Outside Yinzhou North City is the only place where the terrain is not flat enough, with rolling mountains, winding rivers, shrubs and weeds...
Zhang Shutong led five hundred knights and carefully searched forward. All the ears, eyes and spies previously sent to this area disappeared. There must be Yang Hao's men and horses in this area. Li Guangrui did not know that Yang Hao actually took a strange risk.
He used Yinzhou, his only base, as bait to lure him in. However, he wanted to besiege the city and recruit reinforcements. The key to success was that the defenders inside the city must not be allowed to contact the reinforcements outside the city, so they had to stay within the safety range he set.
within to ensure that no enemy reinforcements appear.
Siege battles have been taking place since the creation of cities in the world. There are countless examples of failed sieges because the defenders inside the city saw the banners of reinforcements outside the city. The exhausted defenders would explode at that moment.
Infinite warriors and an army with high morale will instantly burst out with powerful fighting power, but the siege army will be greatly frustrated at this moment, and will be defeated in one blow, and the attack and defense will become easier. At least, once the two sides meet, the siege will be difficult.
Increased exponentially.
The most successful previous siege and reinforcement was when Li Shimin attacked Luoyang. Li Shimin's militia trapped Luoyang City and sent troops to guard all the important passes around Luoyang. Li Yuan divided and disintegrated various princes in the rear and minimized the number of troops to assist Wang Shichong of Luoyang. At that time
When Dou Jiande personally led the army to rescue Luoyang, Li Shimin waited for work at Hulao Pass, defeated the reinforcements, and then carried the defeated flag of the reinforcements to Luoyang City. The defenders in the city immediately collapsed. Once the morale of the army was dispersed, even gods could not immediately restore it, and failure was inevitable.
It's inevitable.
Li Guangrui also knew that Yinzhou would be difficult to defeat, although Yinzhou City was much stronger than he expected, so his initial decision was to defeat Yang Hao's exhausted troops who had rushed back for reinforcements. The situation and geography of Yinzhou were harmonious.
The Luoyang that Wang Shichong initially guarded was very different, but the methods used by Li Guangrui were similar to those of Li Shimin.
Li Yuan induced various factions to rebel against the king and made them give up the rescue of Wang Shichong. Li Guangrui asked his son to attack Linzhou and Xiazhou to lure Zhe Yuxun. Yang Chongxun was worried and led his troops back to his hometown. The effect was the same.
They are all trying to weaken the strength of the reinforcements as much as possible.
Li Shimin guarded the dangerous passes outside Luoyang City to prevent the reinforcements from joining the defenders. There was no such geography around Yinzhou, but his troops and horses were far more abundant than Yang Hao's. He could use his camps to create artificial terrain around Yinzhou.
Create insurmountable fortresses.
Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 men with great momentum and arrogance. As a result, he was completely defeated in front of the Hulao Pass where one man could not open the gate but ten thousand men could not open it. Yang Hao was more alert than Dou Jiande. Yang Hao did not directly set up his formation to fight him in a decisive battle. Let him
The first battle was successful, but he could continue to strengthen his offensive against Yinzhou, forcing Yang Hao to take the initiative to seek a decisive battle with him.
Li Guangrui thought over and over again and found that his plan had no flaws. As long as the two super powerful forces of Song and Khitan did not interfere, he would be 100% sure that Yinzhou could be brought back under his rule within a month and a half.
Even if Yang Hao, the only person who poses a threat to his status, does not die, he will be like a lost dog with no chance of recovery.
The terrain outside Yinzhou North City made it difficult to arrange large groups of troops, so in addition to setting up the Shili Company Battalion for defense on both sides of Yinzhou City, he also continuously sent troops to strengthen the vigilance of the northern line to prevent Yang Hao from unknowingly ambush here.
The heavy troops suddenly broke into the city and joined the defenders.
Battalion commander Zhang Shutong carefully led his troops on an inspection tour and unknowingly entered the ambush carefully deployed by Yang Hao's troops.
The people responsible for this ambush were Commander Li and Mu Yu. Commander Li's nickname was Yaoliu, and Li Yaoliu was the nephew of the Li family in Yinzhou. He was originally a general in Yinzhou and knew the geography of this generation well, while Mu Yu
They are good at laying traps. In the bushes and grass on both sides, they dug many shallow pits that can only accommodate one person. This is a way for hunters to ambush large beasts. The pits are not very deep, and the entire body is buried in the soil.
, the top is planted with turf, the head is covered with a shield, and a slight gap is exposed for breathing. It is simply perfect. It is Zhang Shutong's outpost exploring the horse and leading the horse to walk. He walks past them, as long as he does not step on them disguised as turf.
You can't even expect to find their presence on the shield underneath.
