Chapter 441: Siege

When Lu Chen heard Du Yongyuan's answer from the soldier who delivered the letter, he was not surprised at all.

In ancient times, a military commander's relatives were no different from hostages. If the military commander betrayed him, he would definitely end up implicating the nine clans.

Of course, there are also people who are cold-blooded enough to surrender to the enemy for the sake of their own survival and their own future, regardless of the life and death of their families.

If Du Yongyuan was such a person, even if Du Yongyuan really surrendered, Lu Chen would not dare to use him, and he might even get rid of Du Yongyuan directly in the end.

Du Yongyuan's first refusal made Lu Chen feel that Du Yongyuan still had some humanity, and only such a person could be valuable in persuading him to surrender.

If Du Yongyuan is only for himself and is extremely cold-blooded, there will be no way to control such a person in the future.

the next morning.

After Lu Chen got up, he summoned all the generals and held a simple military meeting.

When the generals heard that the prince had summoned them, they thought that Lu Chen was going to attack Ziyang City, and they were very excited. However, when they came to Lu Chen's study, they realized that Lu Chen had other ideas.

At this moment, Lu Chen glanced at the generals around the sand table, and then said: "Yesterday, the King of Japan sent a letter of persuasion to surrender to the garrison of Ziyang City, and he refused to surrender."

Hearing this, a military general said: "The other party is so ignorant that they dare to refuse the prince's persuasion to surrender. Your prince, why don't we send troops to attack Ziyang City now?"

At this time, everyone's eyes fell on Lu Chen's face, looking forward to Lu Chen's answer.

Lu Chen said calmly: "Sending troops is definitely necessary, but it is not a real fight."

this……

Everyone was stunned for a moment.

Not a real fight?

Is it possible that there is such a thing as a fake war?

Lu Chen continued: "The soldiers in Ziyang City are all Daxia people, and you are also Daxia people. As the vassal king of Daxia, I naturally don't want to see Daxia people killing each other. "

Of course Xuanyuan Chen understood what Lu Chen meant. Lu Chen wanted to show his kind side, so that he could win over people's hearts.

but……

Xuanyuan Chen immediately said: "Your Majesty, I understand what you mean, but the defender of Ziyang City has refused to surrender. If we don't really attack, how can we occupy Ziyang City and continue to go south to destroy the Qi Kingdom?"

Lu Chen said calmly: "This is simple."

"You will send someone to Ziyang City later to remind the soldiers of Ziyang City to stay away from the North City wall. We will attack the city at noon."

After hearing this, the generals were a little confused. Before attacking the enemy, they had to remind the enemy first, what kind of tactic was this?

Lu Chen continued: "At noon, let the artillery troops knock down the northern wall of Ziyang City. After the wall collapses, stop the attack immediately.

Xuanyuan Chen suddenly realized that he understood Lu Chen's plan again. Lu Chen planned to use the power of artillery to intimidate Daxia soldiers.

Once they see the power of artillery, the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom will inevitably become timid.

Xuanyuan Chen said: "I understand, I will arrange for someone to alert the defenders of Ziyang City."

Then they began to take action.

It didn't take long.

A group of northern troops appeared outside Ziyang City, holding some strange things in their hands.

Seeing the cavalry coming from the Northern Kingdom, the Daxia soldiers quickly notified Du Yongyuan, and Du Yongyuan immediately boarded the tower to prepare the soldiers for battle.

But at this time, Du Yongyuan discovered that only a few hundred cavalrymen came from the North Kingdom. It didn't look like they were going to attack at all, and they seemed to be holding something strange in their hands.

At this time, a soldier from the Northern Kingdom shouted loudly with a simple trumpet: "Today at noon, the Northern Army will attack Beicheng. For the sake of you all being citizens of Daxia, my king specially asked me to remind you that at noon Stay away from the North City Gate, or you will be responsible for the consequences!”

Hearing the shouts of the northern soldiers, Du Yongyuan was stunned.

Before King Bei attacked Ziyang City, he sent someone to notify them in advance?

Are you talking about martial ethics like this?

Could it be that King Bei was not ready to give up trying to persuade him to surrender, so he deliberately asked people to notify him in advance in order to exert final pressure on him?

If he had not surrendered before noon, the Northern Army would probably actually attack the city.

Just as Du Yongyuan was thinking this, the soldiers from the Northern Kingdom continued to shout: "The weapons used by the Northern Kingdom are far beyond what your body can contend with. Evacuate the North City tower before noon, or you will bear the consequences."

