Chapter 15: The Battle of Shiping City
The autumn wind is gradually rising, the fallen leaves are scattered, and the heaven and earth are slaughtered.
With the sound of golden horns, the Jin army attacking Shiping City slowly retreated from the city wall, slowly retracted, and headed for the camp outside the city.
It's autumn, and it's been a month and a half since the Jin army stormed Shiping City.
The walls of Siping City have become dilapidated, and there are mountains of corpses under the city. There are the Qiang army, and more are the Jin army.
Countless soldiers of the bloody frontier city are lying outside the city at this moment, and no one collects their bodies.
As night fell, flocks of vultures landed outside the city of Siping, greedily pecking at the corpses of the fallen soldiers.
The Jin army attacked Shiping City for a month and a half, but Shiping City still stands. The Jin army has attacked the city countless times, and even attacked the city several times! But he was still desperately blocked out by the Diqiang army!
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In the big tent of the main general of the Xiao cavalry army in the north of the city, Sima Ting, Sima Tai, the deputy general of the Xiao cavalry army, and other generals of the Xiao cavalry army are surrounding the sand table, constantly deducing the method of attacking the city. The siege day after day makes Sima Ting already quite experienced in siege.
After reaching an agreement with Pu Huaigui that day, Sima Ting led his men back to the army and re-led the cavalry to attack the west of Shiping City.
Suddenly, Liu You walked into the tent and arched his hand: "My lord, General Zhou has sent someone to let you go to the big tent of the Chinese army." ”
Sima Ting looked up and saw that it was Liu You, looked around at the generals and said, "Let's go back and rest first." ”
The generals surrendered and retreated.
Sima Ting asked Liu You, "Did General Zhou say anything?" ”
Liu You shook his head and said, "No, I just heard that someone said that the Central Protector Army also sent someone." "After more than a month of battlefield grinding, Liu You is also a lot calmer.
Sima Ting nodded, turned over his horse out of the tent, and took the three hundred guards to the camp in the north of the city.
As soon as I entered the big tent of the Chinese army in Zhou, I saw that the two leading generals Wei Qi and Sima Ji were also here.
Zhou looked at Sima Ting and nodded, "Okay." The Rider has also arrived. Three generals, it's been a month and a half since we attacked Siping City, how are the casualties of the various armies? ”
Sima Ting's face was solemn and said: "The Xiao cavalry army attacked Ximen, and after a month and a half, more than 5,000 people have been killed. ”
Wei Qi also spoke: "The Central Protector Army is similar, and the losses are heavy!" ”
Sima Ji shouted: "The battle at the North Gate is the most tragic, and there have been more than 8,000 casualties. ”
Zhou Chu's eyelids didn't jump when he heard this, and he said expressionlessly: "In this way, our army has nearly 20,000 dead and wounded now." Presumably, the situation of the Diqiang army in Shiping City will not be much better than ours. Today, Ben will call three of you with good news. ”
As he spoke, a smile appeared on his face, and he glanced at Sima Ting and said, "For more than a month, the Chu army took advantage of the siege of the city every day, and began to dig tunnels in the camp leading to the city. The siege was excavated, and the gold stopped. By the end of today's siege battle, the Chu army had dug six tunnels leading to the city. ”
Sima Ting and the other three were all overjoyed after hearing this. Wei Qi said: "General Zhou is really resourceful. It seems that Shiping Castle is about to be destroyed! ”
He waved his hand and said with a smile: "This is all a clever plan that the horseman has come up with." ”
Sima Ji also laughed: "Old Seven, you have the most crooked ideas in your head." Well, our Yamen army has suffered a lot at the north gate, and now we can finally avenge the more than 8,000 soldiers who died in battle! ”
Sima Ting laughed and said: "I'm just talking nonsense, it's General Zhou's thoughtfulness that can make the Qiang army in the city know nothing." ”
Zhou Chu smiled: "The cavalry doesn't have to be too humble. Three generals, tomorrow during the day, we will continue to attack the city as usual, and all the newly made siege equipment will be pressed up. At night, all the armies that had not participated in the siege during the day were ready to go. Ben will send the Chu army to touch into the city, and when he sees the fire in the city, the three armies will attack the city together, attack inside and outside, and break the city in one fell swoop! ”
After hearing this, Sima Ting asked: "General Zhou, how about the last general lead the army into the city?" The task of this raid on the city is arduous and difficult, and it requires a strong martial artist to lead the army! ”
Zhou Chu listened to the intention, and after pondering for a long time, he said, "Okay! Then you and Wei Qi led an army to walk through the tunnel, and after entering the city, they went straight to the north gate, and we broke through the north gate first. When the soldiers of the other five tunnels enter the city, they will set fire to the city to create chaos and relieve the pressure on you. ”
Sima Ting and Wei Qi both said loudly.
