Chapter 420: Prayer Ceremony
More than 300,000 people surrounded Luo County, and this news was sent to Lu Zhe's desk on the third day of the siege of Luo County.
To tell the truth, just as Sima Xin understood, the more people were dispatched by Baiyue, the more satisfied Lu Zhe was here, if more Baiyue people continued to drive over to besiege Luo County, Lu Zhe would be more satisfied with every additional Baiyue people.
Lu Zhe in Nanling City always pays attention to more than one direction, in addition to the southern battlefield of his own side, the battle between Qin and Zhao in the north is also one of the battlefields worth paying attention to.
Sima Xin's troops in Luo County had sufficient armaments, grain and grass, and a five-zhang high city wall as a support, so it was difficult for the Baiyue people who had no siege experience to conquer Luo County, which had 50,000 elite soldiers.
In fact, the Baiyue people did not have much experience in attacking the city, and the backward social system was destined to have no special craftsmanship, and the 20,000 Baiyue people of some small tribes such as Dongzhi, Panyu, Xiou, Jumachi and so on were strongly organized by the Song, Kaimingsen, and Wu Zhu, and the first time they launched the temptation, they carried a wooden ladder tied up with rattan ropes on the city wall, and then began to climb, and the rest of the means or siege equipment were not seen at all.
"And you are still attacking the city by this means?" Quite a few of the defending generals were disdainful after repelling the tempting Baiyue people.
Have the qualifications of disdain, as early as more than a thousand years ago in the Central Plains, when the war and siege had already used siege equipment such as nest cars, cloud ladders, and door hammers, and now the Baiyue people only used simple ladders when attacking the city, how ignorant should this be?
Civilization has always been a leap into being, a qiē is a qiē is based on the accumulation of time and the emergence of some great figures who lead the times, the emergence of the civilization of Baiyue is not short, but it seems that there has never been a decent great person, has always been in the stage of barbarism.
Let a group of wild people who can't even weave linen cloth and just wear animal skins or tied grass skirts, and let them study the technology that requires craftsmanship? This one...... It's not to look down on them, but to have a broad horizon.
The casualties of the 20,000 Baiyue people of the small tribe of temptation were not too many, and the number of people who died on the spot would not exceed a thousand. Only about 2,000 people were wounded and fled, and they themselves were concentrated and forced to attack the city.
"The last general asks for orders to lead the headquarters out of the city to rush and kill for a while!" As soon as the Baiyue people retreated, Shao Ai immediately saluted Sima Xin.
The Baiyue people retreated too undecently, they just turned around and fled regardless of it, leaving no necessary manpower to prevent the defenders from possible pursuit, if they opened the city gate and went out to kill for a while, they would definitely be able to kill more Baiyue people, and it was even possible to drive the defeated soldiers to rush to the camp, and then let the Baiyue people have a camp roar or something.
The problem is that the reason why Sima Xin watched the Baiyue people surround him was to attract the enemy army outside the city, not to say that he wanted to lift the siege. So going out of the city to beat the Baiyue people and defeat them is not a contradiction.
"Wait, wait." Sima Xin could understand Shao Ai's earnest mood for meritorious service, and these generals needed to make meritorious contributions and gain a firm foothold in the new group.
Shao Ai's face was a little sneering when he was rejected, he just said it as soon as his head was hot, and it was not that he didn't know that the goal of this battle was to attract Baiyue people.
Outside the city, the tentative men of the small tribe were defeated without even climbing the city wall, and Mingsen was so angry that he scolded the crowd that had broken back.
The combat effectiveness of Lu Zhejun, who was defending the city, was not too strong, and it seemed that the arrows had only shot two waves, and Kai Mingsen thought that the manpower of the small tribe was too useless. If you are a brave South Vietnamese, you will definitely be able to climb the city.
"I'm gathering people, I have to climb the city wall today to meet those Qin people!" Kai Mingsen jumped to his feet for a while, causing the translator Song and Wu Zhu next to him to look sideways for a while.
Hearing that Kai Mingsen was going to gather his own men to show his martial bravery, Wu Wuzhu subconsciously looked at Yi Hu Song.
The South Vietnamese were savage. Kai Ming Sen is another impulsive person who is not persuaded, and Su Wuzhu and Yi Yu Song did not stop after looking at each other for a while, perhaps they thought it would be better to let Kai Ming Sen take the South Vietnamese people to try.
However, since South Vietnam, which is one of the three major clans of the alliance, is going to fight. Then the preliminary preparation cannot be as sloppy as driving away those small tribes.
Song Jianyi Mingsen prepared more ladders to climb the city, and he could also learn from Lu Zhejun to make some rattan woven shields, anyway, there were more than 300,000 people here to prepare those things, and it wouldn't take too much time.
Kaimingsen was still stunned by the stone and wood dropped by Lu Zhejun, who was defending the city. Since it doesn't take much time to prepare those things, it's better to wait.
In this way, more than 300,000 Baiyue people went around cutting down trees and looking for rattans, and spent a day preparing a large number of wooden ladders, and more than 2,000 shields were braided.
