Usurpation of Mongolia: My father-in-law is Genghis Khan

Chapter 131: A warrior who rose from among slaves is willing to die for his husband!

"and many more!"

Just as the messenger was about to leave, Zhao Shuo stopped him again.

Because Zhao Shuo suddenly thought that the small size of Zhawei City had its small advantages.

Now that the city of Zavi has been massacred, in addition to the massacre itself, it is also a good opportunity to train troops, and it is also an opportunity for the black people of Bari to taste the sweetness of war.

He added an order: "Tell Wuxian that I will leave him half of the spoils from this battle in Zavi City. If he wants the Khwarazmian Red Banner to be fully staffed as soon as possible, he should spend more time on me."

"Yes!"

Wu Xian currently held two official positions: one was a commander of the Khwarazmian Red Banner, but under his command, besides his own Han army commander, there were only three Khwarazmian commanders. His other position was the commander of the signing army.

These 50,000 Bari black troops are all under his command.

"Order!"

Wu Xian clasped his fists and bowed to the messenger representing Zhao Shuo. After receiving the military order, he immediately took action.

No one knows better than Wu Xian how to mobilize the enthusiasm of the hastily assembled troops.

To put it in civilized terms, it means clear rewards and punishments.

In Wu Xian’s own words, the brave and capable ones eat meat, while the cowardly and timid ones eat shit.

First, he applied to Zhao Shuo for two hundred crossbows and five hundred divine arm bows, and asked the engineering battalion to build a batch of simple ladders in one day.

When crossing the Amu Darya, the heavy siege equipment could not be transported, such as the siege towers, which were left in Samarkand. However, the crossbow, a powerful siege weapon, was disassembled and transported across the Amu Darya.

Then, Wu Xian issued a military order, and 50,000 soldiers volunteered to form a 5,000-man siege suicide squad.

If the 5,000-man suicide squad fails to capture the city of Zavi, their deaths will be in vain.

However, if these 5,000 men could capture the city of Zavi, they would receive 30% of the total spoils.

Among them, the first to climb up will be five people.

During a siege, the merit of being the first to reach the wall is determined by certain criteria. For example, if the first person to reach the wall is killed by the enemy or is later driven off the wall, this is not considered a first-to-reach merit. Only after reaching the wall and successfully clearing a gap, allowing subsequent reinforcements to arrive and successfully capture the city, can this be considered a first-to-reach merit.

Moreover, the first people to climb the ladder do not fight alone, but need help from their comrades.

Therefore, the Lord will determine the number of people who will be the first to ascend the city based on the size and difficulty of the city.

A big city like Samarkand would have more than a dozen first-to-reach points.

For a small city like Zavi, there is usually only one reward for being the first to reach the city.

After the first climb, there are also military achievements such as the second climb and beheading, and there are rules for how much spoils to take.

Wu Xian certainly knew the true meaning of Zhao Shuo's order: to stimulate the fighting enthusiasm of the signed army, let the brave and courageous warriors among them stand out and join the Eight Banners of Khwarezm.

Therefore, he not only directly increased the number of people who could be the first to reach the summit to five, but also increased the reward for the first to reach the summit.

These five first-come, first-served soldiers will share 10% of the spoils obtained by the signing army.

Moreover, after Zhao Shuo took half of the spoils, the five pioneers could have priority in choosing from the remaining women, and each of them could choose three female slaves.

In addition, it must be pointed out that the half of the spoils that Zhao Shuo received was not the 30% share of the spoils that Zhao Shuo personally received as stipulated by the Great Zasa, but the share that Zhao Shuo and all regular troops who did not participate in the war received.

After all, without these regular troops to support them, would the Han army dare to attack the city without any scruples? After the city was captured, would the enemy's resistance quickly disappear? Could they stop the people in the city from escaping?

Leaving 50% of the spoils to the signing army is already generous enough.

The process of Wu Xian selecting 5,000 siege suicide squads was neither enthusiastic nor cold.

Indeed, the rewards after conquering the city were very generous.

