Chapter 83: The Fall of Yecheng
A few days later, Gao Shun sent back a war report to report the course of the war.
Of the 30,000 troops, only more than 18,000 were really able to escape, and the rest were either captured or killed. A few were captured in the subsequent pursuit, or were kidnapped and sent by the villagers.
No matter what, these are nearly 5,000 captives, Gao Shun is not sure of his idea, and asks Fang Yun to make it clear.
Fang Yun meant to send two thousand people to receive these prisoners. There is nothing wrong with this group of people themselves, they just follow the wrong people. Pick out all Han Fu's henchmen and cut them off, and then send the rest to work in the mine or construction site for five years, and then let them regain their freedom.
Of course, dealing with oneself and foreigners are treated differently. If it was a barbarian, Fang Yun could only give them a small amount of food every day to maintain their physical strength, ensuring that they would not starve to death, but they would not have so much strength to resist. But in the face of the Han people, it is natural that this cannot be the case, eating enough is the most basic requirement, and it is natural to properly supplement some meat.
To put it simply, they are to be used as labor, and their wages are halved as punishment, and after five years, they are free. With the savings they have accumulated in the past five years, where do they want to go? In addition, the wages of workers approved by Fang Yun have always been high, even if they are halved, it is still a high salary that they did not dare to imagine before.
The only requirement is to shave your hair, and if you continue to grow your hair after a long period of work, not to mention that your hair will become as hard as a stone, and there are so many parasites in it, God knows if you will be infected with some messy diseases.
Of course, he has always been very impartial in this regard, he takes the lead in shaving his hair, but does not restrict the people below from growing their hair. Naturally, there is no tax accumulation or anything, everything is mainly voluntary.
He shaves his hair because he comes from the future, and he is not engaged in art, so he always feels unaccustomed to growing his hair. But he couldn't stop others from growing their hair, because this was a ritual handed down from the Zhou Dynasty. Parents who have received hair from the body can't use the excuse that the hair grew later. This is actually a manifestation of filial piety from the beginning.
Just imagine, as long as you touch this long hair, you will inevitably think of this sentence. Then I think of my parents at home, and my heart will inevitably throb. This is also an indirect reminder to the world. Life is short, and filial piety should be practiced in time.
Back to the topic, while asking about the disposal of the 5,000 captives, Gao Shun also said in the battle report: Now the defense of Wei County is almost non-existent, if we don't take it. Yuan Shao will take it. Do you want to bring the entire Wei County into the sphere of influence?
This question Fang Yun had to invite Xi Zhicai and others to ask, and the result was feasible.
So while sending people to accept the prisoners, he transferred 500 soldiers to Gao Shun for the siege camp, with 50 thunderbolts, 5 rushing cars, and 10 goose cars.
Thunderbolt aside, it was the latest version of the light catapult, which could accurately strike targets from 20 meters away to 300 meters away, and the stoners of the siege camp were true professionals.
The sharp part of the punch is covered with iron sheets. The roof of the car can also be used to protect against arrows flying from the sky, and even some relatively small rocks and logs.
The goose cart is a variant of the ladder, with a hole in the cart that allows the soldiers to hide in it and get closer to the enemy walls. At the right distance, the ladder was raised, and the soldiers were able to ascend directly to the walls through the stairway that was at least three people wide.
Siege equipment or something is the key to Fang Yun's siege of the city, and Huang Zhong also has such a configuration. As for Zhang Liao and Chen Tao, they don't need to, after all, their target Zhao State itself does not have any relatively high cities. Moreover, there are not many local defenders, and the probability of surrender is very high.
It doesn't matter if they don't surrender, anyway, the army will surround them for ten days and eight days, unless they plan to starve to death. Otherwise, it will be the best ending to open the city and surrender obediently. Fang Yun didn't believe that Han Fu's personality charm was so powerful that the people of the county under his jurisdiction could starve to death or die in battle for him.
"Didn't you increase your troops?" After receiving a reply, Gao Shun asked the messenger a question. At present, he has only 1,000 people, and even if you add the siege camp, there are only 1,500 people, so it is a bit ...... to conquer the huge Wei County
"The lord has ordered the guards of the pot to come to Yang Feng, Huang Long, and Zhang Xiu. He even mobilized General Zhang He and General Fan Chou, together with 10,000 horses. However, their main task is to take over the defense line of Wei County, and as for the siege of the city, it will be completed by you, General Gao. The messenger replied truthfully.
Gao Shun was speechless, could this be a test for him? A thousand people defeated the huge Wei County, this is too reluctant, right?
"In addition, the lord also said that your main task is Yecheng, as long as Yecheng is defeated, the other counties will naturally be defeated." The messenger knew what Gao Shun was worried about and continued to explain to him.
Gao Shun breathed a sigh of relief, with the siege camp and his own thousand trapping camps, it was not a problem to break through Yecheng. Besides, Han Fu is newly defeated, but I am afraid that he will not regroup so quickly. Even if a group of young men are recruited temporarily, they are not opponents in the camp.
It is not very far for Wu'an to go south to Yecheng, and it will take about a day and a half to arrive at the fast horse. It's just that the trapped camp is heavy infantry, and there are also people in the siege camp, with heavy troops and supporting engineering troops, in fact, there are no three days to be afraid of it.
Moreover, earlier Gao Shun left the baggage troops and they came back to rescue first, and at this moment, the baggage troops have just come to Wu'an's side, so they can't let them set off again without resting just after they came, right?
