Chapter 384 Pang Tong's New Trebuchet Strategy
Zhuge Liang said: "Your Majesty is frightened, but if we promote this matter, it will cause everyone to be in danger. Sun Quan can send so many people to assassinate Your Majesty, then I don't know how many people he has in our Ba County. We must strengthen the protection of all our important generals."
After Liu Bei slowly took Zhuge Liang's hand and said, "Kong Ming, first of all, you must protect your own safety. I believe that if Sun Quan sent someone to assassinate, the first thing is the two of us."
Zhuge Liang said: "Your Majesty, we will be fine in two days. As long as General Uncle Zhi succeeds in attacking Nanjun, our game of chess will be alive."
Liu Bei was still a little worried and said, "I'm afraid Sun Quan will receive the news. Their Jinyiwei is really omnipresent."
Zhuge Liang said: "It shouldn't be possible. We only know about this. The confidentiality work is done so well, no one will know about it."
After hearing Zhuge Liang's words, Liu Bei felt relieved, but at this time, Zhuge Zhong had already arranged for people to send the news. It was just because the army was mobilized everywhere on the road, so the path for sending the letter was relatively slow. Chen had already set off here, but the information had just arrived.
After receiving this information, Yang Ping gave it to Sun Quan immediately. Sun Quan immediately asked Pang Tong and Guo Jia to discuss it and said, "This idea should be made by Zhuge Liang. We have arranged all the navy troops on the front line of Hefei. There are basically no navy troops on the Yangtze River. The police force has some ships for suppressing bandits. Now if this team is coming and going on the river, then our material transportation will be dangerous. We have to find a way to wipe it out."
Pang Tong said: "Are you not afraid of him attacking Nanjun? Because our Nanjun is a large rear, there are not many defenders."
Guo Jiaze said: "He cannot capture Nanjun. Our food and grass are all in Xiangyang and Jiangxia. Although Nanjun also has some supplies, Nanjun is also the former county town, and it is not easy to capture the city. If they cannot capture Nanjun within five to ten days, they will be dead. So what we are afraid of is not that they attack Nanjun, but that they do not attack Nanjun, and look for opportunities on the river like bandits to attack our team that transports food and grass."
Pang Tong said: "Didn't this information say that the task assigned by Zhuge Liang was to attack Nanjun? Then Chen Dao would not violate the order. Besides, some things are hard to say. Zhuge Liang may have some internal support in Nanjun, so this is not easy to do."
Sun Quan said: "Then it's enough to report it in time. Let the Nanjun organize troops to set up an ambush by the river in advance. It is estimated that they will quietly go ashore at night."
Pang Tong and Guo Jia both shook their heads, and Pang Tong said, "Your Majesty, even if we send people to inform us now, it will not be faster than on the river. It is very fast to go down the river. Although the waterway in the middle is not easy to walk, it is indeed very fast. According to the information, Chen Dao has already set off, and they cannot leave at night. So it is probably coming today and tomorrow night. Now we send people overnight, so we have to arrive the morning after tomorrow."
Sun Quan said: "Okay, I have a solution to this, but it's still in the experiment stage, so let's use it in advance."
Pang Tong and Guo Jia were very curious, and Guo Jia said, "Your Majesty, do you mean there is a way to deliver a letter, so quickly?"
Sun Quan didn't say anything, then called Yang Ping over and said, "Aping, you use the pigeon that is still experimenting with you to Nanjun. Because there are still some problems now, you can send a few more people to deliver the letter together."
Sun Quan asked Pang Tong to write a few exactly the same orders, stamped them and handed them over to Yang Ping to issue them.
After Yang Ping went down, Sun Quan said to Pang Tong and Guo Jia: "You two should think about how to attack the city. As long as you take down Ba County, you will not be afraid even if you lose Nan County."
Pang Tong asked curiously: "Pigeon, can you deliver a letter? It's white and cute, but can that pigeon fly from here to Nanjun to deliver a letter? I really don't understand this."
Sun Quan said: "In fact, it is very safe to send intelligence, but sending such combat orders will be a little problem. If a pigeon has a problem, our arrangement will be leaked. I hope they will not fly to the river."
Guo Jia asked, "Your Majesty, can this pigeon deliver a letter? The bird can still recognize the way. It is amazing to send the letter to our people."
Sun Quan said: "Nothing magical. This is actually a very normal thing. These pigeons are trained. They can fly from strange places to where they should go, but this is not easy. Now we have this in our own territory of Wu, and there are no more in Wei and Shu Han. After all, the domestication technology is not mature enough."
