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

Chapter 282 The Qin army knows how to attack a city!

"ah???"

Toriti probably thought he was hallucinating, so he opened his mouth stupidly and let out a strange tune, looking at Qin Mo with disbelief on his face.

Firearm siege is by no means a panacea!

As long as the enemy takes advantage of the characteristics of firearms for siege and invests a large amount of manpower in building defensive measures, it will be enough to form a confrontation with the Qin army.

For example, the small stone city in the Land of Sunlight.

Meng Tian used a water attack to break through it at the minimum cost, but the time it took seemed to be only ten days!

Shanshan City, which is far ahead, is several times, even ten times, the size of Stone City. The city is high and the pond is deep, and internal fortifications against firearms have also been built.

It is simply impossible to break through it within ten days!

At least, according to Toriti, a famous Loulan general who already knew the power of firearms very well, it was completely impossible for the Qin army to conquer Shanshan City within ten days!

Unless these 100,000 troops are all real Qin army garrison warriors, it may still be possible...

"Ah, go back to your rear army and continue to pull the baggage train. You'd better pray to Ahura, the God of Light. I can easily break the city within ten days. If the losses are too great when breaking the city, I will launch a real attack.

Massacre the city to more thoroughly shock the countries in the Western Regions!"

Qin Mo frowned at him and said coldly.

When Toriti introduced Shanshan City just now, it was like a treasure trove of treasures. In fact, he did not mention one thing... He himself is from Shanshan, and most of his family members and relatives are still in Shanshan City.

If the Qin army slaughters the city, not a single member of Toliti's family will be able to escape!

Toriti's face twitched again, and finally he lowered his head sadly and said: "I will pray to you devoutly~!"

By now, he had already given up hope that the countries in the Western Regions could stop the Qin Dynasty. All he could think about was his family.

As long as his family can survive safely, he has no intention of caring about how others die!

Qin Mo watched his guards escort Toliti back to the rear army, and then said in a solemn voice: "I have sent the military order to the army to encircle the city on three sides and set up camp. The camp's furthest point is the wall, and the distance from the Shanshan city wall must be within the range of the unconscionable cannon.

within!"

"Here~!"

The guards shouted in unison and rode off to the front and rear armies with command flags to deliver orders.

"Brother-in-law, how can we break the city in ten days?"

When the guards were ordered to leave, Lu Xiaomei couldn't help but asked curiously.

Dan Shu and Zi both looked at Qin Mo with wide eyes, their eyes full of curiosity.

Qin Mo Lian went to Su Rong and did not show off. He explained with a smile: "There are actually only a few ways to quickly attack the city: water attack, fire attack and earth attack."

"The water attack method is the method that Senior Meng Tian used in Stone City."

"As for the fire attack, as the name suggests, it means setting fire to the city."

"The final earth attack is to dig holes in the ground and attack the city."

"What kind of method do you think I will use?"

Lu Xiaomei was stunned by the question, holding her chin in deep thought.

Danshu and Zidu, on the other hand, responded in unison: "Tu Gong~!"

Qin Mo raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "Why do you see it?"

Dan Shu jumped in front of the slow-talking boys and answered: "Because as long as you dig a hole under the city and stuff gunpowder in, you can blow down the city wall."

The kids all smacked their lips in frustration and nodded in agreement, letting their sister finish what she said.

As for Lu Xiaomei, her eyes lit up, and then she scratched her head in embarrassment as she doubted her life, thinking to herself that she was no longer as good as a child...

But in fact, whether it was Meng Tian or Qin Mo, when they formally summoned the generals to discuss matters, Lu Xiaomei would be treated as an idler and invited out, but she would never avoid the two children. After listening for a long time, they finally learned something.

In addition, children’s ideas are wild and unconstrained, so it’s not surprising that they thought of it before Lu Xiaomei!

"This earth attack method is so simple and should save more time and effort than water attack. Why didn't General Meng Tian use it when he was in Stone City?"

Lu Xiaomei suddenly asked even more doubtfully.

Qin Mo was dumbfounded and asked again: "Do you know why the Stone City was named Stone City?"

Lu Xiaomei was stunned for a moment when she was asked, and then suddenly spit out her pink tongue.

The reason why Stone City is called Stone City is not because it is built of stone, it is just an ordinary sand city.

The reason why it is named Stone City is because it is close to the snow-capped mountains and is almost built on the remnants of the mountains. The surrounding ground where the city is located, if you dig deeper, is the rock layer.

Even if the terrain is such that we can use soil to attack the city and exhaust the tunnel diggers to death!

"Okay, you have been riding for too long today. It is not advisable to move for a long time until your injury is fully healed. Go back to the carriage and rest."

Qin Mo waved his hand and urged Lu Xiaomei to quickly lie down and recover from her injuries.

