Section 379 Conception
Ruan Shuize Liang's process of becoming the Shui Yue patriarch was very difficult. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He even fled when he was young, went incognito in the capital of Anzhou, and stayed for a while, which can be regarded as a Yue person who has been more or less influenced by the culture of the Chu people. This experience had a great impact on Ruan Shui Zeliang, and it was precisely because of his existence that although Shui Yue was also a member of the Yue tribe, he was somewhat more civilized than other Yue tribes in terms of administrative policies and work. Especially in the later plundering wars of the Yue people, Shui Yue was one of the tribes that killed the least people and treated the people of Chu with a relatively gentle attitude.
"Ruan Chen Heihu is an idiot. He's angering the bottom line of the Chu people!"
Looking at the Yue army in the distance, as well as those faintly Chu women, Ruan Shuizeliang kept shaking his head and sighed repeatedly.
In this world, no matter what nationality, as long as the women of any ethnic group encounter the experience that life is worse than death, which ethnic group of men will not go crazy? Just now, Ruan Qingshi Fang asked himself, "Is this really good?" The reason why Ruan Shuizeliang did not answer was that he felt that there was no need to answer at all. Since it is a war, there will inevitably be casualties. If you catch **** and eat it, as long as it is not seen by the other party, then it will be fine. Sin and cruelty always need to be done under the cover of darkness, and that is for the same reason. Now, those Chu women who are missing arms and legs will be escorted to the front of the battle to be tortured and killed, and then thrown into a cauldron to boil to complete the so-called war prayer ceremony of the Heiyue people...... Sitting like that, isn't it forcing the Chu army in the city, that is, the men of the Chu State, to come out and fight hard?
Ruan Shuize Liang cursed Ruan Chen Heihu's stupidity in his heart.
Actually, the Chu people are very strong, very strong. Counting from the Han Kingdom in ancient times, it is an ethnic group with a long cultural heritage, and the men of that ethnic group are not sheep. On the contrary, the Han people are very brave and good at fighting, and heroes are also emerging. This can be seen from the history of the continuous collision between the Yue people and the Han people. In all the previous wars, the Yue people never sought any benefits from the Han people. On the contrary, it was slaughtered again and again by the Han army, which was less than the number of the Yue.
It's just that after a long time, the Great Han Kingdom fell apart and became the State of Qin, the State of Zhao, the State of Wei, the State of Chu, the State of Yan, the State of Qi and the State of Korea. The state of Chu didn't know what was wrong inside, the national strength was getting weaker and weaker, and the soldiers were ineffective. This made the Yue people leap forward and start a large-scale attack on Anzhou.
For the weak, it is to bully, and then with the most ferocious and arrogant posture, ride on top of their heads to and pee. Ruan Shuizeliang agrees with this. But the problem is that since the defeat in that great war several years ago, the people of Chu have become stronger and stronger. The Duke of Yiyong, who was in charge of Anzhou, was ruthless, constantly sending troops to encroach on the territory of the Yue people, and also used the most violent means to deal with the Yue people. Dien Bien City is the best example of this. Nguyen Shui Duc Liang sent people to collect information from there, and they all said that Dien Bien had been burned to the ground, and the hills there were still lined with the corpses of the Yue people stuck in wooden poles. It seems that the Chu people want to turn it into a mass grave.
"Don't think about it so much. Anyway, things have come to this point, and we can only stand by and watch. However, you'd better order your clan army to be ready to evacuate at any time. I always feel that this incident, as well as this war, is strange in many places. Maybe...... We shouldn't have listened to Ruan Chen Heihu's words, and we shouldn't have come to Yuan County. ”
Ruan Shuizeliang said in a low voice, Ruan Qingshifang had never been to the territory of the Chu people, and he didn't have so many strange thoughts as Ruan Shuizeliang. In short, Ruan Chen Heihu's battle prayer ceremony was not a bad thing in Ruan Qingshifang's opinion, he just wanted to see how the defenders of Yuan County would react.
