Chapter 149: The Battle of the Stone Gate
[It's snowing today, it's early in the morning, it's late for the update, please bear with me!] 】
The snow lasted for five days, and the snow was knee-deep, so I really couldn't play this time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Chun's camps were lifeless and lifeless, while Jiang Sheng's camp was in full swing. The battle a few days ago made most of the sabers of the Xuanjia cavalry curled, Jiang Sheng simply set up a smelting furnace in the camp, and those sabers with curled blades were resharpened and returned to their sharp appearance.
The whole army dug up snow and moved the camp, extending the position to a place ten miles outside Shimen City. If the war horse rushes into battle, ten miles can be said to be instantaneous. Jiang Shengjun's cavalry were all lined up in the snow to prepare for battle.
The sappers dug passages in the snow and brazenly assembled catapults, ladder carts, and four-bow bed crossbows in front of Zhang Chunjun's camp.
Zhang Chun had never seen Jiang Sheng's secret weapons, although he saw that the official army was busy, but he couldn't see the reason, and only after the ladder car was formed did he suddenly realize that the official army was preparing to attack the city.
Zhang Chun ordered the defenders of the camp at the south gate to enter a state of combat readiness to prevent the officers and troops from suddenly launching an attack, and then transferred troops from the north gate and the west gate into the city to prepare for defense.
Gongsun Zhan gathered his troops, raised 20,000 troops from various counties in eastern Liaodong, and slowly assembled to Shimen while there was no war on a snowy day.
The scouts sent by Zhang Chun had already ascertained the intentions of the official army, and they were afraid that after the sky cleared, they would launch a general attack, and Zhang Ju wanted to withdraw his troops and flee north, but Zhang Chun refused.
"Now that the snow is covering the mountain, if we abandon the city and leave, we will also move slowly, and Jiang Sheng's cavalry is not afraid of slippery roads, if the army is attacked, then we will be defeated, we can only wait for the weather to be fine before making plans."
"General Mitian, now we have found out that after the sky clears, the official army will attack the city, and Shimen City will be difficult to deal with in a blow, and it will be too late to escape at that time. Although the official army is now preparing for the siege, it will not immediately attack the city due to the heavy snowfall. We are bluffing in the southern camp to confuse the officers and soldiers, while the rest of the troops should withdraw as soon as possible. ”
"After the weather is fine, Lord Qiu Liju will lead the army here, the cavalry will fight, the Wuhuan tribe is superior to the official army, and Jiang Sheng will be defeated and retreat at that time, and the emperor does not need to worry."
Zhang Ju calls himself the Son of Heaven, so Zhang Chun calls himself this way, which is extremely absurd.
Taking advantage of the heavy snow, Jiang Sheng carried out a battlefield camouflage teaching in the camp, and dispatched elite and dexterous men in the army for training. Jiang Sheng personally demonstrated, taught everyone the techniques of snow camouflage and secret reconnaissance, and deployed some crossbows to them.
This team of fifty people mastered the basic camouflage reconnaissance technique under Jiang Sheng's short training, and the reconnaissance of the Shimen rebels became the first step in their practice.
Before dawn, the reconnaissance team of 50 people wore white robes and approached the rebel camps in concealment, and the footprints on the snow after walking were erased, and Zhang Chunjun did not find anything unusual after getting up in the morning.
After three days of secret reconnaissance, Jiang Sheng has mastered the deployment of the major battalions of Zhang Chunjun's army, the southern battalion and the eastern battalion have sufficient troops, while the western battalion and the northern battalion without the control of the official army are only a few thousand.
Jiang Sheng decided to launch an attack from the West Gate, so he let the whole army wear white robes and walk through the snow, while the siege weapons on the south side of the camp had been assembled, and the flags were still fluttering in the official camp, and patrols were walking frequently.
In Zhang Chun's opinion, the official army was ready to attack the city, and the goal was to break through from the south gate, so he transferred more than 3,000 people from the west gate and the north gate to enrich the southern camp.
Seven days later, it was the end of November, the heavy snow had already stopped, the snow had melted a lot, and the mud was exposed in many places, the sun was rising, the war drums of the official army camp sounded, and the four-bow bed crossbow and catapult began to attack, in Jiang Sheng's words, this was fire cover.
The huge stone bullets were thrown by the catapults, and they accurately fell into the rebel camp, those fences and deer barricades were smashed to pieces, and the dense crossbow arrows were also accompanied by stone bullets into Zhang Chunjun's southern camp, and the soldiers who had no hard objects to cover were killed by the crossbow arrows, and several tents were hit by stone bullets, and dozens of soldiers in the tent were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood.
Zhang Chun saw that the officers and soldiers could "throw" such a large stone into the camp, and the crossbow arrows could pierce the wood to kill people, and he was terrified, but he still felt that his judgment was correct, although there were some losses, but he was secretly glad that the troops had been enriched early, but he felt strange that the officers and soldiers only used long-range weapons, and did not see the infantry attacking.
Jiang Sheng quickly gave Zhang Chun an answer, under the sudden attack of 20,000 officers and soldiers, the western camp was taken by Jiang Sheng's army in less than two quarters of an hour, and most of the rebel soldiers guarding the west wall of Shimen were killed by the crossbow arrows fired from the back of the city, and the catapults had also destroyed the bunkers on the city wall.
This catapult was originally made out by Zhang Jiao's only daughter, Zhang Ning, but the Yellow Turban Army used to pull the projectile rod by manpower at that time to throw the stone projectile out, and Jiang Sheng's improved catapult projectile rod The front end is a suspended boulder, and the rear end of the projectile rod is connected with the winch at the bottom with a cowhide cable.
Zhang Chunjun was fortunate enough to experience several improved catapults, the defenders on the west city wall had never seen such a terrifying weapon, only heard the sound of breaking the sky, and then the dense stones fell, the city head was smashed all over the ground with flesh and blood, it was disgusting to see, the defenders did not dare to continue to stay in the city, and ran down the city wall to hide.
Jiang Sheng saw that there were no defenders at the head of the city, so he ordered the whole army to attack the city, and with the help of twenty ladder carts, the soldiers quickly crawled towards the head of the city.
Zhang Chun's defenders saw that the officials and soldiers no longer fired boulders and crossbow arrows, and hurriedly went to the city to defend, but saw that the city wall was full of officials and soldiers, and the stones and other things left at the head of the city were used by the officials and soldiers, and the defenders hiding under the city wall were smashed indiscriminately, with heavy casualties, so they had to retreat to the city.
The remnants of the soldiers ran back to report to Zhang Chun, Zhang Chun was shocked, he didn't expect Jiang Sheng to attack from the West Gate, and he was still thinking about how Jiang Sheng rushed to the West Gate in a short time.
Zhang Ju heard that the stone gate had been broken by the official army, so he changed his civilian clothes, and under the escort of more than ten personal soldiers, he went out of the city from the north gate and fled to the outside of the fortress.
Zhao Yun saw more than a dozen people galloping wildly, and knew that this person must be the leader of the rebels, so he waved his army to intercept him. Zhang Ju saw that the situation was not good, and fled, Zhao Yun sent ten knights to pursue, poor Zhang Ju was shot into a hedgehog by crossbow arrows after running out of five miles, and the Xuanjia cavalry used the crossbow to shoot kung fu was already perfect, and every arrow hit Zhang Ju.
The knights dismounted to check Zhang Ju's body, and found Zhang Ju's "jade seal" from the burden on his back, Zhao Yun was overjoyed, cut off Zhang Ju's head, and sent someone back to the camp.