Chapter 864: Sunrise in the East (89)
When the morning sun rises from the horizon in the distance, accompanied by the rumbling drums, the Eastern Army is approaching Yunyang County from a distance, one by one, the phalanx, when approaching the city wall about 500 meters, stopped, this distance, is also the end of the crossbow range on the city, the drum does not stop, countless cavalry from the two wings, galloping to both sides of the county, from the passage of the phalanx, the shield soldiers holding large shields, fish out, in front of the infantry array, lined up into a horizontal column, and then a team of shield soldiers, When the five columns of shield soldiers approached less than two hundred paces away from Yunyang County, the bed crossbow in the city finally began to roar.
Bed crossbows flew from the city walls, and no matter how thick the shield was, it could not resist such a strong force, and the crossbow arrows easily tore through the shields, knocking the shields behind them to the ground.
The front row falls, and someone in the back row immediately fills in to fill the gap. Behind them, flatbed carts with bed crossbows were also pushed out, lined up behind the shield soldiers.
The sun rose from the rear of the Eastern Army, the dazzling light hit the tower, Huo Si'an stood on the tower, squinted, and watched the Eastern Army in the distance to launch an offensive formation, he didn't see that there were siege vehicles, Mengchong vehicles, ladders and other siege weapons in the opponent's camp, and he couldn't help but be puzzled, what method were they going to use to attack the city? Can you still fly through the sky?
Of course, Huo Si'an knew that this was impossible, he couldn't guess what the other party wanted to do, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart, according to his/his experience, a small city like Yunyang County, even if there were 10,000 horses to defend, it was enough to make the besiegers have nothing to do, not to mention that he had 30,000 people. He is not afraid of the other party's siege, but he is most afraid of the other party's siege, after all, they are a guest army, and the food and grass needed by 30,000 people is a great problem. Now I am afraid that I can no longer expect that there will be grain and grass in the rear, and my own cavalry has been completely wiped out, and the cavalry of the Eastern Army can undoubtedly cover the entire Liaoxi.
This is also the reason why Huo Si'an has despaired of this battle in western Liaoning. Because the Eastern Army does not need to be in a hurry, it only needs to trap the Qi army, and after a long time, it is not the Eastern Army that will take the initiative to seek a decisive battle, but the Qi Army from afar.
But the current actions of the Eastern Army greatly surprised him.
The roar of the crossbow on the city would sound every once in a while, and every time it sounded, it would bring a lot of casualties to the shield soldiers under the city, but the other party was unmoved, and there were casualties. Just added forward, but there were more and more bed crossbows being assembled behind them, looking at the row of bed crossbows that extended into the distance, Huo Siguan only felt that his scalp was a little numb, and the other party did not start a confrontation with him to suppress, could it be that he wanted to gather hundreds of bed crossbows, and then launch them together, and use the bed crossbows to make a covering blow?
In Huo Si'an's field of vision, the Eastern Army has now assembled at least hundreds of bed crossbows.
Under the city. After the bed crossbow array, Shangguan Hong looked at the hundreds of bed crossbows assembled, a sinister smile flashed on his face, and he roared loudly: "It's all aimed at Lao Tzu." One salvo, I'm going to see results."
A bed crossbow began to shake its curved arm to aim, and for a while, as small red flags were raised. Shangguan Hong's big hand slammed down, shouting angrily, "Shoot!" "
Hundreds of bed crossbows let out an earth-shattering roar. The direction in which they fired. Not the Qi army on the city wall, but the height of one-third of the entire city wall.
As the roar of the bed crossbow sounded, the shield soldiers in the array let out a shout, and the strict queue immediately dispersed, rushing forward, looking from the city, it was the thousands of shield soldiers who followed the shot of the bed crossbow.
After the shield soldiers, Yang Dasha brandished the Mo knife and roared, "Attack."
Mei Hua dragged his Mo knife to the ground and ran forward, behind him was the third battalion that had just replenished the soldiers, and it was his brother-in-law, the fourth battalion of Wu Ya, who had just been replenished.
"Guards, forward! The two of them roared in unison.
"Guards, forward! "They were answered by the shouts of more than 2,000 guards of the 3rd Battalion and the 3rd Battalion.
Seeing the direction of the opponent's bed crossbow shooting, Huo Siguan was first stunned, and then he was shocked, and a terrifying possibility suddenly sounded in his mind.
But before a second thought could cross his mind, hundreds of bed crossbows came out of the air and struck hard a third of the city walls.
The city wall shook violently, not the kind of shaking after being hit hard, but shaking back and forth, including the tall city towers on the city wall, also shaking back and forth, Huo Si'an was shaken so unsteady that he fell to the ground on one knee at once, holding the wooden railing in front of him tightly with one hand, looking down at the city wall, his soldiers were shaken by the violent shaking and fell down like dumplings, and the bed crossbows arranged on the top of the city fell down violently, and puffs of smoke and dust rose into the air, except for the sound of exclamation in his ears, It was the shouts of the Eastern Army in the distance, and Huo Si'an's eyes suddenly became blurred, and the huge smoke and dust blocked his vision.
