Chapter Seventy-Three: The Rogue at Any Cost
On the sixth day of the Liukou coming to Cangyuan City, and the fifth day of the siege, the Liukou suddenly sent tens of thousands of old and weak women and children, holding everything that could be used as weapons, and launched an attack on the four walls of Cangyuan City under the threat of the Liukou soldiers. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
These old and weak women and children are basically the family members of those young and strong men who died in the previous battle among the rogues, and the young and strong men who died in the war among the rogues died for the sake of the dragon Zhang Ding, but unfortunately the bones are not cold, and their families have become cannon fodder, and only the living rogue soldiers can avoid becoming cannon fodder.
The defenders above Cangyuan City, although a little unbearable, still used a rain of arrows, rolling wood and boiling dung to launch a merciless attack on the old and weak women and children who were attacking the city, and countless old and weak women and children died tragically under the walls of Cangyuan City.
Qingtian Dragon Zhang Ding turned a blind eye to the tragic situation of the old and weak women and children under his command, and instead ordered his generals to rush forward with a group of old and weak women and children, Zhang Ding said viciously: "Tell the people in the back camp that if you want to live, you must take down the city wall, otherwise you will die under the Cangyuan city wall!" ”
At this time, the rogue general who was slapped by Zhang Ding yesterday couldn't bear to say: "Great Commander, why don't you let Wu Liang take the opportunity to rush once?" Only the old and weak women and children in the back camp, the casualties are too great, and there are very few people who can climb the city wall, so it is better to take advantage of the people in the back camp to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, and the subordinates will take the sons and daughters to attack once! ”
Zhang Ding waved his hand and said: "The time has not yet come, when it is time to attack, the commander of this country will naturally send soldiers to rush up, and now I have to let the people in the rear camp consume some arrows and rolling wood and stones of the official army, Lao Tzu should have sent the people in the rear camp a long time ago!" ”
The rogue general named Wu Liang immediately gritted his teeth secretly, and looked at Zhang Ding's eyes, which couldn't help but have a trace of killing intent, but then disappeared.
The old and weak women and children in the back camp of the Liukou attacked for nearly 4 hours, but they did not bring much casualties to the defenders of Cangyuan City, but the number of old and weak women and children in the Liukou who died under Cangyuan City has exceeded the total casualties of the Liukou in the previous five days, and more than 10,000 old and weak women and children died under Cangyuan City in less than four hours.
The only role of these tens of thousands of dead old and weak women and children is to make the arrows, rolling wood and stones and dung water of the defenders of Cangyuan City not much left.
Qingtian Dragon Zhang Ding didn't care at all about the old and weak women and children who had died tens of thousands of rogues, these old and weak women and children were originally cannon fodder, but at the beginning of the siege of Cangyuan City, Wu Liang, the general under his command, thought that it would be too demoralizing to let the old and weak women and children in the rear camp attack the city, so it was better to take advantage of the opportunity that most of the elite of Cangyuan City were annihilated by them, and sent soldiers to capture Cangyuan City in one go.
Zhang Ding listened to Wu Liang's suggestion, but the four-day assault lost 8,000 soldiers, plus the first day of the battle against the official army of Cangyuan City, more than 2,000 casualties, Zhang Ding's young and strong Liukou has lost more than one-third, Zhang Ding's patience has been exhausted, and he used the strategy of breaking through Tongliao County, Wuyuan County, Anhui Prefecture, that is, first use the old and weak women and children under his command to consume the energy of the officials and soldiers in the city and the defense equipment of the officers and soldiers, and then send the soldiers under his command to take the opportunity to break the city.
Seeing that the old and weak women and children in the Liukou had been attacking for nearly 4 hours, Zhang Ding thought that the time to break the city had finally come, so he was ready to send his general Wu Liang to attack the city wall with his soldiers, but at this time, there was a report from the Liukou to the south, and a group of soldiers and horses under the banner of the official army came to the south, with a number of at least more than 5,000, which was less than 20 miles away from Cangyuan City.
Zhang Ding learned that there were officials and soldiers to help, and he did not show any panic, he knew that Geshan Taishou Zhao Mincheng in Cangyuan City, in addition to being Taishou, was also the head of the Geshan Zhao family, so he attacked Cangyuan City, there will definitely be officials and troops from other cities to come to the rescue, according to the information of the great beauty who made him fascinated, only in Geshan County, there are 2 counties The county orders are the people of the Geshan Zhao family, and the officials and soldiers of these 2 counties will definitely come back to support Cangyuan City, in addition to the soldiers and horses of these 2 counties, other counties and counties in Anhui Prefecture, The chance of sending reinforcements is very small.
Anhui Prefecture's state pastor Sun Youhao has a lot of contradictions with the Geshan Zhao family, so the state pastor Sun Youhao does not give orders to the counties, except for Quyang County and Lingcheng County, other counties and counties cannot take the initiative to provoke tens of thousands of Liukou army, which is also an important reason why Zhang Ding dares to attack Cangyuan City.
Zhang Ding was a little surprised by the number of support troops, could it be the coalition army of those two counties? However, Zhang Ding was just surprised, he didn't take this support army to heart, but suddenly thought of the big beauty, which made Zhang Ding can't help but think of the big beauty's sister again.
is also stunning, after he captured Cangyuan City this time and killed Geshan Taishou Zhao Mincheng, he will be able to taste the taste of that great beauty, as for the sister of the great beauty, don't want to escape from his palm.
But now is not the time to think about beauties, Zhang Ding immediately retracted his mind, turned his head to the two burly generals under his command and said: "Shen Jin, Ma Peng, it's time for you to show your skills, the two of you lead the horse team, first go to meet the reinforcements of this official army, and eat it for Lao Tzu if you have the chance!" ”
"Yes, Grand Commander!" Shen Jin and Ma Peng, the generals of the two Liukou cavalry, said to Zhang Ding with their fists, and then the two turned around and went to gather the Liukou cavalry.
Zhang Ding then said to Wu Liang, the general under his command: "You immediately order three thousand erlang and launch an attack on the east gate of Cangyuan City, if there is no way to capture the east gate of Cangyuan City this time, you can come to see the commander of this city!" ”
Wu Liang clenched his fists and bowed his head to Zhang Ding and said, "Don't worry, the Great Commander, Wu Liang will definitely take down the east gate of Cangyuan City this time!" ”
Wu Liang, who lowered his head, the murderous aura in his eyes became stronger, but when he raised his head, the murderous aura in his eyes disappeared without a trace, and then Wu Liang led three thousand Liukou soldiers to attack the east gate of Cangyuan City.
Shen Jin and Ma Peng, the two generals of the Liukou cavalry, quickly gathered the horse team under Zhang Ding, the entire horse team had nearly 900 Liukou cavalry, and the horse team under Zhang Ding had exceeded 1,000 cavalry, but under Cangyuan City, in the first day of the battle outside the city, although nearly 400 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers in Cangyuan City were annihilated, but the Liukou themselves also lost more than 2,000 people, including more than 300 Liukou cavalry.
Zhang Ding still has some free horses in his hand, but the replenishment of cavalry is not so easy, after all, if you want to become a cavalry, you must first be able to ride a horse! If you can't even ride a horse, then how can you fight on a horse!
The 30,000 rogue soldiers under Zhang Ding's previous command have all been collected into the horse team, so there are still hundreds of war horses in Zhang Ding's hands, including a batch of war horses captured in the battle outside the city on the first day, but the gap of more than 300 cavalry that can be lost cannot be replenished immediately.