Chapter 338: The Dust Settles
When Liu Xun heard the screams and howls of the soldiers in the distance, he immediately chose to retreat. Soon after he retreated, there were several blows on the castle tower, and thousands of wasps flew out, killing the soldiers who had not had time to withdraw.
When he ran to the urn under the city in a panic, he found that the soldiers had also run down without waiting for his order. There is no way, in the face of the enemy, they dare to fight, in the face of the hornet...... It's better to run for your life!
At this moment, in the small urn city, a full 2,000 soldiers were gathered, and it was enough to defend the city gate.
He secretly thought in his heart that the hornet's nest on the city wall should not disperse for a while, nor would it fly here a few feet below. Although Tian Fan's move killed and injured many of my soldiers, it also cut off their way up the city wall, so they could only attack the city gate, so as long as we held the city gate, we could ensure that nothing went wrong!
He hurriedly shouted, "Brothers, the enemy is preparing to attack the city gates, and I have defended them!" ”
In siege warfare, it is not until the gates are taken that the balance of victory begins to tilt. The walls can change hands several times, but as long as the gates are guarded, then everything is fine.
The soldiers were frightened, but fortunately, there were enough people, and it should not be a problem to guard the city gates. Hey, if I had known that Tian Fan had this hand, then I should have blocked the city gate earlier, and I would have stopped it, and you wouldn't want to come in, and I wouldn't go out! And now, if the other party hits the city gate with a crashing car, we can't pour fire oil on the city tower and throw thunder stones to resist the enemy, this battle is really hard!
Under Liu Xun's command, the soldiers lined up at the city gate, with archers at the front and the rest of the pikemen and sword soldiers behind.
Seeing that there was no shield, he pointed to a junior colonel and shouted, "Go to the barracks and gather a shield!" ”
Just as the soldiers were quietly waiting for the crashing car to hit the city gate, and the hands holding the swords and guns began to sweat slowly, they heard a burst of shouts of killing from behind.
Wang Dapan and the others climbed up the city wall, went down the dirt slope on the inner side of the city wall, and finally came to this position. When they saw that there were so many enemies here, they were also frightened, but Tian Fan's order was to seize the city gate, and they still rushed forward without hesitation.
Wang Dabao and the others who first boarded the camp to shoot the soldiers, and more than 200 big shields were hung with the sound of "whirring", and slapped them on the soldiers of Yuan Shu. As soon as they saw this method of warfare, many of the soldiers who had survived the battle a few days ago immediately collapsed, turned around and ran inward, and Liu Xun's 2,000 soldiers were immediately in chaos.
Regardless of morale, military spirit, combat strength, equipment, and mentality, Liu Xun's soldiers are not opponents, and it is not a long time, Liu Xun saw that it was not a matter to fight like this, so he immediately ran away with his own soldiers. The morale of the rest of the soldiers collapsed, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Wang Da Cake and others were about to come to the city gate.
After killing all the soldiers inside, they immediately opened the city gate, and dozens of people shouted in unison: "The city gate has been opened, enter the city quickly!" The gates are open, get into the city! ......" The rest of the soldiers took up their positions and prepared to hold the gates.
Tian Fan and the others were only eighty steps away from the city gate, and dozens of soldiers shouted in unison, so they could naturally hear it. So, Pang De led more than 1,000 cavalry to gallop and rush towards the city, and Wei Yan and other generals also slowly followed up with their soldiers.
As Liu Xun thought, hornets love nests, and they will not disperse unless the queen bee flies away. As soon as the queen bee sees that the honeycomb is finished, she will fly away and look for a new place to build a nest, and the rest of the hornets will follow. There are still many queen bees who have not left, and there are many hornets flying around the city walls, but there are not many under the city. Even if a few flew over, the soldiers waved their torches slightly, immediately scaring them away or burning their wings. If a hornet falls to the ground, then there is no threat!
So, everyone entered the city smoothly, according to Tian Fan's prior orders, they took their own troops to do what they had to do, Tian Fan and Koji Yi waited for Tian Fan's personal guards to change into iron armor, take the weapons in hand, and go to the general's mansion. …,
It was not yet noon, and after the army was assembled outside Shu County, it was less than an hour and a half before the city gate was captured, and the four armies went to pursue and kill the remnants of the enemy.
All the soldiers who entered the city felt like a dream. Tian Fan said that he wanted to take them to create a miracle and a legend, and he really did it.
Koji Yi is unconvinced and has an arrogant personality, so he is not good at Yuan Shao, who is full of factions, but his nature is like this, and he can't change it, unless there is someone who can suppress him. When he came to Xuzhou, he met Gao Shun, who was also good at training, and after the two communicated with each other, they admired each other, and there was barely one person who could suppress him. But from this moment on, he respected Tian Fan from the bottom of his heart.
