The next day, the Hundred Battles Army quietly left Luzhou and went straight to Huaizhou according to the route planned by the Military Intelligence Department. Nai spread a wide range of rangers along the way, clearing the scouts of the nearby Anyi Army for the army along the way, and controlling the road. If the army is the central point, the ranger is the web around the core point.

The army doubled the road, galloped sixty miles a day, and did not rise out of the border of Luzhou and enter Zezhou. At this point, the march was accelerated, leaving Zezhou and entering Huaizhou.

When Li Congjing ordered the Military Intelligence Department to draw a map, it was not only Zelu Erzhou, but also this Huaizhou!

Along the way, Wei Dao has been thinking hard about Li Congjing's intention to choose to attack Huaizhou, but no matter how much he thinks about it, he can't answer: because this is a seemingly contradictory move.

Huaizhou is not only adjacent to Zezhou, but also not far from Weizhou of the Jin Kingdom, which is in the east of Huaizhou; South of Huaizhou, not far away is the Yellow River, cross the Yellow River, the west is the pseudo-Liang west capital Luoyang, the east is the pseudo-Liang east capital Kaifeng; In the west of Huaizhou and the north of the Yellow River, there is only one pseudo-Liangzhou city within thousands of miles, and that is Mengzhou.

Wei Dao was puzzled, so he could only shake his head and sigh, giving up this plan, "Anyway, the general doesn't really want to conquer Huaizhou, so he wants to do a lot." It's just that I don't know what kind of calculations the general is playing, it's really incomprehensible! ”

When the Hundred Battles Army suddenly appeared outside Huaizhou City with the momentum of thunder, Huaizhou was in a panic.

The people who were working in the large fields outside the city, seeing the neat appearance of the army and the imposing appearance of the Hundred Battles Army, at first thought that their assassin leader had returned, but when they looked closely, it was not right, and they immediately stayed there in fright, and they did not know what to do.

The trumpets whimpered, the gates slammed shut, and the hangers were pulled up. The city was crowded with people, busy.

The marching procession like a long dragon set up a formation in front of the city, and huge phalanxes like tofu blocks were displayed one after another. Li Congjing rode his horse to the front, glanced at the city head a few times in front of the city gate, waved his horse whip and said: "The army is encamped, and the sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department will answer." ”

There were already rumors from the military intelligence department, and not long after Li Congjing's words fell, a person came forward and saluted Li Congjing: "I've seen the general!" ”

Li Congjing nodded on the horse and said, "Let me ask you, how many defenders are there in the city, who are the guards, and what can they do?" ”

The military intelligence department Rui Shi said: "Because Dong Zhang led the army to Zezhou, the defenders in the city were only 1,500 people, and the guard general Dong Huaide, who was Dong Zhang's younger brother, was a general in the army. ”

"Fifteen hundred?" Li Congjing smiled, in all fairness, Dong Zhang's leaving so many people to watch the house is beyond the specifications, but 1,500 people are guarding the four city gates, and one city gate is less than a commanding force, this is really a piece of fat that is not greasy, "Go down and receive the reward." ”

Li Congjing stepped on his horse and walked back and forth in front of the city a few times, and once again ordered the whole army: "The army will rest for half a day, and tomorrow, attack the city with all its might!" ”

When Wei Dao heard the words "all-out siege of the city", he was surprised again, "Does the general really want to capture Huaizhou?" Why is that? However, it is not unavoidable......"

After all, he couldn't hold back his curiosity, and Wei Dao asked Li Congjing for advice: "Dare to ask the general, why did the army attack Huaizhou?" ”

Li Congjing was silent for a while, and said: "After all, Li Dong's coalition army is powerful, whether it is a big battle in the wilderness or a strong attack on Luzhou, it is difficult for the army of a hundred battles to win. ”

Wei Dao suddenly, nodded and said: "Defending the city is always much easier than attacking the city, compared to the field, the casualties are much smaller, at the moment there are only more than a thousand defenders in Huaizhou, the general's trick to avoid the real is false, easy to attack the form of the strategy, it is really wonderful." However, if Dong Zhang returned to help, wouldn't it be dangerous for us to wait for the city to be conquered? ”

"How can there be an undefeated battle in the world, and how can there be benefits without taking risks and paying off?" Li Congjing said indifferently, "Today's plan is not only to conquer Huaizhou, but also to overcome it quickly." In this way, the city defense can be arranged before Dong Zhang's reinforcement returns. ”

Wei Dao pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Although the general's plan is good, however, in addition to rejecting Dong Zhang with Huaizhou, I'm afraid that the general has other preparations, right?" ”

Li Congjing smiled and didn't say much.

