Chapter 38, before Hu Lei
Xun Guanniang came to Dali, not only one day, originally thought that the Hu army would besiege the city, and the people in the city must be panicked, she could follow the example of the sages, help her husband comfort the wounded, appease the people, and do her part. ◢ With ◢ Dream ◢ Xiao ◢.lā But after anyone wants to enter the city, he sees that both the army and the people are all in order, and no one is afraid of her face, not only can she not help, but she is detained in the government office, and she is not allowed to go out when she is idle - Pei Wei has an order, if there is no office, no one is allowed to walk around, even Mrs. Pei Gai is no exception.
After all, Pei Wei is Pei Gai's uncle, and she is the elder of Xun Guanniang, no matter how willful she is, she still doesn't dare to fight with Pei Wei not long after marrying into the Pei family. Therefore, she was really depressed - Pei should be busy designing and building city defense equipment with Xu Yu, and he didn't have much time to go home to appease his wife - finally heard that Hu Jun was about to retreat and was going to go out of the city to pursue today, so she sent someone to discuss with Pei Wei, saying that I had prepared a little thin wine, and I wanted to be accommodating for my husband.
Pei Wei is not unkind, and he thinks it has nothing to do with it, so he allows it.
Therefore, Xun Guanniang rushed to the gate of the city with the house slaves in advance, waited for Pei Gai here, and after meeting, he offered the wine cup with both hands and spoke a eulogy. Pei Gai took the wine cup with one hand, drank it all in one gulp, and then threw it to the ground, and said loudly: "If this cup is bearded, I will trample on it!" "It's a pity that it's a lacquer cup, it can't be broken, Pei Cai simply rode forward, the horse's hooves fell, and the still tumbling lacquer cup was smashed.
Amid the shouts of the army, the city gate slowly opened......
Pei Gai scattered almost all the regular soldiers, leaving only some auxiliaries and civilians to assist Pei Wei in defending the city. He ordered Tao Kan to lead the three battalions of "Lifeng", the three battalions of "robbery fire", and Guo Mo's "Thunder Battalion" to go out of the north gate to take Hu Jun's main village, and since the general is combined; In addition, the three battalions of "Wulin" were sent out of the east gate to attack Huyanshi; The three battalions of "Pengshan" went out of the west gate to attack Liu Xian.
Not all the Xuzhou troops came out of the city gate - the city gate and the drawbridge were narrow after all, and the speed of going out of the city was too slow, for fear of being taken advantage of by the Hu army to escape - all the secret doors on the city wall were also opened, and the soldiers carried long ladders to cross the moat, and then lined up in front of the moat. On the other side, Song Shi saw Liu Yao go away, and as soon as he turned around, he saw that the front of the city was already full of Jin banners, and he couldn't help but be surprised, knowing that after being ordered to break off today, it would be a vicious battle, so he hurriedly ordered all of them to withdraw to the camp and defend with their fortifications.
The Xuzhou soldiers had been trained for a long time and were of very high quality, and the speed of the formation in front of the city also surprised Song Shi. Seeing that the array was finished, the Jin army was divided into more than a dozen phalanxes, interspersed with cavalry to cover, and the momentum was fierce. Song Shi immediately ordered Ping Xian: "Since you are called brave and sharp, you can be the vanguard, leaning on the fortress and blocking the Jin Kou, so that they will not chase after the king." Ping took the order and left.
The two sides first exchanged bows and arrows, and when the Jin army was about sixty or seventy paces away from Hu Ying, the soldiers began to speed up and run, and the spears—ordinary spears, not the two-zhang spears that rejected horses—were mixed with swords and shields, shouting to cover up. Naturally, there were also ditches in front of the Hu camp - but there was no water - and horses were rejected, so the Jin people tried to cross the moat with the long ladder that had crossed the moat before, and used spears to pick off the horses.
In addition, because the speed of the Jin army's formation and attack was too fast, Song Shi hurriedly retreated back to the camp, and there was no time to push back the six "flying beam carts" - that thing was too hammery, inconvenient to turn, and had to withdraw the rejection horse and other things before returning to the village...... Liu Yetang had naturally seen this kind of equipment in the city, and immediately ordered someone to drag it over and turn to attack the Hu camp.
