Chapter 242 Yishan Attack and Defense

"Do you estimate that Anhua has no troops?" Zhao Yu opened his eyes and looked at the direction of Anhuaman's camp, turned his head to look at Ma Yu's side face and asked.

Ma Yu smiled and said, "It's so easy there!" Did the prince see there? Feel what's wrong with that smoke? ”

Zhao Yu looked in the direction that Ma Yu was pointing, stared, and nodded thoughtfully: "The cooking smoke there seems to be a little bigger, and it is a little bit more than other cooking smoke!" Seem...... It doesn't seem to be cooking smoke! ”

Ma Yu nodded and said, "That's right!" Among these Anhua barbarians, there are capable people, and some places set up cooking smoke, which should be burned with sprinkled firewood. In this way, a small amount of firewood can be used to create the illusion of cooking smoke. It's just that the fireworks from wet firewood and dry firewood are not the same, and you can still see it if you look closely. Thinking of this strategy, it was thought of by Shi Mu, the town of Anhua Man! However, Anhua is a barbarian in the end, no matter how good the method is above, the stupid person has to be responsible below, there is a lot of water sprinkled, and it is easy to see the flaws in some places. ”

After a pause, Ma Yu said: "Judging from the current cooking smoke, there are 60,000 people in this Anhua army, but since the other party has set up a fake cooking smoke, then there are only 50,000 people at most." If you look at it a few more times, you can still see the number of troops! ”

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "It's hard work!" ”

Ma Yu hurriedly saluted and said, "The prince is polite!" ”

Zhao Yu smiled, did not answer, walked to the edge of the city wall, and held the battlement with both hands. The cold touch, the cold morning, all make people feel comfortable.

Suddenly, a horn sounded in the Anhua barbarian camp, and more than ten rough flags made by improvised were dancing, and there was chaos in the Anhua barbarian, and the soldiers and horses were like a nest of chaotic ants.

Just after taking a closer look, Zhao Yu found that although An Huaman was a little chaotic, it was not out of the array, and he could still see some rules from it.

"It's going to be a siege!" Ma Yu's face was swept away with exhaustion, and a dignified look shrouded his face.

"Woo! Woo! Woo! The horn sounded like a strange beast on the corner tower, and groups of Song soldiers lined up under the city wall in a nervous and orderly manner, and some went up to the city tower under the leadership of the general. The people were mobilized, and two or one people carried arrows, stones, fire bricks, and other equipment to defend the city.

However, on the whole, the mobilized troops and civilians are not large. If you look closely, you will feel that Longshui City is not so much preparing for war, but rather being on guard just in case.

This can be seen from the expressions of Zhao Yu and Ma Yu, and Zhao Yu and Ma Yu's eyes fell on Yishan Qi, two miles away from Longshui City.

Yishan is not big, nor too high, short in the south and steep in the north, backed by the Longjiang River. Yishan is built on the mountainside. At the same time, in order to prevent the enemy from cutting off the water source, Zhao Yu specially summoned skilled craftsmen to build a pumping tower on a small cliff protruding from the mountainside. The pumping tower has a noose to hang a huge wooden barrel, and when it needs water, it rolls the noose to make the wooden barrel slowly fall to the surface of the Longjiang River, and when the bucket is full, it is pulled up again.

The noose was rolled by two large green oxen, which was not very labor-intensive.

There are eight arrow towers on the defense of Shangyi Mountain, and the city wall is to build two rows of wooden fences first, and only to see broken stones and yellow mud can be plugged in the two rows of wooden fences, and then the yellow mud is smeared on the wooden fence facing outward. It is characterized by rapid construction and can effectively defend against fire attacks. However, because the foundation was not laid, these hills could not last long.

As far as the current situation is concerned, Yishan is no problem at all! It's not that the Song army doesn't have the power to fight back, it's just that it's just a short time! After the 2,500 recruits in the rear have been recruited and trained, and some soldiers and horses will be transferred from other prefectures, and there will be no problem with 4,000 troops! With 4,000 soldiers and horses joining the battlefield, Zhao Yu was not afraid of tens of thousands of Anhua barbarians at all.

