Updated: 2013-07-03

After the return soldiers and defending the city, Shule's country was furious and counterattacked, Zhao Jie and others gathered in the general's mansion.

"The general has gained such a great harvest in this battle, with more than 2,000 war horses and tens of thousands of arrows. Although the quality of these arrows is not as good as ours, it is enough for us to consume for a while, and it can be considered as supplementing the materials we defended the city."

"The most important thing is to calm those young and strong hearts. Of course, they also knew that this night attack would definitely make King Shule furious. Even if they were unwilling to fight for us, King Shule would not spare them even if this Keduo City was broken."

"In addition, it also severely hit the morale of the soldiers of Shule Country. Maybe they would think that there will be many more weapons that can explode in Keduo City."[

Zhao Jie smiled and nodded, saying, "By the way, Zhou Qing, how much are we losing in this night attack?"

Zhou Qing said in a deep voice: "General, it's not bad. There are only more than 30 casualties, most of whom were injured. After all, we are prepared this time, and they are all sleeping."

"Haha, I really want to know what expression was on King Shule's face at this moment." At the end, Zhou Qing said with a big laugh. The rest of the people also began to guess the expression on King Shule's face at this moment.

The generals of the Zhao army were speculating well. At this moment, King Shule's face was indeed ugly. His army was nearly ten times that of Kedu City. Now he was attacked by the Zhao army in Kedu City at night, and sent troops to pursue him, but instead he lost his troops.

After working to the final explosion of the battlefield, looking at the scene in front of him, King Shule's face turned pale in an instant.

In the entire battlefield, within a radius of hundreds of meters, all the soldiers on their own sides were corpses of their war horses. Several seriously injured people were wailing and gradually disappeared. Many of their soldiers were blown up and were at a loss. Occasionally, one or two soldiers who were not seriously injured were moving in pain in the snow about a foot deep.

They luckily avoided the bombing of the thunder, but became the target of the iron beads and nails shot out by the thunder explosion. The effects of these iron beads and nails are stronger than arrows and crossbows. After all, arrows and crossbows can be pulled out of the body and can be cured, but these iron beads and nails penetrate deep into the body and are difficult to remove.

King Shule saw that the entire explosion site was like the Avici Hell, with flesh and blood of his soldiers and war horses everywhere. The snow around him was dyed red. Due to the cold weather, the bodies of the soldiers were quickly frozen. What they looked like and what they had been like since then, posing in various strange shapes.

King Shule wanted to immediately launch a counterattack with the army of Xian Keduo City, but when he saw the fearful face of the soldiers on the battlefield, he immediately suppressed his anger and suppressed the idea.

"Treat the wounded and clear the battlefield!" King Shule ordered the last roar.

"How many casualties? How many losses?" In the central army commander's tent, King Shule, with a gray face, asked the generals who were cleaning the battlefield in silence.

"Report to the king, more than 6,000 soldiers were killed and killed, of which more than 4,000 were killed. Half of the damaged soldiers were burned to death by fire. In addition, we also lost more than 3,000 war horses and captured more than 2,000 horses by the Zhao army at night. More than 80,000 arrows were lost. The front camp tents were burned to death."

"What? Eighty thousand arrows? How could so many arrows be looted by the Zhao army?" Hearing that such arrows were taken away by the Zhao army, King Shule was furious. The consequences of these 80,000 arrows being taken away by the Zhao army were more important than losing five or six thousand soldiers. Because the Zhao army had occupied the territory for many days, the Zhao army brought greater casualties to the soldiers of Shule Country with the arrow rain in their hands. Of course, the most important thing is that it has increased the difficulty of siege a lot. Judging from the siege situation in recent days, it seems that the probability of Zhao army defending the city using arrow rain is much smaller, and now more than 80,000 are snatched away by the opponent. This is clearly funding the enemy, which will make it more difficult to siege the city.

