Chapter 553: Occupy Bowang
Ye Chen wantonly collected more than 130 million yuan in Duyang County, and distributed a large amount of grain to the people, which made the local economy in trouble, but the people's lives were much better, and they didn't have to worry about running out of food in a short time.
The people can be stable when they have food, and everything else is fine, but the rest of the economy is not good, and neither the people nor the family have much cash in their hands.
After being swept away, Ye Chen and the others continued to the next point, anyway, there were not many soldiers and horses in Nanyang at this time, it was easy to deal with, and Yuan Shu and the others were not in Nanyang, and the dragons were leaderless, so it was a good time to rob.
When Ye Chen and the others left, the food had not been distributed, leaving a thousand soldiers to continue to distribute the food, while Ye Chen and the others continued to the next stop.
The next stop is Bowang County, which is quite famous in later generations, because there will be a story of burning Bowangpo in another historical time and space, and it is also the first battle after Zhuge Liang came out of the mountain.
To the south of Bowang County, there are more than a dozen counties connected together, so this Bowang County is very important.
"My lord, this Bowang County is obviously on guard, and their formation is to prevent us from entering." Guan Yu said with a big knife.
"The geographical location of this Bowang County is very important, once it is breached, then the counties south of it will not have any dangerous places, so there are more garrisons here." Ye Chen said.
"Lord, are we going to kill it?" Xu Huang gestured with a big axe, obviously full of fighting spirit.
"Kill it and let them see how powerful our Liaodong Arrow Array is." Ye Chen didn't bother to call the door, and he knew that he wouldn't open the door easily when he looked at the appearance of the defenders in the city.
"Ye Chen, don't be arrogant, our lord's army is about to arrive, and when the time comes, you will not be able to escape, and you can still survive if you surrender now." The guards at the head of the city received Ye Chen and brought people to kill him, and hurriedly went up to the city wall, and just saw Ye Chen and a few of them under the city wall, so he began to persuade them to surrender.
The guards at the head of the city had received the news from Hongyang County before, and knew that Ye Chen was going south to Nanyang and extorting their money, so they set up defenses early, preparing to resist Ye Chen's attack here.
In his opinion, the army of Liaodong is all cavalry, as long as it lasts for about three days, as soon as Yuan Shu's army arrives, then he will make miraculous achievements and will be able to develop immediately.
The idea was achievable, since there were three thousand defenders in the city, and in his estimation they should be able to hold out for three days.
"Array, break the city." Ye Chen was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, in his opinion, it was not difficult to conquer the county seat at all.
Although there are 3,000 defenders in the city, they are not a strong army, and the powerful ones were all taken to Luoyang by Yuan Shu, and the rest are old and weak.
The escort battalion began to line up and lined up below the city.
"Hmph, you cavalry still want to rush to the city wall, but you can't." The guard general glanced at the castle and said disdainfully.
"Kill."
After the formation was completed, Ye Chen ordered, and the cavalry burst out with a shout of killing, killing towards the city wall.
"Put."
The horses were already running, and then the soldiers prepared their bows and arrows, and went down to the city in a rain of arrows.
"Woohoo!"
Ten thousand arrows from the guard battalion flew towards the city wall like locusts covering the sky, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air made people's hearts tremble.
"Impossible, impossible." The gatekeeper was protected by the soldiers at the critical moment, hiding under the battlements, avoiding this wave of attacks, but he was already frightened, crouching on the ground and muttering to himself.
At this time, the defenders at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties, they had never seen this way of attacking, using the impact of the speed of the horse, and then riding on the horse, the power of the arrows was greatly enhanced, and the cavalry below the defenders of the city attacked first.
The city was seriously underprepared, and the biggest lack of preparation was that there were not many shields prepared, and there were a lot of arrows, stones, and rolling logs prepared, but their way of attacking the city was completely unexpected, and the preparations could not be used at all.
Nanyang is not a frontier, and I have not seen the attack methods of the grassland peoples.
If this was in Youzhou, Ye Chen would definitely not be able to be so easy, because the defenders everywhere would be prepared and prepared a large number of shields, and the lethality of the arrow array would not be so strong at that time.
There were not a few shields prepared at the head of the city, the defenders were shot down one by one, and the rest did not dare to raise their heads under the battlements, let alone fight back.
"Quick, fight back, fight back, as long as we hold it for three days, the lord will bring someone to save us."
The guard was so frightened that he hid under the battlements and shouted for the soldiers to fight back.
It's a pity that it will be a soldier's courage, he himself is afraid of being like this, and how can he make the soldiers brave.
The escort battalion went to the bottom of the city, and saw that there was no counterattack on the wall, so they continued to shoot arrows under the city, so that the enemy would not have a chance to raise his head.
Arrows continued to suppress the defenders at the head of the city.
"It's no wonder that several invasions of northern peoples in history can easily enter the Central Plains, the Central Plains, non-border, I haven't seen the attack of nomads, I am not prepared, and it is difficult to be defeated." Seeing it so easy, Ye Chen couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
If there is preparation on the head of the city, as long as there are more preparations to write shields, then Ye Chen's attacks will not have much effect.
"Open the gates and surrender."
After holding on for a while, the guard really couldn't hold on, and the arrow never stopped, although it was no longer an arrow array, but they couldn't organize the power to fight back.
In a few moments, they had killed and wounded hundreds, and it would not take an hour to take the wall, and besides, the soldiers defending the city had lost the courage to fight back, and they all shrank up, trembling under the battlements like him.
Someone propped up a helmet with a spear and shook it on it.
"Don't attack that piece." Seeing a helmet propped up and swaying there, Ye Chen asked people not to attack anywhere.
At this time, a soldier stood up and said that he was willing to surrender, so Ye Chen asked them to open the city gate first.
"Grandma's, I would have surrendered if I had known, and I would have surrendered until my uncle attacked." Entering the city, Xu Huang saw the guard kneeling on the ground and kicked it over.
The guard was kicked to the ground and didn't dare to say anything, and now he was a prisoner.
Before, he was still fantasizing, blocking Ye Chen and them for three days, and then waiting for Yuan Shu's army to arrive, and then he would be developed.
"Hold them all down, then guard the gates and take over the city."
Ye Chen ordered the guard battalion to quickly control the city gate, and then a team of soldiers and horses quickly rushed to the county government to control the entire county seat.
When the guard battalion appeared at the county office, the county commander couldn't believe that the city had fallen in less than half an hour, and he didn't have time to make any preparations.
"Very good, Bonghyo, I'll leave the rest to you." Controlling the city, of course, is extortion.
"Lord, please slow down, your subordinates have important matters to discuss."
"Please."
"Lord, the terrain of Bowang County is dangerous, and the more than 20 county towns in the south are not in danger to defend, it is better for us to occupy here and block Yuan Shu, then the counties in the south will fall into our hands, Yuan Shu is behind us, fast is three days, slow is eight days, even if we only stay in a county for one day, we can't let us all scrape it all."
Guo Jia said to Ye Chen.