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Zhao Hanzhang said: "If we are unlucky in the future, we will ask the enemy to attack the city gate. If they can, defend it. If they can't, it won't matter if they surrender like this time. The most important thing is to guard the people and not allow them to massacre the city and cause chaos." kill."

Cui Shi responded with a serious face, expressing his understanding.

Zhao Hanzhang left most of the weapons collected this time with Cui Shi. He didn't stay much and left with his army in the evening.

Cui Shi and the others followed them all the way for twenty miles. They watched the army go away and then walked back while wiping their tears.

Zhao Hanzhang and the others hurriedly walked fifty miles in the dark before stopping. Instead of setting up camp, they took out their dry food, ate a few mouthfuls, and slept on the ground.

Tinghe followed the soldiers to the river to fetch water, boiled water for Zhao Hanzhang and Fu Tinghan, and asked them to soak dry food in the hot water to eat.

Zhao Hanzhang has become accustomed to it. Sometimes a battle takes a whole day, and it is difficult to find time to sit down and eat dry food. At this time, she will break off a piece and hold it in her mouth, letting the saliva slowly soften the dry food, so that her hands will not tremble with hunger.

So she took the bowl and wanted to break up the dry food and soak it in water, but the remaining piece was not big, so she didn't break it open for a while.

After thinking about it, she took out her dagger and sharpened it slowly, cut the dry food in half, put one half in her arms and put it away, and soaked the other half in the water.

Fu Tinghan still had a large piece of dry food, so when he saw this, he broke off a piece and gave it to her.

Zhao Hanzhang smiled at him, took it and soaked it in the water. Seeing that he was struggling to break off a piece, he simply took it, broke it off with all his strength, and broke off a large piece for him.

Fu Tinghan put away the big pieces and soaked the small pieces in the hot water. He put the bowl aside, moved the map on his knees, and continued the topic, "Are you sure you want to go to Zhencheng?"

Zhao Hanzhang said "Yeah" and said: "If they don't regain Zhencheng, they can capture Dunqiu at any time, and then our way back will be cut off."

"Still the same way of fighting? Not breaking the city gate?"

Zhao Hanzhang nodded, "Blow the city gate open. It will take a lot of manpower and material resources to repair it later. Once Shi Le counterattacks, I don't know how many people will die."

Fu Tinghan lowered his eyes and thought for a while before saying: "Then I will reduce the content of the explosives, and then I will find some iron spikes, iron pieces and the like to add in."

This is almost like a grenade. When it is thrown on the tower, the iron spikes and pieces of iron that explode will hurt people. They may not kill people, but they can make people lose their combat effectiveness for a short time. At that time, the echelon team can take the opportunity to board the tower.

In this way, the damage to the city tower was also minimal. In this attack on Dunqiu County, Fu Tinghan dropped two bags of explosives at the same time. Two large holes were opened in the city tower. As soon as they left, Dunqiu people had to repair it. The tower was built to prevent further enemy attacks.

But this is better than Pingyang City. The gate of Pingyang City has not been built yet.

Fu Tinghan also had to adjust the amount of explosives used and how to use them in each siege.

Zhao Hanzhang saw that the dry food had softened a bit, so he took the bowl and ate the tasteless dinner without even frowning, "How are you, have you found a good slinger?"

Fu Tinghan also picked up his bowl, ate the dry food with some difficulty, and nodded: "I found it. There is a man named Le Si. He is very talented. He only studied with me for three days and he can shoot more accurately than me." Well, this time Dunqiu’s gunpowder was thrown twice by him.”

Zhao Hanzhang thought about it for a moment and asked, "Are those two particularly accurate shots of gunpowder that exploded in the air above the tower?"

"Yes," Fu Tinghan couldn't help but smile, "the remaining two shots that blew up the tower were the ones I calibrated, and they were much worse than his."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but burst out laughing. The two of them laughed at each other for a while. They didn't know which point touched each other's laughter, so they just looked at each other and laughed non-stop.

Zhao Hanzhang was almost laughing with tears, and then he reluctantly stopped and comforted Fu Tinghan, "It's okay, there are specialties in the art, and you taught him."

Fu Tinghan saw her eyebrows spread, and the sadness that had been lingering since the morning dispersed from her eyebrows. He couldn't help but laugh again, "This is called being better than the blue."

Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but feel happy again. She didn't know what she was happy about. Maybe she found that Fu Tinghan, who had always been smart and omnipotent in his field, suddenly wasn't as perfect as she thought?

Hahaha……

Tinghe, who had returned from fetching water, stopped when he saw the good atmosphere between the two. Seeing Fu An, who was also carrying water, still walking forward, she squeaked at him to signal him not to come forward.

Fu An looked at Lang Jun, who was smiling broadly, and stopped silently.

Tinghe saw that his face was not very happy, so he came closer and asked softly: "What are you doing? Are you not happy that the two masters have a good relationship?"

Fu An hummed and said, "You girls said they were getting married this year. It's already June, but the wedding date is nowhere to be seen."

Tinghe comforted him, "There's a sudden war, and we girls can't do anything about it."

"Do you see how happy our girl is smiling at the big man? Don't worry, we girl will propose a wedding date after this battle is over."

Fu An didn't say anything, but his face looked better.

After dinner and a quick wash, when Zhao Hanzhang raised his head and looked around, he saw that the soldiers had already fallen asleep. Except for the soldiers on patrol, the others were huddled together and fast asleep.

