Chapter 239: The Fall of Wudu
In the spring of last year, because Liang Shuang joined forces with Wolf Qiang to attack Longxi and Hanyang, there were more than ten double-shot battles, so the Bingzhou army also won a lot of armor from the Wudu soldiers, this time Wei Yan was a surprise soldier, and Lu Bu also allocated him a lot of armor of the Wudu Army in case of emergency, Wei Yan didn't expect that they would use it as soon as they entered the Wudu.
The discussion of the provisional army was completed in less than a moment, Wei Yan did not hesitate, got up from the rock, and ordered in a deep voice: "Zhou Tai, order you to lead two thousand soldiers and horses to change into the armor of the Wudu army, and immediately go up, and stay until midnight, raid Wudu, and strive to break the city with one drum, and bring nine thousand soldiers and horses to attack and argue, remember, after capturing Wudu, defend the city to the death, even if you fight to the point of one soldier, you must ensure that the martial arts are not lost!" ”
"The Last General Commands"
Zhou Tai shouted a promise, and immediately beckoned the two thousand soldiers and horses of the headquarters, and changed into the armor of the Wudu soldiers.
Wei Yan stopped on the mountainside, raised his eyes and looked at the direction of Zhou Tai's advance, until he couldn't see the figure of Zhou Tai's army before going down the mountain, and then led the rest of the soldiers and horses into the mountain and killed in the direction of Xia Wei.
Wudu City, in the middle of the night, the night is deep and silent.
I heard that the Bingzhou army detoured to the wooden gate from the south, and there were forty or fifty thousand horses on it, because the Tielong Valley was held by its own side, so the defenders of the whole city were in a state of paralysis and carelessness, and no one would have thought that the Bingzhou army would smuggle across the Tielong Valley, cross the remaining veins of Qishan, and the divine soldiers arrived under the Wudu City in general.
Responsible for guarding the south gate of the city is the wife and brother Cui Yong of Li Xiangru, who is gathering a few soldiers to gamble in the city tower at this moment, seven or eight veterans with some status holding a string of five baht coins, shouting and drinking so loudly that their faces are red, and dozens of old fritters who are watching the excitement are gathered around, and there is a miasma of black smoke in the huge city tower.
Outside the city gate tower. There were only four or five hundred guards on the city walls, which stretched for four or five miles. It was sparse and sparse, and it took twenty or thirty steps before there was a soldier standing with a gun. And instead of staring at the battlements, he put his arms on the battlements and snoozed, and he was not afraid of accidentally falling off the wall.
"Anyone?"
A tun chief, who was pacing back and forth, suddenly heard trembling footsteps. couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly kicked the napping soldier next to him, and then looked down at the city with wide eyes. "As far as the fuck knows, sleep, open the dog's eyes to help Lao Tzu see, is it a person from the city?"
There was a commotion on the city wall, and the guards cheered up and raised their torches high. Look out under the city walls.
"Oh my God, is this a man or a ghost? How did so many people come out all at once? ”
"Oh my mother, how can these people walk so lightly. It doesn't light with torches, it won't be a yin soldier, right? ”
As soon as the Yin soldier's argument came out, the defenders at the head of the city directly blew up their scalps. The hairs on their bodies stood on end, and they got goosebumps. This team came with some evil sects, densely packed. There was a big ball of black pressure, and the sound of walking was so low. What's even weirder is that you don't even need a torch, isn't this the legendary Yin soldier?
Some of the timid even peed their pants in fright. Squatting behind the female wall and trembling: "I didn't see anything, don't take me away!" My family has an old mother, wife and children, and they still have to rely on me to support them! ”
"Have your mother-in-law a hammer!"
The commander was quite bold, and he could see through the torches that the armor of the team was the same as his own. The scabbard in his hand slammed down on a few trembling cowards without mercy. There were several screams from the city walls.
"Hurry up and report to Lu Sima!"
While sending someone to report to his boss, the tun chief dared to shout: "Which team is coming?" Don't get any closer, or the bow and arrow will be merciless! ”
I didn't expect to go all the way to the bottom of Wudu City, and I didn't even meet a scout along the way, it seems that Yan Xing didn't lie, and the scouts were all killed by him in the mountains. However, Zhou Tai also had to sigh that the military discipline of the Wudu soldiers and horses was scattered, Liang Shuang himself was arrogant and extravagant, and the generals under his account were basically generals, and they met such an opponent with wine bags and rice bags. If you can't win, what are you talking about dominating the world?
Seeing that it was only more than a hundred zhang away from the moat, how could Zhou Tai stop?
