Chapter 93 Qingxiang (middle)
Chaozhou, Chengxiang County, Tufengzhai,
The origin of Chengxiang County is a county town named to commemorate the famous scholar Cheng Min (also known as Cheng Min) who moved south. Tufengzhai, located on the Beibatou (plain) of this county, is the Dazhai where his descendants gathered and built at the intersection of several roads. It is also one of the few major households in the area.
Of course, the pride and superiority in a certain family background, as well as the natural contempt and hostility towards the mud-legged people, the leading figure, led by Cheng, also flatly refused without surprise. The request of opening the village door to provide food, assisting the rebel army and providing relief to the surrounding refugees, using the swords, guns and arrows to attack as a basic response.
So, with the heavy sound of drumbeats, they pushed the baffles on the fixed truck and set up a long ladder, slowly advancing towards the village opposite; and with their relatively neatly advancing figures, there were also storms from the rear archer array, and they continued to correct the shooting angle and landing point and the range of arrows according to observations from the high places.
Behind them, more than a dozen prepared bamboo catapults, and matching large charcoal tanks, poisonous tobacco balls soaked in horse urine and red arsenic (frost), were also slowly following the way behind the baffle to a sufficient throw range;
But the ones who started the first were not the soldiers who had completed the array or the garrisons who were camping and waiting for the opportunity, but a large group of chaotic and pale-faced refugees; their only thing in common was that they all had a temporary weapon, all of which were rags handed over from the hands of those earthen groups and the rural soldiers.
This is also the condition and prerequisite that they must go through if they want to join the Rebel Army or share the benefits afterwards; that is, as the vanguard of the attack on the city, they can rush up at least three times and eventually survive, and then they can enjoy relatively full food supply as alternate members of the Rebel Army.
Although doing this is inevitably a bit cruel and cruel, under relatively limited resources, this is also the most mature experience and tactics left by the rebels after the rebels rebelled over and over again. Although it is due to the moral bottom line of modern people, Xiao Qi, who grew up in the rebels since childhood, has a very agreeable and meaningful statement, which has given Zhou Huaian some psychological comfort and relief.
Because he is completely from the perspective of a modern Chinese who is relatively rich in life, and has been cultivated by the government to see the results of these things from the perspective of various moral values and superiority. If we think from the perspective of different perspectives, for example, from the standpoint of these hunger and downfall;
At least before encountering the rebels, most of them could only wait to die helplessly in the wild; but once they became the front-hand drive of the rebels, at least there would be a few meals before they died; and if they sacrificed for a relatively justice, cause, and a more dignified and heroic atmosphere in the process of slaughtering and liquidating the exploiting classes, they would undoubtedly be much more valuable.
Moreover, at least after the charge and breaking through the city, a considerable number of them did not have the opportunity to survive and enjoy it; in any case, they were much better than being driven away by the powerful households, starving to death, or even eating each other or eating soil to death.
Therefore, in the eyes of most people, including the rebel army itself, it was entirely the rebel army where Zhou Huaian was located, which gave them the opportunity to survive through competition and performance among the destined people; this is a natural and simple act of kindness and kindness, and it cannot be forced into it with the modern social standards of the great development of materials in later generations.
Therefore, after a jagged call, they were like a rushing stream, and the gaps between the attack arrays that stopped; among them, the people running in the front held high wooden boards and earth bags, passed through the oblique fences and uneven trenches, filling them up and paving them into temporary roads; and finally leading the crowd of weapons waving people, flooding the relatively low village heads and wooden walls in the village.
At this moment, the village officials on the wall also became excited, and rushed to throw stones and rolling wood, throw guns, darts and fire arrows, and use all means to carry out fierce resistance. In an instant, blood rays splattered under the wall reinforced by the earth and wood, and corpses fell like rain. The village officials on the side of the wall were not considered dead and injured, and were dragged down from the wall, overturned, and even wrapped around and fell down together.
At this time, the projectors that arrived within the range were still not moved at all; in a sense, this was just the first attempt to detect firepower, so that the most intense resistance areas on the village wall, the more important figures and targets, as well as long-range killing methods such as crossbows and guns, and the locations where potential threats are distributed, will appear and exposed one by one.
