Song Yi sent a group of elite men under his command and asked them to go to the base of the city wall and set up ladders. The operation went smoothly. The ladders were set up on the top of Yangguan City without any investigation from the defenders.
Explore.
Seeing this, Song Yi was overjoyed and personally led more than two thousand soldiers under his command to the foot of Yangguan City quietly. Following the ladder, the elite soldiers who had already climbed up first did not see anything on the top of the city.
's defenders.
People went down the steps and sneaked into Yangguan City without exploring inside. They immediately opened the unguarded city gate.
As the gate of Yangguan City was opened little by little, Song Yi outside the city was so excited that he almost jumped up into the air. Unexpectedly, Yangguan, which he could not break through despite all his efforts during the day, was now so easily captured by his own side.
He waved his sword forward and shouted: "Enter the entire army into the city and kill all the Han troops in the city, leaving no one behind!"
Following his order, more than two thousand soldiers under his command swarmed into Yangguan through the opened city gate.
But the strange thing is that there is no one on the top of Yangguan City, and there is no one even inside the city.
Entering the city, it was deserted, and not even a single person could be seen. At this time, Song Yi's first reaction was, could it be that the Han army knew they were outmatched and fled at night?
He was muttering in his heart, when suddenly, he heard a whistling whistle in the air. Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw fires all over the south, east, and west walls of Yangguan, one after another.
The torch is lit.
Looking closely, there are Han soldiers standing on the three city walls, and they all hold crossbows in their hands.
"No! There is an ambush in the city!" Song Yi reacted and shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Retreat! Get out of Yangguan immediately!"
It's too late! The more than two thousand reckless troops had no time to turn back. The Han soldiers on the three walls had already fired their crossbows, bang bang bang, and for a while, the sound of the crossbows' ejections was heard.
Yangguan is just a small town in a small area. It is called a city, but it is actually a small fortress. The internal space is not very large. Now arrows are raining down from the three walls of the city. The unruly troops who enter the city are crowded together, with nowhere to hide and no way to hide.
The reckless soldiers who were running for their lives and were hit by crossbow arrows did not fall to the ground one after another, but fell to the ground one after another.
The reckless soldiers behind were closer to the city gate and wanted to turn around and run out, but more than a hundred Han soldiers appeared from nowhere and ran over from outside the city. They held shields in one hand and spears in the other.
, formed a shield array outside the city gate, blocking the city gate hole tightly, making it impossible for water to leak through.
The rushing soldiers were all blocked by the shield formation. At the same time, spears stabbed out from behind the shield formation, stabbing down row by row the reckless soldiers who collided with the shield formation.
This was no longer a battle, it was a complete massacre. More than two thousand reckless soldiers were trapped in the small Yangguan City, with arrows raining down from all sides. The only way to escape was at the North Gate, which was blocked by the Han army.
They were blocked outside the city.
The scene in the city can be described as tragic. The soldiers of the reckless army held their shields high to resist the arrows flying from all directions, but how could they block them? The shield in their hands could not block the front, but it could not block the back, and it could not block the left or the right.
The rain of arrows on the three walls seemed to be endless, one after another.
Song Yi swung his sword to block the crossbow arrows, and shouted loudly: "Liu Xiu, what's the point of waiting for you to hurt people with hidden arrows? Come out and fight with me!"
Liu Xiu stood on the top of the city, looking down at the reckless soldiers trapped in the city, his face expressionless and his eyes flickering. Song Yi called for a long time, but no one spoke. On the contrary, there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him.
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He roared and took the lead in charging toward the north city gate.
The soldiers around Song Yi followed him and ran towards the north gate.
However, people were running and dying all the way. Crossbow arrows flying from all directions struck people's bodies from time to time, and people who were running forward fell to the ground from time to time.
Even Song Yi was not immune. There were several arrows stuck in his shoulders, arms, thighs and back.
When he finally reached the north city gate, he looked up and saw that there were piles of corpses inside the city gate, all of which were the corpses of the reckless soldiers.
Outside the pile of corpses, you can still see the shield array formed by the Han army. The shields on each side were dyed black and red as if they had been washed by blood. Song Yi endured the arrow wounds on his body,
With a roar, he rushed over with his sword in hand.
He rolled and crawled up the pile of corpses. As soon as he climbed over the pile of corpses and came down from above, several spears were stabbed from the shield formation on the opposite side. Song Yi dodged to the side, but after passing these spears,
At the same time, several more spears came from the other side.
This time Song Yi was unable to dodge, so he could only twist his body as much as possible. He passed two spears, but the third spear still penetrated deeply into his lower abdomen.
Song Yi screamed, grabbed the spear shaft, and cut it off with a sword. He pulled out half of the spear from his body and stabbed forward with all his strength.
Poof! The bloody spearhead penetrated the gap in the shield and plunged deeply into a Han soldier behind the shield. While the other party screamed, several other spears pierced Song Yi almost in no particular order.
Puff, puff, puff! Some spears penetrated his chest, and some spears pierced his lower abdomen. Time seemed to be frozen. As several Han soldiers behind the shield retracted their spears, Song Yi
Several bloody arrows were also shot out of his body.
Phew! Song Yi couldn't hold on any longer. He bent his knees and sat down on the ground. He thrust the sword deeply in front of himself and held the hilt of the sword tightly with both hands to support his shaky body.
He slowly raised his head, looked at the Han army's shield formation in front of him, and let out an angry and unwilling roar.
