Ju Zhisheng's words were not opposed by anyone, because they were all frightened. They were destined to be small countries, and they were also used to surrendering to others, so when the enemy's weapons roared towards them, especially when the enemy showed heavy weapons that they could not stop at all. At that time, the nobles in Gaochang were frightened.
The treatment after voluntary surrender and the city's destruction are completely different. The latter may lead to death.
And the former... no matter what, it can definitely save a life.
Now that Ju Zhisheng is surrendering, there is no need for the soldiers on the city wall to be stationed, and these soldiers are also frightened.
The Tang Dynasty did not actually attack them just now, but when testing the weapons... they still encountered some people. Just a few tests resulted in the death of more than a dozen soldiers defending the city... Yes, all of them It's death.
Basically, they died immediately after being scratched... One soldier died the worst. He was directly hit by a stone bullet, and his whole body turned into a mess...
When a white flag was erected on the top of the city of Gaochang to express surrender, Li Daozong was speechless. Although he had thought that the people of Gaochang would surrender, this surrender was too quick.
But since the enemy surrendered, after hesitating for a moment, Li Daozong was just about to stop the weapons test here when he heard that the engineer in charge of the test over there had already been seen.
"The enemy has surrendered." This was the voice reported by a craftsman responsible for observation below.
"Surrender at all costs. It is not they who have the final say whether to surrender or not. It is us who have the final say. Only when we accept their surrender can we surrender. If we do not accept it, then they intend to use surrender to fool our army. Continue testing!" Responsible for the test! The engineer said loudly and dissatisfied.
"yes!"
Li Daozong: "..."
Okay, he thought about it and didn't stop. He felt that the other party was right. The surrender we accept is called surrender!
When the messenger who risked his life on the city wall came back, everyone in Ju Zhisheng was dumbfounded!
"You said the Tang army didn't respond at all? How is that possible! Didn't they ask us to surrender in Kaicheng?" Ju Zhisheng and everyone were confused.
"Could it be!" He suddenly remembered a more terrifying guess.
"I think the Tang Dynasty's army is coming this time not only for us, Gaochang." The advisers under Ju Zhisheng were also horrified, because they knew that the worst happened!
"With such a large army, they may want to use us to establish their power." Another minister added.
"Do you think... are they likely to massacre the city?" A general said suddenly.
With one sentence of massacre, everyone was frightened.
This means they are dead.
"Your Majesty... what should I do?" Everyone's eyes immediately surrendered to Ju Zhisheng!
"I don't think Datang will massacre the city! They may doubt our determination to surrender. After all, we have just replied that they will not surrender! In this way, all the defenders on the city wall will be removed!" Ju Zhisheng's brain was running wildly. Try desperately to convince yourself that it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty to massacre the city, it is impossible to massacre the city.
All the nobles in Gaochang looked at each other, and no one objected.
At this time, it was clear to everyone that resisting would only lead to death.
The city wall was not as strong as they imagined, and Datang's siege equipment was much more powerful than they imagined, especially the trebuchets that were so powerful! A general went up to see where the city wall had collapsed. If that section of the city wall was damaged more than a dozen times, even if it was impossible to completely collapse, the half-damaged city wall would no longer be able to block the enemy.
The enemy can easily climb the city wall from those ruins. How will they resist? The troops of the Tang Dynasty outside had all seen the appearance, and they had all experienced the terror of the armor.
Especially since Anda, who was let in before, had already told them.
Ju Zhisheng's order was quickly passed on by these generals. All the soldiers in the Gaochang capital were withdrawn, and white flags were erected in all directions on the four walls.
Moreover, it is a very huge white flag that can be seen from a long distance away and is extremely conspicuous.
The city wall was empty, as if there were no people in the entire city.
Li Daozong and the others outside the city were speechless. The city walls of Gaochang Capital City were not high to begin with. If they were farther away, they could easily observe the situation on the city walls by finding something higher. The city wall was now as empty as a ghost town, so Li Daozong naturally got the news quickly.
Obviously... the Gaochang people were determined to surrender.
But the craftsmen responsible for testing there seemed to have not seen it... Forget it, Li Daozong didn't bother to care about them. After all, there were not many opportunities for testing, so let them test more.
First, he tested all the various modes of the large bed crossbow, including rapid transfer, and various crossbow arrows with different functions. Anyway, Li Daozong was eye-opening. He didn't know what these craftsmen thought. Come up with so many ideas.
After the bed crossbow test came the trebuchet, and this time they also tested some special fire bombs. Looking at these blazing fire bombs, to be honest, Li Daozong was also a little curious. They obviously did not use traditional oil.
"What kind of oil is this?"
"Fierce oil, now called petroleum." The craftsman introduced it to Li Daozong, "This oil is very useful and is stored in large quantities underground. According to His Highness's information, in the Gobi Desert behind Che Shi's country, His Highness said There are natural oil deposits, and with our current mining capabilities, they are the easiest to mine."
What the craftsmen and Li Daozong were talking about was naturally the Karamay City in later generations, where not only natural oil flowed out, but also natural asphalt mines.
"Understood." Li Daozong nodded and noticed that the round balls in the hands of these craftsmen were obviously not natural stones. They should be made of concrete. They had hollow stone bullets in the middle. They filled them with oil, and then placed them in Pour oil on the outside, ignite it and then launch it violently.
The flames on the stone bullets that flew out at high speed did not go out in the air. When they hit the city wall, the concrete stone bullets instantly cracked, and the oil inside mixed with the flames outside and directly ignited a large area.
"Tsk, tsk, it's okay! But the power is just that. I think we should use it in the early stage to directly deliver a large amount of oil to the enemy's head, no matter where it touches, and then throw in the flint bullets after they are set on fire." The craftsman said. He thought for a moment and then spoke.
Li Daozong was a little speechless, okay, you can play whatever you think is fun.
When night came, the city walls of Gaochang were still burning with flames. The collapsed wooden city tower was on fire and was expected to be burned out soon.
But no matter how the flame burns, no one in the city cares about it, as if everyone in the city is dead.
