Chapter 1032: In the Yixi Department, besieged on three sides
Chapter 1032: Yixi Tribe, besieged on three sides
"My sons, set off and capture this Yixi tribe for the commander-in-chief!"
Lei Zheng shouted loudly, and then took the lead with his three thousand men!
At the same time, Jiang Shang had also ordered three thousand archers to follow Lei Zheng.
"Go forward ten miles to set up camp and plunder the formations for the armies!"
Shen Tang shouted loudly, and the army continued to move forward!
One of the reasons why Shen Tang did not choose a surprise attack was that his subordinates were basically infantry and lacked sufficient mobility. Moreover, with a small number of people, a surprise attack would not have any effect at all. With more people, unless it was easy to Everyone in the Xibei has died, otherwise, if you move forward again, the people of the Yixibei will definitely find their traces! No matter how careful you are, the watchtower on the side of the Yixibei city wall is enough to detect movements several miles away. !Therefore, Shen Tang could only choose to attack the city.
Fortunately, Shen Tang was already prepared for this. Now that the city was surrounded on three sides and attacked in turn, the Yixi tribe could not hold on for long with only the soldiers and horses in their ancestral land.
Shen Tang led the army forward to camp, not to mention that Lei Zheng led 3,000 vanguard troops to attack the north of Yixi tribe!
Sure enough, Lei Zheng's vanguard army had just marched a few miles, and when they were still six or seven miles away from the north city gate, strange movements outside the city were already noticed in the city!
Immediately, the sound of horns suddenly sounded, and the number of people on the originally empty arrow tower gradually increased.
Even, not long after, people began to crowd on the city wall!
The door that was originally open closed with a bang!
"Patriarch, patriarch, it's not good!"
The clan leader of the Yixi Tribe is named Tuhunhu. He has a leopard head and ringed eyes, and his figure is only slightly inferior to that of the mighty Lei Zheng!
Seeing someone suddenly barging in, he stood up suddenly and yelled, "What's your name?"
The person who came to retaliate did not care whether he would make the clan leader angry. He just shouted in a hurry, "Clan Leader, in the north of our city, a group of soldiers and horses suddenly appeared, with a total of two to three thousand people. Now, there are only 2,000 soldiers and horses in the north. The city gate is still about five or six miles away! It will take them two sticks of incense at most to reach the city gate!"
"The gatekeepers have closed the city gate, and about a thousand people from nearby Erlang have climbed up the city wall to defend themselves!"
"What!"
Tuhunhu's eyes widened, "Can you clearly see where the troops are coming from?"
"I haven't seen them clearly yet, and I don't know what their purpose is! So the villain hurriedly came to report to the clan leader!"
"Someone is coming!"
Tuhun shouted loudly, and then ordered to the people who came in, "Blow the war drum immediately and let the clan's sons gather towards the north city as soon as possible! In addition, immediately send messengers to the subordinate tribes,"
"Let's go, my clan leader wants to see which group of people this is. How dare they come to invade my Yixi tribe's territory! Moreover, how dare they come directly to the ancestral land. They are simply seeking death!"
When Tuhunhu came to the north city wall, the people outside the city were already within a thousand steps!
Looking at the black army, Tuhunhu frowned. He came from the north. Where are these soldiers and horses?
Only the Changning Army is close to the north, and the Yixi Tribe and the Changning Army have never interfered with each other, and there are even some transactions between them! Moreover, if it is the soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty, aren't they afraid of causing all the tribes to unite? ?
Although the relations between the tribes are not harmonious and there are many conquests between the tribes, if an external force comes to interfere, all the ethnic groups will unite to resist.
These people and horses suddenly stopped when they were still four to five hundred steps away from the north city wall, and Tuhunhu and others could see the faces of these people clearly!
“These are also tribesmen?
But which tribe do they come from?
They don’t look like the ghost soldiers of Luo’s Ghost Kingdom, but they look somewhat similar to the faces of our local tribes!”
Tuhunhu said to himself.
"Shout and ask where their troops are from!"
Tuhunhu turned around and said.
"Chief, I am leading my sons out of the city. They are only three thousand people. Now except for some elites from our clan who have gone to the Mangbu tribe, the other eight thousand elites are here! It will be easy to kill them."
"No!"
Tuhunhu hesitated for a moment, then waved his hand, "These people came too strangely, and I don't know if they have any other purpose. If there are soldiers and horses behind them to support them, and the men rush out of the city, accidents will happen! Go,
Let the warriors of the clan divide two thousand soldiers and horses, leave the city from the east and west directions, and approach the north carefully! If they have no backup, then you will personally lead the rest of the men out of the city, and the three parties will encircle and capture these people!"
"Clan leader, don't worry!"
As soon as the man finished speaking and before the order was conveyed, two members of the clan came running over in a hurry.
"Chief, a troop of soldiers and horses was found in the west of the city, numbering about five thousand. They are now camping three miles outside the city!"
"Chief, there are five thousand soldiers and horses in the east of the city, and they have launched an attack on us..."
Two sudden pieces of news caused Tuhunhu's expression to change drastically. At the same time, with the sound of trembling footsteps, thousands more soldiers and horses slowly arrived behind Lei Zheng's army.
"With an army of tens of thousands of people, whose troops are these?"
Tuhun was shocked and turned pale.
"Immediately send four thousand warriors in two directions to garrison the east and west city walls, and gather all the clan members as soon as possible..."
Outside the city, Lei Zheng's fierce eyes stared at the city wall in front of him, "Set up the ladder and set up the catapult!"
Creak, creak, a ladder stands up, and a catapult is ready to go!
"General Lei Zheng, my three thousand archers are ready and ready to attack at any time!"
Jiang Shang shouted loudly!
Lei Zheng nodded vigorously, "General Jiang Shang, now I am also serving under the commander-in-chief. We are brothers. Therefore, I would like to ask the general for advice on how to fight this battle! I am not afraid of charging into the battle, but the commander-in-chief is not afraid.
This general is really not familiar with this kind of siege battle."
Lei Zheng was not a fool, and before this, Shentu Mou had repeatedly warned him to listen to the Song general's opinions. Therefore, he was extremely polite to this Jiang merchant.
Jiang Shang smiled slightly, "General Lei, you're welcome. Now, their city wall is about ten feet high, and there are trenches blocking the road outside the city! We must first break through the trenches, and then we can attack the city more smoothly!"
"Why don't you give these twenty ladders to me first? On top of the ladders, I will be equipped with archers. Together with the archers and catapults below, it will be enough to suppress their power on the city wall.
General Lei can take this opportunity to fill in the trenches outside their city first! However, when General Lei reaches the city wall, we can use the ladder to attack the city by force..."
"However, according to the commander's order, in order to reduce casualties, we can do a few inclines to weaken their energy, wait until the commander issues the general attack order, and then attack the city with all our strength."