Chapter 475: Protracted Battle

Since King Tota joined Liangshan, he was used by Lu Qian in military affairs, and there was no incompetence. Of course, this is due to his fame in the green forest in the past, but in the end, what he wants is Chao Gai's personality, righteousness, boldness, and straightforwardness.

Those at the top have such a bold and straightforward character, and it is very easy to win the hearts of the people at the bottom, especially the military hearts of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level. As a result, the entire process of the transfer of power and the subsequent "transformation" of the Huainan Army has also become uneventful.

Now Chao Gai stood at the head of the city, smiling at the Song army's position where the noise outside the city became more and more huge.

Even if the artillery stones shot by the Song army flew down, they were also calm, and they talked and laughed with the generals around them, which was admirable, and made the surrounding Huainan army officers and soldiers feel relieved, and virtually made the officers and soldiers at the head of the city feel fixed.

The lights at the head of Luzhou City were bright, and although there were some fires in the Song army's camp, it was still one in the light and one in the dark.

The enemy is clear and I am dark, and the Song army has an innate advantage in this artillery battle.

Therefore, pretending to be forced is risky.

A black shadow flew over Chao Gai's head, and there was always a piece that was thrown at him. When he was carefully observing the movements of the Song army, he suddenly heard someone around him shouting "beware". I only had time to raise my head slightly, and I saw a big rock flying straight towards me, and in the blink of an eye, it roared from a height of less than two feet above my head, and before I could turn around, there was already a loud noise behind me!

But it was the cannon stone that hit the south gate tower directly, smashing the wall of the door, and there was a boom inside, and there was a faint scream, but there were still people in the building.

Chao Gai also had a look of surprise on his face.

He was less than two feet away from his ......, and a drop of cold sweat inadvertently trickled down his sideburns.

The city gate tower has been smashed through by artillery, and the tiles and beams have crackled and fallen to the ground. No one came to give orders, and soldiers rushed in to take a look.

The artillery groups of the two armies shot at each other, and the Song army had a numerical advantage, but the Liangshan army had a faster rate of fire and higher accuracy. In the middle of the air, it was as if it was raining stones. The city is better, the Song army's stone cannon is not enough, but it suffers inside and outside the city. It's like a ground dragon turning over.

The hardwood string buildings erected in the moat under the city crackled and crackled, and even the sheep and horse walls were also smashed down. This is especially true within the city walls, where countless houses have been smashed to pieces, and few houses that can still stand after being smashed are also crumbling.

Even the artillery cart had a lot of rocks falling from the position. However, the soldiers were all focused on their tasks, and the occasional whistling of artillery stones overhead did not frighten them. Although these gunners belong to the Huainan Army, in fact, most of them are transferred from the artillery battalion, and they are all people who have fought old battles.

And when a touch of whiteness lit up on the edge of the eastern sky, a round of red sun erupted. The darkness of the night that obscured the heavens and the earth was fading, and the damage rate of the Song army's artillery was even greater, and they were becoming more and more ineffective in this battle.

Helplessly, the firing accuracy of the Song Army's stone cannon was too poor and the effectiveness was too poor. Hugh said that the thirteen-tip cannons, that is, the seven-tip cannon and the nine-tip cannon, all require hundreds of people to pull the rope, so how can the force be used evenly? Don't you know that manpower is sometimes exhausted?

I'm afraid that the first shot can shoot a hundred zhang away, and the second one will become sixty or seventy zhang away.

Moreover, this is still on the battlefield, and the people's hearts are not aligned, and the problem of accuracy has led to a great reduction in the results of the Song army's artillery attacks.

However, Liang Shanjun did not need to think about this problem at all, as the dawn and the gradual clarity of visual inspection, the speed of the destruction of the Song army's stone artillery skyrocketed.

The city of Luzhou was quiet, after all, the Liangshan army had heavy troops patrolling here. But this kind of quietness is only on the surface, how can no one in the mainland say strange things?

Renluzhou has been quiet and peaceful for more than 100 years, if it weren't for the Liangshan army, the locals are still living their own small lives steadily, how can they experience military disasters and man-made disasters?

Especially the young and strong people in the city who were formed, these people were gathered, and the population was mixed, and soon there was a dispute.