The Tanma outpost passed in front of them. They did not pay attention to the flat area with only some weeds growing under their feet. They only paid attention to the bushes and the hillsides and valleys in the distance. They were wary of someone suddenly coming out. Immediately afterwards, the battalion commander Zhang Shutong
Arriving with five hundred Xiazhou soldiers.
"Kill!" Li Yaoliu was the first to jump up. The first-grade bow in his hand roared and shot the first arrow, heading straight for Zhang Shutong who was sitting on the tall horse.
"Woo~~~~" The shrill horn sound sounded, and the Yinzhou soldiers who were hiding on both sides of the road jumped up, like soul seducers killed from hell, and countless sharp arrows shot out of the air and whizzed away.
Their ambush location is one arrow away from both sides of the road, away from the traditional one arrow away. Even if the Xiazhou soldiers' bows shoot arrows here, they no longer have strong lethality, while their bows are still
You can shoot effectively without worrying about overshooting and injuring friendly forces ambushing on the opposite side.
"Whoosh whoosh!" Countless sharp arrows came suddenly, like scythes cutting grass. In an instant, people and horses were shot down, and then the roar of men and horses neighed.
"Swish, swish, swish!" The cold sound of arrow feathers piercing the air continued to deliver cruel blows. The soldiers on horseback had no time to fight back, and they didn't know where to fight back in panic.
Zhang Shutong had been hit by an arrow and dismounted from his horse. He was being trampled by panicked horses. A team leader had just shouted loudly: "Dismount, fall down, and send the signal!" As soon as he finished speaking, two sharp arrows had pierced his chest.
, causing him to fall on his back. However, his shout finally alerted the panicked soldiers, and a cloud-piercing arrow shot through the air with a sharp whistle, and the arrow carried a wolf smoke signal and drew a long trace in the air.
.
The remaining soldiers dismounted their horses one after another, used the horses as cover, and quickly fled to the grass on both sides. They raised their shields, drew their swords, and panicked with their bows and arrows, and fired them randomly in the direction of the ambush.
"Sweep the battlefield!"
Still a young man, but already somewhat mature, Mu Yu, who had the air of a calm general, shouted loudly, swung forward with a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and began to clean up quickly and fiercely.
He raised his sword and shield and attacked the remaining Xiazhou soldiers and horses.
Rushing from left to right is called Dang formation, charging with sharp soldiers is called Deng Dang, confronting the enemy in front of the battle, trapping the enemy, surrounding, intercepting, and clearing them all in one go. The remaining Xiazhou soldiers were cut into several sections by them in an instant, and they were quickly swept away.
"Withdraw!" Li Yaoliu gave an order and immediately withdrew his troops. All the soldiers in light clothes quickly ran towards the valley in the distance. Their horses were mounted on the bits and hid in the valley. As long as they arrived,
You can quickly escape from the battlefield.
After half a stick of incense, thunderous hooves sounded, and a huge cavalry team roared in, but all they saw were dead bodies everywhere and a few injured horses that were desolate and neighing...
The same scene was happening on the Eastern Front, with cavalry crisscrossing the mountains and plains. Xiazhou soldiers and Zhejia soldiers drove their horses like flying, relaxed and fired. People on both sides kept falling off their horses. When the forwards of both sides were within a stone's throw, they quickly drew back their bows.
The sword entered into a hand-to-hand fight, the swords and halberds intersected, the sound was sonorous and powerful, the men were ruthless, and the force was unparalleled!
The sword flashed, and the head of a soldier who passed by the Zhe family flew up. The headless horseman, splattered with blood, continued to rush forward for several feet before falling off his horse.
There was a loud "bang" earthquake, and a Xia army soldier and his shield were split in half by a big axe. The one who wielded the axe was a Zhejia general. This guy was black and strong, with beards and beards, roaring like thunder.
, Duan Di is brave and brave, with a big ax in his hand, shouting and screaming, just like Cheng Yaojin is reincarnated, and the war horses are bumping into each other.
The grassland turned into a bloody battlefield. The horns sounded in the distance, and countless soldiers from the Xiazhou Camp were like a surging tide, coming from both sides to cover up the place.
Half-cut arms and broken bodies were plastered all over the ground. The Zhejia army roared in and roared away, retreating into the distance before the Xiazhou army could complete the encirclement...
After getting Yang Hao, Zhe Yuxun, and Yang Chong to train troops in three places, they used different tactics to harass them. After the attacks became more and more frequent, Li Guangrui looked up to the sky and laughed. He coughed twice and ordered to his generals:
"Let him attack, and be ready to see if he can afford it, or I can afford it. See if he can afford it, or I can afford it. Strengthen the siege, fight to the death, and force Yang Hao and I
A decisive battle!"
