Chapter 30: The Battle of Langzhou

Time flies, five days have arrived in a blink of an eye, these days have changed from a peaceful appearance in the mansion, although everyone did not mention the war, but the shadow of war is everywhere, Lin Chengde is either in the barracks or in the council hall in the mansion and five or six generals have secret talks, and even sometimes lunch is brought to the council hall to eat, Xiao Mufeng also came to the Lin Mansion a few times, at first he learned that Lin Qingzhi wanted to go to the battlefield with his father and he was also strongly opposed, but after his opposition was ineffective, he slowly accepted it, but he would take the time to take a trip to see Lin Qingzhi every day.

In the past few days, what Lin Qingzhi has done the most is to speed up the development of medicinal powders and collect various medicinal materials, and Rongyue will not ask anymore if she can't ask the reason, but just silently help sort it out.

Finally, on June 28, the sixteenth year of Yongping, the mighty team finally assembled outside the Jian'an Gate at the south gate of Luoyang City, and the old emperor Xiao Jingjiao personally saw him off, and finished a bowl of wine in order to boost morale, with Lin Chengde said, "Long live my emperor, go to southern Xinjiang, and you will be able to triumph!" Thousands of soldiers shouted in unison, the solemn roar resounded through the sky, exciting, the red battle flag was embroidered with the solemn word "Jin", flying fiercely in the wind.

After six days of travel, the army finally arrived in Langzhou in the early morning, at this time the city has been lost, tens of thousands of enemy troops have been stationed in Langzhou outside the city of 30 miles, three consecutive days to attack Langzhou City did not take, Langzhou raised his hand Liu Jun knew that Langzhou was of great significance to the Great Jin, led 20,000 defenders and the people of the city to resist to the death, but also gave the Jin army enough time, and when the Protector Army and the Lin family army led by Lin Chengde arrived in Langzhou, the soldiers and people of Langzhou City welcomed as if they saw the dawn of victory, and they were very excited. After all, Lin Chengde has been fighting for decades, and the prestige of the god of war is far and wide, so he has not witnessed it with his own eyes, and these border people know more or less.

Although the soldiers and people in Langzhou City delayed the time, with the only ability to wait for the arrival of the Protector Army and the Lin Family Army, but at this moment the gate of Langzhou City is closed, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, and all the corpses can be seen, and the summer in the south is even more humid and hot, and the corpses all over the field emit an unbearable stench after evaporation and exposure.

However, Lin Chengde, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, did not have time to sigh about these, and asked about the guards and city defenses of Langzhou City, knowing that Langzhou City has four city gates, east, west, north and south, and the north gate has a natural barrier Lanhe River as the boundary, the water flow is turbulent, as long as the wooden plank road is closed, the city gate is also difficult to attack, the east gate is close to Yulong Mountain, facing the narrow valley between the two mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, so the enemy does not dare to attack rashly, the Wu Chu coalition army only focuses on attacking the south gate and the west gate in the past three days, and Liu Jun simply concentrates the only main forces on the two city gates to defend. In addition, although Liu Jun is too guarded, he also has experience in military operations, so although there is a huge disparity in troops, because of the strategic significance of Langzhou City, it is already strong, and the soldiers and people in the city fight together to defend Langzhou.

According to Taishou Liu Jun, the Wu-Chu coalition army attacked the city with a total of almost 80,000 troops, but Lin Chengde and Lin Qingzhi always felt that it took such a big battle and brewed for so long, and it was impossible for Wu and Chu to send only 80,000 troops to attack, so they sent spies to go out of the city to investigate without resting.

Two hours later, the spies reported that the Wu-Chu coalition army was stationed on a flat hinterland by water thirty miles outside the city, and Lin Qingzhi, who heard the news, showed a smile.

Lin Qingzhi was dressed in blue clothes and stood quietly with his hands on the map drawn on the wall, he didn't even notice that Lin Chengde entered, and looked at Lin Qingzhi with a lot of fascination, so he said gently: "Zhi'er, are you looking at where the hidden forces of Wu and Chu will be hidden?" ”

Lin Qingzhi turned his head and said quietly: "The hidden troops are not to bother to find, it is better to lure the snake out of the hole, this generation of terrain on the way to the daughter has seen countless times, since the enemy's 80,000 troops are stationed outside the city thirty miles, then the grain and grass will inevitably be hidden not far away, so many soldiers must be in a place with abundant water, you see here, there is both water and the terrain is flat, so the grain and grass should be here, if the grain and grass are burned, then the 80,000 enemy soldiers will be defeated without a fight, and the remaining hidden troops will naturally respond to support, When the time comes, another measure is too late, what does my father think of this plan? Lin Qingzhi pointed to a map and said firmly towards Lin Chengde.

"You mean we can raid the enemy's camp and then take the opportunity to burn the grain and grass? It's just that the commander of the army this time is Yu Feiyuan, the general of Wu State, this person is brave and strategic, and his father has fought with him, which is indeed not to be underestimated. Lin Chengde looked worried.

"But the Wu-Chu coalition army was originally fighting for profit, which is one of the reasons why Liu Taishou was able to resist the 80,000 army with 20,000 soldiers and horses for three days, and I heard that this time it was Lin Shaoguan of Chu who served as the vanguard, this person is incompatible with Zeng Xiang, does Daddy think he will obey Yu Feiyuan's words in everything? What if we can spread Yu Feiyuan among the enemy and let the soldiers of the Chu State stand in front of the battle and sacrifice the soldiers of the Chu State first, and retain the strength of our own troops? Lin Qingzhi's eyes lit up slightly.

"It's really a good way, I heard that Lin Shaoguan has a stubborn personality, if he can fight infighting, he can indeed get twice the result with half the effort. The enemy army chose to attack the city in the afternoon for a few days ago, but today we will see what they are capable of. Lin Chengde looked at his daughter with a look of approval.

After a brief lunch, Lin Chengde prepared bows and arrows and fire oil for the other soldiers, ready to meet the battle at any time.

I saw that it was only an hour, and the black and oppressive enemy soldiers flew in, and the loud screams and screams were touching.

The soldiers under the city are sturdy, undulating like waves, making an earth-shaking scream, the arrows in the air fly wildly, dragging the arrows with a long sound to cut through the sky, constantly there are soldiers who fall to the ground with arrows, the hot oil on the city tower pours down, followed by the heart-rending roar, more and more soldiers under the city tower are infected with fire oil, the rocket is shot and suddenly the fire is ignited, and the groans on the ground are endless, even if there are some enemy soldiers who have sporadically climbed the city wall, they are also flocked by the Jin soldiers to hold the blade up, disemboweled, and killedThe blazing beacon fire made the soldiers of the two armies angry, and the war became more and more intense.

The battle of Langzhou, once ended with the tragic worship of the Wu-Chu coalition army, and finally failed to attack, 80,000 troops were left, only 40,000 troops returned, the remnant sun was like blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun poured on the city tower.

Another long day is over, but on this day, there are still too many dead and wounded people, war is like this, it is always cruel, no matter which side wins in the end, it is trampled on the bones of countless people.