The Legend of Diaoyutai 102 Battle of Hefei (4)

It is the city of Hefei shining with the moon shining again, and the city is full of jubilation.

The cauldron of beef is steaming, and the wine in the jar is full of aroma.

Zhang Liao held the big bowl and said loudly: "Brothers are of the same heart, life and death are together, we can return triumphantly, and we can use this bowl to drink wine again." Brothers, do it! ”

A soldier raised his bowl and said: "Fight with General Zhang, happy!" ”

Another soldier raised his bowl and said, "Drink with General Zhang, have fun!" ”

At this time, Xue Yi led all the civil and military forces, Li Dian, Le Jin, and others into the field, and bowed their hands to congratulate the eight hundred warriors of the Tiger Ben Army, and said: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals!" The soldiers of General Zhang's Tiger Ben Army are all big heroes! You have greatly demoralized the Eastern Wu thief army and greatly increased the prestige of our Hefei army. Now I announce that the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army will each be rewarded with two taels of silver. After reporting to Prime Minister Cao, the heroes will be rewarded heavily. ”

The audience cheered and applauded.

In the camp of the Soochow Army.

The generals of Eastern Wu all had black faces and did not speak.

Sun Quan stood up and said: "Tomorrow, we will bury the heroes who bravely killed the enemy and sacrificed their lives today." ”

Lu Meng also said: "Today, it seems that the Cao army in Hefei City is completely different from the Cao army in Anhui City, and the siege of the city must be carefully arranged, and it is not urgent. Tomorrow, the brothers who died will be buried first to comfort the hearts of the army. ”

Sun Quan said: "It seems that this cavalry in Hefei City has a strong assault ability, and our army must pay more attention to preventing the assault of this cavalry in addition to attacking the city." ”

Lu Meng nodded and said, "The Supreme Lord has analyzed the enemy army very thoroughly! It is necessary to guard against the surprise attack of Zhang Liao's cavalry at all times. ”

Chen Wu was not impressed by Zhang Liao's tiger army, Chen Wu said: "Although Zhang Liao's cavalry is fierce, it is not invincible. It can be seen from today's battle that, first, the number of Zhang Liao's cavalry is only about 1,000, which is very limited. Although our Eastern Wu army is all infantry, there are 100,000 people, and it is completely possible to encircle and annihilate Zhang Liao's cavalry. Second, Zhang Liao's cavalry did not dare to rush over in the face of our heavy armored army. Supreme Lord, our Eastern Wu army should be equipped with more heavy armored troops, when the Zhang Liao cavalry tries to attack our army again, you can use the heavy armored troops to start the front, besiege the Zhang Liao cavalry, and shoot more with archers behind the heavy armored troops, so that we can annihilate the Zhang Liao cavalry! ”

Sun Quan praised Chen Wu's opinion, nodded and said, "Jiang is still old and spicy!" General Chen was right. The cavalry of Zhang Liao in Hefei City must be annihilated! How to encircle and annihilate Zhang Liao's cavalry will be carefully pondered. ”

This battle greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Hefei City, and the soldiers of Hefei City confidently devoted themselves to the defense of the city.

This battle greatly demoralized the Eastern Wu army, and it was also necessary to be highly vigilant against the possible attack of the cavalry in Hefei at any time. And because of the need to guard against the attack of Zhang Liao's cavalry, many troops and equipment of the Eastern Wu Army were divided.

After that, the Eastern Wu army became cautious in the subsequent siege battles, and did not dare to go all out.

In this way, the Eastern Wu army besieged Hefei City and continued to attack the city for more than ten days.

In the city of Hefei, Zhang Liao was fiddling with the sand table on the ground, and it could be seen that the sand table was an obvious deployment of the Eastern Wu army, Sun Quan's camp and the high slope behind Sun Quan's big tent.

Xue Yi, Li Dian, and Le Jin approached Zhang Liao's side with a smile to watch.

When Zhang Liao saw Xue Yi, Li Dian, and Le coming in, he immediately stood up from the sand table and bowed his hand to the three of them.

Xue Yi smiled and said, "Could it be that Brother Wenyuan is planning a new attack again?" ”

Zhang Liao smiled vaguely.

Xue Yi said: "Brother Wenyuan's previous attack has made the thief army discouraged, and the morale of our army has been greatly boosted. The city of Hefei is now impregnable. Brother Wen Yuan might as well recuperate first and fight again later. ”

Li Dian and Le Jin also smiled and said: "Xue Hujun is right, my Hefei City is now solid, Brother Wenyuan might as well recuperate first and fight again in the future." ”

Zhang Liao smiled vaguely again and said, "You adults care for me, Wen Yuan remembers it. ”

Zhang Liao greeted Xue Yi, Li Dian, and Le Jin for a while, and after bidding farewell to the three of them, they immediately threw themselves into the fiddling of the sand table.

