Chapter 1168 The hostages are here, who dares to act rashly?
At this moment, on the Yongzhou City Tower, men, women, old and young were already standing in a row. They were of different genders and ages.
You can tell at a glance that some people are from poor families and are wearing coarse cloth, which makes them look pitiful, while others are wearing expensive silks and satins, so they are obviously rich.
But now, on the Yongzhou City Tower, they were kidnapped by the Ding Ling soldiers and forced to climb up, and stood in front of the Ding Ling soldiers!
Became their shield!
They are all the most ordinary people in Yongzhou City. Although they are poor, rich and poor, and although they are different in gender, they are definitely not soldiers.
this……
A despicable and shameless person like Zhai Liao actually treated the people in Yongzhou City as human sandbags to support Ding Ling!
Xu Xianzhi didn't need to say anything more. Wang Mi was not blind. As long as she came out of the military tent, she could immediately see the situation on the tower.
"King Langya, how are you?"
"See it!"
"Come on, hit here!"
"The worst thing is, everyone will die together!"
Zhai Liao once kidnapped a little baby and piled it in front of him. He grabbed the arm and pulled the little baby hard. He was scared and in pain, and he burst into tears.
Is he not the only one who was kidnapped?
After a while, about a hundred people were brought to the city tower. Looking at their clothes and appearance, it was obvious that they were all the most ordinary people in the city, and they were definitely not soldiers pretending to be soldiers.
With Wang Mi's order, the Jin army's offensive finally stopped as a whole.
However, the Ding Ling people, who were proud for a moment, had no intention of letting the Jin army breathe. While Wang Mi made up his mind, they kept holding their bows, arrows, and swords for a moment.
As a result, the Jin army, which had always had an absolute advantage, suddenly suffered a bit of a disadvantage, and its casualties increased significantly.
Huan Xuan was so angry that he gritted his teeth!
Although he only led 500 men, and although his 500 men did not suffer much loss, the Jin army suffered a loss!
If the Jin army suffered a loss, it would be equivalent to a loss for itself!
What kind of person is Huan Xuan?
How can we tolerate being taken advantage of by the enemy on the battlefield?
Zhai Liao was threatening people on the city tower, and Zhai Zhao was naturally not idle either.
He was commanding the people of Yongzhou to serve as human sandbags under the city.
Of course, the methods of operation are still different.
The city tower was originally exposed to the outside. As long as the people stood on it, it would be enough to show it clearly to the Jin army.
And what about those below the city?
The city wall is towering and the city gate cannot be opened. How can the Jin army know that the city has already prepared a backing for them?
Of course it requires some tricks!
Zhai Zhao is a professional when it comes to doing evil.
Since the city wall is too high and blocks the view of the Jin army, some means should be used to allow them to see.
Soon, the ladder was set up.
When others set up ladders, they were all used for siege operations. When we arrived at General Zhai's place, the method of course had to change.
Anyway, the city is already in chaos, and there is not much we can do to control it.
A group of Ding Ling soldiers stood under the designated city wall, and in front of them were the people of Yongzhou who had been kidnapped by them long ago.
Since we are looking for human sandbags, we don’t have so many worries about whether they are tall, short, fat or thin, whether they are rich or not.
Don't care at all.
Whichever one you grab is the one, just send it to the bottom of the city wall and line up.
Next, these poor people, crying and wailing in pain, were threatened by the soldiers and climbed up the ladder one after another.
Disobedience?
sure!
If you go up there, you will die after a while.
If you don't go up, you will die now.
If it were you, which one would you choose?
The answer is obvious.
What else can be done?
Of course I climbed up!
People are like this, they can live for a while! They will never actively choose to die!
As for what their fate will be after going up there, the panicked people have long lost the ability to think.
As long as there is a way to survive in front of them, they will pounce on it like ghosts, no matter where that road leads!
The city continues to be busy, but what about outside the city?
The bargaining has no end in sight.
This situation really put Wang Mi in a dilemma.
Zhai Liao used the people in Yongzhou City as a threat. Anyone familiar with the situation in the late Jin Dynasty knows that although each city is occupied by foreigners, generally speaking, the majority is Han.
