Chapter 113: Chenzhou Attack and Defense (2)
Wang Jun is a man in his thirties in the prime of life, with a simple face, looking harmless to humans and animals. From his facial features, there are no characteristics that are different from those of the Han people. This is also one of the reasons why Li Cheng was deceived by him.
Wang Jun is indeed an intelligence officer of the Royal Intelligence Department. The killing of Li Cheng this time was due to Zhao Gou's instructions. Because Li Cheng only listened to Zong Ze's orders, he completely disobeyed the royal words.
But Wang Jun was an out-and-out double agent, who not only spies on the military intelligence of Zhao and Song, but also serves Western Xia. He even had a relationship with the nine-tailed fox. Killing Li Cheng was precisely due to the planning of the nine-tailed fox Tao Zisi.
Wang Jun looks like an old farmer, but he is secretly ambitious. As an intelligence officer, he was extremely clear about the situation in the world, and when he found out that Zhao Song was about to lose control of the Central Plains, he immediately had another thought. He decided to follow the example of Shi Le during the Wuhu Rebellion, and led the Bianliang Hu people to take advantage of the chaos and become the emperor in the Central Plains. Even if he can't become the emperor, he will grab a few cities for the Hu people in the Central Plains and lay down a big territory. Even if they fail at that time, as long as the Hu people surrender in time, presumably the Jin and Song countries will not embarrass them. Jin Guo is also a Hu person and will only express his appreciation for Wang Jun's killing. As for Zhao Song, he has always been an inner saint and an outer king, fierce to the Han people and tolerant to the Hu people. The Hu people will never be held accountable for their sins.
Wang Jun is a member of the party, but he joined Islam a few years ago. With this identity, Wang Jun successfully moved the tens of thousands of Hu people in Bianliang and handed over all the young men who could fight to him.
Wang Jun believes that if you want to take the Central Plains like Shile, you must first do two things. The first thing is to have a massacre first, to kill the people of the Central Plains, so that they dare not cry at night when they hear the name of the Hu people. The second thing is that the Protectors must be destroyed.
But so far, Wang Jun has been a little depressed to find that both of these things seem to be failing. The spirit of resistance of the people of the Central Plains was much stronger than that of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Not to mention the people outside Bianliang City, even the people inside the city, Wang Jun couldn't clean it up. As for the plan to destroy the Protector Army, it was completely shattered after a few days of bloody battle with Zhang Xian.
Wang Jun led an army of nearly 100,000 people, but not only failed to defeat Zhang Xian's more than 10,000 men, but also allowed Zhang Xian to retreat smoothly into Chenzhou City, and killed at least 10,000 bandits in the process of retreating all the way.
Although Wang Jun also slaughtered hundreds of villages and killed hundreds of thousands of people along the way, from the moment he entered the border of Chenzhou, the burning, killing and looting of the bandit army was no longer smooth. Every village and town in Chenzhou is a fortified fort. Every village and town is a soldier for the whole people. 100,000 bandits divided their troops to attack for a day, but only three small villages and towns were defeated.
Wang Jun originally planned to kill Chen Zhou first, and then fight Zhang Xian. Seeing that the resistance of the people was so tenacious, Zhang Lei's cavalry and Yue Heng's scout group continued to attack and kill the bandit army, Wang Jun had no choice but to join forces in one place, trap Yue Heng, and besiege Chenzhou.
Wang Jun asked himself that his ability to command troops was not as good as Zhang Xian. But this time, he thought he had a chance to kill Zhang Xian. Although the city of Chenzhou is high, it lacks soldiers, as long as it takes Chenzhou with a sea of people, it will be able to capture and kill Zhang Xian.
If the second in command of the Protector Army can be killed, the Hu cavalry will definitely be able to shock the Central Plains. At that time, whether it will go north to reduce gold, or go south to return to the Song Dynasty, it will definitely be reused.
Out of this calculation, Wang Juncai attacked Chenzhou with a sea of people offensive. Although he attacked for a few days and killed more than 10,000 bandits in vain, Wang Jun still insisted on attacking. He wanted to exchange his life for his life and consume the defenders of Chenzhou City. He didn't know that although nearly half of the defenders in Chenzhou City were dead, the young and strong people in Chenzhou City were also pouring into the city, quickly transforming into qualified soldiers in the battle of blood and fire.
