Chapter 320: Hammer Breaks the City
A Chen Hu is majestic, already very heavy, plus two big hammers, weighing more than 200 pounds, the average war horse really can't get up, even if there is a camel, let alone the speed to go into battle to kill the enemy, even if the road is too slow, Zhang He is also helpless, can only let him participate in the battle on foot, and then give him a good horse in the future.
Chen Hu also knew that it was indeed difficult to find a mount, so he just smirked and didn't say more, every time he participated in the battle. Although it was a hike, his speed was really not slow. Soon approached the city gates.
Yan Pu was commanding on the city wall, and suddenly saw a guy carrying two big hammers, coupled with a beard on his face, his fierce and vicious appearance was very eye-catching, and he felt that he should be a tricky person, so he immediately ordered five or six archers around him to target Chen Hu.
The arrows "swished" and "swished", Chen Hu was not panicked, looking at the heavy hammer, he turned his hand to a hand, and picked up a larger shield from the side of the road to block it in front of him, watching the arrows shoot, blocking left and right, looking clumsy, but the arrows were blocked without leaking, and the people who saw it were frightened for a while.
Yan Pu's eyes shrank, and he called more than a dozen archers to target Chen Hu again, Chen Hu was blocked by such a dense number of arrows, and he was furious in his heart, and when he saw Yan Pu at the head of the city, he roared wildly: "Listen to the civil official at the head of the city, when the city is broken, I, Chen Hu, will smash you into meat sauce!" ”
Yan Pu was also taken aback by this roar, and was looked at by Chen Hu, as if he was being stared at by a hungry beast, and hurriedly urged the archers to shoot more intensively.
Chen Hu did not entangle with him, holding a double hammer in one hand and a large shield full of arrows in the other, strode towards the city gate, the drawbridge had already been cut off, Chen Hu crossed the moat in a few steps, and immediately arrived under the city gate. Because of the little cover of the cornice of the city gate, the archers at the head of the city couldn't shoot at all, because there were too many leaning out, and two of them fell down directly on their feet, and the other three were directly shot to death by the archers of the Jingzhou army, and the others didn't dare to probe anymore.
"Watch the big tiger break the city!" Chen Hu arrived at the city gate, threw away the big shield, lifted the sledgehammer with both hands, and smashed it against the city gate with all his strength.
"Boom!" With a loud bang, the city gate shook for a while, and it was almost about to collapse, so frightened that the defenders inside hurriedly tried to find a way to reinforce it, and even attracted some wood to stand behind the door.
"Boom!" Again, the wood on the city gate was smashed and the debris flew around, and the city gate was even more violent, and the sawdust flew up more, and the wood used to top the city gate was cracked and broken, and everyone was horrified, thinking that there was not a beast outside, and the cold sweat was dripping on their backs. glanced at each other, and they both saw a deep fear in each other's eyes, and suddenly retreated.
After three hammers, the place where the door was smashed has been completely cracked, and the people on the opposite side can be seen in the gaps, just when a guard tentatively stepped forward to see, Chen Hu saw it, and immediately smashed the sledgehammer in place, without waiting for the sergeant to react, he was immediately hit by the sledgehammer that passed through the door.
"Break it for me!" Chen Hu roared wildly and continued to slam the door. Yan Pu was shocked when he got the report, and hurriedly came to check, but when he saw this scene before he was close, he immediately churned in his stomach, and he couldn't take care of the city gate, and he hugged his stomach without any image and vomited wildly.
Chen Hu kept holding on to his hands, the shaking of the city gate became more and more violent, Yan Pu finally recovered a little, and immediately shouted: "Quickly resist, don't let the enemy enter the city!" ”
"Boom!"
However, a stronger impact was heard from before, and the thick bolt of the city gate echoed in two sections, and then was pushed open by a bearded man covered in sawdust.
"The gates of the city have been opened, and the brothers will follow me in!"
Chen Hu pushed open the city gate and yelled at the back, and the soldiers outside the city were immediately overjoyed, and immediately swarmed to kill the city. The sergeant guarding the city gate still couldn't believe what was in front of him, and the heads of several people were crushed by Chen Hu's two sledgehammers, and the others were even drowned by the Jingzhou sergeant who was like a tide behind them.
Yan Pu was still in a daze, and was dragged away by a few personal soldiers around him, and he could have escaped.
"That civil official is leaving, watch my big tiger smash your head!" Chen Hu saw that Yan Pu was rescued, of course he didn't follow, he immediately chased after him with a sledgehammer, and encountered enemy soldiers and horses along the way, regardless of whether he was a man or a horse, and when he went up, it was a hammer, and people everywhere turned over on their backs, wailing all over the ground, and blood flowed like a river.
Zhang He saw that the city gate had been opened, and immediately waved his army to cover the kill, and rushed to the city, and the soldiers at the head of the city saw that the city gate had been broken, and there was no longer the will to fight, so they retreated to the west gate, lest they would go slowly, and leave their lives here. Some people even took the opportunity to take off their armor, put on civilian clothes, and ran into civilian houses to hide, jumping everywhere.
The Jingzhou army went all the way into the city to chase and kill, and the morale was like a rainbow all the way, and it was unstoppable to kill countless people wherever they went. The Hanzhong army did not dare to resist, and fled to the west gate, Zhang He got the report, divided the army and chased the defeated army in the city, and personally led the men and horses to kill the west gate.
Yan Pu escaped from the west gate under the escort of his own soldiers, and did not go ten miles, but met Zhang Wei, who came to the rescue with 10,000 horses from Nanzheng, and was overjoyed, so he stationed troops on the spot and gathered the remnants of the army.
The defeated army heard that the major general Zhang Wei led the army to rescue, although he had a lot of complaints about his character, but after all, he was a major general in Hanzhong, so they came to vote, and in less than a day, they actually collected more than 10,000 defeated soldiers who escaped, and doubled their strength. I couldn't help but feel happy. So he inspected the camp with Yan Pu and strongly encouraged him, so that the whole army had some morale, and he was ready to start a war with Zhang He immediately and recapture Chenggu.
Zhang He captured Chenggu, although he found out that Zhang Wei was stationed ten miles west of the city, but because he had just occupied Chenggu, he was very unstable, and he had always been steady, and he was not in a hurry to fight, but only restrained the sergeants, pacified the people, repaired the fortifications, and treated the wounded.
Lou Gui, who got the news, also immediately sent officials from Xiangyang to receive it, Zhuge Liang, who had been back in Xiangyang for a long time, took the initiative to ask Yingying to go, and Liao Hua, who was eager to make contributions, also stepped forward to ask for his life. However, the defense of Xiangyang City was the top priority, and Lou Gui did not dare to replace it at will, so he had to pacify Liao Hua and let Zhuge Liang take Fu Tong, a native of Yiyang, to lead 5,000 new troops to Chenggu.
5,000 people went into battle lightly, only five days on the road, nine days on the west city, less than half a month to Chenggu, Zhang He heard that the "half-immortal military division" Zhuge Liang came, overjoyed, hurriedly went out of the city ten miles to greet in person, the two met with their own enthusiasm. After returning to the city, after the banquet was dismissed, he began to discuss the matter of defeating Zhang Wei and marching into Nanzheng.