Zhu Ling and others sitting on the top of the city are naturally looking forward to the role of the barbed wire fence. After all, the former created him in this era and naturally do not want to see a useless scene. The latter is really looking forward to the role of the barbed wire fence.
Even if the damage is not great, it can prevent the invading army from successfully ascending the city.
Sure enough, as the first scream sounded, screams broke out all over the place in an instant. The sound almost resounded in all directions under the city. Fortunately, the barbed wire fence was arranged far away, so the sound was not too deafening when it reached the top of the city. On the contrary, the sound was so
This caused the soldiers on the tower to rush to take a look and found that most of the intruders at the front fell down, rolling and screaming.
Shoes in ancient times were not very thick to begin with. What about the soldiers at the bottom? Most of them were just leather boots and cloth shoes. When encountering such a sharp and dense barbed wire, they seemed very powerless. One person was stabbed,
If you don't fall forward, your chest will be hurt even more. If you retreat, the soldiers coming from behind will knock you down without knowing the situation.
Since then, the casualties have appeared instantly.
Seeing that his soldiers were so hindered in the first round of offensive, the expression on Gao Yigong's face changed a lot. His fists were clenched tightly at some point. He never expected that such an inconspicuous thing could actually
It caused him so much harm.
The first round of testing ended in failure.
The people were ordered to quickly change the drum sound and retreat the army. The soldiers guarding Yanzhou Mansion couldn't help but wave and shout, and their morale was instantly boosted. In the past, the invading troops shouted and cheered, but this time it was completely reversed.
But Gao Yigong was obviously not a mediocre person. After understanding how the barbed wire worked, Dang even thought of a way. Then he ordered the civilians to fill the useless clothes with soil and then wrap them up, but not too much, as long as they could block the barbed wire.
That's it. After half an hour, as the fierce drum beat sounded again, tens of thousands of intruders and horses, led by their respective officers, shouted and fought in the rear, the momentum was overwhelming.
This time, the people who rushed to the front were the peasants carrying baskets and clothes stuffed with soil. Their task was to carry soil to fill the barbed wire fence... To their surprise, when they rushed to the front, there were no crossbows on them.
They were overjoyed. After pouring the clothes and soil on the wire to show off, they hurried back immediately.
Due to the line of sight, Zhu Ling and others who led everyone to sit upright on the tower could not see clearly the scene below the tower. They could only observe from the side sideways. Some soldiers who found that they were blocking His Majesty's sight hurriedly got out of the way so that they could see
12. The sun shines right on the faces of the people under the city. Seeing their joyful expressions, I can't help but frown.
"His Majesty."
At this moment, a person standing behind him suddenly said: "There is nothing we can do about this kind of thing. In fact, most of these civilian husbands were kidnapped by intruders. Not all civilian husbands are willing to take the lead. There are even our imperial court inside.
There are naturally no shortage of officials from all over the country, and there are naturally no shortage of businessmen. They all can't come up with the money to redeem themselves, and in order to prevent them from wasting their lives, the Chuang Army directly made them civilian husbands."
Everyone looked up and saw that it was Huang Bodang, the governor of Yanzhou.
Then, Zhu Ling, who had adjusted his sitting posture, heard this and asked instead: "Then why do these officials have no money? Do you know if the thieves can escape with the medicine? As you know, I ordered the Jin Yiwei to arrest many people who were having fun in brothels a few days ago.
There are many officials of the third rank among them, and there are even more officials of the fifth and sixth rank."
"Your Majesty, not all officials are corrupt, and not all officials who are not corrupt have a good reputation. Most of them do nothing in their official careers and just want to keep their official positions. And if you are not careful and have more children, your family will suffer.
They immediately became burdened. It was difficult to escape with their families and families behind. And most of them thought that the invading army would not kill them, which is why they ended up like this."
Although Huang Bodang was not corrupt, he was not willing to risk his life for the people. He basically did not interfere with the bad things done by Ma Kui, the magistrate of Cangzhou, and did not report it to the court.
