Sent by Zhou Bin, he led his troops to attack the east gate of Fan City to kill Gao Hu, who retreated from the defenders. Zhou Ta was the battalion general and sentry general of the Chaishan Brigade of Tang Fuguan's second town division in Chongcheng, Huaidong, and was also the first to sneak in with Zhou Bin.
Chaishan, the military attache who formed the Chaishan Brigade.
Zhou Ta first went to the city gate to deal with the defenders, and then Gao Hu came with 600 troops.
In a hurry, all the generals were unable to put on their armor, so they picked up their swords, shields, swords, and crossbows, and galloped towards the east gate of Fan City. Regardless of the rain of arrows from the top of the city, they rushed to the gate of the city before dismounting.
On the inside of the city gate, a large shield was used to cover the arrow stones from the city head, and the road to the city was stormed...
Yanhu established a clan and a country through war. Ever since they came down from Hulun Mountain, there has been almost no year without a truce. As a result, the bodies of Yanhu soldiers are full of combative and bloodthirsty blood, and they are also refined.
In response to changes.
When the east gate was attacked, most of the defenders were in the military camp inside the city. There were also military attachés who came to the prostitute village at dusk to have fun. There were not many defenders still guarding the east gate tower at night.
, there was only a team of 60 people, and in the city gate cave, they were suddenly killed by more than ten people led by Zhou Ta. However, the defenders on the city tower were mostly veterans of Yanhu's long battlefield, and they took advantage of the tower's commanding position.
They fought tenaciously to block the way to the city and did not panic because the city gate was temporarily lost.
Fortunately for the two armies of Gao Hu and Zhou Ta, the defenders did not consider that the city gate would be captured so easily. Although the defenders of the city tower organized archers and crossbowmen to shoot arrows on the inside of the city tower and relied on the stone railings to block the inside of the city gate.
On the way to the city, the rolling stones, hammers, and iron pots filled with kerosene that could really threaten the big shield were all deployed on the outside of the city tower. They could not move over for a while, so they asked the Huaidong Army to forcefully attack the city. Some of them were
The defenders retreated to the city towers to resist, and some of the defenders retreated to the city walls on both sides, converging with reinforcements from the South City and North City towers to push back the Huaidong Army...
Guard general Puama didn't hesitate much, and only ordered the gates of the other three cities to be closed. While ringing the bell to assemble the entire city's defenders, he personally led more than a hundred guardsmen, also Punacha
The elite private soldiers of the Clan clan put on their battle armors and rode straight to the east city gate. They walked along the street and attacked the Huaidong Army who had just established a foothold inside the city gate opening.
Shewenzhuang had guarded Xiangfan for a period of time. In addition to erecting two pontoon bridges over the Han River, the city defenses of Xiangyang and Fancheng were also improved. The most obvious thing in Fancheng was to dig out an extra inner wall next to the inner wall of the city wall.
In Haolai, a wooden Neihao Bridge was built in the east city gate to connect the city gate opening with the main street in the city.
As soon as Zhou Tago ordered two carriages to be set up at the other end of Neihao Bridge, hoping to block the defenders' counterattack and stabilize the position, Puama came rushing towards him. He was astride the horse, holding a big spear, and waved it left and right.
, when he was about to overturn the two carriages blocking the front.
Although the carriages are empty, each one weighs four to five hundred kilograms. Puama can roll the carriage several times with his swing, which shows the strength of his arms...
The generals of the Huaidong Army who were hiding behind the carriage at the bridgehead were unable to get out of the way, so they called Puama to rush in with his horses. They killed them so hard that they had to give way to the Neihao Bridge, and suffered dozens of losses one after another.
Celebrity hands.
If Puama captures Neihao Bridge and can hold the gap in Neihao Bridge and organize the defenders to counterattack, it will be very difficult for the Huaidong Army to enter the city and capture the entire Fan City before reinforcements from the south bank arrive.
——However, Puama considered himself to be extremely brave and was not satisfied with the Huaidong Army being killed and returned from Neihao Bridge, so he intended to recapture the East Gate in one go.
Puama, surrounded by five horsemen, rushed across the Neihao Bridge and headed towards the city gate.
Neihao Bridge is only more than three feet wide, and it is already crowded with four or five horses passing through at one time, so Puama can only rush six horses at a time.