…

In the evening, a hundred thousand troops set up stretching siege camps on the south, east, and west sides of Shanshan City.

According to Qin Mo's instructions, the distance between the two sides was so close that the soldiers on both sides of the city wall and the village wall could almost see each other's features clearly.

This undoubtedly gave the Loulan soldiers and civilians in the city a huge sense of oppression. The city lord was really angry. He felt that the Qin army was too arrogant, so he took the initiative and ordered the trebuchets in the city to shoot stone bullets at the Qin army outside the city, hoping to kill them.

The vigor of the Qin army.

However, the range of the native trebuchets in the Western Regions was not as good as the trebuchets of Daxia, or even inferior to the range of crossbows. As soon as the stone bullets flew over the moat, they landed with a bang, and they were still far away from the Qin army's wall...

However, this wave of artillery and stone attacks that failed to achieve success was regarded as a provocation by the Qin army. They fired a wave of long-range firearms on the spot to fight back, and concentrated fire on the exposed trebuchets in the city through lobs.

When the explosion and gunpowder smoke dissipated, the Lord of Shanshan City sadly discovered that the death and injury of soldiers was still a trivial matter. Half of his trebuchets, the most powerful weapon for defending the city, were destroyed by the Qin army... The Qin army had not yet attacked the city.

The important defensive equipment has already shown its unusable side. How can we rely on it to defend the city?

Relying on human lives?

Not to mention, the only thing left to rely on is human life!

The day after the Qin army set up camp to besiege the city, they began to make various siege equipment in the camp. Because they were too close and because the city wall was higher than the wall, the defenders on the city could see clearly.

Trench-filling trucks, trench bridges, city assault trucks, and even ladder trucks that were higher than the city wall all dazzled the defenders and made them feel powerless.

The Qin army knows how to attack a city!

Looking at the siege equipment that was rapidly taking shape, the defenders had the illusion that they would be slaughtered when the Qin army sharpened their knives.

Even if they are ready to fight to the death, they still feel uncomfortable...

Therefore, many soldiers took the initiative to request orders. If they wanted to go out of the city to attack the Qin army, it would be best to rush into the camp and burn the more and more siege equipment they were building.

But the Lord of Shanshan City refused the request without hesitation. It’s not like you haven’t seen the Qin Army’s firearms yesterday. If you don’t have the leisure to go out and die, it’s better to save your strength and wait until the Qin Army really starts to attack the city and fight to the end!

The Shanshan City Lord's idea is actually correct. Without the protection of the moat, these naive guys will definitely die without a burial place.

But the correct refusal caused him to miss the only way to understand the Qin army's plot to attack the country.

Because inside the wall, the blind spot that the defenders of Shanshan City cannot see is the Qiang slave army who are digging tunnels under the command of the garrison soldiers who were miners. The dug sand is piled at the base of the wall.

Come on, the Loulan soldiers can see clearly as long as they take one step into the camp.

It's a pity that nothing would have happened if...

The Qin army used conventional siege equipment to confuse the defenders, but secretly worked overtime, digging tunnels in several shifts. When one group got tired, they immediately changed to another group, day and night.

All tunnels must pass under the moat, pass under the feet of the defenders on the inner defense line, and be dug all the way to the foundation of the city wall.

However, this is not an easy task. The moat will seep into the cave and needs to be cleaned at any time. Otherwise, after soaking in the water for half an hour in the cold, the human legs will become useless. When digging to the feet of Loulan soldiers and civilians on the inside line,

, it is even more important to be gentle to avoid being discovered due to excavation vibrations.

Finally, on the night of the eighth day, a tunnel was dug and the solid foundation of the Shanshan City Wall was dug.

Qin Mo, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, immediately ordered the super explosive packs to be transported in. At the same time, he ordered the entire army to be on standby and prepare to attack the city at night in the form of passwords!

In this way, after working for more than half an hour, the super explosive package was also buried under the city wall. It was Qin Mo who lit the fuse. He lit it with a small match and watched the burning spot spread rapidly into the tunnel.

, I secretly prayed in my heart that there would be no bloody incident where the fuse burned out!

I don’t know if the prayers had an effect, or if the waterproofing and moisture-proof measures were taken well enough, but just a moment later, a muffled sound like a dragon roaring in the tunnel suddenly came from the ground.

Hu——

Amidst the muffled sound, Qin Mo felt the ground beneath his feet shake, almost knocking him up.

call--

From the mouth of the tunnel, fire and gunpowder smoke spurted out, like the breath of a giant dragon, which was spectacular, and soon the tunnel collapsed.

Obviously, this was a backfilling and sealing job, which was not done well enough, causing a lot of the explosion power to leak out!

