Chapter 104: The Fang Family's Failed Northern Invasion
Laisu County, Fangjia Town
"Pedal Pedal ~"
Outside the east gate of Fangjia Town, a group of soldiers in leather armor were walking through the city gate to the outside of the city, and a large flag engraved with square characters was waving in the wind.
Fangjia Town is located in the south of Laisu County, only 30 miles away from Wujian County, and is named after the powerful Fang family in the town.
Fang Shunyi, the town guard of Fangjia Town, a native of Shifang County, Sichuan in the late Qing Dynasty, a master of martial arts, has few opponents in Fangmen Boxing, and the twelve disciples under his command are also good at martial arts.
After coming to this world, Fang Shunyi quickly made a great name in Laisu County with his fists, gathered thousands of disciples, and founded Fangmen.
After Zhang Xianzhong's defeat, Fang Shunyi led the rapid rise of Fangmen's disciples and possessed Fangjia Town. After Sun Kewang took over Su County, in order to win over the Fang family, he appointed Fang Shunyi as the town guard of Fangjia Town, and thousands of Fangmen's soldiers under his command also became the county soldiers who defended the party.
Half a month ago, there was turmoil in Baiyun City, and the prestige of Sun Kewang's Qin Mansion was gone, except for the five counties, the remaining four counties fell into turmoil in an instant.
Fang Shunyi decisively took advantage of the situation to rise again, and successively led troops to level the three towns of Huishuituo, Gaokan, and Changsong, and the private soldiers under his command also quickly expanded to 6,000 people.
At this time, the army that was leaving the city was Fang Shunyi's son Fang Chenwen, who led 5,000 people to expand again and take Chenjia Town in the north.
Like Fangjia Town, Chenjia Town is also named after the Chen family in the town, and they are both powerful and powerful.
Chenjia Town guards Chen Deming at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are more than 300 people in the clan, with the strength of the family to possess Chenjia Town, there are more than 1,000 family private soldiers.
In this turmoil, Chenjiazhen's reaction was obviously too slow, and by the time it reacted and wanted to expand, it was too late to react, the south was suppressed by the rising Fang family, and the towns in the north were occupied by the Danfengchang Tang cavalry that suddenly appeared.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
At the city gate, Fang Chenwen, the young master of the Fang family, who was riding on a war horse, kept urging the soldiers who were leaving the city.
Although the sudden collapse of Sun Kewang's Qin Mansion gave the Fang family a rare opportunity to rise, it also gave the opponent the same opportunity.
Tang Cai, who had been suppressed by Bai Wenxuan in the area of Danfengchang before, rose with a stronger and more prosperous attitude, and as soon as the signboard of the famous general Su Dingfang was revealed, it attracted several surrounding towns to surrender, plus the 2000 cavalry that Su Dingfang had accumulated all the time was defeated in several towns in a row.
At present, there are only a few forces in Laisu County, such as the Fang family and the Chen family in the south, which are close to Wujian County, and Deng Jiazhai, the rival of Tang Qi, who has not surrendered.
Fangjiazhen did not surrender because Fang Chenwen was ambitious, while Chen Deming and others of the Chen family were unwilling to defect to Su Dingfang easily because they were determined to raise their hearts and army.
This time, Fang Chenwen wanted to take advantage of the siege of Tangjiazhai by Su Ding's troops to annex Chenjiazhen.
Chenjia Town is located 18 miles away from the northeast side of Fangjia Town, and after 1 hour of marching, Fang Chenwen led an army of 5,000 to arrive outside Chenjia Town.
"Listen to the people in the city, the young master of my family is merciful, and he does not want to kill more, and anyone who is willing to surrender will be in the same position, if he is stubborn, the day the city is broken is the time when his family is ruined and people die!"
The army stopped 1 mile away from Chenjia Town for rest, several cavalry galloped to the city, and a knight stepped forward and shouted loudly to Chen Deming and others on the city tower.
The strength of the two sides is nearly 5:1, and the difference in strength is huge, Fang Chenwen does not think that Chen Deming has a chance to resist, if he can take Chenjiazhen bloodlessly, it is naturally the best.
"Master, what should we do?"
On the city tower, Chen Deming's deputy asked Chen Deming with a worried face.
"Now that Tang Qi Su Dingfang is rising rapidly, the father and son of this Fang family don't want to join forces with us to fight against a strong enemy, but want to take down my Chenjia Town with the thousands of recruits who have just arrived, it's just a fool's dream. I have ordered someone to summon General Yangwu, as long as we can block them for four or five days, the general will inevitably lead troops to help, and then the father and son of this Fang family will be destroyed! ”
Hearing this, Chen Deming looked at Fang Jiajun below and smiled disdainfully, and said calmly.
