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

Chapter 67: Clean and neat, conquer the city of Olahai!
"Charge! Kill!"

"Capture the city of Olohai!"

"Those who retreat die, those who advance live!"

"The first person to reach the top will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver and two beauties!"

……

Two thousand soldiers from the Baru Battalion surged toward the city walls like a tide, their movements expertly manipulating various siege engines with swift and orderly movements. Ladders, battering rams, grappling hooks—each device was used to its full potential.

"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow!"

"Fire the crossbow!"

"Where's the Divine Arm Bow? Hurry up and get the Divine Arm Bow!"

……

The Western Xia defenders responded hastily, most of them rushing onto the city wall from their bunkers, before they could even find their footing, before they hurriedly fired arrows. However, the Baru battalion had already seized this opportunity, taking advantage of the defenders' confusion and quickly approaching the city wall, suffering only a few casualties.

boom!
Ladders wrapped in three layers of wet cowhide were stacked heavily on the city wall, their bronze hooks precisely latched onto the battlements. The soldiers of the Baru camp, shields in their left hands, thrust their knives into the cracks in the wall with their right hands, and climbed up with the agility of monkeys.

boom!
The battering ram pushed by thirty people slammed into the city gate. Every impact of the huge iron-clad wood made the city wall tremble, as if the entire city was shaking.

……

The Baru Camp's attack was very methodical, and as soon as the battle began, it put tremendous pressure on the defenders.

"Boiling water! Pour boiling water!"

"Gold juice! Prepare the gold juice!"

"Push the fork pole! Push down the ladder!"

"Don't stop shooting! Keep shooting!"

……

Xibi Zhuo's hair and beard stood on end as he nervously directed the defenders.

He shot and killed seven or eight soldiers from the Baru camp who were approaching the city wall with his bow and arrow. He then led the death squad and drove back fifty enemy soldiers who had climbed onto the city wall.

The siege, which lasted only half an hour, felt to veteran General Xibi Zhuo as if six months had passed. Finally, the first wave of the Baru Camp's attack was repelled, with only 1,300 to 1,400 of the 2,000 attackers retreating.

However, just when Xibi Zhuo and the defenders thought they could catch their breath, the Mongols began to punish the retreating soldiers of the Baru camp.

The soldiers of the Baru Battalion, having retreated to their starting point, re-formed their battle array. The military judge, along with a team of soldiers, charged into the formation and quickly dragged out over two hundred men. These were beheaded on the spot, with nearly three hundred heads hung high. The bloody scene served as both a harsh declaration of military law for the Baru Battalion and a stern warning to the remaining soldiers.

"They...how dare they? These are all elite warriors!" Xibi Zhuo looked at the scene in disbelief, feeling shocked and angry.

However, in the eyes of the Mongols, these Xixia captives were nothing more than expendable goods. Keeping them alive was a great blessing. Their sole purpose was to serve as cannon fodder, paving the way for the Mongol army. Resistance meant death; victory was their only hope.

"Second team, go!"

The retreating Baru Battalion still had over a thousand soldiers left, giving them a brief opportunity to rest and recuperate. However, a new round of attack had already begun—another 2,000-man force was charging towards the city of Olohai!

Immediately afterwards, the third and fourth teams joined the battle.

The fifth team... no, there was no fifth team anymore. The fourth team's all-out attack was the final straw that broke the camel's back for the city of Oluhai.

Soon, it was not the wall of the city of Olahai that was breached, but the city gate.

……

The iron-clad gates of Orohai City finally cracked under the fierce impact of the battering rams. This gap instantly became a meat grinder for the two sides, with blood and flesh flying everywhere in a brutal and horrific scene. At the cost of twenty-seven brave men, the Baru Battalion finally controlled the gap and seized the opportunity to completely open the city gates.

"Everyone in the Baru camp, listen up and attack with all your might! Take down the city of Wulahai!" Zhao Shuo gave the order, and the horn of the general attack resounded through the sky.

……

"Charge! Kill! Destroy the city of Olohai!"

"The city is broken! The city is broken!"

"Massacre the city! Massacre the city!"

"Kill all the men, leave no one alive!"

"Gather the women together, and have a good time!"

……

The brutal siege lasted for the entire morning, putting great psychological pressure on Baru's camp.

Finally, the city was broken and it was time to vent. The soldiers of Baru Camp rushed towards the Olahai City like hungry wolves with blood-thirsty eyes!

"I am a sinner of the city of Orohai!"

On the city wall, Xibi Zhuo witnessed all this, filled with grief and anger. He let out a long roar to the sky and jumped off the three-meter-high city wall.

He knew that at this point in the war, even without Temujin's order to massacre the city, the bloodthirsty Baru Camp soldiers would never let go of any man in the city. And the fate of the women might be even more tragic than death.

The city of Olahai is about to become a hell on earth!
Xibi Zhuo leaped from the city wall, his dying breath filled with disbelief. He couldn't understand how these steppe barbarians could achieve such a feat. At the end of his life, he realized that these Mongols might be different from all previous steppe peoples.

On the other side, in the Mongolian camp, on the observation deck.

"This... is so useful?" Hasar widened his eyes and looked at the battlefield in the distance in disbelief.

"Barucing is truly amazing!" Zhebie's voice was filled with excitement that was difficult to conceal.

"Brother-in-law Ashu's proposal is simply a stroke of genius!" Tuolei's eyes were full of admiration.

"If I had known this would happen, I shouldn't have killed so many Xixia prisoners of war! It would have been better to leave 5,000 more, no, 10,000!" Subutai stamped his feet in regret, as if he had missed a great opportunity.

……

At this moment, countless Mongolian nobles watching the battle were stunned, with complex emotions surging in their hearts.

The brutal siege had already left them shaken beyond measure. A steppe warrior would likely never have displayed such demeanor—after all, steppe warriors excelled at mounted archery and charge, not the bloody, grueling nature of siege warfare. Furthermore, even in the most demanding battlefields, the Mongols would never subject them to such ruthless military discipline as they did the soldiers of the Baru Camp. The lives of steppe warriors were too precious to be thrown so easily beneath a city wall.
Yet, it was this Baru Battalion, composed of surrendered soldiers from the Western Xia, who, with their almost insane bravery, forcibly tore through the defenses of the city of Olohai. Without them, how many brave lives of the steppes would have been lost, and how much longer would it have taken for the Mongol army to capture this fortified city?

And now, Baru Camp has captured this impregnable city in such a clean and efficient manner!
If some had previously harbored doubts about Zhao Shuo's proposal to form the Baru Battalion, now all doubts had vanished. No one doubted the value of this army, let alone Zhao Shuo's foresight.

At this moment, the Mongolian nobles watching the battle had only one thought in their minds: Zhao Shuo's proposal was truly a stroke of genius! The Baru Camp would surely become a powerful weapon for Mongolia's conquest of the world!
(End of this chapter)