Chapter 358: Xiang Chong's Determination to Make Contributions
"kill!"
"Pfft!"
After Zhu Ran and Zhu Huan led the army into the enemy camp, except for a small number of frightened barbarians who resisted, the rest all knelt on the ground to express their surrender.
"saliva!"
Zhu Huan spit out a mouthful of blood, which was accidentally splashed into his mouth when he shouted to kill people.
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"Damn! What a bunch of cowards. They just knelt on the ground and waited for us to come without even beating them."
Zhu Ran stepped forward and said, "Xiu Mu (Zhu Huan), let alone these barbarians, you and I are leading the elite. After being bombarded like this, how much courage do the soldiers have to fight?"
Zhu Huan curled his lips and said nothing. When Liu Cong attacked Jiangdong, he and Zhu Ran were in Wuxian. At that critical moment, Sun Quan did not trust to hand over military power to the sons of aristocratic families. When Liu Cong surrounded Wuxian, he did not use catapults.
Bombard the city.
During the Battle of Huainan, Pang Tong also used a strategy to capture Shouchun, so the two of them had only heard about the miraculous power of the trebuchet.
Today, he finally saw the power of the catapult with his own eyes. Asking himself, Zhu Huan felt that even if he commanded twice as many elite troops as the Chu army, he would never dare to fight the Chu army.
Such a catapult, not to mention a camp, even a smaller city cannot hold it.
After being bombarded, how can the soldiers dare to fight? This has nothing to do with who is the leader. This is an unchangeable factor.
How strong was Cao Ren when he was in Wancheng? A veteran of the Cao family guarded the important town of Wancheng for many years, but what happened?
With the elite level of Cao's army, they had no intention of fighting anymore, and Cao Ren directly drew his sword and killed himself.
Zhu Huan smiled bitterly and said, "Shi Ran (Zhu Ran), I'm a little lucky now. Marquis Wu didn't send two of us soldiers to go against the king. Maybe he even died without knowing how."
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"Everyone in the world says that Jingchu has many tricks. Today, I have seen it. It's no wonder that General Yangwu is so careless towards the barbarians who are gradually growing stronger."
Zhu Ran nodded, "With such a magical weapon in hand, not to mention hundreds of thousands of barbarian rats, but even millions, what can we do?"
Inside the camp, there was no sound of fighting anymore. The barbarians were kneeling on the ground waiting for the Chu army to tie them up. The Chu soldiers were running so slowly that they didn't even draw out their knives before they were handed a string of ropes by the leader in front of them.
The captives got up.
Walking in the camp, looking at the broken limbs and broken arms all over the ground, Zhu Huan sighed, "This is a slap in the face, it's just a one-sided beating."
Zhu Ran suddenly stopped and said, "Xiu Mu, just now Shamoko wanted to ask for a fight, but was held back by Xiang Chong. What do you think is the reason for this?"
Zhu Huan thought about it and said, "Is he afraid to fight again? Is he afraid of making another mistake?"
Zhu Ran shook his head, "No, he wants to make great achievements!"
"Making great achievements?"
In a deep mountain forest in Nanhai County, Xiang Chong peeled off the leaves and stuck his head out, "Samoke, hurry up!"
Shamoke held a mint leaf he picked casually between his lips, "What kind of shabby place do these tribes live in? It's not even as good as our Wuxi tribe's residence."
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He was complaining, but his face was full of excitement, "Xiang Chong, you are really smart. Why did you just think of attacking their tribe?"
Xiang Chong turned to him and smiled and said, "I have heard about the power of the catapult before in Xiangyang. The first time this thing showed its power was when it forced Cao Ren to death in Wancheng."
"In many subsequent battles, trebuchets were used as weapons for siegeing cities and breaking out camps. As you just saw, the enemy's camp walls almost collapsed. Our army is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness."
"Fighting them would be nothing short of massacre. Of course, this assumes that the barbarians still dare to resist. In short, this is just a smooth battle with nothing to show off."
"Although we won the battle that day, we still lost so many soldiers in the fight against these backward barbarians. Considering the king's great love for his soldiers, our merits and demerits are at best equal to each other."
Xiang Chong walked and said, even panting a little, "So we two have to find another way to make great achievements again!"
"All the young and strong barbarians have come out to cause trouble, and the old, weak, women and children left in the tribe don't have much fighting power. This contribution is simply greater than attacking the barbarian camp!"
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Samoko, why are you carrying me?"
Shamoke carried Xiang Chong and walked vigorously, "You raised in Xiangyang are thin-skinned and tender-bodied. You have a good mind, but your body is weak. You can't walk even two steps and you're still out of breath. I'll carry you, so we can make great achievements quickly!"
In this battle, more than 40,000 barbarians were killed, and the Chu army captured nearly 20,000 enemies. At the end of April, Xiang Chong and Samoko led the army back, and with the army, there were more than 100,000 prisoners!
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Three large-scale rebellions in Jiaozhou, the most powerful one, were wiped out by the Chu army. Together with their tribes, they were all uprooted by the Chu army.
Zhang Zheng sent people to spread Liu Cong's words in Jiaozhou.
"Anyone from the barbarians inside and outside who dares to call himself a soldier and hold a staff will have his species destroyed, his clan exterminated, and his descendants exterminated!"
For a time, the barbarians in Jiaozhou were greatly frightened. An army of 60,000 people and more than 100,000 tribesmen were destroyed at will by the Han army?
The evil-minded barbarians suddenly disappeared, and the tribute they paid to the scholars was twice as much as in previous years. The barbarians who had rebelled were completely panicked.
Zhang Zheng didn't care about that. After writing the battle report, he sent an army of 10,000 to escort these barbarians to Xiangyang.
The remaining Chu army divided its forces!
They marched towards the remaining two places where barbarians gathered at the same time!
In Lianyi Palace, Liu Cong and Sun Shangxiang were lying on lounge chairs, enjoying the slightly warm sunbathe after the early spring.
In Sun Shangxiang's arms, she held a one-month-old newborn. This was her third child, her second son! Named Liu Sheng!
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"Hey, after all, Sheng'er is also your son. Can you come over and take a look?"
Sun Shangxiang held the child and said angrily to Liu Cong. In Liu Cong's arms, only Chunxi was left, and even Liu Chang was left to play by himself far away.
This frightened the servants and maids around Liu Chang. There was a pond not far away. Something happened to the crown prince, and they all couldn't live!
"Shh!" Liu Cong's wide sleeves covered his sleeping daughter, "Don't wake Chunxi up."
"Good news! Good news!"
"Your Majesty, good news has arrived from Jiaozhou!"
The child still woke up. Liu Cong softly comforted Chunxi who was woken up, and looked at Wang Gong who ran in rashly.
"Bring it to me and show it to me."
The king respectfully handed the good news to Liu Cong, then threw himself on his knees on the ground, "This servant recklessly woke up little Princess Chunxi, please forgive me."
"That's all, it's none of your business, get up."
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"Thank you, Your Majesty."
For eunuchs, Liu Cong was relatively relieved. If they tried to get involved in government affairs, Liu Cong would severely crack down on them.
But Liu Cong would not care too much about these trivial matters in daily life. Eunuchs with physical disabilities were discriminated against by both literati and military men, but Liu Cong would not.
In any case, they are also the people around us. If they are too harsh, it will not be a good thing for the master or the servant.