Chapter Twenty-Nine: Anon
Di Qing saw that those war elephants pounced again, and wanted to open his mouth to order to continue to release arrows, but he roared and saw that Wu Shengjun did not move, this time he remembered that he was not the commander of this army, and wanted to urge Yun Zheng, he had already scared Wu Shengjun stupid with those elephants on fire like demonic beasts.
After taking a closer look, he found that Wu Shengjun was in a peculiar state, and those soldiers standing in the front row had already taken out a lot of large nets, some of which were already eager to try, such as Xiaolin, who was holding a sharp armor-piercing cone in each hand, squatting on a huge stone, as if waiting for the elephant to arrive, as long as the elephant came, he was ready to jump on the elephant's back.
The ballista gun was loaded on the Ba Niu crossbow in the back, and the ballista behind the Ba Niu crossbow was also in an excited state, and the forward troops of the Wu Sheng Army were like a hunter waiting for the prey to enter the trap at this time......
Some elephants were burned to the ground during the run, and the elephant slaves fell from the elephants fiercely, and then were trampled into mud by the elephants that caught up......
Having reached the limit distance of two hundred paces, Yun Zheng looked at the elephants with regret, waved his hand, and the ballista sent the gunpowder shells into the sky. The gunpowder bomb fell in the elephant herd, followed by a feast of flesh and blood, a piece of elephant trunk fell not far from Yun Zheng, the monkey jumped over, picked up the elephant trunk, and put it on the big stone next to Yun Zheng like a treasure.
After the smoke cleared, there were a lot of elephant carcasses lying on the ground, and a few elephants were crazy and sprinting towards the mountains, not climbing the high slopes, still running up again and again, full of wounds, gushing out of a large stream of blood, the elephant's wails came and went, those elephant slaves standing on the back of the elephant have long disappeared, Yun Zheng very much hopes to catch a few elephant slaves to help him train elephants. In the battle of Cochin, having an elephant will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
"Thunderbolts, it's really a peerless weapon, when will we be able to equip it too?" Di Qing walked over from the left, looked at the elephant corpses everywhere and asked Yun Zheng thoughtfully.
"You'll be about the same when you get back to the army. I have already handed over the recipe to His Majesty, but we have a word in advance, if my army is attacked by gunpowder shells while fighting a foreign enemy, I swear that I will definitely break the body of the official in charge of the distribution of military funds into ten thousand pieces! After you return to Beijing, tell those officials this sentence, Yun Zheng must not joke about this matter, if my subordinates are killed or wounded, it is possible to kill his entire family. ”
Di Qing laughed after listening to Yun Zheng's words: "Your words must be more effective than the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, and the old man will definitely tell all the generals who received gunpowder bullets when the time comes!" ”
Yun Zheng said solemnly: "This sentence, when I handed over the recipe to His Majesty. I also told Majesty Xià, and Majesty Xià promised me, so don't listen to this sentence as a joke when you sue them. ”
Di Qing's face changed, and he took a breath and said, "Did you really tell the official family?" ”
Yun Zheng nodded and said, "It's true, the eunuch who gave me the lieutenant of the light car was exchanged for this chase and killing order by me. So when the time comes, I will definitely kill people, and I will not show mercy, and I will let him die without a place to bury him! ”
"You exchanged the lieutenant for a chase order?"
Yun Zheng nodded and said: "This world always needs some fools, the title of Captain of the Light Car is easy to obtain, and it is definitely not easy to obtain this chase and killing." ”
"Nobody blames you for being arrogant? Han Qi didn't say a word? "Di Qing is getting more and more strange, this is the power of the minister!
"No, at least I didn't hear of anyone against it when His Majesty gave me the will! Zeng Gongliang put himself in it. He also wrote to me that if it leaked out of his mouth, he would kill himself without me doing anything! ”
Di Qing said: "Okay, such an artifact really shouldn't be known to outsiders." ”
As he spoke, the soldiers of the Wu Sheng Army had slowly approached the elephants, and countless iron nets were thrown up. Those elephants that could still stand were immediately entangled in the iron net, and after a few crazy elephants were entangled in the iron net, they also slowly calmed down, as long as the elephant was not killed on the spot, the possibility of death at this time was very small. Yun Zheng looked at the open flesh on the elephant's wound and shook his head, the skin was an inch thick, and he didn't know how this thing grew.
After searching the battlefield, he found more than a dozen elephant slaves who did not die, which made Yun Zheng very happy, and immediately asked people to tie them up with iron chains and send them to the military village.
Now that the war elephants have been eliminated, Yun Zheng will continue to advance with the army, and at this time, it is the top priority to rush out of the valley in one go, otherwise when Nong Zhigao reacts, God knows what tricks are waiting for him.
