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Chapter 1427 Defending the City (2)

I don't know whether it's because he's afraid of the officer or because he's born lowly and can't fight well. After being reprimanded by the officer, the archer's counterattack quickly looked decent.Some guys who boasted of their superb archery skills, after adapting to the nervousness of the first battle, even ran to the front row and shot and killed the archers in the city with bows and arrows.

Bandit archers shoot arrows, and other bandits take the opportunity to climb up the ladder, then hold the machete, climb up quickly with hands and feet screaming.Seen from a distance, Jin Wencheng immediately had dozens of scars, covered with ants.

The officer took a risky look and shook his head with contempt: "This group of idiots, so few people are carrying ladders to attack the city? I really don't know how death is written."

The officer asked the soldiers under his command to share a share of the ladder, and then waved to the soldiers holding the stones and shouted: "Throw!"

These anxious soldiers immediately threw down the stone in their arms, then bent down to pick up a stone and threw it down again.

At the beginning, the officer looked at his subordinates with a satisfied expression, secretly proud of how well he had trained and how proficient his subordinates were.But when they saw these guys, they didn't even look at the situation under the city. They didn't even care about throwing stones when there were no people left. They almost fell over.

The officer yelled: "Stop it all! You still throw a fart! He escaped long ago! If you throw it again, I will let you jump down and carry the stone back!"

Tang Feng, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw the heavy rain of stones falling from the city tower, smashing the soldiers gathered under the ladder to the ground.

Give an order, the blood has been extinguished, and the Shanyue soldiers who had been uneasy for a long time immediately retreated with a huff.

Seeing the enemy retreating, the soldiers on the tower immediately cheered. They didn't expect the enemy to fight so hard. It seemed that the war was not as cruel as they imagined. They just killed the enemy by pulling bows and throwing stones. Easy.

The soldiers immediately chatted excitedly, each bragging about how many people he had killed.

Zhao Hu, who had not issued an order all this time and was just watching the battle, was not as happy as the soldiers at this moment, but was frowning.

He has been fighting for many years, and he can estimate the approximate number just by looking at the corpses under the tower.At most, less than a thousand people were killed in the attack on the opponent, and the bandits retreated like this?Didn't it mean that bandits are not afraid of death?

Moreover, the so-called mountain regiment did not perform well, and none of the enemies who attacked the city just now were outstanding.

But despite this, Zhao Hu also saw that these bandits were not used to attacking the city at all. You can see that they ran to climb the city wall with only a few ladders on their shoulders. ah.

Zhao Hu was frowning, and Lei Ming was also frowning.He held his breath and said to Tang Feng: "Uncle, the mountain regiment hasn't lost any damage, why is it called to withdraw troops?"

Tang Feng sighed: "We are all a bit self-righteous. Siege is not as simple as we imagined. Look, nearly a thousand people were sacrificed just to build the ladder, and none of them climbed the tower. It seems ten times the siege The siege rules are not an exaggeration.

"Now that we have such a small force, don't think about training soldiers, it's simply sending us to death!"

Lei Ming stomped his feet and said, "Oh, it's good that Meng San is still here, at least he should know how to attack the city!"

Tang Feng shook his head and sighed: "Oh, presumably Mengsan doesn't know too well, I guess that except for the captain who has fought all his life, no one else in the fifth regiment has participated in siege battles. It is possible to know what steps are needed to siege a city.

It's a pity that our Shanyue used to capture the city of the imperial county, relying on the help of the city to capture it. We didn't attack the city at all, and now the city wall has been destroyed, and we didn't expect to practice it. It's too arrogant up. "

"Hey, what steps are needed to siege the city? Isn't it just to besiege the city, and then climb the city or break the city gate." Lei Ming said indifferently.

Tang Feng nodded and said: "Yes, it is difficult for us to attack one side, how can we surround it, and we don't have the equipment to attack the city gate, and even there are a little few ladders. If there are hundreds of ladders, I'm afraid we have already Climb the tower."

Lei Ming frowned and thought for a while, and felt that he was indeed a bit arrogant, actually wanting to break through a city with tens of thousands of people with just a few thousand people.

Thinking of this, Lei Ming said hesitantly: "Uncle, do we really need to summon [-] troops to conquer Jinwen City? Our tribe can only reach this number by recruiting all the men."

Tang Feng shook his head and said: "You can't recruit all the men from the tribe, this is not a war of extermination, and you are not afraid of transferring people away at the front, and swallowing the young and old at the back?"

"Then ask for reinforcements from other tribes." Lei Ming said a little dejectedly, he knew that his tribe could not monopolize Jinwen City.

