Chapter 138: The Barbarian Prefecture City is broken
The barbarian tribes are mostly in the mountains, and the mountains and forests are full of miasma and snakes and insects, and if outsiders who are not familiar with this mountain range enter the mountains, they are likely to die in the mountains and forests. Changsun Chong took a thousand men and horses given by Cheng Yanjin, and under the leadership of a local guide, shuttled through the mountains and searched for barbarian tribes everywhere.
Finding a tribe, whether it is a black barbarian or a white barbarian, directly pressing the army and then letting people collect all kinds of clay pots, and then giving some money and other property compensation when leaving, did not cause much resistance from the barbarians.
Some of the resistance encountered was also some of the black barbarians who rebelled with Nong Jiangyi, and it goes without saying that they were directly destroyed. After losing more than 200 people, he finally collected more than 2,000 clay pots of various kinds before the time specified by Cheng Yanjin.
Wang Xingxin looked at the clay pots that seemed to be a little stained with blood and said to Changsun with a cold face: "Lord Changshi is very capable, ten clay pots will be exchanged for one life, this deal is a drop, hey!" What a fucking good deal......"
Looking at Wang Xingxin who sneered away, the eldest grandson Chong felt all kinds of feelings in his heart, and those closeness in the past seemed to be gradually moving away with Wang Xingxin's footsteps......
The nong generals in the city are simply spending the past few days, since the Tang army has come to reinforcements, why don't they attack the city? Is it waiting for other reinforcements or is there something else planned..... All this was confusing to him.
Unlike Cheng Biting King Kong's timidity when he brought his troops, now he wants the Tang army outside the city to attack the city as soon as possible. This kind of neither encirclement nor fight makes his heart disturbed, and he is very restless! After repeatedly suppressing the idea of leading troops out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army, Nong Jiangyi simply waited in the city, he wanted to know what the Tang army on the other side was going to do. Anyway, after breaking through this city, the looted property was smuggled out of the city by his henchmen, and it was a big deal to take people to escape into the mountains and forests after the city was broken.
After a night of tossing and turning, Nong General Yi led people up to the city wall before dawn, the sky was still a little dark, he couldn't see the movements of the Tang army camp opposite, but he could vaguely hear the neighing of war horses in the Tang camp, could it be that the Tang army was going to attack the city?
Suppressing the panic in his heart, Nong Jiangyi hurriedly ordered people to prepare to defend the city, and the warriors of the black barbarians climbed the city wall one by one to stretch their bows and arrows, looking at the prepared rolling stone and wood and the oil pot that had begun to burn, Nong Jiangyi felt a little relieved.
The Tang army's previous means of defending the city are now going to be used on the Tang army, fantasizing that one by one the Tang army was smashed to the ground by rolling stones and wood, and the skin and flesh were burned by hot oil...... Nong Jiangyi shouted at the barbarians defending the city: "What's so terrible about the Tang Army, this is the land of our barbarians!" Warriors pick up your swords and guns, and today this king will show you how those arrogant Tang troops died in the city! ”
When the sky was dark, General Nong and the barbarians who were defending the city finally saw the movement of the Tang camp opposite.
Escorted by a large number of cavalry, the Tang army launched something strange, could it be that this is the Tang people's new siege vehicle? And use cavalry to cover the siege of the city, is the Tang army stupid? Or is Cheng Biting Jin who led the troops stupid?
Just when he was puzzled, the Tang army siege troops on the opposite side stopped when they were still more than 300 zhang away from the city, and saw those strange siege vehicles lined up in three teams along the direction of the city under the command of a small general. The cavalry stopped and guarded the flanks.
Nong Jiangyi was made more and more uneasy by Tang Jun's move, and the three hundred zhang were already out of the range of the bow and arrow. It suddenly occurred to him that the Tang people seemed to have a kind of siege machine that could throw large stones on the city wall from a long distance, could it be that those siege engines were? But looking at the small siege engine, he smiled.
This gadget can throw fist-sized stones at the city wall at most, and as long as the warriors are protected, it will not cause much damage to the city wall.
