Chapter 653: Idler Combo
Is Mu Hongsheng's situation really as optimistic as the Mu Tieyi brothers see in their eyes?
In fact...... Nor did it.
Of course, this is not because she has a high level of riding kung fu and can be a hundred. The most important reason is that the main purpose of these Rong Di people who surrounded her was to capture her and blackmail the Great Zhou defenders to make way, so they didn't plan to kill her from the beginning.
But Mu Hongsheng has no such scruples, from her point of view, it is called desperate resistance, and she can't wait to be more ruthless!
Besides, Mu Hongshang is not really alone, and a large circle of Great Zhou soldiers around her will not watch her and General Zhenguo being besieged. Therefore, in fact, the crisis was only temporary, and the few Rongdi people who rushed into the protective circle were just struggling in vain, outnumbered, and were quickly wiped out, most of them lost their lives on the spot, and a few who were lucky were captured alive and tied up solidly. The cavalry who first found out that Mu Hongshang was the Mu family was in the ranks of those who were captured.
The Rongdi people's organized attack on the Great Zhou commander was officially declared a failure, and this brief battle was quickly ignored, and the troops were soon deployed according to the previous deployment of the Zhenguo general. At about the same time, the phalanx of the Great Zhou cavalry in charge of the charge also successfully cut off the siege circle of the Rongdi people from east to west, and the cost was much greater than expected, but at least the two young captains who served as the vanguard were not dishonored.
According to the previous deployment, the main force of reinforcements began to move westward while fighting, pinning down most of the main forces of Rongdi at the south gate of Shuozhou, in an attempt to create a larger gap, and Mu Chengde, who had been standing on the city wall to watch the battle, also found the best opportunity to fight at this time.
"Open the gates!" With Mu Chengde's order, the southern gate of Shuozhou, which had been closed for nearly a month, was opened again, and the defenders of Shuozhou poured out like a tide, rushing to the battlefield, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
Mu Tieyi, as a vanguard officer, took the lead in the front, but after he left the city, he did not run in the direction where his sister was, but led the people and went straight to the predetermined position, he was going to meet the reinforcement cavalry regiment in the northwest corner of Shuozhou, blocking the enemy besieging the city in the east of Shuozhou, so that they could not meet with the main force near the south gate.
After Mu Tieyi led the cavalry out of the city, the second group rushed out of the shield soldiers and spearmen, led by Mu Chengde's lieutenant general, and went directly to the southwest in the opposite position to Mu Tieyi.
The third group to go out of the city was Mu Chengde who personally led the main force of the Shuozhou defenders, and he personally commanded the Shuozhou defenders to assist the main force of reinforcements from the flank.
At this time, only Mu Qingyi remained in the city, who was responsible for guarding the city wall with crossbowmen and using arrows to cooperate with the ground troops to attack.
Mu Chengde is worthy of being an experienced battlefield general, and he and General Zhenguo are not at the same level. General Zhenguo's decent arrangement, with his help, can be called a tiger with wings.
At the beginning, General Zhenguo still gave orders with his voice in his voice, and fulfilled his responsibilities as a general very responsibly, adjusting the team according to the changing situation on the battlefield at any time. But he soon found out that with Mu Chengde here, the main force on their side didn't need to move at all, and they just needed to fight step by step, which was so worry-free.
In the end, General Zhenguo simply turned into a brainless morale-boosting loudspeaker, and in the center of the protective circle, there was basically nothing to do except shout slogans loudly.
Mu Hongshang also had nothing to do, because General Zhenguo didn't allow her to go far.
Mu Biying didn't have much to do, because Mu Hongsheng didn't allow it to continue to run around.
Biying was a little unhappy, it missed the opening battle because of hunting, and it didn't have much of a chance to play.
And what about Master Huiming...... I still don't know where. But Mu Hongsheng wasn't too worried about him, Master Huiming was definitely okay to protect himself. And Mu Hongshang didn't want Huiming to protect her on the battlefield, her master was a monk, and it was too much to let the monk participate in the war!
However, although General Zhenguo was very easy as the commander, for the soldiers of the Great Zhou, the battle of Shuozhou was still very difficult. Whether it was the main reinforcement force that contained Rong Di's main force, or Mu Tieyi and the reinforcement cavalry regiment who cooperated to stop the enemy in the east, they all fought very hard.
I have to say that the Rong Di people really have their advantages on the battlefield, the ethnic minorities are strong and tenacious, they will never give up easily until the last moment, their advantage on the horse is also very obvious, even Mu Chengde has to admit that the Rong Di cavalry is really much stronger than the Great Zhou cavalry.
At present, there is really no good way to suppress the Rongdi Cavalry Regiment in the Great Zhou, and most of the time, it can only rely on crude and high-cost means such as numerical superiority.
Therefore, the battle between Da Zhou and Rong Di has never been easy to win.
The war outside Shuozhou lasted from noon on the first day to the early morning of the third day, one day and two nights, and both the Great Zhou army and the Rongdi people were exhausted. The easiest thing on the entire battlefield is the mascot-like general Zhenguo, as well as Mu Hongsheng, who was ordered not to run around, and the hardest is Mu Tieyi, who is responsible for intercepting the enemy in the east.
The defenders of Shuozhou had already rushed out of the south gate, and the besieging enemies to the north and east of the city of course received the news quickly, and they quickly moved south to assemble, concentrating their forces to storm the defensive line formed by Mu Tieyi and the cavalry phalanx of reinforcements.
Mu Chengde gave Mu Tieyi a death order, he must not let the Rongdi people break through the defense line and join the main force in the south, the terrain is unfavorable, the number is not large, and the cavalry phalanx of the reinforcements is not very experienced, so this day and two nights are extremely difficult for Mu Tieyi.
The Great Zhou cavalry suffered heavy losses, and one of the two lieutenants who served as the vanguard of the reinforcements was killed shortly after the battle began. Although it was difficult, Mu Tieyi finally survived, his sister was behind him, for Mu Tieyi, no matter what the price was, he couldn't let Rong Di's main force converge.
If he can last longer, his brother in the city and his sister on the battlefield will be safer, so he must do it......
Fortunately, it was not only the Great Zhou people who were sleepy and lacking in the hard battles, but the Rongdi people who rushed into battle also paid a huge price, with countless casualties.
At midnight on the second day, the Rongdi people in the east first withdrew north along the passageway. The Great Zhou reinforcements blocked their way south to Danzhou, and even if they took the lonely city of Shuozhou at the moment, it would not be of much significance.
The Rongdi people in the east evacuated, the Rongdi army gathered in the south completely lost backup, and the main force of Rongdi in the south began to want to break through to the east in an organized way under the order of the commander.