Lin Fu stood at the top of the city, looking at Geng Quan Mountain. Chen Dingbang led the 800 Shaowu soldiers who attacked from the secret door.
The terrain around Yangxin City determined that the Japanese soldiers would concentrate a large number of troops in the Zhulongpo Valley in the northwest corner at the critical moment when they were about to attack the city. Not only were there steeper paths connected to Zhulongpo, it was also easier to control and master.
The siege situation of the West City and the North City, and they thought that the West City Gate and the North City Gate were surrounded by trenches and frozen soil walls. Compared with other places, the open and flatter valleys were safer and the defenders could not interfere with them.
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There are more than 1,300 steps around Yangxin City. Except for the four city gate sections that are covered with bricks and stones, the rest of the city wall sections are made of rammed earth. From the moment the soldiers besieged the city, Lin Fu ordered people to dig in the northwest corner of the city wall.
Create two secret doors six feet high and four steps wide, and use wooden beams to support the top and side walls. In order to prevent the captured soldiers from being noticed and to achieve a surprising effect when sending troops, the secret doors were dug from the inside out, leaving the last
The outer one-foot-long earth wall was excavated only at the last minute.
Lin Fu knew that the defenders had only one chance to use the secret door to leave the city to fight back, so he used it when the soldiers mistakenly thought that the northern city was about to be defeated and attacked the city with all their strength.
Indeed, the elite soldiers of Shaowu Army were withdrawn from the city walls and counterattack and interception forces, and more than one-third of the elite troops were withdrawn from the defensive forces. There were no elite veterans to serve as the backbone of the city defense, and the morale of the civilian brave auxiliary soldiers was available, but the combat experience
Insufficient, the casualties were several times greater than before, and the North City Tower was under great pressure. Without the reinforcements of Shao Wujun's elite soldiers, if the captives and rebels outside the city continued to maintain such an intense offensive, the North City would indeed not be able to sustain it.
How long to stay.
This was the last moment that decided the outcome. There were almost 7,000 rebels. The rebels spread out in the northwest valley of Yangxin and came towards the north gate and the base of the wall where the ladder is easy to climb. It was like a tiger coming to the entrance.
They made the most ferocious attack on the food, completely ignoring the protection of the weak waist and eyes; Geng Quanshan and Chen Dingbang led eight hundred Shao Wu elite soldiers to attack from the secret door, as if a sharp knife stabbed directly into his waist and eyes.
At such a close distance, it only took about ten or twenty breaths for the two soldiers to engage in battle. The rebels and rebels who spread out from Guyuan to Yangxin North City had no chance to adjust or shrink. The formation was directly attacked from the side.
The threat was broken...
The disintegration of the formation happened very quickly, just like when a stone is thrown into the water, the water will ripple out quickly: the city's heels are holding the ladder to the top of the wall, and the rebels who want to climb up to attack the city are the first to emerge from the secret door.
At first, they wanted to send out people to intercept the armored soldiers, but in such a short period of time, they could not organize many people and strong protection. There were more than ten or twenty people, and they all had short swords and thin shields. They were killed in three or two blows.
, the people guarding the ladder at the foot of the ladder ran away when they saw that they could not stop the attacking defenders. The people who climbed up the ladder also jumped down in panic, not even thinking of using a big shield to block the rocks and rolling logs pouring down from the city.
I wish my parents had two more legs to run around with.
Although there is moonlight in the surrounding fields, you can only see close up, not far away. Once people panic, they will just flee in various directions. The rebel Mo Ji's headquarters has long lost the morale to attack the city. His troops are among seven thousand people.
The wind dispersed. The rebel Zhao Jinlong's troops were on both sides. If Zhao Jinlong had not borrowed prisoners to supervise the battle, there would not be much strong will to save the battle. Especially Sun Zhongwu, Zhou Zhizhong and other generals, watched the soldiers in the city counterattack from the secret door.
No matter how many armored soldiers there were, when they saw that the front was defeated, the cavalry fled back with more than a hundred of their trusted followers. The two thousand elite Donghu soldiers led by Gugta Zheng, who were dismounted and wearing armor, were sandwiched between Moji's headquarters and Zhao Jinlong's troops on both sides.
