Chapter 202: Breaking the City
On the main seat, Wei Chenggong was already angry to the extreme. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info just tossed him all morning, and he still doesn't look very good at this time.
However, none of the five old ministers in the palace dared to answer in the face of his reprimand.
The decline of a country is often from top to bottom, if it weren't for the alliance suddenly proposed by the Chu State, Wei Chenggong saw hope. At this time, Wei Gong was still in a mess all day long.
However, having a heart does not mean that it can really be done. At this time, Wei Chenggong was empty and lacking strength. has the heart to let the country get rid of the Wei State, but it is like a fly in a glass bottle, which cannot be exported and can only be bumped indiscriminately.
A few breaths passed, and no one spoke.
At this time, Wei Chenggong's brows were furrowed. The anger in his heart was even more obvious on his face.
overturned a pile of bamboo slips on the several cases in front of him, and in the crackling sound of the bamboo slips falling to the ground, Wei Chenggong opened his mouth and scolded: "You are in a high position, the hereditary lord is powerful, and the country is in trouble today, and there is no one who has a planner?" Defending the country and providing for you, it is difficult to compare with cattle and horses-"
Under this scolding, the five courtiers felt that their faces were a little unbearable. But I didn't know what to say for a while.
If you really want to say, who asked Wei Chenggong not to come forward to deal with the two kings of Wei Qi? With a small Boda, he wants to sit back and enjoy it. The huge Chu State is not a fool's specialty, how can it be so selfless?
It's got to this point, and it's too late to talk about that.
"In the opinion of the old minister, the king can be said to be cured, go out of the city to deal with Wei Qi one or two, and wait for the Chu army to come-" Finally, one of the courtiers spoke.
But as soon as he finished speaking, the moment he looked up, not only did he see Wei Chenggong's face full of disdain, but even the rest of the courtiers around him had a speechless expression.
If Wei Chenggong wanted to go out of the city to meet the two kings of Wei Qi, why should he worry about the courtiers?
didn't answer, Wei Chenggong just snorted coldly.
And the courtier was blushing, and he was in a dilemma for a while.
After a few long breaths, another courtier took a step, and his expression and words revealed a trace of coldness: "Your Excellency, in the opinion of the minister, you can trap General Wei in the palace and set up an ambush to arrest him!" Wei can have today's Enron, and this Wei will have a lot to do with it! If this person is arrested, then King Wei will definitely not dare to act rashly! When the Qin army arrives, this person can be given to the Chu State as a thank you gift. This is the dispute between Chu and Wei, defending the country and security-"
"Okay, good--what Aiqing said is really a good strategy-" On the main seat, Wei Chenggong's eyes instantly lit up.
Why did the Wei state continue to fight against the strong Qin today? The credit is all there, Wu Mingyi-
Without Wu Ming, Wei would not only lose Hexi that it had taken from Qin, but also Hedong in the next few years, and even the old capital Anyi would be occupied by Qin.
At this time, if Wu Ming is really detained, and Wu Ming is used as a hostage, not to mention that Wei will be contained forever, but at least the King of Wei should send someone to communicate for this great general.
As long as it lasts for a few days, as soon as the Chu army comes, it will prevaricate the Wei State on the grounds that the Chu army is coercive and lured and forcibly takes Wu Ming away.
In this way, the State of Chu and the State of Wei are pinched, so that he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, right?
Looking at Wei Chenggong's comfortable and satisfied expression, at this moment, the rest of the ministers also breathed a sigh of relief.
But at this time, the general guarding the city suddenly rushed in, and walked directly to the scattered bamboo slip area in front of the main hall and bowed deeply, "Qi Yu Jun, the Wei army is besieging the city, and you have to go out of the city to meet the King of Wei, otherwise, once the city is broken, all the consequences will be borne by the Wei Guo!" ”
The army is besieging the city. Outside his capital, the army of another country threatened to let his king go out of the city to greet him immediately. It's a naked threat.
In addition to being a threat-
"It's a shame!" There was a crisp sound, and the pottery on several cases was shattered,
That's right, for Wei Chenggong, for every patriotic person, this is a great shame!
This sudden scene instantly extinguished the burning blood of the five courtiers in the hall.
Also arrested the general of Wei for hostage? The original noon delivery of medicinal soup is gone? The idea of arresting Wu Ming is still feasible?
Everyone knows the answer.
At this moment, no one said anything, and even all of them did not dare to gasp loudly.
Time seems to freeze with the atmosphere.
