Chapter 41: Cui Zhi
The trencher aimed at the top of the city, put it, put it, put it, and put it, and all the huge rocks flew towards the top of the city. All the soldiers who could not hide at the top of the city were knocked to the ground by the huge rocks. The blood-collapsed everywhere, and the first wave of huge rocks killed hundreds of people. The defenders on the top of the city shouted "Do not, hurry up and hide", but where can there be a place to hide at the top of the snake country? The second wave of stone bullets flew over and killed hundreds of people, and countless injured people. In fact, the hit rate of stone bullets was very low, but the coverage area was large, and the hit rate naturally increased. More stone bullets hit the stomp wall.
On the top, a large area was smashed directly. In the desert country, the city walls are generally brittle, and the materials for building the city are not stones, bricks, etc. are mostly made of wood, mixed with some sticky sand to reinforce. The stones are too heavy and transportation is difficult. How many stones does it take to build a stone city? The desert is still unstable, the sand and dust coverage rate is too terrible. The cost of building a stone city is too high, so it can only be replaced by wood. Can the construction materials be not brittle? There is no way, and no one can gamble with sandstorms at sky-high prices. The reason why the safety line in the desert is built with stone is that the safety line will not be covered by sandstorms.
On the top of the city, "Pay attention to the huge rocks, raise the shield"... The stones flew over... "All shields spread out, hurry up, spread out immediately." The soldiers guarding the city held their shields and lowered their heads. Before they could run a few steps, they were smashed by the huge rocks and flew several meters away... "The stomp has collapsed, and the giant crossbow is ready to... put... put... put..." The soldiers on the city were hit by several waves of stone bullets and had not recovered yet, but were suppressed by the giant crossbow so that they could not even lift their heads. Some soldiers held their shields to block the giant crossbow arrows, but were directly penetrated by the giant crossbow arrows and died. The corpse was nailed to the city. The power of the giant crossbow arrows was too great. The soldiers guarding the city were dragged and knocked over more than ten people before they stopped. Some giant crossbow arrows even penetrated several soldiers into the city. After a few waves of crossbow arrows...
"Beat the drum, prepare for the first echelon"
"attack"
"Kill..." Under the city of Snake Kingdom, the first tier of the West Army in Zhenxi was about to be ready for chaos. But before the stomp was smashed, he could not attack. Until now, the order came, and the first tier began to attack. More than ten siege ladders, each siege ladder was pushing down. As soon as the siege ladder was leaning on the wall of Snake Kingdom, the first tier of the West Army in Zhenxi Army immediately climbed the siege ladder with shields.... "Ah..."... "The enemy is coming up"... "Stand up quickly... all stand up"... "Cut down the enemy"... "Die me"... A Snake Country soldier held a battle knife and shouted to chop down a soldier in Zhenxi Army.
"Kill"...... "Don't let the enemy attack"... "Push the rolling stone, push the rolling stone quickly", the soldiers on both sides were in full swing in just half an hour. The siege went on like ants, and the defenders of the city wanted to cut down all the enemies climbing to the city. As soon as the Zhenxi Army, with shields, climbed up the city, was immediately hit by the Snake Kingdom defenders... "The enemy in the middle is coming, the reserve team, the reserve team quickly push up"... The reserve team with more than a thousand people immediately went to the middle... "Hurry up, you must stomp your mouth on the right to guard it.
Stay there, reserve team, support!" Cui Zhi stood on the command platform and shouted... Another reserve team of more than a thousand people stomped their mouths to the right. Before the Zhenxi Army on the top of the city was stomped all the reserve teams of Snake Kingdom before they stood firm... "General, the left side can't hold it anymore,... the enemy is coming up"... Cui Zhi was shocked when he saw the number of enemies on the left, too many. "Reserve team, support the left wall immediately, hurry up,... "General, there is no reserve team anymore," a soldier shouted. "What... what? No reserve team? No?" Cui Zhi felt cold in an instant.
Seeing this, Shi Jun was a little puzzled. This Snake Kingdom had some combat power. "Transfer the order, Black Gun Battalion attacked."
Lin Qiang was very excited when he heard the Black Gun Battalion attack, and finally it was his turn to go into battle. He had been behind the first echelon. When the war drums were thundering, he wanted to be the first to rush up the siege ladder. But the team in front had not yet retreated, and the Black Gun Battalion had no place to go. After the offensive order came, Lin Qiang finally couldn't wait, "Brothers, rush..." He had to be the first to attack the city and attack. From now on, he will be the fourth brigade commander of the Tiger Legion.
It's almost dark, and it's not suitable to attack the city at night. You have to take down the Snake Kingdom before it's dark.
