15. Pre-war painting machine
Since Huating City had not surrendered before, this time the resistance was even more fierce and tenacious.
Under the command of the archer Ding Chen, the soldiers and civilians used wooden planks as slides to push all the stone pellets that had been shot into the city by the Xifan stone thrower onto the city, and then retreated one after another, smashing the wooden donkey carts that Xifan had arrived in the city.
The soldiers used huge wooden beams and iron sheets wrapped their heads to slam the city gate - the Huating guards used earth bags and bricks and stones to simply seal all the roads of the city gate, so that the soldiers had nothing to do.
When the bloody battle reached dusk, the wreckage of the wooden donkey cart used by the Tibetan army to siege the city, and the half-burned and half-extinguished firewood and grass, piled up to half the height of the city wall, and the corpses of the Tibetan soldiers were lying on it, but Huating City still held on.
In the evening, the soldiers of the city lit torches, hung them down with ropes, and burned all the objects and corpses that were piled up at the city wall, so that they would not become the ladders for the soldiers to climb the city in the future.
In the raging fire, most of the city gate watchtower of Huating was broken, and several pillars were still standing proudly in the firelight, representing the unyielding fighting spirit.
At the fishy ditch, Hao Yu didn't know when he woke up, the trauma all over his body made him feel that the blood was gone, he groaned and grabbed the edge of the ditch, slowly crawled out of the pile of dead people full of stumps, and then stretched out his hand to the burning Huating city wall, "Help me, save me......
But the figure of the archer at the head of the city swayed, and when they saw a half-dead man crawling out of the trench below, they did not dare to determine his identity, let alone help.
Although Hao Jue's body suffered a heavy injury, his mind was extremely sober in the cold wind at this time, and he tried his best to shout at the wall in front of the horse: "I am sent by the reinforcements of the Tang family on the other side to report the news, pull me up quickly!" ”
Sure enough, soon, a wheel was erected at the head of Huating City, and Hao Yu tied the rope thrown from it to his body, and in the sound of the wheel turning, he was slowly hung up.
His feet were off the ground, higher and higher, and he could see that at the edge of the trench, a group of soldiers were pointing at him and shouting something, and then arrows kept coming, and it seemed that the thieves wanted to shoot him to death.
"Dog thief, national hatred, family hatred, I, Hao Xuan, will be returned tenfold in the future!"
In Shang Jiezan's tent, this great commentator has no patience, why hasn't Huating City been captured yet?
"This is a dangerous place, and this theory must retreat quickly." Shang Jiezan finally came to his senses.
"Didn't you originally say that you were going to defeat Gao Yue on the other side?" Xu Li asked cautiously.
"No, don't be in love. Gao Yue said to this theory before, he is Xingyuan Yin and sentenced Fengxiang and Longyou, and now it is only Fengxiang's Tang soldiers who come to the rescue of Huating, Gao Yue must also have Xingyuan's Tang soldiers as his backhand, and when this new force arrives, he will attack me, and then he will regret it. Shang Jiezan made a quick decision.
But at this time, the main force of the Xingyuan Dingwu Army had already driven dozens of miles at night and arrived at Gao Yue's camp.
The generals Gao Gu, Zhao Guangxian, Guo Zaizhen, Cai Fengyuan, Xu Si, Sun Bingqian, Tang Jingyan, Hou Lan, Cheng Junren, Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan, etc., all entered from the west chamber of the tent, and Luo Bai was in front of Gao Yue.
The secretary in charge, Su Yan, and the military supervisor envoy Ximen Cang entered from the east chamber and paid the guest of honor to Gao Yue.
Now Gao Yue can be said to have won the battle!
It turned out that the main force of the Dingwu army first arrived at the Shibi fortress at the junction of Fengzhou, Fengxiang and Longzhou, and then Gao Gu took charge of the whole army, quickly out of the Shibi fortress, and reinforced the nearby Nanyou, Wushan and other Longzhou counties, and the assassin Shi Han Qingchu, Wangyuan Xuanwu general Li Wanrong cooperated, and the thousands of Xifan rangers who burned and looted here were killed endlessly, and the Dingwu army chased nearly 200 miles, killing more than 700 levels of Tibetan soldiers, until the Tibetan cavalry was expelled from the Anyi Pass in the southernmost part of Longshan.
