Whatever you do, you have to pay a price! The only difference is the size of the cost.
In order to attract the hasty rescue of Chen Qiyu's troops, Zhang Yong's troops under Zuo Liangyu really became the child who couldn't bear to kill the wolf.
These soldiers who followed Zuo Liangyu, burned, killed, looted, and eventually rebelled, always thought that Nanyang City was about to be captured, and if the emperor caught it, he would see glory and wealth in front of him. However, none of them thought that the general they trusted would sell them out.
Not long after the blocking battle began, Zhang Yong took the lead in escaping. As soon as the coach ran away, no matter how high the morale was, it suddenly collapsed. This sentence of defeat is like a mountain, which is the most vivid description of Zhang Yong's troops.
Zuo Liangyu, who was ambushing in Wollongong, couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw his excellent army being chased by Chen Qiyu's troops and fleeing horribly. However, that was all. What he immediately thought was that Chen Qiyu's troops had indeed been fooled and were pursuing them fiercely. As long as they stepped into the ambush, they would be able to avenge his troops!
Seeing the vanguard of the Ming army's pursuit, the flag of the Yongwei camp, and Chen Qiyu's handsome flag in the distance, also rushing towards this direction, Zuo Liangyu breathed a sigh of relief and turned to the leaders of the bandits on the side. , said proudly: "Everyone, how about Mr. Chen Qiyu, who once forced them to a dead end, I will escort you in front of you in a moment, and let you all give you a slap in the face to vent your anger?"
When he was proud, his son Zuo Mengeng was equally high-spirited.
His father left him more than 50,000 troops, surrounding Nanyang. It was his first time to command so many troops. To be honest, he was quite excited.
"What?" Zuo Mengeng stood up and asked loudly, "Did the Ming army in the city really start setting fire to corpses?"
"Yes, Marshal, oil was poured down from the top of the city, and it started burning from the north gate." His personal guard quickly replied, "But there is not enough oil in the city, and they are only burning the north gate now. there."
When Zuo Mengeng heard this, he shouted sternly: "You really turned a deaf ear to my warning!"
After saying that, he immediately strode out. Just after leaving the central military tent, he saw thick smoke rising in the distance, and even from his side, there was a faint smell of burnt carrion.
Seeing the commotion in the surrounding bandit camp, Zuo Mengeng immediately shouted loudly: "Send my military order to have the trebuchet throw those corpses into the city, immediately, immediately!"
In fact, they didn't use this trick before. It wasn't because the father and son were soft-hearted and thought it would be too detrimental to their morality. The real reason is that they need time to build the trebuchet. Moreover, in order to throw the corpse into the city, the trebuchet must be close to the city wall. This also means that there will definitely be many trebuchets destroyed by the defenders on the city. In this case, more trebuchets will be needed and more time will be needed to build them.
Although the ancients did not know the principles of biological and chemical warfare, they did know that doing so could make people in the city sick and even cause a plague and extinction. This is what the Mongols often did when they conquered Europe.
Now that corpses were being burned in Nanyang City, Zuo Menggeng issued this military order without heeding the warning.
Then, he supervised the battle from a distance, wanting to watch with his own eyes the dead bodies thrown into the city.
In front of the bandit camp, the bandits who received military orders had to move. Some people moved the dead bodies, while others pushed the catapults.
Among them, the most dangerous to the bandits are those pushing the catapults.
The catapult was heavy and slow. There is a cannon on the top of the city. Even if it misses a hit, the probability of hitting it increases as the distance increases. Once the catapult hits, the people pushing the catapult will either die or be injured.
Beside one of the pushed catapults, a thin man suddenly sighed and said to another person next to him: "Can we still see the sun tomorrow?"
After hearing this, the man sighed, but still said comfortingly: "We have not been taken away by the King of Hell so many times, which means that we are lucky and will be fine. Don't worry."
"Yes, we are lucky and have survived every time. It's just that the people around us have changed one after another. Are your fellow villagers still alive? Now, do you think the original choice was still the right one? "
The person who said this was Sun Hanqing, and the person he asked was Wei Chao.
