Chapter 112: Breaking the City
It is impossible for Meng Ge to arrive within two days, Ma Chao's purpose is obvious, he wants to take Anding City and solve his worries, otherwise it is not so comfortable to let Li Meng of Anding City sneak attack, Li Wei has already let Ma Chao retreat, and now he retreats back, Cheng Yin and Zhang Heng have arranged a defensive line in the northeast direction of Anding, and Ma Chao will be able to free up his hands to deal with Li Dao and Meng Ge from Chang'an.
Li Dao did not dare to act rashly because the vanguard was frustrated, which also gave Ma Chao a chance to lay a stable position, but in Meng Ge's view, Ma Chao's move was completely stupid, since he decided to ambush Li Dao, then he should fight a full battle, completely solve Li Dao, and should completely solve Li Dao when Li Dao's army was defeated and demoralized.
Now to deal with Li Meng, it is completely a stupid trick, the reinforcements are the reinforcements, as long as Li Meng sets up a suspicious soldier Li Meng will not dare to act rashly, Ma Chao should have taken advantage of Li Wei's rash advance to annihilate Li Dao in one fell swoop, but Ma Chao's troops are too little, in other words, his courage is not fat enough, and his encirclement and reinforcement are just half-hearted.
If Meng Ge came to fight this battle, Meng Ge would definitely invest heavy troops in the ambush, set up a continuous ambush, and kill Li Dao dizzy, and then completely surround Li Dao and fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, not just a rout battle, but Meng Ge saw Ma Chao's combat talent, although he was not mature, but he already had a certain amount of skill, and his grasp of the battle situation was okay, after all, no one had used the battle example of encircling points to send reinforcements before.
Meng Ge analyzed Ma Chao's combat methods, but Li Meng was miserable in terms of stability, Ma Chao continued to send troops to harass, whether it was day or night, Li Meng couldn't get a little rest at all, the soldiers were tired and crumbling, Ma Chao's abnormal practices made Li Meng extremely vigilant, is Ma Chao going to attack the city? The thought lingered in his mind.
"General, it's not good, Ma Chao is attacking!" Li Meng just wanted to rest and rest, and suddenly his own soldiers came to report in a panic, Li Meng was stunned, he really came, it seems that this stability can't be kept.
Combined with the current situation of the soldiers, Li Meng knew that this time it was impossible to hold on, not only because of exhaustion, but because the siege of Lian Yu made everyone lose confidence, the reinforcements were delayed, and they were completely cut off from the news outside, and it was already a miracle that the soldiers did not break and escape, and now Ma Chao attacked the city Li Meng knew that the general trend had gone.
In just a moment, the siege troops commanded by Pound attacked from the east with rushing cars and ladders, the ladder is not a simple ladder, the ladder is essentially a large siege equipment, there are two ladders, carried by car, the first ladder is behind the body, and the other ladder is foldable, when the car carrying the ladder arrives not far from the city wall, you can put the upper section of the ladder on the city wall, and the soldiers can follow the ladder to attack the city tower.
From the overall layout point of view, the ladder is actually caused by a slope, the ladder is the slope, which can be climbed by soldiers, such a combat tool is indeed a great reduction in the difficulty of siege, and the rush is naturally the same, the punch car is fixed in the center of the body of a giant log, and the front is equipped with a sledgehammer, and the impact force should not be underestimated.
Li Meng's face turned white when he saw these two siege equipment, Ma Chao's preparation was so sufficient, Li Meng knew that this time it was probably over, Pang De looked at the city wall in front of him with a cold face, it was not easy for Li Meng to withstand it for a month, but today he was dead.
Standing on the dirt mountain, Pound glanced at the soldiers under him and said loudly: "Crossbowmen, suppress the middle tower!" ”
"Order!" Pound was not in a hurry, the situation in the city was not clear, and a rash siege would inevitably be counterattacked by the enemy, his approach was to suppress the enemy back with a crossbowman first, open the city gate with a rushing car first, and at the same time concentrate the enemy's defense to the central tower.
Braving the rain of arrows, Li Meng shouted loudly: "Crossbowmen, counter-suppression, shoot me!" ”
The rain of arrows on both sides continued to shoot at each other, and Pang De coldly looked at the rain of arrows that kept falling on the city tower, I see how long you can last, and there shouldn't be many supplies in the city!
"Ladders, move towards the city walls, make a feint, and make them exhausted!" Soon Pound gave a second order, this time with a feint, but it could become a real attack at any time.