Anyi Pass, compared with the Longshan Pass, such as the Great Earthquake Pass, is very small and narrow, high solid to this, then asked the soldiers to cut down the huge trees on both sides of the pass, fill the pass here, do not let Xifan in a short time with it to enter and exit, and then enter the city of Huangyuan.
At this time, the Dingwu Army Supervisor made Ximen Cang along the temporary road and the Yining Army Supervisor Ju Wenzhen "successfully docked", if it was the Dingwu Army, they marched quickly and rushed to the Huating Weishui Decisive Battle.
Almost at the same time, the scouts of Liangyuan City sent news: the 3,000 soldiers of Fuyu Huai had been helped by 3,000 sharp cavalry of the Jingyuan Xing Battalion, and they went out of the dangerous Wuma Mountain and approached Tiehua Mountain in the east of Huating City;
In addition, Hun Xuan, who got the beacon fire information in Danzheng Gorge, and Liu Haibin, the envoy of Jingyuan Jiedu, joined forces of 15,000 troops, and they were also going south along the Diaoyao Gorge to copy the back of Shang Jiezan.
"Didn't Shang Jiezan ask for a decisive battle with Ben Yin? At this moment, Ben Yin fulfilled his wish. At this time, Gao Yue was really like a three-foot arrogance flying on his head, and the generals of the Yining Army and the Dingwu Army on the opposite side were sitting under the tent, bowing their heads to listen to Gao Yue's dispatch:
Shang Jiezan, on Xu Li's total army is only 30,000, among which the so-called elite, is the seven or eight thousand Dongdai forbidden army given by Zampu to Shang Jiezan, is the original warrior of the Western Fan Gaoyuan, perseverance and bravery, heavy armor and good shooting, all holding eight feet long, and now it is divided into three camps on the left, middle and right, such as the shape of the moon, along the west of Huating City;
The other 20,000 soldiers are the "border army" of Shang Jiezan Dongdao, one-quarter is "Gui", three-quarters is "Yong", and they are surrounded by a formation around Huating City, and there should be only about 10,000 people who can be put into the frontal battlefield;
In addition, there should also be a small army on Tiehua Mountain, the commanding height in the east of the city, to provide flags and intelligence for the entire battlefield.
"In order to prevent our army's deployment from being exposed to Tiehua Mountain, the whole army must attack at the fourth watch of dawn." Gao Yue finished speaking, and pointed to the mountain plain on the west side of Shang Jiezan's main camp on the sand table, "Shang Jiezan is from the wisdom of the resource, this mountain col is suitable for ambush, he will definitely lay down an iron horse here, ready to take advantage of our army's half-crossing to attack, our army has already noticed it from the watchtower car - Gao Gu, Zhao Guangxian, Zhang Jingze!" ”
"Under the section!" The three generals clasped their fists in unison, ready to receive the order.
"Your three generals are the commanders, sword players, and crossbowmen in all the infantry of the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army, and they are listed as both the team and the garrison, and they control Tang Jingyan, Sun Bingqian, Hou Lan, Cheng Junren and other spear soldiers and horse envoys, and occupy the left, center, and right wings, and use the first drum as the trumpet to wade through the water and attack Shang Jiezan's Dongdai forbidden army camp."
"Under the festival, the art of war avoids the real and attacks the false, and the forbidden army of Xifan and Dongdai has always been known as the elite ......," Zhang Jing cautiously made a suggestion.
Gao Yue immediately said: "The two armies of Yining and Dingwu are attacking the elite of Xifan!" Then he paused, and then said: "Hit the snake and hit seven inches, as long as the elite of the Chinese army is defeated by Shang Jiezan, the rest of the soldiers will definitely be terrified - Ming Huaiyi, Mi Yuan!" ”
"Under the section." Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan stepped forward to receive the order.
"Fengxiang has five battalions of cavalry, I Xingyuan has three battalions of cavalry, all of which are under the command of the two of you, eight battalions of four thousand fine cavalry, with the second drum as the trumpet, out of the left flank of our army, the goal is to occupy the nameless mountain col in the east of Huating City, if there is a Xifan ambush cavalry there, it will be killed, and then attack the rear of Shang Jiezan's Chinese army."
"Whoa." Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan received the order.
"Guo Zaizhen, Cai Fengyuan."
"Under the section." These two were originally enemies in Chang'an City, but now they are often regarded by Gao Yue as their right-hand men, although the two have rarely interacted with each other in private, they have never delayed their cooperation on the battlefield.