However, although Zhao Shuo looked down upon Zhawei City, in the eyes of these soldiers, it was still a strong city.

The suicide squads had to climb the city walls, braving enemy arrows, stones, and boiling oil, and fight the enemy to their lives.

Since registration is voluntary, you don't have to register. So, should you register or not?

In the end, out of the 50,000 signed soldiers, 5,362 people signed up to join the siege suicide squad.

Wu Xian eliminated the weakest 362 people, leaving only 5,000 people.

"so close!"

Seeing that the selection of the 5,000 siege suicide squads had been completed and he himself was not eliminated, Qasim breathed a sigh of relief.

He longs for war!

Qasim, 23 years old, is a camel driver in Barihei. He transports goods for the largest trading company in Barihei, "Golden Camel Bell", but only for short-distance transportation within the city.

When he was ten years old, his father, also a camel driver for the trading company, died while transporting goods for the company in the desert. The trading company's owner, under the pretext of "compensating for losses," took young Qasim and his sister, Kayasan, into indentured slavery. Without his master's permission, he could not leave the city of Barihei.

Three years ago, fourteen-year-old Kayashan was sold to a slave trader by her master.

Qasim didn't know where to sell it after that.

Qasim originally thought that he would never be able to see his sister again in this life, but the arrival of the Mongols gave him an opportunity.

Die or die!

As long as he is not dead, he will try his best to climb up!

He wants to be an official!

He will try his best to get his sister back!

After being selected for the siege squad, Qasim was given the best meal of his life: chickpea and lamb bone soup and three stone-baked naan flatbreads.

These foods may not seem like much on the surface, but compared to his usual food, the hard naan dipped in the lumpy and smelly camel milk and mixed with a handful of fried shallots to relieve his hunger was much better. Qasim felt full of strength all over his body.

Then, he put on the iron armor given by Wuxian, took a handful of iron caltrops, and stood in the queue preparing to attack the city.

The siege weapons distributed by Wu Xian were mainly scimitars, with only a small number of heavy axes, caltrops and other heavy weapons.

Qasim was born with a strong physique, and the heavy physical labor of carrying hundreds of kilograms of goods and subduing frightened camels every day made his muscle fibers extremely strong, especially his arm strength and core strength far exceeding that of ordinary people. So he chose this caltrop bone.

"Siege!"

With a thrust of Wuxian's spear, the Bari Black Signature Army began its attack on the city of Zavi.

Whoosh whoosh!
The first to show its power was the bed crossbow.

Two hundred crossbows can fire one thousand four hundred crossbow arrows at a time, with a range of one thousand five hundred steps!

Puff puff!
boom!
"what!"

"Help me! Help me!"

"These Mongolian barbarians are so powerful!"

"What kind of terrifying weapon is this? What kind of enemy have we provoked?"

"Almighty God! Save us!"

"Kill me! Kill me!"

……

The firing of the crossbow caused casualties among more than 300 soldiers of Zavi City in just an instant!

Some soldiers were directly nailed to the city wall, while others had their heads blown off by a spear, three swords, and arrows.

There were even a few unlucky soldiers who were pierced like a string of candied haws by the huge potential energy of one spear, three swords and arrows!

It’s better if he died on the spot.

He didn't die on the spot. He saw dead people in front and behind him, and he was trapped in the middle. He endured great pain, but was unable to move. The screams he made were not like human voices.

Even because of the concentrated fire of the Divine Arm Bow, two catapults were destroyed on the spot.

And there were only forty catapults in the city of Zavi!

Only then did the people of Zavi realize what a terrifying enemy they had offended.

However, this is just the beginning!

Whoosh whoosh!
The Divine Arm Bow also began to show its power.

The maximum range of the Shenbi bow is 240 steps, which is farther than the remaining 38 catapults in the city of Zavi!
Five hundred divine arm bows fired crossbows, pouring firepower onto the city of Zavi, covering the attack of the siege suicide squad.

"Charge! Kill!"

"Conquer the city of Zavi, and you'll have money and women!"

"The first one to arrive gets to pick three beauties!"

