Chapter 637: Capture the capital
Song Che stood on the watchtower and visited with a telescope until the end of the night, when he saw Liu Tong returning, he hurried down to greet him.
Liu Tong can come back safely, which means that half of the plan has been effective.
"What's Asler's attitude?" Song Che grabbed Liu Tong's hand and asked.
Liu Tong hammered his back and said with a smile: "He verbally said that he would not cooperate with the enemy and betray the country, but in fact, he stuffed the envelope into his arms and invited me to have a glass of wine. β
"Good! Mr. Liu has worked hard tonight, and when he returns to Beijing in triumph in the coming day, I will personally ask His Majesty the Emperor for meritorious service for you. β
"The lower officer thanked the military advisor."
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In the next three days, the Hu people launched two more sieges, and the scale was obviously reduced a lot.
The Hu people's troops are easy to distinguish, each tribe has a different flag totem, in the past, the Eagle tribe always charged ahead, but the last two sieges did not see their troops, it is clear that Asler's ambitions have fermented.
Song Che struck while the iron was hot, and secretly released news to the spies, saying that the Eagle Tribe had the heart of rebellion.
Sure enough, the news had just leaked, and the spy used geese to spread the news in the middle of the night.
Song Che stood on the watchtower and saw it clearly with a telescope.
"Arrest all these spies, send a few more spies, and always observe the movements of the Eagle Tribe, once there is an accident in the enemy camp, we will make a decision and take advantage of the situation to attack!"
"Yes!"
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On the eighth day of the sixth month, the day after the news of the discord spread, the spies quickly reported that the Eagle tribe had migrated to the northwest.
On the ninth day of the sixth month, it was the ninth day of the month.
After confirming that the Eagle Tribe had withdrawn from the battlefield, Song Che opened the gate of Shizui City, and the army roared out, and the soldiers pointed directly at the enemy camp. This is the first time in the nearly two months of stalemate that Liang Jun has taken the initiative.
"Rush me!"
In the middle of the night, the two armies began to fight, and the sound of artillery fire and fighting reverberated in the grassland.
The Hu army attacked the city for two months without success, both morale and state were greatly affected, and coupled with the withdrawal of the Eagle tribe from the battlefield, their defeat seemed to be a foregone conclusion.
"Report! General Jiang led the army to charge into battle, and with only one man and one horse, he took the heads of four enemy generals in the ten thousand armies! Our army is in full swing! β
"Report! Our army has pressed on all fronts and has clearly gained the upper hand! β
"Report! The enemy army threw away their armor and was defeated in the west, and General Jiang led the cavalry to chase and kill along the road, like chopping melons and vegetables, it was simply a god soldier from heaven, invincible in the world! β
The spies report back to the military every half hour, and they are enthusiastic!
When he heard that the enemy army was defeated, Song Che couldn't sit still in the rear, and even rode a fast horse to the front line.
On the tenth day of June, dawn broke.
Walking through the battlefield where corpses are strewn and blood is flowing like a river, people can't help but feel the tragedy of this battle.
By the time Song Che had caught up with the front-line troops, the Liang army had already captured the two cities of Alxa and Bayan. The few tens of thousands of remnants of the Hu army were defeated, and all of them retreated to the capital.
"Brothers, do you have any strength!"
"Yes! There's a lot of energy! β
"Okay, most of the Hu Kingdom is thirty miles away, let's take it down in one go today!"
Blood has been injected into the spine, the fire is burning in the heart, and the fighting spirit of the whole army is endless!
After a brief rest in Bayan, the army marched westward again.
At noon, the soldiers approached the west gate of the capital.
When Song Che fled at the beginning of the year, he promised that one day he would come back with thousands of troops and horses to take revenge, and now after nearly seven months, he will finally achieve it.
On the city wall of the capital of Hu State, Arhandu has changed into battle armor, leading a group of remnants of the defeated generals, making the last resistance - from the perspective of the Liang people, what he did is deeply hated, and from the eyes of the Hu people, he is definitely a loyal and patriotic loyal minister.
"Mr. Arhan, I won't say anything else, the collapse of the Hu State is a foregone conclusion, I will give you another chance, Kaicheng surrenders, but the people can be safe." Song Che shouted and persuaded him to surrender.
Arhan replied strongly: "Don't talk nonsense, there is no word 'surrender' in our Hu people's cognition, most of my walls are five feet high, impregnable, and 600,000 people are soldiers, and the grain and grass in the city can be used for half a load, if you have the ability, come and attack it!" β
"Mr. Arhan." Song Che said loudly: "Don't you forget, this western city wall was built by me for you, I can make it pile up, and I have the ability to tear it down!" β
Hearing this, Arhan's face changed greatly, and he knew that Song Che would never say anything.
Song Che beckoned, the army parted ways, thirty artillery pieces were pushed to the front of the formation, and he pointed to the city wall and gave orders to the artillery:
"The position of three zhang below the head of the city, seventeen squares on the left and twenty-three squares on the right, is the load-bearing beam of this wall, I deliberately did not fill it up during the construction, and kept a gap, and all the artillerymen obeyed the order, aimed at the position we just described, and bombed me vigorously until it collapsed!"
The biggest disadvantage of reinforced concrete walls is that they are not tightly connected, so destroying the axis can blow it apart.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Shells rained down on Xicheng, first knocking off the wall skin, then bending the steel bars, destroying the entire load-bearing structure and making the wall crumbling.
Arhan's face was like ashes, he clinged to the wall, his eyes bloodshot with hatred, and shouted at Song Che: "Song Che! The worst decision I've ever made in my life was to bring you back to Dadu! β
He finally shouted out the resentment in his heart, but unfortunately time is gone, and there is no regret medicine in the world.
"Boom ......"
The seemingly impregnable wall collapsed from the load-bearing shaft downward, cracking a gap, and most of the soldiers on the wall were buried in boulders and dust.
"The walls of the capital have been broken, attack!"
"Rush!"
The Liang army poured into the capital of Hu like a flood, and it didn't matter if they burned, killed and looted, this should have been their deserved spoils.
Song Che rode a horse and walked slowly at the end, he came to the collapse of the city wall, and at a glance he found Arhan, whose flesh and blood were blurred by the giant corpse.
Shaking his head, he sighed softly: "Mr. Arhan, you and I are not wrong, but each is his own masterβsomeone from here." β
"What do you command?"
"Clean up his body, put it in the ground, and return the fallen leaves to the roots."
"Yes!"