Chapter 1185: Bloody Battle at Shahan Pass (2)
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The first wave of rockets was only a test launch, and the results were negligible, and the second wave of rockets took several minutes to launch, this time the accuracy was much larger, and after the third wave of rockets was launched, the results achieved were already amazing.
The general of the Great Food Army quickly sensed that something was wrong and immediately roared: "Quickly move all the ballistas!" ”
After hearing the order, the soldiers of the Great Food Army began to transfer the ballistas, but they also found out too late, at this time, the ballistas of the Great Food Army had been almost destroyed, and the ballistas that had been hit were burned by the fire on the rockets, and many of the soldiers of the Great Food Army were burned when they were rescued. Such a ballista is useless even if it is removed.
Zhao Ziliang observed the effect achieved after several waves of rockets were launched through the telescope, and felt that it was not bad, at least the remaining few ballistae did not pose much of a threat, and he immediately ordered: "The first servant army begins to attack the city!" ”
"Siege!"
Five hundred servants in their left hand holding a small wooden shield, right hand in the knife to climb up to the Kill Han Pass, this section of the road is a hillside road, not spacious, the road is only four or five meters wide, plus the two sides of the rocks, grass is only thirty or forty meters wide, at most can only swing out of the five hundred troops has reached the sky.
This kind of siege is the most difficult to fight, and the attacking soldiers only climb under the city walls to spend most of their strength, and their combat ability is reduced.
The disorganized army of five hundred servants had just climbed halfway, and when they reached the middle of the hillside road, they heard a sound of rolling thunder, and when they looked up, they saw a large number of rolling stones rushing down from above.
"Rolling Stones!" Someone let out a cry of terror.
"Run!" Some people turned around and ran, and the others saw so many rolling stones rushing down that they were immediately frightened, and they turned around and ran down the mountain.
Although these people ran fast, but those rolling stones rolled faster, and soon caught up with the servants who were running away, a large number of soldiers were knocked over by the rolling stones, and then knocked down the front, for a time the scene was miserable, some people were smashed into a puddle of mud by the rolling stones on the spot, some people were smashed all the way down the mountain, there were not many people who were really stoned to death, most of them were injured, the rolling stones kept rolling down the mountain before stopping, this wave of attacks has frightened these servant troops, where is the courage to continue to attack the city? Regardless of whether there were rolling stones chasing after them, they ran down the hill one after another.
Chu Ge looked at the large number of servant soldiers who ran back with a black face, and he waved his hand: "The king has an order, those who are afraid of the enemy and take a step back will be killed!" Overseer, up! ”
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" ??????
The Overseer pressed down the rebels who had fled down the mountain in a neat and dense formation, and they stepped on neat and firm steps, holding bright and cold swords in their hands, advancing like a wall, murderous. These are a team of warlords composed of the Mo Dao team, even in the face of the heavy armored cavalry charge of the Great Food Army, they can carry it, what are these servant troops who fled back in chaos?
"Slash!" With a loud shout from the general of the overseer team, I saw a row of knives flashing in the front, and the rebels of the servant army who ran in the front were all cut into two sections, and blood was thrown to the ground, and then the second row of Mo swordsmen passed through the gap in the first row to the front and waved the Mo knife again, and a large number of fleeing servant troops were cut down.
"Ah, O Allah!" The servant army was completely frightened, and stopped fleeing one after another, and as the Modao team advanced him step by step, they were forced to retreat continuously, and everyone looked miserable and frightened.
"Turn around and go to the siege or die!" The Warlord General shouted at the Servant Army deserters who were constantly being forced to retreat.
After the third group of servant troops were killed, the remaining servant army could no longer withstand it, and there was no possibility of surviving in the face of this dense sword formation, and turning around to attack the city might still have a way to live, and the remaining servant soldiers had to grit their teeth and make the choice of turning around and continuing to attack the city.
Chu Ge waved his hand when he saw those servants turn around and go back to attack the city, allowing the overseer to return to their original positions.
The first wave of the siege of 500 servant troops died in battle before they could withstand half a day, and none of them survived, and the survival rate was zero! Such heavy casualties made the servants and soldiers who were preparing to attack the city in the afternoon tremble one by one.
After lunch, the siege continued in the afternoon, and the Great Food Army guarding the pass controlled the rhythm and intensity of throwing stones and arrows this time, and they began to consciously try to save the use of equipment and materials to defend the city.
Although Shahan Pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but after all, the scale of the siege is too small, Zhao Ziliang did not waste time on it, he stayed in the Chinese army tent in the afternoon and did not come out, and has been standing in front of the combat map to study the war and listen to the military report.
"How's the progress of Wei Meng's Fifth Legion, Oghuz, and Flower Thorn Zim's Army?"
