Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 94 Human life piled up...

Qingzhou, Guocheng.

This is the closest city to Tianmen Pass, and it is also the terminus responsible for supplying grain and grass to the Beida army.

Food from all over the country will be delivered here first, and then delivered here to the frontline army.

At the moment, there are hundreds of grain carts parked outside the granary, and the soldiers are constantly going to and from the granary, carrying grain to the carts.

Two grain transport officers stood aside and talked.

"I heard that in order to supply the army, the emperor will send food not only from the northern states, but also from the south of the Yangtze River."

"That's right, 45 troops, people eat horse chews, how much does it cost a day? In order to supply them, we in Qingzhou have to tighten our belts and go hungry."

"It's not a good day."

"Hey, I just hope that I can finish the fight as soon as possible, so that I can get rid of it as soon as possible."

"Look, Xuan. That Su Yuan is not an ordinary person. His father Su Tufeng is so powerful, how can his son be worse? I heard that Bei Rong has been cleaned up by that kid. He is really a ruthless character."

"Look at what you said, then General Li is not bad, right? The Li family has had great generals for generations."

"From the Li family... who knows if there is any moisture..."

The two were talking when they suddenly heard a commotion.

Turning his head to look, he saw that the soldiers carrying food had stopped, whispering something.

Seeing this, the two trotted over immediately.

"What are you talking about when you're not working!"

"My lord, look at this..."

A soldier pointed to the ground, and the two of them stared at each other.

It turned out that when a soldier put the grain bag on the grain cart, he accidentally let the grain bag hang on the corner of the cart, and the grain inside was scattered all over the ground.

But the problem is...

The two grain transport officers squatted down and reached out to grab the "grain" on the ground.

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "This is bran..."

The yellow crumbs in their hands were the bran.That is, the outer skin of rice and wheat.

This thing has always been fed to livestock, and now it actually appears in the grain bags supplied to the army!

The two grain transport officers were a little confused.

Not only them, but also the soldiers were silent.

Before these soldiers joined the army, they were all Tian Han, and they plowed and farmed all day long. How could they not know that this thing is bran, which is only eaten by livestock.

"What the hell..." The grain transport officer stood up and looked at the other grain bags. He drew a long sword from a soldier's waist and punctured several grain bags.

wow wow wow...

Bran, bran, bran, grain.

The grain transport officer poked through four bags in a row before finally finding one bag of grain.The remaining three bags were filled with bran.

"Where did this batch of grain come from?!" Another grain transport officer asked angrily.

"Report, sir! It was brought from the capital!" A soldier ran over and said.

"..."

The two grain transport officers were angry at first, but when they heard that they were transported from the capital, they were silent for a while.

They are mere grain transport officials, and they really dare not do anything wrong to the adults in the capital.

But putting bran in grain bags is going too far.

This is a war, and many people will die if you do this!
"The capital... this is too much."

"Maybe, the grain has already been sold, and in exchange for this bran, it's just a waste of money."

"What should I do?"

The two grain transport officers walked aside and discussed in a low voice.

"What else can I do? Pack it up and send it to General Li..."

"This……"

"It's not our brothers who did it, it's someone in the capital who has a dark heart. Even if General Li wants to investigate, it won't be on us."

"It is."

Neither of them wanted to offend.

Anyone who dared to do this in the capital must have a strong background, and the two grain transport officials did not want to offend.

Li Shengtian is from a military family, a big celebrity in front of the emperor, they also don't want to offend.

After thinking about it, they could only pretend that what happened just now didn't happen, and they pretended not to know anything, and transported the grain to the Northern Army.

It's just that many soldiers saw it, and it was a bit troublesome.

The two discussed for a while, then transferred another batch of soldiers to replace this batch, then hurriedly loaded the remaining grain bags into the truck, without checking them again, and set off to transport them to the camp of the North Army.

In the camp, Li Shengtian didn't sleep all night.

His eyes were red, and there was a sense of frustration in his heart.

Wang Jian was captured alive by the other party. That Zhao Yun was not only brave in martial arts, but also witty and fickle.

After discovering that the enemy was slack in defense, he immediately switched from harassment to surprise attack, thus successfully capturing Wang Jian alive before the arrival of reinforcements.

This can't help but make Li Shengtian envy Zhang Yuan very much.

I envy him for having such an outstanding general.

But the frustration is only temporary, Li Shengtian has experienced many battles, and quickly adjusted his mentality.

