Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Night Attack (Part II)
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The night passed, and the dawn came. Net? The green mountains and green waters show their original style one by one from the night. At the time of the Five Dynasties, Guangxi was sparsely populated, and although the mountains west of Yizhou were not large mountain ranges like Kunlun and Qinling, they were just green trees and forests, and they were undulating according to the terrain, but they also made people unable to see the edge.
The Han soldiers marching on the official road were sweating profusely and soaking wet, as if they had just been fished out of the water, and those who had been wounded by arrows were simply bandaged, but the pain on their faces could not be concealed.
Just now under the sneak attack of the enemy, the Han army, who was in high spirits and fled for their lives, and after they got out of danger, the sergeants also breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly appeared, they were really tired, not only felt that the marching bags they were carrying were getting heavier and heavier, but even the guys who were soldiers relied on to survive - weapons, were no longer held uprightly, and the sergeants just carried one end of the weapon with one hand, let the other end poke on the ground, and dragged the weapon in this way, moving towards Rongzhou step by step.
In this way, he had just walked more than a mile, and suddenly from the dense forest on the left side behind the army, there were bursts of war drums. The sergeant in the back looked fixedly, and the gaps between the trees in the forest were full of shadows, and a large flag was exposed, and it was faintly visible that there was a big "Chu" word embroidered on it.
In the face of the crisis, the tired sergeant, under the threat of death, once again accelerated the pace of the march as if injected with stimulants and smoked opium. After the drums, the sergeants behind were somewhat puzzled, because they only heard the sound of war drums and the sound of fighting, but they did not see a single shadow of the enemy. Their hearts gradually settled down. Last night, first in the dark of the horse, I was shot by the enemy's arrows for a while, and then the fire in the dense forest was so bright that it is said that the entire rear army was burned to death. The former soldier looked a little frightened, heard the sound of the war drums behind him, reacted conditionally, opened his legs, and ran forward desperately, with the law enforcement team watching, this weapon did not dare to throw it away, but there were some things in this bag, and they fell down, but they didn't care about it anymore.
After running for a while, it seemed that they had thrown the enemy away, and these sergeants slowly lowered their footsteps and moved forward slowly. Wu Huaien was also helpless about this, there were suspicious soldiers behind him, and if he sent someone to clear it, he was afraid that he would fall into the enemy's tricks like Li Shuo, so he set fire down and burned six or seven percent; Second, after such a fuss last night, Wu Huaien couldn't find out how many people were burned to death, but after the brightness, the number of people was nearly 5ooo less, I'm afraid that many people, after entering the dense forest last night, they just left. At this time, if you send troops to clear up, it will not be a problem if there are fewer people, and if there are more people, your main force will be less. There was no way, Wu Huaien had no choice but to send a lieutenant with 1ooo to follow the army from a distance, keeping a distance while attracting the suspicious soldiers of the Chu army.
Along the way, Wu Huaien walked extremely depressed, originally Wu Huaien was afraid that the march would be slow, but now, there is no need for Wu Huaien to give orders to urge the march. Whenever the Han army descended, the Chu army was like falling from the sky, waving flags and shouting, and the war drums were heavy, and this march was even faster than yesterday. Before noon, it is only 2o miles away from Rongzhou Xindao Town, this piece of terrain is open, climb high and look at it, you can see the four directions, there is the Beiliu River on the left side and flow slowly, it is a natural barrier, the right side is a rare paddy field, the breeze is rippling, the green rice seedlings are swaying with the wind, there is not even a human hair in it. Wu Huaien is very familiar with the terrain of Rongzhou, and after two days of marching, he also knows that the sergeant is not physically strong, but there are not mountains along the way, there are forests, and it is definitely not a place to camp and rest safely.
The Han army had just set up camp in Xindao Town, and was about to bury the pot to make rice, when they heard that on the official road leading to Yizhou outside Xindao Town, war drums were beating, and the pennant was fluttering in the wind, and the Chu army actually came again.
Wu Huaien, who got the report, came to the back of the camp with his own army, raised his eyes, and saw two or three miles away, in a white light, the pennant fluttering, the war drums were noisy, it seemed that there were more than 5oo people, the armor was distinct, the swords and halberds were bright, and the white light must be the reason for the reflection of these swords, guns, swords, and halberds. The beating of drums, the shaking of flags, and the shouts of the Chu army were like juggling in the rivers and lakes, making it lively and lively, but no one took another step forward at all.
Wu Huaien chuckled at the corner of his mouth, this must be the tired tactic of the Chu army. The Han army was already quite tired after running for days, but the Chu army pretended to attack, consuming the physical strength of the Han army in vain. It seems that the Chu army did not have many soldiers and horses to attack Rongzhou, otherwise, why use this suspicious strategy, you could have ambushed and attacked last night. He thought so, but he was wrong. When he saw that there were suspicious soldiers of the Chu army along the way, he thought that these Chu troops were sent from Rongzhou, but he didn't expect that this suspicious soldier was not from Rongzhou. After Ma Guangmeng learned that Wu Huaien was ordered to rescue Fengzhou, he immediately secretly withdrew 25,000 soldiers and horses in the besieging troops, passed through Rongcheng in Wuzhou, went to Tengzhou, and went south to Rongzhou. The Chu army that defeated Rongzhou, no matter how it hurried, could not rush to Yizhou to ambush in a very short time, and although Yizhou was able to have mountains and rivers, there was no dangerous place, and the effect of the ambush may not be much better.
