Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 394 The situation is determined

The battle lasted from midnight to dawn. By the time Jia Rui regrouped his troops, the Nanman camp had been completely destroyed.

After the war, statistics showed that Jia Rui killed 100,000 Nanman soldiers in this battle.

Coupled with the men and horses lost in the battle with the Nanman in the past few days, it can be said that half of the Nanman army has been abandoned at the foot of Edo Castle.

The remaining half of the people were also injured, and they were even more frightened.

From this day on, Jia Rui's reputation spread throughout the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, and his reputation was already on par with the evil gods and devils in hell.

Temples were even built for Jia Rui in some places, hoping that the evil god Jia Rui would not come out of hell and harm the people.

Of course, Jia Rui doesn't know all this. His current goal is the old capital of the Nanman Kingdom.

The current Nanman king stayed in Nanman, and together with the Nanman general who had fled, this place was crowded with Nanman big shots.

Jia Rui also changed some strategies next. He began to collect strong men of the Southern Barbarians in the countryside of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom.

These strong Nanman men were turned into a servant army by Jia Rui.

At first, these people were only forced by Jia Rui's knives, but after several raids on the countryside, the ferocity of these servants was also aroused, and they no longer needed Jia Rui's people to supervise them. He does it harder than anyone else.

After more than half a month of repairs, Jia Rui's team now has an army of 50,000 servants.

Moreover, the equipment of this servant army is very good compared to that of the Southern Barbarians, because after the last battle in Xindu, the Southern Barbarians lost countless weapons. These things are not used by Jia Rui's army, so the equipment of the servant army is just right.

After everything was ready, Jia Ruili left 50,000 people to guard him. He took 100,000 Celestial soldiers and 50,000 servants from the new capital and went straight to the old capital of the Southern Barbarians.

Of course, along the way, Jia Rui was still inevitably attacked from all directions.

But this time Jia Rui had a way to deal with these people, which was to spread out the servant army and wipe out all the villages along the way.

Of course, if he encounters a village that does not resist, Jia Rui will be lenient and not massacre. However, the strong men in the village will be forcibly incorporated into the servant army to increase the number of servant troops.

By the time they arrived at the old capital of the Southern Barbarians, Jia Rui's army of servants had grown from 50,000 to 60,000.

On the wall of the old capital, the Southern Barbarian general looked at the dense crowd outside the city, his brows furrowed, and his hands holding the battlements had exposed veins.

The failure in the new capital caused the general to lose all his prestige in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom, and many princes were already ready to take action.

The reason why he can still hold on now is because the foreign enemy Jia Rui has not disappeared. As long as Jia Rui retreats, I am afraid that the Southern Barbarian Kingdom will fall back into the Warring States Period.

Jia Rui rode his horse to the front of the battle, looked at the short guy in his forties in the city, and showed a smile on his lips.

"Go and talk to the Nanman generals on the city. As long as you open the city gate and surrender, then forget about it. If you don't surrender, after the city gate is breached, the city will be massacred for three days."

A Nanman who looked very wretched, but tried his best to appear very serious, bowed deeply to Jia Rui, and then walked under the city wall with his short legs.

"Listen to the thieves in the city. Our general has an order. If you surrender, forget about it. If you don't, the city will be massacred for three days."

Following his words, the people on the city wall were in an uproar.

During this time, the soldiers on the city had more or less known the fighting power of the Celestial Kingdom. These people believed that with their small stature, there was no way they could fight against the giants of the Celestial Kingdom.

The Nanman general stomped his feet angrily when he heard the noise around him, then drew out his sword and let out a gurgling roar.

His trusted generals and soldiers also swarmed forward at this time, beating the soldiers who wavered.

After a long time, the city finally became quiet.

Jia Rui was at the bottom of the city and had already seen everything in the city clearly. He smiled slightly. It seemed that he could enter the old capital for dinner today.

"Since they don't know what to do, let's start."

Following Jia Rui's words, the servants in the team jumped out, lined up neatly, and marched towards the old capital with various siege tools.

Of course, Jia Rui also reinforced these servant armies. Nearly ten thousand archers followed these servant armies, using bows and arrows to suppress the soldiers on the city top at any time.

In addition to bows and arrows, Jia Rui also sent catapults.

These catapults were temporarily built by Jia Rui during this period. The main purpose was to gain an advantage in the subsequent siege battle.

The catapult began to speak first, and nearly a hundred boulders were thrown several hundred meters and fell towards the old capital building.

Facing the huge boulder, one layer of the city wall of the old capital was cut off at that time.

The main reason why these catapults are so effective is because the city walls of the Nanman Kingdom are not as strong as those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, these walls are of limited use when encountering boulders.

Under the pressure of the catapults, the servants finally approached the city wall, then put up ladders and climbed crazily toward the city wall. The archers following them also started shooting at this time, and arrows fell like raindrops on the city wall, which stunned the southern barbarian defenders who were preparing to move rocks and wood to defend.

