Chapter 654: The First Tips
"Oh no, let them go back." The moment the city gate was opened, those Jingzhou soldiers froze, because the corpses that appeared before them were piled up high, and the existence of these corpses would keep the cavalry out.
"Shoot the arrows!" Xiang Yu in the city did not hesitate and directly ordered the arrows to be released.
At this time, the vanguard of the Jingzhou cavalry had already rushed to the vicinity of the city gate.
"Shoot the arrows!" The guards in the city shouted anxiously, hoping that the arrows would stop the cavalry.
Unfortunately, it backfired, and cavalry still rushed into the city gates.
"Quick, take someone to the city gate to have a look, and go help the young general." Lai Hu'er knew that he couldn't stop it, so he could only hurriedly order his men to go to the city gate to help Xiang Yu.
At the gate of the city, there were already cavalry rushing in at this time, but when he rushed in excitedly, he regretted it, but unfortunately it was too late.
The horse crashed directly into the pile of corpses piled up high, and the man flew straight forward from the horse, of course, there was no doubt that he was dead.
Someone also reacted in advance and jumped over on his horse, but what was waiting for him was only the enemy's spear and spear.
Of course, it is not that there are no powerful characters, there are Jingzhou soldiers who can control the war horse to jump over the corpse, and wave their weapons to help them fall safely, but even so, the war horse has no momentum, and there is only one result in falling into the crowd, not to mention that there is a person named Xiang Yu among them.
The Xiang soldiers guarding the city gate were not without casualties, and some of the cavalry who jumped over the corpses fell safely, and those who were not dealt with in the first time were often not enough to wreak havoc in the crowd before they were disposed of.
There are also some cavalry before they die, they will be desperate to pull a cushion, but the casualties of the soldiers guarding the door are not too large, only 100 casualties, while Jingzhou has more than 100 casualties, in comparison, Guan Yu should be more heartbroken than Xiang Yu.
"Withdraw your troops! There is no hope today. After nearly four hours of fighting, the soldiers also reached a state of fatigue, Guan Yu also understood that there was no hope of taking Guiyang City today, so he decided to retreat.
After the battle of the North Gate, the battle between the West Gate and the East Gate also ended one after another, and the victory that was originally easy to achieve was gone because of Xiang Yu alone.
Xiang Yu took dozens of people and hundreds of people to block the attack of the Jingzhou army, leaving hundreds of corpses behind by the Jingzhou soldiers and horses, and making the Jingzhou soldiers frightened and did not dare to rush to the city gate again.
The losses of both sides in this battle are very large, the losses of both sides on the east gate side are not large, the loss gap between the Jingzhou army and the defenders on the west gate side is not large, the Jingzhou army lost more than 3,000 people, the defenders also lost more than 1,000 people, and the loss gap between the two sides of the north gate is even smaller, but it is also the most tragic, the Jingzhou army lost more than 6,000 people, and the defenders also lost more than 4,000 people.
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"Second brother, I heard that your people have opened the city gate, why didn't they kill it?"
For the battle of Guiyang City, was it conveyed to Liu Bei, Liu Bei was very happy when he heard that the city gate was knocked open, but then he never got the news that the north gate was taken down, but it was always blocked news, which made Liu Bei a little unhappy.
"Indeed, the city gate was knocked open, but it was blocked by Xiang Yu, the city gate was narrow, Xiang Yu led a group of people to block behind the city gate, quite a bit of momentum, and Xiang Yu was extremely insidious, he used the corpses of our soldiers to block the city gate, so that our army was blocked, and thus was victimized by it."
When Guan Yu heard Liu Bei talk about the city gate, his mood suddenly changed a little, and in the end, Guan Yu was even more angry, thinking of Xiang Yu using the corpses of his soldiers to block his subordinates, Guan Yu was very angry.
"This feather is so good, it can't be because of the strategy of the military division."
Liu Bei began to have doubts about Zhuge Liang's siege plan at this time.
