Gui Zi Scroll Chapter 24: Adapt to changes, battle to seize the city
Luo Dingbiao's heart trembled slightly, but the expression on his face did not change much. He curled his lips casually: "Master Zhu has forgotten the goods of Zhou Family Timber Store. The last time Master Sun came to warn us, he asked us to deal with these Linqing people."
The big households should handle the relationship well and don't offend them easily. This is the goods from the lumber shop. It was shipped from Dongchang Prefecture a few days ago and has been on display for two days. It is said that it was originally going to be shipped today, but now it has been delayed."
There is nothing obvious about the wood piled up behind the city wall on the surface, but this is only the outer layer. The wood below is all tied with iron hooks or tied with bamboo ropes and pushed down the river.
It can become part of the pontoon bridge. At that time, large iron hooks will be used to connect these wooden rafts one by one, and a pontoon bridge can be formed in a short time.
For Watergate, such a pontoon bridge can also become a passage connecting the inside and outside of the city. You can rush into the city directly along the pontoon bridge without climbing the wall. Its movement efficiency can be greatly improved, and it can also avoid being discovered by the mighty gate defenders and counterattack.
Come and deal with the risk of insufficient troops.
Seeing the dissatisfaction with him on the other person's face, Zhu Yunqi also knew that this guy had always been dissatisfied with him as the general of Linqing City.
Although he is not afraid, he is not willing to offend the other party too deeply. After all, in this war, the other party has to fight hard.
However, he also knew that the Zhou family's timber business was very large. Zhou Chaorui worked at Dali Temple in Beijing. The Zhou family was also a famous gentry family in Linqing. If he wanted to gain a foothold in Shandong, he could not do without the support of these gentry families. However, until
Now, these gentry still adopt a lukewarm and uncooperative attitude, which also makes us quite sad.
It is estimated that it will wait until the second half of the year when the court cannot hold on and starts to be stretched thin. When these Shandong gentry see that without the support of Jiangnan, the people in the north will not survive at all, these people will slowly change their attitude. Now everyone can only endure it.
"Brother Luo, these are extraordinary times. The war situation is so tense. I am under great pressure, so I have to be careful. It is not safe to put these wood here. If the enemy's rocket falls into it, it will cause a fire. Give us a way
It will cause chaos, so I'm afraid we have to ask the Zhou family to move these things away as soon as possible." Zhu Yunqi said seriously.
"How about you, Mr. Zhu, give an order to the Zhou family?" Luo Dingbiao snorted and said, "Don't let us subordinates do all the offending work. If you sue Mr. Sun in the future, you will have to suffer.
insulted."
Zhu Yunqi smiled and said, "Haha, Brother Luo, these things are within your defense zone. I'm afraid you have to deal with them yourself, but these things really can't be piled up here."
Luo Dingbiao's face darkened and he didn't speak for a long time.
Zhu Yunqi estimated that the other party most likely accepted the other party's money to let the other party place so many wooden boards here. He also pretended not to know. It would be fine to just turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, but things cannot be placed here.
here.
Zhu Yunqi waited like this with a smile. After a while, Luo Dingbiao said angrily: "Then we can only wait until tomorrow morning. I will ask someone to inform the Zhou family. Now the brothers are all exhausted, so there is no need for that."
Use more energy to accompany the Zhu family to move things overnight."
Zhu Yunqi didn't care too much for himself. He had the upper hand and it was enough to let the other party understand the stakes.
This was a loss of face for Luo Dingbiao in front of everyone. The other party would definitely be unhappy, but he had to understand that he still had the final say in Linqing City.
Watching Zhu Yunqi and his entourage leave, Luo Dingbiao suppressed the murderous intention in his heart and tightly grasped the narrow-edged knife at his waist.
There was a layer of cold sweat on his back.
This guy is extremely suspicious. If you want to go down to the city wall and look carefully at these piled wooden rafts, you will be able to see the clues. How could the lumber shop use iron hooks and bamboo ropes to connect the wood? It is too obvious what they are used for.
Then maybe you have to take the risk yourself.
In fact, he had been silent just now. It seemed that he was resisting the opponent's pressure. In fact, he was nervously evaluating whether the result would be better if he suddenly broke out and killed the opponent's group on the top of the city wall.
?
But after some evaluation, he gave up the risk.
Zhu Yunqi was suspicious. There were more than twenty soldiers accompanying him, and his martial arts skills were not bad. He was also famous for fighting in battle. He was always very wary of himself and it was not easy to succeed with one blow.
If I can't kill the opponent with one blow, I'm afraid the opponent will immediately understand that the situation has changed and call the surrounding troops to respond.
Moreover, it is not far from the Mighty Gate. The opponent's elites are stationed at the Mighty Gate. Once alerted, reinforcements can arrive in a matter of seconds. However, the imperial army outside the city is not ready at this time. If they attack rashly, the risk is uncontrollable.
, once you fail, the consequences will be disastrous.
Therefore, after much deliberation, Luo Dingbiao still gave up this tempting idea. This battle cannot afford mistakes. This is what the court has repeatedly warned: stability, accuracy, and ruthlessness are all indispensable.
Zhu Yunqi walked along the city wall to Jingdai Gate in the south. Along the way, he was still thinking about Luo Dingbiao's attitude.