He held the dragon pattern sword, walked at the front of the team with his head held high, beckoned the soldiers to speed up the pace, and said loudly: "The defenders in the city have listened, the trapped Iron Dragon Valley has been lost, General Chen has died, I have fled back desperately, open the door quickly, let me wait to enter the city!" ”
Sima Cui Yong, who was gambling together, was startled when he heard the report, and before he had time to put on his helmet, he rushed out of the city tower with his sword. Looking under the city wall with torches, I saw that there seemed to be two or three thousand people in dense packs, all dressed in their own armor, and even carrying a lot of their own flags, among which there were many people wrapped in bandages, and there were dried blood stains on them, but I believed what Zhou said.
"No matter where you come from, don't go near the moat again! After I report to my brother-in-law, General Li Xiangru, I will decide whether to let you into the city! ”
Since it was his own people who came, Cui Yong's hanging heart was put down, and he moved out of Li Xiangru to pull the banner as a tiger skin with high spirits.
"Why don't you stop?"
Seeing that the soldiers and horses under the city ignored his words, Cui Yong couldn't help but get angry, "Wait until you listen to me, if you don't stop, you're going to release the arrow!" ”
Cui Yong shouted three times in a row, and the team under the city ignored it, approaching with neat steps, seeing that it was already close to the moat.
This made Lu Cuiyong couldn't help but be furious, and drew his sword in his hand: "Give me an arrow to warn this group of bastards!" Was he stupid by the state army, and he couldn't even understand people's words? ”
After Cui Yong's order, the defenders on the city wall bent their bows and arrows one after another, but the crossbow arrows in their hands had not yet been shot, and they could only hear the sound of "whooshing" off the strings above their heads suddenly as dense as raindrops.
A wave of arrows rained down on the city wall, screaming loudly, 500 soldiers were shot in an instant, killing more than 200 people on the spot, and the remaining 200 people were almost frightened, either they threw their bows and arrows and ran under the city wall, or they curled up under the female wall to avoid the rain of arrows.
"Enemy attack! Blow my horn! ”
Cui Yong was almost frightened, even if he was stupid, he understood. How can the defeated army be so ruthless? Originally, he planned to let the defenders release arrows to scare the other party, but the city had already begun to move in earnest, and many people on the city wall with a wave of arrows turned into hedgehogs. This is not an enemy army, is it?
Zhou Tai's big sword move: "The three armies listen to the order, follow me to attack the city, and those who climb the city wall first will be rewarded with fifty dollars, and the official will be promoted to one rank"
"Kill!"
Zhou Tai carried a knife and crossed the moat first. Behind him were the thousands of warriors in charge of ascending first, all of whom were armed with ghost-headed broadswords. The other hand holds a shield. The sound of killing shook the sky and was deafening.
Because they came over mountains and mountains, the team did not carry a ladder, and at this moment they could only rely on a rope ladder to reach the city. Rope ladders hung on the city wall with the sound of the wind, and the brave soldiers began to climb desperately.
The defenders on the city wall were too sparse, and in the face of the rope ladders thrown up with iron hooks and hung on the city wall, they couldn't cope at all, and Zhou Tai carried a pan knife. Take the lead and take the lead in ascending Wudu City.
At this moment, his lieutenant had ordered all the soldiers under the city to light the pine torches, and illuminate the top and bottom of the city wall as bright as day, for the first warriors who attacked the city.
"Jiujiang Zhoutai is here, the thieves are not ready to surrender!"
In the midst of the chaos, Zhou Tai carried a dragon-patterned knife and slaughtered like chopping melons and vegetables. As far as the knife goes, people's heads roll wildly. Twenty or thirty guards were cut down in an instant.
Cui Yong was so frightened that he didn't dare to step forward to meet the enemy, so he turned around and left. As soon as he ran a few steps, the spear kicked by Zhou Tai penetrated his chest from the back, stood unsteadily, and fell to the bottom of the city.
"The Keeper is dead. The thieves are not coming down soon? Zhou Tai screamed and roared while slashing bravely, and no one could stop him wherever he went, and strode to the edge of the rope hanging the suspension bridge, and raised the big knife in his hand. Fiercely chopped, only two knives, the iron cable was disconnected, and the drawbridge fell to the ground, causing the Bingzhou army under the city to cheer, and the army's heart was shocked.
Zhou Tai cut the lock and shouted at the tooth gate general who had just been killed: "You clean up the thieves in the city, and go to the city tower to open the door!" ”
After a while, Zhou Tai killed more than 30 Yuan soldiers guarding the gate latch under the city tower, pulled it out with all his might, and then slowly pushed the city gate that usually requires more than a dozen people to push open.
