Chapter 1263 - 312: Using a Butcher’s Blade to Kill a Chicken (Part 3)

Chapter 1263: Chapter 312: Using a Butcher’s Blade to Kill a Chicken (Part 3)

The wild people surrendered, because for them, this battle was never theirs to fight.

From the moment they collapsed under the encirclement by Yan cavalry, they had already lost their ability to contend in this war.

Even though they were driven into the city now, Anhuh City and Tadie City had been abandoned for a long time. Other than some herders occasionally hiding by the walls to avoid snowstorms, no one else came because it was too close to Snow Sea Pass.

Inside the city, there was no food or siege defense equipment. How could they possibly defend the city?

Most importantly, unless the king of the wild people suddenly came back to life and decided to save them despite past grievances, they had no reinforcements. Other tribes not involved were too far away and wouldn’t send troops to fight the Yan people to save them.

However, before the riders carrying the wild people’s surrender arrived, the front row of archers in the military formation had already drawn their bows and shot. After a round of volleys, the surrendering wild people and their mounts were turned into porcupines.

The real siege battle hadn’t begun yet, so how could Lord Zheng allow the enemy to surrender early?

This scene naturally caught the attention of the wild people inside the city, and finally, figures began appearing in groups on the city walls.

Clearly, after their surrender was directly rejected, the leaders of the wild people inside the city started resisting even though such resistance was destined to be powerless.

Meanwhile, the Yan Army continued their "exercise." Although the wild people inside the city should be quite "fragile," the Yan Army cherished this rare opportunity for training, going all out.

Finally, everything was ready.

With the second round of trebuchet firing, the west wall of Anhuh City was hit by boulders. Suddenly, the wild people arranged on the wall were smashed into pieces with terrible screams.

Below, shield bearers moved forward in formation, arrows were launched from the towers, and battering ram was at the forefront.

"I must say, Jin people’s fortification skills are really excellent," Li Fusheng praised.

The second round of fire was quite accurate, but it didn’t cause structural damage to Anhuh City’s walls.

This meant the city wasn’t shoddily built, and it’s worth noting this city was built to defend against wild people. Previously, nobody imagined the wild people could conduct sieges or have trebuchets.

Yet, the Jin people stubbornly built the walls firmly.

It’s imaginable that if the king of the wild people had successfully retreated to the snowy plains, even these two small forts would have required heavy costs to attack for the pursuing troops.

On the wall, scattered wild people began shooting arrows downward, evidently because the first wave of casualties consumed too quickly and the second batch couldn’t be organized.

Besides bows and arrows, the wild people had no other siege defense equipment.

When the distance was sufficient, the archers from the Yan Army on the towers began firing. Due to height advantage equalized by the towers, arrow shots were much more efficacious than shots from below.

Below, ground archers hid behind shield bearers for cover.

For a moment, the arrows from the Yan Army completely suppressed the arrows from the wild people on the walls.

The battering ram began pushing forward. Even the most foolish wild people knew its purpose, but had no way to stop it, only watching as it reached the gate.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

After three strikes,

The gate,

was breached.

The soldiers pushing the battering ram froze for a moment, feeling somewhat unreal.

From afar, on the tower, Li Fusheng’s throat moved slightly, and he spoke, "Brother Zheng, could it be that those pushing the battering ram are all military elites?"

Zheng Fan said, "Earlier, some wild people tried to surrender through this gate, so they probably didn’t block anything behind the gate."

"Oh, I see."

Actually, there was something Lord Zheng didn’t know. When the king of wild people initially seized Anhuh City and Tadie City, those wild people who hadn’t entered Snow Sea Pass were thrilled. They had looted the city clean of everything left by Jin people, even dismantled the gates for their nails and iron plates.

Eventually, when the king of wild people found out, he was furious and scolded them, ordering them to put everything back except the gates.

Under the king’s authority, the wild people obediently reinstalled the gates.

But through this disassembly and reinstallation, the gates became merely symbolic.

At this moment, the third round of trebuchet firing began. This time, the projectiles were doused with oil, so they were fireballs.

This round of fire was targeted slightly further, intentionally striking behind the walls. Inside the city, hideous screams erupted.

Subsequently,

The shield bearers opened a path, and Yan soldiers rushed up carrying ladders, set them on the walls, and began climbing. Because the distance was adequate, and the resistance from the walls was too mild, they didn’t choose to disassemble the components at the bottom causing the tower to fall against the wall, but simply disassembled a long plank from above to use as a bridge.

Inside, the archers drew their swords and charged up the walls along that bridge.

The few scattered wild people on the walls were soon cleared away, and the Yan Army easily captured the west wall.

Li Fusheng smacked his lips, lamenting, "Good as it is, it’s too fast. We haven’t savored the taste yet."

Zheng Fan,

smiled,

and said:

"That’s easy to fix."

Then,

Lord Zheng instructed a guard behind him:

"Sound the gong for retreat, attack another side of the wall."

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