"Splash boiling water!" Wan Chongshan shouted, and the heralds immediately passed on his orders, one by one the heralds stood at the same distance from each other on the inside of the city wall, and passed the orders out in turn. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Immediately someone scooped boiling water from the pot and poured it into the wooden barrel, and the wooden barrel was quickly filled, and another young man came to the wall with the wooden barrel, scooped up the boiling water one by one and poured it down the city.

At this time, the vanguard of the Great Food Army just arrived at the foot of the city wall with the siege ladder, and was drenched with boiling water, although the boiling water dropped some temperature in the process of swaying, there was still a high temperature of eighty or ninety degrees, and the soldiers of the Great Food Army who were drenched on the body let out a scream on the spot, and the siege ladder was also thrown aside, and they all retreated again and again and screamed.

Behind the big food soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city wall to lift the siege ladder again, but soon was splashed by the boiling water, so repeated several times, when the boiling water in the bucket was broken, many big soldiers were burned, but the siege ladder was finally lifted up and erected on the city wall.

Ziad, who was riding on horseback and directing the siege in the rear, saw that people were constantly pouring boiling water on the city walls, and immediately ordered: "Send the archers over to suppress it!" ”

"Yes, General!"

A team of archers was transferred to a short distance under the city, they lined up in three teams, under the command of the officer, they kept shooting at the room on the city wall to kill those young Zhuang who splashed boiling water, with the protection of the battlements of the city wall, the casualties of the young Zhuang were not large, but the action of splashing boiling water on the big food army under the city was still somewhat suppressed, and they didn't dare to expose their bodies too easily, which gave the soldiers of the big food army besieging the city under the city a chance to climb the ladder.

When Wan Chongshan saw it, he immediately ordered: "The soldiers shot the enemy archers with arrows, and the young man continued to splash boiling water!" ”

After suffering some casualties, Wan Chongshan had to change the way of defense and ordered the soldiers to hold shields to block the arrows for themselves and the young people, and the young people still started to pour down the city, which effectively prevented the big food army from climbing on the siege ladder.

The killing effect of boiling water is not as good as that of a sword, and it can't kill people, but once burned, the pain is extremely uncomfortable, and there will be some fear in my heart, so the scalded food army began to cower, and there was no longer the mental state of not being afraid of death before, but when the boiling water was poured out, the soldiers of the big food army began to climb the siege ladder again, one by one, the big food soldiers climbed the siege ladder, and on the ladder like a skewer, some of them had five or six big food troops lying on the ladder.

"Smash the rocks!" Wan Chongshan ordered loudly, and the young men lifted the stone and threw it down to the big food soldier on the cloud ladder, and a big food army at the head was smashed to the head and bleeding, and his body fell, and several people on the cloud ladder below were smashed down together, and the big food soldier who was pressed in the middle was also seriously injured.

Ziad couldn't help frowning when he looked at the scene up and down the city wall, and began to calculate in his heart, if he continued at this pace, he was afraid that he might not be able to break through Zaheidan City in three or four hours, you must know that there were only a few hundred soldiers in the city, and he now finally realized the huge impact of the lack of large-scale siege equipment on the siege battle, and the efficiency of the siege was too low and the casualties were too great.

After thinking for a long time, Ziad ordered someone to call the commander of the bow and arrows and instructed: "Let your men not shoot indiscriminately, aim for me and shoot again, just like when practicing archery, do not shoot volleys, let them play freely!" ”

The commander of the archers promised: "Yes, General! ”

Ziyad also commanded Daoud: "Pass my orders, increase the intensity of the siege, send a team of warlords, and whoever wants to die and be afraid to move forward will be killed!" ”

Daoud was a little distressed and said, "General, if we do this, our casualties will surge!" ”

Ziad nodded: "You're right, but the Western Qin army will definitely not be better, their regular army is only a few hundred people, and the rest are young and middle-aged residents in the city, they have no combat effectiveness, they can't withstand our strong attack!" ”

Seeing Ziad say this, Daoud had no choice but to agree: "Okay! ”

Sure enough, the pressure on the Western Qin army on the city wall increased several times because of the several orders issued by Ziad in a row, first of all, because the archers of the Great Food Army changed their salvo to point fire, causing the casualties of the Western Qin Army to increase significantly, and the increase in the siege under the city also increased the pressure on the Western Qin Army, and they were all a little too busy.

This battle was fought from morning to dusk, the defenders of the Western Qin army finally couldn't stand it, the absolute inferiority of the strength made them suffer too many casualties, and at dusk, the city wall could not even find a defender soldier every ten meters of distance, and a large number of casualties caused by the empty garrison of many sections of the city wall, which made the soldiers of the Great Food Army climb the city wall in one fell swoop and began to fight with the Western Qin army at close range for control of the city wall.

