Chapter 20 The Soldiers Are Coming to the City
Riding on his horse, Vanibal watched the soldiers on the hills on either side cut down trees, not only so that the Hanseilles could not hide in the mountains to attack, but also used the wood to build siege equipment.
Your own rock golem is not as high as the walls of Hanse, so you can just take wood and carry siege towers on it. Thinking of his perfect idea, a smile appeared on Vanibal's face, and the bad mood of being constantly harassed for days dissipated a lot.
The army walked slowly, stopping from time to time to send soldiers to replace the soldiers who were cutting trees on both wings, and Wannibal rode his horse towards the end of the army.
I saw that several people had been stripped of their clothes, and only a calf's nose robe remained, and their sturdy bodies were covered with scars, and their hands were tied to the back of the horses with ropes.
They were the private soldiers of the Hansean nobles, and were captured while fighting against Vannibal's men.
Several other soldiers guarded the men, and when they saw Vanibal coming, the soldiers saluted.
"General."
Vannibal approached one of the captives on horseback and lifted his face with the whip in his hand under the captive's chin.
The captives were in a bad state of mind, and seemed to be suffering a lot, so Vannibal glanced at him crookedly and took the whip back.
"Did they confess?"
A soldier hurriedly stepped forward to report: "Report to the general, they said that they are not regular soldiers, but just private soldiers hired by nobles, who are out to fight guerrillas." ”
"Guerrilla? It's kind of interesting. Ask them, when did they get here, and how many people were there? Wannibal asked.
The soldier continued, "I have already asked, they are Hanse, who left three days ago, and there are probably several thousand people, all mercenaries under different nobles. ”
With a solemn look on his face, Vannibal rode forward.
Not long ago, the rear army stationed on the other side of Longlingji sent a messenger saying that some of their own equipment had been found in the river, and the preliminary judgment was that it was the infantry walking in front.
"Three days, three days. No, there are my cavalry on the main road, they don't dare to go, and they have arrived at Longlingji after three days of walking on the mountain road? And also ate my vanguard infantry at Longlingji. ”
The more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he hurriedly called the messenger of the rear army on horseback, and said eagerly: "You go back quickly, let everyone strengthen the guard, there may be a regular army hiding in Longlingji." ”
"Yes." The messenger rode away at a gallop in the opposite direction of the march.
Looking at the back of the messenger, Vanibal sighed, hoping that the Hanseilles, who might exist in Longlingji, would not be able to threaten his secret weapon.
The messenger on horseback was galloping along the road between the valleys, and his mind was constantly recalling what the general had just said, when suddenly the scene he had seen before him suddenly appeared.
In the morning, when he had just mounted his horse and came out of the barracks, two soldiers who were fetching water by the river were talking and throwing buckets into the water.
At this time, one of the soldiers looked up and whispered, pointed to a mountain covered with purple plants on the other side, and said, "That mountain, I remember the section where I didn't go to the water's edge yesterday." ”
Another soldier slapped the back of the head of the soldier who spoke earlier, and said with a smile: "You must be mistaken, how can there be such a thing?" ”
The messenger didn't take it seriously at first, but now that he thought about it, it had something to do with the Hanseilles, and he sped up when he thought of it.
Be sure to hurry up and bring the news back.
The road in front of you suddenly opens up, and if you turn another corner and go around this mountain, you can see the pontoon bridge.
The messenger glanced unconsciously at the mountain covered in purple vines, but did not notice that a vine on the ground suddenly bounced up and was at the height of his neck.
Several figures came out of the surrounding bushes, and the messenger, who had fallen from his horse, saw the enemy and struggled to get up, but was held down by Hanse's soldiers, unable to move.
Several other soldiers subdued the messenger's horse with vines, and they hurried into the fortress on the side of the mountain.
When the messenger was on his way to Hanse, Swei wanted to send someone to intercept him, but he was a little slower and let them go, but he was finally caught when the other party returned.
The people were caught, but Sweike made a difficulty.
First, no letter was found, and the other party was unwilling to say half a word no matter how tortured he was; Second, if the Ganghe army on the other side of the river does not receive a reply from the messenger, it may become suspicious and increase the risk of exposure to themselves and others.
Sway's fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop, and he lost his mind for a moment. He scratched his head, let's go to Zhang Yuan and ask for a plan.
He casually found a soldier, and when he asked, he learned that Zhang Yuan had been called to the tent by Chun Mengya, so he walked straight towards Chun Mengya's tent.
As soon as he walked over, he bumped into Zhang Yuan, who opened the tent curtain and walked out, seeing Zhang Yuan's face crimson, Si Wei couldn't help but smile and walked over and whispered: "Brother, I can't see it, there is Yanfu, there is Yanfu." ”
Zhang Yuan: ?
Si Wei coughed twice, and then told him all about the capture of the messenger.
Zhang Yuan scratched his head, he was not good at torture, but when it came to having someone replace the messenger to deliver the letter on the other side, he had an idea.
That is to disguise himself as a messenger with the disguise technique of the song.
However, Zhang Yuan would not say this idea, because that would put Chengge in danger, and he didn't want that.
