(a)

The 13th day of the Battle of Qianzhou.

The tunnel outside the city wall was finally connected, and the Northern Han infantry quickly evacuated the tunnel and began to set fire to it.

Dozens of fire dragons swooped down on the Qianzhou city wall from underground.

At the same time, Wei Yingdian's tunnel was finally opened to the tunnels of the Northern Han army in many places, and the Southern Han defenders rushed into the tunnel, ready to fight with the Northern Han army, but what they saw was the rolling flames rushing in their faces.

At dusk on the 13th day of the Battle of Qianzhou, all the wooden pillars of the tunnel were burned off, and the ground collapsed for up to 6 kilometers outside the Qianzhou city wall, and after the ground collapsed, there was a huge long pit with a depth of 6-8 meters, and the huge city wall of Qianzhou was towering and 30 meters thick, and 8 carriages could run side by side, cracked everywhere, and a total of 12 city walls were seriously tilted or collapsed violently.

The defenders on the ramparts were in a panic.

Wei Yingdian urgently ordered the defenders in the dangerous area to evacuate the city wall, and urgently built a wooden fence behind the city wall to block the Han army from attacking the city.

At this moment, the defenders saw dozens of behemoths of siege cones, under the cover of the huge shield battle columns of the hoplites, and under the cover of the rain of arrows of the archers of the earth mountain, rushing towards the cracked, sloping, and collapsing walls.

The Northern Han army quickly advanced under the city walls, built bridges with wooden planks, pushed siege cones, crossed the dry moats and collapsed pits, and began to crash into the crumbling city walls with thrilling force.

The huge sound of the siege cone continuously hitting the city wall caused the whole city of Qianzhou to fall into a panic.

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, under the illumination of the moonlight, the Northern Han army successfully penetrated the city wall in more than 10 places, and the infantry of the Northern Han Dynasty flooded the dry moat like a tide.

More and more Northern Han troops poured into the city walls. Wei Yingdian's troops were weak to deal with the follow-up. By 10 o'clock in the evening, the Northern Han army had occupied two city gates, opened the city gates, and lowered the drawbridge.

Wu Shun led the cavalry troops and crossed the drawbridge from the city gate into the city.

You follow the elite cavalry units and ride into the city.

You led the guards straight to the place where Wei Yingdian had stubbornly resisted.

(b)

Wei Yingdian, who was red-eyed and covered in blood, saw your banner from afar, and was ready to lead a team to rush towards you and fight you to the death.

As he ordered the team to charge after him, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest.

When he looked down, the tip of a knife peeked out of his chest.

Just as he was stunned, several sharp knives pierced his body behind him, and blood suddenly spurted several feet away.

Wei Yingdian turned around with difficulty and saw several of his lieutenants, armed with blood-dripping sharp knives, standing behind him.

Wei Yingdian pointed at them with his fingers, spat blood from his mouth, and said with difficulty: "You, these, traitors!" ”

He was answered by another more violent slash.

Wei Yingdian turned into a puddle of mud under the knife in an instant.

When you and the guards galloped to Wei Yingdian's combat office, you saw that the remnants of the Southern Han defenders had already raised white cloths, and several deputy generals of Wei Yingdian's department led the remnants to kneel on the ground, holding their weapons high in both hands, and surrendered to the Northern Han army.

(c)

At 11 o'clock in the evening, all the Northern Han troops under the city entered the city and wiped out the remnants of the enemy in the city.

The Northern Han Army's shouts of "those who resist die, those who surrender live" resounded throughout the city.

At 12 o'clock in the evening, in the midst of a bright torch, you rode into the Qianzhou Garrison Mansion and sat on Wei Yingdian's seat. You sit there with your sword in hand, waiting for the ministries to report on the situation of the purging war.

At half past one o'clock in the morning, the clean-up battle was over.

All the defenders of the Southern Han Dynasty who did not surrender or die in battle were captured and pressed under the city of Beikuo. Thou hast commanded that all of them should be put to death in the city of Northkor, and that not one of them should be left behind.

A moment later, a terrible scream rang out in the direction of Beikou City. Many residents of the North City heard this scream that they will never forget.

The screams continued for 20 minutes and then faded down. Then the whole city fell silent.

Peace, after paying a heavy price, returned to the city.

When the dawn rose the next day, all the residents of Qianzhou saw that Liu Shen's banner was already flying high on the city wall, which had not yet collapsed.

From now on, they are the subjects of the Northern Han.

Liu Shen became their new king.

When all the residents of Qianzhou began to face their new life, you lay on Wei Yingdian's bed and fell into a deep sleep.

You're tired.

When the new army of the Northern Han Dynasty admired and worshipped you like a god, you fell asleep again exhausted.

This is the legendary battle of the "Fire Dragon Trap".

(iv)

The next day at noon.

The high-ranking generals of the Northern Han army who captured Qianzhou gathered at the garrison.

You ordered Liu to declare the war report to Qianzhou, put Wu Shun and Zhang Bao in charge, opened the treasury of the Qianzhou Mansion, issued full bounties to the besieging troops, ordered the surrendered local officials to compensate the people in the city, protected the archives and documents and important facilities in the city, suppressed the riots and looting of the people, ordered a curfew in the whole city, closed all occasions for drinking, gambling, and lust, and at the same time ordered all departments to strictly observe military discipline, prohibit robbery, rape and other acts of disturbance to the people, and form patrols to inspect all parts of the city, arrest and severely punish soldiers who dare to violate military orders.

You look at the passion and excitement of victory on the faces of the generals.

"On this occasion of a major victory, I just want to remind you of one more thing," you say. ”

You say, "As generals, your mission is not to destroy the enemy for the country, but to destroy the war for the living." ”

You say, "I want you, whether you win or lose, to always remember this clearly." ”

You say, "We are not beasts." We have no choice but to do evil only to end the more sinful war. ”

(5)

Qianzhou City is the largest pass city in the Southern Han Dynasty that the Northern Han army has successfully conquered since the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Han Dynasty for many years. The change of ownership of this large city, which is second only to Dongcheng in scale and solidity, greatly strengthened the confidence of the Northern Han army in conquering many fortified fortresses on the southern front and defeating the Southern Han army, and encouraged the fighting spirit of the Han army on the southern front. In the Battle of Qianzhou, you showed flexible and colorful infantry tactics, so that many generals of the Northern Han Army saw the potential space for improving the combat power of infantry, and realized that under the correct tactics, relying on an infantry-based army may also be as brilliant as the cavalry troops dominated by the New Han Army in the northern steppe.

Now, in the army of the Northern Han Dynasty, no one doubts that as long as time passes, the army of the Northern Han Dynasty will one day, under your command and rule, capture one after another strong cities on the southern front.