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Chapter 681: Xiao Ai River Attack and Defense (II)

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Zhou Zuxun stood at the head of the dilapidated city, watching his generals are busy loading soil with bags, filling between some simple wooden stakes that have just been driven, although the city is busy, but quiet, there is a kind of depression in the quiet, an indescribable heaviness, Zhou Zuxun understands, the soldiers under his command know that tomorrow, this city will not be able to hold it no matter what.

Today's daytime battle made Zhou Zuxun truly understand for the first time why the world says that Dingzhou soldiers are unparalleled in the world. The soldiers of Qinzhou can be regarded as mourning soldiers, they were driven out of Qinzhou by the people of Dingzhou, and they saw that their hometown was in front of them, but they couldn't step on it, and they couldn't visit their relatives on the other side of the river. It is said that the mourning soldiers will win, but today Zhou Zuxun understands that the so-called mourning soldiers will win, and the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road, and the strength of the two needs to be basically equal, otherwise it is all empty talk.

Thinking about the Dingzhou general who was full of feather arrows, but still pounced on him like a tiger coming down the mountain, Zhou Zuxun's tiger mouth hurt, and fighting with him during the day can be described as extremely dangerous, if it is not for his own geographical advantage, then he will definitely fall under the opponent's stick. The bandaged hand swelled slightly, which was caused by the opponent's huge force breaking through his tiger's mouth when he was fighting with the other party. And that general, he didn't even know his name, his subordinates were like this, Guan Xinglong, who was famous for his bravery, could be imagined.

There is a wind coming, although it is July, and the wind blowing on the body should be very refreshing, but Zhou Zuxun feels a chill on his body.

"General Zhou, what should we do?" Yao Chang walked up to Zhou Zuxun and asked in a low voice. During the day, Yao Chang went out to fight, riding on foot, but was broken by the other party, his subordinates suffered heavy losses, and he was able to follow him back to three or four out of ten in the city defense, and later when the other party attacked the city the most dangerous, Yao Chang and other cavalry also had to carry knives into battle, as foot soldiers, and now, Yao Chang's head was wrapped like a zongzi, and it was covered with blood.

"These improvised walls can't stand the blow of the opponent's trebuchet at all, and it only takes two or three rounds to be broken." Yao Chang muttered.

"I know!" Zhou Zuxun glared at the city below, the brightly lit camp on the other side, "The soldiers can't be idle, in this case, once they are idle, they will inevitably think about the east and west, and there is a city wall, even if he can't play much role at all, it is also a kind of psychological comfort for the soldiers." ”

Yao Chang sighed and nodded.

"What's more, we are leaving tonight, and we are desperately repairing the city walls right now, not only to give the soldiers something to do, but also to confuse each other." Zhou Zuxun said lightly.

"Retreat?" Yao Chang was taken aback, and then he was overjoyed, indeed, there is no point in continuing this battle: "General, we have withdrawn to Yaque Ridge, where the terrain is dangerous, and we are more sure of defending there." ”

"At the fourth watch, we retreated." Zhou Zuxun said: "It is difficult for the other party to think that we resisted so fiercely during the day, and rushed to repair the city wall at night, and actually left today, so we will catch the other party's mentality, fight a time difference, and quickly get out of the battle!" ”

"The general is clever!" Yao Chang said with a smile.

Zhou Zuxun smiled, "If it was really clever, it would not have fallen into the current situation, when the Dingzhou army came, I should send troops to garrison Aconite, Xiaoai River can easily build a dam, there are only a few places, if you are not careful, you will lose all the games!" By the way, it doesn't matter what you hurt, right? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that the other party cut off one of his ears and fell off!" Yao Changman said indifferently, "None of the other parts are injured, but there are a lot of small injuries on the body, but they are not in the way." ”

"That's good!" Zhou Zuxun patted him on the shoulder, "Go down and tie some straw men, put on armor, and put them on the city to confuse the opponent." ”

"Liar! If you want to coax Lao Tzu in the future, no way! Guan Xinglong, who was sitting in the big tent, listened to the report while smiling at Wang Peng and Li Feng, who were left and right: "Pick up the lantern to fight at night, repair the city wall, who will you see?" He Zhou Zuxun is also a well-known general in Qinzhou, and he actually wants to use these little tricks to fool me, so he can't help but underestimate me! ”

