Chapter Ninety-Three: The Ruined Shuofang City
"Yun Hao, you dare to ......!" Liu Wenjing looked at Yun Hao's eyes and almost burst into flames. A little marquis, the general of Zuo Wuwei. Dare to catch him Shangshu's right servant and shoot, this is a fucking rebellion.
"Someone came, Shangshu's right servant shot Liu Wenjing. Roaring handsome, good at military affairs, with bad intentions. Take! Yun Hao said one by one, and the majestic sea caracer behind him walked over with a smile.
"Don't ......!" The guards behind Liu Wenjing rushed to Liu Wenjing to protect him. But before the word rudeness could be uttered, the horizontal knife of the majestic sea cut off half of his head. Half of the skull with the eyes flew out and smashed a lieutenant, and the brain was still fucking hot.
"Yun Hao, you are so daring!" Liu Wenjing didn't believe that Yun Hao would really arrest him, but he didn't expect Yun Hao to kill his guards now. This feud is settled!
"Liu Xiang, I was wronged. When you get to your majesty, you will discern again. ”
"Yun Hao! Don't think that Your Majesty spoils you, and you can do whatever you want. The old man is the right servant of Shangshu to shoot, if you commit the following crimes, the old man will impeach you, and the old man will ......! He couldn't go on, and the hand of the majestic sea grabbed him by the neck like an eagle catching a chicken. Liu Wenjing's face was flushed, and she couldn't say a word.
In front of the ferocious and majestic sea, Liu Wenjing's guards were as cowardly as quails. When the horizontal knife was collected, one of Liu Wenjing's guards tugged at it. Immediately, someone shouted, "Rebellion!" ”
Liu Wenjing closed her eyes in pain, and there was a sound of a knife entering the flesh behind her. More than a dozen followers were chopped into pulp in an instant. Blood was pouring all over the ground, and the blood inside the tent was disgusting.
Yun Hao nodded at Xiong Kuohai, and then let Xiong Kuohai pinch Liu Wenjing will be strangled to death. It's one thing to arrest Liu Wenjing, but it's another thing to kill Liu Wenjing. As the right servant of the Tang Shangshu, a large number of people followed him to eat. In the imperial court, there is also a powerful person. If you kill such a person, you may be hacked at some point.
Liu Wenjing was escorted, and Yun Hao unfolded the map and began to discuss with the officers how to get the Turks to keep them. Looking left and right on the map, only Shuofang is a suitable place. There were passes that had been broken by the Turks, stuck on the way back to the Turks. If you want to snipe the Turks, this is the most suitable place.
"Although the Turks have a lot of cavalry, in fact, they can only fight about 100,000 people. The remaining hundreds of thousands of people are herdsmen and Han Chinese who have looted with the team. When it comes to marching speed, they're not as fast as we are. As long as the brothers work harder, it will not be a big problem to get to Shuofang before the Turks. Comparing the length of the map, Sheng Yanshi silently calculated in his heart. This thing learned a lot of knowledge in the academy, and he sat in the first row when Yun Hao lectured. Although he is a little taller, he will block other students. But Yun Hao never picked him up!
"Master Hou's method of building a city with boiling water is available, and Shuofang should be colder than Bingzhou City. It's just that we have 8,000 people, how can we rob 100,000 iron horsemen of the Turks? Qiu Shili thought about the fierceness of the Turks when they attacked the city that day, and he didn't have any bottom in his heart.
"That can only rely on His Royal Highness the King of Qin, we just need to snipe the Turks. As long as His Royal Highness the King of Qin takes advantage of the situation to insert a knife in the back of the Turks, the Turks can only obediently run back to the grassland. When the time comes, let alone take away Han slaves, even Turkic herdsmen may have to stay a lot. But at that time, we didn't dare to snipe again. At that time, the Turks were crazy, and if we fought to the death, it could only be a dead fight, and it was only right to let them go back to the steppe. Yun Hao said slowly.
This must be made clear, otherwise people who have just come back from the line of life and death. will cherish life more than others, if there is another non-stop mobilization, Yun Hao feels that the gang of guys under him is very likely to mutiny.
Sure enough, I heard Yun Hao say that there was no need to beat him to death. The generals and officers all breathed a sigh of relief, fighting a war will kill people in the end. Everyone understands this, but in the end, there is still hope for life. If they knew that they would die, they would still be unwilling in their hearts.
