20. Qingtianzi submits
The appearance of the Tongwan Cannon quickly increased the speed and weight of the Tang army's siege.
With the thunder of the falling iron boxes, their long swinging arms ejected one after another, like the arms of giants constantly shaking, and the stone projectiles thrown by the huge centrifugal force could fly out of five hundred to a thousand paces away, and they were not as low as the big bronze cannons, specifically to overcome the towering enemy towers on all sides of the city.
In just two days, the "Kang Enemy Building" in the northwest corner of the city was continuously pierced by seven stone bullets, several heavy wooden buildings, hook railings were smashed into powder, the Xia people stationed on the enemy tower, almost desperately looked at the clouds on the city, and then there was a heavy whistling sound - the stone bullets fired by the huge stone thrower of the Tang people were a sharp tumbling black dot in mid-air, flying, piercing through and tearing the flowing clouds, and then accurately smashed into the tall building, making a sound like the sky collapsing, shattered wooden beams, and the body remains of the victims, Wrapped in stone bullets scattered everywhere, they pierced out from the other side and smashed into the boundaries of the city, causing even greater casualties.
Kang Enemy Tower, but also the symbol and pride of the city, under the heavy impact again and again, the upper and lower floors shook and displaced, and finally with a terrible scream, collapsed, destroyed, after the huge smoke and dust dissipated, in the eyes of the Xia people in the city, it was gone, only a pile of bloodstained ruins and rubble on the white city wall.
The Tongwan cannon was easily destroyed, but it was completely impossible for the Xia people to rebuild the enemy tower - the Tang people used barracks and cavalry to occupy all the areas suitable for grazing and drawing water, and the entire Tongwan city was surrounded as strong as an iron hoop.
The head of Prince Nixiang, the king of Shannan, was lifted on a high pole and erected in the front barrier, and almost every Xia person in the city could see it when he climbed the height.
This is what happens to the rebels.
Two days later, the corner tower "Feixiao Tower" in the northeast of the city was also shattered, and the fifty Xia people who stuck to it collapsed along with the building, and many people could not even find their bones.
In this way, the northern section of the entire Tongwan City is actually no longer a high-level fortification that can condescend and stop the Tang people from attacking the city.
What's even more terrifying is that the east and west two conjoined cities (Luocheng in the west, the inner city in the east), and now the defenders plus the Pingxia people who poured in, the total number has nearly 40,000, and there are many cattle, sheep, dogs and other livestock, as long as the Tang army a stone bullet flies up from the Tongwan cannon, even if it can't hit the enemy's corner tower, it will cross the city wall, draw a long arc, and fall into the city, and suddenly it is a tragic scene of death and injury: the remains of people and livestock, piled up day by day, can be cremated at first, but the number is more and more, and it will continue for a long time. An outbreak of the plague was a very likely thing, and no one in Tongwan City would survive at that time.
The Tang army surrounded it, and even if it didn't come in, Tongwan City would have to turn into a hell on earth in the plague and destroy itself.
Everywhere there are crying summer people.
They didn't know when death would come to them, but they knew it was only a matter of time.
can only wait for the Tang Army to give them a second way, and the choice is in the hands of the other party.
Before the emperor came to "watch the hunt", he commanded the Pingshuo Gate of Wancheng, and the moving rat stood under it with compassion on his face, and shouted to his Xia people with his bow behind facing the battlement: "Surrender, surrender to the punishment given to you by the emperor, and then wash away your sins, this is the only way." ”
On the left side of the mouse, it was actually Yuan Hui's youngest son Sheng, and on the right was Zhou Ziping, the envoy of the Tang Army.
Behind them, there were two Tang soldiers pulling a leather cart, on which lay a corpse, covered with a white cloth.
Soon in the Pearl Building, Yuan Hui hugged the body of his eldest son who was smeared with lime embalming, and screamed sadly, as if he was ten years old in an instant.
Although his youngest son was returned, to Gao Yue, it was nothing more than a cat changing the captured mouse from the left palm to the right palm.
The trip of the fine seal and the rat is to persuade him to surrender.
"My Tang Emperor immediately drove his own expedition here, after slaughtering Baichengzi, he wanted to use the head of the Pingxia Department to build the Jingguan, and then the big river raised the power of the North Sai, and now Ji Gong took advantage of the car before he arrived, came here to tell you to wait, and give you the last chance to surrender and reform, Baichengzi still has the possibility of avoiding the slaughter of the city!" Zhou Ziping waved his hand and scolded Yuan Hui, who was sitting in the hall, and said.
The mouse's expression was calm and he didn't say a word.
At this time, Yuan Hui's hair was scattered, his face turned sideways, and he did not reply to Zhou Ziping for the time being.
"You have no chance of winning, the turrets are crumbling in front of our cannons, the river is cut off, and the city is about to run out of water, even if there is some food and livestock? The plague will only break out sooner, and I have seen all kinds of misery since entering the city, and if you truly love your people, you must let them go out of the city and submit to submission as soon as possible. Otherwise, a huge amount of divine thunder gunpowder has been sent here from Mizhi, and Ji Gong said that he would dig a tunnel immediately and use gunpowder to cause it to collapse the wall of Baichengzi. ”
"The walls of Tongwan City are impermeable, and blades can't cut through, so it's hard for your gunpowder to collapse them." Yuan Hui retorted lightly.
"Then let's try it, but why use the lives of 100,000 clansmen as bargaining chips? Even if the gunpowder doesn't collapse, we can still put the rotting corpses of your Xia people on the Heishui Plain in the leather pocket of the Tongwan cannon, and throw them into the city like projectiles to stimulate the plague infection, and you still have to die, so Tuoba Zhaohui you are doomed to failure. ”
At this time, the moving rat slowly knelt down and stretched out his hand to Yuan Hui, his eyes were warm, "Sacrifice is a sacred and noble thing, if you can finally redeem the people of the whole city, then in terms of faith, you are still a well-deserved son of Qingtian." ”
Yuan Hui knelt on the ground at this time, bowed deeply to Zhou Ziping, the Marquis of Tang Army, and said: "I am willing to abolish all my names, surrender to Jigong, surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but I want to be kind to my Pingxia tribe." ”
"Ji Gong has signed with Jia Fushu and Du Menlang, promising that after the surrender of Tongwancheng, no one will be killed in vain, but after that, no more states will be set up to settle the Pingxia party, and the whole clan will be separated, and they will be disposed of as Qiang households in the states and counties of the Tang family, and they will seek their own tricks under the guidance of the government."
Hearing Zhou Ziping's conditions, Yuan Hui's face was stuck to the blanket, his teeth twisted and gnawed on the blanket, his heart was full of despair and endless humiliation...... As for himself, as for himself, I am afraid that he will also exit in gloom.
Qingtianzi, so quickly, has become a falling meteor in history, a dissipated spring dream.
When Zhou Ziping and the rat returned, bringing back Yuanhui's promise, Gao Yue was very happy, "Go to spread the word again, and wait until three days later, when the royal driver is in the future, all the people of the Pingxia Party will gather in the west city, and all the big surnames will gather in the east inner city, and then open the four Luo city gates of Pingshuo (north), Chao Song (south), Fuliang (west), and Zhaowei (east), and let the Tang army enter and occupy all the battlements and enemy towers. Kneel down at the Fengyang Gate in the inner city to welcome the punishment of the heavenly army! ”
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