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Chapter 934: The Wind Blows and the Clouds Fly (1)

Qiu Zhi came to Qingtan because he was really not at ease here, even if the commander general who guarded here was his most trusted, and he was also very capable Zu Yan, when the big war was about to start, Qiu Zhi took time out of his busy schedule to inspect Qingtan again, just to use his own actions to cause Zu Yan, that is, his 6,000 defenders stationed in Qingtan to pay more attention to this battle, don't be paralyzed because of the dangerous terrain of Qingtan, you must know that when the Dingzhou army attacked all the time, how steep the Nine Knife Peak was, and it was not the same given to the state army to conquer it?

On the frontal battlefield of Bozhou, Qiu Zhi was confident that he could withstand Lu Dalin's attack, but Qiu Zhi also understood that as soon as the war started, the attack of the Dingzhou Army would definitely not be an isolated point, but the entire front, including Qingtan, would be the target of the Dingzhou Army's attack, and the frontal Lu Dalin would definitely do his best to launch a fierce attack on his frontal defense line, so that he would not have to turn back to take care of Qingtan at all, so as to reduce the pressure on the Dingzhou Marine Division to attack Qingtan.

The enemy attacking Qingtan must be from the sea, and the naval giant ships cannot get close to Qingtan, but they can send a large number of marines to land, and if Qingtan is lost, the Lai River will not be protected.

"The old general goes all the way!" Zu Yan helped Qiu Zhi to step on the war horse, held the reins of the horse, and was reluctant.

"Little Ancestor, I'll leave Qingtan to you!" Qiu Zhi gently tapped Zu Yan's helmet with the horsewhip in his hand, and it rang out. This is Qiu Zhi's usual way of showing closeness to his subordinates.

Zu Yan said with a smile: "Don't worry, the old general is in the position, if he loses the position, I don't need to say that I came to see the old general with my head, I wiped my neck here!" ”

Qiu Zhi was slightly startled in his heart, looking at Zu Yan's smiling face and resolute expression, he finally didn't say anything, nodded, sandwiched the horse's belly with his feet, and ran in the direction of Bozhou City, until he couldn't see Qiu Zhi's back, Zu Yan turned around and said loudly: "Go back to the fortress and immediately gather all the officers above the captain to discuss the military council."

Dozens of miles away from Qingtan on the sea, the huge fleet of the Dingzhou Navy Division is anchored on the sea, Qinzhou is in danger, so that the Dingzhou army in Bozhou step-by-step fighting style can no longer be continued, the return of 100,000 mountains makes the breakthrough of Bozhou become the top priority at the moment, otherwise even if Guo Quan's Fengli division highlights Qingzhou and forms a stalemate with the opponent, it will not be of great help to Dingzhou, Li Qingxin's order has been issued, before winter, Bozhou must be taken, control the Lai River, and pose a threat to the hinterland of the Central Plains, Forcing Shang Haibo to shrink the front, in short, is to let Shang Haibo automatically roll out of Qinzhou, otherwise the Dingzhou army that controls the Laihe River can threaten the flank of the Luoyang army at any time, leaving them with no return.

Now it is the middle of September, within two months to capture Bozhou, into the Laihe River, the task is not small, especially the opponent is the old and refined Qiu Zhi, in order to cooperate with Lu Dalin's attack, the Dingzhou Navy Division marched in a big way, Deng Peng's flagship Qiyuan also drove to the sea off Qingtan.

In the spacious command and war room of the Qiyuan, a group of generals gathered on the edge of the huge sand table, all frowning and looking at the model of the key village on the green beach.

|"Qiu Zhi is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, with a unique vision, not only to choke the Laihe River, but also to the design of the village, the Z-shaped defensive position is the first time I have seen it, but with the treacherous terrain here, it has become a perfect match, if you want to fight down, there is really no other way than to exchange human lives for human lives." Zhuang Youbao shook his head.

"If there is time, in fact, we can first concentrate on annihilating Qiu Zhi's main force, as long as Qiu Zhi is defeated, Qingtan will naturally be defeated, but now that the time is so urgent, I am afraid that we will have to pay a huge price!" Deng Peng is not optimistic.

"Zhiqiang, if there is any difficulty in the Marine Corps, you can bring it up, as long as we have it, we will satisfy you." Looking at the main attacking general this time, the commander of the Marine Corps of the Marine Division, Zheng Zhiqiang, Deng Pengdao.

After several years of war experience, Zheng Zhiqiang, the former street ranger, has long been no longer as young as he was in the past, and his beard is very easy to make people ignore his real age, in fact, he is not yet thirty years old, most of the generals in Dingzhou are extremely young, except for a group of foreign generals like Deng Peng, Lu Dalin, and Tian Feng who gathered under the command of Dingzhou for various reasons, most of the generals in Dingzhou are extremely young, which is also one of the reasons why Dingzhou can attract young and promising people to join, if in an old bureaucratic system, A young man of Zheng Zhiqiang's age, no matter how talented you are, I'm afraid you're just a captain at most, and like Zheng Zhiqiang, he is now in the position of General Fuyuan of Dingzhou, commanding more than 10,000 marines of the Marine Division.

"General, can you dismantle a few Shenwei cannons on the Qiyuan and lend them to me?" Zheng Zhiqiang looked at Deng Peng and said.

"Each of the Shenwei cannons weighs thousands of catties, even if I give it to you, how can you transport it in such a treacherous terrain?" Deng Peng shook his head, "And in the process of transportation, as long as the other party strikes intensively with a trebuchet, the precious Shenwei cannon may be destroyed."