But soon his roar stopped abruptly. In an instant, five more spears pierced his chest, and the spearheads of the five spears poked out from behind him.
As the five spears were withdrawn, Song Yi fell forward. His eyes were wide open until he died.
Song Yi can also be regarded as a good general in the Xinmang court.
In the battle against the Red Eyebrow Army, it can be said that he has experienced hundreds of battles and has repeatedly performed outstandingly, but no one would have thought that such a good general would be killed in the small Yangguan City.
After Song Yi was killed in battle, the reckless soldiers under his command lost even the last trace of their fighting spirit. People shouted: "Surrender! We surrender!"
The Han troops on the surrounding city walls did not stop firing arrows because the Mang soldiers surrendered. The rain of arrows on the city top continued, and the Mang soldiers in the city were still being killed by arrows in droves.
Liu Xiu raised his arm and said to his left and right: "Give me the order to stop firing arrows!"
Fu Jun, who was standing next to Liu Xiu, drew a loud arrow and shot it into the air.
Chirp——
As a sharp whistle sounded in the air, the Han army's arrow formation finally stopped.
Looking at the city of Yangguan at this time, there were corpses and wounded everywhere. There were originally more than 2,000 Rang soldiers, but now there were not even 1,000 people standing.
Even the surviving soldiers had a look of despair on their faces. People threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground, and huddled up. It was terrible. Tonight was the worst night of their lives.
Terrible experience.
Song Yi could think of night attack tactics, but how could Liu Xiu, who was well versed in the art of war, good at using cunning strategies, and had an excellent insight into people's hearts, not think of it?
In his mind, he actually had two plans for setting up an ambush, one was to attack with fire and the other was to attack with arrows.
The fire attack is simpler and more crude than the arrow attack. The kerosene is placed in the city in advance, and when the reckless army attacks, it is deliberately put into the city, and then the kerosene is ignited by one's own side to burn and kill all the incoming army.
However, the fire attack during the day allowed Liu Xiu to clearly see the tragic situation of the burned-to-death troops. Liu Xiu couldn't bear to use fire attack again. After some consideration, he finally decided to use the arrow attack tactic.
Even so, the Mang army suffered heavy casualties, more than 2,000 people, most of whom were killed or wounded. In the end, only about 800 Mang soldiers survived, and many of them had arrow wounds.
The Battle of Yangguan was the first showdown between the Mang army and the Han army after entering Yingchuan. As a result, the 5,000 vanguard Mang army led by Song Yi and Wang Lian were almost completely wiped out at Yangguan.
Afterwards, Liu Xiu led his troops and attacked the camp of the Mang army in one go.
The few Mang soldiers left inside abandoned the camp and fled early. Liu Xiu and others set a fire and burned all the large siege weapons carried by the Mang soldiers. As for the supplies, food and grass that could be used by their own side,
All were transported away.
The battle report of the Battle of Yangguan soon reached Wangyi and Kunyang.
After reading the battle report, Wang Yi threw the bamboo slips down. He was furious and cursed loudly: "Idiot! Useless trash! Five thousand soldiers could not attack Yangguan where a thousand rebels were stationed, and they were beaten by the rebels.
The whole army was wiped out. Song Yi and Wang Lian were just in vain, but in fact they were nothing more than wine and rice bags!"
Fortunately, Song Yi died in battle and Wang Lian was captured alive by the Han army. Otherwise, even if they escaped, they would have been executed by the furious Wang Yi, and their deaths would have been even worse.
Yan You secretly shook his head and went to Yingchuan and Nanyang. This was completely a trap for the Han army. The Han army had no hope of winning in Yingchuan. They were just stalling for time, delaying the time for Nanyang to prepare for the battle.
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Now that our own army has entered Yingchuan, it is useless to say that. Song Yi and Wang Lian, both veteran generals who have been on the battlefield for a long time, were lost in Yangguan, which is really sad.
Just when all the generals in the camp were lowering their heads, too scared to say a word or even dare to take a breath, a sound of an urn came: "General, the last general is willing to lead the army to break through Yangguan and raise Liu Xiu's child's death."
First level, see you later General!"
Following the sound of the urn and the sound of the urn, a "hill" stood up from among the generals, stepped out of the queue, came to Wang Yi, and stepped in to salute.
The one in the queue is not tall and tall in general, but surprisingly tall and tall.
By modern standards, his height is about two and a half meters, and his waist is ten inches. Standing there, he is not a head taller than the person next to him, but half a height taller. He is not taller than the person next to him, but taller.
Many times stronger.
At that time, with his size, ordinary carriages could not fit him or pull him.
This strange man, with the compound surname Juwu and the single name Ba, came from Penglai, East China Sea.
The giant's appetite is several times that of an ordinary person, and its strength is astonishing. It can lift a thousand pounds, has great martial arts skills, is unstoppable, and has the courage to be invincible by thousands of people.
In addition, Juguba also has a unique skill, or an extraordinary ability, which is that he can attract all kinds of beasts to his advantage.
Ju Wu Ba stood in front of Wang Yi, who was sitting behind Shuai Ben. He had to raise his head to see his face.
Wang Yi didn't like Ju Wu Ba very much, but he admired his martial arts. He waved to Ju Wu Ba and said: "General Ju Wu Ba, sit down."
The main reason is that he doesn't want to hold his head up all the time because it's too tiring.