Then, through the observers on the specially made watch car, they were passed to the rotating shooter array in simple flag language to make corrections in remote suppression methods, causing as much damage and weakening as possible.
Of course, those who can easily be opened up during the first impact of these refugees are small villages and small towns with insufficient foundation; and this Tufeng Village, which covers a large area, is obviously not among them. I saw that these refugees who had only had a few days of full meals but could not change the essence of physical weakness. Once the number of people was blocked for a while, they soon showed various physical weakness and morale decline.
Then, the drum beats were heard again, and the refugees who were moving under the wall seemed to have received some stimulation and touch, and rushed to the two sides regardless of everything, revealing the strict queue that was already close to many swords and shields.
But the first move was a dozen poisonous fireballs from behind the array baffle, which instantly dragged out with long smoke marks. Although most of the low hit rate fell into it, they were shocked by screams and screams. But just the few shots hitting the wall and beside the wall instantly caused considerable damage to the crowd.
Although no one died directly when they were hit; the fire and poisonous smoke that burst out from the sky was covered with a scattered head. Then, these campers who lacked armor and other protective measures were burned and burned, and screamed in pain, and rushed to escape and trampled;
Many people were panicked and simply were squeezed down from the wall, causing more fatal secondary damage; they were cleared out a space surrounded by fireworks at the landing point.
However, this straw husk has a toxic fireball with carbonite built-in. Although it is very useful to attack fixed targets such as crowds or building arson, the poisonous smoke produced is not distinguished from our enemies and needs to be avoided on the attack route.
"The wall is messy..."
"Revise the lineup and speed up the projection of the smoke ball..."
"The shooting team is all moving..."
"Lengthen the shooting angle and continue to hit the backs that may gather..."
"The Battle Strike Team has come to the wall..."
"The village door is open...it's open."
"The garrison comes forward, change the head row into a knife and spear, beware of the thieves crossing the wall and opening the door to escape..."
The wooden car used to give orders was also shrouded in a bustling crowd. Zhou Huaian looked at the battle situation in front of him with some sigh. The long sections of the walls had been occupied and cleared by the rebels who were covered with wet cloth with their mouths and noses, while more rebels rushed in along the gates that opened from the inside out.
As a result, shouts such as "Suburs avoid death" and "kneeling on the ground to beg for mercy and not killing." echoed one after another, and even overwhelmed the hustle and bustle of crying and shouting; instead of the more intense fighting and screaming, this also means that after the village was broken, the other party had lost most of its will to fight.
Although the progress is pretty good, it is easier or easier than Zhaojiazhai, but Zhou Huaian always feels that there is something that is not enough to satisfy him. Because the other village is on the platform of the mountain, the angle of the observation of the elevated car placed on the mound is still limited; it would be great if there was a hot air balloon that could further increase the observation.
He suddenly felt aroused in his heart and gave up; the technical conditions for this thing to be realized are not difficult, whether it is used as fuel for lift or as leather and glue for the sealing of the sphere, it is actually not difficult; but it is not yet time to be born, so it is really a waste to put it in such a countryside.
By the next morning, Zhou Huaian had already stood on the roof of the Cheng Ancestral Hall, the largest building in the village, and looked down at the gathered crowd.
After the people's wealth and family items copied overnight were simply classified and identified, they were piled up on the sanctuary in front of the ancestral hall, which made people very envious and enthusiastic.
Next, the refugees who survived assisting in the attack were rewarded accordingly; although not everyone was willing to join the rebel army and get a stable ration, and only one-third of them were willing to continue to follow the rebel army to gain opportunities;
However, Zhou Huaian still generously fulfilled and fulfilled his initial promise, allocating a portion of the goods from the inventory of good wars, and converted them into corresponding money, grain and materials, and even gifted weapons and carts, so he left them on their own.
Most of them took things with satisfaction and returned them to the countryside in a bunch of small bags; but a small number of people left in groups with weapons and other voluntarily. As for whether they would become new bandits or thieves, it was no longer up to their own affairs. It was the trouble of the powerful households in those places to get headaches and worry about them.
Well, the spoken language in the previous chapter was my mistake. How to say the tone of ancient Cantonese? Does anyone give me some advice?
Chapter completed!