Chapter 55: Dismounting
When the five thousand people faced the majestic city walls of Wancheng, they immediately became very small, and the guard general Hu Che'er now just wanted to laugh wildly in his heart, such a meager army came to attack Wancheng? Cao Ang Xiao'er is really a stupid person, and he can be very sure of this. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"General, Cao Ang is really a horseman, five thousand men and horses will come to offend the tiger's whiskers, it's just a joke, I am willing to lead three thousand people out of the city to meet the battle, and I will definitely cut off his head to sacrifice to the general." It was Lei Xu who spoke, and he was a partial general under Zhang Xiu's subordinates.
Hu Che'er smiled, pointed to the enemy army under the city and said: "Haha, it's easy to say, just work hard for General Lei to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and give them a good dismount." ā
At this time, Zhang Xian, another general who was guarding the side, came over and reminded: "Liu Biao sent 100,000 troops to raid Xudu, and now he is also defeated, we must not be so light on the enemy, and Jia Xu's military division has already explained before, once the enemy comes to attack, just close the city gate and defend it, like the city wall is high and strong, it can be used to consume the enemy, and it is impossible to go out of the city to meet the enemy and waste soldiers." ā
As soon as Hu Che'er heard Jia Xu's reminder, he immediately frowned, and then waved his hand at Lei Xu and said: "Let's let them have a look, we listen to Jia Xu's words that all the city gates in the city must be closed, and those who open the city gates without my order are guilty of death." ā
Lei Xu is still a little unwilling, he was the one who was responsible for guarding Cao Ang, but later he was escaped by the other party, and he also suffered a great humiliation, now that Cao Ang is under the city, how can he continue to endure it? So Lei Xu hugged his fists again and said: "General, please send me out of the city to meet the enemy, our scouts have already spied left and right, Cao Ang Xiao'er really just brought 5,000 men and horses, and they are all assembled outside the east gate at the moment, so there is no need to worry that the other party will have cunning ambushes." ā
Hu Che'er was originally a person who was not very strong-willed, and when faced with the opinions of the two lieutenants at this moment, he immediately had some obstacles to choose, and he couldn't make a decision after shaking his head and thinking about it for a long time.
At this time, I only heard Zhang Xianyi sigh and said: "Since Brother Lei is so determined, and the enemy army really has no ambush, then let Brother Lei go out of the city to fight, if the enemy is not the enemy, return immediately." ā
Lei Xu was overjoyed, no one knew better than him what Cao Ang was, how could he be defeated? At the beginning, he knocked it to the ground with a knife in the chaotic army, and then was captured alive by the soldiers on the left and right, and now it is just a repetition of history, and the pig iron broadsword in his hand is not a vegetarian.
Hu Che'er's favorite thing on weekdays is martial arts, and he already feels a little enthusiastic at the moment, so he waved his hand and shouted: "Prepare five hundred soldiers for General Lei, and open the gate of Dongcheng, let us see the might of General Lei." ā
As soon as these words came out, the defenders of the whole city knocked the weapons in their hands at the same time, and kept shouting: "Mighty! Mighty! Mighty! ā
After a while, I saw Lei Xu running out of the city gate with a machete in his hand, and after sitting down, Baoju instantly raised his front hooves after rushing out a hundred steps, and came to a very good-looking sudden brake, which immediately won the applause of all the wall soldiers. Lei Xu himself is also a complacent look, what a glorious thing it is to challenge before the battle, Hu Che'er only had a chance before, and today it is finally his turn, this kind of appearance is really in line with his identity.
"I'm Lei Xu, can you wait for a general who dares to fight?" After Lei Xu finished drinking, more than 500 soldiers under his command also shouted, so the battle array was immediately full of shouts.
Yuan Yun was arguing with Cao Ang about the pros and cons of buying and selling military merits, and at this moment he was suddenly interrupted by some thunder from Wancheng, and he was suddenly a little unhappy, so he waved his hand at several lieutenant generals, and scolded very impatiently: "It's noisy, you all eat dry rice?" Don't kill them yet! ā
Several lieutenant generals saw that Yuan Xiao Immortal was angry, and they were not happy in their hearts, this was simply a disaster, and they all blamed that Lei Xu, if they had to come out to challenge Yuan Yun and Shizi when they were discussing the problem, they had to kill him.