"Someone, shoot him off his horse!"
Then he pointed to the bravado of the messenger ride below.
"Huh~"
"Ahh
A sharp arrow shot out quickly, eventually landing a few meters in front of the knight, causing him to scream and flee in disarray.
"Victory! Win! ”
Chen Deming's calmness soon infected all the officers and men in the army, and they shouted one by one when they saw the herald who was shot and fled in embarrassment.
Morale was boosted for a while!
It's just that the soldiers who are fighting at this time will not notice that a trace of guilt and gloom quickly flashed in Chen Deming's eyes, and he doesn't know how many brothers will survive after this battle.
"Attack!"
The conversation was fruitless, and Fang Chenwen quickly gave the order to attack the city.
"Crunch crunch ~"
In the creaking sound of the wheels, piles of improvised catapults, siege ladders and other siege equipment were pushed out, and the dense local soldiers of the family army overwhelmingly suppressed the Chen family.
"Archer, shoot!"
The battlefield instantly became lively, and countless arrows began to be scattered from the city wall to the soldiers of Fangjia Town who rushed down the city.
"Ahh~"
One by one, the soldiers of Fangjia Town held a simple wooden shield, resisted the attack of arrow rain, rolling stones and sassal wood on the city tower, and climbed to the tower of Chenjia Town, and the tragic handover battle was staged on the city tower, and the wounded soldiers and corpses were thrown down the city tower in the fierce battle.
Blood splattered, the red-stained earth and the screams painted a tragic picture of war.
In the fierce battle, time passed quickly, and an hour passed quickly.
"Zhu Rong, Yue Qing, you guys!"
Seeing that he had not been able to take a section of the city wall of Chenjia Town at the cost of hundreds of people, Fang Chenwen frowned and ordered to the two generals beside him.
Zhu Rong and Yue Qing, one of the twelve disciples under Fang Shunyi's command, both of them have the peak strength of body refining, and the 500 soldiers they lead are also the real elite descendants of the Fang family's army.
"Whoa!"
"Kill me!"
Under the city tower, Zhu Rong and Yue Qing quickly received the order, and personally led the elite of the Fang family army behind them to begin to assemble and attack from the city wall on the right.
"Kill!"
"Ahh
Zhu Rong and Yue Qing took the lead, personally rushed to the city tower with a wooden shield, and cut down the defending soldiers to the ground between three swords and two styles, and the soldiers who followed quickly climbed the city wall and began to form a small group on the city tower to resist the counterattack of the defending soldiers.
"Left Wing Army, attack!"
Zhu Rong and Yue Qing led their troops to the city wall and quickly diverted the attention of most of the Chenjiazhen guards, taking advantage of their unpreparedness, Fang Chenwen decisively ordered a thousand-man team on the left to attack Chenjiazhen.
For a time, nearly 3,000 Fangjia troops launched a fierce attack from the city towers on the left and right sides of Chenjia Town at the same time, and the situation in Chenjia Town was precarious.
"Report! Young master, Fangjia Town reported urgently, Su Dingfang's 2000 cavalry bypassed Chenjia Town to surround Fangjia Town, and the lord ordered the young master to immediately lead the army back to help! ”
Seeing that Zhu Rong, Yue Qing and the others had gradually gained an advantage, a messenger rushed to the front and reported urgently to Fang Chenwen.
Today, Fang Chenwen led his troops to leave Fangjia Town for just over an hour, and Su Dingfang, who was supposed to besiege Dengjiazhai in the central part of the country, suddenly led his troops to appear outside Fangjia Town and surrounded Fangjia Town.
At this time, there were less than 1,000 defenders in Fangjia Town, and Fang Shunyi had to send someone to ask Fang Chenwen for help.
"Damn! Mingjin, withdraw your troops! ”
Fang Chenwen's expression changed suddenly when he heard this, his face showed a look of struggle, even though he was extremely unwilling in his heart, he finally had to turn into an angry scolding and ordered the withdrawal of troops.
Su Dingfang's choice of the time to march was too accurate, and Chenjiazhen's battle Fang Jiajun had only just gained a little advantage, and it was impossible to completely take Chenjiazhen without an hour or two.
However, Fang Chenwen did not dare to continue to delay, Fangjia Town is the foundation of his Fang family, there are a large number of strategic materials such as ordnance, grain and grass hoarded in the city, once Fangjia Town falls, Fang's army will inevitably collapse, even if he takes Chenjia Town, it is just to make wedding clothes for others.
"Bell Bell Bell ~"
The sound of gold sounded, and the soldiers of the Fangjia Army who were besieging the city had to be unwilling to evacuate under the pursuit of the defenders of Chenjia Town, paying the price of hundreds of casualties.