Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1051
Chapter 1061

So, Ran Ming came to do the opposite. Don't you gentry officials dislike the bitter cold in the frontier fortress?I let the children of poor families do this kind of hard work and tiring work.

Wang Jian felt very bitter when he heard this.Everyone understands these realities, but they can't bear the persuasion of relatives and friends at home, just like when my son Wang Xuan was promoted to prefect of Lelang (in today's Pyongyang area) by the examination department because he was an official in Jizhou and passed the examination. Although this Lelang county is a fifth-rank official in the lower county, it has been promoted to three ranks in a row.But when the news came, the old wife in the family tried to persuade herself again and again, and even took the rogue method of making a fuss, crying and hanging herself.In the end, under his own secret instruction, Wang Xuan had to "fall from a horse" and hurt his leg, so he abandoned it and stayed home.

Situations like mine are very common in the State of Wei. Official positions in the Ministry of Officials are all sweet pastries in the north of the Yangtze River and within the Great Wall, but those who cross the Yangtze River or leave the Great Wall are plague gods, even if they would rather not be an official. , and don’t be an official in a remote area.Over time, there were no officials to assign, and a large number of vacancies in remote areas had to be controlled by local tyrants.Of course, at this time, Wei Guo's officials were clear and bright, the national power was strong, and the soldiers were intimidating all directions, so there would be no deception.But there will be big problems in the future.

That's all right now, Ran Ming has adopted the strategy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot, which has greatly violated the interests of the elite of the gentry.Even if these important ministers are unwilling, there is nothing they can do.After all, these remote officials are not like the officials of the Central Plains. Those officials who are not involved in the gentry are much easier to do.As for the ability of an official, Ran Ming didn't pay much attention to this achievement. No matter how good the literature is, it doesn't mean that the ability is high.In later generations, there will be more than one illiterate few in charge of large companies, and tens of thousands of people living in more than one.Ran Mingdao: "The disintegration of the world, in my opinion, is largely caused by the ineffective control of the local government. Considering that the imperial court has too weak control over the local government, the main reason is that the imperial court appoints too few local officials, so I decided to do it this time. To enroll [-] scholar-officials in an exceptional way, all county chiefs and above must be appointed by the imperial court, and the appointment of Liucao county officials must also be submitted to the imperial court for record. I believe that it will take three to four years to rectify the local area. The imperial court has weak control over the local area. The criticism will definitely be gradually reversed!"

Ran Ming would not compromise with the nobles, but he was not prepared to use bloody massacres, so he adopted a milder approach.In fact, these officials would rather Ran Ming massacre the Quartet, as long as it is killing, there is always a limit, at least many powerful people can escape this catastrophe.But since Ran Ming is like this, he will attack in an all-round and indiscriminate manner.

The fighting in Stone City has stopped for three days. Ever since more than [-] tribes of Gaisuyedin fell into Stone City and were gathered and wiped out by the Wei army, Er Nayu's heart burst into laughter.This time he failed, and Gaisuyeddin lost the strength and status to compete for the position of Khan.However, the morale of the army is low, which makes Jessie the wise fox worried.

E Nagui asked, "Who was the first person to ascend the city?"

Luue Wusi said: "The first person to climb the city wall was Bo Leng, and he is now dead!"

"Although Bo Leng is dead, can he have descendants?" E Nagui asked.

Muluusi said: "Yes, but at this time he is still breathing fire, and he is only five years old now!"

"Send someone to invite him. Ben Khan can recognize him as his adopted son. In addition, he will reward Bo Leng's family with [-] sheep, [-] horses, and [-] head of cattle!" E Nagui: "From now on, the first A person who climbs the wall of the stone city will be rewarded with [-] horses, and the first person to enter the city will be rewarded with [-] horses!"

Soon the news that Enayu rewarded Bo Leng spread among the Heda army, and the depressed soldiers of Heda gradually began to rise again. Stimulated by promotion and fortune, the Heda army officers and soldiers were filled with the desire to get rich.

Although at this time, the Anxi army envoy Ji severely damaged the Heda army, and obtained a large number of weapons and armor, which can make up for the loss of its own weapons and equipment, especially the capture of more than 3 war horses or dead horses, which made Liu Ke more persistent. Go down the capital.But the war became more and more cruel, and all the soldiers of the Wei army went into battle, including more than 5000 soldiers of the Modao army, who also climbed the city wall like ordinary soldiers and participated in the defense.The chief general Liu Ke even served as mobile firefighters with more than a thousand of his personal guards, and they would support wherever there was a danger.

Arrows were like rain, and the city and the city were intertwined. Rolling logs and rocks fell like hailstones. Siege ladders were overturned. Countless soldiers screamed and fell into the dry moat. Corpses piled up in the moat, and blood flowed like a river.

Blood and flesh flew everywhere, and screams resounded across the battlefield. This was a meat grinder-like war. Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the war continued fiercely, and more and more soldiers were dying.

With the passage of time in this war, both sides have paid great losses, especially the soldiers of the Wei army, who have now killed more than [-] people and injured countless people, but the loss of the Heda army is even greater. Counting the losses of the Gesuyeddin trilogy, at least [-] people died in the three-day battle.