Due to the lack of supplies in the Southern Barbarians, they rarely used large-scale and unlimited rain of arrows in their wars like those in the Central Plains.

Therefore, facing this crazy rain of arrows for the first time, they were suddenly unable to withstand it.

After a brief moment of confusion, the servant army below finally attacked the tower of the old capital. After that, the archers below finally began to reduce the frequency of shooting to avoid hurting their own people.

After this, the defenders in the old capital also reacted and began a crazy counterattack.

This time their ferocity was revealed, and they almost defeated the supplementary troops who had stormed the tower.

Fortunately, the servant army is not a vegetarian. Their equipment is even better than that of the defenders on the city tower. Coupled with the ferocity trained during this period of murder, they actually fought with the opponent with a small number of people. Everyone comes and goes.

As time goes by, the number of servants on the upper floors of the military industry is increasing, and the balance of victory is also tilted towards the side of the servants.

As the sun set over the Western Mountains, the old capital of the Southern Barbarian Kingdom finally fell.

Another important reason why the enemy's old capital was captured so quickly was that the elite of the Southern Barbarians had been almost wiped out by Jia Rui under the new capital.

Jia Rui was very satisfied with this siege.

Their army did not set up camp when they arrived at the city. They just made a tentative attack and breached the city. This was unimaginable in the Central Plains.

When Jia Rui saw that the city was broken, he did not immediately let his Chinese soldiers go up. Instead, he ordered the Chinese cavalry to start wandering around the old capital to stop the nobles who escaped from the old capital.

As for what happened in the old capital, Jia Rui didn't care at all.

The next day Jia Rui woke up from his sleep, Hualan Clothing Jia Rui dressed up, and then served breakfast prepared by himself.

Jia Rui ate under the service of the beauty, and then came to the Chinese army's tent.

As soon as he sat down, someone came from below to report, "Commander, yesterday we captured a group of Southern Barbarian nobles outside the city. After identification by the servants, there may be a Southern Barbarian general or even a more important figure among them."

Jia Rui became interested upon hearing this.

If the Southern Barbarian generals and even the Southern Barbarian kings can really be captured in one fell swoop, then the Southern Barbarian Kingdom will be a ball of loose sand, and the Celestial Kingdom will control the Southern Barbarian Kingdom even faster.

"Send someone to investigate carefully. Anyone among these people who can identify the Southern Barbarian General and Southern Barbarian King will be heavily rewarded."

Jia Rui's order was quickly implemented. Under torture, coercion and inducement, some Nanman nobles finally couldn't hold on any longer and began to become traitors.

Sure enough, the leader of this group of people was the Nanman General, and a young boy in his teens was the Nanman King.

As for the remaining people, most of them are the family members of the Nanman generals and members of the Nanman royal family.

After receiving the report, Jia Rui rubbed his forehead and thought for a moment, then ordered everyone to be executed, especially no one from the Southern Barbarian royal family should survive.

Jia Rui wanted to cut off the Nanman Kingdom's faith from the roots.

After Jia Rui came to the Nanman Kingdom, he also had some understanding of the culture of the Nanman Kingdom. In the culture of these people, the Nanman King is their god.

And Jia Rui now wants to wipe out all their gods and the blood of the gods, leaving the Southern Barbarian Kingdom with no spiritual support.

Half a month after Jia Rui occupied the old capital of the Southern Barbarians, the entire Southern Barbarian Kingdom had received the news that the royal family had all been killed by the generals of the Celestial Dynasty.

When the ordinary people got the news, they stamped their feet, beat their chests and howled incessantly. But when the upper-class nobles got the news, they all had their own little plans.

During this month of war, these Southern Barbarian nobles also discovered that if they fought head-on with the soldiers of the Celestial Kingdom, they were no match at all.

Instead of waiting to be wiped out one by one, it would be better to simply surrender.

There were not just one or two people who had this idea. First, three local lords formed an alliance and then surrendered to Jia Rui together.

Jia Rui's purpose in the Southern Barbarian Kingdom is to eliminate the Southern Barbarian regime and then control the Southern Barbarian Kingdom's economy. As for how to fight and kill the lords and princes below, as long as the rule of the Celestial Dynasty is not shaken, Jia Rui will not interfere.

Therefore, Jia Rui praised the several lords of the Nanman Kingdom who surrendered, and guaranteed the status of these three people in the name of the Southern Kingdom.

At this time, the nobles from all over the country finally understood that the Celestial Kingdom only wanted to control the Southern Barbarians, but it did not want to deprive them of their noble ruling status.

Since his position would not be shaken, why fight? So most of the princes in the north and south surrendered nominally under Jia Rui's inducement.

However, there are still a small number of die-hard elements who refuse to surrender, and Jia Rui will resolutely attack this small group of people.

First, Jia Rui sent out troops composed mainly of servants and with the elite troops of the Celestial Kingdom as the backbone. Then they joined the troops of the surrendered princes and began to encircle and suppress those princes who refused to surrender.

(End of this chapter)