The "Flying Beam Car" was pushed all the way to the front of the camp - but three of them fell apart before they could be put into place - and the front plate was lowered, and the Jin soldiers stepped on it and fought bravely—it was indeed much more stable than stepping on a ladder. Ping Xian stood proudly on top of the barracks, with a shield in his left hand to cover his body, and a long knife in his right hand, commanding Hu to lean on the fence to defend. The Jin soldiers first stabbed the camp with their spears, and at the same time were forced to face the spearmen of the Hu army, the first column was almost the same number, and the wooden fences were difficult to defend against the spears, as if two huge porcupines had suddenly collided together.
In the screams, blood splattered, and both sides had their own soldiers and spears. Immediately the Jin saber and shield hand also drilled through the gap of the spearmen, brandished the long knife, and struggled to cut the wooden fence, the Hu soldiers had no good way to resist it, the time was not big, the fence was chopped down and cut in many places, but the sword and shield hands wanted to rush into the camp and expand the results, but they were short-handed by the Hu soldiers, and they were forced back one after another.
Liu Yao stayed behind, although not all of them were elite, but they were all loyal and brave men, knowing that only if he delayed here for a long enough time, could the main force be safely withdrawn, and his own army would not be wiped out - he may not be able to survive, but Pao Ze had hope of life - so everyone worked hard, one after another, and the Jin army could not attack for a while.
Pei Gai naturally knew that Liu Yao would not put an empty camp for himself, so he must have left the broken soldiers and horses, and originally planned to let Liu Yetang lead the three battalions of "Lifeng" to attack the camp, and the rest of the battalions out of the north gate were copied left and right, trying to pursue Liu Yao. But who would have thought that Zhen Sui was riding his horse forward, and suddenly saw that the "Lifeng Battalion" had come into contact with the broken Hu army, and in the chaos of the army, a familiar figure loomed - ah, isn't this the Pingxian who captured Yiyu?
I saw that Ping Xian's left shield and right sword, standing on the wall, countless Hu troops took him as the center, lined up in strong formations, coordinated with each other, and fought bravely, making it difficult for the "Lifeng Battalion" to advance an inch. Zhen immediately became angry, raised the long knife in his hand, and pointed at Ping Xian: "I'll go and cut off this guy's head first, and then it's not too late to chase Liu Yao!" "Led the "Fierce Wind Camp" and rushed straight over from the side.
Since the Northern Expedition, the Xuzhou Army has fought nearly 100 battles of all sizes, and has never been so complete, so all the battalion governors have the intention of competing, all of them encourage the soldiers, and bravely rush forward - the governor is behind him, whether my battalion can be famous and overshadow the other battalion heads, it depends on how the battle goes! Only Liu Yetang is an old man, he knows that the task assigned to him by the governor is the most important, seeing that Hu Jun will not retreat, he knows that if he is brave and bloody, even if he wins, his own side will suffer heavy losses - when victory is in sight, why hurt people's lives and weaken my strength?
Therefore, he divided his subordinates into four echelons, rotated from time to time, and rolled forward like wheels, so that no team would weaken its combat effectiveness due to heavy casualties. He hoped that through such repeated assaults, he would first exhaust the Hu army's forwards, and then seek an opportunity to launch a general attack.
But then at a glance, why did Zhen follow this brute to rob me of my mission? There is really him everywhere, it is bearable, who is unbearable! Liu Yetang was in a hurry, so he ordered Dong Biao, the deputy commander of the right battalion: "Quickly go and behead the head of the enemy general, and rest in the hands of the barbarians!" ”
This Dong Biao was originally a person from Hejian in Jizhou, born tall and powerful, because his hometown was ravaged by soldiers and bandits, he was forced to take his wife and children, and fled all the way south to the bank of the Yangtze River, so he recruited Li Ju and Li Maoyue as soldiers. This person is usually quiet and silent, adhering to the concept that it is better to say more than to do more, and he agreed with Liu Yetang's temperament, but he was regarded as a confidant and promoted him to be the right deputy camp governor.
