Chapter 381: Luo Rucai's Defeat (2)
The west gate of Chengdu is not far from the east gate, and Luo Rucai's henchman Wei Guan Ying quickly arrived with an army of 50,000.
There are still about 200 meters left, and Wei Guanying can already clearly see the Ming soldiers patrolling back and forth through the lights of the Ming army camp.
With a bang, Wei Guanying pulled out the sword on his waist and pointed at the Ming army camp two hundred meters away: "Kill!" ”
"Kill" 50,000 soldiers of the Great Western Army slammed into the Ming army camp.
"Bell"
"Enemy attack! Thieves attack! The Ming soldiers on alert shouted.
In the dark night, there seemed to be countless soldiers of the Great Western Army.
"Meet the enemy!" Qin Liangyu calmly commanded the army to meet the enemy.
Although the thieves came suddenly, because Qin Liangyu had already arranged a strategy for the enemy's night attack, the Ming army was not in a hurry to deal with it.
The two armies immediately fought fiercely.
When the "newspaper" was attacking the attacking thieves, Qin Liangyu also sent a personal soldier to find Zhou Cao.
"Commander Qiqi Zhou, the governor asked the small one to tell the commander that the enemy army attacked the camp at night, but there were only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the front could be dealt with, and the Ying Long army did not have to participate, so beware of the enemy's rear on the spot!"
Zhou Cao nodded, since Qin Liangyu had an order, he naturally complied with it, and he also wanted to see what the back hand of the thief was, whether it was really aimed at the artillery camp of the Ying Long Army, with the purpose of destroying the cannon of the Ying Long Army.
"Keep bombarding the walls!" In addition to ordering the Ying Long army to increase vigilance, Zhou Cao also asked the artillery battalion to continue shelling the city wall.
Ying Long's army was well-trained and experienced in a hundred battles, and the night attack of the thieves did not distract them in the slightest, and the gunners of the artillery battalion calmly continued to manipulate the artillery to bombard the Chengdu city wall!
Because Ying Long's army did not stop shelling, the city wall of Chengdu's east gate was still shrouded in flames from explosions, and from time to time one or two unlucky thieves were killed and injured by shells, and their bodies were torn off the city wall.
In the dark night, the battle in the west was in stark contrast to the sound of the constant artillery fire of the Yinglong army artillery camp in front of them.
Ten miles away, Luo Rucai personally led the 30,000 troops of Huangshuipo to hide here.
Although it is ten miles away from Chengdu, the shouts of more than 100,000 people outside Chengdu still allow Luo Ru to hear it clearly.
"Wei Guanying has already started to do it, it's my turn to come out!" Luo Rucai's eyes flashed with murder.
Immediately, Luo Rucai secretly led the 30,000 troops hidden here to quietly kill Chengdu.
In order to avoid being detected by the Ming army scouts in advance, Luo Rucai sent more scouts to chase and kill the Ming army scouts along the way.
When Luo Rucai approached Chengdu with an army of 30,000, to the west, Qin Liangyu and Wei Guanying had been fighting for more than a stick of incense.
Wei Guanying led an army of 50,000 people, so naturally he could not be Qin Liangyu's opponent.
In just one stick of incense, they were killed and retreated, with nearly half of the casualties, and there was a danger of annihilation!
Luo Rucai's target was the artillery of the Yinglong Army Artillery Battalion, so he had already understood the specific location of the Yinglong Army Artillery Camp in advance, and at this moment, he secretly led the 30,000 army to the Yinglong Army Artillery Camp that was only less than five hundred meters away.
The artillery camp of the Ying Long Army was located near the center of the Ming army camp.
Although Qin Liangyu dispatched many people to fight with Wei Guanying in the west, there were still many soldiers in the entire Ming army camp, and it would not be easy for Luo Rucai to lead troops to attack at this time.
"Li Dingguo's house, he didn't take action at this time?" Luo Rucai frowned, extremely dissatisfied.
It turned out that Luo Rucai's plan was not only this, he also calculated Li Dingguo's reaction, he believed that Li Dingguo could not watch Wei Guanying and them being annihilated, and he would inevitably lead troops out of the city to rescue, and as long as Li Dingguo brought another 100,000 troops out of the city, Qin Liangyu would inevitably have to transfer more soldiers and horses, and when the camp was empty, it was the time for him to surprise the artillery camp of the Yinglong army.
"Wait, I hope Li Dingguo's guy didn't disappoint Lao Tzu!" Luo Rucai's eyes were a little dark.
Although this sneak attack on the Ming army camp was his own action in order to overpower Li Dingguo and prove that he Luo Rucai was stronger than Li Dingguo, he had to rely on Li Dingguo's strength, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, Li Dingguo belonged to the kind of calculation he had calculated in this matter, so that his heart was balanced.
As Luo Rucai expected, Li Dingguo did not disappoint Luo Rucai, it was indeed impossible for him to watch Wei Guanying and the 50,000 army annihilated, and after reporting to Zhang Xianzhong, he immediately took the 120,000 army out of the city to aid Wei Guanying.
"Kill!" Li Dingguo personally led the troops out of the city.
"Kill"
With the addition of 120,000 fresh troops, Wei Guanying immediately withstood the offensive of Qin Liangyu's army.
In order to resist Li Dingguo's 120,000 troops who suddenly joined, Qin Liangyu also had to draw more soldiers and horses from the camp.
Although Qin Liangyu had white pole soldiers in hand, Li Dingguo and Wei Guanying together still had more than 140,000 troops, and most of the 130,000 troops under Qin Liangyu were concentrated, and only 20,000 Yinglong troops were left in the entire Ming army camp.
Zhou Cao looked at the increasingly fierce battle in the west, his brows furrowed, and he considered whether to send the Ying Long army to support.
This attack on Zhang Xianzhong, in fact, the most important thing is to rely on the strength of Ying Long's army, otherwise with Qin Liangyu's only 130,000 troops, at most they can only hold on to Lizhou, and they will not have the strength to fight with Zhang Xianzhong, if Ying Long's army has not participated, just let Qin Liangyu fight with hundreds of thousands of thieves, and even if they can win in the end, Qin Liangyu's army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and the gains outweigh the losses!
"Han Hu!" You took 5,000 Ying Long troops to support General Qin and them.
In the end, Zhou Cao still ordered a Ying Long army to go to support Qin Liangyu and them, he was confident that even if the thieves had any other back, they would be able to deal with it with 15,000 Ying Long troops, and there was no need to really watch Qin Liangyu's army and the thieves fight hard and suffer heavy casualties.
"The last general obeys!" Han Hu took the order.
Soon, a 5,000-strong Ying Long army under the leadership of Han Hu went to support Qin Liangyu and repel Li Dingguo and others!
If this general named Han Hu of the Yinglong Army saw it, he must know it, because he was the Han Hu when Zhu Ci went south to ascend the throne and passed through Gu'an County. At that time, he said to Zhu Cijiao that if one day Zhu Cijiao's actions could make him truly feel respected, he would come to serve Zhu Cijiao, and what Zhu Cijiao has done in recent years has undoubtedly met Han Hu's requirements, and Han Hu did not break his promise, and entered Zhou Cao's second army when recruiting soldiers and horses in response to the Dragon Army. To say that this Han Hu is also a very talented person, in just a few years, he can grow from an unknown soldier in the Second Army to a member of the Ying Long Army, so that Zhou Cao is his right-hand man, I believe that Han Hu's achievements will be higher in the future!
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