Zhang Ren walked silently in the tunnel.

The group of officers following behind them all had their eyes widened at this moment, looking at everything around them in shock.

The tunnel here is very wide and deep. It is enough for horse racing in the tunnel. On the walls of the tunnel, holes are dug one after another. Each hole can accommodate about ten to twenty soldiers.

After pausing in front of a hole with a straw curtain, Zhang Ren stretched out his hand to lift the straw curtain and stepped in, followed by a group of officers.

Compared with the previous small holes, this hole was obviously larger, but the height was the same. People like Zhang Ren couldn't straighten their waists at all, but Wu Zheng showed his advantage of being lean and short at this time.

"From now on, until the battle is over, this will be where my Chinese army will be!" Zhang Ren said.

Wu Zheng took a step forward, hung up a drawing on the wall of the pit with Zhang Ren on the left and right.

"This is the area we need to defend. It is about three miles long from east to west and about one mile wide from north to south." Zhang Ren pressed his hand on the drawing.

Everyone looked at this relatively abstract drawing, and the muscles on their faces twitched a few times.

On the drawing, lines running vertically and horizontally are thick or thin and of different colors.

He is very familiar with Xuzhou.

"Let's go, let's go, since the master is already annoyed, let's leave early, don't make people uncomfortable here!" Lu Wenhuan pulled Xie Hong up and walked towards the city, saying as he walked: "Old Gao, fifty thousand

Man, a month! At least a month!”

"Mr. Zheng, you have worked hard all the way. It is Xiao's fault that I called you from your comfortable old house to Jiangning." Xiao Cheng pushed the door open and saw that he was sitting on a chair, holding a piece of candy between his two fingers.

Old Man Zheng enjoyed it with gusto.

He won the bet.

Xie Hong, the governor of Liangjiang, looked at all this with a look of shock on his face.

Gao Yingxiang said: "Governor Xie, Xuzhou's defense system, what you see now, was established under the guidance of Lu Shangshu."

Xie Hong, who had one foot on the stirrup, shivered, slipped, and hit the horse's belly with one foot. Fortunately, the horse followed him for a long time and did not even move. Xie Honghuo raised his head and looked at the horse.

Lu Wenhuan gradually fades away.

Zhang Ren only has four bronze cannons and more than ten oak cannons, but the range is much closer than the bronze cannons. What he has more in his hands are various kinds of crossbows. Every fortress

Among them, a crossbow machine is arranged. This kind of crossbow machine that shoots three rounds at a time seems to have been greatly simplified in the manufacturing process, resulting in a sharp drop in cost. Otherwise, it would be impossible to distribute so many to them, and there would be no need for them.

Like money.

But what no one expected was that they would actually be fighting in such an environment.

"General Gao looks up to me. As for me, at most I am just a participant. Originally, I wanted to stay in Xuzhou and experience firsthand how the current war is different from the past."

And there is nothing bare above the ground. There are parapets of different heights, and at certain intervals, there is a fortress covered with rammed earth and bricks.

This time, he arrived in Xuzhou with a logistics transportation team and reinforcements.

"Mr. Zheng is here, I have to pick him up!" Xiao Cheng stood up.

There are indeed a lot of things going on right now.

The door was pushed open, and Liu Xin walked in softly.

On the way to Xuzhou, everyone knew that they were about to face an extremely fierce battle, probably more tragic than any battle they had participated in before, because in the past, no matter what, when it really didn't work, they could still retreat.

, but this time, there is absolutely no way to take a step back.

"Don't worry!" Gao Yingxiang's voice came from behind.

"Of course not!" Gao Yingxiang said: "You are the commander-in-chief of the entire war against Liao. You need to dispatch the soldiers and supplies of the entire war zone to visit us in Xuzhou. Wei Wu and Wang Zhu are going to have a good time, and Zhang Cheng is even more so.

He knows how to jump! And you, Governor Xie, have seen this and expressed condolences. Please leave Xuzhou as soon as possible."

Standing on the top of a fortress, Zhang Ren stared into the distance. On the empty land, there was nothing, let alone a tree. Even the taller grass had been cut down.

Some stones were picked up.

Zhang Ren's voice became stern.

