What's more, as long as Tianshui and Chang'an are captured, I will have enough time to look up that period of history.
In Xia Houying's tent.
Xia Houying was already lying under the bed and took off his armor.
Ying Bu was strict in running the army, and Xia Houying's twenty military staffs were really used.
At this time, Xia Houying's tent was opened.
Xia Houying turned around and saw that he was an acquaintance.
Xia Houying said: "Lao Peng, why are you here?"
The person who came was none other than Peng Yue, and behind him was Cao Shen.
Peng Yue held cooked food in one hand and said, "It's not because you were beaten badly, so I brought some food over here."
In addition, Peng Yue was holding a pot of wine in one hand and said: "The battle is not going well today, so we should drink some. The marshal ordered the corpses to be burned directly. We will not pay homage to the dead for the time being, so we can only drink secretly ourselves."
In just one day, the soldiers led by Peng Yue and other generals lost more than 4,000 people. Everyone felt very unhappy and kept silent for several bowls of wine without saying anything.
Xia Houying said: "Speaking of which, today's defeat in the siege is all my responsibility. If I hadn't taken the lead in withdrawing and affected our morale, we might have been drinking heavily on the South City Gate Tower by now."
Peng Yue said: "Don't be like this. Why are you taking the blame for the defeat all by yourself?"
After a pause, Peng Yue said: "In the past, when we went out to fight, you were responsible for guarding the left and right wings, or being responsible for the rear. It is indeed difficult for you to be in charge of the siege."
Xia Houying said bitterly: "The Marshal gave me the task. Of course I can't refuse it. But the war is so serious this time, and the Marshal and I have known each other for many years. Why did we make such a rash decision?"
Cao Shen whispered at this time: "I'm afraid the marshal has other motives."
Xia Houying waved his hand and said: "Mr. Cao, don't worry. There are all my confidants on the left and right of this camp. We are all rough men. We are only responsible for fighting the war and cannot analyze anything. I hope Mr. Cao can have more advisers."
Cao Shen said: "Then I just say it's okay. I think the marshal wants to establish a new man."
Peng Yue and Xia Houying both turned to look at Cao Shen and said, "Mr. Cao, what do you mean by this?"
Cao Shen continued: "Think about it, you two, when they attacked the city today, the Shu army deliberately opened the city gate wide to lure the enemy deep. Why didn't the marshal send the steady General Peng to lead the troops into the city gate, but let the Shu army who was eager to make meritorious service enter the city gate?
Enter General Ren Ao. General Ren Ao's martial arts is not inferior to that of Li Guang, but he is impulsive and often greedy for merit. It is really inappropriate for General Ren Ao to do such a test."
After a pause, Cao Shen said: "In addition, I saw that although General Peng was not at fault today, he led the cavalry to continuously use bows and arrows to cover the army's siege and he did his best, but General Peng, think about it, we only have 800 cavalry after all.
After deducting last night's attrition, there are only 700 people. For you who are in the vanguard, wouldn't it be overkill for you to stand and watch from a distance?"
Peng Yue was speechless for a moment, and the three of them fell silent for a while, only drinking and not talking.
After a while, Xia Houying said: "Mr. Cao, tell me what the marshal's purpose is for doing this."
Cao Shen said: "I think the marshal wanted to train Li Guang and Huo Qubing. After these two people were resurrected, they found Emperor Gaozu and recommended themselves as generals of the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, we had newly captured Hanzhong, so how could we care about it?
, naturally let them start from being captains."
After all, most of the people resurrected in Hanzhong were people of Liu Bang's generation. Li Guang and Huo Qubing only appeared in the long history after the deaths of these people. In addition, due to the lack of information, Liu Bang continued to expand his army to conquer Shuzhong. This can only be determined from market rumors.
Li Guang and Huo Qubing were generals who fought against the Xiongnu in the Western Han Dynasty, but they were only transferred by Liu Bang to work for Yingbu's subordinates, commanding dozens of people.
In Cao Shen's vision, Yingbu needed some generals who would focus on him. Naturally, they needed to be selected from the grassroots. After all, at the age when Yingbu, Peng Yue and others were resurrected, everyone was on the same level. It was naturally very difficult to completely obey orders.
The difficult thing is that only if people like myself are defeated, will Li Guang and Huo Qubing have a chance to be reused again.
After thinking about this, Peng Yue couldn't help but slapped the table hard and said: "The marshal did this, what did he use the four thousand dead heroes as, stepping stones!"
Originally, Yingbu's plan today was to test the defense of Tianshui City, and let Ren Ao, Xia Houying and others suffer some hardships, and let Peng Yue command the cavalry to stand aside so that Li Guang and Huo Qubing could find a reason to take over. However, Ren Aoquan did not expect that.
