Daqin: The poorest prime minister, the first emperor begged me for corruption

When an envoy is sent out with mao (mao), he represents both the country and the monarch. If anyone dares to attack the envoy for whatever reason, it is tantamount to declaring war.

When an envoy is humiliated, both the country and the monarch are humiliated!

Qin Mo and more than two thousand garrison soldiers saw Zhang Liang and others returning with arrows stuck on their bodies and horses, and a strong evil look suddenly appeared on their faces.

Including the former Qiang soldiers led by Liu Ji, after seeing the embarrassment of Zhang Liang and others, they also made an uproar: "The Nu Qiang tribe is really seeking death... Damn guys... they should slaughter the Nu Qiang and let them You know what the rules are~!”

The unspoken rule that two countries should not fight each other during war is not only a rule of civilized countries.

The more backward and barbaric a group of people are, the more likely they are to abide by such rules, because they have no real civilization and rely on conventional rules to live their lives.

In the eyes of the Qiang tribe, attacking an envoy is not as simple as declaring war, but a thorough and unremitting fight to the death. The result is usually the annihilation of one clan!

This is also the reason why when Lao Dunruo and his followers encountered changes, the Qiang tribe leading the way did not do anything to them and only dedicated them to Toriti.

On the one hand, of course he wants to please Toriti!

On the other hand, maybe he was afraid of offending Da Qin to death, and he didn't want to make himself smelly, so he gave Toriti a hot potato!

Tap tap tap——

Zhang Liang and his guards followed the passage vacated by the front army and came to the banner of the Chinese army. They returned the banner in shame and said: "Zifang failed to persuade the Nuoqiang tribe to surrender, please forgive me~!"

Qin Mo took the knot and left it on the ground. He frowned at the arrows on his body and asked, "Are there any casualties?"

Zhang Liang shook his head: "I was protected by iron armor, but all had minor skin injuries. I was caught off guard and several horses were shot to death."

The garrison soldiers all wore iron armor, but the war horses had no protection.

Qin Mo glanced around and saw the guards behind Zhang Liang, but their faces were as gloomy as ice, and they were not seriously injured or weak. Then he got to the point and asked: "Why don't the Nu Qiang tribe want to surrender?"

Zhang Liang shook his head again: "The leader of the Nu Qiang Tribe didn't say much... However, they have a city to rely on, and it seems that the city has not been breached by the cavalry led by General Meng Tian, ​​so they are very confident and tough."

Qin Mo nodded, waved his hand and said, "Quickly go to the rear army to find a doctor to treat the arrow wound."

"Thank you, Lord, for your consideration."

Zhang Liang and his bodyguards clasped their hands and rode away.

Lao Dunruo watched them go away, then turned to Qin Mo and said: "It's hard to persuade the damned ones with good words. If I go this time, I will probably be shot back by random arrows!"

Qin Mo nodded indifferently, and then said loudly and solemnly: "Order, send out all the sentries and cavalry, go out thirty miles to investigate, and the whole army speeds up and continues to advance."

"Here!"

The personal guards on the left and right took orders and left the central army with the order flag to deliver the order.

Leaning slightly, groups of garrison soldiers and sentry cavalry were dispatched like swarms of bees, scattering in all directions, and the marching speed of the army suddenly accelerated.

Zhang Liang and his guards rode lightly and quickly to persuade them to surrender. The round trip took time, but it only took more than half an hour.

However, the army of more than 100,000 infantry marched, even if it speeded up, it still took a full two hours to reach the outside of Nuqiang City near dusk.

The so-called Nuqiang City actually looks worse than the Stone City built by the Aries tribe!

And I don’t know whether it was because Meng Tian didn’t attack the city, so the Cross Qiang tribe had no idea of ​​the terror of siege with firearms, or it was because Qin Mo’s infantry army came so quickly, so the Cross Qiang tribe didn’t have time to prepare...

Outside Nuqiang City, except for a trench, there are no other defensive measures!

"I report to my lord, twenty miles behind the Nuo Qiang City, there are only a few Qiang cavalry, and there is no sign of most of the enemy troops."

"Report, thirty miles to the left of Nuqiang City, Nuoqiang sentries have been found and all have been wiped out..."

"My lord, twenty miles to the right of the city of Nuoqiang, our troops fought with the sentry cavalry of the Nuoqiang and captured six people for interrogation. There are no reinforcements in the city of Nuoqiang. There are only less than 20,000 strong men and women of the Nuoqiang in the city. The rest are all old people. young……"

Groups of garrison soldiers and sentinel cavalry kept going back and forth, constantly reporting the enemy's situation within a thirty-mile radius of Nuoqiang City back to the Chinese army and reporting to Qin Mo.

"Include the direction from which we are marching into the scope of investigation, and do not relax!"

"Here~!"

Qin Mo passed down the military order again, then looked at the Nuoqiang City not far away, frowning and said: "What kind of fame does this Nuoqiang tribe have? Do you really want to be a filial son and grandson of the Loulan Kingdom?"