There is no doubt that Xuzhou will become a flesh and blood millstone, in which hundreds of thousands of people from both sides will be turned.

But the Xuzhou in front of him and the Xuzhou city in his image were completely different.

Xiao Cheng always felt that this guy had some special maintenance skills. More than ten years ago, he looked like this, and he still looks like this now, as if time has stopped here.

The 50,000 people here were all the most elite members of the Song Dynasty's army. Thinking about half of them dying is heartbreaking.

"Hundreds of artillery?" Everyone in the cave looked a little pale.

"No matter how you look the same, you are still old and decrepit. You can't compare with your splendor and splendor, my husband! My husband, you don't look very good!"

Now he is the core of Song Zheng'er Ba Jing.

"This is not possible!" Xie Hong blurted out.

Xie Hong looked back at Gao Yingxiang on the city wall, and asked Lu Wenhuan in a low voice: "The Liao and servant troops have at least 200,000 people. How many people will die here in a month?"

"Previously, the chief minister said that if you lose people if you save the land, you will lose both the people and the land; if you save the people and lose the land, you will gain both the people and the land, but this is also conditional. It is under the conditions that can be dealt with. But this time in the battle of Xuzhou, retreat,

The country will be destroyed and the species will be destroyed. Therefore, anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"

Xie Hong raised his eyebrows and said: "General Gao, when you asked me to prepare more supplies for you earlier, you didn't have this attitude. Why, now that you have the things in hand, you have turned against me."

"I'm so bored in that house that I'm almost moldy. If I go out for a walk, enjoy the wind, and bask in the sun, I'll feel more energetic!" Zheng Zeshi stood up and cupped his hands and said, "How do you think my spirit is, sir?"

Lu Wenhuan smiled and said: "Over the years, you have focused on local government affairs and have inevitably neglected the military. I have not. Every time a new weapon comes out, I will carefully study its function, its scope of use, and scenarios. Many times,

The chief assistant will also be involved."

"When did you come?"

Xiao Cheng stood up, stretched, and then covered his face with both hands, intending to squint for a while. The official documents and memorials in front of him, no matter how hard he worked and stayed up, would not be reduced. Anyway, after he had approved this pile, Liu

Xinfa will immediately get himself another stack.

Ren Zhong continued: "Everyone, the next Battle of Xuzhou will be the beginning of large-scale use of gunpowder weapons in warfare. According to intelligence, the Liao Army now has hundreds of artillery pieces of various types, plus the ability to use trebuchets.

The use of propellant packs such as crossbows, the large-scale use of gunpowder weapons such as hand cannons, and the dense array-style attack and defense of the past are all typical death-defying tactics."

Lu Wenhuan, who was about to get on his horse, paused for a moment, stepped on the stirrups, sat astride the horse, looked at Xie Hong and said, "At least half of it!"

Of course, this is no wonder Liu Xin.

"New weapons bring new ways of war. If you want to survive future wars, you should seize every moment to change your ideas and adapt to this new era!" Zhang Rendao.

The officers are leading the soldiers to set up positions.

"I just stay up late. This Liu Xin is afraid that I will have a long rest, so he has a full schedule for me for the day!"

Are you going to burrow around in the ground like a bunch of rats?

"In the next time, everyone needs to be familiar with everything in our defense zone. These tunnels may look messy, but in fact they have rules to follow. Everyone must be familiar with them. I don't want to see an attack.

After the war broke out, some people actually got lost within their own defense zone!" Zhang Rendao.

War, compared to his time, was completely different.

"Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!" The officer in Yidongzi stood up straight, beat his left chest with his right hand, and responded loudly.

The tunnels vary in depth.

From a mere humble state in Xiazhou to Zhizhou, he has soared into the sky.

Jiangning, Prime Minister Gongse.

From the initial panic to the fact that everyone is confident of winning now, confidence is slowly accumulated in this way.

Touching the cold body of a bronze cannon at hand, Xie Hong said to Lu Wenhuan beside him: "Lv Shangshu, I can't understand the current mode of war at all."

As for hand cannons, 10,000 were distributed, which made Zhang Ren overjoyed.

Next, blood will soak this land.

"Now that we've got the things, we're going to fall out!" Gao Yingxiang laughed. "Why, I'm keeping you here to celebrate the New Year!"

