After crossing the Jinshui River, the team stopped less than three miles north of Qingyuan City. There were no rescuers in the city. He knew that it was almost impossible to wipe out the defenders of Qingyuan City outside the city. His goal was to consume the enemy's troops as much as possible, which would be of great benefit to the future siege battles.
Stark, shot in the shoulder by an arrow and stabbed in the chest and thigh. Fu Zhengming, who had half of his forearm cut off, was captured alive, bound and escorted to Fang Jie.
Fang Jie sat cross-legged on the white lion, and glanced at the two people in front of him.
This is the first time that Fu Zhengming and Shi Dake met Fang Xie. In their cognition, Fang Xie is a murderous demon king and a cold-hearted executioner. When they were captured alive, they knew in their hearts that their fate would not be bad. Where to go. Fang Jie came here under the banner of revenge, since he is an enemy...how could there be a miracle
But they didn't expect that Fang Jie just glanced at them indifferently, then waved his hand and ordered: "Take them down and apply the wound medicine first."
"Here!"
A few Xiao cavalry schools went to the back with their people, Fu Zhengming and Shi Dake glanced at each other, but they didn't understand what Fang Jie meant.
But the injuries on their bodies were indeed serious, and if the bleeding was not stopped in time, they could bleed to death. The two of them felt apprehensive about being taken down, but at the same time they couldn't help but look back at the young man.
"Set up the catapult and install the hammer."
Fang Jie gave an order and raised his clairvoyance to observe the city wall.
"There are at least 10,000 troops defending the city. I asked. The one with the broken arm is Fu Zhengnan's younger brother, Fu Zhengming. The 10,000 troops he brought out are his private soldiers. Fu Zhengnan controls all the hundred miles, but the following counties are guarded by Fu Zhengming, this time we go south, Fu Zhengnan hastily dispatched Fu Zhengming's team back to Qingyuan City to defend."
Wu Yiyi looked at the big city opposite and sighed slightly: "There are more than 10,000 troops defending the city, and the city wall is so strong, it's not easy to fight."
"It's not the walls that are hard to hit, but the hearts of the people."
Fang Xie was silent for a while and said: "No matter how strong a city is, if hundreds of catapults smash it over, it will eventually be able to overwhelm the defenders. We still have a cannon captured that can bombard the city gate. Even if the city gate is destroyed If it is blocked, the city wall will collapse if it goes on for a long time. What I am worried about now is the attitude of the people in the city. There are more than 10,000 defenders in Qingyuan City. The people in the surrounding counties are all concentrated in the city. Once the people Also go to the city to defend... This battle will not be easy."
"The general has a solution?"
Wei Xiting asked.
"As fast as you can."
Fang Jie said: "The people all have the heart of blind obedience. If the war ends soon and the army enters the city, the people accept the defeat and let it go. If it takes a long time, if the people in the city have the same hatred, it will be difficult to fight. This is the first city we are going to conquer, and speaking of it, those Nanyan people are watching. I used to destroy the enemy without leaving any survivors, but this time I have to change it... Come on!"
Fang Jie suddenly thought of something, turned his head and told the people of Xiaoqi School: "Take more pens, ink, paper and inkstones, find soldiers who can write and write text messages, tie them to feather arrows and shoot them into the city, and tell the people in the city that we are going south for revenge. Don't kill for looting. As long as Fu Zhengnan hand over the people of Pingshang Dao and the money and food he looted, he won't kill innocent people indiscriminately."
"The general..."
Chen Dingnan was puzzled and said: "When the Nanyan army attacked Pingshang Road, Fu Zhengnan's troops didn't go north."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "But at the beginning, many of the people Murong Yongduo plundered were detained by Fu Zhengnan in Qingyuan, and a lot of supplies were also detained. This is what Murong Yongduo told me back then. Fu Zhengnan categorically They will not hand over these people and supplies, but the people in the city will be angry because of this. As long as the people in the city and Fu Zhengnan are not of the same mind, breaking the city is not a concern."
"Here!"
Chen Xiaoru responded, and quickly ordered people to do it.