Zhang Yuan had to sigh and said, "I don't have a good way, haven't you thought that you can manipulate the courier's mind and then go over to deliver the letter?" ”
Si Wei shook his head: "Breathtaking, manipulating thoughts, these can only be done by the moon magic mastered by the temple, and it is not within our power at all." ”
Zhang Yuan suddenly clapped his hands and looked at Si Wei excitedly.
"There it is."
The messenger was strapped to a chair in the interrogation room, naked, and covered in scars of all kinds. His face was red and swollen, and his eyes could only be narrowed into a slit.
He didn't know how long he had been tortured, but he felt like his whole body was about to fall apart, but he still hadn't told the enemy about General Vannibal's message.
Suddenly, his ears caught a loud noise, and he struggled to raise his swollen upper eyelids, and several of the guards in the interrogation room ran out in a hurry, and soon there was the sound of swords entering his body and heavy objects falling to the ground outside the house.
Could it be that these damn Hanseill scum have been discovered, and someone has come to my rescue?
Then someone broke down the door, and he heard someone shouting, "Quick, put people down." ”
The messenger smiled weakly, and when the rope was loosened, he fell to the ground and fainted.
I don't know how long it took for him to wake up and find himself in a tent, it should be dark outside, and there was no light coming in, only the torches in the tent were shining.
Seeing him awake, the soldier who was taking care of him ran out with a happy face, and after a while he saw King Hobi come in.
Although King Hebi walked in with a swaggering appearance, almost looking at him with his nostrils, he was still very excited, this is His Royal Highness the Prince!
King Hobi asked, "Where has Vanibal gone?" Also, what news did he ask you to bring back? ”
The messenger was lying on the bed and tried to sit up and speak, but his bones fell apart, and he could not sit up at all, when a soldier came up and held him down, and said, "Lie down and speak, lie down and speak." ”
The messenger glanced at King Hebi, and he noticed a flash of pity in the other party's eyes, and immediately became excited again, and hurriedly said: "The general said that there are Hanseilles here, hiding in the mountains, and you have already defeated them." The general was already about to get to the foot of Hanse, and there was probably a day or so left. ”
King Hobi nodded, said nothing, and walked out of the tent alone.
King Hebi, who walked out of the tent, suddenly had a change of light and shadow, and when he looked at it again, he had changed from a tall man to a slender girl, and it was Chengge.
Chengge got the information, and jumped towards the general car in the middle of the fortress.
In the car, Swei was talking and laughing with several sergeant majors, rubbing his hands back and forth on the table. Zhang Yuan ate the fruit Chun Mengya gave him, but his eyes involuntarily looked at the tent in the distance, while Chun Mengya was quietly reading the book.
Seeing Chengge happily coming over, Zhang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that his plan was successful.
This is the idea that Zhang Yuan thought of before, since he is not willing to let Chengge go to the other side to risk deceiving Ganghe's people, then let Chengge deceive Ganghe's messenger here.
So there was the previous one, and if the messenger thought he was saved, he would tell the truth.
Of course, the loud noise that the messenger heard before was not really loud, but simulated by using sound barrier magic and a little magic explosion, and when the messenger was mentally weak, it was naturally regarded as the sound of friendly attack.
Chengge walked up to the car and relayed all the words of the messenger to the crowd. Everyone in the car was happy, although when they heard about Zhang Yuan's plan before, everyone was amazed, but seeing that this method was really useful, everyone still couldn't hide the joy on their faces.
However, Si Wei's face suddenly changed again, and he shouted: "Oh no, General Ai doesn't know that Wannibal is very close, so he has to send the news back quickly." ”
Siwei didn't expect that the aristocratic mercenary guerrilla tactics used by Ayron did not achieve the expected effect, according to the information said by the messenger, Vanibal was already very close to Hanse, and it took a lot of time for the messenger to come back, and he fainted for a long time.
The news quickly spread through the communication crystal, and it didn't take long for the news to come back, and Siwei saw that the soldier who received the news had a wrong face, and quickly asked him to tell the news.
"Ganghe people are already under the city of Hanse."
At this time, outside the gate of Hanse's West City, a large army was arrayed, hunting with flags, and a murderous aura soared into the sky.
In front of Gangga's army, many people were on their knees with their hands tied behind their backs, they were the nobles from Hanse and the soldiers sent by Aeon to pay tribute.
Vannibal sat on a high horse, brushing his beard, squinting at the silver figure at the head of the city, and suddenly said coldly, "Do it." ”
For a moment, the head rolled down, and the blood gathered on the ground into a stream. Eron watched from the top of the city and sighed.
It was he who harmed them.
Just a day earlier, not long after the messenger had left, Vanibal suddenly ordered the Chinese army to advance suddenly, so the distance that had been to be walked in one day was only half a day.
The Hansai nobles in the mountains had already made a move in the woods on the mountain, waiting for the soldiers who cut down trees on both wings of the Yingang He army, but they didn't expect that Wannibal would not eat this set, and directly attacked the Chinese army, which caught them off guard.
So the nobles made a mistake in their busyness, and they were so stupid that they made the decision to move the whole army to Longlingji to get in touch with General Siwei, and as a result, they were ambushed by the Ganghe people hiding in the mountains and were wiped out.
So there was a scene of Wannibal's beheading before the battle.
The flames of war finally burned under the city of Hanse.