A small, low city that is better than nothing, with no reinforcements outside and no elites inside, is it still trying to block an army of more than 100,000 people?

Zhang Liang, who was old and frail and had bandaged his wounds, was also full of black question marks at this time. He really couldn't understand the brain circuit of the leader of the Nuoqiang tribe. He said with emotion: "Maybe it's just the ignorant who are fearless... maybe he just wants to take a chance." Well, if we can really stop our march, the Loulan Kingdom will definitely accept the Nuoqiang tribe and regard them as real citizens..."

Qin Mo nodded noncommittally and said loudly and solemnly: "Send the order to surround the city on all sides. Liu Ji will take charge of the rear, Cao Shen will take the right, and Xia Houying will take the left. Each will take their own headquarters and 20,000 slave troops, and set up an siege formation!"

"Here~!"

The guards on the left and right received the order, held the command flag and rode away quickly.

Slightly leaning forward, forward Liu Ji, Cao Shen on the right, and Xia Houying on the left each selected 20,000 slave troops, plus their own garrison warriors, and separated from the army and rushed to the other three sides of the city.

Qin Mo's central army advanced forward and stopped within a stone's throw of the city.

…

Qin Mo raised his head and glanced at the red sun setting in the west, then lowered his eyes to the top of the Nuoqiang City. Then he urged his horse forward and shouted loudly: "Qin Mo of the Hexi Kingdom is here, where is the leader of the Nuoqiang tribe?"

The Nu Qiang people in the city had already discovered Qin Mo's banner.

After a while, a middle-aged Qiang man wearing Qin-style iron armor and lined with luxurious Shu brocade showed his figure at the crenel mouth and said loudly in half-baked elegant language: "Your Majesty, please withdraw your troops quickly. We, the whole country of Loulan, The reinforcements will arrive in less than two days. If we don't retreat, we will be dead!"

Qin Mo suppressed his speechlessness and said loudly again: "This small city can't hold on for two days, and it can't even hold on until sunset... Surrender, all the members of the Nuoqiang tribe, surrender to our great Qin."

"What can Loulan give you? In the eyes of others, you will always be just foreigners!"

"Those who surrender to our Great Qin are all our Qin people. We share the same ancestry and will not distinguish each other... Don't ruin the whole clan for the selfish interests of your family leader!"

Whoosh--whoosh--whoosh--

Qin Mo's words of persuasion to surrender probably touched the nerves of the leader of the Nuoqiang tribe. Before he could finish his words, an arrow was shot over.

Snap——

One of the bodyguards gently waved the big halberd and knocked down the arrows that had flown in front of them and were unable to move.

Xiu Xiu Xi—— Xiu Xiu Xi——

But what followed was an overwhelming barrage of arrows.

Qin Mo lightly knocked on the horse's belly, and the sweaty white horse immediately retreated into the formation, followed closely by the guards.

He was already outside the range of the crossbow, and all his arrows failed. However, the Nu Qiang tribesmen on the city saw Qin Mo being forced back by the arrows, but they felt as if they had won a great victory.

"Ouch~!!!"

Excited and wild roars of war roars resounded over Nuoqiang City.

Under the banner of the Chinese army, Zhang Liang met Qin Mo and said with a wry smile: "I have already said what your lord just said, so why do you waste your words?"

Qin Mo nodded, reached out and pulled out his sword, and shouted in a cold voice: "Send the order, attack from all sides, capture this city before sunset, the young and strong will be forced into hard labor, and they will not be pardoned until ten years~!"

"Here..."

The guards responded solemnly, rode their horses, whipped their whips and dispersed to deliver the order.

Boom——

Dong Dong——

Dong dong dong——

At the same time, rhythmic drums sounded.

When the other armies besieging the city on three sides heard the sound of the war drums, they also beat the war drums. The drums from all four sides gathered together, like a single sound, but it shook the heaven and the earth and stirred people's hearts.

Amidst the sound of war drums, the garrison warriors quickly moved forward to set up firearms positions!

The Nu Qiang tribesmen on the city wall saw that the Qin army had come all the way after a day's journey without even taking a break, so they started to attack the city with great fanfare, and finally stopped their excited screams and war roars in shock.

Qin Mo and Zhang Liang's words of persuasion to surrender now appeared in the ears of all the Nuoqiang tribesmen: [This small town...cannot survive the sunset!]

Boom——

The war drums beat loudly, and everything fell silent for a moment.

As soon as the drums were played, the armies on all sides roared into the wind, and their momentum soared into the sky!

"wind!"

"wind!!"

"Strong wind~!!!"

Huhuhu——

Boom boom boom——

Tom-tom-tom——

Three long-range firearms were fired simultaneously, targeting the drawbridge behind the trench and the city gate behind the drawbridge.

The young and powerful crossbowmen on the city watched with bewildered faces as the firearms trailing flames and emitting green smoke hit the suspension bridge and city gates, or fell under them.

Boom boom boom——

Rumble——

A deafening explosion followed, and the sky-high flames and smoke made all the Nuoqiang tribesmen shrink back in fear.

Then, with a pale face, he lay on the city wall with his head in his hands to avoid it!

