Chapter 395: the gates are open
Chapter 395 The City Gate Opens
Xie's army surrounded the capital in an orderly manner, but they did not immediately attack the city.
Xie Yuan adopted Li Jing's suggestion, picked out a group of soldiers with loud voices, and asked them to shout to the only tens of thousands of Da Zhou soldiers left in the capital downstairs.
The content of the call is also very simple. One is "surrender without killing", and the other is "the power of the Great Zhou Dynasty is exhausted, and the court is brutal and inhumane".
The generals of the Great Zhou were indeed shaken, but most of them were left quite speechless by Xie's abnormal behavior.
They have been fighting for so many years, and this is the first time they have encountered this kind of army that refuses to even try to attack, and will give you a mouthful as soon as it comes up.
If talking can win, what do they need armor, weapons, horses, walls and the like? Everyone spit saliva at it.
What they don't know is that Xie's move is actually to delay time.
The soldiers who were sent to the front of the battle shouted to persuade them to surrender. Although the persuasion had no effect, the time passed unknowingly as they continued to shout alternately.
Shouting for two hours, Xie called Jin to withdraw his troops, and then started cooking and eating not far from the capital.
The stewed meat with dried vegetables, which smelled so far away, made the stomachs of those Zhou generals on the city wall who could only eat half full every day sour.
Although they are the imperial guards, they have been in short supply of rations, especially before the Xie family occupied the prefectures and counties around the capital that originally belonged to Xiao Zhou, at least none of the ten households in the capital were suffering from a food shortage.
The common people have something to eat, and Ban Xieqi, whose military expenses have been deducted by less than half, will naturally be spared. Now everyone in the small family is tightening their belts and trying to cut down on food and clothing.
When he was full even after eating, the other party was scooping stew from the small iron pot. It was really annoying to compare people.
Before the strange atmosphere outside the city and the quiet and noisy lunch in the city, the guards sent out our shouting brigade again.
General Xiao Zhou, who was in charge of guarding the east gate of the capital, was furious—then the guards could still fight a good battle? !
Facts have proved that Wei Jun can really do it.
Our spirits were tense, and we had been on guard for the whole day, fearing that the other party was going to use some kind of conspiracy.
Fortunately, the difficulties have come to light, and General Xiao Zhou, who took the lead in defending the city, still has time to breathe a sigh of relief for getting through the day safely. After eating a cold meal from his family, the guards suddenly beat the drums to attack the city. .
I heard the sound of the drum, and immediately threw down my chopsticks and went down the city wall.
Those who acted like me were not as good as these Xiao Zhou who were rotated up for dinner to ban Xie.
We followed our general down the city wall, only to find out that the guards didn't send troops at all.
The so-called retreat of the guards was actually just retreating and harassing Xiao Xie Qiteng with catapults and bed crossbows from a distance.
Although the power of that kind of harassment is small, Xie Qiteng's nerves that have been tense for a day can't be relaxed. First of all, the soldiers who were hit by arrows and stones need to be replaced in time. Yes, the guards will take advantage of our habitual thinking and secretly send troops close to the city gate.
In this way, Xiao Xie Jiajun, who was tired all day, would not be able to rest in peace at night.
The generals in charge of defending the city divided the soldiers into two groups, one group guarded the second half of the night and the other guarded the first half of the night, but the guards only used arrows and stones to attack the city all the time.
An Mi's voice makes these soldiers who are not on duty but need to be on standby above the city wall to sleep well at all, but Xie Qi's small army is relatively far away from the city wall of the capital, so a small number of people can sleep well all night .
Before dawn, the energetic general Zhou once again ended his verbal offensive against Xiao Xie’s army, and was so angry that Xiao Zhou’s officials and generals, including Taiqian, hated that they could directly sew our mouths shut.
Fortunately, we endured until the evening of the seventh day, and then, the guards once again adopted exactly the same method of attacking the city as the day after.
Xiao Xie’s army was harassed by the "insidious and cunning" Zhou generals. It was an annoyance, but we dared to lose our focus because of this.
Because we feel that Xiao Xie Jiajun didn’t deliberately use the same routine to paralyze us so that we can be negligent.
The general who defended the city, who felt that he hadn't seen through the conspiracy of the guards, adopted the same method of defending the city as last night.
However, at the dawn of the seventh night and the approaching dawn of the eighth day, a mysterious team with more spirit than Ban Xie suddenly popped up in the capital.
Everyone in that team was very skilled. We rushed to the east gate with lightning speed and deception, and then we raised our knives and killed him. Because of staying up all night, we were tired, agile, and vigilant. Ban Xie's.
Because the guards have not sent anyone to attack the city gate, the number of forbidden Xie clan inside the city gate is still a hundred.
In the team's joint attack, these extremely tired Ban Xie soldiers were quickly beheaded to death.
Before seeing the scene, the other soldiers of the Xie family who were forbidden by me immediately rushed over with weapons in hand. However, we started late and moved fast, so there was no time to stop or rescue them.
Beyond our flustered and anxious eyes, the last dozen or so people rushed to open the east gate of the capital slowly.
The long and heavy door bolt was thrown aside, and the thick and heavy gate was hastily pulled open. In the city, the soldiers of Zhou were rushing from nearby, bringing up billows of smoke and dust, and as the gate opened, it became smaller and smaller. , hurriedly caught the eyes of the city guard Xie.
Seeing this, the Ban Xie who had enough time to stop the group of enlightened people rushed towards the door opening frantically, while calling out to his companions in a low voice, "The city gate has been opened! Slow down! Close the city gate slowly!"
After we shouted that, these Jin Xie clans who hadn’t noticed the situation over there, were dizzy, and were dozing against the city wall suddenly stood up.
We grabbed our weapons and rushed to the doorway with our companions.
However, the group of people guarding the door seemed to be an iron wall. We used our bodies and weapons to build a solid line of defense, and firmly blocked Xiao Zhou's banned Xie soldiers in the door.
At the same time, the soldiers of Zhou had not crossed the moat safely with the help of the trench bridge. Some of us rode slow horses, some pushed siege vehicles, and some of us carried shields to resist the rain of arrows.
Horseback riders run the slowest. Our goal is to respond to those people who have been lurking in the capital for a year, and now they opened the gate of the capital while taking advantage of the chaos.
In front of us are infantrymen carrying shields. Those people are mainly responsible for protecting the people pushing the siege vehicles.
And these people pushing the siege engine, our goal is the city gate that was opened in the middle of the body, but the hollow city wall that we discovered by Li Jing later.
(end of this chapter)