Chapter 18: Hold high the debate between Hua and Yi, and restore my Chinese clothes! The war has beg
Hold high the debate between Hua and Yi, and restore my Chinese clothes!
After this slogan was raised, the war finally began. Ten thousand soldiers and one hundred thousand militiamen arrived at Kuaiji County on warships that had been prepared.
Kuaiji County is a place where maritime trade flourishes in the south. There are a large number of maritime merchants here, which is very prosperous and has a large population in the south.
This is the starting point of the Grand Canal in the south. You can go north along the Grand Canal to Luoyang and Chang'an without any problems, and there is the sea outside. The special terrain makes Kuaiji County today extremely prosperous with many merchants.
But today, everything has changed.
Looking up, there were so many soldiers in black armor that it was impossible to see them all. They formed a queue and were very fast, almost coming over in the blink of an eye.
When the soldiers discovered them, they had already arrived eight or nine hundred steps outside the city. When the soldiers sounded the alarm and alerted the whole city, they had already reached the bottom of the city on the ladder.
That's right, they were resisting the ladder, not pushing it. Since ancient times, ladders have been one of the instruments commonly used in siege warfare. However, the soldiers guarding the city today have gained some knowledge. It turns out that the ladder does not need to be pushed.
Instead, more than a dozen soldiers resisted and hugged him together.
This scene was so amazing that the prefect who received the news thought that the soldiers below were dreaming and daydreaming!
This is really ridiculous. How is this possible? Did the Captain drink too much last night?
However, when the prefect of Kuaiji County came to the city wall with his own eyes and saw this scene, he knew that all this was true and that he was making too much of a fuss.
But this is unreasonable, but there is no more time for him to think about whether it is reasonable, because the Qin army has already begun to attack the city.
The Qin army held high the Black Water Dragon Flag, their morale was extremely high, and they rushed forward almost roaring, without stopping in the middle, they rushed over in one breath.
As for the arrows and powerful crossbows on the defensive side, they are completely useless!
Some soldiers rushed forward so fast that they even rushed forward under the rain of arrows. From a distance, they looked like a hedgehog full of arrows. But when such a hedgehog comes to you, the distance is getting closer and closer to you.
As it gets closer, the first thing it brings is fear.
"The one who gets there first has a great song!"
At this moment, Qu Da felt like he had gone back to more than a year ago, when he first landed in a small border town in South Korea. His fighting spirit was instantly full. He just felt that he seemed to have inexhaustible strength at this moment.
With a roar, he held a three-foot-long sword in his right hand. He used Qinggong and stepped on the ladder to jump onto the city wall. Before the guards could react, he had already climbed onto the city wall.
The long knife in his hand reflected the sunlight and was extremely dazzling, like a soul-enchanting artifact. After being raised high and swung around, a circle of people died.
With one blow, the surrounding environment suddenly became quiet for a moment.
It’s really scary, you’ll die in one go!
With another stab, a soldier was cut in half from the middle with his armor on! Although some soldiers are really not afraid of death, this way of death is too scary!
At this moment, Qu Da was wearing three layers of armor, and the innermost layer was wearing a layer of carefully crafted chainmail. This chainmail was brought from other worlds. More importantly, it was very light. It was really
Too light.
The outermost layer is steel armor made of alloy. The steel armor is of excellent quality and is even lighter than the original armor. It only weighs 20 kilograms when the whole body is fully protected.
As for the armor and chain mail, it was wrapped with several layers of silk inside and out, which was equivalent to cloth armor and could effectively protect against arrows.
Under the three layers of armor, Qu Da was like an invulnerable monster. Coupled with the long knife in his hand, everything he passed was a harvester of human heads and a harvester of morale. Wherever he went, the enemy's morale would be affected.
Visible speed reduction.
Just a quarter of an hour later, more than half of the more than 1,000 soldiers on the city wall were dead or injured. Listening to the sound of truce war drums in his ears, Qu Da stopped the killing in confusion.
Kuaiji County is vast and sparsely populated. It looks very big on the map, but its total population is only over 30,000 households, more than 300,000. Even if you include the hidden population of the nobles and powerful people, it will not exceed 400,000 at most. With such a large population
, it is really common to raise 20,000 county soldiers.
Due to the particularity of the current era, the struggle between the North and the South has always been ongoing. The North did not trust the South at all, and the court did not trust the aristocratic families in the South. Therefore, there were only 1,500 soldiers in the huge Kuaiji County.
Originally there were more than this number, but more soldiers were transferred to the north during the third expedition to Goguryeo, and now they all died on the battlefield in the north before they could recover.
Moreover, due to the imperial court's suppression of the South, the South could not recruit soldiers on its own before the imperial edict was issued, otherwise it would be treason or rebellion.
This has resulted in this extremely special situation. Kuaiji County, with a population of nearly 400,000, has only 1,500 soldiers, and only 1,000 people have gathered on the city wall in a hurry.
Now five hundred of them had died in the siege, and the remaining five hundred laid down their weapons and began to surrender.
It's not that they didn't want to surrender earlier, but they didn't react at all. In just a quarter of an hour, more than half of them were killed or injured. If they didn't see it with their own eyes, who would believe it?
At this moment, Qu Da took off his hat, and a large amount of sweat evaporated almost in a straight line. He drank a lot of the light salt water that he had prepared long ago, but his expression was a little confused, and he subconsciously looked at the surrounding situation.
What the hell is going on? Why is it over in a quarter of an hour? Is there such a fight? This is a population of 400,000. Logically speaking, they just mobilized 30,000 men and 30,000 strong women, and then continued to fight in the streets for several days.
Not surprisingly.
At night, Qu Da met his old boss Meng Tian. He felt that although he did not know the answer to this question, Meng Tian must know it.
As for why Meng Tian knew it, it was of course because Meng Tian was the king's personal guard. Even if Meng Tian didn't know, the king would definitely know.
Hearing Qu Da's question, Meng Tian nodded happily. Being able to read and know how to ask questions is progress. The biggest fear is not knowing how to pretend to understand, or not asking even if you have questions in your heart.
Persist in learning, never forget your original intention, and keep making progress. Meng Tian has always remembered these words from Ying Zheng.
"Due to various reasons, the main contradiction in the world today has changed from the struggle for survival between the Xia and other Xia to the internal struggle within the Xia."
"The battle between the central government and the local government, the battle between the prefect and the county magistrate, the battle between the county magistrate and the local magnates, the struggle between the Guanlong Group and the southern Han aristocratic families, the struggle between the emperor and the aristocratic families, the battle between the emperor and the magnates, the battle between the emperor and the nobles,
The mainstream trend in the world today is infighting within infighting!”
"In such an environment, the life of ordinary people is extremely difficult. People's eyes are only focused on their own one-third of an acre. As for looking outside, fewer and fewer people open their eyes to see the world."
"So the arrival of our Great Qin is very necessary. We are not here for invasion, not for war, and not for plunder, but to save the people at the lowest level."
Chapter completed!