"You didn't even take a step out of Luzhou, you know a bird. In the early years, I went to Kansai with people to sell goods, and the Western army was fierce, and the two ministers of large and small species were all famous generals in a hundred battles. How fierce the barbarian of Ren Xixia was, he was also beaten by the two ministers. The kind of privy counsellor who had led his army to raze the level, and when the army first arrived, he was very thirsty, and he looked around, pointed to the western foot of the mountain, and said, "There must be water here." Tell them to dig it, and there is indeed a spring there, and the water overflows the valley.

This is called being born with a pair of discerning eyes, able to distinguish the time of day, the right place, and the yin and yang. This is the power of gods and ghosts.

When Xi Wei City was built, the fortress had not yet been completed, and the Western Xia barbarians had already arrived and built a fortress on the Hulu River. The kind of privy secret was set up by the river, as if he was going to fight a decisive battle, but secretly sent a partial general out of Hengling, threatening to send reinforcements. When the Western Xia barbarians were shocked, they sent a general to lead the army to quietly go around the rear of the Western Xia barbarians, and use their fine armor to attack, so that those barbarians were defeated. In World War I, tens of thousands of camels, cattle and horses were captured.

Now the imperial court calls the large and small types of ministers to command the army, and it is ...... in Luzhou City, how can it be resisted? A voice shouted.

"You just blow nonsense! In the early years, Tong Guan led the Western Army to fight Liangshan, and he fought more and less, but wasn't he also defeated? ”

"On the other hand, the imperial court has experienced this defeat, and its prestige has fallen. After having to flee to Xijing. Xu Fuzi once said that this is like the battle of Natongguan in the former Tang Anshi Rebellion. Tong Guan's dog thief is Brother Shi, what is the reason for the brother......"

"Ge Shuhan, Ge Shuhan lost 200,000 teachers, so he asked An Lushan to enter Chang'an City. If you want me to say, Gao Yu is that guy. ”

"If you don't do anything, the Western Army is not weak, but it can't fight the Liangshan Army. When I was in Kansai, I still had to listen to Tong Guan. The father and son of the Yao family, who came earlier, are also very prestigious in the Western Army, and they are coaxing, but they were also killed and defeated in a few days? ”

The others retorted to the man, who spat and only sneered. said: "The frog at the bottom of the well, how do you know how big the sky is?" Harden your mouths. Tong Guan's family is relying on the favor of the official family, and the Western Army is not assigned by him? How can the father and son of the Yao family compare the size of the species? When the men of the Western Army enter the city, you will know how powerful it is! ”

"You pickled bird, you're a fart! Don't say it anywhere else, the discipline of the officers and soldiers is good or bad, how many people in Luzhou City don't know? If Luzhou is broken, how much will the elders of the city and villagers suffer? Military disasters and man-made disasters are inevitable, and I don't know how many families will suffer. If you boast about the Western Army like this, destroy the prestige of the Liangshan Army, demagogue, and spread rumors, you must be a spy and a spy. A black-faced man with five big and three thick eyes looked at the man like fire.

But these words startled the guy, and he jumped up as if he had been stung by a scorpion. "You, you fucking fart. Lao Tzu is not a spy, Hugh wants to frame a good person. "But it's not good to speak.

"Shiro, don't move? This handful of birds is always good at playing tricks, and only treats him as a fart, and Hugh takes care of him. Someone on the side immediately persuaded him. After all, formations of this nature are all formed by neighbors.

One person persuaded him, and immediately led several of them. persuaded the man too, but still pointed at the man and said: "If you dare to talk nonsense again, Lao Tzu will report to the official to arrest you!" ”

The latter was already afraid, his face was full of flattery, and he said with a smile: "The little brother knows that he is wrong, and the little brother knows that he is wrong." There are a lot of fourth brothers, and the fourth brother has a lot of ......"

