Chapter 254: Battle! (2-in-1)
Ten days later...
Outside Liaocheng, the battle array is vertical and horizontal, and the pennants are dense!
Ladders, siege engines, and trebuchets were already lined up in front of the battle.
The order flag kept waving, and the orders of the divisions continued to be issued, Liu De looked at Liaocheng not far away, and his heart was not shocked, more than a year of fighting made Liu De already adapt to the cruel battlefield.
One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither...
Chu Ying stared at the Dongyu army that was gathering in the distance, and had already stared at Liu De, who was wearing gold armor and surrounded by tiger guards.
Measuring the distance with his hand, he shook his head secretly, it was too far, and the most powerful crossbow machine in the army could not shoot in front of him, not to mention that all the gΕng nΗ in the arsenal had been destroyed by Liu Gui, Chu Ying thought about it now, and his heart was still dripping blood.
"Xiao Bu, when the enemy army is close, we are releasing arrows, and we don't have many arrows left!" Chu Ying admonished.
"Please rest assured that the general understands!" Chaub gave up.
Liu De raised his hand high, half loudly, and waved it hard!
"Woooooo
"Knock knock!"
Blow the trumpet, beat the drums!
The Dongyu army attacked!
The strength of this battle is not equal, the defenders in Liaocheng are all soldiers brought back by Chu Ying, about 13,000 people, and Liu De only has more than 8,000 people, with a small number of soldiers attacking the city wall with a superior number of people, they all think Liu De is crazy without knowing.
However, Liu De, Xu Shu and the generals have carefully considered that the enemy army is short of food and arrows in the city, and the defenders will not be able to hold out for too long, so now is a good time to attack!
Of course, Liu De can also delay and trap Liaocheng, and sooner or later one day Chu Ying will have to go out of the city to fight Liu De because of lack of food.
But Liu De didn't have time to spend any more time with Chu Ying, he had to deal with him as soon as possible, and then support Liu Gui and Guan Yu.
So within ten days, the Dongyu army quickly built siege equipment and prepared to attack the city!
The trebuchet is launched first, which is used to deter the enemy army and hit the morale of the enemy, and even some short city walls may be directly broken by the trebuchet, and Liu De's weapon adaptability is A, which can add a lot to siege vehicles and trebuchets, so Liu De is more and more fond of using trebuchets.
After several rounds of boulder attacks, the captains and captains of the Dongyu Army began to take turns commanding the army to attack the city!
"Kill!"
"Whoever ascends to the head of the city first will be rewarded with 100 gold, and the official will be promoted to one level!" Jiang Lin shouted at his subordinates.
"Captain, the last general is willing to go!" Jiang Haifeng asked Jiang Lin for help. In the army, they are not commensurate with father and son, but by official position.
Jiang Lin took a deep look at his son, who was still quite immature, and said, "Go!" Stay safe! β
"Yes!" Jiang Haifeng said excitedly, and secretly vowed: I must attack the city first and win the first merit!
"Archer, cover!"
"Woohoo!"
A team of archers began to release arrows, covering the siege of the sword and shield hands, and the defenders of the city were not to be outdone, constantly counterattacking with bows and arrows, but because the arrows in the city had been exhausted, the archers defending the city did not dare to shoot hard at all, and the sparse arrows had little impact on the Dongyu army!
The gΕng nΗ used by Chu Ying now was brought back from Liaoyuan City, and there were only these arrows in the city!
And the archers of the Dongyu army caused great damage to the defenders of the city!
The siege vehicle slammed into the city gate, but Chu Ying had already blocked the city gate with huge wood and masonry in order to strengthen the morale of the army.
Vow to live and die with Liaocheng!
The battle lasted until near evening.
"Liu De! You'll never be able to take this city! Chu Ying looked at the Dongyu army that was receding like a tide, and laughed loudly.
Liu De only silently observed the city for a while, and then returned to the camp, this battle is still fought!
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The Yang family is good at raising carrier pigeons, so a lot of information is transmitted through carrier pigeons, and even five or six are released at a time in order to prevent being killed by falcons and humans.
The transmission of carrier pigeons enabled Yang Zichuan to get intelligence and news from the outside world earlier than others.
Feng Zhijing took off a small piece of cloth from the pigeon's leg and respectfully handed it to Yang Zichuan, Yang Zichuan waved his hand, "Tell me!" People are old and can't read such small words clearly! β
"Yes!"
When Feng Zhijing saw the words on the cloth, his heart was shocked, and his voice trembled: "Cao Sui's son Cao Zhuo broke through Luodu, Chen He died of illness, Li Zhen and Ji Changyou were killed by Cao Zhuo, abolished the emperor and set up the eldest prince, plundered millions of people, and went to Xizhou with thousands of money and food, and finally burned Luodu!" β
A glimmer of light flashed in Yang Zichuan's cloudy eyes, and his mentality of being an official for decades had already changed, but when he heard the news, Yang Zichuan's heart still had a little throbbing.
