The Ninety-fourth Zhang Xuande was trapped, and the siege of Lushan (II)

In Lushan City, the walls on all sides are covered with patches of blood, and there have been many damages at the arrow battlement. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The grass under the city was also stained with a little bit of blood. It can be seen that the past few days have been here, and it has endured the traces of several battles.

On the northern city wall, an emaciated figure stood in the cold wind of late autumn, looking out at the somewhat gray distance behind the mountains in the north.

Brother! Did you receive an urgent letter from me? The foolish brother is trapped here, and I am afraid it will be difficult to withstand the next attack of the enemy.

Two miles away, the enemy's camp sounded again with the sound of drums of assembly. It seems that the enemy is going on the offensive again. The emaciated man turned and walked down the city.

This person is not an outsider, it is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.

When he came to the barracks under the city, Liu Bei began to send troops.

"The enemy is about to attack again. Five days have passed, and it is believed that our reinforcements are coming. Brothers, we have lost almost two battalions of troops in these five days. Even if the whole army is annihilated, we will not be able to become the first army of the Nanping Army to defeat the battle. Liu Bei said excitedly.

"If you die in battle, you must defend Lushan City! Fight to the death! The generals chanted.

Liu Bei waved his hand and said with tears in his eyes: "I'm here to thank you all for my brother's holy act!" After speaking, he clasped his hands into fists and bowed deeply to everyone.

Everyone in the audience looked at Liu Bei quietly, waiting for Liu Bei's order.

"Zhou Cang listens to orders." Liu Bei shouted, "Ling Ru quickly led the 21st and 22nd battalions to the West Gate Tower, even if he died in battle, he had to defend it." ”

"Don't obey. People are in the city, and people are dead in the city! ”

"Xu Rong, Ling Ru quickly led the twenty-third and twenty-fourth battalions to the East Gate Tower, even if they died in battle, they had to defend it."

"Don't obey. People are in the city, and people are dead in the city! ”

"Chen gun, Ling Ru quickly led the 25th and 26th battalions to the north gate tower, even if you die in battle, you have to defend it."

"Don't obey. People are in the city, and people are dead in the city! ”

"Yang Huai, order you to quickly lead the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth battalions to the South Gate Tower, even if you die in battle, you have to defend it."

"Don't obey. People are in the city, and people are dead in the city! ”

The orders were passed down one by one, and everyone led their troops to their own towns.

As soon as the soldiers of each battalion had set up the rolling wood and thunder stones, Zhang Mancheng's siege soldiers launched the first wave of attacks. After four siege battles, Zhang Mancheng's soldiers also lost no less than 5,000 people. In the face of Liu Bei and the others' desperate defense, even if some of their soldiers had already climbed the city wall yesterday, they were still suppressed.

This time, Zhang Mancheng was determined to attack Lushan City. In such a small place, an army of less than 10,000 people was here to resist the attack of his army of 80,000 for five or six days. The image of the officers and soldiers in his head has changed, and it is no longer comparable to those non-gentry bureaucrats who know that his troops are outside, raising a white flag and surrendering.

Today, he not only sent his generals Han Zhong and his son, Sun Zhong brothers and Ma Jia Zhongkun to the other three gates, but also personally commanded the soldiers and launched an attack on the south gate.

The first wave of attacks rushed to the four gates like a tidal wave. There is a saying: the soldiers have passed a thousand mighty, and the soldiers have passed 10,000 boundless. The yellow turban soldiers who came up under the black pressure were three or four thousand, holding up the ladders and high stools, and rushed forward regardless of life and death.

That is to say, the town of Lushan is relatively small, with a radius of only two miles, and thousands of people can fill the city wall here. In this way, Liu Bei's more than 8,000 people were able to defend more effectively. No matter how many soldiers come around your siege, he will rush up one by one. It also caused heavy losses to the Yellow Turban soldiers, and more than 1,000 corpses were dropped in four consecutive sieges, but they did not shake the wall of Lushan City.

