208. There are strange strategies for defending the war (4)
The gate of Dongcheng was broken, which was expected by Yu Guozhen.
For two consecutive days, the thieves attacked the city without using artillery, and at that time, Yu Guozhen realized that the rogue was going to use the artillery unexpectedly.
And the most opportune time was to push the artillery closer and bombard the city gates when the defenders were exhausted by constant harassment. At long distances, today's artillery can't shoot accurately, but what if the distance is only a dozen feet?
Therefore, the destruction of the east gate that shocked Shi Kefa and them was only part of the plan for Yu Guozhen. The tall pillars responsible for guarding the east gate at night did not panic in the slightest, and the guards of the city wall still held on to the wall, and boiling water, stones, and oil were constantly pouring down the city to prevent the thieves from trying to climb the wall.
The thieves who rushed into the city thought of Zhang Kewang's order not to close the city, and rushed to the city along the door with a roar, and the thieves behind them were afraid that they would be robbed of all the good things that they were one step late, and they squeezed forward desperately.
However, the door hole is getting narrower and narrower, and it is not clear in the dark night, so the back squeezes the front, and when the front realizes that something is wrong and wants to turn around, it is too late.
Waiting for them were two walls of a foot high, as if they were caught in the alley, and the tasseled spears that kept sticking in the chest-high holes made them unavoidable. Almost as many people rushed into the alley, as many people were stabbed to death!
Wang Baozong held the spear in his hand, and stabbed it into it from his position again and again, and whenever he saw a figure appear at the entrance of the hole opposite his position, he would not hesitate to strike.
"This is my mother's, this is my wife's, this is my son's, this is my daughter's!"
With each stabbing, he would let out a loud cry, and then listen to the screams or moans coming from across the hole, and each time he felt a strange joy in his heart. Not only him, but like him, there were more than 300 people on both sides of the narrow wall who came over anyway, each of them had a deep blood feud with the rogue, and they were even more decisive than Yu Guozhen's family guards, because they all knew that every time they stabbed an enemy, it meant that they had revenge for their relatives.
The thieves who entered the city along the city gate that was broken by the cannons were more than 500 people in total, and there were no more people in this narrow alley, so when Wang Baozong stabbed out the seventh time, he could no longer hear the other party's screams.
Outside the east gate, however, there was the cry of the defeated thieves, followed by the roar of the two Fran cannons on the east gate. The Franco cannon with the sub-mother gun formed a bombardment angle on the head of the city, and the cannon with flames not only reaped the lives of the thieves who escaped by chance, but also caused fatal damage to the thieves' artillery pushed to the opposite side of the drawbridge. The gunpowder piled up by the thieves near the cannon was ignited by the cannon, and a violent explosion occurred, killing most of the artillery that fired the guns!
"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"
"Long live Daming!"
The officers and soldiers at the head of the city were already shaken, but they only felt that under such circumstances, the city of Wuwei would be destroyed, and many people were even ready to think of fleeing for their lives. But the guards of the Hosoyanagi Courtyard beside them were still firm, which made them have to suspend their escape and wait and see the outcome again. When they found that their arrangement had really worked wonders, they immediately turned their worries to joy and cheered in unison.
This cheer in unison, from the east of the city, has been passed to the people's houses, the people were panicked at the beginning, the call of the city was initially thought by them to be the city gate completely lost, but when they heard "long live the Ming Dynasty", their hanging hearts finally let go, many people couldn't help shouting: "Long live, Ming Wan Sheng!" ”
The call spread outside the yamen, and the officials who were making the final preparations at the door heard this voice, and they were all overjoyed, and they ran back to the yamen to report the good news to Shi Kefa and others.
"What, big win?" Shi Kefa heard them say this, and Wu didn't believe it: "It's not that the thieves opened the city gate with artillery, how can it ...... Turned into a big win again? ”
Bao Wenda is more military than him, and frowned: "Alas, I remember, Yu Gongzi ordered the plasterers and migrant workers in the city to do their best to build, and built an urn city at the east, south, and north gates, presumably this urn city blocked the thieves, so that the defeat turned into victory!" ”
"So...... Yu Jimin knew that thieves could break through the city gate? Shi Kefa swallowed his saliva, and it took him a lot of effort to stop himself from showing a look of admiration.
If Yu Guozhen even counts this point, then the two sides of the entire battlefield, whether they are enemies or me, are not all pawns that he plays with at will? In today's new storytelling books, only Zhuge Kongming and Liu Bowen have such terrible wisdom!
"Quick, go and find out if that's the case!" Luo Zhimei shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, suddenly, in the west of the city, there was another earth-shattering loud noise!
The smiles on the faces of Shi Kefa, Luo Zhimei, Bao Wenda and others were still frozen there, and this loud noise made them almost feel like they had fallen into a dream!
The thieves clearly attacked the north and south cities to cover the attack on the east city, why...... Now there is such a loud noise coming from Xicheng too?
Could it be ...... The thief's attack on Dongcheng is the real sound, and its purpose is to cover up the actions in Xicheng?