"By the command of God's Disaster, destroy the city of Zavi!"

……

Five thousand siege suicide squads, carrying ladders, launched a general attack on the surrounded town from all directions.

Qasim was among the siege troops.

Qasim was wearing armor and carrying a ladder with five other people. He found it effortless and walked very fast.

Behind them, there were about a hundred soldiers.

These more than one hundred people prepared to use this ladder to attack the city.

Whoosh whoosh!
The catapults on the city of Zavi were in full swing, and stones were thrown towards the siege troops.

Because there were not many catapults left in the city of Zavi, the attacking troops did not suffer many casualties.

However, the closer they got to the city, the more fierce the resistance became. Although the city's defenders numbered less than two thousand, all the young and strong men were gathered together to participate in the defense.

All kinds of bows and crossbows fell like rain!

"what!"

Pfft!
A soldier who was carrying the ladder with Qasim was wearing iron armor, but was unlucky enough to be hit by an arrow in the face. He screamed in pain and fell to the ground.

Only four people can carry this ladder.

"go!"

Qasim did not dare to stop at all. Only by taking the great merit of being the first to reach the top could he quickly stand out and be valued by the Mongols.

And now, the ladders of the Qian army have been put up on the walls of the city of Zavi.

Fortunately, he was very strong, so even if there was one less person carrying the ladder, it did not affect the speed at all.

Boom!
Finally, the ladder reached the city wall.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

The soldiers behind Qasim were mostly Barihei's regular troops. Five of them immediately took advantage of the opportunity while Qasim and his men were still fixing the ladders, shouted, and quickly climbed up the ladders.

wow~~
Before Qasim could scold these people for stealing the credit, a pot of hot oil was poured down from the city wall.

The five men screamed in agony and fell off the ladder together, with no one knowing whether they were dead or alive.

Boom~~
A rolling log fell heavily from the city wall. Qasim quickly dodged to the side, but the soldier behind him was unable to dodge and was smashed into a meat patty.

"Destroy the city of Zawei and take the credit for being the first to reach it!"

Qasim, who was on the battlefield for the first time, was of course very frightened when he saw such a cruel and bloody scene.

But what he feared more was never seeing his sister again.

Moreover, the defensive weapons in a place are limited. The enemy has just placed a rolling log and poured a pot of hot oil. It is very likely that there will be no other defensive weapons in a short time.

He seized this rare opportunity, holding the caltrop bone in his left hand and the ladder in his right hand, and climbed up quickly.

"go to hell!"

Seeing that Qasim was about to climb up the city wall, three spears stabbed at him from top to bottom almost at the same time.

"kill!"

Cassim didn't know any martial arts, so he could only roar and swing the caltrop bone in his hand heavily towards the three spears.

when!
The three spears were actually knocked away by his iron caltrop.

Then Qasim quickly climbed the city wall.

"Go to hell! Go to hell!"

Cassim swung the caltrop in his hand vigorously, and with his advantage of great strength, he killed two people in a row.

He was also hit hard three times, one of which was a heavy iron spear that directly pierced through the iron armor, injuring his left arm, and blood gushed out.

But Qasim was so bloodthirsty and his adrenaline was surging that he didn't feel much pain.

He brandished the caltrop with his right arm and continued to fight.

It didn't take long before he actually opened up a space with the cooperation of his comrades.

After all, the regular army of Zavi City is less than two thousand.

With countless death-defying warriors rushing up the city walls, how much resistance is left?
"Run! Run!"

"Where are you running to? There's a hundred thousand troops outside the city!"

"Whoever was so rude yesterday, cursing the Mongols, got us killed!"

"Surrender! We surrender!"

"We know we were wrong!"

"We are ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth. Please forgive us!"

"You have demonstrated your majesty, now it's time to show your mercy!"

……

The defenders on the city wall no longer looked like they were cursing the Mongols yesterday.

Countless people knelt on the ground and asked for surrender.

Although the siege was brutal, the casualties were only those of Barihei's soldiers. Furthermore, the siege didn't last long, and the casualties among the soldiers were only a few hundred. Didn't they think the Mongols had white tents, red tents, and black tents?

