The fierce horn sound suddenly started to blow, resounding throughout Panlong Village, as if a huge boulder had been smashed into the calm Panlong Lake, suddenly tearing the silence of the cold night into pieces.
Piles of bonfires and torches were lit, quickly lighting up Panlong Village.
Hu Dangzhou, Jiang Ang and others were direct soldiers and horses, and they were fairly well-trained. They quickly put on their armor and walked out of the camp in an orderly manner to form a team. However, the number of these troops was limited.
Most of the people in the village are young men recruited from the refugees. They either provide food for themselves and their families, or are taken hostage. In the past five or six months, they have been short of food and clothing, armed with wooden shields and bamboo spears.
Most of the clansmen and villagers gathered together, followed Hu Jiang and others' direct soldiers and horses roaring around the lake, plundering the countryside, and living together with their emaciated family members. In the end, they were still a mob.
Even if Hu Jiang and others wanted to train these troops, they had neither soldiers, armor, food, nor many military officials who were familiar with troop formations, and even they themselves were only half-experienced.
Jingbei had no intention of clearing Qianchapu for Chushan. In the early stage, Han Gui, Fan Zongqi, Xu Ling and others mainly built Nancai City north of Suolong Lake, next to Xiaohe Ridge, and were not eager to expand eastward——
Hu Jiang and others retreated to Panlong Village and did not fight any tough battles.
At this time, when the horns were heard throughout Panlong Village, most of the people looked around in confusion, not knowing what was going on. Finally, amidst the shouts and curses of the military officials and generals beating them with whips and sticks, they walked away in a mess with swords and shields.
Come out and form a team.
However, in addition to more than 30,000 young people, two or three times the old, weak, women and children are crowded and mixed in Panlong Village. At this time, it is also a chaotic situation...
"Fuck! Just two or three thousand men and horses are coming to attack. Let's see how frightened you bitches are!" Jiang Ang stood on the wall of the village and saw that the faces of the people on the left and right were all pale under the light of the fire.
Frightened, he spat hard and cursed rudely, as if this was the only way to get rid of the inexplicable pressure in his chest.
Hearing Jiang Ang curse, others did not say a word:
Half a year ago, two or three thousand of them were defenseless in front of Shuangliuzhuang by fifty or sixty mounted Chushan troops, killing them like melons and vegetables. How could such a heart-wrenching memory be easily erased from my heart?
Already?
If it weren't for the officers and soldiers of Jingbei who hadn't organized a large-scale attack on Qianchapu until now, if it weren't for Chushan's troops in Nancai during this period, in addition to concentrating on building Nancai City, they also built forts and fortresses next to each other.
The site selection for Nancaicheng was underway, and everyone had long wanted to evacuate from Qianchapu.
Now the Chushan Army, consisting of two to three thousand men, is coming at night from the direction of Nancai City. Who dares to pat their chests and say that they can resist it? Even though there are more than 30,000 young men behind them.
"The Chushan Army is strong, but it is not a heavenly general." Tian Rusheng suppressed the shock in his heart and said with a pretense of laughter, "It is the twelfth lunar month of winter. Previously, the terrain was divided to block the Yingshui of the Chihu cavalry from going south.
Ru River and other rivers have been frozen - Chushan must guard against the red cavalry stationed in the west of Beijing, and Heluo's red cavalry goes south, and its elite troops and horses are restrained in Xiangcheng, Zhaoling, Queshan, Ruzhou and other places and cannot move.
Not at all. In addition, Chushan specializes in construction, and the troops and horses stationed in the fields seem to be quite large, but they are not stronger than the officers and soldiers between Jinghu Lake, so what is there to be afraid of? "
"If Chushan is not sure, how can it easily attack at night?" Tian Rusheng's few words could not comfort anyone. Someone immediately asked, but no one complained that this man had shaken the morale of the army.
Hu Danzhou also looked silent.
"Xu Huai is good at using dangerous tactics, but in fact he is more forced by the situation," Tian Rusheng said, "Generals, think about it, if Chushan has the absolute strength to capture Panlong Village, why would there be a need to attack at night under the guise of a wedding?
Isn’t this just adding to the ridicule and winning without force?”
"What's the point of winning with force but not with force? It's better to save some energy and kill the enemy than to talk about the useful and useless things! I don't believe it. We have 30,000 troops and we can't defend the stronghold!" Jiang Ang listened impatiently to Tian Rusheng's boasting and urged.
The generals should deploy quickly instead of wasting time.
Although their conditions in Cheonchapo are simple, they have put a lot of effort into defense in the past three or four months, so it's not like they haven't done anything at all.
In addition to using fences to surround the five fishing villages near Panlong Lake and Jianshui River, Panlong Village forms a city on the water covering an area of six to seven miles. There are also four or five sentry villages on the periphery. Basically,
They are all built along river branches, alleys and depressions.
These small outposts were five to six miles to seven or eight miles away from Panlong Dazhai. They were very small in scale. At this time, fires started to rise one after another. It looked like they had been attacked by Chushan's forward troops.
Although they were more familiar with the roads, and there were many criss-crossing rivers and lanes connecting the main village and these sentry villages, it was all in the dark, and the village was in chaos, and no one thought of leading troops to reinforce these sentry villages.
At this time, Hu Danzhou only thought about the most important thing: defending Panlong Village.
In addition to sending people to the villages on the south side of Qianchapu to ask for help, he mostly just transferred large and small boats out of the village from Shuimen to assemble in Panlong Lake. After daybreak, he would see if there was any chance of disturbing the village from the river lanes and river branches.
