Chapter 746: Protest

After the brigade crossed the Jinshui River, it stopped less than three miles north of Qingyuan City, and there were no more rescuers in the city, and Fang Jie's plan to fight a decisive battle with the defenders of Qingyuan City outside the city also failed, in fact, Fang Xie himself also knew very well that it was almost impossible to completely annihilate the defenders of Qingyuan City outside the city, and his purpose was to consume the enemy's strength as much as possible, which would also be of great benefit to the siege in the future.

Stark, who was hit by an arrow in the shoulder and stabbed in the chest and thigh. and Fu Zhengming, who had half of his forearm cut off, were all captured alive, tied up and escorted to Fang Jie.

Fang Xie sat cross-legged on the white lion and glanced at the two people in front of him.

This is the first time Fu Zhengming and Shi Dake have met Fang Jie, in their cognition, Fang Xie is a murderous demon king who does not blink an eye, and a cold-hearted executioner, when they were captured alive, they actually knew in their hearts that their fate would not be much better. Fang Xie came under the banner of revenge, since he is an enemy...... How can a miracle happen?

But they didn't expect it, Fang Xie just glanced at them lightly, and then waved his hand and ordered: "Take it down and apply the wound medicine to them first." ”

"Whoa!"

A few Xiao Riding Schools went over and walked behind with people, Fu Zhengming and Shi Dake glanced at each other, but they didn't understand what Fang Xie meant.

But the injuries on their bodies are indeed very serious, and if the bleeding is not stopped in time, the bleeding can lead to death. The two of them were anxious to be taken down, but at the same time they couldn't help but look back at the young man.

"Set up the stone throwing cart and install the ram."

Fang Xie commanded, raised his clairvoyance and looked at the city wall.

"There are at least more than 10,000 troops in the city to defend the city, I asked, the one with a broken arm is Fu Zhengnan's younger brother Fu Zhengming, and the 10,000 horses he brought out are his private soldiers. Qingyuan City is under the control of Fu Zhengnan within a radius of hundreds of miles, but the following counties are guarded by Fu Zhengming, this time we go south, Fu Zhengnan urgently transferred Fu Zhengming's team back to Qingyuan City to defend. ”

Wu Yi looked at the big city opposite and sighed slightly: "More than 10,000 troops are guarding the city, and the city walls are so strong, it is not easy to fight." ”

"It's not the city walls that are not easy to fight, it's the hearts of the people."

Fang Xie was silent for a while and said: "A city, no matter how strong it is, more than a hundred stone-throwing trucks will be able to suppress the defenders after all. We also have a captured cannon that can bombard the city gates. Even if the city gate is blocked, the city wall will collapse in the long run. What I'm worried about now is the attitude of the people in the city, there are more than 10,000 defenders in Qingyuan City, and the people of the surrounding counties are concentrated in the city, once the people also go to the city to defend...... This battle will not be easy to fight. ”

"The Great General has a way?"

Wei Xiting asked.

"Try your best to be as fast as you can."

Fang explained: "The people have the heart of blind obedience, if the war ends soon and the army enters the city, the people accept the defeat and let it be. If it takes a long time, if the people in the city have the same hatred for the enemy, it will be difficult to fight. This is the first city we are going to build, and the Nanyan people behind us are all looking at it. In the past, I didn't leave a living mouth to break the enemy, but this time I want to change it...... Come! ”

Fang Xie suddenly thought of something, turned his head and instructed the people of the Xiao Cavalry School: "Take more pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, find soldiers who can write to write text messages, tie them to feather arrows and shoot them into the city, and tell the people in the city that we are going south for revenge, not for looting and killing." As long as Fu Zhengnan handed over the people of Pingshang Road and the money and grain that he had plundered at the beginning, he would not kill innocents indiscriminately. ”

"The Great General......

Chen Dingnan was puzzled: "When the Southern Yan army attacked Pingshang Road, Fu Zhengnan's men and horses did not go north. ”

Fang Xie smiled and said, "But many of the people plundered by Murong Yongduo were detained by Fu Zhengnan in Qingyuan, and a lot of materials were also intercepted, which was what Murong Yongduo told me at the beginning. Fu Zhengnan categorically would not hand over these people and supplies, but the people in the city would be angry because of this. As long as the people in the city and Fu Zhengnan are not of the same mind, there is no need to worry about breaking the city. ”

"Whoa!"

