Wei Ying felt that he was riding a tiger, and he seemed to be majestic, but in fact, he couldn't find a safe way to get down; The mysterious young man of the Western family slapped him in the face, not only hard enough, but also resounding.

In the era of absolute cold weapons, when firearms were not invented, siege warfare was extremely difficult, not to mention the backwardness of siege equipment, but the experience of defending the city was extremely rich. Just look at the six countries of Shandong, several countries are next to each other, and the war is together, and they will hit the other party's city at every turn, and then it will be impossible to conquer it for many years, and there is no good way for a famous general like Pang Juan to do it, and even the powerful Qin State in the era of killing the god Bai Qi has to face the same difficulties.

Wei Ying has nearly 40,000 troops under his command, but the West family also claims to have 7,000 elite soldiers, excluding the number of people who have been damaged, how can there be 5,000 people, this is not counting those slaves, if there is no one to lead, it is just that, the appearance of this mysterious young man of the West family has forced the soldiers and slaves of the West family into a rope, and the order comes, no one in the West army disobeys the order. It's going to be a tough battle.

In fact, whether the city can be captured or not is still secondary, Wei Ying can't figure out how this Western kid can do this, even if he looks like everyone loves flowers and flowers, and the charm is infinite and slaves are killed, he shouldn't be so good at using soldiers, right? Compared with this kid, he can be regarded as a dog at this 'age'

The siege has been going on for several days, with this young man from the Xi family, don't think about any tricks, there is enough food in the city of the Xi family, everyone is like a trapped beast, to take this city, there is no other way than to use human lives. Now it's not just Wei Marting. Even Cha Ying and Zi'an's eyes were red. Jing Jian didn't take a shower for three days in a row. It's simply unthinkable.

Watching the loss of thousands of soldiers every day, anyone's mood is heavy, and only the public loses the happiest. The loser finally had a place to use, and his ideas of new siege engines finally had a chance to be tested; Bai Dong can see that this guy is very similar to the mad scientists of later generations, in his eyes, human life is nothing at all, and the most important thing is the achievements of engineering.

If the ladder can't be built, then build a cowhide car. Even the prototype of the later generation'leaning on the building' was tinkered out by him; Bai Dong also knew about these murderous and city-breaking things, but when it came to the fine mastery of its structure, it was really not as good as the public to lose it, but I didn't expect that the siege equipment of this era had developed so rapidly, although it was not as exquisite and sturdy as the later generations, and the system was strict, but it already had a bit of appearance.

After the more advanced siege equipment was 'developed' by the public, the battle between the offensive and defensive sides became more brutal and white-hot. The battle is useless to this Cheng dùyi qiē conspiracy Yang Mou's son and grandson's art of war, and the competition is a brave blood, and the competition is which side of the soldiers is more elite.

At this time, we can see the superiority of the 'knight' system cultivated by the Western family for a hundred years, with the help of slaves. They repelled the Qin army again and again, and the casualty ratio of the city and the city reached 2 to 1! The Qin army defeated a thousand people from the Western family. He will lose two thousand troops. Fortunately, the strength of the Western family is limited, counting the casualties of the previous few days, the soldiers of the Western family should have lost more than half, and the well-trained soldiers in the city are obviously decreasing, and they can only be replenished with slaves with relatively low combat effectiveness.

This crazy guy actually made a trebuchet at this time. This thing is actually not rare, it appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was really used on a large scale in the Qin army's battle to destroy Chu, Wang Jian led an army of 600,000 and threw hundreds of vehicles, and the cities fell everywhere he went. The thing that Gong Zhiqing figured out was not up to the Cheng dù of the later generations of 'return to the cannon', it was the use of the simplest principle of leverage, pulled by manpower, and a catapult alone required 200 soldiers to serve it, and the accuracy was extremely low, and there was no precision at all.

However, twenty catapults were loaded with nearly 100 catties of stone bullets at the same time, and it was extremely amazing to launch them at one time. A few stone bullets fell on the head of the city, and the female wall was instantly shattered, and more than a dozen slaves of the nearby Western family were directly penetrated by the rubble, and some of them were unlucky enough to be hit by the stone bullets, and they turned into meat on the spot.

Gong lost Qing was very proud, commanded the Qin soldiers to launch a few more rounds before they were willing to stop, the defenders in the city had faintly chaotic, Wei Ying was overjoyed, and was about to order the Qin army to launch a general attack, but was stopped by Bai Dong: "Slow! ”

"Zuo Geng, the Xijia army has suffered heavy losses, and at this moment the heart is broken, and the city can be broken today!"

"Even if there were no catapults, the city would have been broken today and tomorrow. But this kind of landfill with human lives, there are countless casualties between the enemy and the enemy, and among them, there are even the Western slaves who you keep saying that you want to give them freedom and fields, is this kind of victory very interesting? If the Xijia is willing to surrender, tens of millions of people will be killed, shouldn't my generation work hard for it? ”

"Zuo is more generous and merciful, but that kid is stubborn. You've sent out the Arrow Book many times, but when did that kid respond? Let me break the city."

