Chapter 281: Recovering Lu Rong
The soldiers of Lurong County are now afraid that they have long been replaced by the people of Linyi State, so Liu Zhengda did not think from the beginning that the people of Lurong County could directly open the city and surrender.
"Xu Huang, I'll leave it to you, break the city gate, all the men who participated in the defense of the city will be killed!"
Liu Zheng gave Xu Huang an order, and then took a few steps back and handed over the battlefield to Xu Huang.
Xu Huang received Liu Zheng's order, and immediately began to attack Lurong County, nine thousand soldiers and horses, directly rushed to the city gate, although there are not too many siege equipment, but Lurong County, the county town does not have too high walls, and even the city gate is not thick.
After all, this is a commercial city, not a military town, and it doesn't need to be heavily defended.
With Xu Huang, an experienced general who can fight well, the 9,000 people under his command were quickly deployed, divided into three waves and began to rush forward, the first wave mainly dealt with the city gate, hitting the city gate with trees, and the number of collisions was too much, which would always make the city gate loosen and finally fall.
The other part, starting from both sides, is aimed at attracting the fire of the defenders on the castle towers.
The last part of the main force did not attack, but under the leadership of Wen Ping, they directly bypassed the city gate on Xu Huang's side and ran to other city gates, disturbing the other side to find opportunities.
The purpose of the 3,000 men led by Wen Ping was not to attack the city, but to put pressure on these defenders in Lurong County, knowing that there was still an enemy army walking back and forth on the side of the city, and the defenders in the city could not gather in one place, and they had to divide their troops to other places to guard to prevent mistakes in other city gates.
With such an attack, combined with the shooting of arrows, in just ten minutes, the dilapidated city gate of Lurong County collapsed.
After a loud bang, the gates collapsed.
Xu Huang led all the soldiers who were besieging the city and entered the city together.
The soldiers who defended Lurong County were not numerous, but they never thought that Lurong County would be breached in such a short period of time, and after the city gate collapsed, they panicked and began to retreat from the city tower one by one.
But Xu Huang's soldiers also entered the city at this time, and there was no way for these people to escape from the city.
This is not how powerful the soldiers under Xu Huang's command are, but Liu Zheng's morale boost before, so that these horses in Lurong County have a vicious anger in their hearts, and this indignant evil aura has not yet dissipated, driving them to kill those soldiers and horses of Linyi State in Lurong County.
That's why the city gate was breached in such a short time.
Liu Zheng didn't even enter the city, he just took his personal guards and began to ride horses to other city gates to prevent those Linyi soldiers who fled from the city, and said that he would kill those men and horses, and Liu Zheng didn't want to let any of them go.
With the breaking of the city gate, the siege of Lurong County has also entered the **.
There were 2,000 defenders of Linyi in the city, and they couldn't stop the army led by Xu Huang at all, and in a battle, it lasted all afternoon, and everyone was in danger.
The whole Lurong County was filled with a smell of blood, and although many enemy soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, Liu Zheng's massacre order still caused a riot here.
With an autumn rain in the evening, it washed away the complexion of Lurong County, and the whole Lurong County seemed to have a new look.
In the evening, the corpses of the soldiers of Lin Yiguo who Liu Zheng killed were completely placed neatly, and after counting the number of people, he roughly understood the number of people.
"My lord, the defenders were two thousand one hundred and twenty-three, and all of them were slain, and not one of them fled. The corpses are all here, please take a look. ”
Several soldiers who were in charge of counting the corpses came over from the side and told Liu Zheng the number of corpses in the square.
Liu Zheng didn't blink his eyes, and then said directly.
"Find a carriage and transport these corpses to the Linyi Kingdom, and place them all outside the city for those people in the Linyi Kingdom to see."
As soon as Liu Zheng's order was spoken, the soldiers immediately agreed.
"Yes!"
Xu Huang was also a little surprised when he heard Liu Zheng's words, but he didn't say anything, but Wen Ping, who had just stopped to rest, was a little surprised after hearing Liu Zheng's words, and hurriedly followed behind Liu Zheng and asked Liu Zheng why he did this thankless job.
"My lord, why bother to transport these corpses to the enemy's city?"
Looking at Wen Ping's curious questioning, Liu Zheng did not refuse to answer for the reason of teaching Wen Ping, but immediately said to Wen Ping.
"The reason why I went to great lengths to send these bodies back is actually a lot of benefits, and it's not thankless."
"First of all, now that Lin Yiguo is only afraid of the people, and he doesn't know that we are coming, sending these corpses back and placing them outside the city of Lin Yiguo will definitely cause a sensation, and this news will definitely spread more widely, which will cause panic."
After Liu Zheng said a word, Wen Ping immediately understood and nodded.
"Oh, I see, it's to make the enemy feel scared."
"Well, smart, it's not enough to make them feel scared, but also tell them that we will kill them soon, and with that prince Fan Yi has fled back, he will have a greater fear of us, understand our awesomeness, either close the door, or directly lead people away."
"Whether it's a closed door or a long way away, it's good for us."
"Behind closed doors, the battle turned into a tug-of-war, giving us plenty of time to gather soldiers and horses, and when the time comes, he will be a small land in Linyi Country, and there are not many soldiers and horses at all, and sooner or later we will be dragged down."
"Take people away, although you can hide for a while, but you can't hide from us all the time, we just capture the city of Linyi country step by step, and finally wipe out Linyi country, they are also a dead end."
Liu Zheng said his thoughts and the consequences of doing this.
This statement made Wen Ping immediately pat his head when he heard it.
"Wonderful, the lord deserves to be the lord, and the plan he came up with is powerful, which really makes the admirable five-body throw himself to the ground!"
Wen Ping's compliment immediately made Liu Zheng smile faintly, and then patted Wen Ping's head.
"Okay, let's stop patting on the back, pay attention to the injury on my chest, it's not completely healed, pay attention to rest in the past two days."
Liu Zheng instructed Wen Ping, and the next thing was to wait.
Wait for this heavy rain to stop, and wait for his army to kill the country of Linyi.
The great war against the country of Linyi will soon begin.
Another day.
It had rained all night, and finally stopped, and everything was refreshed by last night's rain.