The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 246 Death of Shi Le
Watching Liu Yao being tied up by Liu Tai, his mouth was stuffed with rags, and he was dragged around Yecheng.

Shi Le could see that Liu Yao was full of reluctance, but what could he do?

People had to lower their heads under the eaves. It was not the first time that he and Liu Yaojian met, and it was not that they didn't know each other.

At this moment, Liu Yao is captured by Liu Tai, so his reinforcements have naturally been wiped out!
"What a waste! I actually pinned my hopes on Liu Yao!" Shi Le couldn't help clenching his fists.

If I had known earlier...if I really had hope, would I have chosen not to surrender?

Isn't it true that there is no way for me to survive when facing Liu Tai? Wang Mi is the mortal enemy between me and Liu Tai. What can I do?
"King Zhao, if there are no more reinforcements, we must block them as soon as possible!" Kong Chang looked at Shi Le and couldn't help but said quickly.

"What can we do? Kill all the soldiers stationed on the city wall?!" Shi Le couldn't help but shook his head and said, "This kind of thing cannot be concealed, it cannot be concealed!"

At this moment, Shi Le took a deep breath and said, "But even if there are no reinforcements, our Ye City has been renovated and is a solid city. It will definitely not be easy for Liu Tai to take it down!"

At this time, Liu Tai began to organize his men and shouted to Yecheng, "There are no reinforcements, surrender quickly!"

This lowered the morale of the soldiers and made them understand that it was Shi Le who wanted them to die, not Liu Tai.

Liu Tai even organized the soldiers originally from Yecheng to sing local folk songs in Yecheng!
The middle and low-level officers in Liu Tai's army really came from Yecheng. Not to mention Tiandi, whom Liu Tai met in Yecheng. As for the soldiers like Tiandi who followed Liu Tai when he was in Yecheng, Even more.

At this time, letting them sing local folk songs was just like the embarrassment on all sides that broke the will of the Western Chu overlord's army.

Let these soldiers in Yecheng know clearly that it is meaningless to continue to resist stubbornly now, and it is better to surrender as soon as possible.

As for Shi Le's refusal to surrender, just be prepared when you attack tomorrow!
It has to be said that this folk song shocked the Jie tribe even more. They looked at the soldiers around them and originally thought that these soldiers were just like themselves, and they were all turtles in the urn besieged by Liu Tai.

But now, they discovered that it was not the case. They were from the Jie tribe and a foreign race. At the moment, they had no choice at all.

However, it was not the case for the Han soldiers around him.

Because Liu Tai is a Han and holds high the banner of reviving the Han Dynasty, for Liu Tai, he can deny life to the Jie people or other ethnic minorities, but he will never deny life to Han people or aristocratic families.

In his eyes, their Han identity is just cattle and sheep, but now their Han identity can save their lives, because there is a Han Liu Tai among the Han who is so powerful that even Liu Yao and Shi Le cannot defeat them together.

Some Jie people even looked at the Han people around them, wondering if they would defend the city as hard as they did...

No one could give an answer. As these northern folk songs sang, the hearts of the entire Yecheng soldiers were inevitably confused.

At this moment, the Jie clan is a small clan and is close to the big clan. Although Yecheng is the last stronghold of the Jie clan, there are even all kinds of miscellaneous people in it.

But it is inevitable that the Han people still make up the majority, but they are at the bottom.

When the Jie people's preparedness and vigilance against the Han people even spread from the upper class to the lower class, it would be a complete joke for the two sides to cooperate.

With Liu Tai outside, the Jie people did not even dare to attack the Han people immediately, because they were also afraid that the Han people would be forced to rebel, causing Liu Tai to launch an attack without any scruples.

That night, Liu Tai slept peacefully, but the soldiers and people in Yecheng were not at all peaceful.

Almost everyone was waiting for Shi Le to make the final decision, whether to surrender or continue to support.

And Shi Le wanted to raid Liu Tai's military camp at night to try his best to survive.

But when Shi Le came to the city wall at night, he saw the bright lights of Liu Tai's camp in the distance, and there were even cavalry patrolling in the dark night.

The metal fragments that occasionally flickered on his body reflected the firelight, but they were Liu Xia's heavy cavalry.

Liu Xia's heavy cavalry patrolled around Yecheng, making him suffer for one last night.