At the same time, behind the first city wall, a small stone blockhouse is still being built on the top of Yuyi Mountain as the last line of defense.

Therefore, there are not many soldiers and horses stationed in Yishan, only 500 people, and the defense is not bad at all.

This truth is not only understood by Zhao Yu, but also by the generals of An Huaman. It's just that Yishan is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if Anhua Man wants to take Longshui City quickly, he must take Yishan.

The strategic significance of Yishan is too important! Condescending, he can calmly look down on the entire battlefield, and the commander can calmly deploy troops against the enemy on the mountain. And Yishan is on the side, just like the side of the famous saying, how can you allow others to snore? Yishan was in the hands of the Song army for a day, and An Huaman did not dare to attack Longshui City wantonly for a day. This is because when the battle is at its fiercest, it doesn't take too many people, and a hundred people are enough to change the course of a war.

Therefore, after many military discussions, Zhao Yu and others have reached a clear prediction that the Anhua barbarians are approaching the city, and the first to attack must be Yishan! If you can't take Yishan quickly, even if Anhuaman's rebellion is not a big defeat, it will definitely have a fifty percent chance of success.

Probably because I saw that Longshui City was on guard here. An Huaman didn't play any surprise tricks, pretending to attack Yishan and actually attacking Longshui City.

In fact, the surprise is based on a one-hit hit. There is no way to take the city wall of Longshui City in one fell swoop, and Anhuaman's so-called surprise is just a toddler in Handan and a toddler in Dongshi! It only adds to the shame of others!

An Huaman first began to set up a formation two miles away from Yishan, and after careful observation, Zhao Yu estimated the strength of Anhuaman's attack on Yishan this time. There were about 4,000 people in total, and there were five phalanxes.

The soldiers besieging the city were not elite either. An Huaman defeated the Song army in Rongxi and captured a large number of armor and weapons, so they had an ironclad army of comparable size, which was also where Feng Changqi set his life. And there are not many pieces of iron armor of these barbarian soldiers who are besieging the city, and the better ones are leather armor, which must not be Feng Changqi's descendants, and most of them are miscellaneous cannon fodder.

The two big flags were raised one after the other in the Anhua Barbarian rebel formation, and the distance was too far. Zhao Yu didn't look carefully, and looked for a soldier who was familiar with hundreds of words and had good eyesight, and returned to the report: "Lord Wang, inside the two big flags, the front one is written Pofeng General Luo, and the back one is written Shenyong General Long. ”

Zhao Yu smiled when he heard this, and said, "I don't know these Anhua people, but this name is majestic and straightforward enough." ”

"Barbarians are indeed barbarians! It's so vulgar to come up with a name, like a marketman! Ma Yu was dismissive of this, and did not agree with Zhao Yu's evaluation of 'majestic enough'.

In the midst of the formation of troops and the conversation between Zhao Yu and Ma Yu, time passed quietly, and the sun had risen to the top of the East Mountain, shining on the earth. The early morning sunlight is not strong, but the weapons shine brightly, adding to the killing atmosphere.

Behind the Anhua Barbarian rebels, there are dozens of ** upper bodies, revealing rock-like muscles, pushing eight leather carts for siege, the carts are not high, but about one zhang. There were four wheels and stairs on the cart for archers to shoot on.

In order to speed up the speed and reduce the burden on the strong man in the cart, the archers did not wait for the cart. Behind each car, more than a dozen archers followed unhurriedly.

In addition to this, there were also barbarians carrying more than twenty rough siege ladders. Siege ladders are made of ready-made bamboo, with iron hooks at the top, making them less likely to be forked over. In addition, there are two rams, the rams are made of miscellaneous wood as thick as an adult's arm, and more than a dozen miscellaneous logs are tied together with old mountain vines, with a crossbar at the front and back, and the top is sharpened. Probably in a hurry, the bark of the miscellaneous trees has not been peeled off. But whoever ignores this coarse miscellaneous wood will suffer a great loss.