The wooden ladder is still the same, but there is more Teng Dun that can protect the top of the head when climbing, which seems to be a big improvement for Baiyue people?
Sima Xin, who lived on the tower in the south, got a report that the Baiyue people were going to attack the city again, just by opening the window, he could see the enemy army outside the city, and what he saw was a group of enemies who were colorful and carrying many wooden ladders, and it seemed that this group of enemy troops had one more thing than before, that is, shields.
There is a bloody reason why the South Vietnamese people dress up in a colorful way, their clothes are looted in the massacre, not to mention whether the clothes do not fit, many women's clothes are worn on the South Vietnamese men.
Wu Rui, who didn't know when he came over, suddenly punched the wall: "There is a lot of blood debt!" Obviously, seeing the clothes of the enemy soldiers who were about to attack the city, he could also imagine how those bloodstained and filthy clothes were worn on the people of Baiyue.
Sima Xin was taken aback, and when he turned to look, Wu Rui's pale face was full of hideousness.
The wooden drum ...... outside the city is a kind of hollow wood, and the kind of drum that sounds a little brittle and strange is being beaten, and a sound that sounds like a shouting is also shouted.
"South Vietnam, the most barbaric and brutal of the Baiyue tribal alliance." The hideousness on Wu Rui's face was really terrifying, and he continued in a hoarse voice like a demon crawling out of hell: "Only they will make such prayers before launching an attack. ”
Well?! So that shouting that sounds like a tune is a prayer?
It is prayer, in fact, the more popular the barbarian religion, each tribe of the Baiyue people has its own tribal god, usually a fantasy of the mountain gods and ghosts or something, and each tribe will also have its own totem.
In the civil war of the Baiyue tribes themselves, even if a tribe is killed to the point that only one person remains, but the totem is not snatched, then this tribe cannot be regarded as annihilated. On the contrary, if a tribe loses a lot of population in a war, but the tribe's totem is robbed, even if the tribe still has many strong men, if the totem cannot be snatched back, it will definitely be divided by many tribes who pounce like wolves because of the loss of their own tribe's totem.
Each Baiyue tribe has its own ritual for the alliance of prayers, and the Nanyue people's prayer ceremony outside the city is not as simple as shouting and shouting, their shamans chanting songs that may have been passed down for generations, and some of the divine servants are escorting some bound people back and forth in the procession.
"General Sima, hurry up and prepare the crossbowmen!" Wu Rui, who saw half of it, suddenly changed his face wildly, and roared as if he had been stimulated by something.
Sima Xin didn't want to have any unpleasantness with Wu Rui, who was in a weird mental state now, so he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to be assembled.
Because Baiyue was about to attack the city again, the defenders were originally in a state of readiness, and after the order was issued, the five hundred crossbowmen quickly went up to the city wall according to Wu Rui's requirements.
"Wait a minute, those paint-covered animals will escort people to the front of the formation, and you can see if it's within range?" The place Wu Rui pointed to was a small low slope, which should be about 400 steps away from the city wall.
It would be strange that Sima Xin couldn't see anything about it, Wu Rui asked to gather crossbowmen because he wanted to fire crossbow arrows.
The five hundred masters of the crossbowman army have a wealth of experience, and when they look at it and compare it in their hearts, they say: "The range of the crossbow is within reach, but the accuracy is ......."
"Bring in more crossbowmen with pouting crossbows to cover up!" Wu Rui didn't hesitate at all.
Sima Xin's lips moved, he heard it right, Wu Rui was talking about "covering", that is, indiscriminate shooting, it stands to reason that Wu Rui should not be so ruthless in treating Changsha people, right?
Moreover, Sima Xin had been using archers to defend earlier, and he didn't use crossbowmen at all, that was to hide the crossbowmen who had an absolute range advantage on his side, and he brought in some indifferent, but a large number of crossbowmen covered by a few formations, would it expose the hidden secret weapon In addition, if the Baiyue people were scared, it would be worth the loss?
However, it is obvious that if Sima Xin refuses, it is really hard to say whether Wu Rui will jump directly from the city, so Sima Xin can only ask: "Do you want to arrange a team of cavalry to go out and try to save people?" ”
What I didn't expect was Wu Rui shaking her head sadly: "Life is better than death, and death is also a relief." ”
After the fall of Changsha, what did Baiyue do to the locals in Changsha? Sima Xin could hear that Wu Rui was not joking, and things were so strict that even if he was dead, it was more difficult to accept than alive.
The sound of the knocking on the hollow trunk ceased, and the shouting Baiyue people also shut up, except for a kind of divine chanting, and the divine servants who were covered with no idea what was painted began to hold the bound people forward.
This escort, Sima Xin, who has good eyesight, saw clearly, those who were tied up were not half of the men at all, all of them were women, these women looked relatively young, many of them were missing arms and legs, and they neither struggled nor cried when they were escorted up, as if they were a walking corpse.
"See? Their arms and legs were cut off and cooked, and they were humiliated, and death was a relief for them. Wu Rui was already in tears. (To be continued......)