Chen Hai led the troops and horses of Yequ mountain. The first raid was the black mountain stronghold. After attacking and seizing the south gate, he had an alley battle with the city guarding bandits for several days. This battle not only wiped out 2000 soldiers and horses left behind in Heishan stronghold, but also almost demolished all the houses in Heishan stronghold. Finally, in the cave secret room of neifu, many treasures accumulated by Heishan bandits were found.
When they left Heishan stronghold, Chen Hai distributed a large amount of food materials to the slaves. Even if there was a large amount of surplus, they also released the slaves and transferred them to the magic Moon Lake more than 1000 miles away.
In order to collect the necessary materials for the construction of Jingjue City, the baggage camp even melted six precision forged iron doors of Heishan stronghold weighing more than 100000 kg into iron ingots and transported them to magic Moon Lake.
The five thousand horse bandits of Guhuo mountain chased each other in the vast desert for six or seven days, and were forced to withdraw into the black mountain stronghold. Almost all of the black mountain stronghold was the city wall, and there were still complete empty cities for them to occupy and defend.
It was already March 76 of emperor Yi Tian, and the weather was not so cold. Naturally, we didn''t want to splash water to seal the city gate and cave. At this time, the bandits didn''t seem to want to be sealed in the stronghold city. Even if most of the main forces retreated to the stronghold city for rest, there were more than 1000 elite dismounted outside the Nancheng building to form an array, which made it clear that they wanted to borrow the topographic advantages of Nancheng building, You can deploy more elite archers in the gate tower and the two wing walls to form horns with the elite horse thieves under the city to jointly suppress the charge of the elite army.
The main force of the Montenegrin army is still four or five thousand miles away. Chen Hai led the horse infantry to camp ten miles away from the Nancheng building, and then calmly arranged the siege.
Fan Dachun led two thousand elite riders. At this time, they were also tired and rested. Dozens of people even died alive in the depths of the vast desert. Not a few were tired, but the whole army was extremely excited at this moment.
If we fight in the depths of the vast desert, there is no favorable terrain like Shiyue gorge, and the bandits are vigilant and run faster than rabbits. In the end, even if we can defeat the enemy, it is very sad to destroy the number of enemy bandits. At this time, how can we not be excited to see 5000 bandits enter the urn completely?
The main force of the horse army stared at the enemy''s every move. Fan Dachun led 2000 elite to ride off his horse and rest. There was no worry. His physical strength and energy recovered quickly -- Chen Hai also passed the news to Deng tong''er, who stayed at the magic Moon Lake and supervised the construction of the new Jingjue city.
Magic Moon Lake is about 1100 li away from Heishan village, with two pocket oases in the middle as a springboard.
Deng tong''er learned that the bandits in Guhuo mountain had been forced into the black mountain stronghold by the main force of the elite army. He immediately arranged a baggage camp to transport a large number of stone throwing crossbows and cast iron parts to Montenegro as soon as possible, so that he could assemble multiple stone throwing crossbows as soon as possible, which could effectively threaten and attack the enemy in the stronghold city.
At this time, killing hundreds of horses is not the same thing at all -- Chen Hai also wants Deng tonger to establish supply defense bases in the two pocket oases between magic Moon Lake and Montenegro and in Shiyue gorge, which can facilitate the more effective and orderly passage of materials, people and horses in the two places.
Shiyue gorge is a stone mountain deep in the desert. There is no water source on the surface. It is extremely difficult to establish a supply base. Chen Hai asked Deng tonger to dig deep wells there. Even if the deep wells can''t get water, he can deploy a condensate Rune array to gather rain and dew to store water.
Stone moon gorge is the central point between magic Moon Lake and black mountain stronghold. Whether we want to use the resources of magic Moon Lake to capture Black Mountain stronghold now or bring magic Moon Lake and black mountain stronghold into the governance of Jingjue city in the future, stone moon gorge is a strategic point.
There are 17 small and medium-sized oases and 17 small and medium-sized tribes living near the black mountain stronghold. Previously, they were forced to surrender to the brutality of the black mountain bandits.
In addition to the six tribes that have taken the initiative to enchant the magic Moon Lake, there are 11 small and medium-sized tribes who have not yet chosen to belong to Jingjue city because they are afraid of the bloody revenge of the Heishan Kou, or because they are unwilling to give up the beautiful oasis of water and grass they have lived in for a long time and move to the magic Moon Lake, or because they are deeply assimilated by the Heishan Kou.
But at this time, Chen Hai will not give these tribes more choices.
Chen Hai personally cast eleven excellent school captain seals and asked Guo Hong to send them to the tribes:
The one who receives the seal of the school captain is the family of the school captain in Jingjue city. It takes five days to send Jianyong in the proportion of one out of ten, carrying the corresponding war horses, armor and grain and grass to the periphery of Heishan stronghold to participate in the siege.
In the name of the state envoy, Chen Hai officially established Heishan as the vice city of Jingjue City, governing the tribes around 300 miles and refusing to accept the seal of the school captain. Within half a month, Ju moved out of the oasis within 300 miles of Heishan stronghold.
Either the Ju nationality joined the war or the Ju nationality moved out. There is no choice to stay and wait and see the situation and enjoy the benefits.
With the successive victories of Jingjue army, Chen Hai led nearly 10000 soldiers and horses, and 5000 soldiers were tired of besieging the trapped horse thieves in Heishan stronghold. With a little coercion and inducement, nine of the eleven tribes almost didn''t hesitate to accept the seal of Jingjue school captain sent by Chen Hai.
