Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Battle of Fuzhou
Returning to their respective camps, Chen Xu, the envoy of Jianzhou Jiedu, and Chen Hongjin, the former deputy commander of the Qingyuan Army, immediately organized a pre-war mobilization, and the style of the two was also fully revealed at the mobilization meeting-
After all the Jianzhou soldiers were assembled, Chen Yu stepped forward to give the soldiers in the first row a full uniform, patted them on the shoulder, and sometimes chatted with them, and then his face became solemn, and he climbed to the high platform in the middle of the camp, and said in a loud voice:
"Lord Lin Fenglin has talked to me about it, among the special forces of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Desheng is the person he is most optimistic about! And among the 500 elites from all over the country, he is also the most optimistic about our Jianzhou soldiers! For what, because our Jianzhou Army is the best! We easily won Quanzhou, and now we are one Fuzhou! Today, we are the first to break through the city, so that the soldiers of Quanzhou can learn hard! ”
The Jianzhou army cheered in unison, all eager to try.
Chen Yu stepped down from the stage, called the deputy generals Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua over, whispered a few words, and the two nodded.
In the East Camp outside Haiyan Gate, Chen Hongjin called all the generals above the capital to the big tent of the Chinese army, patted the case and shouted: "Until now, there are still people chewing their tongues in private, saying that our Quanzhou soldiers have been defeated by the Jianzhou army and are vulnerable!" Tell me, isn't that so? ”
"It's not!" These Quanzhou generals all shouted out, and Su Guanghai, the commander of the infantry army, and Chen Wenshan, the deputy commander of the infantry army, brandished their sabers and shouted the most fiercely.
"But in reality, each of us lost!" Chen Hongjin's tone suddenly lowered, and he said in a deep voice, this sentence surprised all the generals in the tent, and the tent suddenly fell silent.
Chen Hongjin pointed to the guide, lowered his voice and shouted: "Everyone has seen the results of the battle in Quanzhou!" The Liuda people were forced away, the city of Quanzhou was broken through, the soldiers were pacified, and we, the generals of the defeated army, will be the ones most likely to be purged after the war! We're all the same, we've been pushed to the edge of a cliff! Either we show our abilities in Fuzhou City, or we wait for the catastrophe to strike at any time after defeat! ”
Chen Hongjin's words woke up many generals of the Quanzhou Army. Yes, the other relevant people have been settled, and even the people of Quanzhang have been exempted from rent for three years, leaving their own group in the most embarrassing situation!
Chen Hongjin continued to cheer up earnestly: "Let me tell you a heart-wrenching word, Chen Yu and I haven't seen each other for several years, everyone is their own master, each has its own destiny, where is there so much anger?" In fact, I want to create an opportunity for all of us to fight independently by fighting with Chen Xu. The current Fuzhou City is our only chance! ”
The generals of the Quanzhou Army present all looked at Chen Hongjin with gratitude.
"Fuzhou City has been breached, and we have all won! Fuzhou City can't take it, we all lose! In this battle, Chen will never be a step behind! Chen Wenshan! Chen Hongjin roared, pointing at his precious son with the halberd in his right hand.
"Yes!" Chen Wenshan strode out of the ranks, clasped his hands into fists and shouted.
Chen Hong handed a heaven-shattering thunder to Chen Wenshan, and said sharply: "You bring a group of dead soldiers, the first group to attack the city!" If necessary, you can give me a way to blow up the big guy with the earth-shattering thunder! ”
"Yes! Subordinates will do it! A trace of fierceness flashed in Chen Wenshan's eyes, and he solemnly took over the earth-shattering thunder.
The fire was lit to make food, the troops were mobilized, and all the Tang troops in the south and east of Fuzhou were all mobilized, and the soldiers defending the city of Fuzhou also became nervous, running back and forth in the city and shouting to prepare for battle.
At three o'clock, the offensive drums sounded outside the Ningyue Gate and Haiyan Gate at the same time.
Coincidentally, the Jianzhou Army and the Quanzhou Army all adopted the offensive strategy of all-out attack and key breakthroughs, although the southern attack on Ningyue Gate stained the light that the drawbridge had been put down, but because of the Zhangwu Jiedu envoy and Fuzhou Assassin Shi Qian Hongyi personally sat in the battle of Ningyue Gate, the strength of the defenders was strong, and the Fuzhou Army and the Quanzhou Army were also standing on the same running line.
