Chapter 246: The Battle for the Gate is just the beginning
The sun was shining, and the sky was finally clear after several days of continuous rain. As soon as the wind blew and the sun broke, it had only been three days, and the ground was no longer so muddy, at least it was not too much delay to walk.
This is five miles south of Liyang City, and a huge battalion rises from the ground and occupies a vast area. This is the large camp of soldiers and horses of Tian Fan and other departments, and Gao Shun, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Xu Sheng and other troops are stationed in the camp, with a total of more than 40,000 soldiers.
On the same day, after Tian Fan heard Lu Bu talk about Gao Shun and Xu Sheng's coming to help, he came up with this plan to deceive the city. When Gao Shun arrived in Shu County, Tian Fan left Liu Ye to sit in Shu County, left Guan Ping to guard the city, and left more than 6,000 wounded soldiers such as Hao Zhao and Liu Quan, and took the rest of the soldiers to cross Shishui with the cooperation of Zheng Bao and came to Liyang, preparing to pull out the last stronghold of Yuan Shu's army except Shouchun.
Everything went smoothly, with the experience of Yuan Jian and Zhang Xun under Qiao Rui's subordinates, as well as the various arguments discussed by everyone, it was easy to deceive Zhang Xun to open the city gate. Although Zhang Xun and Yuan Yin woke up in time, it was impossible to close the city gate again, and more than 2,000 soldiers selected by Tian Fan successfully entered the urn city.
It's just that Tian Fan and others have calculated all the factors, but they have not counted the combat attitude of Zhang Xun and his subordinates who are not afraid of death. The battle for the urn city that day was extremely fierce, and the soldiers and soldiers of Zhang Xun who rushed to the city after hearing the news gathered from all directions, and after receiving Zhang Xun's order, they rushed forward with an extraordinary will to fight, and rushed up one after another.
Tian Fan's 300 personal guards, 700 soldiers in the camp, and 500 or so soldiers in the camp first, these top soldiers of this era fought in turns, and fought fiercely with the hundreds of Liu Xun soldiers who were constantly swarming in. The whole battle was extremely tragic, and the soldiers of the two sides in Weng City repeatedly fought for a distance of one foot and one zhang, and repeatedly fought and sawed until the entire Weng City was covered with corpses, and still no one side retreated.
After hearing the news, Tian Fan, Gao Shun, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Liyi and others came to the city gate, but found that they could not enter the city at all, because the previous more than 2,000 soldiers had already filled the city gate hole and the drawbridge outside the city. It took them a lot of effort to learn the specific battle situation in the city, and in desperation, Tian Fan ordered Zhao Yun and Lu Bu to enter the city.
After they entered the city, they took over the command from Pang De and Wei Yan, and rushed into the battlefield first, which changed the continuous tug-of-war between the two sides, and the balance of victory was slightly tilted in favor of Tian Fan's side.
As soon as Wei Yan and Pang De saw each other, they immediately followed, and so, under the leadership of the four generals, the elite soldiers who were already exhausted once again lifted Yu Yong and slowly compressed Zhang Xun's soldiers into the range of the urn city.
Finally, after Zhao Yun and Lu Bu made a series of threats, Zhang Xun's soldiers were driven out of the city and compressed out of the distance of one street. However, the results of the Xuzhou Army were only that. Zhang Xun's soldiers were the elite of Yuan Shu's army, most of them had more than two years of military experience, and had the experience of major wars, after retreating again and again, after their own reinforcements continued to come, they finally stabilized the situation, and once again fell into a stalemate tug-of-war with the Xuzhou army.
It was getting late, and the two armies were very tacitly acquiescing. After statistics, Tian Fan was surprised to find that in the battle of more than two hours, his elite lost nearly 400 people, and Yuan Shujun soldiers lost more than 4,000 people. What's even more incredible is that when Lu Bu and Zhao Yun participated in the war, the Xuzhou army only occupied an urn city, hundreds of houses in a block of the southern city, and an arrow tower on each side of the city gate tower on the southern city wall.
thought that as long as he entered the city, Zhang Xun's army would collapse immediately, which was also a general law that Tian Fan had seen before, but in Liyang City, it was not like that.