"King, because our soldiers are not equipped with extra bowstrings, and because of the weather, many of our bows and arrows have been damaged and used by magic. These arrows were originally used by the soldiers themselves. But now, the bow and arrow techniques are used, so these arrows were hoarded in the camp. Who knew that they were attacked by the Zhao army at night and taken away from it. The war horses that were taken from us also provided them with transportation."

"Damn it!" When King Shule heard this, his teeth squeaked.

Zhao Jie and others naturally would not know about King Shule's anger. Of course, knowing it will only make them happier. What excited them at this moment was that they received a message from the east. From the message, they learned about the current situation of the war.

"Okay... Now our army has defeated the so-called alliance army to only three countries. No, it should be three incomplete countries. In addition to the Shule Kingdom, most of the territory exists, the remaining two countries, except for the kings, powerful people and most of the soldiers, have all fallen into the hands of our Great Zhao." Looking at the information coming from the morning in his hand, Zhao Jie and others were very excited.

"General Mu, please reply immediately and pass on the situation here. In addition, tell all the generals that our place is unbreakable. Just rely on the Shule team outside the city to not be able to capture Keduo City. My three thousand soldiers will surely guard the road to the west and completely block the last remnants of the Southern Alliance in the territory of Shule."

Of course, King Shule would not stop the attack because of being attacked. In fact, Zhao Jie and others did not know that there was no shortage of various materials in the rear camp of the Shule Kingdom's army. Especially after the eastern territory of Shule Kingdom was gradually occupied by the Zhao army, King Shule wanted to flee west and had already begun to order the transportation of various materials to the west. King Shule's royal family money was also quietly transferred by him to the rear camp. [

On the second day, the Shule Kingdom army continued to attack Kedu City. The Kedu City defenders continued to defend Kedu City because of the great victory last night and their morale rose sharply. The two thousand and young men in the city also tried their best to join the defending sequence.

Because when Shule team attacked, it was a slogan of killing Kedu City with revenge. King Shule also knew that there were originally young and strong people in the city who helped Zhao army defend the city.

For a moment, the two sides once again launched a fierce battle. With the addition of arrows, the rain of arrows on Kedu City once again exerted his powerful power. In addition, splashing ice water on the city walls also became a conventional weapon for the Zhao army to defend the city.

On the third day, King Shule heard the latest war report in Shule Country. News came from Shule Country that the Zhao army had "forced" to approach King Shule's capital, and hundreds of miles east were all occupied by the Zhao army. Half of the garrisons who originally guarded the eastern part of the land were killed and injured, and the remaining half were also captured by the Zhao army.

Hearing this news, King Shule was in a dilemma for a while. Do you still have to continue fighting? But if you don’t fight, if Keduo City is not taken down, he will have no way to escape west. If he doesn’t run west, his neck will be out of order.

But let's fight, the Kedu City in front of you seems to have become a cliff. Since the Zhao army left the city and attacked at night, the gate of the Kedu City had been blocked by the Zhao army. In addition, the Zhao army kept building a city with soil and ice water, which had originally appeared to be much lower because the soldiers of Shule Kingdom also filled the ground with soil, and became even higher. In addition, the soldiers on their own were scattered and the enemy fortress was still strictly guarded. How to fight?

At this moment, King Shule seemed to have grown a lot aged suddenly. He sat in the tent with his eyes straight and his heart was confused. He really regretted that he should not have been encouraged by the people of Wusun Kingdom and began to form the Southern Alliance, which led to him not even having a way out. He knew that if the Zhao army wanted to establish its authority in the southern part of the Western Regions and to completely incorporate the southern part of the Western Regions into the State of Zhao, then his so-called alliance leader must be eliminated. In addition, those powerful and slaves who had a large amount of money and slaves in the southern part of the Western Regions must also be clearly removed.

"I was the worst person to be a lord in Zhao State. Now, I can retreat! Damn Zhao Army, this Western Regions, is from the countries of our Western Regions!" King Shule cursed in secret.

