"Throw boiling water!"
Wan Zhongshan shouted, and the messengers immediately passed on his orders.
One by one, the messengers stood at the same distance on the inside of the city wall and passed the orders one after another.
Immediately, someone scooped boiling water from the pot with a float and poured it into the wooden barrel.
The barrel was quickly filled.
Another young man came to the wall with a wooden bucket, scooped up ladles of boiling water with a float and poured it down the city. go.
At this time, the leading men of the Great Food Army just arrived at the foot of the city wall carrying the siege ladder, and were showered with boiling water.
Although the boiling water dropped some in temperature during the spraying process, it still had a high temperature of 80 or 90 degrees.
The soldiers of the Great Food Army screamed on the spot, and the siege ladder was also thrown aside, and they all retreated and screamed in agony.
Behind them, soldiers from the army rushed to the underground of the city wall to lift the siege ladder again, but they were soon splashed with boiling water.
This was repeated several times.
When the boiling water in the bucket broke, many soldiers were burned.
But the siege ladder was finally lifted and set up on the city wall.
Ziad, who was riding on horseback and directing the siege from the rear, saw people constantly pouring boiling water on the city wall, and immediately ordered: "Assemble archers to suppress it."
"Yes, General" Groups of archers were transferred not far from the city.
They lined up in three groups.
Under the command of the officers, they shot the young men who poured boiling water into the rooms on the city wall.
They were protected by the battlements of the city wall.
The casualties were not serious, but the action of pouring boiling water on the food army below the city was still suppressed.
They did not dare to expose their bodies too confidently.
This gave the soldiers of the food army attacking the city a chance to climb up the ladder.
When Wan Zhongshan saw it, he immediately ordered: "The soldiers fired arrows to kill the enemy archers, and the young men continued to pour boiling water."
The Dashi Army had a large number of archers, but the Western Qin Army was too small in number, so the suppression of the archers had little effect.
After suffering some casualties, Wan Zhongshan had to change its defensive method and ordered the soldiers to hold shields instead.
He and the young men blocked the arrows, but the young men still started throwing arrows at the bottom of the city.
This effectively prevented the food army from climbing up the siege ladder.
The killing effect of boiling water is not as good as that of swords, and it cannot burn anyone to death, but once it is burned, the pain is extremely uncomfortable, and there will be some fear in the heart, so the scalded food army began to shrink back, no longer like before Fearless spirit state, but there is always a time when the boiling water is poured out.
When the boiling water is poured out, the soldiers of the Food Army start to climb the siege ladder again.
One by one, the food soldiers climb up the siege ladder, like skewers on the ladder, In some families, there were five or six food troops lying on the ladder.
"Smash the stones" Wan Zhongshan ordered loudly, and the young men picked up the rocks and threw them at the big food soldiers on the ladder.
The big food soldier at the head was hit with a broken head and bleeding, and his body fell down.
The man on the ladder below was Several people were knocked down at the same time, and the one who was pressed at the bottom was immediately relieved.
The big food soldier pressed in the middle was also seriously injured.
Ziad couldn't help but frowned as he looked at the scene above and below the city wall, and began to make calculations in his mind.
If he continued at this pace, he might not be able to break through Zahedan City in three or four hours.
You must know that there are only a few hundred soldiers in the city. , he now finally realized the huge impact of the lack of large-scale siege equipment on siege battles.
The efficiency of siege ladders alone was too low and the casualties were too high.
After thinking for a long time, Ziad ordered the archery commander to be called over and said: "Tell your people not to shoot randomly, aim for me and then shoot, just like when practicing archery, don't make volleys, let them perform freely."
The archer commander agreed: "Yes, General" Ziad then told Daoud: "Pass my order, increase the intensity of the siege, and send out a supervising team.
Anyone who wants to die and is too afraid to move forward will be killed."
Daoud felt a little distressed and said: "General, if you do this, our casualties will increase."
Ziad nodded: "You are right, but the Western Qin Army will definitely not have it easy.
Their regular army only has a few hundred people, and the rest are young and middle-aged residents in the city.
They have no fighting capacity.
They cannot withstand our strong attack."
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Seeing what Ziad said, Daoud had no choice but to agree: "Okay."
Sure enough, several orders issued by Ziad suddenly increased the pressure on the Western Qin Army on the city wall several times.
First, because the archers of the Dashi Army changed their volley fire to burst fire, the casualties of the Western Qin Army began to increase significantly.
Siege power The increase in temperature also greatly increased the pressure on the Western Qin Army.
They were all overwhelmed.
The soldiers of the Dashi Army climbed the ladder much faster under the pressure of the supervising team.
The soldiers of the Western Qin Army and the young and strong men on the city wall They were starting to get a little overwhelmed.
This battle lasted from morning to dusk.
The defenders of the Western Qin Army finally couldn't stand it any longer.
The absolute disadvantage in strength caused them too many casualties.
By dusk, there was not even a single person to be found every ten meters on the city wall.
