Chapter 55: The Witch

The temporary setback failed to stop the Tang army's attack, and more people formed a formation and began to advance.

More than a thousand people launched the attack camp this time, and they were determined to win.

It looks very spectacular in this not very open and rugged land. Several hillsides are full of people, just like people all over the mountains. Of course, if you gather such a few people outside the big city in the plain area, there would be no spectacular scene.

The long-range armies of the barbarians were really bad, and there was no way to stop the Tang soldiers from approaching the city wall.

They also carried a large wooden barrel at the city gate, put it down and ran away.

The barbarians didn't understand why they put a wooden barrel there. Could it be that they wanted to use magic?

But soon they got it.

A sharpshooter from a distance lit an arrow on the fire on the ground, aimed at the wooden barrel, and shot it with an arrow, hitting the target.

boom!There was a sudden loud noise, and the earth was shaking.A bright light of fire soared into the sky, and various debris flew up everywhere, followed by thick smoke scattering over the entire city wall.

Even the people on Tang Bing's side were surprised. Many people covered their ears after realizing it and stared in a daze.

Everyone knows that gunpowder is burning very hard. An alchemy Taoist priest used gunpowder to suppress the fire, but the roof collapsed; but people have never seen how a large bucket of gunpowder looks like when it explodes. What happened in front of everyone was shocked.

The city wall was completely in thick smoke, and the smoke did not dissipate for a long time. Everyone didn't know whether the city gate was blown up... I think it would probably not be able to withstand such an explosion.

The general who took the lead in preparing for the attack this time was Yang Sixu's godson Yang Meng, who was also a little stunned by the explosion.

Someone next to him suggested: I don’t know when the smoke will dissipate. Should I ask the person in front to go over and see if the door is open?

Damn it!Not to mention the door, the people on the wall are afraid that they will be half blown away, so why are you waiting for?Yang Meng raised his axe and shouted, Kill!Immediately rushed out first.

The generals also shouted and moved forward, and the vanguard began to advance towards the thick smoke.Yang Meng, who was the leader, did not care much, and broke away from the vanguard team and ran in quickly.

Yang Meng was the first to rush to the city wall and saw where there was any burnt city gate?

The entire city wall collapsed!

Even if the stone walls that were tall for a few battles were silos, they collapsed into a pile of rocks even more violently after being exploded.

There was another hand that stretched out from the pile of stones, which looked particularly strange. It was estimated that many people were buried inside after the wall collapsed.

The horses could not climb up the pile of rocks, Yang Meng immediately turned over and jumped down, carrying two big axes and climbed up. Seeing this, the soldiers also climbed up.

After Yang Meng got up, he shouted loudly, like a tiger roaring, and then jumped into the village. Unexpectedly, as soon as he hit the ground, he felt his feet soft and then hissing a scream of his lungs.

It turned out that there was a person who was not dead yet lying on the ground. Yang Meng's figure jumped down from a high place and stepped on someone's belly. The result was imagined that both feces, urine and blood were stepped out.

Yang Meng continued to rush in with his people, and suddenly saw a group of people staying in front of him.

The group of barbarian soldiers who came to reinforce witnessed the explosion just now. They had not yet learned what gunpowder was, so how could they know what was going on?

I was shocked and thought it was some powerful witchcraft. Others used witchcraft, so why would mortals beat me?

They saw Yang Meng, who was so fierce that he rushed over with murderous intent, and they were so scared that they could escape. They threw down all kinds of weapons and knelt down on the ground and screamed.

A personal soldier next to him asked: It's Manyu, what did you say?

Yang Meng said: It seems that he is cursing us for a bad death?Is that true!

After saying that, he ran up with an axe, and called out to a barbarian's head with a loud voice. With a click, half of his head flew out, and his brain plasma, blood and flesh were splattering everywhere.

The soldiers behind also rushed up, followed Yang Mengxue into the crowd and slashed around.

Some of the barbarians who had put down their weapons were picked up again in a hurry.

A barbarian soldier with fear on his face in front of Yang Meng watched the axe fall from the sky, and hurriedly raised the hardwood spear in his hand to block it, Bang!

The spear broke into two pieces without any suspense, and his hands held half of them and fell to both sides, with blood and flesh flowing all over the ground.

The panicked people had no intention of resisting, and they didn't even have the courage to surrender. People turned around and ran away, and some of their legs were scared and stood there trembling and waiting for the knife.

A runaway man was unfortunately caught up by Yang Meng. He was immediately hit by a violent kick on his back and rushed forward, Ah!

As soon as he screamed, his mouth nipped on the ground, and then his mouth nipped a long list of them on the ground as he slid forward. He probably lost all his teeth, and his face was so worn out that his flesh was like a zombie.

Yang Meng was not satisfied, so he chased him and lifted him up, swung his hands upwards, and the man flew into the air like a flying bird, but when he fell down, he was like a sack and there was no sound.