Li Feng was a little puzzled: "General Guan, can you be sure that the other party is going to run tonight?" ”

"Ten of ***!" Guan Xinglong clasped his palms: "Brother Li, tell me, according to today's play, can we break the city tomorrow?" ”

"Of course!" Li Feng nodded, and said with some regret: "It's a pity that our riding camp can only be spectators!" ”

Guan Xinglong laughed: "You can't be a guest!" Soon, there will be a place for your cavalry battalion, if I am not wrong, Zhou Zuxun will inevitably abandon the city, they have left the city defense, hehe, your cavalry will be able to show their skills. ”

Li Feng rubbed his hands, "General Guan rest assured, the last general will not break the name of the horizontal sword division!" ”

"Wang Peng, can you still fight?" Guan Xinglong looked at his confidant and favorite general, and his eyes were full of banter. In the battle during the day, after Wang Peng was forcibly ordered to retreat by Guan Xinglong, he was unhappy, in his words, he would break the city with more strength, but he ordered to retreat at the most critical time, isn't this an empty joy? When he said this, his own soldiers were pulling feather arrows from his body, and the feather arrows were taken off, and the number was frightening, there were more than 20 of them, and fortunately, the armor given to the generals in Dingzhou was special, and the quality was not generally good.

Listening to Guan Xinglong's question, looking at Guan Xinglong's eyes, Wang Peng jumped up as if he had been stung by a poisonous bee, and said loudly: "Of course you can fight, and you can win the war, I'm afraid that the general will withdraw his troops at a critical juncture!" ”

Guan Xinglong laughed, "Are you still angry about what happened during the day?" Wang Peng, you sit down. ”

Wang Peng sat down angrily.

"You say, are Qin Zhoubing soft eggs?" Guan Xinglong asked solemnly.

Wang Peng was stunned, thought for a while, and finally shook his head, "No, they are another fierce enemy I have encountered after the barbarian, and they have a bloody nature." ”

Guan Xinglong nodded, "Yes, the Qinzhou soldiers were driven away by us, the land under our feet was originally theirs, their hometown, and their relatives are here, so they have the courage and purpose to fight hard." Yesterday's battle was so fierce, to be honest, it was also beyond my expectations, I have no doubt that we can achieve the final victory, but if the price paid exceeds our bottom limit, then, I don't want such a crushing victory, because this is not the time to finally decide the victory, the purpose of the marshal to start this war, just to teach Luoyang a lesson. ”

Wang Peng was silent.

"The marshal once said that it is necessary to win the greatest victory at the lowest cost. With the intensity of yesterday's fighting, even if we break the city, the other side will definitely resist desperately, we will die more, there is a way to win with very few casualties, why let the brothers die? Guan Xinglong said.

"The marshal wants the other party to take the initiative to abandon the city wall and fight them in the field?" Li Feng asked.

Guan Xinglong bowed slightly, "Yes, once the Qinzhou soldiers abandon the city and leave, their morale will definitely not be as strong as it is now, and once they know that Zhou Bin's first retreating army will never be able to reach Yaque Ridge, and when there is still a Dingzhou army on their way to attack them, will they still have the strength they have now?" ”

"With a victorious army, chasing down a defeated enemy, is there a more comfortable war in the world?" Guan Xinglong said: "Wang Peng, now the second watch, your department will sleep immediately, and on the fourth watch, the horizontal knife battalion will attack the city again." ”

"Yes!" Wang Peng stood up and shouted his orders.

"General Guan, do you think the opponent will abandon the city on the fourth watch?" Li Feng asked.

"I don't know, guess, at that time, it should be the time when a person is most tired, if it were me, I would choose to leave at this time." Guan Xinglong shrugged, "Look at your luck, if they leave early, then they will trouble you General Li!" ”

Yaqueling military fortress, this is a small stockade, but there are more than 100 Qinzhou army guards, after the construction of the Qinling defense line, it seems more deserted, become a transit point for the rear to transport military supplies to Xiaoai River, the garrison soldiers are some old, weak, sick and disabled, basically no combat effectiveness, which makes Li Guo send a small vanguard team, effortlessly, the sneak attack succeeded, when the Dingzhou army soldiers appeared in the stockade, the snow bright steel knife was approaching, those Qinzhou soldiers did not understand, Where did these Dingzhou troops come from?