Zhang Xian is confident that even if there are no other reinforcements, he can defend Chenzhou for a year without losing.
"Kill! Capture Chenzhou City, never seal the sword. General Wang doesn't want a penny, he doesn't want a woman. It's all ours. Everyone! "Hundreds of Hu people wore heavy armor, armed with swords and shields, and supervised the battle behind the siege bandits. At the same time, dozens of low-ranking officers with loud voices shouted slogans loudly, stimulating the greed and madness in the bandit army.
There are dozens of divine arm crossbows placed at the head of the city of Chenzhou, with the concerted efforts of hundreds of crossbow soldiers, a crossbow arrow that is more than a zhang long breaks out of the air from the city, and shoots into the column of the bandit army that charges intensively, each crossbow arrow will not go empty, some crossbow arrows penetrate one person, and some crossbow arrows can penetrate several people.
Dozens of divine arm crossbows couldn't stop the crazy bandit army of more than 10,000. As the bandits approached, the ordinary solo crossbows at the head of the city also began to shoot. The bandits covered their heads with their shields and bent their bodies and ran down the city.
The wide moat was filled yesterday with dirt bags and corpses by bandits. Now the bandit army stepped on the road paved with the corpses of their companions and rushed to the foot of Chenzhou City. Several crashing cars went straight to the city gate, and hundreds of bandit soldiers hid under the cars, shouting trumpets, and slammed into the city gate of Chenzhou with heavy crashing cars.
The gate of Chenzhou was not sealed, because Zhang Xian was never a person who was only beaten and did not fight back. Although the crowd was outnumbered, Zhang Xian never gave up the idea of going out of the city to fight back. Because Zhang Xian believed that reinforcements from the Protector Army would arrive soon.
With a bang, Chenzhou's thick west gate was slammed and shook. Zhang Xian stood at the head of the city, his expression unchanged, but he said to Xu Xuan, "Xu Xuan, you lead people to the West Gate and use fire oil bombs and thunderbolts to deal with these bandits. ”
Xu Xuan took the order and left, and when he reached the city gate, he ordered the powerful soldiers to throw ten bundles of 100 catties of thunder into the sky five zhang away from the city gate, where two crashing cars were parked, which was the follow-up force that crashed into the city gate.
After two loud bangs, the two crashing cars had been blown up in pieces. Immediately after that, a dozen fire oil bombs were dropped from the top of the city, and they were dropped right on top of the crash car under the city gate, and the crash turned into a train in the blink of an eye. Nearly 100 bandits fled from under the car.
Xu Xuan's face turned pale, and he said loudly, "Crossbowmen, use rockets to turn these beasts into fire men for me." ”
The dense crossbowmen fired intensively at the city gate more than a dozen zhang square, and none of the more than 100 bandits who came to attack the city gate survived.
Wang Jun stood a kilometer away, and couldn't help but look depressed when he saw that the three cars that had been hit by the fire were burned clean again. The big thief Qi Fang stood beside Wang Jun, looked at his face, and said with a smile, "Why does General Wang care about these crashes? Although the city wall of Chenzhou is dangerous, the city is huge, and the thousands of defenders in the city are not satisfied with the city wall at all. As long as our army maintains an intensive offensive and attacks the city along the ladder and ants, it will definitely be able to consume Zhang Xian's gang to death. ”
Wang Jun nodded and said, "Not bad." The city gate is a critical place, and the guards are dense, so it is indeed not easy to break through. Since this is the case, then I will let the soldiers attack from the five-mile-long city wall to see if Zhang Xian can hold it. General Qi, we are allies now, my soldiers are desperate, are you going to send thousands of elites. ”
Qi Fang's shrewd eyes flickered, and he immediately said, "Of course. My Qi Fang crisscrosses Huainan, but I am not the master who just talks but doesn't practice. ”
Qi Fang is treacherous, and he and Wang Jun are just allies. Although his soldiers and horses were only half of Wang Jun's, Qi Fang did not regard himself as Wang Jun's subordinates. In the battle a few days ago, Qi Fang only sent more than 1,000 people to bland and attack the city. This made Wang Jun extremely dissatisfied. With the passage of time, although Wang Jun knew that Ying Tianfu was being attacked from all sides, Yue Fei was dragged by Zong Bi in Yucheng, and he definitely had no ability to divide troops to help. But Wang Jun always had an uneasiness in his heart.