Cui Zhi looked at the densely packed army of Zhenxi under the city, and was both excited and worried. He had been waiting for a long time this day. Since he became the general of the Snake Kingdom, he had not even fought a battle. Now he could make him fight quickly, which naturally made him extremely excited. But his reserve team had been used up, and his strength was his biggest disadvantage, so he was even more worried. "Send the order, go to the thunderwood", hundreds of people immediately pushed dozens of thunderwood up from the back city. As soon as Leimu was pushed onto the city, he was seen by Shi Jun, and he said, "Is the commander in the city a Han?"
The raywood was covered with thick palms. The soldiers guarding the city pushed the raywood forward, and the raywood immediately went down the ladder. In an instant, dozens of soldiers climbing the city were penetrated by the raywood and fell off the city. Arrows flew around the top of the city, and the soldiers guarding the city were too few and the soldiers attacking the city were too strong. The area at the top of the city was so large that they were counting on thousands of troops to defend the city. Where could they come? Lin Qiang held the iron shield and was about to climb to the city with *. At this time, a raywood was
Rolling down the city ladder. Lin Qiang held a knife in his right hand and pushed his shield upwards. He actually used his strength to resist the rolling force of thunderwood. In just a while, Lin Qiang turned the iron shield up, jumped up, stood on the top of the city, and killed the two defenders who pushed thunderwood. "Hahahaha, brothers, kill me..." The Zhenxi Army behind Lin Qiang all climbed to the top of the city in just a few dozen breaths...
Seeing Lin Qiang climbing to the top of the city and gaining a firm foothold, Shi Jun immediately ordered "Send an order, kill those who resist."
Looking at Lin Qiang, who was leading people out of the territory on the top of the city, muttering, "Good boy, you got it, brigade commander."
From the beginning of the siege to the present, in just over an hour, the Zhenxi Army completely captured the city and gained a foothold.
When Cui Zhi saw that the enemy had captured the city, he knew that he had been defeated. There was no suspense in the battle behind him, and his troops could only be instantly submerged by the enemy.
He looked up at Dongfang and silently said, "This is the first battle, and it is also the last battle. I didn't expect that in just one hour, my five thousand people could not stand it." He did not order surrender, nor did he take people to escape, but just sat alone on the command table, waiting for the enemy to kill him. He was once a Han man, and his father was the deputy general of the Zhennan Army, and later, Marshal Gu was seized by his uncle's military power, and his family of more than ten died in prison. His father was the commander of the Zhennan Army Central Army and was even more of a confidant of Marshal Gu, so he naturally could not escape the disaster.
He remembered that night, his father asked his mother to take him away and told his mother to escape from the Wei Dynasty and never come back. He didn't know what happened. His mother took him all the way to Simon Country and lived in a border town in Simon Country. He was not used to Simon Country's life. He always quarreled with his mother to go home. His mother also comforted him to take him home after a while. But half a year later, he got news from the caravan: Gu Fang, the commander of the Zhennan Army, colluded with Nanyue Country, held his own troops, and intended to rebel. The commanders of the three armies under his command Cui Tianhe, Wu Shun, and Gu Lin were all Gu Fang's followers, so he was punished and sentenced to death. He finally knew why his mother wanted to take him away. Since then, he never yelled to his mother to go home, because the family would never go back.
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His mother was doing some desert business in Simon Country, and he also honestly learned how to do business in Simon Country. However, there were unexpected situations in the world. Simon Country was defeated in the western desert, resulting in a large number of defeated troops becoming sand bandits. Unfortunately, his mother met Simon Country's sand bandits and died under the butcher knife of the sand bandits. He hated the Great Wei, but he hated Simon Country even more. Not long after, he left Simon Country and followed the caravan to this so-called Snake Kingdom. At that time, he was about to recruit soldiers, so he went directly to the army without even thinking about it, but the Snake Kingdom was just a city country.
After a few years of reaching the position of general, he only had only 5,000 troops, which could not satisfy his wish at all. He wanted to take the Snake Kingdom's five thousand troops to expand, but he made countless suggestions, but the king did not agree. Now, it was because of too few troops that led to defeat in the battle, and his wish disappeared with this defeat. He didn't know what else he could do except sit on the command platform and wait for death. He did not order surrender because he also hated the Snake Kingdom and hated the King not to listen to his expansion plan. He wanted to let the Snake Kingdom's five thousand troops accompany him to hell.
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The battle came and went quickly. When the soldiers cried, it also marked the end of the attack on the Snake Kingdom. A breeze blew, and Cui Zhi smelled the bloody smell in the wind and realized that it was his turn... Not long after, the two West Army soldiers came over and carried him down the city.