Wei Yan and other young generals are not to mention, they have heard of Tian Fan since they entered the military camp, and they were later excavated by Tian Fan, and now they have followed him to fight such a legendary battle, adding a meaningful memory to their lives, all of which made them admire Tian Fan even more and respect Tian Fan more.
Tian Fan and the others happily entered the city, they didn't know that the big camp ten miles away was already a large army.
Four of the ten bandits were only 20 miles away from the camp, and after they heard that Tian Fan had led 10,000 people to Dashu County, they immediately sent troops to march into the Xuzhou military camp.
Twenty miles away, regardless of the physical strength of the soldiers and the encampment at night, only takes an hour.
The four groups of people discussed a little, and three of them decided to start fighting, but they only had seven or eight thousand people, and the number of people was too small in the face of the large camp of the Xuzhou army, so they decided to wait for a while. And the fourth share, that is, Chen Lan and Lei Bo, decided to copy Tian Fan's back road.
Half an hour after entering the city, Wei Yan and the others had already controlled the four gates of the city, and after leaving 500 people to guard the city gates, they were leading people all over the city to chase and kill the Yuan Shu soldiers who were still resisting. Tian Fan and Lu Yi surrounded Liu Xun's Great General's Mansion, but Liu Xun did not appear. An ominous premonition surged in Tian Fan's heart, could it be that Liu Xun had escaped?
As he expected, Wei Yan grabbed one of Liu Xun's personal soldiers, and according to him, Liu Xun escaped from the south gate of Shu County. It just so happened that Wei Yan met Pang De, who led the cavalry to gallop around the city and kill the formed enemy soldiers.
Wei Yan hurriedly stopped Pang De and told him at this time. Pang De groaned slightly, and said decisively: "Changwen, Liu Xun has been fleeing for almost half an hour, and it is impossible for the infantry to pursue." General Tian attached great importance to his head, so I took 500 cavalry to catch up. The rest of the cavalry will be handed over to you to command, and in case General Tian needs cavalry, it will be in time. ”
Wei Yan nodded violently and said, "Okay, you go!" ”
Pang De whistled and went out of the city with five hundred cavalry to pursue, while Wei Yan handed over his infantry to Guan Ping, who happened to rush over, and took the rest of the cavalry to General Liu Xun's mansion to find Tian Fan.
After Tian Fan learned the news, he could only cry out in vain. Now that Liu Xun has been gone for half an hour, it is unlikely that he can catch up.
Liu Xun did escape, and at the moment when the city gate was seized, he immediately made a decision and led Liang Gang and Li Feng to escape from the city. There is no way, if you don't escape, you can't fight, he thinks he is not the opponent of the Xuzhou army. Due to the haste of his escape, he didn't even bother to inform his family.
Outside the city, in the camp of Tian Fanjun, the battle finally began.
The other five bandits finally arrived, and only Zheng Bao, who played Infernal Affairs, was still about twenty miles away.
There were more than 20,000 mountain bandits, and the troops were sufficient at this time, and after they discussed, they immediately divided their troops into four ways to attack the camp.
They didn't know that Shu County had been captured, and Chen Lan and Lei Bo saw that the big banner on the city tower had been replaced by Tian Fan's handsome banner, and immediately rushed towards the direction of Lishan Mountain, without thinking of notifying these accomplices half an hour ago. This is not to blame them, they and those bandits are competitors themselves, and there is usually a lot of friction, but this time because of Yuan Lian's words, they temporarily got together and reluctantly cooperated, but they couldn't talk about how harmonious they were at all. …,
When attacking the Xuzhou army camp, these people were clearly distinguished, each force was responsible for one place, and they would definitely not help the rest of the forces, even if they were only a dozen steps away, and they were suppressed by the Xuzhou army very badly.
In the camp, Hao Zhao and Liu Quan fought very hard. It is true that these bandits are not strong in combat, but they have a strong will to fight! Most of them come for one simple purpose, and that is food! Their leaders may have come for money, for power, for women, but they only want a bite to eat. Whoever stops them is like digging up their ancestral graves, and they are their enemies!
At the same time, there were no archers among the soldiers that Tian Fan brought with him, and most of the soldiers left in the camp were archers. The archers had already shot twenty feathered arrows when they prevented the enemy from destroying the horses and trapping the pits, and they were exhausted!
At the front camp gate, after paying the price of nearly a thousand casualties, the bandits finally cleared all obstacles and were able to get close to the walled gate.
The bandit Scarface had a steel knife in his mouth, held a shield in one hand and a ladder in the other, and climbed up with feathered arrows on the wall. And his subordinates were even more brave, wearing a simple small shield, pushing a simple crashing car, and slammed into the gate of the fortress all at once. The entire wall shook again and again in this impact, as if it would fall down at any time.