I don't know if it's joy, I don't know if it's sad.
"The Great Week is over!" Yang Zichuan summed up, "Is there any other news?" β
"It's gone!" Feng Zhijing shook his head and said.
Because Yanzhou is located in northern Xinjiang, almost all the news will not be known until very late, and Yang Zichuan learned that the news of Cao Zhuo's destruction of the city is also thanks to the Yang family's carrier pigeon technology, for example, Liu De does not know what happened in the Central Plains at all now?
Moreover, Jinyang Pass, the only place of contact between Yanzhou and the outside world, was under attack by the Beiping Army, and many intelligence contacts were interrupted, making it even more difficult to obtain information.
Li Yun has just released an article begging for thieves, and the news has just crossed the river, and when Yanzhou knows the news, I'm afraid it will take two months!
"Report!"
Suddenly there was the sound of a sentry outside the door.
"Come in!" Feng Zhijing said.
A sentry rode in strode in, kowtowed, and said, "Lord, an unknown army has been found thirty miles behind our army, and the number is about five or six thousand!" β
"Five or six thousand?"
Yang Zichuan pinched his sparse goatee, thought for a while, and said, "You go and call Tian Zhang!" β
"Yes!" The commander gave up his hand and withdrew.
"Duke Ming, this army may be under Liu Gui and Guan Yu!" Feng Zhijing said in a low voice.
"It's not possible, it's them! Liaocheng seems to have been broken, but what this government didn't expect was that they were so bold, and five or six thousand people dared to go deep alone and wanted to support Guo Zidong, which was a contempt for our army! β
"Lord, you look for me!" After a while, Tian Zhang came to Yang Zichuan's big tent and bowed his hands.
"Liu Gui and Guan Yu have led 6,000 people to the rear of our army thirty miles, if they are not eliminated as soon as possible, it will seriously threaten us! This government orders you to lead 20,000 horses to destroy them, and bring the heads of Liu Gui and Guan Yu to see me! Yang Zichuan ordered in a shriek.
"Liu Gui and Guan Yu are both generals of the bear and tiger, and the last general implores the lord to temporarily borrow the Dong brothers under the command of the last general!" Tian Zhang pleaded.
"Dong Zhen can't move, Dong Zhen will go with you!" Yang Zichuan commanded.
"The last general commands!" Tian Zhang kowtows!
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"General Liu, thirty miles ahead is Yang Zichuan's camp!" Guan Yu said to Liu Gui.
"Yes!"
Liu Gui said: "Set up camp, arrange sentry horses, and send people to see if you can get in touch with Dongfu!" β
Guan Yu nodded, and then ordered to go down, and let Liao Hua go to Dongfu City in person to see if there was a chance to contact the defenders of Dongfu City, and Liao Hua took four school swordsmen to ride there.
The distance of thirty miles is far and far, and it is close to it, and when Liao Hua traveled to more than twenty miles, he suddenly found that there were many people in front of him.
"Soldiers?"
Liao Hua was shocked and said to the school knife hand beside him: "Let's go and hide first." β
Liao Hua and the four school swordsmen hid in a small forest not far away, secretly observing the march of the army, Liao Hua looked at the length of the army, and was secretly frightened: "There are at least 20,000 horses here, and the direction of the direction is the camp of our army, and the enemy army has discovered our army!" β
"Captain Liao, what should we do now!" A school knife hand asked.
Liao Hua hurriedly said: "You go back and inform General Liu and General Guan of the situation here, go south, according to the fellow, there is a small road in the south, you can go straight through, 20,000 soldiers and horses must march slowly, you must speed up, and strive to get ahead of the enemy army to tell the news to the two generals!" β
"Yes! Rest assured! The school knife man assured.
"Let's go!"
Liao Hua patted him on the shoulder and urged.
Looking at the departing figure of the school knife hand, Liao Hua said to the other three: "Without further ado, let's also strive to reach Dongfu City as soon as possible and meet Guo Zidong!" β
Liao Hua took the three of them around the army on the road, and according to the tips of the villagers, they went in the direction of Dongfu.
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"General, the armament here is too tight!"
Liao Hua and the four of them found several roads guarded by enemy troops, and there were sentry cavalry patrols along the way, Liao Hua wiped the sweat on his face and said: "I don't believe that this road to Dongfu is really all-powerful!" Let's go south and go around! β
"But, if we go south, we don't know the road over there!"
"Don't be afraid, Dongfu is a big county, extending in all directions, there must be a road that the enemy does not know, we can explore the people along the way, we would rather go farther away, but also complete the task assigned to us by the general!" Liao Hua comforted.
"Let the captain drive you!" The three of them bowed one after another.
"Good! Come with so-and-so! β
Liao Hua nodded and rode away!
