Chapter 12: The Means of Killing God
Tiansheng Front.
"Haven't you taken Ruike City yet?" Shen Tu put down the scroll in his hand and asked indifferently.
"Subordinates are incompetent!" Sang Juechen slammed his head on the ground and didn't dare to get up.
More than half a month ago, the prince led his troops to surround Ruike City, but he did not move for three consecutive days.
The two overseers sent by the imperial court made a lot of nonsense, saying that if the prince was not happy, he would delay the warplane.
If we wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the other side, our side will definitely lose the battle.
These two prison guards, one is the brother-in-law of the prime minister of the dynasty, and the other is the brother-in-law of the newly favored Su Guifei, the emperor's brother-in-law.
These two brothers-in-law are a pair of straw bales, but they like to have nothing to do, and they love to make small reports.
At that time, the prince was not annoyed, but temporarily handed over the military power to these two straw bales and let them command the whole army to fight, while he himself only selected 500 junior colonels and took them to build a river embankment ten miles away.
These two prison masters got the military power, and they showed off their power even more. commanded several groups of men and horses to attack the east, west, north and south gates of Ruike City.
However, after attacking for half a month, the army suffered countless losses, but it still failed to capture this city.
At this time, except for the prince, everyone was like ants on a hot pot.
Everyone knows that this Ruike City has a unique topography and is the throat fortress of Tiansheng Kingdom.
Capture it, and the southern rivers and mountains of Tiansheng Country will be in your hands. But now it seems that this city is impregnable and cannot be easily attacked.
At this time, there were already dozens of people standing outside the tent, including the two prison guards, as well as the generals and generals under Shen Tuwen.
They had already agreed last night, and they all came to Shen Tuwen's military tent early this morning to plead guilty.
If Ruike City still can't be captured, then they will all be punished by the imperial court.
Soldiers, the most important weapon of the country.
Every day of marching and fighting is a huge drain on national strength.
The most hated by the court and the people are those who do nothing and waste national strength.
None of them can afford this crime.
According to past experience, it would never take more than seven days for Shen Tu to attack any city.
This time, it was stirred up by the two prison masters, and it has been nearly twenty days, and Ruike City still hasn't moved at all.
It's really going to be my own life.
Shen Tuwen walked out of the big tent, and dozens of people cheered and knelt on the ground in unison.
"My subordinates implore the prince to personally lead the troops!"
"I beg the prince not to remember the old evils, and take command as soon as possible!"
Everyone said.
Shen Tu was expressionless, quietly looking at Chen Lan on the top of the East Mountain, and finally smiled slightly, and said softly: "It's time to hurry, don't let someone wait." ”
The crowd on their knees was almost blinded by the smile.
Why is the prince laughing again? Sang Jiechen looked at the evil smile of the prince who was different from before, and his little heart couldn't help but tremble and tremble.
Just three hours later, the city of Ruike was breached in one fell swoop.
The city, known as the "Unbreakable City", was breached by the raging Garland River in just a few hours.
The raging river swept through countless houses and trees like a furious dragon, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed by the river.
Shen Tu did not hurt a single soldier, but just ordered someone to intercept the river downstream in advance, and then dug a hole in the embankment facing the main gate of Ruike City.
The soldiers of the Great Qin Kingdom stood on the high ground and watched the river pour out with their own eyes, and Ruike City turned into a Ze country.
In the evening, a light boat sailed into the city.
A picturesque man stood on a small boat, the expression on his face was neither sad nor joyful.
The two people next to him were trembling and crawling at the man's feet like two frightened quails at this time, and they were the two prison masters.
The boat is leisurely in the water, and the evening breeze is slowly blowing, and if you ignore the submerged houses and streets and the fresh corpses that have been submerged in the water (the corpses have to be soaked until they swell before they float to the surface), it is also a pleasing sight to the eye.
After Shen Tu steadily conquered Ruike City, he captured more than a dozen counties in a row, and the momentum was like a bamboo.
Seeing that most of the Tiansheng Kingdom has fallen into the hands of Great Qin.
Tiansheng Kingdom was crumbling, and the morale of the army was even lower.
Shen Tu has been known as "Killing God" for a long time, and since he led the army at the age of sixteen, he has been invincible.
It is said that there are only four outcomes of war: victory, death, flight, and surrender.
But there is only one possibility to fight with Shen Tuwen - death!
Because it is impossible to defeat him, Shen Tu is unpredictable with his soldiers, and he can win by surprise every time.
Second, he can't run away from him. Shen Tuwen's light cavalry pro-army "Tianma Battalion" can really travel a thousand times a day and eight hundred nights, and want to escape? There are no doors.
Third, Shen Tuwen never refused to accept surrender, no matter what rank you are, there are only Great Qin soldiers in his army.
Therefore, the soldiers of Tiansheng Kingdom were all afraid to death.
Not to mention that Shen Tu Wen led the army of tigers and wolves, and his soldiers saw the enemy's eyes glowing green, just like wolves seeing meat.
This is because Shen Tuwen ordered that all the soldiers under his command, no matter what their origins, even if they were prisoners and criminals, should be rewarded with military merits - for every ten enemy heads, they can be promoted to one level of military merit or ten taels of gold.
It is said that one of his pawns from the exile was promoted to infantry general in just three years because of his bravery in fighting and killing many enemies.
Therefore, when these soldiers saw the enemy, they became very excited, as if the peasants were about to harvest in the autumn.
Just when the monarchs and ministers of Tiansheng Kingdom were trembling and panicking to death, the Great Qin Emperor suddenly sent Prime Minister Xiao Bonian to the front line to read the holy decree, asking Shen Tu to stabilize the truce on the same day, and sign an alliance with Tiansheng within seven days, and divide the Chu River for governance without delay.
Shen Tuwen's subordinates were almost never angry, and it was obvious that someone was speaking ill of the prince in front of the emperor.
Shen Tuwen still looked unfazed, received the holy decree, and asked the envoy to go to Tiansheng to negotiate peace, and Tiansheng monarchs and ministers were eager to negotiate peace, so they accepted all the conditions proposed by Shen Tuwen.
The agreement was signed, Shentu Wen's class returned to the dynasty, and the whole country of Daqin celebrated, almost respecting Shentu Wen as a god.
Everywhere along the way, the people welcomed the road, and the carriages and horses were blocked, and the local government needed to come forward to dredge it.
Returning to Ling Tiancheng, Shen Tu stabilized the dynasty and returned to life.
The emperor praised it greatly, saying that the prince of Zhaojing had made great contributions, and this attack on Tiansheng Kingdom resulted in a total of 50,000 taels of silver.
Among them, 30,000 taels were filled with the treasury, and the remaining 20,000 taels were all rewarded to the prince of Zhaojing.
And from next year, half of the taxes paid by the land of Tiansheng Kingdom obtained from the attack will be used as the cost of the army management of the prince of Zhaojing as a commendation.
Shen Tuwen's subordinates privately discussed that this was all because of the emperor's weak heart.
After the next court, Shen Tu returned to his mansion.
The servants in the palace are naturally elated, looking at the whole world, is there anyone who is more brave and good at fighting than our prince, wise and martial?
Mama Chang is Shen Tuwen's nurse and grew up with him since he was a child. Shen Tuwen has always served and respected her as if she were her own mother.