Under the watchful eye of the defenders at the head of the city of Yuyang Mansion, a large number of Taiping troops began to camp.

The military law and discipline learned from the empire made the camp of the Taiping army very stable. A fence wall surrounded by logs, a deep anti-horse ditch, a rational and orderly internal space distribution, and a five-meter-high lookout wooden tower. From a distance, it makes people have no idea of sneak attack.

In contrast, the section to the east of the camp may have been built last, and it looks like it was rushed. However, even if it is relatively weak, it is still a standard imperial standard.

Seeing that the Taiping Army's camp was completed as a whole, Hong Fei sighed and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the east in vain.

When will the 1,500 cavalry on the other side of Osan arrive?

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For the remainder of the first day, the Taiping did not attempt to attack. The defenders of Yuyang Mansion wished for this, and naturally they would not provoke, and the two sides spent the day peacefully.

However, it was only dark, and the Taiping army, which had been recuperating for half a day, quickly moved into action.

A large number of vans were rushed to be built and pushed out of the empty tents by the Taiping army. The camp set up during the day, according to Chen Wu's requirements, was intentionally expanded horizontally. In fact, the eastern half is almost entirely empty. It looks like someone is coming in and out of the tent during the day, but in fact it's all camouflage. Either there was nothing in it, or it was filled with fire-starters such as wood and oil.

These are all tricks to lure the enemy cavalry into going deeper.

The real van was pushed to the central part of the camp, which was the dividing line between the empty camp in the eastern half and the real camp in the western half.

The vans, lined up in an unshakable "car wall", began to be fixed with iron chains in advance.

These movable vans were meant to be temporarily locked in the event of a cavalry charge. However, Chen Wu was fighting a positional battle, and he was sure that the enemy's cavalry would definitely attack from this direction, so he could prepare in advance. Moreover, the infantry is not very familiar with this partial car formation, and fixing it in advance can avoid the situation of being in a hurry at that time.

In order to keep it secret, it will be re-covered with tents and sundries before dawn, occasionally revealing a few sections, and re-untying the chains, so as to ensure that the Yuyang officials and soldiers at the head of the city will not see the truth of the partial van formation.

Although this method of warfare has never appeared in the Eastern Continent, it is difficult to guarantee that no one will guess its use.

At the same time, more troops, armed with shovels, began to dig ditches along the fence wall on the east side of the camp to the wall of Yuyang Mansion!

When the cavalry of the official army attacked from the east, there was no need to storm the Taiping army camp. They could have bypassed the camp and went straight to the besieging soldiers. With the speed of cavalry, even if Chen Wutong controlled the size of the siege soldiers and extended the distance of the warning in order to retreat in advance, losses would still inevitably occur.

As long as the official cavalry came a few more times, even if it did not inflict heavy damage on the Taiping army, at least it could seriously affect the progress of the Taiping army's siege.

Then, in response, Chen Wu just needs to make them unable to rush over.

The efforts of three thousand soldiers throughout the night soon stunned the people at the head of Yuyang Mansion.

A wide trench that began at the northeast corner of the Taiping military camp and continued north to the front of the moat. The large piles of earth dug up, some of which reached the west side of the trench, formed a slope of the mound, further obstructing the passage of the cavalry; Some of them were packed into dirt bags to fill the moat, or put them into vans to make the formation heavier and less likely to ignite.

On both sides of the trench, the Taiping army also made numerous potholes of varying depths.

These dense potholes are only one lap larger than the thickness of the horse's hooves and are just as deep as the calves of the horses' hooves. If a war horse accidentally steps on it during the gallop, it is easy to stumble and fall, the horse's leg will be broken, and the heavy will be seriously injured even if the person falls together!

The originally flat ground has become potholed and ugly after such a show. Even people with no common sense know that it is impossible for a brigade of cavalry to get through from such a terrain.

Just one day's work is not enough!

After a day's rest, the Taiping army continued to work overnight that night. Not only did the trenches widen and deepen, but more potholes were dug. The dense number of caves in the tens of thousands is enough to make the official cavalry completely give up the idea of passing guò from here.

Some people may not fully understand it, but in fact, Chen Wu's methods are very easy to understand. In a word: between the Banyang River and the moat of Yuyang Mansion, it was completely sealed by the Taiping army.

This section near the Banyang River is the camp of the Taiping army itself.

Starting from the northeast corner of Yingpan and extending to the small section of the moat of Yuyang Province, there are trenches and countless potholes dug by the Taiping army.

As a result, the cavalry of the official army could not be killed lightly in any case. If you insist on choosing a section to attack, it is relatively easy for the Taiping army's camp. And this seemingly weak place is also the opening that Chen Wu left for the official cavalry. As long as fifteen hundred horsemen rushed into the formation from the opening, it would be difficult to get out again—unless they abandoned their horses and became infantrymen, then Chen Wu's arrangement would become useless.

However, if the 1,500 cavalry lost their horses and became infantry, what else would Taiping have to fear?

The first two nights of the Toyan Eastbound Horse Team were very comfortable for the Taiping army.

