Chapter 56 City Breakdown
The first batch of cannon fodder was put down, and slowly the second batch was added, the third batch, the fourth batch, the fifth batch, the reserve team. Wave after wave of cannon fodder slowly climbed up the wall of death.
Most of the day passed like this, and there are still two hours before it will be completely dark.
The soldiers who were retired before were also gathered together, the 30,000 strong men originally captured from Zitong County cannon fodder. After filling the moat and two rounds of siege battles, only half of his 30,000 people remained, and only 5,000 of the 8,000 cannon fodder of the Five Poison Army remained.
After gathering together these two batches of cannon fodder, I found that there were still 20,000 people. There are too many, I don't need so many troops, I only need 8,000 of them.
Then organize them into a team of 5,000 people to form four batches of cannon fodder, and attack him again before it is completely dark!
Under the dissatisfaction of many cannon fodder, they were once again gathered by the supervising team, put on leather armor, took up weapons, and charged again with the ladder on their shoulders.
The sound of fighting was heard again on the battlefield, the sound of war drums and orders was endless, and the sound of screams of orders was endless. CD's three-foot-high city wall has completely become a meat grinding ground, which is constantly contested by both sides.
Finally, the cannon fodder here suffered a lot of casualties, could the defenders take it easy? At the very beginning, Zhong Yu's crossbow array shot him to death with 3,000 people, and the veteran was crippled all at once.
It was only possible to mobilize the servants of Qing Zhuang and the major families from the city, pull them to the city wall, and assist in the defense. CD County has a large population. During the Western Han Dynasty, the population of CD reached 76,000 households, or nearly 400,000 people.
Even after natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, the population has declined slightly. But Yizhou was not affected much, with a population of more than 300,000. Even in the whole world, it is also a powerful city that can be counted.
So after the assistance of the government and the aristocratic family, 30,000 young and strong men were pulled out to help defend. After a morning of fierce attack and defense, Zhong Yu lost more than 10,000 people. Although the defenders had a geographical advantage because they were leaning against the city wall, Zhong Yu also had an advantage in weapons.
So in general, the number of casualties is not much different, and the defenders are also dead, almost 10,000 people, and basically can't last long.
It is hard to imagine that 1/3 of his people died as soon as he entered the battlefield. For a group of farmers and small businessmen who just took up weapons.
They couldn't bear any more casualties in their hearts. Zhong Yu estimated that if he killed five thousand people, they would completely collapse. No matter how threatened those officials and aristocratic families are, they will never listen again.
If forced to force, perhaps the soldiers who are already dizzy and full of fear will directly turn against each other and start killing each other.
The control power of those aristocratic families over those young and strong cannon fodder is not as good as Zhong Yu's. They were able to suppress these young adults, relying on the majesty of the court and the prestige of the family in the past.
These are some soft power, false, in the past when the imperial court and the aristocratic family relied on some slogans, they were able to gather these elites to obey.
But now these figures understand their weakness, and their own strength is not those who are strong enough to resist. If they continue to resist, they will just lose their lives in vain. It's normal.
But Zhong Yu is different, it can force those cannon fodder to obey its own orders, constantly consuming its own life in vain under the city wall. It depends on the number of people, there are 14,000 Hanzhong veterans and system soldiers.
With the suppression of these elite soldiers who were loyal enough to him, those cannon fodder did not dare to resist their orders, and could only obediently obey them.
That is, they understand that even if they all rebel, they are not opponents of their own army. Their families are all in their own hands. If they really rebel, besides letting themselves and their families all die, do they have any other options?
Soon, more than an hour passed, and 8,000 of the 15,000 soldiers were left. The heavy casualties on the city wall are also about to collapse. As long as they attack again, they will collapse at the first touch and completely lose the will to resist.
It's time, and it's time for me to draw a perfect end to the offensive and defensive battle of this CD city.
At this time, the sky was gradually getting dark, and the sun was hanging on the halfway up a mountain, as if it could sink completely at any time, bringing darkness to the earth.
"Bang bang bang!" The sound of war drums sounded. At this time, there were no cannon fodder soldiers on the battlefield. Those soldiers had all been withdrawn to the barracks for a thorough rest.
At this time, when the war drum sounded, it was Zhong Yu who ordered the veterans of the Hanzhong Army to attack the city. These people who have experienced some tragic siege battles have seen the cruelty of the battlefield, and then attacked Yizhou with themselves.
He has continuously won victories, and has accumulated extremely high morale along the way. They continued to march on the road and strengthened the training of the army. It can already be said that they are a very elite army in this era.
At this time, they will show their sharp swords that have been sharpened by themselves for several months. Use this CD city to draw a perfect ending for their first battle after they get out of the sheath.
Soon, soldiers in green and red battle armor surged across the plain below the city like a tide. It slapped heavily on the city wall, so you can say that CD's thick city wall more than ten meters thick trembled slightly.
Because they had extremely skilled siege experience under the city of Wudu County before, these soldiers climbed up the city wall extremely quickly.
Those young and strong defenders who had gone through the experience of the previous siege battles couldn't help being dumbfounded. There was a slight pause in the hands, which should not appear for people who have experienced the life and death of this day.
When they came to the city wall, these veteran soldiers quickly killed the surrounding soldiers, and quickly scattered these relatively young and strong.
The loopholes on the city wall spread out one after another, and soon the soldiers in the attack occupied a large area on the city wall.
With a foothold one by one, more and more soldiers rushed up the city wall, slowly driving those young and strong soldiers off the city wall.
Finally, more than 1,000 people died of him. These city defenders finally couldn't bear the fear in their hearts. They threw away their weapons with a loud cry, turned around and ran down the city wall.
Seeing this situation, those supervisory teams rushed to stop him. After killing dozens of people, they finally aroused the anger of those strong men.
Instead, he turned around and started fighting with those supervising teams, killing all those supervising teams and retreating again and again. Facing these irrational people, I think many people dare not face them directly!
Then, there was a thumping sound from behind. Turning around and looking back, I found that the soldiers in green and red armor were chasing after them, screamed strangely, and turned around and fled away.
After seeing this, the war supervisors didn't dare to stay for long, and hurriedly fled along with the defeated soldiers. At this point, the entire CD city fell into the hands of Zhong Yu.
In 183 A.D., in July of the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhong Yu occupied Hanzhong and most counties in the east, dividing it into Fangling County and Xicheng County.
In August, occupy the entire Hanzhong County.
In October, Wudu County was captured.
In November, they attacked Yizhou, occupied Zitong County and Guanghan County, and smashed CD City, shaking Yizhou and shaking the world.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month, I wish you all a happy Lantern Festival!