Chapter 254 The Battle of Jizhou
"Why are you here too?"
After the Lu family's back house, Ang Lee and Xue Chongxun finally saw Lu Huiyun in a pavilion. What surprised Ang Lee was that Wang Ling'er was still following behind Lu Huiyun.
Seeing Wang Ling'er, Li An was slightly stunned, so he blurted out.
After seeing Ang Lee, Wang Ling'er bowed politely. At this time, Lu Huiyun on the side immediately said, "Ling'er is so miserable this time..."
"What's wrong with Ling'er?" Xue Chongxun asked while standing aside.
"What else can happen? Ling'er's mother and her mother's hateful son tried their best to marry Ling'er and take all the property left by Ling'er's mother to Ling'er's siblings into their hands.
But these two people are too shameless.
Do you know who they found for Ling'er?"
"Who did you find?" Xue Chongxun asked curiously.
"Suo Yuanli..." Lu Huiyun cursed with a humming voice.
"What..." When Ang Lee frowned when he heard Suo Yuanli's name, he said in an incredible voice: "The daughter of the Taiyuan Wang family, I can't even ask for such a royal grandson. He is going to be married to Suo Yuanli. It's ridiculous."
"Is that right...!" Ang Lee was speechless, and Lu Huiyun on the side also said in a spirit: "Ling'er's mother and her son are simply not human. They actually found such a bastard to be Ling'er's husband.
If Ling'er hadn't been secretly taken away quickly, she would have detained Ling'er directly.
However, Ling'er's younger brother was detained. Brother An, you must help Ling'er, by the way... Brother An didn't marry a wife, Taiyuan Wang's legitimate daughter, if you don't want Brother An, you should marry Ling'er."
"Yun'er...!" After hearing Lu Huiyun's words, Wang Ling'er's pretty face turned red and almost bleeding. She hurriedly touched Lu Huiyun beside her.
"I think it's very good. My cousin is very promising. As long as Ling'er, you follow my cousin, let alone your little mother, even your Taiyuan Wang family will not dare to do anything to you. By the way, your brother has detained it.
As long as you are willing to go with my cousin, my cousin will definitely rescue your brother."
"Really..." Wang Ling'er's eyes lit up.
Looking at Wang Ling'er's appearance, Ang Lee knew that Wang Ling'er was really concerned about her younger brother. Of course, Ang Lee couldn't use this to attract Wang Ling'er, so Ang Lee said slightly: "Ling'er... You and I will meet each other, don't worry. As long as you don't want to, Ang Lee promises that no one dares to force you, and I will send someone to take care of your younger brother.
But I think your younger brother is the legitimate son of the Wang family in Taiyuan after all, so there should be no problem. As for Suo Yuanli's affairs, you don't have to worry. I will let Suo Yuanli voluntarily withdraw from the bride, and he dare not welcome the bride."
Suo Yuanli was a Hu man, one of Wu Zetian's four cruel officials. He was the godfather of Xue Huaiyi, one of Wu Zetian's male favorites. He was cruel and violent. He was able to make false accusations and frame others. There were thousands of unjust souls who died at the hands of Suo Yuanli.
Suo Yuanli invented two magic weapons for torture and confession: Zhuoji and Suoqin. After Wu Zetian came to court, he planned to abolish dissidents. He wrote a letter to inform him and promoted him to a guerrilla general.
He was sent to set up institutions in Luozhou to hear "rebels" and torture the rebels. He also caused the prisoners to be widely involved in innocent people, causing thousands of people to be framed and killed. He was greatly rewarded by Wu Zetian. So Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen and others imitated him and created an extremely serious atmosphere of terror.
So he is actually the originator of the real cruel official.
This guy should be the only cruel official of a foreigner. This foreigner likes to invent torture, one of them is called Zhuji. According to records, Zhuji is a mud-eared bridle, a shackle, a wedge hub, a broken rib and a claw, a hang hair and a slut, a lie on the side of the neighbor; that is, a large iron cage is mud outside, and putting a person's head in it is an extremely cruel punishment.
When the Yu Bao family was tried, Yu Bao family refused to confess. Suo Yuanli used this torture instrument to make him confess. Later, this novel torture instrument became the representative of Suo Yuanli. People would think of this torture when they mentioned Suo Yuanli, and they would be very scared.
Lai Junchen has a good relationship with this foreigner, but no matter how good the relationship between them is, Ang Lee is the end of the two. Ang Lee, who has the favor, will be the biggest nemesis of these cruel officials, which is also why Ang Lee is so sure.
However, Ang Lee underestimated Suo Yuanli's ambition. Although Ang Lee had a terrible favor, the temptation of the Wang family's legitimate daughter was too great, so there were still big questions later.
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"attack...!"
The battle outside Jizhou City began, and 70,000 cavalry were waiting. At the command of Wen Mongolia, 10,000 vanguard cavalry went to fight. The scene was very spectacular. The scene of thousands of horses galloping, and the dust raised could be described as covering the sky and the sun.
There are tens of thousands of crossbowmen above Jizhou City. Unfortunately, these tens of thousands of crossbowmen are just border guards and united soldiers...!
In the early Tang Dynasty, the army was dominated by the government soldiers, as well as the Northern Ya Imperial Army, recruitment of troops, border guards, and united soldiers that did not break away from production...
This time, the Wei Wei came too quickly, and there was no time to recruit the soldiers of the palace. It was even more impossible for the Northern Ya Imperial Army and the recruitment of soldiers. He could only rely on the border guards and united soldiers and temporarily raised more than 20,000 people.
You should know that the main force of the Tang army was the palace soldiers, not the border guards and united soldiers, so the attack power of the more than 20,000 border guards and united soldiers on the Jizhou city wall was really limited.
Although there is a moat outside Jizhou, Shi Wei's 10,000 vanguard cavalry were not fools. Before he arrived at the moat, he immediately built a flying bridge.
The fly bridge is also called a thief bridge. As the name suggests, it is a moat. This fly bridge is made simple. It uses two long logs and nails wooden boards on top. For the convenience of handling, two wooden wheels are installed below.
"Six Strategies" records: "A flying bridge crossing the ditch is one gate, one meter and five feet wide and more than two feet long." If the trench is wide, the two fly bridges can be connected together with a rotating shaft to form a folding fly bridge. When transporting, fold one section on the back bridge bed, put the front section down and put it on the opposite bank of the river to make a simple trench bridge.
Arrows were raining on the city wall, but below the city wall, flying bridges were quickly connected, and a large number of cavalry rushed to the city wall and followed the second cavalry of ten thousand people.
This time, the 10,000 cavalrymen were carrying cloud ladders. The current cloud ladders are not just long ladders. The ladders of the Tang Dynasty and the ladder body (main ladder) are fixed on the chassis at a certain angle;
In addition to the main ladder, a moving upper city ladder (sub-ladder) is added. The top is equipped with a pair of wheels. When climbing the city, you can slide up and down along the wall of the city wall, which is called a flying cloud ladder; the bottom of the ladder is "a large wood is used as a bed and six wheels are placed under it."
Since the main ladder adopts a fixed device, the ladder is simplified and the ladder is shortened. The design of the moving up city ladder greatly reduces the height of the ladder before connecting to the enemy. When siege, you only need to park the main ladder under the city and then set up the up city ladder on the main ladder to "go up the city", thereby reducing the danger and difficulty of setting up ladders in front of the enemy. At the same time, it ensures that the ladder is close to the city edge before entering the city to avoid damage from the defenders.
Such a ladder is transported over, and as long as you lean on the city wall, it will be a big battle.
Chapter completed!