Chapter 160: Lime Fire Horse Formation
"The generals of Lingcheng in Juxian County have repelled the cavalry of Xia Cheng, and they are less than twenty miles away from Battle Spirit Town!"
"Who is the lord of your Ling City? Can you repel the historical generals of Xia City? β
"Xu Sheng, the general of Eastern Wu."
"Xu Sheng, who often appears with Ding Feng in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"
Qi Xiaobai, who was struggling to resist the Great Lord Chu Tian in the town, finally heard the good news.
Hua Mulan and Xue Rengui, who were responsible for blocking the reinforcements from approaching War Spirit Town, were repelled by Xu Sheng, and Hua Mulan was injured as a result.
"It seems that the gossip that the lord of Ju County recruited Xu Sheng is true. That's a good thing for us. Why is my Wu Sangui's performance not as good as the other party's Xu Sheng. β
Qi Xiaobai learned of Xu Sheng's performance and was dissatisfied with Wu Sangui for the first time.
Wu Sangui's reputation should be higher than Xu Sheng's, but he did not achieve any results under the historical generals of Xia Cheng.
Xu Sheng became famous for repelling the Xiacheng cavalry of Hua Mulan and Xue Rengui.
As a result, the morale of the anti-Chutian Alliance was greatly boosted, and reinforcements from all walks of life began to speed up their march and approach Battle Spirit Town.
In Xiapi City, a scholar doctor in his fifties convened hundreds of civil and military officials in Xuzhou to discuss major matters.
Military attachΓ©s include Cao Bao, Mi Fang, and Lu You, and civil officials include Mi Zhu, Chen Deng, Wang Lang, Zhao Yu and others.
"Riding Captain Zang Ba is my general, and he has the credit of defeating the Yellow Turban Army in the state. Now the Inhuman Lord claims that Kaiyang County Lieutenant Chuzi is plotting to capture Langya City and capture Zang Ba, which embarrass me. What do you think? β
Tao Qian put down a document and looked around at the civil and military officials present.
Each state and county has become a force of its own, and many things do not have to be reported to Luoyang, but are arbitrarily decided by Thorn Shi and Taishou.
"Please give the order of Lord Assassin Shi, I, Cao Bao, can lead 50,000 troops to the north to suppress the lieutenant of Kaiyang County!"
A military general took the initiative to ask for help.
Tao Qian trusted Cao Bao a lot and was moved.
But he is from Yangzhou, and it depends on the attitude of the family in Xuzhou. The Cao family is one of the big families in Xuzhou, in addition to the Mi family, the Chen family and other big families.
Mi Zhu's body leaned forward slightly, and said unhurriedly: "Lord Assassin Shi, the Taishan thieves are entrenched in the area of Langya Country, not only to harm the counties of Langya Country, but also to attack Donghai Country and Pengcheng Country from time to time, and the people suffer greatly. In order to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, Lord Assassin Shi had to use the Tarzan Thief. Now that the lieutenant of Kaiyang County has exterminated the Taishan thieves and guarded the northern part of Xuzhou for the adults, wouldn't it be better than the Taishan thieves? β
"Chen Yuanlong, do you think so too?"
Tao Qian saw that Chen Deng, the captain of the agricultural school, closed his eyes and nodded slightly, he couldn't help but pay attention to the attitude of these disciples of the family in Xuzhou.
If you don't get the support of the Xuzhou family and lack of force, then it is easy for the family to replace the master.
Chen Deng manages Xuzhou's agriculture, and Mi Zhu is rich, and the attitude of the two is very important.
"Lord Assassin Shi should protect the territory and the people, and build a solid granary, and it is not appropriate to raise a large army and trap the people in fire and water. Moreover, using Mount Tai thieves to break the Yellow Turban Army is actually driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, which is not advisable. β
Chen Deng finally expressed his opinion.