"King, we can't fight anymore... Let's withdraw our troops. At least we still have troops now. If the Zhao army wants to control the Shule Kingdom and its surrounding areas in the shortest time, they should accept us. If the Zhao army accepts us, we can also go out from the northwest and go straight to the Wusun Kingdom, join forces with them. After the Zhao army retreats eastward, we will kill here again. The southern part of the Western Regions will still be our world." A counselor whispered.

These important officials in the army naturally would not know the problems of the upper class, and they naturally would not know them. Even if King Shule was willing to surrender, the Zhao army would not accept it.

After a little silence, King Shule said in a muffled voice: "The northern part of Shule Kingdom has been occupied by Li Chenfeng's troops who went south from the Zhao army Shangzhou Mozhou Prefecture, blocking our way to retreat north. It can be said that this Kedu City is our only way to go west."

"Do you think I am willing to fight to the death here? Do you think I don't understand the current situation? Do you think I am unwilling to give up the power in my hands and surrender to the Zhao army?"

The repeated replies made several generals in the tent stunned, and then they were shocked. Since they knew the situation and were willing to surrender, why did they still have to let the warriors fight to the death here? Of course, these generals naturally would not ask directly about these words, but such questions appeared on their faces.

"Our Shule Kingdom is the initiator of the Southern Alliance. If the Zhao army wants to incorporate the Western Regions into Zhao, then our alliance leader will naturally be eliminated. In order to intimidate more than 20 southern countries, our Shule Kingdom will become the target of the Zhao army's authority."

After pausing, King Shule said sarcastically: "I have also asked for peace from the Zhao army, but the Zhao army refused to agree. Think about it, the Kingdom of Khotan responded to the formation of the eastern power of the Southern Alliance. What was the result? It was not that the Zhao army was slaughtered by the Zhao army. The Kingdom of Khotan, except for ordinary slaves, from the king to ordinary soldiers, were alive. What do you think the Zhao army does not accept our surrender? It is not that it is to shock the western regions of the alliance countries and use our heads and blood to warn everyone in the western regions."

"Do you think we have a way out? If we fight to death, we are waiting for death. The Zhao army has cut off our way out." This sentence is extremely desolate. Of course, the generals and officers below are not clear. The Zhao army did not attack ordinary soldiers. The Zhao army wanted to eliminate the target, but only took down the king and the powerful. Of course, even if they wanted to fight to death with the Zhao army, the Zhao army would not mind slaughtering them and warn all the Westerners who had other ideas.

"Since Zhao Gou doesn't give us a way to live, then fight them to the death!" a rough general shouted angrily.

"Yes, fight to the death! At worst, we will let these Zhao dogs see that the warriors of my Shule Kingdom are not made by mud..."

Suddenly, there were anger in the entire commander's tent. King Shule, who was sitting in the master's seat, secretly smiled. After many battles, the soldiers under his command were already a little dissatisfied. Now, he aroused their fighting spirit again.

Afterwards, King Shule began to send orders to King Shule's capital, allowing the rear army to continue to gather in Kedu City. Some powerful people also followed the army to advance towards Kedu City through various identities and excuses. King Shule had made up his mind that even if Shule Kingdom wanted to take down Kedu City, he would set off the Kedu City and set out the passage to the west. Of course, half of the troops were still left in the capital of King Shule, to delay the time of the Zhao army's advance.

Since receiving the situation in Keduo City, Li Chenfeng, Xu Ye, Nangong Hao and others have understood that the powerful and powerful people in Shule were still fleeing west.

Immediately, under the consultation of Lingxiao, Situ Liang and others, the army on the northern and eastern fronts quickly attacked, even breaking several cities, and turning round before King Shule. Unlike other ethnic groups, the Han army could participate in the war as long as there were sufficient supplies. Therefore, with the sufficient logistics support of the Zhao army, the army advanced very quickly. The snow on the ground could not stop the army from advancing.[

"Mr. Situ, three generals! The information sent back from the Hawkeye Department, half of the troops of Shule Kingdom were heading west, and seemed to be heading straight for Kedu City." Ling Xiao told everyone about the information sent back from the Hawkeye Department.