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In the mountains ten miles south of Shiping City, Xie led 30,000 Yongzhou troops who had been quietly lurking for more than a month. At the beginning of every morning, he could clearly hear the shouts of killing coming from Shiping City, and it was not until the evening that it gradually ended. Every day, he is waiting for Shiping City to be breached, and he can rely on the layers of ambushes set up here to capture Qi Wannian alive and make immortal achievements!
He hated Qi Wannian from the bottom of his heart. He ruled all the counties of Yongzhou, and even if the people under his rule lived in the water and fire, at least he could write a political and harmonious message on the emperor's recital, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. However, Qi Wannian's reversal made the already drought in Guanzhong even worse. It is difficult for him to write the excerpt of Luoyang this year, which is similar to the words that never close the door at night and never leave it behind. Xie Ji secretly scolded: "Qi Wannian, you beg your little god of the mountains and wilderness, don't fall into the hands of this assassin history, otherwise this assassin history will definitely make your life worse than death!" ”
Just as Xie was secretly ruthless, a Yongzhou general came to him, bowed down and said, "Lord Assassin, General Zhou ordered someone to send a secret letter. As he spoke, he handed over the letter in his hand.
After checking the system, he found that the sealed wax was indeed intact, so he tore it open in the moonlight and looked at it for a while, and was overjoyed. It turned out that Zhou informed him that the city would be broken tomorrow night, so that he could prepare properly and must capture Qi Wannian!
The general was overjoyed when he saw that Xie was reading the letter, and couldn't help asking, "Lord Assassin, what did Lord Zhou say?" Let the adults be so high-minded? ”
Xie glanced at him with a smile, and handed him the letter: "General Xiao, let the brothers have a good rest tonight, and add half a catty of dried beef and half a catty of wine to each of you tomorrow night." Tomorrow night, General Zhou will break the city, and our opportunity to make meritorious service has come. ”
The general Xiao in Xie Xi's mouth is Xiao Zhengteng, the deputy general of the Yongzhou Army, and he can't help but be overjoyed after reading the letter. In the past month, but he has suffered a lot, in order to prevent the Diqiang army in Shiping City from discovering that there are 30,000 horses hidden here, the army does not dare to light a fire during the day, and does not dare to light a lamp when walking around at night. Now it's finally coming to an end to the days of eating dry food every day! Hehe, as long as they can catch Qi Wannian, it will be a great achievement! Although he is only a deputy general, he can also rely on this credit to make a general.
Xiao Zhengteng handed the letter back to Xie Xian, and said with a smile: "My lord, the lower official will go to pass the order." ”
Xie Xie told again: "Remember to keep it secret, don't say that you leaked your mouth." ”
Xiao Zhengteng smiled, nodded and said, "Xia Guan understands, Xia Guan understands." When he turned around, he secretly snorted coldly, and seemed to be extremely disdainful of the solution.
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The next day, the sun slowly rose, heralding another day of war.
Smoke rose from the cooking smoke in the Xiaocai barracks, and all the soldiers gathered together and ate breakfast with calm faces. After more than a month of fighting, every soldier in the Xiao Cavalry Army clearly understands the cruelty on this battlefield, human life is like a mustard, and no one knows if they can see the sun tomorrow. Therefore, everyone is to eat and drink as much as possible, because on the battlefield, more strength is more vitality.
Liu You and the others all entered Sima Ting's big tent with a solemn face, and when they saw Sima Ting quietly exercising and meditating, they all stood in the tent and didn't dare to disturb. After a while, Sima Ting woke up from meditation, opened his eyes, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Liu You arched his hand and said, "My lord, just a few lieutenants have come to ask, which battalion will go first today?" ”
"Let the precursor battalion go first." Sima Ting stood up from his seat and said, "Tell them that the whole army will be rotated and pressed, and they will fight for a day today, and there will be no more soldiers." ”
Liu You should have surrendered his hand and issued the account to pass the order.
Sima Ting looked at Chen Zhi, Peng Zijian and other young soldiers brought out of the Yi military camp in front of him, and sighed silently in his heart. Tonight, I will take these people to attack Shiping City, and I don't know how many more people will come back with me.
One will be a success! Sima Ting felt more and more the profound meaning contained in the seven words given to him by his father. After more than a month of siege battles, hundreds of cavalry soldiers fell in front of his eyes every day, making him gradually become iron-blooded. Since ancient times, he has been in charge of the army, and he is becoming more and more like a general......
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