Yinzhou City once again withstood strong attack pressure. Broken corpses, broken weapons, and corpses scattered all over the city could be seen everywhere. The extremely strong smell of blood permeated the entire battlefield, and there were extremely miserable scenes everywhere.
.The fire was raging in this area, and the piles of bushes and firewood were baking the entire city wall. The heat wave was rolling above and below the city, forcing the soldiers to stay away.
On that side, the local city was constantly firing at each other, with arrows, poisonous smoke balls, thunderbolt arrows, and eighteen kinds of weapons showing off their magical powers. On the battlefield where the shooting was raining, a large-scale siege fortress had begun to take shape, with countless
The Xiazhou soldiers kept coming and going like ants, carrying stones and earthworks forward. The cowhide curtains on the wooden frames on both sides were still intact, but the cowhide curtains on the huge wooden supports above their heads were full of holes, and people kept getting hit.
The arrow fell, but the wide and heavy siege fortress was constantly being widened, heightened, and reinforced. Li Guangrui had plenty of manpower.
It is conceivable that when it is level with the city, countless pedals are set up on the city head at the same time, and the unreachable Yinzhou City will become a flat ground for them. At that time, the Xiazhou soldiers who had suffered so much were angry and violent
How hatred will pour into Yinzhou City.
"Sister, there was a heavy rain a few days ago, and now they are baking it with fires day and night. Several huge cracks have appeared in the southern city wall. If it collapses, the consequences will be disastrous."
Yanyan hurriedly ran into the tower and said to Dong'er.
Dong'er was deploying defenses to several subordinates facing the sand table. The enemy's attack on the city was becoming increasingly fierce. The siege methods and main attack directions were different every day. She had to make full use of the limited troops at hand to redeploy them.
Several generals followed the order and left. Only then did Dong'er look at Yanyan. The beautiful armor on Yanyan's body was already covered with smoke and dust, and her charming and delicate face was also stained with a few smoke marks and blood stains. This clothesman
When you come to stretch your hands and open your mouth to eat, there should be seven or eight maids and a dozen domestic servants to serve you anytime and anywhere. After being tempered by the flames of war, there is already a bit of heroic spirit in your brows.
And Dong'er has been trained by Xiao Chuo and Yelu Xiu for a long time, and she has a bit of the composure and perseverance of a general. Maybe she is not a qualified strategic commander, but in these days' city defense battles, she is very good at tactics.
, has faintly surpassed Ke Zhen'e. Those generals who originally disdained women and only obeyed her orders because she was the woman of the city lord, are now sincerely convinced by her and obey her orders wholeheartedly.
"I know that the officials have returned and are constantly restraining Li Guangrui from the outside. But Li Guangrui, an old fox, is not simple. He is attacking Yinzhou more and more fiercely. He does not care about sacrifices and attacks the city day and night. His only purpose is to force the officials
People can't keep their composure, and the battle turns from a casual battle to a decisive battle."
Dong'er pursed her lips and smiled, with a look full of trust and pride in her officers: "Originally, if we only relied on this city, Li Guangrui's plan would definitely succeed. Unfortunately, he didn't know that our officers are very clever.
We have other plans. We must hold on no matter what, we must hold on until the news of Xiazhou's fall comes, Yanyan, come here."
Dong'er turned around and looked at the sand table. It was the Yinzhou city defense map. The terrain and troop deployment in the city were clear at a glance, and frightening little flags representing the enemy were planted everywhere outside the city.
Dong'er said: "Li Guangrui keeps attacking our Yinzhou with thunderous force day and night. The biggest weakness of our city is the limited strength of our troops..."
Yanyan blurted out: "Not only are the troops limited, they are extremely scarce."
Dong'er gently patted her shoulder to comfort her, pointed to the city defense sand table and said: "Yes, our Yinzhou City has high walls and thick walls, and the defensive terrain is really good. If we have sufficient troops and usable morale, we can defend it for a whole day."
Years were not a problem, but now we have too few manpower, and Li Guangrui has too few siege equipment. We used the stupid method of burning day and night, but it turned out to be quite effective because of a heavy rain.
The key to breaking the city is just a breakthrough point. As long as we find a breakthrough point, tear it apart, and expand it, the city will inevitably fall. We must be prepared for the fall of the outer city, but whether we can hold it or not, we must not ask for help from the officials.
Otherwise, all our efforts will be in vain. Yanyan, you see, our inner city has been reinforced, and a sheep and horse city has been built behind it, a city within the city. Once the outer city is lost, we will retreat into the inner city and continue to hold on.
At the same time, I have informed Wawa and Miaomiao to gather their horses. If the inner city is lost, they will use the weak points between the streets and alleys that Li Guangrui's soldiers and horses cannot manipulate to open a hole and break out from the north city."
