Rebirth of the Merry Warrior

Chapter 61 Thousands of arrows fired

Shen Chengqian was startled by someone behind him, seeing that it was Yan Moran, he felt relieved, and only smiled and said: "So it's General Yan, why don't you go back to rest at this time?"

"I just came back from outside the city with General Mo. After another week of patrolling, I'm going back to the tent." Yan Moran walked a few steps, stared at Ye Chun coldly, and said softly, "Ye Chun, when did you get along with Mr. Shen like this?" Are you getting acquainted? What are the two of you talking about, and let Yan listen here, how about it?"

Ye Chun quickly knelt down on the ground, and said: "General Huiyan, I was here to inspect whether there are any enemy spies, and happened to meet Mr. Shen passing by, so I exchanged a few words and said nothing else. .”

Yan Moran sneered slightly, and said: "Since the two armies are allies, it is also appropriate to exchange pleasantries. But today is too late, Mr. Shen still needs to rest, what's the matter, why not talk about it tomorrow, how about it?"

Ye Chun dared not say no, after kneeling down and saluting, he hurriedly ran away.

Yan Moran watched Ye Chun go away with sideways eyes, and then said: "Master Shen, what did my useless subordinate say to Your Excellency? He was sneaky and flustered."

Shen Chengqian was already confused by the situation, and said: "I just met General Ye occasionally, but I didn't think of him for a long time. He exchanged a few words with me, and didn't say anything else. I'm too worried."

Yan Moran turned his head, and his eyes became clear: "How can Yan be overhearted? I'm afraid Mr. Shen is overhearted." He paused, and said: "Actually, I heard the conversation between you and Ye Chun just now. Logically speaking, I can be regarded as the commander in the army, so I shouldn't do such eavesdropping things. It's just that Ye Chun's behavior is too abnormal recently, so I always pay attention to it, and I hope Mr. Shen will not be offended."

"How could it be?" Hearing what he said, Shen Chengqian felt relieved as he looked like a worried and just gentleman. "It's just that what General Ye said to me just now mean?"

"What's the point?" Yan Moran asked. "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. Normally, Bai Ze treats him well, but now that there is going to be a war, and he is going to charge forward, he is afraid of death."

Shen Chengqian looked at Yan Moran and sighed deeply, deeply hated that iron could not be made into steel, so he comforted: "General Yan, don't worry too much, this is also human nature, it is inevitable."

Yan Moran couldn't hide his grief, and still said: "The world calls me Bai Ze the country of Confucianism and Taoism, and everyone in Bai Ze praises it, but I don't think so. It's better for women to be educated, virtuous and gentle. Talking about war on paper, chewing on words, and only being accompanied by those elegant eulogies all day long without being familiar with war. If this continues, the manly integrity and heroic soul will be gone, and they will gradually become people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. Yan believes that this is My country of Bai Ze is in peril."

Shen Cheng looked at him worried, but didn't know how to comfort him for a while, so he picked up other topics and exchanged a few words with Yan Moran, and then both of them dispersed.

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

The craftsman tested the effect of the new bow and arrow in the suburbs of Baize, and the range of the bow and arrow is better than expected. If the wind is favorable, it can shoot three or four hundred feet away, and its power is also outstanding.

Yan Moran watched the spring breeze blowing on the newly made weapons, thanked Shen Chengqian for his kindness, and all the soldiers rushed to the south gate of Yancheng with their bows and arrows.It was a favorable wind that day, and it was at the right time and place.

Yan Moran looked at the soldiers standing in line and calibrated, full of joy, and said to Shen Cheng, "In Master Shen's opinion, can we ignite the arrows to make rockets? In this way, the power will be even more outstanding."

Shen Chengqian said, "Although tarpaulin can be used to ignite it to make it flammable, the distance between the two countries is still far, and the arrow may go out when it is flying. If it goes out, the power is not as good as that of ordinary arrows. It is a waste of arrows." arrow."

Yan Moran nodded and said yes: "Indeed, Mr. Shen is really smart, but I was negligent."

After about half an hour, the bow and arrow team had stood up, and three thousand soldiers formed a square formation. Three people used one bow, and each bow was equipped with fifty arrows, which was exactly fifty thousand arrows.

Yan Moran was afraid that Yun Rong would see through his own strategy and escape, so he ordered the soldiers to shoot arrows at the sound of the trumpets when they were ready.At the same time, another group of soldiers had transported more than a dozen warships from another coastal city of Baize.

At noon, the sound of the trumpet first sounded, and all arrows were fired.

Shen Chengqian had never seen such a magnificent scene. For a moment, a thousand arrows shot above the sky, and the darkness was overwhelming, almost covering the sunlight.However, before he could see it clearly, the arrows had already crossed the river and shot into the distance. About one out of ten arrows hit the walls of the Shuangcheng city, and the rest shot into the city of Shuangcheng.

All the soldiers were overjoyed when they saw that the plan was successful, and their morale was even better.After that, the arrows were fired several times, and the strength and accuracy were better than the first time. Later, few arrows hit the city wall, and all of them were shot into the twin cities with incomparable precision.

Shen Chengqian couldn't help sighing, now in the two cities, there must be people dying, bleeding and floating.

However, he gradually figured this out.If the enemy is not dead, then they are the ones who will die. After thinking this way, the unbearable feeling in my heart can be much relieved.