After hearing this, Wei Chao remembered the excitement he felt when he heard "equal land is free of tax" in his hometown, the reverence for the future when he defected to King Chuang, and the days before when the older stranger ruthlessly exposed the truth. The lie of "Equal land is free of taxes", thinking of what I have seen and heard these days, I suddenly sighed and murmured to myself in a low voice: "I would rather be a peace dog than a person in troubled times!"
When the others heard this, they all felt sad and stopped talking.
The fact that these people were chosen to push this catapult means that they are not valued by the bandit leaders. Only by living forever can they become old bandits and become the subordinates valued by the bandits. By then, you will be able to eat and drink well, and you won’t have to do these dangerous things.
Sun Hanqing was silent for a while. When he heard the sound of cannons starting from the top of the city, he was not afraid. He just sighed and said: "These rotting corpses are thrown into the city, whether they are the emperor, corrupt officials, or those innocent people." People can catch the plague and die. If you do something like this, you will go to the eighteenth level of hell after death. I don’t know if I will be able to see my parents after I die!"
Wei Chao sighed after hearing this. Having done such an inhumane thing made him no longer have any good impression of the bandits. When he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a voice. He couldn't help but raise his head and said in surprise: "The sun is shining, but there is thunder. Is it going to rain?"
However, after he finished speaking, he found that there were no clouds in the sky at all, and there was only a fiery red sun hanging in the blue sky. Surprised, he turned around again and found no dark clouds in any corner of the sky.
At this time, the sound of cannons on the top of the city stopped, and everyone in Nanyang City fell into a short period of silence. Everyone almost stopped moving, surprised by the roar of thunder.
After a while, the thunder seemed to be getting closer and closer. Everyone heard the direction from which the sound came and looked to the north.
There are also no dark clouds there, not even white clouds. However, they saw at the end of their line of sight in the distance, dust was flying, like an earth dragon, sweeping towards them.
"Cavalry! This is the cavalry coming!" Someone saw this and immediately shouted in surprise, "There must be countless cavalry to make such a big movement!"
"Yes, this is not the sound of thunder, this is the sound of horse hooves!" Others also shouted in panic.
After a while, a red line in the distance could be seen faintly. The sound of horse hooves was like rolling thunder, continuous and continuous. Many people even felt that the earth was shaking.
The Ming army on top of the city cheered first. They stand taller and see better. In fact, there is no need to see clearly, because there are so many cavalry coming from the north, there is no doubt that they cannot be from the bandit side.
Zuo Mengeng knew this even more because his father had brought all the main bandits to Wollongong. To the north, there were no cavalry deployed at all, let alone so many cavalry.
Looking at the dust covering the sky, looking at the countless figures, and listening to the sound of horse hooves that hit the bottom of his heart, Zuo Mengeng's face turned earth-colored. I think he knows, don't talk about him, even if the main army is here, it will definitely not be able to stop so many cavalry. What's more, the other bandits are all forced to follow his father's orders.
At this time, he didn't even think about resisting these cavalry troops. When he saw the powerful Ming army soldiers on the backs of the horses approaching from a distance, the fierce momentum rushing toward them scared him and he immediately ran away. To his own horse, it is important to escape quickly.
The 50,000 bandit army outside Nanyang City looked quite large, but at this moment, it looked like a military camp made of sand. It was scattered and collapsed when the water washed away.
No stray bandit dares to stay outside Nanyang City, and no stray bandit dares to go to Mantis to pawn a carriage. Not many people could withstand the power of this cavalry army charging towards them.
Of course, these bandits are all foot soldiers. Even because of the limited food problem, those bandits who originally planned to have no war today are hungry and have to eat little by little throughout the day to survive. Just like this, there is no fighting power, and there is no strength to even escape. Before the fifty thousand bandits could escape, countless cavalry troops had already charged over.
Sun Hanqing suddenly stopped running and murmured to himself: "Maybe if I die like this, I might still be able to see my parents!"
When Wei Chao heard this, he immediately pulled him and said: "It's better to die than to live. Run quickly. If the army can't kill him, he might be able to survive!"
"If you die, you will die. Living is too tiring!" Sun Hanqing stopped after being pulled a few steps by him and shook his head.