There is only one small stockade in the mountain pass, and the high-morale army took it down with a charge, there are not many guards here, the only thing that makes Yun Zheng happy is that there are more than thirty baby elephants in the stockade, these baby elephants must be the cubs of those elephants, and the elephant slaves will separate these baby elephants from the elephants when they are about to fight, and turn the stockade into an elephant's nest, no wonder those elephants are indomitable in the face of the fire, these guys do have some means. Turning elephant protection of cubs into a means of warfare.
Yun Zheng's joy didn't last long, and when he looked up from the wall of the small village, he couldn't help but moan......
A pure stone city appeared in front of him, the city wall was at least three zhang high, all made of black rocks here, this city was not completed, the watchtowers and battlements at the head of the city were not completed, just when Yun Zheng's army appeared on the valley mouth plain, there were countless slaves at the head of the city who were carrying stones to strengthen the city.
As soon as the army entered the range of five hundred paces of the city, countless crossbow guns were summoned, and Yun Zheng only withdrew from the firing range of the Eight Bull crossbows after losing more than twenty of his subordinates.
Looking at the miserable subordinates who died, Yun Zheng said to Di Qing: "Privy envoy, the general who lost the Eight Bull Crossbow should also be broken into pieces!" Di Qing ignored Yun Zheng's complaints, looked at the majestic city in front of him and sighed: "This is the purpose of Nong Zhigao's invasion of the Great Song Dynasty, no wonder he will withdraw his troops from Dingzhou by himself, no wonder he gave up Yongzhou and gave up cleanly, we all thought that he would establish his own Nantian Dali Kingdom in Yongzhou, but we didn't think that the fundamental purpose of people was to stabilize their old nest Guangyuan Prefecture." ”
Yun Zheng looked at the big city and said: "This city has been under construction for at least many years, but the large-scale construction is still last year, you only need to look at the stones on the city wall to clearly understand, the stones below and the stones above are obviously different colors."
Nong Zhigao went to the Han land, just to loot money and slaves, I felt strange when I was in the hot springs, Huang Shimi's hands only had women and children, not the young and strong, and thought that they had killed the young men, who knew that they had sent people here earlier to be slaves to repair the city. ”
Di Qing was noncommittal, the Great Song Dynasty was an expert in building cities, and as for these bureaucrats, if they wanted to build a standard city, they were far from being able to reach it with their manpower and material resources.
"Let's build a camp, we will back to the canyon, block the mountains on both sides, and set up a village here." Di Qing gave Yun Zheng an order, and the only person he could command in this team was Yun Zheng.
Nong Zhigao's beard became snow-white in these few days, before this, he knew that he would sooner or later be retributed for attacking the Great Song Dynasty, and he thought that he would be able to maintain the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty for three or five years anyway, and after the completion of this Wuchao City under his feet, he would win an undefeated foundation for the descendants of the Nong family, as long as the strong city was in hand, whether it was the Great Song Dynasty or Jiaozhi, or the Dali Kingdom, they were helpless to take themselves.
So he didn't care when Huang Shimi failed, the people who died in the battle under the Hot Springs Pass were not his own people, but some mountain people who were instigated. It doesn't matter how much you die.
But the warriors under Quy Nhon Pu and Binyang City were his own real people, and it really hurt him to see them being shot by crossbow arrows one by one, torn apart by that terrifying thing that made a loud noise.
Accustomed to seeing a cowardly army in the south, he didn't think that when he fought with the elite of the Great Song Dynasty in Quy Nhon Pu, he could be regarded as completely seeing the gap between himself and the Great Song Dynasty, and when he fled with a thousand people, he already understood that the Great Song Dynasty would set foot on his own land sooner or later, and Guangyuan Prefecture was subordinate to Jiaozhi, but it seems that these Great Song troops are not here or not, the only thing they are interested in is their own heads.
Maybe it's not just that, those wingmen who stayed on the battlefield have been killed by the brutal Song army commander Di Qing, and Yun Zheng, the commander of another Song army, and I heard that except for a few wingmen headed by them, the others were buried alive.
Wuchao was not built, Nong Zhigao thought that as long as he had another half a year, he would be able to completely build this eternal foundation, and the Song army on the expedition would not be able to capture this city in a short period of time anyway, so that he would have a chance to make peace......
The sound of the Song army's horn woke Nong Zhigao from his thoughts, standing at the head of the city and watching the Great Song army come out of the canyon in a group, come to the outside of the city to defend themselves, behind their military formation, a military village is rapidly rising from the ground, watching the endless carriages come out of the valley, Nong Zhigao closed his eyes in pain, the Great Song army is preparing for the siege.
"Braltar will not allow his children to be violated by others, my child, you have to be strong, this city of glory will surely protect us through the most difficult times, this is the will of Braltar and Mlaka."
A stout old woman walked up to Nong Zhigao and whispered.
"Mother, you haven't fought with the Song army, you don't know how powerful they are, the war elephants have been wiped out, and the war elephants have been killed, and we are now left with the last barrier of the black nest......"
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