Marching Sima Chen Qing stood up and clasped his fists and replied: "Back to the king, General Wei Meng has already led the army to occupy all of Khorasan Province, and he has sent someone to ask the king for instructions on the next battle strategy!" ”
Zhao Ziliang walked around in front of the map with his fists and arms, his eyes never left the battle map for a moment, he thought for a moment, and instructed Chen Qing as he walked: "Give Wei Meng an order, let him leave the necessary troops to stay in Khorasan, and then lead the army to move westward, attack as fast as possible, and occupy as much territory as possible, we must take advantage of the most chaotic internal chaos in the Great Food Country to occupy as much territory as possible, once this opportunity passes, it will not be so easy for us to attack again!" ”
"Yes!" Chen Qing agreed, and waved his hand to let the scribe next to him immediately record it.
Zhao Ziliang thought of Wei Gao's army, and he didn't know how it was going now, "By the way, where are Wei Gao's men now?" ”
Chen Qing replied: "Two days ago, there was news that Wei Gao's army had broken through Shiraz, and now I think it should be clear about the surrounding resistance forces!" ”
"Hmm!" Zhao Ziliang nodded, and said: "Zhao Lei's plateau army passed through from Sistan, how did the remaining troops clean up the resistance forces over there?" How is the occupation of other areas going? ”
"Great King, the Great Cannibal has no troops in the south, and there is almost no effective resistance, according to the news from all over the country, so far, most of the southern areas have been controlled by our army, and there is no effective resistance in the remaining places, just wait for our army to drive over, and naturally come to capture!"
Zhao Ziliang instructed: "Regardless of whether there is a Great Food Army stationed or not, and whether there are resistance forces, in short, our troops must be driven over and actually occupied." During this period of time, this king has thought clearly, the reason why the Great Food Country was able to quickly occupy the Persian region was that they forced the Persians here to change their faith, we want to rule here more steadily, but I am afraid that the more we have to learn about the Great Cannibal, although this decision is contrary to our consistent policy of freedom of belief, but different regions and regions, the policies must also be different, and we can't just copy them! This matter has been decided by the king, and if anyone objectes, he will reject it all, and immediately issue an edict, and no one shall disobey it, and you must formulate corresponding punishment measures! ”
"Yes!"
For seven consecutive days, the siege battle was fought day and night every day and night, the servant army and slave servant army of the Western Qin killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 5,000 people, and the big food army defending the city was not good, although their casualties were much smaller, but because the West Qin army adopted the fatigue siege tactics of non-stop day and night, everyone in the army was very tired, and no one had a good meal these days, and the combat effectiveness was greatly lost.
November 22nd, night.
Schneider, the general of the servant army, reported the casualties and losses to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, we have lost more than 9,000 people so far, according to our estimates, the losses of the defenders do not exceed 2,500 people, although they only have 5,000 people, but they can also send reinforcements and supplies from Yazd, the current casualty ratio is about four to one, the casualties are too great, and the morale of our subordinate soldiers is declining rapidly!" ”
Zhao Ziliang didn't make a sound after listening to the report, walked to the map and looked at it, and said after a while: "If you fight for another ten days, you will still attack day and night!" Zhao Lei, this time your slave army is in charge of the attack! If anyone can be the first to attack the city, he will be rewarded with 1,000 cattle and sheep, and the official will be promoted to a higher level, and he will be freed, and if he can break through the Shahan Pass, the leading general will be promoted to one level and rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and the reward of the other generals will be tripled according to the usual standard! ”
Zhao Lei's expression moved, and he clenched his fists and agreed: "Yes, father!" ”
Zhao Ziliang's promise of increasing the reward soon spread, and the soldiers of the slave servant army of the Plateau Legion who received the order to attack were all eager to try, and they were very excited, under such a heavy reward, they had completely forgotten that fighting was to kill people.
As soon as the siege began, the slaves howled and roared and rushed to Shahan Pass with their weapons held high, these people were carried away by the heavy rewards, and rushed forward without dying, dying one after another, and the people behind were still rushing to the city wall without fear of death, these slaves were different from those servant troops, they were slaves, they had no freedom in themselves, life and death were in the hands of the Western Qin army, they could not only get rid of the identity of slaves, but also have heavy rewards to take, even if they were desperate, what was it?
Next, the more tragic offensive and defensive battles continued above and below the walls of Shahan Pass, and people kept dying all the time, and there was blood spilling everywhere on the wall, and some stumps and broken arms fell.
The corpses of the slaves have been piled up and down the city wall, from the root of the wall to the battlements of the city wall, the slaves of the Western Qin army are still holding knives and stepping on the corpses to rush up to fight with the Great Food Army, and the Great Food Army defending the city can only resist mechanically with weapons.
This is already the sixteenth day of the siege, the slaves and servants of the Western Qin army have killed more than 26,000 people here, from the beginning of the siege, the corpses have not been cleaned up, the piles of corpses have completely filled the gap between the besieging side and the defender, the city wall is no longer unattainable for the Western Qin slaves who are besieging the city, they can rush to the city wall in one breath by stepping on the corpse, and the slaves who climbed the city first not only got everything promised by Zhao Ziliang, but now they are also centurions.
The big cannibals knew that this Shahan Pass could not be defended, and they had successively sent more than 3,000 reinforcements from Yazd, but now they were almost all gone, and there were still more than 200 people left in the pass who were fighting to the death with the slaves of Western Qin, and the reason why they were still holding on was to buy time for the soldiers and civilians of Yazd City to retreat.