Don't say anything about the that soldiers should die generously, bloodshed and sacrifice are all forced to do nothing. If given a choice, almost all would choose to live. Those who can really face death are either enlightened saints or madmen.
Send someone to contact Li Er in Youzhou and ask Li Er to wave his army and stab the Turks in the ass in the back. Yun Hao watched the Turks leave his sight, and immediately took eight thousand Zuowu guards to make a detour to Shuofang City. When he set off, Yun Hao suddenly asked Liu Weng Jing to take him with him.
With Liu Fulu's appearance, it is obviously very unreliable to want him to guard a cadre of Liu Wenjing's level. Maybe if he goes out of the city with his front foot, Liu Fulu will release this servant with his back foot. And Liu Wenjing, who was released, is not a demon, then it is not his character. In case the traitorous heart broke out, he sent a fast horse to chase the Turks and inform Jieli that he might not live for more than a few days.
Sheng Yanshi's calculation was not wrong, Yun Hao thought that the Turks were all cavalry. The march must have been as fast as the Mongols of later generations. But in reality, that's far from the case.
Usually when the Turks went out on an expedition, they were surrounded by Turkic iron cavalry. But behind him was a shepherd driving a large number of cattle and sheep. These people are the baggage of the Turks, and the cattle and sheep are the grain that can move. The Turks were far from reaching the level of mobility of the Mongols in later generations.
When you come, you may be able to advance quickly, but when you go back. They all grabbed a lot of money, and many people's pack horses were in danger of not being able to walk.
This is also something that cannot be helped, the productivity on the grassland is low. Most of the herdsmen are poor and scum, even the so-called Turkic nobles, they are barely scumbags. The Turkic people, who can't even produce an iron pot on their own, you expect them not to be red-eyed about the things of the Han people, it's simply unrealistic.
Food has to be grabbed, it is a living thing. Women want to rob, who doesn't like warm quilts. Men also have to rob, and it is always good to have more laborers in the family. As for the iron pot, it is even more necessary to rob it, and the girl on the grassland marries and distributes an iron pot, which is a valuable dowry.
The Turks, with the fruits of countless looting, marched like a snail. Jieli is not in a hurry, anyway, he and Liu Wenjing have already negotiated the conditions. In terms of cooperation, Liu Wenjing has a good reputation. Whatever was promised to the Turks, it was done properly. Jieli believes that this time will be no exception, and if there is an accident, he is ready to do it again. After all, Datang's border is so long, it is a good strategy to grab a handful and leave.
Moreover, Jieli noticed that the machinery that threw the oil and powder bombs was unusually cumbersome. This kind of thing is not suitable for field warfare, if you encounter this thing in the field. Jieli has the certainty of the city to kill them! Thinking about the fiasco under the city of Bingzhou, Jieli is a little painful. There were 7,000 of the bravest warriors of the Turks, and even the bloodiest battles on the steppes did not once kill 7,000 people. These are the essence of the Ashina family!
Yun Hao is very glad that the winter in Hebei this year is very cold, if it is in the usual month. There is already a warm wind blowing, as long as there is a light rain. The ground that has been frozen for a winter will turn into a muddy pond in an instant.
Not this year, and in February the ground is still freezing hard. The bullock pulled the heavy trebuchet and walked very fast, and after a day's march. Yun Hao was pleasantly surprised to find that he had actually walked fifty miles. And the scouts came with the news that the Turks could only walk forty miles a day.
Even if he didn't work hard, Yun Hao would be able to rush to Shuofang City two days in advance. I hope that the captured city has not suffered serious damage, and that the cold winter will last a little longer. Not much, half a month is fine.
Hurry up, when Yun Hao finally saw Shuofang City. The eyes are full of surprises, because this is almost a city in good condition. Although there are traces of slashing and chiseling on the city wall, it is still intact and there are no gaps. Except for the city gate that was crooked to one side, Yun Hao couldn't see any damage.
Surprise is only a momentary thing, and then it brings loneliness and anger. This can be seen from the still intact city walls, if there really was a tragic siege battle, it would be impossible not to have a mountain of corpses. There are also broken armor blades, siege engines and the like.
There are corpses, but there are not many. They were all gnawed and tattered by wild wolves, and it can be seen from the remaining costumes that they are all Tang people, and they are all civilians. The Turks have always been in charge of killing and burying, and they have done the same to their enemies and to their own people. There is no reason why not a single corpse of a Turkic can be found.
