Outside Linyang County, Gao Yingxiang gathered an army of displaced people who could barely be called an army.

"Brothers, the traitors in the court are in charge, so that we and others have no food, today I will lead you to lay down a bright future, so that the common people have food, a house to live in, a field to plant, and ......."

In any era, in any war, pre-war mobilization is a top priority. It can greatly boost morale, and it has been an important means since ancient times, and it has never been outdated.

Even the troops called the people's army in modern times have put forward the slogan of fighting local tyrants and dividing the land.

There is also the fact that we claim to be righteous and that the other side is evil, and it is not that we want to provoke a war. Even the invasion of the Japanese in modern times was a slogan of establishing a ***** circle to beautify the war they had waged.

Under the temptation of Gao Yingxiang and food, the homeless people rushed to the city gate with simple ladders.

Although Zhu Qiquan is greedy for life and afraid of death, he also has the arrogance of a literati in his bones, not to mention that this is still a major matter related to his own life, so he also ran to the city wall to command the battle.

After Zhu Qiquan's mobilization and intimidation, Linyang County summoned a total of more than 2,000 young and middle-aged people to guard the four sides of Linyang County.

"Quick, quick, release the arrows. Shoot these thieves".

Zhu Qiquan saw that the army of displaced people began to attack the city, and hurriedly shouted.

Under Zhu Quanquan's order, more than a dozen soldiers armed with bows and arrows stood on the city wall and fired at the army of displaced people attacking the city.

As the saying goes, there is no worst, only worse. Gao Yingxiang stood at the back of the army, looking at the dozen bows and arrows on the city wall.

In the age of cold weapons, bows and arrows were the most terrible deadly weapons. The time when the bow and arrow appeared may be traced back to the distant mythological era. The legend of Hou Yi shooting Jiuyao has always been popular, and it is also the most effective advertisement about the power of bows and arrows.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Turkic bows used by the Ming Dynasty were abandoned in favor of heavy bows and long arrows with armor-piercing ability. The bows used in the Qing Dynasty were developed on the basis of the bows of the previous generations and have a history of thousands of years. This bow has a great pulling force, reaching more than 70 kilograms, and the bow body is also long, reaching 1.8 meters.

In today's parlance, the bow and arrow are equivalent to the AK47 at that time. Whether in terms of distance, lethality, or deterrence, it is unparalleled.

Think of two large armies fighting, one of which has no bow and arrows, and the other is equipped with a large number of bows and arrows, and the two sides go to war. The side that is not equipped with bows and arrows has not yet come into contact with the opponent and is shot and killed, and the deterrent effect created by this is likely to cause an army that has not been very strong in battle to collapse.

It's not terrible to die, it's terrible to be killed before you can fight with the other party.

At this time, the army in charge of attacking the homeless people had this kind of fear in their hearts, looking at the people who were still in the mountains with them before, they were shot by an arrow in the blink of an eye, and they didn't even have time to react, and the psychological pressure caused by them made them collapse a little.

If it were a real army, the damage done to a bow and arrow fired with only a dozen bows and arrows might be a drizzle for them. But for this group of homeless people who had just put down their hoes, the dullness of death made their hearts feel like they were being weighed down by Mount Tai, and they couldn't breathe.

Since ancient times, the Chinese have paid attention to the theory of ghosts and gods, and they have not mentioned death.

The pace of the outcasts' offensive slowed down somewhat, and there were even faint signs of collapse and retreat. Gao Yingxiang, who was standing behind the army, looked at the army that was a little sluggish in attacking, and his heart was also impatient.

"Gao Meng, you bring some brothers to supervise the battle in the back, and those who dare to retreat will be killed."

Gao Meng is also a person who belongs to Gaojia Village, and Gao Yingxiang is in the same village, and was entrusted with important tasks after Gao Yingxiang became the big boss. There are also 200 people in charge of his hands, and all of them are strong young adults.

After Gao Meng heard Gao Yingxiang's words, he hurriedly took his No. 200 brothers to the rear of the army.

"The big boss has an order, after capturing the county seat, you are allowed to rob the rich and help the poor. If anyone dares to retreat, he can be killed."