After all, there is no reason to rely on cavalry to attack a city in this world, so I let him do the warning work before tomorrow's attack.

In addition to Liu Xia's heavy cavalry, it will be Ge Xin's cavalry camp that will take over tomorrow night.

The pursuit capabilities of these two armies may not be outstanding, but if they were only allowed to fight head-on, it would definitely be enough.

As long as Shi Le dares to attack at night, he will dare to fight back.

As for Shi Le, if he wanted to escape, a neither wide nor narrow ditch with patrolling soldiers would be enough to cope with it. If Shi Le could really run away, he would no longer be here.

Time passed like this little by little, and Liu Tai prepared to attack the city in an orderly manner.

The soldiers had a full breakfast, then transported the accessories through Zhangshui to build siege weapons, and began to prepare for the attack!
In the end, Shi Le chose to defend instead of surrendering to Liu Tai.

Because Shi Le knew very well that everyone else could surrender and live, but only he would die after surrendering.

And since he is bound to die, why should he surrender?
"Hold it!" Shi Le watched Liu Tai's army begin to attack the city, and immediately took over the command and began to garrison Yecheng.

Liu Tai had no intention of coddling Shi Le, so he announced a general attack.

The soldiers on the ground pushed the chariot and headed towards the gate of Yecheng step by step.

Generally, car punches use strong hardwood as the backbone, and metal fittings are installed at both ends to enhance the destructive power during flat impact.

It's just that Liu Tai's ram has a fully reinforced structure, and the center is tied with an extremely thick iron chain, just like the battering post of a bell, making the entire ram even stronger in terms of structure.

In addition to rushing the car, a train was also prepared. The main function of this train was to have a large fire pit filled with grease and coal, which pushed the train to the city gate and then burned the city gate.

Because there is grease in this kind of train, if the defenders do not know how to pour water on it, the fire will spread.

In addition to the attacks specifically targeting the city gates, ladder trucks with mature facilities and well-mounted trucks as cover also appeared one after another.

Liu Tai took out all kinds of strange siege weapons in almost an instant for a full-scale attack.

It's not that Shi Le had never seen these siege weapons before, it was just that he had never seen them so comprehensively.

Shile has prepared a variety of defense facilities on the city wall, which can be said to be well prepared.

But Liu Tai's soldiers knew that this was the last battle in Yecheng, so the morale of the attack was even higher.

The Jie clan, the soldiers under Shi Le's command, are better off. Although their morale is low, they are still fighting for their future to some extent.However, the larger number of Han soldiers could not help but slack off at this time.

After all, Liu Tai's capture of Yecheng might not be a bad thing for them!
However, the main force of the Jie clan had already been destroyed when Shi Le and Liu Tai fought.

The vast majority of the troops that Shi Le had now managed to pull together were Han Chinese. Even because the Jie warriors were severely damaged, there were some Han soldiers in the middle ranks, and their resistance to Liu Tai was naturally not high.

Therefore, Shi Le's army still resisted in a decent manner at first, but as Liu Tai's soldiers successfully climbed onto the city wall wearing armor, everything changed.

After Shi Le's soldiers saw that the weapons in their hands could not cause any damage to the armor, the Han soldiers decisively threw away all the swords in their hands amidst the shouts of surrender.

There is no hope, why should I fight for my life? Didn't I think clearly last night?

Your Majesty, the great King of Qi, the future Emperor of the Han Dynasty is now conquering the rebels and serving the rebels himself. Even if he dies, he will not be able to enter his ancestral grave.

If you don't surrender now, will you be hacked to death by these Han troops? Then your death will be in vain!
Soon, as the soldiers on the ladder successfully climbed to the top of the city wall, the morale of Shi Le's army also became very low.

Except for a few generals who were still resisting in despair, the actual resistance in this siege that lasted for several months was extremely light.

In almost no time, first the gate of Ye City was breached, then the Wengcheng of Ye City was breached, and then the inner city of Ye City was breached. Liu Tai successfully led his troops to invade the palace where Shi Le lived.

The Jie clan guards surrounding Shi Le have been resisting, but their resistance is becoming increasingly fragile.

Liu Tai strode forward and soon saw that he was forced to find only one luxurious palace, but it was already filled with firewood, and there was even a bit of oil, wine, and blood smell floating on it.