He knew that he didn't need to care too much about small gains and losses, as long as the war could be won, that would be fine.

Temporary defeat is sometimes even more important than temporary victory.

At least, the capture of Wang Jian made all the other generals put away their contempt and arrogance, and started to take it seriously.

Li Shengtian felt that this was a good thing, even if Wang Jian was arrested for nothing.

However, Wang Jian's capture also means that the military situation may be leaked.

He gathered the generals together and asked, "How about Wang Pianjiang?"

The generals from the capital said nothing, saying that the matter had nothing to do with them, because they didn't know Wang Jian at all.

The Qingzhou generals looked at each other, and someone said: "General, Wang Pianjiang is a famous tough guy. I believe he will stick to his loyalty and will not surrender to the traitor Su Yuan."

"That's right, General Wang has an iron courage, and the sun and the moon can learn from it."

"General Wang would rather die than betray his comrades."

Qingzhou generals stood up for Wang Jian one after another.

They said so, but they all thought in unison in their hearts: "Wang Jian, I'm afraid he has surrendered long ago?"

They are all Qingzhou generals, and they eat, drink and have fun together on weekdays, and they have a deep understanding of each other's temperament.

For Wang Jian, they knew very well that he was a bullying guy, but because he was generous and always treated guests, he was very popular.

Now Li Shengtian asked, even if the Qingzhou generals looked down on Wang Jian in their hearts, they couldn't tell the truth.

The reason is very simple, they are all from the Qingzhou family, and they are both prosperous and prosperous.

If they all told the truth and said that Wang Jian would definitely surrender, then Li Shengtian might not only hate Wang Jian, but also the generals of their Qingzhou line.

In this way, they might be put on small shoes.

This kind of thing often happens in the army, not to mention that Li Shengtian himself is from the capital, and he brought some generals from the capital. It is impossible for the generals of Qingzhou to say that they are not worried about this matter.

Everyone is on the battlefield to fight, who wants to be put on small shoes?
No one can accept that I will send the dead to others, and give others the military exploits.

So they didn't need to collude at all, and they all consciously said good things about Wang Jian, and they described Wang Jian as a loyal general that is hard to find in this world.

It has to be said that Li Shengtian really got the point.

He really didn't expect the Qingzhou general to have such a tacit understanding. For a moment, he really thought that Wang Jian was so loyal, and he felt heavy.

"I didn't expect Wang Pianjiang to have such integrity. Everyone, we must work together to defeat the Bei'an army as soon as possible and rescue Wang Pianjiang!"

"Yes!"

The Qingzhou generals responded loudly, but they felt weird and ridiculous in their hearts.

But they all knew each other, and if any one of them was arrested, the others would say the same.

After Li Shengtian chatted about this matter, although he had respect for Wang Jian in his heart, to be on the safe side, he changed some of the arrangements in the camp.

Afterwards, he personally went to the Equipment Legion, where a large number of military equipment was placed.

Such as ladders, tripping ropes, crashes and the like.

What Li Shengtian was looking for was the catapult.

He called a few soldiers and questioned him.

This time the army was dispatched, bringing a total of fifty catapults.

In fact, the city wall of Tianmenguan is wide and strong, and horses can even run on it. It is almost delusional to break the city with a catapult.

But what Li Shengtian wanted to do was not to break through the city with catapults, but to suppress it.

Suppress the defense that the gate of heaven is closed, so as to organize an attack and try it.

One of the advantages of having hundreds of thousands of troops is that there are many trials and errors.

He tried to attack the city for the first time and failed because he was deceived by Su Yuan, thinking that the defenders had been poisoned, but it didn't.

At that time, he chose to retreat in order to build a camp.

Now the camp has a general idea, and because of the harassment they received last night, the soldiers didn't sleep well all night, and their stomachs were full of anger.

Li Shengtian decided to use this anger to make an attempt to attack the city.

"General, the catapults are ready and ready to use at any time."

"very good."

Li Shengtian set the attack time at night, and he planned to dispatch [-] soldiers to take advantage of the darkness to launch a strong attack.

Soon, night falls.

In Guancheng, Su Yuan was discussing the plan for tonight with Zhao Yun.

The strategy of exhausting the enemy last night was very successful, it should be said that it was very successful. Not only did it work, but it also captured a general on the opposite side, which was an unexpected gain.

Tonight will naturally continue.

To really drive the enemy into a frenzy, one or two nights would not work, at least three or four nights in a row.

