Chapter 243: Li Mi's Scheme
However, this difficulty is a bit big, Li Mi was born in the nobility and is extremely proficient in military affairs, there is no reason not to see this, the city wall must be well defended, and the number of Wagang troops is several times more than that of the Sui army, it is a little difficult to capture it.
Fortunately, Ye Chen's main goal is not these two roads, but the third road where he is, that is, where the main force is.
He did not use any tactics such as stratagem, and directly ordered the 3,000 forwards to attack the location of Li Mibu in the center of Bianzhou City, and his 15,000 Chinese troops followed.
In fact, he wants to lead people to charge in person, but after all, he is a general of the unified army, so he has to look like a general, and it is not good to charge in front of him every time.
3,000 forwards penetrated straight into the center of the city, forcing Li Mi to mobilize a large number of troops to intercept them, and the streets and alleys, as well as the ruins formed by the demolition of some houses were crowded with troops, although the city of Bianzhou was large, but more than 100,000 troops were crowded in the city.
In fact, a city is not garrisoned by so many troops in normal times, and some of the troops are stationed outside the city before the war starts, and will only be withdrawn into the city when the battle is about to begin. Just like Kyoto in previous dynasties, in addition to the Ouchi Forbidden Army and the Castle Guard, such as the Sixteen Guards Forbidden Army and other central armies, most of them were stationed outside the city, and they did not stay in the capital all the time.
Ye Chen didn't need any tactics at all, he ran over directly in the middle, and Li Mi had to obediently transfer the army back to fight him, and the two sides started a fierce battle at the junction of the west of the city and the middle of the city.
Although the Sui army has few people, its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the Wagang army, which is mostly bandits, and some of them were civilians not long ago, and the Wagang army is essentially a peasant uprising, most of them are peasants, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, even if Li Mi picks out adult men from them for long-term training, the combat effectiveness is still much worse.
The three thousand forward Sui army was like a sharp knife inserted into the Wagang army, and Ye Chen in the middle of the Chinese army held a token in his hand and ordered in a deep voice:
"Boyu!"
Immediately an armored general stepped forward and bowed his hand:
"The last general!"
"You take 3,000 men to attack the left and cover the forwards."
"Whoa!"
The military general took the token, turned around and walked away without any delay.
"Gao Qiu, you lead three thousand people to attack the right side and cover the forward!"
"The last general commands!"
Another tall military general was ordered to leave.
Ye Chen looked at Dugu Zhan in his left hand again and said:
"Dugu Zhan, you sit in the Chinese army, pay attention to the front and rear, reinforcements at any time, this commander will personally meet Li Mi for a while."
Dugu Zhan nodded and took the order.
At the end of the combat meeting, Ye Chen took 2,000 men and horses to support the forward, leaving 7,000 men and horses in the Chinese army, which could be answered at any time.
Rushed to the front, at this time the battle was close to white-hot, I don't know how many Wagang troops lined up in a dense human wall from the city, although the Sui army was brave, but the number gap was too large, or was pressed to retreat, Ye Chen rushed over, a knife flew out from afar and put down a straight line, and rushed into the human wall on horseback, instantly the stumps and bodies flew, blood spilled on the ground, and the screams resounded.
The big sword in his hand came from the treasure house of Yang Gong, after he took the relics of the evil emperor and left the treasure house, in the end it was the Sui Dynasty that grabbed the treasure house, and after Ye Chen was worshiped as a general, Yang Guang rewarded him with this magic weapon.
The handle of this big knife is nearly three meters long, the blade is about one meter long, and the total length of four meters is not used by ordinary generals, only those fierce generals with extremely strong bodies are suitable for use, in Ye Chen's hand, this big knife is as light as nothing, reaching out and grabbing the handle of the knife with a sweep, with him as the center, all the Wagang troops within a diameter of nine meters were swept away or cut in half, instantly emptying a large area.
The strength of these Wagang troops is too poor, not even regular soldiers, Ye Chen has to kill several before he occasionally has a little potential point into the account, and the efficiency is very low.
But there is no way, mosquito legs are also meat, it's better than nothing, if you want more potential points, you can only kill those officers who have a certain amount of force, no matter how big or small the officers have potential points to gain, if it is some masters in the army, the harvest will be higher, just like Cheng Biting Jin who killed before, one person contributed more than 200 potential points.
The hand-held broadsword swept and cut the outer wall of a house next to the street, blood spurted out of the cracks, someone hid inside and injured people with hidden arrows, he directly cut off the pillars of the house with this knife, the house collapsed immediately, and there was an exclamation from inside, and more than a dozen Wagang soldiers who were hiding in it and shooting arrows escaped.
There must still be civilians in the city of Bianzhou, and the melee between the two sides in the city will definitely affect the civilians, Ye Chen can only order his subordinates not to deliberately kill civilians, but if they are accidentally injured in the melee, there is no way, the two armies are in full swing, how can they manage so much.
Although he never killed civilians, he was not pedantic either.
Kill all the way along the central main street, the street is full of stumps, as long as he cuts this knife, it must be cut in two, and the four-meter-long big knife has an extremely wide attack range, almost covering most of the street.
Arrows kept coming at him, but they were like hitting a stone statue, and they all bounced off, and even if they hit him in the eye, they couldn't even penetrate his eyelids.
In less than half an hour, he killed the entire street alone, behind him were corpses in one place, and in front of him was the Wagang army layer after layer, his eyes passed through the thick military formation, and less than a mile away was the city lord's mansion, that is, the Wagang army camp where Li Mi was.
As if sensing his gaze, Li Mi, who was convening the generals to discuss the matter, suddenly raised his head, a trace of coldness flashed in his eyes, and said in a deep voice:
"I've made up my mind, do as I say!"
Xu Shiji persuaded on the side:
"Mi Gong, please think twice, if you succeed, it's fine, if you fail, I'm afraid that your morale will be completely lost, and you will be completely defeated!"
Li Mi's eyes were cold, and he said coldly:
"If we don't get rid of him, what morale do we have, we will be crushed by him little by little, and we will be defeated in the end."
"However, even if Mi Gong can kill him by doing this, it will make his subordinates feel cold!"
Li Mi turned his head to look at him violently, and said word by word:
"Those who achieve great things are not informal."
Without waiting for Xu Shiji to say more, he waved his hand:
"Say no more, do as I say!"
Xu Shiji opened his mouth, looked at the other colleagues again, and finally sighed and stopped talking.
Coming out of the camp, Shen Luoyan, Li Mi's military division, suddenly called him aside, she gently straightened his collar, and said softly:
"Mi Gong is still unwilling, so let him try again, if he fails again, it's still too late to withdraw the troops, now he is angry, don't contradict him."
Xu Shiji reached out to hold her hand and said:
"However, Mi Gong's doing this will make his subordinates feel cold, lose people's hearts, and not far from failure!"
Shen Luoyan suddenly smiled when she heard this:
"The human heart? What is the human heart? Only the victors have the hearts of the people, and what is the use of the losers keeping the hearts of the people? If he can kill the commander of the Sui army and defeat this Sui army, Mi Gong can take the opportunity to move his army westward, capture Xingyang in Zhengzhou in one fell swoop, take the Tiger Prison Pass, and approach Luoyang. ”
Her resonance made Xu Shiji speechless, not knowing what to say, and finally sighed heavily.