Chapter Seventy-One: Capture the Town
Sure enough, as Zhao Chun guessed, the defenders in the town were only a few hundred people, and the rest were temporarily forced to arm the workers, even so, the number of them added up was less than two thousand, and most of the workers were unwilling to die for them, and the combat effectiveness was not strong, and under the propaganda and armed offensive of Zhao Chun and others, they quickly collapsed.
Only scattered small groups of Black Ice Tribe defenders hid in civilian houses, and sometimes sudden attacks caused some trouble to Zhao Chun and others, but in the face of absolute numerical superiority, these sporadic attacks were destined to become no climate.
In less than half an hour, Zhao Chun led people to attack the front of the smelter, which covers an area of about 20 acres, surrounded by low walls, and there are more than ten tall factories inside.
The commander of the city retreated into the factory with more than 300 defenders, as if he wanted to use the factory for a final resistance. But the people of the Black Ice Tribe are most afraid of the heat, they usually wear protective clothing when they enter it, and they only enter it with ice cubes stuffed in their clothes, and they can only stay inside for an hour or two before they come out to change shifts.
In this case, as long as Zhao Chun and the others surrounded the smelter, even if they didn't attack, the defenders inside would not be able to hold out for a few hours.
So Zhao Chun shouted at the factory: "Listen to the defenders inside, you have been surrounded. We know that in the hot environment in the factory, you can't hold out for long, instead of stubbornly resisting, it is better to come out and surrender, as long as you are not enemies with us in the future, we can let you live. Our patience is limited, and you have ten minutes to think about it. ”
Ten minutes passed quickly, and just as Zhao Chun was about to order everyone to attack it, the gate of the factory suddenly opened, and the commander of the defenders led everyone to throw their weapons aside, and rushed out of the factory gate with both hands.
Zhao Chun asked people to put away all those weapons, and these prisoners were escorted to a private house to guard, he naturally would not fail to keep his promise, but he had too many things to deal with now, and he didn't have time to pay attention to these prisoners for the time being.
With the surrender of the defenders in the factory, the original workers in the factory also came out one after another, about 500 people, due to the need to work in a hot environment, there were no people from the Black Ice Tribe among these workers, they were all brought by the Black Ice Tribe from other tribes. These people are relatively tall, at least twice as tall as the people of the Black Ice Tribe, I really don't know how the people of the Black Ice Tribe defeated them and got here. Working in the heat for long hours, these people's faces were red, their lips were dry and chapped, and their clothes and skin were scorched by fire.
And looking at their listlessness and drowsiness, it is obviously a serious lack of sleep, and their nerves have been numb, even if there is a big war outside, they are all confused and indifferent, for them, as long as they can let them sleep well, even if they die, they are willing.
Zhao Chun soon discovered that his wonderful speech of letting them join his camp to resist the oppression of the Black Ice tribe in the past was like playing the piano to a cow, and no one responded. In desperation, Zhao Chun had to ask someone to take them to sleep before talking.
As soon as this group of workers had settled down, they went to the factory to search first, and someone came to report that they found more than 200 people chained by the five huge boilers of the smelter, and they could only shovel coal into the boilers without stopping. The wind-blowing workers, these people are worse than the workers before them, because they can't stop at all, not only are they chained, but there is also an ingenious device next to them, and if they stop, the device will be triggered, and then invisible whips will be drawn at them, and each time more forcefully than the others, until they work again.
After the team leader reported the situation, he asked Zhao Chun what to do with those people, if the chains were opened, the smelter and boiler here would be completely stopped.
"Open the chains. In the case of ensuring the safety of the boiler, liberating them, and then giving them water to drink, eat and sleep, and then let them join us when they wake up, this Black Ice tribe is really ruthless. ”
When Zhao Chun was about to enter the factory to investigate, suddenly another soldier from the reconnaissance squadron came running from outside to report that Xiaolu had led people to search most of the town, defeated and annihilated five enemy hundreds, and was now besieging the last enemy in a mansion, but this mansion was occupied by a man named Shen Ju with more than a thousand smelter workers.
Now Xiaolu has led people to surround the mansion and want to persuade Shen Ju to surrender, but Shen Ju said that if he can be the leader or commander-in-chief, he can consider bringing people to merge with us. Xiaolu couldn't make up her mind for a while, and wanted to ask Zhao Chun to go in person.
Zhao Chun was a little surprised, it seems that there are still many talents among these workers. After he explained the matter on the smelter's side, he took dozens of people to follow the soldier, Xiaolu's ability is indeed there, but the means of dealing with things are not old enough, and his courage is a little insufficient.