An Huaman did not attack immediately, and a barbarian general wearing the armor of the Song army rode out and shouted arrogantly at the foot of the mountain. I think it's nothing more than a persuasion of both soft and hard.

However, Li Guangzhong and Chen Erxin, who were stationed in Yishan, directly sent the barbarian general an arrow, and the frightened barbarian general did not dare to shout anymore, so he turned his horse's head and ran away in embarrassment.

The two countries exchanged troops and did not kill them, so although Li Guangzhong and Chen Yixin shot an arrow, they did not want to kill the barbarian general. Only then did the arrogant general return to the army.

It's just that Yishan's move also stimulated the Anhua rebels fiercely, and the two generals in front of the formation, the Breaking Blade and the Divine Brave General, were not lightly angry. Gritted his teeth and roared, and ordered the whole army to attack!

The sound of loud horns and the rumbling of majestic drums are endless.

More than 3,000 soldiers and horses were allocated from the 4,000 Anhua rebels to set off, divided into three waves, and the huge attack was like a monstrous wave that slapped towards Yishan.

The remaining barbarians are guarding the Chinese army, although they are barbarians, but it can be seen from this move that they still know a little bit of military truth.

When they reached the foot of Yishan Mountain, the barbarians paused. As if mad, he let out a strange scream, and slapped his shield and ground with his rudimentary weapon. The voice with the breath of savagery, the ancient tradition, made the Song army who met for the first time change color.

The eight-seater leather cart did not pause, slowly pushing up the mountain road. Although there were bumps in the way, the leather cart was like a giant, and its footsteps landed firmly on the ground, and it steadily launched an attack towards Yishan. The brutes followed, and the eight skinned carts sheltered most of the brutes like several large shields.

"General! It's almost out of range, do you want to release the arrows? One of the escorts looked a little flustered and couldn't help but say to Li Guangzhong.

Li Guangzhong was very old-fashioned, and he didn't have a panicked look, and in the face of his subordinates' proposals, he said coldly: "What's the hurry? Let them get closer, and the stone arrows will be more powerful! Kill them one is enough! ”

Li Guangzhong's words were very rude, but they calmed the hearts of the escort team. Immediately arrange people, notify all ministries, do not act rashly, and act according to the banner.

After another half of the ring, this time it was not the escort team, but Chen Erxin came over. "Brother Li, the enemy's skinned cart has reached a range of one hundred and fifty steps! It's already deep into the range, and if you don't give any more orders, I'm afraid you'll have to delay the number of attacks! ”

Li Guangzhong calmly looked at the barbarians and saw that the barbarians' skinned carts had indeed penetrated within one hundred and fifty paces.

The archers who had been following on foot behind the leather cart also got on the leather cart, not the brute archers who could see their heads from the roof of the car.

Li Guangzhong smiled and said, "You can wait!" ”

Chen Yixin also wanted to persuade that Li Guangzhong had already walked to a bed crossbow with a thoughtful look.

Chen Yixin was not good at interrupting the other party's thoughts, so he had no choice but to stop the persuasion that had reached his throat.

"The time has come!" Li Guangzhong's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he suddenly stood behind the crossbow on the bed, snatched the mallet from the hand of the soldier in charge of making the crossbow, and shouted: "Release!" ”

The gavel slammed the trigger, "Boom! With a bang, three bowstrings moved, and a seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear flew out.

"Boom!"

The seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear was in the middle of the vertical plate on the top of the leather cart, and the vertical board was like a rotten wood, and it instantly cracked in front of the seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear, and the sawdust splashed, and an archer hiding behind the vertical board was caught off guard, screaming, and was pierced through his body by the seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear, and the broken flesh mixed with the sawdust flew in the air.

That's not all, the leather cart is still to the side, and it falls sideways unexpectedly. It fell to the ground with a loud "bang" and kicked up a circle of dust. Several strong men and archers with carts who were caught off guard screamed, or were overwhelmed by the leather cart, or were thrown out. You must know that this is a hillside, and rolling a few laps on the hillside is already a blur of flesh and blood, so that people do not know whether they live or die.

