In the last red light, the dark shadows of a few lone short trees in the distance looked increasingly lonely and deep.
The rolling mountains of varying heights in the north gradually faded into darkness. After the sunset completely faded away, only countless shadowy silhouettes were left that were difficult to identify.
A few impatient broken stars have long been hanging on the gray sky, flashing cold light on and off, staring coldly at the earth; they can't wait to announce that the day has passed and the night is coming.
Outside Licheng, Xun Yu watched Xu You's army recede like a tide, and then looked at the city that was in a mess and full of smelly feces. He resisted the urge to vomit and turned back.
This is already the tenth day of Xu You's attack on Licheng. In the past few days, Taishi Ci's army helped to take care of it. At least they did not suffer any losses in terms of military strength. Sima Ju also played his role and attacked Zhu in a sneak attack.
Ah, I almost took the city.
But soon Xu You also devised a plan, first defeating Sima Ju, and then taking advantage of the disadvantage of the Qingzhou navy, he divided his troops and formed a stronghold on the south bank of Jishui River in the north, blocking Taishi Ci's troops on the water, making him unable to take care of him from the side.
Licheng.
Although the Qingzhou Navy is well-trained, after all, the daily training is on the water and there is very little land training. The combat effectiveness on land is naturally not as good as that of the infantry who are trained to fight on land every day.
Xu You only sent 3,000 men to form a camp and use the walls to defend it. Taishi Ci dared to send troops. Whether he attacked the camp or went outside the city to assist Xun Yu in his defense, he would have to face Xu You's front and rear attacks. If he didn't send troops
, naturally fell into the enemy's trap and were watched by these three thousand people.
Fortunately, in the first two days, with the help of Tai Shici, Xun Yu built some defense facilities. Chen Mu once taught them how to defend the city with golden juice. This thing did kill a thousand enemies and damaged eight hundred, but
It was indeed very effective. At least in the past few days, if it had not been for the defensive equipment he had prepared before, he would not have been able to withstand the menacing Jizhou Army for so long.
The main reason is that the city wall of Licheng is too low, only about two feet high, which is about five meters. At this height, the well-trained soldiers of our army in later generations can climb up without ropes or ladders by relying on the cooperation of three people.
.The disparity in military strength inside and outside the city is also very large. Without special means, it is impossible to defend.
However, although he barely withstood another enemy attack, there was no good news outside the city, which made Xun Yu a little worried. He was afraid that Zhang Fei would not make any moves, but he was also worried that Zhang Fei would make any moves.
Something happened to Minato again, so in the past few days, my long hair has turned white again.
"The road to war is difficult."
On the way back to his mansion, Xun Yu looked up to the sky and sighed.
But there is no other way now. Family and country affairs are important, and the art of war is not that simple in the first place.
Now I can only take one step at a time, choose to believe in my companions, believe in my teammates, and wait for Zhang Fei and Tian Feng to do what they should do...
The sky was gradually getting dark, and when the sunset completely set on the horizon and the gorgeous fire cloud gradually began to dissipate, even the dusk crows in the continuous mountains of Mount Tai no longer hovered on the top of the mountain.
Feicheng County has long been in dilapidated condition. The fields outside the city are barren and overgrown with weeds. No one lives or exists. Except for the solitary graves in mass graves and the occasional howl of wolves from Mount Tai in the distance, the whole world seems to be...
Falling into loneliness and darkness.
Even during the period of Emperor He, the population of the entire Jibei Kingdom was only about 200,000. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Dong Zhuo Rebellion and the disputes among the princes, the population of the entire county had dropped to the extreme, with the total number being only a few tens of thousands.
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Lu County and Feicheng became deserted, and most of the people either died in the turmoil, fled into Mount Tai to become bandits, or went to other counties. Now the few remaining people in Lu County and Feicheng have also been captured.
The letter took them to Sheqiu, Gangxian, Chengxian and other places in the south of Jibei Kingdom for resettlement, and gave up all the north.
By the time Han Juzi's army joined Lu Weihuang, the total number of Yuan's troops had exceeded 10,000.
Lu Weihuang had contacted Xu You yesterday. At this time, he was only acting as the front station. Han Juzi and Gao Lan's main force were following up quickly. The most important thing was the transportation of grain and grass. This would be a very long process.
It cannot be completed in one or two days.
So after the two of them met, they planned to rest in Feicheng for the night and wait until tomorrow to head north to Lu County. Lu County is about forty miles away from Feicheng. From Lu County to Zhu'a, it is very close. Soon Yuan Jun will arrive
will continue to enter Jinan.