At this time, the cavalry from the Northern Kingdom dispersed on horseback. They took out some arrows without arrows, then tied some leaflets on them, and kept shooting arrows at the city wall.

Seeing this scene, the Daxia soldiers thought that the Northern soldiers had already attacked.

At this moment, an arrow flew directly towards Du Yongyuan, and a soldier quickly reminded Du Yongyuan, "General, be careful!"

Du Yongyuan did not panic. He raised his hand and grabbed the arrow without an arrow. Then he took the leaflet off the arrow and read it carefully.

The content of the leaflet was very simple, almost the same as what the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom shouted, telling them to stay away from the city wall at noon because the Northern Kingdom was going to launch an attack.

Du Yongyuan then comforted him and said, "Don't panic, the North Kingdom has not attacked yet."

At this time, a deputy general also grabbed an arrow, opened the leaflet and took a look. Then he chuckled and said: "It's really ridiculous. The North Kingdom is going to launch an attack, but they actually ask us not to defend the city. Is it possible that we should just watch them attack?" Enter the city.

Du Yongyuan glanced at the deputy general who was speaking, and then said: "Deputy General Liu, you will lead your troops to guard the North City Gate at noon today."

Deputy General Liu immediately said: "Please rest assured, General, I will never let the Northern soldiers get close to the city gate!"

Du Yongyuan didn't say much. He looked at the Northern cavalry who were still shouting in the distance, thinking about something in his heart.

The weapons of the Northern Kingdom are very powerful. He has heard about it a long time ago, but they have never seen it.

Before attacking the city, the King of the North specially sent someone to remind them how powerful their weapons are. Although it seems to be intimidating them and asking them to surrender quickly, Du Yongyuan feels that there is another meaning in it, that is, the weapons of the Northern Kingdom are indeed very terrible. The King of the North sent people in advance to remind them not to hide on the city wall in order to win people's hearts.

Du Yongyuan frowned and thought in his heart, what kind of weapon made the King of the North specially send people to remind them not to guard on the city wall?

The more Du Yongyuan thought about it, the more he felt uneasy. He had just asked Lieutenant General Liu to guard the gate of the North City. One of the most important reasons was that Lieutenant General Liu was not his own man. It happened that the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom were attacking the city, and he wanted to see how terrible the weapons of the Northern Kingdom were.

If someone died at that time, it would not be his own people.

Then Du Yongyuan continued to arrange more soldiers to guard the city gate. It seemed that he attached great importance to the attack of the Northern Kingdom, but the soldiers he arranged on the city wall were all old-timers, and they were all soldiers who did not listen to him very much.

Next, hundreds of cavalrymen from the Northern Kingdom shouted outside the North City of Ziyang City for a long time. Not only did the soldiers of Daxia know about this, but soon the people in Ziyang City knew about it.

The people actually didn't care who was the emperor, but fighting was a disaster for them. They were very afraid that the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom would start burning, killing and looting after entering the city.

For a time, the people in Ziyang City were panicked.

A morning passed quickly. Although Du Yongyuan was not guarding on the tower, he was not far from the North City.

At this time, Deputy General Liu was completely unaware of the danger. He stood on the tower, quietly watching the soldiers of the Northern Kingdom pushing strange carts not far from the North City.

He thought to himself that Du Yongyuan was really a coward who actually asked him to guard the city gate.

He was also thinking that after returning this time, he would tell Emperor Xia what happened today.

At this time, continuous drum sounds rang out outside the city.

Du Yongyuan stood on the roof, frowning and looking in the direction of the North City.

The drum sounded, proving that the Northern Kingdom’s army had begun to attack. Come on, let him see how powerful the Northern Kingdom’s weapons are, which can enable the Northern Kingdom to defeat the barbarians in the north, and also enable Dawu to cede land and pay compensation!

At the same time, an iron ball flew directly to the tower of the North City. After seeing this iron ball, Deputy General Liu did not take it seriously. He shouted, "Get ready..."

Boom...

As a result, before Deputy General Liu finished speaking, the shell exploded directly, the tower was instantly blown down, and Deputy General Liu and the soldiers on the tower were also blown into countless pieces.

Du Yongyuan, who was far away, heard a loud noise and saw the tower collapsed instantly. He was stunned.

But the bombardment of the Northern Kingdom had just begun. The next moment, another loud noise came, and a huge hole was blown directly into the gate of the Northern City.

Du Yongyuan was stunned on the roof. Then, shells fell from the sky one after another, and the soldiers on the walls of the Northern City were taken away in one wave.

