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blow--
puff--
On the Danba Plain, Brichen pulled the string of his compound bow as his horse galloped, and shot an arrow into the cheek of a Jinchuan soldier a hundred steps away.
The Jinchuan rider swayed on his horse for a while, then collapsed.
Then more arrows were shot from the hands of the Sauron soldiers, and Jinchuan Rangers were constantly shot to the ground within a hundred steps in front.
It has to be said that the Sauron soldiers' cavalry and archery skills are really outstanding. They hit the enemy's cavalry with ten arrows at a hundred paces, and nine arrows hit the opponent's facade or other vital points. The Jinchuan soldiers who were killed directly were frightened. Compared with those on the grassland, The Condor Shooter is a bit stronger.
This was when Brichen was ordered to lead fifty Sauron soldiers to test the defense line in the Danba area. However, facing enemies twice as many as himself, these brave and capable Sauron soldiers did not take them seriously at all.
In a short time, most of the hundreds of Jinchuan Rangers had fallen, and the remaining people were clinging to life. Naturally, they did not dare to fight anymore, and they all retreated towards the watchtower where they came from.
But Brichen had no intention of letting them go. He quickly took out the arrows from the quiver, set the string, opened the bow and loosened the string, all in one go.
In less than a minute, Brichen had fired ten arrows in a row, all of which hit the target. The archery skills of his companions behind him were equally extraordinary. In just a moment, no one of the hundreds of harassing enemy horsemen was sitting on horseback anymore.
After clearing out this group of rovers, the resistance forces in the Danba area have basically been eliminated. The Jinchuan soldiers in the towers no longer dared to engage in field battles with the Han army and the Sauron soldiers, completely losing their military initiative.
"Xu~"
Riding horses galloping all the way, when the fields of Danba Farm came into view, Brichen knew that this place was completely occupied by the Han army. What he should do was to order people to go back and notify Liu Ce or Haichain to send troops to guard this place.
Liu Ce had already completed the next tactical arrangements at this time, leading the Guards and artillery battalion to march towards the Er River first, allowing Liu Qi, Wang Zongshe and Sauron's soldiers to advance together.
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On the fourth day of May, Zong Wang, who was in the Gu garrison, learned that the entire defense line east of the Er River in Jinchuan had collapsed, Boci's entire army was wiped out, and he himself was captured by the Han army. He was immediately trembling with fear.
On the one hand, he ordered people to go and urge Lun Qinling to rush for reinforcements. On the other hand, he repeated his old tricks and wrote a letter of surrender and sent it to Liu Ce, in order to delay the Han army's advance.
However, Zong Wang's letter of surrender is more like a letter of war than a letter of surrender.
The surrender letter read: His Majesty the Emperor of Han, Zong Wang is willing to lead 70,000 people in Jinchuan to surrender to the Han Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty must promise to double the gold, silver and grain given to Jinchuan by the previous dynasty every year.
He also released Danba and Boci, they are my brothers. Hearing that your majesty's eldest daughter was in her prime, Zong Wang boldly asked your majesty to give the eldest princess to you as your wife, so that we can marry forever.
It can be said that the road is narrow...
When the messenger was on his way to Liu Ce, Liu Ce had already taken the lead and on May 6th, he controlled the Ere River Bridge. The nine towers along the way were directly reduced to ruins by the 18-pound artillery, annihilating 400 enemy troops. Multiple people.
Through this battle, Liu Ce has noticed that except for the core group of watchtowers, there are not many defenders inside the earthen walls of the remaining scattered watchtowers, with at least six people guarding them.
But Liu Ce will not underestimate the enemy just because he has few soldiers. Whenever he encounters a tower blocking the road, he will directly bombard him with artillery.
In this era, city walls without cement reinforcements could not withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of twelve to eighteen pound artillery.
When the messenger arrived at the Er River and saw the Han army's flag, he was stunned. He didn't expect the Han army to move so fast, and instinctively wanted to run away.
But he still bit the bullet and sent over the letter of surrender written by Zong Wang.
After Liu Ce read it, he didn't say anything, but just smiled unobtrusively.
