Chapter 288: Storming the County (I)
After Li Su received Lu Bu's order, he began to consider the strategy of raiding Shuofang County while arranging for personnel to be handed over.
There is a distance of more than 120 miles from the garrison to Shuofang City, if it is forcibly raided, it will take at least more than a day to march, or even take two days, and there will still be a phenomenon similar to the raid on Heyin County, and the Huns in Shuofang County will receive information in advance and make defensive preparations, so that he will fall short. With such a small number of troops, it is not advisable to forcibly attack the city, and they must be taken by surprise to have a chance of victory.
Carefully summing up the lessons of the last failure, Li Su quickly came up with a plan and immediately summoned all the troops to announce the mission.
First of all, let his adjutant, an original military candidate, be responsible for leading the newly recruited Han slave cavalry, less than 400 men in total, organized into four tuns, as a unit, one man and two horses, and as a vanguard, to complete the reorganization of those Han people that night.
This military candidate is happy to respond, and any military general will not be a civilian official, which is equivalent to sitting on a cold bench.
Ordered all the cavalry to change into the clothing of the Huns and dress up as Hun cavalry.
The baggage was still carried with three days' rations, carried by horses, and accelerated the march.
Early the next morning, Li Su led the cavalry to set off on time and raided Shuofang City; I hope that after Qiao dressed, it would not attract the attention of the Huns.
And Lu Bu, the next morning, led the army to surround the county seat of Heyin, the county seat of Heyin is what he must occupy, after that, this will be his new home, and he is determined to win.
With the arrival of so many cavalry, the Huns in the city could judge from the shaking of the ground that they were probable, and sure enough, the main force of the Han was in the rear, but fortunately they did not leave the city; Now all the men who can move, from teenagers in their teens to old people in their sixties, have all been gathered on the city walls, all armed with bows and arrows, spears, and broadswords, ready for defense.
The county seat of Heyin is a small city, relatively simple, only Xiangluomen in the east of the city and Hanwei Gate in the west of the city.
Lü Bu set up his camp three miles outside the east gate, and arranged a Qu cavalry to be responsible for guarding the west gate and the north and south city walls, and he would personally lead the troops to attack the east gate.
Seeing that the Huns were ready for defense, Lü Bu did not rush to attack, but first organized the Han slaves into cavalry and infantry, and then gathered the Huns and the rescued slaves of other ethnic groups to give a lecture.
First of all, it is a request to the marshal or patriarch of each Yiluo, no matter who it is, as long as he persuades the Huns in the city to surrender, he will never kill a single innocent person, and reward those who persuade him to surrender, and his Yiluo will graze in the same place in the future, the pasture will be doubled, and all the property and personnel of the Yiluo will be returned, and no taxes will be paid.
These little marshals or patriarchs of the towns all responded with silence, they would never believe that Lu Bu would have such good intentions, the Han people just like to play conspiracy, and the words of the Han people are not credible.
Lu Bu was angry in his heart, and since they didn't know what to do, he announced that they would be reduced to slaves, and demanded that all men go to the siege.
For the original slaves of the Huns, as long as they can take the head of the Huns at the head of the city, they will cancel their slave status and become free people, if they take two heads, they will enjoy the treatment of the Han people thereafter; For those newly captured Huns, each head obtained in exchange for one person to be released from slavery.
If you dare to be afraid of the former, there will be no forgiveness; If anyone dares to replace the head of his companion, his whole family will be executed, and if someone surrenders to the Huns in the city, all the Hun captives will be beheaded; Lu Bu's words fiercely shocked these captives, so that they did not dare to have different intentions, so they could only fight to the death.
Subsequently, some personnel were dispatched to select and reorganize the two groups of personnel separately.
And Wei Xu was not idle, arranging personnel to be on guard, and arranging soldiers to cut down trees around and make siege equipment such as ladders and crashes.
On that day, the Huns on the city wall spent time in apprehension, glad that the Han official army did not attack the city.
Early the next morning, the troops had a full meal, and even the slaves who were going to participate in the siege were given a large loaf of bread and a small piece of mutton, so that they could have enough physical strength to attack the city.
The first to participate in the siege were the old and weak men of the Huns, these people themselves were the ones who were about to be eliminated, and raising them was a waste of food, so it was better to take the opportunity to consume them.
A total of 2,000 men, armed with rudimentary weapons, divided into four parts, took turns to attack the city, and practiced wheel warfare, otherwise they would not be able to exert themselves under the city walls.
These Huns, for the sake of their own lives and those of their families, can only desperately attack the city; They are small in number, their weapons are rudimentary, their families are still in the hands of Lu Bu, and there are so many cavalry behind them, let alone rebel, they don't even have the heart to escape.
The Huns were neither good at attacking nor defending cities, so the two sides fought very brutally.
The Huns on the city wall were suppressed with bows and arrows, like a rain of arrows from locusts fell, and patches of Huns were shot, and more Hun slaves were on top.
In a quarter of an hour, the first part has consumed nearly half of the personnel.
Wei Xu saw that the Huns in the city were numerous and that they had to disperse their defending forces, so he suggested to Lü Bu that he send men to besiege them on all sides, with a feint in the north and south, and a main attack in the east and west; He led the cavalry of the four divisions and the Han people who had just been rescued to attack the West Gate.
Lu Bu thought about it for a while, and readily agreed to Wei Xu's suggestion, so that the defensive strength of the Huns in the city could be dispersed and the pressure of the siege of the east gate could be reduced, otherwise it would not be possible to concentrate on the east gate.
The Huns at the head of the city, seeing the division of the Han army, suddenly felt dangerous in their hearts, he knew that the Han people liked to play conspiracy, so they did not dare to be careless, and each city wall was guarded by a different number of personnel; This greatly weakened the defenses of the East Gate.
In order to create an opportunity for Wei Xu, Lü Bu ordered those Huns to step up the siege of the city and not to relax. Half an hour later, the Hun slaves of the four tribes had already attacked one round; Lü Bu told them to rest and ordered the slaves of other clans to take over the siege.
There were quite a few slaves of other races, half of them were Xianbei alone, and there were a large number of Qiang and clansmen, all of whom were strong and strong, and were organized into two tribes.
These people had no worries and only hoped to survive the siege, so they adjusted their thinking and took off all the sheepskin jackets of one of the tribes, so that the siege tribes wore a layer of sheepskin jackets and a head covering, so as to reduce the damage of arrows at the head of the city.
The bare slaves applied for bows and arrows to suppress the Huns at the head of the city, and at the same time, a tun of men was to be separated to crash the city gate with a crash car; Lu Bu readily approved.
The county seat of Heyin is a small city, not as big as Lu Bu's Linhe City, and the city wall is also much shorter, less than three zhang high.
The defenders on the city walls were much less powerful than the young ones, and the bows and arrows were shorter and less powerful; Lu Bu saw that these alien slaves would be able to suppress the Huns who were defending the city very well.
The troops are divided into two routes, and the personnel are even more sparse.
With the suppression of the bows and arrows of the companions, and the lack of a dense formation, the personnel were relatively scattered, which greatly reduced the casualties of the siege personnel this time.
The Huns on the city wall saw that the Han were about to crash on the door, and urgently ordered some personnel to block the city gate, which dispersed the defense force on the city wall.
Lu Bu stood in the distance, carefully watching these slaves attacking the city, this was the first time he led troops to attack the city, he didn't expect that there were so many skills here, he had to study hard and accumulate experience, otherwise he would enter the Central Plains region in the future, and the cities would be everywhere, if he would not attack the city, it would be difficult to move an inch.