Chapter 103: Campfire
Besides, after a day's siege, Arslen Khan returned to the Great Tent to discuss the siege of tomorrow with the tribal chief.
When asked who would lead the battle tomorrow, all the tribal leaders bowed their heads and remained silent.
Arslen Khan really has no way to take these old foxes. But he could not give a strong order, because the fighters of the main attack of the various divisions had suffered heavy casualties today. In one day, the tribes suffered more than 3,000 casualties, which was completely beyond their acceptability. If you add in the camp of Jia Ke last night, they have already suffered more than six thousand casualties, one-tenth of their army.
Seeing that they were all silent, Arslen Khan knew that if he did not express his position, he was afraid that this joint attack would end here.
So Arslen Khan said in public: "Tomorrow will attack the city, and my deployment will be the first attack." You are still attacking in turn, as you are today. There must be no mistakes. ”
From the tribal leader, when he heard that the tribe of Arslen Khan was the first to attack, his expression softened a little, but it was still not very good-looking. They are a people on horseback, and they are not good at attacking cities, but now they want them to attack fortified cities. Even if they capture the city, their losses cannot be compensated.
Arslen Khan looked at the many tribal leaders below, and said with confidence: "You don't have to worry about losing too many manpower, step up the attack in the past two days, and after a while, I have my own way to take Kaipingwei." ”
Arslen Khan's attack on Kaipingwei this time was just to avenge Sobud for the first few days, but the more he went on, the more he felt that this siege was a good way to gradually weaken the tribes, so he insisted on attacking the city for the past few days. On the surface, because of Sobud's revenge, he secretly watched the heavy losses of the tribes, and his heart became more and more happy. But he also knew that enough was enough, so he decided to send his troops tomorrow.
The next day, the siege continued, still the same routine as the previous day. The Tatars carried ladders and rushed towards the walls. A few people held up the ladder below, and the others went up the ladder.
The soldiers of Kaipingwei each brought a young man today, this is to let the soldiers have time to rest, install young and strong instead of elite soldiers, bring the old with the new, and give full play to the manpower of Kaipingwei.
Seeing the Tatars climb up the ladder, the soldiers instructed the young men to use rolling wood thunder stones or gold juice to throw and pour them downward. And the soldiers, too, turned their arrows at the Tatars.
And the Tatars also sent archers today to shoot at Kaipingwei under the city, and from time to time people on both sides were hit by arrows.
And the archers of Kaipingwei, now completely badly learned, before each arrow, they had to put the arrows in gold juice, stir them a little, and then shoot them again.
As time went on, the Tatars suffered more and more casualties, and by the evening they had collected their troops, and the Tatars returned to the camp as if fleeing for their lives, one by one dejected, due to lack of time and technology, they were unable to make more advanced siege equipment, only ladders were available. But attacking the city with a ladder is too great an advantage for the defenders. So much so that their casualties were very serious, and the blow to morale was even more serious.
When Arslen Khan returned to the Great Horde, he immediately met with the complaints of the tribal leaders. In the past, they could swallow their anger, but this time they completely disregarded his face.
Arslen Khan felt that if he continued to be tough, the people below would probably mutiny, and he would not be able to control the tribes on the steppe when he returned to the steppe in the future.
In order to appease the tribes, Arslen Khan could only state his plan in advance, which he was supposed to implement in a few days to paralyze Jia Ke, but now it seems that it will not be possible to implement it.
Arslen Khan said, "You don't have to worry, you will definitely be able to break through Kaipingwei tomorrow." This is my assurance. ”
When the leaders of the tribes heard what he said, they would be suspicious, although Kaipingwei was a small city, but the city was high and thick, and they had suffered a lot in the past two days. According to their thoughts, not to mention tomorrow, even next month, they may not be able to conquer Kaipingwei.
Arslen Khan saw the confusion of the leaders of the tribes, but he was not prepared to explain. just ordered people to prepare wine and food, let these old foxes drink bitterly, and temporarily suppress their complaints.
After sending the old foxes away, he ordered his own soldiers to light three huge bonfires in front of his tent.
Besides, Kaipingwei's side, today's fierce battle, Kaipingwei's losses exceeded yesterday's, mainly because Qingzhuang went into battle on the first day, and he didn't know how to protect himself, so the losses were relatively large. But for the elite soldiers, the losses were greatly reduced. This is both gratifying and painful.
After Jia Ke had eaten in the evening, because of the question of the wounded soldiers and young men, Jia Ke had now set up a medical regiment in Kaipingwei, and gathered all the doctors in the city to treat the wounded soldiers. Since they are mainly traumatic, Jia Ke has some experience with these things from modern times.
Before this battle, he prepared a lot of white cloth. Wash them all and boil them in boiling water. After the wound, various knife wound medicines were applied and these white cloths were used to bandage the wounds of the soldiers.
Jia Ke didn't use another artifact spirit of the traverser to clean the seriously injured soldiers, this is because no matter how strong the liquor in this era, the alcohol content is not high, he has no time to distill, and he starts distilling now, the most important thing is that he doesn't know how to distill the wine, he is different from other traversers, he can't remember the distillation process of the wine at all, if you want to distill the wine, you have to experiment step by step, he doesn't have that time now.
After comforting the wounded soldiers, Jia Ke returned to the city to inspect the city, and while looking into the Tatar camp, he suddenly saw three huge bonfires rising on the opposite side.
When Jia Ke saw these three bonfires, he suddenly had a feeling of wanting to laugh, such a trick has long been written in various novels. This is a bonfire as a signal, ready to steal the city tonight.
Seeing these bonfires, Jia Ke even knew almost everyone who was the internal response, and the ones who could be used as the internal response were those who often came and went on the grassland, leather merchants or horse sellers. Most likely, it is still those merchants who sell horses, you must know that in this era, horses are important, military strategic materials, without strong connections and backstage, it is impossible to engage in this business.
Jia Ke immediately asked Feng Mo to be called to the city, and after Feng Mo came over, he saluted Jia Ke first, and then asked, "What is the matter, my lord?" ”
Jia Ke pulled him and pointed out the three bonfires to him with his hand, Feng Mo saw the three huge bonfires in the Tatar camp, and he didn't feel anything abnormal. Bonfires were common in Tatar camps.
Jia Ke saw his puzzled expression, and then told him his opinion, "These three bonfires were lit suddenly, we have confronted the Tatars several times, and this has never happened, I guess this is the secret code of contact between the Tatars and the Kaiping Guard." ”
Feng Mo thought about it, and admired Jia Ke's caution very much, and only Jia Ke could be the commander of the first army if he didn't let go of a little detail.
"After I came to Kaipingwei, I suspected that the previous Qianhu died strangely. I am afraid that there are Tatars in Kaipingwei, and they are ventilated and informed. This made the thousand households of Kaipingwei repeatedly ambushed by the Tatars. Jia Ke then explained to him.
Feng Mo was suddenly shocked when he heard Jia Ke's words, the death of the previous Qianhu was either a car accident or a horse shock. There were also several assassinations at the expense of Tatar deadmen. Now listening to Jia Ke say this, it is almost a certainty that there is a detailed ventilation message.
Jia Ke saw Feng Mo's sudden appearance and knew that he had understood the key. Then he said to him, "Now that the Tatars have lit three bonfires of this great magnitude, I suspect that the Tatars will attack the city tonight." If they sneak attack, the most likely will be in the direction of the city gate, and there will definitely be spies who will open the city gate for them. ”