There are 70000 people in these nine tribes. They send Jianyong in the proportion of one out of ten to take part in the war outside Heishan stronghold with war horses, soldiers and grain. In addition, Deng tonger sends 2000 strong people from magic Moon Lake. Chen Hai can call more than 18000 people outside Heishan stronghold in five days.
A large number of grain, iron, wood and other materials are also gathered in a steady stream.
Chen Haixian arranged 30 stone throwing crossbows to blow down the South City building, remove the covers on the city wall, and rebuild dozens of building vehicles to approach the city wall from the two wings. More than 1000 archers were built in, shoot with arrows and crossbows, force the thieves down from the city wall, and then advance step by step to the city gate with a spear array.
The bandits of Guhuo mountain retreated into the black mountain stronghold in the depths of the vast desert, which is a desperate choice. In addition to the necessary food, they mainly carry precious belongings with them, and discard some cumbersome bulk materials in the depths of the vast desert. When they withdraw to Heishan stronghold, they find that the stronghold city is in a mess and want to organize troops and horses to defend the city. Even if hundreds of craftsmen accompany them, there is not enough wood and iron in the stronghold city to make defense equipment.
Although most of the bandits wear excellent armor, sometimes the excellent troops are tied together with double-layer rows of wood and iron nails or iron wires, resulting in shields or side car boards. They are more defensive than excellent armor, and can protect a large number of archers, swords and shield soldiers from approaching the city wall at the same time.
The spear square array has great disadvantages, but the Jingjue army has an absolute advantage in force at this time, and the morale is extremely strong. There is no need to worry about the attack on the flank. Only a dense spear wall is formed on the front, and it will be unstoppable step by step.
The horse thieves were soon forced to return to Heishan stronghold.
Spear array is not conducive to street warfare in complex terrain. Other sword shield soldiers and archers are not as elite as horse thieves in street warfare. Chen Hai is not in a hurry to send troops to the city to seize the lane.
His main purpose is to block the five thousand bandits in the city, then build more stone throwing crossbows, put them on the periphery of the stronghold City, and continuously throw one stone bullet weighing hundreds of kilograms or even hundreds of kilograms into the stronghold city to ignite the flame bullet filled with fire oil, so that the five thousand horse thieves know to retreat into the black mountain stronghold, Is their most wrong choice in the future.
The advantage of the horse thieves is that they are in the vast sand sea. Attacking and guarding the stronghold is their fatal weakness. Of course, it seems that the Western Qiang country is strong, but it is extremely difficult to organize a large-scale siege in the depths of the vast sand sea.
Equipped with a heavy stone throwing crossbow, it only needs 20 or 30 people to operate, and the range can be as far as 2000 steps. However, an ordinary human stone throwing crossbow needs 100 people to operate at the same time, so it can throw hundreds of kilograms of stone bullets beyond 1000 steps. It is too limited.
Although the horse thieves trapped in Heishan stronghold are led by Guhuo mountain horse thieves, they account for only one-third of their troops. Nearly two-thirds of the other horse thieves are left behind soldiers from seven or eight other strongholds.
They thought they would be safe when they gathered at Guhuo mountain. Who could have thought that the edge of the elite army would be so prosperous?
In this world, it is never easy to share wealth and wealth, and it is more difficult to share weal and woe.
If the eight or nine horse thieves gathered in Guhuo mountain, they would not be threatened and could get along safely. However, after abandoning Guhuo mountain and escaping from Shandong, internal disputes and contradictions began to emerge. At this time, they were trapped in Heishan stronghold and had to bear a large number of stone bombs and flame bombs all the time. They were guarding the stronghold for help, or fighting out of the siege, or surrendering to protect their lives, and the contradictions began to intensify.
On the tenth day, someone secretly sent a secret letter to help Jingjue army seize the black mountain stronghold.
Even if the horse thief who wants to surrender knows Deng tonger and fan Dachun, it is difficult to distinguish whether this is a trap or not. Chen Hai ordered the surrender persuasion book to be put into the stronghold City, and asked those generals who wanted to surrender to give up their troops and horses first, run to surrender and accept the control here, and seize the black mountain stronghold without their cooperation; Or if they are unwilling to give up their own troops, they can kill out of the black mountain stronghold, put down their armor and surrender at the designated place.
In three days, a horse thief could no longer stand the stone bullet bombardment and death threat all day. Taking advantage of the short break in the morning every day, he ripped off the section of the wall he was responsible for defending, and more than 200 people rushed out of Heishan stronghold to surrender and accept reorganization.
This is like the great lake''s decision to open its mouth. When the first horse thief goes out of the city and surrenders, it means that the morale of the remaining horse thieves has entered the final stage of collapse.
Soon, thousands of horse thieves came out of the stronghold and surrendered in various ways. At this time, Chen Hai no longer hesitated. Taking these surrendered horse thieves as the pioneers, fan Dachun, Han wendang and Deng tonger led 3000 elite. Then, they officially entered the stronghold from three broken walls and carried out the final battle of seizing the city
For more than ten days, stone catapults continued to bombard, and Leiji mined and made tens of thousands of stone bullets and flame bombs and threw them into the Heishan stronghold. Although the casualties of the horse thieves may be thousands, this passive situation of being beaten and unable to fight back is almost a collapse in the morale of the horse thieves who have no loyalty.
In addition to the surrendered horse thieves, a total of 4000 elite killed in the black mountain stronghold. The war can be described as destroying the withered and decadent. Many horse thieves have neither the courage to surrender nor the will to resist. When the Jingjue army killed in the black mountain stronghold, they chose to put down their armour and surrender.