Their own women were insulted and eaten alive...... In the face of such a great humiliation, if the Chu army of Yuanxian County was indifferent, Ruan Shuizeliang would not be happy at all, but would not say a word and immediately lead his troops to retreat overnight. After all, the more forbearance there is, the greater the plotter, and the more it indicates that something is wrong. On the other hand, if Ruan Chen's actions could really stimulate the Chu army of Yuan County to come out to fight, Ruan Shuizeliang felt that this was a good thing. After all, the Yue people really didn't know how to attack the city, and the craftsmen who were plundered from the Chu State were also lost in the previous wars. Now, if you want to win this war, you can only divide the victory and defeat in the field, and the number of the Vietnamese army is much more than that of the Chu army in Yuanxian, and there is nothing more likely to win than the field battle.
"Alas!"
Ruan Shuize Liang stared into the distance, sighed softly, and stopped talking. Over there, Ruan Chen Changguang, the commander of the army, kept yelling and screaming, looking so excited that he wanted to show his chest and belly in the cold weather.
Ruan Qingshi Fang saw the figure of the Chu army archers appearing at the head of Yuan County from a distance. At the same time as these angry Chu troops with bows and arrows appeared in the city, a desolate trumpet sound was suddenly sounded
As soon as the horn sounded, the closed gate of Yuanxian City slowly opened in a creaking sound that made the gums sour. Almost as soon as the city gate opened, a sound like a bee "buzzing" lasted for a short time, and a black cloud suddenly rose from the flat ground, and with a whistling sharp sound of breaking the air, it rushed out of the city.
"Archer, prepare—"
"Put!"
Above the tall and solid city walls, and beneath the walls beneath the back, thousands of crossbowmen gathered from all directions immediately pulled their fingers at the hanging knife (trigger), and the body of the crossbowman holding the pouting crossbow shook, and another dark cloud composed entirely of arrows rose from the flat ground, and the whistling sound of breaking the air rushed out of the city again.
Four consecutive shots, just when the fourth stage of the arrow rose into the sky, the first stage of the crossbow arrow also began to drill from high downward.
Because of the sound of the horn and the opening of the gate of Luoxian County, as well as the "black clouds" that continued to rise into the sky, the Yue people outside the city seemed to have not recovered from what happened suddenly, until the first wave of crossbow arrows lost their kinetic energy and drilled down, and the three-edged arrows drilled into the flesh and blood, and when the blood and screams rushed out at the same time, the Yue people seemed to wake up from their sleep.
Ruan Chen Changguang, who looked arrogant on the small low slope, was stunned, and Ruan Qingshi Fang and Ruan Shui Zeliang, who were watching from the edge of the walled city, also looked at the front line that was shot by crossbow arrows in a daze.
"There, how far is it from the city wall?" Ruan Qingshi's face was full of horror.
“...... It's about four hundred and fifty steps. Ruan Shuizeliang's eyes were gloomy, and the muscles at the corners of his eyes twitched slightly.
"Oh...... The city wall is about five zhang high, which can increase the range of the Chu army's strong crossbow, which is not much different from what we expected before. ”
"When I was in Anzhou before, I heard that the Han people in ancient times also had a kind of crossbow defense equipment, and the longest range could reach 600 steps, but I haven't seen it, and I don't know if it's true or false. ”
Ruan Qingshi Fang turned around suddenly, looked at Ruan Shuizeliang in great shock, and exclaimed in disbelief: "What do you say, six, six hundred steps? This, how is this possible?"
Ruan Shuize Liang didn't care about Ruan Qingshifang's panic at all, and looked at the Yuanxian city wall in the distance with worry: "Look at the city gates in those places, there are a steady stream of defenders rushing out. Should we transfer troops according to the plan, prepare to consolidate the left and right flanks, block the defenders coming out of the east gate and the north gate, and let Nguyen Chen Chang Quang lead the Hei Yue people to fight in front. ”
At such times, it makes no sense to be surprised by the power of a certain weapon. After all, Ruan Shui Zeliang is a more knowledgeable leader among the Yue people, and he also started prevention early.
Here, Ruan Qingshi Fang and Ruan Shuize Liang can still talk about the battle situation. Over there, Ruan Chen Changguang, who was in charge of leading the troops, was a little stunned by what happened suddenly, and at the same time couldn't help but be angry.
