The Eldest Daughter Is Beautiful and Saucy
Chapter 1112: Support war with war
Chapter 1112: Fighting to Support War
Sar Khan tightly grasped the jade cicada in his hand, turned around after a while, and said in a cold voice: “It’s just that Yan State saw that Da Zhou did not attack, and saw that Da Zhou wanted benefits, so it also wanted to get a piece of the pie!”
The fact that the Great Zhou was still willing to talk meant that it was unwilling to fight. What could Yan State come to join in for? Wasn’t it just to get a share of the spoils?
Sar Khan looked grim. When had their Tianfeng Kingdom ever felt so aggrieved?
Even in winter, their elephant army is not incapable of fighting. The only reason they are being ridden over by these ant-like inferior creatures is that they have to endure it for the sake of the oracle.
The punishment from the gods was to let sand swallow their land, which was a great fear in the hearts of everyone in Tianfeng Kingdom. As the monarch of Tianfeng Kingdom, Sar Khan felt not only fear but also anxiety. He was the king of Tianfeng Kingdom and had the responsibility to free the people of Tianfeng Kingdom from fear.
He came to this land to find a suitable place for the people of Tianfeng Kingdom to live, so that they would not be immersed in the fear that the food they planted and their homes would be swallowed by the sand at any time.
The Great Wizard’s disciple knew that Sar Khan was very aggrieved now, so he said in a gentle manner: “Your Majesty, what you said makes sense, but we still need to be on guard. Your Majesty, leave first. I will talk to the envoy sent by the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and then leave Li Tianfu here. No matter which piece of land or city the Great Zhou Dynasty wants, we will let Li Tianfu give it to us!”
“Report…” The soldiers of Tianfeng Kingdom rushed in, “The Great Zhou has begun to attack the city!”
The situation on the battlefield changes rapidly, which tests the general’s ability to respond the most. When Bai Jinzhi received the news that Yan State wanted to besiege the city, he did not delay and started the war immediately. He also sent someone to send the news to Bai Qingyu.
“How dare they!” Sar Khan’s eyes were bloodshot.
The Great Wizard disciple turned to look at Sar Khan and said, “Your Majesty, if you still want to leave room for the Great Zhou to search for Yuchan, withdraw now and let the Xiliang people stay and fight!”
Although for Yuchan… in order to gain a foothold in this land, Sar Khan could tolerate Da Zhou, but now Da Zhou was simply riding on his neck and running wild. He clenched his fists tightly, and really wanted to go to war with Da Zhou directly, and beat Da Zhou so that it could not get up… and beat the Emperor of Da Zhou to his knees and beg for mercy!
At this moment, the emperor of Great Zhou was in Pingyang City. As long as we captured the emperor alive, we would see how arrogant Great Zhou could continue to be!
Seeing the rising fighting spirit of Sar Khan, the disciple of the Great Wizard hurriedly said, “Your Majesty, don’t forget that Yuchan is still in the Great Zhou, and don’t forget… the oracle!”
Sar Khan closed his eyes. The oracle cannot be disobeyed!
Then he thought of Yu Chan who was still in the Great Zhou, and of the fact that their Tianfeng Kingdom had, after all, stretched out its defense line and crossed the snow-capped mountains to fight on this land. If they really fought recklessly and their food supplies were cut off, they would have no way to feed these giant elephants.
This was also God’s will. Before, their Tianfeng country urgently needed all kinds of furs to sew winter clothes for the giant elephants to help the giant elephants resist the cold, so Cui Fengnian tried every means to get a large amount of animal furs…
As a result, the Tianfeng Kingdom did not expect that in Xiliang, a country with a small amount of arable land, the people actually gave up farming and focused their attention on animal furs and the jade brocade that the Zhou royal family liked. They completely abandoned the already scarce arable land and used the money they earned to buy food.
When the Tianfeng Kingdom arrived in Xiliang, before they had the chance to make a big move, they discovered that… Xiliang was even more short of food than the Tianfeng Kingdom.
In addition, the great witch said that the owner of this land chosen by the oracle of the gods was still there, and the land could not be forcibly seized. Therefore, the Tianfeng Kingdom could only come up with a way to lease it, first gain a foothold and have food… kill the owner of this land, and then use war to support war.
However, the great witch’s disciples still don’t know who the owner of this remote land is. For Sar Khan, the king of Tianfeng Kingdom who has always believed in God, he really dare not rashly disobey the oracle.
Sar Khan closed his eyes. Previously, the Tianfeng Kingdom had angered the gods, so the gods let the desert devour the land of the Tianfeng Kingdom as a punishment. Now, if he disobeyed the oracle again and launched a war to occupy the land while the owner of the land was still alive, what kind of punishment would the gods bring down? He was not sure whether the Tianfeng Kingdom could bear it!
Thinking of this, Sar Khan leaned back in his chair in frustration, his face full of fatigue. “Leave the Xiliang Army to guard the city! The Tianfeng Kingdom’s elephant army and soldiers will all withdraw, leaving behind a giant elephant and the Tianfeng Kingdom’s envoy. After we safely cross the Danshui River, let the envoy ride the giant elephant to personally open the gate to welcome Lord Gao Yi of the Great Zhou into the city, and show them our sincerity in wanting to coexist peacefully and trade for mutual benefit. Let the elephant army pack up and prepare immediately, and send someone to negotiate with the Yan Kingdom first. If the Yan Kingdom does not allow it… then kill them!”
Sar Khan said this with gritted teeth.
“Yes!” The soldier who came to report the news immediately went out to pass the order.
However, to the surprise of the Tianfeng Kingdom, the Great Zhou was not like the siege troops they had encountered before, who simply climbed the city walls with ladders.
After the large Zhou army, protected by heavy shields, approached, teams of six people with light shields emerged from both sides of the heavy shields. There were only four people carrying light shields, and the four shields were linked together, protecting two of the soldiers carrying bags behind them, and they quickly approached the two corners of the city wall.
The people of Tianfeng had never seen such strange shields. One of them was carrying the most common style shield, and the other three shields were of strange styles. The middle one was a square field-shaped light shield with four even sides, and the other two were Gui field-shaped light shields with three even sides.
The soldiers trained at Niujiao Mountain in Shuoyang were holding shields that were made by Zeng Shanru with ink powder added, so the arrows could not penetrate them at all.
Just like when they captured the Qingxishan Pass, at the corner of the city wall, the team led three people to interlock their shields. There were hidden buckles inside the three shields, which connected together to form a trinity, forming a large shield in the shape of a rice field to resist the force of the city wall. The two people carrying the packages immediately stepped forward and embedded rivets as thick as rolling pins into the cracks in the city wall.
The only Great Zhou soldier who was holding a normal large protective shield squeezed in between the city wall and the angle between the shield and the wall, nailed rivets with rings under the city wall, stepped on the rivets, passed one end of the protective rope through the ring and held it in his hand. This was an improved tactic discussed by Ji Tingyu and Zhao Ran after the battle of Qingxi Mountain Pass, which would greatly increase the safety of the soldiers climbing the city wall.
The three soldiers with protective ropes tied around their bodies and holding the Minita Shield worked in perfect harmony, stepping on the riveted shield and moving upwards. Two soldiers with rivets embedded in the rivets followed closely behind them, taking one step forward steadily and then riveting a rivet into the city wall…
Seeing that the arrows were powerless below the city wall… the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty who were slowly and orderly climbing up the city wall in dense numbers, the soldiers of the Tianfeng Kingdom and the Xiliang soldiers in the south were panicked.