Attacking the side of Chushan Mountain...
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There is a trace of fish belly white in the sky, and it is no longer invisible between the sky and the earth, as if the sky has opened a hole, light shines in, and the outline of the sparse forest and river in the distance is outlined——
Fan Zongqi held the saber at his waist, and a small bandit camp was more than a hundred steps behind him. It was now engulfed in a sea of blazing fire, illuminating the left and right sides as brightly as day.
In front of Fan Zongqi, bridge-building vehicles with long wooden boards or special closed box girders on the wheels were pushed down the river.
The general who crossed the river first took a rope to pull the bridge-building vehicle and stuck it on the shoals on both sides of the river lane.
For wider river alleys, two or three bridge erecting vehicles are connected end to end and placed horizontally on the river. Then, on both sides of the bridge erecting vehicle, long wooden piles are quickly driven into the river bed for fixation.
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Panlong Village faces water on three sides. Even if the north side is connected to the land, it is also a branch of the river, with rivers and lanes crisscrossing it.
Xu Huai used his wedding as a cover to launch a night attack on Panlong Village. He was not hoping to break into Panlong Village without the enemy being aware of it. Rather, he was taking advantage of the enemy's slackness to capture the outlying outposts first and open up the way to the village.
Passage in front of Panlong Village, launch a strong attack on Panlong Village before large enemy reinforcements arrive from elsewhere.
If the enemy army is vigilant enough and can promptly mobilize hundreds or even thousands of pirate ships into the criss-crossing river alleys north of Panlong Village for defense and interception, the Chushan Army will not know how much time it will waste before they can launch the main attack.
Soldiers, horses and necessary siege equipment advanced to the front of Panlong Village.
Even if Panlong Village can be successfully captured in the end, if too much time is wasted in the middle, or the casualties exceed a certain limit, it cannot be called a victory.
At this time, a bridge-building truck built in advance was used to push it into the river alley. It was not only intended to open up more channels so that people, horses, and equipment could bypass the many obstacles set up by the bandit army in the north of Panlong Village, faster and more conveniently.
While advancing to the front of Panlong Village, they also wanted to cut off these rivers and alleys to prevent pirate ships from circling Panlong Lake to attack the flanks of the main attacking troops.
The forward troops and horses steadily advanced towards Panlong Village, while on the flanks, fine iron shield vehicles gathered into a vehicle formation at both ends of these quickly erected pontoon bridges; at this moment, a larger number of people and horses surrounded a large number of attackers.
The city war weapons set off from the villages east of Nancaicheng and headed towards Panlong Village.
Although Nancai's regular troops are very limited, and are mainly young men newly recruited from Hanchuan and other places, tens of thousands of workers and troops were transferred from Huaiyuan, Xinyang and other places, and were previously responsible for the construction of Nancai City and various villages.
, at this time, emergency mobilization was carried out overnight to ensure that there would be no shortage of troops in the attack on Panlong Village.
In addition, Wang Fan also used the excuse to ensure that the wedding would not be disturbed by thieves, so he mobilized 3,000 soldiers and horses from Huangpi and other places and stationed them east of Xiaohe Ridge.
Although Kong Changyu and others were unwilling to send troops to clear out the rebel army entrenched in Qianchapu, Wang Fan mobilized some troops to ensure that the marriage between Xu Huai and Wang Fan's daughter would not be disturbed. Kong Changyu and others had to give this face.
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However, all this did not arouse vigilance to the Dongjing bandit army entrenched in Panlong Village...
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That night, the Chushan Army raided and occupied the sentry village outside Panlong Lake. They built pontoons and cut off the river lanes. The forward soldiers and horses entered the village and formed a formation in front of Longzhai to block the channels for the rebels to leave the village to counterattack. After early morning, a larger scale attack
Soldiers and horses, surrounded by siege equipment, advanced towards Panlong Village.
The Dongjing bandit army did not dare to leave the stronghold to fight with the elite Chushan army, which facilitated the rapid deployment of siege equipment.
After the formation of refined iron shield vehicles, thirty-six Western Regions stone crossbows were assembled in the afternoon.
Over the years, in the face of the fierce enemy forces invading the south, Chushan mainly defended itself passively. Occasionally, it attacked the city and fortified the city, and mainly carried out surprise attacks. There was no chance to engage in a serious siege battle.
Panlongzhai not only threatened Hanchuan, Huangpi and other places, but also restricted Nancai's eastward expansion.
Pulling off Panlong Village will never be easy. The Dongjing bandit army will occupy Panlong Village and delay it until the second flood season. Xu Huai made up his mind early in the morning.
In the past three or four months, Han Gui, Fan Zongqi, Xu Ling, Xu Sheng and others have presided over the affairs of Nancai County. It seems that their main focus has been on the encirclement and reclamation, but they have never given up on actively preparing to clear out the thousands of entrenched people.
The bandit army that has not left Chapu.
In addition to thoroughly understanding the terrain near Qianchapu, placing many informants directly in Panlong Village and other rebel strongholds, and organizing training for the people and soldiers, Chushan also used marriage proposals, job offers, and this large-scale wedding ceremony to
A group of elite troops and a batch of newly-made weapons arrived in Nancai to make final preparations for the storming of Panlong Village.
After everything was ready, thirty-six Western Region stone cannons that had been improved by the Chushan Ordnance Supervision were launched together, finally making the Dongjing bandit army realize how terrifying it was for the regular army to organize an siege...