Later, the infantry soldiers from the war vanguard outside also came in, and followed Yang Meng, the main general in charge of the attack, and killed people together. No matter whether they resisted or not, they would chop people when they saw them, whether they were soldiers or civilians. Because the barbarians dressed in such a manner, there was no difference between them and civilians. The Tang soldiers could not distinguish them at all. If the common people did not stay in the house and came out to sway around in chaos, they would obviously be looking for death. Of course, the house might be burned.

After the guardian Yang Sixu entered the village, Yang Meng, covered in blood, came up to report the military situation: After the city wall collapsed, I rushed in with my men and horses. The barbarians didn't know that the gunpowder thought we were using magic, so they knelt on the ground together and muttered something to break my method.I led my army to disperse, and they took up their weapons to resist, and countless people were killed.

When Yang Sixu saw the corpses all over the ground, most of his bodies were facing away from the village gate, and he was obviously massacred when he was running away.

He didn't say anything, just said: Capture the village leader's family and behead him.Those who resisted the king's army were punished for treason and were prohibited from harassing innocent people.

yes.

At this time, a civil servant next to him reminded: Yang Gong, Nanzhao is located south of Liuzhao, but there are few Han people around the surrounding area, so most of them do not know Chinese characters and cannot even understand them. Most of the chiefs of each tribe know Chinese, and even if they don’t know, they will find people who can speak as friends.If we kill the village leader, no one can convey Yang Gong's military order to the local people, which will be unfavorable.

Unexpectedly, the eunuch Yang Sixu actually said: The barbarians can’t speak Chinese. Is it our fault?

Civilian: …

After thinking about it, the official felt that he should fulfill his duties, so he couldn't help but persuade him with great sincerity: The people of Nanzhao were originally relatively close to the Tang Dynasty and had a good impression of the Han people. If we kill too many innocent people, it would definitely arouse the anger of the barbarians, and it would not be a way to govern the border.The court ordered the Annan Protectorate to punish Nanzhao in order to maintain the authority of the emperor's imperial edict in the jail state, so that those who were unfaithful dared not despise the court; their intentions were definitely not to make enemies with the people of Nanzhao.Mr. Yang must observe it.

Yang Sixu's tone was relieved a little and said kindly: You don't know about military affairs. If the soldiers are restrained, they will progress slowly. How can you complete the imperial edict of the court to capture and kill the skin in just one month?Ming Gong, don’t worry, as long as we send troops, you will win. The court will not blame other minorities, and the barbarians dare not do anything... If we can’t win, no matter how good we are to others, it will be useless.

The civil servant sighed and saw that Yang Sixu couldn't listen and said more was useless, so he stopped talking.

Yang Sixu then arrested the camp leader and other slave owners who organized armed resistance to the Tang Dynasty army, and punished them on the spot for being punished by the crime of being punished by the great rebellion.

Then he occupied the mountain village and stationed the army inside, waiting for the reinforcements from the other five imperial edicts to gather here.

They did not value the Wuzhao Allied Army believed that the combat effectiveness was too weak to use, but they were waiting for the food and grass transported by Wuzhao to support it.

Using war to support the war is the way to maintain the Tang army's war. If it weren't for the urgency of time, what Yang Sixu would do was to collect taxes from the local occupied areas.

Unexpectedly, his tyranny aroused the anger of the barbarians of the village. After just two or three days of stationing, Tang soldiers were murdered every day, most of whom were taking advantage of the fact that some of them were alone.

Yang Sixu and others were not familiar with the local situation, and even the slave owner was killed, and the murderer could not be found.

In anger, he established a rule: ten lives should be worth one life.

As long as a Tang soldier is killed, the ten barbarians with the closest radius in the killing place will be killed.

Dozens of people were pulled into the open space that day to behead in public.

After waiting for a few days, several Wuzhao troops finally arrived one after another, bringing the food and grass supplies requested by Yang Sixu.

Now he felt much more at ease, and the supplementary food and supplies were enough to support the entire battle.

But an accident happened again. On the first night after the supply was delivered, the remnants of hostile hiding in the village were attacked. Those people took advantage of the Tang soldiers' guards' unprepared and burned most of the food and grass.

Yang Sixu was determined to achieve Princess Taiping's goal to whitewash his position. As a result, he was unhappy many times. He was furious and threatened to tear the perpetrator into pieces!

But I still can't find any opponent to hide in...

So the residents in the mountain village were driven out of their homes and used extremely bad methods to find the people who burned food and grass.

He said furiously: The remnants of the traitor must be hidden among the barbarians, point it out to me!Otherwise, the shelter will commit the same crime as the shelter!

The barbarians who were driven into the valley couldn't even understand Yang Sixu's words, let alone pointed out the traitors.

Fortunately, the Liuzhao had close contacts and all tribes had castes. Some of the barbarian reinforcements were well-versed in Chinese and various barbarian languages, so they translated Yang Sixu's words to the barbarians.

However, no one stood up to indicate it in the crowd. I am afraid that it would be difficult for anyone to do this. Compared with the betrayal of Tang Ting, who was far away in the north, how could he do it at a glance?

Yang Sixu shouted angrily: I would rather kill me wrong than give up!If you can't find the traitors, you will be executed!

Everyone's face changed suddenly when they heard this.