Chapter 320 There are all rebellious people, how can there be loyal ministers
Wu Guoer never thought that with his martial arts skills, he would be captured by the Tubo people.
His family's ancestors lived in Weizhou, Wuzhou and other places for generations. They once served as the fake son of King Li Maozhen of Qi, and they were also very prestigious. The Wu family can also be regarded as a generation of martial arts within the Zhangyi Army.
Although Li Maozhen later became impoverished and had to surrender to the Later Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of the Wu family were not implicated in any way and had to retreat, still staying in Weizhou and other places.
Wu Guoer has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he is the best in the Weizhou town army in archery and spear skills. He Chuan, the military commander, admires him very much.
During this military turmoil, he was also invited to go to Chang'an to fight with him. However, the Wu family has been rooted in Weizhou for many years, and the people there did not dare to take risks, so they did not go.
Originally, he was planning to wait for about half a month to gather the soldiers with weapons and clubs to go out of Sanguan to hunt for grass valleys in Yuanzhou and grab some fat sheep and horses.
Unexpectedly, Yuanzhou Dangxiang dared to appear at the gate of Weizhou City.
This is the reason why when Zhang Zhao arrived at Weizhou City, before the military formation was established, a large wave of troops and horses emerged from Weizhou City. Wu Guoer dared to rush out with a long bow to kill and wound his rangers.
The Weizhou Army mistook the Guiyi Army who appeared outside San Pass as Yuanzhou party items.
This was of course a 'beautiful' misunderstanding. Zhang Zhao was not aware of the situation outside Sanguan Pass. Those Yuanzhou Party items were actually released by him on purpose.
They were just scouts when nothing happened, and cannon fodder when something happened, but unexpectedly, the Weizhou Army misunderstood them.
While Wu Guoer was thinking wildly, a healer wearing a turban came to apply medicine to him.
Murong Nobunaga's iron whip was not light. If Wu Guo'er hadn't worn a ring-shaped armor close to his body, the iron whip would not have dislocated his internal organs, so how could he be as relaxed as he was now.
"Why don't we have any steamed buns with syrup? This black millet rice is very coarse. If I eat it, my back will definitely hurt!"
Wu Guoer smacked his mouth twice, grabbed the cook who came with the doctor to deliver the food, and asked.
Among these Hexi soldiers, there was a kind of steamed bun with white syrup inside, which was extremely delicious. After Wu Guoer ate it a few times, he fell in love with it.
The young man was the most talkative. When he saw that there were no syrup steamed buns and only black millet (sorghum) to eat, even if he was caught, he couldn't help but ask.
"What's the matter? You're almost cured of your illness, and you still want to eat sugar buns? Let me tell you, when I return to the rebel army, only the wounded can eat them. If you want to eat them again, you'll have to give me another iron whip!"
The enemies were extremely jealous when they met. When Wu Guoer saw Murong Nobunaga, who was laughing and laughing at him, he immediately became uneasy.
"You Hexi slave, if your horse wasn't so fast, you still don't know who would be whipped?"
"Hey! Don't call me a Tubo traitor slave anymore? If you want to fight again, I'm waiting for you at any time. If a horse is faster in a horse fight, when you recover from your injury, we will fight on foot! Now the Commander-in-Chief has summoned you, come with me!
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Fortunately, Wu Guoer was scolding Murong Nobunaga. The eldest son of Murong was born in the royal family of the Murong tribe in Tuyuhun, and his grandfather was the governor of Guazhou. He had a sense of superiority since he was a child, and he didn't care at all about the Tubo thieves and slaves.
If it were Zhang Liecheng who had an unusually low self-esteem, he might have given Wu Guoer another beating.
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At the foot of Weizhou City, Zhang Zhao did not rush to attack. Instead, he spent several days urging the civilians to make a dozen or so trebuchets wrapped in cowhide and capable of hiding troops, and then began to install the trebuchets.
Cao Shisi kept running around in the trebuchet, recording data. The crossbows on the top of Weizhou City were also very powerful, so he fired very cautiously.
In the end, Zhang Zhao had no choice but to let the hurriedly prepared churron chariot take the risk and lure Weizhou City's bed crossbows into firing.
"Winter!" There was a loud noise, and Cao Shishi heard it very clearly. From the top of Weizhou City, several crossbow arrows thicker than spear shafts flew out. A car was covered with ten layers of cowhide and lined with iron sheets.
The tram was directly hit.
The crossbow arrow with huge kinetic energy shot through the chariot in one go, and a few strands of blood flew out along the punctured cowhide.
