Chapter 420: Attacking the Sheep Bone Village
Zhang Linghui said to his son Zhang Huiyong: "You lead three hundred elite soldiers, climb up from the cliff next to you, bring a small trebuchet, as long as the height is higher than the sheep bone village, and throw a surrender letter inside." Tell Huang Dabiao that as long as he dies in battle, then the Han army will help him take care of his family, otherwise once Chaoyang City is conquered, then when the city is slaughtered, none of their family members will be saved. ”
"Father, does this work?" Zhang Huiyong felt very strange, how could he surrender like this? ”
"You don't understand, there must be Jin soldiers in the village, and there will also be falcons, if they surrender publicly, whether Huang Dabiao agrees or not, their families will be executed by the Jin army, if they are crushed, the two hundred soldiers below this guy will hate us to death, and they will definitely fight to the end, in that case, the casualties will be very large." Zhang Linghui paused here and said: "Huang Dabiao and everyone died in battle, their families will live, I believe he will accept the arrangement of fate, he will definitely fight to the end, and of course he will definitely put down the drawbridge." ”
"Father, what you mean is that Huang Dabiao will put down the drawbridge after dying in battle, and then all of them will die in battle to paralyze the Jin army."
"Yes, because those Jin soldiers will not be sent to death under normal circumstances, and will definitely leave when the situation is critical. Or in the time of bloody battles, use eagles to transmit information to report the battle situation here. ”
It will be old spicy. Zhang Hui had to admire his father's wisdom, and he quickly went down to prepare.
Zhang Linghui said to his nephew Zhang Huizhen: "You organize trebuchets to attack the city, remember to adjust the distance, you can only attack the head of the city, and don't break the drawbridge." Remember that the thunder is loud, the rain is small, and the speed of the attack does not have to be fast, but the accuracy must be high and the lethality must be strong. In addition, when shooting at the Jin army on the head of the city, you must do a good job of protection and reduce unnecessary casualties. ”
Shooting, it is obvious that this side suffers, but this is also the only way, before the drawbridge falls, this seems to be no better way, in this case can only use this method.
Strong bows, hard crossbows, can only be used with strong bows and hard crossbows to shoot at the Jin army at the head of the city. This can be said to be a way to do it, Zhang Linghui said to Zhang Huiqi: "Your brother led the army and the Jin army to shoot, you led the army to shout, the slogan is to slaughter the city after the killing." In addition, it was shouted that this attack on Chaoyang City was an army of 300,000, and if the city was not surrendered within two days, the city would be slaughtered directly. ”
Now it is to create a momentum, that is, the entire Chaoyang City will be taken down within two days, and if it can't be taken, it will be slaughtered, and the purpose is to make the Jin army of the Sheep Bone Village look forward and backward and lose itself. Not only will it coexist with the military village. The soldiers are not tired of deceit, this trick still works on this special occasion, at least Zhang Linghui believes that he can take the sheep bone village.
Sheep bone village, if you can't defend it, to be honest, Huang Dabiao has no bottom in his heart, but he knows that even if he dies in battle, he can't surrender or escape, as for whether he can stand it, it depends on God's arrangement.
Zhang Linghui guessed correctly, there are two hundred Jin Han troops and twenty or thirty Jin troops in the sheep bone village, and the role of these Jin troops is to supervise the war and monitor. This is the most fatal shortcoming of the small number of Jin troops, there is no way to use all the Jin army, it can only be monitored by the Jin army in various places, many places are guarded by the signing army, how can the combat effectiveness be compared with the Jurchen warriors, as for loyalty, hehe, that's it, it depends on the national fortune of the Jin country, when the national fortune of the Jin country is prosperous, the signing army is brave. Once the Jin State is weak, then it will be defeated and flee in despair.
Huang Dabiao, it is not easy to get to this point, it is not that he is willing to serve the Jin country, but he was born in troubled times, and he is destined to have no good choice as a Liao Han. With an average background, there is no one to support, and the ability is not big, and it is more important to be able to survive than anything else. He served in Liao before, and later defected to Jin, which is something that has no choice.
However, Huang Dabiao, who is just a little centurion, is destined not to become a slave with three surnames like Guo Yaoshi, guarding the sheep bone village, which is the final destination of life.
