Chapter 67: The Slave Army
Clusters of arrows with a roar that tore through the air were like a storm of death that swept across the land, falling on the enemy forces that swarmed the walls like a tide of ants.
The splattered blood was like a poignant flower, accompanied by a scream of despair gathered in the sky above the entire Xiangyang City, and the army that swarmed under the city died in patches like wheat stalks under the dense rain of arrows.
"These Mongols are so weak." Guo Fu accompanied Huang Rong to stand on the city wall, looking at the miserable scene under the city, although her face was a little pale, but there was not too much discomfort, as Guo Jing's daughter, although with the shadow of her parents, her personality was a little arrogant and brainless, but in the same way, as Guo Jing's daughter, when facing this kind of scene, she had a calmness that her peers could not have, looking at the Mongolian army that could not even draw the battle line closer for half an hour under the continuous rain of arrows, and pouted with disdain.
It doesn't seem to be as intense as imagined, if it's just like this, even if there are many people, it is impossible for the other party to break through Xiangyang, Guo Fu thought briefly in his mind, and he was a little puzzled why his parents were so worried?
"It's worthy of a generation of heroes, ruthless enough!" Li Xuan's eyes looked in a farther direction, and after faintly seeing the crowd, the army that was riding a war horse and urging these troops who seemed to be absolutely insulated from the word warrior pushed them into the abyss of despair like a sheep.
Guo Jing didn't say a word, but his face was unprecedentedly gloomy.
"Mother, what is he talking about?" Guo Fu glanced at Li Xuan cautiously, and asked her mother in a low voice, the aura emanating from Li Xuan's body at this moment made her a little scared.
Touching the already obvious lower abdomen, Huang Rong glanced at Guo Jing worriedly, turned around, and explained in a low voice: "Fu'er has ever seen that these people are different from the Mongols who attacked the city in the past? ”
"Different?" Guo Fu looked at the troops under the city with some confusion. It seemed that something was really missing, and after thinking for a while, he said, "There is no shield, no armor, and no bows and arrows, uh...... Those people don't seem to have weapons, mother...... Are these Mongols stupid? ”
"It's not that I didn't bring it. but they don't have their weapons. Huang Rong smiled bitterly and shook her head, suddenly feeling that she had always been a little too arrogant and doting on her daughter.
"Lord Wang, as far as I know, every time the Mongols capture a city or tribe, they will make slaves to those who refuse to obey them, and these people ......" Guo Jing's face sank like water. turned around and looked at Li Xuan.
"It should be them, hey, not only can they consume the body of the warrior, but also a lot of arrows in the city, this Kublai Khan, very similar to Genghis Khan, if he can live forever. The future Great Khan of Mongolia is none other than him. Li Xuan nodded.
"Lord Wang. Since it's the other party's trick, why don't we ignore it? Xiao Wu couldn't help but ask at this moment.
"Ha~" Li Xuan turned his head, his gaze swept over Xiao Wu, and sneered: "If we don't pay attention to it, will these people stop?" ”
"This ......" Xiao Wu shook his head, no matter how weak the slave army was. Since they are on the battlefield, they are the army, and if the defenders of the city ignore these people, they will not hesitate to rush to the city.
"If these people are allowed to rush to the top of the city, they will be stimulated by the desire to survive. These seemingly harmless slave armies will turn into the most vicious wolves in the world! But if you kill all these people, it is not a loss for the Mongols, and the slaves can be robbed again, on the contrary, they will be very happy, without these slaves, the food and grass in the army can be fed for more time, and there will be more time to deal with us, this is a conspiracy, even if we can see it clearly, we can't crack it! Li Xuan sneered.
"What countermeasures does the prince have?" Even if he has many years of experience, he is powerless in the face of the Mongols' war of piling up human lives at this moment.
"Divide all the soldiers in the city into three groups, one shift every four hours, take turns to go to the city to defend against the enemy, and the others hurry up to rest, you must try to save the body of the warriors, and at the same time delay the time as much as possible, and the trebuchet will smash me hard!" Li Xuan said in a deep voice, right now, there is only this method that is not a way.
As Li Xuan's orders were executed one by one, the originally dense rain of arrows was much looser, but the advance speed of the slave army did not improve much, and the boulders that fell from the sky were launched by trebuchets, and the boulders themselves had a limited killing range, and there were not many enemies that could really kill, but the boulders that fell from the sky like a natural disaster kept falling in the crowded direction, but they were constantly destroying the morale of these slave armies.
Even if these numb slave army, in the face of the boulder that fell from the sky, they couldn't help but have instinctive fear, because they didn't know where the next boulder would appear, so although there were not many trebuchets, the deterrent power was still above the rain of arrows, the feeling of completely entrusting life to fate, if it was an elite warrior, it might be able to restrain the fear in their hearts, but for these slaves, once fear was born, But there is no way to suppress it, if it weren't for the rear, Kublai Khan continued to increase the intensity of supervision, and even the whole group of Mongol knights wandered in the rear, constantly beheading slaves who tried to escape, I am afraid that this army would have already dispersed, and even now, the speed of advance would definitely not be much faster than that of turtles.
"Marshal, do you want to collect troops?" Behind the Mongol army, Ah Shu looked at the slave army that had been fighting for almost an hour, but there was no touch even by the city wall, sighed helplessly, turned to Kublai Khan and asked, in his opinion, such a war is just an increase in casualties, and there is no meaning.
"Go on." Kublai Khan looked at the battlefield in front of him expressionlessly, and when the flag waved, two teams of 1,000 people rushed out on horseback, stopping a wave of slaves who escaped from the battlefield, and in the face of the voice of the slaves' pleading, these Mongolian knights did not hesitate to raise the butcher knives in their hands, and the heads fell to the ground, silently urging the slave army in front to continue to advance.
"Lord Wang!" Ah Shu looked at the whole team of slaves who were killed by his own people with some heartache, and his tone couldn't help but be a little heavier, even if it was a slave army, it was a war resource, so it didn't make any sense to sacrifice in vain.
"Ashu." Kublai Khan stared at the battlefield tightly, and said to Ah Shu behind him without looking back: "Our food reserves are no longer enough to support these people, and it is better to die on the battlefield than to starve to death in humiliation, right?" ”
"This ......" Ah Shu was stunned when he heard this, and after his complexion changed several times, he finally closed his eyes in some pain. (To be continued......)