Chapter Seventy-Four: Harsh Government is Fiercer Than a Tiger
Since Fusu's conquest of Nanyue, he has continuously attacked the city and broken the village, which made Zhao Tuo depressed, and what made Zhao Tuo most worried was his only son, the dignified prince of Nanyue, who had all descended to Daqin.
At this moment, Zhao Tuo learned that Fusu personally led an army of 120,000 troops into the hinterland of South Vietnam, and secretly rejoiced.
Zhao Tuo thought about defeating Fusu in this land of South Vietnam, but he had no choice but to be Fusu's opponent, and was fled to this Minzhong County by Fusu in a hurry, Zhao Tuo thought that he would have no chance to take revenge in his life, but he didn't expect that there was such a good opportunity to send it to the door now, and the desire that had been extinguished in Zhao Tuo's heart was also activated.
Zhao Tuo glanced at the ministers excitedly, and said with a sneer.
"Ministers, now this Fusu Xiaoer personally led an army of 120,000 deep into the hinterland of my Minzhong County, it is really a rare good opportunity, I intend to do my best to kill the Fusu Xiaoer in this Minzhong County, do you have any objections?" Zhao Tuo gritted his teeth and said.
"The king, the king is wise, and the ministers have no objections." The first minister, who was standing in the front row of the hall, was the first to speak.
"The king, the ministers have no objections."
"The king is wise, and the ministers have no objections."
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For a while, all the ministers chimed in.
It's not that these ministers don't know that Zhao Tuo's move is extremely risky, but that they are afraid of Zhao Tuo's obscenity and dare not disobey Zhao Tuo. In the past, when Wu Jian was there, they dared to say some heartfelt words to Zhao Tuo.
Now this Zhao Tuo is no longer the king of Nanyue who can listen to advice in the past, and the minister Wu Jian is also gone, once Zhao Tuo is angered, who else can say a word for them? Therefore, the ministers could only choose to succumb to Zhao Tuo's obscenity, and not express opposition to anything or simply choose to remain silent.
Seeing that no one objected to the ministers, Zhao Tuo's face showed victory and began to arrange for the civil and military forces to encircle and annihilate the Soviet army.
The next day, Xu Huan, the general of the South Vietnamese unified army, obeyed Zhao Tuo's edict and left 30,000 horses to garrison Dongye, raising 200,000 South Vietnamese troops and going straight to the Fusu army.
When the 200,000 South Vietnamese troops left Dongye, a South Vietnamese "common man" quickly left Dongye City and rushed towards a mountain hundreds of miles away from Dongye.
After Han Chuan learned the news that the main force of the South Vietnamese Army had left Dongye, he immediately sent hundreds of people to the nearby mountains to gather the scattered Tiger Ben Army and Ying Long Army.
In fact, Han Chuan had already arrived near Dongye three days ago, because there were many South Vietnamese soldiers patrolling near Dongye, Han Chuan had no choice but to scatter all the soldiers under his command in more than a dozen mountains near Dongye to avoid the inspection of the South Vietnamese army.
Even after dispersion, the largest number of Qin troops was only more than 500 people, and it would never attract the attention of the South Vietnamese army, because there were many mountain bandits in the mountains near Dongye City, the largest number of which was several thousand, and the smallest number was six or seven hundred, and the number of five hundred people was no less than seven or eight, so the 500-strong Tiger Ben Army would not easily attract the attention of the South Vietnamese army, and all of this was due to Zhao Tuo's harsh administration.
Three days later, scattered in the mountains of the Tiger Ben army and Ying Long army returned one after another, when Han Chuan counted the number of people, he was surprised to find that there were more than 10,000 soldiers who returned, and these 10,000 people were all willing to surrender to the Qin army of the mountain bandits, they were forced to enter the mountains as bandits, and now seeing the Qin army appear in Dongye, they have found the Qin army closest to their cottage to take the initiative to follow.
These people have long heard of the benevolent government of Fusu in Guilin County and Nanhai County, and they have long hoped that Minzhong County can return to the rule of Great Qin as soon as possible, but Zhao Tuo has acted perversely in Minzhong County, forcing them to go up the mountain to become bandits, and now that the Qin army has appeared, they naturally chose to surrender.
"Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger!"
Han Chuan looked at the more than 10,000 "mountain bandits" who had surrendered, and sighed with a heavy heart. These people are ragged, with yellow faces and thin muscles, obviously this mountain bandit is really not easy to be!
"Captain Zhisu, immediately start a gang to make food, let these righteous men have a full meal, and the attack on Dongye will not let these righteous soldiers participate." Han Chuan instructed the lieutenant in the army.
"No"
After receiving the order, the commander of Zhisu turned around and left, and went to gather the soldiers to make food.
"This general, why don't you let me wait to attack Dongye City, don't you believe me?" A righteous man who looked like a leader asked.
"This big brother, the reason why you want to enter the mountain is ...... Resisting the harsh government of the king of Nanyue is to save your life in this troubled era, and now that my Qin army is here, how can I let you worry about your life anymore. It is already a great achievement for you to take the initiative to surrender to my Great Qin at this time, how can I let you go to danger again? Your good intentions are understood, but this siege will not bother you. ”
Han Chuan bowed down and bowed to the righteous men in front of him, and said to everyone in a sincere tone.
After listening to what Han Chuan said, the righteous people were silent, it turned out that they had misunderstood others, and the reason why they were unwilling to let them participate in the attack on Dongye County was actually for their own sake.
After a few moments, the leader-like righteous man spoke again.
"This general, although we have become bandits in this mountain, we still understand some truth, you can rest assured, we have fought with Zhao Tuo's officers and soldiers, knowing their paths, we will never easily lose this life, or you will take us, we will protect ourselves."
"This big brother, don't embarrass me anymore, if you let you lose your lives under this Dongye City, how can I explain to my son? Don't embarrass me anymore, and don't talk about it anymore, okay? Han Chuan persuaded the group of mountain bandits who had surrendered.
"Since you have a problem, we will not force it anymore."
Seeing Han Chuan's embarrassed face, the leading righteous man had no choice but to give up and turned around and left.
When the leading righteous man turned to leave, several of his followers immediately chased after him and began to persuade him.
"Big brother, persuade again!"
"Yes, big brother, why don't you tell that general again, so that we also have a chance to participate in the war."
"Brothers, don't talk about it, let's fill your stomach first!" The leading righteous man said to several relatives around him, but the shrewdness that flashed in his eyes could not be concealed, but fortunately, Han Chuan did not see it.
At dawn the next day, Han Chuan and Zhao Shi led the Huben army and the Ying Long army to set off and went straight to Dongye City, which was hundreds of miles away.
At noon, 50,000 tiger troops and 2,000 Yinglong troops arrived at Dongye City, and after resting outside Dongye City for half an hour, Han Chuan ordered all the soldiers to abandon their horses, change cavalry into infantry, and carry cloud ladders to attack Dongye City.
According to Han Chuan's previous combat experience, he would never use this extreme method of warfare, because the cavalry is different from the infantry, and it is not suitable for the most direct method of fighting with a ladder to attack the city, because Han Chuan is worried about the safety of Fusu, he can only reluctantly choose this most unsuitable for cavalry, but the most direct combat method, after all, in this way can capture Dongye City in the shortest possible time and join Fusu as soon as possible.
Because the Tiger Army and the Ying Long Army switched from cavalry warfare to siege warfare, they did not have time to adapt to the siege mode for a while, so there were many situations in the offensive process; The attacks of each echelon cannot be effectively connected, and there is a lack of effective siege weapons.
Until sunset, Han Chuan had not been able to conquer Dongye City, and the casualties of the Tiger Ben Army and Ying Long Army had exceeded 10,000.
Just when Han Chuan was at a loss, a "surprise soldier" appeared on the battlefield.
I saw that the 10,000 "mountain bandits" who had surrendered last night appeared behind Han Chuan with a cloud ladder and shoddy weapons, screaming and rushing to the foot of Dongye City, driving the cloud ladder and starting to charge.
Seeing this scene, all the Tiger Ben Army and Ying Long Sergeant were moved, and the corners of countless people's eyes moistened.
"Kill" Han Chuan shouted and took the lead in the charge, and all the soldiers followed Han Chuan and rushed to the foot of Dongye City.