"Brother, be careful." Zhao Kui on the top of the city was startled and shouted loudly.
"snort."
What kind of person is Zhao Fan, how could he be shot by him? When Li Quan raised his bow, Zhao Fan was prepared.
He snorted coldly, turned his body to one side, and easily dodged. Then Zhao Fan also raised his bow and arrow and shot him back.
When Li Quan saw Zhao Fan raising his bow, he was frightened and hurriedly avoided it. However, Zhao Fan's arrow was extremely powerful and powerful, and Li Quan was horrified.
With years of experience, Li Quan knew that this arrow was extremely difficult to dodge, so he subconsciously pulled a soldier to stand in front of him.
With a final "pop" sound, Zhao Fan's arrow hit the soldier's chest, and the arrow passed through the soldier's body, almost injuring Li Quan.
Li Quan did not dare to stay long and left in a hurry.
"Hahaha,,,"
Zhao Fan laughed and said, "Li Quan, a common man, dares to fight?"
Li Quan just pretended not to hear and fled towards the main formation without looking back.
Returning to the formation, Li Quan knew that the morale of the army had dropped today and was not suitable for attacking the city, so he ordered a site to be set up for camp.
On the top of Yangzhou City, seeing Li Quan's army encamping, Zhai Chaozong, the magistrate of the state, said to Zhao Fan: "General, the bandit army has not yet established a stable foothold. How about taking the opportunity to go out of the city and kill the bandits? What do you think?"
Zhao Fan shook his head and said: "Don't worry, sir. Li Quan has 60,000 troops, and they are all fierce bandits with good fighting strength. Although our army has more than 43,000 people, every city gate needs soldiers."
The horses are stationed for defense and the strategy is complete. Compared with Li Quan's army, there is a huge difference in the available troops.
If our army wants to win this battle, it must first exhaust the morale and morale of Li Quan's army. By then, even with ten thousand people, we can easily win."
Zhai Chaozong knew that he was not as proficient in battle formations as Zhao Fan, so he didn't say much and nodded in agreement with Zhao Fan's opinion.
Then Zhao Fan said to Ding Sheng: "Ding Dutong, you send people out of the city secretly to investigate Li Quanliang Road. No matter what method you use, destroy it if you can. You will act according to your own circumstances."
"Yes, General."
Ding Sheng clasped his fists in agreement and went down to make arrangements.
Zhao Fan then said to his younger brother Zhao Kui: "Vice General Zhao, from today on, you and I will take turns guarding the city. If there is an opportunity to attack out of the city, we can go out of the city directly without reporting. We can act according to the opportunity."
"Yes, General."
Zhao Kui solemnly clasped his fists and agreed.
Zhao Fan hurriedly made arrangements here, and Li Quan was not idle over there.
Li Quan summoned all the generals in his tent and said, "Yangzhou is right in front of us now. If you think of how to capture it, please tell me if you have any clever strategies. I will give you a heavy reward if you succeed."
Li Quan's subordinate generals Zhang Guoming, Zong Xiongwu, Hu Yi, Guo'an Yong, Zheng Xiang, Zhang You and other generals looked at me, I looked at you, and finally they saw Zheng Yande who was huddled aside.
Everyone remembers that Zheng Yande was beaten half to death because he came up with an idea. How dare he say anything?
"Why, all of you are mute. I will lead you to fight in the north and south. Is this how you behave?"
Li Quan was angry, his eyes were evil, and he glanced at everyone one by one. Everyone could not help but dodge, for fear that Li Quan would call his name.
Finally, Li Quan's eyes fell on Zheng Yande, who was so frightened that Zheng Yande rolled his eyes and fainted.
Li Quan scolded: "Carry this useless thing down."
Several soldiers came in and hurriedly carried Zheng Yande out of the tent, fearing that Li Quan would kill him if he stayed any longer.
