Chapter 169 Siege of the City (1)
The Wu family's castle looks bigger than the Zhao family's castle, and there are nearly 20,000 defenders in this castle. Mu Ye rode Abu around the castle and said, "Come on, go and shout to me and ask the people in the castle to surrender immediately, otherwise when I break through the castle, I will definitely not leave any other people."
"Yes, general." The messenger immediately sent the order.
Soon a few loud soldiers were found in the army. After they arrived at the bottom of the castle, they began to persuade them to surrender. However, this castle is the old nest of the Wu family, and most of the people living in it are children of the Wu family, so they would rather die than surrender.
Seeing that the chance of persuading surrender was not high, Zhao Jiaming came to Mu Ye and said, "Lord, this is the old nest of the Wu family. Most of the people living there are children of the Wu family, and they will never surrender."
"That's not necessarily. If Wu Zongkui was still alive, I would never send anyone to persuade him to surrender. But now Wu Zongkui is dead and was killed by his biological son. I believe that many of the Wu family's children must have disliked him. At the same time, Wu Hui has just taken over the throne, and his prestige is not enough to be convincing, so I have to tell you about the scandals he has done when his reputation is not revealed, so that everyone knows what kind of despicable villain Wu Hui is. This is the so-called attack on the heart and attacking the city as the bottom. I don't want to see my soldiers die in vain under this broken city. As long as a small number of people are willing to rebel from the Wu family, I will have a way to take down this castle.
Now I order to continue shouting to the castle and tell me all the scandals Wu Hui has done, especially the more exaggerated his father and brother, the better. If anyone says it well, I will definitely be rewarded."
Mu Ye's order immediately made the soldiers feel energetic, so many soldiers who knew the inside story immediately stood up and talked loudly about Wu Hui's character.
Speaking of which, Wu Hui's character is really not very good, especially after he killed his father and brother, he was even said to be a shameless person who was unfaithful, filial, unkind and unrighteous. The children of the Wu family were ashamed to raise their heads when they heard these words. Some elders of the Wu family were very dissatisfied with Wu Hui's capture of the position of the head of the family. They secretly planned to cancel the title of Wu Hui's position of the head of the family.
Unfortunately, before they took action, Mu Ye had already led the army to the castle, which immediately frightened several elders of the Wu family. But Mu Ye didn't care who would be the head of the Wu family. What he wanted was to completely eradicate the Wu family's power in the northern territory.
Mu Ye had arranged people to surround the Wu family's castle, but he did not surround it all, but adopted the method of surrounding three que 1. He deliberately left a way to survive for the people in the castle so that he would not encounter desperate resistance when siegeing the city.
Besides, most of the 20,000 people in the castle were tenants of the Wu family, and they did not have the awareness to work hard for the Wu family. It was precisely because Mu Ye saw this that he came up with a strategy of attacking the heart.
After Muye sent people to the castle for a day, Muye retreated them back and set up camp ten miles away from the castle. Now, after dawn, he started to attack the city. Muye had prepared a siege ladder, city rushing cars, and trenchers and other siege weapons, and was waiting for the castle to be taken down tomorrow.
As soon as the next day, Mu Ye and the soldiers began to prepare for the siege after a full meal. At the same time, Zhao Jiaming and Zhou Tianhao also led their troops to both sides of the castle. When Mu Ye led his troops to the bottom of the castle, the servants on the castle also began to sound the horn of the battle.
At this moment, when Mu Ye waved the flag in his hand, more than a dozen trenchers began to put up wooden barrels. The barrels were filled with tinder oil, and the holes were sealed with gauze on the lid of the barrel. However, the gauze had been lit by torches at this time, so when the barrel was thrown into the castle, the fire on the gauze instantly ignited the tinder oil in the barrel when it encountered the broken wooden barrel. The burning of the tinder oil immediately scared the servants on the castle to run away with their heads. Some barrels were even thrown into the house and instantly ignited the wooden houses in the castle.
At this time, the entire castle was filled with smoke, and the servants were already scared to hide under the cover of the castle. The reason why Mu Ye used fire attack as soon as he came up was to give the people in the castle a deterrent force so that they could know that there was only a dead end to be an enemy of him. At this moment, the effect of fire attack was even better than Mu Ye imagined. After he waved his hand, he immediately stopped the attack of the catapult.
Then Mu Ye sent out a siege team and soldiers from the Bow and Crossbow Battalion, and ordered them to attack the Wu family castle immediately. With Mu Ye's order, the three-sided army launched an attack on the Wu family's castle at the same time. At this time, several elders of the Wu family had to lead their servants to counterattack Mu Ye's army, and suddenly a bloody battle began to take place from the castle.
The crossbow camp sent by Muye played a great role under the castle. All the servants who showed their heads were shot down by the crossbow camp. Soon the soldiers of the attacking team climbed up to the castle and started a fight with the servants on the castle.
The soldiers of these siege teams are all composed of abandoned people. Their bravery is not comparable to those servants, and only the children of the Wu family slightly resisted the attack of the siege team.
However, the Wu family's children accounted for a minority, and soon they were surrounded and killed by the abandoned people in the castle. When the servants saw the Wu family being killed, they were immediately confused. In addition, they lacked training, so when they saw the abandoned people coming towards them again, they were immediately frightened and collapsed, and the top of the castle was soon occupied by the abandoned people.
There was no big suspense in this siege. After hearing yesterday's call, the servants lost their faith in the Wu family, so the attack at the main gate was soon taken down by the abandoned people.
When Muye saw the gate of the castle being opened, he immediately waved his hand and led the army to rush towards the gate. Soon they rushed into the castle. At this time, there were shouts of killing everywhere in the castle. After Muye waved to a messenger, he said, "Send the order to me immediately. As long as the surrendered servants, they will be exempted from their death penalty."
"Yes, general." After receiving the order, the commander immediately sent the order. Soon the shouts of killing in the castle gradually weakened.
At this time, Zhao Jiaming and Zhou Tianhao, who were attacking both sides of the castle, also rushed into the castle. When they met with Mu Ye, the entire Wu family's castle was completely captured by Mu Ye and the others. In this battle, tens of thousands of servants were captured, and thousands of servants died in battle, but some servants hid in their own yards. Mu Ye did not want to make things difficult for these servants. Speaking of which, these servants were just farmers, and the real soldiers were less than one-third of them.
However, most of the Wu family soldiers died in the castle, and even the Wu family's children suffered a lot of casualties, and Muye also suffered thousands of casualties, but it was a big victory compared to the Wu family's men.
At the same time, Mu Ye also captured many people from the Wu family, some of whom were elders of the Wu family. Mu Ye did not order the killing of these Wu family members, but detained them all, and even their families were imprisoned with them. However, the Wu family's property and land deeds were all confiscated by Mu Ye. When Mu Ye saw the confiscated wealth, he couldn't help laughing.
Chapter completed!