When the morale of the soldiers was low, Jia Ping did not talk to them about the justice of the family and the country, or about patriotism.
Instead, he directly told them about their own treatment and what they had to pay for this treatment.
The gains and losses were clearly placed in front of the soldiers, allowing them to weigh them themselves.
Everyone has a scale in their hearts, and they all know how to compare.
Compare the past life with the current life, and compare the other armies of the Song Dynasty with the escort army.
They immediately understood that the treatment they received was far beyond the normal level!
So, for the sake of his generous treatment and the betterment of his family, what else do he have to be afraid of?
It’s just death, so what’s the point of fear?
The soldiers who understood the gains and losses didn't need Jia Ping to say anything more. Their low morale was restored and full of fighting spirit filled everyone's eyes!
They were ready for a fight to the death.
In just half a day, the Shendu Army outside the city drove the captured people and replenished all the stone bullets.
If it hadn't been getting late, I'm afraid the Shendu military would have launched an attack the moment the stone bullets were replenished.
In this way, Mawu City survived another day and was still in the hands of the escort.
The next morning, Emil, who could not wait any longer, commanded the army to attack Mawu City.
The difference this time was that they no longer relied solely on the poisonous soldiers in their hands to attack the city.
They drove the poisoned people captured from the surrounding villages to the front, clearing the way for the army, and used them to consume the arrows used to defend the city. They really didn't care about human lives.
Jia Ping and the soldiers on the city wall all saw this scene. While frowning and feeling extremely stressed, they also felt contempt and disdain for the Shendu Army's actions!
Treating the people of your own country as cannon fodder is unacceptable to the values of the people of the Song Dynasty.
Those are your own people. As an army of your own country, you actually force your own people to bear arrows and clear the way for you. How shameful is this?
But as luck would have it, the Shendu Army did just that.
Under the poisonous caste system, the higher castes simply do not regard those of the lower castes as their own.
In their eyes, those low-caste untouchables are nothing more than a group of tools, a group of livestock. After one crop is used up, another crop will grow quickly, just like leeks, and there is no need to care about their consumption.
In their view, as long as the death of these untouchables can reduce the harm to the soldiers, it is worthwhile for these untouchables to die. It is their honor to sacrifice their lives for high-caste nobles!
They don't take their own people seriously, so the Guards don't need to care.
As soon as the poisonous civilians acting as vanguard entered the attack range, Jia Ping ordered the shooting without hesitation.
If the Shendu army captured Mawu City because of their kindness to them, then they would be the sinners of the expeditionary force.
As for these poisonous people, since you dare to move forward, we will send you down!
How to send them off, a whistling arrow piercing their heads and sending them down like this.
Although these people were just a mob, they did not know how to block arrows. This caused most of the arrows fired by the soldiers on the city top to hit, causing a lot of damage to these people.
But at the same time, their presence also consumed a large number of arrows in the hands of the guards, allowing the poisonous soldiers in the rear to rush to the city wall at a smaller cost.
This really caused a lot of trouble for the guards guarding the city. As a result, the soldiers of the guards did not hesitate at all when they threw rolling wooden rocks and poured gold juice down.
Listening to the screams below, I still felt relieved.
The catapult didn't know why it didn't launch an attack at the beginning, but at this moment, when the former Shendu Army came under the city wall, the siege vehicle that had been silent for a long time finally made its voice again.
Stones as big as washbasins fell from the sky, causing a lot of casualties to the guards defending the city, and at the same time making it more difficult for them to defend the city.
If you were unlucky, before you could slash the poisonous soldier who was frantically climbing the city wall twice, you would be beaten to pieces by falling rocks in the blink of an eye, and he would die before your eyes!
As soon as the battle started, the entire battlefield instantly entered a fierce battle.
Jia Ping personally ran back and forth on the city wall with a knife. Wherever there was a loophole, he would lead his men to fill it. Where the offensive was too strong, he would lead this person to rush to support.
There were loud noises from falling rocks everywhere, the screams and screams of poisonous soldiers everywhere, and the roars of soldiers of the escort army fighting bloody battles everywhere!
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye, and both sides accumulated a thick layer of corpses on the top and bottom of the city.
Yours and mine, all mixed together.
Among the pile of corpses may be some of the bodyguards or the Shendu Army, but more likely they are the Shendu civilians who were forced to attack the city by the Shendu Army.
The corpses were piled three feet high, and a group of vultures flew from the sky at some point. They were hovering over both sides, as if they were waiting for the battle to end so that they could come up and have a feast.
"Kill!"
With one knife, he cut the head of a body poison soldier who had just popped up on the stairs to the city in half. Xu Yiding turned around without stopping and slashed the body that came up from the other side while he was beheading the body poison soldier who was climbing the city. The poisonous people were hacked to death.
In today's battle, Shendu Fang's combat effectiveness is simply divided into two levels. One is the regular Shendu soldiers. They wear armor and also use metal weapons such as bronze weapons. They can cause harm to themselves and others, so be careful. response.
If a bad person faces too many people, he will most likely be beaten to death by the other party.
The other one is the poisonous people who were driven out.
They can be said to be synonymous with being unarmed and with low combat effectiveness. Facing these people, the soldiers of the escort army can deal with them with at most two swords, and most of the time they are finished with one sword.
For the soldiers of the escort army, this kind of fighting power is just a little more effort.
Xu Yiding is a wounded soldier. He is the wounded soldier who asked Jia Ping yesterday whether he could still hold on. According to regulations, he who was injured like this could recuperate in the rear.
But the reality is that from the beginning of the battle to now, the number of survivors of the city defenders has been decreasing crazily. Now, the second team that was just rotated this morning has been almost wiped out in less than two hours!
Those who were rotated out of their first team also stepped up and continued fighting. Wounded soldiers like him were no exception. Anyone in the team who could still move all went to the top of the city.
Now, almost all of the soldiers still alive in the entire city were injured, and only forty or fifty of them were left.
However, after yesterday, the soldiers did not panic in this situation. On the contrary, they were unusually calm.
They were already prepared to die in battle, and now it was just a matter of holding them back before death, so no matter how small the number was, they no longer cared, and their morale would not drop again.
Emil, who was commanding the siege under the city, also noticed that the number of defenders on the top of Mawu City had been reduced to the point where they were about to be destroyed.
For the town of Mauu County, this Emil seems to have a winning chance. Without any reservation, he sent out the elephant soldiers that had not been sent out with a wave of his hand.
More than twenty giant beasts rushed toward the Mawu city gate with deafening steps.
Poisonous elephant soldiers are rare in the body, so every commander cherishes them. When the defense force of Mawu City was still there, this Emil did not dare to send the elephant soldiers to attack the city for fear of being damaged.
But now that the defeat of the defenders on the city has been determined, Emil no longer has any scruples and sends them out to attack the city gate.
As soon as the city gate is opened, the army can march straight in, and the Mawu County will completely fall into his hands.
This Emil thought very confidently.
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(End of chapter)