Zhao Hanzhang approached Fu Tinghan and whispered: "You rest first, I'll go for a walk."

Fu Tinghan nodded, hugged a cloak and lay on the ground with his head on a book wrapped in clothes. There was a fire next to him. It was midsummer and it was not cold.

Zhao Hanzhang led his guards around the camp and scratched a soldier on the head, instantly catching two mosquitoes.

Zhao Hanzhang frowned and asked the guard behind him, "Where is Fan Ying?"

Immediately some guards ran to find Fan Ying.

Fan Ying hurried over, and Zhao Hanzhang whispered: "The army still needs to prepare some anti-mosquito things. If you don't have time to set up camp like today, you can drive away the mosquitoes in a large area so that the soldiers can sleep better."

Fan Ying thought for a while and then said: "Use mugwort?"

Zhao Hanzhang nodded and said: "You can give it a try and ask the military doctor. If it doesn't work, think of other methods."

Fan Ying wrote it down.

Zhao Hanzhang took her with him and whispered: "Tomorrow we will go to Zhencheng. You stay in the rear to prepare new rations. After tomorrow we will divide our troops. The vanguard army will need to bring three days' rations. You must hurry up and prepare. "

Fan Ying agreed, and couldn't sleep when she returned to her fire, so she called all her subordinates to make work arrangements.

The next morning they hurried to the outside of Zhen City. The gates of Zhen City were closed tightly and ignored the yells and curses of Zhao Jiajun below.

Zhao Hanzhang was not in a hurry. They came in a hurry and wanted to take a rest.

After scolding for two hours, Zhao Jiajun had rested enough. At sunset, Zhen Cheng thought that the day was over. When the guards were at their most lax, Fu Tinghan and Le Si stood in front of the trebuchet. They calibrated the angle and installed the explosive barrel.

Zhao Hanzhang was riding on his horse, and with a wave of his hand, the war drums started to beat. The passionate drumbeats resounded throughout the three armies. The soldiers' emotions suddenly rose, and they all stared at Zhencheng with bright eyes, determined to win.

Listening to the war drums, Fu Tinghan and Le Si signaled to light the fire at the same time, and threw the explosive barrels almost simultaneously.

The ladder team also carried the ladder at the same time and ran towards Zhencheng screaming.

The moment they heard the war drums, the people on the Zhencheng tower were on alert, and then word spread that the Zhao army was attacking the city.

They were preparing their crossbows and archers when two explosive barrels were thrown over their heads and exploded before they even hit the ground.

The archers who came over and the officers and soldiers commanding on the tower were knocked over by the heat wave, their ears were ringing and their eyes were dizzy, and then they felt bone-breaking pain. Many people were injured by the iron pieces caught in the barrels, and they screamed in pain and wailed loudly.

Others had sparks on their bodies and were instantly ignited. They ran around screaming in panic, setting the towers on fire.

The captain got up from the ground while holding his dizzy head. He couldn't hear, but he could see the chaos. When he saw the soldiers running down the tower, he pulled out his sword and killed one of them before going down. The fleeing soldiers shouted loudly: "Those who are timid will die, and no one is allowed to run!"

As soon as the voice fell, a wooden ladder clicked onto the city wall. He was startled, but still didn't hear the sound, but still shouted loudly: "Stone, boiling oil, spearman, quick!"

But someone moved stones, but because of the bomb, everyone was afraid, and few people moved, and they were not fast. They didn't throw a few stones, and Zhao's army jumped onto the tower and immediately drew their swords to kill each other.

A melee immediately broke out on the tower. As long as the first person climbed onto the tower, a steady stream of people would follow.

At the same time, the vanguard also arrived at the city gate under their cover and were constantly hitting the city gate with giant trees.

Zhencheng is not a strategic location. Like Dunqiu, the city walls here are not particularly high and the city gates are not particularly strong. In addition, the Yun Echelon team climbed up the city tower and quickly killed them from above, helping the vanguard to open the city gate.

When the sunset completely set and the sky began to darken, Zhao Hanzhang rode into Zhencheng.

Shi Le had been stationed in Zhencheng for a period of time, so the previous magistrate was killed, and the current magistrate is Shi Le's legacy.

Zhao Hanzhang met the man and saw that he would rather die than surrender, so he fulfilled his wish.

The Shile soldiers, who raised their heads high and refused to surrender even though they were being held, were stunned and their eyes widened slightly.

Zhao Hanzhang sat under the county government's "Ming Mirror Hanging High" plaque and said calmly: "Zhao has always been considerate and does not like to force others. If anyone wants to be loyal to Shi Le, just report it and I will see you off. "

No one dared to speak, and the generals, captains, etc. who had been raising their heads all lowered their heads.

Zhao Hanzhang waved his hand and asked people to take them off and throw them into a prisoner of war camp.

Most of the people were cheering and being escorted away, and then she looked at the other people kneeling in the hall.

Here are all other officials from the county government, as well as a few famous village elders.

Zhao Hanzhang sighed, asked them to get up, and then said: "Go and invite the gentry and village elders in the city, and tell them that Zhao wants to discuss the important matter of Zhencheng with them."

After Zhao Jiajun entered the city, every household closed their doors tightly and did not dare to come out. Zhao Jiajun did not disturb the people and sat on the ground on the street.

After receiving the order, the soldiers got the list from Fan Ying and went directly to knock on the door according to the list.