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

"However, as Liu Ji said, if the Loulan reinforcements are slaughtered, it will definitely shock the entire Western Region... Therefore, it is still necessary to treat them like babies. After defeating them, capture as many prisoners as possible, and then repair them immediately

A hollowed-out temple, allowing the remaining defeated soldiers to spread fear throughout the Western Region~!"

Qin Mo changed his subject and said happily.

The Mongols' method of conquering the world is still very easy to use. They use absolute ferocity to intimidate all enemies. Those who resist will be slaughtered, and those who surrender will live.

Coupled with absolute force and killing several times in the first place, people will feel irresistible despair, and then they will almost surrender.

Qin Mo doesn't mind real slaughter if necessary!

"Order, tomorrow we will leave a group of garrison soldiers, a thousand auxiliary troops, and three thousand slave troops to guard the Nuoqiang city, guard the Nuoqiang prisoners, and be responsible for receiving the prisoners of the follow-up Loulan reinforcements..."

"The rest of the army, with enough food, grass, baggage and heavy armor, will set off at dawn to attack the Western Region~!"

Qin Mo glanced at the generals and solemnly issued military orders.

Crash--

All the generals stood up together, and amid the sound of armors clanking, they clasped their hands and shouted: "Here~!!!"

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One hundred thousand Qin troops and Loulan reinforcements rushed in both directions. The original two-day march turned into a day's journey for each side.

Moreover, since the Loulan reinforcements chose to continue marching and walked a day's journey first, the distance between the two sides was only half a day's journey each.

After Qin Mo led his army from Nuqiang City, he estimated that he might encounter most of Loulan's reinforcements at noon, but the coercion of Loulan's reinforcements exceeded his expectations...

After the Loulan reinforcements learned that the Nuoqiang tribe had been massacred, they had no intention of attacking Nuoqiang City, which fell into the hands of the Qin army. They found a favorable terrain to occupy along the way and no longer marched.

They just wanted to contain and prevent the Qin army from entering Loulan territory.

To a certain extent, this can be regarded as a limited change from passivity to initiative. The Qin army was still forced to attack under unfavorable terrain!

After Qin Mo learned from the sentry cavalry the defensive strategy of Loulan's reinforcements, he silently shook his head to express his wish to fulfill their wishes.

Then, he sent an order to continue marching and arrived at the stronghold of the Loulan reinforcements.

By sunset, a hundred thousand troops arrived in front of a large piece of brown sandstone. It was actually a big mountain, but it was not too prominent and the mountain was gentle with a river behind it.

The 70,000 to 80,000 Loulan reinforcements set up a huge fortified camp in this place with mountains and rivers!

After the Qin army arrived, the Loulan reinforcements were nervous. The sound of horn horns resounded through the continuous camp. The wall made of poplar logs was instantly filled with Loulan soldiers carrying bows and spears.

"Well, most of the generals of Loulan's reinforcements are just like the leader of the Nuoqiang tribe. They don't know how much they are worth... With these old, weak, sick and disabled people trying to block us, they are probably out of their minds!

"

Liu Ji, the former soldier, held a telescope and looked at the Loulan soldiers on the wall for a moment, and couldn't help but complain to Zhang Liang beside him.

Loulan is considered a big country in the Western Region today, but no matter how big it is, it cannot withstand the blood-drawing troops. The frontal battlefields and plateau battlefields have already exhausted the young men of Loulan, and there are very few soldiers left behind.

Meng Tian's 20,000 cavalry came, and the King of Loulan had to recruit young men and old people to make up the number. There were even many strong women, and he barely managed to make up less than 80,000 men. However, before joining forces with neighboring countries to encircle and suppress Meng Tian, ​​Qin was behind.

Mo's army of more than 100,000 people came again.

Therefore, the King of Loulan gave up participating in the siege of Mengtian, and sent 80,000 miscellaneous troops, plus the troops of Nuoqiang's own troops to guard a city, hoping to stop the Qin army...

"In my opinion, it's not that the generals of the Loulan reinforcements didn't know what to do, it's that they had to do this!"

Zhang Liang put down his telescope and said with emotion.

Liu Ji was stunned for a moment, then put down his telescope and asked, "What's the explanation?"

Zhang Liang didn't show off, and immediately explained his doubts: "The Lord's strategy of massacre and intimidation finally worked."

"If they retreat, these old and weak troops will most likely collapse without a fight and flee back with their families as far as they can."

"On the contrary, even these old and weak troops will burst out with unimaginable fighting power in order to fight to the death for the family behind them."

"This is a very simple choice. I would do the same if it were me!"