Tao Qian was silent, he could see that except for the Cao family represented by Cao Bao, the scholars and doctors in Xuzhou did not want to fight. Fighting a war does not do them much good.
"Does Tao Qian have any intention of sending troops?"
"If Tao Qian doesn't send troops to destroy Chu Zimou as soon as possible, how can Tao Qian be his opponent when Xia Cheng's forces develop?"
A group of players who took refuge in Tao Qian were anxious for him.
Only they know how much potential the First Lord has.
Tao Qian's generals are not strong, and his advantage lies in the support of the Xuzhou family and a large number of troops in the early stage.
Now that the various lords are targeting Chu Tian, if Tao Qian raises troops, Chu Tian will definitely not be able to resist.
However, this group of players who defected to Tao Qian could not become Tao Qian's staff within a year.
Tao Qian's appointment of staff has a characteristic, basically only selecting people from the Xuzhou family, so that no player can influence Tao Qian's decision-making.
"There is news, Tao Qian decided to raise troops to rest, and he does not plan to send troops to fight against Chu Zimou!"
"It's over this time, give Chu Zi time to develop, who can stop him!"
"Listening to the players who are guests in the Mi family, this is the opinion of several families in Xuzhou, and they want Chu Zimou to replace Zang Ba and guard the north gate for Xuzhou. The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was very fierce, and the Yellow Turban Army General Guan Hai broke through the Beihai Xiangkong Rong, which may threaten Xuzhou at any time. β
"Xuzhou's change of owner will not affect the interests of the family, and it is not difficult to understand their approach."
"I think we'd better take refuge with other princes or lords. is not a family background, and it is difficult to be reused by Tao Qian. β
The disciples who took refuge in Tao Qian were disappointed because Tao Qian did not send troops to attack Xia Cheng, and gradually left Tao Qian.
In Xia Cheng, one group after another of soldiers came out of the barracks, although they were still level 10 recruits, they were more than enough to defend the city.
"It is mainly the first-order troops with a short recruitment cycle, and then the second-order and third-order troops, and you can get 3,000 soldiers and horses in seven days."
Xia Liang was calculating the time of recruitment, and recruited 3,000 recruits in Xia Cheng in one go.
Each town with barracks also began to recruit a large number of soldiers, with an average of thousands of soldiers and villagers per town, and prepared stones, wood, and traps to block the advance of the coalition forces as much as possible.
"My lord, that is, Wu Dun, the Taishan thief of Qiu County, led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and has begun to besiege Liangshan Town!"
In the summer, when calculating the strength and arming of troops, an unfavorable news came.
"Liangshan Town only has 1,500 soldiers, and it is difficult to defend, so Sun Liuwan led the sailor battalion to reinforce Liangshan Town, and it is necessary to use the arrow tower and the city wall to block the Taishan thieves. I personally led my troops to the rescue. It is best to defeat Wu Dun before the arrival of the coalition of lords of the East Sea Kingdom and the Xia Pi Kingdom. β
Xia Liang knew that there were two armies that were marching against Xia Cheng.
One army was Wu Dun, the Taishan thief of Jiqiu County, about 15,000 men. The other army was a coalition of 20,000 people composed of ten lords of the Donghai Kingdom and the Xiapi Kingdom.
In contrast, the lord alliance is more threatening, and as for the Taishan thief Wu Dun, intelligence is his shortcoming.
"My lord, the lord has orders, you can't easily lead troops to fight......
"As long as the strategy is right, a few thousand people may not be able to defeat more than 10,000 Taishan thieves. Let the cavalry general Gongsun Wu come to see me, and we should still have dozens of horses in Xiacheng to pass on government decrees. In addition, all civilian horses in Summer City were requisitioned, especially Inhuman horses. After repelling enemies, they will be compensated in addition. If one horse dies, I will pay them two. β
With the summer cool order, the lord's mansion requisitioned horses in Xia City on a large scale, whether it was a war horse or a folk horse, all of them were not spared. Some freelancers have the ability to buy warhorses, and the horses requisitioned from freelancers alone are two hundred.