Even if these barbarians lack heart, seeing this scene, they can't help but feel a sense of jealousy in their hearts.

The soldiers defending the city on the Yishan Barricade immediately perked up, and immediately let out an earth-shattering cheer.

"Throw stones and arrows!"

"Throw stones and arrows!"

Orders rang out one after another on the head of Yishan City.

The trebuchet threw boulders, the bed crossbow shot a seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear, and the soldiers on the arrow tower were condescending, plus the rhubarb crossbow had a long range, and they were not polite, and one after another the deadly crossbow arrows were thrown down.

Chen Yixin looked at all this dumbfounded, and couldn't help but feel a feeling of joy and convincing in his heart.

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"Motionless as a mountain, moving as a rabbit! The Song army has capable people! Mu Chang, who was watching the battle in the rear, couldn't help but change his face slightly, and muttered.

Feng Changqi was furious and let out a meaningless roar.

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The boulder fell on the leather cart, and although the leather cart was not broken with one blow, it also staggered, so frightened that the archers on the cart croaked and screamed, and before they reached the city wall, the leather cart was completely damaged.

The brute had no choice but to hold his shield high and attack with a battering ladder and ram.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, countless arrows bounced on the city wall of Yishan, including bows and crossbows, all kinds of like locusts.

Falling among the Anhua rebels, even if there is a shield to protect it, it may not be useful. The heavy arrow fell on the shield, and the shield shook, and in the middle of this shaking one of the arrows crossed the shield, and the brute had to scream, and the shield could not hold steadily. Immediately, several more arrows landed on him, and the screams came to an abrupt end.

A battering ram came to the city gate, and he just picked up the ram and hit it a few times. The Song army at the head of the city had already dumped the big iron pot with a hideous face. A large pot of boiling water was sprinkled with spills, and the barbarians lacked iron weapons, so most of them prepared animal skin clothes, and these barbarians who were responsible for attacking the city gate were better, but they were only leather armor.

Where can boiling water be stopped?

The barbarians screamed one by one, their skin was red, and some of them were even seriously reddened.

The city gate is shrouded in white mist, if it weren't for the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound on the battlefield, I am afraid that people will misunderstand that this is a fairyland. Who would have thought that under the beautiful scenery, it would be such a bloody scene?

This is not counted, the Song army on the head of the city took stones and smashed them down, and the barbarians who smashed them broke their blood one by one, and their brains burst out.

Although Feng Changqi was so angry that he screamed, he was not a brave and unscrupulous person, he knew that in the current situation, it would be useless to attack again. Let people give an order to the general who broke the front, the first wave of troops will be collected, and the second wave will attack!

In order to show his determination, Feng Changqi also said to Mu Chang: "No matter how many people die, the Lone King will take this mountain!" ”

Mu Chang thought for a moment and said, "King, it's not a way to attack like this. After all, there are many deaths, and other chiefs have opinions! I think that although this Yishan is strong, the city gate is made of hardwood. But any wood must be afraid of fire! We set him on fire! ”

Feng Changqi was overjoyed and said, "Okay! ”

At that time, people gathered oil, sulfur, saltpeter, and firewood. A death squad of 100 people was mobilized, and Feng Changqi personally poured wine for them.

Li Guangzhong quickly noticed this 100-man death squad, but he noticed that there was nothing he could do, because other places were also tight.

On the surface, Yishan is five hundred to one thousand, but in reality it is not. First of all, Yishan needs to leave a reserve, one is the strange soldier in the ancient art of war. In addition, we must prepare a troop of soldiers and horses for the vigil tonight. After such a full battle, there are only about 300 soldiers defending the city now! However, there were 10,000 barbarians besieging the city, and even if there was a city wall as a shelter, it was impossible to get there easily.

When the death squad arrived near the city gate, they immediately stopped hiding their purpose, in fact, at this distance, they couldn't hide it if they wanted to.