Chen Xiaoru responded and hurriedly ordered someone to do it.

In just half a day, thousands of well-written letters were tied to feather arrows.

"Let the catapult launch and suppress the defenders of the wall."

Fang Xie ordered.

Qin Yuan, who had simply treated his wounds, received the order again, and slowly went up with the infantry array. Hundreds of stone-throwing trucks have been assembled, and with the order of the commanding general, the auxiliary soldiers who operate the stone-throwing trucks immediately got busy, twisted the coiled ropes, pulled down the big arms, and then more than a dozen people carried a boulder and put it up.

As the horn sounded, hundreds of stone-throwing trucks fired at the same time.

The defenders on the city wall looked nervously outside, and when they saw the stone throwing cart waving their arms in the distance, they immediately raised their heads to look at the sky, and the stones thrown from them became bigger and bigger, and then fell on the city wall with a bang!

The stone smashed the battlements off, and the soldiers of the Southern Yan Army hiding below were crushed into pulp before they could even wail. Blood flowed slowly from under the stones, thick and fishy. When they saw a huge stone falling towards this side, the Nanyan archers on the arrow tower immediately howled, and they ran down in panic, and half of them were smashed into the ruins by stones before they could get down. Someone jumped directly from the arrow tower and immediately broke his leg. Bai Sensen's bones pierced out of his calves, and there were red shredded flesh hanging from them.

"Hide behind the walls! Don't run around! ”

Fu Zhengnan personally commanded, shouting loudly to keep his soldiers calm. Speaking of which, the Southern Yan people have not experienced a war for hundreds of years, and the army of the Great Sui did not continue to move south, so that the people of this land can avoid disasters. This time, they saw the brutality of the war.

Someone once said that no matter how great a natural disaster is, it is not as harmful as the scourge of war.

Perhaps natural disasters are ferocious, but they are not as fearful as the blurring of flesh and blood of war.

With a bang, a boulder smashed directly through the roof of the city tower and fell inside, and the archers hiding in it were immediately knocked over three or four, some people were crushed under the big stone, and some people were half of their bodies pressed, a man who looked to be about forty years old was pressed with one foot, shouting and pumping out, several people crawled over in a panic to save him, pulled his arms and shoulders and dragged him back, click, the ankle that had been smashed was finally torn apart, the foot was left under the big stone, and the leg was pulled out.

The blood left a trail on the ground, like a reluctant connection between the legs and feet.

The catapults were constantly firing stones, and it seemed as if the Black Flag Army wanted to crush all the defenders on the walls before attacking. Fu Zhengnan, who was protected by dozens of escort regiments, looked out through the gap in the battlements, and the muscles on his face were twitching. He watched as a large stone flew over the city walls and landed in the city, and immediately there was a wail from the reserves inside the walls.

Can I keep Kyungwon?

Fu Zhengnan asked himself in his heart, but he couldn't give himself an answer.

"Stopped! Stopped! ”

I don't know who shouted, and the people on the city wall staggered to and fro realized that there were no big stones in the sky that continued to fall. The soldiers hiding under the battlements carefully straightened up and peeked out, and a soldier whose face was grazed by the rubble slowly poked his head out of the jab to look out, and couldn't help but let out a cheer after finding that the enemy's stone-throwing cart had indeed stopped, but the shout was not over, and a feathered arrow poked into his eye socket.

"Be careful!"

"Arrows!"

The soldiers of the Southern Yan Army, who raised their heads and looked out, howled and fell down again, as they saw a dense array of arrows outside the city wall.

The feathered arrows left the bowstring neatly, so dense that they obscured the sky and the sun. A black piece flew up the city wall, and a layer of white feathers was immediately spread on the wall.

Under such a dense array of arrows, the defenders on the city wall could not raise their heads at all.

"Shoot back!"

Fu Zhengnan pushed away the soldiers around him, ran over and kicked the defenders who were cowering under the battlements, and personally operated the ballista to return fire. Under his leadership, the defenders on the city wall finally began to fight back, and the ballista carts and archers began to operate, although they were damaged a lot by the previous stone throwing carts, but more than half of the ballista on the city wall were still usable. For the arrow array, the lethality of the ballista can be imagined.

