"General, it's not good, General, it's not good." A colonel hurried to the rebel general's tent.

The rebel commander frowned and said dissatisfiedly: "What's the matter, panic." ”

"The granary, the granary was burned, and all the nearly 10,000 denier military rations were reduced to ashes." The rebel colonel stammered.

"What, the granary was burned." The rebel commander was shocked, and hurriedly got up and ran out of the tent.

After leaving the account, the rebel commander looked at the fire that was burning in the direction of the granary, and said angrily: "Who did it, who did it." ”

"General, it's the Jin army, the fireball thrown by the Jin army hit the granary, and the soldiers guarding the granary tried their best to put it out, but the fire was too big to extinguish." The Colonel replied.

The rebel general was furious when he heard this, and shouted: "Bastard, how is it possible, the granary is a thousand steps away from the north gate city wall, and it is even farther away from the east and west city walls, how can the thunderbolt of the Jin army be thrown so far, the spies, the spies, the spies, the checks, the generals will check carefully, and the spies must be found." ”

The range of the three-bow bed crossbow was as high as more than 1,000 steps, which was far beyond the scope of the rebel general's cognition, so the rebel commander would rather believe that there were spies in the city than that the fireball thrown by the Jin army could reach the position of 1,000 steps in the city.

Hearing the order, the rebel colonel led several soldiers to investigate near the granary, and within a radius of hundreds of paces from the granary, they found hundreds of giant crossbow arrows, as well as several giant crossbow arrows that had fallen into the watering hole and were well preserved.

The Colonel had never seen such a huge crossbow bolt, and at first he thought that a soldier had dropped his spear in a puddle, but on closer inspection, the giant crossbow bolt was not exactly the same as the spear in the soldier's hand, and the front part was tied with oil-stained rags.

Unable to figure out where the giant crossbow bolts came from, the colonel ordered his soldiers to pick them all up and send them to the commander's camp.

"General, General, look what this is." The Colonel returned to the tent and placed the giant crossbow bolt he had picked up from the puddle in front of the rebel general.

The rebel commander looked at these things that looked like arrows instead of arrows, guns and guns, and wondered: "Where did you get these things?" ”

"General Hui, they were all picked up near the granary, and there are hundreds of these large iron tuft heads, which should have been shot from the Jin army's position outside the city." As he spoke, the Colonel took out a few iron tufts in his hand.

The rebel commander looked at the giant crossbow arrows in front of him, and the iron tuft head in the hands of the colonel, and fell into deep thought, the granary was engulfed by fire, and so many crossbow arrows appeared around the granary, there must be some inevitable connection between the two, that is to say, the fire in the granary and these giant crossbow arrows have an inevitable connection.

The rebel commander breathed a sigh of relief, took the giant crossbow arrow in the hand of one of the soldiers and took a closer look at it, and tore the somewhat charred rag at the tip of the crossbow arrow with his hand. The rags were soaked in sesame oil and stuck to the fingers of the rebel general.

"Sesame oil, these rags are sesame oil on them." The rebel commander was shocked, even if he was stupid, he should have thought that these huge crossbow arrows tied with rags were the main culprits in the burning of the granary.

And these giant crossbow arrows obviously did not come from inside the city, the city was completely under its control, and all kinds of weapons and arrows in the city did not know him, the main general, and the only explanation was that they were shot from outside the city.

Moreover, it can also be seen from the appearance of the giant crossbow arrow that this should be a weapon similar to a bow and arrow, but the rebel commander is a little puzzled by how big a bow can be shot with such a huge bow.

Also, the granary is a thousand steps away from the north gate wall, is there really a big bow in the world that can shoot huge arrows more than a thousand steps?

But a large number of arrows fell around the granary, and all the facts were there, and the rebel commander had to believe that there was indeed a giant bow and crossbow in the Jin army, which could shoot a giant bow and arrow more than a thousand paces.

Knowing this fact, the rebel commander couldn't help but panic in his heart, the power of this weapon is too great, and its deterrent effect on the battlefield is also extremely huge.

"General, what should I do, our army's granary has been destroyed, and the remaining grain and grass can't last for a few days." The rebel colonel reminded.

"What, how can this be, doesn't our army have two granaries? One in the south and one in the north of the city, and the military rations in the south of the city should be at least a few thousand deniers. The rebel commander said angrily.

The colonel looked bitter and replied: "General, for many days, the Jin army has been mainly attacking the north gate, and most of the main forces of our army are hoarded in the north. ”

When the rebel commander heard that there were only 2,000 deniers left in the army rations, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and then said angrily: "This owner of the baggage battalion is really damned, come and escort him to the big tent, and he is going to cut him down himself." ”

"General, when the granary caught fire, the owner of the baggage battalion led the soldiers to fight the fire with all their might, and they were already burned to death by the fire, so ......" the colonel said and lowered his head.

When the rebel commander heard this, he sighed secretly and said to himself: "The main force of the Jin army is powerful and well-armed, it seems that our army cannot resist it!" ”

"General, what should we do now?" Seeing that the Lord was about to lose confidence in resisting, the little colonel hurriedly asked.