It’s not too late to surrender now. Although you will definitely lose your property, you should be able to survive.

However, it turned out that they were too naive.

Zhao Shuo said he wanted to massacre the city, so can we get any discount?
Soon, Wu Xian gave an order and 10,000 soldiers entered the city and took control of all the important places in the city.

Then, the residents were ordered to hand over all their property. If anyone dared to hide it, their entire family would be killed once they were discovered.
All the livestock were, of course, spoils of war for the Mongols.

Finally, all the residents were driven out of the city. They were organized to tear down the walls of Zavi, and then divided into four teams according to men, women, the elderly, and children no taller than the wheels.

At Wu Xian's command, all the men and the elderly became dead under the sword.

This is the price they pay for their bad mouths!

All the young women and property became the spoils of the Mongols.

Thirty-two thousand taels of gold!

One hundred seven thousand eight hundred taels of silver!

Sixty thousand pieces of various cloths!
Eight thousand women!
……

This is the harvest this time.

Zhao Shuo kept his promise and gave half of the spoils to Wu Xian for distribution.

Wu Xian also kept his promise completely.

Ten thousand taels of gold!

Thirty thousand taels of silver!

Twenty thousand pieces of various cloths!
Two thousand four hundred women!

……

He was assigned to a 5,000-strong siege suicide squad.

Probably each member of the death squad can get property worth thirty taels of silver.

Two members of the suicide squad can share one woman.

"This...this is all mine?"

Qasim was rewarded more generously for his merit in being the first to reach the summit.

Two thousand gold dinars!
Six thousand silver dinars!
Five hundred pieces of cloth!
……

Not to mention other spoils, a box of gold and silver coins weighing nearly 100 kilograms was so dazzling that he even completely forgot the pain in his left arm.

And his sister was sold to the slave trader for only 500 silver dinars!
He was a slave in Barihei, and his annual expenses for food, clothing, housing and transportation probably didn't even add up to fifty silver dinars!

Are all these things his?

Just because he captured the city of Zhawi and risked his life for the Mongolian prince consort?

Is his worthless life really worth that much?
Qasim had even prepared himself for a greatly reduced reward. Honestly, even if the reward was reduced tenfold, he would still be extremely satisfied.

"Of course it's yours."

The one who brought him the spoils was a centurion of the Khwarezmian Red Banner. He said, "There's more than just these. There are also female slaves. You are one of the five first to ascend, so you can choose three female slaves first. Tonight, let them serve you well, haha!"

"I'll go right away, right away!"

Qasim swallowed hard. At the age of 23 and still having never had sex, he was really eager for women.

The thought of having four thousand women to choose from made Qasim's blood boil.

"Oh, right, don't be anxious yet." The captain of the Zhenghong Banner took out a letter of appointment and said, "Take a look at this."

"I...I can't read."

"Actually, this is written in Mongolian, which I can't read," the centurion said. "But, as long as you have this, you'll be promoted directly to a centurion in the Qian army. After conquering Khorasan, if you're still alive, you'll be able to join the Khwarezmian Red Banner and become a tenth-rank officer, meaning you'll be directly under my command."

"So, I... I'm an official now."

"Of course." The captain patted his shoulder affectionately and said, "You haven't received any military training, but you're born with good physical conditions. In the future, if you fight a few more times, maybe it won't be long before you can be on equal footing with me.

This is the good thing about our Eight Banners Army. Whoever can fight will be promoted and rich. Whoever can't fight will have his head chopped off. Do your best and don't let down the Prince Consort's kindness to you!

"I am willing to die for your majesty!"

Pfft!
Qasim knelt on the ground, facing Zhao Shuo's central military tent, his eyes red, and kowtowed three times.

There was no way, Zhao Shuo gave too much.

The huge amount of wealth and the charming beauties made Qasim dizzy.

The rapid upward path gave him hope of finding his sister!
The words "I am willing to die for your majesty" were said powerfully and came from the heart!
(End of this chapter)