Chapter Forty-Three: The Smoke of the Tiger Prison Rises Again
Xu Yang, who took the "Heavenly Machine", went straight back to the camp of Mingyue City in the Tiger Prison Pass, and learned through Huang Zhong and Xu Yang that Guo Jia and the others' dragon and snake battleships had not returned, but someone came to the door.
It was none other than Yuan Shao, the leader of the Alliance Army, who came to the door. The last time the tiger prison was defeated by Lu Bu, it took seven days for the alliance army to restore their morale, and at this time Yuan Shao came to them, and Xu Yang could understand that this product was here to pull himself into the water even if he thought about it with his toes.
As the leader of the alliance army, Xu Yang naturally wanted to meet him in person. Coupled with the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, with such a background, even if Xu Yang is now the champion, there is no reason to hang it out.
Welcoming Yuan Shao to the camp, Xu Yang found that Yuan Shao did not come alone this time, and his younger brother - Yuan Shu was still with him.
"Master Hou!"
"See Master Hou!"
In the big tent, the Yuan brothers saluted Xu Yang one after another, according to the official position of the Han Dynasty, Xu Yang's current official position is far above the two, and it should be taken by the two of them to take the initiative to salute.
"The two of you are exempt, I don't know what happened to the Lord of the Yuan League this time?" Xu Yang asked directly to the point, and at the same time kept looking at Yuan Shu with his spare eyes.
Yuan Shao, as the leader of the Eighteen-Way Anti-Dong Alliance, is not a deep city under the influence of family history, and Yuan Shu is relatively easier to cut into, which can make Xu Yang discover more things. And Xu Yang doesn't think that these two brothers are paying homage to him.
After the guest and host sat down, Yuan Shao originally planned to be polite, but when he heard that the champion Hou was directly to the point, he did not continue to be polite, and said directly: "Master Hou, this time my brother came to represent the people of the world to petition Lord Hou!" ”
With such a big hat, Xu Yang didn't dare to bring it with him, if he buttoned it, then the alliance army could swagger and command himself to go to the front line to kill him. Hurriedly said with a smile: "Yuan Meng's words are far away, now there are eighteen princes under the leadership of Yuan Mengzhu to attack the Tiger Prison Pass, although they have suffered a temporary setback, but this does not negate the previous results of the alliance army. Yuan Mengzhu was already eloquent and strategic, could he have retreated directly in the face of this setback? ”
Xu Yang's words can be said to be both positive and negative, and Yuan Shao in history is a master who cannot be praised. As soon as you put a top hat on him, he was directly stunned, you didn't see that his wife Cao had always been so good with Yuan Shao, so he praised him if he had nothing to do, and praised the whole of Hebei in the end. Of course, in the end, Xu Yang also used a little agitation to let Yuan Shao continue to take on the responsibility of the leader of the alliance army.
"Haha...... Hou Ye praised it falsely. Yuan Shao heard the world-famous champion Hou praise himself like this, and the smile on his face was like a blooming chrysanthemum, and then said, "Although our alliance army has made some achievements, it is also a fact that it was defeated before the Tiger Prison Pass. Morale has adjusted over the years, but a big win is still needed. Hou Ye's achievements in the rear of the Tiger Prison Pass, Shao and the other princes have all heard about it, and today they specially sought a way to break through the Tiger Prison Pass from Hou Ye......"
Hearing that Yuan Shao was still throwing the pot to himself, Xu Yang almost didn't scold directly. But after thinking about it, it seems that he still wants to kill Dong Zhuojun in the Tiger Prison, so it is better to follow Yuan Shao's will first, but he can't be cannon fodder so desperately, there is still room for maneuver.
Regarding the Eighteen-Way Alliance of Eighteen Hearts, Xu Yang was not polite, and said directly: "Master Yuan, the troops in Ben Hou's hands are limited, and this Tiger Prison Pass is the Xiongguan Pass in the world. It is impossible to achieve results by waiting alone...... Yuan Meng's intention to come today, please tell me directly? ”
"Hou Ye is too careful, Yuan Mou is not here this time to ask Hou Ye to shoulder the heavy responsibility of tackling this tiger prison. It's that the morale of the alliance army is low, and a strong allied army needs to join in, open up a certain situation in the Tiger Prison Pass, and boost morale......" Yuan Shao said while giving Yuan Shu a look.
