Chapter Ninety-One: Soldiers Descend on the City
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The White Polish army relied on numbers to fight, and if they didn't march along the river, getting water would be a big problem, not to mention the speed of the march.
However, Anyi, the most convenient route and the most rewarding route along the way, they rarely take it, preferring to avoid it far away. The march around the distance, the harvest is small, the consumption is large, it is a loss-making business, and no one likes the loss-making business, so Guo Taicai advocated eastward expansion and attacked Hanoi.
The generals of Bai Bo were not unfamiliar with military strategy, and there were many factors that caused them to abandon the convenient route, and Wenxi City's repeated attacks were not far off, if not the most decisive one.
When Wang Yu went south with Li Le's vanguard and joined the advance army under Wenxi City, the two commanders of the Baibo Army were worried about this, and when they heard the purpose of Li Le's trip, the two were almost angry, and almost even stared out of their eyes.
"Xiao Lizi, are you crazy, or am I crazy? Going to the Guard's House? What the hell do you want! Hu Cai grabbed Li Le's neck and collar, and spat Xingzi sprayed the latter's face: "Come, you come with me, go to the city to have a look, you see if you can't attack Wenxi City, whether Lao Tzu doesn't work hard or we can't attack the city in the first place." ”
This Hu Cai and Li Le have a good relationship, and xìng is almost the same, and without waiting for Li Le to answer, he dragged the latter to the city. The incident happened suddenly, and Li Le didn't even have time to introduce Wang Yu's identity.
No one helped to introduce. Wang Yu simply came by himself, anyway, he also knew the identity of the other Bai Boqu Marshal, "General Yang, under Zhu Shou, on the orders of the prince......"
Yang Feng's face was not very good, but after listening to Wang Yu's self-introduction, he immediately shook his head: "It's Zhu Yuanjun." The prince asked you to come, but the official position given to a certain has already been decided? ”
Wang Yu shook his head: "That's not true, the prince means ......"
"I know what the prince means. And I'm doing my best, but I can't help it! Yang Feng spread his hands, his stomach was full of grievances and bitterness: "I can't attack Wenxi." The army can't go south, if it's just a small fight, Li Qi and Guo Yanjia are strong, as long as they don't go north and go deeper, we can't help them, no way, no way! ”
After listening to Yang Feng's bitterness for a while, Wang Yu found that this gentleman turned out to be an official fan! No wonder he is so enthusiastic about appeasement.
After establishing contact with the imperial court through Wang Yun, this person has been asking Wang Yun for officials. See him behave so eagerly. How could Wang Yun's old fox let go of the opportunity? As a result, the official position became a carrot, and Yang Feng was the donkey, who was run away with Wang Yun's appetite.
The previous large-scale offensives launched by the White Polish Army were all instigated by Yang Feng.
At the beginning, Li Xuan and Guo Yan carelessly underestimated the enemy. crossed the Anyi defense line to counterattack, but suffered a small loss. These two people are not good at stubble, and after discovering the problem, they simply retreated to the banks of the Yellow River, concentrated on defense, and did not attack. In this way, it became an expedition of the White Polish Army.
The rear road was unstable, the troops could not be expanded, and the next few battles ended in the defeat of the White Polish army. Therefore, the White Polish army suspended its offensive and quarreled over the direction of development.
This attack on Wenxi can be regarded as Yang Feng's desperate gamble, and if Wenxi is defeated, Anyi will not be far away, even if he knows that the Baibo army will not be able to attack Anyi, Li and Guo will have to be nervous. After all, the battle line of the White Polish Army has been pushed forward, and the risk of surprise attacks has also increased.
For this reason, Yang Feng spent a lot of thought, encircled Hu Cai and Li Le, and pulled Hu Cai to help, which can be said to be careless.
But reality does not shift due to people's will, if you can't fight, you can't fight, and it's not easy to work hard.
Yang Feng complained while leading Wang Yu to follow Hu Cai and the others, he knew what Hu Cai was going to say next, so he simply let Wang Yu and Li Le listen to it at one time.
