Chapter 231: Zhuxia retreats
In this battle, both Daqi and Daxia alas, suffered heavy casualties.
According to preliminary statistics, about 200 people were directly killed in this battle, and Daxia, as the attacker, suffered even more heavy casualties, although Yang Hao did not count carefully, but it was definitely not less than 2,000 people.
In siege warfare in the era of cold weapons, without the help of effective siege equipment, the forced siege can only rely on the number of people, but in this way, the besieging side does not have several times more than ten times its own troops, and it is not easy to conquer a well-defended city wall.
The soldiers of Great Qi and Great Xia are much different in terms of fighting will and weapons and equipment.
Although the soldiers of Daxia were also brave, in the face of the tenacious defenders of Daqi, they could only look at the city and sigh.
The tragic war made the princes afraid.
The battle was fought so badly, with thousands of casualties that they could not afford.
The good men died here, and they didn't know how to explain to their clansmen after returning to the clan.
The idea of retreating began to appear in their minds, and the city that could not be attacked for a long time, as well as the food and grass that was about to run out, made the morale of the Zhuxia coalition army fall to the bottom.
Not only the princes, but even Xia Qi didn't want to fight anymore.
With such tragic casualties, even if this city is captured, there are few people who will die without knowing it.
He knew very well that if a thousand more people died, then the morale of the army would be shaken.
But just go back in such a gloomy way, where will he, the lord of the alliance, put his face.
Qi Xia and the two sides licked their wounds.
Early in the morning, the enemy sent a warrior to the front of Chang'an City.
Liyang wanted to shoot him, but was stopped by Yang Hao.
Since the enemy sent a man, he had no intention of attacking the city, and he wanted to see what the enemy was going to do.
The man under the city shouted: "The people in the city listen, and then say, the sky is merciful, and I don't want to see the blood shed in the world, if you wait for the city to surrender, you can agree, and you will not hurt one of you, recognize you as a member of the Zhuxia tribe, and give you the name of Fangguo." ”
When Yang Hao heard this, he couldn't help but smile, the enemy actually came to make peace, which was somewhat unexpected for him.
"It seems that the enemy will not be able to hold out."
When Li Yang heard this, he nodded: "Chief, the soldiers have died so much, if this is peaceful, I am afraid it will be unfavorable to the morale of the army." ”
Yang Hao said: "Tell them that as long as Xia Qi agrees to give up a hundred miles of land and compensate for the losses of this war, 100,000 people, and a million catties of grain, I will agree to his request." ”
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but gasp.
100,000 people, millions of catties of grain, a hundred miles of land, good guy, if Xia Qi can agree to this condition, unless the sun comes out from the west.
This is obviously Yang Hao deliberately humiliating Xia Qi, such a good thing, several generals naturally scrambled for this and agreed.
In the end, Qu shouted Yang Hao's words at the top of his voice.
When the people in the city heard this, their faces suddenly changed, they snorted coldly, and rode back to the summer camp.
After Xia Qi listened to the enemy's request, he was immediately furious.
"Someone! Give me a siege! ”
"After, no! No! ”
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The princes were shocked and hurriedly persuaded.
Xia Qi said coldly: "What, if you want to rebel, can't you?" ”
The princes looked at each other and said: "Later, calm the anger, this time I have attacked this city for a long time and have not resisted, I am worried that there will be changes in Dongyi, and now there is still not much grain and grass in our department, if there is still no result in attacking the city again, if Dongyi comes to attack, the two sides join forces, we will be in danger." ”
Ji Bian hurriedly said.
Xia Qi frowned and pondered, and after calming down again, he felt that there was some truth in what Xi Bian said.
After fighting here for so long, Dongyi is indeed extremely quiet, which is obviously not normal.
Thinking of this, Xia Qi hurriedly said: "Immediately send out a scout horse to check Dongyi's movements." ”
After the tragic battle, Xia Qi no longer mentioned the plan to attack the city in three days, and began to prepare to retreat.
The enemy was so difficult that it had surpassed all the enemies he had encountered before, and the unprecedented sense of danger made him very uneasy.
He wants to return to Yangcheng, and only by answering his capital city can he feel a sense of security with the protection of the warriors of the clan.
As for the food problem on the way back, he didn't worry about it at all.
Food is naturally given priority to themselves, and as for the soldiers, they naturally have their food.
The slaves who were in charge of the transport would naturally have their rightful place to go then.
After two days of calm, Liyang hurriedly reported: "Chief! Chieftain! ”
Yang Hao thought that there was nothing big in it, and hurriedly said, "What happened?" ”
"The enemy retreated, the enemy retreated, and Daqi won the war."
Liyang cried with joy.
Yang Hao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly climbed the city wall.
Looking around, I saw that the original enemy camp was empty, leaving a mess.
"Win, win! Hahaha! Daqi has won! ”
Yang Hao looked up to the sky and roared, defeating the invincible Zhuxia Alliance, and in the future, Daqi will be a wide sea with a fish jumping, and the sky will be high and the birds will fly.
The news of the enemy's retreat soon spread throughout the city.
The people took to the streets, sharing the joy of victory with the cheering soldiers on the city walls.
People rushed to tell each other, hugged each other and wept.
The entire city of Chang'an was immersed in the joy of victory, and the people poured under the city wall with the best food at home to comfort the soldiers who defended the city.
It is the bloody struggle of these soldiers that can keep their current lives.
If it weren't for them, they would have fallen under the enemy's tomahawk, and Chang'an City would have become a hell on earth.
At this moment, there is no army or people, there is only one title, and that is Qi people.
They are proud to be the people of Daqi.
Yang Hao looked at the enthusiastic people and vaguely felt that the consciousness of the country and the nation had begun to appear among these people.
Qi people, both in culture and system, began to drift away from the civilization of this era and developed their own unique culture.
Yang Hao didn't know where Qi Wenming would go and what it would eventually develop.
But he is still a descendant of this land, whether it is in the past life or in this life, there is the blood of Huaxia, no matter what Qi civilization is, he always thinks that he is a member of Huaxia.
The war with Zhuxia, which he defined as a civil war with a class revolutionary character.
Sending a scout horse to check the enemy's traces and confirming that the enemy probably evacuated last night, Yang Hao finally relieved, and the closed main gate of Chang'an City slowly opened.
The civil officials organized the people to clean up the corpses piled up under the city walls, it was only early autumn, if these corpses were not disposed of in time, if the plague broke out, it would be a greater threat to Chang'an City than a large-scale attack by the enemy.
The civilians looked at the dead bodies all over the ground, and then realized what kind of killing the soldiers had experienced, and in the process of carrying the corpses, everyone's expressions were extremely solemn, as if they were not carrying corpses, but their own fate.
At dusk, thirty horsemen rushed towards Chang'an City, raising smoke and dust in the sky.