But at night, in the mountains and forests around Pingyin, groups of soldiers held torches and quickly shuttled through the forest trails. The mountains here are not high, but walking on the mountain roads at night is still difficult, which tests the physical strength and endurance of the soldiers.
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Fortunately, Zhang Fei's soldiers were all elite, and they marched in separate units. When they arrived at a valley about ten miles northwest of Feicheng, where they were originally scheduled, all the troops began to gather.
The number of the team has been counted. There are fifteen qus in total, a total of 7,289 people. Zhang Fei has only two schools under his command, with two captains, four army commanders, and 20 qu commanders.
There are a number of lower-level officers such as captains, commanders, and corps commanders at various levels, with a total strength of approximately more than 10,000.
Tian Feng left more than 3,000 people to garrison in Boping Liaocheng. They hoisted Zhang Fei's flag at the top of the city every day and patrolled everywhere, creating the illusion that Zhang Fei had not gone south. The remaining 7,000 people followed him and settled in Lin.
Yi, rested in Linyi for two days, crossed the river and arrived in Pingyin.
The valley here had been surveyed and occupied by Tian Feng before. After confirming that there were no enemy sentries, it became a temporary rest camp in the wild. There were no tents or beds. Everyone could only sit on the ground and eat cold dry food.
"The personnel have been assembled."
Tian Feng was holding a dry food pancake with some salty pickles and pieces of dried beef in his hand. While eating, he was talking to Zhang Fei, Zhang Rao, Zhou Tao and other generals. There were four soldiers around him.
Sima was listening attentively, preparing to arrange combat missions.
Both Zhang Rao and Zhou Tao were born in the Yellow Turbans. In their early years, they gathered crowds to wreak havoc in the Beihai Kingdom. Later, they were defeated by Guan Yu using counterintuitive tactics and surrendered to Qingzhou. They were in the same group as Xu and Sima Ju, Wang Dan, Li Bo and others, and now they are slowly
He became the captain of the school.
Several people were sitting on the grass, eating pancakes with pickled dried vegetables and some beef just like the soldiers, while remembering everything Tian Feng wanted to say one by one, preparing to execute the order later.
Zhang Fei ate up all the dry food in a few mouthfuls, drank a gulp of water, clapped his hands and felt full, and a soldier beside him handed him a new piece of pancake.
"Keep it for yourself."
Seeing that it was his own soldier's cake, Zhang Fei did not ask for it. He must not have cared about it before. What does the life and death of the soldiers have to do with him? Later, he was educated by his fourth brother, lost a bet, and was often reminded by Tian Feng, that is,
I no longer have the idea of putting a soldier's life at risk.
The soldier smiled honestly, revealed another half-eaten piece of pancake in his hand and said: "Before I came out, I knew that the general was not full, so I took an extra piece of pancake from the kitchen, specially reserved for the general, my own pancake.
Here it is.”
"Good boy, follow me later and kill two more enemies. I will go back and give you a promotion."
Zhang Fei took the dry food, wrapped his shirt tightly by the corners, broke off a piece of cake, and was about to stuff it into his mouth when he subconsciously glanced at the pancake of the personal guard, and was suddenly stunned. There was only
Gancai, this piece of cake was filled with beef. He couldn't help but tighten his hands, and the fine crumbs of the cake fell from the gaps between his fingers into the grass.
Tian Feng glanced at him and did not give him any reason. He just continued to say to several mid-level officers: "The general led 3,000 people from the west to attack the enemy's camp in front. Zhou Tao led 1,500 people from the front.
Containment from the north, Zhao Xu, when the time comes, you can lead a hundred people and go to the south to beat gongs and drums to build momentum."
"Zhang Rao, when the enemy's camp to the west is attacked, Lu Weihuang's troops from the east will definitely come to support. You lead two thousand people to ambush on their only way. Wang Qi, you lead the remaining people.
Take this opportunity to sneak attack the east camp of Lu Weihuang's tribe, do you understand?"
"Understood."
Several middle-ranking officers of the Lieutenant Army and Sima nodded.
Tian Feng's plan was to eat all the more than 10,000 people. Although their number was small, it would be strange to lose in a surprise attack in the early morning.
In the morning, the thick spring fog gradually began to rise, and a fairy-like veil floated in the valley, undulating continuously around the forest.
