Chapter 136: The Siege of the City
Four battalions of men and horses participated in this military rebellion, and once the purge began, it was unknown how many heads would fall to the ground. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Among them may also be those who were born like death and are like brothers.
And how to do it?
Now that the military envoy has given the order, everyone can't think about it.
At that time, all the officers hurried out.
It took another two days to scatter the soldiers who were being captured and plundered in the people's homes one by one, and handed them over to the Judge Advocate Advocate General for investigation and trial.
In the end, the figures were shocking, and the total number of soldiers who harmed the people this time was 624, including more than 70 veterans of the Sizhou army.
On the day they were executed, Wang Shen ordered that all the officers above the head of the capital, including the first rank of the capital, should go to watch the execution: "In addition, don't cut off your head, after all, it is the Pao Ze brothers who have shed blood on the battlefield together, and leave their whole corpses." ”
Outside the city, in a dry canal, six hundred and twenty-four tortured soldiers were pushed down with their hands tied, and at the sound of an order, the executing soldiers carried shovels to scoop up the earth and cover their heads.
The people below knew that they were going to die, and they all bowed their heads silently.
Suddenly, someone shouted: "Chen Da, you pull me up, I have contributed to the military envoy, I have shed blood for the military envoy, I want to see the military envoy, I want to see the military envoy!" ”
In the distance, the officers were all standing on a high place, looking down, but this person knew him, his surname was Diao Mingang, and he was currently the head of the Xuanfeng Army. He was an old man, a real old man. During the battle of the Plains Formation, he was a soldier of the baggage battalion, and he was the first confidant to follow Wang Shen.
At the other end, Chen Da sneered and shouted: "Diao Ang, you have committed a capital crime, and the order to execute you today was issued by the military envoy, and I am responsible for carrying it out." It's three o'clock in the afternoon, military law is ruthless, no one can save you, be honest! ”
Diao Ang: "I want to see the military envoy, I want to see the military envoy." Chen Da, a straight thief, I was born and died as a military envoy, and the military envoy regarded us as a brother in robe, how could I kill him? It must be you, a thief, who pretended to be a public servant and wanted to harm grandpa, didn't you just play with a woman, and you wouldn't want to kill me, right? ”
Lu Can couldn't hold back any longer, and strode towards that side: "Let's do it slowly!" ”
Yue Yun wanted to chase after him, but Wang Shen shook his head: "No, I believe Deputy Envoy Lu will handle it." ”
Seeing Lu Can running over, Diao Ang's face showed joy, and he shouted loudly: "Old sir, old sir, save me, the person surnamed Chen is going to kill someone." ”
"Phew, you also know that I am your old commander, how do I teach you on weekdays, and you all memorize the regulations in the army, why do you all take my words as a deaf ear? I heard that when the Judge Advocate General's Office caught you, you happened to pounce on a woman's stomach. According to me, you're damned! ”
Diao Ang's face was stunned: "Old sir, how can you say such hurtful words, have you forgotten our robes?" ”
"How can you forget, you can't forget, we can shed blood together when we were in Plains Town." Lu Can suddenly burst into tears: "But Diao Ang, military law is ruthless, if you are wrong, you are wrong, and if you are wrong, you have to admit it." You are a man, don't embarrass Lao Tzu. ”
Seeing Lu Can crying, Diao Ang also shed tears, and said: "Old sir, what an iron-clad man you are, why do you have to shed tears for me and let others see the joke." I can't afford to lose this person, and we can't afford to lose this person when we choose the front army. Die and die, it's not a big deal. It's just that I begged the old chief to give me a good time, I don't want to be buried in the mud and suffocated! ”
"Whew!" Lu Can opened his bow and shot an arrow into Diao Ang's forehead, tears flew like rain: "This is the end of violating military discipline, no matter who it is, how big an official it is, how much credit it has made in the past, I will never forgive." ”
Chen Da: "Do it! ”
The dirt fell like raindrops.
It took half a day to bury the six hundred and twenty-four people, and finally rode his horse and ran two laps on it.
Above, all the officers bowed their heads.
The current Sizhou army is less than 10,000, and more than 600 people have gone to nearly 10% of the killings. Six hundred people, in the later generations of middle school, it is ten classes, which is equivalent to the annihilation of one grade. Wang Shen's heart was also in great pain, and after a long time, he said: "The generals of all ministries should take this as a warning, if there is anyone who harms the people again, this is a living example!" After saying that, Tie Qing rode away with a blue face.
After burying so many people alive in one go, the three armies were shocked, and military discipline was finally restored.
"The thunder means to show the bodhisattva's heart." Chen Da looked gloomy, but he wanted to make a chic and calm expression: "The lord is strict with military discipline this time, cares for the people, freezes to death and does not demolish the house, starves to death and does not plunder, although the ancient benevolent and righteous teachers are only like this, what a glory it is for us to serve under such a lord?" ”
"Chen Da, I'll fuck your mother!" Gu Lie scolded viciously.