"Hmm? Go west? Not good!" Situ Liangdun frowned, "It seems that the king and the powerful of Shule Kingdom have not given up on their idea of ​​running west. In this way, Kedu City will be under great pressure."

Li Chenfeng also frowned and said, "There are only about 3,000 soldiers in Kedu City. Even if the young and strong captives are added, there are only 5,000 people. Judging from the information sent back five days ago, there are more than 5,000 defenders in Kedu City. Facing the huge number of Shule* teams, I am worried..."

Ling Xiao said in a deep voice: "I suggest that we speed up the speed immediately. Judging from the information we collected, many powerful people we designated to eliminate also followed the army. It seems that they are holding on to the idea of ​​delaying us here and attacking Kedu City. Regardless of whether Kedu City can hold on or not, we must speed up."

"In addition, we can also spread the meaning of King Shule's preparation for fleeing west to the troops of various Shule Kingdom and persuade them to surrender. Since their kings have abandoned them, there is no need for them to fight to the death with us."

"Even if half of the troops surrender, some of the left-behind powerful people are inconvenient to be eliminated. However, this also shows that the left-behind people are not seen by King Shule. If that is the case, why don't we give them a way out? And the powerful people and soldiers who left with King Shule are enough to establish our authority in the southwest of the Western Regions."

"I agree that the reason why the Shule army was determined to resist was that the upper-class powerful people in Shule country spread that we wanted to massacre all the Shule country? This is about to be our jurisdiction, and the soldiers and people here are all the people under our rule. Of course, they are also good laborers. Since we can persuade us to surrender, we don't have to behead them all." Li Chenfeng nodded and said.

"Okay, then I'll send someone to contact the garrisons of various cities immediately. In addition, the Shule capital, twenty miles ahead, will also send people to persuade the surrender. King Shule is gone, so what else can they keep."

Immediately afterwards, the Zhao army did not immediately wave the army forward, and began to send envoys from all walks of life to persuade the Shule team at various cities and checkpoints to surrender. The effect was quite good. Four consecutive troops were stationed, and a total of 10,000 people surrendered to the Zhao army. The Zhao army did not break their promise and accepted them.

As for those troops stationed in Shule Kingdom that did not surrender, the Zhao army attacked without mercy and destroyed them one by one.

In the capital of Shule, the Zhao army suffered setbacks. The one who stayed behind the capital was King Shule's uncle. I don't know what King Shule said to him, but he actually fought to the death and refused to surrender. The capital of Shule was strong and the defenders were more than 20,000. If it were a city like Shule on weekdays, it would be no problem. However, this was in the weather with heavy snow, and it was difficult to attack without siege equipment.

Finally, after more than three days of stalemate, some merchants who had trade deals with the Zhao army were persuaded to surrender and organized a group of slaves and guards. After the Zhao army was held grandly, King Shule was taken down after being in harmony with the inside and outside.

After King Shule was taken down, it became much more convenient for the remaining defenders in various places. After all, the kings were gone, there was no effective command, no logistics supply, and the consequences of some locally surrendered soldiers, the Shule team in most areas surrendered to the Zhao army.

Situ Liang and others arranged for the army to stay in various places, and reported the situation to the rear, asking the rear to send people to rectify the local area. The army quickly rushed to Kedu City.

At the end of January, the Zhao army finally rushed to the rear of the Shule Kingdom camp in the eastern part of Kedu City, trapping the Shule Kingdom army outside Kedu City. At this time, the Shule Kingdom army had reached more than 45,000. In order to break out of Kedu City, King Shule transported a large amount of food, supplies and money outside Kedu City, preparing to rush out of Kedu City to death. The arrival of the Zhao army did surprise King Shule. However, he did not stop because of this, and was still guarding against the Zhao army behind, and had already launched a fierce attack on Kedu City in the front.
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