At the beginning of sunrise, the fog became a little thinner again, and the flags of various schools and battalions in the distance could be clearly distinguished.
The pale-faced sun is like a boiled and shelled chicken egg, hidden in the thin clouds in the sky, lazily throwing down a little warmth.
Zhang Fei personally led the army at the front of the team. They arrived in the valley at midnight and rested until the end of the day. When the sky was slightly light, all the ministries took action one after another and acted according to Tian Feng's deployment.
The army of more than 7,000 people dispersed in the wilderness and slowly approached Feicheng under the cover of heavy fog. There were several hills about two miles northwest of Feicheng, where several Yuan Jun sentries were stationed.
It just so happened that it was foggy today. Even if they stood on the commanding heights and watched, they could not see anything. Therefore, Yuan Jun soldiers were too lazy to stand guard at this time. After discovering such foggy weather, one by one they continued to fall and whine.
If you sleep too much, you will be less vigilant.
Perhaps they would not have expected that a Qingzhou army would appear to ambush them at this moment. Army Sima Wangqi personally led the scout team to sneak into these hills and raided Yuan Jun's outposts, allowing these
The soldiers were unable to send a signal at all.
After quietly handling the surrounding sentries, Zhang Fei personally led the army and attacked Feicheng from the west gate in front. All the soldiers tried to stay quiet and did not make any sound before approaching the city.
Feicheng has long been dilapidated. Two city walls have collapsed, and there are ruins and broken walls everywhere. It is a mess. When it is almost 100 meters away, the broken Feicheng city tower can be seen in the fog.
Han Juzi and Lu Weihuang had just arrived, so of course it was impossible to repair the city. They just used the remaining earthen walls of the city to build a new camp. Some of the collapsed places were only surrounded by wooden fences, and the city gates were all open, because the city
One door was missing, leaving only another door that was in tatters and could not be closed at all.
There were no horse traps, no horse resistance, no ditches, no iron bars. There were no fortifications of any kind. The guards on duty on the tower were drowsy, and the teams that should have been patrolling outside the city were all lazy under the city wall.
Both vigilance and alertness are very low.
This is the normal state of the ancient army. No matter how elite the army is, it is impossible to remain on alert 24 hours a day. Everyone needs to rest, not to mention that even Han Juzi and Lu Weihuang probably did not expect that a Qingzhou army would appear here.
Because the Qingzhou Army's current force arrangement is very compact, it is almost difficult to allocate manpower. Zhang Fei's troops also released the gap in the Boping Liaocheng area and rushed over temporarily.
If Yuan Shao knew that Zhang Fei was not in Liaocheng, he would definitely divide his troops to attack Long Chou, so for Tian Feng, this battle was also very crucial.
First, Han Juzi and Lu Weihuang's tribe were defeated. Taking advantage of Yuan Shao's short time to react, he immediately returned to the Wuyang area in the east and intercepted Gao Lan's tribe who was still on the way. They fought thousands of miles back and forth to keep the enemy outside Qingzhou, so that they could protect Qingzhou.
Safety and danger. This is the way of military attack and the way of mental skill.
Zhang Fei personally led the army and arrived less than a hundred feet outside the city. As the sun gradually rose, the fog slowly dissipated. Under the city wall, a resting soldier became drowsy and was about to find a place to pee, but he saw
In the fog not far away, there were shadows, and at the same time, there were more than a dozen large and small irregular black tides, slowly coming towards Feicheng like a wave chasing the shore.
Before he could clearly see what these black tides were, several long horn blasts sounded. The gloomy and desolate horn sounds were mixed with intermittent shouts of people and horses, and countless shouts of death rolled towards the city with the force of wind and thunder.
Kill.
At the front were hundreds of cavalrymen led by Zhang Fei, who planned to seize the city gate first in pursuit of speed. The infantrymen behind him held weapons and pressed forward slowly and slowly, as if the front was flooding the tidal flats. Their spears were like knives in the dense forest.
Like snow clumps, the flags and flags were spread out with murderous intent, the spear tips flashed with dazzling white light in the sun, and even the warm spring breeze became cold and chilling in the blink of an eye...
"Enemy attack!"
A hoarse shout resounded through the sky, and then countless sleeping people seemed to be awakened under the city wall and on the tower. Yuan Jun's soldiers got up from the ground in panic and looked around. Before they could find where the enemy was, the cavalry had already
He rushed to the city gate and rushed into the city first. Even the remaining half of the city gate was knocked down by Zhang Fei with a spear...