Chapter 44: The Next City
The civil and military officials in Lang Prefecture in the big tent were stunned, were these people telling the truth or false? For a while, the eyes that looked at Lin Feng were very rich, there were doubts, some were frightened, and naturally there were also admiration and admiration.
At this time, the last special soldier to come in was Zhou Qizhi, his face was both excited and disappointed, Lin Feng couldn't help laughing, and said loudly: "Qizhi, let's talk, what's the good news?" ”
Zhou Qizhi shook his head, sighed and said: "The commander of the Tanzhou Horse Army made Zhang Hui lead the cavalry to run away!" ”
That's big news!
Zhu Jinzhong, who was full of beard and broad shoulders and round waist, was shocked, could it be Zhang Hui who led the cavalry to go around behind him and prepare for a surprise attack, right? He took a few steps forward and asked in a rough voice, "This brother, is this matter exact?" ”
Zhou Qizhi ignored him, still nodded at Lin Feng, and began to elaborate.
It turned out that after Zhou Qizhi and Yan Ruoli received Lin Feng's order to lurk, the two pairs of eight brothers got together after getting off the boat and simply summed it up, saying that Lin Renzhao and the other twelve King Kongs had already made earth-shattering achievements, and they couldn't lag behind, so they unanimously decided to do a big deal. Therefore, after they infiltrated the city, they went straight to the Yiyang Taishou Mansion to prepare to capture the thief and capture the king first, and then take down the biggest official in the city.
Before all the troops in Tanzhou had entered the city, Zhou Qizhi and the others had already arrived near the Taishou Mansion, and as soon as a group of people stabilized, they found that Zhang Hui led 3,000 cavalry out of the city in a hurry, looking very panicked. Zhou Ruxing, who was as careful as a hair, speculated that these cavalrymen were carrying large bags of luggage one by one, and they set off from the south gate, so it seemed unlikely that they were going to meet or ambush the Langzhou army.
The eight of them discussed and decided to sneak into the Taishou Mansion to find out.
At this time, the entrance of the Taishou was full of Tanzhou soldiers, and eight people easily mixed in. Soon, a few people found Lord Taishou who was jumping and scolding his mother in the study.
A few people got closer and listened, and found that this Taishou Lord named Qin Fei was scolding Zhang Hui for being too a bastard, he was simply a robber, and told himself that he was going out of the city to ambush behind the Langzhou army, but in the name of this, he took it without telling him, and snatched the best weapons treasured in the warehouse of Taishou Mansion, and even took away a large part of the money.
Hearing this, eight people slipped out, and after discussing, they felt that it was not interesting to kidnap a civilian taishou at this time, so it was better to pass on the news to Lu first.
After listening to the process, Lin Feng couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it is worthy of Ma Jun, he even ran away so fast!" ”
The people in the tent basically laughed, and only the suspicion on Zhu Jinzhong's face did not completely dissipate.
After Zhu Jinzhong, who was not at ease, consulted Ma Xicao, he began to assign people to cast a secret sentry outside the barracks, and asked the whole army not to take off their armor and people, and to take turns on duty, so as to prevent Zhang Hui's horse army from stealing the camp at night.
Taking advantage of Zhu Jinzhong's busy work, Lin Feng softly asked the other brothers why they didn't go out of the city overnight.
Zhou Qizhi replied in a low voice: "We have discussed, if Lord Lin has no other actions, we are ready to unite other brothers in the city at night, and it is best to kidnap that Taishou before getting up early tomorrow to attack the city, at least we can disrupt their command." Now, the seven of them are still pretending to be patrols on the south gate wall, waiting for my news. ”
Lin Feng wrinkled his eyebrows and said nothing, there were still nine thousand soldiers in the city, and at least two thousand soldiers could be divided on each city wall, which was no more dangerous than an independent warship, relying on a few special soldiers alone.
After thinking for a while, Lin Feng shook his head and said softly, "We'll discuss this matter when we go back to the boat later." ”
At this point, Lin Feng saw that the people at the scene couldn't say anything new, so he got up and said goodbye, and led a group of brothers back to the warship.
As soon as he saw Lin Feng's figure, Ma Yu immediately rushed over to report that all the captains and miscellaneous servants on the warship had been in place, and the crystals and polishing tools that Lin Feng wanted had also arrived by fast horse. Lin Feng immediately pulled the four brothers Li Congqian and Chen Fei aside and instructed them to polish different styles of concave lenses and convex lenses.
Lin Feng summoned the remaining special soldiers to discuss whether tomorrow's surprise attack was feasible or not. At this moment, the special fighters were also divided into two factions, one faction advocated the implementation of a fight, and the other faction did not advocate implementation, and the last faction said to let Lin Feng decide.
Lin Feng thought about it, and then slammed his fist on the wall of the boat, and said loudly: "Then let's bet on a big one and fight with them!" He sneaked back to the city first, and all the others infiltrated the city in the middle of the night. Tomorrow afternoon, we should join forces inside and outside and raid the East City Gate! ”
The brothers agreed with a bang, and one by one they made a noise excitedly, and went to the next floor cabin to rest.
Lin Feng firmly believed that Zhang Hui had led the cavalry to escape, so after listening to the celebratory noise of the brothers for a while, he fell asleep with a smile on his face.
Early in the morning of the second day, after Lin Feng got up, he stood at the highest point of the warship and looked at the camp to the north, and found that there was nothing unusual, which showed that Zhang Hui was really afraid of death and ran away by himself.