"What are you doing? Ten catapults are ready, all aimed at the grandsons who have just rushed out, if one of them runs away, Lao Tzu will whip you, damn, today is really unlucky, come up and make Lao Tzu unhappy. With the shouting of an adjutant general, a group of catapult soldiers began to get busy.
Lei Xu looks down on Cao Ang very much now, his subordinates have been shouting for so long, and the other party has not seen anyone come out to fight, it is really boring, seeing that the other party is so timid, he raised his voice even more arrogantly and shouted: "Cao Ang Xiao'er come out quickly......"
Bang!
A loud noise came, followed by a huge wave of air rushed up the city wall, blowing the guards of the city to a little unsteady, and when everything finally quieted down, Hu Che'er came out from behind the battlements, and the position where Lei Xu stood before the city was no longer visible, the only thing that could still be seen was many large pits emitting black smoke, and then I tried to open my eyes and look at it, and I was suddenly shocked, and all the corpses scattered around the pit were corpses.
"Close the gates! Hurry up and close the gates! Hu Che'er began to shout.
Zhang Xian immediately rushed and said: "General Lei Xu is still outside the city, won't closing the city gate now cut off his retreat?" ā
Hu Che'er angrily pointed to the city and shouted: "Look at your grandmother's own, is there any bones left in Lei Xu?" Close the city gates for me, and whoever dares to raise the matter of war will not be forgiven! ā
The siege battle did not end because Hu Che'er closed the city gate, Cao Ang finally put his mind back on the siege after arguing with Yuan Yun for a long time, just now Yuan Yun choked a few words, and at the moment he was annoyed in his heart, so without saying a word, he let all the catapults operate, according to his explanation: first throw a thousand gunpowder bags on the city.
So on the first night, there were explosions in the direction of the east city of Wancheng, and the defenders of Wancheng were so miserable that they didn't even dare to climb the wall, but only dared to hide under the wall in the city and shiver, listening to the continuous rumbling sound and staying awake all night.
"Aha......" Yuan Yun slept fairly well last night, and he didn't have to sleep left and right in the bumpy car, which was already God's greatest gift, as for the explosions that didn't stop all night, those were just trivial things, anyway, the unlucky ones were the defenders in Wancheng.
After yawning, Yuan Yun walked out of his camp tent, and when he arrived at the door, his eyes widened, the city wall that was intact yesterday was already dilapidated at the moment, and black smoke was billowing from many places, and there was no one left of the defenders who were still guarding the wall yesterday, and there were only a few flags that were blown off the flagpole still fluttering in the wind.
Xiao Liu began to complain when he was waiting for Yuan Yun to wash: "The prince is bombing like this, where do you still need to attack the city?" In this way, how can I rob people to earn military merits, and then exchange them for money? ā
Yuan Yun spit out the tea that gargled his mouth, and then glanced at the dilapidated Wancheng city wall, then shook his head and said: "The power of the gunpowder bag is still average, the sound is quite loud, but the effect is not very satisfactory, as for military merits, Xiaoliu, don't worry, sooner or later we will enter the city, when the time comes, you give me priority to find Zhang Xiu's vault, and if you find it, even if you make a great achievement, it is better than exchanging a person's head for five baht." ā
Xiao Liu took a breath in surprise when he heard this, this is still powerful? Today's Wancheng city wall is like hell, if it weren't for the huge stone blocks, it is estimated that it would have collapsed long ago, the little lord in front of him is really unreliable, but there is no need to argue about this, after all, it is his own lord, after hearing the vault, he immediately asked: "Zhang embroidered grain and grass are not in order, even if there is a vault, how much treasure can there be, I think the lord had better not have too much expectations." ā
Yuan Yun said with a smile: "You go and ask Xu Yi to know, Zhang Xiu is rich, but the surrounding area is poor neighbors, Li Dao in the west is more short of grain and grass than him, Liu Biao in the south is very taboo about Zhang Xiu, how can he not sell grain and grass to him, as for Cao Sikong in the east, do you think we will sell grain and grass to him?" And the news that Xu Yi heard was that this embroidery kept looting the people's fat and people's ointment, since he had looted so much money, and he couldn't buy grain and grass, so he could only hoard it, you listen to me, and when you enter the city, you quickly took someone to find the vault, and found me to give you a great merit and reward you with a hundred times, which is better than you being tired and tired to find someone desperately. ā
Xiao Liu smiled, immediately stretched out three fingers, and then replied: "Three hundred, otherwise I will cut off people and cut off their heads, according to my efficiency, I can cut off twenty or thirty heads, and I will lose if I don't have this." ā
Yuan Yun rolled his eyes angrily, damn, other people's generals are all under orders, and Lao Tzu's generals will even negotiate conditions with Lao Tzu, which is unlucky.