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"Report to the commander, the Lord of the Snake will be brought here."
"Yeah, bring it in."
Shi Jun sat in a temporary command post of the Snake Kingdom. The King of Snake Kingdom came to see him just now and expressed his willingness to leave Kui Kingdom and become a vassal state of Yuzhou. Shi Jun did not make things difficult for him, but the 2.5 million war compensation for Snake Kingdom must be given, and the King of Snake Kingdom also said that there was no problem. After discussing the king's question, it was time to meet the Han general who could cause thousands of casualties to him by relying on five thousand people.
The two breathing time guards brought Cui Zhi to Shi Jun. Shi Jun looked at the young man in his twenties. It turned out that he was a Han man, "What's your name?"
Cui Zhi looked at him, "Why don't you kill me?"
Shi Jun did not answer him and asked again: "What's your name?"
"Cui Zhi."
"Where is the man?" Shi Jun asked again.
"Fuzhou"
"Why don't you go back to the Great Wei?"
"Don't want to go back"
Shi Jun looked at this unique young man and felt that he was very strange without joy or sorrow, and he didn't care about life and death at all. Shi Jun was a little moved. What kind of soldiers are called soldiers. Those things that immediately surrender and spare their lives after being a prisoner are considered soldiers? If Shi Jun wants to incorporate those things, it would be better to kill them directly. It doesn't matter if the soldiers without combat effectiveness are you able to practice slowly, but the general without backbone is the stain of his Shi Jun, he - he doesn't need it.
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"Do you know who I am?" Shi Jun asked
"Wei Jun, I can still understand the word "stone" written on your battle flag." Cui Zhi replied
"Yeah, do you still want to continue fighting?" Shi Jun asked again
"I think, but I don't want to work hard for the Great Wei. The Great Wei owes me a huge blood debt, and I will only ask the Great Wei for his life."
"If, in the future, I will give you a chance to fight back to the Great Wei... are you... willing to enter the Western Army in my town?"
When Cui Zhi heard Shi Jun say this, his eyes lit up, "You are going to rebel?"
"Haha! The western army in our town belongs to the governor of Yuzhou Liu Yi, and my elders have a grudge against the court. What do you think?"
"Really? Will you really be able to call back?" Cui Zhi asked excitedly.
"The court killed the father of the Jiedushi and sent the adults to serve as soldiers. What do you think will happen to my adults when they have the strength?" Shi Jun asked back.
Cui Zhi's face changed instantly, as if he had picked up his confidence again, and he hurriedly said, "I am willing, General, please accept me. I am willing to follow the Zhenxi Army."
"Haha! OK, very good. From today on, you will be the commander of the fifth brigade of my Tiger Legion and the second division commander I prepared. However, you are currently a surrendered general, not only without military achievements, but also have faults. There is no problem with the governor, but it is probably difficult for this army to convince the public. Although I am the commander of the Tiger Legion, I have the right to appoint you, but I do not have the right to make my subordinates obey you. This time, I send troops only to train soldiers. After the Snake Kingdom, I will return to Yuzhou and replace another group of soldiers. If you can take over the thirty-five countries in the next batch of soldiers and will not suffer serious losses, I think it should be enough to convince the public. At that time, I will send someone to the desert center to inform the adults and directly appoint them.
Cui Zhi excitedly said, "Thank you for the promotion of the commander."
Shi Jun smiled, "Haha! No need to thank me, as long as I won't lose my reputation in the future."
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"Lin Qiang has met the commander"
Looking at Lin Qiang, he liked him the more he looked at him. Shi Jun would never mind too much. "Haha! Xiaoqiang, it's amazing! You are the first to stand on the top of the city several times to attack the city. Yes, I said before the war that if you stand on the top of the city first again, then you will be the commander of the fourth brigade of my Tiger Legion. Very good... It really didn't disappoint me."
"Hehe! The commander keeps his word?" Lin Qiang asked shyly.
"What I, Shi Jun, said, is like a nail thrown into the sea... Never think about retrieving it. From tomorrow, you won't have to go back to the Black Gun Camp. Go to your brigade and order troops!"
"Oh yeah! Haha! Brother-in-law, I'm a general! Hahaha!"
Lin Qiang ran out of the command center happily.
Seeing that Lin Qiang didn't even say hello, Shi Jun ran out of the command center excitedly, and couldn't help but mutter, "This little brat...oh! Forget it, the young man..."
In fact, Shi Jun is only less than 30 years old, but after all, he has much more experience than Lin Qiang, a boy of seventeen or eighteen.
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Chapter completed!