Chapter 181: Battle of Liangquan (5)
After nearly a morning of bombardment of the eastern city wall of Liangquan County, the defenders were no longer visible on the entire city wall, and the injured Shi Zhi had already run back to heal under the escort of his own soldiers.
Since the defenders in the city withdrew, Li Xiaofeng asked Zhuge Cheng to start commanding the ballista to bombard the entire city wall one by one, in case the Qi army still had an ambush in the city.
Then, near noon, Li Xiaofeng ordered the ballista to be aimed at the east gate, and with an order, the ballista was fired with a terrified roar of the Qi soldiers.
Although the city gate was thick and heavy, after several rounds of fierce bombardment, the swarthy and devastated city gate also began to slowly fall outward, collapsing to the ground, and at the same time, the water on the ground in front of the city gate made a splash of more than one meter high, which looked spectacular.
Although the city gate had been breached, Li Xiaofeng did not immediately order to attack the city, but continued to order Zhuge Cheng to advance the ballista two hundred meters, and then began to shoot at the city.
In this way, after the first round of two round-headed arrows crossed the city wall and fell into the city and exploded, the Qi army, who was hiding there and waiting for the Feng family army to fight to the death after entering the city, suddenly panicked, they never thought that the Feng family army had no intention of fighting them at all, but directly suppressed and attacked them with firepower.
Shi Zhi, who originally had a glimmer of hope for defending the city, completely lost confidence in resistance after seeing the first round of explosions, turned over and got on the war horse next to him, and didn't even greet his own soldiers, and rushed to the government office in the city with a pat on the horse's buttocks.
And after the panicked Qi army suffered several rounds of bombardment and the torture of the thistle terrestris, they also learned the news that the main general had evacuated, and immediately began to scatter and flee, running towards the direction of the other three city gates. Some of the middle- and low-ranking officers who still had families or concubines in the city also began to run towards their residences, and then packed up their soft belts and prepared to escape.
While the Qi army in the city was in a hurry and was busy fleeing, Li Xiaofeng outside the city was summoning the middle and high-level generals to issue an order, not to harass the people after entering the city, let alone to take advantage of the fire to rob and rob the people's property. Moreover, if they encounter the Qi army who intends to resist, they will be killed, and those who surrender will be pressed to the outside of the eastern city to wait for their fall.
At this time, the Qi army in the ambush city wall had already fled, and they ran away, and there was no shadow of the Qi army in sight. However, Li Xiaofeng was still cautious and first sent two thousand ladder soldiers to climb the city wall from the outside as a defense, and after receiving a safety report, Li Xiaofeng took the lead and led the army to rush into the east gate.
The first to follow Li Xiaofeng into the east gate was a thousand elites led by Lian Yong and Ye Song, and after entering the city, the two of them each led five hundred elites as law enforcement teams to disperse in the north and south directions to exterminate the remnants of the Qi army. The two of them were followed by the two thousand Feng family troops led by Yin Bo, aiming directly at the government office in the city, besieging and killing the Qi army stationed there, and began to blockade the government and treasury.
The last to enter is Nie Lang's troops, their task is to climb the city wall, and then start from the east city wall towards the north and south city walls to attack the Qi army that is still stationed, so as to achieve the goal of controlling all the city walls in their hands.
Gao Jian led a thousand Feng family troops to start walking the streets and alleys in the city, pasting the already prepared security notices in front of or next to the doors of the residents in the city, and Li Xiaofeng also divided five hundred Feng family troops to go to the so-called rich areas in the city for protection, so as to prevent those businessmen and magnates and squires from being looted by some gangsters or Qi troops who wanted to take advantage of the fire in the turmoil.
Li Xiaofeng did not order the city gate to be closed to encircle and suppress the Qi army, but ordered to open the city gate after the occupation and let go of all the Qi troops who tried to escape. Because Li Xiaofeng also knew that it was unrealistic to encircle and suppress all the 40,000 Qi troops in the city, although the morale of the Feng family army was high now, after all, it was a long-distance journey and it was still inferior in numbers, and everyone had not eaten lunch yet, so Li Xiaofeng decided not to force the Qi army to a dead end, so as not to cause the Qi army to jump over the wall and fight in a desperate situation when they were forced to be helpless.
After Li Xiaofeng's measures, it didn't take long for Liangquan County, which was originally in chaos, to gradually return to calm, and only some thieves and immortal Qi troops would gather a dozen or dozens of hundreds of people to make the last stubborn resistance in some alleys, but their final result would also be killed by the Feng family army who rushed around.
After learning about Li Xiaofeng's measures to reassure the people, the residents in the city also stayed quietly in their homes, and some would open the windows of their homes from time to time to go out to listen to the movements outside, and then quickly put their heads back and closed the windows, for fear of being discovered.
Li Xiaofeng rode the miscellaneous war horse and stood at the gate of the mansion, which was now completely occupied and garrisoned by the Feng family army led by Yin Bo, and the officials in charge of logistics in the army had already begun to count the seized property and grain in the various treasury, and then they would be registered and presented to Li Xiaofeng one by one.
Along the way, although Li Xiaofeng was not welcomed by the residents of the city, he could feel that the people in the city still had a trace of joy for the Qi army to be beaten away, and it could be felt from the chickens and ducks hanging in front of some people's houses that had not yet been packed up, that the people did not dare to go out to face them in person, so they hung these things in front of their doors and waited for the soldiers of the Feng family army to take them away, which was also a kind of affirmation of the people for the Feng family army to attack the city and run away the Qi army.
Lian Yong, who was the first to enter the city to encircle and suppress the Qi army, led dozens of soldiers to Li Xiaofeng, and saluted with his fists and proposed: "General, the remnants of the Qi army in the city have been basically cleared, but there may still be a small group of Qi soldiers hiding in the dark, so the last general recommends a curfew within three days, and then take turns to send generals to patrol at night, once they find the gangsters, they can be easily captured!" ”
"Good! Do as you say! You're in charge! After listening to this, Li Xiaofeng felt that it made a lot of sense, after all, this was also the first time he personally commanded the battle and captured the city, so he still accepted Lian Yong's proposal very modestly and handed over this task to him to deal with.
"Yes! The last will obey! All the remnants of the city must be cleared within three days! Lian Yong hugged his fists and led the military order, and then turned his horse and led the people away.
Then Li Xiaofeng dismounted and strode into the palace, began to carry out various verifications, and personally began to record the generals' military exploits in the merit book, and Zhuge achievement was the first merit of this battle.
With the rapid passage of time, the city has completely restored the order of the past, and the people in the city have also left their homes one after another, and even some wealthy families began to send food and drink to the soldiers of the Feng family's army. Some of them Li Xiaofeng still made his own decisions and distributed them to the generals and soldiers below to treat them.
At this point, Liangquan County fell into the hands of the Feng family army led by Li Xiaofeng. And the remnants of the Qi army hiding in the city, after seeing that they could not take advantage of the fire to loot and loot, also disguised themselves and fled out of the city early the next morning.