Seeing the flying rubble of the walls and the limbs of the soldiers, Du Yongyuan finally understood why the King of the North had to send people to shout outside the Northern City for a long time before attacking the city.

Du Yongyuan doubted that if he was still on the tower of the Northern City, he might not have a complete body.

Is this the weapon of the Northern Kingdom!

It's terrible!

How can this war be fought?

The Northern Kingdom has such a terrible weapon, and the Great Xia court has no chance of winning.

For a time, Du Yongyuan was filled with fear.

After about an hour, a huge gap was directly blasted where the city gate was located, and the city wall collapsed. If the Northern soldiers wanted to attack now, the 200,000 soldiers in the city would have no way to stop them.

But at this moment, the loud noises disappeared, and drums were heard outside the city.

Du Yongyuan immediately led people to the North City. The situation in the North City was very miserable, and there was almost no complete body of the soldiers guarding the city.

At this time, the soldiers behind Du Yongyuan had no intention of fighting at all, and there was only fear in their eyes.

Through the gap in the city wall, they could clearly see that the Northern Army was not far outside the North City, but the Northern soldiers did not show any signs of attacking. They stood there, as if waiting for something.

The Northern Kingdom's royal flag was flying in the sky, and the bloody royal flag made people feel palpitations and panic.

At this time, one of Du Yongyuan's confidants said, "General, what should we do now?"

Their 200,000 troops were originally here to defend the city, and they had no intention of confronting the Northern Kingdom's army head-on. As a result, the walls of Ziyang City have collapsed, and the Northern Kingdom's army can rush in at any time. What's the point of defending the city?

Could it be that they are using people to block the huge gap now?

Du Yongyuan glanced at the Northern Kingdom's army in the distance and said, "The Northern Kingdom did not launch an attack, which proves that the Northern King intends to continue negotiations with this general."

At this time, the sound of drums came from outside again. After hearing the drums, the soldiers behind Du Yongyuan thought that the Northern Kingdom had launched another attack. They were so scared that they trembled all over. However, unexpectedly, the Northern Kingdom soldiers did not attack, but retreated.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer Northern Kingdom soldiers outside the North City, Du Yongyuan and the soldiers were relieved. If the Northern Kingdom's weapons continued to attack them, they would probably be broken into pieces.

Even such a strong wall could not withstand the weapons of the Northern Kingdom, how could their bodies withstand it.

Du Yongyuan ordered at this time: "Clean up the battlefield!"

As his order fell, the soldiers quickly took action to clean up the battlefield. When the soldiers were cleaning up the corpses of the soldiers guarding the city, they once again had the idea of ​​surrendering.

Soon surrender became a collective consciousness. No one thought that they could defeat the Northern Kingdom's army. The weapons of the Northern Kingdom were too terrible.

In the dead of night.

Du Yongyuan sat on the desk, staring at the faint candlelight in a daze.

He was analyzing the current situation and what he should do in the future.

According to Emperor Xia, he should pretend that he could not defeat the Northern Kingdom army and then flee directly. However, the war has just begun, and he led his troops to flee. Even if it was Emperor Xia's intention, he would probably be punished by Emperor Xia if he returned to the capital.

And as far as we can see now, the Northern Kingdom army is so powerful and its weapons are so powerful, so the possibility of the Northern King ascending the throne is very high.

Du Yongyuan believed that even if the Zhao King's army saw the Northern Kingdom army, they would only be beaten and flee.

If there is no accident, the Northern King is likely to be the next Emperor Xia. In addition, the Northern King was originally the son of Emperor Xia, so he is qualified to inherit the throne.

At this time, Du Yongyuan had already had the idea of ​​surrendering. Even if he fled with his soldiers, he would still have to face the Northern King's army when the Northern King came to the capital in the future.

But now his family is in the capital. Once he surrenders, his family will surely die.

And there are Emperor Xia's shadow guards in the army. If he really surrenders, it is very likely that the shadow guards will immediately attack him.

At this moment, the soldier's voice sounded outside, "General, the Northern King has sent an envoy!"

Du Yongyuan immediately said, "Please come in immediately."

After a while, a Northern soldier entered Du Yongyuan's study. The Northern soldier took out a letter and said to Du Yongyuan, "General Du, this is a handwritten letter from our king."

Du Yongyuan took the letter from the soldier without hesitation, then opened it and read it carefully.

Seeing the content of the letter, Du Yongyuan's previous concerns were swept away. He did not expect that the Northern King had made so many arrangements. (End of this chapter)