"Miss Xia, when will the lockdown of Xia City end? We horse merchants trusted you at the beginning, so we settled in Summer City. In the past few days, we have suffered heavy losses. β
When Ma Shang saw Xia Liang coming to the horse market with soldiers, he couldn't help but complain to her.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we in Xia City are going to requisition all your war horses. Come and take all the horses away. β
With a wave of his hand in the summer, a team of soldiers forcibly drove away hundreds of horses of different qualities in the horse market.
"This, this group of war horses is worth 10,000 taels of silver, Miss Xia, you can't ......"
"We bought it in Xia Cheng. When the war is over, go to the lord's house and receive the money. β
Summer is cool and I make up my mind.
If he wins, it is easy to say that he will compensate the horse merchant with 10,000 taels of silver. If she loses, Xia Liang doesn't need to consider compensating Ma Shang, because she has already been reduced to a prisoner at that time.
In the summer, Liang gathered more than 500 horses of all kinds, including war horses, pack horses, and dozens of carriages, and personally led 3,000 soldiers to drive the horses out of the city to reinforce Liangshan Town.
At this time, the town of Liangshan was being attacked by the Taishan thief Wu Dun.
The dense Taishan thief arrows rained down, and many villagers holding single-wood bows and hunting bows did not dare to take the lead.
Professional archers climb to the top of the wooden arrow tower and shoot arrows at the Tarzan thieves below.
Liangshan Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is also the cover of the sailor battalion in the south, blocking the offensive of the Taishan thieves.
In the past, when Chutian captured Liangshan Town, he took the back mountain path to sneak attack to succeed, and now it is quite difficult for Taishan thieves to capture Liangshan Town.
"Attacking the city day and night, I don't believe that more than 10,000 people can't capture a town without decent troops!"
Wu Dun had a scar on his face, and rode a war horse, urging the Tarzan thieves to attack the city.
"Report! In the direction of Xia City, two or three thousand soldiers and horses galloped south to help! They also have a few hundred war horses! β
"Xia Cheng's troops are already empty, and he dares to go out of the city to challenge, he really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead! Get ready for battle! β
Wu Dun gathered 15,000 Taishan thieves to confront 3,000 people from the north.
The two sides formed a formation along the Yi River, and Sun Liuwan's 500 sailor battalion was on the shore to prepare for the cool summer at any time.
This is the second time he has cooperated with Xia Liang to launch an offensive, and the last time was against Wu Sangui.
Speaking of which, she relied on her cleverness, and she did not suffer a big loss in the hands of famous and surnamed historical generals.
"If you lose the battle, you have to rescue Miss Xia back to Xia City no matter what."
Sun Liuwan was not optimistic about this battle. The number of Tarzan thieves is five times as cold as in summer. Although the Tarzan Thief is a low-level soldier, Xia Liang is also a low-level soldier and a low-level recruit.
He has a small team of sailors in his hands, using boats and sentry boats, as long as he can save Xia Liang, the Taishan thieves can't catch up no matter what.
"With only two or three thousand soldiers and horses, I dare not put me Wu Dun in my eyes, is my Wu Dun so famous?"
Wu Dun couldn't believe that the other party had only sent such a small number of people to call for battle.
Even if the opponent is a mid-to-high-level class, with 3,000 troops versus 15,000 troops, it may not be possible to win.
"No, there must be a demon when things go wrong. The other party must have been confident, so he deliberately came to provoke with a small number of soldiers. How could I, Wu Dun, be so easily fooled? β
The more Wu Dun thought about it, the more it was like this.
Otherwise, it really doesn't make sense, why did Xia Cheng only send this little person to reinforce Liangshan Town.
Suddenly, there was a commotion behind the Tarzan thief.
"Leader, there is dust in the rear, and there are ambushes!"