The Yuanxian defenders' pouting crossbows were fired, but the speed was not too fierce. After all, no matter how you say it, it is only two thousand pouting crossbows, and it is just the unique segmented coverage of the Xuanhuo Army, which makes the entire arrow array look very powerful. In particular, the trained archers were covered by about three waves per minute, and the Yue people within the range fell one after another, and Ruan Chen Chang Quang, who was standing on the small slope, could not be suppressed by this momentum, and there was another burst of anger and irritation.
The prayer rites of the Yue people are quite sacred, and it is a blasphemy against the gods to interrupt the rituals. Therefore, under the constant protection of bows and arrows by the defenders of Yuanxian County, although the Yue people suffered a large number of casualties, they did not feel afraid, but thought that their gods had been insulted, and then produced a kind of indignation that was not afraid of death.
"Kill, kill those Chu women immediately. Kill them all and throw them all into the pot! Cook them! Cook them!"
Nguyen Chen Changguang jumped on his feet there, roaring violently.
The troops defending the city want to get out of the city, and when only one gate can enter and exit, they can't get up quickly. At the same time, it is impossible for the troops out of the city to kill the enemy without a whole team, so after the defenders of Yuanxian County come out of the city gate, they will first distribute to the left and right corners of the city, and the number of troops waiting for them to come out is enough before the first wave of offensive will be launched.
As many as fifteen thousand troops wanted to get out of the city, and it would be at least half an hour later. In this half an hour, the Yue people were enough to kill all those Chu women and then cook them.
Kill the Chu defenders when they just opened the city gate and an army came out of it?
Even if Ruan Chen Chang Quang no longer has military knowledge, as long as he sees the dense crossbowmen on the city wall, and then sees the enemy troops who are out of the city set up a shield array, he should know what happened to his own army when he enters the range of enemy archers on the city wall. Now only a small number of enemy crossbowmen are firing, and they can all cause such momentum. If more archers with a closer range join the shot, it will be estimated that how many will go up on their side and how many will be killed.
As a descendant of Ruan Chen Heihu, although Ruan Chen Changguang has a tyrannical personality and is not very flexible, it does not mean that he is stupid. Ruan Chen Changguang knew why the Chu army was leaving the city after a little thought, so he immediately ordered the team to retreat, out of the range of the Chu army's crossbowmen in the city of Yuanxian, and then put on a pocket formation and waited for the enemy to crash in. On the other hand, in order to retaliate against the defenders, Nguyen Chen Changguang deliberately made people beat the Chu women who were tied up several times.
Suddenly, the shrill screams of the woman full of grief were so piercing on the battlefield. The Chu army who was already standing under the city didn't really see it very clearly, but the Chu army zombies on the city wall could clearly see that the Yue barbarians were holding wooden sticks and whips and other things, whipping those poor women desperately. Those women didn't know when they were taken away by the Yue people, not only their arms and thighs were cut off, but there was no half piece of fabric on their bodies to cover their shame, and they were scarred under the whipping of wooden sticks and whips.
"Fight, General! I'll wait for the fight!"
The generals are about to grit their teeth, and the actions of those people who are barbaric are so angry that they can't rush out now, catch one and delay the other, and then crush the bones and scatter ashes.
Yang Sui's heart was also full of resentment. He also saw the Yue people placed under the city, those cauldrons full of boiling water. But hatred to hate, anger to anger, as the chief general of Yuan County, Yang Sui could not send out all the troops in his hands, and someone always needed to defend the city. He was about to open his mouth to speak, only to realize that Yang Lin and the others had gone to lead the troops, so he shook his head, and an incomparably fierce anger was released in his eyes: "These Yue people are not as good as beasts, they are women who want to cook our clan in front of the battle!"
It is a custom that has been inherited from ancient times. Of course, the lower productivity of people is also one of the factors. It was precisely because of the lack of food that he targeted his own kind. But no matter what, those women are Han and Chu after all.
It was precisely because of this realization that the generals became particularly angry. Although they have different origins, not all of them are generals of the Yang Mansion, including the commander of the former garrison of Anzhou, and the old man of the Xuanhuo Army who has followed Yang Tianhong since the Jingying era. But in any case, they are the same race as the women who have suffered misery outside the city, and who can bear the pain and misery of the women of their own race, and then be thrown into a pot and boiled alive, and then eaten as food by a group of barbarians!
