Chapter 898: Li Mu Who Stirs Up Fighting Spirit (First Update)
Li Mu was not annoyed and angry, he was actually very calm when he spoke.
Because he knows that what he says is the truth.
What if there are walls? That, of course, is to step over it.
What if there is an urn city behind the city wall? Then, of course, it is still to cross it.
The appearance of Wengcheng was indeed a big surprise for Li Mu and Zhao Jun, but this is what the war is like, and no one can judge everything clearly before the war.
Life is like this, no one's life is smooth sailing, and if there is a difficulty, solve it.
Life is like a chess game, and a chess game is like a battlefield, and the principles are universal.
Li Mu gave the order very calmly.
"The Qi army should have given up the outer city wall, pass the order down, and send people to occupy the outer city wall first!"
The Zhao army launched an offensive again, and sure enough, as Li Mu expected, the entire outer city wall had been completely abandoned by the Qi army.
Li Mu began the next order: "The trebuchet is approaching, bombard the city!"
Earthquake thunder is of course an option, but if you dig a pit and bury a mine, you will be killed or injured. Digging tunnels is a waste of time.
The city is not omnipotent, and is one of its weaknesses, for example, when it comes to dealing with trebuchets.
The view is blocked through a city wall, and the strong bows and crossbows in the urn city cannot deal with trebuchets, but trebuchets can bombard the city without restrictions.
Hundreds of trebuchets lined up outside the city and began to bombard in rounds.
The earth is trembling.
The overwhelming boulders fell from the sky and smashed down in the inner city under the calendar, even if they were dozens of steps away, the Zhao army on the outer city wall could hear the exclamations and screams coming from inside the urn city.
After half an hour of bombardment, the good news finally came.
"Grand Governor, part of the Urn City has been blown down!"
Li Mu waved his hand: "What are you still doing in a daze, break it!"
It is said that it collapsed, but in fact, it was smashed out of a gap, which is quite high, and it takes a ladder to climb it.
But for Zhao Jun, there is only one gap.
I have to say that this battle made the elite soldiers of the Zhao army very unhappy.
I thought it was a ripe apple that I could eat as soon as I bit it, but I didn't expect it to be a hard stone that almost broke my teeth!
The fighting spirit of the Qi army is certainly tenacious and commendable, but in front of the elite Zhao army that swept most of the Central Plains, these are useless, especially when these Zhao troops are still holding back their strength.
Every country will have some people with lofty ideals, and when every country perishes, there will be some respectable figures who will fight to the end, but in the final analysis, war still depends on strength.
After another half an hour, the news came again.
"Dadu Governor, the city of Wengcheng has been breached, the second and third sons have entered the city, and the Qi army is in the midst of a rout!"
Li Mu let out a sigh of relief and looked up at the sky.
It was dusk and sunset, and the sky was as red as blood.
Li Mu shook his head and said to Zhao Kuo, the deputy general beside him: "I think this is the most unsatisfactory start among the many battles to destroy the country."
Zhao Kuo smiled when he heard this: "Metropolitan Governor, these guys are used to it, give them a lesson and let them calm down."
Although there are some differences in the views of the Hu people, the relationship between Li Mu and Zhao Kuo is still okay, after all, everyone's starting point is for Zhao Guo, and it is not the first time that the two have cooperated.
The most important thing is that it is impossible for Zhao Kuo to offend Li Mu, the younger generation of Zhao Guojun God, and Li Mu also knows that Zhao Kuo is a close confidant of the king.
Zhao Kuo was right, after a series of victories, there was indeed an extremely common sense of pride and arrogance among the Zhao army.
In the eyes of these arrogant generals, the other countries in the world are nothing more than chickens and dogs, the kind that disappear in a snap of their fingers, especially the scum of Qi State, which has been abused by Zhao State.
This mentality is so common that even Li Mu, the commander of the army, has been affected a little, and unconsciously underestimates the people of Qi State.
"That's not a bad thing." Li Mu said slowly: "After all, it is only a small city, if it is under a certain big city, then we will pay a price several times heavier than this."
After a pause, Li Mu said very loudly: "The most important thing is that we still won in the end."
Victory is everything, and the losers must be punished, especially the most stubborn losers.
Zhao Kuo watched the heads of the groups fall to the ground, and couldn't help but ask with some worry: "Governor, isn't this too cruel?"
As the patriarch of the Zhao branch after Zhao Hao, Zhao Kuo's perspective on the problem often unconsciously takes on the role of the patriarch.
To put it simply, it is to help relatives and not to help.
What is a loved one? Loved ones are their own people.
For Zhao Kuo, the Zhao people are his own people, and the Hu people such as Yiqu and Huns are not, so Zhao Kuo can accept these Hu people as subordinates, but these Hu people definitely have no chance to get ahead under Zhao Kuo.
The people of Qi are different.
As Zhao Dan's brain-dead fan, Zhao Kuo agrees with Zhao Dan's theory of Chinese unification.
According to this theory, Zhao would become the replacement of the Zhou dynasty, unite the Chinese states, and establish a new, powerful Chinese dynasty.
Since they are all Chinese, then the people of Qi can naturally be regarded as their own people.
Since it was his own person, Zhao Kuo felt that Li Mu's behavior of beheading all the defenders in the city and reducing all the adults in the city to slavery seemed to be a bit excessive.
Li Mu smiled slightly, and glanced at Zhao Kuo with a calm expression: "No, I didn't choose to slaughter the city, it was already for the sake of the same Chinese countries." And General Zhao Kuo should not forget that the northwest just needs a large population. ”
What Li Mu said was not wrong, whether it was Hetao Shuofang or Hexi Hehuang, these northwest territories of Zhao needed a large number of people to explore and settle.
But due to the local plot, in fact, not many people from the Central Plains Zhao are willing to go to the northwest, so these captives are a very good choice.
Zhao Kuo said with some concern: "But if this is the case, I am afraid that the resistance of the Qi people will become stronger in the future, and their will to resist will become more firm!"
Li Mu said with a smile: "That's natural, but as long as we continue to win one Qi city after another, the collapse of the Qi people will come sooner!"
It's like a bowstring, if you pull it at the beginning, its rebound will definitely be huge, but as long as you continue to pull it, then the bowstring will collapse.
Zhao Kuo was silent.
No one can overturn the decision of the main general, unless the Supreme of the Zhao State in Handan speaks.
It was only at this time that Zhao Kuo suddenly remembered one thing, that is, Li Mu was not a soft-hearted person.
Li Mu's record is very brilliant, and of course, the brilliant record is to use the bones of countless enemy soldiers as a stepping stone.
Li Mu saw Zhao Kuo's concern, and patted Zhao Kuo's shoulder with a smile: "Don't worry, the Qi Kingdom is trembling under our feet."
When he said this, there seemed to be a flame burning in Li Mu's eyes.
The tenacious success of the Qi people aroused his fighting spirit.