He staked his fortune and life on Xuzhou, betting that Xiao Cheng would see the value of Xuzhou and send troops to rescue him.

Wu Zheng sneered: "What's so scary? They have it, but we don't have it? Let me tell you, ours is better. When we left the city gate, did you see the cannon barrel rising from the horse's face? That's

A bronze cannon weighing tens of thousands of pounds has a range of more than five miles!"

But soon, this empty space will be filled by enemies.

Of course, the people, even most officials, and the army can think that victory must be within easy reach, but people like Xiao Cheng and others must consider the worst case scenario as a ten thousand thing.

"My lord, Zheng Zeshi is here!" He walked to the big case, opened the lid of the tea cup, looked inside, then lifted the cup up and prepared to change it for Xiao Cheng.

Xiao Cheng sat up straight all of a sudden.

"The same reaction as General Gao." Lu Wenhuan smiled.

While Zhang Ren was looking ahead at the direction where the enemy was about to attack, the big shots at the top of Xuzhou City were also staring at the defensive positions that stretched from the bottom of the city to the end of the field of vision.

Who will survive and who will die, everything can only depend on God's will.

The frontline has been fighting for almost a year. In order to cope with this war, the entire rear area is working hard to do their own thing better, just to contribute a little more to the victory of the frontline.

This is where he started.

While joking, Xiao Cheng welcomed Zheng Zeshi into his mansion.

Some places are as deep as one or two feet, some places are only a few feet deep, some places are more than ten feet wide, and some places are so narrow that only one person can pass through. Most of them are accessible in all directions, but there are also

Some tunnels are dead ends, and some places are complete traps.

Three thousand soldiers and horses were all stationed in these tunnels.

He got on his horse, looked back at Gao Yingxiang who was still waving on the city wall, and took a deep breath. After he went back, he should prepare more supplies to send here, maybe one more crossbow arrow, one more

Cannonball, maybe one less person will die here.

Zheng Zeshi, once a powerful maritime merchant and pirate of the Song Dynasty, is now the president of the Maritime Association of the Song Dynasty. He is over seventy years old, but he is still full of energy, and his true age cannot be seen at all.

"There are some things I can tell you in advance. The Liao people and their servants who attacked Xuzhou exceeded 200,000 people, but our peripheral positions plus the garrison in Xuzhou City totaled only 50,000 people!" Zhang Rendao:

"Our mission is to firmly stick these 200,000 enemies in Xuzhou City so that they cannot advance even an inch. As long as we accomplish this, their end will be near."

"Just arrived! Shall I invite him in?" Liu Xin asked.

"Speaking of which, I've always wanted to capture you and torture you!" Xiao Cheng said with a smile: "Let me ask you where you got the pill of immortality. You haven't changed in these more than ten years.

Look."

"Commander, why are you fighting in such a place?" A battalion general pulled his beard hard with a depressed look on his face.

With an intuition, Zhang Ren believed that in the coming battle, weapons such as hand cannons would play an extremely important role.

Zhang Ren walked a few steps in the cave and saw an earthen platform. He sat down on it, which finally allowed him to straighten up. "The reason why these earthen holes are dug is to prevent shelling, and secondly, it can

There is a place to shelter from the wind and rain. As for how to fight such a battle, the higher-ups have never experienced it before, and we have not experienced it before. We need to explore it by ourselves, but there is one thing: if the person is in the position, the position will remain if the person dies.

Must be there!”

There are only a handful of people in the entire Song Dynasty who are worthy of him doing this.

"Everything arranged by my husband last year has been completed!" After sitting down, Zheng Zeshi said: "Thousands of sea ships have made all preparations and are now divided into three teams and are heading to the destination port. Each one

The team is led by appropriate people, and at the port, detailed plans have been made for the docking sequence and the loading sequence."

Xiao Cheng nodded: "One hundred thousand people and corresponding materials set out from different places and ports, but they have to arrive at the destination at the same time. The difficulty here is not ordinary, so I want you to personally take charge of this

Plate, the fleet can set sail is only the first step, the next thing cannot be done carelessly."

"These old men can figure it out without any problems, but sir, I'm still a little worried. Can we really withstand this decisive battle in the Jianghuai War Zone?"
Chapter completed!