Especially those who live ordinary lives, do business, farm, and have no connection with soldiers or the army.
They are all Han Chinese who live widely in this land!
It is undeniable that these Han people can be counted as their own people in the south where Wang Mi and others are entrenched.
They have also been competing for territory with various ethnic groups in the north under the banner of returning to the Central Plains.
So, now, the time has come to test the friendship between the races!
Should we continue firing?
Or should we save their lives and live with Zhai Liao?
mean!
Dirty!
hateful!
Zhai and his son are even more unbearable than Yao Chang and his son!
Yao Chang and Yao Xing, no matter what their intentions are, they still have to fight on their own. If they win, they have won. If they lose, they have lost.
There was no trickery, no underhand tactics.
Perhaps, they had such an idea, but in the face of the Jin army's powerful combat power, they were defeated before they could use it.
However, when doing things as a person, you should only look at the results and not the process.
The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and the problem should be considered in this way. Since Yao Qiang did not use underhanded tactics at that time, even if they had had such thoughts, they should not pursue it.
So, now you can see it.
Among the major tribes that occupy the Central Plains, the Dingling people can be said to be the last ones, the worst group of people.
No wonder their reputation in history is not so glorious.
It can be called the existence of Red Rabbit Lu Bu.
Betray against the master's family today, and betray the west's family tomorrow, this is the survival rule of Ding Ling people.
There are no principles at all. They all choose the best solution for themselves based on the situation at the time. There is nothing wrong with this.
Weak tribes always need some methods to survive, and powerful forces can naturally conquer them openly. So, what about the weak ones?
Conquest?
Who can they win over?
Therefore, we can only adopt some shameful methods in order to preserve our strength. Of course, such methods will not last long in the end.
One is that in troubled times, tribes with a small number of people will be eradicated first. Even if they keep changing the objects they rely on, it is only temporary.
With such forces that betray and surrender over and over again, no one on either side will really regard them as one of their own.
Even if there is such a sincere force, in the end they will be regarded as fools by the Ding Ling people. As time goes by, when the time comes, they will get rid of the problem.
If things go on like this, of course, this road will not work, and the current situation is always changing. There is no doubt that more powerful forces will always appear. They don't care whether the Ding Ling people betray or rely on them. They are extremely powerful, and they come to a place.
, means bulldozing, means occupying.
Over time, these tribes, which were originally small in number, no longer had the soil to survive, and they dispersed along with the smoke and dust of history.
At this moment, the Ding Ling people, who were eager to push back the Jin army, still knew nothing about their fate.
They calmly threw the big trouble to the Jin army and King Langya.
Haven't you always been very tolerant of surrendering troops before?
Haven't you always served as the patron saint of the Han people?
Aren't you greeted with joy wherever you go?
Such a good general, outstanding and just, at this critical moment, faced with the life and death of a group of innocent people, how would you choose?
what will you do?
"King Langya, have you thought about it?"
"Either retreat, or let the people in the city bury you with you!"
Zhai Liao is not the kind of person who speaks louder than thunder. He means it. As he speaks, he kills the little baby in front of him with a knife in his hand!
Blood gushed out quickly along the baby's chest. As soon as Zhai Liao loosened his fingers, the baby collapsed to the ground.
"asshole!"
"I can't spare them!" Wang Mi hammered his horse and cursed loudly. However, in the face of the lost life, he was still so powerless.
This is a battlefield, and a big battle is going on. It can be said that people are dying all the time on this land.
There is almost no pause.
However, Wang Mi was still more angry at the death in front of him.
The heartbreaking feeling of dying in a fight is completely different from the heartache of watching a poor person being tortured and killed.
They cannot be compared.
If Wang Mi ignores the people in these cities at this time, then his conscience will be greatly condemned. Of course, in a sense, he is the only person who has traveled through modern times and can't think of it.
Just people.
As for the slaves, Amai and the others have adopted an indifferent attitude towards these things. Of course they must pay attention to it when they have spare time.
However, in today's fierce battle, where are there so many rules?
In order to win the war, you can engage in traps, killings, and massacres of cities. The ideology of ancient people has not evolved to that level at all.
In their view, these are necessary means of war, and they are the same type as your Wang Mi's development of new weapons.