But a moment later, the sound of war drums could be heard faintly outside the city. At this moment, another defender also rushed in, "Your Majesty, the Wei army has begun to attack the city!" ”
"Minister, I implore you to go out of the city to meet at the invitation of the King of Wei, so as not to break the city of Diqiu and bring disaster to the people of the city-" Wang Mao, who had gone out of the city to meet King Wei Hui two days ago, knelt down and kowtowed at this time, his tone revealing anxiety.
But just after his words fell, Wei Chenggong gritted his teeth, and his upper and lower teeth were rubbed and gurgled.
That voice instantly touched the hearts of everyone present, because at this moment, only this king can call the shots.
Finally, after the other people were covered with a layer of sweat on their foreheads, Wei Chenggong expressed his opinion: "Tell the people of the whole city, people are in the city, and the city is ruined." Widow, swear to live and die with Wei Kou-"
The moment the words were spoken, everyone in the hall opened their eyes wide in shock. Dumbfounded, even the two guards looked surprised.
Obviously, everyone thought that the Weicheng Guild had compromised. After all, the style of defending the country has always been to give Wei as much as he wants. The territory within a radius of 200 miles, including the old capital, was taken over by the Wei State, I don't want to think that at this time, just because of a covenant of the Chu State, Wei Chenggong would fight so hard?
Outside the city, Jin Yan personally beat the drums, and Wu Ming stood on a temporary high platform to look at the overall situation.
Thirty thousand foot soldiers formed a formation, four thousand of them in the middle, with four striking logs, rushing straight to the city gate at great speed.
Although the new army trained by Wu Ming cannot be compared with the half-day march of the military soldiers for some reasons in the overall long-distance journey, Wu Ming can guarantee that there is no army in any country that can be compared with the short-distance charge.
The remaining 26,000 foot soldiers divided into two waves to attack the walls on both sides of the city gate.
But as a tactic. At the beginning, the 26,000 foot soldiers took off their bows, took the arrows as they advanced, and when they reached the predetermined position, all the soldiers shot the arrows in their hands with the greatest force in a short breath.
Don't be on the head, don't save, it's a blind shot of ten thousand arrows.
Twenty-six thousand arrows, overwhelming, and as if they were scrambling, they spread all over the sky above the emperor hill in the moment of washing.
In the sound of breaking through the air. There was almost no training, no combat experience, and even no decent command of the guards, and they were all like ashes.
The iron arrows and the characteristic longbow are comparable to the range and strength of the longbowmen of Korea. Many of the leather shields in the hands of the patriotic soldiers were shot through directly.
A guard soldier looked at the arrows that were still swaying across the shield in his hand, and his eyes revealed endless horror.
Even more unlucky, the distance between themselves and the shield can be, so that the arrow broke the shield and directly inserted into the soldier's body.
The soldier looked down at the arrow that had been plunged into his chest, and for a moment only questions filled his head. So much so that at the moment of death, his face was not painful, but horrified.
Although there was no war in the defense of the country, when did the world have arrows that could break through the shield!
It is no wonder that in today's Warring States, only the soldiers of the Wei State have heavy armor, that is, copper armor. The rest of the kingdoms were all made of leather armor, and their shields were mostly of leather.
Bronze shields and armor became popular in the short last few years. This is also because after the Qi State defeated the Wei State soldiers, Tian Ji and Sun Bin jointly reformed the Qi State Army.
Sima Cuo and Shang Jun targeted the Wei warriors in the Qin State, and also imitated the characteristics of the warriors to form the Rui Warriors.
Since then, the nations have used shields of brass or iron to some extent.
But the real incentive for the prevalence of copper and iron shields and armor was decades later, after the Qin State became the dominant crossbow, and after the Zhao State Hufu cavalry archery, crossbow arrows, especially large crossbow arrows, appeared on the stage of history, and the defensive equipment began to have an overall upgrade trend.
Although the Wei army's arrows were strong at this time, it was only a feint. After all, under the premise that there are no rockets to shoot arrows from the bottom of the city to the tower, the main role of the bus is not to kill, but to create a better siege time for the siege troops.
The first army of Diqiu, who was originally preparing to counterattack with a bow, was frightened and fled in all directions after a rain of arrows from the Wei army. Looking at the shield that didn't know when it was thrown on the ground and no one cared about it, but no less than ten arrows were checked, for a while, there was a trend of dodging among the defenders of Diqiu.