To say that when Pei should have been in Xuzhou and expanded the four battalions of soldiers and horses to twelve battalions, because of the lack of generals at hand, the new deputy governors were mostly recommended by the governors - such as Gao Le recommended Xiong Yizhi and Lu He, and Zhen Sui recommended Wang Ze (Xie Feng was recommended by Wei Xun) - but after that, the major battalions were often split and acted separately, and the status of the deputy governors was different, and the relationship with the governor was inevitably becoming more and more estranged, and a competitive spirit gradually arose in his heart. Especially not long ago, Lu He replaced Gao Le, and the deputy governors of each battalion will inevitably think, do I also have a chance to arch the boss down and replace him with himself? This is especially evident in the "fire robbery camp". Only the two deputies recommended by Liu Yetang - Dong Biao and Zhou Jin - are as honest as him, and still serve Liu Yetang as a chief rather than a chief official, and have always obeyed his orders.
Not only do they not violate, but they often don't even want to raise objections. Therefore, after Dong Biao listened to the order, he didn't say a word, and took his two most elite squads and collided directly, the target - Ping Xian.
The Jin army stepped up its offensive, and the Hu and Han sides were a little overwhelmed. One is that the quality is poor, and the other is that the weapons and equipment of the two sides are somewhat different - the equipment of the Xuzhou Zhengbing is built and issued by the official, and the quality is very good, even if it is used badly in training, as long as the chief officer proves that it is not self-destructive, it can be replaced at any time; However, Hu soldiers often used the weapons they had captured on the battlefield, and even if they were damaged, there was nowhere to replace them, and as soon as the intensity of the battle increased, the incidents of broken knives and broken spears appeared in endlessly.
Especially the original Hu army's front was defending against the frontal "Lifeng Battalion", but Zhen Sui led the "Robbery Fire Battalion" to suddenly rush straight from the flank, Ping Xian was somewhat stretched, and hurriedly sent someone to report to Song Shi. Song Shi naturally has been paying attention to the battle situation, holding the new force in his hand and ready to replenish at any time, seeing this, he did not wait for Ping to ask for help first, so he hurriedly ordered the general Qiu Zhongbo to lead 500 soldiers to meet Zhen Sui. When Zhen Suicai arrived at the camp, he dismounted, held a long knife in each hand, split the fence, and rushed inside. He danced with two swords like a wheel, taking the lead and being invincible. Qiu Zhongbo hurriedly came to put it right, but it was only one round, and he was picked up and dropped by Zhen casually, and the back of his shoulder strap was cut into two pieces.
The general was killed, the frontal Hu army collapsed instantly, and Zhen ordered the soldiers to shout in unison: "Master Zhen, who captured Yiyu alive, is here!" While leading his troops to continue to rush.
The two deputy governors of the "Fire Robbery Battalion" - Wang Ze and Xie Feng - both have a hint of Zhen Sui, one is that Zhen Sui likes to rob merit, eats meat by himself, and often refuses to even leave a sip of soup for the deputy, and second, he also robs people - all brave people, he tries his best to use all means, and he must also be transferred to his own middle camp to listen to it. Therefore, when it comes to the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, the "camp in the fire" is really the crown of the whole army in Xuzhou, if in training, Zhen Suineng has half of Liu Yetang's intentions, it is estimated that he can sweep the other battalions, and he will be completely invincible.
The soldiers of the "camp in the middle of the fire" are not as far away as the "Lifeng battalion" in terms of array and coordination, but on this relatively complex terrain -- there are trenches outside the Hu camp, there are fences in the middle, and there are fortresses inside, and many tents have not been removed in order to confuse the enemy -- the effectiveness of the soldiers' personal strength and combat skills can be brought into full play. Therefore, Dong Biao was covered in blood on the front, but he had just led hundreds of people into the Hu army camp, and Zhen Sui on the side started far away, but he led his troops to rush in stride, almost without stopping, and he could already face Ping Xian.