Chapter Thirty-Four: War in Chen County (Part Two)

  The governor of Chen County saw the countless rioters, carrying hoes and wooden clubs, with tattered clothes, swarming in from all directions. He smiled and said: "These people, without complete armor and no inch of iron in their hands, dare to come and take my Chen County? A mantis trying to shake a tree! Haha!"

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  Originally nervous officials were also very calm at this time, with joyful smiles on their faces.

  Chen Yu led a group of generals in commanding the noisy and disorderly refugees to start setting up camp, some cutting down trees, others digging pits. With many hands, great power was achieved, and before long, a simple but large camp had been set up.

  Then Chen Yu pointed out several thousand people, promising that each person could have an extra bowl of meat. Only then did these people reluctantly follow a few craftsmen to the nearby mountain forest to cut down large trees and make simple cloud ladders and other siege engines.

  More than 100,000 rioters lay down on the ground after setting up their tents and refused to get up again.

  "Your Excellency, I request to lead three thousand elite soldiers out of the city and lift the siege of Chen County." A young officer in his thirties stepped forward, gazing at the chaotic scene below.

  The county guard just looked down at the city and didn't say a word.

  "Sir, I am willing to sign a military order. If we lose, I will accept the punishment of the military law!" The young captain saw that the governor was not speaking and knelt down on one knee again, shouting loudly.

  "General Meng Xin doesn't have to be like this, doesn't have to be like this." The county magistrate hastily helped up the young captain who was kneeling on one knee.

  "This official believes that General Meng can certainly defeat the rebels, but there are over 100,000 rioters. Although all of Chen County's soldiers are elite, they only number a little over 20,000. If the rioters have an ambush and take advantage of the moment when the general opens the city gate to seize the city, what should be done?"

  "Chen County is well-stocked with grain, and I have already sent an envoy to report to Xianyang for reinforcements. Moreover, there are capable generals like Meng who excel in battle. We only need to rely on the strength of our city walls and the sharpness of our weapons, and wait for the rebels' corpses to fill the ground before they will surely retreat without a fight."

  The county lieutenant and other officials on the side also echoed in agreement. The Mong surname school lieutenant saw that he had no choice but to reluctantly step down.

  The county governor saw the Mong surname school lieutenant retreat, and looked at the chaotic camp of the rebels below the city again: "General Meng, these rebels are not worth worrying about. We will go down to the city first to comfort the residents in the city, and the defense of the city will be entrusted to General Meng."

  "Ah!"

  After the county governor and others went down from the city wall, Meng Xin lay on the city wall again to observe the rioters under the city carefully.

  At this time, Chen Yu had already ordered people to set up countless large and small copper pots and iron pots in the big camp, cooking blocks of meat as big as bowls with rice dishes and water. More than a million refugees, either ten or twenty people, surrounded a large pot, watching the rolling meat blocks in the pot and swallowing their saliva constantly.

  Chen Yu led a group of generals to set up a large pot in the empty space in the middle of the camp, and they were also drinking and eating meat with big mouths.

  As soon as Chen Yu gave the order, his personal soldiers rushed to bring out wine and distributed a bowl of wine to each of the rioters. Then all the rioters began to gather around the pot with big mouths eating food, from time to time someone would quarrel and fight over a piece of meat.

  Chen Yu and other generals did not stop him, but instead cheered loudly on the side. For a time, the entire rebel camp was like a vegetable market.

  The scene before his eyes made Meng Xin secretly shake his head. If these rebels were only like this, then with the solidity of Chen County's city walls and the sharpness of Qin army's weapons, he naturally would not fear these rebels.

  The people below the city wall were in chaos, and they didn't even have decent weapons, let alone large-scale siege engines. However, Meng Xin had a bad premonition in his heart. What was it that wasn't right?

  If we could lead our troops down to the city and fight a battle, we would be able to see what's real and what's fake. Unfortunately... I hope the rebels are really that despicable.

  After a long time, the Qin army soldiers on the city wall had all escaped to a cool place, and Meng Xin was also sweating under the scorching sun, thinking for a moment before entering the city tower to rest.

  At this time, there was only one "bang" sound.

  Meng Xin heard the sound and rushed out of the city gate, while the Qin army soldiers who were originally hiding in the shade to avoid the heat also quickly ran out to take their positions.

