All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 312: Sweeping the Enemy Army and Drinking from the Yellow River

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The top baffle of the ladder truck fell down, and a group of armored soldiers rushed to the top of Zhenzhou City with iron shields in one hand and Tang swords in the other, roaring.

Among the four great merits, ascending the mountain first is the first.

There is only one reason: the mortality rate is too high.

The Chengde army soldiers guarding the city fired a barrage of powerful bows and crossbows at them.

The force is so strong that it can even knock a soldier off the top of a city wall that is nearly three meters high.

Even if they could withstand the powerful bows and crossbows and jump onto the top of the city wall, they would still face a terrible siege.

The guards of Chengde Town demonstrated the true strength of the warriors in the late Tang Dynasty.

When they dare to fight, they really dare to fight!

The soldiers wearing the same armor surrounded you and used all kinds of weapons to smash you. Even a tin can could be dented.

More than ten ladders hooked onto the top of the city wall, and batches of soldiers were thrown into the city wall to fight, but they were like a tide rushing into the desert and were quickly swallowed up.

It is not so easy to get the credit for being the first to reach the target.

In a short while, hundreds of soldiers were gone.

These are elite soldiers. If they were in Europe, it would basically be like a small country losing its entire country's elite troops.

Chen Ran, sitting on horseback, had a blank expression on his face as he silently watched his generals dispatch troops to continue the siege.

Teams of soldiers, under the cover of goose carts, rushed onto the ladder trucks and headed straight for the top of the city.

The battering ram carried all kinds of city defense equipment that had been smashed down and madly rammed the city gate.

There were even archers several feet high, standing on them and shooting at the defenders on the city walls.

Wang Yanzhang, who was in charge of commanding the siege, became increasingly impatient.

This was his first time to serve as a general and command a large-scale war involving tens of thousands of people.

And the general was watching the battle not far behind.

I have read the book and know how important this battle is to me.

Seeing that his offensive was blocked, Wang Yanzhang was almost unable to control himself.

There was a cheer coming from the front, and the battering ram finally smashed the city gate.

But the cheers soon came to an abrupt end, because behind the broken city gate were all kinds of sand, soil, bricks, tiles and stones that blocked the city gate!
Seeing this, Wang Yanzhang rode his horse to Chen Ran's side, saluted and said, "General, please use your sword!"

The so-called Hengdao City is a new city formed by Chen Ran.

They all used Tang horizontal sword as their main combat weapon and were composed of brave and elite warriors carefully selected from the army.

In outdoor battles, their effectiveness is not as good as that of the long weapons such as the silver spears and the Mo Dao.

They are no match for the Zhuangshandu cavalry.

It can be used in sieges and is absolutely the most suitable.

Like the other cities, Hengdao City temporarily serves as Chen Ran's personal guard.

Wang Yanzhang proposed to use the horizontal sword, which showed that he was anxious.

Chen Ran looked at him and simply asked, "How long will it take before we can get down from the city?"

"Not half an hour, just two quarters of an hour!" Wang Yanzhang bowed deeply. "If it doesn't work, I will bring my head to you!"

What he was thinking at this moment was, if I can't take it down, then I will die on the city wall!

Anyway, my father has remarried and my stepmother is pregnant, so the Wang family will not be extinct.

Chen Ran looked at him for a moment, then nodded and said, "Go ahead."

"only!"

Only more than 2,000 men rushed onto the battlefield with swords drawn.

Because the ladders were lined up too slowly, Wang Yanzhang simply asked the auxiliary soldiers to carry dozens of long ladders, which were the siege ladders seen in movies and TV dramas, not the ladder trucks with a base, wheels and hooks.

Facing the counterattack of the defenders, the ladder was leaning against the city wall. Wang Yanzhang bit the sword in his mouth, held the iron shield in one hand, and climbed up quickly with the other.

The Chengde army's guardsmen launched a fierce counterattack.

Throw down the free stuff like the NVC rolling log, the ash bottle gold juice, etc.

Anyone who was hit would almost certainly die.

Even so, none of the warriors with swords in hand retreated and they climbed up with gritted teeth.

Wang Yanzhang was the first to jump onto the top of the city wall. He chopped down several guards in succession and cleared the nearby area.

The armored soldiers with swords in hand behind him quickly came up to support and gradually expanded the position on the city wall.

Upon seeing this, the defenders immediately deployed their reserve troops to launch a counterattack.

More than a hundred soldiers rushed over and collided violently.

The quality of the Tang horizontal sword is very good. It is heavy and has the ability to penetrate armor.

As they swung and hacked, a large number of Chengde Town soldiers fell to the ground.

Since Li Cunxiao's death, Wang Yanzhang went from being the second best general in the world to being the best general in the world.

Wang Yanzhang, who climbed onto the top of the city wall, was like a mad tiger. He chopped with his sword and blocked with his iron shield. He moved back and forth without anyone being able to stop him.

A large number of soldiers were shot down with screams before they could even climb to the top of the city wall.

But every soldier on the top of the city wall was fighting desperately.

Warriors with high martial arts skills and well-equipped are fighting desperately and have great destructive power in this era.

When there were hundreds or even thousands of such warriors, their terrifying impact finally defeated the resistance of the Chengde Town Guards and captured the top of the city. When a large number of armored soldiers climbed the city walls and even began to sweep along the city walls, Wang Yanzhang was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

He leaned against the parapet to catch his breath, and inadvertently looked out, only to see the piles of corpses below the city.

The scene was so tragic that even Wang Yanzhang, who had experienced many bloody battles, was stunned for a moment.