However, the power of the explosion that was not leaked was enough for the Shanshan City Wall to withstand, because Qin Mo clearly saw that the section of the city wall with super explosive packs buried under the wall suddenly jumped upwards as if someone had kicked it with a penis.

It is almost half a person taller than the adjacent city wall.

Rumble——

The part of the city wall that jumped up collapsed when it fell, and the sky was filled with dust for a while.

The Loulan defenders on that section of the city wall, as well as many Loulan defenders in the trenches under that section of the city, had their mouths and noses bleeding from the shock. Before they could understand what was going on, they were buried alive!

Choking——

Qin Mo immediately pulled out his war sword and shouted in a long voice: "Beat the drum~! The slave army attacks~!! Firearms saturation strike~!!!"

Dong dong dong——dong dong dong——

War drums sounded as fast as a sudden rain, and countless slave soldiers pretending to patrol the camp immediately rushed out of the camp pushing siege equipment, and let out a thunderous roar of war: "Aow, aw, aw~!!!"

On the wall of the stronghold, the Qin army's garrison soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, fired dense long-range firearms, instantly covering the walls on both sides of the collapsed gap and the trench area near the gap, covering the advance of the slave army.

This siege was fought very quickly, and all the defenders were stunned in an instant. Before they could react, Liu Ji led the slave army under his command and drove the trench bridge vehicles one after another as if they were beaten to death.

, pushed to the moat.

Then, carrying a simple step or ladder, they rushed to the other side on the trench bridge and rushed into the inner defense which was in a mess after being focused on by long-range firearms.

The dilapidated sheep and horse wall on the inner bank, as well as the exposed trap trenches, could not delay the slave army even for a moment, and they could use the step ladder to quickly cross.

Many of the Loulan defenders who were hiding in trench bunkers and had not been killed were feeling dizzy due to ringing in their ears, but suddenly they felt darkness above their heads, and then steel knives and spears were stabbed at them, and they were stabbed to death in the bunkers by random blades.

Liu Ji led his tens of thousands of fierce slave troops, like a flood, overflowing the inner defenses, overflowing the slope formed by the collapse of the city wall, and pouring into the city continuously!

Bang——

Squeaky--

The suspension bridge near the gap was lowered by the slave army, and soon the adjacent city gate slowly opened.

Zhou Bo, who was in the second echelon, immediately led more than 10,000 slave troops under his command to rush into the city, joined forces with Liu Ji, and continued to expand the results of the battle.

After 20,000 slave troops entered the city, the outcome of the siege was basically decided!

The three city gates besieged by the Qin army were captured one after another. Cao Shen and Xia Houying, who were responsible for the main attack on the east and west sides, each led 10,000 slave troops into the city.

Even though the Loulan defenders were determined to die and started a bloody street battle with the slave army in the city, the old and weak motley crew put together temporarily could not face the Qiang people who had received simple battle formation training and were equipped with a large number of individual thunderbolts.

When the slave army invaded, they really had no room to fight back. In the end, they were either killed or took advantage of the chaos and escaped from the north gate.

But the north gate only looks like a gate of life, but it is actually a gate of death. The overwhelming Qiang cavalry captured all the Loulan defenders who had lost their will to fight and escaped from the north gate...

The battle ended when the sky was dark, and the rest of the army entered the city to put out the war everywhere!

Then, they used the corpses of the Loulan defenders who died in the war to let the Loulan prisoners build a mountain-like hollow Beijing to extinguish the last vestiges of resistance among the countries in the Western Regions.

Because the Jingguan was so huge, it took the Loulan prisoners three days to successfully build it.

And when the construction of the mountain-like Jingguan was completed, and the head of the Loulan prince who came to boost morale, as well as the flag representing his status as prince, were placed at the top of the Jingguan, the only remaining royal city of Loulan Kingdom was...

Qin Mo led his army to kill him, but he himself died first.

From the King of Loulan himself to the old, weak, sick and disabled, they fled westward into the Gobi desert in panic, taking their edible and usable belongings with them.

They didn't even dare to flee to the neighboring country of Cheshi to the north!

Because the Cheshi Kingdom was also collapsing, the royal family and nobles fled westward crazily!

The collapse of these two countries caused the Western Region Reserve Corps, which was encircling and suppressing the Mengtian cavalry and trying to re-open the supply line for elite front-line troops, to suddenly lose its logistics and its escape route.

In this way, the war between the countries in the Western Regions to resist the Qin Dynasty was completely defeated, and they could not be defeated again!

When Qin Mo led the army to the Lop Nur area, Meng Tian's 20,000 cavalry were encircling and suppressing them. The Western Region Reserve Army, which had no intention of fighting, two armies separated on the plateau, successfully met at Lop Nur...

(End of chapter)