In just half a day, thousands of written letters were tied to the feather arrow.
"Let the catapults launch and suppress the defenders of the city wall."
Fang Xie gave the order.
Qin Yuan, who had treated the wound briefly, took the order again, and led the infantry in formation to push up slowly. Hundreds of catapult vehicles have been assembled. Following the order of the commanding general, the auxiliary soldiers operating the catapult vehicles immediately got to work, twisting the cables and pulling down the arms, and then a dozen people lifted a huge boulder put it on.
With the sound of the horn, hundreds of catapult trucks showed their power at the same time.
The defenders on the city wall looked outside nervously. When they saw the catapult waving its arms in the distance, they immediately raised their heads and looked up to the sky. The stones thrown were getting bigger and bigger, and then fell on the city wall with a bang!
The stones smashed down the battlements, and the soldiers of the Nanyan Army hiding below were crushed to a pulp before they could even howl. Blood flowed out slowly from under the stone, thick and foul-smelling. When they saw a huge stone falling towards this side, the Nanyan archers on the archery tower immediately howled. They ran down in panic, and half of them were smashed into the ruins by the stone before they could get down in time. Someone jumped directly from the archery tower and immediately broke his leg. Bai Sensen's bones protruded from the calf, and there were still red shreds of meat hanging from it.
"Hide behind the walls! Don't run around!"
Fu Zhengnan personally commanded, shouting loudly to keep his soldiers calm. Speaking of which, the Nanyan people have not experienced war for hundreds of years. At the beginning, the army of the Sui Dynasty did not continue to go south, so that the people on this land could avoid disasters. This time, they saw the horrors of the war.
Someone once said that no matter how great a natural disaster is, it can't compare to the harm brought to people by war.
Perhaps the ferocious natural disasters are not as frightening as the bloody and bloody wars.
With a bang, a boulder directly smashed through the roof of the city tower and fell into it. The archers hiding inside were immediately knocked over three or four times. Some were completely crushed under the boulder, while others were half- One body was pinned down, a man who looked about forty years old was pinned down by one foot, he shouted and pumped out vigorously, several people crawled over in a panic to save him, pulling his arms and shoulders back hard Pulling, clicking, the ankle that was broken was finally torn apart, the foot was left under the big rock, and the leg was pulled out.
The blood left a trail on the ground, like a lingering connection between legs and feet.
The catapults kept firing stones, and it seemed that the Black Banner Army wanted to smash all the defenders on the city wall to death before attacking. Fu Zhengnan, who was protected by dozens of guards, looked out through the cracks in the battlements, the muscles on his face were twitching. He watched helplessly as a large stone flew over the city wall and landed in the city, and there was a wailing sound from the reserve team inside the city wall.
Can I keep Qingyuan
Fu Zhengnan asked himself in his heart, but he couldn't give himself an answer.
"Stop! Stop!"
I don't know who yelled, and the people who were staggering on the city wall realized that there were no big stones in the sky to continue falling. The soldiers hiding under the battlements straightened up cautiously and looked out. A soldier whose face was scratched by the gravel slowly poked his head out to look out. He couldn't help but let out a cheer when he found that the enemy's catapult had indeed stopped. But the shouting was not over yet, and a feathered arrow poked into his eye socket with a pop.
"careful!"
"Arrow array!"
The soldiers of the Nanyan Army who raised their heads and looked out howled and fell down again, because they saw the dense array of arrows outside the city wall.
Feathered arrows left the bowstring neatly, dense enough to block out the sky. A mass of black flew up the city wall, and the wall was immediately covered with a layer of white feathers.
Under such a dense arrow attack, the defenders on the city wall couldn't lift their heads at all.
"fight back!"
Fu Zhengnan pushed away the soldiers around him, ran over and kicked away the defenders who were hiding under the wall, and personally operated the ballista to fight back. Driven by him, the defenders on the city wall finally began to fight back, and the ballistas and archers began to operate. Although they were damaged by the previous catapults, more than half of the ballistas on the city wall were still usable. For the arrow array, the lethality of the ballista can be imagined.
