Chapter 143 Layers of fortifications waiting for reinforcements
When Mu Qianmei attacked Yuehua City, Qingfeng City was also suffering an unprecedented fierce attack.
When Zhang Xiaoting was about to arrive at Qingfeng City, he heard the news that Mu Qianmei led his troops to intercept the reinforcements of Yuehua City and went to attack Yuehua City.
This sudden change made Zhang Xiaoting not react for a long time.
When is it that she is still thinking about attacking? The army is pressing the border, and the soldiers are coming to the city, shouldn't she think about defense?
The city she just grabbed was not defended with all her might, but divided her troops into two ways, defending all the way, and continuing to attack the city all the way!
What a princess who doesn't play cards according to common sense! With such a line of thinking, ordinary people, who can keep up?
However, when he pondered it carefully, he had to admire Mu Qianmei's decision, because with her troops, it was difficult to defend the city, and there was not much difference between keeping 100,000 and 200,000.
Of the 200,000 troops, she divided 100,000 to intercept the 150,000 army, and then continued to attack Yuehua City, turning the passive into the active.
It's just a crazy move, and it's unexpected.
However, its unique feature is that this force is basically composed of people from the rivers and lakes.
If there weren't so many martial arts masters, who would dare to take such a risk?
Zhang Xiaoting thought for a long time, and immediately ordered:
"Siege!"
His 600,000 troops, plus 300,000 from Rainstorm City, also have 900,000 people, and the other party's 100,000 horses also want to hold Rainstorm City and support until the arrival of reinforcements?
Zhang Xiaoting didn't believe it.
The soldiers were divided into three routes, each with an army of 300,000 troops, and attacked from the three gates.
The three-way army launched a fierce attack at the same time.
Feng Tianyu and Ouyang Bo stood on Qingfeng Mountain, looking down at the entire battle situation, there were 30,000 defenders at each of their three city gates, and there were 10,000 people left in the city to replenish at any time.
When the enemy rushed to the city gates, arrows rained down on the city's head.
The enemy raised his shield and blocked many arrows, but not many were hit.
The defending general immediately ordered to stop firing arrows.
The enemy quickly rushed under the city gates, carrying logs and storming the gates.
The frozen city gates, which were relatively strong in themselves, were piled up with tall stones, and the walls seemed to be shaking from the fierce impact of the enemy, but the gates were still unmoving.
Fighting back is not weak either.
At the foot of the city wall, there was a sea of enemy soldiers, which was a ratio of ten to one, and there were only 30,000 people on the city wall, but there were 300,000 people under the city wall.
Immediately, the castle began to attack the enemy under the walls with stones and lime.
Seeing the enemy crowding and taking up the ladder, the stones and bricks on the top of the city kept falling down.
Seeing that the enemy was crowded like ants, the defending generals immediately ordered to throw out grease-filled dry wood and straw, and then fired arrows with flames to ignite them.
In a moment, the fire burst into flames.
As soon as the soldier's clothes caught fire, he rolled on the ground where the snow and ice had been trampled on, and the fire was extinguished only after he was covered in muddy water.
When the enemy was very close, the defenders gave the order to release arrows.
This time it's much more lethal.
After all, in winter, the burning fires did not last long, and were quickly extinguished, causing limited damage.
Comparatively speaking, the enemies under the city wall who were sprinkled with lime to their eyes wailed one by one, unable to see, and like headless flies, they were turning around, losing their combat effectiveness and messing up the attack formation.
The battles of the three gates are almost identical.
However, the battle at the East City Gate was a bit more intense, because Zhang Xiaoting personally commanded the battle.
He stared coldly at the attack in front of him.
The person in front of him fell, and he waved his hand firmly, and the second batch continued to make up.
One group of 6,000 people, two groups of 12,000 people.
When the first two groups of men were about to be killed, the counterattack on the walls was finally becoming scarce.
The arrows were gone, the stones were gone, the lime was gone, the straw and the dry wood were burned.
The enemies on the ladder, after one group was cut down, followed by another group of people.
Everywhere beneath the city walls, there were soldiers who had died in battle.
White snow, black mud, all dyed red.
Wails were everywhere, and the sound of killing was bursting.
Many people rushed forward in an emergency by stepping on the corpses of their comrades.
When Zhang Xiaoting's third group rushed forward, some of them finally rushed to the city wall.
The city gates, which were constantly being hit, finally began to shake gradually.
The ice had slowly melted, and everything that didn't melt was shaken by the impact, cracking first through cracks, then growing larger, and finally falling off piece by piece.
The stones inside the gate were slowly shaking.
While the defenders at the top of the city were busy fighting the enemy, the enemy under the walls climbed up faster.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoting's brows finally slowly relaxed.
Without hesitation, he waved his hand again, and the fourth group of soldiers immediately rushed forward again.
It wasn't until the fifth group of men and horses rushed forward that the gates were finally slammed open.
At the cost of more than 20,000 casualties, Zhang Xiaoting finally took the lead in breaking through the East City Gate.
The Eastern Qin army poured into the city like a tidal wave.
By this time, the defenders had quickly retreated and were not facing them head-on.
