Chapter 137
The Burgundians wanted to spend a day passing through the Belfort Mountains. This plan, under the hindrance of the Monts, eventually had a miscarriage.
In fact, the whole process is not complicated at all.
First, Meng Zhi went back in person and told Bai Zhou about his plan. Of course, the orders of the king outside the country were not to tell Bai Zhou, but to ask for more gunpowder from Bai Zhou. After all, it was up to the thunder they had on their hands to hurt the enemy, but if it was used to blow up the road, it would be a little overwhelming.
The follow-up plans prepared by Bozhou and all parties in Basel would take some time to arrange. If the Burgundian army came to Basel the next day, the soldiers of the coalition would work harder, but one night would be barely enough. However, since Mengzhi planned to let the Burgundians "rest" in the Belfort Mountains, it would be a good thing for Basel. At least, it would give the soldiers more time to arrange them. Therefore, Bozhou agreed to Mengzhi's request, and except for leaving three hundred kilograms of gunpowder, the rest was handed over to Mengzhi, and told him to delay the Burgundian army at least for a day.
It sounds like a lot, but after deciding the gunpowder that had been encapsulated into a thunderous thunder, there was not much left. Meng Zhi originally wanted to take the three hundred kilograms of gunpowder left by the young master, but Bai Zhou disagreed no matter what, and no matter how Meng Zhi rolled around, he would not let go.
Speaking of which, these 300 kilograms of gunpowder are of great use. They can't use up all of them at once in order to delay the enemy's marching speed. Because of small losses, they have always referred to as losing money. However, the baizhou does not like losing money. These black gunpowders are almost half an era ahead of the things. Although they may not play a decisive role due to production reasons, as long as their deterrent effect is enough for the Western Qin people to scare their opponents.
Just like in the late World War II, the United States had only two atomic bombs at that time, but just two were already enough to make the Japanese unable to rebel.
Bai Zhou did not expect black gunpowder to be as deterrent as atomic bombs, but after all, it is a hot weapon that has appeared in half an era. It can always shock the opponent or catch the opponent off guard. Therefore, Bai Zhou decided to leave some gunpowder because in his follow-up plan, these gunpowders will play a big role.
At this point, Mengzhi brought a large amount of gunpowder and "renovated" the Belfort Mountains at night. Since there was not much gunpowder on hand and its power was limited, Mengzhi had to carefully select several key nodes - the sections that made Burgundians feel that walking by detours would be unsafe or wasted time. In the end, it was only three or four places that really made Burgundians headache. Although it was a little less, it was enough, especially since there were still people throwing "rumblings", which made road construction soldiers worry about their safety all the time. This work efficiency was naturally slower.
The result was as expected by Mengzhi. Since the Grand Duke of Burgundy was not very optimistic about the safety of other mountain roads, he was afraid that he would fall into the tricks of the Western Qin people and had to wait until his subordinates filled every "pit".
And Duke John did not expect that the Western Qin had such a big battle, and even took out a weapon they had never seen before, just to delay their march. He always thought that the Western Qin people were forcing them to change their roads - after all, there might be one or two places suitable for ambushing on other mountain roads. Therefore, the Burgundians would rather delay the march for a while than change their itineraries.
The Burgundians were caught.
Strategically speaking, soldiers are very fast. Originally, they could have said that they suddenly appeared outside Belfort, almost fighting a time difference between the coalition forces. If the generals of the coalition forces had not cooperated and did not deliberately preserve their strength, perhaps the five thousand cavalry not only could not be eaten, but were chased by the Burgundian army. Even though the coalition forces knocked off the five thousand cavalry like a tiger's teeth before the arrival of the Burgundian army, if Duke John was more decisive and entered Belfort directly, it would have been possible that he would have achieved great results. After all, at that time, all the generals of the coalition forces would not have expected the Burgundians to appear here so soon. Inadequate preparation, and after fighting another day of battle, their original strength was not as strong as the Burgundian army. How could this be calculated? As long as Grand Duke John was more decisive at that time, the situation would be completely different.
John gave up this opportunity, not only that, but in order not to be ambushed in Belfort, he refused to move forward again for another day. It would be safe to do this, but the best opportunity to attack the coalition forces disappeared in vain.
In the past two days, it has been enough for Bai Zhou and other generals to send troops to set up their troops to wait for their hard work.
Besides, Montse and Mongo, and their respective tactical arrangements - just delaying the Burgundians' marching speed was not their plan, they wanted the Burgundians who had to choose to camp in the Belfort Mountains.
Due to the limited environment, the Burgundians could not cover everything for 70,000 people. It was not too troublesome to find one or two omissions in Western Qin. In particular, the Western Qin people did not intend to force their opponents' tents, but were just preparing to throw some thunderstorms.
Night is always reserved for those who are prepared.
Although the Belfort Mountains were originally from the Western Qin people, now the arrival of the Burgundian army has brought about another undisputed change in the ownership of this land.
Of course, the war between the two sides has just entered the meat play stage. It is meaningless to discuss territorial ownership now, but it is undeniable that this night, the Burgundians were in the light and the Western Qin people were in the dark. Moreover, due to the unified equipment of black night clothes, the Western Qin army could not be darker, and those Burgundian sentries who held high torches and hoped to illuminate all directions would be so bright that they could not be brighter.
At this time, John also discussed with the Burgundian nobles and generals about what happened during the day, and the theme was the new weapon.
After the first shock, these nobles found that although this "rumbling" sound was quite powerful, the lethality was far less scary than its sound. And as long as it was farther away from those small black dots, there was no problem. It can be said that the effect of this kind of thing being used to scare people is much greater than that of killing people.
Fortunately, the Burgundy people knew this. Otherwise, they would have mistakenly thought that this "rumbling" was a magical artifact, so they would not dare to fight this battle, but immediately chose to retreat.
However, tonight, the people of Western Qin will teach them a lesson, not that the destructive power of the thunder is not very good, but that the Meng brothers in such a terrain did not have the ability to throw the thunder in groups. But now it is different, and the night is the biggest cover for the people of Western Qin.
When it was almost dawn, that is, the darkest moment of the day, Mongo finally found a small mountain peak, and thirty meters below was a Burgundy military camp. In a small hill, it was quite sheltered, but it was more conducive to the use of thunder and thunder...
Chapter completed!