Chapter 178: Forcibly break through the city and win the first battle(3/3)
As soon as Meng Hu's army arrived outside the refugee camp, Zhang Xingba brought the 500 elite soldiers from the Guard to meet him.
At this time, the people of Qingzhou who were placed in the refugee camp also found that the situation was wrong. In the chaos, there was no one who called the Shrine of the Guanghui Empire and came to kill him. The entire refugee camp was in a panic. Hundreds of thousands of refugees in more than a dozen refugee camps started to escape at night. In the chaos, there were figures of Zhang Huang everywhere, crying at his father and mother everywhere. The scene was so silly that it was so silly.
Meng Hu had a cold expression and was indifferent to all this.
Zhang Xingba came to Meng Huma dejectedly, knelt on one knee and replied, "General, I am humble and incompetent."
"It's nothing." Meng Hu waved his hand and said calmly, "It's not your fault, because the enemy was alert in advance that you lost your hand! In this way, you can take your brothers down and rest first."
Zhang Xingba responded and said, "By the way, General, Bei Yi caught a big fish, and it is said to be the prime minister of the Mingyue Empire."
"Oh?" Meng Hu said with a slight expression and asked happily, "Have you caught the prime minister of the Mingyue Empire?"
Zhang Xingba turned around and waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Bring the person up!"
More than a dozen strong men had already taken Xiao Chengliang, the prime minister of the Mingyue Empire, and more than a dozen servants. Meng Hu's sharp eyes fell on Xiao Chengliang like a wolf, and asked in a deep voice: "Prime Minister of the Mingyue Empire, Xiao Chengliang?"
Xiao Chengliang snorted lightly and said proudly: "It's me!"
Meng Hu's murderous intent suddenly disappeared and he smiled and said, "If I was not wrong, Lord Xiao was still outside the city so late. He should be trying to build a refugee camp to accommodate homeless refugees, right? Speaking of which, all the soldiers of the Tiger Legion are really grateful to Lord Xiao, otherwise there wouldn't be a ready-made military camp for us to camp, right?"
Meng Hu is talking about more than a dozen refugee camps east of Xijing City. According to the current situation, Qingzhou refugees who lived in the refugee camp will be completely escaped in a few hours. The soldiers of the Tiger Legion happened to be occupied and could live comfortably in the ready-made camp without any effort.
"Shameless!" Xiao Chengliang groaned and said, "If I had known this, why would I have brought these woods..."
Halfway through the conversation, Xiao Chengliang suddenly realized something and stopped talking.
Meng Hu's ears suddenly stood up. In addition to being good at leading troops and training troops, the most fearful thing about this guy is his ability to see the subtle. He can often inadvertently discover the enemy's invisible flaws, and then seize the slightest flaws to make a big flaw, and ultimately defeat the enemy!
At this moment, Meng Hu discovered a slight flaw in Xiao Chengliang's inadvertent words!
Wood! Xiao Chengliang mentioned wood just now, and what the Tiger Legion urgently needs most is wood!
Meng Hu turned over and dismounted, strode to Xiao Chengliang, and asked in a deep voice: "What did Lord Xiao just say?"
"Nothing." Xiao Chengliang said coldly, "I just said that you are so glorious barbarians are really inhumane and even dare to occupy the refugee camp!"
"No, right?" Meng Hu said, "Mr. Xiao seemed to be talking about wood just now."
Xiao Chengliang said: "You heard it wrong."
"Yeah?"
Meng Hu's eyes turned, he pointed at one of the servants behind Xiao Chengliang and said, "You, come out!"
The attendant was not afraid, and stood in front of Meng Hu with a high spirit.
Meng Hu frowned slightly and said to Zhang Xing without thinking: "Behead on the spot!"
"yes!"
Zhang Xingba responded and snatched the front halberd and swung it out. The head of the attendant was immediately thrown into the air. Xiao Chengliang and the dozen servants behind him all looked horrified. Obviously, they didn't expect that Meng Hu would kill someone if he said he would kill someone. This was simply a devil who would kill without blinking.