Therefore, Gao Shun set the order to set off again the next day, giving them more time to rest. The soldiers of the baggage troops, siege battalions, and engineer battalions breathed a sigh of relief, for a long march was no fun.
Especially, in this ancient period, both the roads and the traffic situation were very backward.
The ideological consciousness of the soldiers is not so high, and now they have only initially satisfied their food and clothing, and their needs for spiritual civilization are still very weak, let alone very strong ideological consciousness.
In modern times, the situation that can incite the enthusiasm of tens of millions of people simply does not exist in this era. Didn't you see that Zhang Jiao needed more than ten years of preaching to be able to recruit a group of believers? I really thought that he just raised his arms when he was about to start an incident, and all the states and counties immediately swarmed up?!
The next day, with the generosity of the Huotou army that night, all the soldiers were well fed and drunk, and it was rare for each person to have a bowl of meat to eat. The meat is pork, and it is a batch of pigs that Jinyang has just raised. These pigs have been castrated since childhood, so the taste is very good, and it is rare that there is no such urine smell and fishy smell.
Such a pig. The price of meat is 100 wen per catty, yes, a full 100 wen. In the past, there was no castrated pork. It also costs 100 yuan a pound. It can be seen that it is not that the people do not eat pork, but that they cannot afford it at all. It's no wonder that He Jinjia and Zhang Fei's family, who are butchers, have such a rich family.
After eating, the soldiers had the strength, and they arrived outside Yecheng in three days. Wait for it.
As Gao Shun expected, Han Fu returned here to indeed try his best to collect a group of defeated troops, and then temporarily recruited 5,000 young people, and contacted other families to gather 3,000 families to form an army of nearly 10,000 people.
Of course, this unit is not used for foreign warfare, but for self-protection. At the same time, he also increased publicity, saying that if the enemy army came in, the city would be slaughtered, anyway, it would continue to smear the Yellow Turban Army.
In fact, they are all from Jizhou. What virtues do they not know about the Yellow Turban Army? Those who pretend to be the Yellow Turban Army may be able to do it, but Fang Yun is the orthodox Yellow Turban Army, as a high-incidence area of the Yellow Turban Army, the people still don't know the situation of the Yellow Turban Army?
As long as they don't rebel against them, basically their families and property can be protected. Those who resist them can basically be preserved as long as they are given enough sincerity.
However, the others are the state shepherds, and they also have a force in their hands that can kill people. Even if the people below wanted to refute something, they didn't dare to stand up, for fear of being used as the chicken that killed the chicken and set an example for the monkey. It is precisely because of this mentality. So none of them stood up, obediently obeyed Han Fu's call, and became a temporary soldier.
Han Fu's actions have not been hidden from the Han Soul Organization, and even these young people have the Han Soul Organization in them. The situation here was told to Gao Shun for the first time. The leader in charge of intelligence in Yecheng believed that Gao Shun would make a choice.
"Attack the heart!" After Gao Shun received the information, he had already prepared countermeasures.
He sent people to shout constantly every day, telling the people inside that as long as they put things right, or surrender in battle. Then the past is not to blame. Even if you can make war achievements, or capture Han Fu alive, you can even have a heavy reward.
I have to say that in the past few days, Han Fu felt that when he was on patrol, the soldiers below looked at him strangely. As a last resort, he could only nest in the Thorn Mansion, and he didn't dare to come out, for fear of being on the street, so he was tied up and sent out.
Fight? Is this a joke?
With these 10,000 newcomers who have never been trained to fight with that army, that's not a food delivery?!
For now, we can only delay time, but fortunately, Yecheng's reserves are quite abundant. As long as you persist until Han Meng comes back to the rescue, then the big thing can be decided! At the very least, the crisis can be lifted temporarily!!
But I don't want to, after five consecutive days of psychological offensive, and Han Fu has done nothing, and even the Han Soul Organization is constantly inciting, the hearts and minds of the people below have changed a lot.
On the sixth day, Gao Shun announced the siege of the city, and fifty thunderbolts passed by in a row, while throwing stone bombs at the city walls. More than fifty catties of stone bullets fell like this, and the soldiers defending the city only felt a shaking under them, as if they were a dragon churning.
The most important thing is that they saw it, those siege weapons of the other side began to reload again, and God knows where they will hit next time. If you smash this thing on the wall, it will make the city wall shake, but what if it hits you? The soldiers below dare not imagine!
Under the cover of the thunderbolt car, the rushing car began to move, and the goose car also began to sort.
It's just that the attack hasn't been launched yet, the gate is open, and it is clear that there is an army in front of the uprising! Yes, this is the most correct choice for them, Gao Shun smiled and announced that he would attack the city!
The original rout of the army, at this moment, it was naturally the first time to rout and scatter, without their bullet pressure, Qingzhuang and Jiading also surrendered or fled one after another. Gao Shun killed all the way to the Assassin's Mansion, caught Han Fu who was going to leave through the dog hole, and tied him up. and sent someone to send him to Bingzhou and hand him over to Fang Yun for disposal.
At this point, Yecheng is broken! When Han Meng learned of this, he took 20,000 remnants of his army east and defected to Yuan Shao...... (To be continued.) )
PS: Taking advantage of the victory to pursue, in fact, if Han Fu hadn't been supported by the protagonist, his territory would have been swallowed by Yuan Shao a long time ago. If he had helped resist when Gongsun Chan was going south, he wouldn't have ended up today, right? Well, at least a few years later......