Li Guangzhong was taken aback, and could no longer care about the occupation in front of him, and shouted to his own soldiers: "Quick! Come with General Ben! ”

As he spoke, Li Guangzhong had already rushed towards the city gate.

The brute soldiers withstood the blows of boiling water and stones, and although they paid more than 30 lives for this, they also piled firewood, sulfur, and fire oil under the city gates.

"Put!"

Five or six brute soldiers armed with torches threw their torches into the firewood, and the Song army at the city gate was in a hurry, and had already sprinkled water. But this firewood is specially selected to be flammable and oily, not to mention the combustibles on it, such as sulfur, saltpeter, and fire oil, which may not be able to be extinguished immediately even if splashed with water.

The flames immediately burst into flames, and by the time Li Guangzhong arrived, the flames had already reached the wooden planks on the city gate. "What about the sand? Sprinkle the sand! ”

Only then did the soldiers of the Song army suddenly have an epiphany, and hurriedly brought sand and soil and sprinkled it with water, which blocked the flames at the city gate.

Although the fire has been extinguished, the city gate has been burned for a long time during this time.

Li Guangzhong knew that he couldn't hold the city gate now, so he gritted his teeth and said, "Block the city gate!" ”

Immediately a soldier brought a bundle of firewood, which was of the same length and smeared with mud at one end, and when it was stuffed to the city gate, it immediately looked like a new wooden wall. It's so fast that people can't react at all.

The Anhua rebels outside are miserable, they don't know what is going on, and they can take the opportunity to break through the city gate. The two of them were overjoyed, and the brave general was one of them, leading the brute soldiers to pick up the firewood stuffed in front of the city gate, and then hit the blackened city gate with a ram.

The Song army at the head of the city naturally gritted their teeth and obstructed it, and the arrows and stones were thrown down as if they didn't want money. Another escort team thought of a way, transferred a bed crossbow, and shouted through gritted teeth: "Release!" ”

The seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear shot out vigorously, and the barbarians near the city gate were densely packed, and there was no need to aim at all. Coupled with the fact that a seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear was fired at this distance, the lethality was unexpectedly terrifying.

The seven-foot-long broad-bladed spear pierced through the four brute soldiers, and finally stabbed the three brute soldiers to the ground like a skewer. The barbarians who were not yet dead let out a terrible wail.

The brutes were horrified.

The Divine Brave General roared: "What are you afraid of! It's just a matter of death! Attack! Retreat the latter to death! ”

The brave general beheaded three barbarians in a row, which made the barbarians drum up Yu Yong, "Bang! Bang! "The sound of siege. The city gate finally couldn't bear it anymore and was suddenly knocked open. It's just that the Anhua rebels haven't had time to be happy when they see that wooden wall. The city was already ready, and at this time, Li Guangzhong personally pushed a pot of gold juice down.

The name of the golden juice is good, but in fact, it will never make people feel good there. Gold juice is actually feces and urine mixed together, boiled, and then poured down.

As soon as the golden juice fell, a thick smell had already ushered in it. Before the barbarians could react, they were already screaming again and again, and some of the barbarians were even burned and flesh fell off, revealing the terrifying white bones. The barbarians who were spilled with gold juice by their heads and faces had already fallen on the ground of dung, and without snorting, they could already know that these barbarians could not die again.

No matter how fierce a brute soldier is, he is still a human being in the final analysis. The siege of the city was not overcome, and the morale was greatly reduced.

"The king withdraws his troops! Otherwise, it will only increase the casualties! Mu Chang said helplessly.

"How can it! How can it! Did the sons and daughters die in vain? Feng Chang's face turned red with anger, and he gritted his teeth and stared at Yishan with his head held high.

"King! The overall situation is important! Mu Chang persuaded.

"Phew!" Feng Changqi spat fiercely and said, "Let the Song people be happy for a while today and blow the horn!" Withdraw troops! ”

Hearing the sound of the trumpet, the barbarians were like being amnestied, and everyone rushed to retreat. Abandoned siege engines can be seen everywhere on the ground.