Between the rebels, the formations on both wings collapsed. Especially the defeated troops on the south side were pressed by the clashing armored soldiers and fled towards the north slope, directly attacking the prisoner array. The prisoner general Gugta had no idea that the defeat would come from
A chain of events took place on the flanks, trying to organize troops to suppress the defeat on the south side, but God did not give him a moment, so he could only escape back surrounded by guards.
The valley in the northwest corner of Yangxin City and southeast of Zhulongpo is not small, with a depth of 1,300 to 400 steps wide, but it is not large. Once seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses are deployed, the entire valley will be somewhat unbearable.
Zhulong Slope is not steep as a whole, but it suddenly cuts off in the southeast. The slope here is easy to walk down, but difficult to climb up. Coupled with the cold weather and icy roads, the slope is extremely steep and slippery. Ten people climbed the steep slope, which is almost the same.
Four or five people were about to slip, and if one person slipped, a long line of people behind him would be knocked down, creating a chaotic mess.
On both wings, in order to guard against the counterattack of the defenders at the North City Gate and West City Gate, the fortifications and frozen soil walls formed obstacles, leaving only a narrow passage for troop dispatch. In normal times, the troop dispatch passage would be enough for entry and exit, but after the collapse
At that time, everyone rushed to build the first and fled north.
A more important reason is that the Donghu Du team is guarding the entry and exit channels.
The supervisory team could not see the defenders in the city attacking from the secret door for a while. When they saw the defeated troops rolling in, their first reaction was to prevent the defeated troops from breaking up the troops in the fortress, forcing them to continue attacking the city and picking up their swords.
With the sword in his hand, he cut down the soldiers. Who would have thought that more and more soldiers would be routed, and they would get into a melee with the supervising team.
After all, the Supervisory Team had a small number of people. Who knows how many defenders there were in the city who fought back. Besides, the Supervisory Team had been forced to die in the past few days, and the newly attached Han army also hated them. The Supervisory Team was defeated in a short time.
The soldiers behind the formation even thought it was the rebels who had rebelled again, and they wanted to organize troops to block it. The already narrow channel for sending troops became even more chaotic...
When the city's defenders sent out troops to counterattack from the secret door, Na He Xiongqi, Zhao Jinlong, and Mo Jiben were watching the entire battle from the innermost high ground of Gu Yuan, so they were able to return to Zhulong Slope in time. Seeing this chaotic situation, they felt like crying.
tears.
Ye Jiduo Dy also came over with a cane and organized elite troops to go downhill to counterattack.
"It's too late! The battlefield is too narrow. The attacking defenders are fighting against the defeated troops. Lin Fu is directing the direction of the attack with flags and drums at the top of the city. No matter how many people he organizes, they will be dispersed by the defeated troops first!" Na He Xiongqi tried hard to persuade Ye Ji.
Too many troops cannot be sent out, and can only guide the defeated troops to evacuate from the two wings. As long as elite troops are kept on the slope to peek, the defenders can suppress the long-distance pursuit of the defeated troops, and the entire front will not collapse.
Ye Jiduo was so angry that he whipped his horse whip to the ground. They were on the top of the slope and could clearly see that there were less than a thousand soldiers and horses coming out of the city to fight back. However, the more than 7,000 soldiers and horses in the valley below the slope were all scattered, as if in the ground.
Just like the crops, if the wind blows eastward, they will fall to the east, and if the wind blows to the west, they will fall to the west. The defenders who fought back from the city struggled to harvest their lives, and even killed each other in order to escape. There was almost no one.
The passage allows them to organize a counterattack on Zhulongpo. What they can do is to hold the camp and divert the broken troops from both wings to reduce casualties as much as possible.
Ye Jiduo did not dare to inflict casualties on the newly attached Han army, but the two thousand elite soldiers of Dong Hu who dismounted and wore armor were also routed and dispersed. The attacking defenders had a dedicated group of soldiers who were watching Dong Hu's dismounted and armored skirmishers.