Zhang Liao is not pretending to be deep, Zhang Liao's current mood is not as relaxed as Xue Yi, Li Dian, and Le Jin, and the sense of urgency in his heart is actually very strong.

In addition to the 7,000 men and horses in the city of Hefei, Cao Cao had brought all the elite troops south of the Yellow River to distant Hanzhong. Therefore, for a long time, Hefei could not get any reinforcements.

Hefei City was besieged by 100,000 Eastern Wu troops, and after a long time, it would inevitably be broken by the Eastern Wu army. For example, Liu Bei's army besieged the city for a year, and the city was breached. Zhou Yu besieged Nanjun for a year, and Cao Ren abandoned the city.

Time is not on the side of Cao Jun in Hefei City. Rather, it was on the side of the 100,000-strong army of Soochow.

What worries Zhang Liao even more is that Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu Army is now inexperienced in how to deal with the iron cavalry. However, after a long time (maybe one day, a general of Eastern Wu suddenly had a flash of inspiration) realized the method of dealing with cavalry, and at that time, the tiger army in Hefei City had no good drama to sing.

Zhang Liao didn't distrust Xue Yi, Li Dian, and Le Jin, and didn't tell them what he really thought in his heart, but he was afraid that the wall would have ears, or someone would accidentally leak it out.

In ancient times, military strategy and tactics were not particularly profound and esoteric knowledge, but only clever plans that could be understood at a glance.

There was no shortage of resourceful generals on the Eastern Wu side, such as Lü Meng, when he accompanied Zhou Yu to attack Nanjun and Yiling, he proposed to use large trees to block the mountain road where Cao's army retreated, so that Cao's cavalry could not pass, and finally had to abandon his horse and flee. In this way, Dongwu got 300 war horses, and such a capture made Dongwu jubilant at that time.

Zhang Liaotie's tiger army in Hefei City seemed to be rampaging on the battlefield, but in fact, it was not without constraints.

Zhang Liao, as a cavalry commander who followed Ding Yuan, Dong Zhuo, Lu Bu, and Cao Cao, fought in the south and north for decades, and had a deep understanding and study of cavalry.

Zhang Liao, of course, knew how to restrain the cavalry of Hefei City (assuming that he was the commander of the enemy army).

Therefore, Zhang Liao must completely defeat the 100,000-strong army of Eastern Wu before the enemy army realizes the method of restraining the cavalry.

Once Sun Quan of Eastern Wu realized the way to restrain the cavalry of Hefei City, then the victory would definitely be on the side of Eastern Wu!

What Sun Quan is thinking about now is how to lure out Zhang Liao's cavalry, and then encircle and annihilate Zhang Liao's cavalry with an absolute superiority of troops.

In fact, the way to completely abolish the cavalry in Hefei City was not to lure the cavalry to attack, but to trap all the cavalry in Hefei City. In this way, those horses in Hefei City will not be war horses galloping on the battlefield, but domestic animals that purely consume forage.

Now, with an army of 100,000 besieging Hefei City, it is very easy to trap the cavalry of Hefei City.

As long as the Eastern Wu army piled up a large number of antlers at the city gates, and the antlers were followed by elite archers and pikemen, (specifically to deal with and kill enemy soldiers who tried to remove the antlers), so that the hussars of Hefei City could not rush out of the city to exert their powerful aggressiveness, but could only stay in the horse barn in the city to consume forage.

When arranging antlers and protecting antlers, it is necessary to take various protective measures to suppress the rain of arrows fired by enemy soldiers on the castle tower, and to prevent the enemy from setting fire to the antlers. These are all well known to the siege soldiers, so I will not repeat them.

Once Sun Quan of Eastern Wu realized how to restrain the cavalry of Hefei City, especially after estimating that after breaking through Hefei City, he would be able to get the unexpected spoils of thousands of war horses, Sun Quan, who had dreamed of war horses all his life, would attack Hefei City more ferociously and on a larger scale.

Therefore, Zhang Liao now has a very strong sense of urgency.

Zhang Liao's current plan is not a secondary attack, but a decisive battle to completely defeat the 100,000-strong army of Eastern Wu as soon as possible!

However, this is not easy for the Hefei army, which has only 7,000 men!