Wang Jun has a natural special talent, and he can always have a premonition of impending danger. Now Wang Jun sensed the danger. He always felt that another army of protectors was about to reach Chenzhou.
Although Wang Jun's 7,000 Hu cavalry was not weaker than the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, Wang Jun did not want to lead the 7,000 Hu cavalry to flee back to Bianliang. After all, at this time, he commanded nearly 100,000 bandit troops, if he could really include 100,000 bandit troops under his banner, then he was really a big warlord sitting on one side. Whether it was Zong Han on the north bank of the Yellow River, or Wanyan Lou who was besieging Luoyang, they did not dare to underestimate him.
While Wang Jun and Qi Fang were discussing in the array, thousands of bandit troops had successfully killed the city of Chenzhou, and some crossbowmen stood under the city, shooting at the protectors at the head of the city, to suppress the rain of arrows at the head of the city.
More than 100 ladders were quickly erected on the city wall of Chenzhou, and the robbers who were athletic and sturdy bit their steel knives in their mouths, holding shields in one hand and ladders in the other, climbed up like monkeys.
The protectors at the head of the city used push rods to scratch hooks and shout trumpets to overturn several ladders under the city. The bandits on the ladder let out a scream, fell to the ground and stopped moving.
A high-nosed and blue-eyed Hu man bit a steel knife and was the first to climb the head of Chenzhou City. With a swing of his steel sword, he swept through a thousand armies and tried to slash the rushing Protectors.
It's a pity that the Protectors didn't rush up, but instead poured a basin of gold juice on their heads. The blue-eyed bearded man couldn't dodge and was being doused. He immediately threw down the steel knife, covered his head and face, and began to scream. A spear stabbed him in the stomach and stabbed him off the wall.
"Pour the gold juice!"
As the Protectors gave one order, a basin of hot and smelly gold juice fell from the city, and the bandits on the ladder fell from the city.
The gold juice is boiled from dung, which is highly poisonous, and when poured on a person, even if it cannot be burned to death, it will also make the person's wound infected and poisoned to death.
Seeing that the companions who fell down the ladder were burned beyond recognition one by one, it would be absolutely false to say that the other bandits were not afraid. But these bandits had no way to retreat. The hundreds of warlords behind him are not easy to mess with.
Although the Protector Army's gold juice is powerful, the number of Protectors is too small, and the city wall several kilometers long cannot be taken care of at all. Just close your eyes and rush up, and when you touch the golden juice, that's your life. If you can't touch the golden juice, you may be able to become the first warrior to attack the city, and then the rich women in the city will not be able to enjoy it all for themselves.
With this mentality, thousands of bandit troops went forward one after another, and the first wave of more than 1,000 bandit troops close to the city wall all became dead, but they also used up the gold juice at the head of the city. Although dozens of ladders were destroyed, the bandit army camp made at least more than 1,000 simple ladders. The second wave of bandits carried the ladder and rushed to the city wall again. At least 100 of this wave of bandits successfully climbed the city wall of Chenzhou, but they could not go any further and were killed by Li Heng's heavy infantry on the city wall.
Wang Jun and Qi Fang glanced at each other, and decisively sent five hundred elites each to attack with the third wave of bandits. Wang Jun sent 200 Hui troops, and Qi Fang sent 500 short sword troops.
The Hui soldiers have a big knife and a leather saber, and the short knife soldiers have a ruler-long short knife. These short knife armies are all Jiang Yang thieves, and they are very good at close combat.
Sure enough, half an hour later, the Hui Hui Army and the Short Knife Army successfully landed in the west city of Chenzhou with ten times more powerful skills than ordinary bandits.