He was amused by the contents of the letter.
"Go back and tell Zong Wang that I will talk to him face to face and ask him to stay in the guardhouse and not go anywhere!"
The messenger left the Han camp tremblingly and went back to report his order to Zong Wang.
As soon as the messenger left, Liu Ce continued to give orders to move forward, approaching the direction of the guard station...
On the eighth day of May, when I learned that Liu Ce directly rejected his surrender proposal and began to lead his troops across the Er River to bombard the watchtowers along the way, I was so angry that I was smoking!
"This dog emperor, I am so sincere about surrendering, but he is so ungrateful? How disgusting!"
Zong Wang, who was obviously unable to be a man's son-in-law, was very disappointed with Liu Ce's statement. He couldn't help but get angry and vent his resentment by whipping the slaves.
"When will King Zi's army arrive? Jinchuan will soon be unable to be saved!"
It wasn't until the slave's back was dripping with blood that he stopped and shouted: "Since you are unwilling to accept my surrender, then don't blame me for being rude! I, Zong Wang, am not incompetent. If you have the guts, come and kill me!"
After venting his roar, Zong Wang's eyes showed a crazy and fierce light...
On May 13th, Liu Ce's army bypassed unnecessary watchtowers, handed over the remaining areas to the Sauron camp for cleaning, and approached the Jinlan Guard stronghold at an altitude of 3,500 meters.
The closer we got to the target, the stronger the altitude sickness became. In less than ten days, more than 3,000 soldiers in the army had fallen and were forced to move to the rear and hand them over to the medical team for treatment. This was all caused by hypoxia at the plateau.
The high altitude alone is not scary, but strenuous marching at high altitudes is something no matter how good your physical fitness is.
In addition to these more than 3,000 people, there are actually many people in the army who also suffer from symptoms such as vomiting, nausea and headaches, but the symptoms are mild.
Even Liu Ce frowned and marched on horseback, also enduring the torture caused by the plateau climate reaction.
But no matter how difficult it is, you must adapt, otherwise you will not be worthy of becoming a member of the Han Army!
"stop!"
About twenty miles away from Jinlan Guards Station, Jiao Luo, who was marching, suddenly stopped the army and looked at the scene in front of him with disbelief.
"Stand where you are and don't move. This general is going to see His Majesty!"
After finishing speaking, Jiao Luo turned his plateau horse and galloped towards Liu Ce's center.
Liu Ce also noticed that the vanguard soldiers led by Jiao Luo suddenly stopped, and raised his hand to stop the advance of the army.
When Jiao Luo saw Liu Ce, he abandoned his horse and landed on the ground ten steps away. He held his hands to Liu Ce and said, "Your Majesty, hundreds of female corpses were found in front of us, all of them nailed to wooden stakes!"
"Female corpse?"
Liu Ce frowned, secretly thought, and then rode his horse to check.
When he saw the naked female corpses on the rows of wooden piles, all of which were in miserable state of death, his fists wearing iron mesh gloves could not help but clenched a little more.
When Wang Zongsi and Liu Qi saw this scene, they were shocked and said: "This is this?"
Liu Ce's face turned livid: "These are the daughters of my Han family. Put them down and bury them nearby."
The tone was not serious, but Liu Qi, who had followed Liu Ce for a long time since childhood, could immediately tell that the murderous intent in this tone could not be hidden.
Na Zongwang did something so stupid and incomprehensible that he successfully angered the iron-blooded emperor.
When the emperor is angry, his corpse floats thousands of miles away. Can you, a little chieftain, bear it?
Liu Qi waited for Liu Ce to give the order, but he did not give the order. He just watched silently as the female corpses were removed from the wooden piles one by one, and then began to be buried until they were all buried in the ground.
next moment
"Brichen!"
"The general is here!"
"Immediately lead your troops back to Danba and ask Haichayin to bring Danba, Boci and all the captured Jinchuan soldiers to Jinlan Guards Station."
"Here!"
"Also, notify Xu Zongyan to mobilize two more artillery battalions and let him lead the troops in person!"
"Here!"