A moment later, he rushed down the city wall with red eyes, roaring and ordering, "Kill, kill, kill them all!"

The guards in Zhenzhou City were basically wiped out.

In particular, the entire family of Jiedushi Wang Rong and even the entire Uighur clan were killed completely.

Wang Rong, who often likes to kill entire families, is now the one to be killed.

"One hundred and twenty years of Chengde Army." Chen Ran retracted his gaze and sighed softly, "Cancel the number today."

When the news of the head-on victory over Chengde’s army spread, the whole world was shocked.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was killing almost every day in various places. Huang Chao even roamed across most of the Tang Dynasty, fighting wherever he went.

However, the Chengde Army was unusually stable, rarely engaged in external wars, and the country was also peaceful internally.

The soldiers are trained all year round and their strength is relatively well preserved.

Such a strong army was completely wiped out in a head-on confrontation with Chen Ran. The influence and impact it brought was beyond words.

The people of the nearby Zhaoyi Army and Weizhou Town were in a panic, fearing that Chen Ran's next target would be them.

They took the initiative to send people to discuss surrender.

Chen Ran did not close the door to those who wanted to join him, but the conditions were too harsh.

Officers above the rank of captain must leave, and the only benefit is that they can take their property with them.

This one rule alone cuts off the way for local vassal states to surrender.

No one can give up the power in his hands, especially in troubled times. Without military power, no matter how much wealth you have, you will just be a fat sheep in the eyes of others.

The officers were unwilling to surrender, and the soldiers had no say at all.

Chen Ran had anticipated this situation.

He arranged for a large number of spies to infiltrate various places to spread the word about the general who was acting in accordance with the will of heaven and was very compassionate to his soldiers.

Not only were there enough food and wages, but rewards were also given out frequently, and military land was allocated to them. If they made meritorious services, they could get even more land.

These rumors have little effect on the Zhaoyi Army. After all, the soldiers of the Zhaoyi Army are well-known for their fighting ability and hard work.

But in Weizhou Town, which has a rebellious tradition, the effect is much greater.

Especially under Chen Ran’s command, there were many soldiers from Weizhou garrison who had followed him north that year.

They shared their experiences, saying that they not only have hundreds of acres of fertile land at home, but also have cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and they also have several grassland women taking care of the housework, and their lives are so wonderful.

Many soldiers in Wei Bo Town became suspicious, and a riot broke out, with the entire Wei Bo Town in chaos.

When the whole world thought that Chen Ran would take advantage of the situation and march south to capture Weizhou Town and drink from the Yellow River, Chen Ran led his troops westward and headed straight for Zhaoyi Town, catching them off guard.

Li Jun, the current governor of Zhaoyi Army, hurriedly led the troops of Zhaoyi Town to fight.

However, Liu Xun, who was stationed in Hedong, stabbed him in the back and went out of Taihang Mountain to attack Zhaoyi Military Town.

Liu Xun captured many cities in Zhaoyi Town. In particular, the fall of Mingzhou and Cizhou made the Zhaoyi army soldiers on the front line very confused. Most of their families and relatives were in these two places.

The area of ​​Ming and Ci states, to put it simply, is the area around Handan and Wu'an, which is the core area of ​​the ancient Zhao State.

The men of Zhao were good at fighting, but the women of Zhao were passionate.

Their hometown had been robbed, and the soldiers of the Zhaoyi Army on the front line were very worried about whether the women in their families would give them grassland-colored hats.

As a result, the military morale is naturally unstable.

Chen Ran took advantage of the situation and launched a fierce attack. The Zhaoyi army, which had no will to fight, was defeated, and almost all the generals including Jiedushi Li Jun were wiped out.

When soldiers surrender, the generals will deal with them. This is Chen Ran's usual style.

The military generals were dealt with because, on the one hand, almost all of them came from wealthy families or landlords, and they occupied too many means of production and social wealth.

Redistribute social wealth and means of production. These things cannot appear out of thin air. Things like land are only useful after being reclaimed and cultivated. Otherwise, they are just wasteland.

These things can only be taken from aristocratic families and military generals.

This means striking at the interests of a few people and distributing them to the majority.

Another reason is that military men frequently rebelled in the late Tang Dynasty.

Except for Weizhou Town, which had a tradition of rebellion, the rebellions in other vassal towns were mainly initiated by military generals.

They have prestige and connections, and can easily get everyone to respond to their calls.

To eliminate them is to eliminate the backbone of potential rebellion.

He captured Zhaoyi Military Town, incorporated tens of thousands of Zhaoyi Town soldiers and horses, and almost occupied the entire Chenran north of the Yellow River. The momentum of sweeping the world was set.

The imperial court in Chang'an City had no way to deal with this.

After Huang Chao was eliminated, the only areas that the imperial court in Chang'an City could directly control were more than 20 counties in Guanzhong.

It was difficult to support the royal family and the court, let alone do anything else.

Faced with Chen Ran, who was far more dangerous than Huang Chao, they had no choice but to continuously dispatch messengers with imperial edicts to various places, calling on local powerful figures to gang up on Chen Ran.

In the past, local vassal states mostly ignored the imperial court's orders.

But this time it was different, because Chen Ran was too cruel. He was too cruel to the military generals, the aristocratic families, the temples, and the literati. He didn't give them any chance to survive.

Faced with powerful pressure, they, with the help of the imperial court, temporarily put aside their hatred and gradually came together to prepare to beat up Chen Ran.

An encirclement gradually took shape when Chen Ran entered Wei Bo Town.

(End of this chapter)