Chapter 155: Besieging Nanyang
Cen Wenwen's face changed when he heard this: "Uncle knows where the thief is?" How many centaurs came? ”
Cen Xiangzhidao: "According to the refugees who fled back, it was said that it was Zhu Can's soldiers and horses in Dengzhou; There are 10,000 horses in the black girl? ”
Cen Wenwen was stunned and said: "Zhu Can, I have also heard that this person is brave and brutal; His generals are also not afraid of death; But with just these 10,000 people, he can't beat Nanyang! We also have 10,000 military horses in Nanyang, and the city wall is tall; Unless he is stupid, he will attack Nanyang. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
So I concluded that the thieves came here to rob the neighbors and rob some money, grain and goods, and secondly, there was an internal response in Nanyang City, and they could attack the city together! ”
When Cen Xiang heard this, sweat flowed down; He nodded again and again: "The text is reasonable, I will arrange for people to search for the enemy's spies in the whole city." ”
Cen Wenwen said: "Uncle can't! Now that many displaced people have entered the city, such a large-scale search and arrest will cause chaos. The uncle could make a public announcement and order each family to take stock of the population in the name of resettling the displaced people; However, if a stranger is found, the government will be notified to re-register for him; When the time comes, let's carefully check whether there are any spies. ”
Cen Xiangzhi nodded and said, "My nephew is reasonable, I'll arrange it!" With that, he asked people to go to the county and Lu Zizang, and asked him to arrange for the population of the whole city to be counted.
Li Jing and others, who were hiding in the Taoju Inn, found that the number of displaced people in the city had increased suddenly, and they knew that Cheng Yanjin must have borrowed the army to come back; Hurry up and arrange for your men to get ready. Many of the guys in the Taoju Inn are elite soldiers from Liangshan, and they have also assembled a team of fifty or sixty people for this check.
But before they could launch it, Nanyang's government soldiers began to conduct a large-scale investigation in the city; A large number of strangers were found out and then taken away. There were also some ill-intentioned people who wanted to resist, but they were quickly suppressed by the officers and soldiers.
Places where idlers gather like the Taoju Inn are the focus of the enemy's search; Fortunately, Taoju Inn has a good reputation in Nanyang, and it is related to both black and white; In addition, Li Jing and others had already done a good job of trade stamps. Although the government checked it several times, it did not embarrass them.
About ten days later, the team of Cheng Yanjin and others finally came to the outside of Nanyang City; They formed a procession at the south gate and began to set up camp.
Huang Xie looked at the busy thieves below, so he suggested to Cen Xiangzhi that he should lead his troops out and take advantage of the enemy's unstable establishment; The First World War was successful.
Cen Xiangzhi was shocked when he heard this, and Cen Wenwen frowned slightly and said: "Lord Huang, please see, the enemy's team is busy but not chaotic, and there is a faint flickering of sword light in the camp, obviously the enemy has been prepared; I'm afraid it's not appropriate to rush into battle. ”
Huang Xie's eyes widened and said: "The rotten Confucian scholar knows the military affairs!" I have made up my mind, so keep the city and watch me go out and kill the enemy!" As he spoke, he ignored the crowd and turned around and went to order troops.
Cen Xiangzhi's face was pale, but Huang Xie held the power of the army, and secretly colluded with Wang Shichong, the head of Henan's robbery hunting, and gradually stopped taking him as a county guard in his eyes.
"Open the door!" Huang Xie roared, and then led 3,000 elite soldiers to rush out; When the rebels who were building the camp saw the enemy rushing out, they were all shocked, and they scattered and fled with a shout.
Huang Xie was overjoyed when he saw it, and hurriedly waved his big sword to urge the army to charge. "Boom" sounded, the charging army had just crossed the gate of the wall, and suddenly felt a softness under their feet, and then fell to the ground together, and the heels behind them could not stop and collapsed, and the charging formation was chaotic.
It turned out that when Cheng Yanjin ordered the troops to set up camp, he secretly dug a trench in front of the camp. Huang Xie's soldiers rushed up and didn't check for a while, and immediately fell into a plan and planted a large area.
At this moment, the sound of killing in the camp started, and Cheng Yanjin and others had rushed out with thousands of elite rebels.
Zhu Can's army was worthy of the word bravery, rushed up and slashed, cutting off all the heads of the Sui army, and then tied his hair around his waist and continued to rush forward to kill.
Where has the Sui army seen this battle, one by one they are so frightened that their faces are like earth, and they can't stop retreating; Huang Xie rushed up and slashed a few routed soldiers in a row, and then the big knife took turns to contain the offensive of the rebel army like chopping melons and vegetables.
Yu Ji, who rushed up in the first wave, was furious, and rushed up to stop Huang Xie with a horse wheel axe; The two fought with knives and axes. Although Huang Xie's character is not good, he has really worked hard in martial arts; They fought for more than 20 rounds, and Huang Xie slashed Ji under the horse with a knife in his hand.
Yu Ji's younger brother Yu Xiang was furious when he saw it, and urged Ma Zhi to take Huang Xie to avenge his brother; But his ability is not as good as Yu Ji, that is, about twenty rounds, and he was also killed by Huang Xie.
This Huang Xie prancing horse raises the sword and is imposing; It angered Wu Tianxi, who was supervising the battle in the back. Wu Tianxi urged the cross-sea green dragon horse to rush up like the wind, and the two big boring rods smashed down like a storm.