The large mansion covers an area of about two acres and is a building that resembles a courtyard house, and the house belongs to the commander of the defending army. But in the war just now, the Shen Bureau led a group of workers to break into it, killed the soldiers and the family members of the commander, and then confronted Xiaolu according to the house.
"Brother Zhao, you're finally here. Xiaolu greeted him with some shame and said, if it was the first time he led the soldiers to attack the city and retreated due to the plan, it can be said that he was inexperienced, then now it is the second time, every time he encounters a difficult matter, he needs Zhao Chun to come over to solve it, and he is too dish.
Zhao Chun nodded, a little displeased with the family members of the Shen Bureau Massacre Commander and the commander-in-chief who asked to be the commander of all the miners, feeling that this guy not only loves to kill, but also has a strong desire for power, such a person, it is more difficult to control, and if he is not careful, he will be burned and cause a lot of trouble.
But it was impossible for Zhao Chun to order the soldiers to attack, after all, they were not the army of the Black Ice Tribe, but the workers of the smelter. If a butcher's knife is raised against them, it will not only chill the miner brothers on their side, but also cause unnecessary casualties.
Now the powerful Black Ice Tribe army is rushing here, every bit of strength is extremely important to Zhao Chun, being able to win it and turn it into his own strength will increase the hope of victory, if his side fights first, I am afraid that they don't have to wait for the Black Ice Tribe army to arrive, they themselves will be defeated.
"I'm Zhao Chun, the commander-in-chief of the 'Beautiful' organization, can I ask the Shen Bureau to come out and speak?" Zhao Chun stood in front of the door of the house and shouted inside.
The door of the house opened, and out of it came more than a hundred men with various weapons, dressed in a variety of strange clothes, some in tattered overalls from the smelter, some in protective clothing, and some in the uniforms of ill-fitting defenders. They also have a variety of weapons, ranging from the standard weapons of the defenders, to smelting tools, and even shovels.
Out of these people, a particularly tall man came out. Compared to the people of the Black Ice Tribe, this person is undoubtedly a monster-like existence, he is two meters tall and weighs at least 200 pounds. He was wearing only a very rough animal skin on his upper body, revealing a large area of bronzed skin, and the most exaggerated thing was that this guy was carrying an axe weighing dozens of pounds in his hand!
"You are Zhao Chun, what are you capable of being the commander-in-chief? You see, I am much more powerful than you, why don't you give up the position of commander-in-chief, and I will lead them to fight against the Black Ice Tribe in the future?" said Shen Ju in a loud voice.
"Presumptuous, how can you dare to talk to our Commander-in-Chief Zhao like this?" Xiaolu immediately reprimanded angrily.
"Come, let's compare and see who is more capable. Shen Ju said, and directly swung the giant axe and slashed at Xiaolu.
Zhao Chun didn't expect this guy to say that he would do it, seeing that the giant axe was about to split the stunned Xiaolu, Zhao Chun pulled out his long sword and swung it at a speed that was difficult for everyone to see, and a blazing air flow hit the giant axe, only to hear a loud "boom", the giant axe broke away from Shen Ju's hand, and flew several meters in the air before falling down, while Shen Ju's face changed, and he "kicked" back more than ten meters before stopping his body, even so, his tiger's mouth was also injured, and blood flowed out.
Looking at Zhao Chun, who was calm and calm, Shen Ju was shocked in his heart, suddenly took a few steps forward, knelt down with a "plop" and said: "Chief Commander Zhao turned out to be a high-level monk, and asked Chief Commander Zhao to accept me as an apprentice, as long as I can become a monk, I am willing to follow your left and right and kill all the animals of the Black Ice Tribe." ”
Zhao Chun didn't expect to accidentally block that blow for Xiaolu and actually surrender the unruly Shen Bureau, he was originally prepared, if it really didn't work, he would promise him some conditions, and he must not fight among himself.
However, Zhao Chun also knew that although this guy was temporarily subdued by himself, he was only afraid of the name of a high-level monk, once this guy became a monk, I am afraid that his ambition would swell, and it was still difficult to say whether Zhao Chun could tame this guy at that time.
Although he knew that he might be unfavorable to him in the future, in the current situation, Zhao Chun couldn't help but accept him, and said: "I can help you become a low-level monk in a short period of time, but whether you can become a high-level monk in the future depends on your performance. ”
Shen Ju was pleasantly surprised: "Really, can I really be like that? I am willing to do everything to your orders!" His eyes flashed with rare fanaticism and longing, and for an ambitious person, there was nothing more attractive than this.