Chapter 88: Approaching the capital of the Rakshasa Kingdom
The soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom are armed with heavy weapons, including hammers, axes, maces, and so on. The body is all fur, no iron armor, probably wearing leather armor inside.
Chen Mujun's side is a standard single knife and shield, wearing iron armor, with down jackets and down pants inside, wearing big cotton shoes, and there is also cotton in the helmet.
The two sides fought together, and the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom were tall and large, and the lifting equipment posed a great threat to Chen Mujun, and the role of the shield was limited.
Chen Mu watched for a while and ordered the whole army to retreat and let the enemy in.
As soon as the Great Xia army retreated, the Rakshasa army really caught up, and in this way, Chen Mu could see clearly that the enemy only had about a thousand people.
This is also normal, what you need to rob the camp at night is speed, and it is impossible to be fast if there are too many people.
Since this is easy to do, Chen Mu ordered an assault on both sides and surrounded the Rakshasa army.
At this moment, the pressure on the Rakshasa Army increased greatly.
The general led by the Rakshasa Army was a little confused, the Great Xia Army had been fighting with them for a while, but it didn't seem to be afraid of the cold.
The people of Daxia were just wearing iron armor, and they couldn't see a single fur on their bodies, and now the temperature was already dripping into ice.
Even the Rakshasa people feel very cold, and these Great Xia people are not afraid of the cold!
How is this possible?
The more the Rakshasa army fought, the more desperate they became, they were already surrounded, and the soldiers of the Great Xia army had no tendency to decline in combat effectiveness at all.
They can't escape now, they want to surrender but they don't understand the language, so they can only die in despair.
An hour later, all the Rakshasa soldiers were killed on the spot. In other directions, there were no more Rakshasa troops.
Chen Mu ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up, and then replaced the people to keep vigil, and the rest continued to rest.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, the Great Xia army continued to build siege equipment.
Urila found Chen Mu, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, I heard that there was a Rakshasa army attacking the camp last night, how is the situation?" ”
Chen Mu said with a smile: "A thousand Rakshasas can't wait, they have to come to seek death, and we will kill them all in more than an hour." ”
Urila: "Oh, only a thousand men, and they are coming to attack the camp?" ”
Chen Mu: "Well, they must have felt that night fighting has an advantage, but I looked at their fur, the processing is very rough, and the warmth effect is far inferior to our army's down jackets." ”
Urila shook her head, feeling sorry for the Rakshasas.
"A thousand Rakshasa soldiers died in vain, and the people in the city will be frightened this time. After this battle passes, there will be a legend in the Rakshasa Kingdom that the people of Daxia are not afraid of the cold. ”
Urila now admired Chen Mu very much, and began to think about the problem from the perspective of Great Xia.
Chen Mu was also very satisfied with Urila's transformation, and planned to let him stay in Daxia in the future and work as a translator.
Because the Rakshasa Kingdom is not the end of Great Xia, in the West, there will be many countries with the same origin as the Xiongnu, and Chen Mu does not want to let go of any of them.
Three days later, the siege equipment was completed, and Chen Mu officially began to siege the city.
In the past few days, the Rakshasa army has not attacked the camp again, and now when they see the Great Xia army attacking the city, they have no intention of going out of the city to face the battle.
It seems that he was scared.
However, this was far from enough, Chen Mu also wanted to show them that the cities of their Rakshasa Kingdom were useless in the face of the Great Xia Army.
Chen Mu gave an order, and the Great Xia army began to attack the city.
Jing Qian advanced forward, using crossbows to suppress the head of Hedong Town, and the Rakshasa army also fought back with bows and arrows, but the number of arrows was far less than that of the Great Xia army.
Catapults also began to attack, aiming at the head of the city to suppress it.
This time, instead of stones, the catapult threw ice. It's still the same size, but when it hits the city, it cracks and shoots out like ice.
This effect was even better than Chen Mu expected, and it was like a cannonball.
The lethality of artillery shells depends on broken shrapnel, although it is said that the Great Xia Army is now fighting ice chips, but it is also very sharp.
As soon as the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom were hit in the face, they immediately covered their faces and ran around.
But the catapults of the Great Xia Army kept throwing ice cubes, and it was useless for the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom to flee wherever they fled.
In addition, the city was full of broken ice, and the soldiers of the Rakshasa Kingdom fell to the ground one after another, and the city was already in chaos.
At this time, the Great Xia army set up a ladder and climbed to the top of the city.
The well and the catapult moved forward again and began to make a covering attack towards the city.
The battle went well, and two hours later, the Great Xia army occupied the town of Hedong.
Chen Mu ordered some soldiers to take over the city defense, and some soldiers to clean up the battlefield, search for the remnants of the Rakshasa soldiers, and at the same time look for official rations in Hedong Town. The speed of the Great Xia Army is so fast, the Rakshasa Kingdom should not have time to transfer grain and grass.
There are also some people who protect Urila and spread the message of peace and security along the streets.
Tell the residents of Hedong Town. Great Xia will not occupy the Rakshasa Kingdom, but only wants to make the Rakshasa Kingdom a vassal country. And it will not be taken against the Rakshasas who have laid down their weapons.
The benefits of being a subject state were also promoted.
Probably because of the common language, the inhabitants of the Rakshasa country are more sensible, unlike the crazy people in the stick country.
A few days later, the Great Xia army left Hedong Town with the official rations of Hedong Town, as well as the weapons collected, and continued to march westward.
Ten days later, the Great Xia army came to Hexi Town, captured it in the same way, and then still shouted to An Min.
Chen Mu took advantage of the situation and led his troops to the Xiongnu territory to replenish food and meat. Then follow the road north.
However, Chen Mu passed through two towns and more than ten villages, but he did not meet a single Rakshasa person.
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The Great Tent of the Chinese Army.
Chen Mu: "It seems that these are indeed the villages and towns of the Rakshasa Kingdom, but the people have been evacuated by them. This is to play the wall clear. ”
Urila asked, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, what is the strong wall Qingye. ”
Chen Mu explained: "The fortified wall and clear the wilderness means to remove the people and food, and then defend the fortified city, so that we cannot supply along the way. This tactic is to hope that we will run out of food and grass and take the initiative to withdraw from the army. ”
"It's a pity that their city is not strong enough, and we don't need to fight the jungle, and the meat we bring is enough."
Chen Mu is right, there are still many dehydrated vegetables now, and they have just replenished grain and meat from the Xiongnu. When these foods arrive in cold regions, they are stored for a longer time and do not need to be supplemented with food and grass.
If the Rakshasas wanted to rely on the cold weather in the north to drag down the Great Xia army, it would be even more miscalculated. Now the Great Xia Army has sufficient warm facilities, and the soldiers have adapted to this weather.
In Hexi Town, Chen Mu had already learned about the situation in the Rakshasa Kingdom by torturing the prisoners of war.
They had only three main towns in the country, except for Hedong and Hexi, which were close to the river and could trade with the Xiongnu and Donghu, only the capital remained.
Transliterated into Bactrian is mosaic.