"Dangdangdang" There was a loud noise, Huang Xielai took it five or six times, and he felt severe pain in the tiger's mouth, his arms were sore, his chest was tight, his throat and eyes were sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. Huang Xie knew that it was not good, so he stepped up his hand and blocked it a few times, turned his head and ran; Wu Tianxi chased after him.
Huang Xie's subordinates saw that the main general had run away, and let out a shout and retreated, Cheng Yanjin yelled: "Take the city, rush!" The crowd waited for a hula and rushed up.
Cen Xiangzhi and the others at the head of the city were so frightened that their faces were like dirt, and they muttered vigorously: "What should I do?" What can I do? ”
Cen Wenwen took a step forward and shouted, "Someone! Shoot me with a bow and arrows! Stop the enemy from entering the city! ”
Someone shouted, "No, our soldiers are too; It's mixed up and can't shoot. Cen Wenwen yelled: "Don't distinguish between the enemy and me, give me arrows!" If we let the enemy rush in, we won't be killed! Shoot the arrows! ”
The soldiers received the order, and one by one they began to fire their bows and arrows downward; Shot out of the moat into an open space, and someone slowly pulled the drawbridge up.
Huang Xie rushed to the top of the city wall covered in blood and shouted, "Who is it? Who ordered the arrows to be released! ”
Cen Xiangzhi's face turned pale, and he stepped forward and said, "The arrow I ordered to be released!" Huang Xie, you did not obey the order and went out of the city to meet the battle, losing your teacher and humiliating the country; He deserves to be punished! I'm going to impeach you! ”
Huang Xie glared at Cen Xiangzhi fiercely, then snorted coldly, turned around and went down the city tower. Cen Xiangzhi's back was also soaked with cold sweat, and he breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw Huang Xi get off the city tower.
Cheng Yanjin saw that the enemy had put away the drawbridge, so Mingjin collected his troops and called Wu Tianxi and others back. Wu Tianxi said with an angry face: "Chief, why did Ming Jin withdraw his troops, and I still want to take Nanyang City in one go?" ”
Cheng bit the golden glanced at him and said: "Don't worry, there are no siege equipment now, we can't do anything to look at Nanyang." Someone! Send me more people to cut down trees and build siege equipment, and when the construction is completed, we will attack Nanyang! ”
With Cheng Bitingjin's order, more than 3,000 people in the rebel army went out to cut down trees. Every day, all kinds of large trees are dragged into the camp.
Cen Xiangzhi and the others watched for several days, and finally they were sure that the enemy was really preparing to storm Nanyang City; I couldn't help but be overwhelmed by the battle preparations of the rebels. Did these people think that there were no siege equipment until they were besieging the city? But thinking about the composition of the rebels, they have some idea.
What kind of vision does a bunch of mud-legged have? It's normal for them to behave like that! After Cen looked at it for a long time, he asked Huang Xie to continue to monitor the enemy's movements, and he led people back to the county guard yamen.
Huang Xie gritted his teeth angrily, snorted coldly and let his subordinates stare at it, and immediately reported to himself if there was a situation, and also got on the horse and went back to his mansion.
That same night, dark clouds covered the moon and darkness all around. A group of men avoided the patrol and quietly reached the gates of the city. When they went up to the castle tower, the soldiers guarding the city noticed the anomaly and asked loudly, "Who is down there?" What for? ”
"We've been sent by the county guard to help with the duty! Why isn't General Huang here? The visitor shouted. The guards were stunned for a moment, General Huang and the county guard were already on the same page, it turned out that these people were here to trouble General Huang!
"General Huang is not here, he should have gone to inspect everywhere!" The guards hurried to fulfill the lie. A general-like fellow came and drew a torch from the shelf, came to the edge of the city wall, and looked down: "The enemy is not moving!" Still making devices? ”
Which Sui soldier seemed to run over and said, "There is no movement, and they are still stupidly building equipment?" ”
"Ahh The officer's feet seemed to stumble, and he stumbled for a moment, and the torch in his hand drew a beautiful arc and fell to the bottom of the city.
"General be careful!" The guard exclaimed in surprise and immediately ran over to help; But what he saw was a cold, thirsty face. The general put the horse lance in his hand up, and stabbed the soldier in the heart with a "poof".
As he moved, shouts of killing erupted all around; The retinue he brought with him suddenly attacked. They hacked the guards of the drawbridge to death, and then slowly lowered the drawbridge with a crunch.
Immediately afterwards, there was a shout of killing at the city gate, and the guards inside were killed and scattered, and the city gate was opened.
Then the outside of the city suddenly burst into flames, and the army that had been ambushed long ago rushed into Nanyang City like a tide.
It was Han Shicao who raised the number in the city tower; He had been in the army for a long time and knew the situation of the Sui army, so he easily deceived the guards and hid on the drawbridge. Below are Li Jing, Zhang Chuchen and Dongfang Yumei and Zhang Shigui; As soon as they saw Han Shicao move, they all grabbed the city gate with knives and guns.
As soon as the defenders of Nanyang City saw that the city gate was lost, they rushed up like crazy to take back the city gate and the drawbridge. Of course, Han Shixu and Li Jing and others did not let it.
The world evaluates Han Shicao as a father; His father was the Yongguan Army, and he dared to charge tens of thousands of enemies alone. Han Shicao was not bad, the horse lance in his hand stabbed out again and again, and a Sui army had fallen beside him.