"This is not enough, the city gate must be blocked from the inside out! You, Tian Rong, and Tian Lu will stay here, and you will not leave even an inch. If anyone dares to mislead the public with evil words, he will be executed without mercy - this
Never show mercy at all!"
When Sun Yanzhou saw that the inner city gate was only filled with materials such as horses, he felt that it was not enough. He climbed up the tower and urged his eldest son, Sun Yuan, to quickly dispatch people to demolish the houses and walls, and use bricks and stones to completely block the city gate.
In addition to Tang Yuan and General Yu Mo at dawn, they pretended to be defeated and fled back, deceiving the East City Gate. Guo Yunkun, the captain of the Nancheng garrison, led 300 troops to surrender to the enemy and launched a surprise attack on the Nancheng Gate garrison from the city, opening the South City Gate.
The city gate led the ambush troops into the city, and at the same time, a total of seven places in the inner and outer city were set on fire, causing chaos.
Sun Yanzhou now not only ordered the inner city to be sealed off, prohibiting the outer city defenders from escaping, but the generals in the inner city also felt that everything was suspicious; even Hu Danzhou, he wished he had an extra eye to keep an eye on his every move.
Hu Danzhou grabbed the wall and looked outside the inner city. The elite troops from Beijing and Xiang that had entered the city in a surprise attack were building a barricade two to three hundred paces away. There was no sign of storming the inner city for the time being, which gave him some peace of mind.
Hu Danzhou turned his head and saw Sun Yanzhou's triangular eyes staring at him sinisterly like a poisonous snake. He stared so hard that his heart went numb. He slapped his thigh and screamed injustice.
"General Tiansheng, how many years have we been friends by fate? My mother, wife, children, and two grandchildren who have just learned to walk are all in the inner city. Do you not suspect that I will collaborate with the enemy? Yes, yes
, I asked Hu You to send all the family members to stay in your house temporarily, now is not the time for you and me to be suspicious of each other, otherwise the situation will be really messed up!"
Sun Yanzhou said nothing.
Hu Dangzhou stamped his feet and called his eldest son Hu You to him. He immediately sent two of his cronies back to the mansion and sent the women and children to Sun Yanzhou's Tiansheng General's Mansion to serve as hostages.
Kuo Ti stood in front of the wall, frowning and looking at the situation in the outer city. He turned back to Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou and said:
"Ruyin is at the back of Jiaopi. Jingxiang attacked Ruyin unexpectedly, in order to cut off the retreat route of the 80,000 cavalry stationed in Jiaopi in the west of Jing. Not only would Commander-in-Chief Yue not sit back and watch Ruyin fall to the enemy, but the Zong King would also never sit back and watch.
The 80,000 cavalrymen in the west of Beijing were surrounded and annihilated by the southern troops in Jiaopi. As long as we hold on to the inner city, reinforcements will arrive in a moment. In addition, I will lead my troops to defend the south gate of the inner city personally, so there is no need to completely block it."
"Yes, as long as you and I are our direct descendants, plus the Mobei elite under General Kuoti, there are five or six thousand elite troops, as long as we work together, we will not be unable to defend the inner city that is 600 to 700 paces square," Hu
Dangzhou advised, "Besides, the defenders in the outer city have not completely surrendered to the enemy. Even if we don't trust them all to withdraw into the inner city at this time, we should encourage them to defend their own positions and hold on until reinforcements arrive!"
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Shi Hu set up the command tent on the gate tower of the south city, which was only a thousand steps away from the south gate of the inner city. When he looked out from the crenel, he could vaguely see the faces of Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and the captive general Kuoti.
At this time, Chen Man assumed the responsibility of military staff. On the map of Ruyin City, he marked the simple barricades that were urgently built and the passages through which troops could be dispatched. At the same time, he also checked for leaks and filled them.
Yan Xiaoyi organized a surrender army to launch a surprise attack from the city in the early morning. When he stormed the south city gate, the guard of the south city pierced his right arm with a spear. Although the wound was bandaged, it was not serious, but he had lost too much blood and was a little weak.
The knife sits on the sill stone on the north side of the tower.
"Dong dong dong" A strong-backed general walked up to the tower and asked Shi Hu in an impatient voice: "If we add more strength, we can kill through Tiezhou Lane. Then we can organize more troops and attack from both inside and outside."
