Text Chapter 154 Jia Wenhe made a move to confuse the enemy's heart
It was like seeing the most terrifying thing in the world, and it was a look that would only be revealed when you were completely frightened and frightened.
But the shouting and shouting still couldn't stop the impact of the trapped camp, and every breath of time the Montenegrin army was cut down and killed...
Originally, the Black Mountain Army, which had finally passed through a few gates of death and entered the east gate of Jinyang City, escaped again, but compared to the more than 3,000 people who entered, there were not even 500 people who really escaped, and everyone showed a frightened look, as if they had just passed by the ghosts.
Nearly 500 Montenegrin troops escaped, rushed against the moat, and some even jumped directly into the water in order to escape for their lives. Perhaps, in their opinion, it is better to be really drowned than to be chopped into a few pieces by the trapped camp.
"Don't let them go, let them go back, it's much better than killing them." Jia Xu, who was on the wall of Jinyang City, looked at these people who were trapped in the camp and shook his head slightly, and then stopped Song Xian, the general who was commanding the archers in the city tower, from killing these defeated soldiers.
Facts also proved that Jia Xu's approach was very correct, because as soon as the more than 300 Montenegrin troops who were lucky enough to return alive entered Zhang Yan's army, they began to shout frantically one by one, "Devil, meat grinder..."
It is precisely because of this that the trap camp has a very terrifying name to the outside world - the devil's meat grinder.
More than 300 Montenegrin troops who escaped death and went back shouted frantically one by one, which made the Montenegrin army, which had suffered heavy losses due to several sieges, have lower morale, and even many people began to have other ideas in their hearts.
Infected by these people, there was a commotion within the entire Black Mountain army, and after Zhang Yan, who was in the position of the Chinese army, noticed this change, he said to the Gu and Yu Poison beside him: "Go, send someone to kill these people." ”
"Ahh Killed? On what charge? Hearing that he was going to kill his own soldiers, he asked with some puzzlement.
Zhang Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Just kill them for desertion." ”
Zhang Yan didn't want to kill these people in his heart, but even if they played a role in disturbing the morale of the army, they could only kill them, otherwise, the entire army would have problems because of their existence, if that was the case, there would really be no hope of capturing Jinyang City.
Even if Zhang Yan gave the order, Su Gu had no choice but to agree and take his own soldiers to make arrangements. In a short time, more than 300 Montenegrin troops who had fled back were killed one by one in front of the battle. And this killing, the 100,000 Montenegrin army saw it clearly.
Although it is said that these people should be killed if they become deserters, there are still many members of the Montenegrin Army who are puzzled, they can't understand why their own people want to kill their own people, do deserters have to die? If so, then what are they going to do once they are assigned to the battlefield? Attack but not retreat? But the wide moat and the tall Jinyang city wall are so easy to attack?
After Su Gu killed someone and returned to Zhang Yan to restore his life, it was almost evening, and he got a new order, that is, the whole army was resting and fighting tomorrow.
The whole day of attack, from morning to night without interruption, the original number of more than 110,000 Montenegrin troops also decreased by as much as 20,000 in one day, the number of troops has been less than 100,000, this day is a tragic day experience for Zhang Yan, but for other Montenegrin troops, it is also a day that cannot be forgotten.
The death of my companions seems to be a warning to them that my today will be your tomorrow.
Evening came. The gate of Jinyang was opened from the inside. Then rushed out countless soldiers. They gathered the corpses of the Montenegrin soldiers under the dead city into a pile and set them on fire; and sprinkled a lot of disinfectant powder into the moat that was almost red with blood, which was all researched by Hua Tuo, and it was also to prevent too many dead people from producing plagues.
For all this, although the scouts of the Montenegrin army saw it, no one stopped it. The absence of these corpses would also be good for them, at least they would not be infected with disease because of it.
In the process of cleaning up the battlefield, the scouts also saw that Zhang Chaojun not only took back most of the arrow feathers shot during the day, but also carried some of the Montenegrin soldiers who were not dead and had a breath back to the city for treatment, which really shocked them deeply.
Compared to the act of killing deserters during the day, it is very hurtful. Now that Zhang Chaojun has actually rescued the injured person, who is superior and who is inferior, and who is the master seems to be more explained.
Jia Xu took advantage of the darkness to stand on the city wall at this time, and saw that everything the soldiers below did was seen by the scouts of the Montenegrin army, so he nodded with great satisfaction, and said to his subordinates around him: "Dean Neng Zhihua, you must rescue these Montenegrin soldiers, it is best to let them speak, I am of great use." ”
"No." The subordinate agreed, and he would do it. Just left Jia Xu standing on the city wall alone, looking at the endless Montenegrin military camp in the distance, with a confident smile on his face.