Yuan Shu also hurriedly stepped forward and said respectfully: "Master Hou, tomorrow our coalition army has prepared a large number of siege equipment to launch another onslaught on the Tiger Prison Pass, and the location of the city wall north of the Tiger Prison Pass, I hope Hou Ye can help!" ”
The walls to the north? Tiger Prison Pass lies in the east of Luoyang, it can be said that it is a north-south direction in general, the whole Tiger Prison Pass has about ten miles on the city wall, although the defense area is long and narrow, but the city wall is towering, under the geographical advantage, it is really a man who is not open.
Xu Yang didn't agree directly, but asked: "I don't know how far Ben Hou is responsible for attacking the city, you must know that the sneak attack on Happy Valley has just been carried out, and Ben Hou's army is still on the Yellow River and has not returned." Presumably, General Yuan also knew that it was not easy to mobilize this large army, and if the attack range of this candidate was too large, I am afraid it would backfire......
After listening to Xu Yang's words, the Yuan brothers didn't understand that this was the champion Hou bargaining, so the two sides had a fierce maneuver, and finally determined that the Tiger Prison Pass would attack six positions tomorrow, each of which was 100 meters wide, five were in charge of the alliance army, and one was in charge of the champion Hou.
After discussing tomorrow's battle policy, the Yuan brothers did not linger too long, got up and said goodbye directly. This time, the action with the champion Hou has been agreed, but the battle plan within the alliance has not yet been assigned, so the two brothers naturally have to go back and get busy. Moreover, as the first battle after the last defeat, this battle is related to the direction of the Battle of Tiger Pass, and this battle must play with the momentum of the Alliance Army.
After sending off the Yuan brothers, Xu Yang directly summoned Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, Xiang Hu, and Gao Chong to discuss the matter. Now Guo Jia is still on the Dragon and Snake warship in the Yellow River, and it is strong to attack the Tiger Prison Pass
Attack, at this time, any strategy will appear weak, this matter can directly select the generals to charge tomorrow.
After listening to Xu Yang's talk about attacking the city tomorrow, Xiang Hu first said angrily: "Lord, according to Xiaguan's observation today, the wall of the northern section of the Tiger Prison Pass is a few meters higher than the southern section. ”
Xiang Hu's words made the atmosphere in the camp a lot more relaxed, and Huang Zhong continued: "Lord, the siege equipment of my Mingyue City has been transported, some of which were requisitioned from Wu County, and some of which we made ourselves. And this time the ladders we called were all lengthened, because we were afraid that the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass would be too high, and we wouldn't be able to exert our strength......"
Huang Zhong can be said to be the older military general in Mingyue City, and when Xu Yang was away, he was the one who commanded the whole army, and both the force and the commander had a very high prestige in the army. Huang Zhong was not in charge of these logistical matters, but this meeting was a high-level operational meeting, so he did not let the logistics officials come over to report the matter.
"Will there be a problem with the assembly of the catapult tomorrow?" Xu Yang asked with some concern.
"Lord, will this catapult be used tomorrow? There is no problem with assembly, but tomorrow the coalition forces don't know how much effort they will make, will they take advantage of us so much? As soon as Xiang Hu heard that the catapult that he had worked so hard to transport would be installed on the battlefield tomorrow, and he didn't know if the alliance army would help, he immediately became angry.
This is also a normal phenomenon, Xiang Hu watched Mingyue City start from a small village. Now every brick and tile in Bright Moon City was made by their hard work at the beginning, so that they have today's achievements. It is important to attack the Tiger Prison Pass now, but in Xiang Hu's eyes, it is really not as important as Bright Moon City.
Xu Yang just glanced at Xiang Hu fiercely, and then said: "Regardless of whether the alliance army uses all its strength or not, we will fight this battle for Mingyue City and the people of the world." Just imagine, if the alliance of the princes of tomorrow does not attack with all their strength, and we attack with all our strength, it will be the face of their alliance army that will be lost, not the face of our Bright Moon City. In the future, if the anti-Dong is successful, the people of the world will only accept me Mingyue City to fight bravely, and their princes will join forces...... That's it! ”
After listening to the words of his father-in-law, Xiang Hu hurriedly nodded beside him, secretly sighing that he was not his own father-in-law, and this idea was always in front of him. As for the other generals in the camp, they didn't say much about it.