"Sure enough, it's a trap!"
Wu Dun saw that there was sand and dust in the rear, and he really expected that the people in Xia Cheng were too cunning!
The 15,000 Taishan thieves fell into confusion because of the ambush in the rear, and the formation began to break up.
Summer Liang looked at Jingqi and judged the direction of the wind: "It's the north wind at this time, use lime!" β
A platoon of soldiers lifted the sacks on the carriage together, and the billowing lime poured towards the Tarzan thieves with the help of the north wind!
For a while, the sand and dust were flying, and the Taishan thief was in the downwind direction, and his vision was obscured by lime, so he hurriedly used his arm to block it.
"Light the rags, and break the thief with horses!"
Summer Cool continues to give orders.
Hundreds of horses were tied with rags on their tails, and the soldiers burned the cloth with fire, and the horses were frightened and rushed to the bandits! The horse's hooves were rolling, and the Tarzan thief, whose vision was obscured, found that when the war horse arrived, the frightened war horse had broken through the fog of lime, and the high iron hooves were raised, trampling the oncoming Tarzan thief under the horse's hooves!
"Beat the drums of war!"
Three thousand soldiers followed behind the Fire Horse Formation and took the initiative to attack the Tarzan thieves!
These horses are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and they are regarded as consumables by the summer cold, and they are not distressed.
Having kept the territory, the tax was more than ten thousand taels per month, and losing the territory, she would be captured.
The Taishan thieves first found that there were ambushes in the rear, and the army was in chaos, and then the front was disturbed by the lime vision, and the galloping war horses raided the big array, and the Taishan thieves panicked, and they collapsed for a while!
The morale of the soldiers of the Three Thousand Summer City has been greatly boosted, this is a tailwind battle!
"I didn't expect to win! Kill! Come ashore with me and kill the enemy! β
Sun Liuwan, who commanded the sailor battalion, couldn't help but be shocked when he found that the situation was favorable to him, and immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to break the Taishan thieves!
Sailor infantry and archers go ashore and fight the Tarzan thieves with the summer cool! Even the rowing man picked up the iron sword and went into battle to kill the enemy!
Seeing that the situation was favorable, the defenders of Liangshan Town opened the town gate, fought out of the town, and attacked the Taishan army on three sides.
The 15,000 Taishan army was defeated, and the mountains were full of deserters.
Wu Dun couldn't control the situation, and he didn't know how many ambushes there were in the rear, so he fled.
The shouting lasted for three hours, and the battle ended with the defeat of the weak.
There were only a few soldiers killed and wounded on the Xia City side, which was not as many as the number of horses killed and wounded.
Xia Cheng killed hundreds of Taishan thieves and captured thousands, and the rest of the Taishan thieves fled.
A troop of cavalry returned, consisting of only thirty or forty horsemen, with branches tied to the tails of their horses, to create the illusion that there were a large number of ambushes in the rear. And at the head of this cavalry was the deputy general Gongsun Wu, a silver-level hero.
"The end will successfully complete the mission."
Gongsun Wu's ambush was to confuse Wu Dun and make it impossible for the other party to judge the reality of Xia Cheng.
"When the lord occupies Yangdu County, he will definitely reward you heavily."
The summer is cool and temporarily envelops Gongsun Wu.
Chu Tian took away all the historical generals, and she could only rely on a team of silver-level and bronze-level generals to support the situation.
"Miss Xia broke the thieves with a fire horse, and the credit is the greatest, and the lord will reward Miss Xia."
Gongsun Wu already admired Xia Liang, not only was she not defeated by Wu Sangui, but she also used such a small number of troops to defeat the Taishan thief Wu Dun.
"I just want to make good money, but the lord always goes to war, and there is no way to do it......"
The summer is cool to avoid being captured.
She was in a high position under Chu Tian, and Chu Tian was generous to her subordinates, if she was captured by other lords, her situation would not be very good.