Chapter 122 Tricks (3rd Update)
Seeing that the Yan army concentrated its forces to attack the east gate, Emperor Yu thought that the Yan army was desperate and concentrated nearly half of the troops in the city to defend the east gate, and the Yan army gathered more and more troops outside the east gate, reaching more than 40,000 people. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The two nearby acropolises are intent on supporting, but how dare they open the gates again? The generals defending the city couldn't help but regret that they had sent too few troops before, not only failed to relieve the siege of Hezuo, but lost thousands of troops.
Knowing that this was the case, it was better to break the cauldron and pour out the troops, but now I want to support again, but it is even more difficult than before - who knows if the Yan army is suspicious and deliberately lures them to open the city gate so that they can strangle it with all their might, intending to cut off the support of Hezuo? Otherwise, why leave the other gates untouched and only concentrate on attacking the east gate?
From midnight to noon, for more than three hours, the Yan army still could not break through the gate of Hezuo, but because of its fierce offensive, nearly 10,000 garrisons in Hezuo City had nearly 10,000 dead and wounded. In addition to the south gate, there are nearly 30,000 troops to defend the city, and the other two city gates have only more than 10,000 people left, and the rest of the troops go to the east gate to defend the enemy.
Just when the people of Yu thought that the Yan army was at a loss and was about to retreat, suddenly 5,000 infantry of the Yan State were heavily armoured, carrying shields from the north to the west of the city, and chiseled up a moat.
Since the city on the left side of the river is built on the mountain, the terrain is bound to be much higher than the Baishui River in the west, and once the moat is dug through, the water will flow to the west.
Some people saw the plan of the Yan army, and shouted that the Yan army wanted to attack the city with fire, and hundreds of crossbowmen came to the west to support, and the swords and crossbows came down one after another, although the Yan army had a shield, it was inevitable that there would be hundreds of casualties.
Emperor Yu couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, he didn't expect Yan Jun to be so reckless, and he was about to set fire suddenly.
Arson is tantamount to slaughtering the city, and it is still difficult to determine whether to win or lose, and there are bound to be heavy casualties in Hezuo City, but the Yan army may not be able to attack it, even if the Yan army wins, it will also be criticized by the world - Wu Yue has exhausted his troops to such a point?
Listening to the sound of killing outside, Emperor Yu's heart became even more panicked.
The 5,000 infantry of the Yan army suffered no more than 100 casualties, so they dug a shallow ditch to the west outside the west gate, and then when they went to the west, they came out of the range of the Yu army's crossbowmen, and there was no obstacle to digging a ditch, so although the ditch was getting deeper, it was not too difficult.
Seeing that the situation was critical, the Acropolis in the southwest hurriedly sent 6,000 soldiers and horses to relieve the siege, but unexpectedly, the Yan army sent 500 elite cavalry to gallop from the south, and another 3,000 infantry followed.
With a bang, the west break of the aqueduct was finally blasted open by gunpowder, and most of the moat water flowed westward. If the Yan army burned the door with fire oil at this time and threw the flint with a catapult, the remaining water would not be enough to extinguish the fire.
When the defenders on the city wall saw this, their hearts were half cold. Everyone looked at each other head-on, and saw that the Yan army set fire to the east and south city gates, and formed two groups of crane wing formations in the middle of the acropolis and Hezuo city, with more than 20,000 people in each formation, cavalry, and crossbowmen. The Crane Wing Array can be stretched and encircled, and the two groups echo each other, which makes up for the shortcomings of the Crane Wing Array itself's lack of bow and arrow attack power.
Both acropolis were watching, just waiting for the other side to send troops first, and they should also open the city to meet the enemy. However, the morale of the army was sluggish, and the main generals all had a wait-and-see heart, and it dragged on until the beginning of the unitary, and no one burned the wolf smoke first.
At this moment, fireworks were set out in Hezuo City. It turned out that more than 100 dead soldiers of the Yan army took advantage of the mountain wind in the evening to enter the city on kites. The Yu army shot arrows one after another, and the kites did not fly very high, and twenty or thirty people were shot and killed before they could enter the city, and almost all the rest of the dead were also shot, and all of them fell into the city.
