total war rise of empire

Chapter 80 Under the City of Argos
In the ancient history of the earth, in addition to a large number of siege equipment, the siege war with cold weapons often had to be several times the size of the defending side before launching an attack. Otherwise, the commander of the siege side would often choose a safe siege battle!
The siege of a city with a large population and lack of supplies is naturally the best strategy to defeat the enemy without fighting. However, a city that knows the news in advance will have a large amount of food and supplies in the city. , and will cruelly drive out the useless old and weak women and children in the city!
In the cruel ancient wars, the kind of commander who loves the people like a son and does not hesitate to face the risk of defeat does not exist. It is just an exaggerated hero image in TV dramas!

As for the purpose of the nomads to expel the people of the Central Plains from attacking the city, it was not to make the defending army dare not to shoot arrows, but to simply use the civilians of the Central Plains as meat shields to consume the defenders' arrows, crossbow stones and other defensive equipment!
The benevolent commander in TV dramas who loves the people and is reluctant to order the people to shoot the city is impossible to exist. If there is such a benevolent general, he will not resist anymore. How convenient is it to surrender?

Not only did it save the people outside the city, but it also saved the people inside the city from revenge from the enemy!
No matter how brutal the conqueror is, facing a city that voluntarily surrendered, as long as there is no special reason, he will rarely order a massacre!

This is a basic means for a conqueror to maintain his own prestige. If even those who voluntarily surrender are killed, who will dare to open the city and surrender in the future?
Wouldn't that make you feel uncomfortable? !
Even the cities that Genghis Khan slaughtered were an act of venting anger and intimidation after the enemy resisted tenaciously!

Genghis Khan mainly used this method to motivate and reward the brave soldiers who attacked the city, and announced to those cities who dared to resist-the end of resistance is death!

The ability of the Mongols to sweep across the Eurasian continent is closely related to their brutal massacres. Most of the cities captured by the Mongols were taken out of the fear of the Mongols’ massacres and voluntary surrender!

Otherwise, with so many cities in Eurasia, even if the Mongols pull up more servants and push them all the way, people will almost die...

A city with a complete city defense system and even a moat is filled with human lives!
Fortunately, the city of Argos that Lei Zihao was facing was not an orthodox city like the ancient ones on the earth. The backward Pylos people only built the most primitive low earth walls, and they didn't even build the urn city and the arrow tower!

Not to mention the tall stuff like the moat...

This is why Lei Zihao dared to lead a mere 8000 people to attack the city of Argos, which has tens of thousands of Pylos!
Under the city of Argos, a cavalryman in iron armor passed the city wall with a white flag, shot an arrow, and shot the scroll wrapped in paper on the head of Argos city!
This is a means for the two hostile parties to basically transmit information under the condition of mutual distrust. The Pylos people do not feel any humiliation. After all, they also carry the white flag to shoot arrows...

Of course, if this cavalryman didn't run over with a white flag, he would definitely become a hornet's nest!

The phenomenon in TV dramas where one rides out like a god from a long distance, a super-long-distance sniper or a pretentious behavior, is impossible to happen in reality...

Even if someone is born with amazing arm strength and can pull a special strong bow that is much harder than ordinary bows and arrows, under the watchful eyes of the archers in the enemy city, he wants to shoot the pretentious arrow to the place he wants to shoot from a long distance, It is also luck that depends entirely on the face!

What the ancients said is a sharpshooter, but you must know that a hundred steps is only equivalent to about 50 meters in later generations!

The archer stood on the city wall condescendingly, taking advantage of the terrain, and shot down in one round, within 400 steps belonged to the dangerous area!

May I ask, which archer can shoot accurately with a bow and arrow at a distance of 400 steps?

If there is such a powerful person, the bed crossbow can be eliminated!

This person just needs to walk around outside the city, and it is enough to set the bed crossbow on the head of the city with one arrow...

A Pylos strong man with broad shoulders, wearing a rare iron armor and a helmet full of feathers on his head, received the enemy letters shot on the city from the guards.

The above are all letters of surrender written in Pyrrhic script by Lei Zihao's people, claiming that as long as everyone in Argos City puts down their weapons and opens the door to surrender, and will be loyal to Lei Zihao in the future and become his loyal people, they can be spared. Their lives!
There are no financial promises, no guarantees of rights, and no promises to the status of the elders in Argos and the dignitaries of Pylos!

Perhaps this persuasion letter is not bad for the common people of Pylos. Anyway, it is the greatest wish for the common people of Pylos to live...

But for the powerful Elder Pylos and the commander of Pylos who read the letter, it was a great shame!
Once he surrenders, it is equivalent to giving up all the power and status in the city of Argos. Instead of becoming a humiliated downcast, it is better to take the entire city of Argos to fight to the death!

For these people in power, what is the difference between losing their status and rights and walking dead?

From frugality to extravagance is easy, from luxury to frugality is difficult!
"Hmph! It's just the arrogance of the Seris people. We Pylos people will never succumb to the murderous butcher's knife! Pass the order, blow the war horn, and fight to the end for our homeland, the city of Argos!"

The commander of Pylos in iron armor tore up the letter paper and threw it on the ground, and stepped on it a few times as if expressing his determination to fight to the end!
Lei Zihao narrowed his eyes when he heard the war horn blowing from the city of Argos, and winked at Leonidas beside him.

Ten minutes later, several Pylos prisoners of war came to the city of Argos carrying white flags, and shouted loudly: "The Sires said that as long as you surrender, you can save your life, otherwise you will all die!"

"Presumptuous! Archers, shoot these cowards in the city!"

A shower of arrows fell, how could those prisoners of Pylos run faster than the speed of the arrows?

Several Pylos prisoners of war who came to persuade them to surrender suddenly became corpses with different shapes!
Lei Zihao, who was sitting on the horse, chuckled, and ordered: "Bang the drum~ march! The Pylos people try to rely on a low earth wall to resist the army, they will regret their choice!"

Lei Zihao has repeatedly sent people to persuade them to surrender, not only for the purpose of acting for the Pylos soldiers, but also to convey a message to the soldiers under his command. It is not me, the commander who is bloodthirsty, but the Pylos people on the opposite side who want to die!
Lei Zihao is paving the way for the massacre in the future...

(End of this chapter)