This guy has always been a bit unruly. After the battle became tense, Zhu Yunqi was a little worried about the opponent's position, but now it seems that not much has changed.
"How do you think Luo Dingbiao went in this afternoon's battle?" Zhu Yunqi suddenly turned to ask the captain of the soldiers beside him.
"The fighting here is quite satisfactory, and the south side is still very hard-working, but this guy has tightened his troops very tightly, so he looks like he can't resist, and forces the Lord to use the reserve team to come to the rescue, which is very heartbreaking."
The janissary captain knew what his superiors were worried about.
"Well, it's good if he can fight hard. How can we expect him to fight for his life selflessly? This guy is unstable, so he has to be careful." Zhu Yunqi shook his head, put aside some unspeakable intuition, and looked at
On Jingdai's door, "I'm afraid the war will be even more intense tomorrow. The Northern Army can't keep fighting us like this. They can't afford it."
"Sir, there is no need to worry. Reinforcements from Dongchang Mansion and Dezhou will arrive at the latest the day after tomorrow. I heard that there is still a fierce battle over there in the ancient city. The competition is fierce and the casualties are heavy." said the captain of the soldiers.
"Well, losing the old city has nothing to do with the overall situation, and it is not easy to attack You Shilu from the north and the south, but the most important thing for us is not the gains and losses of one city or one place, but time." Zhu Yunqi cheered up.
He also knew that everyone, including the soldiers around him, was still a little uneasy. Initially, he said that the imperial court had cut off water transportation and would collapse before the beginning of the year. However, he did not expect that the imperial court would survive. Later, he said that the summer harvest would be the latest, and Shanshan and Shaanxi would be harvested at the latest.
The refugees from a severe drought could force the imperial court to collapse, but now that the summer harvest was about to begin, the imperial court had not revealed any signs of chaos, which shocked Zhu Yunqi even more.
No one could have imagined how the imperial court could survive. Isn’t it because the people in Shanxi and Shaanxi were in chaos and the plague was rampant? And why hasn’t the capital city been in chaos? Without the grain, what would the millions of people in the capital city eat?
It is said that there is sea transportation from Yuguan and Dagu to transport grain from the south, but I have never heard of how large this shipping volume can be. At most, only some adventurous merchants are willing to use this sea transportation, from north to south.
Food has always been transported through canals. The imperial court was so desperate that it actually replaced it with sea transportation. But can this be replaced in a short time?
Also, I don’t know what food is available in Nanjing?
Grain can be transported from the south of the Yangtze River to Yuguan and Dagu. Do local governments in Nanzhili and Zhejiang not care? If the imperial court cannot order Jinling City, this war will be a farce.
Confused thoughts rolled through Zhu Yunqi's mind, but at this moment he had to cheer up the people around him: "Don't look at the children in the north dancing happily now, but as long as the summer harvest is over and there is no food in the barn, then we have to
The truth is revealed. Mr. Wang has already controlled the situation in Huguang. If the food from Huguang cannot be transported to Henan, Henan will be in chaos. We have controlled the line of the Shandong Canal, and millions of people in the capital city can only rely on Yuguan.
The little food shipped from Guangdong and Guangxi in Dagu saves lives, but how long can that little food last? I think, at most, in October, the capital city will be in chaos, and by the end of the year, it may happen again.
The story of cannibalism."
The captain of the guards grinned: "There are millions of people in the capital city. If things like that happen, then the imperial court will have no choice but to bow to Nanjing and admit defeat. Now that the emperor has not woken up, what are these princes still making a fuss about? They don't have the ability.
, let’s wait for Prince Yi Zhong to make the decision. Without the grain from Jiangnan, half of the people in the capital city would starve to death. The little grain around Beizhili is not enough for them to eat..."
The captain of the soldiers was also quite entertaining, matching Zhu Yunqi's huatou performance.
The soldiers around seemed to be relieved, laughing a little more, and the atmosphere became more relaxed.
Night finally enveloped the entire Linqing city, and it seemed that God was going to help He Huchen. The bright moon slowly shrank into the clouds, and a dark crowd of people quietly lurked closer to the place less than 300 steps away from Dongshui Gate.
Although the moonlight has faded, the torches on the top of the city still illuminate a ten-foot radius below the city wall like daylight.
The water gates of the water gate have been lowered long ago, and the soldiers on night duty on both sides of the canal were yawning and looking at each other from a distance.
Luo Dingbiao's eyes were like a vulture, and he casually led dozens of people across the canal to the north bank of the canal. He walked up the stairs on the north bank of the river. After just a few steps, he heard a vigilant voice coming from the top of the city wall: "Who is it? Stop.
Step, otherwise the arrow will be released!"
Luo Dingbiao did not stop, but laughed loudly: "Yuan Dao? It's me!"
Stationed on the north bank of Dongshui Gate was Zhu Yunqi's subordinate Gao Yuandao, who had some friendship with Luo Dingbiao, but was far from close.
"Lord Luo, why did you come across the river?" Gao Yuandao was surprised and walked forward. He signaled to the archers behind him not to be nervous for the time being, but he also signaled to the soldiers behind him to be more vigilant.
Luo Dingbiao had already reached the stairs and was only a few steps away from climbing the wall. But when he saw Gao Yuandao's suspicious and wary eyes, he secretly complained in his heart.