Shuofang City was not breached at all, and the Tang army in the city should have surrendered.
The Tang Empire, which was established at the beginning of Guozuo, did not yet control all the lands left by the former Sui. Especially in Hebei, where Liu Wuzhou and Dou Jiande took turns to plague the disaster, after many of Dou Jiande's soldiers surrendered, they didn't even change their military uniforms, so they were sent to Shuofang, a place where birds don't.
These guys who have milk are mothers, and they can't talk about loyalty to the country at all. Not to mention, what kind of national righteousness and the like. As long as you can live, you can live with food and drink. Kill your father and mother with your own hands, maybe they won't care.
After the scouts investigated, Yun Hao quickly entered the city with Zuo Wuwei. The damaged gates need to be repaired quickly, and the condition of the city needs to be checked. Finally, you have to quickly set up the bulky trebuchets.
The situation in the city is quite miserable, and it has almost become a paradise for rats and crows. In broad daylight, foxes and wolves roam the streets. On the fences of many yards, the corpses of children are strung together. A small corpse swayed in the wind like rag dolls. Their eyes were pecked away by crows, and all of them had big black holes in their eyes. There are frozen muscles left on the side!
On the walls of the rammed loess houses, there are patches of shocking black. If it's summer, it's bound to be full of flies. There are carcasses gnawed and mutilated by animals everywhere, there are old people and children, but there are no young adults in sight.
The crows in the sky "croaked" and "croaked", looking at these people who could move, they were not afraid at all. Rats and wolves are not very afraid of people. When they walked into the house, some red-eyed rats even dared to rush up and eat the living.
The soldiers caught some rats and stuffed a few soybeans into the rats' **. Then soak in the water for a while and forget it, and after a while, Yun Hao saw a strange scene.
The big rats all over the street chased and bit each other, and the soybeans swelled. Those rats had gone crazy, and Yun Hao saw several rats chasing a wolf with his own eyes.
The broken city gate was no longer usable, and there was no way, Yun Hao could only order the county government to be demolished. Pile the bricks to the place of the city gate and pour water. Overnight, it became impregnable. There is no way back, this method blocks the way for the Turks to come in, and also blocks their way out. Yun Hao didn't plan to go out from here and fight the Turks outside the city, which Yun Hao thought was the result of being kicked in the head by a donkey.
The trebuchet was quickly set up, and the soldiers dug a huge pit. Then he set fire to a lot of wood, including the two gates that had broken several pieces. Throw any corpse you see into the pit. The fire emitted yellow smoke, and the yellow smoke with the smell of burnt smell soared into the sky.
Ling Jing counted the number of corpses, and was surprised to find that there were not too many corpses. There were less than a thousand corpses cleaned up in the entire Shuofang City, and none of them were young adults. You must know that Shuofang is Dayi, Hebei, the most prosperous city bordering the Turks. There are still 10,000 or 20,000 people in this kind of city scale.
Less than a thousand corpses indicate that most of them were taken by the Turks rather than killed. Although they know that their fate will be tragic after they are taken away. But as long as they live, it's always a good thing. Perhaps, they have not yet been sent back to the grasslands. But with the Turkic army, it is swaying in Hebei.
Yun Hao made many soldiers fall from the city. Many traps were dug in the ground, and those one-foot-deep holes proved to be a good defense against the Turkic cavalry. Stones with large heads can also be a good obstacle to the advance of siege engines. When the Turkic soldiers tried to move the stones, it was when the power of the Eight Ox Crossbow was used. Under the city of Bingzhou, the Turkic soldiers who were pushed to the ground in this way were not one or two.
I miss the weapon of landmines, as long as a soldier steps on a mine. Everyone will think that there are landmines everywhere, and this thing is very people's psyche. All it takes is one mine to explode and stop the whole team for a long time.
It shouldn't be difficult to have a gunpowder mine, so go back and talk to the fisherman. Let's see if this old guy can figure it out.
As the tired soldiers climbed back to the walls, it began to snow. The snowflakes are big but sticky, and when you hold them together, it's a snowball. The snow soon made the sky and the earth chaotic. The snow-white ground covered the traps, and only the stones became bulging bags on the ground.
Suddenly, a loud horn sounded and pierced the chaotic world. Yun Hao threw down the snowball and ordered the whole team to gather immediately. They're coming!