Yanyan said in surprise: "Breaking through Beicheng? Li Guangrui's defense is the strongest on that line."
Dong'er said: "I know, so the breakout from Beicheng is the most unexpected. I have communicated with the official, and he also agreed to breakout from Beicheng once the situation becomes critical. How can we, the old, weak, women and children, escape from Li Guangrui if we go from the other three sides?
The Qingqi? Only from the north, breaking through their position, crossing Wufoling, and entering the rolling mountains and rivers, can there be a chance of survival."
At this point, she paused and added: "Of course, this is just a necessary precaution. The inner city is not that easy to capture, and the news about Xiazhou's success or failure should be announced in the next few days.
Just know it.”
Yanyan pursed her lips and asked, "What if Xiazhou doesn't succeed?"
Dong'er's face turned serious and she was silent for a moment. She pointed at the sand table and said, "It's better to go north, cross Wufoling, cross Mingtang River, avoid Dijinze, and wait for the opportunity to make a comeback!"
Camels stood slowly in front of the battle, grazing with their heads lowered. Human beings, the spirits of all things, were going crazy. They could be regarded as the calmest creatures on the battlefield at this time.
The cyclone cannon mounted on the back of the camel was roaring towards the city head, firing stones one after another. The fist-sized stones broke through the air. Although it could not cause damage to the solid city wall, it could effectively kill the enemy, even if it was sustained.
The warriors were holding large shields, and stones could penetrate the large shields. Under the attack of this rain of stones, the head of the West City temporarily fell into silence.
The Xiazhou Army quickly pushed the improvised siege weapons such as ladders and trench bridges to a short distance below the city, waiting for the rain of bullets to subside before launching the offensive. However, within a moment, a roar like a bull's roar suddenly erupted from the top of the city.
, three short spears as thick as goose eggs shot out quickly. The faint shadow of the spears flashed and pierced the bodies of the two camels. The short spears passed through the camels' bodies, and a cloud of blood mist rose in the air, with a buzzing sound.
When he hit the ground, he was so horrified that the soldier operating the tornado gun next to him fell to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, there was the second and third howl of a cow. After a while, a stone as big as a millstone rose into the air and hit a trench bridge accurately. The simple trench bridge immediately fell apart, knocking several soldiers away.
It hit the ground below and let out a howl that didn't sound like a human voice.
"Siege the city by force!"
General Xiazhou shouted in annoyance, and suddenly people gathered like ants and shouted to kill each other. Arrows shot through the air, and bullets rained down. Countless soldiers forced their way forward, and many figures appeared at the top of the city. A tug-of-war started again.
.This time the battle may last for a long time...
On Wufo Ridge, Yang Hao watched Dong'er's letter from the city with concern. The considerate Dong'er had to tell him the real situation in the city, but he didn't want him to worry too much. In terms of wording,
Although he was very careful, Yang Hao still felt the difficulty in the city. Although Li Guangrui had many soldiers and horses, he lacked powerful siege equipment. Logically speaking, the defenders should not be in a worse situation than King Qing when he attacked Yinzhou.
However... his biggest weakness is that he rises too fast. The expansion of his troops cannot keep up with the expansion of his status and power. There are too few defenders in the city. It is really difficult for Dong'er. How long can the city be defended? Xiazhou,
Did Xiazhou get it?
Yang Hao thought about the plight of his wife and children in the city, and suddenly felt extremely irritable. He wished he could get on his horse and charge into numerous enemy camps single-handedly. As long as he could get through and return to Yinzhou City, instead of guessing about the situation in the city,
Suffering endless suffering.
Suddenly, Mu Yu was swept into his tent made of pine wood like the wind. His face was red, he was breathing heavily, he was holding a piece of paper tightly in his hand, and said with tears of joy: "Sir, there is news from Xiazhou, take it down.
Yes, we have captured Xiazhou!"
Yang Hao was overjoyed and jumped to his side. Before Mu Yu could hand over the letter, Yang Hao snatched it away. There was only one clear line of large characters on the paper: "Congratulations, Lieutenant Commander, Xiazhou is in hand. Zhang
Pu Yaobao."
Yang Hao closed his eyes and clutched the paper tightly, his whole body trembling.
From Xiazhou to Yinzhou, Yang Hao did not have a complete communication line. Even if there were some arrangements, Li Guangrui swept them all the way, and the locust-like army had already destroyed all possible arrangements, so the message was sent day and night by horse power.
Damn it, he received the news. Li Guangrui had no reason to be slower than him. Yang Hao opened his eyes and ordered loudly: "Inform the three armies of the news immediately! Report the news to Yinzhou City immediately! Inform Yang Chongxun and Zhe Yu immediately.