Chapter 207: Forward Target: Shenglong City
Two months later, Li Nan, who had been resting, personally led a large army from Guangyuan Prefecture to the southeast of Thang Long City, preparing for a battle to destroy the country.
When Li Nan returned from the Roman world, he thought that the two most useless skills were the Divine Finger and the Beast Language, but in different places, both skills played a huge role.
The finger of the gods, a lewd skill created by an actor from an island country, although Li Nan has not yet cultivated to the realm of hurting people, but in the boudoir, this trick can be described as infinitely mysterious, and Li Nan's newly acquired barbarian girl Xiangman was constantly begging for mercy.
As for the beast language technique, it naturally has no effect in ordinary fights, but when it comes to the battlefield, this skill is too useful.
At present, Li Nan has established friendly relations with three animals.
The rat king Xiaobai helped Li Nan's army to conduct reconnaissance, this kind of unguardable little thing is the best scout, so they also got a reward, and the best thirty acres of rice fields in Guangyuan Prefecture belong to these rats.
Elephant King Dazhuang and his ethnic group originally came from Li Changjie's war elephant army, and later in order to rescue their relatives and children, they were persuaded by Li Nan to surrender and changed camps.
On the eve of the decisive battle between Li Nan and Li Changjie, the macaque king Xiao Ash was tempted by fifty acres of fruit forest, so he took hundreds of macaques from his clan to join Li Nan's army. It was precisely because they set fire to Li Changjie's rear camp to create chaos that Li Nan captured the dead eunuch alive.
Now the marching Li Nan's army, because of the elephant herd to transport all kinds of heavy objects, so it moves very quickly, and countless inconspicuous rats and macaques jumping in the mountains and forests act as scouts on the periphery, Li Nan is not worried that the Jiaozhi people will come to sneak attack.
In fact, along the way, there were many troops from all over the road to block and snipe, but they were discovered by rats and macaques at the first time, so when they appeared, they were ambushed by the well-prepared Li Nan's army.
There are several big cities on the way to Thang Long City, which has also become a fortress heavily guarded by the Cochin people, but the foundation of the Cochin country is too shallow, and the only few big cities in the entire country are not even as good as a state capital city in the Great Song Dynasty in terms of area and solidity.
Suppressed by catapults and crossbow arrows, the gates of these Cochin cities were quickly blasted open by the Demomen, and a large number of soldiers poured in, engaging in street battles with the remnants of the Cochins.
The latest three thousand bull roaring barbarians who joined Li Nannan showed extremely strong combat effectiveness.
These heavy infantry in foot armor, because the whole clan is good at throwing spears, so Li Nan equipped each of them with two armor-piercing steel spears, when the Jiaozhi soldiers in the city saw these steel fortresses that they had never seen before, they were all stunned, and the archers hurriedly shot the arrows in their hands.
Whether it was the bamboo arrows shot by the Cochin slave army or the iron-tipped arrows shot by the regular army, they were all ineffective in the face of the infantry armor with super defensive capabilities, and after the small number of Cochin cavalry began to charge, they were horrified to see countless armor-piercing steel spears flying towards them......
The armor-piercing spear is the best weapon against the cavalry, and there are very few cavalry left after the two rounds of spear throwing, and these bull roaring barbarians roared angrily, raising a fifty-pound Mo knife and rushing over.
Mo knife, out of the Tang Dynasty, long knife also, infantry holding, Gai Gu's chopping horse, the knife weighs fifteen pounds, also known as the machete, seven feet long, the blade is three feet long, the handle is four feet long, and the iron drill is used. The horse step waterway is salty and available. Lux persists, and those who spin and block with waist force are all powder.
The world-famous island knife in later generations was actually born from the Mo knife.
This kind of weapon specially used against cavalry was not easy to make, and because it was too heavy, there were not many soldiers who could handle this kind of long knife, and finally gradually withdrew from the stage of history, but the strong bull roaring barbarians especially favored this powerful blade.
In the wars of the past and present, when the strength of one side is higher than that of the other, then there is no need to use any strategy, according to the terminology of later games, it is only necessary to push A to the past.
Sitting in the elephant bowl on the back of the elephant king Dazhuang, Li Nan looked at the corpse of Jiaozhi lying on the ground in the city, and his mood was a little complicated.
Li Nan originally formulated a plan for Jiaozhi, which was to eliminate a small number of high-level officials and nobles in Jiaozhi, rescue the oppressed slaves and poor people in the lower class, and win the support of the majority of people.
There should be nothing wrong with this combat idea, but when he really saw the scene of Jiaozhi corpses everywhere, he still had a sense of unbearability in his heart.
Hu Bing, who was sitting next to Li Nan, saw his face and asked in a low voice, "Brother Nan, what's wrong?" ”
Li Nan looked at the dim sky and sighed: "It is said that God has the virtue of a good life, and I have ordered the killing of so many people now, so I have some feelings." ”
Hu Bing persuaded: "The kings of all dynasties want to establish a foundation, killing is inevitable, Brother Nan, you have already given them the opportunity to surrender, and you are not to blame for this matter." ”
Xiangman, who was also sitting in the elephant bowl, was wearing a beautiful leather armor skirt, revealing two long legs, and pointed to the Jiaozhi soldiers who were still resisting in the distance and said angrily: "These stubborn Jiaozhi people should be killed, don't look at them pitiful now, when they attacked us Niu Roar, they were fierce and domineering!" ”
The words of the two women made sense, Li Nan nodded and said, "I understand, if Ci is not in charge of the army, the enemy will die!" ”
After the siege battle, a large number of soldiers entering the city were most likely to cause all kinds of riots, and the army under Li Nan's command had a complex ethnic identity and was particularly difficult to manage.
In troubled times, heavy canons are used, so after Li Nan recalled it carefully, he took the fine traditions and codes of conduct in the army in later generations for his own use, and also plagiarized the classic song for the soldiers to sing.
After the city was breached, the remnants of the enemy were searched, the surrendered prisoners of war were escorted to various mines to dig or build roads, the corpses were transported outside the city to be burned, the city's assets were sorted out, and there were special personnel in the army who left the matter of freeing the slaves.
After a period of running-in, Li Nan's army trained a lot of loyal Jiaozhi people, and it may not be possible for them to fight on the front line, but it is more than enough to stay in the rear.
Without much delay, Li Nan's army swept away all obstacles in the road ahead and continued to move towards Thang Long City.
The army of war elephants, cavalry, crossbowmen, grenadiers and demomen, the bull-roaring hoplites, the servants and swordsmen, and the most numerous of ordinary infantry, marched in orderly steps, and the earth trembled with each step, and each of these soldiers smelled of blood.
After more than two months of fighting and marching, Li Nan's army finally came to the vicinity of Thang Long City.
Since Li Nan's policy strategy and actions had spread throughout Jiaozhi, the ordinary poor people and slaves along the way were not afraid of them, and some even rushed to join the army, or took the initiative to bring food.
In the afternoon, Li Nan finally saw Thang Long City, the capital of the Cochin Kingdom, with the city gate closed.