Section 297 Cold Wind 1

Li Qianshun was surrounded by bureaucrats and nobles who were relatively young and strong and could ride horses and swords to fight and flee, and some important things that were convenient to carry with the horse, such as the true jade seal that was not dedicated to the pirates, rare treasures, and so on, naturally tried to bring as many as possible. The guards are the thousands of cavalry of the Iron Harrier who are still alive in Xingqing City, the powerful palace guards and some elite troops defending the city, and then there are the private soldiers of the bureaucrats and nobles who actually only obey the command of the master, and there are two or three thousand people in total, and most of them are good at fighting. At the front of the line near the city gate were tens of thousands of other soldiers and civilians, mainly infantry, but also cavalry, who were responsible for going out of the city to attack the pirate camp. These people are naturally cannon fodder to be sacrificed or discarded, and if they distract the pirate army's strength and attention, the real core team will take the opportunity to kill them......

How could Li Qianshun be willing to destroy the country so easily.

He and his subordinates are horseback people, migration and flight are the same instinctive qualities, although he is a weak emperor, he also has the ability and courage to escape on horseback.

These people are still dreaming of escaping and gathering forces to temporarily escape from the country, avoiding the invincible pirate edge, as soon as the pirates leave, they will come back to restore the country and continue to be rich, and they don't know that the pirates are not only here to destroy the country and plunder the wealth, cattle and sheep, but also to sweep away the entire population of the Western Xia and Tubo tribes, so that this vast land is temporarily blank.

There were also soldiers and civilians of varying numbers at the other gates, no less than tens of thousands in total, and when the time came, they should rush out together with the Ximen and the offensive to further distract the pirates' forces and attention, so that the pirates could not judge the real intentions of the city and the main target of the escape for a while.

The soldiers and civilians at the other city gates were naturally outcasts, and life and death depended on luck.

Of course, the intention of abandonment cannot be clearly realized by these people, so it is natural to say that everyone is trying to rush out and escape, so as not to be wantonly slaughtered by pirates or something......

Li Qianshun and the remaining generals in the city, Meile and Li Liangfu, silently observed at the West Gate, patiently waiting for the pirates to relax their vigilance in ecstasy due to the fall of Western Xia, and even retreated and stationed not far from the city gate, waiting for the pirate prince and the Xia King who had fallen into the hands of the pirates to discuss specific matters, waiting for the celebration of the great victory of destroying the country, and then attacking suddenly......

Unexpectedly, the pirate army was ecstatic and cheered, but soon regained its calm, and did not withdraw as they had hoped.

What was even more terrible and hateful was that the pirates suddenly launched another artillery bombardment of the city. The area around Ximenli was the focus of the shelling, and the people and horses who were densely bombed in this area were flying with blood and flesh, and the casualties were heavy..... After the horses were frightened, there were even more terrible gas bombs.

Li Qianshun and the nobles and bureaucrats naturally did not ride on horses and wait for the time to flee like other lowly people, and it was not bad to take action and rush out. The city gates were crowded with men who were leading the way, and there was not so much room for them, the rulers, and the tens of thousands of elite men and horses. They are further down the street. Li Qianshun and the noble nobles, family heads and court leaders naturally took shelter from the wind and the sun in the nearby convenient buildings, sat everywhere, drank tea, wine, and ate food, accumulated morale and strength, and further plotted and calculated how to escape more confidently, and what to do after successfully escaping...... I was lucky not to be blown up by a sudden shelling......

However, as soon as the cannon sounded, Li Qianshun was extremely anxious, but he had been trying to maintain his composure, and his face suddenly turned pale in the roar of the cannonball......

Even...... It's exposed.

Stand-in, tsk, good performance in the past, loyalty, is indeed not afraid of death, and is willing to die for him Li Qianshun, the Allah king, and he looks very much like the truth and falsehood, but this time the situation is different, I am afraid that it will not stand the test in this kind of dead country...... Pirates, such powerful cunning people as they have never heard of, are not easy to deceive......

Sure enough, as the artillery bombardment blocked all the exits of the city gates, which could cut off the hope of everyone in the city and the luck of escaping, the nobles who had previously surrendered out of the city were all escorted to the west gate, including the substitute of King Xia, all of them were naked and trembling in the cold wind, the king is not a king, and the noble lord is no longer noble and majestic......

The embarrassment and misery of these people, Li Qianshun didn't care.

was abandoned, or wanted to surrender and save his life in his heart, or knew that he was old and did not have the ability to ride a horse to escape and voluntarily became an abandoner, took the initiative to go out of the city with the false king, confused the pirates, and wanted to sacrifice himself to fight for the children of the family to escape from life, and now it is normal to fall into the misery in front of him.

