Thushi Khan's plan went well, and after the fall of the Heavenly Palace, the captives were driven out of the Heavenly Palace, and then began to identify the craftsmen within.

It was not easy to find the carpenter from among the tens of thousands of captives.

It is true that among these captives in the Heavenly Palace, there are certainly skilled craftsmen forcibly recruited by Feng Yuanpo from all over Hexi, but after all, they are still a minority, and all the carpenters add up, there are only more than a thousand people, and it is not easy to find more than a thousand carpenters from tens of thousands of strong men, if these carpenters do not take the initiative to stand up.

Thurshi Khan, however, was quite cunning, and ordered a dozen cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, and then boiled in a pot in the wilderness.

The barbarian army came from Mobei, so naturally they would not bring livestock, and these domestic animals were all looted by the barbarian soldiers in Hexi.

The beef and mutton were tumbling in the boiling water, although the barbarians had a simple diet and did not put any condiments, but the smell of meat floated in the air and dispersed, and even the throats of the barbarian soldiers were also wriggling.

Most of the captives captured from the Heavenly Palace are young and strong, these days, they are hiding in the Heavenly Palace, Feng Yuanpo did let people store a lot of food in the warehouse in the Heavenly Palace, after all, when Xuan Yuan led the crowd to come, the ministers of civil and military affairs, eunuchs and palace maids, including thousands of guards, there are not a few people who eat, drink and Lazar every day.

After Yao Chong led the people into the Heavenly Palace, he quickly exhausted the food stored in the Heavenly Palace, in order to support as much time as possible, the daily rations of tens of thousands of young and strong people were very small, and they could only barely support their survival, even so, just two days ago, the food in the Heavenly Palace had been completely exhausted, and tens of thousands of people had not eaten a drop of rice for two days.

After the people were captured, they were angry and panicked at first, but they forgot about hunger, but at this moment, the smell of meat emitted from dozens of cauldrons made the hungry people even more uncomfortable.

Thushi Khan sent an order, but whoever was a carpenter took the initiative to stand up and get confirmed, he could get a bowl of meat.

As soon as this order was issued, many people immediately came forward and claimed to be carpenters.

Tushi Khan was very cunning, he was only afraid that some ordinary people would indiscriminately fill the numbers, and they would also pretend to be carpenters to eat meat, so he first selected some of these people, brought tools, and made them make a few simple wooden utensils in public, and when the identities of more than a dozen carpenters were confirmed, the meat of the iron boiler was also cooked, and it was time to eat.

Whenever anyone stood up and said that they were carpenters, the judges would ask them individually for some simple carpentry skills, and if they could not answer, they would fake and immediately drag them aside and kill them.

In the beginning, there were really many people who pretended to be craftsmen in order to eat a bowl of meat, but they were spotted on the spot and were immediately dragged aside and beheaded.

There is also a carpenter as a referee, benevolent, a young man pretended to be a carpenter to stand up, the referee wanted to be accommodating, but unlucky, there happened to be a barbarian general standing next to him, seeing the young man's panicked expression, he actually found that there was a problem, and dragged it out to confirm it again and again, and was finally recognized, along with the carpenter who was the referee, were split in half.

By the time five or six hundred carpenters had been selected from the vast crowd, more than three hundred fake strong men had been killed aside, and the corpses were piled up together, making people feel horrible.

There are even some hot-blooded men, seeing that the barbarians are killing people like slaughtering dogs, they are full of indignation, and they want to fight to the death, but they just rushed out, and before they came into contact with the barbarian soldiers, they were immediately shot and killed by the barbarian archers who had been prepared around for a long time.

When they were in the Heavenly Palace, they knew that they had fallen into the hands of the barbarians, and they were more than lucky, but under the leadership and command of Yao Chong, they were united and resisted desperately, but at that time they were full of strong fighting spirit.

It's just that the moment the heavenly palace was breached, people's confidence collapsed in an instant, and in the face of the spears and scimitars of the barbarians, the fighting spirit of almost all people quickly disappeared, and among the countless corpses, fear quickly eroded to everyone's whole body, and even every capillary.

It is a veteran of the battlefield for a long time, captured by a murderous enemy, and in the face of a scimitar that the enemy may cut down at any time, it is impossible to maintain a calm heart, not to mention that the captives who have been captured now are only a handful of real soldiers, almost all of them are ordinary people, even if they have been trained by Yao Chong for a short period of time, they are not soldiers at all.

The merciless slaughter is right under their noses, and people know that there is no hope, and they wait for death in despair.