In the end, there was really no other way. General Zong Xiongwu stood up and said: "General, our army has strong soldiers and horses, but Yangzhou City has high walls and thick walls, and Zhao Fan is quite capable. It is better to attack the city for three days and test his background. If you can't
Once it is conquered, we will force the people to dig deep ditches and trenches, cutting off their contact with the outside world, leaving them with neither reinforcements nor food and grass relief. At that time, the morale of the army will be chaotic, and our army will win."
Li Quan nodded, feeling that it made sense, and said: "This is a good method. Once Yangzhou is defeated, you will be the biggest contributor."
"Don't dare."
Zong Xiongwu hurriedly waved his hands and said: "How dare you take credit, general? If things change, I just hope that the general can open his eyes to me."
Li Quan punched him and scolded him with a smile: "You kid said some unlucky words. Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who doesn't discriminate between rewards and punishments."
All the generals looked at Li Quan in embarrassment. As for what he just said, Li Quan was too embarrassed to say it.
After the strategy was decided, Li Quan ordered everyone to prepare individually.
The next day, Li Quan ordered Hu Yi to be the vanguard general, and Zong Xiongwu to provide support, leading an army of 20,000 to attack the east gate of Yangzhou City wildly. The Yangzhou War officially began.
For a time, arrows were raining down on the battlefield, artillery fire was flying, and Li Quan's rebels poured into the east gate one after another like a tide, shouting and killing loudly.
"Fire the arrow."
Zhao Fan was personally in danger and did not hesitate to risk arrows to command at the top of the city, "Send an order to Yang Qing to fire my artillery to block the rebels' backup."
Zhao Fan decisively chose the strategy of raining arrows from near and bombarding from a distance, preventing Li Quan's rebels from connecting end to end.
"The general has orders to fire."
The messenger found Yang Qing and conveyed the order. Yang Qing was already anxious and his hands were itching. After receiving the order, he loudly ordered to his subordinates: "Get ready, light the fire, and fire."
At this time, Zhao Fan's army was equipped with iron artillery. The shells were as big as watermelons, with iron shells and fuses. After igniting, they were dropped by trebuchets. When the shells exploded, the iron shells were blown to pieces and turned into fragments to kill the enemy. They could be pierced.
Armor is extremely powerful.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"
Huge rumblings sounded one after another in the rear of the rebels. Li Quan's rebels suffered heavy casualties under the attack of iron artillery. People lying on the ground and rolling were everywhere, which brought great psychological impact to the rebel soldiers.
While inflicting large-scale casualties on the rebels, Zhao Fan also suffered heavy casualties. Countless sharp arrows flew towards the city, some of which were tied with fire, in an attempt to burn the city tower. The defenders had to risk huge
danger, to extinguish the flames.
Not only that, the catapult of Li Quan's rebel army was also a weapon with huge destructive power. Dozens of kilograms of stone flew out in an arc and hit the city with a huge impact. If it hit a person, it would be like meat.
Normally, the scene is terrifying, but this is war!
Just as Li Quan's rebels were attacking Yangzhou, Jianghuai envoy Zhao Shanxiang had already marched toward Chuzhou with 20,000 troops. Following Zhao Shanxiang was Peng Yibin, commander of the Zhongyi Army.
This Peng Yibin was born in the rebel army and was a loyal man. In his early years, he was a subordinate of Liu Erzu of the Red Coat Army. After Liu Erzu's death, Peng Yibin and Hao Ding continued to lead the rebel army to resist the Jin Kingdom in Shandong and also established the Tianqi Kingdom, which can be said to be the foundation of a business.
However, the two of them were destined not to be emperors. Soon Hao Ding died in battle, and Peng Yibin was weak, so he defected to Li Quan.
In the end, Peng Yibin followed Li Quan and joined the Song Dynasty. Later, he couldn't stand Li Quan's arrogance and domineering, so he led his subordinates to break away from Li Quan and form his own army.
Now Zhao Shanxiang summoned him because he valued his loyalty and his persistence with Li Quan, so he could be reused.
Peng Yibin also obeyed the command very well and came right after receiving the order from his old boss. This chapter has been completed!