Chapter 37: The Attack on the North Gate
Three days passed quickly, and the leaders were quite satisfied with Wu Qi's promise, and the only small regret was that no one seemed to have really gotten Wu Qi's blessing from beginning to end.
Of course, three days is not enough time to train a strong army that is invincible in all battles, and besides, the leader is also from the slaves themselves, so how high can the knowledge be? But all this does not hinder everyone's morale, because everyone has hope and faith from now on.
However, Wu Qike was not so optimistic, what he thought in his heart was that when these guys were fighting with the people of Gaojiazhuang, he would be over as long as he could take the opportunity to get out of the city, as for the others, he didn't say that he didn't care, but he had to wait for himself to bring the people from the north camp in the north of the city, as for that, before that, he could only take care of himself and ask for more blessings.
I have to say that as of now, Wu Qi is not a person with great talent, he does not have the ambition to take the initiative and then wait for the opportunity to occupy Xiangyang City, Wu Qi is not a kind person, he has sworn to follow others, but he is still thinking about taking advantage of the chaos to escape for his life instead of sharing weal and woe with everyone!
Before the war, in order to increase the probability of victory, Wu Qi held a mobilization meeting again, but this time only a few major slave leaders and Guo Shengnan and Liu San and others attended, most of the people at the meeting said that attacking the south city gate was the safest, their reasons were very good, the south city gate was tailored to resist the northern orcs, and outside the north city gate is the direction of the north camp in the city, so Gaojiazhuang will definitely deploy heavy troops at the north city gate, and the sacrifice to fight out from the north city gate must be huge, and the south city gate is different, the city wall there is relatively low, the defensive measures are relatively weak, and it is relatively easy to attackใ However, Wu Qi bit the bite and must attack the North City Gate, he analyzed for everyone: "Think about it, what you can think of, the people of Gaojiazhuang may not think of it, sometimes we just have to do the opposite, now it seems that the defense of the South City Gate seems to be weak, but who of you can guarantee that Gaojiazhuang is not a false shot in order to let everyone relax their vigilance and set up an ambush?" Besides, there is a huge gap between the strength and weakness of the defense of the north and south city gates, which is only relative to the outside of the city, and there is not much difference between attacking from inside the city; As long as we can rush out of the city, the victory can be said to be certain, the most important point, outside the south city gate, there is a flat river, dozens of miles are desolate areas, even if everyone is not afraid of cold and hunger, but this kind of sensitive time to rush out of the city will only be regarded as a fleeing soldier or a rioting slave, what is the character of the commander of Pingyang County, everyone should have heard of it, what are the consequences of rashly entering his defense area before the identity of the free man is really determined, I don't need to emphasize it. โ
No need to talk nonsense, just this one gags everyone's mouths.
What is the ultimate goal of everyone who has worked so hard? Isn't it just for that civilian identity certificate? Wu Qi's reason is very sufficient, even if there are mountains of gold and silver outside the south city gate, and the north city gate is a sea of swords and fires, so what, as long as you don't get freedom, what is the use of you doing so much?
Everyone finally reached a consensus, and the goal was the North City Gate. What Wu Qi didn't know was that at this time, his father was leading people to repel the main force stationed outside the city in Gaojiazhuang. The big battle took place a few kilometers away from Xiangyang City, of course Wu Qi would not know, if he knew that as long as he waited for another day, he could become his eldest young master without much effort, then he would definitely not go around in circles with these slaves again, as long as he hid and became a rat for another day. During this time, he had never heard of this kind of thing to gradually mastering it, and then practice makes perfect, and now it is not a difficult thing.
However, there is no if in the world, so Wu Qi can only take risks and fool a group of rabble to attack the iron gate of the north city that is guarded by a group of regular soldiers.
What Wu Qi didn't know was that because his father made too much movement outside, which caused the people in Gaojiazhuang to be noisy, plus the people who came back from the rout, there were already 7,000 soldiers and horses inside and outside the north gate of Xiangyang City at this time, and it can be said that this kind of defense in terms of numbers is not unprecedented, but at least unprecedented.
Wu Yong's original intention was to hurry into the city and quickly rescue his baby son, no way, Mrs. Li nagged beside her every day, even if the monk chanted the scriptures, he didn't bring this, he was upset enough, and now he was even more annoyed and couldn't stand it, even if Wu Yong, who had killed half his life, still couldn't parry. Of course, this is all an excuse made by Wu Yong for himself, Wu Yong is now really calculated, and only Wu Qi, the only son, is still around, to say that he doesn't care about it is purely "going to the grave to burn newspapers - fooling ghosts", but Wu Qi, this kid, has always been against his old man, Wu Yong of course refuses to admit that he will be alone because he cares about this stinky boy, and he will take risks alone, and he will win over a group of soldiers and horses and even bet on the entire net worth of the Wu family to die with the people of Gaojiazhuang! It's just that he didn't expect that his wishful thinking didn't really help his son, but because of what he did, the defense of the city gate was unprecedentedly strengthened, and it indirectly caused Wu Qi's attack on the city gate several times more difficult.
If Wu Yong knew that this would happen, he would definitely not do it. However, it is precisely because of his unintentional actions that it also happened to create the gorgeous appearance of a generation of famous general Wu Qi.
