The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

December of the seventh year of Guanghe.

It was already snowing heavily in the north and it was freezing to the bone. Everyone stayed at home and dared not go out. But the south is still as warm as spring, and the emerald green color is still permeating everywhere, never fading.

Wang Fang led his army into Yuejuan County, which led to fifteen counties (roads), with 61,208 households and 408,405 people in the county. This is a large county, not only has a vast territory, but also has a very large population.

The six counties in the west of Yizhou are newly occupied. In order to avoid unnecessary troubles, Zhong Yu has not yet ordered to start a large-scale cleansing of those aristocratic families just like in the north.

And Yuejuan County is close to Shu County, so they are very clear about the strength of Zhong Yu's army, and they have heard a lot since January, and they are deeply terrified.

Therefore, the counties and counties along the way surrendered one after another, and they did not dare to stop his army. It is more appropriate to say that it is more appropriate to receive the city than to attack.

After a month's journey, the army took over the entire counties and counties of Yueyu County. Just in case, and to implement Zhong Yu's order to eliminate the source of chaos before departure, Wang Fang mobilized 70,000 troops throughout Yueyue County. Cannon fodder, increased his cannon fodder army to 100,000 people.

Now that Yuejuan County has been pacified, it is time to set off for the next target, Yunnan County. Entering the territory of Yunnan County, Yunnan County has a vast area and a large population, no less than Yuexi County. Moreover, the Han nationality and other races live together, the customs are simple and tough, and they have not accepted the king for a long time.

The Han Dynasty has been in a semi-ruling position since ancient times, and it belongs to the joint governance of Han officials and local chiefs, so it rebelled at this time.

Along the way, Suijiu County, Gufu County, and Qingling County in the north of Yunnan County surrendered without a fight. But when they arrived in Nongdong County, the county seat of Yunnan County, they encountered resistance.

The governor of Yunnan County, together with the local barbarian chiefs, guarded the county government to the death. With the support of the local barbarians, the Yunnan prefect got about 30,000 barbarian soldiers, plus the county soldiers and county soldiers he brought from various places, there were also 10,000 people.

At this time, 40,000 troops had gathered in the small town of Nongdong County. Although the equipment of these troops was not very good, they were located in the frontier of Yunnan County, where the folk customs were strong. , is a good source of troops.

The battle drums are booming, and the armor is ringing. 100,000 soldiers surrounded the entire city of Nongdong County like a mountain and a sea. The city of Nongdong was like a small reef in the sea, so small that it seemed to be submerged by sea water at any time.

"attack!"

Following Wang Fang's order, the 70,000 troops crawled towards the county town of Nongdong like ants, and the green and red colors bloomed under the entire county town, dyeing the world with a color.

The new cannon fodder army in Yuexi County was divided into 16 teams, each team of 5,000 people rushed to the county town. With only a coarse cloth on his body, and only holding freshly sharpened wooden sticks in his hands, they filled up the city wall batch after batch.

The 30,000 cannon fodder that I brought before served as a supervisory team, holding sharp knives and wearing armor, standing behind the group of cannon fodder and supervising them.

"Come on! For the sake of the lord, for our family, rush up and overthrow these savages."

With the mobilization before the war, although it is not very useful, this sentence mainly reminds their family members that they are controlled by themselves, and it also provokes the contradiction between the Han people and those barbarians.

In general, the effect is still there, at least those soldiers' floating eyes immediately became much firmer. Thinking about it, they shouldn't dare easily and escaped on the battlefield.

The sound of war drums sounded, and the first batch of 5,000 cannon fodder slowly rushed up. Carrying dozens of ladders, he approached the city wall step by step. There are many mountains around Yunnan County, and there is no river around Nongdong City, so the fatal step of filling the moat was avoided.

The group of soldiers who had just been captured as cannon fodder looked around and found that they were surrounded by their own people, and their courage and sense of security suddenly increased a lot.

They all thought in their hearts, with so many people around, even if they died, it might not be me, and the number of opponents is smaller than our own, so we are the ones who have a better chance of winning in a fight, afraid of a ball!

Thinking about it this way, the footsteps became much lighter, and the speed of the charge increased, and everyone shouted loudly in order to increase their courage and intimidate the enemy. Not to mention, this really has a lot of effects, at least some of the defenders on the city wall showed fear.

It got closer and closer, and finally approached the city wall, and set up the ladder at the foot of the city wall. On the way, they didn't receive any long-range attack. After all, those defenders were also a group of poor barbarians wearing open crotch pants. What spare money did they have to make bows and crossbows?

The usual hunting bow can only be more than ten meters, tens of meters. What's the use in such a big scene, it's better not to take it out and be ashamed.

But at the foot of the city wall, it's different. The city has been saving for a long time, and the mountains of stones are thrown down one after another as if they don't want money.

The cannon fodder was smashed in one fell swoop, hundreds of people died, and the rest fled one after another, not daring to gather under the city.

Seeing the embarrassing and clumsy performance of the group of cannon fodder, Wang Fang was very angry and ordered his 3,000 elite soldiers to go to the front of the formation.

These elite soldiers are equipped with bows and crossbows with long-range strike capabilities. Whether they are used to attack the city or to deter those cannon fodder, they have very practical effects.

When those elite soldiers came to the city wall, the cannon fodder had already ran a hundred meters away from the city wall. It seemed that they also had some self-knowledge and did not dare to really escape to the back.

Otherwise, those supervising teams would never show mercy, and would definitely take out a small number of them and kill them to warn the troops.

"All go up to me, and those who retreat will be killed without mercy!"

Following the threats and announcements from those elite soldiers, those cannon fodder soldiers still wanted to stay here, and even sent a few people to talk to them about some conditions.

Whoosh! A rain of arrows poured down, and screams rang out everywhere. Immediately, the group of cannon fodder who were still fantasizing in their minds were sobered up.

Let them clearly understand that they are just a small part of the 100,000 army, dispensable cannon fodder. It's not an important army that cannot be parted. It may be abandoned by their commander at any time. Now they are there to negotiate conditions and not want to go to the battlefield. It is just a way of death.

In desperation, he could only continue to pick up the bamboo stick in his hand and rush to the battlefield with the ladder. At this time, the rolling stones and hot oil on the battlefield seemed nothing compared to the rain of arrows that supervised the battle team behind them in the eyes of the group of cannon fodder.

Gritting his teeth, he stepped on the ladder and rushed towards the city wall. From time to time, people screamed and fell down, but people kept stepping on those corpses and continued to climb up, one after another, back and forth endlessly.

Human life is so worthless at this time, and in just one day, sixteen batches of cannon fodder have been rotated once. The establishment of a team of 5,000 people was completely disabled, and they could only be reorganized into ten teams of 5,000 people, and they had to rest for a day before catching up with the battlefield again.

And the sky is slowly getting dark at this moment, the cruel day is over, and tomorrow will meet those cannon fodders with a desperate siege battle.