282. Conquer Xiling City
Just when Zhu Wei led the army to attract Huang Zu's attention at the south gate of Xiling City, Pang Yan and Tai Shici drove ten light ships and a large number of river boats to the water gate of Xiling City.
Of course, if there was such a big movement in the Water Gate, Huang Zu naturally couldn't ignore it, so Huang Zu sent his son Huang Sheshuai with 2,000 soldiers and 3,000 young men to the Water Gate to support the defense.
In this way, coupled with the original 2,000 soldiers on the Watergate side, there are also 7,000 troops on this side to protect it.
In fact, when Zhu Wei attacked Qiantang County, he also said that attacking the Water Gate in this year is not as easy as attacking the land city gate, so according to normal speaking, Huang Shushuai's 7,000 defenders on the side of the Water Gate are enough to block the more than 16,000 soldiers brought by Pang Yan and Tai Shici.
But Zhu Wei hid a big killing weapon here, so Pang Yan and Tai Shici first drove a boat close to the city wall of the Water Gate, and used their abundant crossbowmen and archers to suppress the Huang Zu soldiers on the water gate city wall, so that they could not get close to the side of the water gate city wall to block the ships on Zhu Wei's side.
Subsequently, as soon as Pang Tong and Tai Shici cleared the various water obstacles and underwater wooden stakes arranged in front of the Xiling Chengshui Gate, they opened a channel for the fleet to approach the water gate.
Then a small boat made of thick wood, like a roof car, sailed through the opened channel to the gate gate of the Water Gate, and put the prepared gunpowder bamboo tube between the cracks of the gate.
In this way, as the gunpowder bamboo tube exploded, the water gate of Xiling City was opened.
At the same time, I don't know if there is too much gunpowder bamboo tube, or the water gate of Xiling City has a loose city wall, this time the gunpowder bamboo tube directly shattered the gate gate of Xiling City blocking the water gate, and actually blew down the water gate tower of Xiling City.
This time not only directly killed and injured hundreds of soldiers and soldiers under Huang Zu on the city gate tower, but Huang Zu's son Huang Zhu, who was originally commanding the battle on the city gate tower here, was also directly stunned and fell into the Shuimen River, and lost his trace, it is very likely that he drowned in the river after being stunned, or was buried in the ruins.
As a result, the Water Gate side lost the person in command, although there was still a Water Gate urn city surrounded by a wooden fence on the water inside the Water Gate, but there were no Huang Zu's soldiers who dared to continue to block the attack of Pang Yan and Tai Shici.
As Pang Yan and Tai Shici led their troops through the Water Gate, the crossbowmen and archers below the two of them shot crossbow arrows and feather arrows at the remnants of the city wall, which completely dispersed Huang Zu's soldiers on the side of the Water Gate.
Then Pang Yan and Tai Shi Ci used the gunpowder arrows fired from the bed ballista to blow up the wooden fence, and completely opened the water passage to the interior of Xiling City, and then Pang Yan and Tai Shi Ci led the army river boats as a bridge and led the troops directly into Xiling City.
Among them, Pang Yan took nearly 10,000 soldiers to Xiling City to kill, and took the opportunity to prepare to seize the treasury, military camp and other important areas of Xiling City, while Tai Shici took 6,000 crossbowmen to kill the water gate city wall, and killed along the city wall to the south gate of Xiling City, preparing to meet Zhu Wei's army to seize the south gate of Xiling City.
Of course, at this moment, the defeated soldiers on the side of the Water Gate in Xiling County also fled in all directions, and some people inevitably fled to the side of Huang Zu at the South Gate to report the message.
And before the earth-shattering sound came from the direction of the water gate of Xiling City, although Huang Zu had some doubts and surprises, but after all, he didn't know what happened, and now he heard that the water gate was bombarded by some thunder, causing the earth dragon to turn over, the city gate was opened, and even the city gate tower collapsed, Zhu Wei's army had already entered the city or something, Huang Zu finally panicked.
