Chapter Twenty-Four: The Capture of the Golden City
Dong Zhuo's army failed miserably in two strong attacks and was about to launch a third strong attack, Guan Yun hurriedly persuaded Dong Zhuo: "The lord's charge like this is too heavy and the casualties are too heavy!" ”
"Yun Chang has any good plan to break the enemy?" Dong Zhuo asked.
Guan Yun pondered for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and a clever plan suddenly came to mind, he said to Dong Zhuo: "The lord has it, just like this!" After Guan Yun whispered next to Dong Zhuo for a while, a smile suddenly bloomed on Dong Zhuo's solemn face.
This time Dong Zhuo did not rush to launch a third onslaught, but asked his soldiers to pick up sandbags, and after a while, he saw hundreds of bags of sandbags gathered in front of him, Dong Zhuo gathered a group of cavalry again, but this time it was different from the previous time, the task of this group of cavalry was not to charge into battle but to be clarified a new task, what task? That is, with these sandbags, these sandbags are piled up to the edge of the city, but they are not piled up randomly but in an orderly manner, the higher and higher they are piled up, and they have to pile up a slope out, that is, the place next to the edge of the city should be high, and it belongs to the slope, and then they descend in order until they are flush with the ground, so that the outer fortifications of the sandbags close to the golden city will be built, and after the explanation, I saw that no one of the more than a thousand cavalry carried two or three bags of sandbags to rush towards the golden city
This is the third time that Dong Zhuo's army has charged, but this time the goal of the cavalry is not to attack the city but to throw sandbags, this unexpected move made Han Sui very surprised and puzzled: What kind of trick is Dong Zhuo doing? Han Sui was wondering, the cavalry quickly rushed towards the edge of Jincheng, he hurriedly beckoned the soldiers in the city to release the arrows, no matter what their purpose, he couldn't let the other party get close to the Jincheng, and the city continued to release the arrows, but the cavalry threw the sandbags under the city as far away, as Dong Zhuo had warned before, and the soldiers who finished throwing them slapped their horses and did not make any short stay, there was only one purpose: to throw sandbags. Soon a sandbag fortification was piled up under the golden city, and the height of the sandbag was only less than ten meters away from the city.
Han Sui and everyone in the city were very puzzled when they saw this, and they couldn't figure out what the other party's intentions were, this unexpected move really surprised them, but Dong Zhuo saw that the fortifications were paved, and then ordered the generals and the remaining iron horses, Dong Zhuo said to everyone: "The fortifications ahead have been paved, what we want to do now is to step on this paved fortifications and go straight to the top of the golden city, rush to the city, and kill Han Sui!" Do you have this confidence? ”
"Yes! Yes! Yes! All the soldiers cheered in unison.
It turns out that this is a siege stunt, the army, especially the cavalry, as long as they rush to the city and pass through the sandbag ladder that is paved with good luck, they can jump to the city, just like paving a bridge between the earth and the city, greatly improving the efficiency and success rate of the siege, it can be described as a shortcut to attacking the city, which is also the usual siege trick used by Genghis Khan when he attacked Europe in later generations, Guan Yun learned about this strategy through watching TV once and launched it in front of the two armies, he wanted to see how this technique was?
Dong Zhuo's army was divided into eight ways to attack the city: the first road left general Li Dao; the former general of the second road, Guo Yan; General Guan Yun after the third road; Fan Chou, the lieutenant of the Fourth Road Dictionary; Zhang Ji, the captain of the Fifth Road Yue Cavalry; Sixth Road Xiao Riding Captain Niu Fu; Li Su, the commander of the seventh road cavalry; Governor Huaxiong in front of the eighth road tent; The front of the Eighth Route Army is all iron cavalry, followed by the infantry, lined up, only to hear a sound of gold, drums and horns, the iron cavalry of the army rushed to Jincheng like an arrow from the string, the speed of the iron cavalry is amazing, not to mention that there is a fierce general to lead, unstoppable, Han Sui saw this and immediately understood: It turns out that this sandbag is used to pave the road, so that the army can jump into the city with this sandbag, what an insidious trick? It's just too dangerous! Han Sui was stunned for a moment, he hurriedly ordered the guards of the city to release their arrows, but in the face of the sudden rush of the iron cavalry, the bow and arrow seemed to be overstretched, and it had no effect at all, and the iron cavalry quickly crossed the attack and rushed to the sandbags that had been laid before. …,
Han Sui saw that the iron cavalry rushed to the front, so he ordered the guards to throw the rolling wood stone, but the rolling wood chokes everyone like a talent, the small stone has no previous height, can only roll along the sandbag and lose its previous power, and the iron cavalry is like a swordfish with the help of sandbags rushed to the city at once, Han Sui's army has not had time to put it and the enemy has rushed to the front is still cavalry, and they are all leading generals, they have already been frightened, Dong Zhuo's Eighth Route army quickly rushed to Jincheng under the leadership of the leader, and the infantry also rushed up, The entire Jincheng was suddenly submerged in the sea of people, where could the Han Sui army at this time resist, and was quickly dispersed by the rushing army, and the iron cavalry army trampled on the city, which was overwhelming, and the eight roads quickly gathered together to rush towards Han Sui's army.
In the face of such a powerful offensive, Han Sui's army was no longer powerless, they broke and fled, many people died in the chaos, Han Sui fled from the west gate of Jincheng again under the escort of several generals, Jincheng collapsed in an instant, the whole battle lasted only four hours, Jincheng was lost, before the arrival of the Qiang soldiers, Dong Zhuo took this hard bone, and fought for the time of victory, Han Sui's most rearmost barrier was completely broken, and the remnants of the defeated army were thrown into Xiqiang, Dong Zhuo recovered Jincheng at once, The entire Xiliang rebel party was completely wiped out, this battle can be said to be beautiful, and Guan Yun is undoubtedly the best director of this battle, this time Guan Yun was promoted to a former general, still ranked third, and the other generals were all promoted differently
Dong Zhuo made great contributions to quelling the Xiliang rebellion, and the imperial court once again commended him as the Zhonglang general and the leader of Xiliang Pastoral Leader Xiliang Taishou, taking charge of Xiliang's big and small things, one official residence, and five thousand stones. To put it bluntly, it is a feudal official who holds military and political power on the side of the town. Dong Zhuo was so happy, it was already a great thing to have such an achievement today, you must know that this was his dream! Although this Xiliang is located in the west, the soldiers are strong and strong, and the soldiers are strong and have more war horses, which is a treasure for the soldiers! He Dong Zhuo is an ambitious person, sitting on such a feng shui treasure can be said to be of great benefit to future development, its advantages are self-evident, so this will of the imperial court is in line with his thoughts, you must know that Lu Dao has admired Xiliang for a long time!