The Yuanzhou party members in the carriage howled in fear and rolled and crawled out of the carriage.
"City left, No. 2 crenel, 350 steps away!" The observer on the high pole immediately shouted, and those hiding crossbows finally appeared.
"Fire the stone! Three waves cover the projection!" Cao Shishi shouted excitedly, and the flag soldiers beside him raised a yellow flag, which represented the left side, and then two small red flags were raised, representing the No. 2 crenel.
According to Zhang Zhao's request, Cao Shishi divided each city wall into twelve equal parts to determine the approximate location.
"Four hundred and fifty steps! Send a stone!"
"Four hundred and fifty steps! Send a stone!"
Twenty cyclone cannons were installed on the ground, and each flag captain shouted.
In an instant, twenty rocks the size of human heads roared and hit the place where the crossbow was fired, three times in a row.
Suddenly dust was flying above Weizhou City, and even Cao Shishi heard the faint screams.
Weizhou's three-bed crossbow is finished.
"Carry soil and fill the trench! The cyclone cannon hits people, not walls, but if there is a figure, bomb it immediately!"
Zhang Zhao loudly issued the order, the bed crossbows at the top of the city were gone, and the filling of the trench could finally begin.
More importantly, he can also form strong archers to carry out suppressive shooting and cover operations at the top of the city.
Weizhou's moat is not very wide, which is a problem encountered by all cities in Guanxi. After all, the amount of water everywhere is not very abundant, so the trench outside the city has become an important defensive tool.
Twenty cyclone cannons bombarded at a very fast speed, and within a short time, the archers at the top of Weizhou City were hit so hard that they could no longer lift their heads.
Wang Shouye looked at the dense crowd below the city and the flying stones in the sky, his brows furrowed tightly.
The Guiyi Army actually had a trebuchet, and they could resist using it until they smashed the crossbow on the bed at the top of the city before they started using it.
"Don't worry, general. Their trebuchets are too small. Although they can suppress us, they cannot collapse the Weizhou city wall.
And they can't keep bombarding us. As long as we hold on, it will take them seven or eight days just to fill in the trenches, and by then they will be back with the troops and horses."
Wang Shouye looked at Sun Shijiang who was speaking and nodded as if he agreed with his words, but he felt a cold snort in his heart.
Sun Shi led dozens of people from his clan to join He Chuan's tooth soldiers to cause chaos, so of course he had to defend to the death.
But Wang Shouye has no family members involved, but what Sun Shijiang said is not unreasonable. Just wait and see. If you can defend it, of course you must defend it.
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"Wu Guo'er, a native of Weizhou, pays homage to Sikong!"
This kind of siege battle is generally very time-consuming, not to mention that Zhang Zhao even only has tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers and civilians.
To attack a strong city like Weizhou with such a small force, generally speaking, the time would be calculated on a monthly basis, so after arranging the attack, Zhang Zhao returned to the main tent.
Wu Guo'er, who was able to move freely but could not use any force, knelt in front of Zhang Zhao. He completely lost the arrogance he had when he was captured, and he no longer had the dissatisfaction he had when he quarreled with Murong Nobunaga.
"Is the Wu family's injury getting better?" Zhang Zhao asked with a smile.
Wu Guoer put his head on the ground without looking up, "Thank you Sikong for your care and sending the doctor to ask for medicine. My injury is no longer serious!"
"From what you say, it sounds like you have a family background. How many books have you read?"
Based on this level of conversation, Zhang Zhao glanced at Wu Guoer, because according to the literacy rate at this time, those who could say these sentences must not be ordinary people.
"My ancestor was once the fake son of King Qizhong Jing, and he was promoted to the governor of Wuzhou, so I have read some books and know a few words." Wu Guoer replied with a little pride.
Zhang Zhao was speechless for a moment, not because of Wu Guoer's ancestors, but because of the posthumous title of Zhongjing, which really made Zhang Zhao feel a bit darkly humorous.
He was able to say such harsh words as, "What will happen from now on without trial?" He entered Chang'an several times, burned, killed, and looted, and forcibly married Tang Zhaozong's beloved daughter. For such a character, Li Cunxu regarded himself as a member of the Tang clan, and was even given the posthumous title
Li Maozhen is loyal and respectful.
Where is the loyalty? Where is the respect? What a great irony!
However, there is no need for Zhang Zhao to feel sorry for Tang Zhaozong at this moment. There were many emperors in the late Tang Dynasty who messed around. Although Tang Zhaozong was pitiful, he often did it himself.