On the same day, the camp was set up, and Li Congjing convened the generals in the big tent, "When I was in Luzhou that day, you and others were not humble to each other in order to seize the first credit, and the morale was high, and the envoy was pleased." Now, Dong Zhang's nest is in front of him, and the goods in it are genuine, but there are 1,500 defenders, who dares me to fight tomorrow? ”

Eventually, there will be a scramble to be the first.

"Good!" Li Congjing started from the case and began to point the generals, "Meng San and Ding Mao listen to the order, and wait for the soldiers of the headquarters to lead the battle tomorrow!" ”

Meng San Ding Mao came out in response, hugged his fists and said: "Get the order!" ”

Li Congjing continued: "Peng Zushan listens to the order! ”

Peng Zushan came out and hugged his fists, "In!" ”

"I order you to lead two thousand soldiers in the temporary battle camp, with two commanders as a unit, after the first formation, fight the second and third formations!"

Peng Zushan has been training in the Hundred Battles Army since he left Li Siyuan to Qimen, and he has never had the opportunity to fight, and he has already had itchy hands. ”

"Li Shaocheng listened to the order, and ordered you to lead a horse army to plunder the formation for the army!" Li Congjing shouted.

When the Ma army was attacking the city, they usually did this, and Li Shaocheng was already mentally prepared, so he received the order at this time, "The last general will get the order!" ”

"Sun Erniu listens to orders!" Li Congjing looked at a general again, "I ordered you to take the scout generals and scatter the main roads, but there are Liang army rangers, kill them all; Another unit was sent to Mengzhou to monitor the movements of its garrison! ”

Sun Erniu hugged his fists and said: "Get the order!" ”

"The sharp soldiers of the military intelligence department, go to the set tasks!" Li Congjing finally said: "Conquer Huaizhou and win the real first victory!" ”

That day and night, the army rested early. The next day, the army had dinner, and at the end of the day, the army opened the camp gate and lined up outside the city of Huaizhou. In addition to the east gate, where the army is mainly attacking, a commander is stationed outside the north and south gates, ready to cooperate with the attack at any time. Surrounded by three queyi, the west gate was opened for the Huaizhou defenders to abandon the city and flee, so as not to resist to the death.

The formation of the army is swinged, the guns are like a forest, the flags are flying horizontally, the boxcars are like tigers, the phalanx is like a leopard, and all kinds of siege equipment are arranged in the middle, as high as giants, overlooking the common people. Li Congjing stepped on the building car, but saw that the army under his feet was as powerful as a dragon, and he had a heroic spirit that shook the earth, and he glanced at the head of Huaizhou City, and was silent, and then pulled out his horizontal knife and ordered in high spirits: "All departments are in place, catapults, hit!" ”

With his order, the flag waved and hunted, the horn rose from the ground and shook the low altitude, the dull and distant catapult threw its arms, and the boulder of several hundred catties rose into the sky, jumped over a beautiful arc, and smashed down the city like a meteorite falling from the sky.

Nearly 30 catapults concentrated on attacking a city wall, and its momentum was like a pearl falling on a jade plate, like a gale-winded bead curtain. Under the dense rain of boulders, the roar was deafening, and the broken stone chips were like scattered flowers by a goddess.

It is not better than when he led more than 1,000 people to attack Qimen, the conditions were difficult, the equipment was scarce, and he was overstretched, and now, Li Congjing has been preparing for several months for this battle, and the soldiers are fine, and the lineup of siege equipment can be called luxurious, and it is a war that does not cost money.

When the initiator of a war has the strength and the heart to make up his mind not to pay for it, the intensity of the war is absolutely beyond imagination. Li Congjing didn't have much money, but he made a desperate bet.

Within an hour, six or seven hundred boulders flew into the air and fell into the city, not to mention more than a hundred, until the herald reported to Li Congjing that the boulders prepared at one time this time were almost finished, and when the catapult was damaged in a high-intensity working state, Li Congjing was still a little unsatisfied.

The head of Huaizhou City is already quite tattered, it is like a woman sitting quietly, already in rags, waiting for the warriors to rush up and knock it down.

Li Congjing naturally wanted to push it down, and he shouted loudly: "Order Meng San and Ding Mao to attack the city!" ”

The stone bullets of the catapult are not impossible to defend, just look at the huge tarpaulin lit up at the head of Huaizhou City, but its preparation is obviously insufficient, and the tarpaulin is not only taken out late, but also too little, basically useless.

The Hundred Battles Army outside the east gate of Huaizhou City was originally a big array, and at this time, the two small phalanxes in the big array broke away from the main body, like human hands, and struck out with fists. After the two phalanxes left the large array, they spread out, and they pushed the ladder with a four-wheeled van at the bottom, the nest car higher than the city wall, and the folding trench bridge that was several feet long and dozens of zhang long, and approached the trench.

