The Rise of the Marquis

Chapter 71 Professional Siege
With a sound of knocking, the huge wooden door of Heyin City creaked continuously, dust and sawdust were scattered, and the infantry behind pushed the door baffle and advanced to the place more than ten steps in front of the city gate to wait.

After about a quarter of an hour, the second wave of fireballs illuminated the ground, and flew directly to the top of the city across a long line of flames.

Three of them crossed the city at a too high angle and ran towards the distant sky until they dissipated, while the other few hit the thick wall quickly and gracefully, and some of them ignited the female wall and ignited a raging fire. In chaos, many people were running and fleeing, and two of them jumped directly from the tower.

Wang Jian looked at the fire in the distance and said with emotion: "Zuoqiu Fufeng does have two brushes."

"We are a big man at the level of a captain." Dongfang Jin also praised it quite a bit. This little girl has always spoken arrogantly. She considers herself a big man. Her nostrils are upturned. The level is really good.

Compared with the inflated titles of the eastern countries, the titles of the Han Dynasty have a high gold content. Those who can be granted a marquis have clear requirements for military merit, and after the emperor Gaozu's ancestral instruction of "no merit, no marquis", even if you want to be a marquis Relatives of the royal family must also go to the battlefield to be gilded.

And it is also rare under the Marquis, there is a clear requirement to kill the enemy, and the school lieutenant is already an officer who can lead 1000 people in the Han army.

"If you can take Heyin, you can go straight to Maling from here." Wang Jian looked at the avenue in the vast wilderness north of Heyin City in the distance. The large grassland has a panoramic view, and there is a small river flowing, which is as quiet as close The fighting here is out of place.

"Are you going to attack Ma Ling?" Dongfang Jin asked, "I can warn you, when the princess came to the east, she heard that there were strange people here. side, especially more than 50 warlocks."

"Thank you Miss Dongfang for reminding me." Wang Jian said, "I'm not going to fight the Mu family, even if I have the ability, once I break the political structure of the six ministers, and the first one to break the political structure of Zhao State, I will become the target of public criticism. .”

"Then you are not going to avenge your father, coward!" The little girl said angrily again.

Wang Jian couldn't help laughing out loud: "Isn't it because you have to put everything right in order to feel comfortable?"

"Hum..." Dongfang Jin also reacted, and blushed a little when he was told again.

"Naturally, I have to take revenge, but I can't take the lead. This precedent can only be set by one of the six ministers, or King Zhao." Wang Jian looked to the north. Before that, he had his own plan, because his internal There are also many contradictions, and today's aristocratic politics greatly restricts the development of the region, and the military merit system must be implemented with the cooperation of new local institutions.

Although Zuoqiu Fufeng is professional, the troops brought by the small nobles from all over the country are uneven. If they have plenty of time and the situation is not urgent, they can slowly select soldiers and then reorganize them to fight, then this will definitely lead to disaster.

Such a system and army cannot cope with the increasingly complex situation and the needs of military struggles.

With the appearance of aliens, the Han Empire is about to advance eastward, and the contradictions and struggles among the various princes, Wang Jian realized more and more that before his cultivation was restored, he had to manage his one-third of an acre of land well to protect himself, and the military and grassroots forces had to deal with it. Institutional reform is imminent.

Not to mention how advanced it is, at least the current politics of the princes and aristocrats is absolutely impossible to win.

A sudden burst of cheers in the distance brought Wang Jian back to his thoughts, Dongfang Jin, who had just pretended to be a big Han, had seen the world and pretended to be calm, jumped up and said excitedly: "The city gate is broken! "

After nearly half an hour of collision, the huge wooden city gate was finally smashed to the ground, stirring up a lot of dust.

But the moment the city gate fell, the soldiers did not rush in, but retreated under the command of Zuoqiu Fufeng. Seven or eight people carried wooden barrels to the door and poured oil inside.

The sorcerer's spells that had been prepared in the rear were all fired, and the hot red light flickered in the dust, and disappeared into the doorway in an instant, and then a lot of sparks splashed out, turning the entire city gate into a stove doorway that was burning fiercely and breathing fire.

Thick smoke billowed from the city gate, and the accompanying soldiers poured buckets of hot oil inside, and soon the city cave became a sea of ​​flames.

After a while, the defenders in the building above the city cave fled out from both sides of the city head.

Watching these operations, Wang Jian gradually understood that there should be a large number of defenders inside the tower above the city gate.

After the enemy broke through the first gate and entered the city cave, the defenders could throw stones from above, splash hot oil, shoot arrows, etc. to kill the siege soldiers in the narrow space of the city cave.

It's a pity that Zuoqiu Fufeng is more professional than them. He should have learned how to attack the city at Jixia Academy. When the outer door was knocked open, the soldiers were not allowed to rush in. Instead, the soldiers poured hot oil and the warlocks put it inside. More than a dozen spirit fire spells, and then continued to pour a lot of oil, instantly igniting a raging fire in the city cave.

Not only is the high temperature forcing the defenders at the top of the city to withdraw, but also the spirit fire technique of the warlocks instantly burned the air in the city cave and the space above it. passed.

Even Wang Jian couldn't help feeling this wave of operations, "This is professional!"

Warlocks' spirit fire spells cannot destroy the buildings above the city gate and a large number of defenders directly, but after this operation, the defenders above the city are burned, and those who run away run away, and can no longer stay on the tower to defend the city.

Soldiers on the two sides began to climb the city one after another with the prepared ladders. Because the defenders near the tower had run away, their ascent went very smoothly. By the afternoon when the sun was slanting to the west, more than 200 Heyang soldiers had assembled at the top of the city.

In the lower part of the city cave, the fire gradually extinguished after burning for a quarter of an hour. Because there was nothing to burn in the city cave except the oil poured in, the soldiers began to carry water from the stream outside the city to put out the fire, and quickly extinguished the flames. Fufeng let the crowd disperse, let the city cave blow for another quarter of an hour, and then ordered the soldiers with giant axes to enter the city cave and split open the last small door.

The last city gate was not strong, and when the fire burned, everyone chopped it down like melons and vegetables, and soon many soldiers filed in.

The soldiers assembled on the top of the city also launched an attack at the same time.
Wang Jian couldn't see the process of the battle, but the result was sent to him by a fast horse only two quarters of an hour later. Heyin City surrendered. The defenders inside had no intention of fighting and only knew to keep running back. After that, many people knelt down and surrendered, begging for their lives.

According to the cry of the defender of Heyin, since the beginning of this battle, the defender who had the upper hand was completely overwhelmed by the advance. Oil and gold juice, as well as the murder room in the city cave, were all cracked one by one, but it didn't work. The more they fought, the less confident they were.

Many people persuaded the enemy to surrender sooner rather than later.

He executed a few soldiers who were about to escape before stabilizing the situation. By the time the Heyang Army reached the top of the city, many people had already collapsed, and there was a large-scale escape. As soon as the inner gate was broken, everyone collapsed and ran away. Running and landing, there is no intention of fighting the enemy to the end.

The guard of Heyin was quite courageous, and directly told the soldiers of the Heyang army who were fighting in, that the soldiers and civilians in the city had actually said they would surrender a long time ago, and that he was the one who forced them not to surrender, and he even killed someone because of this. Do things by one person, don't implicate the soldiers and civilians in the city.

(End of this chapter)