods in various bookstores in Bianjing City.
The literati of the Song Dynasty were far more stubborn than ordinary people when it came to writing.
When they write a book, they don't even want to make a mistake in a word.
When some people write travel notes, they will measure the place they want to write step by step, and clearly mark in the book how many steps it takes to get to where.
When someone writes a military book, they will take the defense of Bianjing City or the defense of other cities as an example and write it down in the book.
In order to avoid omissions, they would rely on their authority to go to the military in person to observe and study the defense arrangements, and even call up defense plans for research.
Then after they finish their research, they will write the complete defense situation into the book.
In fact, Kou Ji once saw two books about the defense of Bianjing City. One of them wrote about the changing of a guard post incorrectly, and the other person immediately stood up to criticize him and corrected him in time.
mistake.
When someone writes a craft book, they will follow the craftsmen from beginning to end, study the craft thoroughly, and then write it down in the book accurately. This includes the production process of the military equipment of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the armaments of the Song Dynasty were not a secret in the eyes of the Liao people and the Xixia people.
If it were not for the high cost of infantry armor, it is estimated that the Xixia and Liao people would have already made infantry armor and equipped the entire army. Mobile version::
Therefore, Kou Ji did not dare to promote guns, grenades and other items.
Once it is popularized, someone will definitely find out how to make it from the hands of the craftsmen, then write it into his own book without any scruples, and finally sell it at a very low price.
In just a few months, the methods for making firearms, grenades and other items will be spread all over the world.
By that time, not only the imperial court of the Song Dynasty would do it, but also the bandits in the mountains and plains of the Song Dynasty.
Xixia people know how to build, Liao people know how to build, Qingtang people know how to build...
When everyone in the world can make firearms and grenades, what is the point of equipping Song Dynasty with these things?