"The whole army enters the city!"
Seeing that his own general opened the city gate, he took the lead in leading a thousand elite soldiers through the drawbridge like a tide, and rushed into the city of Wudu unstoppably.
Wudu is too guarded, Li Xiangru sits like a needle felt, this year has just entered the autumn, and the state army will go south with a thunderous momentum, the wooden gate guards can not resist, and now they have retreated to the river pool, in the west, Lu Bu's general Gao Shun led 20,000 soldiers and horses to attack the upper valley, at this time has opened the army to the bottom of the Tielong Valley mountain, as long as the Tielong Valley is broken, the river pool belly is affected by the enemy, with the broken earthen wall, how can it resist the state army?
As soon as the river pool was broken, Wudu was in danger, so he transferred the soldiers and horses of Wudu to the north and galloped to the aid of Hechi, hoping to block the front of the Bingzhou army and win the support of the soldiers and horses.
But that was all Li Xiangru's speculation, Lu Bu waved 30,000 troops south, and stubbornly restrained the soldiers and horses who were arguing, and there were wars in the rest of the places, how could there be soldiers and horses to support Wudu?
He only needs to sit in Wudu now, if the river is broken, he will not hesitate to take his family into Shu and defect to his brother who is an official in Xichuan.
Suddenly, a loud shout of killing came from far and near, startling Li Xiangru to run outside the mansion with his gun in hand, and bumped into the panicked lieutenant general head-on in front of the mansion.
Li Xiangru's body was crooked, and he shouted: "What happened? Why so panicked. ”
The adjutant general couldn't help but straighten his head, and shouted hoarsely: "General, woe, woe, an enemy army has entered the city."
"Bold, nonsense"
Hearing the adjutant general's words, Li Xiangru's eyes suddenly widened, and he scolded angrily: "How can there be enemy troops in the city, can't they fall from the sky!" ”
The adjutant general hurriedly pointed to the sky and swore: "What the last general said is true, don't dare to talk nonsense!" ”
Li Xiangru frowned, and couldn't help muttering a little in his heart, this deputy general has followed him for many years, and he is expected not to deceive himself, but there are really enemy troops, where did they come from, the more Li Xiangru thought about it, the more chaotic he became, and he ran to the house with a gun in annoyance.
Regardless of whether he is true or not, he will talk about it after escaping first, this is what Li Xiang thought when he was like this, he hurriedly cleaned up in the house, and immediately ran out of the Taishou Mansion with his family, wanting to escape out of the city.
Just left the house, but saw that the deputy general had died tragically outside the door, and the streets were densely packed with his own soldiers, who were staring at him with wide eyes.
Li Xiangru raised a gun in front of him, pointed at the deputy general who had died of anger and asked, "Can anyone tell me what's going on?" Who is the lead lieutenant. ”
Zhou Tai held a knife, pushed aside the crowd and walked out, looked Li Xiangru up and down, and asked rhetorically: "Are you the martial capital guarding Li Xiangru?" ”
Li Xiangru held the spear in his arms, stroked his beard and said proudly: "I know that it is the general, why don't you disperse quickly, and then protect me out of the city!" ”
Zhou Tai smiled, it turned out that he wanted to escape, and sure enough, the soldiers were a nest of bears, the main general was greedy for life and afraid of death, and the soldiers under the tent were not any better.
Thinking of this, Zhou Tai pointed at Li Xiangru and drank: "Listen, Zhou Tai, the captain of Yingyang under the tent of the Marquis of the Great Han Dynasty, Zhou Tai is also, don't ask the king of Hades when the time comes, you don't know who died in whom's hands." ”
"What? You are," Lee Sang-ru said tremblingly.
But before he could finish speaking, he saw a flash of the knife, and Li Xiangru's head rolled down to the street with a grunt, which frightened his relatives and relatives to tremble and shout.
The adjutant general came up in a cluster, and his eyes glanced at Li Xiangru, who was trembling, and asked, "General, what should I do with these people?" ”
"Kill" Zhou Tai snorted coldly: "After you are done, you guard the south gate, and a certain guard the north gate, remember, even if you fight to the death of a soldier, you will defend to the death, in addition, you are sending more than a dozen people to return to Tielong Mountain along the original road, contact General Gao Shun and General Jiang Xu, and ask them to lead the army to respond." ”
Because Wudu is located between two mountains, there are only two gates, and the east and west sides are lofty mountains and mountains, which are natural barriers, so as long as they hold the north gate and the south gate, this surprise attack is considered a success. (To be continued......)