Li Qianshun was horrified that why the pirates had taken all the people to Ximen.

You must know that the people who went out of the city and surrendered did not know that it was a fake king and surrendered except for the stand-in himself, and before leaving the city, he did not know the specific escape plan of Li Qianshun among the soldiers and civilians lurking in the city, and he did not know that he would temporarily choose Ximen to escape.

It stands to reason that the strictest blockade of pirates should be the north gate, which is the most convenient and quick way to escape to the vast grasslands of the north, or the south gate, which has a surprising breakthrough effect, or even the east gate where the pirate prince is located. The West Gate is the easiest direction to flee to the western hinterland of the Xia Kingdom, but such an obvious favorable escape area is the direction of the City Gate that should not be taken seriously at the moment. However, the pirate's behavior was obviously clear and accurate, knowing that the core ruling group of the Xia Kingdom was here at the West Gate, so he deliberately escorted the people who left the city to this side to show the public.

So, the question is, even if the pirates recognize the fake king, the fake surrender is expected to be the real king, how can they know that Simon is the focus of prevention?

There should be lurking pirates in Xingqing City, who are responsible for monitoring the city and reporting to the outside of the city, but no matter how many spies there are, no one can have a way to leak the news to the pirates, the city is completely blocked, not to mention people, even birds can't fly out. Besides, there are no pigeons flying up from the city or anything, and the whole city has been cleaned up before. Could it be that pirates not only have terrible gunpowder weapons, but also have demons and poisonous gas methods, and the terrifying magic eye means can see through the thick city walls and see that he is the real body of King Xia at the West Gate?

Thinking about it like this, Li Qianshun couldn't help but shudder, a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the deepest part of his heart, and the warm wine and hot tea he drank couldn't warm his body and mind.

Demons, this, this is terrible.

How the hell do pirates know? Is it just a bluff to guess?

As soon as this fluke was raised, the shelling extended deeper into the West Gate.

The direction of the street where Li Qianshun's tens of thousands of horses were located began to be heavily shelled, and they quickly fell into a sea of collapse and fire...... The earthquake trembled, the earth and flames flew and splashed everywhere, the screams of men, the neighing of horses...... A terrifying scene of an earthquake, a fire, and a post-apocalyptic disaster. With the loyalty and courage of the iron harrier, he could not withstand this blow, and the unlucky ones were directly killed and injured in the loess thatched or brick and tile houses, and the people in the houses who were not hit by the shells also jumped up in shock, and subconsciously rushed out of the house where they could be trapped, burned and buried themselves, but after coming out, they looked around in a daze and didn't know what to do, I don't know if they should decisively escape from this side of hell? They simply do not have the knowledge to prevent and counter the effects of shelling.

War horses do not have the kind of spiritual consciousness, and in the event of a disaster, there will be no one who thinks forward, analyzes, judges or is at a loss, and has been shocked by the bombardment of the bombardment at the west gate, and under the efforts of the master or the servant to appease and control, he can't help but wander irritably and just want to escape, and now he is even more shocked by the bombardment that is right in front of him or even on his body, even if he plugs his ears in advance, but there are still horse eyes that can see the terrifying scene of the same kind being destroyed and fallen in the artillery fire, The hooves can also keenly feel the earth shaking, the ground under their feet seems to be about to collapse, and the beast instinct is the first thing to flee..... Crazy. Breaking the reins and breaking free from the control of the person holding him, he galloped with all his strength, and ran wildly towards the depths of the city where there was no crowd in the way, not listening to the call of his master at all, and after the narrow streets naturally converged into a group, the naturally prominent head horse and horse king guided him to follow and flee faster and more resolutely. Tens of thousands of horses went crazy and fled, how could these elites of the Xia Kingdom, who were in a panic and dazedness, be able to effectively control them...... There are people who are not self-conscious, and they step forward in a hurry to drag their frightened horses, but they are kicked down and seriously injured by their own horses, or they are knocked away by other frightened horses when they pass by, and then trampled into flesh......

The pirate artillery outside the west gate was striking according to the telegraph instructions from the spies in the city.

This first round of shelling was mainly to scare away the horses, and killing the enemy was secondary. Moments later, after receiving a report from the spies that most of the horses had fled the neighborhood, an even more vicious bombardment followed, with gas bombs raining down on hundreds of mortars......