If you want to break through the city gate, it has become more difficult than breaking the wall. When he was besieged, Liu Bei was determined to defend to the death, and sent people to block the four city gates early in the loess. At this time, the city gate has been tightly blocked by loess. Even if people were sent to dig during the Taiping period, if there were no more than 20 people each to do it for three or five days, I am afraid they would not be able to dig through.

There is only one way left to break through such a city. That is to attack, send people to set up ladders, from the city wall, kill the guards, and then attack the city, in order to regain the city.

After seeing the enemy enter the range of the bow and arrow, Liu Bei did not rush to order the arrow. Instead, he waited for the enemy to come to the city before ordering the soldiers to release their arrows. As a result, the soldier's accuracy of archery increased a lot. However, after the enemy climbed the ladder, the Rolling Wood Thunderstone began to beckon downward.

For a time, the Yellow Turban soldiers besieging the city cried for their fathers and mothers, screaming miserably.

However, this wave of enemy soldiers rushed over in echelons. The previous siege echelon was completely cannon fodder, just to consume the defending weapons of Liu Bei and others in the city. Even the second echelon was sent out as cannon fodder.

In the first wave of attacks, the enemy turned out to send five echelons of cannon fodder. Seeing that the enemy has thoroughly studied the strength of the city, the siege of the city a few days ago was just to confuse Liu Bei and others.

The first wave of attacks had almost exhausted the defensive equipment in the city, and Liu Bei had already begun to send people to demolish the houses, move those ridge purlins onto the city wall, and gather those fist-sized stones that could be thrown with their hands.

The situation is similar for all four gates, and there is not much left to use.

But the enemy did not stop attacking because of this. They didn't wait for them to catch their breath. Another wave of attacks began. This time there were more troops than in the first wave, and from the city, in a distance of less than a mile, they were divided into ten echelons, and each echelon was divided into a hundred and ten columns.

The Volunteers, who no longer had arrows in their hands, could only throw their enemies with stones the size of their fists. But if it weren't for the enemy's bow and arrows. In this way, before the second wave of the enemy's attack had lost three echelons, someone began to climb the walls.

The soldiers of the Volunteers also began to engage the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Liu Bei did not use the halberd, but pulled out the double-strand sword and was about to join the battle group.

At this moment, a sharp-eyed soldier shouted: "General, look! Our reinforcements have arrived! ”

Liu Bei raised his eyes to look, and sure enough, a large army came out behind Zhang Mancheng's army, and the Chinese army set up the familiar banner and the big flag behind him - the military flag of the Pingnan Army.

"Sons, kill! Our reinforcements have arrived! Liu Bei danced his double-strand sword and smashed into the enemy's group.

Whose troops are coming to reinforce this? Who else is Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang who didn't come from Yecheng?

It turned out that Xu Chu said goodbye to Zhu Jun from Runan and returned to Yecheng to meet Tian Feng and others. They rushed in the direction of Wancheng with grain and grass. On the second day of departure, the scouts sent out came back to report that Liu Bei and others were trapped in Lushan City.

Xu Chu was shocked, and immediately left Tian Feng, Jin Dun, and Liu Pi with soldiers from the 16th and 17th battalions to escort grain and grass behind. He took Tie Jia, Zhao Hong, Fan Jian and Dong Dao to lead the remaining more than 5,000 people to rush to Lushan to rescue Liu Bei.

Yecheng to Lushan is only a hundred miles, although most of them are mountain roads, but most of Xu Chu's subordinates are infantry, so the speed of marching in the mountains is not slow.

As the saying goes, it is better to come early than to come by chance, and they arrived at the most critical moment of the battle. A moment later, I'm afraid Liu Bei and the others will be in danger.

At this time, Xu Chu and five soldiers with 5,000 soldiers came over from the southeast. Xu Chu took the lead, and the flat-headed broadsword slashed in the group of yellow turban soldiers, like a machete cutting a watermelon, and a piece of "thunderbolt pulling" fell. On the left, Fan Jian and Dong Dao, one sword and one sword are like a yaksha descending, and they are also killing two bloody paths; On the right, the ironclad double spear stabbed continuously, and the gun had a yellow turban soldier who died under the gun; However, Zhao Hong showed a little weakness, but he also rushed to the side with a knife and a decent style. Behind the five people were a group of commanders and deputy commanders. The soldiers who followed were a little more relaxed, just following the leader to pick up the leaks behind.