Liu Ji suddenly nodded, tugged on his beard and sighed: "It's respectable for a good man to protect his homeland... However, he is a little overestimating his own capabilities. If it were me, I wouldn't have to retreat, I would just lead the troops back and pick them up. Families and relatives, let’s all hide away together and go farther west, grab a piece of territory and rebuild the country.”

Zhang Liang was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said: "Your idea sounds very familiar~!"

Liu Ji was dumbfounded by his smile, but he quickly realized that his idea was not exactly what the old tribes of the Six Kingdoms did back then.

He went to the land of Baiyue to carry out restoration and rebuild the country.

But in the end, the Qin Dynasty conquered Baiyue, and the old tribes of the Six Kingdoms were also wiped out, leaving only the one-armed Xiang Yu to escape without a trace...

In the same way, Great Qin's aspirations extend far beyond the Western Regions. Even if the countries in the Western Regions flee further west, the final outcome is already doomed and it will not change much!

Boom——

Dong Dong——

Dong dong dong——

At this moment, the sound of drums suddenly sounded across the sky.

Liu Ji and Zhang Liang turned around and looked back, and saw the guards galloping in the direction of the Chinese army holding the command flag, shouting all the way: "Your Majesty has an order, attack the stronghold immediately, and break it before dark... Attack the stronghold immediately , break it before dark..."

Obviously, Qin Mo also knew that Loulan's reinforcements were in trouble, so he did not want to waste any more time and did not even bother to talk to persuade them to surrender.

Choking——

Liu Ji regained his energy, drew his saber and shouted: "My sons, form a siege formation, Nai Weng will lead you to earn military merit~!!!"

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Can courage and a determination to defend our homeland stop long-range firearms?

the answer is negative!

Didn’t you see, in the Battle of Baliqiao in the late Qing Dynasty, the Chinese men who defended their country were not without bravery, but the result is well known...

Civilization's dimensionality reduction attack is not based on personal will!

The Qin army concentrated fire with unscrupulous artillery and blasted open sections of the village wall, and then the Wuyangyang slave army of the Qiang people, carrying individual thunderbolts, rode on donkeys, mules, war horses, camels captured from the Qiang tribe... Entering each gap, they killed 70,000 to 80,000 old and weak soldiers and were completely defeated, leaving them with almost no power to fight back.

When the Qiang slave troops discovered that they had penetrated the enemy camp, the next step was to capture prisoners!

The camp was broken before dark, but the prisoners were captured late at night!

Then, a large hollow Jingguan was built with the corpses of the Loulan soldiers who died in the battle. During this period, the more than 30,000 Loulan soldiers who were captured were being escorted by the Qin army to build the Jingguan while suffering from the whips of the Qin army. I can't stop screaming...

Then, they were given a simple and small amount of food and were put under centralized custody.

"Will the Qin army... not kill us all?"

"Nonsense, of course not slaughter, otherwise why waste food on us..."

"Thank you Ahura for your blessing, thank you two saints for your blessing, it is indeed the country chosen by the gods that the saints said, and the Qin army is not that cruel at all~!"

After more than 30,000 Loulan prisoners who were thought to be dead were put under centralized custody, they finally recovered from their despair and realized that they would not be slaughtered at all. The Qin army was just a bluff.

However, they survived the catastrophe out of luck, or self-deception, and apparently thought that the Qin army was too merciful.

The Qin army did not slaughter them, but just wanted to squeeze out the last bit of their value...

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The next day, the army reorganized for another half day before breaking out of camp and marching at noon.

As for the more than 30,000 Loulan prisoners, a school of 5,000 auxiliary cavalry escorted them back to Nuqiang City, handed them over to the defenders, and then pursued the larger troops.

Well, Qin Mo now has an established third-rate cavalry force, a total of five thousand, in addition to more than two thousand elite garrison soldiers and more than a thousand Qiang cavalry serving as sentries.

The mounts were captured from the Nuoqiang tribe, as well as 80,000 Loulan miscellaneous troops, donkeys, mules, war horses, camels, and even relatively strong oxen...

One hundred thousand troops marched forty miles in one day, and after leaving the pastures of the Nuoqiang tribe, they encountered the first real Loulan fortress.

The size of the city is already comparable to that of Daqin County, and there is also a wide moat that flows from the Peacock River.

However, there were a large number of defeated generals who had escaped from the territory of the Nuoqiang tribe gathered in this city. The Qin army had already massacred the Nuoqiang tribe, and the story had spread to everyone, causing people to panic.

When news of the Qin army's arrival came back, the soldiers and civilians didn't even see the shadow of the Qin army, so they began to flee for their lives with their families.

The most active ones are the nobles. While ordering the defenders to gather the remaining soldiers and the defeated generals to defend, they also pack up their belongings and are the first to lead their soldiers to escape from the city...