When Wei Chao heard this, he yelled at him urgently: "Your Sun family won't continue the family line?"
"Carry on the family line?" Sun Hanqing said with a wry smile after hearing this, "I still want to honor our ancestors! But, is it possible? In this world, soldiers and thieves do not separate families, and we are the meat on their swords! What's more, we are thieves, officials If the army comes and kills us, will we still survive?"
As he was talking, suddenly, his mouth opened wide in surprise. Wei Chao also felt something was wrong. He turned around and suddenly stopped in surprise.
They saw that the imperial cavalry that was approaching them was actually equipped with one man and two horses, but they did not stop and passed directly from their periphery. It just rolled up the dust and rushed towards them. It was as if the cavalry didn't see them at all and treated them as if they didn't exist.
"..." Wei Chao and Sun Hanqing were dumbfounded. They couldn't believe what they saw in front of them. How could so many people be ignored by this cavalry army?
The defenders on the city didn't seem to think about it. Seeing this situation, they were confused. Could it be that this Ming army didn't care about Nanyang and was just passing by?
But then, behind the cavalry with one man and two horses, more cavalry appeared. This time, it was no longer one man with two horses.
Seeing that countless cavalry soldiers ignored them, the bandits reacted after staying for a while, and many of them ran away from the path of the cavalry army.
However, at this time, a cavalry army separated from the large army, with about a thousand cavalry, and rushed straight to Nanyang City.
Before the cavalry arrived, the bandits in front of them ran to both sides and got out of the way. No one thought about challenging or blocking the way, saying, "I drive this mountain. Pass through here, leave money to buy the way.” They just wanted to escape as far as they could.
"If you don't want to die, surrender, put your hands on your head and squat down! If you don't want to die..."
The cavalry rushed to the gate of Nanyang City while shouting, but they did not get close because they were all rotting corpses and the stench was overwhelming. However, they had a military order, so they still shouted to the top of the city: "The Emperor has an order, the Yongwei Battalion will immediately leave the city and drive to Wollongong, and the rest of the army will go out of the city to collect the surrendered bandits!"
The two general soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion who had already heard the movement and rushed to the top of the city just heard this decree. They were both overjoyed. They knew that the emperor was planning outside, but they didn't know where the emperor got so many war horses and brought so many cavalry. Then where could these thieves go!
The morale of the defenders immediately rose after this decree was shouted.
What they were concerned about was that it turned out that the emperor had really come, but not in the city, but outside the city, and he had brought so many cavalry. With just one appearance, the bandits outside the city collapsed!
Spontaneously, the voices on the top of the city rose from low to high, and soon they burst into thunderous cheers: "Wan Sheng! Wan Sheng..."
Wei Chao and Sun Hanqing were near the cavalry outside the city. After hearing the shouts, they couldn't help but be very surprised. They looked inside the city and then outside the city. They were quite speechless. Didn't it mean that the emperor was in the city? Why did you go outside the city?
However, this doubt was quickly put aside by them. There was no need to throw away weapons, because the two of them did not have any. They both paused and held their heads in their hands. Wei Chao breathed a sigh of relief and said with a little doubt: "It should be possible to see tomorrow again. Is the sun shining?"
He was wondering, Zuo Liangyu, the actual president of the bandit, was also wondering a little earlier. Because Chen Qiyu's forwards stopped after they reached the mouth of the valley.
Could it be that they discovered something? Zuo Liangyu thought so, and quickly looked at the ambush circle he had set up, but found no problem!
When the other bandit leaders heard this, they immediately began to gloat over the misfortune and insulted Zuo Liangyu in a strange manner, saying that he had lost his wife and lost his troops!
Zuo Liangyu was a little annoyed, but still held on to some hope and said: "We should be waiting for the Governor to arrive before we hunt together!"
With this in mind, he continued to wait for a while as expected.
However, Zuo Liangyu was disappointed again. Chen Qiyu's Chinese army arrived at the entrance of the valley and joined the forwards, but there was still no movement.
At this moment, he felt that something was wrong. He couldn't wait for the rear army, could he? This is impossible!
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