Li Guangzhong sighed helplessly and said, "It's a pity that the city gate is blocked!" Otherwise, if you take advantage of the situation to kill it now, you will definitely have hundreds of first-level incomes! ”

Chen Yixin walked over, heard Li Guangzhong's words, and said with a smile: "Brother Li is too demanding, right?" ”

Li Guangzhong smiled and laughed at himself: "That's right! It's good to be able to repel the enemy! ”

After a pause, Li Guangzhong said to Chen Erxin: "I am also tired from the bloody battle this morning, and I will trouble Brother Chen to take charge of the rest of the matter!" ”

Chen Yixin patted his chest and said: "You can rest assured about this, when it comes to fighting, I am not as good as you, but when it comes to dealing with these trivial things, I am afraid that Brother Li, you are not as good as me!" ”

Li Guangzhong smiled, don't look at him as a commanding general, the battle there was fierce just now, so he rushed there. It's not just a few howls to encourage things, soldiers are not stupid, they won't fight hard because of a few words from you, and they have to lead the way. Therefore, Li Guangzhong still has a few colors on his body now.

Chen Yixin also knew, and hurriedly urged Li Guangzhong to go down to rest, and he himself was responsible for dispatching Minzhuang to carry the wounded soldiers down the city and clean up the corpses at the head of the city.

At this time, an Anhua barbarian cavalryman, wearing a fiery red battle robe and armor, came over, and he could already see it from a distance. When several Song soldiers saw it, they immediately stood up nervously, bent their bows and arrows, and waited for Chen Yixin to give an order, and then shot the barbarian soldier into a hedgehog.

Chen Yixin waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers to put down their bows and arrows. said: "The other party is just a person!" Why be so nervous? Let that barbarian see it, but it weakens the morale of my Great Song! ”

When these soldiers heard this, a flash of shame flashed on their faces, and they hurriedly put down their bows and arrows.

The Anhua barbarian cavalry was not afraid, and rode their horses to within about seventy paces outside the city gate. This range is already within the range of a bow and arrow! Not to mention the strong crossbow, sniping the other party is just a matter of Chen Erxin's order.

Chen Yixin had no expression on his face, but he couldn't help but admire the boldness of the barbarian cavalry in his heart.

Seeing that the other party was holding the war horse, Chen Yixin took a deep breath and shouted, "Who is coming?" So what's going on? ”

The sound is like a bell.

"The envoy of the Great Yue Kingdom is also!" The cavalry replied, and then said: "I came here to bury the warriors of my Great Yue Kingdom!" Please allow both sides to send people to clean up the battlefield! As the victor, your army has the right to enter the battlefield first and take the spoils with them! Please agree! ”

The cavalry said nicely, but in fact they were saying, "We will take back the corpses, and in return, you can take all the armor and weapons from the battlefield."

Chen Yixin thought about it and nodded in agreement.

An officer was puzzled and asked, "Why did the general agree to that barbarian?" If the corpse is exposed to the sun, it will not be a light blow to the morale of the barbarians! ”

Chen Yixin shook his head and said: "You see the favorable side, but you don't see the unfavorable side." First of all, as you said, it's hot, what are the consequences of these corpses lying here? Nature inevitably rots, and it is easy to give birth to plagues. In addition, it is beneficial for us to defend by cleaning up the arrows on the battlefield! After all, the only way to replenish it now is to put the arrow on the big wooden barrel of the pumping tower through the water army. And how many arrows can that big barrel bring back? In short supply! Most of these recovered arrows can be used again as long as they are repaired once or twice. ”

The officer was convinced.

In order to prevent An Huaman from taking the opportunity to send people to seize the city, and An Huaman was also afraid that the Song army would take the opportunity to send death squads to charge the battle, so the two sides made an agreement. Whether it is to collect corpses or spoils, both sides are not allowed to carry weapons, and the number of weapons must not exceed 50.

PS: It's a little late, though! But Mu Mu did not break his promise! 7,000 more giveaways! Is it to give a little recommendation vote support? (To be continued.) )