The Chu army was 2 miles away, and it was noisy for a long time, but the Han army should eat and rest, and they didn't pay attention to it at all.
Hearing the news of the retreat of the Chu army, Wu Huaien settled down slightly, for the plan of the tired soldiers, whether it is to send troops to pursue, or to be on strict alert, it can be said that it is a plan, only calm down, he plays his, I do mine, and turning a blind eye is the king. Of course, Wu Huaien dared to do this because he saw the strength of the Chu army, and 5oo people were just a drop in the bucket for his army of more than 20,000, and it was not enough for him to stuff his teeth at all.
In Xindao Town, Wu Huaien ordered the army to rest on the one hand, and on the other hand, he dispatched carpenters in the army to cross the Beiliu River to cut wood and make ladders. The Han army went out this time as reinforcements, so they didn't bring any siege equipment. Without a ladder, the siege equipment such as the rushing car is like hitting Rongzhou, which is simply unthinkable.
There is a way that it is easy to do things when there are many people. In less than an hour, more than 100 simple ladders have been manufactured. Time waits for no one, for fear that something else will happen, so after having these ladders, Wu Huaien commanded the army to continue to march.
Twenty miles, and soon they will be there.
"Woohhh The trumpet sounded.
Wu Xun, the vanguard of the Han army in front of Rongzhou, according to the strategy of Wu Huaien, the envoy of the festival, no longer waited for the men and horses of the Han army, and the soldiers and horses under the command of the direct commander drove the ladder and charged towards the east city gate.
Charge formation, front, middle and back three parts. The sergeants in the front, lined up in more than two dozen columns, held a shield in their left hand, but attached their right hand behind their backs, holding on their backs and carrying dirt bags.
As the distance from the city wall is getting closer and closer, the power of the bow and arrow blocked by the city is also increasing, shooting on the ground to stir up dust, shooting on the wooden shield, "dong dong" sound, huge impact, some even penetrate the shield, the arm of the Han soldier is numb.
However, this group of Han troops was sparsely arranged, and the generals of the Chu army defending the city obviously thought that this point of men and horses was not worth it for him to use a more intensive rain of arrows, let alone use ballistas, stone throwers and other weapons of mass destruction. The Chu army aimed at the right time, but after all, the number was not good, so the casualties of the Han army were not large, this group of Han troops finally rushed to the front of the moat, threw the dirt bags they were carrying into the river, and did not hang up, with a shield, turned around and ran.
The moat of Rongzhou was not very wide, and on the tower, the Chu army's bow and arrow strike power, and in the case of weakness, the Han army quickly filled several sections of the moat.
More than 20 sections of the moat have been filled, and Wu Xun waved his hand.
"Knock knock..." The drums of war for the charge sounded.
The sword and shield hand carried the war knife at his waist, one hand upward, holding a wooden shield high, and the other hand carrying a corner of the cloud ladder, divided into more than 20 columns, and rushed towards the eastern city. He was followed by a sergeant with a sword and a spear.
On the city tower, the general of the Chu army defending the city is the regimental training envoy Zhou Xingfeng, he held his breath early in the morning, waiting for the Han army to charge, so that people can shoot ballistas, stone throwers, and fortunately, in places where bows and arrows are not within range, and also kill and injure some Han troops. But I didn't expect that the Han army was extremely loose in formation, and the moat was only filled in a few sections.
Damn it. How did this charge rush so scattered? Didn't the Han army have 30,000 men? Isn't that the lethality of concentrating forces and charging together is greater? With these 20 or so ladders, even if people can go up to the city wall every time, there are only about 20 people, what is the use of this? Suddenly, Zhou Xingfeng thought about it, no, this Han army is probably attacking the west. He estimated that he would put on the appearance of attacking the east gate to attract the strength of our army, and then take advantage of the fact that I was not attacked by the other city gates.
"Someone is coming, order the four cities to take strict precautions and not to move, and order the first battalion to be on standby in the city at any time." Zhou Xingfeng sneered, I want to see what tricks you can play.
The Han army outside the east city gate was dripping, and the sergeants outside the range of bows and arrows were naturally much safer, but the sergeants who were climbing up the ladder were in bad luck. There were only 2o ladders in total, and the fire of the defending sergeant was all concentrated on them, and it was a rolling stone and a long arrow, and this man had not yet climbed halfway, and he was either shot to death, or stoned to death. Under the city wall, the Han army, holding a shield and holding a ladder, was also in a difficult situation. Many people are not careful, so they send rolling stones and sassalwoods to stone to death.
Wu Xun is also a fierce general, he saw that the Han army suffered heavy losses, but he did not dare to defend the Jin, the reason is very simple, he is a feint, but before the real attack starts, he has to attack hard.
"Knock knock", the sound of war drums, sounded at the north gate of Rongzhou City.
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