Lin Dawei and a group of brothers hurried back to prepare. Seeing that it was getting late, Ji Jie decided to rest here for the night and set off tomorrow morning. Anyway, the "big army" was still two hundred miles away, so there was no rush.
The reason why Lin Dawei is so interested in Ji Jie's proposal is very simple. Ji Jie gave him enough new equipment for ten thousand people.
Lin Dawei is not a saint. The reason why he became the commander of the civil unrest in Dongjun is not entirely based on the people's living a good life. This kind of people have a common problem, that is, when they sit in a certain position, their desires will also disappear.
Lin Dawei's biggest wish now is to become the local emperor of Dongjun.
However, the King of Qin would not watch such a thing happen and remain indifferent. Lin Dawei knew clearly that with his current strength, he could only satisfy the popular uprising, and if anything went wrong in the process, he would be doomed. He thought
Fighting the Qin army with real swords and guns, but this can only be a fantasy. How can a group of peasants who put down their hoes and pick up their swords and guns be the opponents of the regular army?
Ji Jie's appearance gave him hope. As long as he cooperated with him to perform this play well, he would be able to obtain new weapons equipped with ten thousand people. Lin Dawei had long heard that Dazhou's new weapons were powerful. The most important thing was that they did not need to be used.
After some training, you can master how to use it and become a qualified soldier.
All he had to do was cooperate with Ji Jie in a play, and he could get something that he had never dared to think of before. How could Lin Dawei not be excited? This deal only made money but no loss, so how could he refuse.
From Ji Jie's point of view, this is just a matter of everyone getting what they need. It is better to support a rebel army that shakes the foundation of Qin in disguise than to support them openly.
Ji Jie was full of confidence in performing this scene well. Lin Dawei even directed such major events as civil unrest in an orderly manner, so acting in a play should be a piece of cake.
After Lin Dawei left, the shopkeeper showed great respect to Ji Jie and gave them four of the best guest rooms. He confessed to the drugging incident and apologized a lot!
Early the next morning, Ji Jie and others returned to the location of the army. A thousand people were walking forward slowly, with Xiong Kui riding a horse at the front.
When Xiong Kui saw the four people coming, he hurriedly patted his horse and asked, "Your Majesty, why are you back so soon? Is everything going well?"
"It went very well!" Ji Jie said with a smile: "I sent an order to all the ministries and told them that the Dongjun mob was doing evil in the city. Let's hurry up and try to reach the city before the day after tomorrow and save all the people from misery!"
"Yes!" Xiong Kui sent out the messenger, and the team turned to a trot.
After running for less than a quarter of an hour, the soldiers were panting and could no longer run.
Ji Jie smiled bitterly and said to Xiong Kui: "Look, if Lu Buwei gives me such troops, if there is really a group of mobs in Dongjun, we will only end up defeated!"
"Haha, it's good that you are strategizing!" Xiong Kui has already learned about the cooperation between Ji Jie and Lin Dawei.
It was said that they arrived at the foot of Dongjun City on the third day, but it was not until the afternoon of the fourth day that Lin Dawei on the city wall saw a group of people walking towards here leisurely.
This was Ji Jie's fastest speed, and several veterans were exhausted to death. The youngest among them was fifty-one years old.
Since the last civil uprising, there has been no official government in Dongjun, and the city is completely in the hands of the people. After making a plan with Ji Jie a few days ago, Lin Dawei ordered people to put up thousands of scarecrows. The ones he made were lifelike and far away.
From a distance, it looks like a real person.
Now, the defenders standing on the city wall are these scarecrows, wearing ordinary people's clothes and holding "weapons" made of sorghum stalks, each of them "majestic".
Ji Jie put down the telescope, looked back at Qian Qin Jun, whose legs were trembling with fear, and shouted: "Ahead is Dongjun City. The mob has controlled the city wall. We are not many in number. If we fight hard, we will not be our opponents. We will not fight." To do so is to disobey the king's order! So I ordered that we stand in the distance and shoot arrows to kill the mob on the wall, and then charge in!"
"The general is wise!" A thousand people shouted at the top of their lungs. As long as they are not allowed to rush forward, they will do anything!
"Okay, all the soldiers will follow my general to set up the arrow formation, let the Dongjun mob have a taste of the power of the Great Qin Arrow Formation!" Ji Jie gave the order, and it took a thousand people more than four times the time of the main force to set up the arrow formation. A crooked formation.
Regardless of the poor quality of the soldiers, the ones they hold in their hands are the best. The Qin army is famous for its arrow formations. Before every attack on the city, they must release arrows to kill and injure the defenders in the city and create a great psychological impact on them. deterrence.
The Chu Zhang crossbow, the divine arm crossbow, and the bed crossbow were all aimed at the "defenders" on the city wall.
Ji Jie held up an apricot-yellow flag high. This flag was the command flag for commanding the Qin army, and it also served as a signal to Lin Dawei.
Lin Dawei on the top of the city saw the flag and shouted: "Brothers, please stay behind the wall and don't move!"
At the same time, Ji Jie also issued an order: "Fire the arrow!"
Each round of arrow rain contained thousands of crossbow arrows, large and small, and the city walls immediately turned into hedgehogs, and the scarecrows fell one after another.
After several rounds of arrow rain, there were not many "defenders" left standing. Ji Jie laughed and said: "It's just a bunch of mobs. Thank you for your hard work. Let's get here today. If there are a few more rounds tomorrow, they will be almost dead." Now, let’s attack the city easily!”
"Long live the general, long live the general!" A group of Qin soldiers shouted. They didn't know the secrets inside, and they thought they were going to win the battle!
Lin Dawei slowly got up from the ground, took a deep breath, looked at the scarecrow and the city wall filled with crossbow arrows, and said with a smile: "When you make a lot of money, don't be idle, pull out the arrows, these are all good things. It’ll be enough for us to use for a while!”
Early the next morning, the morale of the Qin army was high, and the arrow array was much more orderly than yesterday.
"Fire the arrows!" Ji Jie didn't feel bad at all. Anyway, these crossbow arrows were not his own, so he shot them all!
There are a lot fewer scarecrows placed on the city wall today. This is not surprising. A large number of them were "shot to death" yesterday.
"Charge!" Ji Jie pulled out his long sword and waved it. A hundred dead soldiers brought from the Qin family, led by the three Xiong family brothers, rushed toward the city gate, followed by a thousand Qin troops.
Lin Dawei, who was on the city, roared and led dozens of subordinates to fire arrows at the Qin army behind them. He turned a blind eye to those in front and allowed them to climb up the city wall.
More than a hundred Qin soldiers were shot dead. When Lin Dawei saw that they were almost there, he shouted: "We can't hold it anymore, brothers, retreat!"
Lin Dawei voluntarily abandoned the city wall, escaped from another city gate with hundreds of his men, and disappeared into the woods outside the city.
There were several corpses lying scattered on the city wall, and there were wet or dried blood stains everywhere.
The corpse was purchased from a death row prison in a nearby state or county. As for the blood stains, they were from pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, and none of them were real human blood.