Under the cover of the continuous arrows on both sides, the 4,000-strong squad in the middle was like a fierce tiger, a hundred paces away in a moment, and then in the rumbling war drums, more than a dozen soldiers with strong physiques and unusual people hugged the crashing wood, and used all their strength to crash towards the city gate.
From the green tendons on the backs of the hands that were holding the wood firmly, it can be seen how hard these soldiers worked.
The first crash sounded, and the two tall gates began to shake violently. In the sunlight, it could be faintly seen that on the walls on both sides of the city gate connected to the city gate, there were sand and stones that were shaken and fell.
In the city, the defenders, who had no fighting spirit, were already in chaos at this time.
The panicked people fled to the other three gates with some simple gold and silver.
The soldiers defending the city were even trampled to death by the terrifying fleeing crowd.
It wasn't until the crisp sound of weapons and the rest of the soldiers drew their swords and killed the most noisy civilians that the situation eased somewhat.
But thousands of people still gathered around the city gate and refused to leave, waiting for the gate to escape from the city that was already facing ice as soon as they had time.
However, the people are the people after all, and the national disaster is at the head, and Wei Chenggong gave an order. The defenders of Diqiu did not have the courage to deal with the Wei army, but if they bullied the people, there was still no problem.
In a short time, tens of thousands of people surrounded by the other three city gates were forcibly dispersed by the soldiers who rushed in.
The old, weak, sick and disabled were forced back to the house. The younger men were all organized and distributed.
Under the gaze of Wei Chenggong, these ginseng were mixed in with the defenders and forcibly led to the city wall.
Looking at the troops passing in front of him, but they were all weak or helpless, Wei Chenggong's whole person was almost about to burst out, strode forward, and he stabbed to death a man who was about to slip away with a sword.
Holding the bloody sword in his hand high, he shouted angrily: "Anyone who disobeys the military order will be killed!" Those who do not obey the orders of the army shall be punished by the whole clan-"
Obviously, when the country was ruined and the family was ruined, Wei Chenggong couldn't take care of it too much.
But at this moment, at the west gate of the city, which was attacked by the Wei army, a loud bang suddenly sounded that overpowered any other sounds.
The pillar that held the gate in place cracked under the tremendous impact, and at last it could no longer withstand the force of the impact. The two pieces of copper and wood doors that were two people high were directly free from the restraints.
The two gates fell directly inward, and there was no time to dodge in the doorway, and the seven or eight soldiers who had nowhere to hide in a short time were all knocked to the ground by the two gates.
The loud "boom" was followed by a wail of pain.
But then, all voices were replaced by the roars of the attacking Wei soldiers.
"Kill—"
The elevated Changge shone in the sun, and the shouting of killing shook the sky.
The city gate was forced, and countless Wei troops stepped through the two door panels and rushed into the city.
The defenders, who were still climbing the city walls, began to rush towards the breached gates under the leadership of their generals.
The general's men were soon at war.
But the Wei army, which had not been fought for a long time, was inferior to the Wei army in terms of momentum. The soldiers who rushed to the front were more likely to be assassinated by the ruthless blades of the Wei army with just two swings of their weapons.
It didn't look like a general fighting at all, but a one-sided slaughter by the Wei army. The rows of defenders were like live targets for the Wei army, almost all of them were in one face, and the defenders' bodies were pierced by the surging Wei soldiers more than one bloody hole.
The front army of the Wei army was like a bamboo, and in a short time, the originally crowded passage of the city gate was opened by the Wei army.
As more and more Wei troops roared and rushed into the city gates. The defenders of Diqiu did not even have the courage to fight.
"Waste, a bunch of waste...... Up, kill...... Those who retreat without permission will be cut ...... "Emperor Qiu Shou will roar madly!"
Correct. As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain. As soon as the defeat appeared, a situation of wanting to flee instantly spread among the defenders of Diqiu, then his defender had already drawn his sword and slashed the two soldiers who had been retreating, and it was useless after all.
The defenders of Diqiu, who have completely lost their fighting spirit, are just sheep with weapons in their hands at this time, although they have weapons in their hands, but the talent and characteristics of sheep doom them not to kill......
At this moment, the defenders continued to shrink, and the Wei soldiers were pressing forward step by step. Until the defenders of Diqiu could not retreat, the soldiers of the two armies became a confrontation.
But judging from the fact that the defenders of Diqiu held their weapons, curled up together, and showed a fearful look in their eyes. At this time, the scene was like the Wei army guarding prisoners of war, and it was impossible to confront all of them.
In less than an hour. Diqiu City is broken!