Hu Cai pointed to the city, beat his chest and said: "Look at it, I lost two or three thousand jīng strong, and piled up the earth fortress to the edge of the city, but I just couldn't rush up!" Those in the city are the corpses of my brothers, and they are all old brothers who have followed me for many years! ”
Wang Yu followed the sound and looked at it, and what he saw was indeed as Hu Cai said.
Wenxi is a county seat, it is said that Emperor Wu toured the north in that year, and when he passed through this place, it happened that the battlefield of Nanyue came with good news, so it was named. This is a small county town, and the city walls are not even as majestic as the one in Baibo Valley.
I don't know if it was due to repeated wars or erosion by wind and rain, the city wall looks very dilapidated, and there are traces of repair everywhere. Under the illumination of the noon sun, the dividing lines are unusually clear. The walls on both sides of these boundaries are very different, like patches.
At present, there are many new faces on the city wall, blood stains all over the city, scorch marks after the burning fire, and white marks left by swords and spears...... The old city wall is becoming more and more mottled.
Outside the city walls, the most conspicuous thing is the large mound of earth piled up in the corner of the city wall. The mound is made up of sandbags, earth and rocks, and corpses, and the visual effect is quite amazing, just looking at this mound and the corpses that died along the way, you can imagine the fierceness of this battle.
The mound was also surrounded by corpses. Some of the feathered arrows remained, apparently killed by the bow and crossbow, but many more were twisted limbs, apparently falling from the city walls.
Yang Feng did not exaggerate, the Bai Bo army did work hard, but they were too poor in attacking the city, and the gap was so big that they couldn't make up for it desperately.
"There is already a breakthrough, why can't you capture the city?" Li Le was puzzled: "There are only a few hundred county soldiers in Wenxi City, and you have almost 20,000 people, why can't you defeat them?" ”
"Humph!" Hu Cai snorted coldly and said: "There are only a few hundred soldiers in the county, but the people in the city have also mobilized, plus those big families are also contributing money and food, how can there be 3,000 soldiers." It's nothing just that there are too many soldiers, the key is that there are fierce generals in the city! ”
He pointed to the earthen ramparts and laughed miserably: "That is the breakthrough? Not really! It's clearly the Shura field, how many people go up and how many people die! ”
Looking at the city, Wang Yu nodded.
Hu Cai is right. The rampart seemed huge, but the number of people who could storm through it was limited. I can go up to three or five pioneers at a time, and then follow dozens of people is the limit.
The main point of this tactic is that a little breakthrough will blossom on all sides, and those who rush forward will be outnumbered. Occupy a piece of territory, let the backup follow, and consolidate it. Then expand the front in other directions. When you occupy a city gate tower and then open the city gate, there is no suspense about the outcome of the battle.
According to Hu Cai. Obviously, the soldiers in the city are more jīng sharp, and there seems to be a fierce general, and after Bai Bo's jīng sharp burst up, he will only be slaughtered.
This kind of situation is the most suitable for the fierce generals to play, and at the same time, there are not many opponents to face, and they will not be besieged, and there will be people to replace when they are tired, so they can go to rest. If it's a fierce man of the level of Lu Bu and Guan Zhang, just put one. That's really a one-man affair.
Most of the generals of the Yellow Turban Army are from the real grassroots, that is, ordinary people, who may know how to do martial arts, and after years of fighting, they also have jīng advancement. But after all, it's a wild way. Compared with the authentic warriors, it is far behind, the soldiers and civilians in the city are united, the soldiers are sharp, and there is a fierce general, which is indeed a hard bone to gnaw.
Want to crack. Maybe you can pile up a few more mounds of dirt and attack them on all sides, no matter how strong the general is, and he won't be able to do the doppelganger technique, he should be able to get better. However, the casualties in that way are also large, and the current casualties have made these two people's faces turn green, and if the war expands, it is estimated that these two commanders will not be able to afford it.
However, Wang Yu is also a little strange, Hu Cai is just that, Yang Feng should have a fierce man under him, no matter how good the fierce general of a small county is, it is impossible for him to pass Xu Huang, right? Why wouldn't he send it up?
