Lei Zhan knelt in front of Lei Zhan's body when he walked into the hall, silently in pain, tears flowed down his face, Zhen Jian couldn't bear to see such a sad scene, turned around and walked out of the mourning hall.
Qin Xueyang exhorted Lei Zhan a few words, and also came out, the two left the general's mansion, Qin Xueyang said: "I don't know when the enemy army will come to attack, you quickly send someone to report the battle damage in the Chinese military camp area to me, in addition, I decided to hand over the 20,000 reserve army to you, step up training, and be sure to make them elite soldiers in the shortest possible time." ” "Yes!"
Zhen Jian nodded.
Qin Xueyang turned to leave, Zhen Jian looked at her back in the distance, the scarlet cloak fluttered lightly in the wind, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, she was just a seventeen-year-old girl, and she had to take on the heavy responsibility of guarding Fancheng, which made people feel distressed when they thought about it.
Zhen Jian returned to the Zhongjun barracks and began to plan the drill project, Zhang Yuan came back from the east city wall with people, Zhang Zhaokai and Li Dayou came back from the north city wall with people, and Deng Long came back from the west city wall with people.
The battle damage was summarized, 1,700 people were killed, 2,000 were seriously injured, and 4,000 combat strength was lost, Zhen Jianli engraved the battle damage report and sent someone to send it to Qin Xueyang, at the same time, Qin Xueyang's warrant arrived, and Zhen Jian was ordered to take over the 20,000 reserve army and step up drills.
Zhen Jianjian sent people to bring 20,000 reserve troops into the camp.
The reserve army was recruited more than a month ago, and it has been training for a month now, although it is quite effective, but there is still some distance from the regular army, and then he can only hope that the enemy army will not attack the city so quickly, give him a little time to train this group of reserve army. ………………………………………………………………………… At this moment, in the camp of the Chinese army of the Hun army, Boyeva was also full of sadness, he thought that the navy broke the pontoon bridge to demoralize Fancheng, so he would attack the city in an all-round way, and wanted to take Fancheng in one go, never expected that Fancheng was really a hard bone, and he couldn't gnaw it down at all, and came back to count the battle damage, and actually lost nearly 50,000 troops, 50,000 ah, and it was a new army, although he said that he brought 200,000 troops to come, but the new force added up to only 150,000, and the loss of 50,000 troops is a concept.
Boye.
Val Shu immediately summoned the leading generals of each army to his tent to hold a military meeting to discuss how to break through Fancheng, the five generals really had their own ideas, and in the end they did not discuss a practical and effective strategy, Xiangfan has stood for many years, and it is impregnable, how can it be so easy to find a way to deal with it.
So, in the end, they used their usual trick again, which boiled down to one word - consumption.
The Xiongnu and Liang have attacked Xiangfan for more than 80 years, but they have returned every time, and almost every time they have to besiege Xiangfan, and the Chu army has to wear down, the longest one, the siege of the city for more than six months, the two cities of Xiangfan have been consumed to the point that there is no grain left, and the soldiers and civilians of the two cities of Xiangfan have eaten everything that can be eaten in the city, even the grass bark and leaves are not spared, in such difficult years, Xiangfan still defended.
However, at that time, there were pontoon bridges connecting Xiangfan, the situation was different, and now the pontoon bridge was destroyed, Fancheng became an isolated city, and it was easier to deal with, after all, Fancheng was not as big as Xiangyang, and the grain reserves must not be sufficient in Xiangyang.
The Hun army did not move for several days, Qin Xueyang also guessed their intentions, and while strictly guarding against death, he ordered the military food to be halved, if in peacetime, the army would definitely be unhappy, but at the moment of life and death, everyone knew that Qin Xueyang was thinking about the overall situation, and no one had any complaints.
Fan Cheng has experienced a series of job transfers, Zhen Jian's training of the reserve army has also entered the right track, two hours of sword and gun drills in the morning, archery and fists and feet in the afternoon, there is nothing special, the only thing worth mentioning is that Zhen Jian personally supervised the professors, corrected their small mistakes in the drill, and tried his best to be perfect, after all, there was not much time left for him, and he had to make these newly recruited reserve troops in the shortest possible time to maximize their combat effectiveness.
A month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the reinforcements from the imperial court have not arrived for a long time, Zhen Jian asked Wang Guang, and Wang Guang said that the capital had just received Qin Yuan's battle report, and the emperor sent him to announce the decree, so he didn't know the specific actions of the imperial court.
After this month of training, the reserve army gradually took on the appearance of soldiers, and Zhen Jian asked the veterans to take these reserve troops and teach them battlefield experience.
In this month's time, it is not completely without war, Nanying and Xiangyang have been trying to rebuild the pontoon bridge, after all, the iron chains are there, and the pontoon bridge is built quickly, but how can the Hun naval army let them get their wish, and move the naval camp to the east, just on the edge of Xiangfan City, which can be outside the range of catapults, you can clearly see the movement at the pontoon bridge, as long as the Chu army wants to rebuild the pontoon bridge, the Hun naval army will inevitably see it, and will send troops to harass and stop.