The army was surrounded in the city. As the commander of the former army, Xia Houying directly ordered the entire army to attack, even the chariots were dispatched.
A small test directly turned into a battle of the whole army. Now Yingbu was in trouble. He couldn't have soldiers trapped in the city, so he ordered the whole army to withdraw. After that, Xia Houying was injured by Wang Can, and Li
Guang temporarily took command of the frontline troops, which gave Yingbo the acquiescence to continue the offensive.
I just didn't expect that Wang Can had the skill of bed crossbow, which caused most of the chao chariot to be destroyed, and the Han army that originally only suffered casualties of more than 2,000 people suddenly suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
Although Xia Houying and others were dissatisfied with Yingbu's actions, after all, Yingbu was Liu Bang's personal commander, not them. Even if they were angry, they had no good way to deal with it for a while.
Peng Yue said: "Then what should we do now?"
Cao Shen said: "Since Li Guang and Huo Qubing want high positions, then we will give them soldiers and horses and let them attack the city. Now there are still soldiers to fight in Tianshui City, let them suffer a little, and wait until the day after tomorrow, the last day, Tianshui City
There’s no threat to the people inside anymore, it’ll be fine if we go up again.”
After hearing this, both Xia Houying and Xia Houying nodded in agreement.
When the city was attacked the next day, Xia Houying took the initiative to hand over the position of commander and hoped that Li Guang would lead the army to attack the city, which surprised Yingbu.
So when attacking the city, the frontline troops were led by Li Guang, the deputy general was Huo Qubing, Xia Houying was responsible for commanding the slingers and archers, and Peng Yue continued to command the cavalry.
Today on the South City Wall, Wang Can is wearing a battle armor and continues to sit on the South City Tower with a golden sword, directing the defense of the entire army, while Dian Wei leads a hundred imperial guards to shuttle back and forth on the city wall, every day
When there is a gap, Dian Wei will lead people to fill it in a timely manner.
Because Wang Can was injured, in order to prevent Wang Can from drawing his sword to fight again, everyone in Dian Wei worked hard today. Everyone in the Han army also knew that there was a black tower man in Tianshui who was good at using short spears and heavy halberds. One shot could cost a life, so
As soon as they saw Dian Wei coming, they all jumped into the city.
Li Guang, who was commanding under the city, saw this situation and said, "This can't go on like this. Let's go up and contain him."
So Li Guang and Huo Qubing also climbed up the city wall.
When Dian Wei saw that Li Guang and Huo Qubing had also climbed onto the city wall, his eyes immediately turned red, and he burst out with strong murderous intent.
As Wang Can's bodyguard, it was a shame and humiliation for Dian Wei that Wang Can was injured by an arrow. How could he not be angry when he saw the two culprits?
Dian Wei saw an unlucky Han soldier in front of him flying to the bottom of the city wall with a swipe of his short halberd.
Then Dian Wei shouted: "The little thief who can only hurt people with back arrows will die before he comes to grandpa!"
Li Guang and Li Guang did not answer, but both rushed forward with guns.
Seeing Dian Wei and Li Guang fighting, Wang Can also drew the Long Yuan Sword and prepared to go to support, but was stopped by Dian Wei's son Dian Man.
Noriman said: "Your Majesty, my father said it when he went up to the city wall. My father's safety is the most important thing now. There must be no mistakes."
Wang Can said: "Why, you dare to stop me now. Believe it or not, I can throw you into the city with just one hand."
At this time, Wang Can saw on the other side that the only three chariots of the Han army were dispatched again.
For a nest vehicle that is higher than the city wall, the battlefield advantage is indeed great.
Moreover, today's nest car also absorbed yesterday's experience and drove diagonally, which caused the shells fired by the catapult to miss. At the same time, the nest car's archers and bed crossbows also focused on taking care of the crossbow carts fixed on the platform. Among them,
For the first time, a nest car destroyed one of Wang Can's crossbow carts. This made Wang Can feel very distressed. There were only three crossbow carts in total, and now one was destroyed. The pressure on the soldiers of Tianshui City to defend the city suddenly increased.
stand up.
There was no other way, so Wang Can had no choice but to lead a team of crossbowmen to support that section of the city wall.
This fierce battle lasted for nearly two hours.
The casualties in Tianshui City continue to increase. After yesterday's battle, one less person died in Tianshui City, but the Han army still maintained a complete formation.
After being injured, Wang Can's strength dropped a lot. Li Guang's arrow passed through his left shoulder. As the holder of the bow shooting record of the Han Dynasty for more than 400 years, the power of Li Guang's arrow naturally goes without saying.
Already.
Wang Can is still unable to lift his left hand, and Dianman is guarding Wang Can on his left side. (To be continued)