After leaving the generals and soldiers to guard the occupied area, Tian Fan and other generals returned to the outside of the city and set up camp. …,
Everyone discussed for a long time, but there was no good way to deal with Liyang's affairs. Really, Zhang Xun's soldiers were too unexpected by Tian Fan! There is no good way, so you can only occupy the occupied territory first and slowly think of a way. The losses in this kind of war were too great, and Tian Fan and other generals did not want their soldiers to be killed and wounded in vain.
Similarly, Zhang Xun also needs to rest there. They not only had to defend against the Xuzhou army entering the city in the southern city, but also defended the rest of the city walls, and the pressure was also very great.
In the next two days, Zhang Xun organized several large-scale charges, but did not make the slightest progress, only lost some men. And Tian Fan and others originally wanted to use cavalry to attack, in the narrow streets of the city, the cavalry charge was extremely powerful, but Zhang Xun had already prepared, he used sandbags to divide all the streets every fifty steps, so that the cavalry could not cross. Tian Fan was helpless, and organized the generals to rush several times, but in the end, they did not gain anything, and the casualties increased.
As a result, Liyang City has become the current pattern. The weather cleared up from the second day of the seizure of the door, and the two sides just relied on the cover of sandbags, shooting arrows at each other, scolding each other, but no one played. This strange pattern reminded Tian Fan of the trench warfare in World War I.
In the large camp, Tian Fan entered the wounded barracks with several guards.
Although the battle did not go well, the casualties among the soldiers were not many, but more than 400 were killed and more than 600 were killed. In the wounded barracks, there are naturally not many people.
When Tian Fan entered, it happened to be lunch break, and most of the wounded soldiers were taking a nap.
When the soldiers and nurses of the medical battalion saw it, they hurriedly greeted them and saluted, Tian Fan bowed his head slightly, and asked softly, "Are the brothers okay?" ”
The captain of the medical battalion said softly: "General Qiyu, brothers are fine!" Except for some deaths among the dozens of people seriously injured that day, the rest of the soldiers have stabilized their injuries and are now slowly recovering. ”
Tian Fan bowed his head slightly and said, "Okay, hard work!" Keep busy, and I'll look at the brethren! ”
The lieutenant clenched his fists and took the order, and he went to be busy without mentioning it.
Tian Fan came to a wounded soldier, this young man was wearing a white hospital gown, lying on the hospital bed, biting his fingernails boringly and playing.
Feeling that there was a shadow blocking the light, and seeing a pair of combat boots appear in his sight, the young man looked up and saw Tian Fan looking at him with a smile.
He was taken aback, hurriedly held the bed with both hands, and was about to get up and salute, but this action involved the wound, and he grinned in pain, and almost didn't scream.
Tian Fan hurriedly supported him and said, "You are injured, you don't have to be formal." Lie down, hehe. What is your name? ”
The soldier was warmly said by Tian Fan, his face turned red with excitement, and he said, "General Qiyu, villain Li Hua!" ”
Tian Fan was stunned for a moment, and said strangely: "You are Li Hua, who is known as the strongest, the most fierce, and the most unlucky 'three most longest'?" ”
Li Hua's face flushed, scratched his scalp, smiled hesitantly, and said, "Well, I'm that Li Hua!" ”
Tian Fan easily suppressed a laugh and asked, "Is the injury okay?" ”
Li Hua smiled and said, "Well, I'm fine, the wound is no longer so painful." ”
Li Hua, the "three most chiefs", was the man of the year in the whole army in the past two days. The most unlucky, the strongest, and the most fierce, this is the unanimous evaluation of all the officers and soldiers in the army after hearing about his encounter.
This happened two days ago, on the second day of the battle for the gate.
Zhang Xun organized his soldiers to attack the defensive area of Tian Fan's army, but was blocked by the Xuzhou soldiers. The soldiers, under the leadership of a Dubo, launched a counter-charge, but the result was still unsuccessful, and neither side took advantage of the slightest.
Just when Xuzhou Dubo was about to give up and was about to retreat, a miracle happened!