"No, the strategy of the military division is very good, the siege is indeed the most effective, today's battle, the defenders of the north gate suffered extremely heavy casualties, and the city wall is not the same, and the siege tomorrow will definitely be able to take Guiyang City."
Guan Yu said confidently, this is the first time Guan Yu has defended Zhuge Liang, and in the past, Guan Yu was the one who was looking for Zhuge Liang trouble.
"Really?" Liu Bei was overjoyed.
"Yun Chang doesn't dare to say anything, but tomorrow we must prepare enough stones for catapults, and if we can get such a big battle today, catapults have played a great role in suppressing the defenders." Guan Yu replied.
"Don't worry! I've already arranged that. ”
Liu Bei was quite satisfied with Guan Yu's answer, so he also gave Guan Yu a satisfactory answer.
"Lord!"
"General Xuande!"
Not long after, Huang Zhong and Shi Jianjiao also returned.
"How's the battle going?"
When Liu Bei saw the two of them coming back, he immediately asked, although he already knew the result, Liu Bei still wanted to ask about the experience and results.
"According to the order of the lord, our army harassed and feintmed, and the losses of our army were not large, only hundreds of casualties." Shi Jianjiao replied first.
"The losses of our army are large, because most of the catapults are at the north gate, our army has lost nearly three thousand people, while the defenders have lost less than half of our army."
Huang Zhong's words sounded like a resentment carefully, but this was normal, Liu Bei handed over the main force to Guan Yu, handed over most of the catapults to Guan Yu, and let Shi Jianjiao feint, and Huang Zhong was caught in the middle, neither the main force nor the feint, the casualties were large, and the effect was not good, so Huang Zhong had some complaints in his heart.
For these Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Shi Jianjiao didn't care too much.
"Tonight, have a good rest, tomorrow's battle, you still need to be tired." Liu Bei said with a smile.
"General Xuande, this is the bag that Mr. Kong Ming left to Huang Zhong before leaving, this bag, Mr. Kong Ming said that he would open it after the failure of the first siege."
At this time, Huang Zhong took out the first bag left by Zhuge Liang and handed it to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei took the bag with some doubts.
"Strategist, why did I give you the tips?" Guan Yu was faintly displeased,
"Second brother, don't ask, I understand what the military advisor meant, and the military advisor did the right thing."
Liu Bei stopped Guan Yu's duties, although Liu Bei was also a little dissatisfied, but he didn't want Guan Yu, who had just improved his attitude towards Zhuge Liang, to have a bad feeling about Zhuge Liang.
"Lord, no matter what, let's open it first and see what the military advisor says." Shi Jianjiao said.
"Beware of night raids, protect grain and grass!"
Liu Bei directly opened the bag and read out the content written in the bag.
"What does the military advisor mean, do you mean that Xiang Yu will bring people to raid us?" Guan Yu was shocked.
"That's what it means." Liu Bei nodded.
"But in today's battle, our army suffered heavy losses, and the Xiang family's losses were also extremely heavy, and their city walls and city gates were not in shape, how could they still have the courage to raid our army."
Guan Yu was very skeptical that Xiang Yu could lead troops to attack them.
"The subordinates thought that this matter had to be guarded against, not to mention that the military advisor had never made a mistake, just to say that Xiang Yu was a bold and very courageous person, and it was very likely that he would attack our army." Shi Jianjiao said at this time.
"Indeed, this matter has to be prevented, the military division specially handed over the tips to General Huang, it can be seen that this matter is indeed possible, the grain and grass come to our army's most important materials, once the grain and grass are destroyed, everything will be lost." Liu Bei also agreed with Shi Jianjiao's statement.
"Then big brother, how are you going to arrange it?" Zhang Fei asked.
"Yun Chang, what do you think?" Liu Bei said to Guan Yu.
"Since the military advisor has put it forward, it is obviously not untargeted, in this case, we can use this opportunity to ambush Xiang Yu." Guan Yu replied.
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