The rebel commander pointed to the colonel and ordered: "You go to the city gates at once, let the generals go to the general's tent, go quickly." ”

When the junior colonel heard the order, he immediately went to deliver the order.

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There was chaos in Jiude City, with fire and smoke covering the entire city, while the Jin army outside the city was in a neat formation and ready to attack the city at any time.

Hundreds of thunderbolts threw thousands of incendiary materials into Jiude City, setting fire to thousands of houses in Jiude City, but after an hour, all the incendiary materials were thrown away, and hundreds of thunderbolts also stopped projectiles.

"Big brother, aren't you going to attack the city today?"

"The chaos in the city is a good opportunity to attack the city."

Wang San and Tie Niu respectively asked for battle.

"No, although there is chaos in the city, the main force of the rebels still exists, and forcibly attacking the city is the next resort." Hua'an still did not agree to the siege.

"Big brother, being so old can really suffocate people to death."

"It's been five or six days, and when is the eldest brother going to spend it?"

"The imperial court's withdrawal order has been issued, and our army can't delay it for too long!"

Wang San and the others were a little breathless.

In fact, even Hua'an himself is a little anxious, but he really doesn't want to fight with the rebels, in fact, the longer it drags on, the lower the morale of the rebels will be under the blow of the thunderbolt, and the Jin army always holds a breath in his heart, and the longer the time, the greater this anger.

No matter how you think about it, the later the siege of the city, the more beneficial it is for the Jin army, but it can't be dragged on indefinitely, after all, the imperial court has already given the order to withdraw the army.

Of course, even if Jiude City is captured, it does not mean that the rebellion has been put down, the rebels can continue to retreat and flee to Rinan County in the south, and the Northern Expeditionary Army will go to the distant Ninan County to continue to quell the rebellion, so that with the remoteness of Rinan County, the Northern Expeditionary Army will be trapped in Jiaozhou for at least more than a month, so that the withdrawal will be even more distant, in case the imperial court pursues it, Hua'an is not very easy to explain.

Therefore, the biggest purpose of Hua'an's siege of Jiude City is to rely on strong force to intimidate the rebels, so that they understand that the Jin army is invincible, so that they can take the initiative to surrender and submit to the rule of the Great Jin Dynasty, which is the best result.

But if the rebels insist on refusing to surrender on their own initiative, Hua'an will not be soft-hearted, the king of the Great Jin Dynasty has been preparing for a long time, Hua'an's inner limit is ten days, and now it has been six days, four days later, if the rebels do not surrender, Hua'an will lead the army to really attack the city, and it is a war of annihilation, as long as the main force of the rebels is eliminated, the remaining rebel team, Deng Yue should be able to deal with it.

"Order, the three armies immediately return to the camp and withdraw." Hua An ordered loudly, turned the horse's head after speaking, and rode the horse backwards.

The herald struck the gong, and the army slowly retreated.

The Jin troops at the east and west gates also retreated when they saw the withdrawal order in the direction of the north gate.

It is said that Deng Yue, the assassin of Guangzhou at the east gate, is not under Hua'an, but he is also willing to obey Hua'an's military orders, which seems to be a bit unreasonable, but it is actually very reasonable, after all, Hua'an has received an order from the imperial court to withdraw the army, if the Northern Expeditionary Army withdraws immediately, the mess in Jiaozhou will have to be cleaned up by Deng Yue alone.

Although Deng Yue is a veteran, the main force of the rebels has been eliminated, and it should be more than enough to deal with the remaining rebels, but the elite army of Shu is hoarded on the border of Jiaozhou, only five hundred miles away from Jiaozhi City, and it only takes half a month to reach Jiaozhi City.

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In the big tent of the Chinese army of the rebel general of Jiude City, all the generals responsible for defending the gates of the city arrived.

The rebel commander informed the generals of the news that the military rations in the city had been burned by the Jin army, and took out the giant crossbow arrows used by the Jin army to set fire.

"General, it was this arrow that burned the grain and grass of our army." One of the generals looked at the giant crossbow arrow in the main general's hand suspiciously.

"General, this last general has seen it, it was launched into the city from outside the north gate, from the equipment of the Jin army, with a range of 1,000 steps, and the last general saw it with his own eyes." The general in charge of defending the north gate immediately returned.

"What, this is really shot from outside the north gate, from the position of the Jin army." The rebel commander was surprised, although he had expected it, but from the mouth of the general, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The rebel commander stroked his beard and asked, "The bow that can fire such a thick arrow must be very large, have you seen it with your own eyes?" How big. It takes a couple of soldiers to pull. ”

"General, the last general can see very clearly, the equipment that fires this kind of arrow is very strange, it is not like an ordinary bow and crossbow at all, it is completely different, an arrow away, the last general can't see the specific details, the size is about the same as a thunderbolt, not particularly large, and it is operated by thirty soldiers at the same time."