chance world

Two days later, Lu Weiming and Lu Weixi were discussing in the meeting hall of the Inner City Commander's Mansion in Yangchong City, which was the newly established garrison command post.

The guard outside the gate reported: "General, military advisor, the scouts in front have sent back news that the anti-army vanguard camp has arrived forty miles away." Third Miss Lu has been honored as a military advisor by all the officers and men.

Lu Weiming's expression was stern: "Humph, it came pretty fast."

The soldiers who reported handed over the secret letter of the scouts to Lu Weiming: "The scouts have also found out that wooden machines are being secretly assembled in the vanguard camp."

"Ingenious?!" Lu Weiming slapped the table and got up, took the secret letter and read it.

"Yes, it's a great siege machine." The soldier who informed him responded.Here Lu Weiming read out the details of the large-scale machine mentioned in the scout letter.

After hearing this, Lu Weixi ordered Qing'er to go to her residence to fetch the manuscript left by Ding Qiyu and explained: "Second brother, from the description, these clever tricks should be the batch that Qiyu sold to Boss Wan."

Lu Weiming quickly calmed down after his sister's point, and sat back on the main seat: "Yes, yes, in today's world, besides Brother Yu, who else can do such a great ingenuity? Do those thieves want to skip the declaration of war and attack directly? ?” According to the rules of the military, as long as it is a siege battle, no matter how much conflict and hatred there are between the two sides in the war, they must first call the battle to declare war, and must not go beyond the declaration of war and attack in advance, otherwise it will violate the morality of soldiers.

"Very likely. Qiyu made detailed annotations on the manuscript left before." Obviously, Lu Weixi had long considered the possibility that Master Wan was King Yong's subordinate, so he had already planned a countermeasure for this, "Soldiers need to Hurry up and set up the city wall."

After all, Lu Weixi wanted to learn more about the situation for precise deployment, and asked cautiously: "Did the scout letter mention any projectiles in the vanguard camp besides large machines? Is it a boulder, kerosene? Or something else?" What?"

Lu Weiming shook his head: "No."

"Where's the message?" Lu Weixi turned to ask the soldiers who had informed him.

The third lady suddenly looked at herself, and the soldiers who came to report were startled: "This...the third scout team has never mentioned it." Although she was wearing a veil, the beautiful eyes of the third lady seemed to have magical powers, which almost made her cry. He lost his mind.

Lu Weixi frowned: "So..." She couldn't help but think of another possibility.

Seeing the change in his younger sister's expression, Lu Weiming was also concerned: "What's wrong?"

Lu Weixi dismissed the people who came to report, and explained to his brother: "I have read the manuscript left by Qiyu carefully, and the most important trick she sold to Master Wan is a trick called flying stone throwing a cart. Unlike the old-fashioned catapults, it is highly mobile and can throw stones and fire oil a long distance. But the scouts did not mention that there are these throwing things in the vanguard camp..." Lu Weixi thought thoughtfully, "Despite the ingenuity, it is powerful. However, manpower support is needed. The Pioneer Battalion is just to test out the pioneers, the number of people is not large, and they do not carry stones and fire oil barrels and other throwing objects. It is rumored that Nanyu people are good at using poison. Will it be... the ingenuity is just for the time being. The poisonous attack later is the main purpose." Lu Weixi has recently studied a lot of historical records of the Nanyu Nanjiao War, and the poisonous attack has always been a part of her concern, but the army set off too hastily, and there was no time to prepare the army. Came to Yangchong Pass.

When Lu Weiming heard this, a look of worry appeared on his face: "The rebel army swept across several towns in the southeast before, and Yujiao was all barbarians fighting. I have never heard of them using poison." Saying, "However, Yangchongguan is a battleground, and it can't be secured...What a hateful bandit! You don't talk about the way of soldiers at all!"

"No matter what, we need to be prepared with both hands. Yang Chongguan, there is no room for loss." After Lu Weixi finished speaking, he ordered his men to invite a military doctor over.

The two waited in the meeting room for a while, but it was not the military doctor who came over, but Le Zhuyi. As soon as she entered the meeting room, she asked Lu Weixi, "Is Weixi feeling unwell?"

Lu Weixi shook his head in denial, and told Le Zhuyi the truth.Le Zhuyi thought for a moment: "I don't know what kind of poison the other party will use. But there are several common preventive methods. My mother taught me to prepare a kind of potion. I just need to put a few drops in the water basin. Wetting the facecloth with fresh water and covering the mouth and nose can effectively prevent the toxicity contained in the common poisonous powder and poisonous smoke.” He added rigorously, “Of course, if the poison used by the other party is unusual, this method can It’s not necessarily going to work.”

Lu Weixi said happily: "Prepare for the rainy day, we can only do our best as much as possible, and it is enough to prevent the general poisonous powder and smoke."

Le Zhuyi nodded: "Okay, I'll go and dispense the medicine right now."

Lu Weixi expressed his heartfelt gratitude: "Let Zhuyi come all the way to Yangchongguan, and I will trouble you to worry about military affairs, I—"

Le Zhuyi raised his hand: "I've said it before, Dagan is the Dagan of the whole world, and I, Le Zhuyi, are also Dagan's people. It is also my responsibility to protect Dagan."