After they basically completed the overall arrangement, the horse team of the Taiping army and the cavalry of the official army that followed finally rushed back to Yuyang one after another.

The time difference between before and after is only half a day at most!

After chasing and fleeing around Songjiang County for so many days, the cavalry of the official army was already exhausted to a certain extent, and there was no further action in a short period of time. According to Yan Dongxing's exploration, the cavalry of the official army was stationed on a high slope seven or eight miles away from Yuyang Mansion. The surrounding field of vision is extremely wide, and it can be charged from a high position at any time, making it difficult to sneak attack. Due to its proximity to the official road, if the situation in Yuyang Mansion was critical, they could come to support in a very short time.

Upon learning of this, Chen Wu dispelled the idea of mobilizing troops to attack and wipe them out before they got on their horses, and began to immediately attack the city in order not to give the official cavalry too much time to recuperate.

A large number of siege equipment was pushed to the front of the battle, and the city defense weapons of Yuyang Mansion City began to be suppressed.

Of course, the officers and troops of Yuyang Mansion refused to show weakness, and also began to fight back.

The crossbow arrows as big as javelins, the heavenly maiden scattered flowers, and the hundred-pound boulders flew in the air with a roar.

The siege weapons in Daqing Pass, because they have not been replaced for some years, are a little poor in terms of style and accuracy, and they are not as good as those made by Chen Wu in Taiping County. However, the city defense of Yuyang Mansion has also been lax for many years, and the two sides have fought a half-catty and a half-tael on this point. But after all, Yuyang City has the height advantage of the city wall, and relatively speaking, it still has to take a lot of advantage reads();. The screams that rang out from time to time sounded more like the engineering battalion of the Taiping Army.

However, there are enough Taiping soldiers!

The defenders in Yuyang Mansion were only 600 soldiers in the city defense battalion, and most of the rest were temporarily recruited people.

In the past, at most, they would deal with a few horse bandits and thieves, and they had never seen such a tragic battle in the military formation. Every time they saw a dense number of stone projectiles flying, or boulders falling, and even people and catapults were crushed together, they couldn't help but be frightened, and even vomited after seeing the bloody corpses, and their morale dropped terribly.

If it weren't for the city guard of Yuyang Mansion who sent his own guards to act as a team of overseers and cut off the heads of six or seven cowards, I am afraid that the remaining people would have fled the city long ago.

But even if the situation was barely maintained, the situation in Yuyang City was not good.

During the confrontation, the Taiping army began a tentative attack. The 2,000 recruits in Dingguang County were divided into several groups, pushing wheelbarrows in turn, and filling the moat with dirt bags!

These recruited recruits are much stronger than the displaced people outside Taiping County.

Even though it has only been trained for a long time, it seems that it has faded from the simplicity of ordinary farmers, and it has become a little more sharp. Coupled with their strong physique and extravagant leather armor, they were extremely efficient at filling the river, and there were not many casualties - after all, it was difficult for the city defenses of Yuyang Mansion to attack them in a targeted manner.

The moat of Yuyang Mansion was filled in by recruits from Dingguang County in less than two days.

After the daytime reclamation, the Taiping army did not give up their efforts at night. It's just that not so many people were dispatched, but hundreds of people were dispatched in batches to continue to strengthen and improve the "masterpiece" of the previous two nights!

This made Ling Jie, the commander of the official cavalry who sneaked in to find out the enemy's situation, secretly complain.

He had a habit that was difficult to judge whether it was good or bad, that is, before the start of the battle, he personally led people to explore the terrain and observe the enemy formation, so as to know what to expect. This helps him make the right decisions, but at the same time it is a very dangerous thing to do. If you are accidentally discovered by the enemy cavalry, it is likely to make a joke that your highest officer will be caught by the enemy before you can start the fight.

But fortunately, Ling Jie was not discovered by the Taiping army's outposts.

He took two personal soldiers around the Taiping army camp for a long distance, and finally hung the city from the north of Yuyang Mansion City, through a guò rope basket, and observed the Taiping army's camp at close range on Yuyang Mansion City, and finally frowned deeply.

He came to exactly the same conclusion as Chen Wu had planned.

The camp of the Taiping Army is very difficult to fight!

Even the east side of the camp that was deliberately exposed was strictly in accordance with imperial regulations, with a wooden fence to prevent horses and a row of horse repellents. If you want to break through such a layer of defense, I am afraid that you will have to pay a lot of sacrifices.

However, this is already the only place where it is possible to break in.

In other siege battles, the enemy often only paid attention to the protection of the camp and neglected the protection of the siege troops, allowing the cavalry to take advantage of it. But the Taiping army's overnight preparations also placed the besieging troops under the protection of trenches and countless holes. Combined with the harsh terrain of the Banyang River and the west, the entire defense system seemed to be extremely strong - it seemed that the thieves had expected Songjiang to send cavalry, and then took precautions in advance.

He had to admit that the Taiping Army was able to run rampant in Taiping County, and even hit Daqingguan, which was indeed extraordinary.

However, this gang of thieves is still too confident after all!