"There's always something to figure out." Zheng Zhiqiang gritted his teeth and said: "Most of the positions on the Qingtan Fortress are built of boulders, trebuchets, and the Eight Bull Crossbows have limited effect, and the scorpion cannon hits it, at most it will tickle the other party, and it can't play any role, but as long as I transport a Shenwei cannon, I can blast his position open, and more importantly, the psychological deterrence of the enemy, let them know that the position they thought was impregnable was nothing in front of the soldiers of our Dingzhou army."

Deng Peng pondered for a long time, "You have a point, okay, I'll give you three doors, it's useless if you have more."

"Thank you, General, and I have to ask the General to lend me a few people along with the artillery."

"I'm afraid a few people won't work, I'm afraid there will be dead and wounded at that time, I'll give you thirty people, each cannon with ten experienced gunners, as long as you can transport the cannon to the firing range, it can play a huge role."

On September 28, more than 10,000 marines of the Dingzhou Navy Division landed in Qingtan, and the Qingtan Battle officially began.

Qinzhou City, Guan Xinglong stood on the city with a knife, five days ago, under the attack of Qu Yongjie and Zhou Tong as many as more than 200,000 troops, the Dingzhou army resisted in the periphery of Qinzhou for ten days, took the initiative to abandon all peripheral positions, and shrank the troops to Qinzhou City, at this time, Guan Xinglong's 40,000 troops have lost more than 10,000 people, and more than 30,000 people are stationed in a big city like Qinzhou, and the troops are already slightly insufficient. It is only to increase the number of defenders to more than 50,000 people, and nearly 20,000 of them have never received any military training, and their combat effectiveness is extremely low.

Time is of the utmost importance to both sides of the war.

Yizhou has begun to mobilize the whole state, but to gather troops to aid Qinzhou, at least half a month later, this is still Guan Xinglong expected in advance that the opponent will launch a large-scale attack on Qinzhou, and the result of asking for help from Yizhou, Quanzhou has suffered heavy losses over the years, and has not slowed down, they can protect themselves It is already good, they can't count on it at all, what they can count on now is the rapid return of the Qi Nian Division, and all the troops of the Qi Nian Division are less than 30,000 people, and it is not realistic to break through the opponent's heavy interception and reach the city of Qinzhou, In order to capture Qinzhou City, the opponent will definitely spare no effort to intercept all possible reinforcements.

Fortunately, the mountain wind defeated the Wanli department in Qingzhou, which made Guan Xinglong have a sense of luck in misfortune, and now the mountain wind has also restrained the Qingzhou Wanli department, plus the enemy army in Tacheng, Pinglu, Chenghua and other places, the Luoyang army of seventy or eighty thousand people cannot enter Qinzhou to fight, if the mountain wind is defeated there, what situation Qinzhou will face, Guan Xinglong can't imagine.

The sound of war drums on the opposite side, a group of straggler lines jumped into view, hundreds of Mengchong vehicles, siege vehicles, and countless ladders rushed towards Qinzhou City, and the shouts of soldiers came from far and near, stepping on the land full of corpses, and the Luoyang army once again launched a rush.

Countless stone bullets crossed the sky, some crossed the city wall, fell into the city, there was a rumbling sound, I don't know where the house was destroyed again, more stone bullets are bombarded on the city wall, every blow, the city wall under the feet will tremble for a while, the sharp roar of the eight bull crossbow resounded throughout the battlefield, look at it, all the eyes are all eight bull crossbow arrows flying figure, it seems that the opponent in the front of the one time is afraid of as many as hundreds of eight bull crossbows and trebuchets.

"What a big scene!" Guan Xinglong laughed self-deprecatingly, as long as it is Lao Tzu's turn to defend the city, he is always faced with a dangerous situation, in Dingyuan back then, three thousand defenders faced tens of thousands of barbarian troops, almost the city was ruined, the battle of that year, achieved the prestige of the one-armed general, Li Qing is even more personally inscribed, the horizontal knife immediately, only I Guan Da General, and today, 50,000 defenders, no, it should be said that there are only 30,000, facing as many as hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, its danger is even more than back then, Because the Luoyang army they are facing now is not comparable to the barbarian army that lacked the skills to attack the city back then, they have at least a hundred ways to attack the city.

And now, the opponent has adopted the simplest and most brutal style of play, attacking in rotation day and night, trying to drown himself with crowd tactics.

"That's too much to underestimate yourself!" Guan Xinglong sneered, you are good at attacking cities, but Lao Tzu is also good at defending cities.

Bang, a stone bullet hit the city tower, the wooden dome of the city tower behind Guan Xinglong was smashed with a bang, and the debris fell one after another, Guan Xinglong waved his hand again and again in annoyance, and waved the fragments away, the long-range weapons of the Luoyang army have made great progress in recent years, and the range and accuracy have almost caught up with the Dingzhou ordnance, which makes the Dingzhou army no longer have the previous advantage in long-range weapons.

The eight-bull crossbows that were densely packed on the city began to return fire, and the trebuchets in the city began to fire, and the two sides began to suppress each other, but compared to the number of sieges, the city was obviously a little inadequate.

"Wang Peng, Wang Peng!" Guan Xinglong struck an iron shield beside him with the knife in his hand and shouted.

The iron shield was suddenly lifted, and Wang Peng, who looked worried, jumped up, "General, I'm here!" ”

"Lao Tzu knows where you are!" Guan Xinglong said angrily, pointing to the siege soldiers below who were getting closer and closer, "Get out of the city and intercept!" ”

"The last general obeys!" The drowsiness on Wang Peng's face immediately disappeared, he reached out and grabbed a spear on the ground and ran towards the city, then ran and shouted, "The first cavalry battalion, follow me to attack!" ”

Last night, Wang Peng went out of the city three times to fight back, and almost didn't sleep all night.