Seeing Wang Yu looking at him with a puzzled face, Yang Fenghui was wrong, took Hu Cai's words, and said bitterly: "The envoy doesn't know, if he doesn't do his best, he is really the general in the city who is unstoppable, holding two big axes, and a certain subordinate Jīng Rui is also a veteran who has been fighting for many years, but in front of him, no one can walk through three faces, if he meets this person in the array, he can still besiege him, and now he ......."
"There were nearly 2,000 casualties in the Tutu Mountain, and more than 1,000 casualties in the siege, many of them were jīng rui!"
Hu Cai said bitterly: "A little Wenxi, it's already like this, what else are you talking about attacking Weijiawu Fort!" The Wei family's wealth is more than hundreds of millions, and what capable people in the family are not? Sitting in a strong city, with plenty of food and grass inside, and reinforcements outside, how can it be defeated? Who came up with such a ridiculous idea? ”
Hu Cai's remarks, Wang Yu has heard a lot in the past few days, even if he has observed it on the spot, it has not had much impact, what makes him care is Yang Feng's description.
Unstoppable with an axe? The most sharp Yellow Turban pawn can only block two or three axes? Sounds familiar, can't it be...... The one in the city is Xu Huang, right?
Well, it makes sense to think about it, Xu Huang has never been a yellow turban thief, but when he appears in the novel, he is under Yang Feng, who is a recruiter activist.
If Yang Feng successfully recruits An, the jurisdiction should also be in accordance with the principle of proximity, that is, the area east of Hedong. For Wen Xi's repeated attacks, presumably Yang has a very deep impression of Xu Huang, and it is logical for him to use his power to transfer Xu Huang into the army and reuse it. And Xu Huang didn't have a good impression of the Yellow Turban Thief, and later got a chance and took refuge in Cao Cāo.
Well, when you think about it this way, everything makes sense.
It's a pity, it's a pity. Now that I don't have any troops, I can't show my identity, and the famous generals are in front of me, but I can't go to the competition, let alone accept it, which is really regrettable.
Do you want to borrow the hands of the White Polish Army to attack the city and capture people? It's not good, looking at Hu Cai's posture, he is really going to catch Xu Huang, maybe he will be killed. It's still important to get down to business, Xu Huang is here, just make a good fate, and wait for him to see you again.
The plan had been decided, Wang Yu smiled at Hu Cai and said: "General Hu, the idea of going south to attack the Wei clan was made, and I was not very sure about it, but after observing the tactics of the two generals today, I am deeply inspired, and now I have a fifty percent chance of winning." Even if you can't believe me, can't you still believe General Li, Wang Situ and Your Majesty? ”
"Trustworthy, of course trustworthy!" Hearing the emperor and Wang Yun, Yang Feng hurriedly nodded.
"......" Hu Cai didn't understand the relationship a little, he looked at Li Le, and found that his old partner was also smiling, so he didn't want to refute anything, but hesitated: "Since the envoy has already made a calculation, why don't you practice here?" First, it can strengthen confidence and improve the morale of the brothers, and secondly, it can also take revenge, and by the way, it can also ensure the smooth flow of the back road. ”
"General Hu is bad, most of the people in the city are ordinary people, and they have the same origin as your army, the so-called origin is born from the same root, why is it too anxious to fry each other, why bother? If you want to take revenge, you should also find a rich and unkind hero like the Wei family, right? ”
Wang Yu waved his hand and said: "As for the back road, there is no need to worry, after General Li, Guo Shuai and General Han will also come one after another, tens of thousands of troops continue to go south, with hundreds of county soldiers in the city, what can thousands of people do?" Just go south with peace of mind. ”
"That's just as well." Hu Cai nodded, looked at each other with the two comrades, and found that the other party was also convinced, he sighed as if he was resigned to his fate, "Then according to Zhu Zhijun, the whole army was ordered, withdraw the siege and go south, and fight to Anyi to eat fat sheep!" ”
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