In this way, one can imagine the result: a city-wide escape was inevitable!

When Qin Mo arrived with his army, he only found an empty city with four gates open and fire everywhere. The slave army went into the city to search, and only saw some profit-minded streetwalkers, searching for valuables all over the city.

This scene made Qin Mo very satisfied. The method of massacre and intimidation finally worked!

The army entered the city, put out the fires everywhere, had a good and warm sleep in the city, demolished a section of the city wall the next day, and continued marching.

What followed was a series of similar things. Every time the Qin army arrived at a place, the city must be emptied of people. As a result, the 100,000-strong army, without losing a single soldier along the way, "scared" two small countries in the Western Regions, and

In most of Loulan Kingdom's cities, soldiers and civilians fled.

However, everything will not always be smooth sailing!

Some nobles were afraid of being massacred, so they gave up their family territory and abandoned the city and fled, while others swore to the death to defend the territory passed down by their ancestors.

Qin's dog wants to slaughter my city?

Then you have to be able to break the city!

Moreover, there is a saying that birds of a feather flock together, and when a noble stood up and expressed his determination to resist Qin's dogs to the death, many nobles, as well as soldiers and civilians who were unwilling to flee their homes, joined in.

The rich provide money, and the poor provide help. In short, they work together and fight to the death against the Qin army!

Then there are the kings of the neighboring countries. When they learned that Loulan was about to be destroyed by Qin Mo's 100,000 troops, they all began to scrape the land and support the Loulan country regardless of the consequences.

As long as it is something that can be made into armor and fill the stomach, whether it is a bronze vessel that symbolizes power, a grain that has been left as seeds, or a calf that has not grown up, I will support Loulan...

This is not because their alliance is so strong and unbreakable, but because they understand the meaning of death.

If Loulan is destroyed, their country will be next.

Moreover, the hundreds of thousands of elites from the Western Regions who had been deprived of food and supplies on the front line were completely wiped out. At that time, the real main force of the Qin army entered the empty Western Regions. Every king of the kingdoms could escape.

lucky……

Therefore, their support for Loulan can be described as ruining the family!

The King of Loulan naturally transferred all the support he received to the noble territories that dared to defend, and sent the crown prince to boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians.

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However, Qin Mo was very indifferent after receiving the information that the city ahead was intensively fortifying the city defenses, and that a large number of reinforcements, as well as food, grass and armor were entering the city.

He had already expected this. After all, everything has two sides. The method of massacre and intimidation will either lead to surrender or a similar desperate defense.

Now the army has relied on the method of massacre and intimidation, easily frightening the two countries to death, and also frightening most of Loulan to death. It will soon join up with Meng Tian who is engaged in guerrilla attacks in the Lop Nur area to cut off the food road. It can be said that it is like a tourist, and the army is advancing at a rapid speed.

Loulan, a big country in the Western Region, has only two cities left. It is reasonable for some nobles to choose to be tough!

"This place is the last barrier for Loulan Royal City. It is called Shanshan City. It was originally a country. In recent years, countries in the Western Regions have merged with each other. Shanshan lost to Loulan. He surrendered and was granted the title of Noble."

"Actually, speaking seriously, it was not just the two countries that were scared to death by the Qin army. Most of the Loulan cities that were also scared to collapse were once independent countries in the Western Regions..."

Under the flag of the Chinese Army, Toriti pointed to the city in the distance with his shackled hands, and introduced him to Qin Mo and Lu Xiaomei, as well as Dan Shu and Zidu.

Qin Mo nodded while listening, took his feet out of the stirrups, stood directly on the back of the slowly moving white horse, and looked at Shanshan City through a telescope.

The scale of Shanshan City is no less than that of the county-controlled cities of the Qin Dynasty. It can be said that the city is high and the pond is deep.

Moreover, it seems that in order to prevent firearms from attacking the city, internal fortifications were built between the moat and the city wall.

There are actually only a few ways to deal with firearms in siege. It is not unusual for the city's general and Toli to come up with the idea...

Qin Mo watched for a long time, then sat back on the horse, then took an iron beryllium rod from the guard and stabbed it hard on the ground.

puff--

He was so strong that with this thrust, the iron beryllium's blade, which resembled a dagger, was completely buried in the ground. It lifted Tori next to him and caused his face to twitch in shock.

As the sweaty white horse advanced, Qin Mo also suddenly pulled out the iron beryllium, and the soil was taken away, forming a small but deep hole, with a little soil on the blade tip.

"Fill it up, don't let the animals behind you step in and get their hooves sprained..."

Qin Mo gave instructions to the guards behind him, then put the dirt stuck to the blade in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully. After a while, he said: "This city can be broken within ten days~!"