But not long after the counterattack on the city wall began, they were surprised to find that the arrow array outside the city had retreated!

"Huh?"

A soldier saw something strange about the feathered arrow tied to his companion's corpse, and pulled it out and looked at it, and found that there was a note tied to it, which had been blurred with bloodstains, but he could still see the handwriting on it.

"What are you looking at!"

A team was coming over and snatching the note away, and their faces immediately changed after reading it.

"Revenge...... They are here for revenge...... They came to get back what they had been robbed of. ”

The team was muttering to the endless lines outside the city, "We...... What did you provoke! ”

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When the matter of the note tied to the feather arrow was told by Fu Zhengnan, many soldiers had already read the note. A partial general ran over with a bloody note to find Fu Zhengnan, and Fu Zhengnan's angry hands were shaking after reading it.

"Shameless!"

He shook the note away: "Pass on my military order, and anyone who dares to discuss this matter in private will be punished immediately!" Tell the soldiers that this is a discord ploy that the enemy has come up with! Don't take their word for it, if I hand over the people, I'll open the gates, and when the gates come, they'll come in at once!" ”

This partial general originally wanted to persuade Fu Zhengnan to say a few words, and simply handed over those people and supplies to Lu and forget it, but he didn't dare to say it when he heard Fu Zhengnan roaring angrily like this. At the beginning, the people and property plundered by Murong Yongduo with his troops were indeed intercepted by Qingyuan City. Nanyan, especially the several large cities to the north of Nanyan, is indeed relatively sparsely populated. Although the taxes on the side of the Great Sui Ping Trade Road are not light, they are much better than those in Nanyan, and the people live a rich life.

In particular, the merchants who walked in the Great Sui would always describe how comfortable and prosperous the life of the Sui people on the Pingshang Road and even further away was, so that a large number of Nanyan people secretly ran to the Great Sui. And the border army of the Great Sui will never stop this kind of thing, and the local government in the southwest will naturally not stop it, they all wish that the Southern Yan people would escape more.

As a result, there are fewer and fewer people in several big cities north of Nanyan.

Therefore, Fu Zhengnan naturally blushed when he saw the people and things sent back by Murong Yongduo, and the people in the city, there are now nearly 20,000 people who are the people of the Great Sui Ping Trade Road.

He ordered all the notes to be collected and burned, and no one was allowed to talk about them. But this kind of thing couldn't be stopped at all, and soon, the news that the Sui people were coming to ask for the people and materials spread out, and in less than a day, such rumors began to appear in the city. By the next day, the spread of the incident could be described as crazy.

"The Sui army outside the city said that as long as they hand over the Sui people and the materials they plundered at the beginning, they will not kill anyone!"

"The city lord actually wants to keep those money and things at this time! We don't take our lives seriously! ”

"I've heard that the general surnamed Fang who led the troops is a demon who kills people without blinking, if the city lord refuses him, I'm afraid that we will all be killed when the city is broken."

"I also heard that the person surnamed Fang said five killings...... As long as we ordinary people don't go up to the city wall to help the defenders defend the city, they won't do anything to us. ”

"Stay alive! Don't Sui people! ”

"Stay alive! Don't Sui people! ”

At noon the next day, thousands of people gathered outside the City Lord's Mansion to chant. Fu Zhengnan didn't expect this matter to spread so quickly. He wanted to explain, but he knew that Lu Dao couldn't explain it at all. He knew better than anyone that as soon as he opened the city gates, the Black Flag Army would immediately rush in and take everything from him. He didn't understand how this matter could spread so quickly, and how could those people who were usually respectful to him have the courage to gather and protest?

The Southern Yan army blocked the streets outside the City Lord's Mansion and prevented anyone from approaching, but the people still gathered in the distance and shouted. The soldiers looked at each other, in fact, they were also thinking, if they really returned those people and things, would they survive? They couldn't help but think of the five killings explained by Fang Commentary, whoever carries a weapon, kill! Many people subconsciously looked at the weapons in their hands, and then shuddered.

"It's our turn!"

Successfully instigated the people to take to the streets to protest, and some of the people hidden in the crowd had smiles on their faces.

They're the people of the Snap Riding School, and they've been waiting for an opportunity.