After saying that, Gao Meng waved his hand and cut down a homeless person who wanted to retreat to the ground. More than 200 brothers under his command also followed suit when they saw Gao Meng's approach.

Of course, instead of slashing with knives, they kept kicking and hitting those who wanted to retreat. After all, there were only about 1,000 attackers, and if you really wanted to kill people as a deterrent like Gao Meng, 1/5 would be removed at once.

As the saying goes, people like to say good things for themselves, and the so-called killing the rich and helping the poor is just an excuse for their own robbery.

When the homeless people saw the promise made by Gao Meng, coupled with the corpses of the four or five people who were cut down by Gao Meng, they were imprinted in front of their eyes, and their eyes immediately turned red and they rushed up with a scream.

After Gao Meng saw the performance of the army, he nodded with satisfaction. ordered his subordinates to continue to supervise the battle, and he returned to Gao Yingxiang.

"The big boss just didn't have your permission, and I ordered them to rob the rich and help the poor after breaking through the city......."

Gao Meng had a cramped and uneasy expression on his face at this time, but he knew very well in his heart that Gao Yingxiang would definitely not punish himself for the order he had given.

Gao Yingxiang looked at Gao Meng with a thoughtful expression, and then looked at the red-eyed army.

"You did a good job, blind killing will not make them obey us, only by luring and deterring, can they obediently obey us."

The power of bows and arrows is well known, but there is also one of the biggest drawbacks of bows and arrows, that is, they must be strong to be able to pull. Even so, it can't shoot three or two rounds, and the archer will be weak.

After firing nearly fifty or sixty bows and arrows, a dozen archers leaned against the city wall with their hands hanging down, like people who had been drained of strength. When the army of nomads saw that the city wall was no longer lowered to the city, the arrows rushed up the city wall even more impatiently, and climbed the simple ladder against the city wall.

Although the city wall of Linyang County is only made of rammed earth, although it is only more than three meters high, far less tall and thick than the city wall in Beijing, it is by no means something that this group of displaced people who have just put down their hoes can break through.

"Pour the gold trick quickly, pour the boiling water, and you hurry up and push the ladder away."

What is gold juice, in fact, to put it bluntly, is something that is boiled with dung and water. This kind of thing is poured on people, it is basically a kind of biological weapon, and in the era when there are no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs, as long as this thing is stained, it will definitely die.

Looking at the crowded army of homeless people under the city wall, the soldiers in charge of guarding the golden branches and boiling water turned the entire cauldron over, only to hear a burst of miserable screams from below. Several soldiers who climbed the ladder fell directly from the ladder, rolling on the ground and screaming, and after a while, they stopped moving.

The screams were like coming from hell, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were furious when they heard it. There were even some ordinary people who fell directly to their knees and kept babbling.

Zhu Qiquan was so angry that Zhu Qiquan screamed when he saw the city guards like this, and kicked four or five people in a few feet.

Since the outcasts did not have long-range assault weapons, so far, the officers and soldiers in charge of defending the city have not suffered any casualties. This made Zhu Qiquan's heart settle down a little, but the next short-handed encounter made Zhu Qiquan a little worried, so he could only order his subordinates to stop the army of displaced people from attacking the city.

When you watch ancient movies, you will find that during the siege of the city, some of the defenders will ask their men to push the ladder away. In fact, this is just a method of depicting film and television dramas, but if it is in reality, it will not happen at all.

The ladder is generally believed to be invented by the skilled craftsman of the Lu State in the Spring and Autumn Period (Luban), when the King of Chu Hui ordered the public ladder to make the first ladder in history in order to achieve the purpose of dominance.

The ladder system consists of 3 parts:

(1) The bottom is equipped with wheels, which can be moved;

(2) The ladder body can be raised up and down, carried by manpower, and leaned on the city wall;

(3) The top of the ladder is equipped with a hook to hook the edge of the city, and can protect the head of the ladder from being pushed and destroyed by the defenders.

So don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, the ancients have already considered all the directions clearly.

Of course, this does not include Gao Yingxiang's army of homeless people, for the army of homeless people who can't even eat, just make a ladder, where do you need to think so much.

As for the consequence, the defenders of the city could easily push the ladder away. Then he took the people on the ladder and smashed them heavily in the crowd of people under the city.