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"General Liu, General Guan, these are the situations we have seen! The enemy army is already coming towards us, and judging by the speed, it is only a dozen miles away! The school knife hand explained the situation to Liu Gui and Guan Yu in detail.
Guan Yu stroked his long hair and said: "Don't panic, since the enemy has discovered us, then let's have a good fight with them, the enemy army is just a group of people who sell their heads in a certain eye, so what are you afraid of!" β
Liu Gui got up and laughed: "What General Guan said is exactly what he said, pass the order to go down and wait for the enemy!" Get ready to meet our 'old friends'! β
"Report! The enemy is in front of us! "A sentry has come to report!
Tian Zhang cracked his mouth and smiled: "Yo! The response is pretty fast! The whole army slows down its movements, don't give the enemy a chance to take advantage of it! β
Turning around to Dong Shao, who was quite silent beside him, he said: "General Dong, then Liu Gui and Guan Yu also ask the general to deal with it!" β
Dong Zhen twisted his body on the horse, the huge weight of his body made the war horse under him tremble, Dong Zhen said angrily: "Then Liu De does have a few martial arts gΔo qiΓ‘ng people, the lord has met Liu Dexiang, and the two of them still give me a deep impression!" It's called Zhang Fei and Dian Wei! β
Tian Zhang added: "Dian Wei is Liu De's personal guard, and his martial arts are rumored to be very gΔo qiΓ‘ng, making good use of the short halberd, within ten steps, a hundred shots and a hundred hits!" And when Zhang Fei confronted Lin Hu in Baoshan, he once resisted Lin Hu with hundreds of people, captured 2,000 people, and became famous! β
"These two people are going to meet for a while sooner or later, but this Guan Yu's name is even louder than these two! I haven't seen it, and if I want to have this name, I should have some ability! I also heard that there is a BMW under the seat of Guan Yu, and the body of a certain body, ordinary war horses can't bear it at all, so I just grabbed it for me to ride! β
Although Dong Zhen may have some ability to mention Guan Yu in his mouth, the disdain in his words was seen by Tian Zhang.
Tian Zhang hurriedly advised: "The general must not be careless, the Hu people have violated the border for decades, and they have never been defeated, and they are brave and brave, but they don't want to be killed by Guan Yu in a row, there are ten thousand commanders, and there are even Hu nobles like Captain Zuo, please be careful!" β
Dong shook his hand: "General Tian Hugh wants to grow up others to destroy his prestige, and those Hu people's dog heads are also easy to pick in a certain eye!" No fuss! If this Guan Yu really has some ability, then a certain person will definitely come up with twelve points of strength, you are optimistic! β
"Alas! I hope so! Tian Zhang looked at Dong Zhen who was arrogantly holding his head, and sighed in his heart.
The two armies are lined up a stone's throw apart!
Dong Zhen carried a big pole knife on his shoulder and rode to the center of the two armies, shouting: "Where is Guan Yu? Hurry up and fight for 300 rounds with a certain battle! β
Liu Gui looked at Dong Shao, who stepped forward to call for battle, and said to Guan Yu: "General Guan! That person is Yang Zichuan's confidant Dong Zhen, who is eight feet tall, with a body like a bear, and his martial arts are extraordinary, but his reputation in Yanzhou is not obvious! I once met this person with the old master, which is really amazing! Unexpectedly, Yang Zichuan actually sent him out, can General Guan be sure of victory? β
Liu Gui had contact with Dong Zhen back then, and he knew that with his martial arts, he was afraid that he would be able to support more than ten rounds with Dong Zhen, but now he can only rely on Guan Yu!
Guan Yu stroked his long hair, his eyes flashed, and said: "A certain man went south with the lord to kill Cao Sui, the original Cao Sui needed a few of us to join forces to be able to zhΓ¬ fΓΊ, but now a certain self-confidence is not weaker than Cao Sui, and this person is still a little short of Cao Sui!" In addition to a certain person in our army, Zhang Fei, Qin Qiong, and Dian Wei are also equal in force to this thief, so General Liu Gui should not worry! β
"General Guan has this confidence, that's really good!" Liu Gui said with a smile.
And at this time, Dong Shao's wanton and reckless shouts reached everyone's ears...
"Phew! Guan Yu come out quickly! Are you an eggless seed? I was so scared that I didn't dare to come out at all! β
The state army behind Dong Zhen also laughed when they heard Dong Shao's mockery!
"What a thief!"
Guan Yu was obviously angry with Dong Zhen, and his cheeks, which were originally like heavy jujubes, became more and more red.
"Let so-and-so take your dog's life!"
Guan Yu held the green dragon knife and drove the red rabbit horse to the front of the formation!
As soon as Dong Zhen saw the red rabbit horse under Guan Yu's seat, a trace of greed flashed in his eyes, he shouted, and rushed towards Guan Yu with a knife, "Rats, leave the BMW, Rao Er will not die!" β
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