At this moment, Huang Zu's troops are basically scattered in various city gates, and the reserve troops in the city are only 2,000 soldiers and 2,000 young people, and the 7,000 defenders on the side of the water gate are completely defeated, and the military strength in the city cannot stop the Zhu guards and horses who are killing into the city.
Therefore, Huang Zu saw that there was an almost irresistible posture of Zhu Wei's army on the wall in the direction of the Water Gate, and after thinking about it, he lost the mind to continue to guard the South Gate.
Huang Zu sent people to the north gate and the west gate to summon the news at the first time, so that the guards over there would continue to defend the city gate, leaving Huang Zu with a way to retreat from Xiling City.
After Huang Zu himself left 2,000 Qingzhuang on the south gate to continue to defend the city, he hurriedly went back to the city with 5,000 soldiers and 3,000 Qingzhuang, hoping to block the Zhu guards and horses who entered the city, and then looked for an opportunity to collect some money, food and property and withdraw from Xiling City.
But in this way, Huang Zu actually gave up the protection of the south gate.
The young men of Xiling City, who were left by Huang Zu to defend the city at the south gate, did not have the intention of fighting at all, especially when Tai Shi Ci led his troops to rush over from the city wall, in front of which was a crossbow arrow array shot by a thousand crossbowmen, and behind was a rain of feather arrows thrown by five thousand archers, and the two thousand young men on this side soon dispersed.
Then Tai Shici directly opened the south gate and put down the drawbridge, and Zhu Wei led the army into Xiling City, which was considered to be the fall of the side bottom.
At this time, Huang Zu, who killed back in the city, also faced the 10,000 army led by Pang Yan, and Pang Yan had 5,000 crossbowmen on his side to form a terrifying crossbow array, where was Huang Zu, who came in a hurry, to resist.
Huang Zu's soldiers, who were originally in turmoil because of the city's broken army, had not been able to get close to the soldiers and horses brought by Pang Yan's side, and they had been shot by crossbow arrows and lost their formation, and Huang Zu in the chaotic army didn't dare to think about anything else, so after thinking about it, he could only gather the remaining more than 2,000 soldiers and flee directly to the west gate.
Therefore, when Zhu Wei led the army into Xiling City, Huang Zu had already escaped from the West Gate with the defenders on the West Gate, a total of four or five thousand remnants, and continued to retreat in the direction of Xi'anlu.
After Pang Yan and Huang Zu's main force encountered, he also remembered the strategy arranged by Wang Yuyan before the war, and did not continue to care about the situation in Xiling City, and closely followed Huang Zu towards the west gate of Xiling City.
Therefore, this Xiling City was handed over to Zhu Wei and Tai Shici's soldiers who entered Xiling City to finish.
Of course, Zhu Wei can clearly know the changes in the entire battle situation through the map of the Three Kingdoms game, and at this moment, he arranged for Tai Shici to continue to lead his troops along the city wall to attack the two thousand remnants left by Huang Zu in the direction of the north gate, and then let Mu Lan, Zhang Shuo, and Chen take Zhu Wei's two thousand, one thousand, and one thousand crossbowmen to clear and capture the remnants of Huang Zu in Xiling City.
In the end, Zhu Wei himself took the three thousand white feather battalion guards, and went to the treasury and military camp of Xiling City to receive various materials.
On the way there, Zhu Wei also issued a temporary military martial law order and a strict ban on disturbing the people, while strictly prohibiting the people in Xiling City from leaving their homes, he also strictly ordered his own soldiers not to easily enter the people's homes, even if there are remnants of the soldiers fleeing into the people's homes, they need the people to call for help to enter, otherwise they will not be allowed to enter, and would rather let these remnants temporarily hide in the people's homes.
This is also to strictly enforce military discipline in case there is looting, and it is also to reduce the resistance and counterattack of the big families in Xiling City who are being raided by the rebels, so that Zhu Wei can quell the chaos in Xiling City as soon as possible.
At the same time, since Zhu Wei found out that Huang Zu had fled out of the west gate, he sent people to inform Gan Ning and Su Fei who were ambushed outside the north gate, and asked them to outflank Huang Zu from north to west to block Huang Zu's possible escape path......