The view from the castle tower is wide, and from this vantage point, you can see everything outside the castle. Yang Sui had already seen a woman thrown alive into a boiling pot. Despite the loss of her hands and feet, the poor woman was still screaming hoarsely in the boiling water, and the flesh on her face and body was rapidly cooked into pieces of dead white cooked meat, and her cheeks twitched as she screamed and struggled before she died.
"General, send troops!"
"Kill, you must kill all these brutes, and kill all of them without leaving any of them!"
Many people had already drawn their swords and were slashing the air fiercely, and there was a whistling sound of sharp weapons cutting through the air inside the castle tower
It is true that all of them should be killed, and none of these ghosts should be killed. Yang Sui had no teacher, and suddenly thought of the word "Yue Ghost" in his mind. Speaking of which, the reason why the grandfather deployed layers of defenses on the side of Yuanxian County, only defending and not attacking, was to leave all the Yue ghosts behind. In the past, Yang Sui didn't quite understand why his grandfather had such a big murderous intent towards Yue Ghost, but after seeing this scene with his own eyes, he finally understood and completely understood.
Such a barbarian tribe to such a barbarian level, what kind of gentleness, what kind of profit-seeking use, is simply to raise tigers for trouble. Even if you can really subdue the Yue ghosts, I'm afraid it will be temporary, this kind of barbarian will rebel as long as there is a chance, and once you rebel, it will definitely be very harmful, it is better to make up your mind from the beginning and kill them all.
Yes, it is indeed them, not them.
Yang Chong and Yang Yi, who had gone out of the city gate, had already led their troops to be arranged on the left and right sides respectively, and their headquarters should go out and finish the formation in about a quarter of an hour, and when the time came, just wait for Yang Lin's 3,000 cavalry to leave the city and immediately take the lead in the charge, then their troops can use the cavalry as a sharp cone and the foot soldiers on both wings as wings to rush and kill in one fell swoop.
As for the formation on the side of the Yue Ghost...... From a combat point of view, it can't be called a formation at all. The ghost couldn't even stand up straight, and there was no queue at all. Speaking of which, in fact, people are crowding and standing randomly. Messy and coaxing.
What Yang Sui saw on the top of the city was the troops of the Black Yue clan who had come out of the camp to fight, and their standing position gave up an obvious dentation, so that it looked a bit like the Glaive formation.
Yang Sui couldn't help but squint his eyes and said to himself: "Hell, the more ghosts actually set up formations?"
If you want to say that the Yue Ghost will set up a formation, Yang Sui, who has done his homework on the Yue Ghost group in advance, will of course not believe it, but the enemy army outside the city has put on such a look, which has to make people wonder if the commander of the Yue Ghost has suddenly opened his mind.
"Go, send someone to remind Yang Lin, Yang Chong and Yang Yi who are about to fight, and let them be careful. ”
Although Yang Sui didn't want to believe it, he still had the necessary caution.
Looking at the walled city of the ghosts from the city tower, the ghosts in the walled city can also see that they are mobilizing, but it is normal to mobilize troops when the big war is about to break out, Yang Sui is just concerned about not worrying too much, anyway, no matter what strategy there is, it always has to fight to deal with it.
About a little more than three quarters of an hour later, a roaring sound of horses' hooves first came from the city, and then the sound of horses' hooves got closer and closer to the city gate, Yang Chong and Yang Yi, who were arranged on the left and right sides of the city gate, heard the sound of horses' hooves becoming clearer and clearer, and couldn't help but cheer up.
After waiting outside the city for so long, I kept seeing Chu women being thrown into the pot crying and struggling, and the Chu army foot soldiers who took the lead out of the city were eager to rush up and fight immediately. However, the military orders were like a mountain, and the order of the commander-in-chief was not issued for a moment, and the military formation must remain intact and serious. At this time, not to mention revenge, even if you speak a little louder, it will be regarded as a noise by the military judge, and then the soldiers will be punished. (To be continued.) )