The two cities of Xiangfan had seven or eight frictions with the Huns, and finally they had to give up the plan to forcibly rebuild the pontoon bridge.
Zhen Jian had been busy training recruits, and suddenly remembered that he and Lei Yao went to the blacksmith shop more than a month ago to order a four-stone strong bow, and he didn't know if it was done, so he took Ye Qiu to the blacksmith shop.
Zhen Jian just arrived at the blacksmith shop, Lao Wang hurriedly greeted him warmly, now Zhen Jian has a good reputation in Fancheng, after all, he shot the Huns' magic arrow general, Lao Wang saluted and touted his archery skills when he met, Zhen Jian waved his hand and smiled: "Okay, don't praise anymore, I'm almost embarrassed, is my strong bow ready?"
” "It's done, General Zhen, please wait a moment."
Lao Wang said and turned around and went to the inner courtyard, not long after, with several people out, only to see Lao Wang holding a bow in his hand, followed by four people carrying two large wooden boxes, open the wooden box, it is full of special arrows.
Zhen Jian took the bow handed over by Lao Wang, and found that this bow was indeed seven or eight inches longer than an ordinary bow, the bow tire was wrapped in the bow body, and he couldn't see what the material was.
Lao Wang on the side saw that Zhen Jian could easily pull the strong bow full, his eyes widened sharply, and he immediately blurted out praise: "The general is really a divine power, and he can really pull away the four-stone strong bow." ” Zhen Jian hurriedly looked at the bow and asked, "The pulling force is indeed very strong, does it really have the power of four stones?"
” "Back to the general's words."
Lao Wang nodded and said, "The pull of four stones and five buckets, this is really the strongest bow that Xiao has made in his life, and it is estimated that he will not do it again in the future."
"Yo, four stones and five buckets!"
Zhen Jian smiled in surprise, "No wonder I feel a little struggling when I pull, it seems that I have to practice hard when I go back." ” He slowly stepped forward and took out an arrow from the arrow box and looked at it, and found that this arrow was six or seven inches longer than an ordinary arrow, almost double the weight of an ordinary arrow, according to the principle of physics, after the arrow is shot, it is completely dependent on inertia to fly, and the only element that affects inertia is mass, which is commonly called weight.
For this kind of strong bow, the heavier the arrow, the better, so that it can shoot far, otherwise the arrow will not shoot far because the speed is too fast, which will cause the friction resistance with the air to be too large, and deviate from the accuracy.
Zhen Jian asked, "How many arrows are in these two boxes?"
” Lao Wang said: "There are a total of 1,500 arrows, and the pure steel arrows you want are at the bottom of the box, and the small ones have made twenty of them." ” Zhen Jian nodded and smiled: "Okay, thank you, can you send someone to send me a trip?"
” "Absolutely."
Several blacksmith apprentices of the old dynasty glanced at each other, and the four blacksmith apprentices immediately lifted the box with great difficulty and followed Zhen Jian out of the blacksmith shop.
The bow and arrow were customized, next, Zhen Jian must be familiar with this new bow, he took all the arrows to the shooting range, first tried the range of the bow and arrow, the shooting range is only two hundred steps long (≈ 300 meters), he stood at the top of the shooting range, opened the bow and shot the arrow, the arrow actually hit the target directly, although it failed to shoot accurately, but the arc of the arrow falling is not large.
Zhen Jian stood two hundred steps away from the place to practice, and gradually five shots out of ten, those recruits who practiced archery at the shooting range were dumbfounded, and when they saw Zhen Jian hit the bull's-eye, they applauded and cheered, cheering for Zhen Jian's archery skills.
Gradually, Zhen Jian felt that it was not enjoyable, and ordered someone to tear down the fence of the shooting range, and suddenly the distance from the target expanded to more than four hundred steps, Zhen Jian stood at a place of three hundred steps with twenty pure steel arrows, aiming and shooting, the power of pure steel arrows was really terrible, the distance of three hundred steps, it was shot in a blink of an eye, but unfortunately it missed the target, no way, it was too far, such a long distance, the target had become a little bigger in his eyes, such a distance, it was very good to be able to shoot the target, and he did not have an eight-fold mirror.
There are only twenty pure steel arrows, and after twenty are fired, the person who picks up the arrows over there has to ride a horse and send them over, and it is relatively slow to practice, but Zhen Jian is not slacking off, in this era of cold weapons, the ultra-long range is equivalent to a sniper rifle, he must master this unique skill, in order to surprise on the battlefield, if he is lucky enough to shoot a master general or something next time he starts a war, maybe he can reverse the situation of the war.
After another month, Qin Xueyang told Zhen Jian that there was not much food in the city, and he could only last another month at most, and he had to find a way to break the predicament, otherwise after the food was cut off, the soldiers' combat strength would be greatly reduced, and Fancheng would definitely not be able to hold it.
Zhen Jian also had a sad face, he thought about it for a long time, and suddenly had a bold idea, and immediately went to Qin Xueyang to discuss.