As soon as the battle began, Qian Hongyi felt a lot of pressure!
At present, the entire Fuzhou city garrison is only 10,000 people, there are 2,000 reserve troops left in various key points in the city, and only 8,000 people have to guard the city wall with a circumference of nearly 40 miles, as well as 20 gates, convenient gates, and water gates. You must know that the opponent is Lin Feng, who has no trace of soldiers, plus the battle-hardened generals in the Jianzhou Army and the Quanzhou Army, this battle is really not something that ordinary people can fight!
Less than a quarter of an hour after the battle began, Qian Hongyi had to order someone to erect a black double rabbit banner and ask the Zhenmintai Reserve Army to allocate 500 soldiers to the city to support.
At this time, three consecutive arrows shot into the air one after another, and the offensive rhythm on the east side of Ningyue Gate immediately accelerated. Just when Qian Hongyi couldn't figure out the enemy's intentions, more than ten figures jumped out of the white tower on the top of the Nine Immortals Mountain on the left back side of Ning Yue Gate, rushing towards the city head along the summit line.
After being reminded by a personal guard, Qian Hongyu found these figures, and immediately shouted to the soldiers downstairs at the city gate: "The direction of the White Tower!" There is an enemy raid! Intercept them for me! ”
The Fuzhou soldiers at the head of the city immediately divided a part of the formation on the inside of the corresponding city wall on the top of the mountain, and opened their bows to shoot.
The more than ten figures suddenly separated two people from the left and right, stopped their figures, seemed to ignite something, and threw them towards the city wall with all their might.
After the two loud bangs, "boom" and "boom", one earth-shattering thunder exploded above the city, and the other fell right in the middle of the soldiers, blowing up several soldiers who were on the brunt.
"What kind of weapon is this?" Qian Hongyi, who was so frightened that his face turned white, rushed to the east side of the city gate tower to watch the explosion just now. I saw that three or four soldiers had fallen in pools of blood, and the soldiers on their sides were either stunned or lying on the ground in fright, shivering.
Qian Hongyi looked to the east and saw that the black-clothed man who was using the wooden plank as a shield had rushed to a distance of only a few steps from the city wall, and immediately shouted: "Quick, quick, stop them!" ”
It's too late!
Chen Desheng, who rushed to the front, made a tiger pounce, directly rushed onto the city wall with a drop of only one meter, jumped into the Fuzhou soldiers, and instantly forced out a vacancy, and the follow-up Lin Renzhao and Feng Jingyun immediately followed up, forming a small three-person battle formation, and rapidly expanding the foothold.
And just as the arrow was fired, Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua outside the city rushed across the suspension bridge with two teams of the most elite soldiers of the Jianzhou Tooth Army, and each rushed away with a ladder. When they were halfway through, the two of them asked the soldiers in front of them to set up shields to cover them, took out a sky-shaking thunder, lit it and threw it on the city.
Just when the Fuzhou soldiers on the head of the city had not yet woken up from the explosion just now, there were two loud noises that shook the sky, causing several Fuzhou soldiers on the outside of the city wall to suffer, and the city head suddenly became a mess. Chen Decheng and Zheng Yanhua respectively grabbed the top of the city, and jumped into a panicked group of soldiers from between the two pheasants.
A total of fourteen tigers raged and attacked on this section of the wall, emptying a section of the wall almost in a breath. Seeing the progress on the top of the city, several ladders were all merged outside this section of the city wall, and the soldiers desperately attacked here.
"Kill, kill them all!" Qian Hongyi was so anxious that he jumped to his feet, pointed to the Tang soldiers not far from the city and said, anxiously squeezed out a few drops of white foam from the corners of his mouth, and didn't care to wipe them off, and then as if he suddenly woke up, Qian Hongyi grabbed the clothes of a personal guard leader, and roared angrily: "You guys also go, you must knock these people out of the city!" ”
At the same time as the breakthrough in Ningyuemen, there was also a breakthrough in Dongcheng's attack. However, the place where they broke the situation was the Water Gate in the northeast corner of Fuzhou!