Hao Zhao's wound had collapsed, his face was pale, he resisted the urge to faint to the ground, holding a knife and limping back and forth in the corridor on the wall, shouting as he walked: "Release the arrow, release the arrow to me!" ”
The rest of the camp is about the same. Except for a few timid people like Han Shun, the rest of the thieves worked hard for food, regardless of life and death, and rushed to the wall one after another.
In order to clear the horses and traps, these mountain bandits and water thieves paid a heavy price, with more than 5,000 casualties, but this did not scare them away, but aroused their blood and hatred for the Xuzhou army.
The bandits were poorly armed, with only a few bows and arrows, and after the feathered arrows were fired, they crowded around the fence with their knives and spears, and slashed at the fence with spears or broadswords.
Countless Xuzhou Army archers in the camp kept bending their bows and arrows, bending their bows and arrows, and gradually, their arms became sore.
The pikemen roared, and through the fence they kept shooting, snatching, stealing, stealing, and slowly, they were tired.
The enemy continued to die, but the wood of the fence was constantly being cut and finely chopped.
The situation is not optimistic, as Tian Fan expected, if he takes too long to capture Shu County, the big battalion will definitely be lost.
Scarface is still one step away from the wall, and he is about to go up to the wall. An archer of the Xuzhou army fired arrows continuously, but his hands and feet were so weak that he could not fire arrows again. He looked at Scarface in front of him with blood-red eyes, screamed angrily, jumped up from the wall, pounced on Scarface, and hugged him tightly. The momentum was beyond Scarface's limits, and he fell off the wall with a scream.
The wall is not high, but it is more than two zhang, about five meters. The two fell firmly, and the Xuzhou sergeant arched his head to the ground, and his neck was broken and he died, while Scarface's back hit the ground, which shocked him to the displacement of his internal organs, and he couldn't help screaming.
Just when he was in a rage, he forced himself to get up, and held on to the ladder to get up again, when suddenly, the rear team was in chaos!
It turned out that Zheng Bao had arrived. Zheng Bao's soldiers beckoned the enemy with the knives and guns in their hands, and shouted in unison: "Shu County has been captured, Liu Xun has been ambushed, and those who surrender will not be killed!" ”
Language, sometimes scarier than knives and guns! As Zheng Bao's soldiers kept chanting, most of the bandits wavered. Shu County has been captured, there is no hope for food, and now it is still being attacked by others, and it is no longer possible to take the Xuzhou military camp...... Many bandits and water thieves suddenly despaired in their hearts, and they threw down their weapons and ran away. …,
Zheng Bao's Chinese army, 2,000 soldiers escorted a big car, and Liu Ye and Zheng Bao, who were smiling on their faces, were watching the bandits quickly collapse. And under the car, Yuan Lian, who was tied into a dumpling, was like ashes. He finally understood why Zheng Bao was so curious, but it turned out that people had played themselves at all!
At this moment, hundreds of cavalry rushed from the direction of Shu County, and they also shouted while running: "Shu County has been captured, Liu Xun has been ambushed, those who surrender will not be killed, and the Xuzhou army will win!" ”
The leader of the general is Wei Yan, a small colonel beside him, who is holding a high flagpole in his hand, there is no flag on the flagpole, but he is carrying a human head.
When those thieves saw them, they confirmed their words even more, and they were even more agitated.
By the time the knights had circled around the camp, the bandits had broken up into formation. Wei Yan saw that there was still an army of more than two thousand people in the distance, and it did not collapse, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he led the knights and ran there.
When he was still two hundred paces away, his eyes lit up and he shouted, "Stop! ”
As he spoke, he slowed his horse slowly. He saw that the army was erecting a big banner with a big "Zheng" on it, and there was a person in the army riding towards him, Wei Yan saw that it was Liu Ye!
Liu Ye laughed, hugged his fists on the horse and said, "General Wei, congratulations on killing Liu Xun and making a great achievement!" ”
Wei Yan smiled and shook his head, "How can there be?" Liu Xun ran away, Shu County had been captured, General Tian asked me to support the battalion, and I had an idea. ”
Liu Ye asked in surprise, "What did you say?" Shu County has been captured? ”
Wei Yan's face was full of joy, nodded again and again, and said, "It's not!" The entire city has been controlled, and our soldiers are all over the city to catch enemy soldiers! It's a pity that Liu Xun, Li Feng, Liang Gang and other enemy generals fled! After a slight pause, he said: "Military advisor, this is not the time to talk about this, wait until we drive the enemy away, and then talk about it in detail!" ”
Liu Ye nodded and said, "It should be like this, hehe, the general is going quickly, I will find General Zheng right away and ask him to help!" ”
Wei Yan nodded, laughed and led the knights to roar away, continuing to drive away the remnants of the enemy.
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