Although there were no generals who could compete with Puama among the generals sent by the Huaidong Army to seize the east gate of Fan City, most of them were fierce and brave soldiers who were not afraid of death. However, Puama rushed in recklessly.
Come here, Zhou Ta knows that if he can't block Puama's momentum and let him come through, and if he asks more than a hundred Jianrui behind him to come across the Neihao Bridge, the array at the city gate hole will probably be thrown into chaos and have to fight.
If you exit the east gate, the results of the previous attack on the city gate will be in vain.
Zhou Tahu roared and waved his sword to block the horse's head. At the same time, seven or eight armored soldiers rushed up from both sides to block the gap.
The sentry general Zhou Ta failed to seal the big blow Puama hit him with his sword. He heard a cracking sound in his left shoulder, and a huge pain came from his left shoulder. His whole body was smashed by Da Shuo, and he fainted from the pain. Zhou Ta
After fainting, he stood in front of the horse and was kicked away by Puama's horse. However, Puama charged too far forward, and the five horsemen who followed him across the bridge blocked the rear.
A Mo Dao slashed across Puama's right side and cut off the armor on his right side, leaving a bloody opening that spurted blood.
Pu'ama screamed in pain, but he was not allowed to rein in his horse and adjust his posture to continue fighting. More Huaidong soldiers recovered and rushed closer, entangled him together, and one of them directly killed Pu'a.
The horse's long legs were wrapped under his armpits, and he hugged them tightly, without any fear that the sharp blade at the front of the long legs would cut his armpits dripping with blood...
In the blink of an eye, the five horsemen who rushed across the bridge with Puama fell slightly behind, and two of them were killed. The defenders behind were unable to rush over because the Neihao Bridge was too narrow.
You can see that Puama himself is entangled at this end of the bridge, unable to move forward or retreat.
Gao Hu, who was attacking the enemy tower at the top of the city, saw the opportunity, jumped down from the stone fence, slashed his sharp sword straight down, and split Puama's head in half with his iron helmet...
Puama was also a well-known brave general in the Northern Yan Army. Unexpectedly, he was beheaded by a group of unknown soldiers in Huaidong. Half of his head was chopped off, and the blood-white pulp and liquid were sprayed out. Puama's death in battle was of great significance to him.
The counterattack at the East City Gate and the stubborn defenders' morale were greatly affected. The defenders who had rushed to the Neihao Bridge were stunned there. They forgot to advance or retreat for a while, and called the Huaidong soldiers to rush over and defeated them in one fell swoop...
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The Qiaodu garrison still occupied the bridge head on the north bank and was not defeated. The soldiers and horses on the south bank rushed to the north bank via the pontoon bridge. Soon, it didn't even take half a stick of incense. However, the Huaidong army came from the left and right, arrayed with large shields, and used
Bows and crossbows were used to block the bridge, and the defenders were pinned to the bridge head, unable to break out.
At the back, they smashed the wheels of more than a dozen carriages covered with iron plates and placed them across the bridge to prevent the defenders from rushing out. They also drove piles behind the carriages and blocked them, forcing the defenders to brave arrows.
I rushed to the nearest place, but I couldn't push the cart away and open a passage for the attack.
To build a pontoon bridge, you must choose a stable shore foundation. You need to cut mountains and drill rocks for locks, and put on iron cables to fix the pontoon bridge.
The two pontoon bridges across the Han River in the south of Fancheng City are built on Feiyu Cape, which is a huge rock that looks like a bird's beak protruding from the tip of the north bank. The two pontoon bridges share three iron cables in the middle and are tied to Feiyu.
On the headland.
Feiyu Cape is more than two hundred steps deep. It is considered as the approach bridge of the pontoon bridge. It is not short, but the front is only forty or fifty steps wide. Both sides are steep cliffs that are difficult for humans to climb. The river beach under the cliff is seventeen meters from the bridge head.
Eight feet deep.
With such a bridgehead, once the front is blocked, it will be difficult to rush out.
The defenders couldn't fight out, but they still held on to the bridgehead on the north bank and refused to retreat, preventing the Huaidong Army from getting close to the bridgehead and burning the pontoon. They used their horses and deer antlers to circle a space of more than a hundred steps in front of Feiyu Cape.
The inner side was heavily defended with large shields to block the Huaidong Army's attack and the increasingly dense rain of arrows.
