The Era of Generals

There is less than an hour!

After confirming the military power, Chen Ze left the Military Aircraft Office with all the generals without any delay.

But that Mr. Jing seemed to really leave everything to Chen Ze to handle, and he didn't even go downstairs.

Whether it is Cao Lang or the goatee advisor, when Chen Zelai agreed to be in charge of the military, they, including their disciples, all belonged to the Xiyun garrison, and Chen Ze had the right to transfer directly with the military token.

After leaving the gate, Chen Ze thought for a while, and asked Cao Lang and others to take his disciples and entourage of more than 300 people to the southeast and south gates respectively.

The terrain of Xiyun City is quite high. There are only three city gates in east, west and south. The east gate leads to Boan City, the south gate leads to Qiuding City, and the west gate faces the poisonous mist forest. .

As for the steep cliff to the north, and a thick city wall was built on the cliff, it is not afraid that someone will take the opportunity to touch it.

It is said that the private soldiers of Cao Lang and others have also experienced battles, and they are far stronger than these weak recruits in Xiyun City, but Chen Ze still assigned them to the two southeast gates.

It's not that he doesn't want to use it, but that he doesn't dare to use it!

When marching and fighting, there is an order and prohibition, just like he took the military aircraft token to the barracks just now. Once the order is in hand, the soldiers will do what he says, and no one has raised any objections.

But private soldiers are different.

Private soldiers all have their own masters, and Cao Lang and others have to go through the order to pass it on. Although everyone agrees that Chen Ze is the commander by default, how convinced is it in their hearts?

I'm afraid not necessarily.

It's more for his own consideration, let Chen Ze, a stunned young man, jump out and take the blame.

Under such circumstances, if Cao Lang and the others felt that their interests would be harmed by Chen Ze's order, how could they carry it out seriously?

Even if you don't refute it on the spot, it's a violation of the law.

If so, it might as well not use it.

As for Cao Lang and the others, Chen Ze was happy to assign them idle jobs. After all, after accepting the recruitment, they would have a guaranteed battle merit. What's wrong with earning battle merit while lying comfortably?

If there is an emergency, if the general situation is not good, it will be more convenient to run, isn't it?

So under the ulterior motives of each other, everyone was polite on the surface, and as soon as they got out of the military plane, they called their disciples to go down the two city gates to the southeast, leaving Chen Ze standing alone on the street .

Li Quan'an and others who went to the post house first also settled down at this time, and hurried to join Chen Ze, and rode away to the west gate under the leadership of Chen Ze.

There was no trace of anyone on the street, and Xiyun City was not very big, so after only a quarter of an hour of galloping, everyone had already arrived at the gate of the city.

The closer the city gate was, the more people there were. They were all soldiers sent here by Chen Ze first, and they were nervously carrying supplies to the city gate tower.

Weapons, arrows, stone bullets, rolling logs, asphalt, and all kinds of ordnance were moved out of the armament warehouse at the root of the city wall. Because of the responsibility of guarding the forest of poisonous mist, these reserves are still abundant.

Chen Ze couldn't help being stunned as he watched the stone bullets weighing thirty to forty catties being carried up the tower by the soldiers with great difficulty.

There are catapults for attacking the city, and there are also catapults for defending the city.

However, Xiyun City is not big, so the city wall is naturally short, and there are only five trebuchets erected above the city gate.

It's not that I don't want to build more, it's just that this thing is too big, and the city wall is narrow, adding a trebuchet will require piles of rock bombs, and each trebuchet requires dozens of people to pull and launch, making it even more crowded.

In desperation, five trebuchets were the limit that the West City Gate could set up.

"Wait a minute, move other things!"

Looking around, Chen Ze got off his horse and shouted at the soldiers who were still struggling to carry the stone bullets.

The soldiers were startled, and looked at Chen Ze blankly.

"This... Lord Counselor."

The commander in charge of transporting saw him, and hurried forward, looked at the badge on Chen Ze's chest, and asked suspiciously, "Excuse me, are you..."

He is the leader of the Xiyun City Defense Army, and he was still patrolling the city when Chen Ze went to the barracks, so the two of them had never met.

"I don't know how to call it?"

Chen Ze directly took out the token of the military machine, and asked at the same time.

"Villain Xu Qing, what orders does your lord have?"

Acknowledging the order but not recognizing the person, as soon as the other party took out the token of the military aircraft, the commander immediately stood up.

"Xu Qing, right? I want to ask..." Chen Ze pointed to the trebuchet on the tower, "How many of these trebuchets are there?"

"yes!"

Xu Qing said like a few treasures: "These are heavy trebuchets, and they are not easy to make and carry. Therefore, besides the five on the gate tower at the west gate, there are only two in the warehouse for backup, and there are seven in total!"

"Seven?"

Chen Ze frowned and thought for a while, "What about the southeast?"

"there?"

Xu Qing was stunned for a moment, and said: "The walls on both sides are even narrower, so there are four for one, and a total of ten."

"What's the range?"

Chen Ze asked again.

His previous life had already entered the era of technological wars, and his understanding of trebuchets was limited to books. Besides, there were many types of catapults. ask.

Xu Qing did not show any impatience for such a common-sense question, and answered meticulously: "If you throw it on the flat ground, it is 100 steps. If you are on the tower, you can go as far as 150 steps!"

One hundred steps is almost one hundred meters.

After pondering for a moment, Chen Ze looked at the city wall, and after making a calculation in his heart, he told Xu Qing: "In this way, the spare ones will be brought over from the south gate, and the east gate will be the least stressful. The spare one will be brought in as well."

"In this way, there are ten trebuchets here, barely enough!"

"this……"

When Xu Qing heard this, he immediately showed embarrassment, and hesitated: "Sir, although the power of the trebuchet is great, we can't put it on the tower. If we force it to be installed, the subordinates are afraid that it will backfire!"

Chen Ze nodded and said, "Well, the trebuchet is indeed too big, so you order another group of people to go up and dismantle the five trebuchets on top."

"What?"

As soon as this remark came out, Xu Qing's eyes widened, and he looked at Chen Ze in disbelief, fearing that he had heard it wrong.

"I said, dismantle the five above this too."

Chen Ze repeated.

"My lord! This is absolutely impossible!"

Xu Qing hurriedly stopped: "Without the trebuchet, what do we use to defend the city?"

There is still a complaint in my heart: I have to move it from another place, and I have to tear down the existing one. This is not full of food!

"How can you be such a mother-in-law? You can do whatever my elder brother says!"

Meng Yang next to him got impatient and rolled up his sleeves to teach Xu Qing what it means to carry out an order, but Chen Ze stopped him in time.

At the same time, he said gently: "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements, you just have to do it!"

While speaking, intentionally or unintentionally, the token of the military machine was revealed to Xu Qing.

"this……"

Xu Qing hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "This subordinate will send someone to do it."

Woo--

At this moment, the low-pitched trumpet sounded loudly from the city tower, and everyone's expressions changed drastically at the same time.

Warning!

Enemy attack!