The battle under the city of Luzhou has just begun, but this does not mean that this is all here. Liu Yanqing had long remembered the geography and topography of Luzhou, and saw that Luzhou City could not be won in a short period of time, so he turned his head and convened the generals to discuss the matter.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. The prime minister has decided to attack Jinling, this land of Luzhou, our army must take it as soon as possible, this is the time to use troops! However, Captain Ben also knew that if he wanted to take this Luzhou City, it would not be easy to take it. It needs to be treated with caution. It is because the official thinks that it should cut off its north-south communication, cut off the east and west, and make it a dead city. At present, I am only attacking Luzhou City, and there is no need for the whole army to advance, I want to send troops to the north to seize Duanzhai Town, Yong'an Town, Shen County and other places, and then to the southeast to take Qingyang Town ......, who is willing to go? ”

However, it is the section of the walled town in the upper reaches of the river, located in the northwest of Luzhou, level with Yong'an Town, and then wrapped in the northeast direction of Shen County, these three places occupy, the entire north of Luzhou is isolated. Qingyang Town is located at the west end of Chaohu Lake, and if you capture this place, and then Zhegao Town and Chao County are in hand, then you don't have to worry about the Luzhou battlefield.

What's more, there are still repetitions on the battlefield in Chaoxian County. A support army of the Liangshan Army arrived, saved the remnants of the thief army, and now it is entrenched in Zhegao Town, Liu Guangguo sent troops to attack and kill several times, but failed to succeed.

"Captain, the young general's wish!" Without waiting for the crowd to react, a young man stepped out of the ranks.

Liu Yanqing looked fixedly, and it was the young general Liu Qi who came out of the ranks. But he is unwilling to fight tough battles by nature, and he is not good at fighting tough battles, and every time he sees the soldiers die in vain, his heart is like a knife. Earlier, it was just in Shenzhou, and it was a matter of great importance to exterminate Tian Hu, and now when he arrived in Huainan, he still wanted to be like this, which made him depressed. Today, since there are already other tasks in the army, Liu Qi is naturally happy to serve.

Liu Qi was heroic, looking at him Liu Yanqing only thought that when he saw him when San Lang was still there, he was happy in his heart. And Liu Qi is really extraordinary, he only stood in front of him, and immediately showed the bearing and demeanor of a general, presumably he has grown a lot in the past half a year.

Liu Yanqing didn't wait for others, and nodded: "Since you take the initiative to ask for help, it depends on you." Liu Qi listens to orders! ”

"The last general!"

"I will take you as a general, and after the situation is discovered, I will first capture Qingyang Town, and then work with our army in Chao County to exterminate the bandit army in Zhegao Town! Don't break the order! ”

"The last general obeys!" Liu Qi shouted his order.

Then Liu Yanqing took Zhao Ming as the chief and led the troops and horses to capture Shen County, Yong'an Town and Duanzhai Town.

"The rest of the generals, prepare for war in the village, and listen to the orders of the official at any time!" The center of gravity of this army is also in Luzhou.

The next morning, Chao Gai took a distant look at the western military camp outside the city on the city wall, only to see that the earth was vast, men and beasts were extinct, and in the clouds and smoke, there was a faint shadow of a flag. At the same time, there was a lookout who reported that the soldiers of the Western Army moved to Luzhou to dig trenches and build forts on all sides, and they were very busy. Chao Gai held the city wall with his hand, and when he looked back, he saw Luan Tingyu and Song Qing and said: "If the Western Army wants to enter Jiangnan, it must be in a hurry to break Luzhou City. It's not that you don't want to attack my city, you just want to fight against me. ”

Song Qing said: "Brother Ming. Liu Yanqing is a veteran general of the Western Army, who has been fighting for a long time, is good at using soldiers, and will have a lot of tricks. I am afraid that he will take the defensive position clearly, slack off our military morale, and then raise back the morale of the collapse and defeat of the Western Army's artillery vehicles; Prepare in the dark, and take advantage of my unpreparedness to attack the city. "After two days of bombardment, the artillery trucks in the hands of the Western Army were completely destroyed.

Luan Tingyu said: "The Western Army really plans like this, but it is exactly what I want. Yang Dudu was leading his troops and horses to come, and the king ordered Wu Erlang to bring reinforcements, and when our brigade arrived, he could attack these western troops who came down the mountain. But how do they resist it? But the western army will also get this letter, and it will never be trapped and unable to fight. ”

In this way, the three of them finished the formation of the western army, prepared more bows and crossbows and flying stones, and insisted on guarding the city without mentioning it.

Han Feng Xiong said

I'm going, and I'm going to have another power outage today

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