Meng Hu pointed at another servant behind Xiao Chengliang again and shouted: "You, come out!"
The servant was much softer, so scared that he sat on the muddy snow and cried: "General, please spare me, please spare me, there is an eighty-year-old mother above and a child underneath. The villain cannot die, you cannot die, please spare me..."
What Meng Hu wants is such a soft guy. This guy is still a tough guy, and his fate is probably the same as the guy just now.
Meng Hu said sinisterly: "Want to survive? Yes, what did you Lord Xiao say just now? Repeat this general word for word."
"Yes, yes, yes." The attendant responded in a trembling voice, "Just just now, the prime minister said, "If I had known this, why would he have brought this to you? These woods..."
"Well said, haha." Meng Hu asked with a smile, "Then now tell me, where are the woods now?"
The attendant reached out and pointed to the distance not far ahead and said tremblingly: "That's right, not far ahead, but not much. If the general needs more wood, he has to go from Fengling, thirty miles away to remove the scaffolding."
"Hahaha." Meng Hu smiled at the sky for three times, and turned around and said to Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao, "Old Qi, did you hear it? Thirty miles away is Fengling, which has not been completed. The scaffolding there was demolished, and there was some wood. Why don't you worry about not having wood to build siege equipment!?"
Qi Diaozi and Jia Wudao clasped their fists at the same time and said, "General Hongfu, no one can match!"
Meng Hu's smile suddenly disappeared and he shouted loudly: "War Eagle obeys the order!"
Zhan Ying stepped forward and responded sternly: "I am in the position of humble position!"
Meng Hu said: "Immediately collect all the sleds in the army, unload all the food, grass and supplies, and go to Fengling thirty miles away to transport wood overnight. The more you are, the better!"
After saying that, Meng Hu said to the soft boy just now: "You are responsible for leading the way to Fengling!"
"Yes, yes, yes." The soft-blooded servant said repeatedly, "The villain must lead the way, sure!"
Meng Hu thought about it and called He Qing to the front of him again, and gave this order. He Qing nodded repeatedly and took the order.
A night of peace.
The Mingyue Empire Army did not usher in a rapid offensive like a tide of the Tiger Legion, and did not even have a tentative attack. The Mingyue Empire Emperor Qiu Fengjin and the ministers in the court were puzzled, and they also went to the east city to check the truth. But except for seeing teams of the Glorious Imperial Army stepping on the snow outside the East Gate, they did not see any other scenes.
The actions of those Glorious Imperial Army were also very strange. They did not use hot water to melt it, nor did they use equipment to shovel snow. Instead, they made soldiers keep trampling on the snow. After a layer of snow was stomped, they actually transported more snow from other places and then stepped on it. Isn’t this intention to step on the soft snow tightly?
But the snow was about to be trampled tightly. When the next day, wouldn’t it become slippery? Why is this man still standing firmly on it? How can he attack the city if he can’t stand firmly? Could it be that the Guanghui Empire Army is going to attack the city from another direction? But the enemy is clearly gathered outside the right east gate? What is going on?
Qiu Feng Jin and the ministers in the court were puzzled, so they could only wait and see what happened.
In the evening of that day, He Qing's Second Division secretly stepped on the snow near the moat outside the Right East Gate, and then took advantage of the cover of night to start watering the snow repeatedly. The water poured the previous time began to freeze, and then watered the ice layer, freezing and watering until the morning of the next day.
As soon as dawn the next day, the Mingyue Empire Army at the top of Xijing saw an amazing scene!
Overnight, a crystal clear ice path appeared outside the east gate of Xijing, extending from the enemy camp in the distance to the moat. The thick ice layer shone under the sun, which was very spectacular. The Mingyue Empire Army on the top of the city did not realize that the disaster was coming, and was talking loudly against the "ice path" outside the city.
