Chapter 1031 Siege

Anyway, every family has a lot of land, and there are plenty of wastelands on the mountains that can be reclaimed, and all kinds of crops can be planted there.

With the watering of the spiritual spring, it can bear abundant fruits without much care.

There are also a lot of poultry and livestock. You can find a piece of land on the mountain to raise them, and build a few straw sheds to shelter the poultry and livestock from the rain and cold.

The feces can be used to fertilize fields and raise fish, so it is recycled and there is no waste at all.

In addition to the terrifying amount of supplies in Qiao Ran's space, even if a portion of them was given to the Northern Army, there would still be mountains of food, oil and salt.

She and Mo Beihan even disguised themselves as soldiers and sneaked into the camp, stealing most of the food and fodder from Prince Yun and Prince An without anyone noticing.

They also made it appear that the attack was done by Prince An and Prince Yun's men, causing Prince Yun and Prince An to be suspicious of each other. They fought a battle before the war started, and both sides suffered heavy losses, with hundreds of casualties on each side.

When the situation was escalating and about to get out of control, they stopped after being persuaded by other princes, but they could never return to their previous superficial brotherhood.

Therefore, with Qiao Ran's space, even if there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the Devil Valley, they will not starve.

They could also eat meat every one or two days, which made these soldiers who were starving in Qingzhou become much stronger.

Finally, after a few days, the troops of several princes all arrived, and they launched an attack on the capital before the old prince's troops arrived.

The combined military strength of the seven princes totals 250,000 men.

General Zheng's camp outside the capital only had more than 30,000 people, the imperial guards had only more than 3,000 people, and General Zheng's Zheng family army had only more than 50,000 people, plus the 80,000 private soldiers of King Ping.

170,000 people against 250,000, they were definitely crushed in terms of numbers.

However, what the princes could never have imagined was that the Zheng family army that emerged from the Devil's Valley actually pushed out more than a dozen brand-new catapults.

What was projected from the catapult were not ordinary stones, but blazing fireballs!

When those fireballs fell on the densely packed crowd attacking the city, some would be crushed to death or even burned alive. People were terrified of fire and tried to avoid it as much as possible.

Not only did the catapults throw fireballs, but the archers also shot burning rockets!

The entire arrow has been soaked in flaming oil. Once the arrow head is on fire, it is shot out. It burns more and more vigorously in the air, and can cause a raging fire when it hits a crowd.

These flaming stones and arrows alone were enough to make the soldiers attacking the city suffer terribly.

On the city wall, General Zheng also ordered his men to soak rags in kerosene and throw them down. The soldiers who were climbing up the ladders at the foot of the wall were burned by the fireballs and rolled down, hitting the people below who were preparing to climb the ladders. There was another phenomenon of the fire spreading from person to person.

Only after the siege troops were "burned" to pieces did General Zheng lead his soldiers to charge forward, and together with the soldiers from the suburban camp and Prince Ping's private soldiers who had rushed out of the city, they attacked from both inside and outside, chasing and killing the troops of several princes and forcing them to retreat repeatedly. More than 200,000 people were defeated by more than 100,000 people.

After the princes returned to the camp and counted the number of people, they found that they had lost more than 20,000 people in this first battle, most of whom were burned to death!

The death toll of Zheng's army was less than three hundred, and the hundreds of injured returned to the Devil Valley. Under the treatment of the two great doctors, Qiao Ran and the Ghost Doctor, their lives were almost no longer in danger.

After returning, several princes gathered together to discuss the matter. They couldn't help but curse the Zheng family, saying that it was the father and son who ruined their good deeds.