Before dark, all four city walls were occupied by the Great Food Army, the soldiers and young men of the Western Qin Army on the city wall were all killed, and Wanzhong Mountain was not spared, this battle was tragic, from the morning to the dark, there was no half a moment of rest in between.

More than 1,500 soldiers and young men of the Western Qin Army defending the city were all killed, but the Great Food Army also failed to please them, nearly 3,000 people were killed, more than 1,000 were injured, and the small Zaheedan City lost more than half of the 20,000 most elite Great Food Army Guards, which made the chill in Ziade's heart more and more intense.

When the sky darkened, the Great Eater Army, who had seized the city wall, lit torches, and Ziad walked to the gate tower surrounded by his generals, and Wan Chongshan, who had been dead for a long time, stood on the pile of corpses with wide eyes and spears, and the armor on his body no longer had a single intact piece of armor and steel plates, and there were wounds everywhere, and the blood stains on his body had dried up.

A big food soldier was about to take a spear to poke down the corpse of Wanzhongshan, Ziad stretched out his hand to stop it, the soldier stupidly withdrew his spear and retreated to the side, Ziad took two steps forward and sent the hand holding the hilt of the knife to his chest, bent over, and bowed his head. Except for Daoud who followed Ziad to salute the corpse of Wanzhong Mountain, the other Great Food Army generals all watched this scene quietly, they were all fools, how could they understand that respecting the enemy is respecting themselves?

Ziad straightened up, raised his head, looked at the corpse of Wan Chongshan and commanded Daoud: "Daoud, bury General Wan!" Buried according to the specifications that a general who died in battle deserves, there should be no less funeral goods, and all the residents in the city were searched out for General Wan to be buried! ”

"Understood!" Daoud agreed, and immediately ordered the army to pick up the shields and other defensive equipment of the Western Qin army, and then march into the city in several ways.

In the battle of the city wall defense, the garrison in the city has been exhausted, at this time only the old and weak prisoners are left in the city, although the big food army has encountered some resistance, but the strength is far less than the night before, before dawn completely cleared the resistance in the city, more than 2,000 old and weak women and children were captured alive, they were all killed and buried together with the coffin of Wanzhong Mountain.

At this time, Zhao Ziliang's army was in Shulgaz City, and did not attack to the west, in fact, he could have continued to attack westward, if the attack was fast enough, he would have captured Behedashir Castle at this time, during this time he has been integrating servant troops and prisoners, these total numbers are close to 50,000 people, this is a force to be reckoned with, if used properly, they can play an unimaginable role.

Speaking of controlling this group of 50,000 servant troops and prisoners, Zhao Ziliang has his own methods, these 50,000 people are divided into four armies, the first two armies are 15,000 people, and the last two armies are 10,000 people, each army has a chief general, two deputy generals and one supervising army, the main general and one deputy general are big cannibals or Persians, and the other deputy general and general are Western Qin people, let the main generals and deputy generals who are Persians or big cannibals supervise each other, and then let another deputy general and supervisor supervise them, At the same time, the following generals and officers at all levels are allowed to supervise each other, as long as they find that the person being monitored has misdeeds or disloyalty, they can report it, and the whistleblower will receive a generous reward, or be promoted or make a fortune. In this way, the management, generals, and officers of the entire army are in mutual supervision, and no one dares to have a disobedient heart at will, and this servant army is firmly controlled by Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang was listening to the reports of the generals on the reorganization of the servant army in the hall of the city lord's mansion in Shuergaz City, when Wang Can rushed in and hugged his fists and said: "Great King, something is wrong, just now a soldier from Zaheedan City came to report that Zaheidan City was attacked by the Great Food Army, and this is the thing??????? This soldier passed out because he had not finished talking about the water for several days, and the whereabouts of Wang Guangyao and his 1,000 men and horses and the situation of Zaheidan later were unknown! ”

Zhao Ziliang's reaction surprised all the generals and officials in the hall, his expression did not change at all, he looked at Schneider, Wahid, Obot and the others and asked, "Can any of you tell me what shortcuts the caliph's army can take to reach Zahedan other than passing through us to Zahedan?" ”

In order to make themselves more trusted by Zhao Ziliang and be used more heavily than the others, these servant generals all competed to show themselves in front of Zhao Ziliang, and Obot stood up and saluted before the others could react: "Your Majesty, in addition to taking the route of Bam Castle and Shulgaz City, they can only go directly from Behedashir Castle through the Ruti Desert to reach the outside of Zaheedan City!" ”