Nong Jiangyi ordered the warriors to prepare rattan shields, and if the Tang army threw stones, it would be better to defend on the spot.
Under the city, Wang Xingxin commanded the new trebuchet to line up......
Looking at the rows of neatly arranged trebuchets, Wang Xingxin had an indescribable impulse in his heart, and his little face turned red......
Seeing that everything was ready, he hit his horse and came to Cheng Yanjin and hugged his fist and said, "General, everything is ready, can you attack the city?" ”
After getting Cheng Yanjin's consent, Wang Xingxin Pegasus came to the trebuchet, ignoring the instability of the gunpowder and the consequences of a soldier's careless operation. Maybe if something happens, I'll blow myself up and cross again......
With a face flushed by an inexplicable excitement, Wang Xingxin shouted: "One test shot preparation!" ”
Then he waved the command flag in his hand and shouted: "Release!" ”
The grenadiers then quickly ignited the thunderbolts that had been placed, and smashed them down......
Seeing that the Tang army was about to start throwing stones, Nong General Yi ordered the barbarians defending the city to raise their rattan shields, and then hid himself under the strict protection of the guards.
After a while, Nong Jiangyi did not see the expected stones falling, but saw the ignited clay pots flying towards the city wall......
Pushing away the guards holding Teng Shield to protect him, Nong Jiangyi looked at the clay pot that was flying towards the city wall with sparks and wondered what it was, and then he heard a roar, and then, gone, and then ......
Nong Jiangyi was directly smashed on the city wall by a blown city brick.
Not many thunderbolts actually landed on the walls of the city walls, most of them landed under the walls.
If General Nong hadn't pushed him to use Teng Dun to protect him tightly, the guards wouldn't have been stunned directly by a brick, but hot weapons are like this, sometimes a stray bullet can kill people if it flies a long distance, although this thunderbolt is the most primitive hot weapon.
After the explosion, the city wall was in shambles, and the barbarians defending the city were frightened by the explosion of thunderbolts and ran around the city wall, and some even jumped directly off the high city and were thrown half to death......
After firing this round, Wang Xingxin was very dissatisfied, and he ordered the craftsmen behind him to step forward and adjust the angle and strength of some trebuchets, and the second round of salvos began again.
Wang Xingxin was satisfied with the result of this salvo, at least more than half of the thunderbolts were projected on the city wall and then exploded before they hit the ground and shattered, and the barbarians on the city wall were blown up with a roar and gunsmoke and flesh flying.
Cheng Yanjin was a little overwhelmed by this scene, he had never seen such a siege for many years. Although he had seen the power of thunderbolts, but this was the first time it was used in siege, and when he saw the tragic situation on the city wall, he seemed to see that all the fortified cities pointed out by the Tang Dynasty soldiers were in rubble......
Although the city was not crumbling under the baptism of two rounds of thunderbolts, all the barbarians defending the city were frightened, knelt on the ground and prayed, and fled privately...... Cheng Yanjin believed that as long as he ordered the infantry to bring siege engines and ladders, he would be able to occupy the city walls without much effort.
It's just that before he gave the order, he saw Wang Xing's new hand order flag waved again, and under the cover of a team of cavalry, a group of grenadiers carrying huge slingshots came out, and these grenadiers privately fixed the slingshots, and then four people pulled them apart, and finally a soldier with a torch put the thunderbolt in the bullet pocket, and then, the four people who pulled the slingshot let go at the same time, and the thunderbolt flew straight to the city gate.
Twenty large slingshots fired more than four rounds, and the strong gate was blown apart and fell in front of the gate.
Wang Xingxin saw that the city gate was broken, and immediately ordered the cavalry guarding to charge into the city, and Cheng Yanjin also ordered the whole army to attack the city with those cavalry.
The grenadiers, under Wang Xingxin's orders, had already begun to push the trebuchets and began to retreat.