The presence of the garrison soldiers and the large number of soldier casualties left many sections of the city wall empty of garrison strength.
This allowed the soldiers of the Dashi Army to board the city wall in one fell swoop and began to fight at close range with the Western Qin Army for control of the city wall.
Before dark, all the four city walls were occupied by the Dashi Army.
All the Western Qin Army officers and Qingzhuang on the walls were killed, and Wan Zhong Mountain was not spared.
This battle was brutal.
From morning to dark, there was not even a half in between.
Stop immediately.
More than 1,500 soldiers and young men of the Western Qin Army who were guarding the city were all killed in battle, but the Dashi Army failed to get a good deal.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 1,000 people were injured.
The city lost more than half of its 20,000 most elite Guards of the Great Food Army, which made Ziad's heart grow colder.
The sky darkened, and the food army that captured the city wall lit up torches.
Surrounded by his generals, Ziad walked to the city gate tower.
Wan Zhongshan, who had been dead for a long time, stood on the pile of corpses with wide eyes and leaning on a spear.
Unfortunately, there was no intact armor plate or steel plate on his body, there were wounds everywhere, and the blood stains all over his body had dried.
A big food soldier was about to stab Wanzhongshan's corpse with a spear.
Ziad stretched out his hand to stop him.
The soldier retracted his spear angrily and stepped aside.
Ziad took two steps forward, put the hand holding the handle of the knife on his chest, and bent down. , lower your head.
Except for Daoud and Ziyad who saluted the corpse of Wan Zhongshan, the other soldiers and generals of the Great Food Army watched this scene quietly.
They are all fools.
How could they understand that respecting the enemy is respecting oneself?
Ziad straightened up, raised his head, looked at the corpse of Wan Zhongshan and ordered Daoud: "Daoud, bury General Wan.
Bury him according to the standards that a general who died in battle deserves, and he should have all the burial objects."
There must be no less, and in addition, all the residents in the city should be searched out and buried with General Wan."
"Understood" Daoud agreed, and immediately ordered the army to pick up the shields and other defensive equipment of the Western Qin Army and then divided into several groups to march into the city.
In the battle to defend the city wall, the city's garrison force had been exhausted.
At this time, only the old and weak prisoners were left in the city.
Although the Dashi Army encountered some resistance, the strength was far less than the night before yesterday and before dawn.
The resistance forces in the city were completely eliminated, and more than two thousand old, weak, women and children were captured alive.
They were all killed and buried together with the coffins in Wan Zhong Mountain.
At this time, Zhao Ziliang's army was in Shulgaz City and did not attack westward.
In fact, he could have continued to attack westward.
If the attack speed was fast enough, Behdahir Castle would have been captured by this time.
He has been integrating the servant army and prisoners, whose total number is close to 50,000 people.
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This is a force that cannot be ignored.
If used properly, they can play an unimaginable role.
When it comes to controlling these 50,000 servants and prisoners, Zhao Ziliang has his own method.
These 50,000 people are divided into four armies.
The first two armies are both 15,000 people, and the last two armies are both 10,000 people.
Each army has one chief general, two deputy generals and one supervisor.
The chief general and one deputy general are cannibals or Persians, and the other deputy general and general are Westerners.
The Qin people asked the generals and deputy generals who were Persians or cannibals to supervise each other, and then asked another deputy general and supervisor to supervise them.
At the same time, they also asked the generals and officers at all levels below to supervise each other.
As long as they are found to be under surveillance Anyone who commits misconduct or disloyalty can report it.
The reporter will receive generous rewards, be promoted, or make a fortune.
In this way, the entire army's management, generals and officers were under mutual supervision.
No one dared to be disobedient.
This army of servants was firmly controlled by Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang was listening to the generals' reports on the reorganization of the servant army in the lobby of the city lord's palace in Shulgaz City.
At this time, Wang Can rushed in and clasped his fists and said: "Your Majesty, something bad happened.
Someone just came from Zaheidan City. soldiers came It was reported that the city of Zaheidan was attacked by the food army.
What happened was that the soldier passed out without drinking water for several days.
As for the whereabouts of Wang Guangyao and his 1,000 men and horses, and the subsequent fate of Zahedan The situation is unknown.”
Zhao Ziliang's reaction was beyond the expectations of all the general officials in the lobby.
His expression did not change at all.
He looked at Schneider, Wahid, Obote and others and asked: "Can any of you tell me, except for passing by us to go to Zha?"
Apart from Heidan, if the Caliph’s army wants to reach Zahedan, is there any shortcut we can take?”
In order to make themselves more trusted by Zhao Ziliang and be used more highly than the others, these servant generals all competed to express themselves in front of Zhao Ziliang.
Obot stood up and saluted before the others could react: "Your Majesty, in addition to taking the route from Bam Castle to Shulgazi City, they can only reach the outside of Zahedan City from Behdashir Castle directly through the Luti Desert":