But not long after the counterattack on the city wall started, they were surprised to find that the arrow array outside the city had retreated!
"Huh?"
A soldier saw something strange about the feathered arrow stuck on his comrade's body. He pulled it out and looked at it, and found that there was a note tied to it. The note had been blurred by blood, but the writing on it could still be read clearly.
"What are you looking at!"
A team came over and snatched the note, and after reading it once, their expressions immediately changed.
"Revenge... they're here for revenge... to get back what was taken from them."
This team was looking at the endless teams outside the city while muttering: "What the hell did we... provoke!"
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When Fu Zhengnan found out about the note tied to the feather arrow, many soldiers had already seen the note. A general ran over to find Fu Zhengnan with a bloody note. After Fu Zhengnan saw it, his hands were shaking with anger.
"Shameless!"
He threw the note away: "Pass my military order. Anyone who dares to discuss this matter in private will be punished immediately! Tell the soldiers that this is a divorce plan thought up by the enemy! Don't believe their words, if I hand over When the people come out, they will open the city gate, and when the time comes, they will come in immediately!"
This partial general originally wanted to persuade Fu Zhengnan to just hand over the people and supplies, but he didn't dare to say it when he heard Fu Zhengnan roaring in such anger. The people and property that Murong Yongduo led troops to plunder back then were indeed detained in Qingyuan City. Nanyan, especially the big cities to the north of Nanyan, is indeed relatively sparsely populated. Although the taxation on Da Sui Ping Commercial Road is not light, it is much better than Nanyan, and the people live in affluent life.
Especially the merchants walking in the Sui Dynasty would always describe how comfortable and prosperous the life of the Sui people in the flat business road or even further away was, so that a large number of Nanyan people secretly ran to the Sui Dynasty. The frontier army of the Sui Dynasty would never stop this kind of thing, and the government in the southwestern region would naturally not stop it either. They all wished that more Nanyan people would escape.
As a result, the population of the big cities in the north of Nanyan became less and less.
So Fu Zhengnan was naturally envious when he saw the people and things that Murong Yongduo sent back. The people in the city, now nearly 20,000 people are the people of Da Sui Ping Shang Dao.
He ordered all the notes collected to be burned, and no one was allowed to discuss them. But this kind of thing couldn't be stopped at all, and soon, the news that the Sui people came to get back the people and supplies spread, and within a day, such rumors began to appear in the city. By the next day, the extent of the spread of this matter can already be described as crazy.
"The Sui army outside the city said that as long as you hand over the Sui people and the looted supplies, you won't kill anyone!"
"The city lord still wants to keep those money and things at this time! He doesn't take our lives seriously!"
"I've heard that the leader of the army, the general surnamed Fang, is a murderous devil. If the city lord rejects him, I'm afraid we will all be doomed when the city is destroyed."
"I also heard that the person surnamed Fang said five kills... As long as we ordinary people don't go up the city wall to help the defenders defend the city, they won't do anything to us. If someone helps defend the city, the nine clans will be implicated!"
"Live! No Sui people!"
"Live! No Sui people!"
At noon the next day, thousands of people gathered outside the city lord's mansion and shouted. Fu Zhengnan did not expect that this matter would spread so quickly. He wanted to explain, but he knew that he couldn't explain clearly at all. He knew better than anyone else that as soon as he opened the city gate, the Black Banner Army would rush in and take everything from him. He even didn't understand how this matter could spread so quickly. How could those people who respected him normally have the courage to gather together to protest
The Nanyan army blocked the streets outside the city lord's mansion to prevent people from approaching, but the people still gathered in the distance and shouted. The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay. In fact, they were also thinking, if those people and things were really returned, would they survive? They couldn't help but think of the five kills that Fang explained, whoever carries a weapon, kill! Many people subconsciously looked at the weapons in their hands, and then shivered.
"It's our turn!"
Successfully encouraged the people to take to the streets to protest, and some people hidden in the crowd showed smiles on their faces.
They are from Xiaoqi School, and they have been waiting for an opportunity.