, take the North City Gate! Why don’t you attack Tiezhou Alley now?”
"Yunkun, please wait a moment
An, don't worry, I brought you here just to explain this to you - come on, you sit here, I will hold the wound when I stand up!"
Yan Xiaoyi asked the military commander to sit next to him and signaled Shi Hu to be busy with other things while he came to explain to the military commander who was full of questions.
The Dongjing Allied Forces were originally an alliance of eighteen water bandits from Dongting Lake. As they grew, they not only absorbed large and small water bandits from Dongting Lake and Jingjiang River, but also mainly landless farmers from nearby counties and larger numbers of refugees heading south.
Compared with the lake bandits and water bandits who made a living by robbing homes and houses in the early years, the refugees from the south who joined the Dongjing Alliance Army were more of a group of clans or fellow villagers. Although they were always suppressed within the Dongjing Alliance Army, they were not until they accepted the recruitment and were reorganized into the German Army.
, this group of people who came from refugee backgrounds have always been a force that cannot be ignored.
Millions of refugees went south because their homeland was invaded by the Red Husbands. When they were forced to lose their livelihood, the Dongjing Allied Forces became a force. In order to improve their combat effectiveness and cohesion, they lured more people to defect to fight against the officers and soldiers. Sun Yanzhou,
In addition to focusing on improving military discipline, Hu Dangzhou and other chiefs also raised the banner of petitioning for the people and upholding justice for heaven.
Therefore, after Sun Yanzhou and Hu Dangzhou led their troops to surrender to the enemy, whether it was personal feelings or self-perception since falling into poverty, the generals who were born as refugees were the most resistant in their hearts.
Surrender to the enemy, not to mention that their families and children are still in Jingnan.
Guo Yunkun is the most typical one among them. He is also a middle-level general of the German army who was personally instigated by Yan Xiaoyi to rebel and lurked in Ruyin City.
Although there are only more than 500 people in Guo Yunkun's tribe, most of them are descendants of the same clan or neighbors of the Guo family.
After Guo Yunkun served for the Military Intelligence Department, more than a dozen people in his department accepted the instigation of rebellion. In fact, Guo Yunkun's department had long been a latent combat force that the Military Intelligence Department could directly command and mobilize.
Therefore, even if Tang Yuan and Yu Mo could not deceive the east city gate, they would have great confidence in the raiding troops. With the cooperation of Guo Yunkun's troops and other lurking troops, they would forcibly invade Ruyin; otherwise, they would not take the risk of formulating such a raid plan.
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However, Ruyin is still too close to the Jiaopi-Quanhe camp, and the city of Ruyin itself is too big. There are also Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou's direct soldiers and horses, and two thousand suppressing garrison troops, mainly the elites of the Chihu clan.
The defensive inner city.
After dawn, a small group of enemy cavalry from the direction of Jiaopi appeared outside Ruyin City, and a large group of enemy cavalry also began to gather on the south bank of Yingshui River, and they would kill at Ruyin City at any time.
At this time, they forcibly occupied the four gates of the outer city, and had no way to effectively control the entire outer city area - there were nearly 20,000 defenders scattered throughout the outer city. Some surrendered, some surrendered, some were stubborn, and some were waiting and watching.
situation.
Even if Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and the garrison troops did not launch a counterattack from the inner city, they would not be able to complete the task of sorting out, controlling and annihilating the die-hard elements one by one in the outer city area in a short time.
When raiding the vanguard, we mainly choose vanguard cavalry, and we are not good at clearing out the rebels gradually from lane to lane.
At this time, dividing the troops to seize the four gates of the outer city, and then shrinking their troops into the outer city area, dividing the troops to rely on the city wall to resist the counterattack of the Jiaopi enemy army, is definitely not a good idea, and may even appear extremely passive. At this time, Sun Yanzhou,
Hu Dangzhou's troops and the two thousand garrison troops did not dare to fight out from the inner city. Most of the defenders in the outer city were still waiting and watching. But when a large number of captive cavalry reinforced the city, everything would be hard to say.
At this time, they had controlled parts of the East City and South City. In addition to building some simple barriers immediately to prevent the defenders from counterattacking, the limited elite troops still had to be deployed outside the South City Gate to welcome the large group of captive cavalry coming from the direction of Jiaopi.