"Okay, the tone of tomorrow's siege is to fight hard, the enemy hurts, the enemy hurts, and the momentum of my Mingyue City is beaten, this is our purpose!" Xu Yang opened his mouth again and called, "So, who will be the pioneer tomorrow?" ”
The vanguard officer, who is definitely talking about at the moment, is definitely not the vanguard officer who opened the way in the mountains and built bridges in the water, but the vanguard who will attack the city tomorrow. Since it is going to be fought fiercely, then the candidate for this vanguard should be a person who is brave and good at fighting, and a person who can lead the soldiers to charge ahead.
Speaking of the vanguard officer, several generals present were indeed the highest combat power of Bright Moon City. Of course, counting the sword guards personally led by Xu Yang, this is almost all the high-end combat power of Bright Moon City.
Xiang Hu was still the first to speak: "Lord, you know, the overlord iron cavalry is brave in battle, although my personal strength is a little worse than the three here, but if you want to say that there is no problem in charging into battle, I will fight this first battle tomorrow!" ”
"Haha......"
"General Xiang, don't laugh at ......"
Seeing that Xiang Hu actually wanted to grab the first battle of tomorrow's siege, the other three generals present laughed, along with Xu Yang.
"What are you laughing at? Can't look down on my overlord iron ride? Seeing that everyone laughed, Xiang Hu said with some displeasure, "Let me tell you, my Overlord Iron Rider is absolutely invincible and invincible." Although I am not your opponent alone, I am very confident in leading the troops to fight! ”
Everyone heard full confidence from Xiang Hu's tone, but they couldn't help but couldn't control their laughter.
It was Guan Yu who took the lead and said: "General Xiang, your overlord iron cavalry is certainly brave, compared to the Bingzhou iron cavalry in the Tiger Prison Pass and the Xiliang iron cavalry. However, tomorrow this is a siege battle, and what the lord needs is a general who leads the infantry to charge, but this is not the strength of the overlord iron cavalry......"
As soon as Guan Yu said this, everyone stopped laughing. After all, it is a difficult job to lead the infantry to rush to the city wall, and the cavalry is not good at attacking fortifications, and it is even more impossible for Xu Yang to let the overlord iron cavalry dismount to fight, it would be too wasteful.
"Lord, otherwise I will take the rest of the troops to rush first tomorrow, this Tiger Prison Pass is the gateway to the east of Luoyang, I really want to rush to kill such a big battle...... Xiang Hu still said without giving up.
Xu Yang didn't expect Xiang Hu's repeated requests for battle, but it was not impossible for him to appear in tomorrow's battle, Xu Yang nodded and said: "Hello, tomorrow General Xiang Hu will lead the sword guards of Ben Hou to charge as the second echelon." Now, who will be responsible for the charge of this first echelon? ”
Second echelon? Although Xiang Hu didn't quite know when he was going to go, since he was able to get the task of fighting, he simply stopped talking, and was extremely active there with an excited face.
At this time, Guan Yu and Gao fully stood up
, but Guan Yu immediately went back after seeing Gao Chong appear. There is no other reason, Gao Chong led the infantry corps in Mingyue City, which is more suitable than himself, the commander of the legion who only has an official rank and does not have many soldiers. Moreover, Guan Yu also prefers to fight some plain encounters in his heart, and this kind of battle is more suitable for Gao Chong and the scattered star elites under his command.
Gao Chong glanced at Guan Yu gratefully, and said, "Lord, tomorrow Gao Chong is willing to be the first to ascend and win the first place in my Bright Moon City!" ”
This effect is exactly what Xu Yang wants, Huang Zhong is better off staying in the Chinese army, and if there is any change in the tiger prison, it is better to deal with it in time. It was determined that it was a siege matter, and the generals dispersed quickly, and Xu Yang also summoned Han Mengxing, who was a sword guard, to explain that he would attack the city with Xiang Hu tomorrow......
The next day, before the Tiger Prison Passes!