Li Qianshun was lucky to escape the first wave of blows, and he was also frightened to get out of the house so as not to be burned to death or buried alive or something, standing in the courtyard with his accompanying dignitaries trembling in horror, but still trying to keep his composure, trying to analyze whether this was a pirate testing or had already determined the target, and whether there was a possibility of breaking through from the West Gate as planned...... I still want to fight from the West Gate.

The senior general Meile wiped her face in a cold sweat and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid the plan is about to change." Most of the soldiers' horses have run away, so let's quickly turn to other gates and try it. ”

Li Liangfu also said with a white face: "Yes, this will definitely not work." The horses are gone, Your Majesty, you go out and have a look, most of Simon's men who are responsible for rushing into battle to open the way have also fled in shock, and those who have not escaped are not available...... Let's move somewhere else. It's not safe either, Demon Thunder."

As soon as he said the word thunder, a dense gas bomb came after him. One was exploding in this courtyard, and shrapnel injured several palace guards and caused panic, but it did not have the bombardment lethality of the previous shells, and it was not even loud, it didn't seem to be as terrible as the previous explosion, but the beasts were more sensitive to danger than people, and the BMW of Li Qianshun's Maxima and Sister Li Fuguo and others in the courtyard ...... A total of seventeen or eighteen horses neighed in shock, broke free from human control, rushed out of the hospital, and ran away with kicks and bites all the way.

The people in the courtyard turned pale when they saw a cloud of smoke rising from the bomb drop site, and they scattered in all directions.

They had already learned or heard of the pirates' terrible killing methods, and knew that the beautiful smoke was not a fairy aura but a life-seeking ...... He was fleeing to the outside of the courtyard, but was met with several poison gas bombs, and the bad thing was that this season was the season when the northwest wind was getting stronger and colder, and the wind came from the west, and the poisonous gas spread from the west gate to the depths of the city. Some of Li Qianshun's group fell to their deaths in the poisonous gas that exploded around them, and the others ran wildly with all their might, but they had no horses, heavy armor, and only relied on two legs, how could they run through the spread of the wind and poisonous gas...... One after another, the loyal and brave palace guards fell as if they were trying to strangle themselves with their mouths and noses or throats, some of the iron harrier guards that Li Qianshun valued and trusted the most also fell in pain, and one by one the noble and arrogant noble lords who enjoyed all the wealth and dignity fell and the high-ranking officials fell...... The general's sister fled with Li Qianshun, who had weak legs, but he also ran and suddenly fell, and with him fell Li Qianshun and the prince and other sons who fled with him in a daze.

When Li Fuguo saw Li Qianshun falling, he shouted with red eyes: "Your Majesty, the crown prince" but kept running frantically into the depths of the city, but it was also ...... in the fog

Zhao Yue didn't want to let go of these people in Xingqing City who were the most loyal to the Xiang clan and the Xia Kingdom. Li Qianshun played a clever trick and faked surrender, so that he just had an excuse to kill him.

For Li Qianshun, the core rulers, Zhao Yue never thought of capturing them at all, and used them to accelerate the surrender of Xia Kingdom.

He understood the national characteristics of the nomadic people, and knew that Li Qianshun had really surrendered, and he might not have much effect if he actively cooperated with the surrender of the whole country. It's hard work to fight at all. There is no need to have the luck of easily surrendering the whole country.

It is also a good time to further distinguish and thoroughly clean up the hidden dangers that should be killed and the most likely threats on the way to migration.

For the brave and warlike Iron Harrier and some elite troops in Western Xia, such as the palace guards, such as the Condor Archers, Zhao Yue did not have the luck to be able to surrender.

They are all the most proud vested interests of the Western Xia Kingdom, and they are also the ones who have the deepest feelings for the Western Xia regime. Moreover, in the age of thermal weapons, the importance of individual force had rapidly declined to an unimportant position, and the role of a general who could often break an army with his own bravery was not so necessary for the pirate army. Bombardment and grenades can be more likely to defeat the enemy than the brave Superman.

In this way, there is no need to take the risk of taking advantage of those capable people in the Xia Kingdom.

Without these big enemies in Xingqing City to play ghosts and manipulate people's hearts, it will be many times easier to force down. Without Li Qianshun and other presiding officers, there would be no fire to burn the palace or anything, which can minimize the loss of wealth in the Xia Kingdom.

If you want to effectively eliminate the most threatening people lurking in the city, poison gas bombs are the most convenient and effective means. So at any cost, Zhao Yue directly ordered a fierce bombardment...... There shouldn't be many people who can escape the large-scale pursuit of the West Wind poisonous gas, and it doesn't take too much effort to enter the city to clean up after the city is broken.

In short, Li Qianshun's gang died in poison gas is the most worry-free.