Every soldier in the Wei army was exhausted, especially Liu Ke returned to the general's camp covered in blood, which made Chang Shi Zhao Xun extremely worried: "General, what's wrong?"

Liu Ke said disapprovingly: "It's nothing, it's not my blood, everyone in Heda is crazy, this general personally went into battle and beheaded two ranks of the enemy's head."

"The general goes to battle in person." Even if Zhao Xun is not a military officer, he clearly knows that if the situation is not extremely critical, Liu Ke will never go to battle. At Liu Ke's level, he doesn't need to go to battle at all. The situation couldn't get any worse.

"It seems that we are not optimistic!" Zhao Xun's face became more melancholy.

"Even if you kill a pig, the pig will also scream, let alone a human!" Liu Ke said: "But Zhao Changshi, don't worry, it won't be long before the Heda people are arrogant. According to time calculations, the Heda people will soon Abnormality found!"

Although the Heda people are an all-cavalry unit, and the supplies of the army are mostly cattle, sheep and horses, but because the Heda people have a large number of horses, cattle and sheep on the battlefield, they will spread out in a very wide area for temporary grazing. In this way, Once Wei Jun detoured to them, he would definitely be discovered by them.

Stone Town in May is already sweltering, like a big furnace.The unique climate of Shichengtou makes it cold in winter, but extremely hot in summer.Liu Ke poured a bucket of cold water on his head, and suddenly felt the heat was swept away.Liu Ke murmured: "My dear, this place is very strange. It was so hot just in May. I really don't know how to make people live in the great heat!"

Just now there were a few patches of black clouds in the sky, and there were a few muffled thunders, but no raindrops fell for a long time. After waiting for a while, the black spots dispersed, revealing the scorching sun again.The flowers and plants in the corner were also wilted by the sun. Thanks to the hot weather, Stone City was able to protect itself for a long time.Now it is impossible to stand up in the sun during the day, as long as the armor is exposed to the sun for a long time, you can directly fry eggs on it, let alone fight in armor.Sergeant Heda was less heat-resistant than the Wei people, and could hardly fight during the day.

However, even because of the weather, the Heda army's offensive still did not stop. Almost every day, as soon as the sun was shining, the Heda people would attack, no more, no less, for an hour, and when the sun came out, they would stop attacking and return to camp. .And when the sun goes down at night and the heat disappears, the Heda army will attack by coincidence.

In Stone City, just as the sun was about to set, the tragic and bloody offensive and defensive battle began.The fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce. At this moment of life and death, both sides were bloody, fighting desperately like wild animals.On the city wall, sergeants constantly climbed up on ladders.He was repeatedly attacked by the soldiers guarding the city of Wei State.With the weapon broken, fists, kicks, headbutts, and teeth bites, both sides exhausted all available methods, as long as they could cause damage to the enemy.

Liu Ke's originally handsome face was also covered with blood at this time, but his eyes were always flashing with blood-red savagery.After more than 4 days of fighting, Liu Ke's troops of the Anxi Army were about to shed blood. There were originally more than 3000 troops, but at this time, including cavalry and Modaoshou, the Wei army in Stone City was less than 1000. Especially the 5000th Infantry Division, the only Anxi Army Infantry Division stationed in Stone City has been completely disabled. The entire army is now less than [-] people, and almost everyone is injured, and less than [-] people can maintain combat effectiveness.There are more than [-] cavalry, less than [-] at this time, and even the soldiers of the Modao Army have lost nearly half.

Throwing down more than [-] corpses again, E Naju had to face up to the fact that he could not take Stone City.He sighed, and called gold to withdraw.

"Khan, let's retreat! We have lost the best time to wipe out the Wei army. Now we can barely attack for less than two hours a day because of the hot weather, but Wei has enough time to rest. The weather will get worse It's getting hotter and hotter, and our soldiers are getting more and more uncomfortable. Besides, we have lost contact with Tocharian, and Tocharian is the foundation of our Heda Empire!" Jessie's head was running fast, and he had already It's a pity that he recognized Ernaju's sinister intentions. He originally thought that Ernaju just wanted to cut off Gaisuyedin's wings, but he didn't expect that Ernaju would not let him go.Today's tragic siege battle has caused the loss of nearly half of the Heda army. Although most of them are part of Gesuyeddin's troops, the troops under his command also suffered heavy losses. Now Jeersey's troops only have [-] soldiers More than [-] people, almost two-thirds of the soldiers and horses were lost.

"No!" E Nagui waved his hand decisively and shouted: "If Ben Khan goes back now, he will fall into the poisonous tricks of the people of Wei." What big effect can it have? We are not Wei people, and we have no city to defend. Once the cavalry of Wei people appear in the rear, the people will move away, and they will get nothing. What's more, although the main force of our Heda Empire is outside, the country There are still tens of thousands of troops. The troops of Wei Guo interspersed behind us, the number of them is definitely not large, otherwise they will definitely fight with us in an open and honest manner, instead of sneaking into our country like thieves."