After the horse entered the city, Cheng Biting Jin saw the barbarians who surrendered on their knees, as well as the soldiers who were tied up by the soldiers who climbed the city wall, and sighed and said: "Such a sharp weapon, what do you want me to do!" ”
Cheng Chumo and Heiwa wanted to try to see who could cut down more barbarians, but who knew that after rushing into the city, they saw either kneeling and surrendering or being scared silly barbarians, the two looked at Cheng Biting Jin helplessly, and finally Cheng Chumo said: "Dad, this is called siege?" This is to break through the capital city of the barbarian state defended by 30,000 barbarian soldiers? ”
The depressed Cheng Biting Jin was worried about the object of no anger, and when he saw that his son was so knowledgeable, he whipped Cheng Chumo's back and said: "There are no fathers and sons in the army!" Who told you to call Ben Daddy! Come on, take it, and give Ben a ten-army stick! ”
Seeing that Cheng Biting Jin was about to beat Cheng Chumo, the personal guards said, and then Cheng Dong, who was in the lead, said: "General, really fight the major general?" ”
"Cheng Dong, don't even listen to the general's military orders? Beat! Just fight here, not a single stick is missing, and no mercy is allowed! ”
The Ten Army Sticks are nothing to Cheng Chumo's rough-skinned and thick-skinned goods, and after the fight, the goods stood up and jumped, and then pulled the somewhat confused Heiwa to collect the barbarians who surrendered.
"Brother Ugly Cow, your father is so ruthless! Even you beat him, no wonder the new brother is afraid of him. ”
"Heiwa, remember, in the army, my father is not a father, he is the general of the Tang Dynasty!"
The black baby who was scratching her head very much didn't understand why her father was not a father in the army, could this father still change? If it's not a father, it's not a grandfather?
This is a very esoteric question for Heiwa, and if she can't figure it out, she simply doesn't think about it.
After catching up with Cheng Chumo, Heiwa asked again: "What about the new brother?" Why don't you see others, when are we going to catch this barbarian in the city, it is better to let the new brother send them to ascend to immortals, and save us trouble, I heard that the captured enemy army still needs us to feed with food, how much do we have to eat? ”
"Heiwa, this is not something you have to think about, you just need to remember that the barbarian who does not surrender is cut with a knife, and the dead barbarian is a good barbarian!"
As soon as she heard this, Heiwa was very excited, so she ran to find those barbarians who did not surrender.
Looking at the black and oppressive barbarian captives in front of him, Cheng Biting Jin was very headache, the top priority was how to deal with these surrendered barbarians, if they were all killed, it would hurt Tianhe, if they were released, it was estimated that it would not be long before they began to rebel.
Seeing Cheng Biting Jin with a cold face, Changsun Chong looked at the more than 20,000 barbarian captives with a cold face, as if he had guessed his thoughts, stepped forward and said, "The general is worried about how to deal with these captives?" ”
"The eldest grandson and the eldest historian are worried about this matter, what are your plans?"
"Didn't the general forget what I was waiting in your big tent that night, the brother-in-law of the lower official, the pioneer officer Wang Xingxin?"
Cheng Yanjin thought about it, how could he forget Wang Mingshen, the kid he proposed that day, kill a batch of barbarians, release a batch, appease a batch, and then win over a batch....."
Immediately overjoyed: "Go and get that kid for Ben General!" ”
Wang Xingxin did not enter the city with the army, but returned to the barracks with the grenadiers, discussing with the craftsmen how to improve the trebuchet......
After Changsun Chong found him, he said directly: "Ming Shen, the general ordered you to go to the city to see him immediately." ”
"What?"
"The general wants you to use the tactics of that day to deal with those barbarian prisoners."
Wang Xingxin raised his head and squinted at Changsun Chong, and then said lazily: "The young master is just a pioneer officer, the task of the pioneer officer has been completed, this is still overfulfilled, and this city is also afraid of being broken, as for how to deal with the barbarians who surrendered, it is a matter of the general and you, the chief of the army!" Mind the! ”
After finishing speaking, he ignored President Sun Chong.
The eldest grandson with a black face rushed to the city and saw Cheng Biting Jin and told Cheng Xingxin's sentence: "Mind the little master's" to Cheng Biting Jin, Cheng Biting Jin's already dark face was even more shiny......