Chen Da was stunned: "What did you say?" ”
"Thief bird, villain, are you waiting with Lao Tzu?" Hu Yantong also began to scold.
With the two of them starting, the other officers all looked over with red eyes, and Chen Da's neck shrank in shock, and he screamed: "What do you want to do, I want to tell the lord, I want to tell the lord, you just wait for my military law!" ”
Chen Da's methods of judging the rebellious soldiers this time were ruthless, and almost none of them were sentenced to death. This is already the anger of the public: This is Lao Tzu's soldiers, you Chen Da can't sentence a few, just kill dozens of people to respond to the scene? Fuck your mother, you can't rule the people, and you can't go into battle to fight the enemy. I only know how to kill, but I can behave in front of the military envoy, and my mother is very bad.
There are traitors around the military envoys.
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After rectification, so many people were killed in one go, and the three armies were solemn, and the troops returned to discipline. Discipline is the foundation of an army's combat effectiveness, and it should also be reflected in this aspect.
However, the consequences of the rebellious army's large-scale plundering of Qichun have already been revealed, in the past, when Wang Shen was fine, he would let the troops go down to the people to engage in some activities such as military-civilian alliances. Sympathize with the people and comfort the orphans and widows. Help the landlord clean the yard, carry water and chop firewood, and they are very affectionate with each other, which has the taste of military and civilian fish and water.
At this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Sizhou Army were greeted with cold and even hateful eyes.
Every time the sergeants helped the people to work, the Qichun people would tremble with fright, kneel on the ground and kowtow: "Military master, military master, don't, how can I stand it?" Please spare the little one! ”
At this time, when he saw the people peeking at him, he felt like a thorn in his back. In the minds of the people of Qizhou, what is the difference between themselves and Kong Yanzhou and even the Jurchens who have just swept over them.
Wang Shen originally wanted to take the real history of the Yue family army as an example, but at this time, he was also a rogue in the eyes of the people. No, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, maybe the Sizhou army is worse than the rogue bandit army, right?
This just battle against Kong Yanzhou also turned into a power struggle between the two warlords, and it had nothing to do with the people of Qizhou.
Wang Shen felt as if a boulder was pressing on his heart, and he was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.
He had a hunch: I am afraid that the next Qichun siege battle will not be so easy to fight.
Before the decisive battle with Kong Yanzhou, Lu Ben Zhongben contacted many Qizhou scholars who thought that they should respond, and some even agreed that once the time was ripe, they would open the city gate and let the Sizhou army enter the city. These days, a large amount of information is sent to the army every day. But as soon as the troops began to rob the people, these messages were cut off.
Kong Yanzhou was newly defeated and almost completely annihilated, and according to Wang Shen's plan, he took the strategic point of Qichun in one breath without stopping, and did not give the enemy a chance to breathe. As long as the city is taken, Kong Yanzhou will have no danger to defend, and he will not be able to gain a foothold in Qi and Huang.
It's a pity that the army is in turmoil, and the whole plan has been disrupted. The first and foremost thing is to quell the military rebellion, and the rest cannot be taken care of. Of course, Yue Yun also proposed that he might as well lead the troops to fight first, although there are few soldiers and horses on his back, but against Kong Yanzhou, who is in panic all day, there is still a great chance of winning.
However, Wang Shen insisted on his opinion and did not take his advice.
As it turned out, this decision was a big mistake. Facts have proved that Wang Shen's hunch is correct.
After reorganizing the soldiers and horses, Wang Shen asked people to build three pontoon bridges on the Qishui River. Because of the terrain restrictions, it was impossible for the whole army to attack, so he only ordered Hu Yantong to take the front army to try to fight.
The more than 1,000-year-old sergeants were greeted by the rolling stones of the sandalwood that fell from the city wall like a rain of arrows and hailstones, so that they could not raise their heads on the river beach, and they did not give the Huyan Tong Department a chance to deploy under the city wall at all.
In this battle, Huyantong was withdrawn by Wang Shen as soon as he made contact with the enemy, and the losses were not large, and more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were seriously wounded.
The battle is different from the field battle, it can be said that it is cruel to the extreme, and both the offensive and defensive sides are taking their lives to fill it. As such, it is impossible to use it in close proximity. After a while, the attacking troops were withdrawn and replaced by others. Otherwise, if there are a lot of casualties, morale will plummet, and if it doesn't last long, the troops will be disabled. During the Cold Weapons War, the troops could only bear 10% of the casualties.
After Huyantong's front army was withdrawn, it was replaced by Lu Can's selection army, which still had no effect.
and then replaced with Wu Xianxian's Shengjie army and Gu Lie's enemy-breaking army.