, there seemed to be two elite troops hiding in the two dark secret doors, covered with shadows, probably to prevent them from organizing elite troops from Zhulongpo to fight back.
"Report!" The sentry cavalry dragged his long-voiced horse and galloped over from the side. "Eighteen miles away, a large group of enemy infantry and cavalry appeared. The number is unknown. The outpost has engaged them. The enemy's crossbows and crossbows are fierce and the attack is fierce."
Rui, if there are no reinforcements, we can delay approaching Yangxin for up to two hours..."
"Withdraw!" Na He Xiongqi suggested to Ye Jiduo with difficulty. The soldiers and horses under the city were completely defeated. Together with the soldiers and horses in the west city and north city fortresses, they were also completely scattered. The soldiers and horses in the south city and east city were not waiting.
An order was issued here, and the defenders in the city took the initiative to retreat as soon as they attacked. At this time, sending troops to suppress them might lead to a mutiny. In two hours, there was no time to stop the spread of chaos. It was still unclear to Lin Fu
No matter how many soldiers and horses are mobilized from other places, they still have the elites to fight back, including three thousand cavalry in the camp. If the defenders lose, they can still escape into Yangxin City. If they lose, they will either be defeated or retreat to the camp to wait.
The defensive capabilities of the aid camp cannot be compared with that of Yangxin City.
"What to do with the two thousand Donghu men down the slope?" Ye Jiduodi yelled at Nahe Xiongqi. He knew that there was not much time left for him to make a decision. Either he would resolutely send troops to intercept the reinforcements of the Jiangdong Left Army, or he would resolutely retreat.
Withdraw, otherwise when the Jiangdong left army and the two armies cooperate and fight in one place, they will not have any advantage in the battle.
The night was dim, and there were hundreds of campfires burning along the ridge and at the top of the city to enhance the lighting. The brightness was only barely enough to make out the general dynamics of the entire battlefield.
They didn't know how many troops and horses the Jiangdong Left Army's reinforcements came from the east, nor how many troops they needed to send to intercept them effectively. The number of troops was secondary, the key was night fighting.
If it weren't for siege warfare, very few generals would be willing to organize night battles when they cannot control their troops or their ability to control them is greatly weakened. A little carelessness may lead to a chain defeat of their own side. The previous battles have shown that the night battles of the Jiangdong Left Army may be
The ability to march at night is stronger than them.
But Ye Jiduo was unwilling to retreat like this. He brought the elite of Donghu successively, nearly 20,000 new Han troops, and more than 10,000 civilians. In the end, he retreated with only 3,000 to 4,000 people. This was his
I have never suffered a great humiliation or a great defeat in my life!
Why didn't anyone think that Jiangdong Zuojun was digging a secret door?
Ye Jiduo was so angry that he vomited blood. They were prepared for the Jiangdong Left Army to counterattack from the city, so they organized manpower to build fortifications outside the city gate, but no one expected that the Jiangdong Left Army would directly dig two holes from the heel of the northwest city wall.
Come through the secret door.
These are the two secret doors that have been exposed. Who knows if there are other secret doors in the entire city wall of more than 1,300 steps in Yangxin City? The anti-counterattack and anti-charge systems they built before will all be ineffective! If
If you still want to continue attacking the city, then you have to build a trench to enclose the entire Yangxin City. Then you have to build a trench that is more than 4,000 steps long. Do you have enough time?
Even if the Jiangdong Left Army's reinforcements were repulsed, Yangxin City could not be attacked by force. The two Han armies could no longer have the morale and fighting will to forcefully attack the city. They did not cripple the Jiangdong Left Army's city defense system and break it.
, should we use the flesh and blood of Donghu men to fill the head of Yangxin City?
Ye Jiduo made a difficult decision: "Xiong Qi, I will leave a thousand people for your death. The blood of Donghu men cannot be wasted in the wilderness of the South. If you can save more, save as many as possible...
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Zhao Jinlong and Mo Jiben did not bother to collect the defeated troops of their headquarters. They followed Ye Jiduo Dy back to the camp with dozens of cronies, preparing to withdraw to the west.