Just outside the West City, Zhang Kewang looked at the panicked officers and soldiers at the head of the city under the light of the fire, and looked at the gate that had been completely opened and was not guarded by the urn city, and smiled proudly.
"The young general is really resourceful, the eight kings are not wrong, and it is right to entrust the important task to the young general!" A thief next to him praised with a thumbs up: "The dog official in the city, I'm afraid that he is still triumphant in Dongcheng, but I never expected that in fact, Dongcheng is just a tiger away from the mountain...... Ah no, transfer the dog out of the cave, the major general has already taken advantage of the cover of the feint attack in the first half of the night to transfer our main force to the West Gate! ”
"Yes, yes, young general, I'm not afraid of you being surprised when I say a word, our Lao Tzu was still a little unconvinced by the young general at the beginning, but now he is convinced! The dog officer who said the donkey, I'm afraid that he was being played around by the young general, and I still don't know what's going on...... Even I, I don't understand how the major general knows that this Xicheng gate must be guarded against emptiness? ”
"It's simple."
Zhang Kewang is also proud, he broke a state city for the first time, which is really a worthy achievement, which can make him more important in front of the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong. However, he did not rush to explain, but ordered: "Six-star battalion, attack!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong's personal guards are called the Seven-Star Banner Army, and he calls his personal guards the Six-Star Battalion, but now his Six-Star Battalion does not have many people, only more than 500 people. However, Zhang Kewang was extremely confident in the combat effectiveness of these 500-odd people, and felt that they could completely defeat three times the number of officers and soldiers of his own. So this time, he let his personal guard six-star battalion assault as the vanguard, so that even if the officers and soldiers defending the city still have any tricks, he is confident that he can still break it.
After the six-star camp crossed the ditch and entered the city cave, Zhang Kewang said with a smile: "That Yu Guozhen is cunning, he let our meticulous work look at the three gates of the southeast, north and south, but he didn't show them the west gate, it seems to tell us that the west gate has a trap, but in fact, he is afraid that we will know the truth of the west gate." If there is only him Yu Guozhen in this city, there must be a trap in Ximen, but in this city, he Yu Guozhen's words don't count, it is Shi Kefa who counts, that is, Zhizhou Zhixian County, there are two in the city, no matter how strong he Yu Guozhen is, how can he beat these dog officials? ”
"Major General, what does this have to do with Simon No Trap?"
"I have been fighting with dog officials for so many years, especially the civil officials among dog officials, what are their moral surnames, you still don't know? Asking for money is more powerful than the other, and escaping is more powerful than the other, how can these dog officials let Yu Guozhen block the four city gates with urns? Zhang Kewang sneered: "This West Gate is the road for Yu Guozhen to escort the dog officer to escape in case the city is broken, can Yu Guozhen dare to block it?" ”
"What I said is that the major general has thought it through!"
There was a lot of sycophancy around, and most of them were really impressed in addition to patting on the back, because what Zhang Kewang said was right, and the group of Kou did break into the city and were not blocked by the urn city.
"Let's go, let's go in together, then Yu Guozhen is also a hero, but it's a pity that he followed the dog official of the imperial court, just like Cao Wenzhao followed the dog official of Hong Chengchou, no matter how brave he is, it will be a dead end in the end!"
After Zhang Kewang finished speaking, he urged the horse and ran towards the gate of the West City, and after him, the thieves of the brigade roared up, and there were nearly 10,000 people.
Zhang Kewang took the lead and entered the city gate, only sporadic sounds of fighting came from the front, he knew that not only did Xicheng have no traps, but also the garrison was relatively loose, presumably because of the feint attack of Dongcheng to attract people to the past. He laughed loudly, and the horse's hooves flew away, and he went ahead.
But it didn't take long for him to catch up with his six-star battalion, and the six-star battalion stopped moving, as if it was in trouble.
Zhang Kewang shouted: "Don't attack quickly, what are you doing here?" ”
"Major General, there's a strange thing ahead." One of the thieves replied: "I saw a big wooden fence ahead, blocking the road, and there were still words on the wooden fence, and someone had been sent to inspect it." ”
Originally, Zhang Kewang was very happy in his heart, but when he heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and a sense of foreboding floated in his heart. He followed Zhang Xianzhong, and he was also familiar with the history of war, of course he knew that the last time he buried a wooden pillar was the battle in which Sun Bin shot Pang Juan!
As soon as he thought of this, his face changed: "Don't take this road, take a detour, take a detour, send two people to knock down the wooden fence!" ”
Before the words fell, the thief who was inspecting there had already returned, and his face was full of panic: "Major General, it seems that something is wrong, the wooden fence says 'Zhang Kewang died here'......"
"Yu Guozhen really thinks he is Sun Bin, but our Lao Tzu is not Pang Juan!" Zhang Kewang sneered: "Urge the rear army, enter the city quickly, as long as there are many of us, we are not afraid of what tricks he plays!" ”
He said this in his mouth, but he didn't realize it, but he subconsciously admitted that only when there were many people, and it was an absolute advantage, he was not afraid of Yu Guozhen playing tricks!
(To be continued)