Where would Zhang Mancheng have thought that there would be enemy reinforcements coming at this time? They didn't even notice anyone escaping from their encirclement.

It seems that these intelligence officers are really not practicing in vain, and their role is just beginning to be revealed.

The Yellow Turban generals who were attacking at the East Gate were the father and son of the Han family.

As soon as I saw the back, it became chaotic. Han Xin, Han Li, and Han Feng asked Han Zhong for orders. Han Zhong knew how powerful his three nephews were. nodded at the moment, sent three people to the rear to watch, and he sent his son Han Xiao and nephew Han Ping to lead the team to attack the east gate.

Let's say that Han Xin and the three of them came to the rear formation, and they wanted to suppress the formation. Who knew that they were no match for the people who came at all!

I saw Xu Chu seeing the three generals rushing here, and he didn't ask questions, he patted his horse over, and slashed with a knife. Han Xin greeted each other with a big stick, and the two of them walked in a chain, and the first moves were staggered. That Xu Chu didn't look back after a knife, and swung out another knife, taking advantage of the second horse's wrong kick, to cut off Han Xin from behind. Dong Dao and Fan Jian also rushed to Han Li and Han Feng behind Xu Chu, and the four of them stood together.

After Xu Chu killed Han Xin, he went straight to Han Zhong in the front formation.

Han Zhong had just sent Han Xin and the three of them to the rear, and was paying attention to the siege battle between Han Xiao and Han Ping? Where did he think that Xu Chu had already killed behind him, and when he heard the movement, he just turned his head and saw Xu Chu's big knife slashing towards his head. At this time, it was too late to hide, and Old Han Zhong closed his eyes in despair, and felt a chill in his neck. He knew he was dead! Dead in a different place!

His death is terrible. When the Yellow Turban soldiers below saw that the Lord was about to be killed, they all shouted and shouted: "Oh no! The old general Han Zhong was killed by the enemy general! This enemy will be too powerful! Run, brothers! ”

Han Li and Han Feng, who were fighting with Dong Dao and Fan Jian in the back, heard this, and their hearts were suddenly groaned. Just a little stunned, Fan Jian used his yin trick again, and the pocket arrow shot out like lightning, and the sound of "snap" hit Han Feng's eyebrows. Han Feng said "ah", turned over and fell off the horse.

Because of the death of his uncle Han Zhong, Han Li was almost beheaded by Dong Dao just now. This is because of Han Feng's death, which once again caused a short-circuit in thinking. This time, Dong Dao's big knife was not so easy to dodge. I saw Dong Dao slashing at the moon from the bottom up, and directly slashed him out along the inside of Han Li's left leg. It should have been his fate, a soldier of the new third battalion had just killed a Yellow Turban soldier, and when he saw such a great achievement in front of him, he put away his knife and beheaded a Han Li.

In this way, on the front line of the East Gate, except for Han Xiao and Han Ping, who had already attacked the city and were fighting against Xu Rong and the commanders of several volunteer soldiers, the rest of the soldiers began to scatter and flee.

The battle situation in Ximen was even more tragic, and the two battalions led by Zhou Cang had been forced by Sun Zhong and Sun Xia brothers to a small courtyard under the city and were fighting bloodily. However, relying on the narrow terrain, although Sun Zhong and Sun Xia had abundant troops, they couldn't help Zhou Cang and others.

However, at this time, Chen Gun at the north gate, after just resisting the enemy's two attack waves, saw a large amount of smoke and dust rising behind the enemy, and countless arrows flew out of the smoke and dust and shot at the enemy formation. Such smoke and dust, it seemed that the cavalry brigade was galloping, and a smile of relief appeared on his originally solemn face.