Chapter Seventy-Four: The War Is Settled
Wen Chou's army came smoothly to the outside of the county seat of Fangxian County, which also came with a large number of siege equipment, including ladders, rushing cars, moving combination arrow towers, etc., and there were countless of them. This is where the army of Wen Chou relied on to attack the city.
When Wen Chou's army arrived, they did not immediately launch a siege battle. Instead, he began to arrange the army in a leisurely manner, arrange the order of siege equipment, and so on. At the same time, it was a little rest, although they were not tired. But this is the order of Wen Chou and his generals. Maybe it's to give enough time to the people in the city.
Wen Chou and the invited guests rode their horses to the county seat and looked at it from afar. The city was crowded with a large number of robbers in military uniforms or without military uniforms, and they were armed with different weapons, knives, spears, swords, bows, forks, clubs, and even hoes! This is the 'force' that Guo Daxian can organize!
This situation made Wen Chou's brows furrow slightly, because the current situation showed Guo Daxian's intention to resist to the end. He even made the whole people soldiers, even though he knew that he would not be able to resist Wen Chou's attack, but he still did it.
Although Wen Chou frowned for a moment, it was because he didn't want to cause too much killing in this battle, because these people were his future subjects and the basis for the further development of his future military strength. How could he think of slaying them all!
Population was another important factor in his war.
Guo Daxian was in the spotlight of the thieves, Shi Shiran climbed the city gate tower, surrounded by the elite of the thieves, quietly observing the elite army of the city, the army before the Wen Chou and the guests invited! He seemed so calm that he didn't have any facial expressions.
Guo Daxian's arrival naturally caused the thieves to cheer! And it's a lot of cheers. Because they found that their Qu Shuai had not left them and abandoned them as rumored by the outside world. Their commanders were still with them, advancing and retreating together, even though the enemies they faced were incomparably strong, even invincible.
Guo Daxian was not as happy and relieved as his thieves. The pain in his heart may be known only to him. Originally, I was thinking about whether I could fight it and see if I could rely on the power of the city wall to make it possible for me to survive this catastrophe, after all, although Wen Chou's troops were elite, they were only five or six thousand, and according to ordinary experience, ten times the siege and five times the attack!
But Wen Chou's strength is far from reaching this standard, even the ordinary siege of thieves, and there is also an army of more than 10,000 people! You can't take the city. Such as Li Damu attacking Gaoyi County. But after he saw Wen Chou's soldiers, formations, and soldiers, this idea was basically abandoned by him, because he found that he couldn't guess Wen Chou's strength according to ordinary troops!
Guo Daxian's idea was well verified in the ensuing battle.
Guo Daxian did not give any exciting speeches on the city wall, and similarly, Wen Chou did not say anything to the soldiers under his command. Guo Daxian may still have a little bit of luck mentality, to see if the combat power of Wen Chou's army is really as general and powerful as he imagined! Maybe not!
After another quarter of an hour, Wen Chou finally gave the first order for this battle! Start the siege! And it was the whole army that launched the siege battle in one go! Just wait for Wen Chou's order. The two huge cowhide drums behind Wen Chou! Two of them in the days when it was still a bit chilly. Shirtless, you slam the drumstick into the drums with a forceful and rhythmic blow.
After the drums of war sounded. Several units of Wenchou's army began to attack the county seat one after another. It seems to be quite scattered, but in fact, it is a carefully arranged order! Not to mention the majesty of the elite vanguard of Wenba's elite army at the front, that is, the elite of Gaoyi County, who followed Lu Liang, under the majesty of Lu Liang's leading soldiers, also rushed towards the house county with the slightest majesty of the elite soldiers of Wenba!
These two armies are almost half of Wen Chou's military strength this time, and they are also the armies that Wen Chou's army opened the way in front. Whether they are successful or not is related to the actions of the other two armies behind Wen Chou. If the armies of Wenba and Lu Liang were progressing smoothly, then Liu Zhong and Dong Jiang would not have to work so hard to open up another battle; If Wenba and Lu Liang don't go well. Then it is necessary for Liu Zhong and Dong Jiangzhi's army to change a breakthrough.
The purpose of this is to reduce casualties as much as possible, although Wen Chou is currently strong in the army, but it does not mean that he will not spare the lives of his soldiers, on the contrary, under the threat of an imminent greater battle! Wen Chou cherished these soldiers under him more than ever!