When the trench was almost filled by the catapult bombardment of the city wall, Meng San, who was following behind the nest cart with a shield on his head, shouted at the top of his voice while letting the flag officer wave the order flag: "Push the trench cart down!" ”

Waves of arrows rained down from the head of Huaizhou City, Meng San and the others braved the rain to move forward, and on the other side, Ding Mao shouted loudly: "Archer, cover!" Take the bridge of Hao! ”

The archers on the nest car, taking advantage of the height, swooped down on the head of the city, and the effect was obvious, and they quickly suppressed the archers on the city wall. But there are places that can't be covered by the attack surface of the nest car, and the rain of arrows in the Liang army still hasn't stopped.

The trench filler was pushed into the trench, and the soldiers stepped on the flat roof and galloped through, while the trench in front of the ladder truck and the nest car needed to erect a trench bridge to ensure the flatness, and the nest car and the ladder truck could run over.

The archers behind their shields on the ground raised their heads and shot at the head of the city, covering the bridge.

Rockets are shot at the head of the city, but they are set up on the water-soaked moat bridge and nest cart covered with cowhide, and they will not work at all for a while, but if they are shot at the sergeant, they will create a burning man.

"Bump, bump" two sounds, the ladder car leaned on the city wall, this kind of ladder because the bottom is a van, no need to erect, leaning on the wall is stable there, the fork pole at the head of the wall can not resist, wrapped in several layers of iron armor, armed to the teeth of Meng San, immediately climbed the ladder up.

When the nest car crashed into the city wall, the archers above could already see the faces of the Liang army, they struggled to release the arrows, and another sergeant put down the wooden plank and iron chain, and the huge rectangular plank, slowly landed, and it was about to lean on the head of the city, and the hundred battle troops on the nest car could run directly to the Huaizhou city wall.

"Straight lady thief, it's the man who rushed up with Lao Tzu!" Ding Mao led a group of sergeants who were covered in armor and wore a scarf to protect their faces, jumped from the nest cart and jumped onto the plank, and they were about to rush to the city!

A group of Liang troops rushed over the Huaizhou city wall, leading the fine scale armor for the leader, tall figures, they were armed with plate axes, under the cover of archers, they cut down the wooden planks that were going to come up, and the Liang army with copper hammers, a few strokes, the wooden planks were about to break!

Ding Mao was unwilling to be hindered, shouted for the archers to release arrows to suppress the opposite side, and led people down the plank, stabbing straight through the long gelian thorns in his hand, to protect the plank smoothly on the head of the city.

The screams were incessant, and the archers in this corner suffered a lot of casualties to each other, and the Liang general met the attack, and even took the Liang army beside him to the shoulder against the plank, trying to overturn it.

The thunder stone rolling wood kept falling beside him, and there were iron arrows, as annoying as mosquitoes, Meng San climbed the ladder again, and rushed up with a knife in his mouth. He had just been forced down by a rain of arrows, and at this moment he beckoned the nearby archers to suppress the head of the city, and then led his men to rush up, and he had already inserted a few arrows into his body, but they were only hanging on his armor, and at most the flesh was broken, and he did not penetrate into the bones.

Meng San's eyes skimmed that Ding Mao was about to go to the wall, and he was fighting with a Liang Junxiao general, he was unwilling to be left behind, and yelled at the people behind him: "Niang Xipi, if you let Ding Mao's gang rush to the front and kick the city, you all go back and wash the toilet for me!" As he spoke, he climbed up desperately.

There are several hidden soldier holes at the foot of the city, at this time rush out of several Liang troops who are not afraid of death, from different places into the formation of the hundred battle army, one of them is very strong, the first few people are not dead, for a time they actually broke into the hundred battle army more than ten steps, killed and injured many sergeants, no one can stop.

Meng was furious, scolded his mother, and yelled: "Zhao Dutou, tear up his mother's for Lao Tzu!" ”

A young general rushed out of the Hundred Battles Army, agreed, and brought dozens of people to meet him, and finally curbed the onslaught of this group of Liang troops.

Li Congjing watched from a distance from the building car, all this in his eyes, this group of Liang Jun was quite daring to fight, which was unexpected. Some of them are in the right team, quite desperate, and I don't know what tricks Dong Huaide used to let them defend the city so desperately.

However, the momentum of the Hundred Battles Army is like a rainbow, and it has the upper hand, but it is the general trend.

Li Congjing suddenly turned around and said to the herald: "Give an order to Sun Erniu, who is guarding the intersection of the road, but there are people from Huaizhou who break through to report to Dong Zhang, and let the two go." ”

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