Chapter 679: Yongzhou 3
To everyone's surprise, Yongzhou was even more capable than expected.
After the Vietnamese army began to build soil to attack the city, it did cause some panic among the defenders at first, but after that, Su Mian and the Chinese military officials of the city still stabilized people's hearts, and Su Zi, the son of Su Mian, was recruiting hundreds of warriors from the city, taking advantage of the inconvenience of the thieves carrying earthen bags to resist, suddenly went out of the city to counterattack, killed hundreds of people in one fell swoop, and once again repelled the attack of the Jiaozhi thieves.
However, this time, Li Changjie didn't plan to stop easily, he sent the real Vietnamese army to cover the brute soldiers behind the soil, and when Su Zizheng went out of the city again to counterattack, he didn't take any advantage.
The Vietnamese army occupied the city, and the barbarians poured up like ants, each with a bag of earth, and in just a few hours, they leaned against the city wall and made a huge slope, and the top of the slope was soon only 2 or 3 zhang high from the city wall!
"Tomorrow you can go to the city!" Li Changjie was very excited, this damn Yongzhou is finally going to be won!
However, at night, the Yongzhou defenders attacked again, thinking that the city would be broken tomorrow, so the Vietnamese army, which had reduced vigilance, was attacked by a sneak attack, causing the barbarians to bomb the camp and thousands of people to flee.
Then the men, women, and children in the city mobilized together, and it took half a night to dig up more than half of the soil slope that the Vietnamese army had just built.
At dawn, Li Changjie looked at the dirt slope that was only half a person high, and his face was as long as a donkey.
"A bunch of rubbish!" Captain Dayue Fuguo coldly ordered: "The barbarians who bombed the camp last night are all killed!" Let their brutes take the lead, and if the slope is not level with the city wall today, they will kill them all! ”
A platoon of soldiers of the Great Yue Kingdom immediately led the order to go and arrest the barbarians who were defeated by the Zhou army last night.
There were six people who needed to be arrested, but only three of them were successfully arrested, and the other three knew that Li Changjie was ruthless and would have no reason to survive after being caught, so he actually led the troops to resist and killed a group of Dayue's own soldiers.
The three of them huddled together and wanted to leave the battlefield and go home alone.
Hearing this news, Li Changjie's face turned even darker.
"Do you want to chase?" Zong Tan asked.
If the barbarians run too much, if they want to build the earth slope as high as the city wall today, I am afraid it will be impossible.
But if you send troops to chase the cave barbarians, your own troops will be scattered.
"Go after it!" Li Changjie doesn't care about the division of troops, he still has 100,000 soldiers in his hands, even if tens of thousands are divided, Yongzhou, which has reached the limit, will not be able to break the siege.
"In these few counterattacks, there are only hundreds of northern thieves out of the city, so it can be seen that there are no soldiers to send in the city!" Li Changjie said viciously: "It's enough to leave half of the soldiers and horses!" Also, let the other cave barbarians go and fill in the soil! Send those northern slaves who haven't been transported away yet! ”
For more than two months, the Vietnamese army not only besieged the city, but also constantly sent troops to sweep the surrounding countryside to sweep the Han villages and the caves that tended to be with the Han people.
"The slaves were divided among the families." Zong Tan reminded.
"Let them hand it over again!" Li Changjie didn't care: "Tell them, when Yongzhou is broken, one slave Ben Shuai will die and give them two!" All show their skills! Break the city as soon as possible! ”
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Woo~~~
The mournful sound of the bull's horn sounded again, and Su Mian squinted at the city, and a stream of thieves poured out of the chaotic camp like a muddy stream, rushing towards the city wall.
They didn't have a whole team, they didn't work closely together, they just relied on the number of people to eat the defenders.
But like a siege, this stupid method is the most difficult for the defenders to deal with.
There were more than 20,000 young men in the city, and there were quite a few of them, but they basically had no blades, and could only defend the city walls with wooden sticks, and when the thieves came up, they threw stones.
The officers and soldiers who really have weapons are less than 3,000, and this is also the only mobile force in Su Mian's hands, where there is a problem with the city wall in the past two months, they have to rush over to rescue as soon as possible, and when they need to go out of the city to fight back, they can basically only rely on this firefighting team.
It is said that the combat strength of the official army in the south is weak, but after two months of actual combat tempering, Su Mian feels that at least the combat strength of the official army in Yongzhou City is probably no less than the Jianghuai forbidden army that has high hopes for the imperial court.
It's a pity that there are still few people, and if there are 3,000 more soldiers, even if the thieves are in the city, they are not afraid.
And now, I really can't hold it.
After the thieves began to attack the city, the official army continued to go out of the city to counterattack, although they won a few games, but also suffered heavy losses, and the next soldiers who could still fight were less than a thousand, and it is estimated that at most one more counterattack will go out of the city, regardless of victory or defeat, Yongzhou will not have the ability to fight back.
So, the next few days should be the last days of Yongzhou, right?
However, this result is not unacceptable.
Eighty days to hold on to the lonely city, 100,000 people died with one heart......
Su Mian thought he had done everything he was supposed to do.
"Ready to strike." Su Mian whispered to his son Su Zizheng.
"Yes, my lord."
"Be careful...... Su Mian still wanted to tell his son, but the latter words were stuck for a long time, and finally only one sentence was said: "Forget it...... Go with peace of mind. ”
Everyone knows that this is probably the last time to take the initiative, so what's the point of being careless?
Let's say goodbye here.
Su Zizheng gave a simple salute to his father, turned around and prepared to go down to the city to attack.
At this moment, a man at the head of the city pointed to the top of a low mountain in the distance and shouted, "What is that?" ”
Su Mian looked up in that direction when he heard this, and then he couldn't take his eyes off it anymore.
On that mountain, there seemed to be a faint red flag!!
The thieves do not play red flags, but there are red flags in the Great Zhou and Huaxia, but the red flag in Huaxia is a horizontal rectangle, while the red flag in the Great Zhou is a vertical strip and there is a Zhou character in the center of the flag.
Because it is still far away, it is not clear what the red flag looks like from the head of Yongzhou City, but Su Mian can probably guess who the person who came - because the Great Zhou no longer exists, and there is only Huaxia left in this world to continue to play the red flag except Yongzhou City.
It's just that Su Mian couldn't figure it out, how could the Chinese army suddenly appear here when he hadn't entered Guangdong Province yet? How did they cross such a distance?
Of course, regardless of whether it was Huaxia or not, the red flag in the distance suddenly gave Su Mu a long-lost hope - it was reinforcements!
The cochin thieves also saw the red flag, and several thieves shouted loudly to order the troops that were originally preparing to attack the city to turn around and face the direction in which the red flag appeared.
Su Mian stood at the head of the city, and he could feel the panic of the thief army spreading.
At this moment, with a scream, a spark flew into the air with a terrible tail note, and exploded into a bright red firework in front of the eyes of the Yongzhou soldiers and civilians.
Immediately, more fireworks were launched into the sky in droves, and sparks burst into full bloom, as if they were celebrating some kind of holiday.
The red flag moved, and Su Mian could see the ant-sized red figure in a neat formation and begin to approach Yongzhou.