Pang Tong said: "Your Majesty, this pigeon can be tamed. This is great. If you have any situation, you can send a message back as soon as possible."
Sun Quan said: "Actually, many animals can be domesticated. For example, our horses and cows are used to plow the land and pull carts, and dogs are used to tame them to find people for us. These are the same, but it is harder to find some in birds."
Pang Tong said: "Okay, Your Majesty always makes amazing discoveries, and I'm not surprised."
Guo Jiaze joked: "Chief Staff Pang, what strategy do you plan to use to destroy the city?"
Pang Tong looked at Guo Jia and said, "Why are you like this? I don't know now. Do you have any good ideas? Tell me quickly."
Guo Jia was not fooled and said, "What can I do? I am in charge of Your Majesty. I have left you with the frontline affairs. I'm asking me what I'm doing."
Pang Tong said: "Okay, actually I don't think there is no plan or plan. Although there is no formal attack these days, our catapults have been prepared. We are preparing stones now. As long as the stones are also ready, we can attack."
Sun Quan also asked with interest: "Little Phoenix, what kind of stone are you preparing? What kind of material are you preparing to add to it?"
When Pang Tong saw Sun Quan ask, he said, "Your Majesty, it's nothing. In the past, when he was in the martial arts lecture hall, one of them said that the stone trencher was too difficult to find. It would be better to use soil to make a ball of earth similar to a stone. Although it may not necessarily kill the enemy if it is played like this, the weight and strength are enough to hurt the enemy. Moreover, the soil will disperse when it hits the ground, and the enemy will be useless to hold it."
Guo Jia said: "Then what you prepared shouldn't be that simple."
Pang Tong said: "Most of them are actually mixed with mud and gravel, and then wrapped in more clay soil outside, just like making bricks. But I prepared a batch of special things, which made people find a lot of dust and then put them in jars. When the wind is more suitable, I will smash all the jars on the top of the city, and then it will be easy."
But Sun Quan said, "Why don't you use lime? That's much higher effect."
Pang Tong replied directly: "Your Majesty, you are still vicious. You use lime to get into the eyes of so many people, and they don't know how to deal with it. Then they will all become blind. But once the war is over, we have to keep it."
When Guo Jia heard Pang Tong's words, he pinched Pang Tong's hand, but Sun Quan did not care about this matter and said, "The lime and cement in our Wu Kingdom are all used on a large scale. Everyone knows how to deal with it. Why do you say that the people from Shu Han don't understand it?"
Pang Tong didn't argue, and suddenly said, "Your Majesty, I have found a good solution. I remember when His Majesty was making high-yield crops, there was another thing called pepper. His Majesty liked to eat them. It was choking when cooking. I remember that some of them were scattered and the wind blew them. I choked them halfway to death. Some of us in the army now like to eat them, so we still prepared a lot of logistics. This thing is good, which can make the enemy confused and not cause too much damage."
Sun Quan was also surprised. This pepper was used for combat only after two thousand years. Now Pang Tong has used it for him. I guess something will be necessary to be on the battlefield in the future to guard against this, otherwise it will be a big trouble.
Sun Quan asked, "Little Phoenix, you get along with so many ways to attack the enemy, do you have any way to prevent these things? You will be Zhuge Liang if you use it to deal with Liu Bei today, and Cao Cao will learn to use it to attack us tomorrow. How can we be prepared?"
Pang Tong said: "This, don't we have masks? Just bring that one. Besides, no one of them has the best catapults as good as us."
Sun Quan said: "Do you still need to use a catapult to this thing? Do it work more and just scatter it into the sky when it is strong and the effect will not be bad. The key is that your eyes cannot protect them?"
Guo Jia said: "Your Majesty's consideration is reasonable. This idea is naturally good, but once the enemy uses it, we will be passive. Is this not easy to deal with?"
Pang Tong said: "Then what you mean is that if you have no way to be prepared, don't use it for the time being?"
Sun Quan said: "It doesn't matter, you can just arrange it. I like to eat chili, so I have planted a lot. You can ask someone to find the queen and get more to the front line."
Guo Jia asked, "Your Majesty, what good idea have you come up with?"
Sun Quan said: "It's actually simple. If you see the enemy throwing these things with a catapult, you can just put a towel on each soldier and cover your face with a towel. Just take off the towel when the enemy throws it away."
(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!