Seeing Pound De dispatch the ladder, Li Meng suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, if the huge ladder was erected on the city wall, I am afraid that it would not take two or three moments for the enemy army to rush up, how should this be good, Li Meng's troops in his hands are limited, and a large number of crossbowmen are concentrated on the central city tower, if they are transferred away at this time, they will inevitably be suppressed by Pound's crossbow array.
As a last resort, Li Meng had no choice but to mobilize the reserve troops and assemble in the direction of the city walls on both sides, and Li Meng shouted loudly: "Quick, take position immediately, and defeat the enemy for me." ”
In the past, the Xiliang soldiers would only use the tactics of intensive climbing, but now Ma Chao has used new tactics, Li Meng dared to reach huge pressure, the threat of the opponent's ladder is too great, once people climb the city tower, I am afraid that everything is over, Li Meng is extremely afraid.
Pound De, who was standing on the dirt mountain, narrowed his eyes slightly, he didn't expect Li Meng to have reserve troops, looking at the soldiers who were waiting for him, Pang De was slightly surprised, but let Li Meng send the reserve troops up so quickly, Pound knew that the enemy had no choice, if the troops under the city tower went up to the city wall, then the bottom would be empty.
"Rush the car! Crash the city! "Pound is not in a hurry to go to the city to fight, what he wants is to make the enemy army more tired, as long as the ladder is placed there, the enemy will throw a mouse trap, the key is to mobilize Li Meng.
A new rush car was dispatched, and the huge rush car slowly approached the city gate under the impetus of dozens of people, and the front of the city tower was suppressed by Pang De's crossbow array, and there was no way to pose a threat to the rushing car below, Li Meng could only watch the rush car approach the city gate.
There's no way, Pang De sneered and looked at the city tower, the soldiers on the city tower were suppressed, and it was difficult to even raise their heads, in this case, of course, it was not easy to smash the rushing car, even attacking the soldiers below was difficult, the soldiers below were protected by big shields, and ordinary stray arrows couldn't hurt them at all.
The general situation has been decided, Pound knows that this time it will be done, but he still does not dare to be careless, in case Li Meng makes any moths again, it will be troublesome, while commanding the crossbow array to continuously suppress the soldiers on the city tower, Pound also ordered the cavalry brigade to be ready to enter the city at any time.
"Bang! Bang! "More than ten consecutive impacts, the city gate finally could not withstand the huge impact force, was smashed by the car, the moment the city gate was knocked open, the army in the city immediately poured out from the exit, followed by the Ma Teng soldiers who rushed into the car at the same time, the small city gate suddenly flesh and blood flying, hundreds of people crowded in the city gate, the killing shouts were endless.
"Crossbowmen are fully suppressed, don't stop!" Pound looked at the direction of the breached city gate with a frosty face, at this time the cavalry could not rush in, and only relied on the infantry to open the gap in the city gate.
It's just that Pound's second siege weapon began to play a role this time, the ladder was erected without hesitation, the huge hook at the front of the ladder was firmly fixed on the city wall, countless soldiers suddenly rushed up the city wall from the ladder, Pound personally led the soldiers to kill it, at this time Pound knew that he needed to boost morale, so he was the first to rush to the city wall and kill the city wall with a big knife.
It's over, Li Meng sat back and watched the city gate being breached, Pang De killed the city wall, the soldiers on the city wall no longer had the will to fight, he knew that it was all over, this time the stability could not be saved, the tired plan of the soldiers for two consecutive days had exhausted the troops defending the city, Pang De made the final blow, and there was no suspense in this battle.
Pound led the soldiers to rush to the city wall like a tide, and killed all the way down, under the leadership of Pound, all the soldiers were like chicken blood, and more than ten cloud ladders continued to kill soldiers on the city wall, quickly gathered into a torrent, and followed Pound all the way down.
"It's all down, the general trend is gone!" Li Meng was discouraged, and he didn't expect the battle to end so soon.
The battle lasted for half an hour, Pang De easily took Anding City, since then Ma Chao captured Anding, Anding defender Li Meng surrendered, Ma Chao accepted his surrender, so far Anding fell.
As Meng Ge expected, Ma Chao only took a very short time to capture Anding, in fact, Anding has long become an isolated city, it is not surprising that it was breached, in the early stage it was because Ma Chao did not have siege equipment, but now it is different, Ma Chao has siege equipment, and it is no longer difficult to capture Anding.