A week later, the Union forces again opened the battle. This time was different from before, there were hundreds of huge catapults under the Tiger Prison Pass, each of which was protected by a large number of heavy infantry, and there was a well fence seven or eight feet high behind the catapult, which was full of archers. In the middle army of the alliance, two heavily armed siege vehicles were slowly pushed out by the troops, and the entire coalition army spread out in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, with no less than 200,000 soldiers.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With the sound of war drums that shook the sky, all kinds of siege equipment began to gradually take place under the cover of heavy infantry. The first to reach the predetermined position on the battlefield were thousands of large catapults, but when these catapults reached the established position, they were immediately attacked by the catapults that were closed by the Tiger Prison.
It is also a large catapult, the alliance army did not come up with such siege equipment in the previous siege array, and Niu Fu who guarded the pass obviously did not plan to sacrifice their catapult, but now in the face of the situation that may suppress the Tiger Prison Pass below, Niu Fu did not hesitate at the moment, and the catapults on the Tiger Prison Pass also began to attack with stones, striving to knock out the general catapult first when the enemy did not form a fire suppression on the city wall.
However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality does not give Niu Fu so much time. The maximum attack distance of the large catapult is 1000 meters, and the Tiger Prison Pass is relatively high, so this distance can be extended to about 1300 meters, and the Alliance Catapult attacking below needs to drive to a position of 800 meters in front of the Tiger Prison Pass.
Originally, the difference of 500 meters in the middle would be a difficult road to death, but the fact is that the catapults on the Union side appeared directly above the 800-meter position of the Tiger Prison Pass when the battle began, although the number was only more than 300, but it was enough to buy time for the rear troops to advance.
"What's going on? When did the enemy's catapult arrive at that position, and how could those soldiers of the Alliance Army appear directly to that position......" Niu Fu, who was originally going to attack the Alliance Army with his geographical advantage, saw that the catapult that suddenly appeared below formed a confrontation with the Tiger Prison Pass, and asked angrily.
When the tiger prison was closed, Niu Fu's descendants and generals were also confused, and even Lu Bu, who was holding Fang Tian's painting halberd and the god of war in his hand, didn't see how these people appeared.
However, a player standing behind the generals saw some clues. This player is on the thin side, over 180 tall, but his young face is dressed in the costume of an old city - this person is one of the seven southern sons of the Seven Winged Heaven Covering Guild - Kaiyang.
Seven Wings Covering the Sky chose Dong Zhuo's camp from the beginning of the plot, and they Seven Wings Covering the Sky also made sufficient preparations for this plot, and it was also under the heavy investment of the trade union that Kaiyang had the qualifications to stand here.
He could see the scene of the catapult below just now, and said with a look of excitement on his face: "General Niu, I know how those catapults appeared!" ”
Kaiyang's attitude was very respectful, and Niu Fu, who was originally angry and puzzled, looked Kaiyang up and down with angry eyes when he heard this, but he didn't speak for a long time. This is the NPC's mustard for Inhumans, knowing that you are Inhuman, NPCs will keep a strong mustard for you, after all, Inhumans are immortal and Inhumans are profitable, this is the image of players in the eyes of NPCs.
Seeing that Niu Fu didn't ask, Kaiyang continued: "General Niu, it's an alien!" There was an alien in the spot where those catapults suddenly appeared. You know that we Inhumans are not from this world, and we Inhumans can use the special backpack feature to carry a large number of items and then leave this world at a designated location. After the agreed time, we return to this world at the same time, and we return to the position where we left off...... That situation just now is the phenomenon of Inhumans returning to "Firmament", and those catapults are carried by Inhumans to the designated location! ”
After listening to Kaiyang's explanation, although Niu Fu did not respond, his originally frowning brows became tighter and tighter. He had already guessed the general situation of the matter, these strangers should have sneaked into the position 800 meters in front of the Tiger Prison Pass last night, and then left one after another and agreed to return at the same time, which is the situation today. Although the Tiger Prison is also lit with torches at night to illuminate the surroundings, after all, it is not daytime, and the distance of 800 meters is not something that ordinary soldiers can clearly detect.
"It's really hateful that these eighteen thieves actually use strangers to do such a despicable act!" Niu Fu angrily ordered, "Notify the rear catapults, attack with all your strength, and smash the 300 catapults in the vanguard to me!" ”
Niu Fu's angry order was immediately conveyed by the soldiers, and Kaiyang seized an opportunity to improve the player's status in Dong Zhuo's army, and hurriedly said: "My lord, in fact, this tactic of the alien is not impossible to defend......"
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