Lu Weixi no longer sticks to politeness: "Since that's the case... then we are all comrades in the same robe now. If the world is full of chivalrous knights like Zhuyi, Daqian will definitely be able to stabilize the society and return to prosperity!"

Le Zhuyi smiled brightly, turned around and left the meeting room.

Lu Weiming watched her handsome back disappear outside the door, nodded and praised: "What a chivalrous and courageous girl!" With a countermeasure, Lu Weiming felt relieved a lot, and couldn't help but joke, " Hehe, if I hadn't met Ruochen beforehand, I might have fallen in love with this girl too!"

Lu Weixi took a look at his elder brother: "Second brother wants to talk nonsense again, and I'll 'tell' everything you said to Xiaochen."

Lu Weiming said dumbfounded: "Hey, absolutely not! Weixi, don't cheat on your brother." If you can't pursue it like this, and then recite the name of changing your mind, I'm afraid I have just established a little bit of emotional foundation. It will collapse immediately!

Lu Weixi said helplessly: "Be careful not to be heard by your brother Yu, even brothers can't do it."

That means he won't sue, Lu Weiming breathed a sigh of relief, and stroked his fledgling mustache: "Hehe, just kidding, just kidding."

Lu Weixi stopped gossiping with him, took the blueprints of the mechanism that Qing'er had brought over and carefully browsed, and said, "I will arrange for the city wall protection. The second brother now needs to send someone to cooperate with Zhuyi to find the cloth soaked in medicine, enough Distributed to all the soldiers who are on duty within three days. In addition, the water quality of the wells mainly used by the military and civilians in the city needs to be checked regularly every day to prevent someone from secretly poisoning them. Be prepared, even if they don't use poisons and use organs, make more preparations, Always comes in handy."

With the task, Lu Weiming also became serious: "Okay." According to his sister, he mobilized soldiers and civilians in the city and surrounding villages to requisition cloth that can be used to soak the potion, and arranged for all the main wells to be guarded.The soldiers in iron armor and battle helmets took turns to be on duty, and it was reassuring to watch. The people in the city praised that with the major generals and military divisions guarding Yangchongguan, they could eat and sleep more securely.

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At night, the Anti-Army Pioneer Battalion set up flying stone throwing vehicles and building vehicles for observation at a position far away from the Yangchongguan city wall.In the city, the brothers and sisters of the Lu family stayed up all night to closely monitor the enemy's movements.

Seeing the young lady's slightly pale face, Qing'er was sweating for her own young lady, but she didn't have the qualifications and position to persuade her, so she could only act in a hurry.

After his sister finished reading the frontline newspaper, Lu Weiming asked eagerly, "How?"

Lu Weixi raised his head and replied: "In such a far position, with the city defense mechanism left by Qi Yu, I'm afraid I won't be able to hit their flying stones and throw carts."

"Tsk, then let's send people out of the city to dismantle it?"

Lu Weixi shook his head and said, "No need. Now that we have prepared our defenses, let's see what tricks they want to play."

Lu Weiming leaned on the back of the chair behind him: "We can only wait for the flying stone throwing the car to be used a few times before activating the 'self-destruct' device that Brother Yu said?"

"Hmm." Lu Weixi was thoughtful, "But at such a distance, the flying stone throwing car can't throw any projectiles to the city wall. It seems that they are very likely to use poison."

Lu Weiming frowned: "It's hard to see things at night, which is convenient for them to poison. Fortunately, the soldiers guarding the city all wore the face masks given by Miss Le."

As soon as the words fell, only two shocks pierced the quiet night, and Lu Weixi immediately recognized that it was the sound of flying stones throwing cars.After a while, the spies really reported back, saying that two unknown objects were thrown from the flying stone and the car and exploded outside the pass, and there was no other abnormality.

On the tower, Le Zhuyi, who was waiting with a few old military doctors, took off the cloth soaked in the liquid medicine on his face, sniffed it carefully, and quickly put on his mask again.She identified a common soft tendon powder in the air. Once this kind of soft tendon powder is inhaled unpreparedly, it can make people feel exhausted. It is impossible to recover without resting in bed for a few days. Even standing is a problem. , let alone go into battle to kill the enemy.Several old doctors had to look at this young girl with great medical skills with admiration and praise.

All night.

The next day, the anti-army army, who had been on their way all night, arrived outside Yangchong Pass.Cavalry archers, Qiandongnan sword-shield infantry, and southern Xinjiang barbarians composed of Nanyu and Nanjiao and capable people, all lined up neatly, and Chen Jun was very cautiously within the range of the bow and crossbow. outside.According to the rules of the military, this is the declaration of war by the coaches of the two armies before the official battle.

Under the two tall commander-in-chief flags on the tower of Yangchong Pass, the lightly armored soldiers of the Archer Battalion held Wanjun crossbows and aimed at the large enemy forces outside the pass. What matters is morale.

Lu Weiming, who was dressed in a golden armor and a long knife on his waist, pursed his lips and looked at everything below the tower. Young General Lu stood upright and full of momentum, but the palm of his hand holding the handle of the knife turned white, which showed him Inner tension.It was impossible to say that he was not nervous when facing the enemy for the first time, but his sister reminded him repeatedly today that the declaration of war between the two armies would have a great impact on morale. As the commander of the city, he must not lose in momentum.