After all, Thushi Khan selected thousands of craftsmen from among the captives, and without delay, he immediately offered a reward to the craftsmen, as long as anyone knew how to make siege weapons, they could eat meat every day, and even get wine, and in this cold day, they could get some strong wine every day, but they could resist the bitter cold.

It's just that most of the craftsmen present are ordinary craftsmen, but fortunately, there are more than a dozen of them who have served the army specifically and have experience in manufacturing siege weapons.

Although they knew that the purpose of the barbarians to create siege weapons was to attack the city of Wuping Mansion not far ahead, but what could they do if they were under the sword?

They may be the subjects of the Empire, but when they suffer, their so-called Empire cannot grant them any protection, even if the Emperor of the Empire is close at hand, but can only look from the high tower.

Turshi Khan immediately appointed the more than ten carpenters as the leader, and the thousands of carpenters were divided into more than a dozen squads, and according to the orders of Turshi Khan, within five days at most, each squad would produce ten siege weapons.

Siege weapons are naturally varied, but the two most important ones are naturally catapults and siege vehicles, catapults can be used to destroy city walls, and siege vehicles can be used to ram city gates.

Tushi Khan was in high spirits, and only felt that the day the siege weapon was created was the time when the city was broken, and in his joy, he promised that as long as the city was breached, all the craftsmen involved in the manufacture of weapons would be given freedom.

A thousand craftsmen were a tiny fraction of the nearly 30,000 captives, and after arranging the carpenters, Ibu immediately approached Tushi Khan, but asked Tushi Khan to order the execution of the remaining captives.

"Tushi Khan, attacking the Heavenly Palace, we have killed and injured thousands of people, all of them are these damned Qin people, now the people you need have been selected, and the remaining Qin people must all be killed to avenge the dead clansmen." Eevee clenched his fists and looked fierce.

Tushi Khan hesitated for a moment before he said: "To make siege weapons, you need to go to the wood, and you also need to transport the wood, of course you need manpower, are you going to let the warrior with the sword in his hand cut down the trees?" ”

Ibu immediately said: "Even so, there is no need for so many people, leaving two or three thousand people is enough." The voice was low, "The food in our hands is only enough for our own people to eat for four or five days, if these people are left, should we use our food to feed them?" ”

Tursh Khan thought for a moment before asking, "Where are you going to kill them?" ”

Yi Bu sneered: "It's better to drive them to the city and let the damned emperor of the Qin State take a look." The people of Qin have oppressed us for many years, and now it is time for the emperor to show that as long as our warriors raise their scimitars in their hands, they can defeat all the enemies who are against us, and we must kill his people in front of him, and give him the deepest shame. ”

"Drive them all to the city and kill them all?" Tushi Khan smiled strangely: "Yibu, Ben Khan now doubts, did you accept the benefits of the Qin people and want more steppe warriors to die here?" ”

Ibu was stunned, and for a moment did not understand Tushi Khan's words.

Tushi Khan had already raised his hand and pointed to the towering fortified city, and said coldly: "You know better than Ben Khan, how many people are in that city, attacking the Heavenly Palace, this group of unarmed guys, we have all killed and injured thousands of people, there are hundreds of thousands of people in that city, and they all have weapons in their hands, if they resist desperately, how many more people do you think we will die?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"We've been besieging the city for days, and we've breached the Heavenly Palace, do you know what they're thinking now?" Tursh Khan was extremely burly, standing in front of Ibu, with an awe-inspiring momentum, "Ben Khan tells you that they must be very scared now, they are afraid of death, he is afraid that our warriors' sabers will cut their necks, Ben Khan also knows that they will forget their anger for a while because they are afraid, if a person is afraid, it is the most terrible, but also the most cowardly, do you understand?" ”

Ibu obviously did not understand the meaning of Tushi Khan, and Tushi Khan's eyes were full of contempt, "If a person is afraid because he is afraid, then he will soon lose the will to fight and become the most cowardly, but if a person is angry because he is afraid, he can become a terrifying warrior." Do you know the consequences of your command to drive these captives to the city and execute them in front of them? Ben Khan tells you that they will be terrified to the extreme, but they will also be angry, and they will understand that if they are defeated, there will be only one death, and if so, they will fight to the death, and even if we win, we will kill and wound more warriors. ”

Only then did Ibu come to his senses, and Tushi Khan looked at the city in the distance, and smoothed his beard with his finger, "Don't rush to kill them first, let them cut down trees and help us make weapons, and naturally we don't need to give them food!" Yin smiled cruelly: "It is their luck that they can survive the city break, Ben Khan may spare their lives, but if they die of starvation or exhaustion before this, then it will be nothing to do with us." Then he asked, "Is there a guy in the army who can speak well?" ”