Who made him stand in this position today?Even for Long Chenyu's sake, he should be ruthless, and stop hesitating like before, hesitant to move forward, too hypocritical.

About half an hour later, all [-] arrows were shot.

The soldiers of the bow and arrow team returned to the city with their bows and arrows, and the soldiers of the waterway team drove their boats and stopped on the bank.

Shen Chengqian just felt that everything is going well today, but he heard a small soldier tell Yan Moran: "General, Mr. Sun said that the wind will rise within half an hour. If we board a boat to cross the river at this time, we will encounter wind and waves, and the ship will sink. ah."

Yan Moran frowned, and said: "This is such an important matter, why don't you talk about it too early?! Now that the plan of shooting all arrows is over, our army is about to strike while the iron is hot, and go to sea to attack the city. Why don't you report back to me at this time? There are storms, destroying my morale, what is the intention?"

Seeing this, the lieutenant general beside Yan Moran raised his knife and was about to cut off the soldier. Shen Chengqian hurriedly stopped him and said, "Don't be angry, general. There are unpredictable things here, which cannot be predicted by human beings. Sir Sun of your country can predict half of it." An hour later, the sky will be fine, so why should General Yan get angry?"

Yan Moran sighed: "Master Shen, it's not that Yan wants to get angry, but the strategy of shooting all arrows has been used. At this moment, there must be countless casualties in the two cities, and the morale is greatly demoralized. This is our best chance to attack Yunrong Ah. If we don’t take this opportunity to break through in one fell swoop, and wait like this, there is no guarantee that there will be no reinforcements from the two cities, and our situation will gradually become unfavorable.”

Shen Chengqian only frowned and thought, why didn't he know.

It's just that if we march at this moment, if a storm really comes a few moments later, capsizing the boat and losing the soldiers, the gain outweighs the loss.

He suddenly remembered that during the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao ordered dozens of warships to be connected with iron chains, and the soldiers walked on the boats as if they were walking on flat ground, extremely safe.When he crossed the spiritual sea, he also used this trick.

Is this plan available now?

But he was afraid that when waiting for the boat to sail, some people from Yunrong would come out of the city. If they set fire to the boat, they would follow in the footsteps of Cao Cao's defeat at Chibi that day.

Yan Moran saw him pondering, and asked: "Master Shen, do you have a clever plan now? Now we are taking advantage of the victory. If we don't pursue and attack the city, we will suffer more losses in the future. As long as we can find a way to cross the river."

Shen Chengqian asked: "General Yan, how many soldiers can this warship carry?"

Yan Moran replied: "A warship can carry about a thousand soldiers, and ten warships can be [-] soldiers. This trip back and forth takes at least a moment, and it can't be completed within half an hour. If Half an hour later, the wind and waves blew up and intensified, and we didn't know when we would be able to cross the river."

Shen Cheng was silent for a moment, and said: "Shen has a plan, which is to connect the warship with iron chains to make the warship stable. But... this plan is a dangerous move by the soldiers. If someone from the enemy country goes out of the city to set fire, we will It would be a heavy loss. But other than that, Shen has no idea..."

Yan Moran thought for a long time in silence, and at the end, he seemed determined, and said: "Sir Shen, why don't we let the Bai Ze soldiers pass first. In this way, if someone from Shuangcheng comes out to set fire, we will be the first to bear the brunt, we won't It hurts your army. If we pass by the boat for the first time, we can guard the gates of the two cities, and the army will be safe in the future, and don't have to worry about someone setting fire to the boat. What do you think?"

Shen Chengqian's heart tightened, Yan Moran must have given up on being able to say this.If this is the case, if this plan is successful, they will be unscathed, and if it is not successful, they will not be able to hurt Beichen soldiers.It sounds like nothing will go wrong.On the contrary, Yan Moran believed in his strategy and was willing to take risks, which made him sigh.

Shen Chengqian asked Long Chenyu softly, "General Yan is sincere, what does the general think?"

Long Chenyu said softly: "In that case, just follow what he said."

Shen Chengqian asked again: "But if we completely let Bai Ze take risks, will we lose our loyalty?"

Long Chenyu replied to him: "But if Yan Moran didn't say what he said just now, but instead asked us to fight in the vanguard, would that be loyalty? Now that he is willing to say that, we don't need to reject anything, we just hope Just don't let anything happen, that's it."

Shen Chengqian nodded, and agreed to Yan Moran's plan.

Yan Moran was afraid of the wind and waves, so he quickly asked the craftsmen to connect the warships with iron chains, and then called [-] soldiers and divided them into ten teams to board the ship.He moved swiftly, and within a quarter of an hour it was all done. The first boat team left the shore and sailed towards the opposite shore.

Shen Chengqian stood on the side of the shore, watching the warship intently, fearing that something might happen.

Time passed by, and the tightly connected warships approached the shore in a blink of an eye, but no one from the Shuangcheng City came out. It seemed that Yunrong had suffered heavy losses, and he was too late to save himself, and had no time to take care of those soldiers.

After the soldiers who passed the first pass went ashore, they guarded the gate of the city heavily. The boatman on the boat drove the boat back again, and made the second trip.

In a blink of an eye, Bai Ze's [-] soldiers made four trips and all crossed the river.

Now, it was Beichen's turn.

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