The battle during the day can already explain a lot.
Jinyang City is tall and strong, it is an iron city at all, at least with the combat power of the Black Mountain Army, it is categorically impossible to break. Then the next step is how to destroy its living force, of course, it is better to win more people over. In Zhang Chao's words, the most lacking thing in the development of Bingzhou is people.
If it is said that when there was no battle yesterday, Jia Xu did not have much confidence, but after today, he is at least eighty percent sure that these Montenegrin troops are already insufficient.
Due to the death toll of the Montenegrin army in the one-day battle, the fire lasted until noon the next day.
But although the fire is extinguished, the residual temperature is still there. Zhang Yan arranged for someone to test it, but it was still a little hot. He only had to decide to take a truce for one day and change it to tomorrow.
Hearing that they didn't have to fight today, all the Montenegrin troops couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. With yesterday's lesson, they are really afraid that they will be sent to the battlefield, because it is equivalent to entering the ghost gate, and it is difficult to have any hope of living.
After a day of truce, the entire camp of the Montenegrin Army became much quieter. In order to have a better spirit to fight tomorrow, Zhang Yan ordered everyone to go to bed early to nourish a better spirit.
But on the night when Zhang Yan wanted a truce, there was indeed movement in Jinyang City, and in the middle of the night, a thousand cavalry of Zhang's army rushed out along the drawbridge. Only this time they did not rob the camp, but instead shot arrows tied to letters into the Montenegrin army.
Ten arrows shot by a thousand cavalrymen were equivalent to ten thousand letters. After doing this, he returned to the city.
originally thought that the other party was going to rob the camp. Zhang Yan will be ready for a war. But soon, the enemy retreated, and Zhang Yan knew what had just happened.
"What letter?" Hearing that Zhang Chaojun did not rob the camp and came up with such a trick, Zhang Yan looked disdainful.
"I just have one here, just look at it." As the general who came to report was talking, he took out a letter on the arrow that he had just picked up.
Zhang Yan took it and just glanced at it a few times, and immediately had an angry face and a burning state of anger.
It's all because the letters are all about what he doesn't. For example, if you don't sympathize with your subordinates, you know that Jinyang City is tall and strong, and you still have to attack hard, which is obviously not taking the lives of soldiers seriously.
For example, it is not emotional. The soldiers who managed to escape were killed.
For example, he is a bandit, and Zhang Chao is an official. Bandits and officials will fight in the end, and so on.
In the end, the letter also persuaded the Montenegrin soldiers to turn back to Ming, as long as they are willing to return to the embrace of Zhang Chao's camp, they can do everything in the past without blame, and they can also be assigned to the fields and live a happy life as ordinary people from now on, and said that the Montenegrin soldiers who have surrendered and the Montenegrin soldiers who have been rescued have been divided into fields, and there will be an explanation on the city wall tomorrow about all this.
In short, this is a real letter of persuasion.
After Zhang Yan read it, he saw Zhang Chaojun's insidious intentions, and immediately said to Zheng Gu: "Immediately arrange someone to collect all these letters, and once a collector is found, he will be punished as collaborating with the enemy." ”
At this time, he wanted to say that there were 10,000 letters, and they should be seen by many people now, so it would be useless to put them away. It's just that Zhang Yan is angry, and it's not useless to say it, so he said: "Okay, I'll do it." ”
Letters began to be confiscated, and hundreds of people who did not hand in their private letters were killed. But the contents of the letter have long been disseminated, and even because of their stubborn behavior, they have been burdened with a new crime, that is, the crime of distrust.
Zhang Yan was so angry that he didn't sleep all night after reading the letter, and the next morning, he got up at dawn and buried others to cook food, and then gathered less than 100,000 troops under Jinyang City in the morning.
Zhang Yan had already decided, that is, he was going to use a bunch of people to take Jinyang City today, and he couldn't allow this force that threatened his survival to grow stronger.
Zhang Yanjun was assembled very early, but at this time, above the head of Jinyang City, it was even more crowded, and Jia Xu took Tai Shici, Zhang Liao and other generals to prepare for it. And standing beside them were not only a number of soldiers, but also some men in different clothes.
"Strategist, everything is ready and ready to begin." Tai Shici saw that the Black Mountain Army had been fully equipped, and then said to Jia Xu.
"Okay." Jia Xu, who agreed, looked at the people beside him: "What I promised you before will definitely be done, now it depends on whether you can complete what you should do, so that you will be ordinary people in the future, and you can enjoy all the power of the people of Bingzhou." ”