December of the seventh year of light and harmony.
It's snowing heavily in the north and it's freezing to the bone. Everyone is staying at home and afraid to go out. But the south is still as warm as spring, and the green color is still spreading everywhere and has never faded.
Wang Fang led his army into Yuexun County. Yuexun County controlled fifteen counties (roads), with 61,208 households and 408,405 people in the county. This is a large county with a vast territory and a large population.
The six counties in the west of Yizhou were newly occupied. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Zhong Yu had not yet ordered a large-scale purge of those aristocratic families as he had done in the north.
Yuexun County is close to Shu County and is very aware of the strength of Zhong Yu's army. He has heard a lot about it in the past month and is deeply frightened.
Therefore, the counties and counties along the way surrendered one after another and did not dare to stop his army. On this road, it was more appropriate to say that it was to receive the city rather than to attack.
After traveling for a month, the army took over the entire Yuexun County. In order to be just in case, and to implement Zhong Yu's order to eliminate the source of chaos before setting off, Wang Fang mobilized 70,000 troops from Yuexun County throughout the month. Cannon fodder, increased his cannon fodder army to 100,000 people.
Now that Yuexun County has been pacified, it is time to set out for the next target, Yunnan County. Entering the territory of Yunnan County, Yunnan County has a vast territory and a large population, no less than Yuexun County. Moreover, the Han people lived together with foreign peoples, their customs were simple and tough, and they did not accept the king's rule for a long time.
The Han Dynasty has been in a semi-ruling position since ancient times. It is a joint governance between Han Dynasty officials and local chiefs, so there are rebellions at this time.
Along the way, Suijiu County, Gufu County, and Qingling County in the northern part of Yunnan County surrendered without a fight. When they arrived at Nongdong County, the county seat of Yunnan County, they encountered resistance.
The governor of Yunnan County, together with the local barbarian chiefs, defended the county government to the death. With the support of the local barbarians, the Yunnan County Governor received about 30,000 barbarian troops, plus the county soldiers he drew from various places, there were also 10,000 people.
At this time, the small town of Nongdong County has gathered 40,000 troops. Although the equipment of these troops is not very good, Yunnan County is located on the border and has strong folk customs. The people of this county are brave and fierce and disobedient to discipline. , is an excellent source of troops.
War drums roared and military armors sounded. 100,000 soldiers surrounded the entire town of Nongdong County like mountains and seas. Nongdong City was like a small reef in the sea, extremely small, as if it could be submerged by the sea water at any time.
"attack!"
Following Wang Fang's order, the 70,000-strong army crawled towards Nongdong County like ants. The blue-red color bloomed under the entire county, dyeing the world with a color.
The newly recruited cannon fodder troops in Yuexun County were divided into sixteen teams, with 5,000 people in each team constantly rushing towards the county town. Wearing only a coarse cloth and holding only freshly sharpened wooden sticks in his hands, he filled up the city wall batch after batch.
The 30,000 cannon fodders brought earlier served as a supervisory team, holding sharp blades and wearing armor, standing behind the group of cannon fodder troops to supervise them.
"Come on! For the sake of our lord and our family, charge forward and defeat these barbarians."
Along with a pre-war mobilization, although it was of little use, this sentence mainly reminded their families that they were under their control, and also instigated the conflict between the Han people and the barbarians.
Overall, the effect was still there, at least the soldiers' somewhat wandering eyes immediately became firmer. Presumably they didn't dare to do it easily and fled on the battlefield.
The sound of war drums sounded, and the first batch of five thousand cannon fodder slowly rushed up. Carrying dozens of ladders, we approached the city wall step by step. There were mountains around Yunnan County, but there were no rivers around Nongdong City, so we avoided the life-threatening step of filling in the moat.
The group of soldiers who had just been captured as cannon fodder looked around and found that they were surrounded by their own people, and their courage and sense of security suddenly increased a lot.
I was thinking in my heart, there are so many people around, even if I die, it may not be me, and the number of people on the other side is smaller than ours, so we are the ones who have a better chance of winning in the fight, so we are afraid of a ball!
Thinking of this, the steps became much more brisk, the charging speed also increased, and everyone yelled to increase their courage and intimidate the enemy. Not to mention, this really has a lot of effects. At least some of the defenders on the city wall showed fear.
Getting closer and closer, finally approaching the city wall, and set up the ladder at the foot of the city wall. On the way, they did not receive any long-range attacks. After all, the defenders were also a group of poor barbarians wearing crotchless pants. How much spare money did they have to make crossbows
Normal hunting bows can only be as long as ten or dozens of meters. What's the use in such a big scene? It's better not to use it to embarrass people.
But when you get to the foot of the city wall, it's different. The city had been saving for a long time, and the mountains of stones were thrown down one after another as if they were free of money.
The cannon fodder was smashed in one fell swoop, hundreds of people died, and the remaining people fled one after another, not daring to gather under the city.
Seeing the embarrassing poor performance of the cannon fodder, Wang Fang was very angry and ordered his three thousand elite soldiers to go to the front of the battle to suppress the battle.
These elite soldiers are equipped with crossbows and have long-range strike capabilities. Whether they are used to attack cities or to deter cannon fodder, they have very practical effects.
When the elite soldiers arrived in front of the city wall, the cannon fodder had already ran a hundred meters away from the city wall. It seemed that they had some self-awareness and did not dare to really escape behind.
Otherwise, those supervising teams would never show mercy and would definitely take out a small number of them and kill them as a warning to the other armies.
"Come up here, all of them. Anyone who retreats will be killed without mercy!"
Following the threats and announcements from the elite soldiers, the cannon fodder soldiers still wanted to stay here and even sent a few people to negotiate some conditions with them.
Whoosh! A hail of arrows rained down, and screams were heard everywhere. He immediately woke up these cannon fodders who were still fantasizing in their minds.
Let them clearly understand that they are just a small part of the 100,000-strong army and are just dispensable cannon fodder. It is not an army that is important and cannot be abandoned. It may be abandoned by their commander at any time. Now they are negotiating conditions and do not want to go to the battlefield. They are just seeking death.
In desperation, he could only continue to pick up the bamboo stick in his hand, carry the ladder and rush to the battlefield. At this time, the rolling stones and hot oil on the battlefield seemed to be nothing in the eyes of the cannon fodder compared with the rain of arrows from the rear supervising team.
Gritting his teeth, he stepped on the ladder and rushed towards the city wall. From time to time, people screamed and fell down, but there were constantly people stepping on the corpses and continuing to climb up, one after another, back and forth.
Human life was so worthless at this time, and in just one day, sixteen batches of cannon fodder were taken over. The formation of a 5,000-man team was completely crippled, and they could only be reorganized into ten 5,000-man teams, and had to rest for a day before rushing onto the battlefield again.
The sky was slowly getting dark at this moment, and the cruel day ended like this. Tomorrow, those cannon fodders would be greeted by a desperate siege.
(End of chapter)