"Your Majesty, what are you waiting for?"
"While there are few people, rush in and get started!"
It's not that the brothers are anxious, it's the situation.
You see, now not only the city towers are full of people, but also the people climbing on the city walls are the people in the city.
There is no need to ask or doubt, just look at the frightened expressions on the faces of the people and you will know that they were all forced to climb up by the Ding Ling people.
OK!
Now, if Wang Mi ordered people to fire cannons at the angle of the city wall, it would be very dangerous. At least it would be impossible for the people clinging to the city wall to survive.
There are more and more obstacles, and Zhai Liao has more and more chips in his hands. As the governor of the Northern Expedition, what choice will King Langya make?
Zhai Liao has already started killing. He is a madman and doesn't care about anything. But what about Wang Mi? He is no longer mad!
There are as many as 100,000 civilians in the entire Yongzhou City. In other words, if Zhai Liao has no faith and uses these civilians as hostages to prevent the Jin army from attacking the city, he will have many, many more hostages...
From Jingzhou, from Beifu, from Jiankang, so many brothers, they all lived and died with me, fighting on the battlefield again and again. Now, everyone, every pair of eyes, looks like this
Staring straight at Wang Mi.
There is fire in their eyes!
There is light in their eyes!
Wang Mi also looked back at them. In the distance, Huan Xuan had broken away from the formation and started to fight back on his own.
He can't hold it in any longer!
He couldn't hold on any longer!
Only attack is the best antidote!
What are you waiting for?
With such a powerful weapon placed here, is it just a vase or a decoration?
Shouldn't they be allowed to function fully?
"Send slave." Wang Mi called out in a deep voice, and Liu Yu hurried forward, staring at him with fierce and eager eyes.
"fire!"
"Just fire at the tower!"
"Don't worry about anything, attack the city!"
"Siege the city!"
"Yes, the general will take your orders!"
In just a blink of an eye, Liu Yu jumped in front of the artillery truck, roared, and then, huge cannonballs flew out!
bring it on!
Isn't it just magic versus bombardment?
Who is afraid of whom?
You have always tolerated it because King Langya was kind and King Langya was soft-hearted. But now, you are shameless, so who do you have to blame?
yes!
Seeing his own people being used as human sandbags and being slaughtered by the Ding Ling people, Wang Mi felt heartbroken. However, this is a battlefield, and the enemies are ferocious. Only if you are more ferocious and desperate than them can you defeat them.
If you want to save more innocent people in the city, you have to win this battle as soon as possible, so that Zhai Liao and Zhai Zhao can all be swept into the dust of history.
Only in this way will the people in the city suffer less harm and their strength will be preserved more.
This is also a solution that can be done in a desperate situation.
You must remember that those who do evil are always Ding Ling people, and Wang Mi, including the Beifu soldiers and the Northern Expedition army he led, just adopted a more practical approach in response to this evil.
Boom boom boom!
Bang bang bang!
King Langya gave an order, and the battle situation was reversed in an instant. Especially the Jin army, which had been a little misfired just now, seemed to have been injected with chicken blood in an instant. Whether it was firearms or cold weapons, they went to Yongzhou City to greet them regardless of it!
Their target is not fixed, and they are not just attacking the top of the city tower. They must cover everything beside the city wall and inside the city gate, and everything within the range of the red cannon.
No matter what the gunpowder deficiency syndrome is, no matter what morality and justice?
At this juncture, Wang Mi on the battlefield only knew one truth, that is, the one who wins is the king.
Whoever wins the battle will be on the side of justice, and there is nothing wrong at all.
Are all the people in the city innocent?
Of course innocent!
As a compatriot, should we save them?
Of course we should rescue, it is our duty to rescue!
However, in the face of the cruel Ding Ling people, even if Wang Mi led thousands of troops and had firepower as powerful as red cannons, he was powerless against the wave of people who had been escorted to the city tower.
Wang Mi could not save them, even though he had full strength.
Because he is in the most real battlefield, and he does not have the power to conquer the sky and the earth like the hero of a fantasy novel.
He has no teleportation method, nor can he do magic. He cannot instantly teleport people who have been kidnapped out of the clutches of the Ding Ling people.