"Now you don't think that we are slaves of Tubo thieves, do you? Raise your head and speak." Zhang Zhao quickly put the complaints behind him and asked about Wu Guo'er.
Wu Guoer finally raised his head, and then was stunned because Zhang Zhao in front of him had not grown his beard even after changing into casual clothes.
In addition, he did not have to brave the scorching sun to conquer the north and south like he did in the Western Regions. After the war, Zhang Zhao became much fairer, so he looked particularly young, looking two or three years younger than he actually was.
"If the Tubo people still have the ability to dispatch thousands of soldiers, how can the Kansai states be saved? They will not treat this captured person as kindly as Sikong!"
"Well said, it seems that you are not an ignorant person. Since you are still studying, why do you want to participate in the rebellion?" Zhang Zhao asked, squinting his eyes.
"Today's people are still rebellious ministers. Only by relying on the soldiers of death and ridicule and groveling can they achieve great things.
Only looking at the emperor's actions, who cares about loyalty and justice as long as he has soldiers and horses in his hands?" Wu Guo'er looked at Zhang Zhao blankly and said.
Zhang Zhaoze's cheek twitched and he suddenly thought that he had met someone who was extremely eloquent, but when he looked at Wu Guoer's eyes again, he found that was not the case.
This is not at all eloquent, but this is what the kid in front of me thinks.
With such thick eyebrows and big eyes, he looks like a loyal young general, but he actually thinks the same thing in his heart!
Sure enough, the thoughts of warriors in these five generations cannot be inferred from those of later generations.
And what he said makes sense! Shi Jingtang is such a fool. He is a rebellious minister and is colluding with foreign countries.
And this foreign country is the Khitan Lanxi, which everyone has always looked down upon.
If you, Shi Jingtang, can recognize that Xi Zuofu entered Kaifeng and became emperor, then wouldn't it be normal for the people below to seize the city and rebel, making a big fuss and gaining wealth?
Well, after a few breaths of awkwardness in the air, Zhang Zhao decisively decided to abandon this discussion.
"I heard that He Chuan was Zhang Congbin's confidant and was not from Weizhou. About half of the proceeds from this robbery were sent back to Weizhou City. Is this true?"
This is right! A look of understanding appeared on Wu Guoer's face. When Zhang Zhao asked him why he wanted to rebel just now, he was extremely embarrassed.
It feels like Zhang Zhao suddenly crawled out of a hole in the ground. Who is talking about loyalty and rebellion now? Isn't it right for someone to be stronger than the other?
But at this moment, Zhang Zhao asked about the belongings of the rebel Ya soldiers in Weizhou City, and he felt that it was right.
Wu Guo'er nodded, "All the wealthy and wealthy children are in the city. However, the general Wang Zhen who guards the city is quite prestigious, and because everyone is afraid that He Bingma and others will win in the east, it will be difficult to explain in the future, so they will not dare to let Sikong go."
Entering the city."
"Then I dare to ask Wu Xiaolang, what does General Wang Zhen like? He soldiers and horses rebelled with Zhang Congbin and killed the two sons of the sage of Kaifeng Prefecture. They have already forged a deep hatred.
The imperial court will definitely spare no expense and food, and deploy large numbers of soldiers to besiege him. I think Zhang Congbin will definitely be defeated, and the congratulatory envoys and others may not be able to return to Weizhou."
Wu Guoer rolled his eyes, "If Sikong can promise Wang Zhenjiang 30% of his wealth, it might work."
Zhang Zhao pretended to be overjoyed and immediately helped Wu Guoer up from the ground.
"If you get Weizhou City, not to mention 30% of the wealth, but 40% is fine. I will let you go back to report to the king now. If I can give you an answer within ten days, I will keep my promise."
Wu Guoer was stunned for a moment, probably because he didn't expect that good things would happen so quickly, and Zhang Zhao would let him go so easily.
"And I can suspend the attack to show my sincerity. If I say that Wang Zhen will open the city, I will also prepare a precious armor and a horse as a gift to Xiao Lang."
A secret joy flashed through Wu Guo'er's heart. Zhang Sikong, who spoke so erratically, was really easy to deceive.
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As soon as Wu Guoer was taken down, Zhang Zhao looked at Dunzhu beside him.
"You go and select the men of Xionghu and Huhu, collect five hundred, and everyone wears two layers of cotton armor. When the soldiers and horses in the city are slack, you will use gunpowder to blast open the west gate. Then, follow a certain killing general in?"