It was this Li Hua, when he found that there were several enemy archers on the roof of the street to release arrows, he hurriedly reminded the robe next to him, and turned sideways to prepare to hit the enemy arrows. At this moment, behind the enemy's sandbags on the street, several archers suddenly appeared, shooting a few feathered arrows. …,
Li Hua was unlucky and was shot twice in a row. One hit his calf, which was not unusual, and the strange arrow shot through his calf, and because it didn't hit the bone, it didn't meet a strong block, so after passing through his calf, it hit the calf of his other leg, connecting his two legs together. The other feather arrow coincidentally hit his buttocks, stringing the two buttocks together......
Strange things have happened, and even stranger things are things that are about to happen!
This guy's eyes were as wide as copper bells, and after a while, an earth-shattering scream came out of his mouth, and then, Li Hua used a steel knife to cut off the feather arrow that passed through his calf, and then cut off the feather arrow on his buttocks, and pulled out the arrow shaft, and two blood arrows shot out!
I don't know if he forgot it, or if it was deliberate, after pulling out the arrow shaft on his buttocks, he miraculously ignored the feather arrow on his leg and stomach, but carried a steel knife, and rushed to the few people who attacked him like a killing god.
Those few Yuan Shujun archers were stupid by his fierceness, and before they could even resist, they were killed by him and the robes who came after him.
Although, in the end, this stronghold was taken away by Yuan Shujun, but the story of Li Hua's two arrows and eight holes, and the story of frantically killing the enemy with two half-cut feather arrows on his leg and stomach spread throughout the Xuzhou army.
When Tian Fan heard about it, he muttered at the time: "This Li Hua is really a little strong who can't be killed!" Well, it can be called the most unlucky, the strongest, and the most fierce 'three most long'! So, Li Hua has two nicknames, compared to the four-word title of "three most long", the soldiers like to call him "Xiaoqiang"!
chatted with him for a long time, and after "Xiaoqiang" Li Hua excitedly agreed to enter Tian Fan's personal guard camp after recovering from his injury, Tian Fan walked to the rest of the wounded soldiers.
Half an hour later, under the eyes of all the soldiers, Tian Fan came out of the wounded barracks.
In the big tent of the Chinese army, Tian Fan, Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Liyi, Zhao Yun and other generals, Gongsun Hao, Li Ren, Wang Kai, Wang Xiu and other civil servants sat down. Wei Yan, Pang De, Cheng Lian, Cao Xing, Hao Meng and other generals were sent out by Tian Fan, each leading 2,000 cavalry to monitor the three city gates of Liyang at all times of twelve hours a day to prevent Zhang Xun from sneaking out of the city to attack. Zheng Bao was sent by Tian Fan to escort grain and grass.
Lu Budao: "Boguang, today after interrogating the captured prisoners under my command, Qin Yi, I learned a piece of news, I think you will be interested!" With that, he said to the little school at the door, and the little school opened the curtain and went out.
Tian Fan was stunned, Qin Yi? Why is this name so familiar?
Before he could figure it out, he saw a general enter the big tent. This man was seven feet eight inches tall and had a sturdy body, but he was far from strong. Black armor and black armor, not outstanding in appearance, but not ugly either.
He clenched his fists and said loudly: "The last general, Qin Yi, has seen General Tian and all the generals!" ”
Tian Fan nodded, didn't think about why this name was so familiar, but waved his hand and said, "You get up!" ”
Qin Yilu clenched his fists and said, "General Xie!" ”
Tian Fan said: "Feng Xian said that you captured a few prisoners and learned some information?" ”
Qin Yi nodded and said, "General Qi Tian, the last general learned from the other party's soldiers that in Zhang Xun's 30,000 army, almost all the middle and low-level officers were from his personal guards. The Admiral thinks this information is important, so he ......"
Having said that, he didn't continue.
Tian Fan bowed his head slightly and said, "Well, yes, this information is very important!" Okay, you've worked hard, go down and rest! ”
Qin Yi clenched his fists and saluted, turned around and walked out of the big tent.
Tian Fan turned his head to the Gong Cao King beside him and said, "Shuzhi, write down Qin Yi's merits!" ”
After a slight pause, he shook his head slowly, snorted in his mouth, and said with some sour teeth: "The battle of Liyang, hehe, it has just begun!" ”
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