Now he understands why Yunyang County is not defended, why there is no one in Yunyang County, because the Eastern Expeditionary Army has set a huge trap for him here, and I don't know what means they used to make this city wall so fragile.
There was the whistling sound of countless bed crossbows in my ears.
With the sound of countless arrows, the shaking amplitude of the city wall is so great that there is no doubt that it can no longer hold on, and the first to fall is the tall city tower, the wooden city tower because of the large back and forth shaking of the base below, the girder can not hold up and break from it at first, and the roof collapses down.
And this is just the beginning, the city tower fell, and the entire section of the city wall tens of meters long under the city tower fell inward after the last most drastic shaking, and the dense Qi soldiers on the city wall collapsed with countless bricks and rubble. On top of the severed heads at both ends, some Qi soldiers were lucky not to fall, but they all watched in amazement at this scene that they had never seen before. The entire city wall of tens of meters collapsed right under their noses.
Under the city wall, the big shield soldiers of the Eastern Army arrived first, with a low voice, one shield was carried to the back by the soldiers, squatted on the ground, the big knife in his hand was inserted into the ground, and the big shield was supported by his shoulder and the handle of the knife in his hand, behind them, Mei Hua roared and waved his Mo knife, stepped on this oblique upward big shield, jumped up, jumped up, people in the air, the Mo knife in his hand swept out, in front of him a broken ruin was swept off, his feet fell, stepped on the rubble, his body shook a little, He rushed into the city with his sword in his hand and roaring.
Huo Si'an, the supreme commander of the Qi people, died at the first time, he stood on top of the city tower to supervise the battle, and the collapse of the city tower buried him in countless rubble, and he fell in this rubble with his own soldiers and heralds.
Huo Siguan's sudden death, so that tens of thousands of Qi troops in the city lost their effective command, and the way of the Eastern Army to break the city not only surprised them, but also made them scattered, 30,000 people crowded in this small city, itself is enough to crowd, at this time the city is in chaos, the first city gate to open is the west gate, a Qi army commander after witnessing the sudden collapse of the east city, actually led the army to escape from the city.
In the panic, he forgot that outside the city was the cavalry of the Eastern Army. Seeing a large force of Qi troops rushing out of the city gate, Gongsun Yi and Luo Lei couldn't help but be overjoyed, and came over from left to right, slashing and killing the panicked Qi army.
Along this gap, the foot soldiers of the Eastern Army entered the city and directly engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Qi army. Yang Dasha led his first division, like a beast of prey, into the flock of sheep, killing a bloody path on the street, and the whole street was stained red with blood.
By the time Guo Laofu's second division attacked the intact city walls and began to cover the dense Qi army with his arms and crossbows, the battle had lost its suspense.
On the one hand, the morale is like a rainbow, but on the other hand, the soul is scattered, even the main general died at the first time, the will to fight is almost completely disintegrated, and the army that has lost its fighting spirit is no longer an army, but a group of lambs to the slaughter.
The south gate and the north gate were broken one after another, and more Zhengdong troops attacked the city and started street battles with the Qi army trapped in the city, and the only way out was at the west gate, but outside the west gate, there were cavalry of the Zhengdong army.
The Qi army was compressed step by step towards the center of the city, where was the yamen of Yunyang County, and the entire street was completely crowded by the Qi army that retreated here, and the surrounding city walls and peripheral streets had been completely occupied by the Eastern Army.
Gao Yuan and Ye Zhong rode on the war horse and slowly walked into Yunyang County.
"Suspend the attack, shout, let them surrender, give them a quarter of an hour to think about it, otherwise, don't blame us for being polite! Gao Yuan said lightly.
The trapped Qi army looked at the bed crossbows gathered on the periphery, and looked at the surrounding roofs, densely armed with crossbows in their arms, desperate and helpless, with their current dense range, they were afraid that only one bed crossbow could cause huge casualties.
Sporadic battles were still taking place on the periphery, and it was the Eastern Army clearing out some Qi troops hiding in houses.
A quarter of an hour soon came, as the bed crossbow slowly lifted, the outermost Qi army finally couldn't stand the pressure of being pointed at by hundreds of bed crossbows, when there was a bang, I don't know who threw away the weapon in his hand, like a plague, when the sound was endless, one by one Qi army threw down the weapon in his hand, held his head in both hands, and squatted down.
The bloody Yang Dasha shook his head with some regret, "I surrendered like this, but it's not fun!" When he said this, Shangguan Hong happened to walk to his side, and when he heard this, he stretched out his hand and knocked him with a violent shudder, "What else do you want?" Kill them all, there are at least 20,000 Qi troops trapped here, can you kill them? Besides, what a good labor force these are, wouldn't it be better to send them to Donghu and Hetao to help us farm, you know how to kill and kill, and you don't want to think about it, where do we soldiers eat and dress from? "
Yang Dasha smiled, "That's a problem that the governor should worry about, I'll just fight." Seeing Shangguan Hong raise his hand again, Yang Dasha rushed out with an arrow, brandished the Mo knife in his hand, and roared sharply: "Every group of ten people, hold your head in both hands, come over, be honest, one person is not honest, the whole team of ten people, all killed!" (To be continued......) R1292