Soon after, Ma Chao entered the stability, and as soon as he entered the city, Pang De immediately came up to greet him, and Ma Chao immediately laughed and said: "Hahaha! Ling Ming is really brave, there should be a heavy reward, now the stability is finally in my hands, now we just have to sit and wait for Meng Ge to come, I want to see how Meng Ge can break through the stability of my heavy defense! ”
Seeing that Ma Chao seemed to be a little too proud, Pang De immediately spoke: "The general is too prestigious, thanks to the soldiers' lives, the last general will not dare to take credit and take stability, now we have a stronghold, but Meng Ge is the number one demon general in the world, and the general should not be underestimated!" ”
Ma Chao knew that Pang De had good intentions, and the relationship between the two was excellent, Ma Chao listened to Pang De's words, Ma Chao immediately put away his smugness, and said: "I understand, let Brother Ming rest assured, even if Meng Ge is powerful, he will not be able to grow wings, unless he can fly, otherwise if you want to break the stability of my heavy troops, I am afraid it will take a lot of effort, but you still have to work hard to make a trip to Ling Ming, and when Meng Ge comes, let's give him a good dismount." ”
"Do we also want to ambush Meng Ge, he is not Li Dao, he is not so easy to ambush!" Pound was slightly puzzled, he didn't know how powerful Meng Ge was, but there was no vanity under the fame, Meng Ge was able to cross the tiger prison and naturally had his advantages, and Pound believed that it would be difficult to ambush Meng Ge.
"Naturally, the enemy army is coming from afar, let's occupy the advantageous position, and we can't say anything if we don't ambush him, but this time we also need Ling Ming to lure the enemy and pretend to be defeated, let's ambush Menggo eighty miles northeast of Anding City, where the terrain is conducive to ambush, I will lead most of the men and horses to lurk in the valley, and give Menggo a good look." Ma Chao said with a smile, but his words were full of murder.
Will such a simple ambush of Mongo be tricked, Pound felt that it was difficult, and suddenly said in embarrassment: "General, it is easy to defeat by deception, but the last general does not have the confidence to hide from Mongo's eyes, what if it fails?" ”
"It's okay, if it really doesn't work, let's have a good fight with Mongo there, and we won't lose money on this deal! Hey! Speaking of this, Ma Chao was slightly proud, Li Dao had already made him dare not move, and now that Meng Ge had to go around, he didn't believe that Meng Ge could deal with the charge of the Xiliang cavalry.
Pound thinks it's feasible to say this, although Meng Ge is powerful, but he really doesn't believe that he can't kill Meng Ge, playing surprise attacks and tricks Pang knows that it will definitely not work, but he feels confident in a head-on battle, although Meng Ge led two thousand cavalry to kill the white horse Yisu.
But if you analyze it carefully, you can see that Meng Ge was ambushed by Gongsun Zhan, otherwise it would not be so simple at all, Gongsun Chan is also a well-known figure in Youzhou, Bai Ma Yi is from outside the Weizhen Pass, naturally it is not a waste of fame, Meng Ge is not afraid it will be difficult to defeat Gongsun Chan if he does not occupy the geographical advantage, not to mention fighting more with less, Pang De firmly believes that the Xiliang cavalry is not weaker than Bai Ma Yicong, so the head-to-head confrontation Pang De really wants to try it.
With such thoughts, the two began to arrange matters related to the ambush of Meng Ge, Li Dao This guy has been scared by Ma Chao, and now he is cowering in his own camp and does not dare to come out, he has withdrawn to the east a hundred miles away, and then retreats to the east is the north, but even so he is still a little uneasy.
Now he is anxious to wait, why hasn't Meng Ge come yet, the pressure on Ma Chao is too great, Ma Chao's field ability to lead the Xiliang cavalry is even stronger than his Flying Bear Army, and the Flying Bear Army has fallen behind in the face of it, which makes Li Dao feel deeply frightened, when dealing with the Kwantung princes, the Flying Bear Army did not dispatch, but the Flying Bear Army has never encountered an opponent for many years, and this time I am afraid it has been encountered.
Others are in a hurry, but Mongo is not in a hurry at all, he is looking around at the scenery, a leisurely look, the scenery of the northwest makes Mongo a little surprised, this year the northwest is not so barren to the queen, but full of green.
Xiahou Lan, who was following behind Meng Ge, smiled and said to Zilong next to him: "Zilong, do you think Li Dao will be in a hurry like an ant on a hot pot now?" ”
"I'm afraid it's possible, I heard that Xiliang Ma Chao can fight well, didn't Li Dao suffer defeat! Now we must be in a hurry to wait for the general's reinforcements! Zhao Yun smiled and said indifferently.
"In that case, why don't you say the general is not worried at all? If it's too late, the general will be finished, and the general will have to face Ma Chao alone! Xia Houlan didn't understand this very much, if it was not a good thing to let Ma Chao win, Meng Ge must understand this, but Meng Ge just ignored it, but let the army go slower, don't go too fast.
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