"It was then, and it's now. This son is a smart man, and he will come to see me when the situation is decided. ”

Bai Dong shook his head: "Stop the attack, bring pen and ink!" ”

The corners of Wei Ying's mouth twitched slightly, after all, he was the main general in this battle, and it was not impossible to forcibly attack the city, but if he did that, it would be tantamount to offending Bai Dong fiercely, and the consequences were unbearable for him.

***

The sun is shining warmly, and the spring breeze is warm.

The hill is covered with green grass, and occasionally mixed with flowers of various colors, and the fragrant air makes people feel calm and quickly break away from the bloody battlefield.

Several members of the Bai family reorganized a piece of flat land, put a small rattan table and small rattan chairs, and placed fragrant snacks and tea, and then bowed down and retreated, leaving only Nie Zhu alone to accompany Bai Dong. This is a good place to meet and talk, not far from the Qin army camp and the Xi's family city, and people from both sides can observe the meeting.

A healthy horse galloped from the direction of the Xi's family city, and soon arrived at the bottom of this hill. Nie Zhu looked down, his expression moved slightly: "Good boy, I finally didn't disappoint you." ”

Although the name of Baizi has long been spread all over the world, and he will not calculate a weak-crowned young man, but this kid dares to come to the meeting alone, just this courage and courage are already worthy of Nie Zhu's praise.

"It really didn't disappoint me, I didn't expect that there was such a person in the Xi clan"

Bai Dong nodded and put down the paper book in his hand. The improvised bound paper book was full of information about the boy, and had been collected in the middle of the day; Bai Dong was very surprised when he saw these materials, but he was just a concubine of the West Begging Wood, he didn't expect to have such a mysterious background, it took Jing Jian ten days and interrogated more than 100 descendants of the Xi family before he compiled this information from their mouths, is this still the concubine of the Xi family? I'm afraid that the son of the Western family is nothing more than that

It was a young face, and although he didn't know his exact age, Bai Dong could tell that this boy should be about the same age as Cao'er, about sixteen years old; Although he wears a wooden crown, he can still see that he has dense black and slightly curly hair, especially the pair of black and translucent pupils, which are obviously different from the Chinese people who are black and yellow.

"Young man, you're Syrd?"

The information collected by Jing Jian is actually very incomplete, and it does not explain the origin of the strange name of the boy. However, based on various information, with Bai Dong's more than 2,000 years of experience in this era, he has vaguely guessed the origin of this young man.

Syelder bowed to Bai Dong generously, and sat down opposite without waiting for greeting, picked up the tea and took a sip gently: "Baizi, I've heard your name." But you're not much older than me, so you shouldn't call me a young man."

Nie Zhu couldn't help laughing, he had already found that Bai Dong's old-fashioned appearance was very strange, but because the achievements of 'Bai Zi' were too high, even contemporary scholars like Lao Yan Jian were friends with his peers, so no one had ever pointed this out. It was so interesting to think that this young man named Sylde would protest in person.

Bai Dong was slightly stunned, remembering that he had just turned nineteen years old this year, and he couldn't help but smile.

"Are all the paper books in Baizi's hands recording things about me? But you don't know what my true ambitions are. If you want to persuade you to surrender, you can also persuade you to surrender, your military strength is too strong, the Xi family can't withstand it, the Xi family can surrender, but you need the amnesty of the old Qin monarch"

"I don't know what kind of amnesty you want, but I can sue you, Meng Shuangcheng has been ambushed, except for the people who have returned to the Meng family, the Meng family has punished the nine clans!"

Seeing Syed's face stiffened, Bai Dong smiled and said: "Fortunately, the Xi family is not a traitor, it is really coerced by the Meng family, and the family city is not broken at the moment, so there is still some capital for negotiation." If you are willing to open the city and surrender, I will intercede for the Xi family in front of the king, only raze the three clans, and try to protect the side relatives of the Xi family. ”

"Is this Lao Qin's brutal law? No wonder the three families of Mengxi and Bai will rebel, if I have an army of 100,000 in my hands, I will capture Liyang and change this unreasonable law! ”

"Oh? You just said the law, not the decree? ”

Bai Dong glanced at Sylde deeply: "Then what kind of law should you understand?" ”

"Make laws, no more expensive and no cheap, treat everyone equally, go straight, and everyone has their place! Now the laws of the Qin State are too ridiculous, if there is a fight between ordinary nobles, they can be compensated with money and cattle and sheep; The Xijia was just fighting with the monarch of Qin, so why did they have to pay for it with their lives? Such a law is unfair, divides the high and the low, and is simply too backward! ”

"Your mother told you all this knowledge?"

Bai Dong narrowed his eyes slightly, looking at Sylde meaningfully. The passage he quoted just now was said by Solon, an ancient Greek jurist in the sixth century B.C., not to mention that it was in Lao Qin, even in the whole of China, there is no such legal theory now.

As expected, he was not wrong, and Syald and his deceased mother were from the far west (to be continued......

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