Chapter 509: Feint Attack on Beicheng
Wu Guang naturally wouldn't kill him, after all, the purpose of spending so much effort to catch him was to need him as a guide. Coincidentally, Wu Guang is not a hard bone, and now that he has fallen into the hands of Zhao Que, he is naturally focused on saving his life.
"Escort him and let's go, if there is any change, kill him directly." Zhao Que said coldly.
"Big brother, don't worry, I won't move, I promise not to move." As soon as Zhao Que's voice fell, Wu Guang hurriedly expressed his attitude. Once this person admits cowardice, the cowardice is boundless.
The group escorted Wu Guang in the direction of the North City Gate, carefully avoiding the patrolling sentries along the way. Fortunately, now Feng Zheng is attacking the palace, and under the transfer of troops, the rebels are insufficient, and the guards patrolling the city are much sparser. Along the way, they arrived at the north city gate, and in a small courtyard a few hundred meters away from the city gate, the spies of the Black Ice Platform temporarily escorted Wu Guang here.
"Send a signal, and order the soldiers lurking in the city to assemble at the city gates." Zhao Que ordered towards the Black Ice Platform spy behind him.
"Whoosh."
Flares were lit, and a colorful firework exploded over Xianyang City. The moment the screams of the fireworks sounded, countless people in Xianyang City quickly got up from their beds. Some of these men were men of the grain store, some were porters of carriages and horses, and some were hard-working coolies......
At this moment, the soldiers hidden in the city began to shed their disguises and transformed into the man-eating tiger.
Outside the city, the moment the fireworks bloomed, Wang Li pointed to the sky and shouted, "Master Hou, the city has sent a signal." ”
Li Chen looked at the fireworks blooming in the sky above Xianyang City, and shouted like thunder: "The artillery is ready to fire, target Xianyang City, and smash all your shells on the Xianyang city wall for me." The infantry prepares, and as soon as the artillery fire stops, you immediately storm Xianyang City. ”
Li Chen's orders were conveyed one after another, of course he didn't want to use these thousands of infantry to capture Xianyang, the first fortified city in Great Qin. The reason for this is just to attract the attention of the defenders on the city walls and share some pressure for the people inside to take the city.
Li Chen didn't have much artillery in his hand, and the reason why he put up an artillery position was just to bluff. However, at this time, this artillery position also played a great role. Although this artillery was not very lethal to the defenders on the Xianyang city wall, the movement it made was really not small.
"Reload."
"Launch."
Wang Li made a cameo appearance as an artillery commander, and under his command, the artillery of more than a dozen guns began to load in full swing and adjust the gun distance. As Wang Li waved the command flag in his hand, more than a dozen artillery pieces let out a violent roar.
"Boom, boom, boom."
More than a dozen artillery pieces under Xianyang City began to fire non-stop, and before they could make a big move, these shells were all flowering shells with louder explosions. However, the cost of the bullets was mainly based on the sputtering of shrapnel, and the defenders on the city walls were protected by battlements, so the bullets did not cause too much damage to them.
Of course, Li Fei didn't plan to kill and injure as many enemies as he could with these flowering bombs, just make the movement big enough to attract the attention of the defenders on the city wall and avoid making them pay too much attention to the city, so it was enough.
In the sky above Xianyang City, such a large fireworks bloomed, which naturally attracted Chen Sheng's attention. Chen Sheng, who was originally in the middle of the military camp, saw the fireworks blooming over Xianyang City, and his heart suddenly panicked for no reason. This kind of panic should be felt by the fattest pig in the pigsty during the Chinese New Year every year.
Chen Sheng is also an old fighter, and he naturally knows that this is a signal flare used in the army. They don't have this kind of signal flare, so it is obvious that the people in the city are sending signals to Li Chen outside the city.
"What do they want to do?" In the big tent, Chen Sheng's heart was muttering. Before Chen Sheng could wonder, he saw a soldier hurrying into the big tent.
"General Chen, the army outside the city has begun to attack the city from the north city." The soldier said breathlessly.
"What? Attacked. Chen Sheng was surprised.
The situation of Li Chen's army outside the city is clear to Chen Sheng, most of Li Chen's troops are cavalry at this time, and the siege equipment is only a simple ladder. It stands to reason that the city should not be attacked at this time, and when Han Xin led most of the infantry to come back to help, it was obviously more certain to attack the city.
Chen Sheng prides himself on his martial arts strategy, he doesn't think that he loses to Li Chen, what he lacks is nothing more than an opportunity. Now the opportunity has come, as long as he defeats Li Chen, then he Chen Sheng will also be one of the few famous generals in the world in the future.
The soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, and Chen Sheng secretly made up his mind. In siege warfare, the defending side actually occupies the initiative. Because of this, Chen Sheng was not panicked at this time, but carefully calculated in his heart, if the two sides exchanged identities based on the current situation of the two sides, how would he attack Xianyang City.
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Sheng didn't think of how to capture Xianyang with the strength in his hand if he was Li Chen. After thinking about it for a long time and not figuring it out, Chen Sheng opened his mouth and asked, "How many troops are there to attack Beicheng." ”
How did the soldiers know how many troops there were, and when the cannon went off, where did they encounter such a movement, and one by one they had already hid under the battlements. I didn't even dare to raise my head, how could I know how many troops there were below.
However, now that Chen Sheng asked, he had to answer. This kid is also a clever man, although he hasn't seen with his own eyes how many people are in the city, but he can guess. Judging by his few combat experiences, according to the movement of the northern city wall, there were at least 30,000 troops under the city. The soldier, reasoned in his heart.
"Report to the general, there are at least 30,000 troops under the city." The soldier said with great certainty, as if this was really what he had seen with his own eyes.
"Thirty thousand, thirty thousand."
"Li Chen is letting the cavalry dismount and attack the city, it seems that as soon as the plan to burn the palace is carried out, Li Chen can't sit still at all, this is going to be ruined." Chen Sheng muttered to himself.
Chen Sheng thought so and said in the past, now they set fire to the palace, and the guards in the palace were originally the people in the urn, but now the water in the urn has become boiling water. Now there are only two options for the turtle in the urn, one is to be boiled alive, and the other is to jump out of the urn. Now that Li Chen wants to rescue this turtle, he must have to pay blood.
For thinking of this fire attack plan, Chen Sheng was very proud in his heart. For a grassroots general like him, as long as he can earn military merits, he doesn't care about any infamy.
Now Chen Sheng has been completely tied to the Huhai Group, he and Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, Feng Zai and others are grasshoppers on a rope, everyone is in the same boat, the boat capsizes, and none of the four of them can survive.
"Let's go, go to the North Wall." Chen Sheng strode out of the camp, and now he couldn't wait to confront Li Chen head-on.