"Reinforcements are needed, but who knows if they are willing to come? And it takes too long to come and go. The reinforcements may only help us fight against the guard divisions in the coastal province. Without the city blocking us, we can only fight in the mountains and forests. How can this achieve our intention of annexing Jinwen County." Tang Feng shook his head again and said.

"Then what should we do?" Lei Ming was in a hurry. Doesn't this mean that his tribe has come all the way here and won't get any benefits?
Mountains?The mountains and forests now belong to the Shanyue tribe, isn't it the same as nothing?And only by capturing Jinwen City, the representative of Jinwen County, can it prove that Jinwen County has fallen into the hands of the Shanyue tribe, just like those counties that have long been annexed by the Shanyue tribe.

"Aren't there our Shanyue people in the mountains and forests with a radius of hundreds of miles? Send people to invite these small tribes, as long as they give some benefits, and promise to let them loot after breaking the city, they will definitely come." Tang Feng laughed.

Lei Ming was stunned for a moment, then suddenly slapped his head and laughed: "Uncle Yingming, there are all these small tribes that have been separated out. As long as we use them to attack the city, we can not only weaken their strength, but also take the opportunity to annex them and let our tribe really control the area."

"Well, it's good if you can think so. Go ahead and execute it, and send someone back to invite reinforcements by the way." Tang Feng nodded.

"Yes!" Lei Ming saluted excitedly, turned and ran out.Soon, hundreds of people in the Shanyue army left quickly and disappeared into the forest.

"Uncle, they are cleaning the battlefield, should we attack?" Lei Ming looked at the busy soldiers under the city wall in the distance, and suggested to Tang Feng.

"It's useless, they can run into the city gate before we reach it, and they are also burying our own bodies, so let's wait until the reinforcements arrive." Tang Feng shook his head and said.

"Oh, uncle, do you think they will evacuate?" Lei Ming asked.

"I don't know, but it's best to evacuate, so that we can easily get the city." Tang Feng said with narrowed eyes.

"Well, it's just a pity for those craftsmen, but it doesn't matter, the craftsmen of our tribe are also very good." Lei Ming said casually.

"Hehe, our Shanyue tribe is not only an excellent hunter, but also an excellent carpenter. Let the soldiers cut down trees. We need to set up a camp." Tang Feng laughed.

"Yes." Lei Ming took the order.

While they were talking, Jin Wencheng was very busy.

After counting, Zhao Hu was surprised by the number of carriages in Jinwen City. There were thousands of carriages. There was almost one carriage for a family with a little wealth, and dozens of carriages for those with a lot of money. It seems that the wealth of the people in the empire should not be underestimated. .

With these thousands of carriages, it is much easier to relocate people.However, what the people did next made Zhao Hu and the others frown.

These people knew that the city would fall into the hands of bandits sooner or later, and they almost wanted to take away the door frames. Every family was densely packed with a large pile of items.

As a result, Zhao Hu had no choice but to form a special army to perform the task of reducing the burden.Each family can only have a few pieces of clothing, money, and dry food for January, and everything else cannot be carried.Although the people were dissatisfied, they obediently obeyed the orders under the coercion and persuasion of the troops.

Here I want to say that when Zhao Hu was preparing for the relocation of the people, he first added a death order to the strong men: "Those who leave the team without authorization will be killed! The family members will stay and defend the city!"

With this order, the strong man who didn't want to be separated from his family, but was a little ready to move, was too frightened to move.Coupled with the induction of the secret guards hidden in the army with the words "Only if we stay and intercept the bandits, the family members can leave safely", the strong men also accepted their fate.

The morale of the army is stable, what big waves can the people make?And although everyone was dissatisfied with throwing away so many things, they also understood that it was for their own benefit to be able to evacuate lightly, so at most they complained and regretted a few words, and no one came out to be a prick.

In the beginning, the wealthy households relied on their own carriages, and while ensuring that they would not slow down the speed of the team, they desperately moved their belongings onto the carriages. Not to mention those rich men whose warehouses were full of gold and silver, even those small wealthy households moved all their belongings onto the carriages. My family is walking on the ground.

Seeing this, Zhao Hu could only call these rich households together and ask them, "Do you think it's safer to go together with tens of thousands of people, or is it safer to go alone with you who have carriages?" It's safer to walk together, at least there are so many people.

Many wealthy households are shrewd people, and they immediately knew what Zhao Hu was going to say, but the ones they carried into the carriage were no different from ordinary items like the door frames of the common people. They were all valuable goods, and most of them were food and other materials .

However, everyone soon wanted to understand which was more important, money or life. Besides, they were willing to abandon the grain fields outside the city, and they could still carry cash. If so, why did they care about the grain?Ship it to the provincial capital for sale?Isn't that being laughed at for nothing?

(End of this chapter)