Under the command of the Russians, the Shiwei people launched this siege, and both sides suffered heavy losses.
The Shiwei people are just expendable goods to the Rus and Jiu Hu people. The Rus are just sorry that all the siege equipment made by their own craftsmen has been lost.
As for the life and death of Shiwei people, the people of Shiwei who are drunk in life and dream of death don't care much.
The people of Shiwei are surrendered slaves, and slaves are linked to property, but property is the most important and least important in war.
In less than one day, Shiwei people lost tens of thousands of people. In the three days after the war, more Shiwei people died. In June, the temperature in Langyan Mountain rose.
Arrows soaked in gold juice, in this season, the one who hits them will only die.
With the rise of the Jiuhu people in the grassland, all measures that can reduce the losses of the tribe are natural. The nearly ten thousand Wei people will undoubtedly put a heavy burden on the Jiuhu people.
Without doctors or medicine, the Jiuhu people allowed the injured of the Shiwei people to become dead.
At this time, no matter how arrogant the Shiwei people were, and the bad wine given by the Jiuhu people, they also had the idea of avoiding war in their hearts.
Zuowuguan is a majestic and dangerous city wall. It is just the easiest outpost city wall to conquer. The Shiwei people failed to pull it down even after nearly 20,000 casualties. So how can we conquer the front wall of Zuowuguan while standing on the moat and looking up?
"Great Khan, a businessman came and said that he knew the topography of Zuowuguan!" Aragbari called himself Great Khan in private. This was the throne he obtained by killing all the Jiuhu nobles, but it is a pity that today's Jiuhu
He is no longer the Nine Hu who controls millions of strings in Beiyuan.
In any era, there are self-interested people who break away from the collective and the group. From a personal perspective, this is a life choice, but from a group perspective, it is rebellion.
Yin Qianfei, a native of Chang'an, Gyeonggi Province, has been a merchant for generations, and there are many talented and knowledgeable people in his clan. However, because of his low status as a merchant, he was unable to become a candidate for the Zhechong Prefecture, let alone obtain the Selection Order as a qualification for serving as an official.
There is no order to select frontiers in the Zhechong Prefecture, which means that if future generations want to become officials, they must either become border garrison troops, who will be good for three generations, or become servants of various prefectures, and can only become foreign officials in their lifetime.
The so-called "Liu Wai" is just an elegant name for an official. A person's future depends on the official's thoughts. One day he is an official, and he will be an official for generations. He may appear to be an official, but he does not have the power of an official.
Yin Qianpei was born as a merchant. The Yin family was a powerful group among the wealthy merchants in Chang'an. The family had a caravan of over 100 people. They signed employment contracts directly with the Yin family firm and had tens of thousands of people working for them.
Daqian did business with the Russians, and Yin Qianpei was the shopkeeper of the Yin family firm responsible for trading with the Russians.
The Jiuhu people's attack at Zuowuguan was thwarted. Although the Three Pass Protectorate, Beiyuan Protectorate and Anbei Protectorate kept suppressing the news, they described the encounter with enemies at Zuowuguan as a provocation by the Jiuhu.
Provocation and war are not the same thing, so the Ministry of War turned a blind eye and treated it as a side provocation.
Although anyone with some status in Daqian knew that the Zuowuguan defenders and the Jiuhu people were fighting fiercely at this time, this was a means of handing over the status of the old and new military leaders of the Anbei line, so no one tried to break through this layer.
Paper.
Aragba sent people to pass on Daqian merchants. In the past half month, the Jiuhu people did not go into battle in person, but Shi Wei, who was not weaker than Jiuhu Laoqi, was hit in the Zuowuguan and suffered a bloody head.
Serious injury.
Although the baggage train from the first left and second left stopped for a while, when the good news from Zuowuguan was sent back to the Nangu Shouqiao camp, the baggage soldiers from the first left and second left guarding the city started transporting again.
On June 21st, a group of fifty baggage trucks arrived at the back pass of Zuowuguan.
Zuowuguan had to resist an enemy force twenty times its own, and the support before the war emptied out the newly established three-pass protective palace.
Su Ce asked his personal guards to send the battle report of Zuowuguan in mid-June to the Nanguan Guard Camp. The more than ten thousand guardsmen guarding the city, one on the left and two on the left, did not have any time to resist the enemy at Zuowuguan.
idle.
After digging deep trenches and building earth walls, two earth walls were quickly erected at the entrance of the south valley. These piled earth walls were used as a back-up after Zuowuguan was breached.
If Zuowuguan was breached, it would mean that the ten thousand Zuowuguan defenders would be completely destroyed. The two earthen walls where the guarding camp was located were prepared for that moment.
No matter what the plans of the Anbei people are, the responsibility of protecting the country and protecting the people is the bottom line engraved in the hearts of the border troops.
These two earthen walls are the red line of the Anbei line. Once Zuowuguan is lost, the entire Langyan Mountains will free up a passage to the south for the Jiuhu people, not to mention the ambitious Rus people.
Therefore, when Zuowuguan encountered a "border provocation", Beiyuan and Anbei were not idle. They first supplemented the 100,000 soldiers of the three-pass Protectorate.
Later, the cavalry from the Anbei Protectorate were also transferred to the Beiyuan Protectorate.
The Jiuhu people went south, and the warlike factor hidden in the blood of the Anbei frontier army was also ignited.