What Yu Jun never expected was that all the kites were tied with fire oil and gunpowder, and Yan Jun's move was to burn the grain and grass in the city. Before being shot, the dead set fire oil on their bodies, and the gunpowder fell directly into the city. Gunpowder, grain and grass were all caught on fire, and when the kite fell, it directly turned the city of Hezuo into a sea of fire.
The flames soared into the sky, reflecting the rare sunset in winter, if it were not mixed with the cries of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians calling for the sky and grabbing the ground, it could be regarded as a beautiful scenery.
The Acropolis no longer dared to wait and see, and almost at the same time the wolf smoke was ignited, and tens of thousands of soldiers poured out, intending to break through the crane wing array of the Yan army.
Emperor Yu was not willing to wait for death any longer. Half of the grain and grass in the city were burned, and the fire was too strong, and the more it burned, it was better to open the city and fight the enemy army than to sit and wait for death. He put on his armor and held a longbow and a broadsword, and ordered the southern gate to be opened, and personally commanded the remnants of the more than 80,000 troops in the city to go out of the city to fight.
Even after going to the battlefield, few people are still worried about life and death. Of the remaining 150,000 troops of the Yu Kingdom, only 20,000 were left to guard the city wall, and the rest all went to attack the Crane Wing Array of the Yan Kingdom. Seeing that the Yan Kingdom was outnumbered, the Crane Wing Array suddenly retreated, and the defenders in the rear changed their formation at the same time, quickly forming a conical formation, led by the original infantry of the Crane Wing Array, and launched a fierce attack on the Yu army that had just gathered.
The Yan army was already good at fighting, but now it has the upper hand in momentum, the Yu army was suddenly burst into a conical formation, and the army's morale became more and more dissipated.
In less than two hours, the Yan army won a complete victory, capturing 70,000 Yu troops. In order to prevent future troubles, King Hui ordered Emperor Yu and several lords to be killed.
When the news of the victory reached Linshui, it was already mid-February. After this battle, Wu Chengsi became famous, and even Yang Yun sighed after hearing about it.
She couldn't help but regret a little, if she had believed in Wu Chengsu a little more and had less worry and hesitation, Xiao'er was afraid that she would have married Wu Chengsi now.
It's a shame for such a character.
However, after thinking about it, Yang Yun felt that this was not necessarily a bad thing.
Wu Chengxun has such a mind, he must not treat Yang Xiao with great sincerity, and Yang Xiao loves a man who is bright and beautiful, and he will never fall in love with a character like Wu Chengxun. Even if the two have any differences in the future, they will not be sad to think about.
If you marry Wu Chengsi, you will have to empathize if you can't keep Yang Xiao. He fought between the two armies on the other day, Wu Chengsi and Zhou Xuan met on the battlefield, Yang Xiao was afraid that she would be more embarrassed than when she entered the East Palace, right?
In King Ning's mansion, Wu Chengxun was silent in thought. King Ning sighed when he returned from the dynasty this morning, and when he went to ask his mother Ma, he knew that Wu Chengsi had fought such a beautiful battle.
Regarding Wu Chengxun's current appearance, King Ning felt that it was all his father's fault for not teaching him, and he didn't teach his son to be a dignified man, and he hated it to the extreme, and slapped himself.
Wu Chengxun hurriedly knelt down and begged his father to be lenient, admitting that he was weak and really not suitable to kill the enemy.
Ma almost never spoke, but this time he had to persuade.
She knew that her son seemed to be gentle, but he was actually arrogant, and she had envied Wu Chengsi since she was a child, and imagined that she was also a big hero in the world. King Bining loves Wu Chengxun very much and refuses to let him endure hardships, but let him learn to bend the bow and ride a horse, but when it comes to real skills, Wu Chengxun may not even be able to beat any wrestler in the palace.
The father and son have their own faults, both of which are wrong in their minds, and her fault is that she is too clumsy and failed to solve it earlier. (To be continued.) )