Chapter 53 Bali Town
Cao Wenzhao only brought 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry, and these 3,000 people followed him to fight the Jin soldiers and kill the Liukou. He has always only had these 3,000 people, but he has made many achievements and made a great reputation.
Night raids are no longer with many people, fighting a war is not just about the number of people, a lot of people can sometimes be bad, Cao Wenzhao has three thousand Guanning iron cavalry such as the finger of the arm.
By the night, and the cloth wrapped under the horse's hooves, three thousand iron horsemen quietly approached the town where the Yangzhou cavalry was stationed. This place is still more than 50 miles away from Yangzhou, and it is not a traffic artery, and it has always had a bad reputation.
The elite of the army who do not return at night are selected, and with a few soft snorts, the secret sentry originally laid by the Yangzhou defenders was pulled out! In the end, it is either an army on the right track, or it is strong, but there are always some details that cannot be noticed, because the military book will not tell you how to arrange the secret post so that it will not be easily solved by the enemy, and these must rely on the generals to grope on the battlefield.
Cao Wenzhao took Guan Ning Iron Cavalry all the way to the outside of the town, but he was not found.
"The horses are all east of the town, and you have six hundred men killed, and you will kill them all the way down the road to the place where the horses are kept! If you can't do anything, you can set fire to scare the horses away! "Cao Wenzhao arranged his generals." The rest of the people will follow me into the town, and I will kill no prisoners tonight! ”
With Cao Wenzhao's loud shout, the Guanning Iron Cavalry began to charge slowly, and the sound of iron hooves was loud, and in this quiet night, the tiles on the house were shaking.
Wake up all the Yangzhou soldiers who were originally in a dream, and when they hurriedly got up and went out with their weapons, they were faced with the Guanning Iron Cavalry carrying a heavy three-eyed weapon that flashed with cold light.
Although it is a town, there are no fortifications, even tiled houses are rare, most of them are mud thatched houses, many Yangzhou soldiers who want to hide in the house when they see the situation is wrong, the walls of the house are broken by the Guanning Iron Horseman, and they are directly buried in the house.
"Don't panic, there are few of them, go with my horse pen to get the horse!" Some officers kept shouting loudly to gather their soldiers to resist.
Cao Wenzhao, who had already been killed outside the town, saw the officer who had gathered a large number of people, turned the horse's head expressionlessly, clamped the horse's back, and killed it with a spear, Cao Wenzhao knew that he could not let them regroup.
Following Cao Wenzhao's personal soldiers around him to shoot their horses and kill them, Cao Wenzhao first handed over the spear to the personal soldiers beside him, and then took out the strong bow he was carrying behind him, and he didn't need to shoot the bow left and right while charging at the crowd, and shot out seven or eight arrows in an instant, each arrow was so powerful that it penetrated the armor and shot a big hole in the person's body, killing more than one person with one arrow!
The Guanning Iron Cavalry behind him also fired a volley, and the Yangzhou soldiers gathered together became a live target.
Cao Wenzhao instantly showed a big hole in front of him, put away his bow and arrows, and took the spear handed by his own soldiers, Cao Wenzhao took the lead and killed him in the enemy's formation Under the frightened gaze of the officer, Cao Wenzhao stabbed him to death with a shot, and then swept over with Guan Ning's iron cavalry and trampled him to pieces.
"Your Excellency is dead! Let's run for our lives! The screams behind him came, and when Cao Wenzhao stopped his horse's hooves and turned around, the Yangzhou army, which was still resisting, had completely lost its fighting spirit and was fleeing outside the town where they had lost their armor and abandoned their armor.
There are people fleeing for their lives everywhere, but unfortunately there are no horses, and it is too much to take it for granted if you want to escape the pursuit of Guan Ning Tieqi by taking advantage of the night!
Yangzhou's biggest reliance, 10,000 elite cavalry is all wiped out!
Bali Town is surrounded by water on three sides, and there is only one riverside path that can enter Bali Town, which is extremely steep, and only ten people on foot can walk side-by-side at the widest point, and it is winding and twisting, and you may fall into the rolling river if you are not careful.
It is enough for the people, but it is impossible for the army to fight on a large scale, and it is undoubtedly a lot of effort for the Yangzhou army to choose this place to plant nails.
This kind of road has no effect even if there is an army of 100,000 men, and there is only a small place on the front line of battle.
According to the information provided by Jinyiwei, there are enough food and troops in Bali Town, plus cannons and bed crossbows, it is undoubtedly very difficult to forcibly take Bali Town with refueling tactics.
Human lives alone can fill Yang Su's flesh, and the army is trapped here, and there is no continuous transportation of food from the rear, and hundreds of thousands of troops are counting on those millions of stone grain, which is undoubtedly a gamble, which is really unwise!
Therefore, Yang Sucai deliberately paralyzed the enemy, and specially selected the elite night attack in the army to seize the city.
At this time, the battle of Bali Town fell into a stalemate, Cao Bianjiao led eight hundred elites to take advantage of the night to wear only light armor through the path, and attacked the city in one fell swoop, but he underestimated the resistance of the defenders, the defenders of Bali Town were also not weak, and there were thousands of people, although they were caught off guard by Cao Bianjiao's sneak attack at first, but with the advantage of numbers, the battle soon dragged into anxiety.
It was also because of the geographical location that the reinforcements behind could not catch up in time, and in the end, Cao Bianjiao was driven down the city and failed to attack Bali Town at night!
The cannon sound of Bali Town rumbled, and Yang Su and Xiao Sui were looking at the Yangzhou garrison fortifications on the city by the night and firelight on the shore.
Suddenly, a series of shells flew over with a tearing whistling sound, and the power of the Franc cannon was not small, and it exploded into a wave when it fell into the river.
?“ Xiao Xuan, you ordered Cao Bianjiao to return! The night attack failed, and the elite can't be consumed like this! Yang Su asked Xiao Xuanming Jin to withdraw from the army.
"The cannonball has no eyes, Xiao Xuan, let's step back!" Yang Sudao.
Xiao Xuan nodded and ordered the soldiers to retreat and withdraw from the cannon range.
The army had retreated to the humble camp outside, and Xiao Xuan used his troops steadily, and seeing that the battle to capture Bali Town was not going well, he ordered the idle soldiers to camp.
At this time, most of the generals in the army gathered here, and Yang Su was not as good as Xiao Xuan in terms of the details of his troops, and Xiao Xuan was the real commander of the army.
Xiao Xuan saw that except for Cao Bianjiao, who had not yet returned, the rest of the generals were there, and said directly: "Just now I was guarding the fortifications of the head of the army on the shore, saying that it was a city wall, but it was actually a fortress that was rushed out in a hurry. Build a fort in a dangerous place on this bank, dig a trench outside the wall, and divert the river water as a moat, and our army will attack from the front exactly like attacking a city.
Tonight, Cao Bianjiao led the army to attack at night, because they couldn't wear heavy armor on that path, and they didn't bring heavy weapons, the soldiers only wore a light armor and carried a blade, and the night attack was fortunate to face the fully armed army It was undoubtedly a loss, and the defenders in the town were quite elite, so they couldn't open the city gate, and the troops behind us couldn't keep up, so naturally they couldn't break through the town. ”
The rest of the generals also nodded, Cao Bianjiao really can't be blamed for the failure of this night attack, everything is going well, Cao Bianjiao has also completed the task, and they have also seen the fierce battle on the city, unless there is a great martial artist in the realm of Baodan here, otherwise Cao Wenzhao will not be able to return to the sky.