At this moment, Shi Le stood at the entrance of the palace, with his personal guards in front of him, but he held a torch in his hand and looked at Liu Tai without fear.

"You're finally here!" Shi Le's eyes brightened when he saw Liu Tai's arrival.

"I thought you would run away!" Liu Tai looked at Shi Le and said,

"It should be possible to rely on your Jie clan men to carve out a bloody path and escape to the north!"

"With the kind of cavalry specially used for killing, if I run away, I'm afraid I will die even more undignified. And if you don't see me die, will you feel relieved?" Shi Le looked at Liu Tai and said, "I only hate you. I didn’t attack you with Wang Jun at the beginning!”

"It's meaningless. Is there any difference between me beating Wang Jun and you? I'll just die earlier!" Liu Tai said calmly,

"You can survive today, you should be grateful that you didn't make such a stupid decision!

I just can't figure out why you don't surrender. You have always been flexible and flexible. If you had surrendered to me in Qinghe County, there would not have been so many casualties! "

"Will you let me go if I surrender?!" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Shi Le couldn't help but angrily shouted at Liu Tai.

"No, but at least your family can be passed down and the Jie clan can continue to exist!" Liu Tai said naturally.

"I just can't stand your confident look!" Shi Le looked at Liu Tai and said,

"Since I'm dead, I still care about the Jie Clan. Only with me can the Jie Clan exist. Without me, the Jie Clan is nothing!"

When Shi Le said this, he looked at Liu Tai with envious eyes and said:
"I also hope that I am a Han Chinese, build an army like you, gain recognition from aristocratic families like you, and revive the Han Dynasty like you!
But I'm not, I'm just a Jie clan, a Jie clan with no history and no glory..."

Following Shi Le's words, Shi Le threw the torch in his hand directly onto the oil-soaked firewood.

In an instant, the entire house began to burn fiercely, and Shi Le stood in the flames and drew his sword to kill himself.

The personal guards around him also followed after watching Shi Le commit suicide.

Immediately afterwards, the scorching flames swallowed up Shi Le, and the heroic generation of the Jie tribe came to an end.

Liu Tai didn't know what Shi Le was excited about. In his previous life, he was a great nation in the process of rejuvenation. In this life, he set out to revive the Han Dynasty. He really didn't have much sympathy for the unwillingness of the commander-in-chief of such a small clan.

After all, he is the enemy of his own revival of the Han Dynasty. Since he chose to stand on the opposite side of himself, he should die.

Liu Tai turned his head and said to Liu Ming, "Have Shi Le's family been found?"

"He does have some adopted sons, are these included?" Liu Ming asked Liu Tai.

"Let's count them among them. Just treat them as his tenth clan. Find all these people, and then send them to Shi Le as a whole family!"

Liu Tai said to Liu Ming,

"Since he has decided not to surrender, he must have an example of not surrendering. My greatest respect for him is that all bloodlines related to him, even if they are only his nominal adopted sons, need to be eradicated!"

"Yes!" Liu Ming heard Liu Tai's words, but could feel the indifference in Liu Tai's tone.

Compared with Liu Tai's emphasis on the Han people, Liu Tai's emotional indifference towards a foreign race like Shi Le was a bit scary.

"It turns out that even though my lord is kind, he is only targeting the Han people, not everyone!" Liu Ming couldn't help but sigh.

Liu Tai watched the burning house completely burn and collapse, and watched Shi Le withdraw from the stage of history, but he couldn't help but feel a little bit sad.

But that's all, Liu Tai didn't have much feelings.

After all, Liu Tai didn't know the historical details of this period of Wuhu Luanhua, and he didn't know how much trouble Shi Le would cause without him.

After the Jie tribe has completely entered the stage of history, how big a blow will it cause to the Han people.

But Liu Tai didn't know this anymore. The only thing Liu Tai knew clearly was that with the death of Shi Le and the capture of Liu Yao, the entire power of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom was completely inherited by himself.

What he needs to do now is not to attack without any scruples, but to absorb as much as possible from Hebei.

And now I am not safe after all. Zu Ti is accumulating strength and is eyeing him to attack me at any time. If I underestimate him, I may suffer a big loss!

Liu Tai took a deep breath. No matter what happens in the future, the first thing he has to do now is to divide the harvest of Ye City and distribute them to his soldiers. After all, his basic base is stable. Have your own bright future.

(End of this chapter)