"Do you want a lot?" Zhu Ling was quite dissatisfied with this, and his tone was a bit offensive.
"More is not too much." Huang Bodang said seriously: "Once caught, the intruder will first check the population of each house so that he can ask for money per head. Sometimes if he hears that the person has a bad reputation or is a corrupt official,
Or a profiteer, then a person's ransom will directly rise to ten thousand taels of silver. And the ransom of his family will also rise to several thousand taels. If it is found that this person has a good reputation and a good reputation, not only will he not ask for money, but he will
They will be given official titles and rewards. But this is rarely the case, most of them are five thousand taels of silver per person."
Zhu Ling, who was bathing in the sunshine, squinted his eyes and asked: "In this case, wouldn't it mean that people with a large population would bleed heavily?"
"Exactly." Huang Bodang couldn't help but sighed: "Those corrupt officials embezzled a lot and lived a miserable life. Even if they couldn't afford the money, they would die. But those officials who were still willing to serve the court were accused by others.
His life will be lost, and the intruder will not even be given a chance to redeem himself."
After saying this, everyone was speechless. But there was a heavy feeling in their hearts, and the faint passion to completely wipe out the intruders was immediately raised again.
"The enemy is approaching the city in less than 500 steps. The crossbowmen are ready!"
At this moment, a loud shout immediately attracted everyone's attention. As for the soldiers guarding the city, they were obviously a little nervous. The officers on the city were shouting and shouting, trying their best to cheer up.
People's hearts, let them calm down.
Gao Yigong, who was also less than two miles away from Yanzhou, was also nervously watching the battle in front of him. When he saw that the civilian workers had successfully covered up those hated wires, he couldn't help but feel a little happy. Now, it was the real battle between the two sides.
The competition is over, there are no more small tricks, it is a bloody scene.
"The enemy's army is less than 300 steps away, and the crossbowmen are firing arrows!"
When this sound sounded, the crossbowmen corresponding to the section of the city wall launched their arrows almost immediately. As the crossbowmen at the front finished shooting, the crossbowmen behind them who were ready to go again
He changed positions and stepped forward, once again pouring all the arrows down. When the crossbowmen in the third row stepped forward, Zhu Dadian stopped them from shooting.
The intruders who rushed up desperately below, each of them almost charged forward with a wooden shield. They came to consume the arrows of the defenders of the tower, and also to stand under the tower so that the large number of siege equipment behind them could quickly rush in.
Under the city wall. But after all, ordinary soldiers did not have much armor to protect themselves. Even if they had wooden shields to resist, many soldiers were killed under the rain of arrows.
Seeing the fierce rain of arrows, the intruders who followed behind were all frightened, and their steps became even more chaotic. Seeing this, the supervising team behind them immediately stepped forward and killed several soldiers before they stopped the soldiers.
The idea of retreating emerged. As the large siege equipment slowly approached, Zhu Dadian immediately ordered all the archers to switch to rockets.
They fired at the approaching siege vehicles, and at the same time ordered people to prepare a series of defensive things such as kerosene, gravel, etc. Seeing this situation, the intruder officers used machetes and horse hoofs to force the soldiers in front to continue to move forward, and
The main force of the invading army, who was required to hold up shields and form a formation, and had a certain armor rate, no longer hesitated, but immediately followed.
When they reached the moat, without the civilian sandbags, everyone could only set up the siege ladders directly on top, and then rushed over.
But just as they were setting up the ladder, the rockets on the top of the city were immediately shot out. Under the command of each team general, countless rockets focused on the soldiers carrying the ladder without hesitation. For a while, those soldiers were actually setting up the ladder.
Ignoring the shields in their hands, without protection, they immediately suffered massive casualties.
Not only that, many of the ladders that had to be erected even at the risk of death were not erected, which hindered the large siege equipment that followed. After this wave of attacks, even the intruders suffered thousands of casualties.
On top of the city tower, many people finally breathed a sigh of relief, even Zhu Dadian also took a long breath.