The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 74

[Chapter 74 City Break]

The first batch of cannon fodder was put down, and the second batch was slowly replenished. The third batch, the fourth batch, the fifth batch, the reserve team.

Wave after wave of cannon fodder slowly climbed the wall of death.

Most of the day passed like this, and in two hours, it was going to be completely dark.

And the soldiers who had been returned and replaced were gathered together, including the 30,000 strong cannon fodder originally captured from Zitong County.

After the two rounds of filling the moat and the siege battle, only half of the 30,000 people were left, and only 5,000 of the 8,000 cannon fodder of the Five Poison Army were left.

Gathered together, reorganized the two batches of cannon fodder, and found that there were still 20,000 people.

More, I don’t need so many troops, only 8,000 of him.

Then we will group them into a team of 5,000 people and form four batches of cannon fodder. Before the sky is completely dark, let’s attack him again!

Under the dissatisfaction in the hearts of many cannon fodders, they were gathered again by the supervising team, put on leather armor, took weapons, and charged again with the ladder.

The sound of slaughter sounded again on the battlefield, the sound of war drums and screams were endless.

CD’s 30-foot-high city wall has completely become a meat grinder, which is constantly contested by both sides.

Finally, the cannon fodder here suffered a lot of casualties, can the defenders take it any better?

At the beginning, Zhong Yu’s crossbow array shot dead 3,000 of his soldiers, and all of a sudden the veterans were maimed.

Only young men and servants of major families could be mobilized from the city, and they were pulled to the city wall to assist in the defense.

CD County has a large population. In the Western Han Dynasty, the population of CD reached 76,000 households and nearly 400,000 people.

Even after natural and man-made disasters in the past few years, the population has declined slightly.

However, Yizhou was not affected much, and with a population of more than 300,000, even in the whole world, it was a great city that could be counted.

Therefore, after the assistance of the government and the family, he still pulled out 30,000 young men to assist in the defense.

After a morning of tragic attack and defense, Zhong Yu lost more than 10,000 people. Although the defenders were leaning against the city wall and had the advantage of geographical location, Zhong Yu’s side also had the advantage of weapons.

So in general, the number of casualties is not much different, and the defenders are also dead, almost 10,000 people, which basically can’t last long.

When 1/3 of his people died just after entering the battlefield, it was already unimaginable for a group of farmers and small businessmen who had just picked up weapons.

Their hearts couldn’t bear any more casualties. Zhong Yu estimated that if he killed another 5,000 people, they would collapse completely.

No matter how threatened by those officials and noble families, they would not listen to them again.

If forcibly persecuted, the soldiers who may have lost their heads, and their minds are full of fear, will directly turn against each other and kill each other.

The control of those aristocratic families over those young and strong cannon fodder is not as good as that of Zhong Yu.

They were able to suppress these young men, relying on the majesty of the imperial court and the previous prestige of the aristocratic family.

These are some soft powers, illusory. In the past, when the imperial court and aristocratic families were strong, they were able to gather these elites to obey.

But now these shapes understand their weakness, and their own strength is not those who are strong enough to resist. If they continue to resist, they will just lose their lives in vain, so abandon those who usually fish them and live on their own. Nothing but normal.

But Zhong Yu is different, it can force those cannon fodder to obey his orders, and constantly consume his life under the city wall in vain.

Relying on that number, there are enough of his 14,000 Hanzhong veterans and system soldiers.

With the suppression of these elite soldiers who are loyal enough to themselves, those cannon fodder dare not resist their orders, and can only obey obediently.

That’s because they understand that even if they all rebel, they are not the opponents of their own armies.

Their families are all in their own hands. If they really rebel, is there any other choice other than letting themselves and their families die?

Soon, more than an hour passed, and 15,000 soldiers were left with 8,000 people.

The heavy casualties on the city wall are also about to collapse. As long as they attack again, they will collapse at the touch of a button and completely lose the will to resist.

It’s time, and it’s time to draw a perfect end to the offensive and defensive battle of this CD city.

At this time, the sky gradually became dark, and the sun hung on the halfway of a mountain, as if it could sink completely at any time, bringing darkness to the earth.

“Bang Bang Bang!” The sound of war drums sounded. At this time, there were no cannon fodder soldiers on the battlefield. Those soldiers had all been withdrawn to the barracks for a complete rest.

At this time, the drums of war sounded, and it was Zhong Yu who ordered the veterans of the Hanzhong Army to attack the city.

Those who have experienced some tragic siege battles have seen the cruelty of the battlefield, and then they attacked Yizhou with themselves.

Continuing to win, along the way has accumulated extremely high morale.

They continued to march on the road and strengthened the training of the army. It can already be said that they are a very elite soldier in this era.

At this point they will show here, the sharp sword that they have been honing for months.

Come with this CD city, for their first battle after unsheathing,

Draw a perfect ending.

Soon, like a tide, soldiers dressed in blue and red armor rushed over the plain under the city.

It slapped heavily on the city wall, so you can say that the thick city wall more than ten meters thick in CD has some slight tremors.

Because they had extremely skilled siege experience under the Wudu County City before, these soldiers climbed up the city wall very quickly.

Even those who had gone through the previous siege battle experience, the defending youths could not help but be stunned.

There was a slight pause in his hands. This is a person who has gone through this life and death experience, and should not appear.

Arriving on the city wall, these veterans quickly killed the surrounding soldiers, and quickly scattered these relatively young men.

The loopholes above the city wall spread one after another, and soon the soldiers in the middle occupied a large area on the city wall.

With one foothold, more and more soldiers rushed to the city wall, slowly driving those young soldiers off the city wall.

Finally, more than 1,000 people died of him. These defenders of the city finally couldn’t bear the fear in their hearts.

When those supervising teams saw this situation, they rushed to stop him, and after killing dozens of him, they finally aroused the anger of those strong and strong.

Instead, he turned around to fight with those supervising teams, and backed away those who were killed by the supervising teams. In the face of these irrational people, I think many people would not dare to face them directly!

Then, there was a thumping sound behind it.

Turning around and looking back, I found that the soldiers in blue and red armor were chasing after them, screaming strangely, and those who quickly abandoned them turned around and fled.

After seeing it, these supervising teams did not dare to stay for long, and they quickly fled with the defeated soldiers.

At this point, the entire CD city fell into the hands of Zhong Yu.

In 183 AD, in the seventh month of the sixth year of Guanghe, Zhong Yu occupied Hanzhong, most of the counties in the east, and divided Fangling County and Xicheng County.

In August, the entire Hanzhong County was occupied.

In October, Wudu County was captured.

In November, they attacked Yizhou, occupied Zitong County, Guanghan County, broke CD City, shook Yizhou, and shook the world.

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