Although it is fast to walk on the pontoon bridge, the head of the bridge is fixed there and is only so wide. Once it is blocked, the front that can be deployed is only a few dozen steps wide. The front is still under the blockade of Huaidong's crossbows, so there is
One hundred thousand reinforcements could not use their superior strength to rush over.
If we want to help the north bank, we can only cross the river by boat.
Although the iron pile wharf is located in a depressed river beach area, the passage from the bank to the river beach and into the wharf is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are still more than a hundred soldiers holding on to it.
Even if the Iron Pile Wharf was lost, the navy's warships were relatively shallow and small and could easily find a docking place on the north shore. In the haste of the Huaidong Army, it was completely impossible to cover the dozens of miles of coastline around Fancheng.
Lock it down...
Azig organized troops and horses on the south bank to aid Fancheng. The speed was very slow. The first thousand troops and horses disembarked from the iron pile pier in less than half an hour.
Although Huang Zuyu and his elite troops equipped with armor had already rushed to the gates of Fancheng at this time, the most important thing was to capture Fancheng in one go. Only one battalion of armored soldiers was assigned to strengthen the combat power of the iron pile pier and intercept Xiangyang reinforcements from landing here.
shore.
In such a short period of time, there was no way to cross the war horse to the north bank.
Azig and more than a thousand elites dismounted and fought on foot. Azig, wearing heavy armor and wielding a saber, fought at the front with the soldiers. He occupied the iron pile dock and forced a breakthrough north, completely ignoring the dense rain of arrows from the Huaidong Army.
He only wanted to join up with Puama before Fancheng fell and repel the Huaidong Army that attacked Fancheng.
The Huaidong Army that defeated the iron pile pier outside had quite a few generals who were unarmored, and their numbers were small, so they suffered a great loss. They had to retreat to the east base of Qiaodu where they had succeeded in the early sneak attack, and came with Dongmen to support a group of troops.
Soldiers and horses restrained Azig from the left and right, preventing him from getting close to Fancheng.
Although Fancheng is not built near the water, it is only two miles away from the iron pile pier. What's more, by driving up from the iron pile pier, the siege of the bridgehead can be solved first - opening the gap there will allow the reinforcements on the south bank to be protected.
The traffic jams continue to enter the north shore...
Azig looked at seven or eight more ships bringing more than 300 reinforcements behind him. He thought that as long as reinforcements could cross the river and Puama could hold a position in Fancheng, this attack would be able to be defeated.
The enemy retreated - Azig stood on the lower pier and could not see the situation on the other side of Fancheng. He could only vaguely hear the sound of fighting on the other side of Fancheng that showed no signs of weakening...
At this time, a ship brought seven or eight war horses. The soldiers on the left and right surrounded Azig, who was wearing heavy armor, mounted the horse, and rushed to the outside. When Azig rushed out of the low-lying dock area, the first
When I saw the city of Fancheng, I just saw that the defenders on the tower were defeated and defeated. Under the fireworks that soared into the sky, dozens of defenders were unable to retreat. They were squeezed from the entrance to the wall and fell to the bottom of the city...
Azig's back felt cold: In such a short period of time, the south city gate was also captured! Puama is known as the most brave general of the Punacha family, what the hell is he eating!
At this time, Azig did not know that Puama had been beheaded to death at the east gate of the east city. It was precisely because of Puama's death that the morale of the Fancheng defenders was demoralized, and because there was no unified command, they rushed into the city.
The Huaidong Army inside quickly defeated them one by one.
The Huaidong Army captured Nancheng and opened the gate of Nancheng, directly connecting the south gate of Fancheng with Qiaodu District and Qiaodu East Barrier. A thousand soldiers poured out directly from Nancheng to support Qiaodu East Barrier.
Come directly to fight the reinforcements led by Azig who landed at the Iron Pile Pier...
Seeing that the attacking enemy had spared its forces from the city to support the Qiaodu area, Azige's heart was completely broken.
It would take an hour for the next wave of reinforcements to arrive. There were more than a thousand soldiers behind him, and there was no particularly dangerous terrain to defend around the Iron Pile Pier. It was impossible to block the enemy's counterattack, which was twice as many. However, if
If we retreat to the iron pile pier and hold on, what's the difference from the situation at the bridge? Aren't we trapped in a narrow area by the attacking enemy, and no more reinforcements can be deployed?