Chapter 202 The Way of the Tattooed Army is Simple and Efficient
A few months ago, when Emperor Tui ordered the 16th Army to besiege Tongyan City in the northwest of Qi State, Ayutai and his generals formulated a plan to attack Qi State from the south and ambush and annihilate the Chu army that might be pursuing them.
plan, and volunteered to lead the Eighth Army to carry out this operation. However, this plan was shelved by Emperor Tui, on the grounds that there is no need to use a bull's-eye to kill a chicken, and a Sixteenth Army in the northwest is enough to defeat Qi.
When the news came that the Sixteenth Army Corps had been completely annihilated by the Qi army in Tongyan City, Ayutai was surprised and at the same time happily believed that his plan to attack Qi to the north and ambush the Chu army on the way would definitely be adopted by the emperor.
He guessed half right: Emperor Ting did approve the plan, but the executor was not his Ayutai, but the Ninth Legion, whose combat power was lower than his own! For this matter, Ayutai was so angry that he almost died.
The current "war situation report" sent from the capital was torn into pieces.
In the next period of time, Aoyutai watched helplessly as the Ninth Army followed the plan he made to lure a hundred thousand Chu troops northward into Qi State, and then ambushed and severely damaged the Chu army! Aoyutai was preparing for his exquisite plan.
While feeling proud, he also despised the Ninth Army: If this battle was fought by the Eighth Army, the 100,000 Chu troops would not be "heavy hit" but "annihilated"
Got it!
When the 9th and 11th legions successfully captured Linzi and destroyed Qi, Ayutai and his generals were not idle. Based on the new military situation, they formulated a very bold and aggressive attack plan.
: Prepare to attack Pengcheng first with only one legion, then annihilate the important Chu army in Shouchun, and then drive straight into the hinterland of Chu, thus shaking the entire Tingchu front...
Twenty days later, on the day of receiving the approval from Emperor Tiao, the Eighth Army Corps, which had already been fully prepared, set off. Fifty thousand horses and thousands of fighting monsters were divided into two groups, with the targets: the important military town in the northeast of Chu State.
---Pengcheng, another target is Nanlu of Qi State.
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Nanlu is a medium-sized town on the southeastern border of the original Qi State, with a combined urban and suburban population of more than 600,000. Because it is not far from the coast and has convenient transportation, it has been an important seafood processing center in the Zhongzhou Continent for hundreds of years.
and trade bases, among which the two largest merchant alliances even have a strong family background that is said to be "incredibly rich."
A few months ago, when the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Qi, and Chu were fighting, some Nanlu people who were more aware of the situation sold their property at a low price and hurriedly fled to the south to Chu or Wuyue and other countries.
However, the vast majority of Nanlu people stayed here because they were reluctant to part with such a profitable seafood business and the prosperous real estate industry. They did not believe, or rather were unwilling to believe, that Tingguo was really like those
What the anti-tattoo people say is so terrible, not to mention that during the more than 20 years when the Queen Mother of Qi State was in power, the entire Qi State was filled with beautiful propaganda about the Tattoo State.
On the same day that the Ninth Army of the Tattoo Army occupied Linzi, the capital of the Qi Kingdom, more than a thousand fierce and wolf-like soldiers of the Tattoo Army came to Nanlu, easily handed over the weapons of more than 10,000 Qi Kingdom defenders, and took over the city.
wealthy city.
The Tatmen Army immediately announced that everything here, including land, housing, shops, commodities, factories, etc., was owned by the state; no one was allowed to own private property, and all daily necessities were regularly distributed by the state.
The vast majority of Nanlu people simply didn't believe their eyes and ears. When they were convinced that this was not an "April Fool's Day" joke, some people began to protest and even went to the vicinity of the Tingjun garrison and the former Qi State official office to demonstrate.
The Tattoo Army has destroyed countless countries, so it is very experienced in dealing with these disobedient people. The Tattoo Army's method is extremely simple and effective: after more than 2,000 protesters were executed in public and their bodies were hung, the entire South
Lu immediately became a very obedient city, just like dozens of other Qi towns.
Since everyone's property has been nationalized, there is no longer any distinction between the poor and the rich in Nanlu. Among those who work on "state-owned" farmland and factories, the former rich are naturally extremely sad and angry, and are miserable;
The poor people were initially happy because the gap between the rich and the poor was suddenly eliminated and "wealth equality" was achieved, but soon they became strongly resentful because of the inhumane and high-pressure working environment.
Although they are dissatisfied, all the people of Qi will immediately tremble with fear as soon as they see or even think of the fierce or cold faces of the tattooed soldiers; as for resistance, they don't even dare to think about it!
A month later, when the people of Nanlu were expecting the Tatmen to show their kindness and improve their lives and work, a large army of Tatmen arrived in Nanlu.
This black armored force is composed of light cavalry and light infantry, with a total of 20,000 people. It belongs to the Eighth Army of the Tsui Kingdom. It is said that the combat effectiveness of this army is much higher than the Ninth Army that destroyed the Qi Kingdom. This
After a detachment of troops arrived here, they immediately drove all the Nanlu people in the city from their homes together with a thousand Tsing State garrison troops overnight.
The tattooed soldiers left the lonely Nanlu people behind, then put all the families including young adults, old people and children into carriages, and then hundreds of thousands of people marched toward the southwest in a mighty manner.
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During the entire process of driving and escorting, except for the cries of some infants and young children, none of the Nanlu people, old and young, dared to resist, so it went very smoothly. Although the people did not know what fate was waiting for them, no one dared to
When asked about the cold and cruel tattooed soldiers, there were very few private discussions.
On the way, the people of Nanlu noticed that another smaller convoy had joined their team. Those vehicles were equipped with weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds, as well as shovels for digging. Some people recognized those vehicles.
The weapons are all the equipment of the former Qi army, but I don’t know why they are with me.
After more than twenty days of traveling, the team arrived at a desolate suburb of the city in the southwest wilderness. There was a tall and towering city wall in the distance. Some well-traveled Nanlu people recognized that this place was an important military town in the Chu State.
---Pengcheng.
More than 500,000 people from the former Qi State came to the east and north of Pengcheng. After the Tattoo Army asked them to get off the carriage, they immediately asked them to stand together as a family unit and distributed the weapons of the former Qi Army to every young man and woman.
Tell them (her): Go forward bravely and attack the city wall a thousand steps away until you capture this fortified city or die yourself.
Anyone who cowers and refuses to do so will be shot immediately by the Tatmadaw Supervisory Team, and his relatives, young and old, will also be beheaded immediately. Anyone who dies in battle will have his relatives as hostages immediately released.
There are a total of more than 300,000 young and middle-aged men and women in the Qi State. Each of them holds a weapon from the original Qi army, a shovel, and carries more than 3,000 crude ladders on their backs. These ladders are all
The tattoo army forced them to spend several days building it.
The people of Qi State looked at the tall and towering city wall in the distance and the heavily armed defenders on the city wall. Their hearts, legs and feet were trembling with fear. These people who had never seen a battle never dreamed that one day they would be so suddenly
They walked into the war, and in such an extremely cruel way!