The conditions in the sheep bone village are bad, Huang Dabiao was arranged here, to put it bluntly, there is no background, and the rhythm of eating and drinking and waiting for death is to live. Now that the Han army has invaded the Jin country, Huang Dabiao knows that the fall of the Jin country is imminent, but this is the end of the world for himself, his family members are all detained by the Jin army, and he has no second way out except to defend the sheep bone village.
Zhang Huiyong is a very brain-loving person, and when he led the troops to climb the mountain this time, he did not climb up as soon as he came up, but walked around the mountain for a long time, and only after the survey did he determine the plan to go up the mountain.
This mountain is too steep, and it is quite difficult to climb up, and many people will definitely die, which is why Zhang Linghui asked Zhang Hui to bring three hundred soldiers. But this kind of work, a lot of people may not have an effect, the key is the skill of climbing the mountain, as well as physical strength and courage.
In fact, as long as three or five people climb up, it is a victory, after all, just using the smallest trebuchet to throw the letter of surrender into the city is considered to complete the task, and it is of little use if it is too much.
Soon Zhang Huiyong paid attention, and he said to his subordinates: "This battle is very important for everyone, and I won't repeat this." Whoever climbs the mountain and completes the task will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, and all those who die in battle will be given three times the death money. We were divided into six groups, and each group selected five brave people to climb the mountain. If the mission fails, all of them will be executed. There are only two paths in front of you, climb them or die. It's just that there is a bonus for dying on the way to climb the mountain, and if you are executed, you should think about your wife and children. ”
Zhang Hui is very cunning, he himself is not the first to rush up, at this time there is no need to take the lead, but to cheer up the people below, so that these people believe that they can climb up. In addition, it plays the role of supervising the battle below, and the provincial soldiers flee because they are afraid.
In the end, Zhang Huiyong said: "The first group to climb up, each person will be rewarded with an additional fifty taels of silver, this time, you are free to form a team, according to your personal characteristics, courage, and ability to climb the mountain." ”
After all, climbing a mountain is not the same as fighting, it is not enough to have courage, the key is whether there is the skill to climb the mountain, without skills, it is impossible to climb up.
There will be brave men under the great reward.
Stimulated by Silver, five teams of players were quickly selected.
Huang Sanmao is an inconspicuous guy, not popular in the team, not big, ugly in appearance, taciturn on weekdays, greedy for life and afraid of death, in the team is a mixed eat, drink and mess around. This time, he was the first to volunteer to climb the mountain, for the sake of his elderly parents, for his sick wife, for the sake of his young son, this guy had no choice.
It's not enough to have courage to climb the mountain, it's more about skills, Huang Sanmao has an advantage in this point, this guy grew up in the mountains, he grew up picking mountain medicinal materials, and he has no other skills, if he climbs the mountain, this guy is still very good at it.
Huang Sanmao is small and obviously lacks strength, so this guy did not choose to carry the parts of the trebuchet, but chose to carry the rope, he said to the other four teammates: "I have climbed the mountain since I was a child, this time I am on top, you give me a hand below, I climb up, find a suitable position and throw the rope down, you grab the rope and climb up." Remember, don't look down when climbing the mountain, warm up first, and move your legs and feet before climbing. Kick it out and try not to pause. ”
Climbing the mountain, everyone is not good at it, and in the face of Huang Sanmao's suggestion, they are very concerned. Uncle Lou, who is tall and tall, said: "I have great strength, I will be the second to go up, and when I go up, I can pull everyone up." ”
"No, it's dangerous to pull people like this, everyone has to climb up on their own. If you have a lot of strength, you can carry a set of trebuchet parts on your own, and others will carry another set, so that we have one more option and avoid mistakes. "Huang Sanmao is bothering, this time a total of ten sets of small trebuchets have been prepared, broken one set is one less, once the damage is finished, it is to climb up, there is no point, so it is safest to have one more set of spare.
After Huang Sanmao's suggestion was echoed by everyone, the guy began to climb slowly upward.
The connoisseur stretched out his hand, and knew if there was any, obviously, Huang Sanmao's climbing was the most suitable, and he didn't want others to climb up desperately as soon as he came up, so that the physical consumption was too fast, and it would be more and more difficult to get behind. This guy doesn't crawl fast, but it's very smooth, which gives Zhang Huiyong hope below.