Li Guo stood on top of the fortress, looked at the terrain here, shook his head and said: "The general's clever calculation, if you let that opponent retreat here smoothly, this battle really has to be fought." Hey, what are you doing? Li Guo looked at a soldier who was planting the Dingzhou military flag on the top of the village.

"General, this stockade is ours, of course we have to plant our military flag!" The soldier looked at Li Guo inexplicably.

"You elm pimple head!" Li Guo stretched out a finger and pointed at him from afar, "What are we doing here?" Isn't it just to yin the other party? Otherwise, would we still send thousands of people to clean up these hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled? I'm sick! You planted our flag high above and swaggered, not to tell the other party that the Dingzhou Army is coming, and the Dingzhou Army has occupied Yaque Ridge, everyone run! ”

The soldier's face turned a little white, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the Dingzhou military flag fell with a snap, "You turtle son!" Li Guo was furious, "Can our military flag be thrown to the ground casually?" Isn't it tickling! ”

The soldier hurriedly bent over, picked up the general flag, and looked at Li Guo a little blankly, Li Guo said angrily: "It's really good to say that you are an elm without a pimple, now, it's still the banner of the Qinzhou soldiers, and when they get to the front of the village, wahaha, the Dingzhou military flag was inserted with a swish, boom, a rain of arrows, a ballista, and the turtle sons were beaten all over the ground looking for teeth, but unfortunately, we can't bring trebuchets, and there is no one in this ghost village, otherwise it will be more cool." Li Guo said proudly.

A Zhenwu lieutenant hurried over, and Li Guo asked, "Have the ambushes been set up in the valleys on both sides?" ”

The lieutenant nodded, "There are two thousand people in the valleys on both sides, just wait for the general to do it here, and the military horses on both sides will come out and wrap each other around!" ”

"Very good!" Li Guo nodded, "General Guan thinks that it is impossible for us to eat all of the other party's people, so we have to fight for breath and eat all the five thousand people of the other party in one go, so as not to cause trouble to General Wang Li!" ”

The lieutenant laughed, "That's nature. ”

"Tell me Li Xiao Li Yong, stay in the valley for the past two days, don't make a fire, don't make any noise, if the other party is vigilant, I will skin them when I turn around!"

"The general can rest assured, the brothers have brought enough dry food and water, and there will be absolutely no problem for two days."

"Well, go ahead!"

Li Guo looked at the road outside the stockade that extended into the distance and the dense woods on both sides, turned around, hummed a small tune and turned away, he brought a total of 5,000 people over, 2,000 people were ambushed in the valleys on both sides, and there were 1,000 people hidden in the stockade.

Zhou Bin really didn't expect that Yaqueling had been lost, Guan Xinglong had so many people, one battalion in Aconitum, another cavalry battalion, and one infantry battalion, all of which were now in Xiaoaihe, but he didn't expect that when Yao Chang attacked Aconite, Li Guo's infantry battalion had already run away, and now Aconitum was singing the story of the empty city through and through, and Li Guo's battalion of more than 6,000 people walked more than 5,000 people.

Unexpectedly, it means that the danger is approaching them step by step, and the unsinkable Zhou Bin saw the military village standing on the mountain in the distance, and looked at the Qinzhou military flag flying high above the military village, but the whole person relaxed.

"Brothers, when we arrive at Yaque Ridge, let's eat a full meal first, and then we have to work, time is precious, every second counts, now our time is earned by General Zhou and the brothers with blood, don't waste it!"

The Qinzhou soldiers around him agreed loudly, quickened their pace, and ran towards the Yaque Ridge.

"Hurry up and open the door to greet General Zhou Bin!" A Qinzhou soldier rode his horse and took the lead in running to the foot of the Yaqueling military village, raising his head and shouting loudly.

The military village is silent, "These dogs, it's daylight, it's hard to still sleep!" The soldier cursed, raised his voice and shouted again.

With his shout, above the military village, the Qinzhou military flag fell suddenly, and with a shout, dozens of Dingzhou military flags roared up and fluttered in the wind.

Li Guo appeared on the wall, stepping on the wall of the military wall, but with a bow and arrows in his hand, "Turtle son, Lao Tzu has come to greet General Zhou Bin!" As soon as the finger loosened, with a whoosh, the arrow slashed through the sky like lightning, shooting the Qinzhou soldier who looked up at the military village and was stunned from his horse.

