An Renyi deserved to be a veteran general in the army, even at the most critical moment of the siege, he still left enough troops to hold his position, and sent a large number of scouts to explore the surrounding situation to prevent being raided, so Yang Wu did not see a good opportunity for an assault. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But now the situation of the defenders of Changzhou is critical, and the city may be breached at any time, so he can't continue to hide at this time.

"Shizi, although the situation is critical now, if we rush forward like this, we are afraid that not only will we not be able to break the siege, but we may also suffer losses to the cavalry! The last general thought that we should wait and see, Li Tingshi should be able to hold on for a long time. Hou Zan objected.

At this time, An Renyi's vigilance against the surrounding situation was still very tight, and it was not easy to raid, as soon as they appeared, they would be discovered by An Renyi's scouts, thus losing the suddenness of their actions.

"Of course you can't rush straight ahead, we have few people and can't defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, but destroying their trebuchets can do it! Ben will not seek to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, but only to destroy the trebuchet! ”

But even if they only tried to destroy the trebuchet, they were still very small, and if they were surrounded by an infantry phalanx, they would suffer heavy losses.

Although he was still worried in his heart, seeing that Yang Wu said firmly, Hou Zan could only nod after hesitating slightly: "Since this is the case, then the general is willing to lead the cavalry to charge, and ask the prince to take the guards to fight outside the battlefield!" ”

"Otherwise, although Ben wants to destroy the trebuchet, how can he be so stupid as to attack the enemy infantry phalanx?" Yang Wu shook his head with a smile and said: "In this way, you lead two hundred cavalry to go around to the west of the enemy camp, and then hang willow branches behind the horse's tail and drag them on the ground, so that you can raise dust and disguise yourself as a large number of cavalry, and when the enemy's attention is attracted to the west, Ben will personally lead the rest of the cavalry to attack in the south, as long as you destroy the trebuchet, you will retreat immediately, I think it should be possible!" ”

Hou Zan said happily: "The prince has a great plan, but the task of assaulting the trebuchet is still dangerous, and he also asked the prince to be responsible for attracting the attention of the enemy army in the west, and the last general will ensure that he will lead the rest of the cavalry to complete the task!" ”

"Yes, please don't risk leading the charge yourself!" On the side, Cheng Xun also dissuaded him again and again.

Yang Wu was helpless, knowing that Hou Zhan, Cheng Xun and the others would not agree to him charging in person, so he had to agree to their request.

Immediately, Yang Wuxian led two hundred cavalry to detour to the west of the enemy camp, and when An Renyi rested and launched another siege, Yang Wuyi estimated that Hou Zhan's side was also ready, so he ordered the scouts to start attacking and expelling the scouts of An Renyi's army, and at the same time let his cavalry start to act.

This is a small forest, just obscuring the sight of An Renyi's scouts, when Yang Wu's three hundred cavalry began to gallop through the woods, the willow branches hanging on the horse's tail rolled up clouds of dust on the ground, and those An Renyi scouts really immediately discovered this situation.

"It's not good, it's a cavalry raid, and there are at least a thousand people! Wang Xiaoliu, you hurry back and report to the envoy, so that the army can prepare for the cavalry assault! Scout captain Zhang Laosan shouted.

As a native of the South, he had never seen a large-scale cavalry charge, only heard that a cavalry charge would cause the ground to shake.

From the feeling on the ground at this time, plus the dust in the distance, he immediately made a judgment, but he was not sure of the exact amount.

"Okay, I'll go back and report to the envoy, drive!"

Wang Xiaoliu did not hesitate to immediately ride back to report the news, there is still at least five or six miles from here to the big camp, although the cavalry is faster, but such a long distance also takes a certain amount of time, which is enough for An Renyi to respond.

"The rest of the people will come with me to see the situation and determine the number of enemy troops!"

Zhang Laosan was a brave veteran, and he was also confident in his equestrian skills, so he dared to personally check the number of enemy troops.

The rest of the scouts were also the bravest soldiers in the army, and everyone had horses, so they set off with Zhang Laosan without hesitation at this time.

However, they had barely advanced a short distance in the direction of the dust when they were intercepted by Yang Wu's scouts.

Many of Yang Wu's scouts were soldiers of the Taining Army brought by Hou Zan from the north, and their skills in arching and horses far surpassed those of southern soldiers like Zhang Laosan.

"Lao Zhang, we can't move forward anymore, the enemy army is numerous and extremely elite, and the kung fu is much stronger than ours immediately, and if we go any further, we will be sent to death!" After the fight, the other scouts shouted and shouted.

At this time, Zhang Laosan naturally didn't dare to continue to move forward, so he had to quickly return to report to An Renyi.

In the camp of An Renyi, at this time a new round of siege warfare had just been launched, under the cover of Suzhou artillery, the impact of the rebel soldiers was much greater than the previous threat, and the resistance of the defenders seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, and only a quarter of an hour passed in this round of impact, and the soldiers besieging the city climbed the city again.

"Order, let the Suzhou artillery temporarily stop bombardment, so as not to cause accidental injury!"

Seeing that his own people had already climbed the city wall, An Renyi hurriedly ordered. Although the stone bullets dropped by the trebuchets that were in charge of covering the city during the previous landing caused heavy casualties to the defenders, some of the stone bullets also hit the besieging troops by mistake, causing major accidental injuries. Now that he has climbed the city wall, An Renyi naturally doesn't want to continue to be injured by mistake.

Seeing that it is getting easier and easier to climb the city wall now, Zhang Hao and other generals have more and more smiles on their faces, and in his eyes, there should not be much problem in winning Changzhou City, and he can't help but start thinking about how to make himself the assassin of Changzhou after the city is broken.

"General Zhang, as the second group, your people continue to attack, hoping that you can break through the city wall in one fell swoop!" After a while, the first soldiers who climbed the city wall fell one after another under the counterattack of the defenders, and then An Renyi ordered again.

"Rest assured, the end will ensure that the task will be completed! This time we will definitely break the city in one fell swoop! Zhang Hao was overjoyed, this was the time for him to express himself, so he naturally did not hesitate.

Just as Zhang Hao was about to lead his subordinates to launch a second batch of attacks, at this time, scout Wang Xiaoliu galloped on horseback, shouting all the way: "A large group of enemy cavalry raids, a large group of enemy cavalry raids!" ”

"What? Brigade cavalry raid? What the hell is going on? Where did the cavalry come from around here? ”

An Renyi was shocked, even Zhang Hao didn't dare to prepare for the second batch of sieges at this time, and they didn't dare to move before figuring out what was going on.

Wang Xiaoliu said again and again: "Envoy, I was waiting for the scouts to be in charge of the detective situation in the west, and suddenly I felt the ground shake, judging from the dust rolled up in the distance, it must be a large number of cavalry attacking, the number of at least thousands, or even thousands of cavalry!"

Wang Xiaoliu hurriedly reported in detail what they saw, which shocked An Renyi and other generals.

"Impossible, this impossible, are you mistaken?" Zhang Hao's face was full of disbelief.

You must know that this is Jiangnan, there is no large number of cavalry at all, and there are thousands of cavalry under Yang Xingmi's command, but they all went to Haizhou with the Northern Expedition army led by Yang Wu, and they should be fighting with Zhu Yanshou at this time.