In the past two days, the enemy on the city wall has been beaten into a mess by the fierce Sizhou army.
But at this moment, suddenly, a violent whistling sound sounded in the sky.
Looking up, Wang Shen and the others were shocked.
I saw that more than a dozen grinding discs were hoisted out of the city by trebuchets and fell unkemptly among the soldiers.
These grinding discs contain huge potential energy, once they fall, they will die if they hit, and they will be injured if they rub them, and there is no way to stop them.
Wang Shen saw a grinding disc fall to the ground and roll out for more than ten meters, breaking the legs of three soldiers in one breath before stopping.
This is an ancient cannon, although there are not many and the lethality is not great, but the psychological pressure on the soldiers is difficult to describe in words. For a time, the Sizhou army, which was not afraid of death in the past, changed color on everyone's face.
"Boom" happened to be a big stone falling onto the pontoon bridge and directly smashed a small boat to pieces. The bridge broke, and a soldier fell into the water screaming with sawdust all over his face, and then walked back with difficulty by his companions.
Just when the Sizhou army that was engaged in the attack was a little confused, suddenly, Kong Yanzhou rushed out of the water gate under the city tower with a team of armor soldiers to launch a counterattack.
Fortunately, Gu Lie immediately organized a team to beat the enemy back, so that the troops would not be completely defeated. However, the enemy army still paid the price of more than 100 people.
A large number of sassal trees and rolling stones still fell from the city, and the boundless rain of arrows poured down like splashing water, and the pebbles on the river beach in front of them were stained red with human blood.
"It's really ...... to fight the city. It's annoying! "Yes, this is a new topic for Wang Shen.
Since the founding of the army, Wang Shen has focused on building his troops into a field army. At this moment, facing this small fortress-like city, he felt a little at a loss.
He was also strange in his heart, according to the previous calculation, Kong Yanzhou originally had 30,000. In the previous battle, more than 10,000 were captured by themselves, and most of the rest escaped. Now, the surname Kong has less than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and his morale is low, how can he suddenly become able to fight now. Moreover, looking at his posture of defending the city, he fought in a disciplined manner. Not only are they well-built, but their tactics are also very flexible. From time to time, he also sent elite soldiers to kill from the water gate, or went down from the city, and pumped cold to give the Sizhou army a blow.
The traverser is not omniscient and omniscient, and the ancients should not be underestimated at any time, especially Kong Yanzhou, who left his name in the history books.
Lu Benzhong's flying pigeon biography arrived, and he put forward his own opinion.
The letter said that after burning down Qichun New Town, Kong Yanzhou encircled all the people into the old city, and requisitioned all the people to go to the city to defend.
Originally, Kong Yanzhou's beast army robbed Qi Chun, and the people hated the same enemy, so he could also think of a way to create civil strife in the city. It's a pity that after the defeat of the Sizhou army and the plundering of the countryside spread to the city, it was publicized by Kong Yanzhou, and there was no possibility of launching the Qichun people again.
Today, there are 40,000 soldiers and civilians in the old city. The thieves conscripted all men over the age of 12 and under the age of 70 into the army, totaling more than 20,000 people, although they were all rabble. But the Qichun city wall is strong, and it can't be beaten down at all.
The most terrible thing is that Kong Yanzhou robbed the entire Qichun, and the grain was abundant, enough for half a year.
In the letter, Lu Benzhong's tone was very bad, and he scolded Wang Shen. said that you are also a great general, why don't you understand the truth of the speed of soldiers, a good battle has dragged on until now, and the pot has become confused, stupid! If you fight hard, I'm afraid your army will be consumed under this wall. If you still have some brains, immediately lead the troops back to Huangzhou.
Seeing this letter and thinking of the dead and wounded soldiers in the past few days, Wang Shen's eyes were so angry that his eyes were on fire. I had to reply that there was no way but to besiege the city and say it slowly, Mr. Donglai, you also have to pay attention to safety, if you have the opportunity in the future, find a way to escape from the city!
Wang Shen wondered in his heart that the reason why this old man Lu went to Kong Yanzhou was ostensibly to unite the two families, but in fact, it was to delay the offensive of the Kong army and give the Sizhou army time to calmly arrange. His mission should have been completed a long time ago, why didn't he leave? Moreover, Qi and Huang Prefectures are very poor, and his own local snake is still short of food for soldiers, where did Kong Yanzhou get enough food for half a year?
Moreover, looking at the tone of this letter, it always feels strange.
He scratched his head and couldn't figure it out, and since he didn't want to make it through, he didn't want to.
Now he began to think about what means to use to take down this Qichun: fire attack, explosives, yes, yes, the method of attacking the city in the cave is good?
Wang Shen's eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly: "Give Chen Da an order, order him to collect saltpeter sulfur, and also, invite all the alchemy Taoists in the vicinity to me." ”