Chapter 46: The Night Battle
For military affairs, Lu Chen is not very proficient, but he is not a blind command, he will make his own ideas about general layout planning or something, but he has discussed important military operations and deployments with Zhang Liao in advance.
Among these people, in military matters, Lu Chen only trusts Zhang Liao, and only Zhang Liao can be regarded as a qualified commander.
The specific arrangement of troops, Lu Chen will not ask, and he will not ask, this is a matter within the scope of Zhang Liao's specialty, he wants to follow and learn, but this time and occasion is obviously not the time to learn. After sending Cao Xing away and discussing with Zhang Liao about defending the city, Lu Chen took Zhang Yang and Zhang Gu of Chen Palace to hide in the city tower.
Lu Chen didn't have the consciousness of being a soldier, so he naturally had to hide and recuperate, tomorrow was the main meal during the day, and now it was just an appetizing dessert.
Zhenggu is ready to take Yewang County in one go, just like taking the big camp. He not only wants to get rid of Zhang Yang, the nominal boss, and take over Hanoi in a good name, but also wants to arrest Lu Chen to break his wrists and ankles.
On that day, Lu Chen smashed over the war horse in public, and then broke his wrist, and he gritted his teeth with hatred for his self-proclaimed martial arts and extraordinary. This is secondly, the main reason is that Zheng Gu has only one hand to move recently, which is very inconvenient, it is troublesome to take off his pants when he goes to the toilet or something, once he was too anxious to take off his pants, he directly cut his belt with a waist knife, almost cut off the root of his life, and was shocked into a cold sweat, these blood feuds are naturally counted on Lu Chen's head!
Based on the above points, he left only 1,000 of his own people and 3,000 baggage soldiers without any armor or long weapons to guard the camp, and pulled out 10,000 troops to surround Yewang County, and opened a posture to attack the city overnight.
There is no moat in Yewang County, which allows the besieging party to drive straight into the city, so he thinks that it is easy to conquer this small county town.
In this era, soldiers are generals, as long as the generals are no longer loyal to Zhang Yang, no one except Zhang Yang's direct troops will listen to Zhang Yang's dispatch anymore, and what is even more sad is that the commander of Zhang Yang's direct troops is named Yang Chou. Therefore, after annexing Yang Chou's troops, he lightly engulfed the soldiers and horses of the entire battalion.
Night battles were rare in the Han Dynasty, and night sieges were even rarer, because most soldiers had night blindness. Although there are torches, how far can the torches shine? Not to mention that on this night when the north wind whins and howls, it is common for torches to be blown out, but when the light is slightly dimmed, most people will be in front of their eyes.
It was precisely because of this that the first wave of the offensive was quickly repulsed under the command of Zhang Liao's wisdom and calmness, and there were almost no casualties on Lu Chen's side, because the other party failed to attack the city at all.
Zhang Liao's order was very witty: "Everyone rest, don't be tired." ”
There were a lot of solid troops and a lot of siege equipment, but they were swarming and had no practical effect. Most of the soldiers ran and ran with the ladder, and then they fell, and one of them fell, and the group of soldiers who carried the ladder fell, and then they were shot with a bow and arrow from the castle tower, and they began to run back. When the blind men run back, they will inevitably run into their own people, and then they will turn on their backs, and they will be shot with arrows and arrows, and they will cry incessantly, and they will be desolate.
What makes people laugh and cry is that the blind people panicked and fled, only to flee to the base of the city wall, and were terrified. Most of the soldiers defending the city above are also blind, and they can't see clearly where the people below are, so they scold the people below, and scold back below. Then the head of the city scolded again, and he didn't answer below, either he learned to be smart, or he went to take a bath for Lord Yama.
Of course, there are also smart guys in the Zhenggu army, who obviously rushed forward with everyone carrying the ladder, and suddenly rolled to the side, lying on the ground and pretending to be a corpse, and was stepped on without saying a word, anyway, no one knew us at night, and it was better to be trampled on with a pouting butt than to be shot by a bow and arrow. So, an embarrassing thing happened, the first wave of the offensive was launched in less than a quarter of an hour, the soldiers besieging the city fell to the ground, some guys had short legs, just ran a few steps on the ground, so angry that they jumped straight to their feet, this Nima City upstairs is a catapult can't hit so far, right? As a result, the last few were slaughtered by the solid pro-soldiers, and everyone chose to go to a higher place to play dead. He had no choice but to pretend to be dead and had to be hacked to death by the overseers, but it was pitch black at night, and it was really hard to cut, so he sent dozens of personal soldiers up, but only a dozen came back, but several of them were knocked unconscious.
Mingjin first withdrew his troops, and then, Zheng Gu thought of a tactic that the Yellow Turban Army used to use before, and pulled out a force of the original Yang Chou, more than 700 people, and ordered them to take the city in half an hour, otherwise they would all be killed. The soldiers had no room to resist, so they could only rush out with a shout of killing, and then ...... There was no more, all the soldiers of this department entered the county seat, and they surrendered to Lu Chen. Outside the city, they could smell bone broth stewed inside, and their leader wisely decided that everyone would throw away their weapons and go in for soup. After getting the mention of the city, when the team of troops entered the city, the shouts kept pretending to be attacking the city, and as soon as they entered the city, they quieted down, and it was easy to choke when they shouted when they drank soup.
A group of soldiers and horses suddenly disappeared, and he was shocked here, he had a lot of night blindness here, and he didn't even know that the other party's city gate had been opened, and when he sent people up to see it, he only saw weapons and armor thrown on the ground.
When he heard that the bone broth had lured him to a group, he hated it! Lao Tzu also wants to drink soup! Can't you drink it in? There was no way, he finally realized now that the siege at night was too impractical for his troops, so it was better to fight again tomorrow.
He had no choice but to leave thousands of men and horses to surround the county town and lead the elite back to the camp to rest.
Lu Chen originally thought that the other party had too many soldiers and horses, and it would be very difficult to defend it tonight, even with the help of the ice wall and the Lei Stone Rolling Wood, but he didn't expect such a result. It seems that it is necessary to give the soldiers more meat, otherwise night blindness is indeed too bad, Lu Chen felt that he was stubborn, and there was no way to do it.
Then, Lu Chen and Zhang Gu slept in the city tower, Zhang Yang and Chen Gong couldn't sleep, and they had to be busy.
Knowing that there was no need to worry about the loss of the city tonight, Zhang Yang and Chen Gong should prepare for tomorrow's active attack, this was naturally Lu Chen's order, they needed to prepare something.
With more than 1,000 cavalry, how can you defeat more than 10,000 troops?
This is an incredible thing for Zhang Yang of Chen Palace, Zhang Yang feels that this is impossible, Chen Gong thinks that there is only one way - Lu Bu personally leads the army to kill.
However, when Lu Chen told Chen Gong and Zhang Yang about his magic weapon to win, Zhang Yang suddenly realized, while Chen Gong was embarrassed, such a simple thing should have been thought of a long time ago! Why did Zheng Gu only merge with Yang Chouhuo, and was able to subdue Xinyi and Dong Shao without blood? There's obviously something wrong with that! It turned out that Lu Chen was a ghost.
(Although there is only one line of dialogue in this chapter, votes are still required!) )