Although they have never experienced the power of long-range firearms, they were caught off guard a few days ago and were killed by the cavalry led by Meng Tian. They also experienced individual thunderbolts thrown by the Qiang cavalry.

So I know how to effectively avoid the damage caused by firearm explosions!

However, the power of long-range firearms is simply too great. It is several times, or even more than ten times, that of an individual soldier's thunderbolt, which is far beyond their psychological expectations.

While they were lying on the city wall shivering with their heads in their hands, they didn't know that the suspension bridge and city gate below the city had already been set on fire by long-range firearms and were blown to pieces.

Bang——

The rope pulling the suspension bridge broke, and the dilapidated suspension bridge fell... Because it was too broken, it fell into pieces after falling, and fell into the trench, but it was impossible to cross.

But this did not stop the siege army. The slave soldiers in armor, in groups of two, one holding a large shield and the other carrying a shovel, quickly rushed to the edge of the trench. Under the cover of long-range firearms and crossbows, they quickly

The soil was dug and filled in the trench.

The Nu Qiang tribesmen on the city probably discovered that the Qin army was filling in the ditch, and howled at their companions to stand up and fire arrows to stop them.

But as soon as he showed his head, he was hit by a barrage of long-range firearms and crossbows, and screams could not be heard for a while.

The Nuqiang Tribe may not be well-received by the real people from the Western Regions, or in other words, by the Loulan Kingdom, so their armor-wearing rate is not high.

Of course, it is also possible that the armor in their tribe has long been drafted away to support the front line, and the armor on the trench-filling slaves may not have belonged to them originally.

Moreover, even if you are protected by armor, you can't stop the powerful long-range firearms...

In short, the Nu Qiang tribe was obviously condescending, but their casualties were dozens of times that of the slave army!

The Nu Qiang people were deceived, and finally understood the terror of the Qin army. They also finally understood that the previous cavalry did not attack the city, not because they could not attack the city, but because they were too lazy to waste time on them, but because they felt that they could be surrendered.

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Otherwise, they would have broken into the city long ago, killed everyone, and robbed the horses of food and supplies!

However, the leader of the Nuoqiang tribe was arrogant and did not realize it, and even the Nuoqiang tribe did not take the Qin army seriously.

Given the opportunity, given the face, but not withholding it!

In the end, you have to swallow the bitter fruit you brewed by yourself!

…

The slave soldiers who filled the trench worked very hard. They were protected by long-range firearms and crossbowmen, and they were protected by armor. There were companions holding large shields beside them to help block the arrows, so they all used their utmost strength.

The shovel swings like flying.

When you get tired, switch with your companion holding a large shield and continue working hard!

Moreover, the previous batch of slave soldiers were their role models. In the Qin army, as long as they were willing to work hard, they could not only regain their freedom, forgive their family members' sins, but also receive promotions and titles!

The slave army worked so hard that the ditch in front of the city gate was quickly filled in by the slave army at a speed visible to the naked eye...

Qin Mo waved the battle sword in his hand: "Attack~!"

The guards then shouted in unison: "Attack~!!!"

"Ouch~!!!"

The Qiang slave army was ready to attack first, letting out a thundering roar of war, like a wild bull coming out of its cage and charging with its shield.

The Nu Qiang tribesmen on the city wall watched in despair as the slave soldiers, desperate for death, rushed across the ditch and quickly rushed towards the open city gate.

The leader of the Nuqiang tribe, who was dressed in luxurious clothes, had already descended from the city and was organizing an army under the city to block the city gate.

But at this moment, a thunderous roar of war roar suddenly came from the left city wall.

Moreover, there was a roaring war roar that sounded on the city wall. The leader of the Nu Qiang tribe turned his head and looked at it, his face suddenly turned ashen.

Because the city wall on the left has been captured by the Qin army!

At this time, they are attacking from both sides!

Boom boom boom——

When the leader of the Nu Qiang tribe was in despair, the Qiang slave army rushed towards him and threw dozens of individual thunderbolts into the dilapidated city gate. The roaring explosions resounded through the city gate, killing him as well.

A group of Nuoqiang tribesmen who wanted to block the city gate even blocked the gate with antlers and blew it to pieces.

The slave army rushed out like evil ghosts in the gunpowder smoke, killing the remaining Nuoqiang tribesmen...

…

Half an hour later, Qin Mo drove his horse into the city.

The leader of the Nu Qiang tribe, whose face was covered with smoke and ash, was pushed to the side of the road by several Qiang slave soldiers. Some of his guards came forward and lifted him up. After searching him, he was still in front of Qin Mo's horse.

"You stupid people, what else can you say?"

Qin Mo asked coldly.

The leader of the Nuoqiang tribe prostrated on the ground, his head buried deep in the soil, and wailed: "I am willing to surrender... I, the Nuoqiang tribe, are willing to surrender... I just want to live and not be killed..."

Qin Mo took a deep breath and said angrily: "I thought you would be so stubborn and harm others and yourself, drag him down and cut him in half to show others, as a warning to others~!"