Zhao Yun thought so too, but just as he was about to lead his troops out of the city, the guards suddenly noticed movement from the enemy.

Su Yuan hurriedly went to the city wall to check. In the night, he could see a large number of enemy troops approaching the city wall.

And besides the soldiers, there are also some tall implements that move slowly behind.

"Catapult?"

When the distance got closer, Su Yuan saw what those utensils were.

"My lord, they want to take advantage of the night to attack!"

"Well, then we will fight."

Su Yuan asked the summoned soldiers to take their positions, while he himself took out the soldier talisman.

Catapult, right? I have one too.

He cleared a space on the wall and began to summon.

Because his catapult is an old-fashioned catapult, it occupies a small area, and the city wall can accommodate a hundred of them.

He summoned them all in one breath and handed them over to the soldiers to manipulate.

Under Zhao Yun's strong suggestion, he himself entered the gate tower behind.

There is no way, Su Yuan himself knows that although he has cultivated some internal strength, he is still an ordinary person. If he stands on the city wall, he will be hit by a big stone from the enemy's catapult...

"It's actually not very likely."

Su Yuan was sitting in the gate tower, he thought to himself, although Grand Master Zhen Miao is not around, but she is in danger, she will definitely protect her.

Thinking of this, a warm current flowed from his heart.

It's a pity that it was destroyed by the horn sound in the next second.

"Woo-!"

The horn of the northern army's attack sounded, and the catapult began to load stones under the command of Li Shengtian.

But what he didn't expect, the enemy's big rock fell down first.

Hu Hu Hu Hu Hu!

Hundreds of stones were thrown together and fell from the top of the city wall. Through the addition of the acceleration of gravity, the power of these stones has also been increased, and when they fell into the crowd, they immediately caused screams.

"So many catapults?!"

Li Shengtian was startled, he could naturally see that those big stones flying from the city wall were not thrown by human hands.

Judging from the number of stones, the opponent's catapults are only a lot more than theirs.

"Kill!!!"

The catapults of both sides smashed into each other, and the soldiers below roared and began to climb up the ladder.

Some soldiers were still wearing hooks and locks. When they climbed halfway, they threw the hooks upwards vigorously. After the hooks hung on the edge of the city wall, the other end of the rope was hung down, allowing the soldiers below to grab the rope and climb up.

For a moment, the entire Tianmenguan wall was covered with soldiers from the Northern Army, all climbing up crazily.

On the other hand, on the city wall, Zhao Yun personally sat in the town, commanding and summoning soldiers to overturn the ladder one by one, and cut the rope locked by the hook with a sword.

At the same time, the bows and arrows of the two sides shot at each other uninterruptedly, the screams were endless, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.

Su Yuan listened behind, feeling a little uncomfortable.

He really thinks that this kind of fighting is unnecessary, and it is actually a loss for both parties.

Most of the soldiers who made up the northern army were peasants. Some of them were captured by strong men, and then died here meaninglessly.

After death, the body cannot return to its hometown, and it may not even be buried.

And all of this is the fault of those dignitaries, they use their mouths, tens of thousands of people will go to war, but even if they win the war in the end, what will these soldiers get.

The greatest credit does not belong to the generals headed by Li Shengtian.

Su Yuan felt disgusted for a while, but although he had a heart of compassion, it didn't mean that he would give up the war in order to reduce killings.

Instead, he summoned more soldiers and asked them to deal a head-on blow to the Northern Army.

He wanted Li Shengtian to know that this method of siege by relying on human lives is absolutely wrong!

Under the city, seeing a big stone falling towards him, Li Shengtian snorted coldly, swung out his bare fist, and hit the stone with a click, the stone was broken into several pieces scattered on the ground by him.

Naturally, this kind of attack would not hurt a natural master like him.The soldiers have not learned any regrets.Facing the boulder flying in the air, they could only dodge as much as possible, if they couldn't dodge, they would either die or be disabled.

It was supposed to be a quiet and quiet night, but the screams of the soldiers dominated it. If Li Shengtian didn't order to retreat, the soldiers could only keep climbing up the city wall, and then kept falling down.

Soon, many soldiers transitioned from initial excitement and fear to numbness.

At this stage, you don't take your own life as your life, and rush forward as if it doesn't matter at all. It can be said that you completely give up thinking, and only act with emotions and instincts.

This stage is undoubtedly the bloodiest moment. More and more dead soldiers piled up under the city wall, almost forming a hill...

(End of this chapter)