  Meng Xin's hands rested on the railing of the pavilion as he gazed out at the chaotic camp of rebels below the city.

  After the "clang" sound, it was probably after half a stick of incense that those full and drunk rioters began to line up in front of the camp, a general standing on the high platform shouted something loudly, then saw these rioters like being injected with chicken blood, shouting and rushing towards the city wall like a swarm of bees, dozens of crude cloud ladders that were obviously hastily made followed behind the crowd of rioters.

  The Qin army soldiers were indeed the most elite troops in the world at that time, although all the Qin army looked down on the rebels who seemed to be numerous but actually could not withstand a single blow, yet at this moment no one relaxed their vigilance because of underestimation.

  Without waiting for Meng Xin's order, the Qin soldiers on the city wall naturally drew their swords and loaded their crossbows, forming a tight array.

  As the swarming rioters approached the city wall, getting closer and closer, suddenly, the horn sounded, and the wooden logs on the city wall rained down like a sudden rainstorm. Countless long arrows whizzed through the air, pouring down on the countless rioters who charged forward fearlessly, killing them off.

  It's a large-scale repeating crossbow of the Qin army! The large arrows used by the crossbow are as thick as an arm and as long as a spear, with arrowheads over two feet long, which is simply a short sword mounted on a wooden pole over one meter long to be thrown out violently. Such thick and big spears and arrows flying everywhere, their whistling momentum, their penetrating power, and their strong force are beyond compare.

  In the blink of an eye, hundreds and thousands of large arrows poured into the crowd of rioters. A shrill cry of despair accompanied the "popping" sound of the arrows entering their bodies, which was incessant. The massive penetrating power of the arrows often pierced through three or four unprotected rioters in succession before finally falling to the ground, stringing together a long row of densely packed rioters like sugar canes.

  Hundreds and thousands of large arrows, like plows, dug out thousands of gaps in the dense crowd, forming long, long blood roads. On these blood roads were strings of human bodies strung together, still dripping with blood, like human flesh lollipops.

  The first wave of crossbow bolts shot out killed at least thousands of rioters.

  The earth-shaking cries of killing suddenly stopped!

  These untrained mobs had never seen such a bloody scene before, the sharp arrowheads whizzing and the blood splashing after entering the body, forming a blood path that let these mobs know what war was all about.

  At this time, the rioters who were rushing to the front suddenly let out a mournful cry as if they had just woken up from a dream, threw away the wooden sticks or hoes in their hands, turned around and ran back. The people behind them didn't know what was happening at all and continued to charge forward, fighting for Wanhu Hou.

  The rioters who retreated from the front and those who charged from behind collided with each other, instantly becoming a chaotic mess. Some rioters even turned on their companions who had been drinking and eating with them just moments before, now blocking their way to escape the battlefield.

  Chen Yu, on the high platform of the great camp, seeing this situation, was suddenly greatly alarmed in his heart. He overestimated the combat will of the rioters and underestimated the fighting strength of the Qin army. He hastily shouted loudly: "Sound the golden drum to retreat! Quickly sound the golden drum to retreat!"

  "The clang of metal on metal rang out across the battlefield."

  Although the rioters had no training, fortunately, when they heard the sound of the gong, they knew it meant to retreat and return to camp. Suddenly, the originally chaotic crowd retreated in an instant.

  Looking at the chaotic crowd of rebels, the Qin army on the city wall was icy, and the soldiers operating the crossbow machine were still neat and tidy, pulling the strings and loading arrows for the next round of continuous shooting. At this time, Chen Yu's gong sounded to retreat, and a new round of continuous shooting crossbows had already been reloaded with large arrows.

  Another blast of the horn wailed.

  The city wall once again echoed with the sound of wooden drums beating like a sudden rain, followed by the shrill whistling and then the incessant wailing. Thousands of large arrows once again plowed out thousands of blood paths in the chaotic retreating crowd.

  All the rioters wished they had two more legs given by their parents, crying and shouting as they rolled and crawled to escape this hell on earth.

  Under the empty city walls, only thousands of blood roads and the miserable cries of the dying rioters were left. Strings of human sugar gourds silently told these rioters who had been swept away that war is cruel.

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