"Three hundred is three hundred, you give me a hard look, if you can't find me, you won't give a penny." Yuan Yun snorted, then threw the cloth towel for washing his face into the bucket, turned around and prepared to go to Cao Ang to see how this gunpowder maniac planned to attack the city?
"After storming the city, the five thousand men were divided into five teams, each thousand men were equipped with two hundred steel crossbows, and the newly made steel crossbows have been delivered, so let your respective men get acquainted with them today. In addition, the people of the city shall not harass them, nor shall they rob the people of their private property without permission, and those who violate them will not be killed. When Cao Ang said this, he happened to see Yuan Yun walk into his big tent, and when Yuan Yun sat on the side, he continued: "If Zhang Xiu's soldiers want to escape, even if they let them escape, except for the east gate, there will be no defense, these Zhang Xiu's soldiers are very ruthless in oppressing the people around Wancheng on weekdays, and if they leave the protection of Wancheng, there will definitely be someone to kill us instead."
There is also the fact that once we capture Wancheng, we will immediately select people who can talk from among the people and let them form a martial arts, we only have 5,000 men and horses this time, and Xu Du is still guarded by General Xiahou Yuan, so we are really not suitable for staying here for a long time. ā
After explaining this, Cao Ang gave an order, and the lieutenant generals slowly walked out of his tent, and when everyone passed by Yuan Yun's side, they would consciously clasp their fists and salute, and now these people have seen the power of gunpowder, no one dares to despise him A fifteen-year-old boy, everyone is in awe, for fear that this little fairy is not good, and vent his anger on his head.
After all the lieutenants left, Cao Ang grabbed a bun and stuffed it into his mouth, then looked at Yuan Yun and said with a smile: "You have to get up as soon as the morning bell rings in the camp, you are good, you don't get up until now, this is a military camp, Brother Yun, you still have to be conscious in the future." ā
Yuan Yun spread his hands and said with a smile: "I am now your staff member of Brother Cao Ang, and no one will pay attention to me when I get up late, besides, who wants you to bomb Wancheng all night last night, so that I can't sleep well all night." ā
Cao Ang laughed twice, and then continued: "Xu Du sent a lot of made gunpowder bags again, there are too many hoards in our army, I always feel unsafe, so I only threw out half of it in one go last night, so that I can be more down-to-earth, by the way, Pu Yuan is really a talent, last night in the middle of the night sent another five hundred steel crossbows, this time the quality is better than the previous one, this kind of sharp weapon is the sharpest in the street fighting in the city, he has solved an urgent need for me, this person must be rewarded." ā
Yuan Yun waved his hand and interrupted: "Let's not talk about these things first, how are you going to attack the city today?" If you don't attack the city again, the walls of Wancheng will be blown up by you, how can we leave a complete Wancheng, if your father plans to govern here, how can it be done without a decent city? ā
Cao Ang had already eaten two buns at the moment, looked at the two buns left in the tray, and pushed them to Yuan Yun, then stood up, and then walked to the door of the tent, looked at the east gate of Wancheng in the distance, and then looked at the broken city walls, and then walked back to the camp tent, and saw that Yuan Yun had already begun to gnaw on the buns, so he said: "It's all arranged, the catapults will concentrate their fire on the city gate for a while, and it will stop when it's almost over, and then we will wait for the defenders in the city to fill it up, at least until tomorrow, When your ox cart goes up, I will send a crossbow team to escort it, bring the ox cart full of gunpowder to the gate, and then ...... Hehe. ā