After the arrangements were made, Qingcang said: "Commander Zhao and Commander Zhang will go to Nanpi City with me.
I want to capture that city."
What he said made the two of them very surprised.
Zhang Liao thought he heard wrongly and asked quickly: "Why attack Nanpi City?"
Zhao Zilong said: "Commander Nanpi Cuo is probably heavily guarded.
A city with a hundred thousand soldiers must have a lot of soldiers."
His guess was correct and reasonable.
Qingcang said: "Yes, they sent 100,000 troops.
According to the surrendered Han army, there were only more than 10,000 troops guarding the city at this time, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled.
We were the ones to deal with them.
At that time, you two will go with me to take over Nanpi City."
After the two responded, Zhang Liao asked again: "Can we come back in three days?"
Because after three days, the soldiers who were sent out will all return, and they have to rush back to Huaxia City.
They are afraid that if things go too long, Huaxia City may be in danger.
His worries are justified.
One more day will create a lot of variables.
The best way is not to go out to fight and wait for the return of the troops, but this is not Qing Cang's character, and at the same time, he does not do anything he is not sure of.
He said: "Don't worry, you can definitely come back."
At the same time, he asked: "Do you two know why I wanted to capture Nanpi?"
Zhao Zilong thought of a word for the first time and blurted it out.
"threaten" "Yes, it is a threat.
Nanpi's sending out so many troops this time must have seriously damaged its vitality, but it is still a large city with a population of about 300,000.
If the Han court recruits another army, it will be able to recruit more troops.
Tens of thousands of soldiers are a threat to us.
If we occupy it, then wouldn't these recruited soldiers be ours?
If we turn the threat into an advantage, why not do it?"
Zhang Liao then said: "Yes, the commander is right.
It's just about when are we going to attack it?"
He finally got the point.
Qingcang replied: "Now you two will come with me and count the soldiers.
We will fight quickly and try to solve it within three days.
You two prepare a hundred trebuchets and a thousand trebuchets."
Set up ballista carts and fifty city assault vehicles, and let all the soldiers bring three days of food, and we will travel lightly. " Traveling so lightly, the march will be faster.
Without the burden of food and baggage, the dozens of kilometers of road can be reached quickly.
This time, he focused on a quick victory and won the South as quickly as possible.
Skin, to clear the road for the future salt road.
Both of them responded "Yes" in unison.
Then Zhao Zilong and Zhang Liao left the main city, counted the soldiers, and left, because after a while, they were about to set off to attack Nanpi City.
During this trip, he took a total of 60,000 people away, leaving only more than 20,000 people to defend the city.
At the same time, he trained some farmers to operate trebuchets and ballista carts to prevent sudden attacks.
Of course, these people were Those who get wages, in winter, agriculture has stopped, they can only go out to hunt, and not every time they can catch prey, but what the Chinese Army gives them is different, as long as they operate the machine, they will get money, and when the enemy comes to invade At that time, there was more money, and everyone was willing to do this kind of thing.
The group of people marched towards Nanpi City in a mighty manner.
At dawn the next day, a large number of Chinese legions gathered three miles outside the south gate of Nanpi City.
Although the number of 60,000 was not as many as 160,000, they still looked very impressive.
When the sun shone on the city gate, a large number of soldiers appeared on the tower above the south gate, as well as a man with a white beard.
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This man must be the city guard of Nanpi City.
Qing Cang also saw this person.
He picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "Nanpi City Guards, listen, I am Qing Cang of China.
I am leading the Chinese Army with 100,000 people to occupy Nanpi City.
You open the city gate.
Surrender is the only way to survive, otherwise there will be death.”
He deliberately exaggerated the number of people.
In fact, it was only about 60,000 people, but how could the people on the tower know.
Moreover, people had never heard the sound of a loudspeaker.
Many people were obviously frightened by the sound and wondered what kind of sound could travel so far.
Qingcang paused for a few seconds and then said: "Let me tell you something.
The 100,000 people you sent have been conquered by me, and Pingyuan County has been occupied by me.
The number of available soldiers in your city is less than 20,000.
The best ones know what they are doing.
Come out and surrender quickly, otherwise I will attack the south gate, and I will give you a stick of incense to think about it."
There are a large number of trebuchets behind Qingcang who are fully prepared.
Once they receive the order, they will definitely attack.
This is no joke.
With a hundred trebuchets operating at the same time, the entire city wall is expected to suffer serious damage.
Why should he be polite before fighting?
Because if he convinces the other party, fewer soldiers will die.
This is very necessary for them.
Training a soldier requires too many resources.
"Trebuchets, ballista carts, and city rams marched two miles."
He was not kidding, and immediately commanded the three siege weapons to advance rapidly.
If the incense stick time was up and the opponent did not surrender, then he would take an offensive approach.
Soon, these weapons were pushed two miles away, and now they were less than one mile away from the south gate.
This was an attackable and defensive distance.
At the same time, he also led the troops to follow the machine.
The time for a stick of incense passed quickly.
He held the telescope and saw a crowd of people on the tower.
It seemed that because of his arrival, these people were anxiously discussing countermeasures.
"People inside, listen, the time for a stick of incense has passed, have you ever thought about it?"
As soon as he said this, the people inside didn't seem to have much reaction.
He picked up the telescope and took a look.
The people on the tower still looked anxious.
These people seemed not to be discussing anything, but more like running for their lives.
He thought to himself, could it be that this city guard wanted to retreat without a fight and even wanted to take away Nanpi City?
In fact, this is not difficult to understand.
The only reason is that they are too powerful.
No one wants to have a face-to-face battle with them, including Nanpi City.
Zhao Zilong also saw something fishy and asked: "Commander, what is this?"
Zhang Liao suggested: "I think they want to retreat without a fight, so why don't I lead the troops to attack?"
Qing Cang said: "Wait a little longer, if they are still like this, then they will launch a fierce attack."
At the same time, he picked up the loudspeaker and said: "I will count down the tens.
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If the city gate is not opened, then I will storm into the city."
"Ten, nine, eight" He counted down the numbers, and with each count, you could feel the two commanders getting a little more excited.
They held their weapons in their hands, ready to lead their troops to attack at any time.
Of course, if there was no obstacle, that would be The best.
"Five, four" There was only three hours left in the number, and there was still no movement in the city.
This was strange.
Fighting or not, at least there was a message, but there was no news in Nanpi City, which made everyone very puzzled
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