Datang Lingnan King

Chapter 214
"Creak!" There was a sound of the city gate opening, followed by another "bang", and the suspension bridge was lowered.

When Feng Daiwen heard this voice, he felt relieved, because the only troublesome thing on Wa Island was the city wall, and if it was attacked by force, some people would definitely die.

For Feng Daiwen, it was a loss for a soldier of the Tang Dynasty to exchange the lives of a hundred Japanese slaves. Fortunately, the enemy was completely unprepared, and when the army entered the city, the dust settled and they were easily captured.

A city naturally has more than one place to garrison troops. Generally speaking, there will be a barracks near the city gate, which is convenient for defending the city gate and convenient for expeditions. There will be more troops stationed in Datang, but most of them are outside the city. , near the Royal Palace.

Of the 5000 people, 2000 followed Feng Daiwen into the city, and the other three gates only arranged for 2000 people to prevent escape. After all, the moat is not only a fortification to protect the city, but also restricts the guards from escaping. [-] people blocked the opposite side of the suspension bridge , It is easy to form a situation where one man is in charge and ten thousand is not open.

"Fire the arrows!" Feng Daiwen rushed to the vicinity of the city guard's mansion with his men, and when he met the guards who rushed over, he roared and raised his crossbow to shoot.

Close-range crossbow arrows can exert their greatest power, and they cannot be dodged. It is not worthwhile to say that you can use arrows to solve the problem, even if your subordinates are injured a little.

Feng Daiwen was followed by fanatics and personal guards, rattan armored soldiers guarding the city gates, such a narrow street, hundreds of crossbow arrows, instantly knocked down hundreds of people in front.

Putting on the hand crossbow, Feng Daiwen led his guards and rushed towards the city guard's mansion. The Khitan people are all good at archery, not to mention that everyone knows how to shoot arrows. The standard equipment for fanatics is a knife and a bow, but armor is good.

The fanatics didn't go forward at all, they just kept shooting arrows until they could no longer see the standing people, then stopped and continued to move forward.

A long-handled iron hammer is made of long wood. It needs to be made of ash tree with good toughness. The front end is a square hammer, which is the kind of sledgehammer used to smash stones. Works great and is easy to carry.

Two powerful personal guards rushed to the gate of the city guard's mansion with a sledgehammer, swung it up and smashed it, but only a few times, they smashed the door and frame together.

Needless to say, the personal guards rushed in quickly. The Japanese slave guards were Feng Daiwen's personal guard opponents, and they were knocked down after a face-to-face meeting. Moreover, the personal guards have been training together for a long time, and they are used to cooperating, attacking and defending. This small-scale Fighting is the best.

This is why Feng Daiwen can make strategic arrangements, but he can't command hundreds of thousands of large armies to fight, because he is used to charging along with himself, cooperating on a small scale, and single-handedly. Even the trained soldiers have the same problem. Kill until there are no enemies.

"Bang!" Feng Daiwen kicked open the closed door of the hall, and saw dozens of guards inside guarding the door with knives.

When the guard saw someone coming in, he swung his knife and slashed without saying a word.

Of course, even if he said it, Feng Daiwen couldn't understand it. He saw someone coming with a shield on his left arm and a knife in the middle with his right hand. He took a step ahead of the first guard, but his upper body was still in place.

"Pfft!" The two corpses fell to the ground, blood spurting everywhere.

Feng Daiwen moved forward steadily, slashing left and right at the trembling and retreating guards, one knife at a time. If he was lucky, he would only have one arm broken, and if he was unlucky, he would be cut in two.

"Wow! Wow!" An old Japanese slave knelt on the ground and yelled in fright, and soon there were more than a dozen guards who threw away their weapons and hurriedly knelt down, as if they would be decapitated if they were too slow. If you are slow, you will be killed.

Feng Daiwen reckoned that this was a surrender, seeing that the city guard's mansion was almost surrendered, so he ordered: "Surrender!"

"Kneel down and surrender, don't kill!" This Japanese dialect was learned by all the soldiers. There was a shout from the city guard's mansion, and the whole battlefield was full of shouts.

Feng Daiwen asked the soldiers to escort the senior officials of the city guard to show up, expressing his voluntary surrender. As the sound of surrender sounded, the Japanese slave who had already been killed, knelt on the ground without hesitation, holding his head with his hands, just like this Try to have a stronger sense of security in your heart.

Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are almost a head taller than all Japanese slaves, plus everyone is wearing armor, think about a large group of tall, armored, masked people in front of you, clicking, clicking, walking, this invisible force In the middle is huge pressure.

It was as if a group of tigers broke into the flock of sheep, and it was a flock of sheep locked up. They had nowhere to run, and they were not scared to death, so they could only lie in the corner and shiver, hoping that the tigers would not be hungry.

The social class of the Japanese slaves is the nobles, the tribesmen are the common people, and the slaves are mainly these three classes. The tribesmen actually have no strong will to resist the invasion of the Tang Dynasty, because many people themselves immigrated from other places, including the Han people in the Central Plains. , Baekje, Silla, Goguryeo and other places immigrated.

The slaves, not to mention their combat effectiveness, had a poor life. Coupled with the long-term exploitation of the nobles and tribesmen, they had already accumulated a lot of complaints. They did not fight back because no one organized them.

All the nobles were arrested and ransacked their homes, interrogated, and the tribesmen began to manage them. The slaves were fed and distributed winter clothes. This made them feel that their status had improved a lot, and they began to work hard with peace of mind.

Feng Daiwen always believed that if he wanted a horse to run, he had to be fed. The grain output of Wa Island was not much, and the people of the tribe usually ate coarse grains mixed with grass roots, not to mention slaves. If it weren't for the many fruits on the island, and the sea creatures washed up by the tide from time to time, countless people would have starved to death.

But this has long been used to by Japanese slaves. The nobles only eat refined grains mixed with coarse grains every day. Now they can eat a full meal, and there is fish in it. A large spoonful of fish soup soaked in the rice is simply delicious. .

This made the slaves, who supported the rule of the Tang Dynasty very much, began to work very obediently, and the tribesmen did not have much opinion. Although the work is not done for their own families now, the food is better than in the past, isn’t it, and the elderly and children in the family The food will also be shared.

The Turkic soldiers guarded the Japanese slaves at work. This was just a repetition of their own experience, and they changed from coolies to guards. The change of status made them feel very comfortable. They waved the whips in their hands from time to time to show their existence.

Fortunately, they also know that obedient people can't fight, and they are somewhat disappointed. Occasionally, a nobleman can't stand the work and comes out to yell. This is what they look forward to most.

There will be an interpreter to announce the crime, and say that these nobles do not know how to repent, do not cooperate with the labor, and wash away their sins, so Turkic thugs began to appear on the stage. Although they basically did not herd after joining Datang, they are still so proficient in using the whip in their hands. , The huge voice came to the ears of the Japanese slaves, and then fell on the body, making a huge scream, which satisfied the Turkic people physically and mentally.

Feng Daiwen in the distance looked at all this and said with great satisfaction: "What a group of qualified guards."

(End of this chapter)