Guo Shengnan wanted to take the initiative to ask for help, but Wu Qi was sternly opposed, Wu Qi had his own considerations, Guo Shengnan was a little taller, but this woman was still very beautiful in all fairness, and the most important thing was that she was his wife, there were not many such talents now, there were not many people he could really trust, and even fewer people with advanced kung fu on his body, how could he let it leave easily at this time? Helplessly, in the end, the man who was about thirty years old led the team to rush out. To say that this man does have two brushes, he doesn't have Wu Qi's clever mouth, and he can't say any nonsense to fool people, but he used his actions to train a group of rabble who were on the edge of the cliff to go crazy one by one, and instantly entered a state of rage.
The man obviously has a strong prestige among the slaves, which can be seen from the fact that everyone is willing to obey his orders, and at this time, even the opponents who usually have a lot of dirt with him, do not dare to have other dissenting intentions, and now everyone is in the same boat, either in the same boat, or finish together, only by winning the battle in front of him, can there be a future.
Came to the north gate, this was originally the place where the city defense army fought and drilled, there happened to be a high platform, the man raised the long-handled broadsword, jumped on the high platform first, pointed to the distance and said: "Brothers and sisters, we have been fighting for so long, there are many brothers who have left, freedom is close at hand, we have to fight this big war in front of us, we have to fight or not, we have no choice, you look back, who are those not far behind you?" There are everyone's sisters, parents, wives and children, even if it is for them, we have to smash the gang of miscellaneous things on the city wall! My Wang Laosan has no nonsense, I am just one, as long as my Wang Laosan does not close his eyes, I will always be at the forefront, my son and brothers will be by my side, even if I die, I will die in front of everyone! I only hope that the surviving brothers after this battle can treat me to take care of my wife and children, and I Wang Laosan has thanked me in advance here. โ
Wang Laosan raised his long knife and shouted, "Brothers, rush with me!"
Wu Qi's blood boiled when he watched it from a distance, and the little bit of caution on his psychological side had long been forgotten outside the clouds.
The Gaojiazhuang army on the city wall looked at the funny scene on the field below with a sneer, a bunch of clowns jumping beams, it was really funny, a group of slaves who had lost weight dared to be sent to death openly here, it was really funny enough to see them jumping and jumping there, I really thought that howling there could stimulate the rampage mode and rush to the city wall? In fact, most of these guys were slaves a year ago, and fundamentally there was no difference between them and the people opposite, but now people can own their own exclusive female slaves, and even a few private properties, which are very close to civilians, so on the other hand, people are really qualified to laugh at the clown on the other side.
Wang Laosan was followed by his own brothers and three sons, shouting: "For brothers and sisters, for freedom, rush!" They were followed by countless slaves, and everyone chanted the slogan at the same time: "For brothers and sisters, for freedom!"
The 5,000 slave army, there are children less than 12 years old, and there are men who are close to 40 years old, everyone's hearts have never been so cohesive as at this moment, usually the life and death enemy who can beat the head and blood for a rough rice ball, at this moment it turned out to be a close and intimate robe brother, Wu Qi has no way to understand the huge combat effectiveness of the slaves who burst out for freedom, he was not very optimistic about the result of the battle at first, but at this moment he was also moved by the performance of everyone, so he also made a decision that went against his heart, that is, no matter how big the price is paid after the war, he must fulfill his promise, we must not let these flesh-and-blood men sacrifice in vain!
The ridicule of the Gaojiazhuang army at the beginning quickly solidified on their faces, because they were shocked to find that it was the army that was fighting against them! It was clearly a bunch of crazy people! They had just cut off their opponent's hand, and before they had time to rejoice, they were immediately surprised to find that the opponent was stabbing themselves in the face with the severed limbs that were surging with blood, as if they didn't know the pain, and then they were holding themselves and biting indiscriminately.
Gaojiazhuang originally arranged 3,000 people here at the north gate as a defensive force, plus there were almost 4,000 soldiers and horses who had just fled back outside the city, and there were already 7,000 people concentrated here, this is not the soy sauce role of the patrol, they are all strong and well-trained regular troops with formal training and a unified system, and the weapons in their hands are not comparable to the kind of woodcutters held by the slave army, but such a strong lineup still can't stop the impact of the slave army of 5,000 people, 7,000 people The regular army, guarded by strong fortifications, many of them still wearing heavy armor, was still rushed and routed by a gang of Hanako, and it was also crushed for thousands of miles, and there was no decent resistance from beginning to end, of course, if you must look for traces of battle, then the first hour must have been a well-deserved fierce battle. The reason is very simple: Although the battle lasted less than two hours, the battle losses on both sides were very large, and the slave army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, and the number of people who died on the spot alone was no less than 1,500! Although the Gaojiazhuang army had 7,000 people, only 2,000 people were really able to participate in the front-line battle on the local battlefield. In the final analysis, most of the people in Gaojiazhuang were defeated and scattered, and less than a thousand people were really killed, most of them fled outside the city, and it was sad that soon they hit the iron plate again, and it was a harder iron plate, because outside the city, Wu Yong was leading the people of the north camp of the city to set up an ambush!