"What does Khan mean?" Jessier actually knew that even if the Wei Guo Pianshi interspersed into the Heda Empire, it would not have much effect.The Heda Empire is now on the rise, and the morale of the people is high. Even the people who stay behind are not completely powerless to fight back.The Heda Empire is a country where all the people are wolves. The old and weak women and children are also different from those in other countries. The Heda women are very strong, even no worse than the young and strong men of some tribes. As the women and children of the Heda Empire, Who can't ride a horse and draw a bow?If the partial divisions entering the Heda Empire are not powerful, they may be swallowed up by the people of the Heda Empire.

But at this time, what Enaju was thinking was that the news that the Wei army could be interspersed behind him could not be spread anyway, because most of the army brought by the Eastern Expedition this time was young and strong, and their families and relatives were all in the country. There are [-] to [-] of these people. If we let them know that Wei Jun has entered the country, how can they stay here intentionally? Of course, this is only one of E Naju's concerns, and the other is that E Naju still believes that Stone City is the main force of Wei's army, otherwise, with less than [-] The miscellaneous servant army couldn't resist Wei Jun's full blow, and so far Izumo Pass is still firmly in their hands.

The last level of meaning is actually related to the tradition of the Heda Empire. The only national policy of the Heda Empire since its establishment was two words, killing.The Heda Empire started from the Guishui River (now the Amu Darya River) and then began to kill and expand. They first took advantage of the weakening of the Parthian Empire and took the opportunity to get rid of the colonial rule of the Parthian Empire. After independence, the Heda Empire began to annex the ten countries of Central Asia to the east. (Nine surnames of Zhaowu) Then, annexed Kangju and Dawan until Shule, which pushed Bingfeng into the traditional sphere of influence of the Han people.Then it continued to attack the Sasanian Empire that replaced the Parthian Empire, and after driving the Sasanian Empire to the area north of the Guishui River, the Heda Empire began to attack south, attacking the Gupta Empire.They killed the Persians, they killed the ancient Indians, and of course they killed their own people.Killing is the characteristic of the Heda Empire, and they rely on killing to improve the vitality of the entire country.The old honored nobles had reached the point where they had no intention of making progress because of their extreme wealth. Therefore, in order to give the new nobles a chance to be promoted, killing had to be carried out.After each such massacre, the Heda Empire became stronger instead.

In Ena's eyes, no matter whether it is Gesuyedin or Jersey, they are like candles that are about to burn to the end. When the generals of the Heda Empire cannot gain new benefits for the empire, their lives will also burn It's the end.No matter how submissive Gesuyeddin and Jersey were to him, they both had to die.

E Nagu rushed to the tent and shouted: "This is a trick of the people of Wei to divert the tiger away from the mountain. I will never be fooled by this Khan. You all listen to this Khan. The matter of Wei Guo's partiality is only known to you. If someone doesn’t know what to say, don’t blame Ben Khan for being ruthless. No matter what status and honor he is, Ben Khan will also chop off his head and make his whole family slaves. After finishing speaking, Enabu’s eyes glanced sharply A glance at the one-eyed general Gaisuyeddin, the wise fox Jersey, and others only made the hearts of these generals and nobles tremble.

Everyone hurriedly knelt down to listen to the order, and then listened to the order from the E-Na Temple: "After dawn, the three armies will go out immediately, and Jessie will lead [-] cavalry as the vanguard, so as to break through Wei's defense line and conquer Stone City in one fell swoop. Anyone who obeys the order, but whoever does not obey the order will be executed without mercy."

In the middle of the night, in the jersey tent of the Heda Imperial Army camp in the southwest of Stone City, a one-eyed giant man sat on the bed, stretched out his dry hand like an orange peel, and gently pressed it on his chest. Hoarse and dry: "Brother Jeersey, please help me..."

Jesse is one of the four great generals of the Heda Empire. The general of the Heda Empire is equivalent to the four chief deacons of the Roman Empire, and is in charge of military and political affairs.Although Jesse is famous for his wisdom and cunning, he, like many generals of the Heda Army, has a soldier-specific resolute face. Like all soldiers, he is calm, cruel, persevering and obedient.He has all the temperament that a soldier should have, and it is more prominent.But more importantly, among the generals of the Heda army who are least good at strategy and tactics, he is the one with the most strategic vision.

Jesse said: "Gaisuyeddin, you really shouldn't have come to my place. Now that there is a lot of turmoil outside and Khan has a lot of eyeliners, if you come to my place to attract attention, it will be very bad for us."

"Unfavorable, what will happen if you are unfavorable? At worst, you will die!" Gaisuyeddin said: "Speaking of which, if I, Gaisuyedin, die, how can you, Jeremy, die well? I still have less than [-] remnant soldiers. Defeated, and you are better than me, where are you going? Now you still have [-] soldiers in your hands, but at dawn tomorrow, you will send [-] pieces to the end with your own hands, and you will be like me in three days at most. Just like being alone.”

Speaking of this, Gesuyedin smiled on his face, the corner of his mouth slightly twitched, his eyes were full of sarcasm, "Smart fox, haha, what a smart fox!"

A stern gleam flashed in Jessie's eyes, but it was fleeting.

(End of this chapter)