Suddenly, a loud trumpet sound surged from the enemy camp outside the city. Then, a group of fully armed glorious imperial troops drove out from the camp in a tight formation, like a rolling iron stream, quickly advancing to both sides of the ice path and setting up a rigorous formation. The formation seemed to be welcoming someone.
“Huh?”
A sharp-eyed Mingyue Empire soldier finally discovered an abnormality and pointed to the back of the enemy camp and said, "What is that? I didn't see this thing yesterday?"
The other Mingyue Empire Army looked in the direction of the soldier's finger and saw a huge tower-shaped object. Because the things were hidden in the middle of the layers of tents and were far apart, no one paid attention to it just now, but now everyone discovered it after the sharp-eyed Mingyue Empire soldiers said.
When everyone was shocked and suspicious, the sharp-eyed soldier said again: "Hey, do you feel that thing seems to be moving!"
Everyone observed for a moment and found that the towering tower-shaped things were indeed moving, and the direction of movement was actually the direction of the city gate. A squadron leader of the Imperial Guard woke up first and shouted shrillly: "This is a scaffolding! Damn, this is a huge moving scaffolding!"
This is indeed a scaffolding, and it is an unprecedented giant scaffolding.
This was built by Meng Hu himself and his men spent a day and two nights. This is definitely an unprecedented giant scaffolding in Middle Earth. Of course, the structure is also essentially different from ordinary scaffolding. This giant scaffolding not only exists independently, but also a multi-layer scaffolding that can be driven by manpower!
It is precisely because it is a simple multi-layer scaffolding that it is built quickly.
There are simple wooden ladders connected between the various levels of this giant scaffolding.
Moreover, the front of this giant scaffolding is slightly tilted forward. Even if the bottom cannot be attached to the city wall, the top of it can be attached to the city wall. Once this huge multi-layer scaffolding is attached to the city wall, the warriors of the Tiger Legion can snatch the city wall from the ground in a short time along the simple wooden ladder between the scaffolding, and then launch a face-to-face attack on the Mingyue Empire Army on the city wall!
"scaffold?"
Another Imperial Guard squadron leader shook his head disapprovingly, "This is impossible. Even if it is a scaffolding, how heavy is such a large scaffolding? How can it be pushed..."
"Ice Road!"
The captain of the Imperial Army who had just spoken said tragically, "No wonder the enemy had to stomp the snow yesterday and then water it on it. These cunning and brilliant barbarians could actually think of using ice to push the giant scaffolding. If we can't destroy the ice path outside the city before the enemy scaffolding hits the city wall, that's all!"
"Hurry, fire stone bombs and smash this thing!"
At the order of the general guarding the city, more than a dozen catapults in the right east gate were launched one after another.
Unfortunately, the hit accuracy of the catapult is too poor. The stone bombs fired out are difficult to hit the target. What's more, the launch interval of the catapult is too long. When the second stone bomb of the catapult is launched, the huge scaffolding has advanced for a long distance!
At this speed, before the catapult fired the third stone bomb, the enemy's giant scaffolding would approach the city wall.
The Mingyue Empire soldiers on the top of the city all had despair on their faces. The catapult obviously could not pose a threat to the enemy's giant scaffolding. However, the enemy outside the city had already lined up, and the archers of those teams had already set up their shooting queues. At this time, they could not go out of the city to destroy the ice road!
"roar!"
"roar!"
"roar!"
The neat horns were from nothing to something, and from vaguely audible to deafening. Amid the deafening horns, the extremely huge scaffolding finally approached the Xijing city wall within two hundred steps. The Mingyue Empire soldiers on the top of the city finally saw clearly that this huge scaffolding was as high as the Xijing city wall, and was several feet wide!
Soon, the giant scaffolding of the Tiger Legion entered the range of the bow and arrow. The Mingyue Empire Army on the top of the city hurriedly shot with rockets. Unfortunately, the front end of the giant scaffolding of the Tiger Legion was covered with wet cowhide, and the rockets shot by the Mingyue Empire Army could not pose any threat to it.
Chapter completed!