"Dingzhou Army!" A scream sounded, Zhou Bin looked at the Dingzhou military flag that suddenly rose above the military village, and looked at the countless heads that appeared on the wall, and in an instant, the blood was almost coagulated, and the Yaque Ridge was gone, what should I do?

Immediately, he made a bad decision.

Attack!

If he turned around and left immediately at this time, the ambushes in the valleys on both sides didn't have time to close, he could at least rush out a considerable part of the men, but subconsciously, Zhou Bin wanted to recapture this military village, because of these orders from General Zhou Zuxun, they wanted to build a second line of defense here.

With Zhou Bin's order, the Qinzhou soldiers immediately rushed forward. Looking at the attacking Qinzhou soldiers, Li Guo was extremely excited, "Brothers, let's work!" "Opened the bow left and right, Li Guo's arrows shot extremely accurately, almost one arrow at a time, and the arrows ran for their lives. On the wall, arrows are like flying locusts, stones are like rain, although Li Guo did not bring large ordnance, but like ballistas, two or three soldiers can walk on their backs, but they have brought a lot, at this time it is very majestic.

After only hitting less than one pillar of incense gonghui, and hearing the deafening shouts of killing in the valleys on both sides, Zhou Bin knew that he was wrong, "Retreat, retreat!" He shouted frantically, turned his horse's head, turned his horse, and fled back.

The gong of retreat sounded, and the Qinzhou soldiers who were attacking the village immediately retreated like a tide, Li Guo looked up to the sky and laughed, "I want to go, it's too late at this time, brothers, get out of the village and kill the enemy!" ”

The gate of the village was wide open, more than 1,000 Dingzhou troops poured out, up and down the mountain, on the road and in the woods, everywhere was the deafening shout of the Dingzhou army Wansheng.

On the fourth watch, the city defense of Xiaoai River is still quiet, above the city, there are many figures standing in the shadows, do not look closely, it is indeed decent, in fact, at this time, Zhou Zuxun has gathered all the horses together, the back door is opened, and the people are out of the city one after another.

At this time, in the military camp of the horizontal knife division under the city, the war drums rumbled, and with the sound of the drums, thousands of soldiers of the horizontal knife battalion rushed out of the camp with a torch in their hands and rushed to the city.

Hearing the snare drums under the city, and feeling the ground tremble slightly when thousands of people were running, Zhou Zuxun's face turned white, how could it be like this, how could it be so coincidental? It was at this time that the enemy chose to attack the city, and at this time, the army that had retreated in advance had already left the city, but the people behind were still in the city.

Zhou Zuxun rushed to the city, looked at the surging Dingzhou army, and closed his eyes, "It's over, it's over!" It's all over. ”

"General Zhou, you withdraw first! I'll break it off! Yao Chang grabbed Zhou Zuxun, "I'll defend the city!" ”

"Yao Chang, I can't hold it!" Zhou Zuxun lamented, "My every move is all in the other party's calculations. ”

"General Zhou, you go first, I'll defend the city, if I can block it for a while, it's a while." Yao Chang said loudly. "Let's go, General, it'll be too late if you don't leave."

"Yao Chang!" Zhou Zuxun grabbed Yao Chang.

"General, if we win the battle in the future, go back to Qinzhou to see my old parents for me!" Yao Chang gritted his teeth and said a word, turned to the army under the city and said: "All the soldiers of the cavalry battalion stay, and those who are injured and can't run fast also stay, we have to work hard and use our lives to find a way to live for the rest of the brothers." ”

"Kill!" Wang Peng carried a cooked copper stick and ran wildly to the city, and the ladder that had been set up in front of him was already full of soldiers from the horizontal knife battalion, "Let Lao Tzu come first!" Wang Peng picked up a soldier who was about to go up the ladder and grabbed it in one step.

There were shouts of slaughter above the city, and some soldiers fell heavily, but more climbed up.

When Wang Peng jumped onto the city, there were no enemies above the city at all, just where some straw men in armor were erected, "Bastard, you really ran away!" ”

On the other side of the gate, the shouting of killing became more and more intense, Wang Peng dragged the cooked copper stick and ran all the way, "Kill slowly, kill slowly, leave me a few." ”

But when he ran to the other end, he happened to see the last enemy general leaning against the closed door, slowly sliding downward, his body was blurred with flesh and blood, and he didn't know how many shots he had been stabbed by his subordinates, and around him, the corpses were stacked on top of each other, layer after layer.