In addition to the infantry led by Wen Ba, Lu Liang, Liu Zhong, and Dong Jiang as the main force of the siege, the more than 1,000 cavalry led by Yan Liang had already been distributed to all sides of the county! Beware of thieves abandoning the city and fleeing! There are also 500 elite men. That is, Wen Chou's personal guard department, which is protecting the safety of Wen Chou and his VIPs.
Although the thieves have lost their courage and the attack is almost impossible to happen, Wen Chou still kept this elite, firstly to prevent any eventuality, and secondly, it also shows that he Wen Chou still attaches great importance to his VIPs, and he has a heavy army to protect them, so that they can rest assured.
As a county-level city, there is no moat, because this is not too big in the county seat, but the rank of the original county monarch is 400 stones, you can know that this is the smallest level in the imperial city. Such a city is only larger than the Shahe City under construction, even worse than Pingjian County.
The first to come to the house county is the army of Wenba, because there is no siege equipment, in several siege battles have been wronged a lot of Wenba's army, after receiving the siege equipment, as if the blood of the chicken is excited, the fighting spirit launched a fierce attack on the house county.
Wen Ba commanded the soldiers, so that some of the elite soldiers shot the thieves on the city with bows and arrows, and protected the other soldiers to put the cloud ladder on the city wall, and then the elite soldiers, with their incomparable skills, quickly seized any opportunity, along the ladder, towards the city wall!
After several months of special training, the elite soldiers of Wenba made their series of actions without the suspicion of dragging the mud and water, but on the contrary, they were extremely smooth. Especially Wen Baqi, at the moment when the ladder hit the city wall, he first took a few steps back, and then accelerated to run towards the ladder, and the speed was so fast that the soldiers who set up the ladder were a little surprised! Not to mention that the city wall is still dodging the elite shots of Wenba! The archery of Wenba's elite pawn, that's not a random shot, it's the existence of whoever wants to overturn the ladder with a pole, shoot whoever exists!
Wenba climbed and jumped quickly, and finally in the exclamation of the thieves, the thieves swarmed to the place where the ladder was pushed, and the moment he pushed the ladder to it, he jumped up with a force, left the ladder that had left the city wall, and went towards the city wall! In this way, Wen Ba and his people successfully climbed the city wall, and they were the first to climb the city wall! Worthy of the name of the pioneer!
After Wenba climbed the city wall, he guarded a battlement, and killed the thieves who came to him! The power and combat power of Wen Ba are not comparable to these temporary thieves, to be precise, it is ten or eight who come up together, and it is not enough for Wen Ba to kill him! But in half an instant, Wen Ba was surrounded by corpses, and there were one or twenty of them! The power of the Wenba makes the thieves afraid and cowardly. They all hesitated.
And when Wen Ba protected the battlements on that side, his elite soldiers who were still under the city had already pasted a cloud ladder up again! Soon, a steady stream of elite soldiers climbed towards the city wall where Wenba was located and supported Wenba! The elite of the literary tyrants, with their bravery, quickly tore a gap in the wall of the thieves.
At this time, Wenba's army has opened more than one gap! In a short time, the 800 elites of Wenba had already climbed the city wall, and gradually converged together to form a larger combat force.
The bravery of Wenba's soldiers not only dealt a great blow to the thieves, but also stimulated Lu Liang's army that followed closely! Lu Liang's army is more than Wenba's, there are 1,500 of them! Among them, 500 soldiers were arranged by him to be led by Dong Zhi, and they used a rushing car to attack the gate of the county seat! The other 1,000 troops followed themselves to attack the city wall with the use of the ladder!
Lu Liang is not much behind Wenba, although relatively speaking, his approach is more conservative! But it is also much more stable than Wenba. Even if the attack was unfavorable, his army would not suffer too many casualties. It can be said that it is step-by-step and step-by-step. However, Lu Liang's 1,000 soldiers once again tore a hole in the army of thieves arranged by Guo Daxian, and the thieves were already a little flustered at this time!
Because, they didn't see any casualties from the enemy, and the people they knew each other fell one by one! What a terrible thing to do! Lu Liang was followed by Liu Zhong and Dong Jiang, and when they saw that Wenba and Lu Liang were progressing smoothly, they followed the established plan and followed their footsteps to attack the city wall. In this way, in a few more quarters of an hour, the big picture will be decided!
When Liu Zhong and Dong Jiang had not yet climbed the city wall, a series of changes took place in the city. But it was the shadow placed by Wen Chou before, and it worked. (To be continued......)