Just when the Eastern Qin army was puzzled, a city gate suddenly added five hundred meters ahead.
Although it is not as solid as the first gate, it can be easily shaken by human power.
After entering the city, I thought that the wood that knocked open the city gate was no longer needed, but I didn't expect that there was a city gate here.
Zhang Xiaoting immediately ordered to break open the city gate again.
I finally broke open the second city gate, but I didn't expect that a hundred meters away in front of me, there was a large trench about ten meters wide and five or six meters deep, which cut off the road into the city.
It can be seen that there was originally a simple bridge on it that could be passed, but after the other side retreated, the passable bridge was destroyed.
Zhang Xiaoting looked at the second line of defense in front of him, and looked again, there was actually a city gate in front of him.
What kind of defense will there be inside the city gates?
Zhang Xiaoting suddenly understood that this was where the other party had nothing to fear, one defense line after another, and when they broke through one by one, the reinforcements of others must have arrived.
Feng Tianyu and Zhang Xiaoting, who were standing on Qingfeng Mountain and looking at it from afar, both remembered Mu Qianmei at this time, and the benefits of her repeated requests for fortification after entering the city were now reflected.
Zhang Xiaoting had already broken through the two gates and reached the front of the trench, and they were nervously searching for materials to build a temporary bridge to pass through.
And the people from the other two city gates had just broken through the city gates and entered Qingfeng City.
According to rough estimates, the enemy has suffered more than 100,000 casualties, while the defenders have suffered about 10,000 casualties.
In the city, the advantage of being large in numbers did not come into play.
The road is only that wide, and it is even slower to pass through obstacles.
The defenders who were hiding in the shadows also released a few cold arrows from time to time, which made the Eastern Qin army unable to defend themselves and frightened.
"It seems that the defense line set up by the little girl is enough to support the arrival of reinforcements, and there is no problem."
Feng Tianyu couldn't help but be relieved and said nostalgically.
He was still quite worried that Mu Qianmei would go to Yuehua City, would it really go well?
"Yes, it was estimated that it would be able to block a day, but now seven hours have passed, and they have only broken through the second line of defense, and we will defend strictly in the back, and there will be no problem in holding for another seven or eight hours, reinforcements should arrive soon!"
Ouyang Bo also said with some emotion.
He and Feng Tianyu stayed here, basically just fighting according to the defensive command set by Mu Qianmei, looking at this, there was no need to withdraw from Qingfeng City at all.
Feiyun City still has two lines of defense!
When Zhang Xiaoting's army finally built a temporary improvised bridge to pass through the trench, there were still scattered arrows from time to time inside the next city gate, which suddenly shot out when you didn't expect it.
The people who cross the bridge are always nervous, and the speed of passing has slowed down a lot.
I slammed open the city gate again, and in front of me there was a river that had just broken the bridge.
The river is only more than a zhang wide.
However, there is a high wall on the other side, and it is not easy to build a bridge, and it is not easy to hit the wall.
By this time, it was almost dusk.
The cold river water, the dim light, Zhang Xiaoting has a feeling of looking at the river and sighing.
There was also the high wall on the other side, which was not as thick and solid as the wall, but it was not easy to break through.
Someone came from behind to report that the other party's reinforcements had arrived five miles away.
So fast!
It turned out that Jiang Yunyi, the national teacher of Yunyu Country, led the army to support, and hurried all the way, but he still didn't arrive before the Eastern Qin army, and the news from the front line came one by one.
Calm as Jiang Yunyi, he couldn't help but become nervous.
This princess's idea is too unreasonable.
When it was difficult to protect herself, she actually chose to take the initiative to attack!
But like everyone else, once they figure it out, they can't help but applaud secretly.
But the rescue became even more urgent.
Jiang Yunyi convened all the generals to discuss the matter, and finally decided that Chaolu would lead 300,000 cavalry to go first.
As a result, the reinforcements that were supposed to arrive the next morning, 300,000 cavalry arrived ahead of schedule.
At dusk, the sky is dark.
However, on the official road to the east gate of Qingfeng City, the cavalry of the brigade still galloped away.
300,000 cavalry.
This is the 300,000 cavalry that Chaolu led to the rescue.
Among them, 200,000 were personally formed and trained by Chaolu to train the Yunyu ** team, and 100,000 were sent by the Southern Tang Kingdom to support.
Saving lives is like fighting fire.
On the way, I had already received news that the Eastern Qin army was divided into three routes, with 300,000 troops on each road, and was attacking the city from three city gates at the same time.
Chaolu didn't know the situation in the city, but he knew that there were only 100,000 defenders in Qingfeng City.
How can a hundred thousand defenders fight against the enemy's ninety thousand army?
Chaolu was anxious.
Finally, when it was just dark, they arrived at the east gate of Qingfeng City.
The east gate has been closed from the inside.
The battlefield that the Eastern Qin army cleaned up in a hurry still looked very messy, and a strong smell of blood could be smelled from a distance.
The stones beneath the walls were piled up, and occasionally a few arrows or broken weapons could be seen stuck diagonally into the ground.
Zhang Xiaoting's army has already entered Qingfeng City, closed the city gates, and their roles have undergone a subtle change, as if they have become the army defending the city.