As long as the reinforcements are driven back, Ru Yin Shou, who has no fighting spirit, will
Is the army still a turtle in a urn?
"If the captives come from Jiaopi and see us waiting outside the south city, and choose to enter the city from the west or north, how should we respond?" Guo Yunkun asked.
"First of all, they must have the courage to enter the city. Secondly, if the red cavalry really abandons their horses and enters the city, they will be like lame tigers. We can't wait to do this," Yan Xiaoyi said with a smile, "If this is such a good thing, our battle
We can really round up the enemies of Jiao Pi and Ru Yin."
At this time, there was the sound of rapid horse hoofbeats outside the city, and soon someone raised a voice under the city to report that a large group of enemy riders had assembled along the Yingshui River in the southwest. It was only twelve or three miles away from Ruyin, and there were already signs of dispatch.
Guo Yunkun helped Yan Xiaoyi to the entrance of the crenellated wall outside the city tower. Only then did he see the darkness under the city, the horses roaring, and the main cavalry of the Selected Front Army after a short rest had completed their formation under the city - they could also see it at this time
When the Red Guards Cavalry arrived twelve or three miles away, it was more like a brown torrent slowly surging in this direction.
However, this brown torrent did not completely hit this direction. Its right wing branched off into a branch and headed east.
"Why did the Luqi divide their troops to the east?" Guo Yunkun asked puzzledly.
"It should be our rear reinforcements that have arrived, forcing the cavalry to divide their troops to intercept," Yan Xiaoyi said, "You can help me climb the tower and take a look and you will know!
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Ruyin South City Gate also has a three-story brick and wood structure tower on the city platform.
Yan Xiaoyi and Guo Yunkun stood at the crenel on the south side of the city tower, which was only two feet high from the ground. There were many sparse forests in the south and southwest of Ruyin City, so they could not see too far. When they climbed up, which was nearly five feet high from the ground
From the city tower, about twenty miles away due south, there was indeed a group of three to four thousand men and horses advancing towards Ruyin like a dragon, forcing the captives to divide their troops on the flanks to intercept them.
"The team is so scattered, it must be Xu Pan's command! This guy is too bold in using troops!" Chen Man was also in the tower at this time. He wanted to have a wider view of the entire battlefield from here and stand in front of the crenellations on the outside of the tower at any time.
Shi Hu conveyed the accurate battlefield situation. When he saw three to four thousand men and horses heading towards Ruyin from the south direction, they had even come into view with the captive cavalry a long time ago. Without slowing down at all, they couldn't help but worry and guessed that it was Xu Pang.
department.
Considering that the Red Husbands had assembled more than 20,000 elite cavalry in Jiaopi, in order to repel the first wave of reinforcements from the enemies of Jiaopi under Ruyin City, Sikong Mansion gathered almost all the cavalry to attack Ruyin immediately.
Yin; the second batch of soldiers and horses heading directly to Ruyin were horse infantry led by Yin Peng, Sun Yanguan, Xu Tan and others.
Yin Peng is the leader of the second batch of soldiers and horses, and needs to stay behind to hold the formation.
Although Sun Yanguan is also a rare warrior in the world, he still uses his troops relatively steadily.
As for Xu Pang, his troops were clearly heavy-armored infantry traveling on horseback, and the front line with the captive cavalry had been narrowed to within seven or eight miles, but he still had no intention of shrinking the marching array and dismounting to form a formation.
His name was Chen Man. When Yan Xiaoyi saw him on the top of the city tower, he couldn't help but secretly sweat for him.
Guo Yunkun was so nervous that he clenched his fists.
At this moment, the horn sounded from below the city tower. Guo Yunkun lowered his head and looked over, only to see Shi Hu standing in front of the wall. He personally waved the flag and issued the order to meet the enemy amidst the sound of the horn. He saw the cavalry arrayed outside the south city gate.
Soon it started to move slowly.
The two thousand cavalry formed on the left wing, led by Khitan general Wu Sanrong, marched directly to the southeastern periphery. The speed was getting faster and faster, and soon they pulled out the standard arrow formation into a long arcing snake formation that quickly went south.
Completely ignoring the possibility of being defeated by the captured cavalry when there was a wide open space on the flanks, they just wanted to meet up with the first cavalry infantry coming from the south as quickly as possible...