However, Zhang Huiyong did not open his mouth to remind others, after all, everyone's situation is different, Huang Sanmao's set, others are not necessarily practical, knowing that under the circumstances, it is very suitable to be a melon-eating audience.
Sure enough, as time went on, the speed of the other people who did not climb became faster and faster, and not only that, but when they climbed less than five meters, there were already five people falling down, the mountain is too steep, and it is not easy to climb the area, especially without any protective measures.
Huang Sanmao has experience after all, this guy is very good at five meters, and found a platform that is not too big, at least four or five people have no problem, he tied one end of the rope to a big rock, and then threw the rope down and let his teammates climb up.
In this way, Huang Sanmao's team, in less than a quarter of an hour, climbed to five meters one after another, this guy said: "Sheep bone village, yes, the terrain is very high, we have to climb to at least fifteen meters, we can, I took a look, climb up in the northwest direction, there is a platform is very suitable, but where is very dangerous, the last section of everyone don't go up, I climb up alone, you tie the parts to me on the rope, I just pull up." However, that place can obviously go up and down, but not down. I'm dead, and you'll have to send the bounty to my house, please. ”
Sad, at this moment, these men were in tears.
Sure enough, the higher you climb, the more dangerous it becomes, and at this time, everyone believes what Huang Sanmao said, and understands why they take two sets of trebuchets.
The last section is a big protruding stone, which needs to be climbed up, and it is not easy to go up, and it is even more impossible to come down.
Zhang Huiyong below ordered the others to stop climbing, after all, more than a dozen people had fallen at this time, and the morale was a big blow, besides, Huang Sanmao was about to climb up, at this time, there was no need to let more people die.
When Huang Sanmao was climbing the big rock, his feet slipped and he almost fell, holding a protruding stone pillar with both hands, but his hands could not change hands, and his feet could not be strengthened, obviously in this case, he could not climb the big rock, which means that the task was about to fail.
"I'll give him a ride." Uncle Lou knew that without external force at this time, Huang Sanmao would not be able to go up 100%. However, that place is dangerous, and it is not easy to push Huang Sanmao up, and even more importantly, his own life is difficult to protect.
At this time, Uncle Lou couldn't take care of it so much, after he unloaded the trebuchet on his body, he crawled over slowly, this guy was a little clumsy, when climbing, he was obviously powerless, it can be said that there were many dangers, everyone who saw the atmosphere did not dare to come out, and they were silently praying for Uncle Lou, hoping that Jiren would have their own natural appearance.
"Go up." Uncle Lou used all his strength to finally push Huang Sanmao onto the big stone, but he fell down and fell to pieces.
Huang Sanmao wiped his tears and pulled up the parts of the trebuchet little by little, and then threw the 'letter of persuasion' to the sheep bone village.
The completion of the task heralded the end of his life, although Huang Sanmao was very careful, he still did not escape the judgment of fate.
This scene made countless people cry, even Zhang Huiyong's eyes were red, he knew that this battle was destined to belong to the Han army, and the fall of the Jin State kicked off from this moment.
Everyone thought it was a letter of persuasion, but after opening it, everyone understood where the letter of persuasion was and the book of threats, and they used the slaughter of the city as a threat.
Surrender, impossible for soldiers, what's the point of threatening. Huang Dabiao still saw that the other party did not want to surrender by himself, but to let himself put down the suspension bridge. But these Jin Army soldiers are here, how to put them? The only thing that can be done now is to fight first, and then talk about it.
The siege war kicked off, and this time, Zhang Linghui's request was to constantly use trebuchets to throw stones to the sheep bone village day and night.
A set of trebuchets put out, due to the terrain restrictions, only five trebuchets can be placed side by side at one time, such an offensive effect is not very strong, after all, the effect of throwing stones from the bottom to the top is very poor, but the only advantage is that the city of the sheep bone village is small, there are no catapults on it, and they can not attack each other, they can only use crossbow arrows to fight back.
The return fire of the crossbow arrows can only kill the soldiers, and there is no threat to the catapults. The Han soldiers raised their long shields to block the crossbow arrows, so that the Jin army had almost no threat and could only be beaten passively. This is the biggest shortcoming of defending the city, in the face of sharp attacks, it is destined to be passively beaten and there is no way.