The towering Zuowuguan not only prevented the Jiuhu people from going south, but also suppressed the militants of the Anbei line.
What came to Zuowuguan was not only the baggage team transporting the wounded medicine, but also the Qian Shouzuolang who escorted the baggage team.
The baggage team brought medicine for wounds and took away a thousand wounded soldiers. The seriously injured were sitting on the carts, while the lightly injured were walking. As for the bruised ones, they could only stay in the pass.
However, there is only one normal transfer order left on file in the Sanguan Protectorate to facilitate the Ministry of War's inquiry.
The general is outside, and military orders are not obeyed.
The Duhufu is the general of the Ministry of War.
There are people who support Zuo Wuguan, and naturally there are people who don't.
Yin Qianpei was looking for foreign aid because he did not want Zuowuguan to last and wanted the scale of the war to expand.
Although the focus of Zuowuguan defense has changed under Su Ce's adjustments, a 80% similar defense map of Zuowuguan was still sent to Aragbari by Yin Qianpei.
Yin Qianpei, disguised as a Russian caravan, not only came to deliver this defense map, but also transported a lot of second-hand armor and weapons from the Russians to the Jiuhu people, including the crossbow that Aragba had been dreaming about.
In addition to being slightly less accurate than the armband crossbow, the Russian lever crossbow has also been improved in the past two years, and now its range is no less than that of the armband crossbow.
Thousands of lever crossbows were camouflaged by the Jiuhu people. After looking at the defense map of Zuowuguan, Aragbari also had a way to deal with the loss of the Shiwei people who had low morale.
One thousand and nineteen armed crossbowmen covered 30,000 Wei people in demolishing the low walls on both sides of Zuowuguan.
If the low wall is not demolished, it will be difficult for the Jiuhu people to deploy their troops. They will be like the Shiwei people before, where 50,000 people cannot take down an outpost defended by thousands of people.
Halfway through June, the Jiuhu people are stagnant. If they delay for time, the movement of the Jiuhu people south will only become empty talk.
"Don't worry, after the war, you will be in charge of the horse business." Aragba promised to Yin Qianpei, but he was very disdainful in his heart.
Yin Qianpei's face was overjoyed, but in his heart he laughed at Aragbari's assumptions.
Yin Qianpei did not feel the slightest sense of shame for "betraying" Zuowuguan this time. Merchants have no boundaries between nations. The Yin family has business connections all over the country and has its own caravans abroad in Daqian. As early as decades ago, Yin
The family branched off into many branches and went outside the Daqian territory to intermarry with local nobles.
Just like Yin Qianbae, who is in his thirties, his mother is the concubine of a duke in the Kingdom of Rus.
Aragba had a plan in his mind and started to implement it.
The 30,000 Shiwei people selected 10,000 elites, and the remaining 20,000 were divided into east and west groups. The 10,000 elites pretended to attack the outpost, using the giant crossbows hurriedly made by Ross craftsmen and destroying the defense facilities on the outpost.
The masonry-structured archery tower is not capable of "giant crossbow" attack, but the wooden corridor is hard to say.
The giant crossbow that the Ross craftsmen rushed to make can only be described as shoddy.
It has a tendency to fall apart after being fired a dozen times, but as a consumable on the battlefield, it is effective as long as it is effective.
Because they were afraid of being attacked by crossbows in the outpost archery tower, Ross craftsmen specially "sheathed" the giant crossbow with a wooden case made of logs.
Log shells weighing several kilograms are moved by the rolling of wooden wheels.
Shiwei elites pushed the wooden shell to the north bank of the moat, and the giant crossbows inside began to shoot at the outpost wooden corridor.
When Xie Kaizheng, the outpost captain, first faced this rogue style of play, he had no way to deal with it.
The men in the wooden corridor could only be evacuated to Weng City, leaving only the defenders in the archery tower for defense.
When the enemy troops cross the moat, the people in Weng City will climb up the city wall.
Although Aragbazhi didn't know what conspiracy was, it was a good thing that the Daqian defenders could not deal with it and could only be beaten passively.
Under the method of using the wooden shell of the giant crossbow, the wooden corridor on the outpost city wall was smashed to pieces by the arrow shaft of the giant crossbow.
At this time, the 30,000 Shiwei people began to form a line on the moat with 10,000 elite men under the command of their leader Luo Dan, using giant crossbows to attack the outpost city defenses. The remaining 20,000 Shiwei people were divided into two parts, each with 10,000 people.
With the simple tools made by Ross craftsmen, he began to dismantle the low walls on both sides of Zuowuguan in the east and west directions.
When Su Ce knew about this, he could only ask Gu Nan to guard the capture camp and not send any more baggage teams.
The day is not far when Zuowuguan will be completely reduced to an isolated city.
With 30,000 Wei people going into battle together, Su Ce would not send anyone out of seclusion to die.
"The next battle will be difficult!" Su Ce sighed. Counting the newly arrived Qian Shou Zhu Lang, Zuowuguan's available troops were now back to about 8,500, of which nearly 500 were slightly injured.
The number of general jars in the left hall has exceeded five hundred.
Although the head-on approach had achieved great results in the past, Zuowuguan also suffered nearly 2,000 casualties.
Su Ce couldn't afford to fight such a battle, and the outpost was destined to be abandoned.
The outpost captain Xie Kaizheng was a talented general, and Su Ce could not help but develop a love for talents.