At this time, Li Congqian and Chen Fei searched the cabin, but they didn't find anyone else, and they knew that they had been thrown off again, and they came over to Lin Feng to ask for guilt.
Lin Feng ignored a few children at all, and took the lead and walked towards the Langzhou camp. Li Congqian and the others had to obediently shut their mouths and follow behind.
As soon as he entered the camp, Zhu Jinzhong took the lead and rushed over to apologize to Lin Feng. The information of Lin Feng's subordinates was very accurate, he didn't listen to others, and he and the soldiers didn't sleep peacefully all night, so he was really a little ashamed.
Lin Feng looked at Zhu Jinzhong's bloodshot eyes, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly: "When marching and fighting, caution is the key. Beware of the ship of ten thousand years! General Zhu did a good job, hard work! I'll mention this to Prime Minister Ma! ”
Zhu Jinzhong nodded movingly, turned his body to the side, and respectfully invited Lin Feng to take a seat.
Lin Feng didn't care about this, grabbed him, and said in a low voice: "General Zhu, do you want to take the city in one fell swoop today?" ”
Zhu Jinzhong was naturally overjoyed and nodded again and again.
Lin Feng attached it to his ear and whispered for a while. Although Zhu Jinzhong was a little unconvinced, he still nodded and agreed, and turned around to ask Ma Xixu to go.
After breakfast, the military camps in the north and west of Langzhou sounded at the same time, and groups of soldiers rushed out, putting out trebuchets, siege ladders and other siege equipment. The warships stationed on the eastern water started one after another, heading for Tanzhou in the south.
The soldiers guarding the city in the east quickly told the news to Qin Fei, the Taishou Lord who was in the gatehouse of the northern city wall, and the scolding lady Taishou couldn't help frowning and thinking hard.
Different from yesterday's siege, the Langzhou army took the lead in sending out the "scolding soldiers", and the fifty high-voiced soldiers who were carefully selected walked to the east and west city walls at the same time, and shouted in unison: "Listen to the people in the city, Zhang Hui has led the cavalry to escape, and you are limited to surrender in a quarter of an hour, otherwise after the city is broken, there will be no soldier left!" ”
A quarter of an hour passed quickly, and although no one dared to surrender on their own initiative, there were already shadows of doubt and horror in the eyes of the soldiers defending the city.
The siege battle, which was even more brutal than yesterday, soon began.
Under the threat of the Xue Liang broadsword of the warlord's team, the Langzhou soldiers began one by one as if they were not dying, regardless of death, under the east and west city walls.
On the temporarily erected command platform, Li Congqian, Chen Fei and other five children stood behind Lin Feng, watching the teams of soldiers with shields on their shoulders, carrying siege ladders, shouting and running to the city in the rain of arrows and flying stones, and then screaming and falling down when they landed in mid-air. The same cruel and cold-blooded scene was repeated repeatedly, their little hearts were hit and baptized over and over again, and their five little faces were always very pale and ugly. Even Lin Feng felt his stomach churning and was extremely uncomfortable, but his teeth kept biting his lower lip, and he just suppressed this disgusting feeling.
This is a lesson they have to catch up! No matter how hard you train on weekdays, no matter how brave you are, no matter how big your nerves are, you haven't gone through the real bloody battlefield, you haven't lived and died for a moment in the sea of knives and guns, and you haven't rolled in the plasma stump, you will always be a rookie on the battlefield on paper!
The walls of Yiyang were not high, and the trouble caused to the besieging Langzhou army did not last long.
In less than two hours, the north city wall was attacked five times, and the west side was also attacked three times, although the Langzhou soldiers did not succeed in the city, but they knocked down the Tanzhou soldiers are not a few. By noon, the Langzhou army had left nearly 2,000 casualties under the city walls, and more than 1,000 Tanzhou soldiers had lost their combat effectiveness on the two walls. Siege warfare is actually a war of attrition without any adulteration!
Seeing that 2,000 fresh troops were once again divided into the Langzhou military camp under the city and began to prepare for the siege, Qin Fei scolded Qin Fei for guarding the city, looked at the tired soldiers on the left and right, and immediately wrote a warrant to send people to the east city wall, which had been empty for a morning, to transfer 1,000 people to come over, and each sent 500 people to the north and west city walls to support.
Originally, the eastern battlefield was only a diversion role, and a very small number of Langzhou infantry and warships and sailors only demolished some of the idle buildings at the wharf outside Yiyang City, and never launched any decent siege, and the defenders on the city wall only arranged a total of 1,500 people. Now, a thousand men were taken out at once, and the remaining five hundred men were assigned to the city wall more than two miles long and a city gate, which immediately seemed to be a little stretched.
Seeing the change of troops on the city wall from a distance, Lin Feng immediately stepped forward and stabbed Zhu Jinzhong, and an urgent order was immediately issued.
The 700 Langzhou cavalrymen who had been wandering back and forth on the battlefield in the north and west turned their horses, shouted loudly and bypassed from the most important part of the battlefield, first showed off their might in front of the southern city wall, and then moved to the east city wall, constantly waving the weapons in their hands, screaming strangely, making the soldiers on the two city walls nervous for a while.
Just when the attention of the soldiers defending the city was attracted by these troublesome cavalry, a group of Tanzhou soldiers lined up in a neat queue and turned to the street leading to the east city gate, and strode towards the city gate hole.